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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time time.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Just luck and load till Michael Very Show is on
the air.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Set off to my litack, take this job and chove it.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Joy.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
You like movies about gladiators. He's down, But sometimes I
get the mincedul crabs for your card.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
This time you pick on too.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
You're gonna sit down in the kitchen and pix me
something good to eat.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Pull on it.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Make my head a little high and the whole.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Day crack his wax. You're gonna lay around the shanty
rum and but a good both.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I'm a guy who can get it for a time
cigarettes a bag of briefer. If that's your thing.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Will pass to be a baby, will pass it to
be slow.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
We'll take time off to smile a little befoil.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Laddya go. We're gonna lay shamton mom and put a
good buzz on.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
They ever catch that gorilla would escape from the zoo
and punched you an I.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I have been advised that the chief operating officer of
hid Brian Busby, that his federal trial for bribery is starting.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
We were told that was the tip of the iceberg.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
It'll be interesting to see who else is involved. If
any We're always promised for these things that there's going
to be a big grand investigation in prosecution, and then
they tend to peter out. It's like you see these
TV shows where you know they're catching the bad guys
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or bad guys are doing things, and the voice will say, and.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
They're going away for a very long time. No they're not.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
No, they're probably back out on this three ten minutes
before you were. They're not going away for any time.
That's just not happening. Uh, let's see, James, James, you're
on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Michael I ran for Cheff and Flag miss Paris, Louisiana
in twenty fifteen. On these numbers, seven thirty four, one
oh three ninety seventy two. What do those numbers mean,
tottery man, Not quite. For every one hundred thousand people
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we have in America, we have seven hundred and thirty
four people in jail. Uh. The next country, Great Britain,
had one hundred and three four hundred thousand, The next
one China ninety four hundred thousand, the next one Russia
seventy two. Per one hundred thousand, we put three times
more people in jail here in the United States than
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the next three countries combined. And then he too goes
down from there. Now, I also had a men's health
book I was running on the legalization of marijuana. They
had it in the Men's Health book that there has
never been one reported marijuana debt death in America in
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that article. Now, I've seen Dan Patrick yesterday trying to
stop the CBD laws in the cannabis products that you advertised,
and I've seen this morning on Newsmatch they said, oh,
a report come out and said if you smoked marijuana
you were in greater risk of heart attacks and stroke.
But they don't show you the report. It don't tell
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you who did it, how many how long it went
on for a complete line. And I burnt my behind up.
And also the American Medical Association in that magazine, the
Men's Health magazine said that obese d alcoholism, and cigarette
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smoking or diseases. And they also said cocaine, addition, heroin addition,
marijuana smoking for addiction. Now for addition, not crime. We
make crimes out of three. The other three you can
just go about your business and do whatever you want. Now,
it don't take a medical doctor to realize that alcoholism,
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cigarette smoking, and obesity. It causes more heart attacking stokes
than ever anybody ever smoking marijuana cigarette And the reason
why this nonsense is going on in this contract, or
actually the entire world, is because Satan controls the world
right now. He wants everybody drinking in the ballrooms shooting
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each other up because they get drunken, stupid and they
don't know what they're doing. And people that smoke maljuana
not seeing the true he is in that I ain't
never to get along good. And the worst thing they
might do, they might go down to the ice cream
shop and eat a bunch of ice creams because they
got the munches. But we can't have that. Don't be happy,
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don't be relaxing, peaceful in that. You know in the
Indians also they smoke marijuana cannabis in the peace pipes
for peace and tranquility. And I have that to say
on the.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Subject, James, I am.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Before this legislative session started, I have heard for the
last few years that people are so frustrated with their
property taxes, They're so frustrated with the border, they're so
frustrated with the state lockdown during COVID, Furious over these
things and they want something done about it. I never
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once had anybody say to me what I'd like the
state to do is take away any THHC anything related
to me, marijuana.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Delta eight, all of it.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
It's horrible.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
We got to get rid of it. We got we
gotta invest every bit of energy we have.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
And I have to tell you I am very supportive
of what Dan Patrick has done as Lieutenant governor. I
think this is the most ill advised thing he has
ever done.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Number one, Number two.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I think this is going to cost far more votes
than it's going to gain. Who whoever is happy about this,
and I I'll tell you who's happy. There are some mothers,
because I've heard from them whose kids got real bad
into drugs and they rip a vape that then was
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a bad vape and it you know, they got a
lung problem, or they got into drugs and it led
to other things. And uh, they think that this is
going to be the thing that that you know, because
their little baby didn't do anything wrong.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
It was.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
The retail shop. I know more.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I know more old people now and this is a
recent phenomenon who have chronic pain. And the way this
works is they go to their doctor and say, Doc,
my grandson's a stoner, and he says that if I'll
take this this chronic pain I'm suffering from, and the
doctor will say, I'm not allowed to tell you this,
but that's what you need to do.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
That's better than any pharmaceutical.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I can give you the most abused drug in America
by far, and it's not even close as alcohol.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
The most abuse.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Reefer Madness, did more damage in this country than any
single film ever released any There are marijuana users all
around us who do not bother anyone. The drug itself
has does less damage and in most cases more good
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than any other drug, including coffee. There are military veterans
who have seen results. There are cancer sufferers who have
seen results.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
My brother was a narcotics officer for years.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
He said, if people would smoke marijuana instead of drinking alcohol,
I wouldn't have domestic abuse cases.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I wouldn't have drunk driver cases.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
So yeah, I think this is a stupid move by
Dan Patrick, and I wish he'd quit.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I look at what's going on in Florida where.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
American values. The take back of America from the left
is actually occurring at the state government level, they're accomplishing things.
It's become the model in the country. I look at
Oklahoma where they're doing things, things that you could only
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dream what happened, and they're making them happen. Look at Arkansas,
where Sarah Huckabee has just done amazing things in a
very brief period of time. And then I turned to
Texas where the speaker has been controlled by the Democrats
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for years. Our governor is incredibly weak. He's the John
Cornyn of our state government. And now the one guy
you could rely on, Dan Patrick, is taking up an
issue that will not gain any support for our initiatives.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
It will not.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
And it's going to piss a lot of people off.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
A lot of people are going to be.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Pissed off over this that were our kind of voters.
They're going to be pissed off over this, and they're
not going to forgive it. And this is where I
have conversations with people who will say they're in a
dimes worth of difference between the Democrats and Republicans.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
And let me tell you why.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
This is where folks who call themselves conservatives turn off
the Libertarians. This is where Trump brings those people into
the big tent and this quote unquote conservative initiative is
doing the opposite. Notice what Trump did. Did you notice
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him pardoning people that had marijuana crimes. They made a
big deal. It's a black woman. She'd had her life ruined,
she was a user of marijuana, and she had received
a long sentence, and.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
He pardoned her. He made a big deal out of that.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Was that was a statement he had flirted with an
announced but to legalize marijuana across the country.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
That is the trend. That is a trend.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
There are people who are frightened of things they know
nothing about, and those people, out of that fear, they're
baled up and they want something to be mad about.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
And so their idea is.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Maybe if somewhere, someplace, somebody I'll never meet, who might
actually be eating gummies on their back porch that I'll
never see, maybe if I can keep them, if that
is giving them some pain relief or relaxation from anxiety,
or maybe even just a little happiness, if there's some
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way we could kick down their door and go get
them and arrest them and put them in prison for that,
that'd make me feel better about my miserable life. That'd
make me feel good if we could do that. There
are some people among us, sad as it is, who
cannot find happiness in their life.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
They may not have had a good life.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
They may never have loved, they may never have been loved,
They may never have accomplished, they may never have dreamed,
they may never have known the great joys of the
human existence. And they don't have a future. They don't
have an aspiration, they don't have a goal. They don't
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wake up in the morning looking forward to anything. And
so they reduce themselves to finding some degree of utility
in hoping someone else who is enjoying some aspect of
life can have it taken away. And that's important. That's
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important to that person.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
And to that person.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
They don't want anybody gambling, they want any marijuana. They
don't want you to have alcohol on Sunday before noon,
because the Lord wants you to wait till noon eleven
forty five.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Let me go up here to the package.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Uh Lord, says an Ecclesiastes, thou shalt not drink for noon.
We won't have stores open on Sunday, because that that
is how.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
We will honor God. But you're mean, spirited.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
And cruel and unkind and hateful.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Have you read the Bible?
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Because all the little rituals that these people love to play,
what they eat and when they eat it, these were
all things created by men on.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Earth enriching their own power. They're not vessels of God.
This is not godly in any way. This is not Christian.
You're not more Christian by trying to outlaw things that
don't affect you or anyone else. That is not Christians.
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That's the kind of people who turn off potential Christians
who've had an experience like that, for whom Christianity is
a basis upon which they hate and judge in ridicule.
That is not godly, that is not biblical.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
This marijuana thing, I don't know the basis of it.
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
I suspect legislators government will do this on occasion they
know they're not going to get any wins out of
this session. The House was lost. To his credit, dan
Patrick busted his ass to get DAVEE Feelin out of there,
but we couldn't get the votes to replace him. So
you've got Dustin Burroughs his number two. So now they're
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just playing. The house is just playing, and the Democrats
are comfortable with the just played. The Democrats don't have
to accomplish anything. Republicans have control. Republicans have the majority,
and Democrats are able to retain a very quiet, subtle control.
So all they have to do is keep the Republicans
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from making any changes. This is what Schumer would love
to have, the ability to keep Trump from being able
to make executive orders. This is why they've gone to
the district courts to slow him down. The House will
not pass anything, so it won't matter what the Senate
does because the House won't pass anything. And so we
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come up with these issues to stay in the news.
We're going to do away with the dope, and literally
nobody's cheering. That was a nineteen We've had leap law,
law enforcement against prohibition, We've had doctors, we've had studies.
This is an outdated old Why why don't we come
out against the gays too. We're gonna make it illegal
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to be homo, and I mean, this is just dumb.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
With the Michael Berry, we worked so hard, so hard,
so many people.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Winning elections, and our biggest challenge in Texas getting people
to care.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Because they've been burned so many times.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
We finally finally get to where we need to be.
We've got a president on our side, and now our
biggest issue appears to be driving marijuana from the state.
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Let me address a couple of things that I have received.
One listener writes, your take on legalizing whoch Have you
been to the cities where marijuana is legal. You can't
walk down any street in that city where people are
without smelling that nasty smell. This is not how it
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should be. I usually like your side of arguments, but
I cannot agree to any of that. Marijuana smokers in
public are the source of seventy five percent of the
opposition to legalizing marijuana. If every marijuana smoker with the
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day job would go, grab those people by the ear,
like the black mom in the grocery store and walk
them up and down the aisle, tell them you can't
do this, you idiot.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
You're ruining it for everybody.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I despise the smell of marijuana. I find it to
be disgusting. I'm told that a meth lab smells like
cat urine, so I suppose that might be worse. I
can't go, won't go, have no interest in going to
festivals or outdoor concerts, but these days it is often
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if it's in a state that has legalized marijuana, there
will be that nasty, rancid smell and it's awful. It's
one of the worst smells to me out there. It
smells sour and it's terrible. So what cities have done
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is they have made it such that you cannot smoke
in public. But as a delivery mechan I think that
the old style joint, which is the rolling up and
smoking of marijuana.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
I don't know this.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I haven't looked at the statistics, but this is just
my suspicion that that is a very small percentage of
the delivery mechanism used today as it once was the
old days of the stoner, you know, the dirty, nasty
Brad Pitt played that character in True Romance where he's
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sitting on the couch ripping a bong, just zombied out
of his brain, and.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
His roommate Michael ol.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Whatever the guy's name is, Rappaport, I think, has left
and the bad guys are there to try to track
him down. That's outdated, that's a thing of the past.
But I also you have to ask yourself some tough questions,
so you can deal with the nasty smell. That's not
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a reason to make something illegal. Okay, if you go somewhere,
if you go to any same festival, there are going
to be people who've had too much to drink and
they're staggering around. Well, prohibition, when you study prohibition and
how bad it was for this country, the negative effects
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prohibition had on this country that we still fill today,
criminal organizations, all sorts of things.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
It is not.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
You have to stop and ask yourself a question. Why
do we have a government? What's the purpose do we
want to give that government the power to take things
away from us, to tell us what time to go
to bed, to tell us what time to wake up,
to tell us what we can and cannot do with.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Our lives and our bodies.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Is that what we want to do? Because you have
to ask yourself that question, because a government big enough
to make you happy by causing someone else to not
be able to do things, is going to be able
to turn that same power on you. And you go, oh,
my goodness, but you made it happen. There are so
many misconceptions on this issue, and there are more and
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more people now who come forward here's one listener. I'm
not going to say her name.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
She says Zorro.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
I'm seventy one and I've been taking Delta eight for
many years. I have not increased my dose. I have
not gone on to other drugs, even vaping. I was
not a marijuana user. I drink very little. I only
eat gummies at night to help me get to sleep
and turn my mind off. Otherwise I will lay in
bed with my mind racing. I do not eat any
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gummies during the day, or I would be a couch potato.
I will not vote for anyone who votes to get
rid of THHC. I will hear this mostly from women,
and they'll say, Michael, are you aware that marijuana SAPs
people's motivation? They won't want to work. Wait a second,
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are we now in the business of motivating people? Is
that as a government? Okay, we'll look around Anything that
takes away y'all's motivation you can't.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Do Are you serious? Do you hear yourself? Do you
hear yourself?
Speaker 1 (22:30):
You are giving into the worst element of the little
old lady, the worst aspect of it. Don't let that in,
don't let that rule the day.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Don't do it that is that is not a good look,
trust me.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
And are you aware that some people don't lack motivation,
don't lack desire, but have too much? Are you aware
that some people people can't turn their brain off. Some
people can't get their mind to stop racing, and they're
highly successful. I worked with a guy for years probably
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kept the longest schedule of being awake and functioning at
a high level than anybody I've ever met in my life.
I've never seen anything like it, so much so that
I could barely be around him for more than five
minutes at a time because I wanted to switch that
I could turn it off.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
And that individual.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Consumed more marijuana than anybody I've ever known of.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I know people that are very, very.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Very high functioning and that use it to turn it off.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Well, it's a drug, so is alcohol.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Do you realize how many deaths are attributed to alcohol?
Drunk driving, domestic violence, fights, liver disease, all the things
that happen as a result. Ask any doctor who's honest
about the effects on the human body between marijuana and alcohol.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
It's not even close.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
It's say, they're not even the same realm. But alcohol
is legal. Michael what does that mean? You mean the
same jackasses like Sheila Jackson Lee and Sylvester Turner. You
mean those same people said this will be allowed and
this won't and that's your basis. Well, this one's legal.
Why is it legal?
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Why is this illegal?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Why is this legal?
Speaker 1 (24:38):
If your answer to something as well, it's legal? Who
made it legal? Which jack ass do you want to
pin as the genius in the group. Well, they ought
to do is have a joint session and legalize it.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
I'm just sitting here listening to Michael Berry.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
If you meet somebody from Ethiopia, you will find that
they eat something called injera, in many cases once a day,
but never less than once a week.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
They crave it, as the old saying goes as mother's milk.
In Gera looks like a flattened pancake, and it's made
of something called tef and it's the highest protein grain
I believe of them all. The World Health Organization has
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written extensively about trying to spread the use of this
particular agricultural product because for protein deficient economies it is
an agricultural miracle. It's incredible. But you don't crave in jara.
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Why would you. You may have been to Blue Nile.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I hope you do.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Tina the owners and dear friends, sweet lady, wonderful restaurant.
And when you were there, you ate with your hands.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
And.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
The meat and the cheese and the spinach.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Was placed on.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Top of that pancake looking thing that extended out past
the edges of the plate. And if you were taught
by an Ethiopia and how to eat this food, you would,
just as many cultures do, Middle Eastern Indian and others.
You took the in jara in your hands and you
scooped up your food using that as sort of a
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I don't know, and then you took it directly to
your mouth without the use of utensils. And you might
have enjoyed that, but you didn't. Three weeks later, think
I have to have in Jerra today, I have to
have in Jera. Or if you were to go to
India and you are to be talking to people about
how often they eat doll doll chocol which is just
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rice and doll, which are these pulses. India is famous
for these different types of doll, moon doll, China, doll,
It's mother's milk. In a country that still has a
large portion of the particularly rural population.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
It's terribly poor.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
This mashed bean pulse and rice with a few peppers
and maybe some turmeric. And you've seen Indian food with
just a few things like this. That is their meal
eaten typically by hand, mixed together. Not dissimilar from the
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dirty rice and rue that you might see in the
poorer region of southwest Louisiana. You take a kun ass
out of Louisiana, they're bringing their food with them because
they have to can't live without it, gumbo.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
At tufe rice, and you're just you're not going to.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
They're not going to be able to survive.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
They're going to go crazy.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
They have to have these things.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Did it ever cross.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Your mind if your name is Boudreau, that you didn't
choose to love those things? Did it ever cross your
mind if your name is Aneil or Roge, that you
didn't choose to love Riis and thal, or if you're
from Ethiopia, that you you didn't choose to crave in Gerrah.
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There are things we crave so deeply that we think
we chose. I like to belie leave that I fell
in love with bluebell. I didn't I loved bluebell before
I knew what it was, because that was a special treat,
and I ate it before I can even remember your
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favorite sugar cereal, your favorite moms for chad. It would
be spam, or it could be thought us. How many
things that are the embodiment of who we are did
we never consciously choose. They're baked into our dna for
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all intents and purposes. They were spoon fed to us.
But now we hold them dear.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Don't we.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
We love that food. We will argue to the ends
of the earth. That is the greatest food in the
history of mankind. It is superior to your food over there,
and your food across the ocean, and your food south
of us. My food is better than your food. Tastes better,
it's better for you, You'll live longer, it's more fun,
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it's feeling them. It's more natural, it's more godly, it's
more wonderful. But you didn't actually choose it. It was
spoon fed to you, not out of any malice. That
was your culture, that was your region, that was your family,
that was your tradition. So it becomes who you are.
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But that doesn't make it the healthiest food. Or the
best tasting food or the fill in the blank. It
doesn't it doesn't stack up necessarily that all of our
views of what we each hold ear and we all
have these views. I love a big read, especially with barbecue.
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I love a big read. There are people who think
that's goofy because they didn't grow up where when you
had barbecue, you had big red. Okay, I love catfish.
I meet people from around the country who are listeners, say,
you don't really eat catfish, do Yeah? You know it's
a bottom feeder, right, Yeah, it's a good, good bottom feeder.
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You know mercury down there. Yeah, I know, it's good
mercury too.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
I know.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
To tell you what temperature is, you know it's that Friday.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Yeah, I know. And it's the best. I didn't choose it.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
I was eating catfish around people sitting outside. I can
hear the catfish being fried in the little friar outside
at sam Raven, I can hear it. Or damn b
I can hear it. I can feel it. It's emotional
to me. It's wonderful. I sweat it out of my system.
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It's who I am. But I didn't choose it. Do
you realize how many views you and I and everybody
else holds that we never chose, and it's hard to
stop and challenge those views.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
You might just hate.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Marijuana because such a view was spoon fed to you.
You might not have come to that conclusion on your own.
You may have never.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Stopped to question whether that's a rational view.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
You may be unwilling to question the reasonableness of criticizing
pride catfish because you are so committed to it it
has become your identity. There are views like this that
we have that we are unable go. Tell a Palestinian
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that the Jews aren't his biggest problem, it's a lack
of running water. Won't believe it because he's been spoon fed.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
The Jews or problems with everything.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
And there are people, there are generations. You ask young
people their view of marijuana, whether they use it or not,
very different than old people because they're not playing reefer
madness these days and talking about the dope. Except in Texas,
where we've decided
Speaker 2 (33:20):
We're going back to nineteen fifty eight
It's that time, time, time time.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Just luck and load till Michael Very Show is on
the air.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Set off to my litack, take this job and chove it.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Joy.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
You like movies about gladiators. He's down, But sometimes I
get the mincedul crabs for your card.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
This time you pick on too.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
You're gonna sit down in the kitchen and pix me
something good to eat.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Pull on it.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Make my head a little high and the whole.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Day crack his wax. You're gonna lay around the shanty
rum and but a good both.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I'm a guy who can get it for a time
cigarettes a bag of briefer. If that's your thing.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Will pass to be a baby, will pass it to
be slow.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
We'll take time off to smile a little befoil.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Laddya go. We're gonna lay shamton mom and put a
good buzz on.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
They ever catch that gorilla would escape from the zoo
and punched you an I.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I have been advised that the chief operating officer of
hid Brian Busby, that his federal trial for bribery is starting.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
We were told that was the tip of the iceberg.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
It'll be interesting to see who else is involved. If
any We're always promised for these things that there's going
to be a big grand investigation in prosecution, and then
they tend to peter out. It's like you see these
TV shows where you know they're catching the bad guys
(01:51):
or bad guys are doing things, and the voice will say, and.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
They're going away for a very long time. No they're not.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
No, they're probably back out on this three ten minutes
before you were. They're not going away for any time.
That's just not happening. Uh, let's see, James, James, you're
on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Michael I ran for Cheff and Flag miss Paris, Louisiana
in twenty fifteen. On these numbers, seven thirty four, one
oh three ninety seventy two. What do those numbers mean,
tottery man, Not quite. For every one hundred thousand people
(02:35):
we have in America, we have seven hundred and thirty
four people in jail. Uh. The next country, Great Britain,
had one hundred and three four hundred thousand, The next
one China ninety four hundred thousand, the next one Russia
seventy two. Per one hundred thousand, we put three times
more people in jail here in the United States than
(02:57):
the next three countries combined. And then he too goes
down from there. Now, I also had a men's health
book I was running on the legalization of marijuana. They
had it in the Men's Health book that there has
never been one reported marijuana debt death in America in
(03:19):
that article. Now, I've seen Dan Patrick yesterday trying to
stop the CBD laws in the cannabis products that you advertised,
and I've seen this morning on Newsmatch they said, oh,
a report come out and said if you smoked marijuana
you were in greater risk of heart attacks and stroke.
But they don't show you the report. It don't tell
(03:40):
you who did it, how many how long it went
on for a complete line. And I burnt my behind up.
And also the American Medical Association in that magazine, the
Men's Health magazine said that obese d alcoholism, and cigarette
(04:01):
smoking or diseases. And they also said cocaine, addition, heroin addition,
marijuana smoking for addiction. Now for addition, not crime. We
make crimes out of three. The other three you can
just go about your business and do whatever you want. Now,
it don't take a medical doctor to realize that alcoholism,
(04:25):
cigarette smoking, and obesity. It causes more heart attacking stokes
than ever anybody ever smoking marijuana cigarette And the reason
why this nonsense is going on in this contract, or
actually the entire world, is because Satan controls the world
right now. He wants everybody drinking in the ballrooms shooting
(04:46):
each other up because they get drunken, stupid and they
don't know what they're doing. And people that smoke maljuana
not seeing the true he is in that I ain't
never to get along good. And the worst thing they
might do, they might go down to the ice cream
shop and eat a bunch of ice creams because they
got the munches. But we can't have that. Don't be happy,
(05:08):
don't be relaxing, peaceful in that. You know in the
Indians also they smoke marijuana cannabis in the peace pipes
for peace and tranquility. And I have that to say
on the.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Subject, James, I am.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Before this legislative session started, I have heard for the
last few years that people are so frustrated with their
property taxes, They're so frustrated with the border, they're so
frustrated with the state lockdown during COVID, Furious over these
things and they want something done about it. I never
(05:50):
once had anybody say to me what I'd like the
state to do is take away any THHC anything related
to me, marijuana.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Delta eight, all of it.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
It's horrible.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
We got to get rid of it. We got we
gotta invest every bit of energy we have.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
And I have to tell you I am very supportive
of what Dan Patrick has done as Lieutenant governor. I
think this is the most ill advised thing he has
ever done.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Number one, Number two.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I think this is going to cost far more votes
than it's going to gain. Who whoever is happy about this,
and I I'll tell you who's happy. There are some mothers,
because I've heard from them whose kids got real bad
into drugs and they rip a vape that then was
(06:46):
a bad vape and it you know, they got a
lung problem, or they got into drugs and it led
to other things. And uh, they think that this is
going to be the thing that that you know, because
their little baby didn't do anything wrong.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
It was.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
The retail shop. I know more.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I know more old people now and this is a
recent phenomenon who have chronic pain. And the way this
works is they go to their doctor and say, Doc,
my grandson's a stoner, and he says that if I'll
take this this chronic pain I'm suffering from, and the
doctor will say, I'm not allowed to tell you this,
but that's what you need to do.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
That's better than any pharmaceutical.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I can give you the most abused drug in America
by far, and it's not even close as alcohol.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
The most abuse.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Reefer Madness, did more damage in this country than any
single film ever released any There are marijuana users all
around us who do not bother anyone. The drug itself
has does less damage and in most cases more good
(08:00):
than any other drug, including coffee. There are military veterans
who have seen results. There are cancer sufferers who have
seen results.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
My brother was a narcotics officer for years.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
He said, if people would smoke marijuana instead of drinking alcohol,
I wouldn't have domestic abuse cases.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I wouldn't have drunk driver cases.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
So yeah, I think this is a stupid move by
Dan Patrick, and I wish he'd quit.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I look at what's going on in Florida where.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
American values. The take back of America from the left
is actually occurring at the state government level, they're accomplishing things.
It's become the model in the country. I look at
Oklahoma where they're doing things, things that you could only
(09:02):
dream what happened, and they're making them happen. Look at Arkansas,
where Sarah Huckabee has just done amazing things in a
very brief period of time. And then I turned to
Texas where the speaker has been controlled by the Democrats
(09:25):
for years. Our governor is incredibly weak. He's the John
Cornyn of our state government. And now the one guy
you could rely on, Dan Patrick, is taking up an
issue that will not gain any support for our initiatives.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
It will not.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
And it's going to piss a lot of people off.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
A lot of people are going to be.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Pissed off over this that were our kind of voters.
They're going to be pissed off over this, and they're
not going to forgive it. And this is where I
have conversations with people who will say they're in a
dimes worth of difference between the Democrats and Republicans.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
And let me tell you why.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
This is where folks who call themselves conservatives turn off
the Libertarians. This is where Trump brings those people into
the big tent and this quote unquote conservative initiative is
doing the opposite. Notice what Trump did. Did you notice
(10:37):
him pardoning people that had marijuana crimes. They made a
big deal. It's a black woman. She'd had her life ruined,
she was a user of marijuana, and she had received
a long sentence, and.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
He pardoned her. He made a big deal out of that.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Was that was a statement he had flirted with an
announced but to legalize marijuana across the country.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
That is the trend. That is a trend.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
There are people who are frightened of things they know
nothing about, and those people, out of that fear, they're
baled up and they want something to be mad about.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
And so their idea is.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Maybe if somewhere, someplace, somebody I'll never meet, who might
actually be eating gummies on their back porch that I'll
never see, maybe if I can keep them, if that
is giving them some pain relief or relaxation from anxiety,
or maybe even just a little happiness, if there's some
(11:44):
way we could kick down their door and go get
them and arrest them and put them in prison for that,
that'd make me feel better about my miserable life. That'd
make me feel good if we could do that. There
are some people among us, sad as it is, who
cannot find happiness in their life.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
They may not have had a good life.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
They may never have loved, they may never have been loved,
They may never have accomplished, they may never have dreamed,
they may never have known the great joys of the
human existence. And they don't have a future. They don't
have an aspiration, they don't have a goal. They don't
(12:30):
wake up in the morning looking forward to anything. And
so they reduce themselves to finding some degree of utility
in hoping someone else who is enjoying some aspect of
life can have it taken away. And that's important. That's
(12:54):
important to that person.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
And to that person.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
They don't want anybody gambling, they want any marijuana. They
don't want you to have alcohol on Sunday before noon,
because the Lord wants you to wait till noon eleven
forty five.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Let me go up here to the package.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Uh Lord, says an Ecclesiastes, thou shalt not drink for noon.
We won't have stores open on Sunday, because that that
is how.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
We will honor God. But you're mean, spirited.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
And cruel and unkind and hateful.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Have you read the Bible?
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Because all the little rituals that these people love to play,
what they eat and when they eat it, these were
all things created by men on.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Earth enriching their own power. They're not vessels of God.
This is not godly in any way. This is not Christian.
You're not more Christian by trying to outlaw things that
don't affect you or anyone else. That is not Christians.
(14:13):
That's the kind of people who turn off potential Christians
who've had an experience like that, for whom Christianity is
a basis upon which they hate and judge in ridicule.
That is not godly, that is not biblical.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
This marijuana thing, I don't know the basis of it.
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
I suspect legislators government will do this on occasion they
know they're not going to get any wins out of
this session. The House was lost. To his credit, dan
Patrick busted his ass to get DAVEE Feelin out of there,
but we couldn't get the votes to replace him. So
you've got Dustin Burroughs his number two. So now they're
(15:07):
just playing. The house is just playing, and the Democrats
are comfortable with the just played. The Democrats don't have
to accomplish anything. Republicans have control. Republicans have the majority,
and Democrats are able to retain a very quiet, subtle control.
So all they have to do is keep the Republicans
(15:30):
from making any changes. This is what Schumer would love
to have, the ability to keep Trump from being able
to make executive orders. This is why they've gone to
the district courts to slow him down. The House will
not pass anything, so it won't matter what the Senate
does because the House won't pass anything. And so we
(15:50):
come up with these issues to stay in the news.
We're going to do away with the dope, and literally
nobody's cheering. That was a nineteen We've had leap law,
law enforcement against prohibition, We've had doctors, we've had studies.
This is an outdated old Why why don't we come
out against the gays too. We're gonna make it illegal
(16:11):
to be homo, and I mean, this is just dumb.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
With the Michael Berry, we worked so hard, so hard,
so many people.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Winning elections, and our biggest challenge in Texas getting people
to care.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Because they've been burned so many times.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
We finally finally get to where we need to be.
We've got a president on our side, and now our
biggest issue appears to be driving marijuana from the state.
(17:07):
Let me address a couple of things that I have received.
One listener writes, your take on legalizing whoch Have you
been to the cities where marijuana is legal. You can't
walk down any street in that city where people are
without smelling that nasty smell. This is not how it
(17:27):
should be. I usually like your side of arguments, but
I cannot agree to any of that. Marijuana smokers in
public are the source of seventy five percent of the
opposition to legalizing marijuana. If every marijuana smoker with the
(17:52):
day job would go, grab those people by the ear,
like the black mom in the grocery store and walk
them up and down the aisle, tell them you can't
do this, you idiot.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
You're ruining it for everybody.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I despise the smell of marijuana. I find it to
be disgusting. I'm told that a meth lab smells like
cat urine, so I suppose that might be worse. I
can't go, won't go, have no interest in going to
festivals or outdoor concerts, but these days it is often
(18:33):
if it's in a state that has legalized marijuana, there
will be that nasty, rancid smell and it's awful. It's
one of the worst smells to me out there. It
smells sour and it's terrible. So what cities have done
(18:53):
is they have made it such that you cannot smoke
in public. But as a delivery mechan I think that
the old style joint, which is the rolling up and
smoking of marijuana.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
I don't know this.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I haven't looked at the statistics, but this is just
my suspicion that that is a very small percentage of
the delivery mechanism used today as it once was the
old days of the stoner, you know, the dirty, nasty
Brad Pitt played that character in True Romance where he's
(19:32):
sitting on the couch ripping a bong, just zombied out
of his brain, and.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
His roommate Michael ol.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Whatever the guy's name is, Rappaport, I think, has left
and the bad guys are there to try to track
him down. That's outdated, that's a thing of the past.
But I also you have to ask yourself some tough questions,
so you can deal with the nasty smell. That's not
(20:05):
a reason to make something illegal. Okay, if you go somewhere,
if you go to any same festival, there are going
to be people who've had too much to drink and
they're staggering around. Well, prohibition, when you study prohibition and
how bad it was for this country, the negative effects
(20:26):
prohibition had on this country that we still fill today,
criminal organizations, all sorts of things.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
It is not.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
You have to stop and ask yourself a question. Why
do we have a government? What's the purpose do we
want to give that government the power to take things
away from us, to tell us what time to go
to bed, to tell us what time to wake up,
to tell us what we can and cannot do with.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Our lives and our bodies.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Is that what we want to do? Because you have
to ask yourself that question, because a government big enough
to make you happy by causing someone else to not
be able to do things, is going to be able
to turn that same power on you. And you go, oh,
my goodness, but you made it happen. There are so
many misconceptions on this issue, and there are more and
(21:18):
more people now who come forward here's one listener. I'm
not going to say her name.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
She says Zorro.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
I'm seventy one and I've been taking Delta eight for
many years. I have not increased my dose. I have
not gone on to other drugs, even vaping. I was
not a marijuana user. I drink very little. I only
eat gummies at night to help me get to sleep
and turn my mind off. Otherwise I will lay in
bed with my mind racing. I do not eat any
(21:46):
gummies during the day, or I would be a couch potato.
I will not vote for anyone who votes to get
rid of THHC. I will hear this mostly from women,
and they'll say, Michael, are you aware that marijuana SAPs
people's motivation? They won't want to work. Wait a second,
(22:08):
are we now in the business of motivating people? Is
that as a government? Okay, we'll look around Anything that
takes away y'all's motivation you can't.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Do Are you serious? Do you hear yourself? Do you
hear yourself?
Speaker 1 (22:30):
You are giving into the worst element of the little
old lady, the worst aspect of it. Don't let that in,
don't let that rule the day.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Don't do it that is that is not a good look,
trust me.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
And are you aware that some people don't lack motivation,
don't lack desire, but have too much? Are you aware
that some people people can't turn their brain off. Some
people can't get their mind to stop racing, and they're
highly successful. I worked with a guy for years probably
(23:11):
kept the longest schedule of being awake and functioning at
a high level than anybody I've ever met in my life.
I've never seen anything like it, so much so that
I could barely be around him for more than five
minutes at a time because I wanted to switch that
I could turn it off.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
And that individual.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Consumed more marijuana than anybody I've ever known of.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I know people that are very, very.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Very high functioning and that use it to turn it off.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Well, it's a drug, so is alcohol.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Do you realize how many deaths are attributed to alcohol?
Drunk driving, domestic violence, fights, liver disease, all the things
that happen as a result. Ask any doctor who's honest
about the effects on the human body between marijuana and alcohol.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
It's not even close.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
It's say, they're not even the same realm. But alcohol
is legal. Michael what does that mean? You mean the
same jackasses like Sheila Jackson Lee and Sylvester Turner. You
mean those same people said this will be allowed and
this won't and that's your basis. Well, this one's legal.
Why is it legal?
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Why is this illegal?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Why is this legal?
Speaker 1 (24:38):
If your answer to something as well, it's legal? Who
made it legal? Which jack ass do you want to
pin as the genius in the group. Well, they ought
to do is have a joint session and legalize it.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
I'm just sitting here listening to Michael Berry.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
If you meet somebody from Ethiopia, you will find that
they eat something called injera, in many cases once a day,
but never less than once a week.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
They crave it, as the old saying goes as mother's milk.
In Gera looks like a flattened pancake, and it's made
of something called tef and it's the highest protein grain
I believe of them all. The World Health Organization has
(25:42):
written extensively about trying to spread the use of this
particular agricultural product because for protein deficient economies it is
an agricultural miracle. It's incredible. But you don't crave in jara.
(26:03):
Why would you. You may have been to Blue Nile.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I hope you do.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Tina the owners and dear friends, sweet lady, wonderful restaurant.
And when you were there, you ate with your hands.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
And.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
The meat and the cheese and the spinach.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Was placed on.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Top of that pancake looking thing that extended out past
the edges of the plate. And if you were taught
by an Ethiopia and how to eat this food, you would,
just as many cultures do, Middle Eastern Indian and others.
You took the in jara in your hands and you
scooped up your food using that as sort of a
(26:43):
I don't know, and then you took it directly to
your mouth without the use of utensils. And you might
have enjoyed that, but you didn't. Three weeks later, think
I have to have in Jerra today, I have to
have in Jera. Or if you were to go to
India and you are to be talking to people about
how often they eat doll doll chocol which is just
(27:07):
rice and doll, which are these pulses. India is famous
for these different types of doll, moon doll, China, doll,
It's mother's milk. In a country that still has a
large portion of the particularly rural population.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
It's terribly poor.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
This mashed bean pulse and rice with a few peppers
and maybe some turmeric. And you've seen Indian food with
just a few things like this. That is their meal
eaten typically by hand, mixed together. Not dissimilar from the
(27:53):
dirty rice and rue that you might see in the
poorer region of southwest Louisiana. You take a kun ass
out of Louisiana, they're bringing their food with them because
they have to can't live without it, gumbo.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
At tufe rice, and you're just you're not going to.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
They're not going to be able to survive.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
They're going to go crazy.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
They have to have these things.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Did it ever cross.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Your mind if your name is Boudreau, that you didn't
choose to love those things? Did it ever cross your
mind if your name is Aneil or Roge, that you
didn't choose to love Riis and thal, or if you're
from Ethiopia, that you you didn't choose to crave in Gerrah.
(28:53):
There are things we crave so deeply that we think
we chose. I like to belie leave that I fell
in love with bluebell. I didn't I loved bluebell before
I knew what it was, because that was a special treat,
and I ate it before I can even remember your
(29:13):
favorite sugar cereal, your favorite moms for chad. It would
be spam, or it could be thought us. How many
things that are the embodiment of who we are did
we never consciously choose. They're baked into our dna for
(29:38):
all intents and purposes. They were spoon fed to us.
But now we hold them dear.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Don't we.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
We love that food. We will argue to the ends
of the earth. That is the greatest food in the
history of mankind. It is superior to your food over there,
and your food across the ocean, and your food south
of us. My food is better than your food. Tastes better,
it's better for you, You'll live longer, it's more fun,
(30:08):
it's feeling them. It's more natural, it's more godly, it's
more wonderful. But you didn't actually choose it. It was
spoon fed to you, not out of any malice. That
was your culture, that was your region, that was your family,
that was your tradition. So it becomes who you are.
(30:35):
But that doesn't make it the healthiest food. Or the
best tasting food or the fill in the blank. It
doesn't it doesn't stack up necessarily that all of our
views of what we each hold ear and we all
have these views. I love a big read, especially with barbecue.
(30:55):
I love a big read. There are people who think
that's goofy because they didn't grow up where when you
had barbecue, you had big red. Okay, I love catfish.
I meet people from around the country who are listeners, say,
you don't really eat catfish, do Yeah? You know it's
a bottom feeder, right, Yeah, it's a good, good bottom feeder.
(31:17):
You know mercury down there. Yeah, I know, it's good
mercury too.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
I know.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
To tell you what temperature is, you know it's that Friday.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Yeah, I know. And it's the best. I didn't choose it.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
I was eating catfish around people sitting outside. I can
hear the catfish being fried in the little friar outside
at sam Raven, I can hear it. Or damn b
I can hear it. I can feel it. It's emotional
to me. It's wonderful. I sweat it out of my system.
(31:50):
It's who I am. But I didn't choose it. Do
you realize how many views you and I and everybody
else holds that we never chose, and it's hard to
stop and challenge those views.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
You might just hate.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Marijuana because such a view was spoon fed to you.
You might not have come to that conclusion on your own.
You may have never.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Stopped to question whether that's a rational view.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
You may be unwilling to question the reasonableness of criticizing
pride catfish because you are so committed to it it
has become your identity. There are views like this that
we have that we are unable go. Tell a Palestinian
(32:54):
that the Jews aren't his biggest problem, it's a lack
of running water. Won't believe it because he's been spoon fed.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
The Jews or problems with everything.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
And there are people, there are generations. You ask young
people their view of marijuana, whether they use it or not,
very different than old people because they're not playing reefer
madness these days and talking about the dope. Except in Texas,
where we've decided
Speaker 2 (33:20):
We're going back to nineteen fifty eight
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