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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Arry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
The Fox News Decision Desk can now officially project that
Donald Trump will become the forty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Seventh President of the United States.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
He indeed.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Happy day. Indeed when he woo.
Speaker 6 (01:01):
Whin do those war three years away?
Speaker 5 (01:06):
Hello? Happy day? Or happy day? Or happy day? When
those wars, oh many war, when those war.
Speaker 7 (01:34):
Three ars away?
Speaker 6 (01:35):
He looked.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
The habit.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Hadeed.
Speaker 8 (02:18):
I had a listener call me this morning as we're
going off the air from the morning show and mentioned
Rush Limbaugh. And it made me feel very good. I
feel like Rush is looking down on us and smiling.
Rush was our inspiration in talk radio. He's a reason
there is talk radio today.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
And you know, he.
Speaker 8 (02:44):
Passed February seventeenth of twenty twenty one, so we're coming
up on four years.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
It'll be and it.
Speaker 8 (02:53):
Sometimes I wonder, you know, do people forget Do people
forget how much we loved Rush Limbaugh? Klay Travis and
Buck Sextoner are good friends of mine, and I think
they're wonderful.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Wonderful human beings.
Speaker 8 (03:09):
And they're also dear friends, good people, And I mean,
in our industry. To step in as they did was
tough because nobody's going to be Rush Limbaugh. And they
knew it like they took it on the chin. And
I think they've done a great job and it's a
different show. There'll never be another Rush Limbaugh never, but boy,
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oh boy, does it make me proud to think that
Rush Limbaugh called out Kamala Harris for what and who
she is and how she ended up where she is,
that he called out Trump for who and what he is,
and America sees that that Trump honored him with the
Presidential Medal of Freedom. And when he when he did
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the train conductor, you know, yeah, yeah, pump of his fist.
It was a glory moment and he was gone short
order after that, he was gone.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (04:04):
It just felt good because sometimes I wonder have people
forgotten Rush, and they haven't, and it makes me so happy.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
It makes me so very happy.
Speaker 8 (04:15):
I want to start with, you know, when we were
talking about the nineteen seventy nine Pittsburgh Pirates season that
we Are Family season is on the Morning show today
and I was I use sports analogies a lot, not
as much as Clay does. As Clay comes from the
sports journalism world, but because sports are a way that
I use to tell examples, because I think you can
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tell example quickly out of that, and I use this
example often. You know, when the Astros won the World
Series in twenty seventeen, we'd never won a World Series
in Houston. It was a big moment. But the next day,
nothing has changed. You get to puffy chest out a little.
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Maybe you get yourself a ring, you know, you get
hang a band, or you get bragging rights, but nothing changes.
You just want to win because you want to win,
because it's a good feeling to win. When you win
an election, things change. You're driving now, right, you're driving.
This thing ain't swerving anymore. You're in charge, you're leading,
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you're directing. It's glorious. It is glorious. And this victory
is so big, popular vote, electoral college, across the board,
across the demographics. This victory is so big, so powerful,
so broad, so universal, so consistent, so resounding that Donald
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Trump has what you call a mandate that's important, and
he knows that.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
That's why he wanted the big win.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
We're gonna make our country better than it ever is.
Speaker 9 (06:00):
And I said that many people have told.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
Me that God spared my life.
Speaker 9 (06:07):
For a reason, and that reason was to save our
country and to restore America to greatness. And now we
are going to fulfill that mission.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
Together. We're going to fulfill that mission.
Speaker 9 (06:25):
The task before us will not be easy, but I
will bring every ounce of energy, spirit and fight that
I have in my soul to the job that you've
entrusted to me.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
This is a great job. There's no job like this.
Speaker 9 (06:42):
This is the most important job in the world. Just
as I did it my first term. We had a
great first term, a great, great first term. I will
govern by a simple motto. Promises made, Promises kept.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
We're going to keep our promises.
Speaker 9 (07:01):
Nothing will stop me from keeping my word to you,
the people. We will make America safe, strong, prosperous, powerful
and free again. And I'm asking every citizen all across
our land to join me in this noble and righteous endeavor.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
That's what it is.
Speaker 9 (07:17):
It's time to put the divisions of the past four
years behind us.
Speaker 7 (07:22):
It's time to unite and we're going to try. We're
going to try. We have to try, and it's going
to happen. Success will bring us together. I've seen that.
I've seen that.
Speaker 9 (07:34):
I saw that in the first term when we became
more and more successful, people started coming together. Success is
going to bring us together, and we are going to
start by all putting America first. We have to put
our country first for at least a period of time.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
We have to fix.
Speaker 9 (07:52):
It because together we can truly make America great again
for all Americans. So I want to just tell you
what a great honor this is.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
I want to thank you. I will not let you down.
Speaker 9 (08:04):
America's future will be bigger, better, bolder, richer, safer, and
stronger than it has ever been before. God bless you,
and God bless America.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 8 (08:16):
It is a great day and we are celebrating here
on The Michael Berry Show seven one three one thousand,
seven one three none one thousand.
Speaker 9 (08:27):
Thanks to having one the battleground state of North Carolina.
I love these places, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. We are now
winning in Michigan, Arizona, Nevada, and Alaska, which would result
in US carrying at least three hundred and fifteen electoral votes.
Speaker 10 (08:48):
But that.
Speaker 9 (08:53):
But as much easier doing what the network's did or
whoever called it, because there was no other there was
no other path to victory. We also have won the
popular vote. That was great, Podible, thank you, thank you
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very much. Say and now winning the popular vote was
very nice, so very nice.
Speaker 7 (09:30):
I will tell you. It's a great, a great feeling
of love. We have a great feeling of love in
this very large room with unbelievable.
Speaker 9 (09:39):
People standing by my side. These people have been incredible.
They've made the journey with me, and we're going to
make you very happy. We're going to make you very
proud of your vote.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
I hope that you're.
Speaker 9 (09:52):
Going to be looking back someday and say that was
one of the truly important moments of my life when
I voted for this group of people. Well beyond the president,
this group of great people America has given us an
unprecedented and powerful Manday.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Monica, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 10 (10:18):
I just wanted to make a comment something that I
was thinking about and very excited about winning, and that is,
if I'm my history right, in twenty twenty six, it'll
be two hundred and fifty years for the years our birthday.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
That's right, and I would love at the end to day.
Speaker 10 (10:35):
Yeah, yeah, I'm just so excited that he may do
something to make America great and have some kind of
presentation on our July fourth or something like that.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Yeah, well, I just wanted to make that's going to be.
What a wonderful time, Monica.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
I'm glad you brought that up because I've been reading
about Thomas Jefferson over the last couple of weeks. And
Jefferson was only thirty three when he wrote the Declaration
of Independence. We had been at war or with the
crown for several years at this point, and you know,
we had we'd had conquered, we'd had a Lexington, we'd
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had some major battles. And when he first Benjamin Franklin
was asked to write the declaration and he said no,
he said, I don't write things that.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Will be edited by others.
Speaker 8 (11:25):
Remember he was a publisher a printer earlier in his life,
and he didn't like the concept. And he was he
was on up in age the Constitutional Convention. I think
he was eighty two, so that was a little over
ten years later, so he would have been probably late sixties,
early seventies at that point. And then it went to
John Adams, and John Adams Jefferson's good friend from Massachusetts
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said no, it can't be me, and he gave three
reasons why it couldn't be him. And he said, first
of all, because I'm from Massachusetts and you're from Virginia,
and it should be written by a Virginian. It's important
that this document be written by a Virginian because the
most important state in the Union at the time. And
number two, he said, it is because I am obnoxious,
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I am unpleasant to others, and if I were to
write the document, it won't achieve passage. And third, he said,
and it pains me to say this. While I'm a
better orator than Jefferson, he is a far better writer.
And that turned out to be true. And so, in
a rented room on I believe Market Street in Philadelphia,
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Thomas Jefferson said about writing what would become the Declaration
of Independence, with almost no edits being offered by anyone,
it was such a beautifully written piece.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
It was the.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
Words of which have become the American creed. If you
think about it. George will who I used to like
but I think he lost his way, described Jefferson's words
in the in the jeff in the Declarations of Independence,
He said that is that if you think of America's
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Democratic Republic, if you think of it as a religion,
you think of what makes America a religion. Then Jefferson
wrote the Catechism, and I thought, well, that's that's beautifully said.
The Declaration of Independence is the Catechism. And and you know,
I've spent a lot of time considering, you know, these
these all men are created equal, and what this means,
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and how could you say that when you've owned over
two hundred slaves at the time, And you know, Jefferson
would go on in the House of Burgesses and in
the in the Virginia Legislature where he would then be
the governor. He would go on to propose over thirty
bills that would free immediately or over time the slaves,
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and not one of which would get a full hearing
and passage. He was a complicated man. It was a
complicated issue. But I don't think I'm certain that you
cannot say that America is not a great nation because
of slavery. I think America is a great nation because
we ended slavery. And I think it says a lot
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about America that we have tackled not just slavery. We
have tackled a number of difficult issues that humanity has
struggled with over the course of time, and we've done
so with class and dignity and warts and all.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
We are a better union because of it.
Speaker 8 (14:38):
I truly believe that this is a glorious moment in
the life of our Republic.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
And I do think it's.
Speaker 8 (14:44):
The dawn of, as President Trump has said last night
and again today, a golden age.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Or America going forward. I really did the Michael Berry Show. Rick,
You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, starting.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
Times three. Quick things.
Speaker 11 (15:03):
My constable buddy in Eagle Pass, Maverick County says, the
county went really really read number two Dallas County, fifth
Circuit Coarter Appeals flipped red YEP three. Here in town,
we got rid of three of the worst judges ever,
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Elaine Palmer, Frederica Phillips and Ursula Hall.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
You're talking about in Houston.
Speaker 11 (15:31):
Yes, just horrible judges and they're gone.
Speaker 8 (15:39):
We're seeing that across the country. You know, I haven't
spent a lot of time this evening on what happened
in Texas. You know, I always struggle because we've got
listeners across the country. How much Texas do I talk?
And I think sometimes I err on the side of
too little, because I think people want some insight into Texas,
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and I have an insight that most people are never
going to have as to what's going on locally, because
I've been an elected official, and I'm close to Ted Cruz,
and I'm close to the political process, and my wife
was Secretary of State and all those sorts of things.
So sometimes I wonder, you know, how much does somebody
in New York or Florida or Nashville or LA care
about that sort of stuff. But I will say what's
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happened in Texas with a big win by Ted Cruise
and a big win by Donald Trump and Hispanic counties,
for Hispanic counties in particular, going heavily, heavily Donald Trump
and Star County, which I mentioned earlier, for the first
time in one hundred and thirty two years going Republican.
Trump lost there by sixty percentage points eight years ago,
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and this time he won by sixteen. There's an interesting
thing happening there. Elon Musk has put his Star base
there and he's he spent twenty million dollars on the
local schools and building out infrastructure and doing things to
help that community. And he brought a lot of job
opportunities there, and I think people are seeing, hey, let's
let's live the land of opportunity. We don't have to
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live off of the government, we don't have to wait
on the scraps of welfare. And it's making people believe
in opportunity and in entrepreneurs and people like Elon Musk
and Donald Trump. And I think that's why you're seeing
what you're seeing. Star County Sta r R. If you
folks want to look it up, it's a county you
never would have heard of. There's no major city that
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you would have ever visited or been to. It's on
the Texas Mexico border. It's in South Texas. It's the
most Hispanic county in the country at ninety seven percent,
so it is sometimes cited as an interesting but you
also have to realize that when you use the word
Latino in this country, the Latinos are very different depending
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on where they are. A Florida Latino is very likely
almost definitely of Cuban descent. They tend to be much
more conservative than a Texas Latino. First generation anyway, who
is from Mexico, And when you use those terms in
New York, you're very likely talking about Puerto Ricans or Dominicans,
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which is also a different mindset, the island cultures versus
the Central American cultures, the guatemal In Hundur and El Salvadoran.
So you can't just paint with too broad a brush
on this issue of Hispanic or Latino. But what happened
in Star County and Trump's victory there is well worth
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a further study, and we will do that. A Republican
win for the first time in a one hundred and
thirty two years and a seventy six point flip that's
just unheard of. I've never seen that in my lifetime
of studying election returns where a guy loses eighty twenty,
which Trump did in sixteen in that county Star County,
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and eight years later wins it fifty eight to forty two.
And by the way, the national media would have you
believe that all Hispanics want wide open illegal immigration and
that any effort to stop it is going to mean
that they're going to get the knock at their door
and they're going to be deported. When they've been here
for five generations. People don't believe that black men voted
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twenty three percent for Donald Trump this time. And you
know what, they showed that they're independent. Trump had a
higher percentage of the vote than Republicans have had I
believe since George W. Bush in two thousand and four,
against a candidate who they tried to pass off as
being black. They held on to more black women than
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they did black men by quite some distance. The problem
is black women vote in much higher percentages than do
black men. One of the great frustrations is that women
generally vote in higher percentages than men in this country,
and that is a modern phenomenon. And what they've done
this is the Democrats are aware of this. The way
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they get that there is they convince women that abortion
is the most important thing in the world and that
Republicans are not going to let you have an abortion,
and that you they're they're they're they're putting you in
a in a prison cell, and you're just going to
have to have babies all day long. You'll just be
barefoot and pregnant all day long, and you're not teaching
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women self respect.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
You've got little girls.
Speaker 8 (20:41):
Worried about having an abortion when they're four or five
years old. Dear goodness, teach women the consequences of unprotected
sex and promiscuity and sex with men that you don't
care about and love. There is nothing wrong with having
the values that sex is an act of love to
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be shared by two people who are committed. I'm not
trying to go in and be prudish and prevent women
from going home with a different man every night in
the bar if that's what they think makes them liberated.
But I'm also not going to say that I think
this is positive behavior that should be taught to young girls.
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What does it tell a young man when he sees
that the girl he's taking out on a date her
father starts crying over the fear that one day his
little daughter won't be able to have an abortion? Do
you people not understand birth control? This is why the
Democrats focus the discussion on abortion. We're the only country
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in the world where abortion is one of the top
five issues that voters discuss. The only country in the
world this is because of the Democrats. They keep women
focused on this one issue. We've got to keep people
focused on the family.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
The border crime opportunity, the economy.
Speaker 8 (22:08):
We've got to keep people focused on the issues that
matter to everyone all the time. And when we do
as you will see and when we engage, we will win.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
That Michael Barry Show, the place where Wolke goes to die.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
The Fox News Decision Desk can now officially project that
Donald Trump will become the forty seventh president of the
United States.
Speaker 8 (22:35):
I could see it like breaking me and my parents apart,
because they just don't get it, and they don't get
that they voted for.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
One who's going to make my friends lives hell. My
life's okay, the white.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Woman vote, but your friends are not going to be vote.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
We may not.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Have right tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Everybody cry.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
So I'm going to bed with.
Speaker 10 (23:10):
The last I have.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
Everybody hurt, Salm.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Anyone else help me meltdown. I don't know how to
do this. I don't know how to wait. I'm so stressed.
Speaker 10 (23:27):
How you can't look out into the world, into the
people of this country and see what's happening, and how
a heart we're all fighting.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
For rights not to be taken away from people. I
go from hysterically crying one minute over the pain of
this situation and then hysterically crying.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
The next minute, everybody hurts saldi.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
I don't know how to handle this. I don't know
how to get through the next couple of days. Who
knows how.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
Long this is gonna take.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
It's like I can feel.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
The being and the fear.
Speaker 8 (24:47):
I realize some people don't enjoy laughing at liberal democrat tears,
but I do. I do, And I realize that a
lot of people are. You know, let's turn the page,
let's be nice. I I get it, I get it,
I really do. But I'm gonna tell you something fixing
the problems in this country, which I'm ready to do.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
There's gonna be a lot.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
Of crying, There'll be a lot of pushback, and I'm
ready for it. That's why you win. These are the
spoils of victory. Is that you get to chart the
course of greatness and everybody else gets to come along
unless they get deported, and they will get deported unless
they get sent to prison, and the criminals are going
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to be sent to prison. Part of the Golden Age
is not just holding hands and singing Kumbai Yah. It's
doing the things necessary to put our course, our country
back on a course of greatness.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
I'm ready for it. I'm ready for it. Aaron. You
are on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir, Hi Michael.
Speaker 12 (25:51):
You know, for many people, I think that today you
really don't even know how to react because, like, you know,
like a fan of a long suffering fan of a
really bad sports team, you're just so used to just saying,
oh shucks, we'll get them next time. But you know,
you're just not even used to winning. You know what
is that?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Like?
Speaker 12 (26:09):
I got My wife's a rabbit at Alabama fan, so
she doesn't know what I'm talking about at all. But
for me, it's like, you know, so I'm I watched
the election returns its way too late last night, and
as I'm sitting there, they're projecting Donald Trump is a
forty seventh president. I'm sitting there going, okay, I'll see
if the map that is still read when I wake
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up in the morning, and it's still the same thing.
But so it takes a while for all this to
sink in because you've done all the work, you've gotten,
You've talked to everybody, you've gotten people of the polls
who tried to have the influence that you can, and
now it's paid off, and then there's this sense of
what I do now, Is this the part for the
champagne and confetti. I'm completely out of practice here.
Speaker 8 (26:54):
Yeah, there's a wonderful documentary on Netflix about the two
thousand and four Boston Red Sox team. And you know,
they're comeback from three from being down three nothing against
the mighty Yankees of the time. I mean, look, you
got you got Jeter at short, you got a Rod
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at third. You've got uh a former Red Sox star,
Roger Clemens on the mound. You've got Mariano coming out
of the out of the bullpen. You've got Bernie Williams.
You talk about a star studded team, guys. And by
the way, that Red Sox team pretty stacked as well,
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because at that point they still had Johnny Damon, they
got Big Poppy. I mean, they got Wakefield who put
in a good year that year. They got Kevin Malar
on third, who I just love. They still had no
more at short. But you know, they're a big part
of the documentary. Is this this team and the burden
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they feel that they carry.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
And I don't think this is overblown.
Speaker 8 (28:02):
I do believe this The burden they feel that they
carry for you know, the curse of the Bambino, the
nineteen eighteen trade of Babe Ruth Await and that they hadn't,
you know, won a championship and it would be what
eighty six years until they would that year. But the
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thing you describe is how Red Sox fans every year
just kind of expected it to fall apart. Cowboys fans
feel that way today. You know, the Cowboys got used
to winning under Tom Landry. Then Jerry Jones buys the
team and they got used to winning under the biggest
stupidest they mistake they made is they had a great
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coach who who Jerry Jones wanted all the credit, so
he fires Jimmy Johnson. Dumb dumb move, brings in Switzer,
who manages to win with Jimmy Johnson's team, and then
you know, they had some good seasons under Romo, but
now it's sort of like, you know, hope spring's eternal
every year and then they fall apart. Well, that's several
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sports examples to kind of make my point. We've had
a rough go of it. Christians have had a rough
go of it. Men have had a rough go of it.
Mommies and daddies have had a rough go of it.
Police officers have had a rough go of it. Veterans
active duty. It's been a tough time in our country,
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and we summoned an energy to win a battle and
move the movement forward.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
And I think it's very emotional. I really do.
Speaker 8 (29:43):
I think a lot of people today and last night
are feeling very emotional putting this into perspective.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
I'm a student of history. You know, you can look
at at the Dark.
Speaker 8 (29:54):
Ages, and you can look at the Enlightenment, and you
can look at various phases.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
There can be thirty fifty, sixty, one hundred.
Speaker 8 (30:01):
Years that go by that on the timeline in the museum,
you don't even mark anything. Well, what if you were
born during that time? What if you were born in
the time of the Assyrian civilization?
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Are the Romans?
Speaker 8 (30:17):
Are the Carthaginians or Sumerians? But you were born during
a natier of that country's culture and security. Well, I
think for a lot of us, we say, you know,
Trump talked about this Golden Age.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
I think we're ready to get back to that.
Speaker 8 (30:37):
I think we felt outnumbered, we felt somewhat imprisoned by
bad policies and bad people and beaten down. And this
is the reminder of what I've said again and again
and again. Never forget there are more of you than
there are of them. Don't be afraid, because the moment
you are, it's a scarecrow effect. You begin policing yourself,
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You begin defeating yourself.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Out of the expectation that you'll be defeated down the road.
And what does that mean.
Speaker 8 (31:09):
It means that they never actually have to defeat you
because you do it to yourself.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Arry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
The Fox News Decision Desk can now officially project that
Donald Trump will become the forty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Seventh President of the United States.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
He indeed.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Happy day. Indeed when he woo.
Speaker 6 (01:01):
Whin do those war three years away?
Speaker 5 (01:06):
Hello? Happy day? Or happy day? Or happy day? When
those wars, oh many war, when those war.
Speaker 7 (01:34):
Three ars away?
Speaker 6 (01:35):
He looked.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
The habit.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Hadeed.
Speaker 8 (02:18):
I had a listener call me this morning as we're
going off the air from the morning show and mentioned
Rush Limbaugh. And it made me feel very good. I
feel like Rush is looking down on us and smiling.
Rush was our inspiration in talk radio. He's a reason
there is talk radio today.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
And you know, he.
Speaker 8 (02:44):
Passed February seventeenth of twenty twenty one, so we're coming
up on four years.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
It'll be and it.
Speaker 8 (02:53):
Sometimes I wonder, you know, do people forget Do people
forget how much we loved Rush Limbaugh? Klay Travis and
Buck Sextoner are good friends of mine, and I think
they're wonderful.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Wonderful human beings.
Speaker 8 (03:09):
And they're also dear friends, good people, And I mean,
in our industry. To step in as they did was
tough because nobody's going to be Rush Limbaugh. And they
knew it like they took it on the chin. And
I think they've done a great job and it's a
different show. There'll never be another Rush Limbaugh never, but boy,
(03:32):
oh boy, does it make me proud to think that
Rush Limbaugh called out Kamala Harris for what and who
she is and how she ended up where she is,
that he called out Trump for who and what he is,
and America sees that that Trump honored him with the
Presidential Medal of Freedom. And when he when he did
(03:53):
the train conductor, you know, yeah, yeah, pump of his fist.
It was a glory moment and he was gone short
order after that, he was gone.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (04:04):
It just felt good because sometimes I wonder have people
forgotten Rush, and they haven't, and it makes me so happy.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
It makes me so very happy.
Speaker 8 (04:15):
I want to start with, you know, when we were
talking about the nineteen seventy nine Pittsburgh Pirates season that
we Are Family season is on the Morning show today
and I was I use sports analogies a lot, not
as much as Clay does. As Clay comes from the
sports journalism world, but because sports are a way that
I use to tell examples, because I think you can
(04:36):
tell example quickly out of that, and I use this
example often. You know, when the Astros won the World
Series in twenty seventeen, we'd never won a World Series
in Houston. It was a big moment. But the next day,
nothing has changed. You get to puffy chest out a little.
(04:57):
Maybe you get yourself a ring, you know, you get
hang a band, or you get bragging rights, but nothing changes.
You just want to win because you want to win,
because it's a good feeling to win. When you win
an election, things change. You're driving now, right, you're driving.
This thing ain't swerving anymore. You're in charge, you're leading,
(05:20):
you're directing. It's glorious. It is glorious. And this victory
is so big, popular vote, electoral college, across the board,
across the demographics. This victory is so big, so powerful,
so broad, so universal, so consistent, so resounding that Donald
(05:47):
Trump has what you call a mandate that's important, and
he knows that.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
That's why he wanted the big win.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
We're gonna make our country better than it ever is.
Speaker 9 (06:00):
And I said that many people have told.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
Me that God spared my life.
Speaker 9 (06:07):
For a reason, and that reason was to save our
country and to restore America to greatness. And now we
are going to fulfill that mission.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
Together. We're going to fulfill that mission.
Speaker 9 (06:25):
The task before us will not be easy, but I
will bring every ounce of energy, spirit and fight that
I have in my soul to the job that you've
entrusted to me.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
This is a great job. There's no job like this.
Speaker 9 (06:42):
This is the most important job in the world. Just
as I did it my first term. We had a
great first term, a great, great first term. I will
govern by a simple motto. Promises made, Promises kept.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
We're going to keep our promises.
Speaker 9 (07:01):
Nothing will stop me from keeping my word to you,
the people. We will make America safe, strong, prosperous, powerful
and free again. And I'm asking every citizen all across
our land to join me in this noble and righteous endeavor.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
That's what it is.
Speaker 9 (07:17):
It's time to put the divisions of the past four
years behind us.
Speaker 7 (07:22):
It's time to unite and we're going to try. We're
going to try. We have to try, and it's going
to happen. Success will bring us together. I've seen that.
I've seen that.
Speaker 9 (07:34):
I saw that in the first term when we became
more and more successful, people started coming together. Success is
going to bring us together, and we are going to
start by all putting America first. We have to put
our country first for at least a period of time.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
We have to fix.
Speaker 9 (07:52):
It because together we can truly make America great again
for all Americans. So I want to just tell you
what a great honor this is.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
I want to thank you. I will not let you down.
Speaker 9 (08:04):
America's future will be bigger, better, bolder, richer, safer, and
stronger than it has ever been before. God bless you,
and God bless America.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 8 (08:16):
It is a great day and we are celebrating here
on The Michael Berry Show seven one three one thousand,
seven one three none one thousand.
Speaker 9 (08:27):
Thanks to having one the battleground state of North Carolina.
I love these places, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. We are now
winning in Michigan, Arizona, Nevada, and Alaska, which would result
in US carrying at least three hundred and fifteen electoral votes.
Speaker 10 (08:48):
But that.
Speaker 9 (08:53):
But as much easier doing what the network's did or
whoever called it, because there was no other there was
no other path to victory. We also have won the
popular vote. That was great, Podible, thank you, thank you
(09:25):
very much. Say and now winning the popular vote was
very nice, so very nice.
Speaker 7 (09:30):
I will tell you. It's a great, a great feeling
of love. We have a great feeling of love in
this very large room with unbelievable.
Speaker 9 (09:39):
People standing by my side. These people have been incredible.
They've made the journey with me, and we're going to
make you very happy. We're going to make you very
proud of your vote.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
I hope that you're.
Speaker 9 (09:52):
Going to be looking back someday and say that was
one of the truly important moments of my life when
I voted for this group of people. Well beyond the president,
this group of great people America has given us an
unprecedented and powerful Manday.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Monica, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 10 (10:18):
I just wanted to make a comment something that I
was thinking about and very excited about winning, and that is,
if I'm my history right, in twenty twenty six, it'll
be two hundred and fifty years for the years our birthday.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
That's right, and I would love at the end to day.
Speaker 10 (10:35):
Yeah, yeah, I'm just so excited that he may do
something to make America great and have some kind of
presentation on our July fourth or something like that.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Yeah, well, I just wanted to make that's going to be.
What a wonderful time, Monica.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
I'm glad you brought that up because I've been reading
about Thomas Jefferson over the last couple of weeks. And
Jefferson was only thirty three when he wrote the Declaration
of Independence. We had been at war or with the
crown for several years at this point, and you know,
we had we'd had conquered, we'd had a Lexington, we'd
(11:11):
had some major battles. And when he first Benjamin Franklin
was asked to write the declaration and he said no,
he said, I don't write things that.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Will be edited by others.
Speaker 8 (11:25):
Remember he was a publisher a printer earlier in his life,
and he didn't like the concept. And he was he
was on up in age the Constitutional Convention. I think
he was eighty two, so that was a little over
ten years later, so he would have been probably late sixties,
early seventies at that point. And then it went to
John Adams, and John Adams Jefferson's good friend from Massachusetts
(11:47):
said no, it can't be me, and he gave three
reasons why it couldn't be him. And he said, first
of all, because I'm from Massachusetts and you're from Virginia,
and it should be written by a Virginian. It's important
that this document be written by a Virginian because the
most important state in the Union at the time. And
number two, he said, it is because I am obnoxious,
(12:11):
I am unpleasant to others, and if I were to
write the document, it won't achieve passage. And third, he said,
and it pains me to say this. While I'm a
better orator than Jefferson, he is a far better writer.
And that turned out to be true. And so, in
a rented room on I believe Market Street in Philadelphia,
(12:35):
Thomas Jefferson said about writing what would become the Declaration
of Independence, with almost no edits being offered by anyone,
it was such a beautifully written piece.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
It was the.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
Words of which have become the American creed. If you
think about it. George will who I used to like
but I think he lost his way, described Jefferson's words
in the in the jeff in the Declarations of Independence,
He said that is that if you think of America's
(13:11):
Democratic Republic, if you think of it as a religion,
you think of what makes America a religion. Then Jefferson
wrote the Catechism, and I thought, well, that's that's beautifully said.
The Declaration of Independence is the Catechism. And and you know,
I've spent a lot of time considering, you know, these
these all men are created equal, and what this means,
(13:34):
and how could you say that when you've owned over
two hundred slaves at the time, And you know, Jefferson
would go on in the House of Burgesses and in
the in the Virginia Legislature where he would then be
the governor. He would go on to propose over thirty
bills that would free immediately or over time the slaves,
(13:57):
and not one of which would get a full hearing
and passage. He was a complicated man. It was a
complicated issue. But I don't think I'm certain that you
cannot say that America is not a great nation because
of slavery. I think America is a great nation because
we ended slavery. And I think it says a lot
(14:19):
about America that we have tackled not just slavery. We
have tackled a number of difficult issues that humanity has
struggled with over the course of time, and we've done
so with class and dignity and warts and all.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
We are a better union because of it.
Speaker 8 (14:38):
I truly believe that this is a glorious moment in
the life of our Republic.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
And I do think it's.
Speaker 8 (14:44):
The dawn of, as President Trump has said last night
and again today, a golden age.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Or America going forward. I really did the Michael Berry Show. Rick,
You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, starting.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
Times three. Quick things.
Speaker 11 (15:03):
My constable buddy in Eagle Pass, Maverick County says, the
county went really really read number two Dallas County, fifth
Circuit Coarter Appeals flipped red YEP three. Here in town,
we got rid of three of the worst judges ever,
(15:23):
Elaine Palmer, Frederica Phillips and Ursula Hall.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
You're talking about in Houston.
Speaker 11 (15:31):
Yes, just horrible judges and they're gone.
Speaker 8 (15:39):
We're seeing that across the country. You know, I haven't
spent a lot of time this evening on what happened
in Texas. You know, I always struggle because we've got
listeners across the country. How much Texas do I talk?
And I think sometimes I err on the side of
too little, because I think people want some insight into Texas,
(16:02):
and I have an insight that most people are never
going to have as to what's going on locally, because
I've been an elected official, and I'm close to Ted Cruz,
and I'm close to the political process, and my wife
was Secretary of State and all those sorts of things.
So sometimes I wonder, you know, how much does somebody
in New York or Florida or Nashville or LA care
about that sort of stuff. But I will say what's
(16:27):
happened in Texas with a big win by Ted Cruise
and a big win by Donald Trump and Hispanic counties,
for Hispanic counties in particular, going heavily, heavily Donald Trump
and Star County, which I mentioned earlier, for the first
time in one hundred and thirty two years going Republican.
Trump lost there by sixty percentage points eight years ago,
(16:51):
and this time he won by sixteen. There's an interesting
thing happening there. Elon Musk has put his Star base
there and he's he spent twenty million dollars on the
local schools and building out infrastructure and doing things to
help that community. And he brought a lot of job
opportunities there, and I think people are seeing, hey, let's
let's live the land of opportunity. We don't have to
(17:13):
live off of the government, we don't have to wait
on the scraps of welfare. And it's making people believe
in opportunity and in entrepreneurs and people like Elon Musk
and Donald Trump. And I think that's why you're seeing
what you're seeing. Star County Sta r R. If you
folks want to look it up, it's a county you
never would have heard of. There's no major city that
(17:34):
you would have ever visited or been to. It's on
the Texas Mexico border. It's in South Texas. It's the
most Hispanic county in the country at ninety seven percent,
so it is sometimes cited as an interesting but you
also have to realize that when you use the word
Latino in this country, the Latinos are very different depending
(17:59):
on where they are. A Florida Latino is very likely
almost definitely of Cuban descent. They tend to be much
more conservative than a Texas Latino. First generation anyway, who
is from Mexico, And when you use those terms in
New York, you're very likely talking about Puerto Ricans or Dominicans,
(18:22):
which is also a different mindset, the island cultures versus
the Central American cultures, the guatemal In Hundur and El Salvadoran.
So you can't just paint with too broad a brush
on this issue of Hispanic or Latino. But what happened
in Star County and Trump's victory there is well worth
(18:43):
a further study, and we will do that. A Republican
win for the first time in a one hundred and
thirty two years and a seventy six point flip that's
just unheard of. I've never seen that in my lifetime
of studying election returns where a guy loses eighty twenty,
which Trump did in sixteen in that county Star County,
(19:06):
and eight years later wins it fifty eight to forty two.
And by the way, the national media would have you
believe that all Hispanics want wide open illegal immigration and
that any effort to stop it is going to mean
that they're going to get the knock at their door
and they're going to be deported. When they've been here
for five generations. People don't believe that black men voted
(19:30):
twenty three percent for Donald Trump this time. And you
know what, they showed that they're independent. Trump had a
higher percentage of the vote than Republicans have had I
believe since George W. Bush in two thousand and four,
against a candidate who they tried to pass off as
being black. They held on to more black women than
(19:55):
they did black men by quite some distance. The problem
is black women vote in much higher percentages than do
black men. One of the great frustrations is that women
generally vote in higher percentages than men in this country,
and that is a modern phenomenon. And what they've done
this is the Democrats are aware of this. The way
(20:18):
they get that there is they convince women that abortion
is the most important thing in the world and that
Republicans are not going to let you have an abortion,
and that you they're they're they're they're putting you in
a in a prison cell, and you're just going to
have to have babies all day long. You'll just be
barefoot and pregnant all day long, and you're not teaching
(20:38):
women self respect.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
You've got little girls.
Speaker 8 (20:41):
Worried about having an abortion when they're four or five
years old. Dear goodness, teach women the consequences of unprotected
sex and promiscuity and sex with men that you don't
care about and love. There is nothing wrong with having
the values that sex is an act of love to
(21:01):
be shared by two people who are committed. I'm not
trying to go in and be prudish and prevent women
from going home with a different man every night in
the bar if that's what they think makes them liberated.
But I'm also not going to say that I think
this is positive behavior that should be taught to young girls.
(21:22):
What does it tell a young man when he sees
that the girl he's taking out on a date her
father starts crying over the fear that one day his
little daughter won't be able to have an abortion? Do
you people not understand birth control? This is why the
Democrats focus the discussion on abortion. We're the only country
(21:44):
in the world where abortion is one of the top
five issues that voters discuss. The only country in the
world this is because of the Democrats. They keep women
focused on this one issue. We've got to keep people
focused on the family.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
The border crime opportunity, the economy.
Speaker 8 (22:08):
We've got to keep people focused on the issues that
matter to everyone all the time. And when we do
as you will see and when we engage, we will win.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
That Michael Barry Show, the place where Wolke goes to die.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
The Fox News Decision Desk can now officially project that
Donald Trump will become the forty seventh president of the
United States.
Speaker 8 (22:35):
I could see it like breaking me and my parents apart,
because they just don't get it, and they don't get
that they voted for.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
One who's going to make my friends lives hell. My
life's okay, the white.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Woman vote, but your friends are not going to be vote.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
We may not.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Have right tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Everybody cry.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
So I'm going to bed with.
Speaker 10 (23:10):
The last I have.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
Everybody hurt, Salm.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Anyone else help me meltdown. I don't know how to
do this. I don't know how to wait. I'm so stressed.
Speaker 10 (23:27):
How you can't look out into the world, into the
people of this country and see what's happening, and how
a heart we're all fighting.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
For rights not to be taken away from people. I
go from hysterically crying one minute over the pain of
this situation and then hysterically crying.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
The next minute, everybody hurts saldi.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
I don't know how to handle this. I don't know
how to get through the next couple of days. Who
knows how.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
Long this is gonna take.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
It's like I can feel.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
The being and the fear.
Speaker 8 (24:47):
I realize some people don't enjoy laughing at liberal democrat tears,
but I do. I do, And I realize that a
lot of people are. You know, let's turn the page,
let's be nice. I I get it, I get it,
I really do. But I'm gonna tell you something fixing
the problems in this country, which I'm ready to do.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
There's gonna be a lot.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
Of crying, There'll be a lot of pushback, and I'm
ready for it. That's why you win. These are the
spoils of victory. Is that you get to chart the
course of greatness and everybody else gets to come along
unless they get deported, and they will get deported unless
they get sent to prison, and the criminals are going
(25:29):
to be sent to prison. Part of the Golden Age
is not just holding hands and singing Kumbai Yah. It's
doing the things necessary to put our course, our country
back on a course of greatness.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
I'm ready for it. I'm ready for it. Aaron. You
are on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir, Hi Michael.
Speaker 12 (25:51):
You know, for many people, I think that today you
really don't even know how to react because, like, you know,
like a fan of a long suffering fan of a
really bad sports team, you're just so used to just saying,
oh shucks, we'll get them next time. But you know,
you're just not even used to winning. You know what
is that?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Like?
Speaker 12 (26:09):
I got My wife's a rabbit at Alabama fan, so
she doesn't know what I'm talking about at all. But
for me, it's like, you know, so I'm I watched
the election returns its way too late last night, and
as I'm sitting there, they're projecting Donald Trump is a
forty seventh president. I'm sitting there going, okay, I'll see
if the map that is still read when I wake
(26:30):
up in the morning, and it's still the same thing.
But so it takes a while for all this to
sink in because you've done all the work, you've gotten,
You've talked to everybody, you've gotten people of the polls
who tried to have the influence that you can, and
now it's paid off, and then there's this sense of
what I do now, Is this the part for the
champagne and confetti. I'm completely out of practice here.
Speaker 8 (26:54):
Yeah, there's a wonderful documentary on Netflix about the two
thousand and four Boston Red Sox team. And you know,
they're comeback from three from being down three nothing against
the mighty Yankees of the time. I mean, look, you
got you got Jeter at short, you got a Rod
(27:17):
at third. You've got uh a former Red Sox star,
Roger Clemens on the mound. You've got Mariano coming out
of the out of the bullpen. You've got Bernie Williams.
You talk about a star studded team, guys. And by
the way, that Red Sox team pretty stacked as well,
(27:38):
because at that point they still had Johnny Damon, they
got Big Poppy. I mean, they got Wakefield who put
in a good year that year. They got Kevin Malar
on third, who I just love. They still had no
more at short. But you know, they're a big part
of the documentary. Is this this team and the burden
(27:59):
they feel that they carry.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
And I don't think this is overblown.
Speaker 8 (28:02):
I do believe this The burden they feel that they
carry for you know, the curse of the Bambino, the
nineteen eighteen trade of Babe Ruth Await and that they hadn't,
you know, won a championship and it would be what
eighty six years until they would that year. But the
(28:22):
thing you describe is how Red Sox fans every year
just kind of expected it to fall apart. Cowboys fans
feel that way today. You know, the Cowboys got used
to winning under Tom Landry. Then Jerry Jones buys the
team and they got used to winning under the biggest
stupidest they mistake they made is they had a great
(28:47):
coach who who Jerry Jones wanted all the credit, so
he fires Jimmy Johnson. Dumb dumb move, brings in Switzer,
who manages to win with Jimmy Johnson's team, and then
you know, they had some good seasons under Romo, but
now it's sort of like, you know, hope spring's eternal
every year and then they fall apart. Well, that's several
(29:10):
sports examples to kind of make my point. We've had
a rough go of it. Christians have had a rough
go of it. Men have had a rough go of it.
Mommies and daddies have had a rough go of it.
Police officers have had a rough go of it. Veterans
active duty. It's been a tough time in our country,
(29:34):
and we summoned an energy to win a battle and
move the movement forward.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
And I think it's very emotional. I really do.
Speaker 8 (29:43):
I think a lot of people today and last night
are feeling very emotional putting this into perspective.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
I'm a student of history. You know, you can look
at at the Dark.
Speaker 8 (29:54):
Ages, and you can look at the Enlightenment, and you
can look at various phases.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
There can be thirty fifty, sixty, one hundred.
Speaker 8 (30:01):
Years that go by that on the timeline in the museum,
you don't even mark anything. Well, what if you were
born during that time? What if you were born in
the time of the Assyrian civilization?
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Are the Romans?
Speaker 8 (30:17):
Are the Carthaginians or Sumerians? But you were born during
a natier of that country's culture and security. Well, I
think for a lot of us, we say, you know,
Trump talked about this Golden Age.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
I think we're ready to get back to that.
Speaker 8 (30:37):
I think we felt outnumbered, we felt somewhat imprisoned by
bad policies and bad people and beaten down. And this
is the reminder of what I've said again and again
and again. Never forget there are more of you than
there are of them. Don't be afraid, because the moment
you are, it's a scarecrow effect. You begin policing yourself,
(31:02):
You begin defeating yourself.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Out of the expectation that you'll be defeated down the road.
And what does that mean.
Speaker 8 (31:09):
It means that they never actually have to defeat you
because you do it to yourself.
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