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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Michael darry Show is on the air officially turned around.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Guys, we are.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Back, baby, we are back.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
We are back, plastic, we are back.
Speaker 5 (00:25):
Guess is that that lookay America?
Speaker 6 (00:34):
Yes, it's day days day.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Where we just take a look at at at old
the federal agencies and say do we really need whatever
it is four hundred and twenty eight federal agencies. There's
so many that people have never heard of, and that
half of overlapping areas of.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Responsibility we should I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
We should get I mean there are more federal agencies
than there are years since the established in the United States,
which means that we've created more than one federal agency
per year on average.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
That seems a lot.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
That's a lot. That's a lot, so.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
We should have that seems crazy. I think we should
be able to get away with ninety nine agencies.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
That seems a lot, like a lot of agencies A lot.
Speaker 7 (01:35):
Me.
Speaker 8 (01:51):
We got a message to the mains of illegal areas
that Joe Biden's releasing our country in violation of federal law.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
You better start back.
Speaker 9 (01:58):
And now.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
You're damn right.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Because you're going home.
Speaker 8 (02:08):
I got another message, another message to the colonel Cartels
in Mexico. You're smuggling not f off across this country
to kill one hundred and forty eight.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Thousand young Americans.
Speaker 8 (02:19):
You have killed more Americans than every terrorist organization in
the world combined. And math, when President Trump gets back
in office, he's going to designate to a terrorist organization.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
He's going to wipe you off the face.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Of your You're done. You're done.
Speaker 10 (02:51):
There's a chance to course correct it, but it would
take the new Trump administration going after it really hard.
Speaker 11 (02:57):
How would they correct it? That's all you gotta fire.
You know, you gotta fire the Chairman of Joint Chiefs,
and you gotta fire this.
Speaker 10 (03:04):
I mean obviously gonna bring into the Secretary of Defense,
but any general that was involved, general, admiral, whatever, that
was involved in any of the DEI.
Speaker 11 (03:11):
WOP, it's gotta go.
Speaker 10 (03:13):
Either you're in for war fighting that and that's it.
Speaker 11 (03:16):
That's the only litmus test we care about.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (03:19):
You got to get DEI and c RT out.
Speaker 10 (03:21):
Of military academy so you're not training young officers to
be baptized in this type of thinking.
Speaker 11 (03:26):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (03:26):
And then you know, whatever the standards, whatever the combat
standards were saying, I don't know nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 11 (03:31):
Let's just make those the standards. And as far as.
Speaker 10 (03:34):
Recruiting to hire the guy that you know did top
gun Maverick and create some real ads that motivate people
that want to serve.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
It's true.
Speaker 12 (03:46):
Ask any veteran while they served, Ask a veteran while
they served. It was a huge number of people went
and listed after nine to eleven. Don't underestimate the power
of the earned media and the sense that the nation
was coming together behind this, and these young men said,
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shave my head, humiliate me, ridicule me, break me down,
to build me up, and send me off to kick
their ass.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
And that happened. That's what happened.
Speaker 12 (04:20):
That's why the armed forces spend all this money doing
flyovers at football games. How cheated did you feel when
you found out they were paying for that man? That's
my natural emotion. I see guys, I see decent, honorable
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people who left their homes and went and served our country.
And I feel it's a dishonor, or has been a
dishonor for quite some time, that our military is run
in large part by a bunch of grifters. These guys
deserve better than that, going to wars that we're not
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intending to win, using tactics that are not intended to win,
sacrificing our lives while the American taxpayer is paying the
burden for a europe that does nothing but criticize and
enjoy the fruits of our success. I told you earlier
(05:29):
in the show how fired up I am about Pete Hegseth. Well,
this is going to be clip number five oh two.
It's just him on The Sean Ryan Show, a very
good podcast, by the way, the Shawan Ryan Show podcast.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Here he is.
Speaker 12 (05:44):
I mean, just to hear somebody saying these things that
I have felt for so long. I'm not trying to
say he's stealing my words at all. I'm saying I
have views on these things, and these are views that
you don't hear other people of spouse. And when you
hear here're someone espouse these views, it makes you know,
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at least I'm not crazy. There is hope out there.
Speaker 10 (06:07):
The Pentagon is in the book the exact amount of years,
but in the past X number of years, ten, twelve, fifteen,
the Pentagon has a perfect record in all of its
war games against China, we lose every time inside the
Pentagon wargames. We know what our real capability. You see,
we didn't even get to this part of the.
Speaker 11 (06:28):
War on warriors.
Speaker 10 (06:29):
I mean the military industrial conflet the way we procure
weapons systems, you know, we're always the way our system works,
the way our bureaucratic system works, where the speed of
weapons procurement works.
Speaker 11 (06:39):
We're always a decade behind and fighting the last war.
Speaker 10 (06:43):
Whereas China there we have a we have you know
what Romsfeldt say, you go to the war of the army,
you have we have the army China's building an army
specifically dedicated to defeating the United States of America. That is,
that is their strategic outset. Take hypersonic missiles. So if
our whole, if our whole power projection platform is aircraft
carriers and the ability to project power that way strategically
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around the globe. And yeah, we have a nuclear triad
and all that, but a big part of it. And
if you know, fifteen hypersonic mixles can take out our
ten aircraft carriers in the first twenty minutes of a conflict.
What does that look like I mean, and when they're
if they've already got us by the balls economically, which
you pointed out very well with our grid. Culturally, there's
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plenty of elite capture going on around the globe, I mean, and.
Speaker 11 (07:32):
Then microchips and everything. Why do they want Taiwan?
Speaker 10 (07:35):
They want a corner the market completely on the technological
future and can't even drive our cars without the stuff
we need out of.
Speaker 11 (07:41):
China these days.
Speaker 10 (07:43):
I mean, they have a full spectrum, a long term
view of not just regional but global domination.
Speaker 11 (07:51):
And we are we have our heads up our asses.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
It feels like.
Speaker 12 (07:56):
Our service members have an advocate again. It feels like
the guys on the ground fighting the wars. It feels
like they've got an advocate for the first time in
a long time who values them, respects them. This man Bravo,
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Donald Trumpet.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Teg Deft Choice.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Guitars, Cigars and a few thoughts from the Bizarre.
Speaker 12 (08:27):
On Michael Berry Show, a listener who, based on her name,
is a woman.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Sent me a post by some woman. I don't know
this woman.
Speaker 12 (08:40):
She posts under the name sarf Fati esther. She's an
attractive woman. She's had a lot of work done. She's
had an amount of work done that you kind of go,
whoa h, just so I know you're not gonna have
any more.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Done, are you? Like addiction level work.
Speaker 12 (09:06):
It's sort of like when you have a friend and
they're two hundred and sixty five pounds and then they
lose one hundred and ten pounds and you go, wait,
you look great, congratulations, but how about you not lose anymore?
And especially with women, You see women they've always had
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a little they've always been carrying a little lecture to
bother them. And whatever they've done, maybe they got on
the majarro or the ozempic or some one of the
Semaglue tides, or maybe just maybe few and far between,
but maybe just maybe they started working out and eating
right and they learned about how their body works. But
you see that they've lost so much weight that you're
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starting to get into carrying carpenter territory, and you go, oh, man,
check the teeth and see if they've been throwing up
or not, or is this straight up anorexia? I always figured, Ramona,
if I was gonna have an eating disorder, I'd rather
it be bolima than anorexia, because anorexia is painful.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
I mean, you just just I just won't eat right.
But bolimia that appeals to me.
Speaker 12 (10:16):
And I think every fat person has a little respect
for bolimix because you go, you know, I get you,
because I'm believing I just forget to puke right.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Anyway, So this was sent to me.
Speaker 12 (10:32):
I don't know why I felt the need to comment
on this woman's presentation, her appearance. It has nothing to
do with it, but she is an attractive woman. She's
kind of made up, and the scene that she creates
is kind of like a nineteen fifties.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Mad Men era deal, where.
Speaker 12 (10:51):
You know, the woman is waiting at home and heels
and the dress and the kids are all, you know,
perfectly done, and she's perfectly coefd. She's putting the meal
on the on the table and she's got an apron
and in the moment she's gonna take it off, and
she's just beautiful.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Right.
Speaker 12 (11:06):
It is advice for women about when your man gets home. Now,
I know a lot of women don't want to hear
this because a lot of women are like in the
Taming of the Shrew, a character played by Elizabeth Taylor,
I'm gonna tell you something. Women who take care of
their husbands are taken care of by their husbands. And
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women who have been fed this nonsense by these feminazis
about you shouldn't be kind to your husband or he'll
trample you, he won't respect you.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
That's not true. The opposite of that is true.
Speaker 12 (11:41):
Women are valued and respected by their husbands because they.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Are worthy of it. Anyway, I thought this was some
good advice taking.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
For what it's worth.
Speaker 13 (11:53):
But a man comes home from work, there's only one
thing he really wants. He wants to have a little
bit of.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Peace and quiet.
Speaker 13 (11:59):
And if you have some thing you want to discuss
with him, and all day you've been waiting for him
to finally come home.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Please wait a little bit.
Speaker 13 (12:05):
Because there's one thing many women don't understand about men.
Men are supposed to solve problems all day and every
day they have to go out into the world and
do their best to make money because otherwise.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
They're being seen as a loser.
Speaker 13 (12:18):
But men also get tired, and if they just go
from problems at work to problems at home, they never
get a break. And I'm not saying that you shouldn't
share any problems with him, but what you could do
as a woman is to wait at the door, give
him a kiss, ask him how his day was, let
him unwind, prepare him a drink, and start talking to
him after half an hour. When you do that, you
make him feel better about himself because you give him
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space to relax and to just think of nothing if
he wants to, because the last thing you want is
to bombard him at the door already with everything that's
been happening and that you need his help, and he
will probably try to solve it for you, but the
only reason is that he wants to get it over
with so that you are finally quiet.
Speaker 12 (13:00):
Have made a conscious decision last couple of days to
spend less time on the Democrat meltdown, because I think
we've got to be positive.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
We're not in a campaign anymore, and it's very hard
to pivot.
Speaker 12 (13:14):
We all get we all get caught up in this
thing where where we're fighting the Democrats every day, and
so we got to tear them down, tear them down,
tear them down.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
The election is over. We got to build up the country.
Speaker 12 (13:25):
Doesn't mean we have to be nice to the Democrats,
but they're gonna melt down they're nuts. This is the
reason they lost the election. But I am going to
violate my rule and tell you this. CNN's Van Jones
made a statement, and you got to realize this was
an Obama guy. This is a race baiting Democrat, and
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for him to say what he says on CNN, I
think I think it is a pretty strong statement.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
If you're the Democrats, what are you gonna do for
the next two years?
Speaker 7 (13:56):
How why are we here?
Speaker 6 (14:02):
There's nothing.
Speaker 14 (14:03):
If you're a Democrat, all we can say is we
hope that Susy decides that she's gonna take a long vacation,
that they hire some terrible people and make some mistakes
to give us a chance.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Right now, they had everything.
Speaker 14 (14:14):
They got the Supreme Court, they got the Electoral College,
they got the House, they got probably they got the Senate,
they got the populative vote, and we're just sitting here
with the dunce cap on last this time last week,
we thought we were the smartest people in the world.
We thought Donald Trump was an idiot, We thought his
campaign made no sense, and it turned out they were
smarter than us.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
And we don't have.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Anything to say.
Speaker 14 (14:31):
You know, I can sit here and pretend I know something.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Here's what I know.
Speaker 14 (14:34):
Everybody I know is miserable. Everybody's on these zoom calls.
Nobody's got any good ideas, and we're gonna take.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Us a while to figure this out.
Speaker 14 (14:41):
I'm not good at coming in here and faking to
pretending like, no, we got wooked.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Man, you gonna go to the spa. You need a
massage and a cut water.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
I agree.
Speaker 12 (14:55):
Donald Trump visited the White House today, and if you
you can go online and see it, Joe Biden looks
happier than I have seen him in years. He was
clearly enjoying this meeting. Trump was very at ease, very relaxed, affable, jocular.
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They genuinely seem to be having a good time. You
can juxtapose that to the video of when Trump went
to the White House in sixteen at the end of
the Obama administration, and Obama looks constipated. Of course, I
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guess if you had to be married to Michelle Obama,
you'd be pretty miserable too. I still hold tight to
the likelihood that Biden and Trump cut a deal, that
Biden determined he was going to help Trump and sabotage
Kamala I don't think that's why Trump won. Don't get
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me wrong. Trump was gonna win on his own because
of you. But I do think Biden undercut her. And
if you haven't seen that video when Kamala comes and
sits down with Doug next to next to Joe Biden,
and Joe Biden never flinches, never looks at her.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Oh it's icy.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Bizarre of talk radio the Michael Arry Show.
Speaker 12 (16:32):
Okay, I said I wouldn't focus on the Democrat meltdown,
and I'm certainly not of any interest to help the
Democrats rebuild. But James Carvill is something of a savant
for them. He like the crazy guy that lives up
on a hill and they go up there and ask
him for his advice, you know, like Creole Williams, and
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he tells him about the dust on the bottle.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
James Carvill.
Speaker 12 (17:00):
James Carvill comes out the raging Cajun. He comes off
as crazy. He looks kind of like Yoda or something.
But he's very well respected because he and Paul Bagala
were the architects of the Clinton win in nineteen ninety two,
and that was the rebuilding of the Democrat Party. Remember
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remember what was going on in ninety two, Reagan won
in eighty Reagan won in eighty four, and then Reagan
passes the baton to his vice president, George H. W.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Bush, who in nineteen ninety two, the.
Speaker 12 (17:35):
Year of his reelection, which is going to be sixteen
years when he wins, sixteen years of Republican leadership. He's
sitting on the highest poll numbers that have ever been
seen for a sitting president since polling began, at over
ninety percent with the with the Iraq situation. Carvil comes
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in and he and Paul Bagala had uh orchestrated the
Bob Casey win in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Was it case Was it?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (18:08):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
It wasn't.
Speaker 12 (18:10):
No, no, no, no, no, hold on, hold on, hold on holder.
So Pennsylvania had a Republican senator who was John Hines.
Heines died in a UH plane crash or car crash.
And then Casey was not the candidate. Casey was the
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governor and he appointed a guy who ran for reelection
but he's not supposed to win, and that was Uh
Harris Wolford and Dick Thornberg who had been was Thornberg
a g Ramond? Yeah, he was oh I'm racking my brain.
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It's too far back to go. I think he was
the governor too. But anyway, Begala and Carvel were the
masterminds of a Democrat win in a state that was
leaning Republican. And then Bill Clinton brings them in to
run his campaign and they beat Bush and the Democrats
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were back. Oh my goodness. So Carvell is something of
a genius to these people. He's this wise savant. It's
kind of like Einstein was viewed. Nobody really wants him
at the dinner party, but you go to him when
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you have a problem that needs to be solved. You know,
it's like a back to the future.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
You know.
Speaker 12 (19:47):
Movies always had that, the guy who kind of lives
out there and the young people can't figure out the problem.
So you go to him and you give him all
the information. And that's how they that's how you tell
that's how they tell you. The plot of the movie
is they give him all the information so he can
make a decision and he says, ah, yes, this sounds
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like and then he gives you the answer to your problem.
Well that is James Carvil. So listen to James Carvill.
Tell Christian I'm onnpour. She didn't like to hear this.
Y'all need to do away with your identity politics. Why
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is this important? Identity politics? Or a cancer on America.
It's also a reason they can't win elections, by the way,
because we've had enough.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
But if.
Speaker 12 (20:42):
Solving the problems of this country are going to mean
that we have to face the resistance and push through it.
But it also means that Democrats, once they are defeated,
are within their own camp going to have to take
back their party from the Progressives, from the race vaders,
from Black Lives Matter, from AOC. This is a good
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sign that Carvil is calling for this because there are
going to be Democrats who are now going to go, hey, guys,
we let the party get away from us. We cannot
do these crazy things anymore. So look, I don't want
the Democrats to move back to the middle and win elections.
I don't, but the Democrats that are in office pulling
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back on some of these policies will be good for
life in America because what's bigger to me than just
winning elections is how we live our day to day lives.
I want the Democrats to govern better. I want California
to be less crazy. You see what I'm saying. I
don't want it to just be Well, It's good they
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stay crazy, because then we win all the elections, but
we still have to live through them running the local
and state governments that they do. Anyway, here's what Carvil
had to say.
Speaker 15 (22:00):
And there is also an idea that America is still
not ready for a female president. But last spring you said,
you know, a suspicion of mine is that there are
too many preachy females dominating the culture of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Do you do you stand by that females?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Would you look? Would you look at our male vote?
Speaker 9 (22:22):
Would you would somebody just take a look at how
we did with males and how we did with non
white males and tell me that the Democrats don't have
a messaging problem, that their message comes across is too feminine.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I mean, of course I was right when I said that.
Speaker 9 (22:39):
I don't think there's not a person in the world
I've talked to that doubts that I'm.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
Right right now, Okay, Jamie, I.
Speaker 9 (22:47):
Say provocative things to get a provocative reaction. Yeah, but
are you really Are somebody going to really tell me
we don't have a problem with male voters.
Speaker 7 (22:56):
Well, that's really interesting.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Because tell me something. I'm completely aw Era.
Speaker 15 (23:00):
No, I'm going to read you the stats as you know,
well you know the stats. One in three voters of
color voted for Trump. Trump carried his fanic men by
ten points. Trump improved his support with younger voters compared
with twenty twenty.
Speaker 7 (23:12):
And you're right, he did win the male vote.
Speaker 15 (23:16):
So I just need to understand this because what are
you saying, then the Democrats need to do about the
so called gender gap.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
What should they do?
Speaker 9 (23:28):
Well, first thing, they could have done a lot of
muscular economic messaging that we didn't do. We could have
been increased the minimum wage to fifteen thouars an hour.
We could have talked more about raising taxes on incomes
above four thousand and using that money to help young
people buy a house. We can certainly shovel the entire
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identitary identity politics about fifty feet in the ground and
bury it.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
I mean, you can start by doing things like that.
Speaker 9 (23:59):
You could you could have got out in front of
the crime issue, which, by the way, to crime break
the United States is down historically out by thirty percent.
But we were not able to talk about crime because
the the woke police will not allow that. In one
of the great accomplishments of the Biden Rris administration. So
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there's a lot of things you can do, and you
can you can change your language around, you know, don't
use coded language.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
And it's going to take.
Speaker 9 (24:32):
Like I said, it'll take one cycle before we can
wash this smell off of our shirt.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
But I think it a good chance to act correctly.
Speaker 9 (24:42):
It'll be gone by twenty six and it'll be gone
by twenty eight. But please know, anybody like infer to
me that we did well with males because we did
not snowflakes.
Speaker 12 (24:52):
I prepare for a complete meltdown with more of the
Michael Ferry Show. If you've been around the show for
a little while now, you know that we like to
have a little fun the last segment or two, a
little whimsy at the end of our day that we
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hope you can take home with you. And today what
I would like to do is play for you what
is kind of intellectual porn for us here on the station,
here at the show should I say?
Speaker 4 (25:32):
And that is.
Speaker 7 (25:35):
That?
Speaker 12 (25:35):
Is a list by Senator James Langford from Oklahoma of
some of the dumbest uses of your tax dollars. Now,
the reason I play this is they're going to try
to destroy I, vivak Ramaswami and Elon Musk because they
have now been given a carte blanche, a diplomatic pass
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to be able to run them up within the government
and say we're going to stop that. Remember, Elon's a
guy who bought Twitter, walked in and laid off seventy
five percent of it and improved it. This guy makes
snap decisions. He is a decision maker and he hates waste.
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So just remember that when they go after them, and
we will close with this. It's one of the finest
moments in recent history. We play this all the time
around the studio during the day.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Last year of the State Department did a grant to
Ecuador to host twelve drag shows in Ecuador with American
tax dollars. Now, may have different opinions in this room
on drag shows. I'm just asking the simple question, is
the best use of American tax dollars to actually fund
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drag shows in Ecuador with US tax dollars.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
I don't believe that it is.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
Last year, we actually did a different funding through the
State Department that was actually done. Actually, this is the
National Science Foundation. Excuse me strike that it seems like
a state department thing. National Science Foundation last year did
a study of butterflies.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
In Europe.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
So we funded with American taxpayer dollars a butterfly study
in Germany where we paid a Swedish scientist to study
butterflies in Germany.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
I'm not real sure why American.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
Tax dollars that was the best use of that, but
that was one of the grants.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
That was done last year.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Last year, there was also a NEA grant that was
done to set up a display in Brooklyn for the
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band. By the way, it's
not even an American band. And I'm not sure why we
had to pay a federal tax dollars to be able
to do that. My simple question is always why are
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tax dollars being taken out of Oklahoma to be able.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
To do that?
Speaker 5 (28:12):
Always popular We had an almost well three hundred and
fifty thousand dollars grant to study smart toilets was one
of the grants that we actually paid for with our
federal tax dollars.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Last year.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
We also had a grant that was done studying colonial
Mexican soundscapes. I'm sure colonial Mexican soundscapes are fascinating, but
we paid for a researcher to travel to Mexico and
then to be able to write a series about the
sounds of colonial Mexico and how they could be used
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to be able to influence communities. We last year did
a study on helmets and seat belts in Ghana to
be able to study whether seat belts and helmets were
effective for saving lives in Ghana.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Can I just go.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
Ahead and answer that question for free? Seat belts and
helmets are a good idea, they save lives free, I
can go ahead and give you that advice. How do
I know that, because we've already spent millions of dollars
in other studies here in the United States, But instead
we spent money in Ghana studying helmets to see if
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they're actually a good idea there, and amazingly they discovered
yes they are. There was also a grant that was
done last year. I've got to just walk this one through.
This was at the Springfield Museum of Art in Missouri.
There was a grant to be on a display an
installation in the exhibit in the museum called yoko Ono
Men's Piece.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Now, let me just read this to you.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
It's a simple white room where shattered cups and saucers
are placed on a table and participants are asked to
mend the fragments together using common household items like twine, glue, scissors,
and tape, and the resulting works are displayed on nearby
shelves as evidence of the power of collective action. Again,
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I'm not opposed to fixing broken saucers in a public
place and displaying them. All I'm asking is why did
Oklahomas work overtime last year to pay their tax bill
to fund doing the yoko Ono white room where people
fixed broken saucers. I don't have a good answer for
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that yet. By the way, I'm still trying to be
able to get that. If you like wine country, great,
you help pay for it.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
One of the.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
Highest income areas in the world is Napa Valley, California.
One of the highest income areas in the entire world.
The good folks of Oklahoma helped pay for a wine
pedestrial trail through Napa Valley because apparently Napa Valley didn't
have enough cash to be able to pay for the
eight mile walking trail through Wine Country, some of the
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most expensive real estate in the entire world. So the
taxpayers in Oklahoma had to pay for that Wine Country
tour trail. If you like traveling to Hawaii, enjoy the
trip when you get there. If you go to a
farmer's market, you'll find out that you help pay for
that farmer's market because the farmer's market in Hawaii received
(31:31):
three point four million dollars to be able to fund
the farmer's market. If you go to New York City
and pay a very high dollar ticket to get into
a private location in the Metropolitan Opera to be able
to watch the opera, you will feel safer, I'm sure
when you go to the Metropolitan Opera, because almost three
quarters of a million dollars was given to the Metropolitan
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Opera in New York to help them install a new
fire suppression system with federal tax dollars. If you like
traveling to Paris and you go to a butcher shop
in Paris, you may be fascinating to know since the
thirteenth century, apparently butchers in Paris have come up with
their own private language. It's like a super secret private
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language among butchers in Paris, fascinating for the French to study.
But unfortunately, the American taxpayers paid for a study of
French butcher's private language for fear that it is diminishing
and fading away. So the American tax dollars paid for
(32:38):
this study in France to study the secret language of
butchers in Paris. I can't tell you why.
Speaker 6 (32:58):
Thank you,
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Michael darry Show is on the air officially turned around.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Guys, we are.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Back, baby, we are back.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
We are back, plastic, we are back.
Speaker 5 (00:25):
Guess is that that lookay America?
Speaker 6 (00:34):
Yes, it's day days day.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Where we just take a look at at at old
the federal agencies and say do we really need whatever
it is four hundred and twenty eight federal agencies. There's
so many that people have never heard of, and that
half of overlapping areas of.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Responsibility we should I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
We should get I mean there are more federal agencies
than there are years since the established in the United States,
which means that we've created more than one federal agency
per year on average.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
That seems a lot.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
That's a lot. That's a lot, so.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
We should have that seems crazy. I think we should
be able to get away with ninety nine agencies.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
That seems a lot, like a lot of agencies A lot.
Speaker 7 (01:35):
Me.
Speaker 8 (01:51):
We got a message to the mains of illegal areas
that Joe Biden's releasing our country in violation of federal law.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
You better start back.
Speaker 9 (01:58):
And now.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
You're damn right.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Because you're going home.
Speaker 8 (02:08):
I got another message, another message to the colonel Cartels
in Mexico. You're smuggling not f off across this country
to kill one hundred and forty eight.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Thousand young Americans.
Speaker 8 (02:19):
You have killed more Americans than every terrorist organization in
the world combined. And math, when President Trump gets back
in office, he's going to designate to a terrorist organization.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
He's going to wipe you off the face.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Of your You're done. You're done.
Speaker 10 (02:51):
There's a chance to course correct it, but it would
take the new Trump administration going after it really hard.
Speaker 11 (02:57):
How would they correct it? That's all you gotta fire.
You know, you gotta fire the Chairman of Joint Chiefs,
and you gotta fire this.
Speaker 10 (03:04):
I mean obviously gonna bring into the Secretary of Defense,
but any general that was involved, general, admiral, whatever, that
was involved in any of the DEI.
Speaker 11 (03:11):
WOP, it's gotta go.
Speaker 10 (03:13):
Either you're in for war fighting that and that's it.
Speaker 11 (03:16):
That's the only litmus test we care about.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (03:19):
You got to get DEI and c RT out.
Speaker 10 (03:21):
Of military academy so you're not training young officers to
be baptized in this type of thinking.
Speaker 11 (03:26):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (03:26):
And then you know, whatever the standards, whatever the combat
standards were saying, I don't know nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 11 (03:31):
Let's just make those the standards. And as far as.
Speaker 10 (03:34):
Recruiting to hire the guy that you know did top
gun Maverick and create some real ads that motivate people
that want to serve.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
It's true.
Speaker 12 (03:46):
Ask any veteran while they served, Ask a veteran while
they served. It was a huge number of people went
and listed after nine to eleven. Don't underestimate the power
of the earned media and the sense that the nation
was coming together behind this, and these young men said,
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shave my head, humiliate me, ridicule me, break me down,
to build me up, and send me off to kick
their ass.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
And that happened. That's what happened.
Speaker 12 (04:20):
That's why the armed forces spend all this money doing
flyovers at football games. How cheated did you feel when
you found out they were paying for that man? That's
my natural emotion. I see guys, I see decent, honorable
(04:45):
people who left their homes and went and served our country.
And I feel it's a dishonor, or has been a
dishonor for quite some time, that our military is run
in large part by a bunch of grifters. These guys
deserve better than that, going to wars that we're not
(05:07):
intending to win, using tactics that are not intended to win,
sacrificing our lives while the American taxpayer is paying the
burden for a europe that does nothing but criticize and
enjoy the fruits of our success. I told you earlier
(05:29):
in the show how fired up I am about Pete Hegseth. Well,
this is going to be clip number five oh two.
It's just him on The Sean Ryan Show, a very
good podcast, by the way, the Shawan Ryan Show podcast.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Here he is.
Speaker 12 (05:44):
I mean, just to hear somebody saying these things that
I have felt for so long. I'm not trying to
say he's stealing my words at all. I'm saying I
have views on these things, and these are views that
you don't hear other people of spouse. And when you
hear here're someone espouse these views, it makes you know,
(06:04):
at least I'm not crazy. There is hope out there.
Speaker 10 (06:07):
The Pentagon is in the book the exact amount of years,
but in the past X number of years, ten, twelve, fifteen,
the Pentagon has a perfect record in all of its
war games against China, we lose every time inside the
Pentagon wargames. We know what our real capability. You see,
we didn't even get to this part of the.
Speaker 11 (06:28):
War on warriors.
Speaker 10 (06:29):
I mean the military industrial conflet the way we procure
weapons systems, you know, we're always the way our system works,
the way our bureaucratic system works, where the speed of
weapons procurement works.
Speaker 11 (06:39):
We're always a decade behind and fighting the last war.
Speaker 10 (06:43):
Whereas China there we have a we have you know
what Romsfeldt say, you go to the war of the army,
you have we have the army China's building an army
specifically dedicated to defeating the United States of America. That is,
that is their strategic outset. Take hypersonic missiles. So if
our whole, if our whole power projection platform is aircraft
carriers and the ability to project power that way strategically
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around the globe. And yeah, we have a nuclear triad
and all that, but a big part of it. And
if you know, fifteen hypersonic mixles can take out our
ten aircraft carriers in the first twenty minutes of a conflict.
What does that look like I mean, and when they're
if they've already got us by the balls economically, which
you pointed out very well with our grid. Culturally, there's
(07:28):
plenty of elite capture going on around the globe, I mean, and.
Speaker 11 (07:32):
Then microchips and everything. Why do they want Taiwan?
Speaker 10 (07:35):
They want a corner the market completely on the technological
future and can't even drive our cars without the stuff
we need out of.
Speaker 11 (07:41):
China these days.
Speaker 10 (07:43):
I mean, they have a full spectrum, a long term
view of not just regional but global domination.
Speaker 11 (07:51):
And we are we have our heads up our asses.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
It feels like.
Speaker 12 (07:56):
Our service members have an advocate again. It feels like
the guys on the ground fighting the wars. It feels
like they've got an advocate for the first time in
a long time who values them, respects them. This man Bravo,
(08:17):
Donald Trumpet.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Teg Deft Choice.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Guitars, Cigars and a few thoughts from the Bizarre.
Speaker 12 (08:27):
On Michael Berry Show, a listener who, based on her name,
is a woman.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Sent me a post by some woman. I don't know
this woman.
Speaker 12 (08:40):
She posts under the name sarf Fati esther. She's an
attractive woman. She's had a lot of work done. She's
had an amount of work done that you kind of go,
whoa h, just so I know you're not gonna have
any more.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Done, are you? Like addiction level work.
Speaker 12 (09:06):
It's sort of like when you have a friend and
they're two hundred and sixty five pounds and then they
lose one hundred and ten pounds and you go, wait,
you look great, congratulations, but how about you not lose anymore?
And especially with women, You see women they've always had
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a little they've always been carrying a little lecture to
bother them. And whatever they've done, maybe they got on
the majarro or the ozempic or some one of the
Semaglue tides, or maybe just maybe few and far between,
but maybe just maybe they started working out and eating
right and they learned about how their body works. But
you see that they've lost so much weight that you're
(09:51):
starting to get into carrying carpenter territory, and you go, oh, man,
check the teeth and see if they've been throwing up
or not, or is this straight up anorexia? I always figured, Ramona,
if I was gonna have an eating disorder, I'd rather
it be bolima than anorexia, because anorexia is painful.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
I mean, you just just I just won't eat right.
But bolimia that appeals to me.
Speaker 12 (10:16):
And I think every fat person has a little respect
for bolimix because you go, you know, I get you,
because I'm believing I just forget to puke right.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Anyway, So this was sent to me.
Speaker 12 (10:32):
I don't know why I felt the need to comment
on this woman's presentation, her appearance. It has nothing to
do with it, but she is an attractive woman. She's
kind of made up, and the scene that she creates
is kind of like a nineteen fifties.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Mad Men era deal, where.
Speaker 12 (10:51):
You know, the woman is waiting at home and heels
and the dress and the kids are all, you know,
perfectly done, and she's perfectly coefd. She's putting the meal
on the on the table and she's got an apron
and in the moment she's gonna take it off, and
she's just beautiful.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Right.
Speaker 12 (11:06):
It is advice for women about when your man gets home. Now,
I know a lot of women don't want to hear
this because a lot of women are like in the
Taming of the Shrew, a character played by Elizabeth Taylor,
I'm gonna tell you something. Women who take care of
their husbands are taken care of by their husbands. And
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women who have been fed this nonsense by these feminazis
about you shouldn't be kind to your husband or he'll
trample you, he won't respect you.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
That's not true. The opposite of that is true.
Speaker 12 (11:41):
Women are valued and respected by their husbands because they.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Are worthy of it. Anyway, I thought this was some
good advice taking.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
For what it's worth.
Speaker 13 (11:53):
But a man comes home from work, there's only one
thing he really wants. He wants to have a little
bit of.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Peace and quiet.
Speaker 13 (11:59):
And if you have some thing you want to discuss
with him, and all day you've been waiting for him
to finally come home.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Please wait a little bit.
Speaker 13 (12:05):
Because there's one thing many women don't understand about men.
Men are supposed to solve problems all day and every
day they have to go out into the world and
do their best to make money because otherwise.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
They're being seen as a loser.
Speaker 13 (12:18):
But men also get tired, and if they just go
from problems at work to problems at home, they never
get a break. And I'm not saying that you shouldn't
share any problems with him, but what you could do
as a woman is to wait at the door, give
him a kiss, ask him how his day was, let
him unwind, prepare him a drink, and start talking to
him after half an hour. When you do that, you
make him feel better about himself because you give him
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space to relax and to just think of nothing if
he wants to, because the last thing you want is
to bombard him at the door already with everything that's
been happening and that you need his help, and he
will probably try to solve it for you, but the
only reason is that he wants to get it over
with so that you are finally quiet.
Speaker 12 (13:00):
Have made a conscious decision last couple of days to
spend less time on the Democrat meltdown, because I think
we've got to be positive.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
We're not in a campaign anymore, and it's very hard
to pivot.
Speaker 12 (13:14):
We all get we all get caught up in this
thing where where we're fighting the Democrats every day, and
so we got to tear them down, tear them down,
tear them down.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
The election is over. We got to build up the country.
Speaker 12 (13:25):
Doesn't mean we have to be nice to the Democrats,
but they're gonna melt down they're nuts. This is the
reason they lost the election. But I am going to
violate my rule and tell you this. CNN's Van Jones
made a statement, and you got to realize this was
an Obama guy. This is a race baiting Democrat, and
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for him to say what he says on CNN, I
think I think it is a pretty strong statement.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
If you're the Democrats, what are you gonna do for
the next two years?
Speaker 7 (13:56):
How why are we here?
Speaker 6 (14:02):
There's nothing.
Speaker 14 (14:03):
If you're a Democrat, all we can say is we
hope that Susy decides that she's gonna take a long vacation,
that they hire some terrible people and make some mistakes
to give us a chance.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Right now, they had everything.
Speaker 14 (14:14):
They got the Supreme Court, they got the Electoral College,
they got the House, they got probably they got the Senate,
they got the populative vote, and we're just sitting here
with the dunce cap on last this time last week,
we thought we were the smartest people in the world.
We thought Donald Trump was an idiot, We thought his
campaign made no sense, and it turned out they were
smarter than us.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
And we don't have.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Anything to say.
Speaker 14 (14:31):
You know, I can sit here and pretend I know something.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Here's what I know.
Speaker 14 (14:34):
Everybody I know is miserable. Everybody's on these zoom calls.
Nobody's got any good ideas, and we're gonna take.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Us a while to figure this out.
Speaker 14 (14:41):
I'm not good at coming in here and faking to
pretending like, no, we got wooked.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Man, you gonna go to the spa. You need a
massage and a cut water.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
I agree.
Speaker 12 (14:55):
Donald Trump visited the White House today, and if you
you can go online and see it, Joe Biden looks
happier than I have seen him in years. He was
clearly enjoying this meeting. Trump was very at ease, very relaxed, affable, jocular.
(15:23):
They genuinely seem to be having a good time. You
can juxtapose that to the video of when Trump went
to the White House in sixteen at the end of
the Obama administration, and Obama looks constipated. Of course, I
(15:43):
guess if you had to be married to Michelle Obama,
you'd be pretty miserable too. I still hold tight to
the likelihood that Biden and Trump cut a deal, that
Biden determined he was going to help Trump and sabotage
Kamala I don't think that's why Trump won. Don't get
(16:04):
me wrong. Trump was gonna win on his own because
of you. But I do think Biden undercut her. And
if you haven't seen that video when Kamala comes and
sits down with Doug next to next to Joe Biden,
and Joe Biden never flinches, never looks at her.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Oh it's icy.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Bizarre of talk radio the Michael Arry Show.
Speaker 12 (16:32):
Okay, I said I wouldn't focus on the Democrat meltdown,
and I'm certainly not of any interest to help the
Democrats rebuild. But James Carvill is something of a savant
for them. He like the crazy guy that lives up
on a hill and they go up there and ask
him for his advice, you know, like Creole Williams, and
(16:55):
he tells him about the dust on the bottle.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
James Carvill.
Speaker 12 (17:00):
James Carvill comes out the raging Cajun. He comes off
as crazy. He looks kind of like Yoda or something.
But he's very well respected because he and Paul Bagala
were the architects of the Clinton win in nineteen ninety two,
and that was the rebuilding of the Democrat Party. Remember
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remember what was going on in ninety two, Reagan won
in eighty Reagan won in eighty four, and then Reagan
passes the baton to his vice president, George H. W.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Bush, who in nineteen ninety two, the.
Speaker 12 (17:35):
Year of his reelection, which is going to be sixteen
years when he wins, sixteen years of Republican leadership. He's
sitting on the highest poll numbers that have ever been
seen for a sitting president since polling began, at over
ninety percent with the with the Iraq situation. Carvil comes
(17:55):
in and he and Paul Bagala had uh orchestrated the
Bob Casey win in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Was it case Was it?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (18:08):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
It wasn't.
Speaker 12 (18:10):
No, no, no, no, no, hold on, hold on, hold on holder.
So Pennsylvania had a Republican senator who was John Hines.
Heines died in a UH plane crash or car crash.
And then Casey was not the candidate. Casey was the
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governor and he appointed a guy who ran for reelection
but he's not supposed to win, and that was Uh
Harris Wolford and Dick Thornberg who had been was Thornberg
a g Ramond? Yeah, he was oh I'm racking my brain.
(18:56):
It's too far back to go. I think he was
the governor too. But anyway, Begala and Carvel were the
masterminds of a Democrat win in a state that was
leaning Republican. And then Bill Clinton brings them in to
run his campaign and they beat Bush and the Democrats
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were back. Oh my goodness. So Carvell is something of
a genius to these people. He's this wise savant. It's
kind of like Einstein was viewed. Nobody really wants him
at the dinner party, but you go to him when
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you have a problem that needs to be solved. You know,
it's like a back to the future.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
You know.
Speaker 12 (19:47):
Movies always had that, the guy who kind of lives
out there and the young people can't figure out the problem.
So you go to him and you give him all
the information. And that's how they that's how you tell
that's how they tell you. The plot of the movie
is they give him all the information so he can
make a decision and he says, ah, yes, this sounds
(20:09):
like and then he gives you the answer to your problem.
Well that is James Carvil. So listen to James Carvill.
Tell Christian I'm onnpour. She didn't like to hear this.
Y'all need to do away with your identity politics. Why
(20:30):
is this important? Identity politics? Or a cancer on America.
It's also a reason they can't win elections, by the way,
because we've had enough.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
But if.
Speaker 12 (20:42):
Solving the problems of this country are going to mean
that we have to face the resistance and push through it.
But it also means that Democrats, once they are defeated,
are within their own camp going to have to take
back their party from the Progressives, from the race vaders,
from Black Lives Matter, from AOC. This is a good
(21:03):
sign that Carvil is calling for this because there are
going to be Democrats who are now going to go, hey, guys,
we let the party get away from us. We cannot
do these crazy things anymore. So look, I don't want
the Democrats to move back to the middle and win elections.
I don't, but the Democrats that are in office pulling
(21:28):
back on some of these policies will be good for
life in America because what's bigger to me than just
winning elections is how we live our day to day lives.
I want the Democrats to govern better. I want California
to be less crazy. You see what I'm saying. I
don't want it to just be Well, It's good they
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stay crazy, because then we win all the elections, but
we still have to live through them running the local
and state governments that they do. Anyway, here's what Carvil
had to say.
Speaker 15 (22:00):
And there is also an idea that America is still
not ready for a female president. But last spring you said,
you know, a suspicion of mine is that there are
too many preachy females dominating the culture of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Do you do you stand by that females?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Would you look? Would you look at our male vote?
Speaker 9 (22:22):
Would you would somebody just take a look at how
we did with males and how we did with non
white males and tell me that the Democrats don't have
a messaging problem, that their message comes across is too feminine.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I mean, of course I was right when I said that.
Speaker 9 (22:39):
I don't think there's not a person in the world
I've talked to that doubts that I'm.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
Right right now, Okay, Jamie, I.
Speaker 9 (22:47):
Say provocative things to get a provocative reaction. Yeah, but
are you really Are somebody going to really tell me
we don't have a problem with male voters.
Speaker 7 (22:56):
Well, that's really interesting.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Because tell me something. I'm completely aw Era.
Speaker 15 (23:00):
No, I'm going to read you the stats as you know,
well you know the stats. One in three voters of
color voted for Trump. Trump carried his fanic men by
ten points. Trump improved his support with younger voters compared
with twenty twenty.
Speaker 7 (23:12):
And you're right, he did win the male vote.
Speaker 15 (23:16):
So I just need to understand this because what are
you saying, then the Democrats need to do about the
so called gender gap.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
What should they do?
Speaker 9 (23:28):
Well, first thing, they could have done a lot of
muscular economic messaging that we didn't do. We could have
been increased the minimum wage to fifteen thouars an hour.
We could have talked more about raising taxes on incomes
above four thousand and using that money to help young
people buy a house. We can certainly shovel the entire
(23:49):
identitary identity politics about fifty feet in the ground and
bury it.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
I mean, you can start by doing things like that.
Speaker 9 (23:59):
You could you could have got out in front of
the crime issue, which, by the way, to crime break
the United States is down historically out by thirty percent.
But we were not able to talk about crime because
the the woke police will not allow that. In one
of the great accomplishments of the Biden Rris administration. So
(24:22):
there's a lot of things you can do, and you
can you can change your language around, you know, don't
use coded language.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
And it's going to take.
Speaker 9 (24:32):
Like I said, it'll take one cycle before we can
wash this smell off of our shirt.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
But I think it a good chance to act correctly.
Speaker 9 (24:42):
It'll be gone by twenty six and it'll be gone
by twenty eight. But please know, anybody like infer to
me that we did well with males because we did
not snowflakes.
Speaker 12 (24:52):
I prepare for a complete meltdown with more of the
Michael Ferry Show. If you've been around the show for
a little while now, you know that we like to
have a little fun the last segment or two, a
little whimsy at the end of our day that we
(25:15):
hope you can take home with you. And today what
I would like to do is play for you what
is kind of intellectual porn for us here on the station,
here at the show should I say?
Speaker 4 (25:32):
And that is.
Speaker 7 (25:35):
That?
Speaker 12 (25:35):
Is a list by Senator James Langford from Oklahoma of
some of the dumbest uses of your tax dollars. Now,
the reason I play this is they're going to try
to destroy I, vivak Ramaswami and Elon Musk because they
have now been given a carte blanche, a diplomatic pass
(26:02):
to be able to run them up within the government
and say we're going to stop that. Remember, Elon's a
guy who bought Twitter, walked in and laid off seventy
five percent of it and improved it. This guy makes
snap decisions. He is a decision maker and he hates waste.
(26:23):
So just remember that when they go after them, and
we will close with this. It's one of the finest
moments in recent history. We play this all the time
around the studio during the day.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Last year of the State Department did a grant to
Ecuador to host twelve drag shows in Ecuador with American
tax dollars. Now, may have different opinions in this room
on drag shows. I'm just asking the simple question, is
the best use of American tax dollars to actually fund
(26:57):
drag shows in Ecuador with US tax dollars.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
I don't believe that it is.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
Last year, we actually did a different funding through the
State Department that was actually done. Actually, this is the
National Science Foundation. Excuse me strike that it seems like
a state department thing. National Science Foundation last year did
a study of butterflies.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
In Europe.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
So we funded with American taxpayer dollars a butterfly study
in Germany where we paid a Swedish scientist to study
butterflies in Germany.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
I'm not real sure why American.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
Tax dollars that was the best use of that, but
that was one of the grants.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
That was done last year.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Last year, there was also a NEA grant that was
done to set up a display in Brooklyn for the
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band. By the way, it's
not even an American band. And I'm not sure why we
had to pay a federal tax dollars to be able
to do that. My simple question is always why are
(28:07):
tax dollars being taken out of Oklahoma to be able.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
To do that?
Speaker 5 (28:12):
Always popular We had an almost well three hundred and
fifty thousand dollars grant to study smart toilets was one
of the grants that we actually paid for with our
federal tax dollars.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Last year.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
We also had a grant that was done studying colonial
Mexican soundscapes. I'm sure colonial Mexican soundscapes are fascinating, but
we paid for a researcher to travel to Mexico and
then to be able to write a series about the
sounds of colonial Mexico and how they could be used
(28:48):
to be able to influence communities. We last year did
a study on helmets and seat belts in Ghana to
be able to study whether seat belts and helmets were
effective for saving lives in Ghana.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Can I just go.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
Ahead and answer that question for free? Seat belts and
helmets are a good idea, they save lives free, I
can go ahead and give you that advice. How do
I know that, because we've already spent millions of dollars
in other studies here in the United States, But instead
we spent money in Ghana studying helmets to see if
(29:28):
they're actually a good idea there, and amazingly they discovered
yes they are. There was also a grant that was
done last year. I've got to just walk this one through.
This was at the Springfield Museum of Art in Missouri.
There was a grant to be on a display an
installation in the exhibit in the museum called yoko Ono
Men's Piece.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Now, let me just read this to you.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
It's a simple white room where shattered cups and saucers
are placed on a table and participants are asked to
mend the fragments together using common household items like twine, glue, scissors,
and tape, and the resulting works are displayed on nearby
shelves as evidence of the power of collective action. Again,
(30:15):
I'm not opposed to fixing broken saucers in a public
place and displaying them. All I'm asking is why did
Oklahomas work overtime last year to pay their tax bill
to fund doing the yoko Ono white room where people
fixed broken saucers. I don't have a good answer for
(30:38):
that yet. By the way, I'm still trying to be
able to get that. If you like wine country, great,
you help pay for it.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
One of the.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
Highest income areas in the world is Napa Valley, California.
One of the highest income areas in the entire world.
The good folks of Oklahoma helped pay for a wine
pedestrial trail through Napa Valley because apparently Napa Valley didn't
have enough cash to be able to pay for the
eight mile walking trail through Wine Country, some of the
(31:10):
most expensive real estate in the entire world. So the
taxpayers in Oklahoma had to pay for that Wine Country
tour trail. If you like traveling to Hawaii, enjoy the
trip when you get there. If you go to a
farmer's market, you'll find out that you help pay for
that farmer's market because the farmer's market in Hawaii received
(31:31):
three point four million dollars to be able to fund
the farmer's market. If you go to New York City
and pay a very high dollar ticket to get into
a private location in the Metropolitan Opera to be able
to watch the opera, you will feel safer, I'm sure
when you go to the Metropolitan Opera, because almost three
quarters of a million dollars was given to the Metropolitan
(31:54):
Opera in New York to help them install a new
fire suppression system with federal tax dollars. If you like
traveling to Paris and you go to a butcher shop
in Paris, you may be fascinating to know since the
thirteenth century, apparently butchers in Paris have come up with
their own private language. It's like a super secret private
(32:16):
language among butchers in Paris, fascinating for the French to study.
But unfortunately, the American taxpayers paid for a study of
French butcher's private language for fear that it is diminishing
and fading away. So the American tax dollars paid for
(32:38):
this study in France to study the secret language of
butchers in Paris. I can't tell you why.
Speaker 6 (32:58):
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