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Speaker 1 (00:02):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. Michael
Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Let me just start with Tulcy Gabbert, because you served
as a CI director for four years. Would having her
in charge or in the role of Director of National
Intelligence mean for the intelligence apparatus of.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
The US government.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
She has been an apologist for Putin and Michele Massade,
so many of her substant comments as well as previous
actions have called into question whether or not she has
a good understanding of global politics in the US role there.
But also she doesn't have any experience in intelligence.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
She has never served in the intelligence community.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
And the Director of National Intelligence is somebody who sits
on top of the eighteen.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Departments and agencies and needs to orchestrate these agencies so
that they collaborate, so that they coordinate, so that they're
able to pursue the nationalist crety priorities in an effective.
Speaker 6 (01:00):
There's irrefutable evidence that detail how President Obama and his
national security team direct.
Speaker 7 (01:06):
Democrats are in real trouble, real trouble. And CNN was
reading the polling data and it's bad. So CNN's Jake
Tapper asked Pennsylvania Democrat Madeline Dean about the Democrat Party's
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poor polling, and this is what he got.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
It feels like every few weeks, a new polling organization
comes out with a pole saying Democrats are at the
lowest level they've ever been in the latest was Wall
Street Journal Democratic Approval Rating state of record role sixty
three voters having an unfavorable view of your party? What
does your party need to do to climb out of that?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I have to speak to two issues. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (01:50):
What I regret around the Epstein files is nobody talks
about the victims. We need truth, transparency, and justice. Every
time we talk about this, these now adult women, they
were children. Let's remember this. Many of them were children
who were traffic.
Speaker 9 (02:06):
That's the whole.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
There needs to be justice for these ones, Justice for
the women.
Speaker 8 (02:09):
They are just re victimized every single time release the files.
It isn't just Maxwell and Epstein. Who knows what happened
here when you traffic hundreds of girls and women On
the polling I haven't seen polling that shows the president
at ninety percent of anything. Some small slice of Republicans,
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even his base, is getting very upset with him over
Epstein and the conspiracies and the failure to be transparent.
What do I make of that? Democratic the pole. Yes,
we're in the dog house yet again. What I see
and what I hear from my constituents, whether I'm answering
the phone in my office or I'm out of the supermarket,
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everybody is anxious, upset, worried. They're worried about Gaza. They're
worried about war crimes in Ukraine. They are worried about tariffs.
They can't plan because businesses can't plan. They're also now
worried about things they weren't worried about. Medicaid. Tens of
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thousands of my constituents are at risk of losing Medicaid support,
whether it's for substance abuse or for their disabled child.
So they're worrying about things they didn't have to worry
about before, and they see a president not solving the
big issues that are some of them very man made,
like Alsa.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
She's very concerned that the list be released, but she
never once called on Joe Biden.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
To release it for four years.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
Second, she says, when she's at the grocery store, this
is what people come up and tell her. I will
guarantee you she's not been to the grocery store in
five years.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I will guarantee you that.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
This is what consultants are paid to tell the Democrats. Hey, guys,
the polls show we're out of touch. We're talking about
creepy stuff like wanting to cut off little boys wieners
and wanting to rip out girls reproductive organs, cut a
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chunk of their leg and put a piece of sausage
hanging between their legs. And I'm sorry to be crude,
but that's what they do. That's what the mutilation looks like.
While they also perform a double mastectomy on these girls,
and they give them a lot of hormones. So, well,
you can't perform sex now, but at least you'll have
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a little facial hair. Okay, great, maybe some male pattern baldness.
If you're lucky, you look like a real man. And
so that's the kind of stuff. You've been doubling down
on global warming, this kind of stuff, illegal immigration, more
and more and more. So they're telling them, hey, look, guys,
got you gotta seem relatable, you know, just listen to
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whathes you know, when I'm at the grocery store, people
are very concerned about Ukrainian war crimes. Let me ask
you this, do you know a single person who would
go up to a congressman at the grocery store. Congressman,
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I'm worried about what's happening in Kiv and what about Crimea.
I'm worried Crimea may be lost the tank count. This
is becoming a war of attrition, and Zelensky doesn't appear
on the northern front to be able to repel the
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Russian tanks purely based on numb I.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Don't think people are saying that. I know they're not.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
The average American does not care about politics in the
context in which the lobbyists talk the politicians into taking action.
Americans do not care. Now, you might work with somebody
if you live in New York or DC or Filly
or Chicago, maybe whose parents came from Ukraine, and they care, sure,
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but Americans don't care. And Americans don't want our money
sent there, and they don't want us sending our boys there.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
They don't.
Speaker 7 (06:29):
And she says Americans are concerned about Gaza. Let me
ask you, in your life, are you is anybody you know?
Is mister Boudreau next door or mister Abery on the
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other side, or mister Thibodeaux back behind the house behind
you do you go out back and say, Thibodeaux, what
you think is going on with Gaza?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
And what do you think he says? You think he's.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
Concerned about Gaza. You think he's worried over what's happening
between Israel and Gaza and whether the people of Gaza
are being fed or whether the food is being stolen
by Hamas. You think he's saying to himself, we need
to have a bake sell for the people of Gaza.
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Now where is that again? And who are they again?
I'm thinking, let's not worry about America. Let's send every
penny we've got to Gaza to fund Hamas and to
Ukraine to fund Zelenski, who is a multi billionaire while
I'm over here struggling to get by. Thank you, Congressman
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for listening to me and the people in my community,
because this is what we care about about.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Bizarre of talk radio The Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 7 (08:05):
I received a message this morning of passing if I
want to talk to anybody, because Texas A and M University,
which is located in College Station, Texas, which is about
a couple hours outside of Houston. I didn't go to
Texas A and M University. You may know them as
the maroon colored football team or baseball or basketball team.
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The Texas A and M stands for Agricultural and Mechanical School.
Came about in the late nineteenth century. It's a heritage
Texas school and for short for the Agricultural and Mechanical
became the Aggies, So the Texas A and M Aggies
or TAMU Aggies. They offer a class on Texas barbecue.
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They teach the history of Texas barbecue, the best in
the world by the way methodology, flavorings, seasonings, and the
different types of barbecue, the different methods of preparation, the
different rubs, different cuts of meat. They teach the class
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during the fall semester on Friday afternoons, which reminds me
taxpayers pay for universities. A lot of people don't understand this.
The student's tuition is only a small percentage of the
cost of the university experience, and I mean room and.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Board and the whole deal.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
Tuition only covers a very small percentage of faculty or
teaching assistant salaries, administrative offices, facilities, maintenance, and the light.
It is heavily subsidized by taxpayers, many of whom never
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went to college. It strikes me that somewhere along the way,
the university separated from the very people who pay for it.
And what made me think of this is my friend
of mine. Friend of mine, he's a tradesman. He runs
the company his father ran before him. He didn't go
to college, he had no interest in going to college.
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Now I went and got not one, but two law degrees.
And my buddy makes more than probably fifty percent of
the people I went to law school with. And they
work insane hours because law is not for the faint
of heart. It's long hours, especially if you're at a
big law firm. He has a better quality of life.
He's involved with his kids, and he's raising up his
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son's four kids, two boys and two boys, are coming
up through the business. They work with him during the
summer and on the weekends. They've each been able to
buy their own truck. They pay their own They want
to go eat a burger, they go to burger. They
got money in their pocket, they earn it, they work.
They don't sit around playing video games. But he chose
not to go to college. It didn't suit him, and
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he's done very well for himself. And it strikes me
that he's paid a lot of money into an education
system that he really gets nothing out of education should
be shared. Saint Jude Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee is one
of the greatest medical facilities in the world, not just
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because they treat every form of children's cancer, but because
if you're chosen as a patient to go there, if
you are accepted to go there, it doesn't cost you
a penny. I think I read that they raise a
million dollars a day. We've raised a lot of money
for Saint Jude over the years on our show. We
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do that on the morning show, now on the evening show.
It's a wonderful organization.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
I've toured it. We do a golf tournament. Every year
we've raised.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
I bet it'll be close to ten million dollars either
this year or by next year that we've raised for
Saint Jude. I'm very proud of that. But Saint Jude
does something amazing. Nothing is proprietary. When they do research,
when they test, when they try experiment on a kid
that has has cancer, and they start perfecting techniques to
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treat pediatric brain cancer, for instance. That's all open source.
They make it available. There are patients in Africa, Asia,
South America, Europe, the Middle East where the doctor is
confronted a surgeon is confronted with a kid with a
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cancer and the kid can't can't travel for whatever reason,
the doctor can't travel, and they will actually set up
a screen and there'll be a screen that they'll set
up for the doctor in the far off place, and
they will walk that doctor through how to perform this procedure.
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They also film procedures that they perform and they make
those available so that some doctor in Kigali, Kenya, who
has a similar case of a tumor coming out of
the side of an eight year old kid's head, he
can see exactly how they did it. You may be
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that person. I'm not the person, but I know a
lot of people who have done amazing things, whether it's
a craft, a repair project, a construction project. Because you
pulled out YouTube and you watch somebody do it, and
you watch them again, and you watched them again, and
you watched them again, and then you started trying to
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do it, and you stopped the video and you did
a rewind and you watched it again.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Well, they're doing that.
Speaker 7 (14:01):
They're doing that with cancer treatment around the world, and.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
They're sharing all of that.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
It's not just that, hey, we've got this thing, we're
gonna hold it and keep it to ourselves. I think
Elon became insanely popular when he opened up his network,
his infrastructure of charging stations, which are extremely expensive to build,
and made them available and compatible with other electric vehicles.
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It was Rod Canyon, who was the CEO of Compact
Computers in Houston, who took on Big Blue IBM and
Big Blue was the monopoly for all intents and purposes
in the computer business and little bitty tiny compact in Houston,
Texas and my dear friend Rod Canyon. They challenged Big Lou.
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And when Steve Jobs came out with the iPhone, he said,
but for Rod Canyon and Little Compact Computers in Houston, Texas,
there would have been no Apple. There will have been
no iPhone, There would have been no iPad, no MacBook,
no nothing. IBM had the lock and they played hardball.
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So just before that's why you have IBM and PC
instead of IBM, or that's why you have a PC
and Apple, because what he managed to do. Sometimes sharing
what you have allows everything to grow. A rising tide
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lifts all boats.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
As John F.
Speaker 9 (15:46):
Kennedy said, educational institutions don't belong to the point he
head Trump paters who are there, they're paid for by
the taxpayers, and they should share with the communities and the.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
Taxpayers this educational process that would improve the entirety. The
singer of that song is Natasha Owens. Wayne Allen Root,
who is a talk show host and a big Trump supporter.
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Was he says he's the one who came up with
the Chosen One as the title for Trump.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
I no, reasonably that's not true. I just don't know.
But Natasha Owens.
Speaker 7 (16:35):
Received a commendation for one billion views on social media
for that song. You can find it online Natasha Owens
the Chosen One. Further to my point I have made
so many times, the arbiters of pop culture, the gate
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keepers of commentary, are out of sync with the vast
majority of Americans. And it is not until something is
put into the public domain and the public has an
awareness of it. Because if you write a song and
sing it, record it and nobody knows about it, it can't
go viral. This is why I Talk radio has been
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so powerful, absolutely powerful, is because no matter what CBS, ABC,
NBCMSNBCC and frankly sometimes Fox, no matter what details, they
keep the public from knowing. If people become aware on
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Moss writ large of what's going on, the reaction most
Americans feel the way you do. I know, I know
it's frustrating. I know it feels like you're in the minority,
but you're not. That's why twenty sixteen was such a
shock to the system. People didn't realize. People in DC
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didn't realize that voters at home had had enough of
eight years of Barack Obama and frankly eight years of
George Bush and eight years of Bill Clinton. That had enough,
That had enough of illegal immigration, that had enough of
the government takeover of their healthcare, that had enough of
the taxes, that had enough of the self dealeye, they
had enough of being lectured, that had enough of woke
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policies and DEI.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
That had enough enough, And.
Speaker 7 (18:35):
When given an opportunity to express that dissatisfaction and pivot
and go a different direction, which is what Trump represented,
they took it. But Trump wasn't like other politicians. He
was a juggernaut. There were almost twenty candidates in that race,
and he raced through the primary Americans. I've made this
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point again and again I'll say it again. I don't
think Trump could have been elected in two thousand and eight. Maybe,
in twelfth, maybe, but by sixteen the nation was ready.
You know, I can't tell you how many of my
friends have said to me of their wife and they
have the best relationship. And you know, I don't meet
these guys until later in life. And I'll say, you know,
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it makes me happy to see another couple that is
happy with each other.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
You got a good one.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
You got a keeper, as we say fishing term. You
got to keep her. You don't throw that one back.
You've got to keep she's a keeper. I can't tell
you how man my friends have said. You know, I'm
glad I didn't meet her in high school because I
wasn't ready for her. Glad I didn't meet her in college.
Glad I didn't meet her until I was, you know,
twenty five thirty five. Sometimes it's the second way, Glad
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I didn't meet her when I would have thrown her back,
because she's a keeper. A man has to grow up
until he understands and he has to grow up. And
it's not the until he grows up that he realizes
that's a good girl right there. That's the one I
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want to lay down with every night and get up
with every morning. That's the one I'm willing to have
a joint bank account with. That's the one that when
we drive five hours to the lake, I don't dread
her taking her shoes off in the car, putting them
up on the above the glove box, and us having
a conversation about what's going on. That's the one I
don't mind if she needs to call me during the
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workday because she needs a minute spending some time with her.
That's the one that will make good decisions. That's the
one I don't have to go look at her phone
and see who she's texting with and who That's the
one that I don't have to worry that she's so
jealous that I can't have friends that are girls. I
can't go for boys' weekend. That's the one that's the keeper.
That's the one that's going to instill the values in
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my children that even if I'm on a work trip
on a rig offshore for a month, I can come
back and not worry that my kids are little brats,
because that's one that's going.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
To train him upright as a good, godly woman.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
Right there, that's a woman that I'm willing to invest
in and have invest in me. That's the keeper. Likewise,
Trump found his moment. It took eight awful years of
Barack Obama, after frankly eight years of the neo Kon
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Bush administration, until people realized, I don't want the same
old Republicans. I don't want more Bushies. Remember we had
the Jeb Bush option. He had to have exclamation mark
after his name to get excited, because you might not otherwise.
We had almost twenty candidates in our race. Trump met
his moment. That was the moment that Americans said, you
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know what, I don't care what he has said.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
I don't care what was the words he's used. I
don't care if he's been married before. I don't care
if he's rich. I don't care if he's skinning his orange.
I don't care. I want this guy right now. He's
the one that's a chosen at the end.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
Remember me, I can't remember Scott out good bear. So
we were having dinner a couple of weeks ago, and
there was a couple behind us, at the table behind us,
and they had two little kids, maybe almost maybe three,
one maybe six, And the three year old stumbled over
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and was holding onto my chair and pulling my shirt
from behind to stabilize because it was that kind of
doddering that little toddlers and old people do. And the
older brother comes running over and grabs a little three
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year old scoops him away, and the dad not so
much for the kid, but for me to know that
I knew that he's a decent human being and he
didn't want his kid doing that. He's yelling at the kid,
and I said, oh, no, no, it's fine, it's fine,
don't nor worry. And Crockett was with us, and I said,
my kids are eighteen and nineteen. I miss you know,
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little bitty kids. And my wife was saying, yeah, we
miss it. Enjoy this time, don't worry.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
It's fine. You're out at dinner, but.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
You can't have more than two bites without you know,
them running off or doing something right, choking, getting where
they're not supposed to throw in their food. Whatever is
the little kids, they're adorable, and so the guy had
a hat.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
What was his school? Saint John's. The guy was wearing
Saint John.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
I says that Saint John's in Houston, which is one
of the elite private schools, and he said it is
and I said, oh, you went to Saint John's and
he said, yes, Wesley Hunt went to Saint john a
lot of people. Who's the movie maker Ramon did, yeah,
Wes Anderson went to Saint John's.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
It's over near River Oaks.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
And I said, oh, you went to Saint john And
I turned to her and said, you go to Saint John's.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
She said, I did not. I went to and I
can't remember.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
It was one of their rivals, Episcopal Kincaid Saint Thomas,
but anyway, it was one of their rivals. And I said, oh, well,
how did y'all get together? And she said, well, we
didn't get together till after college. And I said, oh,
so y'all met in college and she said no, I'm
an Aggie and he's a longhorn. I said, well this
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is these these are fun family traditions, white the rivalries,
and she said, yes, we started dating before we knew
that we had both attended rival schools, and we're the
same exact year, which I thought was funny. I saw
a mean that said, y'all have five weeks to get married, move,
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have baby showers, and everything else after that, don't ask
me to do anything unless it involved watching Texas football.
I'm going to say it again this year, Fellas. Your
girlfriend doesn't know any better, so she's gonna pick a
date in November when the weather's pretty on a Saturday
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for your wedding, and you're in that coochy coo phase
where just you know your testosterone has dipped. You're taking
pictures with her that her mother and her and the
photographer her all dreamed up. They've put you in an
outfit that you look like a fool, an absolute fool.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
They've got you.
Speaker 7 (25:36):
They might as well have you painted up like boy George,
because you're just a doll for her look. You're really
just there to be in her picture, and they've got
you with the one where both of your eyes are
looking at each other and y'all are back to bag
and then you're doing all the goofy pictures that we
get sucked into doing because at that point you're all
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lovey dub and you don't think about the fact that
her parents are going to mail that to all of
her parents' friends, some of whom are your friend's parents,
and for the rest of your life, those photos are
out there and y'all are wearing all white, and one
of them then you got the denim in one of them,
and you're all cleaned up and your hair's combed and
you look like a dufust but you're in love and
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you're gonna do this for her.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
We got it.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
Okay, she's gonna pick that date in November. That's a Saturday,
because that's when the venue told them, you can only
have what November eighth, I don't know what the day is.
And she's gonna go, we have to do this one.
My mom said, we have to do this. It's the
only day we can get this venue. We really want
this venue. It's the only day to florist.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
You know why. It's the only day available. Do you
know why?
Speaker 7 (26:43):
Because it's the biggest day for UT football and the
biggest day for A and M football. And you probably
got UHTCU SMU Texas Tech done in for good measure
as well.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
And you are gonna go.
Speaker 7 (26:56):
Oh oh oh, hey, no, woh wait, that's the that's
the day of the big game, and.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
She my mom said, we have to do it. Then.
Speaker 7 (27:05):
That's the only day we can get the venue. That's
the only way. Otherwise we have to wait till April.
And when I'm not waiting till April, We're doing it November.
You know what, your friends will put a TV in
the groom's dressing room, y'all, and then you're gonna go,
oh man, because you don't want.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
To fight it.
Speaker 7 (27:21):
You don't want to put your foot down, and that
imitation is gonna go down, and your buddies are gonna goay, hey, Rob,
are you serious? Are you serious? Your wedding is on
the biggest football day of the year. I know her
mom said we had to do it because that's today.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
The venue was open. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (27:45):
The reason it was open is because the dudes before you,
a long line of them, said, uh uh, we're not
doing it that Saturday. I'm not asking my friends to
come to a wedding on that day, or a baby shower,
or a wedding shower or anything else. Ladies, you've got
three quarters of the year to play in stuff. I
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know it's hot in the summer. I know they're all
booked up in the spring. You know why they're all
booked up in the spring, because people aren't committed on.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Saturdays in the spring. All we ask, all we ask.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
I believe that if you book your wedding on a
Saturday dream football season, you deserve to have nobody there
and fellas. If you allow that, you already headed down
a bad path.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. Michael
Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Let me just start with Tulcy Gabbert, because you served
as a CI director for four years. Would having her
in charge or in the role of Director of National
Intelligence mean for the intelligence apparatus of.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
The US government.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
She has been an apologist for Putin and Michele Massade,
so many of her substant comments as well as previous
actions have called into question whether or not she has
a good understanding of global politics in the US role there.
But also she doesn't have any experience in intelligence.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
She has never served in the intelligence community.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
And the Director of National Intelligence is somebody who sits
on top of the eighteen.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Departments and agencies and needs to orchestrate these agencies so
that they collaborate, so that they coordinate, so that they're
able to pursue the nationalist crety priorities in an effective.
Speaker 6 (01:00):
There's irrefutable evidence that detail how President Obama and his
national security team direct.
Speaker 7 (01:06):
Democrats are in real trouble, real trouble. And CNN was
reading the polling data and it's bad. So CNN's Jake
Tapper asked Pennsylvania Democrat Madeline Dean about the Democrat Party's
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poor polling, and this is what he got.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
It feels like every few weeks, a new polling organization
comes out with a pole saying Democrats are at the
lowest level they've ever been in the latest was Wall
Street Journal Democratic Approval Rating state of record role sixty
three voters having an unfavorable view of your party? What
does your party need to do to climb out of that?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I have to speak to two issues. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (01:50):
What I regret around the Epstein files is nobody talks
about the victims. We need truth, transparency, and justice. Every
time we talk about this, these now adult women, they
were children. Let's remember this. Many of them were children
who were traffic.
Speaker 9 (02:06):
That's the whole.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
There needs to be justice for these ones, Justice for
the women.
Speaker 8 (02:09):
They are just re victimized every single time release the files.
It isn't just Maxwell and Epstein. Who knows what happened
here when you traffic hundreds of girls and women On
the polling I haven't seen polling that shows the president
at ninety percent of anything. Some small slice of Republicans,
(02:30):
even his base, is getting very upset with him over
Epstein and the conspiracies and the failure to be transparent.
What do I make of that? Democratic the pole. Yes,
we're in the dog house yet again. What I see
and what I hear from my constituents, whether I'm answering
the phone in my office or I'm out of the supermarket,
(02:51):
everybody is anxious, upset, worried. They're worried about Gaza. They're
worried about war crimes in Ukraine. They are worried about tariffs.
They can't plan because businesses can't plan. They're also now
worried about things they weren't worried about. Medicaid. Tens of
(03:12):
thousands of my constituents are at risk of losing Medicaid support,
whether it's for substance abuse or for their disabled child.
So they're worrying about things they didn't have to worry
about before, and they see a president not solving the
big issues that are some of them very man made,
like Alsa.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
She's very concerned that the list be released, but she
never once called on Joe Biden.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
To release it for four years.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
Second, she says, when she's at the grocery store, this
is what people come up and tell her. I will
guarantee you she's not been to the grocery store in
five years.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I will guarantee you that.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
This is what consultants are paid to tell the Democrats. Hey, guys,
the polls show we're out of touch. We're talking about
creepy stuff like wanting to cut off little boys wieners
and wanting to rip out girls reproductive organs, cut a
(04:17):
chunk of their leg and put a piece of sausage
hanging between their legs. And I'm sorry to be crude,
but that's what they do. That's what the mutilation looks like.
While they also perform a double mastectomy on these girls,
and they give them a lot of hormones. So, well,
you can't perform sex now, but at least you'll have
(04:41):
a little facial hair. Okay, great, maybe some male pattern baldness.
If you're lucky, you look like a real man. And
so that's the kind of stuff. You've been doubling down
on global warming, this kind of stuff, illegal immigration, more
and more and more. So they're telling them, hey, look, guys,
got you gotta seem relatable, you know, just listen to
(05:05):
whathes you know, when I'm at the grocery store, people
are very concerned about Ukrainian war crimes. Let me ask
you this, do you know a single person who would
go up to a congressman at the grocery store. Congressman,
(05:27):
I'm worried about what's happening in Kiv and what about Crimea.
I'm worried Crimea may be lost the tank count. This
is becoming a war of attrition, and Zelensky doesn't appear
on the northern front to be able to repel the
(05:49):
Russian tanks purely based on numb I.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Don't think people are saying that. I know they're not.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
The average American does not care about politics in the
context in which the lobbyists talk the politicians into taking action.
Americans do not care. Now, you might work with somebody
if you live in New York or DC or Filly
or Chicago, maybe whose parents came from Ukraine, and they care, sure,
(06:21):
but Americans don't care. And Americans don't want our money
sent there, and they don't want us sending our boys there.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
They don't.
Speaker 7 (06:29):
And she says Americans are concerned about Gaza. Let me
ask you, in your life, are you is anybody you know?
Is mister Boudreau next door or mister Abery on the
(06:51):
other side, or mister Thibodeaux back behind the house behind
you do you go out back and say, Thibodeaux, what
you think is going on with Gaza?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
And what do you think he says? You think he's.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
Concerned about Gaza. You think he's worried over what's happening
between Israel and Gaza and whether the people of Gaza
are being fed or whether the food is being stolen
by Hamas. You think he's saying to himself, we need
to have a bake sell for the people of Gaza.
(07:29):
Now where is that again? And who are they again?
I'm thinking, let's not worry about America. Let's send every
penny we've got to Gaza to fund Hamas and to
Ukraine to fund Zelenski, who is a multi billionaire while
I'm over here struggling to get by. Thank you, Congressman
(07:53):
for listening to me and the people in my community,
because this is what we care about about.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Bizarre of talk radio The Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 7 (08:05):
I received a message this morning of passing if I
want to talk to anybody, because Texas A and M University,
which is located in College Station, Texas, which is about
a couple hours outside of Houston. I didn't go to
Texas A and M University. You may know them as
the maroon colored football team or baseball or basketball team.
(08:30):
The Texas A and M stands for Agricultural and Mechanical School.
Came about in the late nineteenth century. It's a heritage
Texas school and for short for the Agricultural and Mechanical
became the Aggies, So the Texas A and M Aggies
or TAMU Aggies. They offer a class on Texas barbecue.
(08:54):
They teach the history of Texas barbecue, the best in
the world by the way methodology, flavorings, seasonings, and the
different types of barbecue, the different methods of preparation, the
different rubs, different cuts of meat. They teach the class
(09:14):
during the fall semester on Friday afternoons, which reminds me
taxpayers pay for universities. A lot of people don't understand this.
The student's tuition is only a small percentage of the
cost of the university experience, and I mean room and.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Board and the whole deal.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
Tuition only covers a very small percentage of faculty or
teaching assistant salaries, administrative offices, facilities, maintenance, and the light.
It is heavily subsidized by taxpayers, many of whom never
(10:03):
went to college. It strikes me that somewhere along the way,
the university separated from the very people who pay for it.
And what made me think of this is my friend
of mine. Friend of mine, he's a tradesman. He runs
the company his father ran before him. He didn't go
to college, he had no interest in going to college.
(10:26):
Now I went and got not one, but two law degrees.
And my buddy makes more than probably fifty percent of
the people I went to law school with. And they
work insane hours because law is not for the faint
of heart. It's long hours, especially if you're at a
big law firm. He has a better quality of life.
He's involved with his kids, and he's raising up his
(10:47):
son's four kids, two boys and two boys, are coming
up through the business. They work with him during the
summer and on the weekends. They've each been able to
buy their own truck. They pay their own They want
to go eat a burger, they go to burger. They
got money in their pocket, they earn it, they work.
They don't sit around playing video games. But he chose
not to go to college. It didn't suit him, and
(11:07):
he's done very well for himself. And it strikes me
that he's paid a lot of money into an education
system that he really gets nothing out of education should
be shared. Saint Jude Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee is one
of the greatest medical facilities in the world, not just
(11:31):
because they treat every form of children's cancer, but because
if you're chosen as a patient to go there, if
you are accepted to go there, it doesn't cost you
a penny. I think I read that they raise a
million dollars a day. We've raised a lot of money
for Saint Jude over the years on our show. We
(11:53):
do that on the morning show, now on the evening show.
It's a wonderful organization.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
I've toured it. We do a golf tournament. Every year
we've raised.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
I bet it'll be close to ten million dollars either
this year or by next year that we've raised for
Saint Jude. I'm very proud of that. But Saint Jude
does something amazing. Nothing is proprietary. When they do research,
when they test, when they try experiment on a kid
that has has cancer, and they start perfecting techniques to
(12:24):
treat pediatric brain cancer, for instance. That's all open source.
They make it available. There are patients in Africa, Asia,
South America, Europe, the Middle East where the doctor is
confronted a surgeon is confronted with a kid with a
(12:46):
cancer and the kid can't can't travel for whatever reason,
the doctor can't travel, and they will actually set up
a screen and there'll be a screen that they'll set
up for the doctor in the far off place, and
they will walk that doctor through how to perform this procedure.
(13:08):
They also film procedures that they perform and they make
those available so that some doctor in Kigali, Kenya, who
has a similar case of a tumor coming out of
the side of an eight year old kid's head, he
can see exactly how they did it. You may be
(13:33):
that person. I'm not the person, but I know a
lot of people who have done amazing things, whether it's
a craft, a repair project, a construction project. Because you
pulled out YouTube and you watch somebody do it, and
you watch them again, and you watched them again, and
you watched them again, and then you started trying to
(13:53):
do it, and you stopped the video and you did
a rewind and you watched it again.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Well, they're doing that.
Speaker 7 (14:01):
They're doing that with cancer treatment around the world, and.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
They're sharing all of that.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
It's not just that, hey, we've got this thing, we're
gonna hold it and keep it to ourselves. I think
Elon became insanely popular when he opened up his network,
his infrastructure of charging stations, which are extremely expensive to build,
and made them available and compatible with other electric vehicles.
(14:36):
It was Rod Canyon, who was the CEO of Compact
Computers in Houston, who took on Big Blue IBM and
Big Blue was the monopoly for all intents and purposes
in the computer business and little bitty tiny compact in Houston,
Texas and my dear friend Rod Canyon. They challenged Big Lou.
(15:01):
And when Steve Jobs came out with the iPhone, he said,
but for Rod Canyon and Little Compact Computers in Houston, Texas,
there would have been no Apple. There will have been
no iPhone, There would have been no iPad, no MacBook,
no nothing. IBM had the lock and they played hardball.
(15:22):
So just before that's why you have IBM and PC
instead of IBM, or that's why you have a PC
and Apple, because what he managed to do. Sometimes sharing
what you have allows everything to grow. A rising tide
(15:45):
lifts all boats.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
As John F.
Speaker 9 (15:46):
Kennedy said, educational institutions don't belong to the point he
head Trump paters who are there, they're paid for by
the taxpayers, and they should share with the communities and the.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
Taxpayers this educational process that would improve the entirety. The
singer of that song is Natasha Owens. Wayne Allen Root,
who is a talk show host and a big Trump supporter.
(16:20):
Was he says he's the one who came up with
the Chosen One as the title for Trump.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
I no, reasonably that's not true. I just don't know.
But Natasha Owens.
Speaker 7 (16:35):
Received a commendation for one billion views on social media
for that song. You can find it online Natasha Owens
the Chosen One. Further to my point I have made
so many times, the arbiters of pop culture, the gate
(17:00):
keepers of commentary, are out of sync with the vast
majority of Americans. And it is not until something is
put into the public domain and the public has an
awareness of it. Because if you write a song and
sing it, record it and nobody knows about it, it can't
go viral. This is why I Talk radio has been
(17:23):
so powerful, absolutely powerful, is because no matter what CBS, ABC,
NBCMSNBCC and frankly sometimes Fox, no matter what details, they
keep the public from knowing. If people become aware on
(17:44):
Moss writ large of what's going on, the reaction most
Americans feel the way you do. I know, I know
it's frustrating. I know it feels like you're in the minority,
but you're not. That's why twenty sixteen was such a
shock to the system. People didn't realize. People in DC
(18:09):
didn't realize that voters at home had had enough of
eight years of Barack Obama and frankly eight years of
George Bush and eight years of Bill Clinton. That had enough,
That had enough of illegal immigration, that had enough of
the government takeover of their healthcare, that had enough of
the taxes, that had enough of the self dealeye, they
had enough of being lectured, that had enough of woke
(18:30):
policies and DEI.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
That had enough enough, And.
Speaker 7 (18:35):
When given an opportunity to express that dissatisfaction and pivot
and go a different direction, which is what Trump represented,
they took it. But Trump wasn't like other politicians. He
was a juggernaut. There were almost twenty candidates in that race,
and he raced through the primary Americans. I've made this
(18:59):
point again and again I'll say it again. I don't
think Trump could have been elected in two thousand and eight. Maybe,
in twelfth, maybe, but by sixteen the nation was ready.
You know, I can't tell you how many of my
friends have said to me of their wife and they
have the best relationship. And you know, I don't meet
these guys until later in life. And I'll say, you know,
(19:20):
it makes me happy to see another couple that is
happy with each other.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
You got a good one.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
You got a keeper, as we say fishing term. You
got to keep her. You don't throw that one back.
You've got to keep she's a keeper. I can't tell
you how man my friends have said. You know, I'm
glad I didn't meet her in high school because I
wasn't ready for her. Glad I didn't meet her in college.
Glad I didn't meet her until I was, you know,
twenty five thirty five. Sometimes it's the second way, Glad
(19:46):
I didn't meet her when I would have thrown her back,
because she's a keeper. A man has to grow up
until he understands and he has to grow up. And
it's not the until he grows up that he realizes
that's a good girl right there. That's the one I
(20:07):
want to lay down with every night and get up
with every morning. That's the one I'm willing to have
a joint bank account with. That's the one that when
we drive five hours to the lake, I don't dread
her taking her shoes off in the car, putting them
up on the above the glove box, and us having
a conversation about what's going on. That's the one I
don't mind if she needs to call me during the
(20:29):
workday because she needs a minute spending some time with her.
That's the one that will make good decisions. That's the
one I don't have to go look at her phone
and see who she's texting with and who That's the
one that I don't have to worry that she's so
jealous that I can't have friends that are girls. I
can't go for boys' weekend. That's the one that's the keeper.
That's the one that's going to instill the values in
(20:52):
my children that even if I'm on a work trip
on a rig offshore for a month, I can come
back and not worry that my kids are little brats,
because that's one that's going.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
To train him upright as a good, godly woman.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
Right there, that's a woman that I'm willing to invest
in and have invest in me. That's the keeper. Likewise,
Trump found his moment. It took eight awful years of
Barack Obama, after frankly eight years of the neo Kon
(21:24):
Bush administration, until people realized, I don't want the same
old Republicans. I don't want more Bushies. Remember we had
the Jeb Bush option. He had to have exclamation mark
after his name to get excited, because you might not otherwise.
We had almost twenty candidates in our race. Trump met
his moment. That was the moment that Americans said, you
(21:46):
know what, I don't care what he has said.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
I don't care what was the words he's used. I
don't care if he's been married before. I don't care
if he's rich. I don't care if he's skinning his orange.
I don't care. I want this guy right now. He's
the one that's a chosen at the end.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
Remember me, I can't remember Scott out good bear. So
we were having dinner a couple of weeks ago, and
there was a couple behind us, at the table behind us,
and they had two little kids, maybe almost maybe three,
one maybe six, And the three year old stumbled over
(22:26):
and was holding onto my chair and pulling my shirt
from behind to stabilize because it was that kind of
doddering that little toddlers and old people do. And the
older brother comes running over and grabs a little three
(22:46):
year old scoops him away, and the dad not so
much for the kid, but for me to know that
I knew that he's a decent human being and he
didn't want his kid doing that. He's yelling at the kid,
and I said, oh, no, no, it's fine, it's fine,
don't nor worry. And Crockett was with us, and I said,
my kids are eighteen and nineteen. I miss you know,
(23:08):
little bitty kids. And my wife was saying, yeah, we
miss it. Enjoy this time, don't worry.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
It's fine. You're out at dinner, but.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
You can't have more than two bites without you know,
them running off or doing something right, choking, getting where
they're not supposed to throw in their food. Whatever is
the little kids, they're adorable, and so the guy had
a hat.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
What was his school? Saint John's. The guy was wearing
Saint John.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
I says that Saint John's in Houston, which is one
of the elite private schools, and he said it is
and I said, oh, you went to Saint John's and
he said, yes, Wesley Hunt went to Saint john a
lot of people. Who's the movie maker Ramon did, yeah,
Wes Anderson went to Saint John's.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
It's over near River Oaks.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
And I said, oh, you went to Saint john And
I turned to her and said, you go to Saint John's.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
She said, I did not. I went to and I
can't remember.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
It was one of their rivals, Episcopal Kincaid Saint Thomas,
but anyway, it was one of their rivals. And I said, oh, well,
how did y'all get together? And she said, well, we
didn't get together till after college. And I said, oh,
so y'all met in college and she said no, I'm
an Aggie and he's a longhorn. I said, well this
(24:24):
is these these are fun family traditions, white the rivalries,
and she said, yes, we started dating before we knew
that we had both attended rival schools, and we're the
same exact year, which I thought was funny. I saw
a mean that said, y'all have five weeks to get married, move,
(24:46):
have baby showers, and everything else after that, don't ask
me to do anything unless it involved watching Texas football.
I'm going to say it again this year, Fellas. Your
girlfriend doesn't know any better, so she's gonna pick a
date in November when the weather's pretty on a Saturday
(25:11):
for your wedding, and you're in that coochy coo phase
where just you know your testosterone has dipped. You're taking
pictures with her that her mother and her and the
photographer her all dreamed up. They've put you in an
outfit that you look like a fool, an absolute fool.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
They've got you.
Speaker 7 (25:36):
They might as well have you painted up like boy George,
because you're just a doll for her look. You're really
just there to be in her picture, and they've got
you with the one where both of your eyes are
looking at each other and y'all are back to bag
and then you're doing all the goofy pictures that we
get sucked into doing because at that point you're all
(25:57):
lovey dub and you don't think about the fact that
her parents are going to mail that to all of
her parents' friends, some of whom are your friend's parents,
and for the rest of your life, those photos are
out there and y'all are wearing all white, and one
of them then you got the denim in one of them,
and you're all cleaned up and your hair's combed and
you look like a dufust but you're in love and
(26:18):
you're gonna do this for her.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
We got it.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
Okay, she's gonna pick that date in November. That's a Saturday,
because that's when the venue told them, you can only
have what November eighth, I don't know what the day is.
And she's gonna go, we have to do this one.
My mom said, we have to do this. It's the
only day we can get this venue. We really want
this venue. It's the only day to florist.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
You know why. It's the only day available. Do you
know why?
Speaker 7 (26:43):
Because it's the biggest day for UT football and the
biggest day for A and M football. And you probably
got UHTCU SMU Texas Tech done in for good measure
as well.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
And you are gonna go.
Speaker 7 (26:56):
Oh oh oh, hey, no, woh wait, that's the that's
the day of the big game, and.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
She my mom said, we have to do it. Then.
Speaker 7 (27:05):
That's the only day we can get the venue. That's
the only way. Otherwise we have to wait till April.
And when I'm not waiting till April, We're doing it November.
You know what, your friends will put a TV in
the groom's dressing room, y'all, and then you're gonna go,
oh man, because you don't want.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
To fight it.
Speaker 7 (27:21):
You don't want to put your foot down, and that
imitation is gonna go down, and your buddies are gonna goay, hey, Rob,
are you serious? Are you serious? Your wedding is on
the biggest football day of the year. I know her
mom said we had to do it because that's today.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
The venue was open. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (27:45):
The reason it was open is because the dudes before you,
a long line of them, said, uh uh, we're not
doing it that Saturday. I'm not asking my friends to
come to a wedding on that day, or a baby shower,
or a wedding shower or anything else. Ladies, you've got
three quarters of the year to play in stuff. I
(28:05):
know it's hot in the summer. I know they're all
booked up in the spring. You know why they're all
booked up in the spring, because people aren't committed on.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Saturdays in the spring. All we ask, all we ask.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
I believe that if you book your wedding on a
Saturday dream football season, you deserve to have nobody there
and fellas. If you allow that, you already headed down
a bad path.
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