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Speaker 1 (00:02):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and look.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You Michael Arry Show is.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
On the air.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoking. I can feel a good
one coming on. It's the Michael Berry Show. Yes it
is yesterday. Is so glad you're here.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
But where are we in the continuum of our lives,
in the continuum of the republic. We have been in
such a brutal election preparation and mobilization phase for so
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long that it's very difficult to just pivot. If you
saw the movie Friday Night Lights, which is a wonderful movie.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
It's a TV show. I didn't watch that, but the
movie it was.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
It was done by a guy named Peter Berg, who
I got to be friends with through Marcus A.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Treel because he did Loan Survivor.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
It's a fantastic book about the intensity. And when I
say intensity, I mean it is everything. The intense focus
and pressure on high school football at the highest levels,
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particularly in suburban and especially rural Texas, and the Odessa
program that was the storied program for so many years.
But if you watch that movie, which is one of
Billy Bob Thornton's finest and interesting little tidbit, if you
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remember the movie sling Blade where Billy Bob Thornton takes
on this character that, much like Tom Hanks's Forrest Gump,
is a generational character, the little kid that he has
a fondness for nothing inappropriate, but he's very protective of
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this little kid.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
That little kid is the same kid that's going.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
To grow up in real life to be the quarterback
to Billy Bob Thornton's coach in Friday Night Lights. And
in Friday Night Lights, these kids, they prepare year round
to try to win an to try to win a
state might as well be a national because where Texas
we view it as national. A state championship and it's
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their senior year and this is it man And Tim
McGraw is the father of one of the kids who
Tim McGraw's whole life, his character was a guy who
you know, played for this storied and it's a real
that part's a real true story. Actually, this whole thing
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is a real story. And he's basically saying, you know,
this is the most important time of your life. Your
life will go downhill after that, which there are people
who live and believe that. And then they play for
the state championship and the game is over and they
come to the field house to clean out their locker and.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
It's over.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
And so everything they've done, you know, stay out of trouble,
so you can stay on the football team. Work hard,
don't drink, don't drink and drive, don't get in legal trouble,
hit the weight room, eat right, run, lift, is all
dedicated to tomorrow. We got another practice or another game
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to get to the state championship. And then they play
in the state championship and the game is over and
they gather and it's sort of like, well, I guess
the bonds that tied us together. I guess the intensity
that gave our lives focus and purpose and forced us
to live so intentionally, it's gone. And I think for
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a lot of folks there has been an interesting sort
of state of untethering.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
But it doesn't have to be that way.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
It's not meant that we should live our lives from
election to election.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
That's only supposed to be a part of our lives.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
But because we didn't take care of it, because we
let ourselves, our republic get flabby, we had to go
on a crash diet. Now we're on a maintenance phase.
Now we need to turn back to family, to business,
business to community, to ourselves and to our health. And
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that's a good thing without letting our eye stray too
far from what it's going to take to make this republic.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
What it's going to be.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
But I have to tell you, Donald Trump was prepared
for this day, and I've never seen any I mean,
this transition is the most exciting transition I've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
The Michael Berry Show, Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
We were looking at the this day in history for Monday,
just looking ahead. Red Fox was forty nine years old
when Sandford and Son started.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
He turned fifty during the first season.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Red Fox was an old man on that show. Red
Fox was four years younger than I am now.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
And he's talking about Elizabeth. It's a big one.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I mean, you think about the fact that Red Fox
was considered practically elderly. You know, we talked about earlier
this week, the Traveling Wilbury's the oldest member of the
group was fifty two. Now he did die during all
of this, he was too. Roy Orbison was two years
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younger than me when he was the old man back
in nineteen eighty eight, and me thinking, wow, it's great
they brought this old geezer out of retirement. I had
a woman email me this week and she said, you know,
something about being old or something else. And she was
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forty five years old, and I said, you know, my
mom passed just a matter of days ago in ran Skimmithy.
She was seventy nine. And she would say, I never
expected to live to be this old. And she and
her best friend, whose name was Billy Tucker, she said,
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we'd be in our thirties and even in our forties,
but especially in our thirties, and we'd see these old
women and we'd say, we're never going to be old
like that. And she said, and now I'm old like that,
and you just don't expect it, and it's gone before
you know it.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I don't have some.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Wisdom to offer to it, other than to say, there's
never going to be a bend around the corner where
everything is going to be okay. We chose a system
of government that requires citizen involvement. If you wanted a
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monarchy where you didn't have to worry about it, you
were born in the wrong wonderful country. You see those
to whom much is given much as expected with great
power comes great responsibility. It's a timeless canard. Whether it's
a cartoon or a superhero or a biblical verse, it's wisdom.
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If you're going to have the power to drive your ship,
to pilot your ship, to chart your direction, then that
means that you can't fall asleep at the wheel.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
And that's where we're going to be.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Our president needed us to get him over the finish line.
Our Congress needed us to get a majority, Our Senate
needed us. But guess what, our work is not done.
It's not the only work we have to do. We
have to get back to doing now that which they
don't do. We got to make the cheese and the bread.
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We got to raise and slaughter the pigs and the cows.
We got to make the leather and manufacture things. We've
got to run the financial system. We've got to run
the healthcare system. We've got to do all the things
that it takes to run a nation. And a lot
of us have been so focused on what it takes
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to get the leadership back so we could get back
to doing it.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
And now we're going to have to do that.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
With one eye still on this because one thing that
is as clear as you've seen it already, the Republicans
in elected office are going to work very hard to
get in the way of Donald Trump. Don't sit and
ask why, don't be frustrated by it. Simply understand it
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is there, and we've got to be prepared for it,
and we've got to be They've got to be scared
of us the entire time.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
It's like being a good parent. You can love on
your kids, but they've got to.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Know you will whip their little butts if they get
out of line.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Let's go to the phone line, shall we. Sandy, you
are on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
I just want to tell you a little tidbit about
Johnny Cash. I'm originally from Memphis. I live here, but
Memphis will always be my home. A little backstory, a
little bit. My dad was asked to leave home when
he was fourteen years old because there wasn't room for him.
He went to the Marines at sixteen. He had an
eighth grade education.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
He opened his.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Own business in Memphis. He built furniture for Johnny Cash
and his first wife. Johnny Cash, his mother and dad
used to live next door to us, and she babysit me.
At one time this we're talking about the early fifties,
probably fifty five, okay. And he also went over to
Elvis's house to see about building furniture for him.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
That's Graceland, yep.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
And so that's just a little tidbit that not everybody
knows that. You know, my dad, you know, he built
up a good business in Memphis, and he built furniture
for in the early fifties, and you know, Tommy used
to come over on our front porch.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Johnny Cash had a home in California that was early,
early in his successful career, and it came on the
market a few years ago and it was one of
those deals. It wasn't insanely expensive. It was very very expensive.
Let's say it was two million dollars. But it was
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a beautiful home and it was like it was in
I think it was in the San Fernando Valley. I
don't remember exactly, but it was kind of in this
desert landscape and it was built into the landscape and
it was a fifties style quote unquote modern home and
it hadn't been changed since he had lived there.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
And it just struck me that it would be the.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Coolest thing in the world to own that home, but
of course I don't live there, it wouldn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
But I studied that home. I mean, I was obsessed
with that.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
But he had a home in Andersonville, which is I'm
guessing where you're you're talking about called Dogwood Estates. He
had several homes in Tennessee, but I think one of
them burned down at one point, if I remember correctly.
But the estates of great artists like that is a
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subject of incredible interest to me, and I think I
inherited that from my mom, who who was also fascinated
by such things. But I'm told that that is a
I think he and June are buried there, if I
remember correctly.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
But it was apparently it was apparently quite the deal.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
And if I remember correctly, I may be wrong on this,
but very Gibb. I don't know why I'm remembering this,
but it may be wrong. I believe Barry Gibb may
have bought his home and may live in his home
to this day, but I'm going to I'll check on
that see if I.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Can keep doing a great show. I miss Russimbob right now.
You right, there was a place with Michael Show you.
Shan Hanley marked to be some of the best and
work and we have checked.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Barry Gibb did buy Johnny Cash his home one of them.
We found a story in the Tennessee and from April
twenty second, twenty fourteen.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Barry Gibbs sells Johnny Cash property for two million dollars.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Barry Gibb of the seventies pop group The Beg's and
his wife Linda have sold the Hendersonville property June Carter
and Johnny Cash called home for over forty years. Lake
House Holdings, a Tennessee limited liability company, purchased a property
at two hundred Caudill Drive for two million dollars, according
to a warranty deed filed March eighteenth with the Summer
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County Register of Deed's Office. Let's get to the phone mail,
I mean the voicemail. Yaw we ramone our first voicemail. Oh,
we got to do our voicemail intro. We are off
kilter here this week. We were well attained a minute.
What we were debating over all all afternoon and it
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involves the United Healthcare CEO being assassinated?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Do you need a minute ramon?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Hello, boys and girls, it's Friday, so you know what
that means.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
It's time to check Michael. All right, you've called this.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Week and as a reminder, you can leave a voicemail
anytime we're not on the air, day or night, twenty
four hours a day, seven one three nine nine one thousand,
seven one three nine, one thousand. Our first voicemail of
the week, come to it. Comes to us from the
little town of Sageine, Texas. Sageine, Texas named for Juan Sageine,
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who was one of the Spanish speaking Texans who fought
against the Mexicans during the Texas War of Independence in
the Alamo era.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Michael the Preacher is the caller.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
He is shocked that people are surprised by Hunter being pardoned.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Hello, Michael Barrys is Michael the Preacher from sagein Texas.
It amazes me how many people are acting as if
they are surprised the sleepy Joe Biden pardons is done.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
What in the heck did they expect?
Speaker 6 (15:39):
But I don't want to hear any more of these
people that are surprised. Were upset that Joe Biden pardoned
is Son? He was going to do that before he
left office. People are stupid, or ignorant, or all of
the above. God bless thanks for your great show. Merry
Christmas to you and your family.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Michael, let me offer an explanation for that. I understand
his point. I don't think any of us is really surprised,
but I think it's important.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I think it's important that we put on the show
that we.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Are because if we simply say, ho hum, we knew
he was going to pardon his son, that our naive
neighbors will say, oh, okay, so that's what he's supposed
to do. What has been done is so shocking, so unprecedented,
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so outside the norm, that we have to react in
such a manner that we draw attention to it.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
For instance, let me give you another example.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Let's say Michael Jordan is ringing up fifty points a
game somewhat on the regular in the course of his career,
not every week, but it happens.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
If he does that and you don't make a big deal,
then people begin to think it's normal.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
It's important that we react in such a way that
those who don't have perspective, they don't have a context
within which to put it, they understand. This is the
biggest thing to happen in many years. The fact that
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we expected this level of evil tells you how bad
things are. But if we don't pitch a fit about it,
then people will say, oh, that's what he did. It's
important that people understand how important this is, and that's
how we convey that to them. Our next voicemail is
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from an unknown male because he doesn't tell us his name.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Who has a confession to make? Hey, Michael. When I
was in college in the eighties, I turned to my.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Roommate because Phil Collins song.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Came on, and I turned to my room and I said,
what does he mean? She's an easy lama? And he
rolled off to sil hysterical. I always thought she was
saying she's an easy lama. It's an easy lover to
take it easy.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
Listen, you'll hear it.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
You'll hear it. You'll never hear it.
Speaker 7 (18:20):
Otherwise, once you say she's an.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Easy lama, you will hear it.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
In the song promise.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Earlier in the week, I was don't remember which day
it was.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I was talking about the fact that isn't it fun
as an adult when there's a word in a song
that you've been getting wrong all this time? And you
find out, you know, in a god Davida or Wandnameta
or whatever that song may be, and you find out
the real word and you get a good laugh at yourself.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
And obviously that's him with easy lama.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I'm kind of intrigued, now, Raman, can you can you
pull up that song and go to the end so
we can get to the chorus.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Fast to see. Okay, she's sama.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Know you fat large? Come get some dinner, find you know,
tell me sheould take you j Okay happens, She's no.
I could absolutely sit.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Have you seen the comments to this United Healthcare CEO
being assassinated. I don't think it's all angry people. There
is such hatred, and I have to tell you I
feel for the guy's family. I feel for him as
a human being. But I think the insurance industry should
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view this as a wake up call, much as the military,
much as the government. This is a new day, folks.
You have pushed the American people too far. I'm not
saying the assassination was justified. Don't get me wrong there.
Don't try to pin me in that corner. I'm saying
the peasants are rising up. People have been pushed too far.
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This is the COVID mania, this is the political correctness mania,
this ISDI manium.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
You've got dumb Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
There are two things I want to get accomplished in
this segment, so I'm going to move a little faster.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Than usual for a Friday.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
We can never forget that our president was shot in
the head, and that the Secret Service has a job
to do, regardless the party or person that is a
president or presidential candidate, and they failed to do their job, and.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Some heads need to roll over that.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
This was a very interesting exchange recently between the acting
Secret Service Director, Ronald Rowe and Congressman Pat Fallon during
a congressional hearing. And I'm going to tell you something, folks,
winning back this country is going to be It's going
to be unpleasant because people are not going to want
to take responsibility for what they did, and we're going
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to have to cram it down their throats.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Some people are going to have to be fired.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Less than one percent of federal workers that are not
maintenance or security are showing up to the job for
forty solid hours a week.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
A bunch of people are.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Going to get fired, and they're going to cry, and
they're going to kick back, and they're going to scream,
and they're going to sue.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
But it has to happen. Listen to this. Were you
the specialized in charge of the detail that.
Speaker 7 (21:59):
Day, actually let me address this? Could you please staff?
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Leave?
Speaker 7 (22:04):
No, leave that one up with the circle around me?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Thank you?
Speaker 7 (22:07):
So, Actually, Congressman, what you're not seeing is the sack
of the detail off out of the pictures view. And
that is the day where we remember the more than
three thousand people that.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Have died on nine to eleven.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
I actually responded to ground zero. I was there going
through the ashes of the World Trade Center.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I was there at Fresh Kills.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
I'm not asking you that coman there to show respect
he died.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
On, not that you're trying to be.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
Do not invoke nine eleven for political purposes.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I'm not I'm invoking this.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
You are, sir?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Are you ask him to me? And don't worrying me?
Speaker 6 (22:53):
I like the member of Congress, and I'm asking you
a serious question, and you were.
Speaker 7 (22:56):
I am a public servant who has served this nation,
and you won't question.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
I want you to notice what's happening here. This is
an old trick it's a trick. Don't let yourself get
caught up in our reverence for those who died on
nine to eleven, because that's exactly what you're supposed to do,
you see, rather than answer for the mistakes that were
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made that by all accounts, our president should have been murdered,
but for pure luck or God's divine grace, he wasn't.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
And so what do they do I deserve for no heaven?
It's not the question.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
This is what people do when they don't want to
have to answer questions. This is how they distract. All right,
go ahead, questions.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
On our day, on our countries.
Speaker 7 (24:03):
Do the committee will come to or asking you serious
questions for the American people, And they're very simple, they're
not true questions. Were you the special agent in charge
that I wasn't?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
I was the representing.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
Mister not perfect, protective, expired. You want to be visible
because you are listening for this for a.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Full member of this agency, coressman.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Vice president out of his life because you're putting you
put those agents out of position.
Speaker 7 (24:34):
Mister radio, miss sir, and you were out.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Of lost chairman, mister chairman, mister chairman, yes, sir, please
all right.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
This is what is going to take you back, because
I'm gonna tell you something.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
The people that insinuated themselves, that embedded themselves like a pick,
into the FBI, into our universities, into our federal be bureaucracy,
into the Department of Defense, into our military, they're not
going to give up that power. Lately, they love that power.
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They're not going to admit what they've done. And some
of them are Republicans. I give you another example, Jony Ernst.
She's working behind the scenes against Pete Hegseth. You realize
Republicans had a fifty to fifty split in the Senate,
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and yet Biden's cabinet appointees got over ninety votes.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Lloyd Austin, are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (25:46):
You look at Pete Buttergig how these people pass And
now we've got Republicans coming out trying to sabotage Pete
Hegseth and the others.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Thing short of victory when.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
You start to compromise with these people, you've lost nothing
short of victory. You go for it on fourth down.
You smash them in the mouth. You do not give in.
Let me, Josh Dougget, I'm up against him. Yeah, no,
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you know what, I'll play another one, all right, So
Joni Ernst, Republican from Iowa, who's not committing to Pete
Hegseth because Pete Hegseth's not a warmonger on the basis
of stupid things. This is a woman you want to
talk about the military.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
This is a.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Woman who you're gonna hear her in her own words.
Five h two ramon say that we need transgenders in
our military.
Speaker 8 (26:53):
So the example of transgender people serving in our military,
we have transgender people serving in our military, they will
bleed red just as the rest of us. But I
also take a stance that we should not be integrating
transgender people into certain situations where it does make If
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you have a female barracks and you have a transgender
woman who has not transitioned, we shouldn't make the rest
of the unit uncomfortable about that setting. There are certain
accommodations we can make for that transgender individual, But if
they bring value to our unit, if they have specialties
that we can use, especially if we want to maintain
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an all volunteer force, we want to bring that talent
into our services. And I know that's controversial, but again,
I'm looking at what's good for our nation. And believe me,
when we're facing a recruiting challenge right now, if people
are physically willing and able to serve our country, we
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want them to do so.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Ask your active duty service members, ask them, talk to them.
Do you want men dressed as women? Because that's what
it is. It's not women dress as men. It's all
men dress as women. Do you want your men dressed
as women in your fighting forces? Because they don't.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
They do not.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
You know, these people have been making videos of themselves
wearing their uniform and they pull their uniform off and
they're in a bikini. And there's Jony Ernst saying, well,
if we don't have those people, we want you telling me,
we wouldn't have a military with over three hundred million people.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
We wouldn't have a military.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
If we didn't have dudes that dress up as girls
in our military. And you act like you care about
our military, Jony Ernst, Shame.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
On you, folks.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
We're going to have to run some Republicans out of
office in our primaries. Do you understand this right? You
understand that's what our battles are not done. These these
people are going to cross Donald Trump, and you're going
to have to fight people with an.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
R after their name. It's coming. Come on.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
I told you I wouldn't get angry. It's a Friday
drive home. I want to send people home in a
good mood. But this makes me angry. This dishonors those
who serve in the uniform in defense of this great country.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
And Frankly, Pete.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Hegsett deserves better, Our military deserves better.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Donald Trump deserves better.