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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Michael Barry Show. Welcome to the Weekend Podcast. A
reminder if you get our show in the evenings wherever
you are across the country, if you're not in Texas,
you probably don't get our morning show. We do three
hours in the morning in addition to the show you
hear in the evening. It's a different show altogether. Now
we will occasionally replay an audio bit, mostly we don't.
(00:21):
We do a lot more parodies and fun stuff, and
we get a little more risky on the morning show.
That's true because our audience on our morning show has
been with us for twenty years, so we get to
do more of FM morning show formatics and fundamentals and fun.
And it's not morning Zoo, mind you, but we have
a little more fun and I sometimes we'll make some
(00:44):
jokes with double Ontandra. So shall we say, all right,
just to remind you, that's three hours a day, five
days a week, fifteen hours more Michael Berry's Show. Some
of it's Houston related, but a lot of it is
more sort of less Fox Newsy stories and more sort
of funny stories of people in the news, or like
(01:06):
a woman chasing another woman down because she didn't deliver
her wings on time, her chicken wings, and she wanted
her to know that. Yeah, yeah, that happened. So anyway,
just remind you there's a lot of our content out there,
and maybe more than you know about, and what the heck,
you might enjoy it. One of the things I've been
noticing more and more of is how many people in
(01:30):
blue cities, Democrat cities, are stepping up and talking about
the fact that they want the National Guard there. The
crime is out of control there. Black's doing this, gays
doing this, small business owners doing this, And I think
it's a bold thing to do because one of the
things that Democrats do, and especially black Democrats, is they
(01:52):
enforce a crab in the bucket theory. Don't you try
to get out of here, Don't you try to be uppitty,
Don't you try to go over and talk to the
white people. Who do you think you are? You sell out,
You're a traitor to your race. That's what they do
to them. Anyway, here's the decland Morgan is a Chicago
pub owner and robbery victim. The credit goes to CBS
(02:13):
News Chicago for the story.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Today, you hardly see a police car in a neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Decland Morgan has owned and operated Irish Nobleman Pub and
Whattstown for more than twenty years. Yet in recent years,
violent crime has literally walked through the front door. This
is video from the bar from when the armed robbery
crew came in right before closing, taking cash and belongings
from customers, employees, and the pub.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
It just seems like crime is really out of control
right now.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
He and many in the neighborhood contributed to the closure
of that police station and cops in the twelfth district
now station so far away.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
We're six hundred north here, we're by Chicago Avenue, and
our police district is in Pilson. Mark Johnson's more worried
about his school board and his uh, you know, pension
stuff that he's working on. He should be worried more
about the you know, neighborhoods in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Illinois Governor JB. Pritzker is big in the Democrat Party
right now. I mean big, like fat, really really fat.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Oh wait, she ain't a great, big fat person.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yes, that's not what I meant. Though he fancies himself
a contender for twenty twenty eight. The reason he has
shot to the front frightening thought as fat as he
is because he's rich. The family is very, very wealthy.
So here he is trying to show the Democrats. I'll
(03:38):
fight Trump. Hey, I know we got murders every day,
I know we got crimes. I know the people are
begging us to make Illinois safer, but I don't. I'll
go against Trump. I don't want the National Guard here to.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Tell the President that his proposed actions will make our
jobs harder and the lives of our residents worse. Earlier
today in the Oval Office, Donald Trump looked at the
assembled cameras and asked for me personally to say, mister President,
can you do us the honor of protecting our city? Instead,
(04:13):
I say, mister President, do not come to Chicago. You
are neither wanted here nor needed here. Your remarks about
this effort over the last several weeks have betrayed a
continuing slip in your mental faculties and are not fit
(04:36):
for the auspicious office that you occupy. Most alarming, you
seem to lack any appropriate concern as our commander in chief,
for the members of the military that you would so
callously deploy as pawns in your ever more alarming grabs
for power. As a governor, I've had to make the
(04:59):
decision in the past to call up members of the
National Guard into active service, and I think it's worth
taking a moment to reflect on how seriously I take
that responsibility and on the many things that I consider
before asking these brave men and women to leave their
homes and their communities to serve in any capacity for us.
(05:22):
As I've said many times in the past, members of
the National Guard are not trained to serve as law enforcement.
They are trained for the battlefield, and they're good at it.
They're not trained to arrest people and read them their
Miranda rights.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
And then you get somebody like Brandon Johnson. Brandon Johnson's
a dumb dumb He's a guy who's not very smart,
but he's learned to use words in such a manner
and delivery style that in his mind makes him look
like he's smart, and concepts like we can't incarcerate our
way out of violence. It's racist, it's unholy. Actually no,
(06:03):
it's really one of the only things that's ever worked.
If you want to know the truth.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
As the mayor of this city, I can tell you
that Chicagoans are not calling for military occupation. They are
calling for the same thing that we've been calling for
for some time, and that's investment. What safe cities across
America all have in common, they invest in people, and
that's what we're doing in Chicago. We need the federal
(06:28):
resources to make sure that we're building more affordable housing,
expanding mental and behavioral health care, education, all of these
things that could reduce crime and provide real community safety.
Instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars for publicity
stunt to invoke chaos and tearror, the federal government should
spend that money on proven solutions to crime and violence reduction.
(06:52):
We cannot incarcerate our way out of violence. We've already
tried that. If we've ended up with the largest prison
popular in the world without solving the problems of crime
and violence, the addiction on jails and incarceration in this country,
we have moved past that. It is racist, it is immoral,
it is unholy, and it is not the way to
(07:14):
drive violence down. We cannot return to the same failed
strategies that got us here in the first place. Under
the previous presidential administration, we requested more federal resources to
address gun violence in our city. We continue to make
that same call. We have made significant progress on our own,
(07:37):
but there is so much more that we can do
if we had real support from the federal government.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
And then it was a tough week for Brandon Johnson
because he's not smart. He's a dumb dumb the mayor
of Chicago. He went on MSNBC with Joe Scarborough, not
exactly a tough interview, and he refused to answer whether
or not five thousand police officers would make his city safer.
There you know why he refused to answer.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Would you also like to get federal funding to help
put five thousand more cops on the street in Chicago?
Would that help drive down crime?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Well, look, policing by itself is not the full strategy.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
I understand if you've talked about the other things you want,
and I said, those are good and important programs, But
I'm asking also, would five thousand more police officers on
the street in Chicago be helpful to go along with
all of those social programs And a lot of cities
are engaging in and having success with.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Well, look, here's the best play I can put it.
Joe is that in the nineties when I was in
high school, we had three thousand more police officers and
we had nine hundred people being murdered every single year
in Chicago. It's just not policing alone. Of course we won't.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
I know it's not. But I know it's not policing alone.
You've told me everything else you want. I'm curious and
this this does come down to it an ideological difference
between between people. Do you believe that the streets of
Chicago would be safer if there were more uniformed police
(09:11):
officers on the streets of Chicago.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
I believe the city of Chicago and cities across America
would be safer if we actually had you know, affordable housing.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
Look, Ok, not the question I asked my question, but
and I just idiots or no. Do you believe the
streets of Chicago would be safer if you got all
of those other extraordinary programs put back into place, which
do have a history being successful. If that's if that's
complimented by having five thousand more cops on the streets
(09:47):
of Chicago.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
I don't believe that we should narrow it down to
just police officers. On what I'm saying that is an
antiquated approach. I'm saying, I've invested.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
In hearing what I'm saying. I'm I'm bringing with you
that all of these other social programs are extraordinarily important.
I just need a yes or a no, and then
this will be the last time I ask if you
get all of those other social programs that that eight
hundred million that New York City does, Los Angeles and
other people do with great success, would an additional five
(10:20):
thousand cops on the streets in Chicago help complement those
programs to make Chicago safer.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Look, we are working hard to make sure that our
police department is fully supported. I don't believe that just
simply putting out an arbitrary number around police officers is
the answer. What I'm saying is policing and affordable housing.
It's policing and mental and behavior health care services, is
policing and youth employment. It's a full package. Of course,
(10:50):
we want to make sure that our police department is
fully supported. That's why I've invested in our Detective's Bureau,
because what we have seen in the city of Chicago
when we solve crime x and serves as a deterrent
it's policing and all of the other efforts that we're doing.
Here's the last thing that I'll say to that the
federal government could work stronger to coordinate with my police
(11:11):
department to get guns off the streets of Chicago.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Then you got Maryland Governor Wes Moore and he was
on MSNBC and he disclosed that over three hundred thousand
people have fled the city of Baltimore. That's called voting
with your feet, folks.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
What historically has been Baltimore's greatest challenge? Why has Baltimore
had a crime problem over the past three four decades?
Speaker 7 (11:42):
Well, I think oftentimes Baltimore's had a neglects problem, you know,
And I think about Baltimore used to be a city
of nine hundred and twenty thousand people. Baltimore is now
a city of just under six hundred thousand. In fact,
if you look at the past few decades, Baltimore's had
one of the most precipitous drops in population that we
have seen in our country, with the exception of Cleveland
(12:03):
and Detroit.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
If you like the Michael Berry Show and podcast, please
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Podcast is produced by Ramon Roebliss, The King of Ding.
Executive producer is Chad Nakanishi. Jim Mudd is the creative director.
(12:50):
Voices Jingles, Tomfoolery and Shenanigans are provided by Chance McLain.
Director of Research is Sandy Peterson. Emily Bull is our
assistant listener and superfan. Contributions are appreciated and often incorporated
into our production. Where possible, we give credit, where not,
(13:13):
we take all the credit for ourselves. God bless the
memory of Rush Limbaugh. Long live Elvis, be a simple
man like Leonard Skinnard told you, and God bless America. Finally,
if you know a veteran suffering from PTSD, call Camp
Hope at eight seven seven seven one seven PTSD and
(13:38):
a combat veteran will answer the phone to provide free counseling.
The Michael Barry Show. Welcome to the Weekend Podcast. A
reminder if you get our show in the evenings wherever
you are across the country, if you're not in Texas,
you probably don't get our morning show. We do three
hours in the morning in addition to the show you
hear in the evening. It's a different show altogether. Now
we will occasionally replay an audio bit, mostly we don't.
(00:21):
We do a lot more parodies and fun stuff, and
we get a little more risky on the morning show.
That's true because our audience on our morning show has
been with us for twenty years, so we get to
do more of FM morning show formatics and fundamentals and fun.
And it's not morning Zoo, mind you, but we have
a little more fun and I sometimes we'll make some
(00:44):
jokes with double Ontandra. So shall we say, all right,
just to remind you, that's three hours a day, five
days a week, fifteen hours more Michael Berry's Show. Some
of it's Houston related, but a lot of it is
more sort of less Fox Newsy stories and more sort
of funny stories of people in the news, or like
(01:06):
a woman chasing another woman down because she didn't deliver
her wings on time, her chicken wings, and she wanted
her to know that. Yeah, yeah, that happened. So anyway,
just remind you there's a lot of our content out there,
and maybe more than you know about, and what the heck,
you might enjoy it. One of the things I've been
noticing more and more of is how many people in
(01:30):
blue cities, Democrat cities, are stepping up and talking about
the fact that they want the National Guard there. The
crime is out of control there. Black's doing this, gays
doing this, small business owners doing this, And I think
it's a bold thing to do because one of the
things that Democrats do, and especially black Democrats, is they
(01:52):
enforce a crab in the bucket theory. Don't you try
to get out of here, Don't you try to be uppitty,
Don't you try to go over and talk to the
white people. Who do you think you are? You sell out,
You're a traitor to your race. That's what they do
to them. Anyway, here's the decland Morgan is a Chicago
pub owner and robbery victim. The credit goes to CBS
(02:13):
News Chicago for the story.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Today, you hardly see a police car in a neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Decland Morgan has owned and operated Irish Nobleman Pub and
Whattstown for more than twenty years. Yet in recent years,
violent crime has literally walked through the front door. This
is video from the bar from when the armed robbery
crew came in right before closing, taking cash and belongings
from customers, employees, and the pub.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
It just seems like crime is really out of control
right now.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
He and many in the neighborhood contributed to the closure
of that police station and cops in the twelfth district
now station so far away.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
We're six hundred north here, we're by Chicago Avenue, and
our police district is in Pilson. Mark Johnson's more worried
about his school board and his uh, you know, pension
stuff that he's working on. He should be worried more
about the you know, neighborhoods in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Illinois Governor JB. Pritzker is big in the Democrat Party
right now. I mean big, like fat, really really fat.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Oh wait, she ain't a great, big fat person.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yes, that's not what I meant. Though he fancies himself
a contender for twenty twenty eight. The reason he has
shot to the front frightening thought as fat as he
is because he's rich. The family is very, very wealthy.
So here he is trying to show the Democrats. I'll
(03:38):
fight Trump. Hey, I know we got murders every day,
I know we got crimes. I know the people are
begging us to make Illinois safer, but I don't. I'll
go against Trump. I don't want the National Guard here to.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Tell the President that his proposed actions will make our
jobs harder and the lives of our residents worse. Earlier
today in the Oval Office, Donald Trump looked at the
assembled cameras and asked for me personally to say, mister President,
can you do us the honor of protecting our city? Instead,
(04:13):
I say, mister President, do not come to Chicago. You
are neither wanted here nor needed here. Your remarks about
this effort over the last several weeks have betrayed a
continuing slip in your mental faculties and are not fit
(04:36):
for the auspicious office that you occupy. Most alarming, you
seem to lack any appropriate concern as our commander in chief,
for the members of the military that you would so
callously deploy as pawns in your ever more alarming grabs
for power. As a governor, I've had to make the
(04:59):
decision in the past to call up members of the
National Guard into active service, and I think it's worth
taking a moment to reflect on how seriously I take
that responsibility and on the many things that I consider
before asking these brave men and women to leave their
homes and their communities to serve in any capacity for us.
(05:22):
As I've said many times in the past, members of
the National Guard are not trained to serve as law enforcement.
They are trained for the battlefield, and they're good at it.
They're not trained to arrest people and read them their
Miranda rights.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
And then you get somebody like Brandon Johnson. Brandon Johnson's
a dumb dumb He's a guy who's not very smart,
but he's learned to use words in such a manner
and delivery style that in his mind makes him look
like he's smart, and concepts like we can't incarcerate our
way out of violence. It's racist, it's unholy. Actually no,
(06:03):
it's really one of the only things that's ever worked.
If you want to know the truth.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
As the mayor of this city, I can tell you
that Chicagoans are not calling for military occupation. They are
calling for the same thing that we've been calling for
for some time, and that's investment. What safe cities across
America all have in common, they invest in people, and
that's what we're doing in Chicago. We need the federal
(06:28):
resources to make sure that we're building more affordable housing,
expanding mental and behavioral health care, education, all of these
things that could reduce crime and provide real community safety.
Instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars for publicity
stunt to invoke chaos and tearror, the federal government should
spend that money on proven solutions to crime and violence reduction.
(06:52):
We cannot incarcerate our way out of violence. We've already
tried that. If we've ended up with the largest prison
popular in the world without solving the problems of crime
and violence, the addiction on jails and incarceration in this country,
we have moved past that. It is racist, it is immoral,
it is unholy, and it is not the way to
(07:14):
drive violence down. We cannot return to the same failed
strategies that got us here in the first place. Under
the previous presidential administration, we requested more federal resources to
address gun violence in our city. We continue to make
that same call. We have made significant progress on our own,
(07:37):
but there is so much more that we can do
if we had real support from the federal government.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
And then it was a tough week for Brandon Johnson
because he's not smart. He's a dumb dumb the mayor
of Chicago. He went on MSNBC with Joe Scarborough, not
exactly a tough interview, and he refused to answer whether
or not five thousand police officers would make his city safer.
There you know why he refused to answer.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Would you also like to get federal funding to help
put five thousand more cops on the street in Chicago?
Would that help drive down crime?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Well, look, policing by itself is not the full strategy.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
I understand if you've talked about the other things you want,
and I said, those are good and important programs, But
I'm asking also, would five thousand more police officers on
the street in Chicago be helpful to go along with
all of those social programs And a lot of cities
are engaging in and having success with.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Well, look, here's the best play I can put it.
Joe is that in the nineties when I was in
high school, we had three thousand more police officers and
we had nine hundred people being murdered every single year
in Chicago. It's just not policing alone. Of course we won't.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
I know it's not. But I know it's not policing alone.
You've told me everything else you want. I'm curious and
this this does come down to it an ideological difference
between between people. Do you believe that the streets of
Chicago would be safer if there were more uniformed police
(09:11):
officers on the streets of Chicago.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
I believe the city of Chicago and cities across America
would be safer if we actually had you know, affordable housing.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
Look, Ok, not the question I asked my question, but
and I just idiots or no. Do you believe the
streets of Chicago would be safer if you got all
of those other extraordinary programs put back into place, which
do have a history being successful. If that's if that's
complimented by having five thousand more cops on the streets
(09:47):
of Chicago.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
I don't believe that we should narrow it down to
just police officers. On what I'm saying that is an
antiquated approach. I'm saying, I've invested.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
In hearing what I'm saying. I'm I'm bringing with you
that all of these other social programs are extraordinarily important.
I just need a yes or a no, and then
this will be the last time I ask if you
get all of those other social programs that that eight
hundred million that New York City does, Los Angeles and
other people do with great success, would an additional five
(10:20):
thousand cops on the streets in Chicago help complement those
programs to make Chicago safer.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Look, we are working hard to make sure that our
police department is fully supported. I don't believe that just
simply putting out an arbitrary number around police officers is
the answer. What I'm saying is policing and affordable housing.
It's policing and mental and behavior health care services, is
policing and youth employment. It's a full package. Of course,
(10:50):
we want to make sure that our police department is
fully supported. That's why I've invested in our Detective's Bureau,
because what we have seen in the city of Chicago
when we solve crime x and serves as a deterrent
it's policing and all of the other efforts that we're doing.
Here's the last thing that I'll say to that the
federal government could work stronger to coordinate with my police
(11:11):
department to get guns off the streets of Chicago.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Then you got Maryland Governor Wes Moore and he was
on MSNBC and he disclosed that over three hundred thousand
people have fled the city of Baltimore. That's called voting
with your feet, folks.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
What historically has been Baltimore's greatest challenge? Why has Baltimore
had a crime problem over the past three four decades?
Speaker 7 (11:42):
Well, I think oftentimes Baltimore's had a neglects problem, you know,
And I think about Baltimore used to be a city
of nine hundred and twenty thousand people. Baltimore is now
a city of just under six hundred thousand. In fact,
if you look at the past few decades, Baltimore's had
one of the most precipitous drops in population that we
have seen in our country, with the exception of Cleveland
(12:03):
and Detroit.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
If you like the Michael Berry Show and podcast, please
tell one friend, and if you're so inclined, write a
nice review of our podcast. Comments, suggestions, questions, and interest
in being a corporate sponsor and partner can be communicated
directly to the show at our email address, Michael at
(12:26):
Michael Berryshow dot com, or simply by clicking on our
website Michael Berryshow dot com. The Michael Berry Show and
Podcast is produced by Ramon Roebliss, The King of Ding.
Executive producer is Chad Nakanishi. Jim Mudd is the creative director.
(12:50):
Voices Jingles, Tomfoolery and Shenanigans are provided by Chance McLain.
Director of Research is Sandy Peterson. Emily Bull is our
assistant listener and superfan. Contributions are appreciated and often incorporated
into our production. Where possible, we give credit, where not,
(13:13):
we take all the credit for ourselves. God bless the
memory of Rush Limbaugh. Long live Elvis, be a simple
man like Leonard Skinnard told you, and God bless America. Finally,
if you know a veteran suffering from PTSD, call Camp
Hope at eight seven seven seven one seven PTSD and
(13:38):
a combat veteran will answer the phone to provide free counseling.
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