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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Vari Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
That American dream is slipping away. I don't have to
tell you that you're feeling your lives. You see it in
your shrinking wages, in the cost of everything from groceries
to healthcare, to college, to filling up your car at
the gas station. It keeps going up, been up and up,
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and the future keeps receiving further and further and further away.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
That really speaks to a lot of pessimism here about
the American dream.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
How it feels like it's out of region.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
You know, home ownership for too many people in our
country now is elusive.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
You know, gone is the day of everyone thinking they
could actually live the American dream.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I'm here today with a message of hope for all Americans.
With your vote in this election, I will end inflation,
i will stop the invasion, and I will bring back
the American Dream.
Speaker 6 (01:06):
Lean on me.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
When you're not strong, and I'll me you dream.
Speaker 7 (01:15):
I'll help you care.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
We're winning by a lot, We're leading by a lot.
We're leading in the polls. Every single state looks like
we're doing you and with your supporter November fifth, America.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Will be bigger, better, bolder, richer, safer, and stronger than
ever before.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
Lean on me.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
When you're not strong.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
And how me your dream.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I'll help you.
Speaker 7 (01:49):
Care for those who abandoned hope, We'll restore hope, and
we'll welcome them into a great national crusade to make
America great again.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
That's why I'm here today, That's why I'm standing before you,
because we are going to finish what we started. We
started something that was America.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
We're going to complete the mission.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
We're going to see this battle through to ultimate victory.
We're going to make America great again.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
You need somebody.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
This election is a choice between whether we will have
a four I think of this four more years, could
you stand it.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
It's four more years of incompetence, stupidity, and failure and disaster,
or whether we will begin the four greatest years in
the history of our country.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I think we have a.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Real chair make America great again.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
And quite simply put, we will very quickly make America
great again.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. That line is
used repeatedly. They don't point any policy, they don't point
any result, they don't point to any real reason.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
For that.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Is a threat to democracy. We won't have democracy any
longer if we end up with Trump. Threat to democracy.
We're not a democracy, We're a republic. If we were
an ancient Greek democracy, we'd be voting all the time
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instead of just talking about it. It be votes on everything,
the true rule of the people. It's organized anarchy, chaos.
But Donald Trump is a threat to our process of government.
We have over three hundred million people, over three hundredion
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people in this country, representing every country in the world,
every language, every background, with businesses that span every industry
across a vast swath of land, rich heritage, warriors and entrepreneurs, teachers, scientists, inventors.
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But donaldreat Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. I
couldn't go to sleep last night because I sat there
thinking about something and it started bothering me this line,
to keep using this line, And then I remembered Russia's
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old maxim whatever they accuse you of, they are doing.
Let's put this into perspective for a moment. Ronald Reagan
was the first Trump presidency. His campaign in nineteen eighty
was make America great Again. People are surprised when I
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tell him that so much of Trump's campaign was modeled
on the outsider Reagan, who ran against the establishment in
eighty People had had enough, that had enough of the establishment.
Do you know what bothered them about the establishment? Let's
go back to sixty eight. Richard Nexon gets elected seventy two.
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He is re elected in seventy six. The accidental president,
man who hadn't been elected, Gerald Ford Kamala Harris of
his era. The establishment could control him. He was a
real establishment man. When he left the presidency, he would
serve on corporate boards. I bet you can't tell me
three things about Gerald Ford, and if one of them
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has to be he tried to eat the husk of
a Tamali. That tells you that he was an empty suit,
which he was. He was placed there by the establishment.
He was a placeholder, a figurehead. Reagan came out in
seventy six, the working Man's candidate, the america first candidate
at a time when the world was changing. Americans were nervous,
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frustrated inflation, gas prices, just come out of a war,
a war that people knew in their heart of hearts
was wrong. Something about this war. Everybody felt it. So
nineteen eighty eight, Reagan puts Bush in as his vice
president because he needs the establishment. Got to have the
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establishment right. So in nineteen eighty eight, the first Bush
is elected. Nineteen ninety two Clinton, he serves for eight years.
Two thousand, we get what another Bush for eight more years.
Cheney is his vice president. Two thousand and eight, we
have Barack Obama. He serves for eight years, despite how
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unpopular he was. For eight years of Bush and War.
Then in twenty sixteen, Donald Trump beats yet another Clinton
after vanquishing yet another Bush in the primary, more Bushes,
more Clintons, Trump gets elected. He serves just four years,
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four years of a prosperous presidency. America was on the
right track. We withdrew from a forever war where we'd
been sending our boys for twenty years to no avail.
The Taliban his back stronger than ever. So why were
we there forever war in Iraq? What did we accomplish?
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Why were we there four years? Out of thirty six?
Donald Trump was the president. They impeached him twice. He
runs again. Biden, who'd been the vice president under Obama
and who'd been in the Senate since seventy two, not
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a great candidate, but he was the best they had.
He finally withered on the vine and they were stuck
with a candidate. They had no draft pick, they had
no farm team, they were stuck with a bad candidate.
And that's where we are. But Donald Trump threat to democracy.
You've had Bushes, Clintons or Obama's for thirty six years
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in this country, and Trump is the threat to democracy.
Speaker 8 (08:54):
Michael Barry, maybe I'll get a surprise.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
A many times we will storyboard a show, plan it
out because we're going to do it this time. Is
how we're going to direct it. Here's how the music's
going to play into that. This is the direction, this
is the mood, this is the very intentional it's what
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we're going to do. Yesterday was just such a day.
On Sunday, we were all bouncing ideas while we were
at home preparing for yesterday's show, and I knew the
McDonald's moment was a transcendent moment. I'm not exaggerating. It's
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a moment we'll remember. It's a moment that was bigger
than what actually just happened. It sent a lot of
messages to a lot of people. It resonated with people
in different ways, but everybody connected to that story in
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one way or another. Trump did McDonald's, Kamla did five
guys of people. Really they're different, right, they're But I
had planned that yesterday would be an interactive experience because
A because I'm fascinated by your stories. Some of you,
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every one of you has a story that's interesting. You
just don't think it's interesting because it's your story, so
you're bored of it. It's nothing new to you. You know,
if we're hanging out and we're talking to Carrie Strugg
and she's she's not impressed that her ankle was shattered
and are blown and she still landed that routine. But
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I am because if I got if my ankle's even slight,
I got terrible ankles. If my ankles even slightly hurt,
oh I'm putting it up. I'm not. I'm not walking
upstairs much less doing an advanced routine. You don't think
anything of it, shouldn't think anything of it. But to me,
it's fascinating. So from a purely selfish perspective, I love
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to hear your stories. But I also think it's important
to share those stories because I think you connect with
it in a way that maybe helps make what's going
on make more sense. So I had planned, and we
had agreed that we would have people call in yesterday
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and tell their fast food story, preferably mcnoal's, but doesn't
have to be what people learned from that first job
in fast food. And it's interesting because the show is
most of the time it's us driving the show. We're
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doing what we're going to do, and you're listening. But
there are times that I feel that you just have
to get back and let the show go. And yesterday
was one of those. I think a big part of
that was it was early voting. I think I think
everyone felt an energy, the helpless fanfare for the common
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man was for once, for once, we get to have
our say, we get to engage in this ritual. We
get to break from our tradition, get in our vehicle,
preferably with our spouse, our parents, our kids, our friend,
our colleague, put the dog in the back seat, and
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drive up there and stand in line with a bunch
of other people. There's something about going through something with
a lot of other people. Also, you're caught up in
a moment. It's all these other people. They're doing what
I'm doing. Well, vote. We sat at home, We've watched
our TV, we've listened to the radio, we've looked at
the computer. Retired, we get to have our say. I
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guess you could say it's just a vote, but it's
so much more than that. And I felt that energy.
I stayed up to way too late last night because
I was determined that if somebody wrote me an email,
I was going to read. And it was so optimistic, aspirational.
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People were excited, excited by the crowds they saw. It
gave them hope because they didn't know when they drove
to the polls. Maybe maybe I'm the only one that
realizes what's going on. Maybe they won't be anybody there,
maybe nobody cares. It's easy to believe that, and then
you see other people just like you. We're driving Austin
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this weekend, and I like that two ninety route up
to Page Take twenty one west, cut over ten twelve
miles or however far it is. Hit hit seventy one.
They're the BUCkies at in front of the BUCkies, turn
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right and go into Austin, and you're on the south
side of Austin. When you do that, that's where we stay.
And what's interesting is when you leave the big city,
when you leave the town where Rodney and Sylvester and
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Sheila and dumb dumb KP. George, When you leave the
town where the power structure is a bunch of corruptocrats,
self dealing, race baiting, and you get outside of town
starts in about Hempstead. You go Hempstead, Waller Brinham, Burton,
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car Me gettings, and you start noticing what the signs
in the yards say, and you start noticing how proud
people are, how elaborate their political statement is. And you
don't see a Harris Welds. You just don't see it.
Not that a homeowner has placed. There'll be a derelict
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property where they've hired one of their goons to go
put up signs, but that's not a statement of an owner.
And you realize that's that's where our listeners live. That's
where our listeners are. These are rational people. These are
people who run businesses. These are people who cut their
firewood in the summer because it gets cold in the winter.
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These are people that go to church and raise their
kids and their grandkids, who build things, who aspire, who strive,
who save, sacrifice. These are the people you build. And
it's wonderful to get outside of Houston, where everyone is
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in a rat race of irrationality, where it's crazy. Any
given time you're driving past a murderer and he's probably
out on bond right now. You get out there and
things just start to make sense. It just start to
make sense. So I didn't get to do what I
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wanted to do yesterday. But the McDonald's story is not over.
McDonald's story has gone from Trump in the moment to
the media to now they can't decide whether to ignore
it or whether to criticize it, because when you criticize
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your reminding people. But that story, you know, they they
just like Joe the plumber. The Legacy media is now
running opposition research on the owner of that Pennsylvania McDonald's
where Trump worked. They're now pulling out an inspection report
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where a low level inspector went in to do a
food inspection and one of the employees hadn't washed his hands.
Oh my, what a danger. They can't undo what happened.
They can't undo the moment. That's not what this is about.
This is about telling the next guy who wants to
step up and help Trump. What we'll do to you?
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I'd like to hear your fast food story? What'd you learn?
Where'd you work? When was it? Seven one three nine
nine nine one thousand seven one three nine nine nine.
Well you already. Though many times I will talk a lot,
I will get caught up in the rhetoric the Michael
Berry Show. I'm a knucklehead at times. No, we refused
to see day one. Early voting in Harris County two
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thousand and six, eighty five hundred people was an off year,
wasn't a presidential year? Two thousand and eight, it spiked
to thirty nine thousand, two hundred. Twenty ten. It went
back in an off year, but far above the four
years before of eighty five hundred. At twenty six thousand,
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twenty twelve, it went up to forty seven thousand twenty fourteen,
back down at twenty thousand, twenty sixteen. The Democrats are
figuring out what they're doing now, all the way up
to sixty seven thousand, almost double what it had been
eight years earlier. Twenty eighteen it dropped down to sixty
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three thousand. That was the Democrats sweep that brought Lena
Hidalgo into power. The Democrats had the game down. Act
Blue knew what they were doing. By this time, things
were going great in Harris County. Ed Emmett was a
county judge. Things were rather efficient. Cactus Jack Cagle was
a commissioner, Republican majority twenty eighteens. When everything changed, they
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stole this county twenty twenty. Remember, let's go through the
presidential election years in Harris County alone, two thousand and eight,
Obama's first year, thirty nine thousand, twenty twelve, the reelection
forty seven thousand, twenty sixteen, Hillary versus Trump sixty seven thousand,
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twenty twenty, one hundred twenty eight thousand. Those are Democrats,
Make no mistake. Those are Democrats. They know what they're
doing now. They've got this game down to get better
every time. One hundred twenty eighty twenty twenty. On the
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first day yesterday, one hundred twenty five thousand. How come
we're not up from where we were before. I don't
think the Democrats turned out their votes yesterday the way
we did. You're seeing numbers in the swing states. Trump
is up in every one of them. Those numbers, they
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don't know how people vote. They just know that when
a person votes, they can look at their voting history.
A three D or a three R meaning a person
who's voted in a primary the last three primaries the
last two years. Each of the two years person votes
in that primary. A three D or a three R
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is a pretty reliable Democrat or Republican. They vote in primaries,
not general elections. A five D or a five R
very reliable. That's their brand. They don't leave that brand.
I will tell you this that while the Republicans are
leading over Democrats in Democrats versus Republicans, the people who
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walk in the door and us knowing how they're going
to vote based on that, I think people are going
to be surprised that there are Democrats showing up to
vote and we know they're Democrats based on what primary
they voted on in the past. We don't know how
they vote when they show up to vote in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin,
North Carolina, Virginia. I think we're going to be surprised.
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I'm not a lot of people are going to surprise
how many of those Democrats are voting for Trump. Jews
are voting for Trump quietly, They don't want anybody to know,
because that would mean that that their boyfriend, who they
said was supporting of racist Hitler and Trump, they now
realize that Kamala Harris's policies are bad for them. Oh
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hold on, hold on, Ramon, you see that possible seem
Oh no, it's a scroll and I'm my glass son.
You're getting folks. A lot of white labor are voting Trump.
When they went for Biden. Biden Biden had everybody know
that he was a labor guy. Illegal immigration has a
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unifying effect. Stay focused on that. Johnny, you're on the
Michael Berry Show. We'll go. We'll go right down the line,
mister Robis. Johnny, you're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, Johnny,
Oh we lost him. Ken, You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Go ahead.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
Yes. I think there's an extra mile to get out
of this McDonald's story. I think we should make a
maybe you with your viewership should make a one day
next week, a large Friday at McDonald's and go and
buy all the McDonald's fries that they have.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Okay, and what what are we going to accomplish?
Speaker 6 (22:41):
That?
Speaker 8 (22:41):
It's just another push and sticking it in their faces
that did. Trump's deal that he did this weekend resonated
with people.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
You make an interesting point, Ken, Do you think that
if the goal is to convince undecided voters to vote
our way, do you think that sticking their faces in
it helps us get there?
Speaker 8 (23:08):
No, but I just can't resist sticking their face in it, right,
And that is.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
A guilty indulgence that costs us elections. This is you know,
sometimes the biggest fans of something make you hate it.
I think that that part of the hatred of Tesla.
What is the hatred of the electric cars being jammed
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down our throats with tax incentives and a demand that
the internal combustion engine goes away? I do, But I
think part of the hatred is that the people with
Tesla's want to run around telling everybody they have a Tesla.
And I think that made people hate the Tesla. And
now they wonder why everybody hates them and flips them
off and says nasty things about them at the stop sign,
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and you wonder to what extent they are responsible in
their own demand. It is a very, very guilty indulgence
to taunt the other side while voting is still going on.
A very guilty indulgence. I want to win. I don't
care what someone's personal choices are. I don't care what
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their thoughts are on the issues. I want to win
at all costs. You see a player taunting another player
in the middle of a game. It never turns out way.
Joe Biden became.
Speaker 8 (24:32):
Mentally impaired with the Michael Berry.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Tamala was born that way.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Good mon, I'm gonna ask you a question. You have
fifteen seconds to consider before giving your answer. Okay, once
you start your answer, you cannot amend your answer. You're
gonna rank them one to three because I gotta get
to the call seven, one, three, nine, nine, nine, one thousand.
You're gonna rank them one to three from the greatest. Yes,
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you want to write them down. Huh. You can use
a pencil. Yes, you can have a pencil and piece
of paper. That's no other outside materials. No calculators. How
about that? Teachers told us when we said, well, we'll
just use a calculator, they said, well, you're not going
to have a calculator in your pocket all the time. Now,
are you jokes on?
Speaker 6 (25:19):
You? All?
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Right? One through three? Top to third? You ready when
I give you the question. I will count to fifteen seconds.
When I say go, you must begin speaking. Those are
the rules. Ready, What are your three? And don't qualify
it and don't ask for clarity. You just answer as
you think the answer needs to be provided. What are
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your three favorite in descending orders order peppers? Three favorite peppers.
I'm not answering any questions. You answer it however you
want to answer it. And you've got three seconds to
one go. Hello, yeah, hlapanno habernaro bell you panicked, you
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did panic. I see no purpose in bell peppers other
than to make chiliver.
Speaker 7 (26:24):
Ye.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
No, Bell peppers are a delivery mechanism. No, it's not true.
You know what else the bell peppers are good for.
They're pretty, they're pretty on a plate, but nobody wants them.
Nobody likes them, nobody eats them. They're flavorless, they have
nice colors. I see no point to bell peppers. And
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I know right now somebody is thinking, he know he's
talking about I'll make bell pepper. No, no, stop. Nobody
likes your bell peppers. There's a better pepper out there,
find it, use it, and bell peppers are useless. Now,
I will say if I come home and nothing has
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a big pan of bell peppers and onions that have
just started. It's pretty to look at, but as a
reduction cook down, they're useless. Their flesh is useless. They're
just colorful. That's it. And that's all all right. Let's
go to Matt seven three nine, one thousand. You're up, Matt,
go ahead.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
More, mister Barry, I saw and then regarding your your
call about service industry experience.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Good, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Well, I worked at I think a good examples. I
worked at Starbucks. I think it was four to six.
Started in Madison, Wisconsin, Houston for a little bit in
Colorado Springs. And I'll say the biggest thing I taked
away from working at Starbucks was learning the ability to
talk to all kinds of people from different walks of life.
It's served me very well in my life since then.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
And so two thousand and four.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
There's some relation there is that when you yether, how
old were you?
Speaker 8 (28:02):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Nineteen?
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Were you at the university?
Speaker 6 (28:07):
Were you No?
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I wasn't. I was just living up there, okay. And
how much did you make?
Speaker 4 (28:16):
I think it was eight fifty an hour, I believe.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
And you worked there for how long?
Speaker 4 (28:25):
About two and a half years total at Starbucks three
different states.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Was there training on the drinks and the culture and
policies before you went on the floor or were you
just put on the floor.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Oh, yeah, there's training. Actually, there's pretty heavy training when
it comes back then that they still did the manual Maurisa, right.
You had to learn how to tamp it. You had
to learn what a proper poor timing was. It was
very important to the quality of the espresso shot. And
you also had to do what they called a Coffee
World Tour I think it is, and they would brew
all their different beings and you'd had to taste them
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and write down and you had to pass through the
book not to work, but it was important part of
the culture back then that you really understood the beans,
the region, the roasting and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
So who what was the position of the person who
trained you?
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Just primarily the store manager actually, and.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
So would you learn while you were on duty and
just trail?
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Yeah, pretty much, that's right.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
So you would shadow a person, but you weren't interacting.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
That's for the first couple of weeks. Now you have
to learn all the sequences and plumps of syrup and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
How did people surprise you who came in as customers?
Were they more rude? Were they nicer? Were they understanding?
Were they up aty? What? What was your reaction?
Speaker 4 (29:48):
There's a mix of everything. I'd say generally people were
a lot more patient and kind. I think most people are.
I shoul give him a chance and you talk to
him and give them a little bit of attention. There's
always the people though, that are impatient. Got to get
to work, whatever other reasons.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Interesting. Thanks for the call, d Man. You're on the
Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, Hey, what's up?
Speaker 7 (30:09):
Bro?
Speaker 6 (30:09):
I just wanted to say thank you for your your
messages and everything you do for the for the American people, Bro.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
My thing was I voted last year, right, What am
I going to do because I got a mail in ballot.
I didn't ask for it, it just showed up. So
does that mean that I get to turn in two
of them? No? If I was dishonest, if I was
a you know, just why did I get a mail
in ballot?
Speaker 2 (30:38):
You shouldn't get a mail in ballot? Do the right thing,
and I'll tell you what I tell everyone else. There
is a lot of fraud it's there is fraud. Uh
behave rationally and do the right thing, don't. It worries
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me because you know the woman who called in last week, Linda,
and she said she wanted to shoot the billboard. She
was so upset that Kamala Harris had billboard, she wanted
to shoot the billboard. Well, I understand that's an exaggeration,
but there may be someone who does that, a sweet
little lady who shoots the billboard, and she's the one
who gets caught, and she's the one that gets in trouble.
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So I just cautioned people, don't lose your wits during
a time like this unless you are personally involved in
election integrity, or you are engaged in as an overseer,
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as an auditor, a monitor. Unless you are personally engaged
in stopping the steal, then you're wasting your time, spending
a lot of time on it. And I think it's
become kind of like the UFO crowd. It's become a
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fetish hobby. And I guess the problem is, I guess
it's harmless. I just don't want to be a part
of it because I see I talk to too many
people who are not going to vote because they're frustrated
at how bad things are in this country. They think
Kamala Harris was hand picked. They think Biden's an idiot.
They think they're trying to kill Trump. But what's the
point in voting because they're going to steal it? And
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that I cannot abide with killing our own voter turnouts
with this effort.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Vari Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
That American dream is slipping away. I don't have to
tell you that you're feeling your lives. You see it in
your shrinking wages, in the cost of everything from groceries
to healthcare, to college, to filling up your car at
the gas station. It keeps going up, been up and up,
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and the future keeps receiving further and further and further away.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
That really speaks to a lot of pessimism here about
the American dream.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
How it feels like it's out of region.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
You know, home ownership for too many people in our
country now is elusive.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
You know, gone is the day of everyone thinking they
could actually live the American dream.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I'm here today with a message of hope for all Americans.
With your vote in this election, I will end inflation,
i will stop the invasion, and I will bring back
the American Dream.
Speaker 6 (01:06):
Lean on me.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
When you're not strong, and I'll me you dream.
Speaker 7 (01:15):
I'll help you care.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
We're winning by a lot, We're leading by a lot.
We're leading in the polls. Every single state looks like
we're doing you and with your supporter November fifth, America.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Will be bigger, better, bolder, richer, safer, and stronger than
ever before.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
Lean on me.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
When you're not strong.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
And how me your dream.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I'll help you.
Speaker 7 (01:49):
Care for those who abandoned hope, We'll restore hope, and
we'll welcome them into a great national crusade to make
America great again.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
That's why I'm here today, That's why I'm standing before you,
because we are going to finish what we started. We
started something that was America.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
We're going to complete the mission.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
We're going to see this battle through to ultimate victory.
We're going to make America great again.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
You need somebody.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
This election is a choice between whether we will have
a four I think of this four more years, could
you stand it.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
It's four more years of incompetence, stupidity, and failure and disaster,
or whether we will begin the four greatest years in
the history of our country.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I think we have a.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Real chair make America great again.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
And quite simply put, we will very quickly make America
great again.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. That line is
used repeatedly. They don't point any policy, they don't point
any result, they don't point to any real reason.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
For that.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Is a threat to democracy. We won't have democracy any
longer if we end up with Trump. Threat to democracy.
We're not a democracy, We're a republic. If we were
an ancient Greek democracy, we'd be voting all the time
(03:48):
instead of just talking about it. It be votes on everything,
the true rule of the people. It's organized anarchy, chaos.
But Donald Trump is a threat to our process of government.
We have over three hundred million people, over three hundredion
(04:11):
people in this country, representing every country in the world,
every language, every background, with businesses that span every industry
across a vast swath of land, rich heritage, warriors and entrepreneurs, teachers, scientists, inventors.
(04:39):
But donaldreat Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. I
couldn't go to sleep last night because I sat there
thinking about something and it started bothering me this line,
to keep using this line, And then I remembered Russia's
(05:01):
old maxim whatever they accuse you of, they are doing.
Let's put this into perspective for a moment. Ronald Reagan
was the first Trump presidency. His campaign in nineteen eighty
was make America great Again. People are surprised when I
(05:24):
tell him that so much of Trump's campaign was modeled
on the outsider Reagan, who ran against the establishment in
eighty People had had enough, that had enough of the establishment.
Do you know what bothered them about the establishment? Let's
go back to sixty eight. Richard Nexon gets elected seventy two.
(05:46):
He is re elected in seventy six. The accidental president,
man who hadn't been elected, Gerald Ford Kamala Harris of
his era. The establishment could control him. He was a
real establishment man. When he left the presidency, he would
serve on corporate boards. I bet you can't tell me
three things about Gerald Ford, and if one of them
(06:09):
has to be he tried to eat the husk of
a Tamali. That tells you that he was an empty suit,
which he was. He was placed there by the establishment.
He was a placeholder, a figurehead. Reagan came out in
seventy six, the working Man's candidate, the america first candidate
at a time when the world was changing. Americans were nervous,
(06:34):
frustrated inflation, gas prices, just come out of a war,
a war that people knew in their heart of hearts
was wrong. Something about this war. Everybody felt it. So
nineteen eighty eight, Reagan puts Bush in as his vice
president because he needs the establishment. Got to have the
(06:56):
establishment right. So in nineteen eighty eight, the first Bush
is elected. Nineteen ninety two Clinton, he serves for eight years.
Two thousand, we get what another Bush for eight more years.
Cheney is his vice president. Two thousand and eight, we
have Barack Obama. He serves for eight years, despite how
(07:19):
unpopular he was. For eight years of Bush and War.
Then in twenty sixteen, Donald Trump beats yet another Clinton
after vanquishing yet another Bush in the primary, more Bushes,
more Clintons, Trump gets elected. He serves just four years,
(07:44):
four years of a prosperous presidency. America was on the
right track. We withdrew from a forever war where we'd
been sending our boys for twenty years to no avail.
The Taliban his back stronger than ever. So why were
we there forever war in Iraq? What did we accomplish?
(08:06):
Why were we there four years? Out of thirty six?
Donald Trump was the president. They impeached him twice. He
runs again. Biden, who'd been the vice president under Obama
and who'd been in the Senate since seventy two, not
(08:28):
a great candidate, but he was the best they had.
He finally withered on the vine and they were stuck
with a candidate. They had no draft pick, they had
no farm team, they were stuck with a bad candidate.
And that's where we are. But Donald Trump threat to democracy.
You've had Bushes, Clintons or Obama's for thirty six years
(08:48):
in this country, and Trump is the threat to democracy.
Speaker 8 (08:54):
Michael Barry, maybe I'll get a surprise.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
A many times we will storyboard a show, plan it
out because we're going to do it this time. Is
how we're going to direct it. Here's how the music's
going to play into that. This is the direction, this
is the mood, this is the very intentional it's what
(09:20):
we're going to do. Yesterday was just such a day.
On Sunday, we were all bouncing ideas while we were
at home preparing for yesterday's show, and I knew the
McDonald's moment was a transcendent moment. I'm not exaggerating. It's
(09:41):
a moment we'll remember. It's a moment that was bigger
than what actually just happened. It sent a lot of
messages to a lot of people. It resonated with people
in different ways, but everybody connected to that story in
(10:02):
one way or another. Trump did McDonald's, Kamla did five
guys of people. Really they're different, right, they're But I
had planned that yesterday would be an interactive experience because
A because I'm fascinated by your stories. Some of you,
(10:25):
every one of you has a story that's interesting. You
just don't think it's interesting because it's your story, so
you're bored of it. It's nothing new to you. You know,
if we're hanging out and we're talking to Carrie Strugg
and she's she's not impressed that her ankle was shattered
and are blown and she still landed that routine. But
(10:51):
I am because if I got if my ankle's even slight,
I got terrible ankles. If my ankles even slightly hurt,
oh I'm putting it up. I'm not. I'm not walking
upstairs much less doing an advanced routine. You don't think
anything of it, shouldn't think anything of it. But to me,
it's fascinating. So from a purely selfish perspective, I love
(11:15):
to hear your stories. But I also think it's important
to share those stories because I think you connect with
it in a way that maybe helps make what's going
on make more sense. So I had planned, and we
had agreed that we would have people call in yesterday
(11:37):
and tell their fast food story, preferably mcnoal's, but doesn't
have to be what people learned from that first job
in fast food. And it's interesting because the show is
most of the time it's us driving the show. We're
(12:00):
doing what we're going to do, and you're listening. But
there are times that I feel that you just have
to get back and let the show go. And yesterday
was one of those. I think a big part of
that was it was early voting. I think I think
everyone felt an energy, the helpless fanfare for the common
(12:25):
man was for once, for once, we get to have
our say, we get to engage in this ritual. We
get to break from our tradition, get in our vehicle,
preferably with our spouse, our parents, our kids, our friend,
our colleague, put the dog in the back seat, and
(12:48):
drive up there and stand in line with a bunch
of other people. There's something about going through something with
a lot of other people. Also, you're caught up in
a moment. It's all these other people. They're doing what
I'm doing. Well, vote. We sat at home, We've watched
our TV, we've listened to the radio, we've looked at
the computer. Retired, we get to have our say. I
(13:11):
guess you could say it's just a vote, but it's
so much more than that. And I felt that energy.
I stayed up to way too late last night because
I was determined that if somebody wrote me an email,
I was going to read. And it was so optimistic, aspirational.
(13:33):
People were excited, excited by the crowds they saw. It
gave them hope because they didn't know when they drove
to the polls. Maybe maybe I'm the only one that
realizes what's going on. Maybe they won't be anybody there,
maybe nobody cares. It's easy to believe that, and then
you see other people just like you. We're driving Austin
(13:53):
this weekend, and I like that two ninety route up
to Page Take twenty one west, cut over ten twelve
miles or however far it is. Hit hit seventy one.
They're the BUCkies at in front of the BUCkies, turn
(14:14):
right and go into Austin, and you're on the south
side of Austin. When you do that, that's where we stay.
And what's interesting is when you leave the big city,
when you leave the town where Rodney and Sylvester and
(14:35):
Sheila and dumb dumb KP. George, When you leave the
town where the power structure is a bunch of corruptocrats,
self dealing, race baiting, and you get outside of town
starts in about Hempstead. You go Hempstead, Waller Brinham, Burton,
(14:59):
car Me gettings, and you start noticing what the signs
in the yards say, and you start noticing how proud
people are, how elaborate their political statement is. And you
don't see a Harris Welds. You just don't see it.
Not that a homeowner has placed. There'll be a derelict
(15:22):
property where they've hired one of their goons to go
put up signs, but that's not a statement of an owner.
And you realize that's that's where our listeners live. That's
where our listeners are. These are rational people. These are
people who run businesses. These are people who cut their
firewood in the summer because it gets cold in the winter.
(15:44):
These are people that go to church and raise their
kids and their grandkids, who build things, who aspire, who strive,
who save, sacrifice. These are the people you build. And
it's wonderful to get outside of Houston, where everyone is
(16:06):
in a rat race of irrationality, where it's crazy. Any
given time you're driving past a murderer and he's probably
out on bond right now. You get out there and
things just start to make sense. It just start to
make sense. So I didn't get to do what I
(16:29):
wanted to do yesterday. But the McDonald's story is not over.
McDonald's story has gone from Trump in the moment to
the media to now they can't decide whether to ignore
it or whether to criticize it, because when you criticize
(16:49):
your reminding people. But that story, you know, they they
just like Joe the plumber. The Legacy media is now
running opposition research on the owner of that Pennsylvania McDonald's
where Trump worked. They're now pulling out an inspection report
(17:11):
where a low level inspector went in to do a
food inspection and one of the employees hadn't washed his hands.
Oh my, what a danger. They can't undo what happened.
They can't undo the moment. That's not what this is about.
This is about telling the next guy who wants to
step up and help Trump. What we'll do to you?
(17:33):
I'd like to hear your fast food story? What'd you learn?
Where'd you work? When was it? Seven one three nine
nine nine one thousand seven one three nine nine nine.
Well you already. Though many times I will talk a lot,
I will get caught up in the rhetoric the Michael
Berry Show. I'm a knucklehead at times. No, we refused
to see day one. Early voting in Harris County two
(17:56):
thousand and six, eighty five hundred people was an off year,
wasn't a presidential year? Two thousand and eight, it spiked
to thirty nine thousand, two hundred. Twenty ten. It went
back in an off year, but far above the four
years before of eighty five hundred. At twenty six thousand,
(18:16):
twenty twelve, it went up to forty seven thousand twenty fourteen,
back down at twenty thousand, twenty sixteen. The Democrats are
figuring out what they're doing now, all the way up
to sixty seven thousand, almost double what it had been
eight years earlier. Twenty eighteen it dropped down to sixty
(18:40):
three thousand. That was the Democrats sweep that brought Lena
Hidalgo into power. The Democrats had the game down. Act
Blue knew what they were doing. By this time, things
were going great in Harris County. Ed Emmett was a
county judge. Things were rather efficient. Cactus Jack Cagle was
a commissioner, Republican majority twenty eighteens. When everything changed, they
(19:07):
stole this county twenty twenty. Remember, let's go through the
presidential election years in Harris County alone, two thousand and eight,
Obama's first year, thirty nine thousand, twenty twelve, the reelection
forty seven thousand, twenty sixteen, Hillary versus Trump sixty seven thousand,
(19:28):
twenty twenty, one hundred twenty eight thousand. Those are Democrats,
Make no mistake. Those are Democrats. They know what they're
doing now. They've got this game down to get better
every time. One hundred twenty eighty twenty twenty. On the
(19:49):
first day yesterday, one hundred twenty five thousand. How come
we're not up from where we were before. I don't
think the Democrats turned out their votes yesterday the way
we did. You're seeing numbers in the swing states. Trump
is up in every one of them. Those numbers, they
(20:09):
don't know how people vote. They just know that when
a person votes, they can look at their voting history.
A three D or a three R meaning a person
who's voted in a primary the last three primaries the
last two years. Each of the two years person votes
in that primary. A three D or a three R
(20:31):
is a pretty reliable Democrat or Republican. They vote in primaries,
not general elections. A five D or a five R
very reliable. That's their brand. They don't leave that brand.
I will tell you this that while the Republicans are
leading over Democrats in Democrats versus Republicans, the people who
(20:52):
walk in the door and us knowing how they're going
to vote based on that, I think people are going
to be surprised that there are Democrats showing up to
vote and we know they're Democrats based on what primary
they voted on in the past. We don't know how
they vote when they show up to vote in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin,
North Carolina, Virginia. I think we're going to be surprised.
(21:18):
I'm not a lot of people are going to surprise
how many of those Democrats are voting for Trump. Jews
are voting for Trump quietly, They don't want anybody to know,
because that would mean that that their boyfriend, who they
said was supporting of racist Hitler and Trump, they now
realize that Kamala Harris's policies are bad for them. Oh
(21:39):
hold on, hold on, Ramon, you see that possible seem
Oh no, it's a scroll and I'm my glass son.
You're getting folks. A lot of white labor are voting Trump.
When they went for Biden. Biden Biden had everybody know
that he was a labor guy. Illegal immigration has a
(22:01):
unifying effect. Stay focused on that. Johnny, you're on the
Michael Berry Show. We'll go. We'll go right down the line,
mister Robis. Johnny, you're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, Johnny,
Oh we lost him. Ken, You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Go ahead.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
Yes. I think there's an extra mile to get out
of this McDonald's story. I think we should make a
maybe you with your viewership should make a one day
next week, a large Friday at McDonald's and go and
buy all the McDonald's fries that they have.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Okay, and what what are we going to accomplish?
Speaker 6 (22:41):
That?
Speaker 8 (22:41):
It's just another push and sticking it in their faces
that did. Trump's deal that he did this weekend resonated
with people.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
You make an interesting point, Ken, Do you think that
if the goal is to convince undecided voters to vote
our way, do you think that sticking their faces in
it helps us get there?
Speaker 8 (23:08):
No, but I just can't resist sticking their face in it, right,
And that is.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
A guilty indulgence that costs us elections. This is you know,
sometimes the biggest fans of something make you hate it.
I think that that part of the hatred of Tesla.
What is the hatred of the electric cars being jammed
(23:33):
down our throats with tax incentives and a demand that
the internal combustion engine goes away? I do, But I
think part of the hatred is that the people with
Tesla's want to run around telling everybody they have a Tesla.
And I think that made people hate the Tesla. And
now they wonder why everybody hates them and flips them
off and says nasty things about them at the stop sign,
(23:56):
and you wonder to what extent they are responsible in
their own demand. It is a very, very guilty indulgence
to taunt the other side while voting is still going on.
A very guilty indulgence. I want to win. I don't
care what someone's personal choices are. I don't care what
(24:18):
their thoughts are on the issues. I want to win
at all costs. You see a player taunting another player
in the middle of a game. It never turns out way.
Joe Biden became.
Speaker 8 (24:32):
Mentally impaired with the Michael Berry.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Tamala was born that way.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Good mon, I'm gonna ask you a question. You have
fifteen seconds to consider before giving your answer. Okay, once
you start your answer, you cannot amend your answer. You're
gonna rank them one to three because I gotta get
to the call seven, one, three, nine, nine, nine, one thousand.
You're gonna rank them one to three from the greatest. Yes,
(24:59):
you want to write them down. Huh. You can use
a pencil. Yes, you can have a pencil and piece
of paper. That's no other outside materials. No calculators. How
about that? Teachers told us when we said, well, we'll
just use a calculator, they said, well, you're not going
to have a calculator in your pocket all the time. Now,
are you jokes on?
Speaker 6 (25:19):
You? All?
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Right? One through three? Top to third? You ready when
I give you the question. I will count to fifteen seconds.
When I say go, you must begin speaking. Those are
the rules. Ready, What are your three? And don't qualify
it and don't ask for clarity. You just answer as
you think the answer needs to be provided. What are
(25:45):
your three favorite in descending orders order peppers? Three favorite peppers.
I'm not answering any questions. You answer it however you
want to answer it. And you've got three seconds to
one go. Hello, yeah, hlapanno habernaro bell you panicked, you
(26:19):
did panic. I see no purpose in bell peppers other
than to make chiliver.
Speaker 7 (26:24):
Ye.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
No, Bell peppers are a delivery mechanism. No, it's not true.
You know what else the bell peppers are good for.
They're pretty, they're pretty on a plate, but nobody wants them.
Nobody likes them, nobody eats them. They're flavorless, they have
nice colors. I see no point to bell peppers. And
(26:46):
I know right now somebody is thinking, he know he's
talking about I'll make bell pepper. No, no, stop. Nobody
likes your bell peppers. There's a better pepper out there,
find it, use it, and bell peppers are useless. Now,
I will say if I come home and nothing has
(27:06):
a big pan of bell peppers and onions that have
just started. It's pretty to look at, but as a
reduction cook down, they're useless. Their flesh is useless. They're
just colorful. That's it. And that's all all right. Let's
go to Matt seven three nine, one thousand. You're up, Matt,
go ahead.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
More, mister Barry, I saw and then regarding your your
call about service industry experience.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Good, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Well, I worked at I think a good examples. I
worked at Starbucks. I think it was four to six.
Started in Madison, Wisconsin, Houston for a little bit in
Colorado Springs. And I'll say the biggest thing I taked
away from working at Starbucks was learning the ability to
talk to all kinds of people from different walks of life.
It's served me very well in my life since then.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
And so two thousand and four.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
There's some relation there is that when you yether, how
old were you?
Speaker 8 (28:02):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Nineteen?
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Were you at the university?
Speaker 6 (28:07):
Were you No?
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I wasn't. I was just living up there, okay. And
how much did you make?
Speaker 4 (28:16):
I think it was eight fifty an hour, I believe.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
And you worked there for how long?
Speaker 4 (28:25):
About two and a half years total at Starbucks three
different states.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Was there training on the drinks and the culture and
policies before you went on the floor or were you
just put on the floor.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Oh, yeah, there's training. Actually, there's pretty heavy training when
it comes back then that they still did the manual Maurisa, right.
You had to learn how to tamp it. You had
to learn what a proper poor timing was. It was
very important to the quality of the espresso shot. And
you also had to do what they called a Coffee
World Tour I think it is, and they would brew
all their different beings and you'd had to taste them
(28:59):
and write down and you had to pass through the
book not to work, but it was important part of
the culture back then that you really understood the beans,
the region, the roasting and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
So who what was the position of the person who
trained you?
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Just primarily the store manager actually, and.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
So would you learn while you were on duty and
just trail?
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Yeah, pretty much, that's right.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
So you would shadow a person, but you weren't interacting.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
That's for the first couple of weeks. Now you have
to learn all the sequences and plumps of syrup and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
How did people surprise you who came in as customers?
Were they more rude? Were they nicer? Were they understanding?
Were they up aty? What? What was your reaction?
Speaker 4 (29:48):
There's a mix of everything. I'd say generally people were
a lot more patient and kind. I think most people are.
I shoul give him a chance and you talk to
him and give them a little bit of attention. There's
always the people though, that are impatient. Got to get
to work, whatever other reasons.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Interesting. Thanks for the call, d Man. You're on the
Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, Hey, what's up?
Speaker 7 (30:09):
Bro?
Speaker 6 (30:09):
I just wanted to say thank you for your your
messages and everything you do for the for the American people, Bro.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
My thing was I voted last year, right, What am
I going to do because I got a mail in ballot.
I didn't ask for it, it just showed up. So
does that mean that I get to turn in two
of them? No? If I was dishonest, if I was
a you know, just why did I get a mail
in ballot?
Speaker 2 (30:38):
You shouldn't get a mail in ballot? Do the right thing,
and I'll tell you what I tell everyone else. There
is a lot of fraud it's there is fraud. Uh
behave rationally and do the right thing, don't. It worries
(30:59):
me because you know the woman who called in last week, Linda,
and she said she wanted to shoot the billboard. She
was so upset that Kamala Harris had billboard, she wanted
to shoot the billboard. Well, I understand that's an exaggeration,
but there may be someone who does that, a sweet
little lady who shoots the billboard, and she's the one
who gets caught, and she's the one that gets in trouble.
(31:22):
So I just cautioned people, don't lose your wits during
a time like this unless you are personally involved in
election integrity, or you are engaged in as an overseer,
(31:45):
as an auditor, a monitor. Unless you are personally engaged
in stopping the steal, then you're wasting your time, spending
a lot of time on it. And I think it's
become kind of like the UFO crowd. It's become a
(32:06):
fetish hobby. And I guess the problem is, I guess
it's harmless. I just don't want to be a part
of it because I see I talk to too many
people who are not going to vote because they're frustrated
at how bad things are in this country. They think
Kamala Harris was hand picked. They think Biden's an idiot.
They think they're trying to kill Trump. But what's the
point in voting because they're going to steal it? And
(32:27):
that I cannot abide with killing our own voter turnouts
with this effort.
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