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Speaker 1 (00:00):
At time, time, Time, Time, Luck and loud.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
The Michael Very Show is on the air. Replace we
went the carry and the sense of joy.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I know it's incredibly disappointing now and look candidly, it's
a bit scary because there's a very different vision that's
being put out there.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
And tonight we're getting some new details about that Trump
Trudeau dinner from two people who were at the table.
We are told that when Trudeau told President elect Trump
that new tariffs would kill the Canadian economy, Trump joked
to him that if Canada can't survive without ripping off,
as to the.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Tune of one, when I think about then, I think about.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
That should become the fifty first state.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
How her country has changed in my lifetime. And I
attribute these factors to a number of things, but to
be clear, we allowed it to happen. For instance, since
the election, a number of companies have come out publicly
to say they're doing away with DEI Boeing did it.
(01:13):
My memory fails me because I'm on this cough drug
products and I just can't recall things and foggy. But
there have been a number of companies who have come
out and said we're not we're laying off everybody in
the DEI department. We're doing the way of DEI. Okay,
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my problem is I can't leave well enough alone because
what I ought to say is okay, great, we won,
you lost boom. But then I can't help but think
because I believe you should learn from every mistake. And
if you just move on and don't don't dwell on
it a little bit, don't analyze it, you make that
mistake again. So why why did you adopt the in
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the first place. Let's look at the fundamental precepts of
DEI diversity, equity inclusion. Well, if winning is important and
you have to win at everything, the very idea that
some people say you don't have to win it everything
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you're a loser.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Just a fact.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
You do have to win it everything, whether that means
winning the girl's hand that you want a date, or
winning the proposal because if they're only going to hire
one company as their supplier, or winning the job that
you're trying to get. Yeah, there's winning and there's losing.
Period into story, and where winning matters without a doubt
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is on the sporting field. If you're a biggest rivalry
in college football game that you know, most anticipated was
this past weekend thirteen years University of Texas and Texas
A and M and I can tell you in Texas
it is all that mattered. Iron Bowl in Alabama although
it wasn't is interesting this year. And then you've got
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the rivalries that involved Tennessee and Georgia and other rivalries
with Alabama and LSU. And these used to be the
Civil War in Oregon between Oregon and Oregon State, although
Oregon seems to win it every time. Michigan and Ohio State,
and how about that Michigan beat Ohio State again my goodness.
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But anyway, where winning matters, you don't ever have DEI?
Why because DEI is contrary to success. Where does DEI
creep in in situations where you fail to keep your
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eye on the prime of winning? Do you see what
I'm saying? If you care about making the best product,
delivering it in the least amount of time, providing the
best customer experience, all in an effort to get the
best reward, the highest return for investors, some people tell
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me that's a bad thing. Do you understand why investors
put their money in the first place? You think they
did it to be nice. That'd be called charity. This
is called investing. Of course, you have to maximize shareholder return.
What did you think they gave you the money for?
Because guess what you were willing to make any commitment
imaginable when you wanted their money. Then when you get it,
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you go, well, I don't really care about shareholder there.
We want to do what we want to do. They
give the damn money back because you took that money
under a premise. They gave it to you under a premise.
Do you just give your money to other people and
call it investing but don't care what they do with it?
So I can't help but go back to this, to
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this very important point that we understand it before we
just move on. I'm glad we've slayed the dragon, slain
the dragon of DEI not completely, but we're headed in
the right direction. Because companies that care so desperately about
their public image, and not just conservative companies, those companies
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are now under pressure by investors, institutional investors that can
put seats on the board, they can have buyouts that
can cause them a lot of trouble. That are that
are are going to determine whether they're slate of candidates
for the board get reelected or not. That's kind of stuff.
This is job security. It is now the case that
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investors are saying, knock it off with the DEI. You
need to build a better product. Voeing, guess what you
screwed up. You made a product that was not first
in its class, that is dangerous, that has cost lives
in crashes, and that has embarrassed the employees, the investors,
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and has damaged the brand, not just in the short term.
I mean, these are very very serious accusations, and they're true.
Everybody knows it. They're true. You can't deny what's happened
doors flying open planes that the pilots couldn't crash. Ethiopia
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Airlines bought one of those Boeing planes and technology they
couldn't fly, and they were crashing and people died. I mean,
there's just no excuse for this. First, do no harm. Well,
I don't know that DEEI was one hundred percent responsible
for any of that, Probably not one hundred percent. But
do I know that the rise of DEI was was
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the decrease in quality? Yeah? Absolutely. The Chinese don't engage
in that nonsense. The Japanese don't engage in that nonsense
because they care about quality control, and they care about
the best product delivered in the fastest time or at
the right time, dependably, reliably at the cost that's going
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to induce the most consumption while maintaining the most profit.
That's what drives business period into story. And we shouldn't
have to argue that over We should have to argue
over that anymore. And I will argue. I'll argue it
all day long. And I'm unashamed, and I'm surprised how
many people have been softened by this idea. Wow, we
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don't we don't have to. It's not Josh about making
a profit, okay, but it is surely mostly about making Wow,
it's about doing gun and shivnar. I don't know how
Jimmy Stewart got involved in this conversation, but he did.
But my point on all of this is we have
allowed the narrative to change. We have allowed industry, families, teachers,
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everything to lose track of what matters in life. There's
a point to this coming. This is the Michael Barry Show.
I'll never forget when uh, when Rush got married and
(08:35):
Elton John performed and the media one to make him
out to be this awful person for for performing for
Elton John, performing for Wrestling Ball, and they asked him,
why did you do that? And he said two reasons.
(08:55):
Number one, he paid me a million dollars. Number two,
he likes my music. That's what I do. I play
my music for people who like it who can pay
the rate that I demand. And it was and I
loved that. Rush was unabashed about it. I like ating
(09:16):
Tom We've got a million bucks. I want to pay
him to play it. It was incredible, It was absolutely wonderful.
A number of you have asked this question, so I
feel like I need to address it. I have consulted
some different folks. I do have two law degrees, but
I don't practice law, and some things you really need
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to be in the practice to understand how this is
most likely to play out. But a number of you
have heard it said on different TV shows that because
Hunter Biden has been pardoned, he can no longer plead
the fifth and and let me play for you what
(10:01):
Senator Tom Cotton had to say about that, and then
we'll speak to that.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
For wait and see who else Joe Biden partons because again,
if he pardons his brother and maybe a sister, maybe
some of Hunter Biden's corrupt businessmen, there may not be
anything left to investigate, at least for criminal liability. I
will say this though, Joe Biden may come to regret
this decision because having given his son a blanket pardon
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of eleven years to include time when Joe Biden was
Vice president, Hunter Biden now can't plead the fifth If
he appears before Congress or appears before a grand jury,
he has to testify about exactly what he was up to,
for instance, when he was traveling to China on Air
Force two and meeting with Chinese communist princelings, or why
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he was being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to
sit on a Ukrainian energy company's board for which he
had no qualifications. So that may be one unintended consequence
of this pardon that Joe Biden didn't fully think through.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
But what people are not understanding, and I want to
make sure you do, yes, I believe Hunter Biden can
be compelled to testify and won't be able to plead
the fifth. You need to understand because I don't think
this is this is this is being connected if he's
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asked a question with regard to his own involvement, where
he has legal jeopardy and when would that happen? Okay,
this this pardon only covers federal cases. It doesn't cover
state charges that he may get, as I understand it.
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So if there's a separate investigation, okay, where he wouldn't
be able to plead the fifth because he is protected.
Is in case where as he noted, there his uncle,
his business partners, his business partners at Seneca Capital. He's
not the only one that's been involved in all this.
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Remember what all Tony Bobby Lensky said. It was a
lot more than just Hunter and his dad. This was
a scheme. It's a Rico violation, is what it is.
Because there's a group of them scheming to defraud the
United States government and commit treason. And it's it's going
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to be very interesting. Indeed, let me get to this
cause I've been I just want to gloat for a
moment since we've been talking about Rush Limbaugh. He used
to refer to Chuck Todd as f Chuck Todd, and
I loved it so much, and I miss Rush, and
I know you do and I want to go to
break on this so that we still retain time for him.
(12:58):
You remember when that smug Chuck God said that Hunter's
guilty verdict in his court case had actually hurt Donald Trump.
You remember that. Let's go back. It was on MSNBC.
Let's go back and enjoy that moment together.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
If Biden has lost something with the American people over
the last few years, it's that reminder that you know,
he is sort of the opposite of Trump on empathy, right,
He's the opposite of Trump on some of these things.
And I think this verdict their reaction to it versus
how the Trumps have reacted to the rule of law. Certainly,
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I think presents that character contrast, you know with a
group of voters who are not you know, by those
that are left that are not happy with their choices.
And I think, you know, to try to figure out
who this politically benefits, I think this it hurts Trump hard.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Stop.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
You don't know if these things help Biden at all,
but it certainly hurts because I think his rhetoric about
a rigged system really works against him. When you look
at all of the supposed advantages that the Bidens had
in this case, right, it was a person that was
appointed by Merrick Garland. As Claire mccaskell pointed out, Joe
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Biden had the power to stop this if he chose to,
if he chose to pervert the rule of law, he
could have done that, but he chose not to do that.
This was a Delaware jury who the Bidens have won
many of Biden has won many election in that state,
and we know all of those are registered voters, perhaps
all of them or most of them have voted for
a Biden at least once in their life. And that
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still showed you that the rule of law was able
to stay above the political phrase.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
So look, I think.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
The most important thing to come out of today is
the American system. Again, I challenge you to find me
another country where their son, the leader's son or daughter
at the moment, would be prosecuted like this the way
it happened here.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Allow me to introduce myself.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
My name is Mitch michael Berry.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Genius. You know, I've been thinking a lot because Trump's
going to hit the ground running and we're going to
forget about Joe Biden. Remember when Nancy Pelosi said that
he should be on Mount Rushmore, and now she admits
that she was working behind the scenes to smother him
and get him out of there. Are you telling these
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people are dirty? You have no idea how dirty You
think that that Wendy in the marketing department is a backstabber. Oh,
you don't know people that are this evil. Go back
and look at the picture of Nancy Pelosi as a
young woman with John F. Kennedy. Her father was the
mayor of Baltimore. She spent her entire life in politics.
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I've been around these people. I know how they are.
They'll be your best friend on Monday and murder you
on Tuesday. They'll go for drinks with you on Wednesday
night and Thursday morning, report you to the I R S,
the I N S, the Securities and Exchange Commission. It
didn't matter if they want to get you out of
the way. The things they will do would make you
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you can't. It's hard for you, for normal, real, legitimate,
authentic people to understand. But anyway, back to Hunter Biden,
I think it would be awesome. I'd half way respect
if Hunter were to raise his hand and go look
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at cocaine in the White House. Huh, y'all all know.
It's like at some point Neil Diamond had to go,
all right, sweet Caroline is about Caroline Kennedy. Oh, because
we were really wondering, don't do like old Uh, what's
your name? That did? You're so vain?
Speaker 7 (16:58):
Who?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Oh not Carocane? What's her name? Well you know what
I'm talking about. But every couple of years when she
needs some attention, she'll whisper the name into doctor Phil's
here or whoever else? What Carly Simon? Yes, and it's
always somebody different. Oh, I say it sold. What's the
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guy's name, the actor Warren Baty, or it's Mick Jagger.
She changes it every time she bored. All right. I
wish Hunter would just come out and say that was
my cocaine. All right. I got a lot of problems.
I'm a mess, I'm a trader, but I'm mad enough
to admit that was my cocaine. We had so much
fun with that at the time because we all know
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it was his cocaine. It wasn't his, it was Kamala's,
but we all know it was his. And at the
time we were making up movie promos. Remember Cocaine Bear two,
You remember this. We still think this will make a great,
a great.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
Film coming soon to a theater near you. He's on
a one bear mission and in the White House to
do two things, chew bubblegum and snort cocaine. And he's
all out of bubblegum.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Somehow he's ended up in the nation's capital.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Were a strange new sugar addiction.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
What kinds of sugar?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Bourger sugar is un.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
But Chief, we simply cannot catch him.
Speaker 7 (18:30):
He's in the White House, he's high on cocaine, and
he's a grizzly bear, and I am an f F agent.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
We need a hunter.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Hunter.
Speaker 9 (18:43):
How do you think the bear got the cocaine?
Speaker 8 (18:50):
You've seen all snorts of movies, but never one where
a good rizzly bear finds the first son stash of
nosecare cocaine to White Powder House.
Speaker 10 (19:02):
Prepare for the right of your life. It's gonna be awsome. Okay,
don't don't take this the wrong way, but in an
odd way.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
I mean, I'm glad he's gone and and it's going
to end badly for Hunter Biden.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
It is.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
We all know this, right. I'm not I'm not wishing
for it. I'm not hoping for it. Although I'm not.
I'm not giving. I'm just gonna tell you I'm not
that kind of person. I'm not I'm not in any
way gonna waste a second time the guy. The guy
has had. You want to talk about privilege, that that
is what privilege looks like. There are people who are
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riding in jail who've done one percent what Hunter Biden has,
and so I don't feel bad for him. He has
had a life of no consequences. But I am gonna
miss the fun. We could poke at him, and we
knew all along. Remember that the summer camp. You remember
our camp, Hunter Biden, you remember See, we're gonna miss this.
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We're gonna have nothing fun to make fun of.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Hello Mada, Hello Fada.
Speaker 9 (20:28):
Here I am at Camp Granada.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Camp is different than expected.
Speaker 9 (20:36):
If I'm lucky, I'll come back all on infected.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
I joined the gang they.
Speaker 9 (20:43):
Call thee animals. All the counselors smoking camels.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
They're free basing.
Speaker 9 (20:51):
Check them hoffing.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
We are mastering b are, that is, but chugging.
Speaker 9 (20:58):
We watch pornos on a loop.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
No one flushes when they boop.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
Vodka highballs, the ever flowing and the psychedelic mushrooms are
mind blowing. We wake up to nine and snails, white
powdered sugar rails, mescaline and prison wine, and we're but
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ass naked most of the time. Take me home, Homoda Voda,
Take me home from Camp Granada. Don't leave me at
this camp.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I swear there's Hooker's school every freaking wind. Wait a minute,
we've been raided.
Speaker 9 (21:59):
I'm in handcuff, hesitated, no more a balls, no more fighting.
It turns out I was at Camp Hunter Biden, Michael Barry.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Sure, there's a wonderful podcast. I'm always hesitant to refer
things because then I have to hear from people with
a If I say, hey, this guy over here makes
a great hamburger, somebody, I'll come back and say, do
you know he's a liberal? Yeah? I do, but I
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ate a hamburg that he made and it was phenomenal.
So I've learned that I have to go ahead and
state this. So there is a really, really good, mostly
good podcast call History of Rock Music and five hundred Songs.
The problem is the guy who does the podcast, Andrew Hickey,
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is an absolute He reminds me of the guy that
wrote Confederacy. Had Duncis. I think he sits in his apartment,
probably in London, would be my guess. I think he's
a hypochondriac. I think he's probably always kind of sickly,
probably does zoom therapy sessions all day long. At the
beginning of every podcast, he will say warning, this podcast
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involves discussions of race and drugs and people dying. So
if that's going to bother you read the script. Read
the transcript, and I'm like, is it better if you
read it and just you saying what's weirdest thing ever?
But you know Netflix has taken doing this nonsense. Wait,
(23:43):
they tell you at the beginning of at the beginning
of what you're going to watch, it's going to be smoking.
And okay, I could see with cussing because you don't
have kids in there. Why do you need to tell us?
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Oh no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
I can't, honey, we can't watch this. Find something else.
There's going to be somebody smoking. But here's the point.
This is important. The reason that is there is because
these people, and they've been pandered to, they're triggered. They're
triggered if they see something that for whatever reason, they
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don't like, and so everyone else is supposed to prevent
them from having to see something they don't like. You know,
we're talking earlier. I've spent a lot of time deconstructing
the election and going back, which is it takes a
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lot of time. But for those of you who like
to learn from something after the fact, you like to
watch game film after the game, you will find it
very rewarding to just pick an issue and pick a date,
or or search and go back and watch what people
were saying in October, right before the election, where you'll
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get Democrats predicting the biggest route of Trump that's ever
been seen. Or go back to the summer, late summer,
early summer. One of the things I've been doing is
is exploring where things went wrong for the Democrats. And
I came across an interview with a woman named Lindy Lee.
She's Asian American. My guess is she's Chinese American. She's
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a Democrat campaign advisor, and she was on NBC and
she revealed what they have not wanted to say, but
what I have heard from their inner circles that neither
Barack Obama nor Nancy Pelosi wanted Kamala Harris to be
the nominee. They did want Biden out. They didn't want Kamala.
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So what Biden did is say, all right, y'all are
really going to execute this palace coup? All right, guess
what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna pick who my replacement's
going to be. And so he immediately he said, all right,
I'll agree to it, and I'm endorsing Kamala Harris. That
apparently shocked Obama, especially Nancy Pelosi. Joe Biden will no
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longer speak to Nancy Pelosi. And by the way, story
goes that Jill is the one who made Joe Biden
pardon his crackhead son, that that was that she put
a guilt trip on him. I don't know if that's
true or not. That may be part of the trying
to preserve his legacy kind of thing. She didn't withhold
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any ramon. Why would you say that? All right? So anyway,
here is a backstory that I think you'll find interesting.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
Do you agree that Obama and Pelosi did not want Harris.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
I know they didn't. It's not so.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
I have a lot of friends in Obama world, and
actually I'm friends of Speaker's Polosi, and I spoke with
her before I actually I actually went on air to
encourage President Biden to step aside.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
And I touched face with her camp before I did that.
And what did she tell me. It's not a matter
of conjecture for me. I know they didn't. I appreciate that.
What did she tell you at that time, Well, she.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
Said it was fine that I went on air to
encourage President Biden to step down. It was July twenty
first when I went on Fox New Sunday and I
said it was time for him to step down and
pass the mantle to the next generation.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
It was necessary. It became clear.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
That he's no longer able to effectively litigate the case
against President Biden against Trump.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
So and.
Speaker 7 (27:50):
Obama and Pelosi were both hoping for a primary instead
of a coronation, so to speak.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Who do you think they were hoping for.
Speaker 7 (27:58):
I don't think Pelosi is hoping for anyone in particular
or not that I know of. I do know that
bomb was carefully vetting Mark Kelly, the Senator from Arizona.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
I know there were other names on his list. I'm
not saying that Kamala Harris.
Speaker 7 (28:10):
Is necessarily at the top of the list, but he
was definitely considering other candidates.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
I don't think she was ruled out.
Speaker 7 (28:16):
I just think that everyone is a lot of people.
The captains of the party were hoping for a lightning round,
a lightning primary, and President Biden essentially preempted that by
issuing his endorsement thirty minutes after he dropped out. I
don't think anyone saw that coming. We did not see
that coming. I think a lot of people anticipated that
he might have stepped aside, but no one anticipated the two.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
For that we got that day.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
It's fun to go back. It's interesting. It's also interesting
to challenge myself. So what did I think was happening
at that time? Because you don't always know? Isn't it
fun when you get to know somebody that you become
friends and letter you go, hey, that first time I
met you, Remember when I said this and you reacted
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this way? And they go, yeah, what were you thinking? Well,
I didn't know you. And then and you get the
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Oh.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
The Michael Very Show is on the air. Replace we
went the carry and the sense of joy.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I know it's incredibly disappointing now and look candidly, it's
a bit scary because there's a very different vision that's
being put out there.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
And tonight we're getting some new details about that Trump
Trudeau dinner from two people who were at the table.
We are told that when Trudeau told President elect Trump
that new tariffs would kill the Canadian economy, Trump joked
to him that if Canada can't survive without ripping off,
as to the.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Tune of one, when I think about then, I think about.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
That should become the fifty first state.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
How her country has changed in my lifetime. And I
attribute these factors to a number of things, but to
be clear, we allowed it to happen. For instance, since
the election, a number of companies have come out publicly
to say they're doing away with DEI Boeing did it.
(01:13):
My memory fails me because I'm on this cough drug
products and I just can't recall things and foggy. But
there have been a number of companies who have come
out and said we're not we're laying off everybody in
the DEI department. We're doing the way of DEI. Okay,
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my problem is I can't leave well enough alone because
what I ought to say is okay, great, we won,
you lost boom. But then I can't help but think
because I believe you should learn from every mistake. And
if you just move on and don't don't dwell on
it a little bit, don't analyze it, you make that
mistake again. So why why did you adopt the in
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the first place. Let's look at the fundamental precepts of
DEI diversity, equity inclusion. Well, if winning is important and
you have to win at everything, the very idea that
some people say you don't have to win it everything
(02:22):
you're a loser.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Just a fact.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
You do have to win it everything, whether that means
winning the girl's hand that you want a date, or
winning the proposal because if they're only going to hire
one company as their supplier, or winning the job that
you're trying to get. Yeah, there's winning and there's losing.
Period into story, and where winning matters without a doubt
(02:49):
is on the sporting field. If you're a biggest rivalry
in college football game that you know, most anticipated was
this past weekend thirteen years University of Texas and Texas
A and M and I can tell you in Texas
it is all that mattered. Iron Bowl in Alabama although
it wasn't is interesting this year. And then you've got
(03:11):
the rivalries that involved Tennessee and Georgia and other rivalries
with Alabama and LSU. And these used to be the
Civil War in Oregon between Oregon and Oregon State, although
Oregon seems to win it every time. Michigan and Ohio State,
and how about that Michigan beat Ohio State again my goodness.
(03:39):
But anyway, where winning matters, you don't ever have DEI?
Why because DEI is contrary to success. Where does DEI
creep in in situations where you fail to keep your
(03:59):
eye on the prime of winning? Do you see what
I'm saying? If you care about making the best product,
delivering it in the least amount of time, providing the
best customer experience, all in an effort to get the
best reward, the highest return for investors, some people tell
(04:23):
me that's a bad thing. Do you understand why investors
put their money in the first place? You think they
did it to be nice. That'd be called charity. This
is called investing. Of course, you have to maximize shareholder return.
What did you think they gave you the money for?
Because guess what you were willing to make any commitment
imaginable when you wanted their money. Then when you get it,
(04:47):
you go, well, I don't really care about shareholder there.
We want to do what we want to do. They
give the damn money back because you took that money
under a premise. They gave it to you under a premise.
Do you just give your money to other people and
call it investing but don't care what they do with it?
So I can't help but go back to this, to
(05:07):
this very important point that we understand it before we
just move on. I'm glad we've slayed the dragon, slain
the dragon of DEI not completely, but we're headed in
the right direction. Because companies that care so desperately about
their public image, and not just conservative companies, those companies
(05:31):
are now under pressure by investors, institutional investors that can
put seats on the board, they can have buyouts that
can cause them a lot of trouble. That are that
are are going to determine whether they're slate of candidates
for the board get reelected or not. That's kind of stuff.
This is job security. It is now the case that
(05:52):
investors are saying, knock it off with the DEI. You
need to build a better product. Voeing, guess what you
screwed up. You made a product that was not first
in its class, that is dangerous, that has cost lives
in crashes, and that has embarrassed the employees, the investors,
(06:19):
and has damaged the brand, not just in the short term.
I mean, these are very very serious accusations, and they're true.
Everybody knows it. They're true. You can't deny what's happened
doors flying open planes that the pilots couldn't crash. Ethiopia
(06:40):
Airlines bought one of those Boeing planes and technology they
couldn't fly, and they were crashing and people died. I mean,
there's just no excuse for this. First, do no harm. Well,
I don't know that DEEI was one hundred percent responsible
for any of that, Probably not one hundred percent. But
do I know that the rise of DEI was was
(07:02):
the decrease in quality? Yeah? Absolutely. The Chinese don't engage
in that nonsense. The Japanese don't engage in that nonsense
because they care about quality control, and they care about
the best product delivered in the fastest time or at
the right time, dependably, reliably at the cost that's going
(07:26):
to induce the most consumption while maintaining the most profit.
That's what drives business period into story. And we shouldn't
have to argue that over We should have to argue
over that anymore. And I will argue. I'll argue it
all day long. And I'm unashamed, and I'm surprised how
many people have been softened by this idea. Wow, we
(07:50):
don't we don't have to. It's not Josh about making
a profit, okay, but it is surely mostly about making Wow,
it's about doing gun and shivnar. I don't know how
Jimmy Stewart got involved in this conversation, but he did.
But my point on all of this is we have
allowed the narrative to change. We have allowed industry, families, teachers,
(08:14):
everything to lose track of what matters in life. There's
a point to this coming. This is the Michael Barry Show.
I'll never forget when uh, when Rush got married and
(08:35):
Elton John performed and the media one to make him
out to be this awful person for for performing for
Elton John, performing for Wrestling Ball, and they asked him,
why did you do that? And he said two reasons.
(08:55):
Number one, he paid me a million dollars. Number two,
he likes my music. That's what I do. I play
my music for people who like it who can pay
the rate that I demand. And it was and I
loved that. Rush was unabashed about it. I like ating
(09:16):
Tom We've got a million bucks. I want to pay
him to play it. It was incredible, It was absolutely wonderful.
A number of you have asked this question, so I
feel like I need to address it. I have consulted
some different folks. I do have two law degrees, but
I don't practice law, and some things you really need
(09:38):
to be in the practice to understand how this is
most likely to play out. But a number of you
have heard it said on different TV shows that because
Hunter Biden has been pardoned, he can no longer plead
the fifth and and let me play for you what
(10:01):
Senator Tom Cotton had to say about that, and then
we'll speak to that.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
For wait and see who else Joe Biden partons because again,
if he pardons his brother and maybe a sister, maybe
some of Hunter Biden's corrupt businessmen, there may not be
anything left to investigate, at least for criminal liability. I
will say this though, Joe Biden may come to regret
this decision because having given his son a blanket pardon
(10:27):
of eleven years to include time when Joe Biden was
Vice president, Hunter Biden now can't plead the fifth If
he appears before Congress or appears before a grand jury,
he has to testify about exactly what he was up to,
for instance, when he was traveling to China on Air
Force two and meeting with Chinese communist princelings, or why
(10:49):
he was being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to
sit on a Ukrainian energy company's board for which he
had no qualifications. So that may be one unintended consequence
of this pardon that Joe Biden didn't fully think through.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
But what people are not understanding, and I want to
make sure you do, yes, I believe Hunter Biden can
be compelled to testify and won't be able to plead
the fifth. You need to understand because I don't think
this is this is this is being connected if he's
(11:27):
asked a question with regard to his own involvement, where
he has legal jeopardy and when would that happen? Okay,
this this pardon only covers federal cases. It doesn't cover
state charges that he may get, as I understand it.
(11:49):
So if there's a separate investigation, okay, where he wouldn't
be able to plead the fifth because he is protected.
Is in case where as he noted, there his uncle,
his business partners, his business partners at Seneca Capital. He's
not the only one that's been involved in all this.
(12:11):
Remember what all Tony Bobby Lensky said. It was a
lot more than just Hunter and his dad. This was
a scheme. It's a Rico violation, is what it is.
Because there's a group of them scheming to defraud the
United States government and commit treason. And it's it's going
(12:35):
to be very interesting. Indeed, let me get to this
cause I've been I just want to gloat for a
moment since we've been talking about Rush Limbaugh. He used
to refer to Chuck Todd as f Chuck Todd, and
I loved it so much, and I miss Rush, and
I know you do and I want to go to
break on this so that we still retain time for him.
(12:58):
You remember when that smug Chuck God said that Hunter's
guilty verdict in his court case had actually hurt Donald Trump.
You remember that. Let's go back. It was on MSNBC.
Let's go back and enjoy that moment together.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
If Biden has lost something with the American people over
the last few years, it's that reminder that you know,
he is sort of the opposite of Trump on empathy, right,
He's the opposite of Trump on some of these things.
And I think this verdict their reaction to it versus
how the Trumps have reacted to the rule of law. Certainly,
(13:36):
I think presents that character contrast, you know with a
group of voters who are not you know, by those
that are left that are not happy with their choices.
And I think, you know, to try to figure out
who this politically benefits, I think this it hurts Trump hard.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Stop.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
You don't know if these things help Biden at all,
but it certainly hurts because I think his rhetoric about
a rigged system really works against him. When you look
at all of the supposed advantages that the Bidens had
in this case, right, it was a person that was
appointed by Merrick Garland. As Claire mccaskell pointed out, Joe
(14:16):
Biden had the power to stop this if he chose to,
if he chose to pervert the rule of law, he
could have done that, but he chose not to do that.
This was a Delaware jury who the Bidens have won
many of Biden has won many election in that state,
and we know all of those are registered voters, perhaps
all of them or most of them have voted for
a Biden at least once in their life. And that
(14:39):
still showed you that the rule of law was able
to stay above the political phrase.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
So look, I think.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
The most important thing to come out of today is
the American system. Again, I challenge you to find me
another country where their son, the leader's son or daughter
at the moment, would be prosecuted like this the way
it happened here.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Allow me to introduce myself.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
My name is Mitch michael Berry.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Genius. You know, I've been thinking a lot because Trump's
going to hit the ground running and we're going to
forget about Joe Biden. Remember when Nancy Pelosi said that
he should be on Mount Rushmore, and now she admits
that she was working behind the scenes to smother him
and get him out of there. Are you telling these
(15:31):
people are dirty? You have no idea how dirty You
think that that Wendy in the marketing department is a backstabber. Oh,
you don't know people that are this evil. Go back
and look at the picture of Nancy Pelosi as a
young woman with John F. Kennedy. Her father was the
mayor of Baltimore. She spent her entire life in politics.
(15:52):
I've been around these people. I know how they are.
They'll be your best friend on Monday and murder you
on Tuesday. They'll go for drinks with you on Wednesday
night and Thursday morning, report you to the I R S,
the I N S, the Securities and Exchange Commission. It
didn't matter if they want to get you out of
the way. The things they will do would make you
(16:14):
you can't. It's hard for you, for normal, real, legitimate,
authentic people to understand. But anyway, back to Hunter Biden,
I think it would be awesome. I'd half way respect
if Hunter were to raise his hand and go look
(16:35):
at cocaine in the White House. Huh, y'all all know.
It's like at some point Neil Diamond had to go,
all right, sweet Caroline is about Caroline Kennedy. Oh, because
we were really wondering, don't do like old Uh, what's
your name? That did? You're so vain?
Speaker 7 (16:58):
Who?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Oh not Carocane? What's her name? Well you know what
I'm talking about. But every couple of years when she
needs some attention, she'll whisper the name into doctor Phil's
here or whoever else? What Carly Simon? Yes, and it's
always somebody different. Oh, I say it sold. What's the
(17:22):
guy's name, the actor Warren Baty, or it's Mick Jagger.
She changes it every time she bored. All right. I
wish Hunter would just come out and say that was
my cocaine. All right. I got a lot of problems.
I'm a mess, I'm a trader, but I'm mad enough
to admit that was my cocaine. We had so much
fun with that at the time because we all know
(17:43):
it was his cocaine. It wasn't his, it was Kamala's,
but we all know it was his. And at the
time we were making up movie promos. Remember Cocaine Bear two,
You remember this. We still think this will make a great,
a great.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
Film coming soon to a theater near you. He's on
a one bear mission and in the White House to
do two things, chew bubblegum and snort cocaine. And he's
all out of bubblegum.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Somehow he's ended up in the nation's capital.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Were a strange new sugar addiction.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
What kinds of sugar?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Bourger sugar is un.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
But Chief, we simply cannot catch him.
Speaker 7 (18:30):
He's in the White House, he's high on cocaine, and
he's a grizzly bear, and I am an f F agent.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
We need a hunter.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Hunter.
Speaker 9 (18:43):
How do you think the bear got the cocaine?
Speaker 8 (18:50):
You've seen all snorts of movies, but never one where
a good rizzly bear finds the first son stash of
nosecare cocaine to White Powder House.
Speaker 10 (19:02):
Prepare for the right of your life. It's gonna be awsome. Okay,
don't don't take this the wrong way, but in an
odd way.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
I mean, I'm glad he's gone and and it's going
to end badly for Hunter Biden.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
It is.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
We all know this, right. I'm not I'm not wishing
for it. I'm not hoping for it. Although I'm not.
I'm not giving. I'm just gonna tell you I'm not
that kind of person. I'm not I'm not in any
way gonna waste a second time the guy. The guy
has had. You want to talk about privilege, that that
is what privilege looks like. There are people who are
(19:45):
riding in jail who've done one percent what Hunter Biden has,
and so I don't feel bad for him. He has
had a life of no consequences. But I am gonna
miss the fun. We could poke at him, and we
knew all along. Remember that the summer camp. You remember
our camp, Hunter Biden, you remember See, we're gonna miss this.
(20:11):
We're gonna have nothing fun to make fun of.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Hello Mada, Hello Fada.
Speaker 9 (20:28):
Here I am at Camp Granada.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Camp is different than expected.
Speaker 9 (20:36):
If I'm lucky, I'll come back all on infected.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
I joined the gang they.
Speaker 9 (20:43):
Call thee animals. All the counselors smoking camels.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
They're free basing.
Speaker 9 (20:51):
Check them hoffing.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
We are mastering b are, that is, but chugging.
Speaker 9 (20:58):
We watch pornos on a loop.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
No one flushes when they boop.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
Vodka highballs, the ever flowing and the psychedelic mushrooms are
mind blowing. We wake up to nine and snails, white
powdered sugar rails, mescaline and prison wine, and we're but
(21:30):
ass naked most of the time. Take me home, Homoda Voda,
Take me home from Camp Granada. Don't leave me at
this camp.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I swear there's Hooker's school every freaking wind. Wait a minute,
we've been raided.
Speaker 9 (21:59):
I'm in handcuff, hesitated, no more a balls, no more fighting.
It turns out I was at Camp Hunter Biden, Michael Barry.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Sure, there's a wonderful podcast. I'm always hesitant to refer
things because then I have to hear from people with
a If I say, hey, this guy over here makes
a great hamburger, somebody, I'll come back and say, do
you know he's a liberal? Yeah? I do, but I
(22:37):
ate a hamburg that he made and it was phenomenal.
So I've learned that I have to go ahead and
state this. So there is a really, really good, mostly
good podcast call History of Rock Music and five hundred Songs.
The problem is the guy who does the podcast, Andrew Hickey,
(22:57):
is an absolute He reminds me of the guy that
wrote Confederacy. Had Duncis. I think he sits in his apartment,
probably in London, would be my guess. I think he's
a hypochondriac. I think he's probably always kind of sickly,
probably does zoom therapy sessions all day long. At the
beginning of every podcast, he will say warning, this podcast
(23:23):
involves discussions of race and drugs and people dying. So
if that's going to bother you read the script. Read
the transcript, and I'm like, is it better if you
read it and just you saying what's weirdest thing ever?
But you know Netflix has taken doing this nonsense. Wait,
(23:43):
they tell you at the beginning of at the beginning
of what you're going to watch, it's going to be smoking.
And okay, I could see with cussing because you don't
have kids in there. Why do you need to tell us?
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Oh no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
I can't, honey, we can't watch this. Find something else.
There's going to be somebody smoking. But here's the point.
This is important. The reason that is there is because
these people, and they've been pandered to, they're triggered. They're
triggered if they see something that for whatever reason, they
(24:22):
don't like, and so everyone else is supposed to prevent
them from having to see something they don't like. You know,
we're talking earlier. I've spent a lot of time deconstructing
the election and going back, which is it takes a
(24:44):
lot of time. But for those of you who like
to learn from something after the fact, you like to
watch game film after the game, you will find it
very rewarding to just pick an issue and pick a date,
or or search and go back and watch what people
were saying in October, right before the election, where you'll
(25:09):
get Democrats predicting the biggest route of Trump that's ever
been seen. Or go back to the summer, late summer,
early summer. One of the things I've been doing is
is exploring where things went wrong for the Democrats. And
I came across an interview with a woman named Lindy Lee.
She's Asian American. My guess is she's Chinese American. She's
(25:33):
a Democrat campaign advisor, and she was on NBC and
she revealed what they have not wanted to say, but
what I have heard from their inner circles that neither
Barack Obama nor Nancy Pelosi wanted Kamala Harris to be
the nominee. They did want Biden out. They didn't want Kamala.
(25:55):
So what Biden did is say, all right, y'all are
really going to execute this palace coup? All right, guess
what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna pick who my replacement's
going to be. And so he immediately he said, all right,
I'll agree to it, and I'm endorsing Kamala Harris. That
apparently shocked Obama, especially Nancy Pelosi. Joe Biden will no
(26:23):
longer speak to Nancy Pelosi. And by the way, story
goes that Jill is the one who made Joe Biden
pardon his crackhead son, that that was that she put
a guilt trip on him. I don't know if that's
true or not. That may be part of the trying
to preserve his legacy kind of thing. She didn't withhold
(26:45):
any ramon. Why would you say that? All right? So anyway,
here is a backstory that I think you'll find interesting.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
Do you agree that Obama and Pelosi did not want Harris.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
I know they didn't. It's not so.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
I have a lot of friends in Obama world, and
actually I'm friends of Speaker's Polosi, and I spoke with
her before I actually I actually went on air to
encourage President Biden to step aside.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
And I touched face with her camp before I did that.
And what did she tell me. It's not a matter
of conjecture for me. I know they didn't. I appreciate that.
What did she tell you at that time, Well, she.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
Said it was fine that I went on air to
encourage President Biden to step down. It was July twenty
first when I went on Fox New Sunday and I
said it was time for him to step down and
pass the mantle to the next generation.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
It was necessary. It became clear.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
That he's no longer able to effectively litigate the case
against President Biden against Trump.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
So and.
Speaker 7 (27:50):
Obama and Pelosi were both hoping for a primary instead
of a coronation, so to speak.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Who do you think they were hoping for.
Speaker 7 (27:58):
I don't think Pelosi is hoping for anyone in particular
or not that I know of. I do know that
bomb was carefully vetting Mark Kelly, the Senator from Arizona.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
I know there were other names on his list. I'm
not saying that Kamala Harris.
Speaker 7 (28:10):
Is necessarily at the top of the list, but he
was definitely considering other candidates.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
I don't think she was ruled out.
Speaker 7 (28:16):
I just think that everyone is a lot of people.
The captains of the party were hoping for a lightning round,
a lightning primary, and President Biden essentially preempted that by
issuing his endorsement thirty minutes after he dropped out. I
don't think anyone saw that coming. We did not see
that coming. I think a lot of people anticipated that
he might have stepped aside, but no one anticipated the two.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
For that we got that day.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
It's fun to go back. It's interesting. It's also interesting
to challenge myself. So what did I think was happening
at that time? Because you don't always know? Isn't it
fun when you get to know somebody that you become
friends and letter you go, hey, that first time I
met you, Remember when I said this and you reacted
(29:01):
this way? And they go, yeah, what were you thinking? Well,
I didn't know you. And then and you get the
insight that you never expected. Right, all right, our program
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(29:22):
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(29:45):
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then they put me back up, but won't let me
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I hope Facebook is wiped off the face of this
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(30:07):
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way Twitter has become. I'm on Facebook, Twitter, and I
also post a face to Instagram.
Speaker 7 (30:17):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
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