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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I had a summer job at McDonald's. To lie, it's
a total lie. She never worked at McDonald's, but she
lies about everything.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I love you.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
The nice people made it together, Grimace. We could own
this town. Happy birthday, Gamla. Maybe I'll get her some fries.
I love you. Look at this guy.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I'm not gonna mess with him.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
And I could do this all day. I wouldn't mind
this job.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I love fun.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I've now worked for fifteen minutes more than Gabala.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
President Trump had a day at McDonald's where the Golden
arches became a stage for genius political theater. Picture this.
Trump donned in what could be described as maga casual,
a business shirt, red tie, and an apron that might
as well say the Apprentice fast food edition. He stepped
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into a McDonald's in Pennsylvania not just to grab a
big mac, but to manda fry station. This wasn't just
any visit. It was a political statement wrapped in a
quarter pound of burger bun. Trump flexed his reality starchops,
diving into the deep end of fast food service with
pictures of the event. Even Norman Rockwell would be proud
of this Visit wasn't just about flipping burgers. It was
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about flipping the narrative for a moment. He wasn't just
the four former president of the United States, but the
new guy at Mickey De's, bringing into question Harris's relatability
by turning himself into the everyman, albeit with a billionaire twist.
And at the end of his well shift, Trump left
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with a grandfatherly smile. The internet exploded with memes, debates,
and probably a few new fast food themed political slogans.
It was politics, it was entertainment. It was Trump at McDonald's.
Of course it was. And you can bet Kamala Harris
is grimacing. I'm Thornton Finch reporting for the Michael Berry Show.
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Good Day, What a.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Weekend it was. Early voting begins today. Poles opened at
seven o'clock, so they've been open now for just more
than an hour. Across the country. States with early voting
that began today Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, some counties not
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all in Florida, Idaho, South Carolina, and of course Texas.
That's right. You can go vote as of right now.
It started at seven am today through seven pm this evening,
which it will continue to do through Saturday. On Sunday,
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you can start voting as soon as church lets out
at noon until seven pm. And then the next day Monday, Tuesday,
and Wednesday you can vote seven a to eight pm,
so extended hours. Then on October thirty first, seven a
to nine pm, November seven A to seven pm again,
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and then if you're a complete and utter idiot, you
can vote on what is called election Day. If you do,
I want you to do me a favor, Please show
up the last minute on that last day, go to
a Democrat precinct and complain about everything you can think
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of to me, because I need one more email of
someone who does that. You can request a ballot by mail.
The deadline is this Friday, October twenty fifth. That is
the deadline for them to receive it, not the deadline
by which it must be postmarked. To be eligible to
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vote early by mail in Texas, a registered voter must
be sixty five or older, sick or disabled, out of
the county on election day and during the period for
early voting by personal appearance, be expected to give birth
within three weeks before or after election day, or be
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confined in jail but otherwise eligible. Jail is not prison. Remember,
jail is where you get pulled over. You got a DWI.
Prison is where you go to serve your sentence. And
here we are two weeks and a day until election day.
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Donald Trump had quite a day yesterday. He dominated the
news cycle with his shift at McDonald's. Interestingly, it was
Kamala Harris's birthday, and most people don't know. She didn't
get a bump off of it. She didn't get any
good wishes other than Donald Trump wishing her will on
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her birthday, her sixtieth. He did an interview, a radio interview,
he did a rally, and then last night he showed
up at the Steelers game, a nationally broadcast game. Feelings
were very positive if you are a Longhorns fan. It
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just kind of puts a puts a negative tinge on
the day when you're the number number one ranked team
and you play Georgia and you lose and you don't
play your best well, it was the opposite. In Pennsylvania,
the considered the most important swing state, Trump now leads
in the polls there and in fact in every swing
state in most polls. Now he leads. He's even beginning
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to pull even in states that he's not expected to win.
An Republican hasn't won in quite some time. But what
a day. He goes to the Steeler game. When Taylor
Swift is at a game, there are an average of
seven times per game that she is shown at the game.
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We see her walking in, there's that same look as
she enters the stadium, and every time Travis Kelcey touches
the ball or he's even a target, they show her.
We get to see her cheer, we get to see
her dance and sway. We get to see her reaction
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to a call against him or a touchdown that he scores.
Not with Trump. I was told that there was a
brief shot of him. I didn't see it. Crockett and
I were watching the game together, that's our thing, and
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he does fantasy football, so we were looking at the
scores and his players. He's got a quarterback problem because
Justin Fields was his quarterback and Fields is out Russell
Wilson's back, so he put Anthony Richardson in. And I
think Anthony Richardson's terrible and he should pick up Aaron Rodgers,
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but I just happen to love Aaron Rodgerson. Anyway, it
might have been during one of the moments where we
were looking up player stats, But did you did you
watch the game? One sign? Apparently they shot they showed
Trump for just a moment. But what a day either way,
what a day He dominated with the McDonald's shift, radio interview,
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rally and then national, the Game of the Week, the
Sunday night Game of the Week, and he's there and
the entire stadium is cheering USA. Well, he's got moment.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I get her in mcdanielsberger, the Michael Barry.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Maybe I'll get her some price.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Donald Trump was not only the star of The Apprentice,
he was the executive. Producers paid sixty thousand dollars a
week for it, and Jeff Zucker, who was head of
NBC at the time, surmised that he didn't have to
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pay Trump more than that because it was so good
for Trump's brand that Trump couldn't leave. Whatever the pay was,
why he stayed. The fact is for several years it
was a top show in the country. Trump understands certain things,
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not having had a background in that Michael t being
in college, we talk a lot about what you want
to do and what you study in and many, many,
many young people believe that to have a career in
a particular field, you need to study that in school.
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Most of you, I would bet, have a career. If
you have a career, not just a job. You have
something you do, you're good at it, You're hired to
do that thing, as opposed to just hey, and there's
nothing wrong with it. If you pick up a shift
to pay the bills, that's honorable. There's dignity in that.
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It's not the same thing as a career. That is
a job to pay the bills. It's doing what we
have to do to get by and take care of
those we have to take care of. But if you
have a career, you're a person that other companies want
you for what you do. There is value in what
you do. You have a specialized skill set. Chances are
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you didn't learn that in school. Trump didn't learn in
school the instinct he has, and it really is instinctive
for a moment, creating a moment. Let's go back to
why that McDonald's moment became so important. We start with
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Kamala Harris having lied. Now imagine imagine how absent any
real accomplishment and authenticity she is if she had to
make up that she worked at McDonald's, but make up
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that she worked at McDonald's, she definitely did. Ramon. You
got the audio of her say and I worked at
McDon donald's. Yep, think about it. Two middle class kids
want a daughter of Oakland, California who was raised by
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a working mother.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
I had a summer job at McDonald's.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
That's a lie, And there was a suspicion that she
was lying. McDonald's keeps detailed records on who worked there
because they take great pride in who has worked there.
So she's on with Stephanie Ruhle on MSNBC. What's meant
to be a friendly discussion When they're trying to make
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her relatable. That's the problem. She's not relatable. Everything about
her is fake and it bothers people. So this was
meant to help her.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
First one, just a fact check because your opponent there
is a little today, there's no such thing as a
little kay fair fair because your opponent almost every day
seems to be talking about this.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
So I just want to ask you yes or no,
At any point in your life.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Have you served to all beef patties, special sauce, let
us cheese pick these onions on a seed.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
But looking at a McDonald's, yes or no?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
That's it? I have okay, now the other job, but
it was not a small job like I do. Cries.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
I mean, you know, but she didn't. Why lie about that?
About eight years ago, Chad read a book called Golden
Opportunity Remarkable Careers that Began in McDonald's and it it
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pointed out some famous and some very successful people who
once worked at McDonald's Jay Leno, Jeff Bezos, Andy Card,
who worked in the Bush White House. Forbes wrote an
article summarizing the book entitled McDonald's Jobs taught Bisosleno and
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others Seven Big lessons What new comedian Jay Leno, Amazon
founder Jeff Pisos, former astronaut Leroy Chow, Congressman Marsha Fudge,
and actress Andy McDowell all have in common. It's not
just that they all worked at McDonald's many years ago,
earning spending money during their high school or college days.
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An estimated twenty million people at Flipburger's, port Shaks or
served fries from McDonald's at some point in their lives.
For many, it's a paycheck not much more. But for
Leno Bisos in Company, those teen apprenticeships brought lessons that
have lasted a lifetime. In a new book, Golden Opportunity,
remarkable careers that began in McDonald's company, executive Cody Teats
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invites forty six high achievers to reminisce about their stints
at the Hamburger c Company. Each person gets a few
pages to share a chatty oral history, infused with whatever
tips they choose in light. It's light reading enhanced with
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seven key lessons. Get really good at your routines. The
world rewards order and discipline. Find joy in your colleagues,
no matter who they are. Learn how to deal with
the public. Solve problems quickly without creating other problems. As
a manager, scold less, redirect more. The best employees don't
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need much managing. Grow your own talent, keep promoting capable,
hardworking people. And then the article closes. Add it all up,
and Golden Opportunity is more than a collection of rocking
chair stories from long ago. It's an ingenious way of
making McDonald's distinctive culture come alive in ways it can
benefit anyone trying to plan a career, get a big company,
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be back on track, or a parent a teenager. The
idea that you worked at McDonald's is for someone who
lacks authenticity, an opportunity to connect, an opportunity to say, hey,
you struggle, well, well I struggle. I bet I struggled
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just like you. The fact that she made it up
is a non starter. The fact that she has no
regard for the truth, the fact that she felt the need,
as she does in every way, with fake accents, with
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fake stories. Everything she does is an attempt to say
I'm just like you, because there's no there there. But
maybe if she lived three houses down from you, you
feel that she should be elected because well, in some
odd way, you're electing yourself. You're endorsing and supporting yourself
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because your experience is valid, is valid and valuable, and
that's what she's counting on. The problem is, yet again,
whether it's the black accent in Atlanta or a different
black accent and Detroit, Whether she's in the dinnor she's black,
she's this, or she's that, she's the borders are or
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she isn't. None of it is real. None of it
is authentic. None of it is legitimate. So the Trump
folks went to McDonald's and as it turned out, yeah,
they have no record of her ever working there. So
now her campaign's response is well, her friend remembers being
told by her mom that she was working at McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Take I'll get her in.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Mcdaaldsamberg, meet Michael Berry.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Maybe I'll get her some price.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Polls have been open since seven o'clock this morning and
will be for the next several days, all the way
through November one, and then of course a week from
tomorrow is election day. I would urge you to go
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to vote early. I would urge you to find a
polling location. If you're in Harris County, you can go
to Harris votes dot com. Your elections are administered by
the county in which you live, so for Harris County
that's Harris Votes. You can go to your you can
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look up your county voting locations. You can find a
polling location statewide at vote Texas dot goov Vote Texas dotgov.
I will be overwhelmed with emails between now an election
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day from people with the most random, simple questions. I
will not be able to keep up with those and
I won't even try. So I'm going to tell you
right now, don't wait on me. You wanted to vote,
this is important, Spend five minutes. They got these things
now called search engines. You can go in there and
put your question, but no, they don't run on gas
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from on and you can put your question and spend
five minutes and you'll be able to get an answer.
Just so you know, if you go in the voting
location with a Trump shirt or anything that you suspect
might possibly get you kicked out and then run email
me and want to come on the show and talk
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about it, I'm not going to. Why why do this?
Why can't we be serious? Why can't we be serious
one time and win an election? Why can't we focus
on getting to the voting location and casting a vote.
If our people spent one percent percent the amount of
time that they spend talking about fraud and dreaming up
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schemes of how the Democrats are gonna cheat, and yes
they are, if we spent one percent that amount of
time just getting our people to vote. But we can't
do that. Everybody wants to be an election lawyer. Everybody
wants to be on Trump's team. Everybody wants to be
the ones run they go cheat, and what they want
to do, they gonna do this and they go cheat,
and they're gonna I got it, I got it, I
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got it. I'm gonna try to get as many people
as I possibly can to show up and vote. That's
what I'm gonna do. You do you? You do you.
I'm sure you're very worried, you're upset. There's too many ads,
there's too many signs, there's too many this, there's too
many of that. All of that is fine, but I'm
not going to engage in it. Just no, I'm not
going to engage in it. You're not going to get
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a response, and I'm not putting you on the air.
I am exhausted by the nonsense. I'd like people to
be serious, just this one time. This election is not
about you. It's not about You're not going to become
nationally famous because you're the guy that went in with
this shirt. Honor that at the last minute and they
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kept from voting. You didn't get to vote, and oh
my god, I just have no patience for this. You
got two weeks to vote early, Show up and vote early.
Find the location. If you're not in the system before
you go start working on it. Now, it's really important.
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Please vote all the way down. I'm getting a number
of emails from folks asking for my slate, which I
do during Prime I'm Mary's where we're trying to pick
the best Republican or nonpartisan races like municipal races. Here
is my slate. Vote for the Republicans all the way down.
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Every single day we bring you a news story of
a bad guy getting back out on the streets right
after he commits a murder rape you name it, because
a Democrat judge that Rodney ellis put there is under
strict orders to put him back out on the streets.
If you won't vote for Republicans all the way down
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the line, you are endorsing that practice. You don't need
to know every candidate. Why would you, I mean, realistically,
why would you know who's on the Court of Appeals.
Why would you know who's running for various offices. You
don't have a chance. There's no reason you would People
take this to heart unless you are a person who
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prides yourself from being extremely well informed and consistently because
there's an new election coming up all the time, it's
perfectly natural that you wouldn't know. This is why the
party system is better than nothing, because at least the
party system gives you some amount of an understanding of
what you're dealing with. If you're looking for a position
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player to fill out your roster, and you got a
guy that plays you need a shortstop, and you guy
that you have a guy that plays shortstop, and you
have another guy that played right tackle for his college
football team, you're probably going to be better off with
the shorts. The guys played short soap before. Your odds
are much better. Vote all the way down because that's
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what the Democrats do, and it's hard to win these races.
We have got some tough races in Texas. Not just
ted cruise at the top of the ticket. It goes
all the way down, trying to win the sheriff's office,
trying to win the district attorney's office, trying to win
the commissioner's court races, trying to win the judicial races.
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It's okay that you don't recognize the names. It is
perfectly okay. This is a joyous occasion. We get to
do this. Throughout history, it is rare that people could
engage in self governance. I understand I'm not going to
be able to get through to some of you, but
maybe some of you will hear my plea, and that
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is stop focusing on the fraud, not because it doesn't exist,
but because nothing you're doing is going to have any
impact on the fraud. So if you're running around screaming upset,
can't hold it together, want me to understand how upset
you are, because that's how we'll all know how much
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you care. Is how upset you are. I think you're nuts.
I just do. I think you're nuts. I think this
is an unproductive chicken little time behavior. Focus on getting
people to vote. That's what you can do. That's a
real thing you can do. Worrying about voter fraud in
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Chicago or Detroit. You're not helping. You're you're you're that's
a hobby for you. It's a fetish, it's a hobby,
it's a it's a thing you do. This is a
time where we keep people focused on how mad we are.
You're in and you're out. Now we finally have a
chance to vote, and this is it. Let's win this thing.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
I'll get her in mccatto's nbag with the Michael Berry.
They don't get her surprise.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
A lot of.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
This is calling poles are open. You can vote in
the state of Texas today through seven pm, all the
way this week through seven pm. On Sunday, it starts
at noon, but every day this week seven a to
seven p early voting. You no longer need an excuse,
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a reason of justification. Just show up and vote. Take
somebody in your household with you. Don't wait. I hate
the term election day because that should be the last day.
Election day is during early voting, when you can go
and vote. It's going to be crazy today, There's no
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doubt about that. Their long lines there already are. I'm
seeing lots and lots of folks excited to get to vote,
people that are frustrated, people that want their voice heard.
I get it, I get it. There's a great deal
of frustration. I want it fixed. I want every bit
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of energy focused on winning the election. And I get
frustrated by people who I think get confused that this
is a wrestling match or some other side show and
start wanting to distract with other things. I want people
to vote. I want those votes cast. I want to
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win elections. I saw a mem yesterday. I said, it's
not that the majority are silent, it's that the media
are silent about the majority. This is when the big
landslide happens. This is when people get to express what
frustrates us most in a real, tangible way. All the
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talk about fraud unless you're a person who can do
something to stop it, which is very few people that
are in those positions. All the talk of fraud suppresses
voter turnout. Make sure you understand that that's what you're doing.
You are suppressing people who believe in the rule of law,
our people. You are suppressing their vote. You are telling
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them your vote doesn't matter anyway because they're gonna cheat.
That becomes the justification for people who already feel powerless.
You've got a nation of people who have to call
a call center in India or somewhere else to get
help for something that they bought locally. People that can't
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get a human being on the phone, people that can't
get in the hospital, people whose schools have turned against them.
People feel powerless. There's a new bill every month that
you're charged and you can't get them to take it off.
You can't even find a human being willing to do that.
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People feel powerless. But you've got the franchise, you've got
the vote, you can cast that vote. And yet we've
got people who will not let you talk about getting
out to vote. They want you to focus only on fraud, fraud, fraud, fraud, fraud,
not that there's going to be anything done based on
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all of that talk. It's like a ham radio operator
or car collector, gun collector whatever else. It is a
hobby and a fetish for people to talk about that.
And those people don't vote, by the way, I've looked
them up. Those people who do this, it's not gonna matter.
You're going to do this as many bouts gonna come
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up missing. Those are people who do not vote ever,
And this is how they justify it because it doesn't
matter anyway. And now you get into this doom loop
of they're gonna cheat, so your vote doesn't matter. I'm
not gonna vote now. They don't even need to cheat.
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We're at the front end of this and I'm just
laying out right now, I'm not going to do that.
Please show up to vote with the intention of taking
back your country. Don't show up to vote with the
intention of looking around if there's something behind the tree,
or pushing the limits to try to get kicked out.
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And that's what people are doing, pushing the limits to
try to get kicked out, because maybe I'll make the
evening news as the person who wasn't allowed to vote.
Or it's the first day of early voting. You can
vote at any polling place within your county. That's the
beauty of early voting. I have no patience on election
day when people say I was going to go vote,
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but I can't believe this. They've closed my poll, they've cheated,
they've done Why didn't you vote early when you had
two weeks to vote early? Why didn't you vote early
where you could vote anywhere? Because you don't really want
to vote. You just want a bitch, and there's too
much of that. That's not how we win. If you're
a player entering the game focused on the refs, you're
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not putting your best effort on the field. What you
can do, what everyone can do, is get another person
to vote. That's how we win. I actually want to win.
I'm done with all the sideshows. I want to win.
And here's how we win. We get more votes. Than
they have. Sure, we've got it. We've got to be
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mad that the Harris kunt Of Republican Party is not
recruiting Canadas to put in all the races. Fine, we
still have to win the races for the people who
are there, which.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Is for us.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Lloyd. Did I get a note that you just voted? Lloyd?
Did I get a note that you just voted?
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Here?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Yep? Did you just vote?
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Yes, I'm here, you're up. I did just vote this morning?
Speaker 1 (31:42):
All right, go ahead, yes, sir, I did just.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Vote this morning. I got there about seven thirty at
the Umble Library and there was a line wrapped around
the building and we waited about forty minutes to get inside.
But the voting was just five minutes long, and and
everybody was really nice about it in and out. I
did have a question, and I think you just answered it.
Why Why are there so many races? I counted aged
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ten of them that did not have a Republican candidate.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Because the Harris County Republican Party did not get candidates
to put on the ballot. I have heard the excuse
that the lawyers who would run don't want to run
against the judges because when they lose and they still
have to practice in their court. If you think that
the only people who can run for a judicial position
are people that are already practicing in that court, that
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makes you incapable of being the leader of the Harris
County Republican Party. It's short answer. People didn't do their jobs.
I mean, it's unfortunate that it comes to this, but
people didn't do their jobs, period, end of story. You've
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got to go out, You've you've got a bout, so
God help you. If you contribute money to a campaign,
I'm sorry to say, because the consultants have decided that
if you contribute money, it is open season on you.
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They're gonna send you thirty text messages. They're never gonna stop.
And what it does is is it dampens enthusiasm for contributing.
They're gonna put you on an auto pay that you
didn't see coming. They're gonna text you constantly. You know,
if you don't know how to block numbers on your phone,
ask your grandkids because it'll save you a lot of
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hassle because they all come from the same set of numbers.
Why they don't spend money, I'd rather see less money
spent at election time, and more money spent getting candidates
to run for office, mail out to every Republican voter,
how many how many Republican voters knew that there was
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Every lawyer in the county could have signed up to
be a judge. At least we would have a candidate
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I had a summer job at McDonald's. To lie, it's
a total lie. She never worked at McDonald's, but she
lies about everything.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I love you.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
The nice people made it together, Grimace. We could own
this town. Happy birthday, Gamla. Maybe I'll get her some fries.
I love you. Look at this guy.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I'm not gonna mess with him.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
And I could do this all day. I wouldn't mind
this job.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I love fun.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I've now worked for fifteen minutes more than Gabala.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
President Trump had a day at McDonald's where the Golden
arches became a stage for genius political theater. Picture this.
Trump donned in what could be described as maga casual,
a business shirt, red tie, and an apron that might
as well say the Apprentice fast food edition. He stepped
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into a McDonald's in Pennsylvania not just to grab a
big mac, but to manda fry station. This wasn't just
any visit. It was a political statement wrapped in a
quarter pound of burger bun. Trump flexed his reality starchops,
diving into the deep end of fast food service with
pictures of the event. Even Norman Rockwell would be proud
of this Visit wasn't just about flipping burgers. It was
(01:55):
about flipping the narrative for a moment. He wasn't just
the four former president of the United States, but the
new guy at Mickey De's, bringing into question Harris's relatability
by turning himself into the everyman, albeit with a billionaire twist.
And at the end of his well shift, Trump left
(02:18):
with a grandfatherly smile. The internet exploded with memes, debates,
and probably a few new fast food themed political slogans.
It was politics, it was entertainment. It was Trump at McDonald's.
Of course it was. And you can bet Kamala Harris
is grimacing. I'm Thornton Finch reporting for the Michael Berry Show.
(02:43):
Good Day, What a.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Weekend it was. Early voting begins today. Poles opened at
seven o'clock, so they've been open now for just more
than an hour. Across the country. States with early voting
that began today Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, some counties not
(03:10):
all in Florida, Idaho, South Carolina, and of course Texas.
That's right. You can go vote as of right now.
It started at seven am today through seven pm this evening,
which it will continue to do through Saturday. On Sunday,
(03:38):
you can start voting as soon as church lets out
at noon until seven pm. And then the next day Monday, Tuesday,
and Wednesday you can vote seven a to eight pm,
so extended hours. Then on October thirty first, seven a
to nine pm, November seven A to seven pm again,
(04:04):
and then if you're a complete and utter idiot, you
can vote on what is called election Day. If you do,
I want you to do me a favor, Please show
up the last minute on that last day, go to
a Democrat precinct and complain about everything you can think
(04:29):
of to me, because I need one more email of
someone who does that. You can request a ballot by mail.
The deadline is this Friday, October twenty fifth. That is
the deadline for them to receive it, not the deadline
by which it must be postmarked. To be eligible to
(04:53):
vote early by mail in Texas, a registered voter must
be sixty five or older, sick or disabled, out of
the county on election day and during the period for
early voting by personal appearance, be expected to give birth
within three weeks before or after election day, or be
(05:15):
confined in jail but otherwise eligible. Jail is not prison. Remember,
jail is where you get pulled over. You got a DWI.
Prison is where you go to serve your sentence. And
here we are two weeks and a day until election day.
(05:37):
Donald Trump had quite a day yesterday. He dominated the
news cycle with his shift at McDonald's. Interestingly, it was
Kamala Harris's birthday, and most people don't know. She didn't
get a bump off of it. She didn't get any
good wishes other than Donald Trump wishing her will on
(06:01):
her birthday, her sixtieth. He did an interview, a radio interview,
he did a rally, and then last night he showed
up at the Steelers game, a nationally broadcast game. Feelings
were very positive if you are a Longhorns fan. It
(06:22):
just kind of puts a puts a negative tinge on
the day when you're the number number one ranked team
and you play Georgia and you lose and you don't
play your best well, it was the opposite. In Pennsylvania,
the considered the most important swing state, Trump now leads
in the polls there and in fact in every swing
state in most polls. Now he leads. He's even beginning
(06:48):
to pull even in states that he's not expected to win.
An Republican hasn't won in quite some time. But what
a day. He goes to the Steeler game. When Taylor
Swift is at a game, there are an average of
seven times per game that she is shown at the game.
(07:12):
We see her walking in, there's that same look as
she enters the stadium, and every time Travis Kelcey touches
the ball or he's even a target, they show her.
We get to see her cheer, we get to see
her dance and sway. We get to see her reaction
(07:35):
to a call against him or a touchdown that he scores.
Not with Trump. I was told that there was a
brief shot of him. I didn't see it. Crockett and
I were watching the game together, that's our thing, and
(07:56):
he does fantasy football, so we were looking at the
scores and his players. He's got a quarterback problem because
Justin Fields was his quarterback and Fields is out Russell
Wilson's back, so he put Anthony Richardson in. And I
think Anthony Richardson's terrible and he should pick up Aaron Rodgers,
(08:18):
but I just happen to love Aaron Rodgerson. Anyway, it
might have been during one of the moments where we
were looking up player stats, But did you did you
watch the game? One sign? Apparently they shot they showed
Trump for just a moment. But what a day either way,
what a day He dominated with the McDonald's shift, radio interview,
(08:45):
rally and then national, the Game of the Week, the
Sunday night Game of the Week, and he's there and
the entire stadium is cheering USA. Well, he's got moment.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I get her in mcdanielsberger, the Michael Barry.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Maybe I'll get her some price.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Donald Trump was not only the star of The Apprentice,
he was the executive. Producers paid sixty thousand dollars a
week for it, and Jeff Zucker, who was head of
NBC at the time, surmised that he didn't have to
(09:34):
pay Trump more than that because it was so good
for Trump's brand that Trump couldn't leave. Whatever the pay was,
why he stayed. The fact is for several years it
was a top show in the country. Trump understands certain things,
(10:01):
not having had a background in that Michael t being
in college, we talk a lot about what you want
to do and what you study in and many, many,
many young people believe that to have a career in
a particular field, you need to study that in school.
(10:23):
Most of you, I would bet, have a career. If
you have a career, not just a job. You have
something you do, you're good at it, You're hired to
do that thing, as opposed to just hey, and there's
nothing wrong with it. If you pick up a shift
to pay the bills, that's honorable. There's dignity in that.
(10:46):
It's not the same thing as a career. That is
a job to pay the bills. It's doing what we
have to do to get by and take care of
those we have to take care of. But if you
have a career, you're a person that other companies want
you for what you do. There is value in what
you do. You have a specialized skill set. Chances are
(11:09):
you didn't learn that in school. Trump didn't learn in
school the instinct he has, and it really is instinctive
for a moment, creating a moment. Let's go back to
why that McDonald's moment became so important. We start with
(11:33):
Kamala Harris having lied. Now imagine imagine how absent any
real accomplishment and authenticity she is if she had to
make up that she worked at McDonald's, but make up
(11:53):
that she worked at McDonald's, she definitely did. Ramon. You
got the audio of her say and I worked at
McDon donald's. Yep, think about it. Two middle class kids
want a daughter of Oakland, California who was raised by
(12:14):
a working mother.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
I had a summer job at McDonald's.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
That's a lie, And there was a suspicion that she
was lying. McDonald's keeps detailed records on who worked there
because they take great pride in who has worked there.
So she's on with Stephanie Ruhle on MSNBC. What's meant
to be a friendly discussion When they're trying to make
(12:47):
her relatable. That's the problem. She's not relatable. Everything about
her is fake and it bothers people. So this was
meant to help her.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
First one, just a fact check because your opponent there
is a little today, there's no such thing as a
little kay fair fair because your opponent almost every day
seems to be talking about this.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
So I just want to ask you yes or no,
At any point in your life.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Have you served to all beef patties, special sauce, let
us cheese pick these onions on a seed.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
But looking at a McDonald's, yes or no?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
That's it? I have okay, now the other job, but
it was not a small job like I do. Cries.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
I mean, you know, but she didn't. Why lie about that?
About eight years ago, Chad read a book called Golden
Opportunity Remarkable Careers that Began in McDonald's and it it
(13:48):
pointed out some famous and some very successful people who
once worked at McDonald's Jay Leno, Jeff Bezos, Andy Card,
who worked in the Bush White House. Forbes wrote an
article summarizing the book entitled McDonald's Jobs taught Bisosleno and
(14:10):
others Seven Big lessons What new comedian Jay Leno, Amazon
founder Jeff Pisos, former astronaut Leroy Chow, Congressman Marsha Fudge,
and actress Andy McDowell all have in common. It's not
just that they all worked at McDonald's many years ago,
earning spending money during their high school or college days.
(14:32):
An estimated twenty million people at Flipburger's, port Shaks or
served fries from McDonald's at some point in their lives.
For many, it's a paycheck not much more. But for
Leno Bisos in Company, those teen apprenticeships brought lessons that
have lasted a lifetime. In a new book, Golden Opportunity,
remarkable careers that began in McDonald's company, executive Cody Teats
(14:55):
invites forty six high achievers to reminisce about their stints
at the Hamburger c Company. Each person gets a few
pages to share a chatty oral history, infused with whatever
tips they choose in light. It's light reading enhanced with
(15:16):
seven key lessons. Get really good at your routines. The
world rewards order and discipline. Find joy in your colleagues,
no matter who they are. Learn how to deal with
the public. Solve problems quickly without creating other problems. As
a manager, scold less, redirect more. The best employees don't
(15:37):
need much managing. Grow your own talent, keep promoting capable,
hardworking people. And then the article closes. Add it all up,
and Golden Opportunity is more than a collection of rocking
chair stories from long ago. It's an ingenious way of
making McDonald's distinctive culture come alive in ways it can
benefit anyone trying to plan a career, get a big company,
(16:00):
be back on track, or a parent a teenager. The
idea that you worked at McDonald's is for someone who
lacks authenticity, an opportunity to connect, an opportunity to say, hey,
you struggle, well, well I struggle. I bet I struggled
(16:23):
just like you. The fact that she made it up
is a non starter. The fact that she has no
regard for the truth, the fact that she felt the need,
as she does in every way, with fake accents, with
(16:46):
fake stories. Everything she does is an attempt to say
I'm just like you, because there's no there there. But
maybe if she lived three houses down from you, you
feel that she should be elected because well, in some
odd way, you're electing yourself. You're endorsing and supporting yourself
(17:11):
because your experience is valid, is valid and valuable, and
that's what she's counting on. The problem is, yet again,
whether it's the black accent in Atlanta or a different
black accent and Detroit, Whether she's in the dinnor she's black,
she's this, or she's that, she's the borders are or
(17:35):
she isn't. None of it is real. None of it
is authentic. None of it is legitimate. So the Trump
folks went to McDonald's and as it turned out, yeah,
they have no record of her ever working there. So
now her campaign's response is well, her friend remembers being
told by her mom that she was working at McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Take I'll get her in.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Mcdaaldsamberg, meet Michael Berry.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Maybe I'll get her some price.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Polls have been open since seven o'clock this morning and
will be for the next several days, all the way
through November one, and then of course a week from
tomorrow is election day. I would urge you to go
(18:35):
to vote early. I would urge you to find a
polling location. If you're in Harris County, you can go
to Harris votes dot com. Your elections are administered by
the county in which you live, so for Harris County
that's Harris Votes. You can go to your you can
(18:55):
look up your county voting locations. You can find a
polling location statewide at vote Texas dot goov Vote Texas dotgov.
I will be overwhelmed with emails between now an election
(19:16):
day from people with the most random, simple questions. I
will not be able to keep up with those and
I won't even try. So I'm going to tell you
right now, don't wait on me. You wanted to vote,
this is important, Spend five minutes. They got these things
now called search engines. You can go in there and
put your question, but no, they don't run on gas
(19:39):
from on and you can put your question and spend
five minutes and you'll be able to get an answer.
Just so you know, if you go in the voting
location with a Trump shirt or anything that you suspect
might possibly get you kicked out and then run email
me and want to come on the show and talk
(20:00):
about it, I'm not going to. Why why do this?
Why can't we be serious? Why can't we be serious
one time and win an election? Why can't we focus
on getting to the voting location and casting a vote.
If our people spent one percent percent the amount of
time that they spend talking about fraud and dreaming up
(20:24):
schemes of how the Democrats are gonna cheat, and yes
they are, if we spent one percent that amount of
time just getting our people to vote. But we can't
do that. Everybody wants to be an election lawyer. Everybody
wants to be on Trump's team. Everybody wants to be
the ones run they go cheat, and what they want
to do, they gonna do this and they go cheat,
and they're gonna I got it, I got it, I
(20:46):
got it. I'm gonna try to get as many people
as I possibly can to show up and vote. That's
what I'm gonna do. You do you? You do you.
I'm sure you're very worried, you're upset. There's too many ads,
there's too many signs, there's too many this, there's too
many of that. All of that is fine, but I'm
not going to engage in it. Just no, I'm not
going to engage in it. You're not going to get
(21:07):
a response, and I'm not putting you on the air.
I am exhausted by the nonsense. I'd like people to
be serious, just this one time. This election is not
about you. It's not about You're not going to become
nationally famous because you're the guy that went in with
this shirt. Honor that at the last minute and they
(21:29):
kept from voting. You didn't get to vote, and oh
my god, I just have no patience for this. You
got two weeks to vote early, Show up and vote early.
Find the location. If you're not in the system before
you go start working on it. Now, it's really important.
(21:50):
Please vote all the way down. I'm getting a number
of emails from folks asking for my slate, which I
do during Prime I'm Mary's where we're trying to pick
the best Republican or nonpartisan races like municipal races. Here
is my slate. Vote for the Republicans all the way down.
(22:12):
Every single day we bring you a news story of
a bad guy getting back out on the streets right
after he commits a murder rape you name it, because
a Democrat judge that Rodney ellis put there is under
strict orders to put him back out on the streets.
If you won't vote for Republicans all the way down
(22:32):
the line, you are endorsing that practice. You don't need
to know every candidate. Why would you, I mean, realistically,
why would you know who's on the Court of Appeals.
Why would you know who's running for various offices. You
don't have a chance. There's no reason you would People
take this to heart unless you are a person who
(22:54):
prides yourself from being extremely well informed and consistently because
there's an new election coming up all the time, it's
perfectly natural that you wouldn't know. This is why the
party system is better than nothing, because at least the
party system gives you some amount of an understanding of
what you're dealing with. If you're looking for a position
(23:20):
player to fill out your roster, and you got a
guy that plays you need a shortstop, and you guy
that you have a guy that plays shortstop, and you
have another guy that played right tackle for his college
football team, you're probably going to be better off with
the shorts. The guys played short soap before. Your odds
are much better. Vote all the way down because that's
(23:44):
what the Democrats do, and it's hard to win these races.
We have got some tough races in Texas. Not just
ted cruise at the top of the ticket. It goes
all the way down, trying to win the sheriff's office,
trying to win the district attorney's office, trying to win
the commissioner's court races, trying to win the judicial races.
(24:06):
It's okay that you don't recognize the names. It is
perfectly okay. This is a joyous occasion. We get to
do this. Throughout history, it is rare that people could
engage in self governance. I understand I'm not going to
be able to get through to some of you, but
maybe some of you will hear my plea, and that
(24:29):
is stop focusing on the fraud, not because it doesn't exist,
but because nothing you're doing is going to have any
impact on the fraud. So if you're running around screaming upset,
can't hold it together, want me to understand how upset
you are, because that's how we'll all know how much
(24:51):
you care. Is how upset you are. I think you're nuts.
I just do. I think you're nuts. I think this
is an unproductive chicken little time behavior. Focus on getting
people to vote. That's what you can do. That's a
real thing you can do. Worrying about voter fraud in
(25:12):
Chicago or Detroit. You're not helping. You're you're you're that's
a hobby for you. It's a fetish, it's a hobby,
it's a it's a thing you do. This is a
time where we keep people focused on how mad we are.
You're in and you're out. Now we finally have a
chance to vote, and this is it. Let's win this thing.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
I'll get her in mccatto's nbag with the Michael Berry.
They don't get her surprise.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
A lot of.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
This is calling poles are open. You can vote in
the state of Texas today through seven pm, all the
way this week through seven pm. On Sunday, it starts
at noon, but every day this week seven a to
seven p early voting. You no longer need an excuse,
(26:08):
a reason of justification. Just show up and vote. Take
somebody in your household with you. Don't wait. I hate
the term election day because that should be the last day.
Election day is during early voting, when you can go
and vote. It's going to be crazy today, There's no
(26:31):
doubt about that. Their long lines there already are. I'm
seeing lots and lots of folks excited to get to vote,
people that are frustrated, people that want their voice heard.
I get it, I get it. There's a great deal
of frustration. I want it fixed. I want every bit
(26:54):
of energy focused on winning the election. And I get
frustrated by people who I think get confused that this
is a wrestling match or some other side show and
start wanting to distract with other things. I want people
to vote. I want those votes cast. I want to
(27:15):
win elections. I saw a mem yesterday. I said, it's
not that the majority are silent, it's that the media
are silent about the majority. This is when the big
landslide happens. This is when people get to express what
frustrates us most in a real, tangible way. All the
(27:39):
talk about fraud unless you're a person who can do
something to stop it, which is very few people that
are in those positions. All the talk of fraud suppresses
voter turnout. Make sure you understand that that's what you're doing.
You are suppressing people who believe in the rule of law,
our people. You are suppressing their vote. You are telling
(28:01):
them your vote doesn't matter anyway because they're gonna cheat.
That becomes the justification for people who already feel powerless.
You've got a nation of people who have to call
a call center in India or somewhere else to get
help for something that they bought locally. People that can't
(28:24):
get a human being on the phone, people that can't
get in the hospital, people whose schools have turned against them.
People feel powerless. There's a new bill every month that
you're charged and you can't get them to take it off.
You can't even find a human being willing to do that.
(28:46):
People feel powerless. But you've got the franchise, you've got
the vote, you can cast that vote. And yet we've
got people who will not let you talk about getting
out to vote. They want you to focus only on fraud, fraud, fraud, fraud, fraud,
not that there's going to be anything done based on
(29:07):
all of that talk. It's like a ham radio operator
or car collector, gun collector whatever else. It is a
hobby and a fetish for people to talk about that.
And those people don't vote, by the way, I've looked
them up. Those people who do this, it's not gonna matter.
You're going to do this as many bouts gonna come
(29:28):
up missing. Those are people who do not vote ever,
And this is how they justify it because it doesn't
matter anyway. And now you get into this doom loop
of they're gonna cheat, so your vote doesn't matter. I'm
not gonna vote now. They don't even need to cheat.
(29:49):
We're at the front end of this and I'm just
laying out right now, I'm not going to do that.
Please show up to vote with the intention of taking
back your country. Don't show up to vote with the
intention of looking around if there's something behind the tree,
or pushing the limits to try to get kicked out.
(30:10):
And that's what people are doing, pushing the limits to
try to get kicked out, because maybe I'll make the
evening news as the person who wasn't allowed to vote.
Or it's the first day of early voting. You can
vote at any polling place within your county. That's the
beauty of early voting. I have no patience on election
day when people say I was going to go vote,
(30:31):
but I can't believe this. They've closed my poll, they've cheated,
they've done Why didn't you vote early when you had
two weeks to vote early? Why didn't you vote early
where you could vote anywhere? Because you don't really want
to vote. You just want a bitch, and there's too
much of that. That's not how we win. If you're
a player entering the game focused on the refs, you're
(30:54):
not putting your best effort on the field. What you
can do, what everyone can do, is get another person
to vote. That's how we win. I actually want to win.
I'm done with all the sideshows. I want to win.
And here's how we win. We get more votes. Than
they have. Sure, we've got it. We've got to be
(31:15):
mad that the Harris kunt Of Republican Party is not
recruiting Canadas to put in all the races. Fine, we
still have to win the races for the people who
are there, which.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Is for us.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Lloyd. Did I get a note that you just voted? Lloyd?
Did I get a note that you just voted?
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Here?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Yep? Did you just vote?
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Yes, I'm here, you're up. I did just vote this morning?
Speaker 1 (31:42):
All right, go ahead, yes, sir, I did just.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Vote this morning. I got there about seven thirty at
the Umble Library and there was a line wrapped around
the building and we waited about forty minutes to get inside.
But the voting was just five minutes long, and and
everybody was really nice about it in and out. I
did have a question, and I think you just answered it.
Why Why are there so many races? I counted aged
(32:09):
ten of them that did not have a Republican candidate.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Because the Harris County Republican Party did not get candidates
to put on the ballot. I have heard the excuse
that the lawyers who would run don't want to run
against the judges because when they lose and they still
have to practice in their court. If you think that
the only people who can run for a judicial position
are people that are already practicing in that court, that
(32:37):
makes you incapable of being the leader of the Harris
County Republican Party. It's short answer. People didn't do their jobs.
I mean, it's unfortunate that it comes to this, but
people didn't do their jobs, period, end of story. You've
(32:59):
got to go out, You've you've got a bout, so
God help you. If you contribute money to a campaign,
I'm sorry to say, because the consultants have decided that
if you contribute money, it is open season on you.
(33:25):
They're gonna send you thirty text messages. They're never gonna stop.
And what it does is is it dampens enthusiasm for contributing.
They're gonna put you on an auto pay that you
didn't see coming. They're gonna text you constantly. You know,
if you don't know how to block numbers on your phone,
ask your grandkids because it'll save you a lot of
(33:47):
hassle because they all come from the same set of numbers.
Why they don't spend money, I'd rather see less money
spent at election time, and more money spent getting candidates
to run for office, mail out to every Republican voter,
how many how many Republican voters knew that there was
(34:07):
Every lawyer in the county could have signed up to
be a judge. At least we would have a candidate
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