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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, luck and load. So Michael
darry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Bobby rightes elf, Cassino.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
You mentioning that Bonanza being the first color TV program
filmed for network distribution in color in nineteen fifty nine
made me wonder what was the last TV show it
was filmed in black and white. The last black and
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white network show in these United States was an ABC
game show, Everybody's Talking, that aired its last news show
on December twenty ninth, nineteen sixty seven. After that time,
some shows in black and white were repeated, but none
were shot in black and white after that date. So
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there's got to be a way to carve this out,
because how do you account for the monsters, the Adams family.
You don't see color. That's a good point, Ramone said,
don't ask me. I don't see color. I love that
about you. I don't know. I mean, I do think
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it's worth noting that things were shot in black and
white for effect, as opposed to being shot in white.
Black and white because maybe you didn't have a col
Have you ever seen there's different stations around the world.
There's one in Australia I watched recently where they have
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two studios, you know, Here's studio and Studio B, and
they switched to color in real time. And so, as
you know, I'm John Matheson. I've been the anchor here
for twenty eight years, and I've been given the honor
of being the person that gets to do what I'm
(02:30):
about to do, and that is, I'm going to go
in here and we're going to be in color and
you watch it happen in real time, and it's a
pretty neat deal. It's a really really neat deal. David,
you are on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir,
Good morning, sir.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Hey, I got some Bonanza trivia for you. Little Joe
he had an eye for the ladies and unfortunately, if
they had an for him, their life expectancy wasn't very high.
So the question is, out of the whole series, how
many girlfriends did Little Joe have? And out of them,
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how many of them died?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
David, is that what you told Ramone you were calling about?
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yes, well, he didn't want to hear the question. I said,
you want to hear the question, even know, I don't
want you to think I'm cheating.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
And if I give him the answer, it is the answer.
One Ramone says one.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
No, he had. I'll go ahead, giftee. He had forty
five girlfriends and out of those forty five, ten of
them died. So if I had ten girlfriends and they died, man,
I'd be questioning something wrong with me.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
You'd be a Clinton. I'm sitting here making a list
of things I would care less about. But I am stumped.
I am genuinely stumped. The mating habits of termites comes
to mind. But truth is, I'm kind of half interested
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in termites, you know, because when ones lay into woo,
you know, you just you wonder. Robert writes, Zar you
mentioned a while back that you can't do politics all
the time, and I agree with that. I am genuinely
concerned with the direction of our government towards socialism and
the woke agenda of the left, but I cannot be
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engaged with it all hours of the waking hours of
that all the waking hours of the day. I own
a machine shop slash fabrication business, so doing this work
and other work around the property keeps me sane and
able to sleep at night. I give to the campaigns
of the Republican candidates that I support and I spread
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the word to people around me, but I just cannot
be abs with it all the time. I like listening
to your show in the morning or afternoon when I'm able.
Keep up the good work, Robert Masterson. You know, if
you understood, I think Robert makes a good point. He
probably speaks for a lot of people when he says
that if you understand what these people are out to do,
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how dangerous they are, din you realize anytime you confront them,
and anytime you have the chance to cut them off
of the knees, you take it. You don't just turn
the other cheek and walk the other way. You starve
them out, you refuse to do business with them. My
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friend Jesse Kelly posted the other day that in six
years of being in media reading emails from listeners, there's
two rules that he's come to under, two immutable truths
that he has learned from those emails. In number one,
send your if a daughter that goes off to college
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has a much greater likelihood of becoming a communist, and
a son that marries such a girl has a much
greater likelihood of becoming a communist. And that's true. Women
are far more likely to fall prey to ideology of
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the left, victimhood, jealousy, anger, activism, wokeism, all of it.
But I'm going to say this, and this will make
some of you mad if your kids have turned I
have had people tell me my shouldn't have sent you
kids school. He'll come back a communist. Maybe he will.
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Maybe he'll be a serial killer. And yeah, Captain Crunch,
good point. He maybe he'll, maybe he'll do any number
of things. It's his life have to lift, not mine.
And that's not to say I don't care or love him,
but my job is not complete. We talk every single day.
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I am clear with him about the values I hold
and why I hold him. We had a conversation yesterday
about the debate and the concept of who won or lost,
and we talked about things like what did Trump need
to accomplish going into the debate, What did Commlin need
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to accomplish? Did they accomplish those things? What were some
side effects of their attempts to do X, Y or Z.
How did it make you personally feel watching that debate?
What were your personal reactions to that? Why do you
think you felt that way? Was that the intention of
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the candidate and their handlers when you felt that emotion,
Because I can tell you if you're watching a TV
commercial in the middle of the football game on Saturday
afternoon and your mouth starts watering and you start thinking
you need some wings right this minute. That was the plan,
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The goal was. It was tested. They tested that in
front of like a jury consultant. They tested that in
front of.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
What in the world.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
They tested that in front of a jury, in front
of a panel, in front of people, and they asked
them to watch this and they asked them questions and
they studied it until somebody got hungry. Well, that is
what these people are doing with your emotions all day,
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every day. What little bit of time you devote to it,
make it count, little stunt cycle from ideals.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Well, this day, in nineteen sixty six, the first episode
of The Monkeys aired on NBC, an interesting time for
pop culture in America. Today, in nineteen ninety nine is
a very important date in understanding.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
The allegory of a psyop. On this day in nineteen
ninety nine, the Harlem Globetrotters lost a game. After eight thousand,
eight hundred twenty nine victories in a row, the Harlem
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Globetrotters came up short eight thousand, eight hundred twenty nine
times in a row over moons awake this morning. I
like it. Some marketing executives said, guys, our attendance is
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down and we've been doing perceptuals and apparently this youngest
generation said, no point going. It's just an exhibition that
they're always going to win. Well, yeah, that's what happened.
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The system always wins. That's the way it works. The
Democrats always beat the Republicans. We take care of the Republicans.
They sell out their people, like Robert the Bruce. They
sell out their people. They're taken care of. They know
the drill when they get into this. Yeah, but the
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system collapses when nobody believes they could ever actually lose.
You're not suggesting that we have them lose. I know
we're gonna have to run it up the chain. But
that's that's my big plan. I mean, you asked me.
We've lost half our attendants. We're playing smaller arenas, fewer dates.
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We've been at this thing for a long time. As
of Tuesday, it'll be eighty eight hundred and twenty nine
times in a row. The Globetrotters. If won, I just
I think we'd make a lot of news. I think
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it would renew interest, get everybody talking about it, and
it would it would make people think, may you why not?
You never know the Republicans might actually win one, and
that that keeps the interest high. You see twenty nine
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victories in a row. And on this day in nineteen
ninety nine, the Harlem Globe Trotter's lost a game. I
don't know what day it came to me that the
John Cornyn Republicans emit Romney Republicans, that Dick Cheney and
John McCain Republicans were all the Washington generals. Their job
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is to be a placeholder, to argue, to debate, and
get rich in the process, all while trying to make
you think they're up there fighting for you. I had
Dan Crenshaw to that list as well. But something has happened,
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the Trump phenomenon that would not have happened without Trump.
Although I want to be I'm not selling Trump short.
If nobody listened to Trump, if the audience wasn't ripe
for what he delivered when he delivered it, there were
a lot of people who'd had enough they'd seen enough
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of the military industrial complex. Republicans, the John McCain's, the Bushes,
the Chenese, and the blue blood Republicans, the Mitt Romneys
and Jeb Bush's people had had enough. And when Trump
started this movement, it picked up on the Tea Party.
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On this day in two thousand and nine, that massive
Tea Party protest drew thousands to Washington, DC. We'd never
seen anything like that on our side of the aisle.
And these weren't Republicans anymore. It was important to note
they were tired of the Republicans. These were people you
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who said, I want my country back. But John Cornyn's party,
Mitch McConnell's party, Dan Crenshaw's party, That's not how I'm
going to get there. Greg Abbott is not going to
lead us to the Promised Land. Jeb Bush is not
going to get us there. Dick Cheney's as much of
a problem. And isn't it interesting? Who'd have thought you'd
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see this? Now? All these stalwart Republicans, pillars of the establishment,
are now coming out and supporting Kamala Harris. And there
she was at the debate declaring toward the end, I'm
proud to be endorsed by Dick Cheney. He's a good man, really,
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So when he was leading us to war, at the
time he was doing it, when there was still the
belief that there might have been a reasonable basis for war,
because hey, they're pretty good with syops, he was a
war criminal. But fifteen years after he leaves office, sixteen
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years after he leaves office, when we now know there
was no basis for war, there were no weapons of
mass destruction, that every premise upon which we sent our
boys into war, a forever war, which is what they love.
Now that we know all these things that have turned
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so many Republicans against him, now you've got all this
respect for him. He's the worst human being because history
has proven it to be the case, than he ever
was when your people were tearing him down for all
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the reasons your people were tearing him down, And now
all of a sudden, you think he's swell. The party
that wanted him prosecuted for war crimes is now trotting
him out as a hero because of his willingness to
turn on Trump. That's just amazing. As they may checked
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on Jeb Bush, I don't know what's because I'm sure
he's getting paid to sit on some board or something.
But my goodness, think about where we were twenty years ago.
Think about all the hard work we did to beat
Al Gore and then John Carrey, and think about all
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the people that we supported because that was the only
instrument we had to fight back against them. And think
how that's turned out out. Think how they are viewed now.
Think about Barack Obama running for president in eight and
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trashing the Bushes and thrashing McCain, and how they all
came around to the swamp. I don't know if their
internet history is compromised. I don't know if it's Epstein Island.
There are a lot of theories as to what's happened.
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I don't know if it's just sizeable payments from arms
manufacturers and positions on the board. I don't know if
it's empowering the peasants. And that's always frightening because at
some point that might be there where. That might mean
there's a role call for the people on the tape.
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But whow what an interesting time and all the wild
tulsy Gabbard comes over and supports Donald Trump and Robert F.
Kenny Junior says this is the fight I was fighting Trump.
That fight strange times. Alberto Gonzalez, much like Harriet Myers,
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was one of the sad results of George W. Bush
appointing people during his presidency because he could control them.
Alberto Gonzalez was a fellow who fell upwards from one
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job to the next to the next. He uh, he
checked the right box. He was, by all accounts, a
nice enough fellow, just not very smart. I knew a
lot of people who knew him well. And when Bush
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was governor, he started seeking out minorities he could appoint
to positions. And Alberto was very pliable. He was a
guy that filled all the bill and he was he
was a step and fetch it. They called he boy.
He would he would be grateful, He would praise his
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appointer to the high heavens. And eventually, much like George W.
Bush wanting to nominate Harriet Myers, who was no conservative
nor a mental giant, to the Supreme Court because she'd
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been an aid to him for many, many years, Alberto
Gonzales was a guy that he installed as Attorney General.
It went woefully, woefully wrong, and it was one of
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those situations where he didn't do Alberto a favor. The
shame and embarrassment Alberto brought upon himself by his absolute
incompetence became nationally famous. He was a punchline for every
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Democrat across the country late night television shows. He ended
up at Texas Tech Law School because a big donor
out there wanted to shoot, wanted to send him a lifeline.
And Alberto has been pretty well forgotten, which was probably
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better for him at that point. How best to say,
he's not very smart, and that was exposed on a
national scale. The Democrats were vicious to this poor bastard. Well,
Alberto would like back in. He would like at this
moment to be talked about again, and so I'm obliging.
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He has written an editorial that has appeared in political magazine. Now.
The problem is they have to spend more time than
the editorial's length explaining who Alberto Gonzalez is. They have
to do it in a way that doesn't include any
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of the language of the years they've spent pointing out
how an absolute and income poop ended up as Attorney general.
But I digress. He he's written an editorial in favor
of Kamala Harris. Maybe this is his one final favor
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to his patron, George W. Bush, or perhaps it is
out of loyalty to Dick Cheney. The establishment does have
a tendency to take care of itself, and maybe they
threw him a few dollars. Good for you, Alberto. I
don't think anybody is going to say, I don't know.
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I can't make up my mind between four more years
of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are going back to
the four very prosperous years of Donald Trump. But mean
tweets I can't make up my mind. Hell, I don't know.
I probably won't even wait. What is this an editorial
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by Alberto Gonzalez. Oh, he was that dumbass? Yeah, I remember. Okay, well,
well hold on, let me see. Alberto says it, I
should vote for Yeah, I think I'll do that. I
think I'll vote for Kamala, He writes.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
We do not know.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Yet exactly how Harris will govern if she's elected. The
office of the vice president does not often afford the
occupant the opportunity to lead or to make life and
death decisions. Harris does not have the same depth of
experience in foreign policy or the relationships with foreign leaders
that Biden has, so he has started by building up
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the credibility of Joe Biden. She's no Joe Biden. I
want to be clear. I'm gonna vote for her, and
I'm not gonna lie. She's not as great as Joe
Biden yet. Oh yes, oh yes. Trump and his surrogates
will blame her for the economic policies of the Biden
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administration as well as the border crisis. She was the
borders are, Alberto, based on my experience. However, a vice
president truly has little to no influence on economic policy,
which would mean she has no experience in anything if
she hasn't at least done that. Casting a vote for
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Harris will require the American people to place their faith
in her character and judgment. Uh oh, that's the one
thing we can't trust. Some may see her as too
progressive and worry she would be too easily manipulated. Harris, meanwhile,
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has sworn fidelity to the rule of law as a
former local prosecutor and state attorney general. Well that's also
true of Eric Holder. You useful, idiot, dumbass, Alberto Gonzalez.
I didn't think you could smear your family's name any worse.
But bravo, brother, you did it posting a Karl Rove
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editorial under your signature. I know we got some hardcore
Rush fans out there. I wasn't exposed to a lot
of Rush RUMs growing up, and they didn't play them
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a lot on the radio, so I knew of them.
I knew of them. It wasn't that I didn't. I
couldn't have identified. Obviously, Tom Sawyer that that's in the
canon of classic crossolds. But I didn't know they're politics.
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You got a rose, I didn't. I didn't grow up
around conservatives, much less libertarians, and my music understanding was
was really much later than most people. I wasn't sitting
in a room upstairs. We lived in a one story house.
I wasn't sitting in a room upstorestairs with my door
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lock and Pink Floyd blasting while I was considering suicide.
It just I have a lot of friends that was
their teenage angst. It wasn't mine. My adolescence was spent
trying to be the top graduate in my class and
get scholarships and go to college. I was, you know,
a nineteen fifties straight lace, straight arrow, straight edge nerd
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that was focused on my career. And then I got
to college and people started talking to me about Rush
is politics. And as I got older and I started
talking to more libertarians, I started hearing from people you know,
you listen to Rush, and I would think, and that
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wasn't The band was not who I was thinking of.
But I came to understand that their politics and worldview
informed their music and their lyrics. And as I do
with many things, I've gone back since and I can't
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honestly tell you I'd be lying because I know we
have a lot of fans, and I'd love to tell
you I know we have a lot of Rush fans.
I would love to tell you, man, they are my favorite.
They're not. They don't speak to me the way Skinner does.
Just doesn't the way Elvis does. Just doesn't for that
matter of the way the band does or CCR. That
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just gets in my you know, that just gets in
my sinews. But today is today. In nineteen fifty two,
Neil Perk was born Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, joining the band
in nineteen seventy four as their drummer and lyricist. But
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I've come to learn over the years that I can
keep counsel with folks that are Rush fans almost one
percent of the time, and there are very few bands
that I found that to be the case. If someone
is a Rush fan, especially a super fan, we're going
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to agree on a lot of things and probably get
along on a lot of things. Because they're live and
let live people. They they tend to share my same worldview. Anyway,
So seventy second birthday of Neil Perk today. Ray Briars,
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who is the owner of the Pipe Yard, Inc. He
buys and sells pipe It's what he does all day.
He's very good at it. People have a canceled project
or he just bought an entire pipeline. Company had a
pipeline that they're closing down. It's a massive pipeline and
(29:09):
they said, well, we could probably recoup the money on
all that pipe. They called him first call, heard us
talking about him first call, and he said, yes, I
want it, and he did it and it's going to
be a massive, massive deal. But anyway, if you want
to text a fellow Rush fan and say that you
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too love Rush, Ray has become a very good friend
of mine. Ray Briars, Theepipeyard Inc. Dot com. I'll give
you his number, which is four O nine seven eight
eight pipe. Four O nine seven eight eight pipe four
O nine seven eight eight pipe. Michael, Why do you
do that? Well, next time I see Ray or maybe
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he'll send me a message. Hey. I had a guy
who went to high school with heard you talking about
me and reached out, and we were good friends in
high school. I haven't talked to him since. Or had
a guy did a deal with in Michigan heard you
talking about me and reached out and we're having drinks
next week. So wow, what were the chances the odds
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that would happen? And I love those connections. I absolutely
love them. We have had a series of deals hit
for show sponsors because somebody listening to our show happened
to be the procurement director, the HR director, the CFO
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or something at either their own mid size or above
company or a major company or governmental organization that spends
a lot of money, and they go, oh, well, we're
going to buy uniforms. Well, let me go to Lamont
Brands dot com. Oh, it's two veteranshusbands about it. Let
(31:01):
me get them to bid on this, and then they
land a multimillion dollar deal. I was visiting yesterday with
Velocity Business Products. JD. Pettigo and his son works there
and they do the office supplies, janitorial supplies, office furniture.
There was a principal of a school district who was there,
(31:21):
and the school district has bought all new furniture for
a new building that's being built, and the lady was
there designing all of the furniture for every common area, teacher, administrator,
the whole thing. It's a suburban school district. It is
amazing how many of you don't realize how much good
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you have done for our show by hearing me brag
on our sponsors and going, oh, well, let's give them
a shot that maybe they share our values too. And
I really appreciate when you do that.
It's that time time time, luck and load. So Michael
darry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Bobby rightes elf, Cassino.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
You mentioning that Bonanza being the first color TV program
filmed for network distribution in color in nineteen fifty nine
made me wonder what was the last TV show it
was filmed in black and white. The last black and
(01:05):
white network show in these United States was an ABC
game show, Everybody's Talking, that aired its last news show
on December twenty ninth, nineteen sixty seven. After that time,
some shows in black and white were repeated, but none
were shot in black and white after that date. So
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there's got to be a way to carve this out,
because how do you account for the monsters, the Adams family.
You don't see color. That's a good point, Ramone said,
don't ask me. I don't see color. I love that
about you. I don't know. I mean, I do think
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it's worth noting that things were shot in black and
white for effect, as opposed to being shot in white.
Black and white because maybe you didn't have a col
Have you ever seen there's different stations around the world.
There's one in Australia I watched recently where they have
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two studios, you know, Here's studio and Studio B, and
they switched to color in real time. And so, as
you know, I'm John Matheson. I've been the anchor here
for twenty eight years, and I've been given the honor
of being the person that gets to do what I'm
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about to do, and that is, I'm going to go
in here and we're going to be in color and
you watch it happen in real time, and it's a
pretty neat deal. It's a really really neat deal. David,
you are on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir,
Good morning, sir.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Hey, I got some Bonanza trivia for you. Little Joe
he had an eye for the ladies and unfortunately, if
they had an for him, their life expectancy wasn't very high.
So the question is, out of the whole series, how
many girlfriends did Little Joe have? And out of them,
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how many of them died?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
David, is that what you told Ramone you were calling about?
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yes, well, he didn't want to hear the question. I said,
you want to hear the question, even know, I don't
want you to think I'm cheating.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
And if I give him the answer, it is the answer.
One Ramone says one.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
No, he had. I'll go ahead, giftee. He had forty
five girlfriends and out of those forty five, ten of
them died. So if I had ten girlfriends and they died, man,
I'd be questioning something wrong with me.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
You'd be a Clinton. I'm sitting here making a list
of things I would care less about. But I am stumped.
I am genuinely stumped. The mating habits of termites comes
to mind. But truth is, I'm kind of half interested
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in termites, you know, because when ones lay into woo,
you know, you just you wonder. Robert writes, Zar you
mentioned a while back that you can't do politics all
the time, and I agree with that. I am genuinely
concerned with the direction of our government towards socialism and
the woke agenda of the left, but I cannot be
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engaged with it all hours of the waking hours of
that all the waking hours of the day. I own
a machine shop slash fabrication business, so doing this work
and other work around the property keeps me sane and
able to sleep at night. I give to the campaigns
of the Republican candidates that I support and I spread
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the word to people around me, but I just cannot
be abs with it all the time. I like listening
to your show in the morning or afternoon when I'm able.
Keep up the good work, Robert Masterson. You know, if
you understood, I think Robert makes a good point. He
probably speaks for a lot of people when he says
that if you understand what these people are out to do,
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how dangerous they are, din you realize anytime you confront them,
and anytime you have the chance to cut them off
of the knees, you take it. You don't just turn
the other cheek and walk the other way. You starve
them out, you refuse to do business with them. My
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friend Jesse Kelly posted the other day that in six
years of being in media reading emails from listeners, there's
two rules that he's come to under, two immutable truths
that he has learned from those emails. In number one,
send your if a daughter that goes off to college
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has a much greater likelihood of becoming a communist, and
a son that marries such a girl has a much
greater likelihood of becoming a communist. And that's true. Women
are far more likely to fall prey to ideology of
(06:27):
the left, victimhood, jealousy, anger, activism, wokeism, all of it.
But I'm going to say this, and this will make
some of you mad if your kids have turned I
have had people tell me my shouldn't have sent you
kids school. He'll come back a communist. Maybe he will.
(06:49):
Maybe he'll be a serial killer. And yeah, Captain Crunch,
good point. He maybe he'll, maybe he'll do any number
of things. It's his life have to lift, not mine.
And that's not to say I don't care or love him,
but my job is not complete. We talk every single day.
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I am clear with him about the values I hold
and why I hold him. We had a conversation yesterday
about the debate and the concept of who won or lost,
and we talked about things like what did Trump need
to accomplish going into the debate, What did Commlin need
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to accomplish? Did they accomplish those things? What were some
side effects of their attempts to do X, Y or Z.
How did it make you personally feel watching that debate?
What were your personal reactions to that? Why do you
think you felt that way? Was that the intention of
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the candidate and their handlers when you felt that emotion,
Because I can tell you if you're watching a TV
commercial in the middle of the football game on Saturday
afternoon and your mouth starts watering and you start thinking
you need some wings right this minute. That was the plan,
(08:17):
The goal was. It was tested. They tested that in
front of like a jury consultant. They tested that in
front of.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
What in the world.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
They tested that in front of a jury, in front
of a panel, in front of people, and they asked
them to watch this and they asked them questions and
they studied it until somebody got hungry. Well, that is
what these people are doing with your emotions all day,
(08:54):
every day. What little bit of time you devote to it,
make it count, little stunt cycle from ideals.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Well, this day, in nineteen sixty six, the first episode
of The Monkeys aired on NBC, an interesting time for
pop culture in America. Today, in nineteen ninety nine is
a very important date in understanding.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
The allegory of a psyop. On this day in nineteen
ninety nine, the Harlem Globetrotters lost a game. After eight thousand,
eight hundred twenty nine victories in a row, the Harlem
(09:45):
Globetrotters came up short eight thousand, eight hundred twenty nine
times in a row over moons awake this morning. I
like it. Some marketing executives said, guys, our attendance is
(10:10):
down and we've been doing perceptuals and apparently this youngest
generation said, no point going. It's just an exhibition that
they're always going to win. Well, yeah, that's what happened.
(10:30):
The system always wins. That's the way it works. The
Democrats always beat the Republicans. We take care of the Republicans.
They sell out their people, like Robert the Bruce. They
sell out their people. They're taken care of. They know
the drill when they get into this. Yeah, but the
(10:53):
system collapses when nobody believes they could ever actually lose.
You're not suggesting that we have them lose. I know
we're gonna have to run it up the chain. But
that's that's my big plan. I mean, you asked me.
We've lost half our attendants. We're playing smaller arenas, fewer dates.
(11:18):
We've been at this thing for a long time. As
of Tuesday, it'll be eighty eight hundred and twenty nine
times in a row. The Globetrotters. If won, I just
I think we'd make a lot of news. I think
(11:39):
it would renew interest, get everybody talking about it, and
it would it would make people think, may you why not?
You never know the Republicans might actually win one, and
that that keeps the interest high. You see twenty nine
(12:08):
victories in a row. And on this day in nineteen
ninety nine, the Harlem Globe Trotter's lost a game. I
don't know what day it came to me that the
John Cornyn Republicans emit Romney Republicans, that Dick Cheney and
John McCain Republicans were all the Washington generals. Their job
(12:34):
is to be a placeholder, to argue, to debate, and
get rich in the process, all while trying to make
you think they're up there fighting for you. I had
Dan Crenshaw to that list as well. But something has happened,
(12:54):
the Trump phenomenon that would not have happened without Trump.
Although I want to be I'm not selling Trump short.
If nobody listened to Trump, if the audience wasn't ripe
for what he delivered when he delivered it, there were
a lot of people who'd had enough they'd seen enough
(13:18):
of the military industrial complex. Republicans, the John McCain's, the Bushes,
the Chenese, and the blue blood Republicans, the Mitt Romneys
and Jeb Bush's people had had enough. And when Trump
started this movement, it picked up on the Tea Party.
(13:41):
On this day in two thousand and nine, that massive
Tea Party protest drew thousands to Washington, DC. We'd never
seen anything like that on our side of the aisle.
And these weren't Republicans anymore. It was important to note
they were tired of the Republicans. These were people you
(14:04):
who said, I want my country back. But John Cornyn's party,
Mitch McConnell's party, Dan Crenshaw's party, That's not how I'm
going to get there. Greg Abbott is not going to
lead us to the Promised Land. Jeb Bush is not
going to get us there. Dick Cheney's as much of
a problem. And isn't it interesting? Who'd have thought you'd
(14:26):
see this? Now? All these stalwart Republicans, pillars of the establishment,
are now coming out and supporting Kamala Harris. And there
she was at the debate declaring toward the end, I'm
proud to be endorsed by Dick Cheney. He's a good man, really,
(14:53):
So when he was leading us to war, at the
time he was doing it, when there was still the
belief that there might have been a reasonable basis for war,
because hey, they're pretty good with syops, he was a
war criminal. But fifteen years after he leaves office, sixteen
(15:19):
years after he leaves office, when we now know there
was no basis for war, there were no weapons of
mass destruction, that every premise upon which we sent our
boys into war, a forever war, which is what they love.
Now that we know all these things that have turned
(15:40):
so many Republicans against him, now you've got all this
respect for him. He's the worst human being because history
has proven it to be the case, than he ever
was when your people were tearing him down for all
(16:02):
the reasons your people were tearing him down, And now
all of a sudden, you think he's swell. The party
that wanted him prosecuted for war crimes is now trotting
him out as a hero because of his willingness to
turn on Trump. That's just amazing. As they may checked
(16:28):
on Jeb Bush, I don't know what's because I'm sure
he's getting paid to sit on some board or something.
But my goodness, think about where we were twenty years ago.
Think about all the hard work we did to beat
Al Gore and then John Carrey, and think about all
(16:48):
the people that we supported because that was the only
instrument we had to fight back against them. And think
how that's turned out out. Think how they are viewed now.
Think about Barack Obama running for president in eight and
(17:10):
trashing the Bushes and thrashing McCain, and how they all
came around to the swamp. I don't know if their
internet history is compromised. I don't know if it's Epstein Island.
There are a lot of theories as to what's happened.
(17:32):
I don't know if it's just sizeable payments from arms
manufacturers and positions on the board. I don't know if
it's empowering the peasants. And that's always frightening because at
some point that might be there where. That might mean
there's a role call for the people on the tape.
(17:52):
But whow what an interesting time and all the wild
tulsy Gabbard comes over and supports Donald Trump and Robert F.
Kenny Junior says this is the fight I was fighting Trump.
That fight strange times. Alberto Gonzalez, much like Harriet Myers,
(18:16):
was one of the sad results of George W. Bush
appointing people during his presidency because he could control them.
Alberto Gonzalez was a fellow who fell upwards from one
(18:38):
job to the next to the next. He uh, he
checked the right box. He was, by all accounts, a
nice enough fellow, just not very smart. I knew a
lot of people who knew him well. And when Bush
(18:58):
was governor, he started seeking out minorities he could appoint
to positions. And Alberto was very pliable. He was a
guy that filled all the bill and he was he
was a step and fetch it. They called he boy.
He would he would be grateful, He would praise his
(19:20):
appointer to the high heavens. And eventually, much like George W.
Bush wanting to nominate Harriet Myers, who was no conservative
nor a mental giant, to the Supreme Court because she'd
(19:44):
been an aid to him for many, many years, Alberto
Gonzales was a guy that he installed as Attorney General.
It went woefully, woefully wrong, and it was one of
(20:05):
those situations where he didn't do Alberto a favor. The
shame and embarrassment Alberto brought upon himself by his absolute
incompetence became nationally famous. He was a punchline for every
(20:25):
Democrat across the country late night television shows. He ended
up at Texas Tech Law School because a big donor
out there wanted to shoot, wanted to send him a lifeline.
And Alberto has been pretty well forgotten, which was probably
(20:49):
better for him at that point. How best to say,
he's not very smart, and that was exposed on a
national scale. The Democrats were vicious to this poor bastard. Well,
Alberto would like back in. He would like at this
moment to be talked about again, and so I'm obliging.
(21:16):
He has written an editorial that has appeared in political magazine. Now.
The problem is they have to spend more time than
the editorial's length explaining who Alberto Gonzalez is. They have
to do it in a way that doesn't include any
(21:36):
of the language of the years they've spent pointing out
how an absolute and income poop ended up as Attorney general.
But I digress. He he's written an editorial in favor
of Kamala Harris. Maybe this is his one final favor
(21:59):
to his patron, George W. Bush, or perhaps it is
out of loyalty to Dick Cheney. The establishment does have
a tendency to take care of itself, and maybe they
threw him a few dollars. Good for you, Alberto. I
don't think anybody is going to say, I don't know.
(22:23):
I can't make up my mind between four more years
of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are going back to
the four very prosperous years of Donald Trump. But mean
tweets I can't make up my mind. Hell, I don't know.
I probably won't even wait. What is this an editorial
(22:44):
by Alberto Gonzalez. Oh, he was that dumbass? Yeah, I remember. Okay, well,
well hold on, let me see. Alberto says it, I
should vote for Yeah, I think I'll do that. I
think I'll vote for Kamala, He writes.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
We do not know.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Yet exactly how Harris will govern if she's elected. The
office of the vice president does not often afford the
occupant the opportunity to lead or to make life and
death decisions. Harris does not have the same depth of
experience in foreign policy or the relationships with foreign leaders
that Biden has, so he has started by building up
(23:31):
the credibility of Joe Biden. She's no Joe Biden. I
want to be clear. I'm gonna vote for her, and
I'm not gonna lie. She's not as great as Joe
Biden yet. Oh yes, oh yes. Trump and his surrogates
will blame her for the economic policies of the Biden
(23:51):
administration as well as the border crisis. She was the
borders are, Alberto, based on my experience. However, a vice
president truly has little to no influence on economic policy,
which would mean she has no experience in anything if
she hasn't at least done that. Casting a vote for
(24:15):
Harris will require the American people to place their faith
in her character and judgment. Uh oh, that's the one
thing we can't trust. Some may see her as too
progressive and worry she would be too easily manipulated. Harris, meanwhile,
(24:40):
has sworn fidelity to the rule of law as a
former local prosecutor and state attorney general. Well that's also
true of Eric Holder. You useful, idiot, dumbass, Alberto Gonzalez.
I didn't think you could smear your family's name any worse.
But bravo, brother, you did it posting a Karl Rove
(25:04):
editorial under your signature. I know we got some hardcore
Rush fans out there. I wasn't exposed to a lot
of Rush RUMs growing up, and they didn't play them
(25:24):
a lot on the radio, so I knew of them.
I knew of them. It wasn't that I didn't. I
couldn't have identified. Obviously, Tom Sawyer that that's in the
canon of classic crossolds. But I didn't know they're politics.
(25:48):
You got a rose, I didn't. I didn't grow up
around conservatives, much less libertarians, and my music understanding was
was really much later than most people. I wasn't sitting
in a room upstairs. We lived in a one story house.
I wasn't sitting in a room upstorestairs with my door
(26:09):
lock and Pink Floyd blasting while I was considering suicide.
It just I have a lot of friends that was
their teenage angst. It wasn't mine. My adolescence was spent
trying to be the top graduate in my class and
get scholarships and go to college. I was, you know,
a nineteen fifties straight lace, straight arrow, straight edge nerd
(26:35):
that was focused on my career. And then I got
to college and people started talking to me about Rush
is politics. And as I got older and I started
talking to more libertarians, I started hearing from people you know,
you listen to Rush, and I would think, and that
(26:56):
wasn't The band was not who I was thinking of.
But I came to understand that their politics and worldview
informed their music and their lyrics. And as I do
with many things, I've gone back since and I can't
(27:18):
honestly tell you I'd be lying because I know we
have a lot of fans, and I'd love to tell
you I know we have a lot of Rush fans.
I would love to tell you, man, they are my favorite.
They're not. They don't speak to me the way Skinner does.
Just doesn't the way Elvis does. Just doesn't for that
matter of the way the band does or CCR. That
(27:40):
just gets in my you know, that just gets in
my sinews. But today is today. In nineteen fifty two,
Neil Perk was born Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, joining the band
in nineteen seventy four as their drummer and lyricist. But
(28:04):
I've come to learn over the years that I can
keep counsel with folks that are Rush fans almost one
percent of the time, and there are very few bands
that I found that to be the case. If someone
is a Rush fan, especially a super fan, we're going
(28:27):
to agree on a lot of things and probably get
along on a lot of things. Because they're live and
let live people. They they tend to share my same worldview. Anyway,
So seventy second birthday of Neil Perk today. Ray Briars,
(28:47):
who is the owner of the Pipe Yard, Inc. He
buys and sells pipe It's what he does all day.
He's very good at it. People have a canceled project
or he just bought an entire pipeline. Company had a
pipeline that they're closing down. It's a massive pipeline and
(29:09):
they said, well, we could probably recoup the money on
all that pipe. They called him first call, heard us
talking about him first call, and he said, yes, I
want it, and he did it and it's going to
be a massive, massive deal. But anyway, if you want
to text a fellow Rush fan and say that you
(29:30):
too love Rush, Ray has become a very good friend
of mine. Ray Briars, Theepipeyard Inc. Dot com. I'll give
you his number, which is four O nine seven eight
eight pipe. Four O nine seven eight eight pipe four
O nine seven eight eight pipe. Michael, Why do you
do that? Well, next time I see Ray or maybe
(29:54):
he'll send me a message. Hey. I had a guy
who went to high school with heard you talking about
me and reached out, and we were good friends in
high school. I haven't talked to him since. Or had
a guy did a deal with in Michigan heard you
talking about me and reached out and we're having drinks
next week. So wow, what were the chances the odds
(30:16):
that would happen? And I love those connections. I absolutely
love them. We have had a series of deals hit
for show sponsors because somebody listening to our show happened
to be the procurement director, the HR director, the CFO
(30:39):
or something at either their own mid size or above
company or a major company or governmental organization that spends
a lot of money, and they go, oh, well, we're
going to buy uniforms. Well, let me go to Lamont
Brands dot com. Oh, it's two veteranshusbands about it. Let
(31:01):
me get them to bid on this, and then they
land a multimillion dollar deal. I was visiting yesterday with
Velocity Business Products. JD. Pettigo and his son works there
and they do the office supplies, janitorial supplies, office furniture.
There was a principal of a school district who was there,
(31:21):
and the school district has bought all new furniture for
a new building that's being built, and the lady was
there designing all of the furniture for every common area, teacher, administrator,
the whole thing. It's a suburban school district. It is
amazing how many of you don't realize how much good
(31:42):
you have done for our show by hearing me brag
on our sponsors and going, oh, well, let's give them
a shot that maybe they share our values too. And
I really appreciate when you do that.
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