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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and Load. Michael
Vari Show is.
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On the air.
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They fashioned themselves on social media as this legion of superheroes,
this incoming administration, Selcy Gabbard, Robert F.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Commedy Junior, et cetera, et cetera.
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A speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able buildings
at a single bound up in the sky.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
It's a Firs'. Yes, it's super strum. We will very
quickly make America great again. Do we really need whatever
it is, four hundred and twenty eight federal.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
Agencies because there's so many that people have never heard of,
well them that have overlapping areas of responsibility.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
We should I don't know fully for sure.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
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 1 (01:10):
That seems a lot. That's a lot. That's a lot,
So we should That seems crazy.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
I think we're failed to get away with ninete unite agencies.
Speaker 6 (01:26):
I am a patriot.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I love our country.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
I am a strong and intelligent woman of color, and
I have dedicated almost my entire adult life to protecting
the safety, security, and the freedom of all Americans in
the city.
Speaker 7 (01:45):
I'm not any vacacine, but I think we need to
be honest and we need to have good science.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I spent thirty.
Speaker 7 (01:50):
Years trying to get mercury out of the fish in
this country, and nobody ever called me any fish.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
There's such a good feeling in this country. People who
love this country are very happy right now. People who
hate this country are miserable right now.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
But don't worry.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
They're always miserab They're only happy when they're unhappy. The
people who want goodness in this country, the people who
want the people to have a bounty plenty, happiness or opportunity, because,
as Jordan Peterson says, and I think rightfully so, happiness
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is not the goal. Purposefulness is. We should not seek
a point of contentment, you know, like the Buddha rubbing
our belly. We should seek a state of purpose that
is fulfillment, that is accomplishment, and even when we don't
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rise to that level, we are striving toward it. And
it is in the striving that we find meaning in life.
This idea that you will like the Latifundista you will
just be sitting around, rich and happy and bossing people around,
and you won't have anything to do, and you will
be happy. Just look at anyone who lives a life
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of that. They're not happy. They end up continuing to
strive for some level of contentment, happiness, whatever you want
to call that word, and they end up in drugs, alcohol, sex, gambling,
and they end up they're never to use that overused
word happy. Whereas you find someone who doesn't have any money,
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but he's working his tail off to provide for his family,
and even if his work is manual labor, you will
find many times a greater sense of fulfillment due to
purpose and accomplishment and striving that it gives him what
appears to the outward world to be happiness. That's ironic,
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isn't it really when you think about it. Quick programming note,
tomorrow is our annual special regarding adoption. Now, if you're
new to the show, it's a little hard for people
to process this.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Why are you not talking about what Fox News is
talking about? Why are you not talking about what Trump
did today? Why are you not talking about that craziness?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Because we believe you're at the Michael Berry show that
adoption is so critical to saving this nation that we
set aside one day to exclusively talk about it, and
if that drives you away for that day, I'm not
mad at you. I understand some people need their daily fix,
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they need the traditional news talk, and I completely completely
understand that we're just not your show that day. This
is perhaps the most meaningful show we do all year long,
and it means the world to us, and it gives
us purpose, It gives us accomplishment, it gives us fulfillment.
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My boys are adopted, as you know, and I'm a
big believer in adoption. I don't think that we can
preach with our right hand that we're opposed to abortion
and that life is sacred and not support adoption, because
the reality is not every woman can, once having given
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birth to a child, care for that child. And yet
somehow God lines it up that there's somebody here over
here on the other side who cannot biologically be pregnant
and carry a child to term, but they would love to,
and it all matches up, and I don't know why.
It's crazy, but it works. Tomorrow is our Adoption Special.
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If you would like to share your adoption story with
me or anything else. I'm Michael Berry. May be reached
directly by email. I read every single one of them.
I can't reply to every single one of them, as
you might imagine, but I read every single one of them.
You can go to Michael Barryshow dot com m I
C H A E L B E R R Y
Michael Barryshow dot com and you can email me directly
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there and tell your adoption story. If you don't want
your name mentioned, but you want to tell your story,
just put it in the opening line.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Don't mention my name, but here's my story.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Whether you were an adopted child or an adopted parent
or Every year we have those stories, and I think
they're sacred of a woman who gave up her child
because at that point in her life she was not
able to raise that child. I think it's a noble
thing to do. I believe that it's a tough thing
to do. And there every year there's a new person
who will share their story. And Friday other programming note,
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the Friday before Thanksgiving every year we do a Thanksgiving special.
The reason we no longer do that the day before
Thanksgiving is some of you we will be traveling over
that Thanksgiving week and you won't hear it. And we
believe that a grateful spirit is very, very important. We
believe that counting our blessings, naming them one by one,
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being grateful for what is around us, we think it's
good for our spirit.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
We think it's good for your mental health. We think
it's good for you.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
As a mother, father, son, daughter, employer, employee, friend, brother, neighbor,
to take stock and not take things for granted. And
that is what Thanksgiving is for us. And so we
do that on the Friday before most shows. Like every
other show, we're focused on the news of the day,
but these are important markers for us, along with Mother's Day,
Father's Day, and some veteran related events that are really
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really important to us. So and we have a lot
of new listeners today because we begin today in prime
time on k EIB out of Los Angeles, California. If
you had told me almost twenty years ago that we
would be airing live in Los Angeles, California, the major
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media market, I wouldn't have believed it.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
But here we are. If you are a.
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New listener, I would love to hear from you listening
on K eib You can send me email directly at
Michael berrysshow dot com.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Tom Lei.
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Legal immigration was the most important issue in this year's elections,
no doubt.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Now.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
The fact that much of the media didn't cover that
fact was not because it wasn't true, and not even
because they didn't know it. It's because they didn't want
the big bet to be on illegal immigration, because then
if they lost and Trump won, which the polls showed
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that if we stayed focused on that, he would that
that would mean mass deportations in the building of a wall,
and they can't have that. So part of their psychological
opts was to downplay the importance of illegal immigration to
this year's election. Trump's number one mantra in twenty sixteen
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was build the wall. It's important. The effects of illegal
immigration are felt differently. In Texas, were feeling them bad.
In California, they're feeling them bad, but they're doubling down.
In Arizona, they're feeling them bad. But now with sex
trafficking and drug trafficking and fentanyl deaths, with Texas busing
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illegals to Chicago and New York and even for a
minute Martha's Vineyard, but Oh, they weren't going to allow
that to happen, were they, Hey, we could have them
on our doorstep, but they weren't about to allow that
at Martha's vineyard.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
These rich people weren't going to tolerate it.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Well, we had a lot of fun with this issue
and with highlighting the importance of this issue. So we
created a few years ago, we created a little parody song. Internally,
Chance mclin wrote and recorded. This was about the State
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of Texas bussing illegal aliens to I think at the
time they were being sent to Chicago. And the importance
of that was for the first time the people in
the big cities Chicago, Philly, New York, who had these
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sanctuary city policies, all of a sudden they understood what
we were kicking and screaming about. And as the illegal
aliens started being housed in the government buildings, that meant, oh,
your kids gymnasium were taking that over. But my kids
trying to get us college should play basketball. Sorry, we're
taking over the gym, We're taking over the community center,
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we're taking over the airport. So now all of a sudden, democrats,
including in perhaps especially black inner city, organized Democrats started saying, whoa,
we don't want these illegal aliens on our doorstep. So
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in the city of Denver, when they arrived, they started
they started bussing them somewhere else. Well, no, no, you're
a sanctuary city. Give them sanctuary. So this is one
of our favorite parody songs. And there's a second part
to this. This was when the illegals were first being
bussed around the country.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
This was the song we wrote, Pooty ride on these bunks.
I got on too well.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
I crossed the reel ground looking for the promised Land.
This is a very nice buse. I like how my
blue Sido choice. The air conditioner works very well. Back
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at homies hodays hell. Where are we going on this bus?
The bathroom in the back discuss I've been on it
for a long time. That was the Arkansas state line.
I think I live in On this bus, there are
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like eighty five of us. I've been writing four like
fourteen days. Am I still in the USA?
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I did today stopped the polls. That bus driver I
go on thros he say it out rod or sb.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Fok on to Washington d C, Washington D.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
My new home is in DC.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Take me back to Mexico City.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
We heard from so many of you how much you
loved that parody that we put Chance McClain on the
task of writing up a follow up to that now
that the illegals are going to be deported to Mexico.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
And we hope you enjoy it. Here goes.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Why am I back on this purpose? Came to America
because easy land, the opportunity, so many free Biskey to me.
Someone talking on this pathers he's speaking loud. He liked
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to cause, he said. He named me Tom Holden. I
don't think that he my friend. He handcuffed me to
this purpose. He said, you can live with us. I say,
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signor where this buzz goes? He said, deeping Mexico. What
happened to this buzz us? He's thirty stinky full of us.
Sonny saying all to my ride gonna be a lolone night.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I just woke up on the buzzs. My eyes are
full of With the.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Cross no longer in the USA.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
On this day in nineteen fifty five, and what is
the music industry equivalent of the Babe Ruth trade. Sun
Records owner Sam Phillips sold Elvis Presley's contract to RCA
for thirty five thousand dollars a lot of money, to
be sure in nineteen fifty five. But talk about upside,
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Elvis had a lot of upside. Now, you won't meet
a bigger Elvis fan than me. So what I'm about
to say will come as will come as surprising to
many when I say that Sam Phillips did the right
thing for Sun Records and for Sam Phillips when he
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did that, and by the way, he did the right
thing for Elvis because Sun Records didn't have the capacity,
the bandwidth to launch Elvis as big as he would
end up being with RCA. However, the reason I say
that about Sam Phillips is what did he do with
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that thirty five thousand dollars?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Is this the part nobody talks about.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Remember, Elvis only had one year left on his contract,
so he wasn't going to be able to keep Elvis anyway.
So he got something for him thirty five thousand dollars,
and he invested that money in a local hotel chain.
That local hotel chain into which he invested his thirty
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five thousand dollars is a little nothing chained called Holiday
in which ended up making him a massive fortune. To
the news of the day, Matt Gates must not be
allowed to become Attorney General. Not because it would be
bad for the Democrats, of course it would, but the
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Attorney General, as Matt Gates, would be able to open
the files and realize that Republicans have been working to
silence Donald Trump, that Republicans in the government have committed
horrible crimes, and the Attorney General will be able to
declassify all of that. And so with this in mind,
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Karl Rove, the fat hired gun of the neocons and
the anti Americans, was sent onto Fox News so that
he could show their disapproval. When Karl Rove is rolled
his tubby self in to attack the Republicans, to attack,
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to attack the Trump, folks, just know that that is
the neocons, the warmongers, the Dick Cheney's, the Bushes, the Romney's,
this is the establishment in folks. It's not just that
they haven't helped you to solve the countries of this
to solve the problems of this country. It is that
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they have actively worked against you to solve the problems
of this country.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Make no mistake about that.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
So here is Karl Rove on Fox News trying to
keep Matt Gates from being confirmed?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
This could be very harmful.
Speaker 8 (19:08):
It'd be one thing if this guy had a reputation
as one an extraordinarily gifted legislator, to a tremendously gifted
trial attorney, a proven prosecutor, somebody who had managed a
big law firm and con demonstrated legal ability. But no,
he has none of those attributes. In fact, he has
a reputation on the floor of the House for having
shown pictures of his conquests to his fellow members. So
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if that's the best you can do, you're not going
to get confirmed.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Oh Carl and your pearl clutching. Let's assume that is true.
We don't know that it is. Are you telling me
that a congressman who was single at the time showing
pictures of his sexual conquests with his buddies in Congress
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makes him incapable of being able to serve? Are you
telling me that there weren't any Bush era administration officials
that you knew that were not bragging on the number
of girlfriends they had and showing the pretty pictures, some
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of them their buddies' daughters. Because we all know that's
been happening a very long time, this little sex game
that they play where Republicans that don't meet the standards
for the establishment, when you step out of line, they
start using sex as the thing to prevent you. And
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yet the same sex game they played with all the
people they compromised through Epstein.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
If this sex thing is so dark and.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Important, why don't they release the list from Epstein? And
by the way, this diddy list, it's going to be
pretty nasty too. If what I'm hearing behind the scenes,
and some of you the rumors are out there. If
what I'm hearing is the case, there are going to
be major figures from sports, from media, from politics, some
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of which you've probably already heard their names, and it
is quite scandalous.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
But worse, there are criminal acts.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
And this needs to be pursued and run to ground
so that every single person who committed these crimes, because
Carl Rove just told us, we have to be very
very prudish. Karl Rove has made a career of destroying
Republicans who are tea party, destroying Republicans who are America first,
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destroying Republicans who do not support sending your boys to war,
because who pays for Karl. Karl Rove is bought and
paid for. Here's something that the prurient interest should pay
attention to. Karl Rove is a prostitute. Karl Rove is
a prostitute for the defense industry, for the big government types,
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for people who do business with government. Karl Rove is
bought and paid for. That's why he's on Fox News.
That's his whole role. Just because you may have seen
him involved with Bush back when you were supporting Republican
candidates like that, and you may have a holdover idea.
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I don't think anybody I still does that. Maybe Karl
Rove was a good guy.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
He's not. He's not a good guy.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
He's worked very, very hard to destroy Republicans. He will
allow a Democrat to win and destroy Republicans if he
doesn't like what they're doing. Remember Todd Aikin in Missouri,
Claire mccaskell was the sitting Republican senator. It was twenty
ten or twenty twelve, I forget which one. The tea
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party was booming and we were going to beat a
sitting Democrat senator. It was twenty ten Claire mccaskell, and
we had a doctor named Todd Aiken, and.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Carl Rove.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Contorted and twisted what doctor Aiken had said and it
destroyed Aiken. And Claire mccaskell went on to be Barack
Obama's campaign chairman nationally at the end of or two
years later, and we could have won that seat. Remember
what he did to McConnell. Christine was it, Christine McConnell.
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Remember what he did to Sharon Angelo?
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Was it?
Speaker 3 (23:53):
In Nevada? We had multiple Senate seats we could have won,
but Carl Rove told the Republicans to pull back withdraw
the money. He's done the same thing to Ted Cruz.
By the way, it's just that in Texas we keep
putting Cruise up. Carl Rode does more damage to Republicans
than any single Democrat outfit.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
I will stand by that statement. Bring it on. What
would you do with the brain if you had one?
Bring it on? Because there is nothing here.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Michael very Show, I would like to extend a big
welcome to our new listeners in Los Angeles. We've actually
been on a EB radio, but we were on in
the very early morning. So we developed a podcast listening
audience who sampled us and then as a result, went
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to the podcast and began listening. Because the early morning
hours didn't work, we also developed a listening audience in
the early morning who listened live because the third shifters.
One of the reasons the networks get it all wrong,
and even the politicians, is because they assume that everyone
is like them. One of the interesting things about our
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show airing at different times around the country, including overnights,
is you hear from people. Because I make very clear
any listener across the country can reach out to me
at any time Michael Berryshow dot com. I read the emails.
It's great research for me. It's great input, feedback from
me on the show, and interesting details. If I'm talking
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about fighting fires, or I'm talking about police issue, i
will hear from firefighters, I'll hear from police. If I'm
talking about a tax code change and how it's going
to affect small business owners, I will hear from small
business owners. I will hear from CPAs, and oftentimes I
will email back because they tell me more and it's
a great learning experience, and plus I find it very engaging.
It's interesting when people will say, hey, I'm emailing you
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from Poughkeepsie, or I'm emailing you from Sioux City, Iowa,
or I'm emailing you from San Bernardino.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
I find that fascinating.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
In any case, those people are left out of polling
and consideration because the people that live in DC don't realize.
You know, there are people who work through the middle
of the night and sleep by day, a lot more
of them than you realize, and they cast votes and
they buy products, and they have influence, but you don't
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consider their opinion when calculating the direction of the nation.
In any case, a big welcome on k I be
and it gives me great joy to say eib excellence
in broadcasting because I wouldn't be here today, and I
assert talk radio wouldn't be here today and thriving as
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it is were it not for Rush Limbaugh, and were
it not for his success in Sacramento where he really
launched what would become the New York based and then
Palm Beach based Rush Limbaugh show that we came to know, and.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
I think how the world would be different.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
I don't think that it was inevitable that there would
be talk radio, as his powerful influence, I don't think
it was inevitable that there would be the Tea Party
in twenty ten and twenty twelve, And without the Tea Party,
I don't think you have Trump in twenty sixteen. Trump
goes back to eighty nine or eighty eight when he's
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talking about running for president. But I think that was
mostly to launch the book Art of the Deal, and
there would be a lot more attention if it was,
you know, him running for president. Remember, of course he
goes on Oprah Winfrey Show, and then in two thousand
he got much closer to running.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
And did not. But if you think about if you go.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Back and look for those of you who want a
good assignment and a good learning experience, go back and
look at Pat Buchanan's platform. Pat and President Trump got
crossways because Pat.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Thought Trump was gonna run against him.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
But Pat Buchannan was was on point on a lot
of what became Donald Trump's platform. People forget this, and
Trump very adroitly, this is the businessman side of him.
He picked and chose from some of Pat Buchanan's platform
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and from ninety two at ninety six, mostly ninety two
Ross Perrot's platform, and then the Tea party from twenty
ten and twenty twelve. And that's why Trump was able
to run against almost twenty Republicans in twenty sixteen afield
the strength of which we've never seen before. We've never
seen a Republican primary so stacked with candidates who had
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strong resumes, strong support basis, very very strong funding. I mean,
you had Jeb buok Bush, who was the anointed one.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
You had Ted.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Cruz who had locked up the evangelical vote and was
extraordinarily well funded. You had the governor of Wisconsin. You
had the libertarian in Rand Paul, you had you had
a really strong field. And despite all of that, a
first time candidate, we've never seen anything like that. You
talk about a juggernaut Trump Trump's strength so early in there.
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People will say it was based on charisma or star power,
or that he was a pop icon. All of those
things are true, but it was also because Trump had
tapped into American ideas that politics had mostly abandoned or ignored,
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and there was such a groundswell for that. What he
was saying and the way he was saying it that
had never been seen before. And I maintain that was
transformative for the American political scene. And mind you, that
goes back to twenty fifteen. Here we are nine almost
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ten years later. There's a little bit of Donald Trump
in every Republican, every single one. Today you got this
new dude who says he's a woman, and he goes
to Congress for the whole purpose of stirring up a
bunch of mess and getting a bunch of attention for himself,
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and so tour credit. Nancy May says, do what you
want to do, dude, dress how you want to dress,
but you're not coming in the girls' restroom. And they forced,
they forced the issue, and so earlier today Speaker of
the House Mike Johnson had to say, Yeah, you can't
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come into women's restroom.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
You're a dude. You're a dude.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Now, that gives the media something to talk about because
it stirs people up. It's not important. It's not important
to you or me in our personal lives. It's not
important to the Joe Rogan podcast listener who went back
to their own lives. It's not important to the homemaker
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woman or the plumber who aren't as engaged in politics.
They just cast a vote and went back. They don't care.
They think it's all weird. It's much ado about nothing.
It's that weird o, wacko thing of these people who
whether they're out there for Hamas or they're out there
trying to get money for Ukraine, or they're trying to
put boys in the girl's bathroom, most Americans think, all
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this is weird. Who are all these women fifty years
old running around trying to make sure they can have
an abortion?
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Who are these whack shops? That's how people feel.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
People have complete whole lives and they don't have space
in their lives for this craziness. It's like Archie Bunker,
They're going, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (32:11):
You know? Archie Bunker was supposed.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
To be an anti hero, but he turned out to
be a hero because people identified with him the world
was wacky, and he became what a lot of people
were saying. You know, I come home and said on
my couch in the world's going crazy and it's encroaching
closer and closer to my life. And so what they
thought of was, you know, this awful person who doesn't
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want to get with it with our crazy new whacked out, wow,
far out ideas ended up becoming an American hero, and
that shocked, everybody, absolutely everybody you know, well, I'll say
that for the next time, Victor Davis Hansen, We're going
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to get some Victor Davis Hant.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
We love Victor Davis Hanson on Emerson Stra
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and Load. Michael
Vari Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
They fashioned themselves on social media as this legion of superheroes,
this incoming administration, Selcy Gabbard, Robert F.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Commedy Junior, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
A speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able buildings
at a single bound up in the sky.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
It's a Firs'. Yes, it's super strum. We will very
quickly make America great again. Do we really need whatever
it is, four hundred and twenty eight federal.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
Agencies because there's so many that people have never heard of,
well them that have overlapping areas of responsibility.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
We should I don't know fully for sure.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
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 1 (01:10):
That seems a lot. That's a lot. That's a lot,
So we should That seems crazy.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
I think we're failed to get away with ninete unite agencies.
Speaker 6 (01:26):
I am a patriot.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I love our country.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
I am a strong and intelligent woman of color, and
I have dedicated almost my entire adult life to protecting
the safety, security, and the freedom of all Americans in
the city.
Speaker 7 (01:45):
I'm not any vacacine, but I think we need to
be honest and we need to have good science.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I spent thirty.
Speaker 7 (01:50):
Years trying to get mercury out of the fish in
this country, and nobody ever called me any fish.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
There's such a good feeling in this country. People who
love this country are very happy right now. People who
hate this country are miserable right now.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
But don't worry.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
They're always miserab They're only happy when they're unhappy. The
people who want goodness in this country, the people who
want the people to have a bounty plenty, happiness or opportunity, because,
as Jordan Peterson says, and I think rightfully so, happiness
(02:39):
is not the goal. Purposefulness is. We should not seek
a point of contentment, you know, like the Buddha rubbing
our belly. We should seek a state of purpose that
is fulfillment, that is accomplishment, and even when we don't
(03:00):
rise to that level, we are striving toward it. And
it is in the striving that we find meaning in life.
This idea that you will like the Latifundista you will
just be sitting around, rich and happy and bossing people around,
and you won't have anything to do, and you will
be happy. Just look at anyone who lives a life
(03:22):
of that. They're not happy. They end up continuing to
strive for some level of contentment, happiness, whatever you want
to call that word, and they end up in drugs, alcohol, sex, gambling,
and they end up they're never to use that overused
word happy. Whereas you find someone who doesn't have any money,
(03:42):
but he's working his tail off to provide for his family,
and even if his work is manual labor, you will
find many times a greater sense of fulfillment due to
purpose and accomplishment and striving that it gives him what
appears to the outward world to be happiness. That's ironic,
(04:05):
isn't it really when you think about it. Quick programming note,
tomorrow is our annual special regarding adoption. Now, if you're
new to the show, it's a little hard for people
to process this.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Why are you not talking about what Fox News is
talking about? Why are you not talking about what Trump
did today? Why are you not talking about that craziness?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Because we believe you're at the Michael Berry show that
adoption is so critical to saving this nation that we
set aside one day to exclusively talk about it, and
if that drives you away for that day, I'm not
mad at you. I understand some people need their daily fix,
(04:50):
they need the traditional news talk, and I completely completely
understand that we're just not your show that day. This
is perhaps the most meaningful show we do all year long,
and it means the world to us, and it gives
us purpose, It gives us accomplishment, it gives us fulfillment.
(05:11):
My boys are adopted, as you know, and I'm a
big believer in adoption. I don't think that we can
preach with our right hand that we're opposed to abortion
and that life is sacred and not support adoption, because
the reality is not every woman can, once having given
(05:31):
birth to a child, care for that child. And yet
somehow God lines it up that there's somebody here over
here on the other side who cannot biologically be pregnant
and carry a child to term, but they would love to,
and it all matches up, and I don't know why.
It's crazy, but it works. Tomorrow is our Adoption Special.
(05:53):
If you would like to share your adoption story with
me or anything else. I'm Michael Berry. May be reached
directly by email. I read every single one of them.
I can't reply to every single one of them, as
you might imagine, but I read every single one of them.
You can go to Michael Barryshow dot com m I
C H A E L B E R R Y
Michael Barryshow dot com and you can email me directly
(06:17):
there and tell your adoption story. If you don't want
your name mentioned, but you want to tell your story,
just put it in the opening line.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Don't mention my name, but here's my story.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Whether you were an adopted child or an adopted parent
or Every year we have those stories, and I think
they're sacred of a woman who gave up her child
because at that point in her life she was not
able to raise that child. I think it's a noble
thing to do. I believe that it's a tough thing
to do. And there every year there's a new person
who will share their story. And Friday other programming note,
(06:51):
the Friday before Thanksgiving every year we do a Thanksgiving special.
The reason we no longer do that the day before
Thanksgiving is some of you we will be traveling over
that Thanksgiving week and you won't hear it. And we
believe that a grateful spirit is very, very important. We
believe that counting our blessings, naming them one by one,
(07:13):
being grateful for what is around us, we think it's
good for our spirit.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
We think it's good for your mental health. We think
it's good for you.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
As a mother, father, son, daughter, employer, employee, friend, brother, neighbor,
to take stock and not take things for granted. And
that is what Thanksgiving is for us. And so we
do that on the Friday before most shows. Like every
other show, we're focused on the news of the day,
but these are important markers for us, along with Mother's Day,
Father's Day, and some veteran related events that are really
(07:45):
really important to us. So and we have a lot
of new listeners today because we begin today in prime
time on k EIB out of Los Angeles, California. If
you had told me almost twenty years ago that we
would be airing live in Los Angeles, California, the major
(08:09):
media market, I wouldn't have believed it.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
But here we are. If you are a.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
New listener, I would love to hear from you listening
on K eib You can send me email directly at
Michael berrysshow dot com.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Tom Lei.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Legal immigration was the most important issue in this year's elections,
no doubt.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Now.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
The fact that much of the media didn't cover that
fact was not because it wasn't true, and not even
because they didn't know it. It's because they didn't want
the big bet to be on illegal immigration, because then
if they lost and Trump won, which the polls showed
(08:58):
that if we stayed focused on that, he would that
that would mean mass deportations in the building of a wall,
and they can't have that. So part of their psychological
opts was to downplay the importance of illegal immigration to
this year's election. Trump's number one mantra in twenty sixteen
(09:23):
was build the wall. It's important. The effects of illegal
immigration are felt differently. In Texas, were feeling them bad.
In California, they're feeling them bad, but they're doubling down.
In Arizona, they're feeling them bad. But now with sex
trafficking and drug trafficking and fentanyl deaths, with Texas busing
(09:46):
illegals to Chicago and New York and even for a
minute Martha's Vineyard, but Oh, they weren't going to allow
that to happen, were they, Hey, we could have them
on our doorstep, but they weren't about to allow that
at Martha's vineyard.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
These rich people weren't going to tolerate it.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Well, we had a lot of fun with this issue
and with highlighting the importance of this issue. So we
created a few years ago, we created a little parody song. Internally,
Chance mclin wrote and recorded. This was about the State
(10:23):
of Texas bussing illegal aliens to I think at the
time they were being sent to Chicago. And the importance
of that was for the first time the people in
the big cities Chicago, Philly, New York, who had these
(10:43):
sanctuary city policies, all of a sudden they understood what
we were kicking and screaming about. And as the illegal
aliens started being housed in the government buildings, that meant, oh,
your kids gymnasium were taking that over. But my kids
trying to get us college should play basketball. Sorry, we're
taking over the gym, We're taking over the community center,
(11:06):
we're taking over the airport. So now all of a sudden, democrats,
including in perhaps especially black inner city, organized Democrats started saying, whoa,
we don't want these illegal aliens on our doorstep. So
(11:29):
in the city of Denver, when they arrived, they started
they started bussing them somewhere else. Well, no, no, you're
a sanctuary city. Give them sanctuary. So this is one
of our favorite parody songs. And there's a second part
to this. This was when the illegals were first being
bussed around the country.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
This was the song we wrote, Pooty ride on these bunks.
I got on too well.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
I crossed the reel ground looking for the promised Land.
This is a very nice buse. I like how my
blue Sido choice. The air conditioner works very well. Back
(12:22):
at homies hodays hell. Where are we going on this bus?
The bathroom in the back discuss I've been on it
for a long time. That was the Arkansas state line.
I think I live in On this bus, there are
(12:47):
like eighty five of us. I've been writing four like
fourteen days. Am I still in the USA?
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I did today stopped the polls. That bus driver I
go on thros he say it out rod or sb.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Fok on to Washington d C, Washington D.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
My new home is in DC.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Take me back to Mexico City.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
We heard from so many of you how much you
loved that parody that we put Chance McClain on the
task of writing up a follow up to that now
that the illegals are going to be deported to Mexico.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
And we hope you enjoy it. Here goes.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Why am I back on this purpose? Came to America
because easy land, the opportunity, so many free Biskey to me.
Someone talking on this pathers he's speaking loud. He liked
(14:40):
to cause, he said. He named me Tom Holden. I
don't think that he my friend. He handcuffed me to
this purpose. He said, you can live with us. I say,
(15:00):
signor where this buzz goes? He said, deeping Mexico. What
happened to this buzz us? He's thirty stinky full of us.
Sonny saying all to my ride gonna be a lolone night.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I just woke up on the buzzs. My eyes are
full of With the.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Cross no longer in the USA.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
On this day in nineteen fifty five, and what is
the music industry equivalent of the Babe Ruth trade. Sun
Records owner Sam Phillips sold Elvis Presley's contract to RCA
for thirty five thousand dollars a lot of money, to
be sure in nineteen fifty five. But talk about upside,
(16:11):
Elvis had a lot of upside. Now, you won't meet
a bigger Elvis fan than me. So what I'm about
to say will come as will come as surprising to
many when I say that Sam Phillips did the right
thing for Sun Records and for Sam Phillips when he
(16:32):
did that, and by the way, he did the right
thing for Elvis because Sun Records didn't have the capacity,
the bandwidth to launch Elvis as big as he would
end up being with RCA. However, the reason I say
that about Sam Phillips is what did he do with
(16:54):
that thirty five thousand dollars?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Is this the part nobody talks about.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Remember, Elvis only had one year left on his contract,
so he wasn't going to be able to keep Elvis anyway.
So he got something for him thirty five thousand dollars,
and he invested that money in a local hotel chain.
That local hotel chain into which he invested his thirty
(17:22):
five thousand dollars is a little nothing chained called Holiday
in which ended up making him a massive fortune. To
the news of the day, Matt Gates must not be
allowed to become Attorney General. Not because it would be
bad for the Democrats, of course it would, but the
(17:45):
Attorney General, as Matt Gates, would be able to open
the files and realize that Republicans have been working to
silence Donald Trump, that Republicans in the government have committed
horrible crimes, and the Attorney General will be able to
declassify all of that. And so with this in mind,
(18:09):
Karl Rove, the fat hired gun of the neocons and
the anti Americans, was sent onto Fox News so that
he could show their disapproval. When Karl Rove is rolled
his tubby self in to attack the Republicans, to attack,
(18:30):
to attack the Trump, folks, just know that that is
the neocons, the warmongers, the Dick Cheney's, the Bushes, the Romney's,
this is the establishment in folks. It's not just that
they haven't helped you to solve the countries of this
to solve the problems of this country. It is that
(18:51):
they have actively worked against you to solve the problems
of this country.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Make no mistake about that.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
So here is Karl Rove on Fox News trying to
keep Matt Gates from being confirmed?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
This could be very harmful.
Speaker 8 (19:08):
It'd be one thing if this guy had a reputation
as one an extraordinarily gifted legislator, to a tremendously gifted
trial attorney, a proven prosecutor, somebody who had managed a
big law firm and con demonstrated legal ability. But no,
he has none of those attributes. In fact, he has
a reputation on the floor of the House for having
shown pictures of his conquests to his fellow members. So
(19:32):
if that's the best you can do, you're not going
to get confirmed.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Oh Carl and your pearl clutching. Let's assume that is true.
We don't know that it is. Are you telling me
that a congressman who was single at the time showing
pictures of his sexual conquests with his buddies in Congress
(19:57):
makes him incapable of being able to serve? Are you
telling me that there weren't any Bush era administration officials
that you knew that were not bragging on the number
of girlfriends they had and showing the pretty pictures, some
(20:17):
of them their buddies' daughters. Because we all know that's
been happening a very long time, this little sex game
that they play where Republicans that don't meet the standards
for the establishment, when you step out of line, they
start using sex as the thing to prevent you. And
(20:41):
yet the same sex game they played with all the
people they compromised through Epstein.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
If this sex thing is so dark and.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Important, why don't they release the list from Epstein? And
by the way, this diddy list, it's going to be
pretty nasty too. If what I'm hearing behind the scenes,
and some of you the rumors are out there. If
what I'm hearing is the case, there are going to
be major figures from sports, from media, from politics, some
(21:18):
of which you've probably already heard their names, and it
is quite scandalous.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
But worse, there are criminal acts.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
And this needs to be pursued and run to ground
so that every single person who committed these crimes, because
Carl Rove just told us, we have to be very
very prudish. Karl Rove has made a career of destroying
Republicans who are tea party, destroying Republicans who are America first,
(21:52):
destroying Republicans who do not support sending your boys to war,
because who pays for Karl. Karl Rove is bought and
paid for. Here's something that the prurient interest should pay
attention to. Karl Rove is a prostitute. Karl Rove is
a prostitute for the defense industry, for the big government types,
(22:18):
for people who do business with government. Karl Rove is
bought and paid for. That's why he's on Fox News.
That's his whole role. Just because you may have seen
him involved with Bush back when you were supporting Republican
candidates like that, and you may have a holdover idea.
(22:41):
I don't think anybody I still does that. Maybe Karl
Rove was a good guy.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
He's not. He's not a good guy.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
He's worked very, very hard to destroy Republicans. He will
allow a Democrat to win and destroy Republicans if he
doesn't like what they're doing. Remember Todd Aikin in Missouri,
Claire mccaskell was the sitting Republican senator. It was twenty
ten or twenty twelve, I forget which one. The tea
(23:10):
party was booming and we were going to beat a
sitting Democrat senator. It was twenty ten Claire mccaskell, and
we had a doctor named Todd Aiken, and.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Carl Rove.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Contorted and twisted what doctor Aiken had said and it
destroyed Aiken. And Claire mccaskell went on to be Barack
Obama's campaign chairman nationally at the end of or two
years later, and we could have won that seat. Remember
what he did to McConnell. Christine was it, Christine McConnell.
(23:49):
Remember what he did to Sharon Angelo?
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Was it?
Speaker 3 (23:53):
In Nevada? We had multiple Senate seats we could have won,
but Carl Rove told the Republicans to pull back withdraw
the money. He's done the same thing to Ted Cruz.
By the way, it's just that in Texas we keep
putting Cruise up. Carl Rode does more damage to Republicans
than any single Democrat outfit.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
I will stand by that statement. Bring it on. What
would you do with the brain if you had one?
Bring it on? Because there is nothing here.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Michael very Show, I would like to extend a big
welcome to our new listeners in Los Angeles. We've actually
been on a EB radio, but we were on in
the very early morning. So we developed a podcast listening
audience who sampled us and then as a result, went
(24:47):
to the podcast and began listening. Because the early morning
hours didn't work, we also developed a listening audience in
the early morning who listened live because the third shifters.
One of the reasons the networks get it all wrong,
and even the politicians, is because they assume that everyone
is like them. One of the interesting things about our
(25:09):
show airing at different times around the country, including overnights,
is you hear from people. Because I make very clear
any listener across the country can reach out to me
at any time Michael Berryshow dot com. I read the emails.
It's great research for me. It's great input, feedback from
me on the show, and interesting details. If I'm talking
(25:30):
about fighting fires, or I'm talking about police issue, i
will hear from firefighters, I'll hear from police. If I'm
talking about a tax code change and how it's going
to affect small business owners, I will hear from small
business owners. I will hear from CPAs, and oftentimes I
will email back because they tell me more and it's
a great learning experience, and plus I find it very engaging.
It's interesting when people will say, hey, I'm emailing you
(25:51):
from Poughkeepsie, or I'm emailing you from Sioux City, Iowa,
or I'm emailing you from San Bernardino.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
I find that fascinating.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
In any case, those people are left out of polling
and consideration because the people that live in DC don't realize.
You know, there are people who work through the middle
of the night and sleep by day, a lot more
of them than you realize, and they cast votes and
they buy products, and they have influence, but you don't
(26:22):
consider their opinion when calculating the direction of the nation.
In any case, a big welcome on k I be
and it gives me great joy to say eib excellence
in broadcasting because I wouldn't be here today, and I
assert talk radio wouldn't be here today and thriving as
(26:46):
it is were it not for Rush Limbaugh, and were
it not for his success in Sacramento where he really
launched what would become the New York based and then
Palm Beach based Rush Limbaugh show that we came to know, and.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
I think how the world would be different.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
I don't think that it was inevitable that there would
be talk radio, as his powerful influence, I don't think
it was inevitable that there would be the Tea Party
in twenty ten and twenty twelve, And without the Tea Party,
I don't think you have Trump in twenty sixteen. Trump
goes back to eighty nine or eighty eight when he's
(27:30):
talking about running for president. But I think that was
mostly to launch the book Art of the Deal, and
there would be a lot more attention if it was,
you know, him running for president. Remember, of course he
goes on Oprah Winfrey Show, and then in two thousand
he got much closer to running.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
And did not. But if you think about if you go.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Back and look for those of you who want a
good assignment and a good learning experience, go back and
look at Pat Buchanan's platform. Pat and President Trump got
crossways because Pat.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Thought Trump was gonna run against him.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
But Pat Buchannan was was on point on a lot
of what became Donald Trump's platform. People forget this, and
Trump very adroitly, this is the businessman side of him.
He picked and chose from some of Pat Buchanan's platform
(28:29):
and from ninety two at ninety six, mostly ninety two
Ross Perrot's platform, and then the Tea party from twenty
ten and twenty twelve. And that's why Trump was able
to run against almost twenty Republicans in twenty sixteen afield
the strength of which we've never seen before. We've never
seen a Republican primary so stacked with candidates who had
(28:52):
strong resumes, strong support basis, very very strong funding. I mean,
you had Jeb buok Bush, who was the anointed one.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
You had Ted.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Cruz who had locked up the evangelical vote and was
extraordinarily well funded. You had the governor of Wisconsin. You
had the libertarian in Rand Paul, you had you had
a really strong field. And despite all of that, a
first time candidate, we've never seen anything like that. You
talk about a juggernaut Trump Trump's strength so early in there.
(29:29):
People will say it was based on charisma or star power,
or that he was a pop icon. All of those
things are true, but it was also because Trump had
tapped into American ideas that politics had mostly abandoned or ignored,
(29:50):
and there was such a groundswell for that. What he
was saying and the way he was saying it that
had never been seen before. And I maintain that was
transformative for the American political scene. And mind you, that
goes back to twenty fifteen. Here we are nine almost
(30:14):
ten years later. There's a little bit of Donald Trump
in every Republican, every single one. Today you got this
new dude who says he's a woman, and he goes
to Congress for the whole purpose of stirring up a
bunch of mess and getting a bunch of attention for himself,
(30:37):
and so tour credit. Nancy May says, do what you
want to do, dude, dress how you want to dress,
but you're not coming in the girls' restroom. And they forced,
they forced the issue, and so earlier today Speaker of
the House Mike Johnson had to say, Yeah, you can't
(30:57):
come into women's restroom.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
You're a dude. You're a dude.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Now, that gives the media something to talk about because
it stirs people up. It's not important. It's not important
to you or me in our personal lives. It's not
important to the Joe Rogan podcast listener who went back
to their own lives. It's not important to the homemaker
(31:23):
woman or the plumber who aren't as engaged in politics.
They just cast a vote and went back. They don't care.
They think it's all weird. It's much ado about nothing.
It's that weird o, wacko thing of these people who
whether they're out there for Hamas or they're out there
trying to get money for Ukraine, or they're trying to
put boys in the girl's bathroom, most Americans think, all
(31:46):
this is weird. Who are all these women fifty years
old running around trying to make sure they can have
an abortion?
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Who are these whack shops? That's how people feel.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
People have complete whole lives and they don't have space
in their lives for this craziness. It's like Archie Bunker,
They're going, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (32:11):
You know? Archie Bunker was supposed.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
To be an anti hero, but he turned out to
be a hero because people identified with him the world
was wacky, and he became what a lot of people
were saying. You know, I come home and said on
my couch in the world's going crazy and it's encroaching
closer and closer to my life. And so what they
thought of was, you know, this awful person who doesn't
(32:36):
want to get with it with our crazy new whacked out, wow,
far out ideas ended up becoming an American hero, and
that shocked, everybody, absolutely everybody you know, well, I'll say
that for the next time, Victor Davis Hansen, We're going
(32:57):
to get some Victor Davis Hant.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
We love Victor Davis Hanson on Emerson Stra
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