Councilmember Arias Digs In, Doubles Down on Dumb!

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm home and there talking about the border. He knows
what's gone down, But we got some real smart people
here in town. Of course you will. Fresnol council member
behind the ICE raid rumors that he's going to keep
sharing unverified information, go ahead, double down on. Let's see

(00:21):
what council member Miguel Arias told the Fresnel be He said,
if I have similar information and similar defense knowledge, I'll
continue to exercise my freedom of speech and my responsibility
as a member of this body to inform my community
about any potential mass raids of Iranian taror cells that
are being No, he didn't say mass raids that are
being planned. Now. For those that don't know the story,

(00:47):
our city council member here mcgau Areas said a council
meeting a few days before here that this swap meet
that ICE was planning to engage in a raid. I
think this was not this weekend but the last one.
So it had been two weeks ago where he said, hey,
there's a ray coming at the cherry auction in Fresno.
Watch out here they come. Here come the fascist So

(01:10):
there was a drop in attendance caused by the rumor
spread on social media. Does no Pea said, there's some
vendors upset that Arius' plans to continue sharing information about
ice rates. Here's a guy named Robert, longtime vendor at
the auction. He said he's been selling tarts, canopies, gloves, brooms,
work gear for thirty years. He told the Bee that

(01:30):
his sales at a swap meter is only source of income.
He said, in my eyes, he's supposedly trying to protect
illegals without concern about how it's affecting our livelihood. He talks,
he gets paid, he talks, we don't get paid. Damage
is done. Robert he Benner thirty years. He thought it
once about maybe doing it the right way, but anyhow,
you get where he's coming, right, Miguel, do you want

(01:53):
to drive him out of business? Well, join us, let's
drive let's deport them. Sorry, Robert, I want you to
get back in line and do it the right way.
Another vendor at the auction said she appreciates mo Arius
for speaking up. Yeah, she said, a lot of the
kids of the parents are out there working because I

(02:15):
guess they were maybe anchor babies. Maybe the illegal alien
parents came here, had them and their citizens so they
can go out there. Maybe there's child labor law. No,
see again, like Adam Carola said, anything involved with the
illegal community, they don't have to abuy by the laws's
but no, you can't have your kid working over here

(02:35):
at fig Garden Village at your store. The owner Cherry
Auction Avenue Auction, said that he will not prevent Ice
from entering the swap meet. He said, if Ice wants
to come in, I'm not going to stop him because
that would make me a felon. Well he gets hit.
Dunney mcguil arius urging residents to be prepared for the
possibility of Ice activity, he said, what I'll say to

(02:59):
people is the same thing that was said to us
in the seventies. Have a plan. I know what it
feels like to come home from school, to see your
parents not be there, and to rely on a neighbor
as your guardian. He's making it sounds like he grew
up living his Ice like a criminal on the run. Well,
I guess if you're involved in illegal behavior. That's why
we had to get rid of the term illegal alien,
because then we could say that's illegal behavior. And yes,

(03:19):
that does create that sense of wondering where you're I'm
assuming by that statement he means his parents were illegal.
If he was always wondering where they were they taken,
he have to be taken care of by a neighbor
or something. I don't even know what that means. What
does that mean they were deported? Well, no, you would
have gone with him. I don't know what he means.

(03:41):
He just talks, doesn't he. Well, the No King's two
point zero national protest is gonna happen July fourth. Boy,
they love America, don't they. Yeah, they're they're they're planning
this one. What are they?

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (04:00):
I wonder what they're going to be mad out this time? Well,
hold on, there's a list against racism's enophobian injustice for
the right of immigrants, worker families, and everyday Americans, for
true transparent inequality under the Constitution. We are not celebrating
freedom while people are still in cages. We are not
pledging allegiance at leaders who want to rule, not spreeve

(04:23):
sp r spir I don't even know what that means.
We are not staying quiet when justice is on the line.
Maybe a misprinter, Okay, No King's two point zero. I'm sure,
they'll be announcing here's your locations in prosno for your no,
King's two point zh and other news. There's a fireworks
show going on. Man, they can't quit, can they. They

(04:44):
don't love this country. Listen here, listen on the WNBA
saying that we could disagree about Listen to these two announcers.
This is now new speak from nineteen eighty four. She says, well,
we can disagree. That's what makes America great. Right, No,
that sounded too close to make America great again? Listen
to this like nine seconds of the uncomfortable silence here.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
They disagree with you, they do, and I disagree with them,
and that's fine. That's what makes America great, right, pant.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
Work, Hello, make America great?

Speaker 3 (05:18):
But I should rephrase that, yes, but yeah I did
the opinion or perfectly yes, that's a better way to say.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
That's how bad. That's how bad TDS has gotten. Man.
Do you hear that? You can't even say, hey, being
able to disagree in America that's what makes America great.
That's silence? Is it worth? Now that you heard it once?
Let's go I've heard it a few times today. Let's
go back here. Listen to this again. Listen, this is

(05:51):
where we are.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
They disagree with you, they do, and I disagree with them,
and that's fine.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
That's what makes America great.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
Right, pant work, right, Pam, Pam? Think of the look.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
I should rephrase that. Yes, but yeah, I say the
opinion are perfectly yes. That's a better way to say.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
Ah, differences of opinion are perfectly yes. Yes, that's a
better way to say that. So say in America is
great and that triggers somebody today so much that you
feel like you got to apologize makes America great? Hm
awkward as they say, you want to go hear what

(06:37):
they had to say. There's now a company, well I
don't know if it's actually a company out there, but
an organization. Because the LA News was covering this guy.
This guy goes out and it helps the illegals. He
finds out where they are and if Ice is in
that area hitting them.

Speaker 5 (06:56):
Many people are scared to come out. We've gotten thousands
of messages. We're afraid to go out. We're even afraid
to go to the doctor at this point. So then
we assemble and we have somebody deliver groceries.

Speaker 6 (07:08):
And after watching video after video of Ice agents detaining
street vendors. Tito, known too many as Hood Santa, and
his wife Patrina knew they couldn't just stand by. They
pick up vulnerable street vendors by their flowers and other merchandise,

(07:31):
then drive them home to get them off the streets
and out of harm's way.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Tito, Tito the Hood Santa. I know, Hood, come the Hood.
Can't you just tell him, Santa, he's the Hood Santa.
Here's Tito explaining his compassion.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
Here.

Speaker 5 (07:54):
You see them in the streets right now where they're
just being picked up and taken. And you know, my
heart was tugged when I saw a couple of them
hiding behind a rock or you know, just sitting ducks.
So I just decided to take action.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
In what hide them from Ice? Yeah, Tito, listen up.
You don't know where they're from. You have no idea.
None of them have been vetted. None of them have
been vetted, so they they could be Tito, just follow
me here. They did find some prayer mats south of

(08:31):
the border, meaning there's people from the Middle East kill
us sleep or.

Speaker 7 (08:37):
So we don't know who they all are, we don't
know why they're here, where they came from. But we
do know Borbitrol intelligence the last four years they found
para matts south of the border. They found identification from
people of my Iran, Turkey, uz Mekistan, Syria south of
the border. So we know that some terraces have coursed
that border. We'd be a four things zero crossed.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yeah, here, let's go. Let's go to Colorado, Let's go
to Denver. Fox News article states that anti immigration and
custom enforcement activists is that their name. I refer to
them as the Mexican Flag riot supporters. In Denver, they
managed to stop agents that were trying to arrest and
illegal What was he wanted for? Just child rape in Italy?

(09:22):
Stop them get out of here. Agents were trying to
detain Jose Reyes Leon Dad Ross d e r a
s a criminal alim from Olsalvador convicted a child rape
in Italy. Colorado Rapid Response hosted on social media. Ice
is in the area. Ice is in the area. Ice
is in the area. I guess he found out he

(09:44):
got out God was wonder for child rape in Italy.
I shared a Facebook post from this group Colorado Rapid
Response which Homan should go arrest right now. Written in
English and Spanish and learning their followers of ICE press
in the area and the type of vehicles they were using. Guys,
that's that's what domestic terrorists that are trying to bring

(10:06):
you down do. They need to be arrested. ICE has
asked the public to report this man to federal authorities
if they see him, but warned the public not to
approach him. You got the mayor Denver, Mike Johnson Valde
block ICE from carrying out deportations. They so far this
year written a three hundred and fifty six million dollars

(10:27):
in taxpayer dollars for services. They're taking good, good care
of them. Christy Nomes stated Homer Security Secretary that seventy
five percent of the legals arrested under the Trump administration
have been charged with or convicted of a crime. And
you got the Democrats worried about agents wearing masks well,

(10:49):
because there's so many threats to the to the agents,
even to their families. Down in Maywood, California, you had
a border patrol. They were targeted in two separate hint
run incidents. People ramming their cars into them, people throwing
rocks at them, still slashing their tires. It's getting a

(11:12):
little bit out of hand. I think we saw how
out of hand it was when all the hands went
up in the air back. Remember that Democrat debate, all
of them, how many of you would give out free
healthcare to illegal aliens? Remember all their hands went up
on the Democratic side.

Speaker 8 (11:31):
This was the precise moment.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
I no longer was a Democrat.

Speaker 5 (11:36):
Raise your hand if your government plan would provide coverage
for undocumented immigrants.

Speaker 8 (11:45):
That was the precise moment that I knew I was
leaving the Democratic Party because I was a two time
bone cancer survivor. I voted for Obama Biden based on Obamacare,
and when it was implemented in twenty ten, I aimed
to losing my insurance.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
He became a Republican. Speaking of Republican's our vice president,
I was.

Speaker 4 (12:14):
Hoping Jose Padilla would be here to ask a question.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
Yeah, Jose Padilla, California Senator Jose Padilla, creating quite a
bit of theater. His your name is Alex. You know
we warn you guys Trump was a fascist. Now look
at him. He's having senators handcuffed. They're arresting and charging
Democrat congresswomen. They have zero manners these Democrats do because

(12:38):
well they have Marxism in their hearts. This is all theater,
So I'm going to come back. Got quite a story
on the crying US senator from California, which one Adam
or Jose Adam Bullshef or Jose Padia. Sorry Alex, sorry,
your new name is Hosea. Can you see that the
VP played the boy he got you? But when this

(13:01):
is the Trevor Cherry Show on the Valley's Power Talk Sing.

Speaker 4 (13:06):
Jose Vidilla would be here to ask a question, but unfortunately,
I guess he decided not to show up because there
wasn't the theater. And that's all it is. You know,
I think everybody realizes that's what this is. It's pure
political theater. These guys show up. They want to be
captured on camera doing something. They want to be able
to go back to their far left groups and to say,
look me, I stood up against border enforcement, I stood

(13:28):
up against Donald Trump. But all they're really standing up
for is for drug cartels who are on ramping over
our country and sex traffickers to be able to continue
to traffic little kids into our country.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
As Vice President Van's talking about California Senator Alex Vadia
when he bum rushed DHS Secretary chrisy Nons press conference,
dressed like a dock worker from far Rockaway or Long
Beach or somewhere. He got a big, old posing dude
walking up. Even when they put their hands up to stopping,
he kept pushing forward looking down. Guys, it's theater, we

(14:02):
know that. So this is what Vice President Bans say.
Laugh them out the building.

Speaker 4 (14:08):
That's what you're doing when you stand against border enforcement.
So I think these guys we had to laugh them
out of the building. We got to call them out
for doing what they're doing, which is grand standing. And
if they want to work seriously on border enforcement, on
keeping their community safe, the Trump Administration's door is wide open.
But they're not doing that. They'd love the grand standing.
They hate law enforcement because they hate the idea of

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the United States of America having a border. It's a disgrace,
but it is what it is.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
Yeah, how dare you well?

Speaker 4 (14:36):
I was hoping Jose Padilla would be here to ask
a question.

Speaker 9 (14:38):
Mister Vice President, how dare you disrespect our senator? You
don't know his name, but yet you served with him
before you were Vice president. And you continue to serve
with him today because the last time I checked, the
vice president of the United States is the president of
the US Senate. Serve with him today? And how dare

(15:02):
you disrespect him and call him Jose?

Speaker 1 (15:05):
He just look like anybody to you.

Speaker 9 (15:08):
Well, he's not just anybody to us. He is our senator.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
That's Cuman commie. Mayor of smell A, Karen Best, I was.

Speaker 4 (15:16):
Hoping Jose Padilla would be here to ask a question.

Speaker 10 (15:18):
He knows my name, he knows my ny look sadly.
It's just an indicator of how petty and unseerious this
administration is. Right, he's the vice president of the United States.
Do you think he'd take the situation in Los Angeles
more seriously?

Speaker 1 (15:36):
I need to go back. And here's other press conference
says just how is his voice is at his call
where he just sounds like he's on the vergi of crying?
Or does he always sound like he's on the verger
of crying? Or was he on the version would be
here to ask a questions.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
On shaking heads with brains?

Speaker 10 (15:49):
But did he listen to the Marines because we have,
you know, the report after report of the Marines so
many of the Marines themselves that don't want to be there.
That's not why they enlisted.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
The Marines don't want to be there. And how do
you know that, Jose. I'm sure he's been out there
because he's on the front lines. We know he's being
taken down with guys with guns. I mentioned on Friday,
my friend Mike Braithwaite, who got a hold of me again,
and I'm going to talk to that old friend from
high school. We played on the same baseball team because
I heard from Mike a few weeks ago. He left

(16:21):
a message that I heard here in Fresno. Also in
Sacramento up there, they gave me the message down here
to try and track me down, and the message was
call me, want to talk to you. I'm dying. For
the past few weeks, I've been amazed at Mike's faith
as he endures his daily excruciating pain. The pain medicine

(16:41):
doesn't even work anymore. So my friend Mike Braithwaite's going
to join us next next and his message to me
over the last few weeks has been life altering and changing.
Mike braithwait Mike, welcome to the show Man. Thank you
for getting a strength to talk to us.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
Hey, thanks for having me.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
You bet, Mike. Before we get into the reason that
you're on, let's go back. I left forridgecreston eighty four.
You were ahead of me in school in eighty three.
Tell us a little background of your musical history when
you got down to San Diego. People are going to
find this story fascinating.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
Well, I started off going to school with San Diego State.
San Diego State, and I took a class at UCLA
with Thomas Noonan we todd It. He was the king
of Billboard Magazine. So anyways, I became really good friends
with him, and he offered me a job at the
end of the class to be an A and R

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representative for and M Records Warner Brothers Capital, whatever I
wanted and and the end, I turned it down because
I wanted to finish my degree at San Diego State.
But anyways, shortly after that I met Eddie Vedder. I
was working at a study job at San Diego patrolling
on the corporation. It was in Mirra mar in San Diego,

(18:05):
and he was my boss. He was my boss and
we became best friends immediately. We eventually became roommates. I
helped him with his his his his solo work, bad
radio things like that.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
And now he'd ever been heard on any radio or anything, right.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
Right, right, it hasn't been heard of anything. And so
it wasn't until he met Jack Irons from the Chili
Peppers ex drummer of the Chili Peppers recommended him a
good guys in Seattle. Hey, you know the singer in
San Diego that would be good for you. Guys don't
want to try him out, So they tried him out.

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He made it, and Eddie flew back and forth in
San Diego during the demo tape process of the first
Pearl Jam album ten and we I gave my input
into the first album, nanted abusing some of it, the
fair amount of it nanded abusing. So that's that's my

(19:08):
only claim. The same.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
Well, it's quite a musical history there as well. And
you still didn't you keep producing? Don't you got a
bunch of sound equipment and whatnot?

Speaker 2 (19:16):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I've got a studio for years
and all that sort of stuff. And I've been big
on songwriting, you know that sort of thing.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
No, I don't remember, I don't remember you being in
a band in high school? Do you play anything piano?

Speaker 2 (19:31):
Guitar? I even played. I played violin in elementary school,
in heigh through high.

Speaker 1 (19:39):
School, so heanys speaking of high school once? Uh, do
you think anybody has ever had a baseball coach who
gets mad at infield practice, throws the bat in thear,
gets in his pickup truck and peels out in the gravel,
SIZEMOREY remember him doing that?

Speaker 2 (19:52):
And yes, yes, yes, that's funny.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
The crazy redhead baseball coach. Didn't he seem old at
the time? I bet he wasn't a day over twenty eight,
was he?

Speaker 2 (20:01):
Rod Moore was pretty young at the time. Yeah, he
was pretty young.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
And when Mike and I reconnected here, when you called
me a few weeks ago, Mike, you said your memory
of me and baseball? Do you want to can you
tell that one on the air?

Speaker 2 (20:14):
Oh? Yeah, yeah? It was this classic We we were
playing Annealo Valley High School, the big rival for Bridge
Crestburrow's High school. And I was on deck to hit
and Trevor just hit him a ground ball, and the
first baseman, instead of just touching the bag, actually just
like pushed Trevor just pushed him, pushed him over out

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and you know, always the fence project. But just if
Trevors a big guy, this ball guy. So he just
got just creamed. And so what did Trevor. Trevor threw
his helmet back at him. You know it's because you
know it's gonna pursue off when someone does that to you.
You're young, you're eighteen, You're gonna get mad, So you do.
So the catcher for Aneloe Valley ran up the first

(20:58):
baseline right a t I was thinking to myself, I've
got to do something, protect my buddy. So I tackled
him from behind, got him into a headlock, and just
held him there for dear life, because if I let
him go, who knows what this guy would do to me.
Didn't kill me, so I just let so the coach
is separated as I just held him in headlock. I've
been punched him a couple of times.

Speaker 1 (21:19):
Hey, now that was my only baseball brawl. What was
that your only baseball brawl in your baseball times?

Speaker 2 (21:24):
No, there was Chino Chino High School. We were playing
at Chino High School down in LA and they came
at us with their baseball bats on one game, you're
their picture. The pitcher had a temper. You were rausing
them him, and he got madder and madder, and so
finally he got wild and started pitching poorly, and so

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their team just emptied their dugouts and came after. So
that's the only other one I can remember.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
You know, I don't know did they still allow all
the banter. I wonder, like in Little League we called
it chatter, but you know, hey, batter, you couldn't hit
water if you fell out of a boat, you know
that kind of stuff. I wonder if they don't allow
that today, you know, to make sure the kids don't
get their feelings hurt there as well.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
Absolutely, probably probably not, probably not well.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
I can say during that brawl you literally had my
back because he was coming at me from behind. Yeah. Good,
good move, Mike. Well listen, man, I know you've had
a a I'm just going to segue here. You've had
a lot of people, Uh, I'm gonna let you talk
about it that have had your back with what you're
going through right now, and I'm sorry I didn't know

(22:28):
about it for up until just a few weeks ago.
Thank you. You reached out to iHeart here left the
messages that got it to me immediately, and Mike, I'm
just gonna say your message was TRUV call me. I'm dying, Mike.
Can you can you explain your your disease for everybody
listening right now.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
Yeah, I've had live disease for twenty eight years. It's
been a tough road. It was real a mission for
a while and came back with a vengeance. I had
a mild stroke about nine months ago and it came
back the vengeance, and it just just got worse and worse,
to the point where my body rejects all medications now

(23:08):
and I'm in so much pain and it's off the
chart pain, but I can't take any pain medication for it.
And I've had two heart attacks in the last months
and there's nothing they can do for me. My blood
pressure's two sixty over one thirty five most of the
time a lot of times. And I had a small
stroke the other day. I know I'm going to have

(23:32):
a brutal ending. There's no good outlook for me. I've
the people that John Hopkins and Baltimore told me the
other day that they believe it's permanent brain damage from
the lime disease. So there's nothing I can do, and
so I've been focused the last five months or so.
I've been focusing on reconnecting with old friends and just

(23:55):
reliving by positive, counting my blessings, not being in anger
at God, not being angry at anything, just understanding that
the ball bounce is the same for everybody you know.
It's just the way it is. And and sometimes miracles happen,
but so far, a miracle hasn't happened for me. I've

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been people praying for me, but nothing's happened, and it's
probably not going to happen because miracles are rare. But
but I hung in there for months and cruciating pain,
and in the process of that, I came up with
an idea of proposing a reconnection festival in rich Crest
for everybody that's from rich Crest from my my time frame,

(24:39):
you know, from the seventies to eighties. Coaches, you know,
business owners, pastors, anybody, not just high school people, but
anybody that you know, parents, even anybody that wants to
come together and reconnect and tell remind them of all stories.

(25:00):
It's magical when somebody brings something up that you hadn't
heard in forever, and you forgot all about it. You
forgot all about it, and it's just had to right.
I remember that it's just a magical experience at this
time of life. So I wanted everybody to experience this.
So I have basically created dis fssival. It's taken off.
I've got six hundred plus people we're projecting right now,

(25:24):
probably be closer to eight hundred by the time November
eighth comes. But I'm not gonna make it. I'm I'm,
I'm at the end of my rope. I'm I'm, I'm
not gonna make it. So I'm the plan was, I
was going to try to make it, but there's just
no way. So this is a gift. This is a
gift that I've created for my friends, family and loved

(25:45):
once and just I just want to make a positive,
do something positive in my time left, and that's what
what I've been doing.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
So, guys, if if you're hearing what's coming out of
Mike's mouth and more importantly his heart and his soul
right now, he told me on Friday that when you
said Jesus is right there next to me, I wonder
what that's going to say to somebody right now, who's maybe, well,
we're all facing death, we know that. But somebody that's

(26:15):
been told by the doctor by John Hopkins, like like
you have. I can't believe Mike when I think about
like if Hillary Clinton had won the election, I said,
I would be at a Motel six with a bottle
of Jack Daniels all depressed. I heard you say you're
not mad at God. Has there ever been a time
during your ordeal that you're still going through where you

(26:37):
did have some anger?

Speaker 2 (26:39):
No, not at all. I mean the ball, the ball
bounces the same for everybody. The ball bounces the same
for everybody. It's it's good things have to bad people.
Bad things help to good people. The only difference is,
you know, if you believe in God and God is
by your side, God will help you. And that's that's
the bunk. That's the difference. And you know, it reminds

(27:04):
me of when I when I when in nineteen eighty
seven nineteen eight eight, Eddie Vedder came up with a
song called Believe you Me by the Way, I'm I'm
I've got a book. I wrote a book about all
this whole this whole time period back Then in nineteen
ninety seven, I was really ticked off at Rolling Stone magazine.

(27:25):
They bashed Eddie and it wasn't fair, and so I
was responding to that and also just trying to I
was upset with Eddie at the same time because he's
blown off my friends and blown me off at the time.
So I felt upset. So I basically wrote a book
about all this, and I almost got published. I had

(27:46):
a big literary agent in New York City and everything. Anyways,
Nick Allen, a good foot buddy of mine up in
the Central Valley area, is going to finish it for me.
But anyways, that that that'll be discussing that if you
ever want to read that. But in nineteen eighty seven,
Eddie Vedder wrote a song called Believe You Me. And
it was a time when Eddie believed in God. Eddie

(28:09):
actually believed in God. His mom was a big and
evangelical Christian it still is, and Eddie was was very much.
He wasn't a super strong Christian, but he was. He believed.
And the song Believe You Me or Second Coming Believe
You Me. It's the lyrics, but it was a skeptical

(28:30):
song that people that were not living up to their
you know, say I'm a Christian, but they don't live
up to it. That it was a song of hypocrisy.
And later on, right before he joined pro Jam, he
got this off of God and decided that God was
at fault for all the things that are in the world.

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And I kept telling him, Eddie, the ball bounces the
same for everybody called. It's called free will. That's my opinion.
I was brave Lutheran. It's a free will, and you
have to deal with if you're given you can make
bad decisions and read and you're not online with what
you should be doing, you're going to pay the price.
But sometimes you know you've got cancer in your genes,

(29:13):
there's nothing you can do about that. That's just that's
just life and and and and he can't blame God
for things like that if you believe in God, he
can't blame God for that. So that's just not the way,
the way the when the things are set up, that's
the way, not the way God set things up. So
but he didn't get that. He didn't get that, and

(29:35):
so he kept blaming God. And now he doesn't. Now
now he doesn't believe they're the God and I have
a hard time believing even would admit that he even
believed at one point you even believed in God. But
he has a really tough time dealing with he's blowing
me off now, he won't respond to me because you know,
he's he has a tough time dealing with death. His

(29:56):
brother Chris died. I knew his brother really well. He
still hasn't dealt with that. Chris Cornell passed away. He
has une dealt with that. He has troubles talking to
people who have passed away or are in the process
of passing away. He just because if you don't believe
in God, that's a pretty damn tough thing to deal with.

(30:16):
And that's what he's dealing with in his personal life.
And and so he's he's not goesn't want to talk
to me. And it isn't surprise me at all regarding that.

Speaker 1 (30:25):
But well, my anyways, that's listen man. November November eighth,
back in Ridge, Cress, right, right, right, Well, I'll be there.
My prayer is that you'll be there with me. And
I know that you said you don't think you will
be from what John Hopkins has informed you. But man,
when when you said, Jesus is right there next to you. Mike.

(30:49):
I'm just going to tell you, man, that's that's Christ
like my friend, and that's what we're called on this earth.
And your story might have might have hit somebody today
that my be exactly where you are. I know you
have to deal with a lot during the day, but
I'm sure there's a lot of time of not doing anything.
Would you would you want people to reach out to

(31:11):
you or would you want to converse with anybody that
might be in your shape?

Speaker 2 (31:16):
Sure? Sure?

Speaker 1 (31:17):
How do they you want to do? Email? Facebook?

Speaker 2 (31:21):
Emails fine? Or Facebook at Facebook is fine too. Michael S.
Braithwait dot gmail dot com.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
Is my email, Michael M. S. Braithwait Or did you
say Michael S.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
Michael S. Braithwait. This is my middle initial skull.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
Yeah, and that's B R A I T H W
A I T E. Michael S. Braithwait at gmail dot com,
Gmail dot com. And what are you on Facebook?

Speaker 2 (31:52):
Mike Braithwait, Yeah, Mike Braithwait, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:55):
We'll post those up.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
Man.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
I tell you you don't know what God has in store,
None of us do, Mike, but I appreciate you coming
on and you well you've you've touched us, all you
did me. You even said one girl from high school
you talked to your story and all it letter to Christ.
So there's good and bad. All things work out for
the good. God bless you. And I'll talk with you
here against anything you want, anything you want to say.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
In closing, Mike, yeah, real quick, I will say this.
In nineteen eighty six, an old friend of mine called
me and she was committed suicide. I mean I called her.
I haven't talked to her in six months, and she
was in the process of committing suicide. And she picked
up the phone. She picked up the phone when I
was calling her, and she was curious who it was

(32:40):
going to be the last person she's going to talk to.
She was curious who it was. She picked up the phone.
I talked to her. I found out she was comeding suicide.
She swaw a bunch of pills. I called nine to one,
got the paramedics there, saved her. That is a miracle.
That is a miracle. I haven't that's an example of
a miracle. And you can you can and say it's

(33:00):
just long odds, or even call it a miracle, whatever
you want. But I hadn't talked to her in six months.
One Saturday afternoon, at one o'clock, I decided I need
to talk to Tammy. I called her and she picked
up the phone. Now where I go on Facebook and
look at her family and look at her family's family
and and and they would not be here if I

(33:21):
had not made that call. And not that I did
anything great. I didn't do anything great. I just did.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
I just a vessel.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
I was being a vessel. I didn't do anything great,
but but that but that was I mean, I think
that was a miracle. I mean it's got to be.
I mean, what else. The odds are so long for
me to call it is strong enough. But for her
to actually pick up in the process of killing herself, well,
dad is.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
And I'm gonna ask, excuse me, everybody out there listening,
pray for a miracle for Mike Braithwaite. Mike, thank you man, God, bless.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
God, bless you, buddy.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
This is the Trevor Cherry Show. Condum Valley's power talk
sounds like he sounds healthy, doesn't he? I asked him
on one phone call. He said, right when he hangs
the phone up normally with people he breaks down in
tears from the pain. Again, pain medication not working because
the line disease moved into a septic form and his

(34:22):
body's rejecting pain medication. And uh so, pray for Mike.
And if you want to get a hold of him,
Michael S. Braithwait b R A I T H W
A I T E. Michael S. Braithweight at gmail dot
com or on Facebook Michael Braithwait, Mike Braithwait, and just
look for a Las Vegas thing in case there's a

(34:43):
couple of Braithwaits. He was an engineer, so be easy
to click on there. And he's talking about the the
memories that he's creating. Again. I don't know what I
would do in that situation. Me knowing me, I would
probably go through a really dark period and hopefully maybe
come out of it. I don't know it would I
don't know how it would en handled that. I would
hope to have that attitude that Mike Braithwaite has and

(35:05):
he's refilling his life with memories. And during the commercial
break right there, I thought of FCA. You know what
fcas Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Mike Braithwaite was a year
ahead of me. But we went to FCA together. We
met at Coach Bird's house. He was the varsity basketball coach,

(35:26):
and Mike and Coach Bird's son Rick were good friends
the all new Eddie Vedder back in the day. But
I was thinking about FCA camp and we traveled to Fresno.
It was a big camp. I never maybe i'd been
on ninety nine from down in Ridgecrest the High Desert,
but I got We stayed at Fresnel State at the dorms.
Nineteen eighty two, our team won the Super Bowl. I

(35:48):
still have my trophy. It's in my living room. FCA
nineteen eighty two has a cross right there. And fortunately
my roommate from Burroughs he went on to play basketball
at Fresno State. He had him on our FCA team,
so he was the superb athlete. That's the reason it
took us to the super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
There.

Speaker 1 (36:06):
I'll never forget man sitting in the step down dugouts.
You had to be the old Bulldog Stadium. I guess
it was there on campus, and there was this baseball
coach sitting up there at the top of the steps,
kind of side facing us, sitting on the bench, and
we heard some kind of commotion like a watch out
and before you knew it. I can still hear the
thud he got hit right in the privates, I mean

(36:29):
dead on baseball and I've never at that sound. I
can still hear it. I mean the ambulance came out.
He ended up being okay, I guess. But when an
ambulance had to come out, boyd uh. That taught me
to keep my eyeballs open and my legs closed. Yeah,
sitting around there. So see, look at that memory I

(36:52):
had from talking to Mike FCA. It's a good organization.
I assume it's still going on. Uh, I don't know.
Maybe the the leftists in California have made something like
that illegal. Yeah, well, we do have good news. There's
very good news. And again, pray for a miracle for Mike.
Pray for him. Michael us Braithwait at gmail dot com.

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