December 31, 2021 • 32 mins
EIB Guest Host Michael Berry, "The Czar of Talk" from NewsRadio 740 KTRH in Houston, closed out the final 2021 hours of Broadcast Excellence with reflections on how to achieve the best for you in '22. On this end-of-year Open Line Friday, we opened up the phone lines to what continues to be the greatest audience in all of media. Mentors are important. Unions are the top Democratic special interest group. Kamala is not the answer. Joe throws up his hands on covid, Bidenflation. Believe it or not, leftists target The Gipper's statue at his namesake Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. But you don't tear down the man who said, "Tear down this wall."
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
One of the there are a lot of silly little
things we do on our show when we're not guest
hosting for Clay and Buck that we've not done this week,
and the reason is it's not our show. We have
to pay respect to the people whose show it is,
and that's Clay and Buck, and so we're a little
bit edgier than they are. And the reason is because
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we can get away with it when you're on When
you're on the platform that's that big, you can't be
out there saying, you know, just really really radical nutty
stuff like we do. And so it's it's just tougher.
As as a friend of mine's dad used to say,
the higher up, the higher you the higher you climb
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the ladder, the more you're well, we'll say, but is exposed,
and it's true. The bigger you get, the more pressure
you're under. Well, one of the silly little things we
do is I am an inveterate name dropper. Probably already
figured that out, and I like to mention famous people
who were friends of mine. And it's obnoxious. I mean,
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it's it's a downright obnoxious and I'm aware that it's obnoxious,
but I still have to tell the story. And if
if somebody famous was in the room when something happened
and that's relevant to the story, I still have to
tell the story. So what we did to get over
that is when I mentioned a famous person and and
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say that person is my friend, then Ramon does a
ding and so that was that's sort of like, Okay,
I'm acknowledging, I'm name dropping. So with that in mind,
we will do it one time. For those of you
who were watching TV in about ninety to ninety three,
there used to be a show called Parker Lewis Can't Lose.
It was real popular at the time, and the star
of that show was a guy named Korynimic and he's
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done a lot of other film but that was that
was it was. He was like Screech, you know, in
terms of how big he was at the time. What
do you say the Screech was big, But you don't
think that's a good Well, I didn't bring the pornography
indus scrip. Why do you have to drag Screech. That's
like saying, you know, Paul Rubin is a good actor,
because he was a good actor. Pee wee Herman. Oh well, yeah,
but he's in the in the theater. Well, he's just
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still a good actor. I mean, the guy was a
good act. You forget how big pee Wee Herman was.
I mean that's what the officers said. I mean, this
guy was. He was a big deal to time. Anyway,
please stop distracting me, Ramone. We're trying to be serious.
We're trying to make claim Buck proud of the job.
We're doing it, not embarrass him. So anyway, my friend
korn Nemac there we go m sends me a text
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and he said, Hey, you're probably wondering why I haven't
been to your last five parties, because I do these
parties at my house. And he said, I didn't want
you to think we're not buds anymore. I hadn't told anybody,
which I guess I'm telling people now, but just a
few um. He said, I moved to Mississippi. And I said, okay,
I'm interested. Where in Mississippi? And this was all going
on in the last the last break and he said
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Ocean Springs, Mississippi. I said, I've never heard of it.
He said, we'd like to keep it that way. Beautiful
little town outside of Biloxi on the Gulf Coast. You
would love it. Michael Bayou's ocean rivers, fishing, salt life
all year round. The nicest people you'll ever meet in
the world. Now, you know, they got me thinking. And
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this is going to sound like I'm writing Hank Williams
Junior song or a Charlie Daniel song. But Rush limball
listeners are people who live in little towns that nobody
has ever heard of, that are beautiful, bucolic, idyllic little towns,
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and the thought leader influencers in this country ridicule those places.
They hate them. They're what we're called in the Reagan
administration flyover country. And so what Reagan would do is
he would say, all right, flyover country US. Rush used
to explain that, in fact, I learned about this from
Russia years ago. Flyover country was the part in between
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the two coasts because the bi coastal elite live on
either side either coast, and the places that they fly
over that they would never stop. The small towns in
Missouri or Nebraska, they would never Those people are They're inbred, unwashed,
hillbilly yokels, right, and they're unworthy of our time. They're
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all racist and their lives are horrible. Well, none of
that is true. That's where the real America is, places
that you've never been before or since. That's why I
always ask, what's the thing in your little town? Right?
Is it a crawfish festivals at a mosquito festival? Is
it the blue bonnet festival? What is what brings the
people together every year? Is it a renaissance, whatever that
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may be that the people look forward to. We were
down in Galveston, which is a little seaside town south
of Houston, just before we guest hosted last week, and
everybody down there was asking, Hey, you're coming from Marty
Gras and that's months away. Now. Galveston's Marty Gras is
not as big as New Orleans as Marty Gras, but
the people love it just as much. These things, these moments,
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these markers that bring people together, just as weddings and
funerals and graduations and births do. But these little towns
come together at a time like that. It's such a
beautiful thing, and yet it's never talked about. And that's
why all of this lockdown and masking and division raws
is so horrible. Because the people in New York and
LA and Washington, DC are shutting down little towns they
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would never go to anyway because people are letting them
make decisions for them. It's sad and tragic and odd.
It's really odd because there's lots of little ocean springs, Mississippies,
and that's where you live, and that's where I'm from.
And why on earth we let ourselves fight with our
neighbors in little towns that we love that, we go
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to church with, that, we went to high school with that,
we played ball four or with and against that we've
you know, they come over and knock on the door
and say, hey, can we have some flour? Can we
have some sugar? And you give them the whole thing.
They'll bring it back tomorrow. Are their kid needs ten
bucks and he's at the grocery store and he forgot
his wallet, and you go, I'll get it. Tell your
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dad to give it to me next week, or don't
you don't worry about it. That's what makes America special,
That's what makes him That text from him about here's
this wonderful little place, Well, I don't dare think. Well,
if I haven't heard of it, it can't be great
because guess what. I've been to LA and I've been
to New York, and I've been to the major cities
of this country, and I didn't find peace and quiet
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and love and tranquility and kindness in fellowship like you
do in little towns. And I find it so disturbing.
I am a confirmed Southerner, I'll admit it. I find
it so disturbing that when Joe Mansion says he's not
voting for the build back better because it doesn't it's
bad for his state and it's bad for the country.
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We see a bunch of people Cajolia first threatening him,
you better vote for this, Joe Mansion, or will run
you out of West Virginia. Will no, you won't. Trump
carried West Virginia. Mansion is the only Democrat who can
still win there, and that's not even clear that he could.
But they first they threatened him, and then they said, well,
the people of West Virginia are just backwoods, are they.
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It's a higher literacy rate than the state of California
in the state of New York. Did you know that?
But why does West Virginia get described as this awful, terrible,
no good, unhappy, miserable, inbred backwoods place. It's nothing of
the sort. It's simple people living simple lives. And one
thing I've learned is that people who have reached a
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certain state of nirvana, really advanced, people who've traveled the world,
who've fought the great thoughts, who've fought the great fights,
those people lead a simple life. They don't need to
constantly be impressing other people. They don't need to be
ostentatiously displaying their their new purchases are seeking the approval
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of some organization or some group of people. That's what
CNN is. It's a circle, well CNN and and these
types of places are a bunch of Chris Cuomo's trying
to out Chris Cuomo each other. That's why they're also perverted.
You know, Elon Musk was asked last week if he
would go on CNN to do an interview, and he said,
I can't be on CNN. I'm not perverted enough. Do
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you know that, Elon? I mean, do you know that
Chris Cuomo's producer was was was soliciting little kids to
have sex with It's sick and disturbing. These people were
wound so tight. Look at you talk about mental health,
you don't have mental health problems in little town, Mississippi,
little town, Arkansas. And I defy you. I defy you
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if you have allowed yourself to believe that these little
towns that are real Americana, that are still Norman Rockwell
in twenty twenty two, that they're you know, they're not
sophisticated because they don't have a pro football team, they
don't have a pro basketball team, or they don't have
a major international airport. You know what else they don't have.
They don't have failing public schools, they don't have high
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crime rates, they don't have thus selling drugs on the
street corner. Yeah, they don't have all those problems either.
You know why they don't lock their doors at night
because they sleep in comfort, because they know and love
their neighbors. They know the names of their kids teachers
because they were their teachers as well. They go to
church with them, they see them at the football game
on Friday night. It's not such a bad life. I
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grew up to that. We should stop demeaning it. If
the Left wants to do that, let them, but we
shouldn't join in with them. The next time somebody mentions
Arkansas don't go, oh, well, maybe marry your sister. That
doesn't happen. But you know what does happen, happiness. Why
don't you go visit the Ozarks. It's beautiful. Don't you
go drive through Tennessee. It's one of the most glorious
states in the country. Why don't you drive through Kentucky
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and the next time somebody tells you they're ackwater meth heads.
Oh yeah, there's those communities, But have you've been to
downtown Manhattan or La Kentucky's one of the most glorious
states in the entire Union wins the last time somebody
said that on a national broadcast two seconds ago. I'm
Michael Berry in for Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Michael
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Berry in for Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. There is
breaking news that we've not necessarily confirmed, but are endeavoring
to confirm, that Betty White has passed. Betty White was
one hundred and sixty two years old. Oh, she was
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ninety nine. She would have been a hundred on January seventeenth,
so she was eighteen days short of a hundred years old.
You think about this. She was on The Mary Tyler
Moore Show in seventy three, almost fifty years ago. She
was she was my age when she was on Mary
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Tyler Moore. And that's forever ago. I mean, that is
forever ago. Think but you remember her character's name on that,
Mike Greg anybody remember her character's name on that? Don't
look it up? Dean, Sue Anne Nivens. Sue Anne Nivens
was it? Did you know that? I'd be impressed if
you did? Okay, good. I wanted you to confess that
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you did not know it. See they sit there quietly
when they don't want to admit it. Bruce. I was
gonna say, you're on the Michael Barry Show. You're not.
You're on the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Welcome, Hey, Michael.
Congratulations from a local boy with you. I listened to
you all the time, and I am so proud of
what you've done in the last five days on a
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national scale. You had just blown out of the park.
You were talking a while ago, and I love to
try and follow you a local when you're home. It's
hard because you jumped the subjects and you keep them
moving so fast. While ago you ran down the litany
of Demick primary presidential one of these, and we couldn't
ever watch him pick out anybody that was good until
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James Cliver got on TV in South Carolina during that
primary and says, Okay, all you people of the same
color as me, it's time to vote for Joe Biden,
and boom, to quote the late John Madden, all of
a sudden, Biden won that primary, and in about five
days it was over and he was the nominee. My question,
with your political expertise, who is pulling in the strings
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in the Democratic Party? George Soros, David Axelrod, James Carville,
Obama and company. Clinton's Valerie Ye. Somebody has been orchestrating
this from the background for the last two years. And
I'm reading a book. I'm finishing a book called in
Trump Time by Peter Noverro. He goes point by point
by point how the debacle of COVID happened, how the
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election was stolen, and he has references from all the
news sources, and it must be twenty pages of footnotes
at the back. And yeah, we can't get that in
the public forum because electronic tossing problem. I just won't
allow it. I mean, for goodness sakes, George Pipa Woppolus
did an hour show with that steel guy trying to
resurrect the Steel Dussier about two months ago, and un
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List literally letting him on nationally. Oh yeah, that film
still exists. It could show us, give us some proof.
Well I don't have proof, but it could exist. And
that stuff is what what sells. I mean, how do
we overcome that so that we can kick some button
eleven months? Let me let me go back, thank you, brust.
Let me go back to the first thing you said,
because it's really important. I saw an interview with Nick
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Saban and the question was asked, how come sometimes you
win a game and you seem so angry that your
team has won, And he said, I'll jell this down.
He said, I don't care about winning and losing. That's
not what I'm seeking. And he said, y'all care about that,
The fans care about that. He said, I care about
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something deeper, more important. And what he was saying was
you can win a game and still make way too
many mistakes, but eventually it's going to catch up to you.
But if you walk away from that wind thinking well
we won, nothing else matters, then you don't achieve your
highest level of talent. It's very easy to assume that
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Joe Biden was some juggernaut of the Democrat primaries and
that's why he was their candidate, because he hung around.
Not true. Joe Biden has no base. Joe Biden is
a man without a political home. For his entire political career,
he has talked about He's Joey from the block, from
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the hard scrabble streets of Scranton, Pennsylvania. He's always identified
as Pennsylvania because nobody knows anything about Delaware. Truthfully, nobody
knows or cares anything about Delaware. But Pennsylvania represents the
types of states he needs, purple states, working class whites,
and that's how he tries to identify himself. Biden first
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ran in eighty eight and was driven from public life.
Go back and put into your search engine. Sam Donaldson
and Joe Biden. Donaldson broke the news that Biden had
been had been basically convicted in the court of public
opinion of plagiarism. He'd claimed he was at the top
of his law school class. He was at the bottom.
He had claimed that he was an all a student.
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He was, and he'd claimed alls. But then he gave
a speech by Neil Kinnock. And you can't imagine doing
this today, but back then you could try it. Who
was a labor leader in England in the seventies, and
he'd ripped the speech off. He just absolutely ripped the
speech off. You fast forward eighty eight, two thousand and eight,
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twenty twenty. Biden was never going to be the candidate,
but you said something very intuitive. Clebern one South Carolina
for Joe Biden, and you want to dig past COVID,
there were some dirty things done in that election. Go
back and look at what Cleburne's daughter did in that
election and how they won that for Biden, and that's
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what resurrected him. Without that, they're left without Biden and
they have no nominee. Kamala is already out of the election.
It starts looking real, real ugly for them. And they
know this coming up. They know they have trouble with Biden.
They know they can't win with Kamala. Michael Berry and
for Clay Travis and Buck Sexton more coming up. Of
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all the technological advancements, we are still at our route
engaging in the spoken word. What a beautiful thing, and
there is more spoken word engagement today than there's ever been.
There's more content available podcasts now entering there. Clay and
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Buck have a podcast. You can get these shows, you
can hear them. If you miss one, you can share
it with your friends. It's an explosion of content. Think
about it. You no longer have to quit your day
job to be able to broadcast your opinions. You can
do it on a podcast, you can stream, you can
you know you used to con do it on YouTube
and now you can't. If your opinion goes against the
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conventional That changes on a on a seemingly weekly basis.
But what a glorious thing, What a wonderful time we
live in. For all the things you can be sad about,
angry about, horrified about, scared of, there are also so
many opportunities to share your perspectives, to share your stories,
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to connect, to find good content. I listen to all
sorts of different podcasts, And there's one called Cocaine and
Ryanstones about classic country music by a guy named Tyler Mahan.
Co's David Allen cooson. There's one The History of English Language,
which goes through why we use the words we use
and where they came from Middle English or or Germany
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or India or Latin, and it's just whatever. You can
go to school. That's what That's what the Russia Lumbach
Show was to me for so many years. It was school.
I went to law school, I went to school forever.
I loved school and nerd it out. I would go
back to school now. I would love to teach. But
everybody could go to this free school for three hours
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a day in the middle of the day, whether you
were a truck driver or a police officer or a
CEO and nurse, whatever you did, and that never changes.
It's just it's a glorious time. There are a lot
of good things out there if you focus on them,
if you go finding them. But if you're waiting on
the left to point them to you or applaud them,
that'll never happen. That will never happen. Let's start with
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Gary in Nashville, Tennessee. Gary, you're up, hey, buddy. First
of all, welcome back to Nashville. I'm listening at five
o'clock this Monday on WLA see it. I'm looking forward
to it every day. So you're a you're a talking
about content You're a content hero of mine and I
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appreciate what you do. So I was listening to the
other day and he had Nick Cercion talking about his
movie Capital Punishment, and he was mentioning the story of
Coy Griffin the Cowboys for Trump Guy, and I just
wanted to call and tell you that I'm I'm the
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reason Ki got arrested. And why is that? I called
him the morning of the six He's a friend of mine.
We met at a Trump rally, you know, back before
the election, good guy, and I said, man, I've just
got a I've got kind of a vision I want
to share with you. He was supposed to speak as
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a Trump rally. He got bumped because Trump was, you know,
as usual kind of late, and he called to tell
me that he couldn't do it. The vision was basically,
and just get if you get a chance and just
read Second Chronicles seven to fourteen. If my people who
were called by my name amble themselves and pray and
seek my face turned from the wicked ways, I'll hear
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from heaven forgive us kill the land. We've all heard
the verse, right, I submended, would you do that? Kneel
down and invite a million or so people to do
that because the image, the power that would come from
that moment would be amazing and I think God would
really smile. And he loved the idea. So he calls
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me after the rally and says, man, I'm sorry, I
can't I can't do it. I got bumped from the thing.
And I said, well, that doesn't matter. Just on somebody
with a bullhorn and just do it. Well, he never
went into the Capitol, but he did get up on
that first terrace and he did. If you've ever met Coy,
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you know how completely correct us would be. He literally,
I'm sure he just took it from somebody. He said, hey, buddy,
let me have that. He got a bullhorn and did
it from the terrace. And in the movie there's there's
a scene of what you know is easily you know
a few thousand people doing exactly that, and it's so cool.
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But yeah, that's that's really what got him busted, was that.
That's interesting. Anything else, I'll be thanks for the call, buddy.
I will be in Nashville in March. We're doing an
event there. My dear friend Dan Endham is going to
be coordinating and I look forward to. I hope you'll
come out. I'd like to shake your hand and remind
me that you were the caller on the Clay and
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Buck Show. My young my oldest son is named Michael.
Michael t that Gain is his birth name, and we
made that his middle name. My younger son, who's fourteen,
his name is Crockett marcos Berry and Crockett was named
for one of my childhood heroes, Davy Crockett. And I
often explain that the people I held year and deer
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growing up, we're not typically victorious. They were brave, horatious
defending the bridge against an onslaught. They were Davy Crockett
who refused to leave when when the threat was first made,
they were offered the opportunity to leave in peace. I've
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never really admired the people who necessarily were victorious but
wrote in at the last moment on someone else's hard work.
The idea of sacrifice and suffering has always been Maybe
it's my Southern Baptist upbringing, Maybe it's the Southern underdog,
Maybe it's my dad being working class. I don't know.
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I was always taught that you could find in suffering
a sort of penance and a sort of glory. And
you know, and the Bible is very clear about this.
And before I quote the verse, that is to tell
you that what we're going through is not necessarily a
bad thing. It's a crucible. I I did not serve,
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but I have many friends who served in Iraq and Afghanistan,
and they talk about what that suffering meant to them
and how it has made them who they are. And
Marcus Atrelle is a dear friend of mine who wrote
Lone Survivor. And Marcus is a guy who is defined
for the rest of his life by his experience on
the side of a mountain in Afghanistan, partly because he
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wrote a diary that became a best seller, partly because
Peter Burg made a movie out of it and Marky
Mark played you know him. But that story will always
be remembered. And the suffering not just of Marcus, but
of Danny deeds, of of of acts of the guys
who didn't come home. And think about how many times
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someone dies young and becomes a hero to us. It's
as if that suffering was necessary, so that sacrifice and
I almost feel like, you know, we got a little
fat and lazy in this country after World War Two.
We hadn't been so invested in a war. There was
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Vietnam that took a generation, but there was Korea that
sent a lot of men. But we hadn't been so invested.
We hadn't been threatened, we hadn't been reminded that the
world is a cold, dangerous place where people are punishing
their countrymen over ideas and control. You look at what
idiot I mean did to the Indians that he expelled,
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and then his own people after that. You look at
what Mao did to his people. You look at what
Stalin did to his people. Pol Pot did to his people.
I mean, most of the world is a miserable place
where tyrants are imposing strictures on a good and decent
people in the name of helping them out that destroys them.
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We're just now seeing it on our shores. Right. This
suffering may be necessary for us to do what we
need to do. Maybe we need to hit rock bottom
to be ready to make the sacrifices and bolster the
effort it's going to take to win back this country.
Maybe this was necessary. Maybe our parents and grandparents didn't
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prepare us, and we're weak because of it. We're a
nation of little Lord Fauntleroy's Luke nine twenty three. Jesus
looks at his disciples and tells them, whoever wants to
be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their
cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their
life will lose it. But whoever loses their life for
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me will find it. There is glory in sacrifice. Some
people are going to go to jail fighting back. Some
nurses in pilots and cops are going to lose their jobs.
Some parents are going to fight the school board. Some
people are going to be harassed and intimidated by BLM
and ANTIFA. Some people are going to be yelled at
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and kicked off of social media. But the fight is bigger,
and by losing that effort, we win the bigger war.
That's what we're called to do. I'm Michael Berry and
for Clay Travis and Buck sex Well. It is now
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being confirmed that Betty White has passed eighteen days short
of her hundredth birthday. You know, I think there's something
aspirational for all of us, if not inspirational to folks
who have a second, third, fourth, fifth Act in their
post eighties years. You know, you think of Tony Bennett,
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for instance, and how much he seemed to be enjoying
his time on the stage after all those years he'd
sort of been forgotten. I mean, Willie Nelson still seems
to be really enjoying the fact that he has an
audience at this age. Something about Betty White, It couldn't
dislike the lady. There was something about she was sort
of the nation's grandma, and she always seemed so much
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younger than her years and so positive. Rest in peace, anyway,
Let's go to Larry in Louisiana. Larry, where in Louisiana?
Are you? Panchitoula, Louisiana? All right, okay, all right, what
you got my man? You were just you were just
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talking to a friend about ocean Spurns, Mississippi. Yes, yes,
in the old days, that's where Elvis Presley spent his
summers at the golf Hills Country Club, where he learned
to ride horses, waterskiing his first girlfriend. And there's an
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Elvis Presley suite at the gold Hills Country Club. The
pictures of him growing up. I did not know that
I'm something of an Elvis note. So and also one
more thing. Al Campole used to go there. The name
of the restaurant is Compons. And there's something that's changing
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about the Goldfields country Club. They just sold it to
a rich company. And they had an eighteen whole golf course.
They sold nine holes and built nice houses. So you
can only play golf now, or nine holes instead of eighteens.
Oh wow, there was a are you alf? Are you
from Ponchatoula? Your entire life really from New Orleans Mavery area?
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Oh where in memory? Old Mavery? Oh wow? Okay. My
radio mentor Eddie Martini, we're taking him to dinner tonight,
is from memory. In fact, his brother Danny Martinis was
a longtime state senator there from from that area. I
don't know if you know any of the Martinis. Oh well,
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there you go. There was a Battle of Ponchatoula during
the American Civil War. The Confederate groups withdrew in the
sixth Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment occupied the town. What an
interesting How do you pronounce the parish tanjapehoa tanja pahoa? Okay,
all right, I when I don't when I don't already
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know how to pronounce a small town or a parish
in Louisiana. I don't even try it because if I
say coronde Lay in New Orleans, they'll say, no, it's Carondelet.
And if I say Conde, they'll say New Orleans, they'll
say corond Lay, They'll whatever. There's always each for each
one of these. Um you know, two different pronunciations, But
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I love it. I grew up in Southeast Texas, and
I frequently say that I grew up more in southwest
Louisiana than I did Southeast Texas because all the folks
from Louisiana came over. All we had in Orange was
was chemical row. So you had all these folks from
Louisiana that that couldn't farm anymore, couldn't make a living anymore,
and they brought their cultures with them. So my high
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school graduating class of one hundred and seven was Grange's
Pivato's Thibodaux quibodos melan songs. I mean, that's it wasn't
I was the only Barry Smith Jones or whatever. Great
call ary, Thanks for the call, I man. Let's go
to Annette in Asheville, North Carolina. You're up, hey, Yeah,
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this is important. I want to talk to you, but
I also want to talk to all of the people
that are listening out there. The other day I listened
to a host who was an influencer of more sports
oriented stuff, but he had a lot to say about religion.
He had a lot to say about a lot of
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things that sounded grounded. He founded professional and everything. But
then this influencer admitted and broadcasted to everyone out there
listening that he was not a voter and he never
would be a voter. He wasn't going to be a voter.
He never has voted. And there were callers that called in,
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and there was a guy that had been in the
military and had fought in World War Two and was
retired and admitted that he has never voted either. I
was so hot and bothered I had to take a drive,
so I had to get something done at the Department
of Motor Vehicles in Hendersonville. And when I was in
the line, there was over seventy five people. I counted them,
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knew it was going to be about two hours. And
in the midst of all of that, the girl beside
me asked me if I was a Christian, and I
said yes, I'm a Christian? Are you a Christian? And
then something possessed me and I stepped out of wine
and I asked loudly, how many of people in this
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line love God and phil that they are called according
to His purpose? And nearly seventy five people. Seventy five
percent of those people raised their hands and me, look
at you like the William Wallace of Asheville, North Carolina.
Att I'm up against a break, sweetheart. I want to
thank you for calling your a spark plug. I'll give
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you a hug when I meet you. You have a
great personality. I love folks like you. You need to
rise up and take this country back because you're the
future of it. It's been a real, real special experience
with you, folks. Thanks for all the kind notes. I
will get back to you Michael Berryshow dot com. You
can send me emails. Clay and Buck will be back
on Monday, all rested and ready to entertain and inform.
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I want to say thanks to them, and Julie and
Craig and Mike and Greg and Dean and the whole
team who've been so kind to me, Ramone Chad throughout
this process. It's been a real, real treat. But you people,
you're the ones that make it special. Keep listening, keep supporting, and,
as Rush said, make it happen. Thanks a lot,
One of the there are a lot of silly little
things we do on our show when we're not guest
hosting for Clay and Buck that we've not done this week,
and the reason is it's not our show. We have
to pay respect to the people whose show it is,
and that's Clay and Buck, and so we're a little
bit edgier than they are. And the reason is because
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we can get away with it when you're on When
you're on the platform that's that big, you can't be
out there saying, you know, just really really radical nutty
stuff like we do. And so it's it's just tougher.
As as a friend of mine's dad used to say,
the higher up, the higher you the higher you climb
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the ladder, the more you're well, we'll say, but is exposed,
and it's true. The bigger you get, the more pressure
you're under. Well, one of the silly little things we
do is I am an inveterate name dropper. Probably already
figured that out, and I like to mention famous people
who were friends of mine. And it's obnoxious. I mean,
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it's it's a downright obnoxious and I'm aware that it's obnoxious,
but I still have to tell the story. And if
if somebody famous was in the room when something happened
and that's relevant to the story, I still have to
tell the story. So what we did to get over
that is when I mentioned a famous person and and
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say that person is my friend, then Ramon does a
ding and so that was that's sort of like, Okay,
I'm acknowledging, I'm name dropping. So with that in mind,
we will do it one time. For those of you
who were watching TV in about ninety to ninety three,
there used to be a show called Parker Lewis Can't Lose.
It was real popular at the time, and the star
of that show was a guy named Korynimic and he's
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done a lot of other film but that was that
was it was. He was like Screech, you know, in
terms of how big he was at the time. What
do you say the Screech was big, But you don't
think that's a good Well, I didn't bring the pornography
indus scrip. Why do you have to drag Screech. That's
like saying, you know, Paul Rubin is a good actor,
because he was a good actor. Pee wee Herman. Oh well, yeah,
but he's in the in the theater. Well, he's just
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still a good actor. I mean, the guy was a
good act. You forget how big pee Wee Herman was.
I mean that's what the officers said. I mean, this
guy was. He was a big deal to time. Anyway,
please stop distracting me, Ramone. We're trying to be serious.
We're trying to make claim Buck proud of the job.
We're doing it, not embarrass him. So anyway, my friend
korn Nemac there we go m sends me a text
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and he said, Hey, you're probably wondering why I haven't
been to your last five parties, because I do these
parties at my house. And he said, I didn't want
you to think we're not buds anymore. I hadn't told anybody,
which I guess I'm telling people now, but just a
few um. He said, I moved to Mississippi. And I said, okay,
I'm interested. Where in Mississippi? And this was all going
on in the last the last break and he said
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Ocean Springs, Mississippi. I said, I've never heard of it.
He said, we'd like to keep it that way. Beautiful
little town outside of Biloxi on the Gulf Coast. You
would love it. Michael Bayou's ocean rivers, fishing, salt life
all year round. The nicest people you'll ever meet in
the world. Now, you know, they got me thinking. And
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this is going to sound like I'm writing Hank Williams
Junior song or a Charlie Daniel song. But Rush limball
listeners are people who live in little towns that nobody
has ever heard of, that are beautiful, bucolic, idyllic little towns,
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and the thought leader influencers in this country ridicule those places.
They hate them. They're what we're called in the Reagan
administration flyover country. And so what Reagan would do is
he would say, all right, flyover country US. Rush used
to explain that, in fact, I learned about this from
Russia years ago. Flyover country was the part in between
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the two coasts because the bi coastal elite live on
either side either coast, and the places that they fly
over that they would never stop. The small towns in
Missouri or Nebraska, they would never Those people are They're inbred, unwashed,
hillbilly yokels, right, and they're unworthy of our time. They're
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all racist and their lives are horrible. Well, none of
that is true. That's where the real America is, places
that you've never been before or since. That's why I
always ask, what's the thing in your little town? Right?
Is it a crawfish festivals at a mosquito festival? Is
it the blue bonnet festival? What is what brings the
people together every year? Is it a renaissance, whatever that
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may be that the people look forward to. We were
down in Galveston, which is a little seaside town south
of Houston, just before we guest hosted last week, and
everybody down there was asking, Hey, you're coming from Marty
Gras and that's months away. Now. Galveston's Marty Gras is
not as big as New Orleans as Marty Gras, but
the people love it just as much. These things, these moments,
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these markers that bring people together, just as weddings and
funerals and graduations and births do. But these little towns
come together at a time like that. It's such a
beautiful thing, and yet it's never talked about. And that's
why all of this lockdown and masking and division raws
is so horrible. Because the people in New York and
LA and Washington, DC are shutting down little towns they
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would never go to anyway because people are letting them
make decisions for them. It's sad and tragic and odd.
It's really odd because there's lots of little ocean springs, Mississippies,
and that's where you live, and that's where I'm from.
And why on earth we let ourselves fight with our
neighbors in little towns that we love that, we go
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to church with, that, we went to high school with that,
we played ball four or with and against that we've
you know, they come over and knock on the door
and say, hey, can we have some flour? Can we
have some sugar? And you give them the whole thing.
They'll bring it back tomorrow. Are their kid needs ten
bucks and he's at the grocery store and he forgot
his wallet, and you go, I'll get it. Tell your
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dad to give it to me next week, or don't
you don't worry about it. That's what makes America special,
That's what makes him That text from him about here's
this wonderful little place, Well, I don't dare think. Well,
if I haven't heard of it, it can't be great
because guess what. I've been to LA and I've been
to New York, and I've been to the major cities
of this country, and I didn't find peace and quiet
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and love and tranquility and kindness in fellowship like you
do in little towns. And I find it so disturbing.
I am a confirmed Southerner, I'll admit it. I find
it so disturbing that when Joe Mansion says he's not
voting for the build back better because it doesn't it's
bad for his state and it's bad for the country.
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We see a bunch of people Cajolia first threatening him,
you better vote for this, Joe Mansion, or will run
you out of West Virginia. Will no, you won't. Trump
carried West Virginia. Mansion is the only Democrat who can
still win there, and that's not even clear that he could.
But they first they threatened him, and then they said, well,
the people of West Virginia are just backwoods, are they.
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It's a higher literacy rate than the state of California
in the state of New York. Did you know that?
But why does West Virginia get described as this awful, terrible,
no good, unhappy, miserable, inbred backwoods place. It's nothing of
the sort. It's simple people living simple lives. And one
thing I've learned is that people who have reached a
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certain state of nirvana, really advanced, people who've traveled the world,
who've fought the great thoughts, who've fought the great fights,
those people lead a simple life. They don't need to
constantly be impressing other people. They don't need to be
ostentatiously displaying their their new purchases are seeking the approval
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of some organization or some group of people. That's what
CNN is. It's a circle, well CNN and and these
types of places are a bunch of Chris Cuomo's trying
to out Chris Cuomo each other. That's why they're also perverted.
You know, Elon Musk was asked last week if he
would go on CNN to do an interview, and he said,
I can't be on CNN. I'm not perverted enough. Do
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you know that, Elon? I mean, do you know that
Chris Cuomo's producer was was was soliciting little kids to
have sex with It's sick and disturbing. These people were
wound so tight. Look at you talk about mental health,
you don't have mental health problems in little town, Mississippi,
little town, Arkansas. And I defy you. I defy you
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if you have allowed yourself to believe that these little
towns that are real Americana, that are still Norman Rockwell
in twenty twenty two, that they're you know, they're not
sophisticated because they don't have a pro football team, they
don't have a pro basketball team, or they don't have
a major international airport. You know what else they don't have.
They don't have failing public schools, they don't have high
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crime rates, they don't have thus selling drugs on the
street corner. Yeah, they don't have all those problems either.
You know why they don't lock their doors at night
because they sleep in comfort, because they know and love
their neighbors. They know the names of their kids teachers
because they were their teachers as well. They go to
church with them, they see them at the football game
on Friday night. It's not such a bad life. I
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grew up to that. We should stop demeaning it. If
the Left wants to do that, let them, but we
shouldn't join in with them. The next time somebody mentions
Arkansas don't go, oh, well, maybe marry your sister. That
doesn't happen. But you know what does happen, happiness. Why
don't you go visit the Ozarks. It's beautiful. Don't you
go drive through Tennessee. It's one of the most glorious
states in the country. Why don't you drive through Kentucky
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and the next time somebody tells you they're ackwater meth heads.
Oh yeah, there's those communities, But have you've been to
downtown Manhattan or La Kentucky's one of the most glorious
states in the entire Union wins the last time somebody
said that on a national broadcast two seconds ago. I'm
Michael Berry in for Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Michael
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Berry in for Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. There is
breaking news that we've not necessarily confirmed, but are endeavoring
to confirm, that Betty White has passed. Betty White was
one hundred and sixty two years old. Oh, she was
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ninety nine. She would have been a hundred on January seventeenth,
so she was eighteen days short of a hundred years old.
You think about this. She was on The Mary Tyler
Moore Show in seventy three, almost fifty years ago. She
was she was my age when she was on Mary
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Tyler Moore. And that's forever ago. I mean, that is
forever ago. Think but you remember her character's name on that,
Mike Greg anybody remember her character's name on that? Don't
look it up? Dean, Sue Anne Nivens. Sue Anne Nivens
was it? Did you know that? I'd be impressed if
you did? Okay, good. I wanted you to confess that
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you did not know it. See they sit there quietly
when they don't want to admit it. Bruce. I was
gonna say, you're on the Michael Barry Show. You're not.
You're on the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Welcome, Hey, Michael.
Congratulations from a local boy with you. I listened to
you all the time, and I am so proud of
what you've done in the last five days on a
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national scale. You had just blown out of the park.
You were talking a while ago, and I love to
try and follow you a local when you're home. It's
hard because you jumped the subjects and you keep them
moving so fast. While ago you ran down the litany
of Demick primary presidential one of these, and we couldn't
ever watch him pick out anybody that was good until
(12:07):
James Cliver got on TV in South Carolina during that
primary and says, Okay, all you people of the same
color as me, it's time to vote for Joe Biden,
and boom, to quote the late John Madden, all of
a sudden, Biden won that primary, and in about five
days it was over and he was the nominee. My question,
with your political expertise, who is pulling in the strings
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in the Democratic Party? George Soros, David Axelrod, James Carville,
Obama and company. Clinton's Valerie Ye. Somebody has been orchestrating
this from the background for the last two years. And
I'm reading a book. I'm finishing a book called in
Trump Time by Peter Noverro. He goes point by point
by point how the debacle of COVID happened, how the
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election was stolen, and he has references from all the
news sources, and it must be twenty pages of footnotes
at the back. And yeah, we can't get that in
the public forum because electronic tossing problem. I just won't
allow it. I mean, for goodness sakes, George Pipa Woppolus
did an hour show with that steel guy trying to
resurrect the Steel Dussier about two months ago, and un
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List literally letting him on nationally. Oh yeah, that film
still exists. It could show us, give us some proof.
Well I don't have proof, but it could exist. And
that stuff is what what sells. I mean, how do
we overcome that so that we can kick some button
eleven months? Let me let me go back, thank you, brust.
Let me go back to the first thing you said,
because it's really important. I saw an interview with Nick
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Saban and the question was asked, how come sometimes you
win a game and you seem so angry that your
team has won, And he said, I'll jell this down.
He said, I don't care about winning and losing. That's
not what I'm seeking. And he said, y'all care about that,
The fans care about that. He said, I care about
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something deeper, more important. And what he was saying was
you can win a game and still make way too
many mistakes, but eventually it's going to catch up to you.
But if you walk away from that wind thinking well
we won, nothing else matters, then you don't achieve your
highest level of talent. It's very easy to assume that
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Joe Biden was some juggernaut of the Democrat primaries and
that's why he was their candidate, because he hung around.
Not true. Joe Biden has no base. Joe Biden is
a man without a political home. For his entire political career,
he has talked about He's Joey from the block, from
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the hard scrabble streets of Scranton, Pennsylvania. He's always identified
as Pennsylvania because nobody knows anything about Delaware. Truthfully, nobody
knows or cares anything about Delaware. But Pennsylvania represents the
types of states he needs, purple states, working class whites,
and that's how he tries to identify himself. Biden first
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ran in eighty eight and was driven from public life.
Go back and put into your search engine. Sam Donaldson
and Joe Biden. Donaldson broke the news that Biden had
been had been basically convicted in the court of public
opinion of plagiarism. He'd claimed he was at the top
of his law school class. He was at the bottom.
He had claimed that he was an all a student.
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He was, and he'd claimed alls. But then he gave
a speech by Neil Kinnock. And you can't imagine doing
this today, but back then you could try it. Who
was a labor leader in England in the seventies, and
he'd ripped the speech off. He just absolutely ripped the
speech off. You fast forward eighty eight, two thousand and eight,
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twenty twenty. Biden was never going to be the candidate,
but you said something very intuitive. Clebern one South Carolina
for Joe Biden, and you want to dig past COVID,
there were some dirty things done in that election. Go
back and look at what Cleburne's daughter did in that
election and how they won that for Biden, and that's
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what resurrected him. Without that, they're left without Biden and
they have no nominee. Kamala is already out of the election.
It starts looking real, real ugly for them. And they
know this coming up. They know they have trouble with Biden.
They know they can't win with Kamala. Michael Berry and
for Clay Travis and Buck Sexton more coming up. Of
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all the technological advancements, we are still at our route
engaging in the spoken word. What a beautiful thing, and
there is more spoken word engagement today than there's ever been.
There's more content available podcasts now entering there. Clay and
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Buck have a podcast. You can get these shows, you
can hear them. If you miss one, you can share
it with your friends. It's an explosion of content. Think
about it. You no longer have to quit your day
job to be able to broadcast your opinions. You can
do it on a podcast, you can stream, you can
you know you used to con do it on YouTube
and now you can't. If your opinion goes against the
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conventional That changes on a on a seemingly weekly basis.
But what a glorious thing, What a wonderful time we
live in. For all the things you can be sad about,
angry about, horrified about, scared of, there are also so
many opportunities to share your perspectives, to share your stories,
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to connect, to find good content. I listen to all
sorts of different podcasts, And there's one called Cocaine and
Ryanstones about classic country music by a guy named Tyler Mahan.
Co's David Allen cooson. There's one The History of English Language,
which goes through why we use the words we use
and where they came from Middle English or or Germany
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or India or Latin, and it's just whatever. You can
go to school. That's what That's what the Russia Lumbach
Show was to me for so many years. It was school.
I went to law school, I went to school forever.
I loved school and nerd it out. I would go
back to school now. I would love to teach. But
everybody could go to this free school for three hours
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a day in the middle of the day, whether you
were a truck driver or a police officer or a
CEO and nurse, whatever you did, and that never changes.
It's just it's a glorious time. There are a lot
of good things out there if you focus on them,
if you go finding them. But if you're waiting on
the left to point them to you or applaud them,
that'll never happen. That will never happen. Let's start with
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Gary in Nashville, Tennessee. Gary, you're up, hey, buddy. First
of all, welcome back to Nashville. I'm listening at five
o'clock this Monday on WLA see it. I'm looking forward
to it every day. So you're a you're a talking
about content You're a content hero of mine and I
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appreciate what you do. So I was listening to the
other day and he had Nick Cercion talking about his
movie Capital Punishment, and he was mentioning the story of
Coy Griffin the Cowboys for Trump Guy, and I just
wanted to call and tell you that I'm I'm the
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reason Ki got arrested. And why is that? I called
him the morning of the six He's a friend of mine.
We met at a Trump rally, you know, back before
the election, good guy, and I said, man, I've just
got a I've got kind of a vision I want
to share with you. He was supposed to speak as
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a Trump rally. He got bumped because Trump was, you know,
as usual kind of late, and he called to tell
me that he couldn't do it. The vision was basically,
and just get if you get a chance and just
read Second Chronicles seven to fourteen. If my people who
were called by my name amble themselves and pray and
seek my face turned from the wicked ways, I'll hear
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from heaven forgive us kill the land. We've all heard
the verse, right, I submended, would you do that? Kneel
down and invite a million or so people to do
that because the image, the power that would come from
that moment would be amazing and I think God would
really smile. And he loved the idea. So he calls
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me after the rally and says, man, I'm sorry, I
can't I can't do it. I got bumped from the thing.
And I said, well, that doesn't matter. Just on somebody
with a bullhorn and just do it. Well, he never
went into the Capitol, but he did get up on
that first terrace and he did. If you've ever met Coy,
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you know how completely correct us would be. He literally,
I'm sure he just took it from somebody. He said, hey, buddy,
let me have that. He got a bullhorn and did
it from the terrace. And in the movie there's there's
a scene of what you know is easily you know
a few thousand people doing exactly that, and it's so cool.
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But yeah, that's that's really what got him busted, was that.
That's interesting. Anything else, I'll be thanks for the call, buddy.
I will be in Nashville in March. We're doing an
event there. My dear friend Dan Endham is going to
be coordinating and I look forward to. I hope you'll
come out. I'd like to shake your hand and remind
me that you were the caller on the Clay and
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Buck Show. My young my oldest son is named Michael.
Michael t that Gain is his birth name, and we
made that his middle name. My younger son, who's fourteen,
his name is Crockett marcos Berry and Crockett was named
for one of my childhood heroes, Davy Crockett. And I
often explain that the people I held year and deer
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growing up, we're not typically victorious. They were brave, horatious
defending the bridge against an onslaught. They were Davy Crockett
who refused to leave when when the threat was first made,
they were offered the opportunity to leave in peace. I've
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never really admired the people who necessarily were victorious but
wrote in at the last moment on someone else's hard work.
The idea of sacrifice and suffering has always been Maybe
it's my Southern Baptist upbringing, Maybe it's the Southern underdog,
Maybe it's my dad being working class. I don't know.
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I was always taught that you could find in suffering
a sort of penance and a sort of glory. And
you know, and the Bible is very clear about this.
And before I quote the verse, that is to tell
you that what we're going through is not necessarily a
bad thing. It's a crucible. I I did not serve,
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but I have many friends who served in Iraq and Afghanistan,
and they talk about what that suffering meant to them
and how it has made them who they are. And
Marcus Atrelle is a dear friend of mine who wrote
Lone Survivor. And Marcus is a guy who is defined
for the rest of his life by his experience on
the side of a mountain in Afghanistan, partly because he
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wrote a diary that became a best seller, partly because
Peter Burg made a movie out of it and Marky
Mark played you know him. But that story will always
be remembered. And the suffering not just of Marcus, but
of Danny deeds, of of of acts of the guys
who didn't come home. And think about how many times
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someone dies young and becomes a hero to us. It's
as if that suffering was necessary, so that sacrifice and
I almost feel like, you know, we got a little
fat and lazy in this country after World War Two.
We hadn't been so invested in a war. There was
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Vietnam that took a generation, but there was Korea that
sent a lot of men. But we hadn't been so invested.
We hadn't been threatened, we hadn't been reminded that the
world is a cold, dangerous place where people are punishing
their countrymen over ideas and control. You look at what
idiot I mean did to the Indians that he expelled,
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and then his own people after that. You look at
what Mao did to his people. You look at what
Stalin did to his people. Pol Pot did to his people.
I mean, most of the world is a miserable place
where tyrants are imposing strictures on a good and decent
people in the name of helping them out that destroys them.
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We're just now seeing it on our shores. Right. This
suffering may be necessary for us to do what we
need to do. Maybe we need to hit rock bottom
to be ready to make the sacrifices and bolster the
effort it's going to take to win back this country.
Maybe this was necessary. Maybe our parents and grandparents didn't
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prepare us, and we're weak because of it. We're a
nation of little Lord Fauntleroy's Luke nine twenty three. Jesus
looks at his disciples and tells them, whoever wants to
be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their
cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their
life will lose it. But whoever loses their life for
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me will find it. There is glory in sacrifice. Some
people are going to go to jail fighting back. Some
nurses in pilots and cops are going to lose their jobs.
Some parents are going to fight the school board. Some
people are going to be harassed and intimidated by BLM
and ANTIFA. Some people are going to be yelled at
(25:59):
and kicked off of social media. But the fight is bigger,
and by losing that effort, we win the bigger war.
That's what we're called to do. I'm Michael Berry and
for Clay Travis and Buck sex Well. It is now
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being confirmed that Betty White has passed eighteen days short
of her hundredth birthday. You know, I think there's something
aspirational for all of us, if not inspirational to folks
who have a second, third, fourth, fifth Act in their
post eighties years. You know, you think of Tony Bennett,
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for instance, and how much he seemed to be enjoying
his time on the stage after all those years he'd
sort of been forgotten. I mean, Willie Nelson still seems
to be really enjoying the fact that he has an
audience at this age. Something about Betty White, It couldn't
dislike the lady. There was something about she was sort
of the nation's grandma, and she always seemed so much
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younger than her years and so positive. Rest in peace, anyway,
Let's go to Larry in Louisiana. Larry, where in Louisiana?
Are you? Panchitoula, Louisiana? All right, okay, all right, what
you got my man? You were just you were just
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talking to a friend about ocean Spurns, Mississippi. Yes, yes,
in the old days, that's where Elvis Presley spent his
summers at the golf Hills Country Club, where he learned
to ride horses, waterskiing his first girlfriend. And there's an
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Elvis Presley suite at the gold Hills Country Club. The
pictures of him growing up. I did not know that
I'm something of an Elvis note. So and also one
more thing. Al Campole used to go there. The name
of the restaurant is Compons. And there's something that's changing
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about the Goldfields country Club. They just sold it to
a rich company. And they had an eighteen whole golf course.
They sold nine holes and built nice houses. So you
can only play golf now, or nine holes instead of eighteens.
Oh wow, there was a are you alf? Are you
from Ponchatoula? Your entire life really from New Orleans Mavery area?
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Oh where in memory? Old Mavery? Oh wow? Okay. My
radio mentor Eddie Martini, we're taking him to dinner tonight,
is from memory. In fact, his brother Danny Martinis was
a longtime state senator there from from that area. I
don't know if you know any of the Martinis. Oh well,
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there you go. There was a Battle of Ponchatoula during
the American Civil War. The Confederate groups withdrew in the
sixth Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment occupied the town. What an
interesting How do you pronounce the parish tanjapehoa tanja pahoa? Okay,
all right, I when I don't when I don't already
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know how to pronounce a small town or a parish
in Louisiana. I don't even try it because if I
say coronde Lay in New Orleans, they'll say, no, it's Carondelet.
And if I say Conde, they'll say New Orleans, they'll
say corond Lay, They'll whatever. There's always each for each
one of these. Um you know, two different pronunciations, But
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I love it. I grew up in Southeast Texas, and
I frequently say that I grew up more in southwest
Louisiana than I did Southeast Texas because all the folks
from Louisiana came over. All we had in Orange was
was chemical row. So you had all these folks from
Louisiana that that couldn't farm anymore, couldn't make a living anymore,
and they brought their cultures with them. So my high
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school graduating class of one hundred and seven was Grange's
Pivato's Thibodaux quibodos melan songs. I mean, that's it wasn't
I was the only Barry Smith Jones or whatever. Great
call ary, Thanks for the call, I man. Let's go
to Annette in Asheville, North Carolina. You're up, hey, Yeah,
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this is important. I want to talk to you, but
I also want to talk to all of the people
that are listening out there. The other day I listened
to a host who was an influencer of more sports
oriented stuff, but he had a lot to say about religion.
He had a lot to say about a lot of
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things that sounded grounded. He founded professional and everything. But
then this influencer admitted and broadcasted to everyone out there
listening that he was not a voter and he never
would be a voter. He wasn't going to be a voter.
He never has voted. And there were callers that called in,
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and there was a guy that had been in the
military and had fought in World War Two and was
retired and admitted that he has never voted either. I
was so hot and bothered I had to take a drive,
so I had to get something done at the Department
of Motor Vehicles in Hendersonville. And when I was in
the line, there was over seventy five people. I counted them,
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knew it was going to be about two hours. And
in the midst of all of that, the girl beside
me asked me if I was a Christian, and I
said yes, I'm a Christian? Are you a Christian? And
then something possessed me and I stepped out of wine
and I asked loudly, how many of people in this
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line love God and phil that they are called according
to His purpose? And nearly seventy five people. Seventy five
percent of those people raised their hands and me, look
at you like the William Wallace of Asheville, North Carolina.
Att I'm up against a break, sweetheart. I want to
thank you for calling your a spark plug. I'll give
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you a hug when I meet you. You have a
great personality. I love folks like you. You need to
rise up and take this country back because you're the
future of it. It's been a real, real special experience
with you, folks. Thanks for all the kind notes. I
will get back to you Michael Berryshow dot com. You
can send me emails. Clay and Buck will be back
on Monday, all rested and ready to entertain and inform.
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I want to say thanks to them, and Julie and
Craig and Mike and Greg and Dean and the whole
team who've been so kind to me, Ramone Chad throughout
this process. It's been a real, real treat. But you people,
you're the ones that make it special. Keep listening, keep supporting, and,
as Rush said, make it happen. Thanks a lot,
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