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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Michael Verie show is on the air. Let's go down.
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I can hear you. I'm not going to tell you something.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I'm not in resistance of protecting anybody, and I think
that my work over the years that I've been involved
have been absolutely on point in dealing what has to
be dealt with in order to help the people. First
thing you've got to understand is services costs money, and
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we should be willing to get the richest people in
this country, the richest one percent that is protected, make
sure they pay their fair taxes so that we can
have the money to provide the service.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
We have a broken tax system that let's elon musk
free loan to offer everyone else, and it needs to stop.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Usually, if you're a billionaire, that means that you control
a massive system. It means that you own oil supplies,
it means that you control textiles, it means that you
have a massive.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Labor force under your control.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
And to be ethical, if you're a billionaire today, the
thing that you need to do is give up control
and power. So I don't want your money as much
as we want your power.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Rich you're not paying their fair share in any nation
that is facing the kind of employment issues, whether it's individual, corporate,
whatever the taxation forums are. And I go back to
the question about Brazil. Brazil has the highest tax to
GDP rate in the Western hemisphere, and guess what, it's
growing like crazy and the rich are getting richer, but
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they're pulling people out of poverty.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Do we want to keep.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans who don't need them
and didn't ask for them, or do we want to
make sure that they're paying their fair share?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Do we want to.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Do we want to keep subsidizing big oil or do.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
We want to make sure we're investing in clean energy.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Do we want to jack up interest rates on millions
of students, or do we want to keep investing in
things that will help us and help them in the
long term, things like education and science and a strong
military and care for our veterans.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
We can't do both. We can't have it both ways.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
We've got to make a choice about what our priorities up.
Speaker 7 (02:56):
Well, let me tell you Donald Trump and his billion
a have friends on the mic.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I'm going to pay a hell of a lot more
in taxes today.
Speaker 8 (03:03):
Texas in the future that that're paying today.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
We're gonna talk enough about the Michigan race. We've had
a lot to talk about. I'd like to do that
now because the Michigan Senate race, with Abdul l said,
it's a good example of the challenge the Democrat Party
is having because you've got these really really radical America
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hating Christian hating in this case, Muslim crazed fanatic who
has associations with Hassan Piker and people like this, and
now they've got all the muscle, they got all the energy,
and they defeat the establishment Democrat candidate. And when that happens,
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the Democrats are split because one theory is that you go, hey,
we got to call this out and we got got
we got to whack them mole this thing before it
gets legs and takes over the party. Right, So you
got people doing that, and then the others are going
Pelosi and Schumer are going no, no, no, this thing's
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too big already. We got to pile on with it.
This is what happened with Hitler when he became chancellor.
There was a moment where he could have been stopped,
and it was later than you think. I think it's
thirty two to thirty three. But there were a lot
of people who said, I'm afraid he has too much momentum,
and they gave him the boost, and once that happened,
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it was too late. These movements. I don't compare everything
to Hitler, but there was a moment in there that
Hitler was still stoppable much later than people people expected.
And so that's where we are with the Democrats, and
most of them are just saying we're a big tent,
We're a big tent. This is fine, yes, no, it's
all good. Boy Bernie's doing it. But one of the
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few people who's trying to say, hey, guys, this is
they're destroying the party and the country. To his credit,
Bill Martin, nobody's been as effective at this as Bill Maher.
That's just fact. But of elected officials is John Fetterman.
This is Fetterman talking about abdul l said.
Speaker 9 (05:18):
And a lot of the things that he has done
and said during the primary, We're going to come back
to haunt like campaigning with a guy that loves Hamas
and is very proud to stand with communist regimes.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
So you're talking about Hassan Piker, Oh yeah, definitely. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (05:35):
Out there with l Sied on the campaign trials that
what you're saying, yeah, I mean you know you'll be
able to find out what he really thinks. Is he
still going to campaign with a guy that proud to
love hamas we'll see. Are you going to campaign with
a guy that openly loved Mao and even dresses like
him too for events? So overall you're going to find
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out he was a very he had a very arrogant campaign,
and now today he just discovered that less than a
majority of your state's only Democrats didn't even want you.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
So the Democrat candidate for US Senate from Michigan is
a Democrat socialist, mind you, and he wants you to
say his whole name, just as he says Barack Huseina.
He wants you to hear his whole name.
Speaker 10 (06:28):
All you gotta do is look at the odds you're
already watching on TV started today. You know they think
that you want to use my whole name against me. Mike, Listen, man,
if you can't say the name is Abdrohman, keep the
name out your damn mouth.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I'll be happy to give you lessons.
Speaker 10 (06:48):
But they understand that the only way that they think
they can win is to drag us into the mud,
to believe the worst about each other.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Now, when you go in and actually look at the
results from Michigan, you've got abdulah L said, saying that
he is h he's representing a working coalition, he's a
working people. But actually that's not true. He's representing the
non white people, the minorities. Well, he's representing Muslims. But actually,
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if you go in and look at what you call
the the cross tabs, if you get granular on the data,
you begin to notice that he's winning urban young people
and he's losing blacks and working class people. You mightn't
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win this way. So the challenge the Democrats have is
that the muscle, the troops, the energy, the media interviews,
that's all coming from candidates like Francesca Hong, Bernie Sanders.
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That's coming from the young, aggressive, crazy. Abdul L sayid okay,
So those are the people that are dominating the news cycle.
And you heard the guy earlier say, you know, the
reason we're putting these people on is it's the juiciest story.
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So the crazier the stuff they say, the more airtime
they get. When you get airtime, you build support. There's
just no way around that. It's you know, you can
say what you want about me. Just spell my name right,
It's P. T. Barnum. So what you're witnessing is like
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Charlie Sheen when he was in the in the Worst
when in the Tiger Blood throws of his meltdown. I
don't know about you, but if Charlie Sheen had a
new statement out, I wanted to know what if there
was a new video out when that was going on,
I wanted to see it. Who didn't as a train wreck?
That's what this has become. It's all entertainment, and so
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you have to overlay the entertainment into the filter of
the traditional political process. The political process has changed dramatically,
you know. So if you think about the fact that,
for instance, the w NBA is not about basketball anymore.
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It's about black lesbians hating this white woman and white privilege.
It's about you know, guys proving the silliness of the
whole of the whole deal with Royce White and Inns
doing doing their thing. It's about why the black women
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can can close line Sophie Cunningham and then when the
player gets ejected, to which she should. Then she writes
white privilege, and she's this angry black woman mad at
white people and acting out. Uh, it's about the coach
then seemingly not taking her side, and then getting mad
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at people for pointing out that she hadn't taken their side.
So you got all these things. Nobody's what. Nobody's watched
a basketball game, dribbling, passing, cutting, shooting, rebounding. The WNBA
is not about the sport. If two girls went to
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the gym or out back of the garage and started
shooting the basketball and a couple more girls should, that
would be basketball. That would be about the ball going
in the hoop and keeping the score. WNBA is not
about that at all anymore. If you've had a conversation,
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if you have mentioned WNBA, it had nothing to do
with dribbling, passing, shooting, defending, stealing, dunking. Well, I don't dunk,
but you get my point. It's all about the side show.
It is simply a platform for the side show, and frankly,
I think it's good for the WNBA. I do. It's
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the only reason people talk about it. It's the only
reason they watch a clip when you see Caitlin Clark
get clothesline, the only reason you watch that is for
the clotheslining. It's like hockey has hockey partisans, hockey fans,
people who played hockey. But in the South where I
grew up, because you didn't have any ice to skate on,
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you just watch hockey to watch the fights, see the
dudes get their teeth knocked out. For people like me
who are not hockey fans and didn't grow up around it,
if we watch a hockey highlight, it's a miracle on
ice or a fight. That's all we got bandwidth for.
Right there were people who tried to watch FIFA, but
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you didn't grow up playing soccer. You don't know the rules,
you don't know when the flag. You just notice people
are flopping around. It's hard to get interested. It's hard
to get interested in WNBA. People are not naturally a trade.
It's not a good product. The product on the court
is not enjoyable to watch. It's boring. That's just a fact.
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There's a reason that high school gyms are not teeming
with fans from the community to come out and watch
the local girls basketball team play. The people that are
in the stands are the other students who are there
to cheer on their friends and the parents, and that's okay.
It's like the recital when your kid's three years old
puts on two two. That's not a good quality production,
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but it's your kid, and you go and you support
them and you should and that's wonderful and it's emotional.
It's your kid. Awesome. So the WNBA is not about basketball,
that's about the drama. The political process today elections is
not about the core issues. It's about the freak shows,
the closed lines and the racist and the trends and
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all that. And when you're the media, you understand that
there's a very limited bandwidth of attention that the public
is willing to extend to political conversations. And look CNN,
MS now, Fox News Nation, politics is everything now. ESPN
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used to be about sports, then they got into politics
and culture. Well, these networks there's almost no story other
than political stories. And so every day you wake up
and you got to put something on the screen and
then you have some guests come on to talk about it.
And unless you have a shooting, that's why the school
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shooting did so much attention. Unless you have a school
shooting or you know, a mass shooting or something like that.
Are some really really you know, some celebrity who just
got busted or whatever.
Speaker 11 (14:12):
Else.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
By and large, the big story is going to be
what Nancy Pelosi said, or what abdul elsa Eid said,
or what Francesca Holng said, or what AOC or Bernie
or Trump said. And that's what you're going to do.
And nobody cares whether any of this is worthwhile you're
just throwing it out there. Look, you might be a
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fried chicken restaurant, but people tell you nobody in this
town needs fried chicken. They all eat hamburgers. You can
start putting hamburgers out there, even though you really like
your fried chicken and you think your fried chicken is good.
If all people want is hamburgers, you're going to put
hamburgers out there. And that's what the networks are doing.
And so now we're inundated. But the problem is, as
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with everything else, what is good on Monday has to
be topped on Tuesday. It's like when private equity buys
an electrical company or a plumbing company or roofing company.
They don't buy that company to operate it the way
it is. They buy it to increase revenues. How do
you do that? Or to increase profitability? So the day
they buy it, they start laying people off, cuts costs.
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They don't care what the quality goes down. It ain't
their name only. It ain't Smith or Jones or Robinson
plumbing or electrical. That's the owner's name. The private equity
groups out of New York, they don't care. They're trying
to wring some cash out. So how do you make
more money out of a business that's been operating for
forty years? You may not. You have to cut costs,
and then you start trying to find ways to make
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more money. So now you start offering warranties and service
plans and add ons and additional fees. Right, well, that's
what the networks are doing. On Monday, it was good
that AOC said this crazy thing or Francesca hun but
on Tuesday you can't run that again. So now you
can have something more crazy and more crazy. And so
you just keep pushing this envelope because you're just trying
to keep people interested in the crazy z it gets
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trans isn't even interesting nowhere.
Speaker 8 (16:02):
That's yesterday seem to from other places the Michael Berry.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Okay, so I'm going to this is not the most
important thing to happen in the country, but I'm going
to use it as an example. It's exhibit A in
the challenges that the Democrat Party is having right now.
So here is Abdul l said he's now won the
Michigan primary to be their US Senate candidate. You're talking
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Michigan is a football state. You're talking about the Michigan,
Michigan Wolverines, the Big House, as storied a college football
program as there is. I would argue that Michigan football
is as big, if not bigger in terms of historically
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as the University of Texas uh uh Texas A and
m Oklahoma, LSU, Alabama, Auburn, Michigan, Ohio State and that rivalry.
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You talk about a football state, and we're not even
talking about the Spartans yet. Michigan State's in that conversation.
The Detroit Lions. It's not the fans' fault. They've been
terrible for so long and now they're pretty good. Jared
Goss brought to wine of their Matt Stafford was good.
This is football country, man, It ain't Texas or Alabama
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or Louisiana or Mississippi. But it's football country, and you've
got a guy running for the Senate who is talking
about the fact that football is toxic masculinity. Well, listen
to the quote.
Speaker 11 (17:48):
First, football is very much associated with a you know,
particularly masculine and oftentimes toxic, toxically masculine culture, and so
much of it was about you wanted to be able
to get back up and play for your team, and
you really aren't allowed to show pain or vulnerability.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
That's part of the sport toxic masculinity. If you are
told to stay away from water that has been a
super fun cleanup site, maybe there's hazardous waste that was
dumped into there, maybe there's nuclear waste or nuclear reactor nearby.
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That water is toxic. It doesn't mean that it's interesting
or different or unlike other water you drink. Toxic. It
means very very bad, very very bad masculinity. Football is
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an example of very bad masculinity. Football not good, that's
what he's saying. Okay, And then you say to yourself, well, well,
how does this guy end up a US Senate candidate
in a state where football is so important and make
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a statement like that. He may never have been to
a football game before. Does that matter, Yes, it does. See,
this is where we get into trouble with. Everything is
equal all the time, Muslims and Christians. It's all the shame.
We all just love God. If everybody loves God, they
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love God. You love God. It's all a shame. Okay. Well,
ten families just moved into your neighborhood and before the
butt crack of dawn you're getting Muslim prayers and you
can't sleep. It's loud and unnerving. Well, that's your way
they worship. He say, Hey, they like to worship that way.
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They like that worship. Okay, it's not until it's on
your doorstep that it's a problem. Abdul l said has
not lived a life like the people of Michigan have.
He does not like the same things. So is well,
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that's okay. Everybody should get a chance. Girls can play
ball with the boys, girls can be in war.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
It's all the same. We're all we're This is where
that crap. This is where the rubber hits the road.
He is out of touch with the people of the state.
They gave him other words to say that the people
wouldn't know any better. You deserve to have more.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Yeah. I like this guy, which is I can't say
his name, but he's gonna give me more. I like
that that guy's got money and you don't. We're gonna
take from him. I like that too. Stuff costs too much.
Oh crap, he knows that stuff costs too much. Oh,
I'm voting for that guy. He knows that stuff costs
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too much. I'm worried other people don't know that stuff
costs too much. I like people to tell me that
stuff costs too much. That makes me feel better about myself.
That all the things I want to buy I can't
afford to buy. But he says that's not right that
I can't buy. I should be able to buy everything
I want every time I want it. And he says that,
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and the other people they don't care. They don't care
that I'm sitting over here wanting to buy stuff and
I can't buy it, and I'm mad. And he understands.
He says stuff costs too much because he understands it
that I can't buy all the stuff I want to buy.
So I'm going to vote for him because he's the
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stuff costs too much party. Remember the rent is too
damn high. Guy in New York. He ran for mayor
of New York on the basis that the rent is
too damn high. Well, you can't exactly reduce the rents
already rent controlled. That's why you got so many thousand
units that nobody will even move anybody into, because what's
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the point of making an improvement to the unit. You
can't raise the rent anyway. There's no market forces. So
I'll just leave the unit empty. It's easier. But he
was the rent is too damn high. Well, yeah, rent's
too damn high. You know what. I'm not having enough sex. Uh,
I'm a run for office. I think men should get
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more sex. I'm for him. I'll get more sex. Yeah, yeah,
I don't want to have a belly. Having a belly sucks. Well,
I'm running for the US Senate on the basis that
men ought not to have a belly. I like him,
he says stuff. I like yeah, Yeah, I like that.
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I like that a lot. My wife does not cook
every meal. I want her to cook for me and
clean up and have sex with me as often as
I want her to, and tell me I'm a king.
Like she used to. I don't like that. I'm thinking
and running for the US Senate. You know what men deserve.
Men deserve their wife to cook them what they want
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for dinner whenever they want it, with a smile, in
a bikini, and have sex with him when they want to.
I like that guy. He's really good. He understands me.
Oh you want to interview me, reporter guy. Yeah, I'm
for it. I'm sorry I can't say his name, but
he's a good candidate. He's listening to me. He's talking
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about the stuff that I care about. He's telling he's
really in touch with me. Well, he thinks football is horrible.
Why would he say that? Because nobody told him what
to say about football. See, because everything else he said,
he just told you what you want it. You should
be taller. You're only five seven, and you you've had
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to hang up about being a short man your whole life.
I'm running for the US Senate because because you should
get to be taller. Hey, I like that, that's good.
I don't like that. I'm bald. I wish I had hair.
Nobody seems to care that. I don't have care. You
got all these other people that have hair and I
don't have hair. I want to have hair. You know,
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I'm running for the US Senate because people should have hair.
You got it. I like this guy. He gets me. Yes,
we should have hair and be skinny and have more
sex and have a better dinner and be able to
buy more stuff. And he says the things I think.
I'm voting for him. And that's how this works. That's
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why Churchill said democracy is the worse form of government
save for all the others. When too many idiots, when
our neighbors have become too idiotic, this is what we're
ending up with. She took in a snake. She was warned,
she did it anyway, and when it bitter, it said,
you knew what I was when you took me in.
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Donald Trump's been reading Al Wilson's poem at rally since
twenty fifteen, and every time it gets a little more
on the nose. Today it's literally on the nose. This
is that poem.
Speaker 12 (25:30):
Who has heard the poem called the Snake?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
So I have it? Does anybody want to hear it again?
You sure? Are you sure? Okay?
Speaker 12 (25:49):
So let's dedicate this to General Kelly, the Border Patrol
and the Ice Agents for doing such an incredible job.
Speaker 8 (26:01):
Bye.
Speaker 12 (26:04):
This was written by Al Wilson a long time ago,
and I thought of it having to do with our
borders and people coming in, and we know what we're
going to have.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
We're gonna have problems. We have to very very carefully vet.
Speaker 13 (26:17):
We have to be smart, we have to be vigilant.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
So here it is the snake. It's called the Snake.
Speaker 13 (26:26):
On her way to work one morning, down the path
along the lake, a tender hearted woman saw a poor,
half frozen snake.
Speaker 12 (26:39):
His pretty colored skin had been all frosted with the dew.
Poor things, he cried. I'll take you in and I'll
take care of you the border. Take me in, a
tender woman, Take me in, for Heaven's sake.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Take me in, oh tender woman. Side the vicious snake.
Speaker 12 (27:07):
She wrapped him up all cozy in a comforter of
silk and laid him by her fireside with some honey
and some milk. She hurried home from work that night,
and as soon as she arrived.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
She found that pretty snake she'd.
Speaker 13 (27:28):
Taken in.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Had been revived.
Speaker 12 (27:33):
Take me in, a tender woman, Take me in for
Heaven's sake, Take me in, O tender woman side that
vicious snake.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
She clutched him to her bosom. You're so beautiful, she cried.
Speaker 12 (27:50):
But if I hadn't brought you in by now, oh heavens,
you would have died. She stroked his pretty skin again
and kissed him and held him tight. But instead of
saying thank you, that snake gave her a vicious bite.
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Take me in, O tender woman, Take me in, for
Heaven's sake, Take me in, O tender woman, sighed the
vicious sake.
Speaker 13 (28:29):
I have saved you, cried the woman, and you've bitten me.
Speaker 12 (28:34):
Heavens, why you know your bite is poisonous?
Speaker 2 (28:39):
And now I'm going to die?
Speaker 12 (28:44):
Oh shut up, silly woman, said the reptile with a grin.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
You knew, damn well.
Speaker 12 (28:52):
I was a snake before you took me in.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
My hate snakes. My enough is enough. I have had
it with these snakes on this mother play. Everybody step
in about to open some windows. Arkansas high school football
player at practice with a venomous cotton mouth snake inside
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his helmet managed to avoid being bitten. I don't understand how,
but during warmups he noticed unusual movement inside his helmet,
so he brought it to his defensive code. Hey, Code,
I got something in my helen. You just wanted to
know there's something in there. The coach discovered there was
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a snake underneath the helmet's patting. The story from KATV
Little Rock.
Speaker 8 (29:59):
I've removed a snake out of a car vent, in
an engine purse's backpack, in a helmet.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Never it's an opponent that probably won't end up on
this season's football schedule.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
It's kind of unbelievable. Well, it's a mensa.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
The Mammell High School football team had to face anyway.
While their practice Thursday, one player noticed a snake in
his helmet, quickly turning that practice into a real deal situation.
Speaker 8 (30:25):
When the officers got there and stuff, they examined the
helmet and at that time they could see that there
was a snake in the helmet. They verified it was
not a copper head, but it possibly was a cotton
mouth or a water snake.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Chris Davis with Mommeal Animal Services says they responded to
the high school after a report of a copperhead in
a football helmet. Instead, it was actually a cotton mouth,
a venomous snake known to hide out in dark, sheltered places.
Speaker 8 (30:51):
The cotton mouth, in my opinion, is probably the second
most venomous snake here in Arkansas. I would say the
rattlesnake is probably the number one. If this snake would
have a bit the child, it probably would have been
very fatal.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
If the snake was snuggled in between patting of the helmet,
this made it hard to remove. David says they had
to flood the snake out in order to grab it,
bringing home a win for the Hornets.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
It was.
Speaker 8 (31:17):
It was very unreal, so you had to kind of
be there and take pictures to.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Say this was real. How about that reporter, though, you
should be hosting a quiet storemone Saturday night at eleven
thirty on Magic one oh two doing dedications and players
with Teddy Prinna Gath. I mean that was that's uh, Jim,
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you're on the Michael Berry Show. Welcome to the program sir,
take it away.
Speaker 14 (31:50):
Hey, Michael, I come up with a perfect idea for
protests against the flawed cameras. Okay, it shut out, imaging
them or you know, vandalizing them. They're putting a big
American flag right in front of them.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Okay, what do you think, well, I'm sure why not.
I let me ask you how you got interested in
the flock camera issue. It's not a trick question. I'm
curious because I get more flock camera commentary. It happened overnight,
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and I'm curious how it came to your attention.
Speaker 14 (32:39):
Been noticing them for months and remembering the book in
nineteen eighty four, in all of the way that they
trick the population. It's the same thing, but it's for
real and it's fear now, and I think the best
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way to protest it you can put American shumbolt the
flag right in the front of Jacama without damaging it.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
It's very interesting to me, Jim. But when you can
and you can boil an issue down to the two
sides of it, uh and and you can really see
the age old battle safety and security versus liberty and independence. Hey, Libility,
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thank you, and good night,