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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael vari Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
The Oakley Well sounds a little different today.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
That is because we wanted to bring you to.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
The floor of the Nasdaq where SpaceX e conxecutives are
re in today's trading. They're celebrating the launch of their
highly anticipated historic IPO.
Speaker 5 (00:28):
Being a freeloader and a selfish and disrespectful one and.
Speaker 6 (00:32):
From misappropriating black vernacular from his optimistic purposes, Elon Musk
is the absolute worst. This dude is probably one of
the most unintelligent billionaires I have ever heard of met.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
We're seen, our witnessed.
Speaker 7 (00:49):
Elon Musk is officially the world's first trillionaire.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Think about that.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
We're living in a time when more and more people
are just hanging on by their fingernails to survive.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
In this aicon on me and Elon Musk has.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
More money and more wealth than anyone in human history.
Speaker 8 (01:07):
Elon Musk is incompetent.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
He's incompetent. He's a thief, He's a Nazi.
Speaker 9 (01:13):
Musk is a pathological liar, he's a criminal, he's a sociopath.
Speaker 7 (01:20):
And a ghoul and not saying that someone like Elon
Musk is an intellectual. Really, what he's up to is,
you know, snorting ketamine and tweeting at all hours of
the day and night.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
The guy's a joke, right, He really is a joke.
Speaker 10 (01:37):
The more I hear him talking, I'm astonished at how
dumb Elon.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Musk's line is now.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
But there's a public perception that that was part of
a apology tour, if you will, that this.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Had been said online. There was all of the criticism.
There was advertisers leaving. We talked to Bob Iden, they
stop you going to advertise? You don't want them to advertise.
Speaker 11 (02:01):
No, what do you mean.
Speaker 12 (02:04):
If something they're trying to blackmail me with advertising, blackmailing
with money yourself, but go yourself?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Is that fair?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I hope it is.
Speaker 13 (02:19):
Hey, Bob, you're in the audience, Well.
Speaker 9 (02:22):
Let me ask you.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Then that's how I feel. You know, people could say, well,
he has few money, he can afford the few. Know
at that point they were struggling, and there were moments
where the entire empire almost crumbled. And whatever you think
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of the various businesses, that's your own business. But I
think you can learn a lot from people even look,
I think there's things to be learned from Bill Cosby.
I think it's unforced that Bill Cosby's message is lost
because it turns out that he was doing horrible things
to women. There was still part of his message that
had meaning, which is black self empowerment, which was personal accountability,
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and those things were accurate. He just had a dichotomy
between that and his personal life. There are a lot
of people for whom that's the case. And don't tell me, no, no,
nothing Bill Cosby says can ever be any good because
he was such a monster. Pick any person other than
Christ himself, and I can tell you there were allegations.
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There were allegations Gandhi and the little girls around him
that he whatever. I mean, if you want to pick
into someone's life other than Christ himself, there is sin
of one level or another. But you can learn from people.
And don't you find it interesting? I mean, you know
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the thing about him saying that if you want to
eat blackmail, he's talking about Twitter. At the time he
had bought Twitter, and these big companies did. He's about Disney.
There Disney a company that couldn't shoot straight and it
had to go buy a Pixar to figure out a
proper culture, which again came back to Steve Jobs when
he was fired from Apple before he came back. But
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Musk is saying, I don't care if you cost me
billions of dollars. I don't care. I do not care.
I'm going to do what is right, and him saving
Twitter from itself from Jack Dorsey and that group of nincompoops.
He made Facebook have to be better because he showed
that you could have free speech. You can say what
you want on Twitter within a reason. There's still people
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getting blocked and still stuff getting wet, but you can
say what you want. You can point out studies, you
can point out facts. You know, during the Carmelo Anthony thing,
there were a number of people showing, right, if a
person dies in an interracial spat, the likelihood that it
is a white person killing a black person is I
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don't know, one one millionth that's not quite that much.
But as opposed to a black person killing a white person,
if you drive up on a scene and there's a
sheet over a body and he's dead, and you say,
is that person the same color as the person who
killed him? No, you can go ahead and assume it's
a black person who's killed a white person. That's just
a fact. That's just a fact, and that ain't slavery,
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and that ain't civil rights. Now, if you say, are
they the same color, you could say then the assailant
is black and the victim is black, and the numbers
bear that out. You can say those things on Twitter,
whether they're right or wrong. There's studies the data doesn't lie.
But the point is he stood up and that allowed
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him the freedom to Once you know that's not got
to be trifled with, then you have the freedom to
do what you want to do. People leave you alone.
How many CEOs bowed, how many pastors changed their message
to where it's not biblical anymore, it's let's keep from
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offending anybody. How many heads of schools changed their policies
because they didn't want to offend somebody, And we all
know who. They don't want to offend, the left in
one way, or one of the left's coalition groups. But
how about them insulting him as as an entrepreneur. There
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was a time in this country we celebrated entrepreneurs, and
we still do. Thomas Edison lit up the world. Alexander
Graham Bell gave us a telephone. Think about that. Carnegie
built libraries, Ford built automobiles. Go do that, do amazing things.
That's what we should That's what we should do. Scott Jennings,
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who by the way, has done a great job as
the Reason voice of Reason on h CNN, had this to.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Say, Hey, long, I've been listening to liberals account and
spend Elon's money for him. This envy, jealousy, hatred of success.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Why is it immortal?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Why is it wrong for somebody in our system, our
capitalist system, and the greatest nation on earth to go
out and build a company, build companies, build technologies, go
into space, aim to go put a colony on Mars,
give internet to half the world.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
All the things he's doing. Why is any of this
wrong or bad?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Why would we want to discourage entrepreneurship? Why would we
want to discourage anybody building anybody?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
That is the nature wrong?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
You're listening to Altosino. Remember how old Mama dealt were
they were on. Remember the two billion dollars in unmarked
cash dropped in palettes for them to play with when
they were cash starved. That's a lifeline, like an SBA
loan to a business about to go out of business.
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Barack Obama did not handle Iran. He empowered them in
evil and now that Trump has a deal, Obama wants
to talk about diplomacy, about the wisdom of not going
to war, about the time, about taking the time to
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find the deal that solves eighty ninety percent of the problem.
He handed the Irani regime the money they used. They
took that cash to fund hesbolah Hamas the hutis. You
have no idea how many innocent people in third world
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countries were harmed as a result of that. You have
no idea how many American servicemen were harmed as a
result of him funding terror organizations, highly sophisticated, incredibly vicious
terror organizations. So imagine him standing on ABC News telling
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us that we need to relearn the lesson of diplomacy.
Let me tell you something. The left has an incredible
ability to smile in your face, talk about being nice,
and the result of their actions being the death and
destruction of the good. It was Adam Smith who said
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compassion for the guilty is cruelty to the victim. Or
maybe it's the innocent. Either way, the victim's innocent in
the first place. So you know, you see Susan Sarendi's
movie about with Sean Penn. Nobody should have to be
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put to death. You'll hear stories about Carmelo Anthony. He's
just a young black man trying to make his way
in the world. He got a little excited. Give him
another chance. There is always a give somebody another chance.
There is this complete focus on people who do evil. No,
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we must always have a cardboard cutout in our mind
of the victim. We must be the advocate of the
victim when they can't be here to advocate for themselves.
You see, Obama's supposed diplomacy was creating problems for a
lot of other people. Here is Barack Obama on the
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virtues of not going to war.
Speaker 12 (10:44):
The fact of the matter is is that taking the
time to explore diplomacy and exhaust the possibilities of coming
up with deals that don't solve one hundred percent of
the problem but solve eighty ninety percent of the problem
while avoiding the necessity of going to war. You'd think
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we would have learned that lesson right now, but it
seems like every so often we have to relearn that lesson.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I'm not even I'm done. I'm done on the subject
of Carmelo Anthony murdering Austin Metcalf. Here's Carmelo Anthony's mother
on CBS Mornings.
Speaker 9 (11:28):
My son didn't intend suffer anyone.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
My sounds defended him.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
The South.
Speaker 9 (11:35):
It took less than three hours for a jury to
reject nineteen year old Carmelo Anthony's claims of self defense
and the stabbing death of seventeen year old Austin Metcalf.
Prosecutors argued Anthony intentionally killed Metcalf after being taunted and
shoved by Metcalf and his teammates at a high school
track meet. Take us inside that courtroom. What stuck out
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to you? What stuck out to be Number one was
the all white joke. But I was trying to be,
you know, like, it's not that big of a deal.
I mean, the truth is on our side.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
If we can't have a race blind review of our
court system, then we don't have a nation. Then there
was the father who, along with the mother, took all
the money that was given for his defense, and it
was a lot of money by some accounts, over six
hundred thousand by others, over a million, and they blew it.
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They bought cars and houses and boy did they ever
have a party. And then there was no money left
for his lawyer. I guess that's the white man's fault too.
Here's his father.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
So do you believe your son received a fair trial?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
And we don't keep fighting?
Speaker 4 (12:49):
What not?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Stop fighting for justice for my son?
Speaker 5 (12:54):
And as parents, have you all struggled with guilt? You know,
asking yourselves? Is there anything differently? I know, Kayla, you
said you wish you had gone to that track meet.
Is there anything that you both wish you could have
done differently?
Speaker 8 (13:05):
I wish I would have just been rebellious. I was old,
don't talk to this person, don't talk to this person.
I feel like it was just a set up. Now
said they told us go get white attorneys, every black person.
I went to a whitetturney. No white attorneys, set them up,
pushed them, hey, here goes. I mean, no objections.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
It was things smooth because as.
Speaker 8 (13:25):
A father of me, being who I am, I got
to make sure she's straight, this mama bell, I got
to make sure she's straight mentally because if she's not straight,
my house is straight. I'm not straight because I got
the kids are the kids that were about. I got
to make sure his mental health. I can't go back
and forth with him right and never because his mental
can handle it. The misunderstanding what Dad's trying to take.
This ain't a daddy move.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
You know the problem with people like this black racists
is they assume everybody's racist like them. No, just you. Now,
let's listen to the father of Austin Metcalf.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
You're Anthony Kayla yours. You wouldn't even show up for
your son's sentencing or victim statement impacts. You abandoned your kid.
You left him there. I guess he's no more used
to you because you can't get any more gofund me
money or go send go money. You are grifters. You
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suhould be ashamed of yourself. You raised that child, and
I swear to God's CPS to show him check on
those other three that you still have. You never once
admitted or took accountability. You tried to play victim. The
real victim is the one who died, not the one
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who shoved a knife in his chest. I come to
pray with you and show the world we can close
the gap of this un believable racial divide, and what
did you do? Why in the gap Even further, you
hire a convicted baby shaking felon who's only in it
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for the money, who gives you bad advice, kicks me
out of a press conference. Oh funny, I was somewhere
I wasn't supposed to be, but I left when I asked.
I didn't stab anyone, and then you proceeded to gas
like me with your convicted felon quote advocate, minister, minister
of what? Minister irrelevant? Minister of how about minister? Do
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you y'all think I'm saint? I'm those saint. I'm assuming
as you have emotions. Just because I'm a Christian doesn't
mean I don't send because I don't walk on water,
and I don't turn it.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
To where speakers, smart devices from Michael's brain, one of
them to your ears. This is the Michael Arry Show.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I'm gonna play a clip by Stephen A. Smith, not
because he's black. I think a lot of people when
Steven A. Smith says something that's not even conservative, just
common sensical. I think he probably he gets replayed more
because he's a black guy saying that, and a black
guy with a big audience. He has a massive audience
and a massive influence, There's no doubt that. But I
don't I don't find him to be a person of
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sound judgment sufficiently consistently to say that I think he
is someone I would want opining on my behalf very often,
because a lot of times he panders to race, and
a lot of times I did the over the top
uh speaking style and all that, which I do not
believe is natural. But I do think he has an
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above average intelligence and street smarts for media, for people
who do what he does, which is primarily sports, And
I think that he has he's he's he's willing to work,
he's willing to it's long hours, and and he gets
he's media savvy and and and I give him for that.
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But when someone says something that I think is really good,
I will replay that, no matter who the person is.
And often someone will say, oh, you played so and so,
but he said something stupid three weeks ago. I don't
do that because I don't think he's a god man.
It's the content of the words strung together in a
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voice other than mine, is the reason I'm playing it,
not because I want you to worship this person or
vote for them for president. All right, so we clear
on that. Here's what he had to say about that case.
Speaker 11 (17:37):
I would give anything to be able to say something
definitively in Carmelo Anthony's defense. There was a shred of
innocence to the incident itself. I would say, so, I
don't want to see a little black young man going
to jail, But I don't give a damn what's your race.
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I don't give damn by what your race ethnicity is.
Just because you're white and young doesn't mean you deserve
to be murdered. And just because you're black and young
with challenges that black folks face every single day, doesn't
give you a license to murder someone.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
That's what happened. That should have been the case that
everyone in the country was saying. But as we know,
there are certain people who don't think for themselves. There
are certain people who have viewed themselves as the king
of the gays, or the king of the Hispanics, or
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the king of the blacks, and as such, they have
to speak as if this is their tribe and they
own them. They play to the lowest common denominator. It
is not aspirational. It does not encourage people to be better,
to be beyond race, because I got news for you.
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Whites are the majority race in this country. Oh, one
day they won't be all right, won't be in your lifetime.
And is that really the answer? I mean, if you
want to live in an all black nation, move to Africa.
You don't what you want to You want to aspire
to a good life of success and make the most
of your opportunities. This is not the message you get
from Al Sharpton. It's not the message you got from
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Jesse Jackson. So here's D. L. Hughley with Don Lemon,
and this is the kind of nonsense that they preach.
Stupid people saying stupid things to stupid people, and a
message that ends up with creating yet another Carmelo Anthony.
Speaker 14 (19:40):
Listen, if you asking me, I don't think that all
white people should be able to do anything in secret
at all. I don't think they have I don't think
they seed to be able to wear have drakes or curtains.
Everything's to be collator because any time, let me tell you,
when it is all white people in its secret, it's
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bad for everybody. I think. I think that striking those
juries those jurists that were blackles for a reason.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
And of course there is some more. And again, the
goal here is not to think about people who might
be listening to to this, who might be taking your
words to heart and thinking about how poor black people
will view this. The goal here is to get more
listeners by being as bombastic and absurd and ridiculous and
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edgy and reckless as you possibly can be.
Speaker 15 (20:36):
Well, they're saying that they they struck the three black jurors. Yeah,
I have two attorneys coming up that are going to
talk about that. But yeah, it was all an all
white jury. And again, death is tragic, as you said,
Sure nobody's wishing anything upon you know, anything bad upon
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the family of the sadly the young man who died.
But you have kids, you a seventeen year old.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I want to see two clips I want to get in.
Hold on, just stop there, there's two clips I want
to get in. This is Jasmine Crockett, who was a congressman,
still a congressman through the end of the year she
was running for the US Senate in Texas. Because you
would expect some media person listen to what she had
to say.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Also, I mean, can we just be real about this,
like who was I mean, like, why are you rolling
up on somebody and being like get out? Like this
is to me, this is the culture that is being
instigated mostly because of like like you know, y'all know
how we say on the internet, don't let your president
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get you up right, like because people get they get
real bold with us right now, like you know, in
this this whiteness, in this replacement theory crap that they
on and all of this kind of stuff, and it's like, oh,
we're a victim because the fact that you know, any
kid would feel like it makes sense to walk in
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and see this particular kid. I mean, we've all interpreted
that there was a race component to this, yes, and
be like oh yes, raining but get out like why like.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Why you know? You can go to our prisons and
I have, and you will notice the preponderance of blacks
in there, thirteen percent of the population, one out of
every eight people. You can view the FBI statistics. Black
on black crime is the highest category of crime. So
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only thirteen percent of the population, killing only thirteen percent
of the population. And frankly, as Jesse Jackson said, if
this had If this victim had been black, it would
have been Miller time. Nobody would have cared, go have
a beer. It's not that nobody would have cared because
this system doesn't care about black victims. It's that nobody
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would have cared because you wouldn't have had Austin Metcalf's
parents making a story out of this because white people
do not tolerate murder of innocent people. White people make
us stink about it. The fact is black people really don't.
Black people are the victims, mostly of black people, all day,
every day, and it's Tuesday. Jesse Jackson's words, not mine.
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Black people don't pay attention when other black people are killed.
It happens in the neighborhood, it happens in dry bys,
it happens in gang shootings. White people won't stand for it.
That's why this is a story. And white commentators won't
stand for it. That's why this is a story. Change
the culture. Use this as an opportunity to prevent more
Carmelo anthonies. Only one person could have prevented this Carmelo anthony.
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But that's not what we're hearing. What we're hearing is
victim blaming. What we're hearing is racism, slavery. What we're
hearing is people no better than Carmelo Anthony engaged in
the same level of of nonsense and tom foolery that
we've always seen. And so there will be more. There
will be more. If you are a parent or grandparent
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of a child, stay tuned. I want to talk about
mister Rogers neighborhood, as I promised in the first segment,
and what our responsibility as parents unrelated to race, as
parents are snowflakes. Prepare for a complete meltdown.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
With more of the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 10 (25:05):
It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood, a beautiful day
for a neighbor.
Speaker 13 (25:10):
Would you be mine?
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Could you be mine?
Speaker 10 (25:14):
It's a neighborly day in this beauty would the neighborly
day for a beauty Would you be mine?
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Could you be mine?
Speaker 13 (25:23):
I have always wanted to have a neighbor just like you.
I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.
So let's make the most of this beautiful day.
Speaker 10 (25:38):
Since we're together, we might as well say, would you
be mine?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Could you be mine?
Speaker 13 (25:44):
Won't you be my neighbor?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Won't you please?
Speaker 10 (25:49):
Won't you, please, please, won't you be my neighbor.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
I was reading an article about Fred Rogers and if
you are a certain age, whether you were a child
or a parent who put your child in front of
that program, that program has a that program is in
your DNA. It was different, It was it was different
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than cartoons. There was something something very innocent within you.
Not that the cartoons were so edgy. Well, when you
go back now, which I've done, and you watch you know,
you watch Wiley Coyote, that'll stress your brain out, Like
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there's a lot of violence. I love Elmer Fudd, but
there's a lot of violence. Bugs Bunny, my favorite fog
Warren Leghorn, there's a lot of violence, or probably my
second favorite, Huckleberry Hound. That's that's a program. But I
was reading about the fact I did not know this,
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but Fred Rogers apparently for twenty two years would have
a meeting every week with a child psychologist and he
wanted her input on every script, every prop every song.
And the idea, according to the article I was reading,
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was that a child's nervous system is on adrenaline, it's
on hiler. It's children are nervous by a lot of
things change is very nerve wracking to them. Offending their parents,
getting in trouble, other kids, you or everything is stressing
them out right fire or fighter, And the point was
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to have a show that would calm you down. I'm
not in favor of raising children who can't defend themselves.
I'm not in favor of the white liberal EmPATH personality,
the weak, the suicidal empathy. But I am a big
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believer in a parenting strategy and a community strategy to
the extent that we all deal with children of children
developing in the old phrase, which you don't hear it
very often anymore, age appropriate, and this is a big
part of the whole you know. Look, if somebody wants
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a grown man in a bikini to dance for I'm
at forty years old, that's another conversation for another day.
But little children don't need to be exposed to that.
On a number of different reasons, we didn't have women
in bikinis doing that. Children don't need that. So the
woman's name was was Margaret McFarland. She had a PhD.
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But I don't call people doctor unless they can prescribe
me medicine. And she had co founded something called Arsenal
Family and Children's Center, along with Benjamin Spock, who wrote
the children's books, and the theory was that the prefrontal
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cortex in children, the part that controls impulse, emotion, attention,
that you're not born with that developed anymore than you're
born with a whole lot of hair that develops over
years and in fact, really decades. And if you've raised
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young people into teenage years and into young adult, you
know that those are the things that cause young people
during those crazy years to do crazy things. Drive one
hundred and twenty on the road, what were you thinking?
Jump off the roof into the pool? What were you thinking?
And in time we get better control over that, and
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so we don't think something and do it on short notice.
We are more measured. Right. And the point of him
meeting with her and a big part of that show
was not just the biggest ratings and the most influence
and the most acclaimed for the show, It was a genuine,
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heartfelt concern for developing in a healthy fashion the minds
of young people. The greatest warriors started as children, and
I don't think you need to make a warrior out
of a kid at five years old. Teach them to
defend themselves. But I also think you need to teach
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them how to be respectful to missus Jones or mister Smith.
I've been reading a lot about IQ, how much of
it is nature and how much of it is nurture.
And there's a lot being written now about African IQ.
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Do Africans have a lower IQ? And then there was
a study done by African scientists to say, to try
to prove that it wasn't true, and they came out
with sixty nine point seven as an as an IQ,
a median IQ. And so then the question is, you know,
is this group of people Africans? Are they born with
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smaller brains or a smaller processor. Well, any measure of
IQ is necessarily going to require that you're old enough
to engage, and by that time you're typically going to
have very different inputs depending on where you're growing up.
Asian countries also show very high IQs, but they also
show a great deal of parental involvement early on. Well,
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the point of all this, and we won't go any further.
My children are both from Africa, they're from Ethiopia. Obviously
they're adopted, and I will tell you that They went
to one of the most difficult private schools in Houston,
if not in the country, and they both fared very well.
They also had a tiger mom from India on their
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back every night about homework and a lot of accountability.
And so I'm not sure you know, nature versus nurture
and all those things, But what I am sure of
is this, if you are a parent or a grandparent
and you're concerned about television or the schools or the music,
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control it limit it, be bold enough to be a
parent and a grandparent love your child and that no
matter what they crave because their buddies are doing it,
you care enough about them to make sure. Because you
understand garbage in, garbage out, and you understand that developing
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impulse control, developing strategic thinking, developing a healthy attitude towards
yourself and the world around you and adults is critical.
I will leave you with that thought because that's the
only way. It's the only way we're going to solve
the problems in this country. Thank you, and good night.
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael vari Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
The Oakley Well sounds a little different today.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
That is because we wanted to bring you to.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
The floor of the Nasdaq where SpaceX e conxecutives are
re in today's trading. They're celebrating the launch of their
highly anticipated historic IPO.
Speaker 5 (00:28):
Being a freeloader and a selfish and disrespectful one and.
Speaker 6 (00:32):
From misappropriating black vernacular from his optimistic purposes, Elon Musk
is the absolute worst. This dude is probably one of
the most unintelligent billionaires I have ever heard of met.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
We're seen, our witnessed.
Speaker 7 (00:49):
Elon Musk is officially the world's first trillionaire.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Think about that.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
We're living in a time when more and more people
are just hanging on by their fingernails to survive.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
In this aicon on me and Elon Musk has.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
More money and more wealth than anyone in human history.
Speaker 8 (01:07):
Elon Musk is incompetent.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
He's incompetent. He's a thief, He's a Nazi.
Speaker 9 (01:13):
Musk is a pathological liar, he's a criminal, he's a sociopath.
Speaker 7 (01:20):
And a ghoul and not saying that someone like Elon
Musk is an intellectual. Really, what he's up to is,
you know, snorting ketamine and tweeting at all hours of
the day and night.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
The guy's a joke, right, He really is a joke.
Speaker 10 (01:37):
The more I hear him talking, I'm astonished at how
dumb Elon.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Musk's line is now.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
But there's a public perception that that was part of
a apology tour, if you will, that this.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Had been said online. There was all of the criticism.
There was advertisers leaving. We talked to Bob Iden, they
stop you going to advertise? You don't want them to advertise.
Speaker 11 (02:01):
No, what do you mean.
Speaker 12 (02:04):
If something they're trying to blackmail me with advertising, blackmailing
with money yourself, but go yourself?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Is that fair?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I hope it is.
Speaker 13 (02:19):
Hey, Bob, you're in the audience, Well.
Speaker 9 (02:22):
Let me ask you.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Then that's how I feel. You know, people could say, well,
he has few money, he can afford the few. Know
at that point they were struggling, and there were moments
where the entire empire almost crumbled. And whatever you think
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of the various businesses, that's your own business. But I
think you can learn a lot from people even look,
I think there's things to be learned from Bill Cosby.
I think it's unforced that Bill Cosby's message is lost
because it turns out that he was doing horrible things
to women. There was still part of his message that
had meaning, which is black self empowerment, which was personal accountability,
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and those things were accurate. He just had a dichotomy
between that and his personal life. There are a lot
of people for whom that's the case. And don't tell me, no, no,
nothing Bill Cosby says can ever be any good because
he was such a monster. Pick any person other than
Christ himself, and I can tell you there were allegations.
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There were allegations Gandhi and the little girls around him
that he whatever. I mean, if you want to pick
into someone's life other than Christ himself, there is sin
of one level or another. But you can learn from people.
And don't you find it interesting? I mean, you know
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the thing about him saying that if you want to
eat blackmail, he's talking about Twitter. At the time he
had bought Twitter, and these big companies did. He's about Disney.
There Disney a company that couldn't shoot straight and it
had to go buy a Pixar to figure out a
proper culture, which again came back to Steve Jobs when
he was fired from Apple before he came back. But
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Musk is saying, I don't care if you cost me
billions of dollars. I don't care. I do not care.
I'm going to do what is right, and him saving
Twitter from itself from Jack Dorsey and that group of nincompoops.
He made Facebook have to be better because he showed
that you could have free speech. You can say what
you want on Twitter within a reason. There's still people
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getting blocked and still stuff getting wet, but you can
say what you want. You can point out studies, you
can point out facts. You know, during the Carmelo Anthony thing,
there were a number of people showing, right, if a
person dies in an interracial spat, the likelihood that it
is a white person killing a black person is I
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don't know, one one millionth that's not quite that much.
But as opposed to a black person killing a white person,
if you drive up on a scene and there's a
sheet over a body and he's dead, and you say,
is that person the same color as the person who
killed him? No, you can go ahead and assume it's
a black person who's killed a white person. That's just
a fact. That's just a fact, and that ain't slavery,
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and that ain't civil rights. Now, if you say, are
they the same color, you could say then the assailant
is black and the victim is black, and the numbers
bear that out. You can say those things on Twitter,
whether they're right or wrong. There's studies the data doesn't lie.
But the point is he stood up and that allowed
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him the freedom to Once you know that's not got
to be trifled with, then you have the freedom to
do what you want to do. People leave you alone.
How many CEOs bowed, how many pastors changed their message
to where it's not biblical anymore, it's let's keep from
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offending anybody. How many heads of schools changed their policies
because they didn't want to offend somebody, And we all
know who. They don't want to offend, the left in
one way, or one of the left's coalition groups. But
how about them insulting him as as an entrepreneur. There
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was a time in this country we celebrated entrepreneurs, and
we still do. Thomas Edison lit up the world. Alexander
Graham Bell gave us a telephone. Think about that. Carnegie
built libraries, Ford built automobiles. Go do that, do amazing things.
That's what we should That's what we should do. Scott Jennings,
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who by the way, has done a great job as
the Reason voice of Reason on h CNN, had this to.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Say, Hey, long, I've been listening to liberals account and
spend Elon's money for him. This envy, jealousy, hatred of success.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Why is it immortal?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Why is it wrong for somebody in our system, our
capitalist system, and the greatest nation on earth to go
out and build a company, build companies, build technologies, go
into space, aim to go put a colony on Mars,
give internet to half the world.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
All the things he's doing. Why is any of this
wrong or bad?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Why would we want to discourage entrepreneurship? Why would we
want to discourage anybody building anybody?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
That is the nature wrong?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
You're listening to Altosino. Remember how old Mama dealt were
they were on. Remember the two billion dollars in unmarked
cash dropped in palettes for them to play with when
they were cash starved. That's a lifeline, like an SBA
loan to a business about to go out of business.
(08:04):
Barack Obama did not handle Iran. He empowered them in
evil and now that Trump has a deal, Obama wants
to talk about diplomacy, about the wisdom of not going
to war, about the time, about taking the time to
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find the deal that solves eighty ninety percent of the problem.
He handed the Irani regime the money they used. They
took that cash to fund hesbolah Hamas the hutis. You
have no idea how many innocent people in third world
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countries were harmed as a result of that. You have
no idea how many American servicemen were harmed as a
result of him funding terror organizations, highly sophisticated, incredibly vicious
terror organizations. So imagine him standing on ABC News telling
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us that we need to relearn the lesson of diplomacy.
Let me tell you something. The left has an incredible
ability to smile in your face, talk about being nice,
and the result of their actions being the death and
destruction of the good. It was Adam Smith who said
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compassion for the guilty is cruelty to the victim. Or
maybe it's the innocent. Either way, the victim's innocent in
the first place. So you know, you see Susan Sarendi's
movie about with Sean Penn. Nobody should have to be
(09:57):
put to death. You'll hear stories about Carmelo Anthony. He's
just a young black man trying to make his way
in the world. He got a little excited. Give him
another chance. There is always a give somebody another chance.
There is this complete focus on people who do evil. No,
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we must always have a cardboard cutout in our mind
of the victim. We must be the advocate of the
victim when they can't be here to advocate for themselves.
You see, Obama's supposed diplomacy was creating problems for a
lot of other people. Here is Barack Obama on the
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virtues of not going to war.
Speaker 12 (10:44):
The fact of the matter is is that taking the
time to explore diplomacy and exhaust the possibilities of coming
up with deals that don't solve one hundred percent of
the problem but solve eighty ninety percent of the problem
while avoiding the necessity of going to war. You'd think
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we would have learned that lesson right now, but it
seems like every so often we have to relearn that lesson.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I'm not even I'm done. I'm done on the subject
of Carmelo Anthony murdering Austin Metcalf. Here's Carmelo Anthony's mother
on CBS Mornings.
Speaker 9 (11:28):
My son didn't intend suffer anyone.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
My sounds defended him.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
The South.
Speaker 9 (11:35):
It took less than three hours for a jury to
reject nineteen year old Carmelo Anthony's claims of self defense
and the stabbing death of seventeen year old Austin Metcalf.
Prosecutors argued Anthony intentionally killed Metcalf after being taunted and
shoved by Metcalf and his teammates at a high school
track meet. Take us inside that courtroom. What stuck out
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to you? What stuck out to be Number one was
the all white joke. But I was trying to be,
you know, like, it's not that big of a deal.
I mean, the truth is on our side.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
If we can't have a race blind review of our
court system, then we don't have a nation. Then there
was the father who, along with the mother, took all
the money that was given for his defense, and it
was a lot of money by some accounts, over six
hundred thousand by others, over a million, and they blew it.
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They bought cars and houses and boy did they ever
have a party. And then there was no money left
for his lawyer. I guess that's the white man's fault too.
Here's his father.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
So do you believe your son received a fair trial?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
And we don't keep fighting?
Speaker 4 (12:49):
What not?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Stop fighting for justice for my son?
Speaker 5 (12:54):
And as parents, have you all struggled with guilt? You know,
asking yourselves? Is there anything differently? I know, Kayla, you
said you wish you had gone to that track meet.
Is there anything that you both wish you could have
done differently?
Speaker 8 (13:05):
I wish I would have just been rebellious. I was old,
don't talk to this person, don't talk to this person.
I feel like it was just a set up. Now
said they told us go get white attorneys, every black person.
I went to a whitetturney. No white attorneys, set them up,
pushed them, hey, here goes. I mean, no objections.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
It was things smooth because as.
Speaker 8 (13:25):
A father of me, being who I am, I got
to make sure she's straight, this mama bell, I got
to make sure she's straight mentally because if she's not straight,
my house is straight. I'm not straight because I got
the kids are the kids that were about. I got
to make sure his mental health. I can't go back
and forth with him right and never because his mental
can handle it. The misunderstanding what Dad's trying to take.
This ain't a daddy move.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
You know the problem with people like this black racists
is they assume everybody's racist like them. No, just you. Now,
let's listen to the father of Austin Metcalf.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
You're Anthony Kayla yours. You wouldn't even show up for
your son's sentencing or victim statement impacts. You abandoned your kid.
You left him there. I guess he's no more used
to you because you can't get any more gofund me
money or go send go money. You are grifters. You
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suhould be ashamed of yourself. You raised that child, and
I swear to God's CPS to show him check on
those other three that you still have. You never once
admitted or took accountability. You tried to play victim. The
real victim is the one who died, not the one
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who shoved a knife in his chest. I come to
pray with you and show the world we can close
the gap of this un believable racial divide, and what
did you do? Why in the gap Even further, you
hire a convicted baby shaking felon who's only in it
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for the money, who gives you bad advice, kicks me
out of a press conference. Oh funny, I was somewhere
I wasn't supposed to be, but I left when I asked.
I didn't stab anyone, and then you proceeded to gas
like me with your convicted felon quote advocate, minister, minister
of what? Minister irrelevant? Minister of how about minister? Do
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you y'all think I'm saint? I'm those saint. I'm assuming
as you have emotions. Just because I'm a Christian doesn't
mean I don't send because I don't walk on water,
and I don't turn it.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
To where speakers, smart devices from Michael's brain, one of
them to your ears. This is the Michael Arry Show.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I'm gonna play a clip by Stephen A. Smith, not
because he's black. I think a lot of people when
Steven A. Smith says something that's not even conservative, just
common sensical. I think he probably he gets replayed more
because he's a black guy saying that, and a black
guy with a big audience. He has a massive audience
and a massive influence, There's no doubt that. But I
don't I don't find him to be a person of
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sound judgment sufficiently consistently to say that I think he
is someone I would want opining on my behalf very often,
because a lot of times he panders to race, and
a lot of times I did the over the top
uh speaking style and all that, which I do not
believe is natural. But I do think he has an
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above average intelligence and street smarts for media, for people
who do what he does, which is primarily sports, And
I think that he has he's he's he's willing to work,
he's willing to it's long hours, and and he gets
he's media savvy and and and I give him for that.
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But when someone says something that I think is really good,
I will replay that, no matter who the person is.
And often someone will say, oh, you played so and so,
but he said something stupid three weeks ago. I don't
do that because I don't think he's a god man.
It's the content of the words strung together in a
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voice other than mine, is the reason I'm playing it,
not because I want you to worship this person or
vote for them for president. All right, so we clear
on that. Here's what he had to say about that case.
Speaker 11 (17:37):
I would give anything to be able to say something
definitively in Carmelo Anthony's defense. There was a shred of
innocence to the incident itself. I would say, so, I
don't want to see a little black young man going
to jail, But I don't give a damn what's your race.
(18:01):
I don't give damn by what your race ethnicity is.
Just because you're white and young doesn't mean you deserve
to be murdered. And just because you're black and young
with challenges that black folks face every single day, doesn't
give you a license to murder someone.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
That's what happened. That should have been the case that
everyone in the country was saying. But as we know,
there are certain people who don't think for themselves. There
are certain people who have viewed themselves as the king
of the gays, or the king of the Hispanics, or
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the king of the blacks, and as such, they have
to speak as if this is their tribe and they
own them. They play to the lowest common denominator. It
is not aspirational. It does not encourage people to be better,
to be beyond race, because I got news for you.
(19:01):
Whites are the majority race in this country. Oh, one
day they won't be all right, won't be in your lifetime.
And is that really the answer? I mean, if you
want to live in an all black nation, move to Africa.
You don't what you want to You want to aspire
to a good life of success and make the most
of your opportunities. This is not the message you get
from Al Sharpton. It's not the message you got from
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Jesse Jackson. So here's D. L. Hughley with Don Lemon,
and this is the kind of nonsense that they preach.
Stupid people saying stupid things to stupid people, and a
message that ends up with creating yet another Carmelo Anthony.
Speaker 14 (19:40):
Listen, if you asking me, I don't think that all
white people should be able to do anything in secret
at all. I don't think they have I don't think
they seed to be able to wear have drakes or curtains.
Everything's to be collator because any time, let me tell you,
when it is all white people in its secret, it's
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bad for everybody. I think. I think that striking those
juries those jurists that were blackles for a reason.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
And of course there is some more. And again, the
goal here is not to think about people who might
be listening to to this, who might be taking your
words to heart and thinking about how poor black people
will view this. The goal here is to get more
listeners by being as bombastic and absurd and ridiculous and
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edgy and reckless as you possibly can be.
Speaker 15 (20:36):
Well, they're saying that they they struck the three black jurors. Yeah,
I have two attorneys coming up that are going to
talk about that. But yeah, it was all an all
white jury. And again, death is tragic, as you said,
Sure nobody's wishing anything upon you know, anything bad upon
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the family of the sadly the young man who died.
But you have kids, you a seventeen year old.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I want to see two clips I want to get in.
Hold on, just stop there, there's two clips I want
to get in. This is Jasmine Crockett, who was a congressman,
still a congressman through the end of the year she
was running for the US Senate in Texas. Because you
would expect some media person listen to what she had
to say.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Also, I mean, can we just be real about this,
like who was I mean, like, why are you rolling
up on somebody and being like get out? Like this
is to me, this is the culture that is being
instigated mostly because of like like you know, y'all know
how we say on the internet, don't let your president
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get you up right, like because people get they get
real bold with us right now, like you know, in
this this whiteness, in this replacement theory crap that they
on and all of this kind of stuff, and it's like, oh,
we're a victim because the fact that you know, any
kid would feel like it makes sense to walk in
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and see this particular kid. I mean, we've all interpreted
that there was a race component to this, yes, and
be like oh yes, raining but get out like why like.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Why you know? You can go to our prisons and
I have, and you will notice the preponderance of blacks
in there, thirteen percent of the population, one out of
every eight people. You can view the FBI statistics. Black
on black crime is the highest category of crime. So
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only thirteen percent of the population, killing only thirteen percent
of the population. And frankly, as Jesse Jackson said, if
this had If this victim had been black, it would
have been Miller time. Nobody would have cared, go have
a beer. It's not that nobody would have cared because
this system doesn't care about black victims. It's that nobody
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would have cared because you wouldn't have had Austin Metcalf's
parents making a story out of this because white people
do not tolerate murder of innocent people. White people make
us stink about it. The fact is black people really don't.
Black people are the victims, mostly of black people, all day,
every day, and it's Tuesday. Jesse Jackson's words, not mine.
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Black people don't pay attention when other black people are killed.
It happens in the neighborhood, it happens in dry bys,
it happens in gang shootings. White people won't stand for it.
That's why this is a story. And white commentators won't
stand for it. That's why this is a story. Change
the culture. Use this as an opportunity to prevent more
Carmelo anthonies. Only one person could have prevented this Carmelo anthony.
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But that's not what we're hearing. What we're hearing is
victim blaming. What we're hearing is racism, slavery. What we're
hearing is people no better than Carmelo Anthony engaged in
the same level of of nonsense and tom foolery that
we've always seen. And so there will be more. There
will be more. If you are a parent or grandparent
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of a child, stay tuned. I want to talk about
mister Rogers neighborhood, as I promised in the first segment,
and what our responsibility as parents unrelated to race, as
parents are snowflakes. Prepare for a complete meltdown.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
With more of the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 10 (25:05):
It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood, a beautiful day
for a neighbor.
Speaker 13 (25:10):
Would you be mine?
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Could you be mine?
Speaker 10 (25:14):
It's a neighborly day in this beauty would the neighborly
day for a beauty Would you be mine?
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Could you be mine?
Speaker 13 (25:23):
I have always wanted to have a neighbor just like you.
I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.
So let's make the most of this beautiful day.
Speaker 10 (25:38):
Since we're together, we might as well say, would you
be mine?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Could you be mine?
Speaker 13 (25:44):
Won't you be my neighbor?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Won't you please?
Speaker 10 (25:49):
Won't you, please, please, won't you be my neighbor.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
I was reading an article about Fred Rogers and if
you are a certain age, whether you were a child
or a parent who put your child in front of
that program, that program has a that program is in
your DNA. It was different, It was it was different
(26:27):
than cartoons. There was something something very innocent within you.
Not that the cartoons were so edgy. Well, when you
go back now, which I've done, and you watch you know,
you watch Wiley Coyote, that'll stress your brain out, Like
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there's a lot of violence. I love Elmer Fudd, but
there's a lot of violence. Bugs Bunny, my favorite fog
Warren Leghorn, there's a lot of violence, or probably my
second favorite, Huckleberry Hound. That's that's a program. But I
was reading about the fact I did not know this,
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but Fred Rogers apparently for twenty two years would have
a meeting every week with a child psychologist and he
wanted her input on every script, every prop every song.
And the idea, according to the article I was reading,
(27:38):
was that a child's nervous system is on adrenaline, it's
on hiler. It's children are nervous by a lot of
things change is very nerve wracking to them. Offending their parents,
getting in trouble, other kids, you or everything is stressing
them out right fire or fighter, And the point was
(28:01):
to have a show that would calm you down. I'm
not in favor of raising children who can't defend themselves.
I'm not in favor of the white liberal EmPATH personality,
the weak, the suicidal empathy. But I am a big
(28:23):
believer in a parenting strategy and a community strategy to
the extent that we all deal with children of children
developing in the old phrase, which you don't hear it
very often anymore, age appropriate, and this is a big
part of the whole you know. Look, if somebody wants
(28:44):
a grown man in a bikini to dance for I'm
at forty years old, that's another conversation for another day.
But little children don't need to be exposed to that.
On a number of different reasons, we didn't have women
in bikinis doing that. Children don't need that. So the
woman's name was was Margaret McFarland. She had a PhD.
(29:06):
But I don't call people doctor unless they can prescribe
me medicine. And she had co founded something called Arsenal
Family and Children's Center, along with Benjamin Spock, who wrote
the children's books, and the theory was that the prefrontal
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cortex in children, the part that controls impulse, emotion, attention,
that you're not born with that developed anymore than you're
born with a whole lot of hair that develops over
years and in fact, really decades. And if you've raised
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young people into teenage years and into young adult, you
know that those are the things that cause young people
during those crazy years to do crazy things. Drive one
hundred and twenty on the road, what were you thinking?
Jump off the roof into the pool? What were you thinking?
And in time we get better control over that, and
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so we don't think something and do it on short notice.
We are more measured. Right. And the point of him
meeting with her and a big part of that show
was not just the biggest ratings and the most influence
and the most acclaimed for the show, It was a genuine,
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heartfelt concern for developing in a healthy fashion the minds
of young people. The greatest warriors started as children, and
I don't think you need to make a warrior out
of a kid at five years old. Teach them to
defend themselves. But I also think you need to teach
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them how to be respectful to missus Jones or mister Smith.
I've been reading a lot about IQ, how much of
it is nature and how much of it is nurture.
And there's a lot being written now about African IQ.
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Do Africans have a lower IQ? And then there was
a study done by African scientists to say, to try
to prove that it wasn't true, and they came out
with sixty nine point seven as an as an IQ,
a median IQ. And so then the question is, you know,
is this group of people Africans? Are they born with
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smaller brains or a smaller processor. Well, any measure of
IQ is necessarily going to require that you're old enough
to engage, and by that time you're typically going to
have very different inputs depending on where you're growing up.
Asian countries also show very high IQs, but they also
show a great deal of parental involvement early on. Well,
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the point of all this, and we won't go any further.
My children are both from Africa, they're from Ethiopia. Obviously
they're adopted, and I will tell you that They went
to one of the most difficult private schools in Houston,
if not in the country, and they both fared very well.
They also had a tiger mom from India on their
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back every night about homework and a lot of accountability.
And so I'm not sure you know, nature versus nurture
and all those things, But what I am sure of
is this, if you are a parent or a grandparent
and you're concerned about television or the schools or the music,
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control it limit it, be bold enough to be a
parent and a grandparent love your child and that no
matter what they crave because their buddies are doing it,
you care enough about them to make sure. Because you
understand garbage in, garbage out, and you understand that developing
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impulse control, developing strategic thinking, developing a healthy attitude towards
yourself and the world around you and adults is critical.
I will leave you with that thought because that's the
only way. It's the only way we're going to solve
the problems in this country. Thank you, and good night.
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