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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, Time, Luck and Load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Michael Vari Show is on the air tonight, chilling new
details about the shooting that left two National guardsmen gravely wounded.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
A lone gunman opened fire without provocation ambush style, armed
with a three point fifty seven Smith and Wesson revolver.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Raman Nola Lockenwall is a twenty nine year old Afghan
national who came to the US in twenty twenty one.
He served in the Afghan Army for ten years.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
There are, of course concerns am the lawmakers experts of
practice for saying previous arrivals of large numbers of refugees
from different parts of the world, and that really there
may be a handful, small handful who are eventually deemed.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
A security risk of some kind.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
What reassurances can you make about the screening process and
the attempts to make sure that somebody like that doesn't
make his or her way here.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I can absolutely assure you that no one is coming
into the United States of America who has not been
through a thorough screening and background check process. Well, the
family of specialist Sarah Beckstrom has to bury their daughter,
who was bravely and selflessly serving in our national Guard.
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Not because she was off at war and murdered, but
because she was murdered in our nation's capital by a
person who should have never been in this country in
the first place. Sergeant Andrew Staff, Sergeant Andrew Woolf was
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with her when they were on patrol and they were ambushed.
The individual who did it, I'm not going to bother
with his name, had driven from the state of Washington
over ementy five hundred miles to Washington, d C. To
kill white people. That is supposedly what he said. He
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clearly wanted to kill Americans. He wanted to do it
in Washington, d C. He wanted to make a political statement.
A lot of people that would like to kill you.
A lot of people around the world would like to
kill you. They resent you, they hate you. They don't
know you. They don't need to because their lives are sad,
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Their people are sad, their culture is sad, their country
is sad, pitiful. They want to come here and you
don't want to go there. They feel left out. They're
like old miss fans. They've been jilted for something better
in LSU. They're mad about it. Why don't you like them.
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They would like to live here the way you live,
but they can't because they can't build that for themselves
because they're broken. So September eleventh, nine to eleven, two
thousand and one, whatever you believe happened, happened, and less
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than a month later, in fact, about three weeks later,
the United States began our initial invasion under the warmongering
George W. Bush. But okay, we were gonna go get
Osama bin Laden and I think most people said, yeah,
go get the bastard, hunt him down like a dog
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and slaughter him and show the world that we mean business.
October seventh, two thousand and one. Well, the Bush administration
never got him. They had opportunities to. There was one
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point where they could have strafed an area, but it
would have taken two hundred casualties with it, so they
chose not to. And you might say, well, that's fine,
I don't want to kill innocent people. These people were
in his caravan. Well I don't want to kill innocent
people in order to get him. If you don't kill
those two hundred people, you allow far more Americans than
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that to die because he continues to run operations. Do
you know how many people, innocent people were injured in
Germany who simply lived in Berlin when the attacks began,
the bombings. That's what it took to get to Hitler.
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It wasn't that the Allies were being monsters. It's that
they had to stop the Germans. We had the opportunity
to stop Osama bin Laden, but we didn't, and Bush
left office with our nations still at war, our boys
dying daily in Afghanistan. May two, twenty eleven, ten years
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after we invaded. We finally got Osama bin Laden, but
he was in Pakistan, and we knew for approximately two
years that he was in impact. He was in Pakistan,
So why were we still at war in afghan Afghanistan?
You know how brutal war in Afghanistan is. Go read
what Rudyard Kipling wrote about the brit the Englishman dying
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in Afghanistan, how brutal it was. Go ask the Russians
about what they did to their soldiers in war before
the Russians fled. You've got several thousand tribes of brutal
people that live amongst the rocks, like scorpions or snakes.
You're never going to beat these people. They're not even
a nation. So why were our people dying? Why did
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we have to be there to then.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
O go like this to need to bring them back
here to the Michael Berry Show podcast improved their love life.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
The fifth person didn't deserve one anyway. The President Trump
extricated us from Afghanistan, where we had been for two decades.
And you heard the story of what he told the
Taliban when they came in. He said, if you touch
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the hair on one American head, I will destroy you,
and then showed them a picture of where they live.
So he was committed to getting us out of the
forever Wars because unlike the Chinese and the Bushes and
the Bidens and Obamas, he was not beholden to the
national security complex, the military industrial complex that Eisenhower warned
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us about. Think Eisenhower might have known something about the
military industrial complex after serving as a Supreme General, supreme
military leader during World War Two and then eight years
as president from fifty two to sixty. Yeah, I think
he might have known something about it. I think when
he warned us he had seen inside the beast. You know,
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it's a movie theme that a person will go sheet
white when they learned something that the rest of us
could not handle, knowing we could not handle the truth.
To quote Jack Nicholson, and I think Eisenhower knew very
good and well of what he was speaking. I think
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it took great courage for him, after two terms to
give a farewell address, just as Washington did, to say
in a civilian representative democracy of great wealth and strength,
be careful because whatever someone is in the business of doing,
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they're going to try to sell more of it. That's capitalism.
That's fine, but be careful what they convince you you
need to buy with your tax dollars. I'm old enough
to remember when our government was forcing people to get
jabbed with what turns out to be a deadly poison
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so that big farmer could get rich. Now Robert F.
Kennedy has to be pushed out because he's talking about that.
I'm old enough to remember Anthony Fauci preaching and being
told that Fauci was the god man. He's the knower
of all. He is a devil and he deserves to
be tried. So here we are yet another terror attack
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on American soil because of an Afghan national. And so
we go back to how many of these Afghan nationals
were brought here and we're told, well, our service members
needed help from them while they're there. I believe that
throughout history that's happened. But why do we have to
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bring them here? Were we in Afghanistan for our interests
for the worlds? Because we're told, and we tell the
rest of the world that we're doing all these nice
things for these other countries and the world for humanity,
But yet we always have to pick up the trash
and bring it here and dump it. There was a
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pretty good degree of vetting when the Vietnamese resettlement program began,
pretty good degree of vetting, and all in all, that's
turned out to be resettlement wise, a pretty successful program.
But the Vietnamese people were an industrious people, family related
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who shared some values. Their Buddhist values, their pro education,
their hard work. Those aligned nicely with Calvinism, Christ based
though it is so you can see them working here.
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In fact, you could argue that the Vietnamese immigrants embraced
the American way, the American dream more than some Americans,
certainly more than some cultures have. And that's why there's
one group that owns the convenience stores and the liquor
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stores and the small businesses in communities, and another group
that's walking in and complaining about them. It's cultural. But
the Taliban was not the only group of bad people
in Afghanistan. There have been a number of service members
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who've spoken out since this attack who have made the statement, listen,
I served in Afghanistan. These people don't share our values.
These people condone the rape of children, especially boys. It's
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part and parcel of the culture. For all the talk
of feminism over the years, and the glorious steynems and
the Camille Paulia, where has been the opposition to people
who believe that women should not go out in public
without their face covered, that women shouldn't vote, or hold jobs,
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or drive or speak. Are we supposed to pretend this
isn't the case because we might offend somebody here, Good grief.
What a sad nation we become. What a sad nation
we become that we are afraid to state what we
know to be true. And there are victims to this,
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because at some point you're overrun. A friend sent me
an email, I'll not have to read fast this morning,
and he was talking about a book he read. It
was actually he read. He listened to the audiobook, and
he said, I recently reread nineteen eighty four in Fahrenheit
four or five one, and I wanted another dystopian story
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that feels like today's headlines. While I found it. It's
called The Camp of the Saints. It tells the story
of a million poor migrants who sell from India to
France on dilapidated, overcrowded ships. The West refuses to stop
them because it is afraid of being called racist. Politicians freeze,
the media calls the migrants victims and attacks anyone who complains.
Celebrities and churches celebrate the arrival, and in regular citizens
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who protest because they clearly see what's happening to their
culture are silenced or arrested or alert. France collapses without
a fight, and the rest of the West soon follows.
Some on the left call it racist, far right nonsense,
but the book's core warning feels painfully current in twenty
twenty five. Guilt compared with a combined with fear of
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being labeled a racist, can paralyze and eventually bring an
end to a civilization. I listened to the audio book
on a road trip, but I've ordered the print version,
so I can have it when it eventually gets banned
for its brutal honesty. Once it's discovered, I'm sure it will.
He concludes by saying, be careful to buy the English
translation because the original is in French. And there's a
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quote from the book that he gave me. The Frenchman says,
my brothers, these are the poor of the humble, the meek.
They are Christ himself coming to us across the sea.
We must welcome them with open arms, with love, with
everything we have. Give them your homes, your food, your
wives if necessary. But don't worry. That's a long time ago,
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in nineteen seventy three. That's France, not America. No way
that would ever happen here. This is the Michael Bay Show.
Let's take a moment to take a break from Afghanistan,
which is important in the shooting of our two National guardsmen,
one of whom has passed, and how there are consequences
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to relocating people to this country, and speak to something else,
and that is college football, which I absolutely positively love.
Rush used to say that nobody wanted him talk about
his beloved Steelers or his passion for private aviation, but
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he wanted to talk about it anyway. The reason I
like to talk about college football is when we talk
about someone who takes irrational political positions and you cannot
you cannot get them to consider what are pure facts.
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These kind of democrats we look down on right, we
think they're idiots, are fools. For instance, if there is
a black person who refuses to be told that this
program is bad, that welfare is setting blacks back, that
there is black racism, that crime is mostly black on
black in this country, and you get people who will
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not listen to your argument. They just go la la
la la la racism, la la la of racism, a
lot of at of racism. You think you're not being reasonable.
Can't we at least talk based on facts racism? But
I would use Texas as an example because that's where
I live. If you try to explain to a non
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University of Texas Longhorn fan that the Longhorns deserve to
be in the playoffs, which they do, but there's a
reasonable disagreement, they're on the bubble. I got that if
someone is a Texas a and m their biggest rival fan,
they will call you the nastiest names, even though they
love the show and tell you SIPs T SIPs, that's
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what they call them, T SIPs. And they'll start and
you go, well, how about this. They have three wins
against teams that were in the top fifteen at the
time they beat them, top ten. When they beat them,
they're still in the top fifteen. Three wins. No one
else in the country's done that. And then they'll start,
and again this goes back to political argy. They'll start with, yeah,
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but they have three losses, and you go, Okay, what
you're going to do now? They didn't have to play
Ohio State to begin the season, so from now on,
you're not going to play tough non conference games. So
we're going to have a lot of those games where
your favorite university team is going to be playing somebody
that they beat eighty to nothing. And that's not fun.
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If you think that's fun, you don't love the sport,
because it's not. Because there's no benefit to risking playing
the big teams. The point is to keep your lost
total as low as possible, and that's all that matters, right,
but there's room for Then they go, yeah, but you
lost to Florida, all right, Notre Dame last year lost
to NI. You that's either Northern Illinois or Northern Indiana.
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I don't remember. It's that small a school. I never
I didn't know they had a football program. Notre Dame
lost to them in South ben Indiana at home and
still went to the national championship. So don't give me that.
Everybody has a bad week. But either way, whatever your position,
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if your whole reason you will not entertain an idea
is you hate that school so much because you love
your school so much, you're just as irrational as political people.
And people will go that's okay, I'm agi fan, I
believe maroon. Okay, But now do you understand why Democrats
are the way they are. Their team is a Democrat party.
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The team they hate is Donald Trump. So if you're
an Aggie who hates the Longhorns, it goes both ways,
or a Longhorn who hates the Aggies, then you're really
just a Democrats Democrat who hates Republicans. That's how the
mindset works, and it's pretty harmless. In sports. Sports are
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a diversion of life. Earlier today we buried, or we
had a memorial service. We're a dear friend of mine
who died suddenly at sixty seven years old. I'd seen
him just a couple of days before, I talked to him,
just a couple of hours before heart attack dies no
idea that's heavy man. Sports are a great diversion from
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things that are heavy man sports are a great diversion.
They're an opportunity to be silly and scream, holler and cheer,
get excited and be sad. And it's not the real world, right,
It's not the real world. And in that sense, it's
fun to watch our mindset related to it. I actually
enjoy the x'es and o's and the jimmy and jimmies
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and Joe's. I actually enjoy the strategies that coaches employee.
I enjoy the personalities behind it all. But what's amazing
to me is there is so much. There's no other
sport with the strategy that football has, none the different
schemes and scenarios and film that's watched, nothing like that,
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nothing like that in any of sports in the world.
And yet it amazes me that here we are during
rivalry week, where games are going to determine who's going
to the playoffs and who might win the national championship
and this is what you've you've put all your blood,
sweat and tears into. And the guys announcing the game,
they don't care about the biggest games of the year.
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All they care about is the drama of where Lane
Kiffin is going to go. To the point that it
was comical. Welcome to the biggest game of the weekend.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Two teams battling for both the conference championship title and
a coveted spot in the twelve team playoffs.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
It doesn't get much bigger than this.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
But first, let's check in on what America really cares
about the Lane Kiffen decision twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Well, thank you, Bob.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
We're on pins and needles here at the studio as
Lane Kiffin could certainly maybe possibly stay or not stay
at the University of Mississippi. Half my sources say he
stays and sixty percent say he goes. All right, thanks
for that update. We're ready for kickoff in the game
of the year. Simmons has it at the fifteen yard line.
All right, a little bit of breaking news here. We'll
get you back out to that big game of the week.
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But first we just confirmed from sources that Lane Kiffin
just had a bowl of gumbo and a shrimp po
boy for lunch in the coach's lounge. That's a big
development in the Kiffin decision. Twenty twenty five. Looks like
he might be headed to the Bayou Bengals. Guys, back
out to you, all.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Right, while you're away.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Simmons had the Return of the Year, breaking six tackles
and taking the ball all the way to the three
yard line where it's first and goal. Quarterback takes the snap,
scrambles out of the pocket, throws to the end zone.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
End. All right, we'll get you back out to the
Game of the year.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
But first, another source has just confirmed that fried catfish
just made its way out to the coach's lounge. Maybe possibly,
but not certain, that Lane Kiffin could be staying at Mississippi.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Back to the guys in the booth, all right, while
you're away.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
This time, the Wildcats scored a touchdown and the Bulldogs
have it at the forty yard line where Jackson takes
the snap heaves it downfield.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
All right.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
If you want to keep watching the Game of the Year,
it's over on espno show. As we've moved to wall
to wall coverage of Kiffin decision twenty twenty five, and
we've now gotten word that Lane Kiffin has taken both
the gumbo and catfish to go and is headed to
the airport.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Let's take a look in Live Ah.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Yes, you gotta love the passion of the college football fan. Well,
the plane is in the air and what's that. Oh,
now we hear it's detouring to Nashville for a quick
visit to the Tight.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Who are one and eleven on the year. This is
getting wild see tune books. The strange irony to it
all is you've got ole Miss, which now has banned
him from talking to the players. He's taken four of
his coaches with him, including Charlie Weiss, and he went
from being the most beloved coach in ole Miss history
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with the most successful season they've ever had eleven wins
in a regular season, the most successful era over his
six year tenure, to being the most hated man. It's crazy.
And you've got the agg He's who lost to ut
They're eleven in one as well. They're the only ones relieved.
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At least someone's mattered than them. Both of them are
having amazing seasons and the fans couldn't be Madter. You've
got to love sports. I'm not sure what your question was,
Michael Berry. I lost the plot somewhere you did. It's
the pandering season, all the political season. It's primary season
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early March in Texas, like many of you across the country,
on your own schedule, which they vary, which they vary.
The over two decade long senator from the state of Texas,
John Cornyn is a swamp creature and he's a guy
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that is the problem because he holds down a seat
and you think, well, at least he's not a Democrat.
Sometimes you wonder if he's not worse because you first
got to beat him in a Republican primary. He's being
challenged by the sitting Attorney General Ken Paxton, who's a
maga guy, and in recent polls, Paxton is leading Cornon
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despite all the money of the national Republican parties pouring
into Corny because they like their swamp creatures they can
they own and control. So you got Paxton in first,
Cornying in a distant second, and right behind Cornyan one
percentage point behind him is a congressman from Houston named
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Wesley Hunt, who's only popped onto the scene relatively recently.
If you add the Paxton and Hunt votes, which are
anti John Cornyn votes, you get something like seventy some
percent of the vote. Cornyn has I think twenty five,
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and he doesn't get all the other vote because some
of it's undecided. When votes break, as we say, when
they decide who they're going to voter, decide who they're
going to vote for late. It's a bad sign for
the incumbent that they're not with you early because you're
the name they know. People like to answer that they
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if they're three names given to them and they don't
know the other, they'll pick the one they know, even
if they don't like that person, because they don't want
to admit that they don't know who's running. So you
got Cornyan, who liked a lot of the swamp creatures,
is in real trouble and should be. Cornyn was a guy.
There's no reason you'd know this. He's the senator from Texas.
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But Cornyn was the guy who last year when President
Trump announced in the spring he's running or is campaigning
in the spring, Cornyn said it's time for America to
move past Donald Trump. Donald Trump should not run. Wow, well,
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then Trump gets re elected and now John Wayne mccorny
and I call him John Wayne mccorny, and his name
is John Cornyn because about election time every year he
comes back down to Texas and starts putting on a
little bit of a drawl. You know, you Texans, I'm
so proud of you, so proud to be of you,
just like you. You know, I was scratching myself in
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another regions a minute ago, because that's what we do
down here in Texas. Odd do you live in d C.
And you never talked like that. I was just wearing
my ten gallon hat. It's a time for timer, you know,
I'm gonna be have some cheese. I was watching John
Wayne movies last night. That's what I do. You know,
when I'm when I'm not on the cenate floor, I'm
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mostly watching John Wayne movies. You know a lot of
people call me Rooster Cockburn. Literally, nobody ever calls you that. Yeah,
they called me Rooster Cogburn, you know, and John Wayne
kind of things sort of cross between Aldie Murphy and
U uh uh Rooster Cogburn and you know all the
great Texans. No, no nobody ever calls you that. So
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so after trashing Trump and working behind the scenes to
hurt Trump, he gets photographed and posts it on his
Twitter page. He stays a photograph of reading the art
of reading the art of the deal because you know now,
you know he wants to be a Trump acolyte. You
had an overnight conversion. Nope, he's pandering and if he's reelected,
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he's got six years to torment us. And then he
went to a place called Trump Burger here in Houston,
took a photo. Who is a good burger? This Trump Burger.
They went out of business shortly thereafter. Well, now the
most popular gas do nation. I came up with that term.
I gave it to Beaver Applin, the owner the Buckies'
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gas station chain is a national phenomenon now, but Texans
are very proud of BUCkies. It was it was a
single dad. It was a single dad. It was raising
a little girl, and he took it to a gas
station about an hour south of Houston in Freeport, and
it was his weekend to have her and he was
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going to send her into the restroom and it was
so filthy. She was very young. He determined right there
in there, I'm going to fix this. This is embarrassing.
He owned a gas station at them, and he's set
about with the concept of clean of clean gas stations,
a clean gas, clean bathrooms, trying to think ahead. So
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BUCkies is kind of a legendary in Texas. You take
road trips, He's long road trips of big state and
you stop at Bucky's. So what does our senator do?
It's election time. He can't say I'm doing the right
thing for our country because, for instance, this Afghan resettlement
we talked about, he was part of the move to
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bring these Afghan nationals to this country. And now they
say we didn't know the Biden administration wasn't vetting them. Well,
then why were you for doing it? Why did you
vote to do it if you didn't know how they
were going to determine who they brought here. They brought
terrorists here and they dropped them on the American seats streets.
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They brought terrorists here and dropped them on the American
streets and you supported it. But you can't vote for that.
You can't, I mean, you can't campaign on that. You
can't say vote for me, I'm the guy that brought
the Afghans here, you know, like the one in uh Washington,
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d C. You know, one of the things you laugh
about when you have elementary school elections is whoever's running
for student body president of the third grade will promise
we'll have ice cream social every Friday, and people will
vote for that, because what else are you going to
do is student body president right of third grade? And
that's kind of what John Wayne mccornyan is doing. He
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is campaigning his ass off in the state of Texas
because he's running behind, and he's running scared, and he's
doing it on the basis of, Oh, you like hamburgers.
I like hamburgers. You like to swim, I like to swim.
So he took this most embarrassingly painful, cringe worthy video
of himself at Buckis and they cleared every body off
behind him in front of the BUCkies brass monuments. It's terrible.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
John Wayne mccordon spent the Thanksgiving holiday fighting for Texas.
We've told you for months now he shouldered to shoulder
toe to toe ninety seven point two percent of the
time with Donald J. Trump helping keep our borders safe.
John Wayne mccornan.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Is Texas to the bone.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
That's why he spent Thanksgiving at BUCkies, standing shoulder to
shoulder with Bucky the Beaver, making sure his hired photographer
got every awkward angle. He spent hours shaking hands with
people mass exiting the bathrooms, all while wearing a cowboy hat,
giant beaver belt buckle, and sipping a big gulp cherry
slushy because he knows that's what Texans do. John Wayne
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mccornan is a brisket connoisseur, so it's only natural that
he jumped behind the counter and served brisket sandwiches all
wild chin that famous BUCkies anthem.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Fred Uh, sir, it's brisk and weed. We don't serve
beaver meating. Oh yeah right.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
John Wayne mcconnan finished his day at the car wash,
slowly moving his arm forward, telling you to place your
car in neutral, and giggling as the BUCkies hologram logos
slowly moves across your windshield because he believes in keeping
Texas clean. You love Texas and you love BUCkies. John
Wayne mccornan has spent time in both. Therefore you love
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John Wayne mccornyn Texan to the bone.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Wayne McConney
It's that time, time, time, Time, Luck and Load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Michael Vari Show is on the air tonight, chilling new
details about the shooting that left two National guardsmen gravely wounded.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
A lone gunman opened fire without provocation ambush style, armed
with a three point fifty seven Smith and Wesson revolver.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Raman Nola Lockenwall is a twenty nine year old Afghan
national who came to the US in twenty twenty one.
He served in the Afghan Army for ten years.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
There are, of course concerns am the lawmakers experts of
practice for saying previous arrivals of large numbers of refugees
from different parts of the world, and that really there
may be a handful, small handful who are eventually deemed.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
A security risk of some kind.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
What reassurances can you make about the screening process and
the attempts to make sure that somebody like that doesn't
make his or her way here.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I can absolutely assure you that no one is coming
into the United States of America who has not been
through a thorough screening and background check process. Well, the
family of specialist Sarah Beckstrom has to bury their daughter,
who was bravely and selflessly serving in our national Guard.
(01:25):
Not because she was off at war and murdered, but
because she was murdered in our nation's capital by a
person who should have never been in this country in
the first place. Sergeant Andrew Staff, Sergeant Andrew Woolf was
(01:46):
with her when they were on patrol and they were ambushed.
The individual who did it, I'm not going to bother
with his name, had driven from the state of Washington
over ementy five hundred miles to Washington, d C. To
kill white people. That is supposedly what he said. He
(02:09):
clearly wanted to kill Americans. He wanted to do it
in Washington, d C. He wanted to make a political statement.
A lot of people that would like to kill you.
A lot of people around the world would like to
kill you. They resent you, they hate you. They don't
know you. They don't need to because their lives are sad,
(02:30):
Their people are sad, their culture is sad, their country
is sad, pitiful. They want to come here and you
don't want to go there. They feel left out. They're
like old miss fans. They've been jilted for something better
in LSU. They're mad about it. Why don't you like them.
(02:52):
They would like to live here the way you live,
but they can't because they can't build that for themselves
because they're broken. So September eleventh, nine to eleven, two
thousand and one, whatever you believe happened, happened, and less
(03:17):
than a month later, in fact, about three weeks later,
the United States began our initial invasion under the warmongering
George W. Bush. But okay, we were gonna go get
Osama bin Laden and I think most people said, yeah,
go get the bastard, hunt him down like a dog
(03:41):
and slaughter him and show the world that we mean business.
October seventh, two thousand and one. Well, the Bush administration
never got him. They had opportunities to. There was one
(04:01):
point where they could have strafed an area, but it
would have taken two hundred casualties with it, so they
chose not to. And you might say, well, that's fine,
I don't want to kill innocent people. These people were
in his caravan. Well I don't want to kill innocent
people in order to get him. If you don't kill
those two hundred people, you allow far more Americans than
(04:24):
that to die because he continues to run operations. Do
you know how many people, innocent people were injured in
Germany who simply lived in Berlin when the attacks began,
the bombings. That's what it took to get to Hitler.
(04:47):
It wasn't that the Allies were being monsters. It's that
they had to stop the Germans. We had the opportunity
to stop Osama bin Laden, but we didn't, and Bush
left office with our nations still at war, our boys
dying daily in Afghanistan. May two, twenty eleven, ten years
(05:11):
after we invaded. We finally got Osama bin Laden, but
he was in Pakistan, and we knew for approximately two
years that he was in impact. He was in Pakistan,
So why were we still at war in afghan Afghanistan?
You know how brutal war in Afghanistan is. Go read
what Rudyard Kipling wrote about the brit the Englishman dying
(05:34):
in Afghanistan, how brutal it was. Go ask the Russians
about what they did to their soldiers in war before
the Russians fled. You've got several thousand tribes of brutal
people that live amongst the rocks, like scorpions or snakes.
You're never going to beat these people. They're not even
a nation. So why were our people dying? Why did
(05:57):
we have to be there to then.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
O go like this to need to bring them back
here to the Michael Berry Show podcast improved their love life.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
The fifth person didn't deserve one anyway. The President Trump
extricated us from Afghanistan, where we had been for two decades.
And you heard the story of what he told the
Taliban when they came in. He said, if you touch
(06:27):
the hair on one American head, I will destroy you,
and then showed them a picture of where they live.
So he was committed to getting us out of the
forever Wars because unlike the Chinese and the Bushes and
the Bidens and Obamas, he was not beholden to the
national security complex, the military industrial complex that Eisenhower warned
(06:51):
us about. Think Eisenhower might have known something about the
military industrial complex after serving as a Supreme General, supreme
military leader during World War Two and then eight years
as president from fifty two to sixty. Yeah, I think
he might have known something about it. I think when
he warned us he had seen inside the beast. You know,
(07:13):
it's a movie theme that a person will go sheet
white when they learned something that the rest of us
could not handle, knowing we could not handle the truth.
To quote Jack Nicholson, and I think Eisenhower knew very
good and well of what he was speaking. I think
(07:36):
it took great courage for him, after two terms to
give a farewell address, just as Washington did, to say
in a civilian representative democracy of great wealth and strength,
be careful because whatever someone is in the business of doing,
(08:00):
they're going to try to sell more of it. That's capitalism.
That's fine, but be careful what they convince you you
need to buy with your tax dollars. I'm old enough
to remember when our government was forcing people to get
jabbed with what turns out to be a deadly poison
(08:20):
so that big farmer could get rich. Now Robert F.
Kennedy has to be pushed out because he's talking about that.
I'm old enough to remember Anthony Fauci preaching and being
told that Fauci was the god man. He's the knower
of all. He is a devil and he deserves to
be tried. So here we are yet another terror attack
(08:47):
on American soil because of an Afghan national. And so
we go back to how many of these Afghan nationals
were brought here and we're told, well, our service members
needed help from them while they're there. I believe that
throughout history that's happened. But why do we have to
(09:09):
bring them here? Were we in Afghanistan for our interests
for the worlds? Because we're told, and we tell the
rest of the world that we're doing all these nice
things for these other countries and the world for humanity,
But yet we always have to pick up the trash
and bring it here and dump it. There was a
(09:32):
pretty good degree of vetting when the Vietnamese resettlement program began,
pretty good degree of vetting, and all in all, that's
turned out to be resettlement wise, a pretty successful program.
But the Vietnamese people were an industrious people, family related
(09:59):
who shared some values. Their Buddhist values, their pro education,
their hard work. Those aligned nicely with Calvinism, Christ based
though it is so you can see them working here.
(10:19):
In fact, you could argue that the Vietnamese immigrants embraced
the American way, the American dream more than some Americans,
certainly more than some cultures have. And that's why there's
one group that owns the convenience stores and the liquor
(10:40):
stores and the small businesses in communities, and another group
that's walking in and complaining about them. It's cultural. But
the Taliban was not the only group of bad people
in Afghanistan. There have been a number of service members
(11:02):
who've spoken out since this attack who have made the statement, listen,
I served in Afghanistan. These people don't share our values.
These people condone the rape of children, especially boys. It's
(11:25):
part and parcel of the culture. For all the talk
of feminism over the years, and the glorious steynems and
the Camille Paulia, where has been the opposition to people
who believe that women should not go out in public
without their face covered, that women shouldn't vote, or hold jobs,
(11:48):
or drive or speak. Are we supposed to pretend this
isn't the case because we might offend somebody here, Good grief.
What a sad nation we become. What a sad nation
we become that we are afraid to state what we
know to be true. And there are victims to this,
(12:09):
because at some point you're overrun. A friend sent me
an email, I'll not have to read fast this morning,
and he was talking about a book he read. It
was actually he read. He listened to the audiobook, and
he said, I recently reread nineteen eighty four in Fahrenheit
four or five one, and I wanted another dystopian story
(12:31):
that feels like today's headlines. While I found it. It's
called The Camp of the Saints. It tells the story
of a million poor migrants who sell from India to
France on dilapidated, overcrowded ships. The West refuses to stop
them because it is afraid of being called racist. Politicians freeze,
the media calls the migrants victims and attacks anyone who complains.
Celebrities and churches celebrate the arrival, and in regular citizens
(12:53):
who protest because they clearly see what's happening to their
culture are silenced or arrested or alert. France collapses without
a fight, and the rest of the West soon follows.
Some on the left call it racist, far right nonsense,
but the book's core warning feels painfully current in twenty
twenty five. Guilt compared with a combined with fear of
(13:16):
being labeled a racist, can paralyze and eventually bring an
end to a civilization. I listened to the audio book
on a road trip, but I've ordered the print version,
so I can have it when it eventually gets banned
for its brutal honesty. Once it's discovered, I'm sure it will.
He concludes by saying, be careful to buy the English
translation because the original is in French. And there's a
(13:40):
quote from the book that he gave me. The Frenchman says,
my brothers, these are the poor of the humble, the meek.
They are Christ himself coming to us across the sea.
We must welcome them with open arms, with love, with
everything we have. Give them your homes, your food, your
wives if necessary. But don't worry. That's a long time ago,
(14:02):
in nineteen seventy three. That's France, not America. No way
that would ever happen here. This is the Michael Bay Show.
Let's take a moment to take a break from Afghanistan,
which is important in the shooting of our two National guardsmen,
one of whom has passed, and how there are consequences
(14:26):
to relocating people to this country, and speak to something else,
and that is college football, which I absolutely positively love.
Rush used to say that nobody wanted him talk about
his beloved Steelers or his passion for private aviation, but
(14:46):
he wanted to talk about it anyway. The reason I
like to talk about college football is when we talk
about someone who takes irrational political positions and you cannot
you cannot get them to consider what are pure facts.
(15:08):
These kind of democrats we look down on right, we
think they're idiots, are fools. For instance, if there is
a black person who refuses to be told that this
program is bad, that welfare is setting blacks back, that
there is black racism, that crime is mostly black on
black in this country, and you get people who will
(15:31):
not listen to your argument. They just go la la
la la la racism, la la la of racism, a
lot of at of racism. You think you're not being reasonable.
Can't we at least talk based on facts racism? But
I would use Texas as an example because that's where
I live. If you try to explain to a non
(15:52):
University of Texas Longhorn fan that the Longhorns deserve to
be in the playoffs, which they do, but there's a
reasonable disagreement, they're on the bubble. I got that if
someone is a Texas a and m their biggest rival fan,
they will call you the nastiest names, even though they
love the show and tell you SIPs T SIPs, that's
(16:15):
what they call them, T SIPs. And they'll start and
you go, well, how about this. They have three wins
against teams that were in the top fifteen at the
time they beat them, top ten. When they beat them,
they're still in the top fifteen. Three wins. No one
else in the country's done that. And then they'll start,
and again this goes back to political argy. They'll start with, yeah,
(16:37):
but they have three losses, and you go, Okay, what
you're going to do now? They didn't have to play
Ohio State to begin the season, so from now on,
you're not going to play tough non conference games. So
we're going to have a lot of those games where
your favorite university team is going to be playing somebody
that they beat eighty to nothing. And that's not fun.
(16:57):
If you think that's fun, you don't love the sport,
because it's not. Because there's no benefit to risking playing
the big teams. The point is to keep your lost
total as low as possible, and that's all that matters, right,
but there's room for Then they go, yeah, but you
lost to Florida, all right, Notre Dame last year lost
to NI. You that's either Northern Illinois or Northern Indiana.
(17:22):
I don't remember. It's that small a school. I never
I didn't know they had a football program. Notre Dame
lost to them in South ben Indiana at home and
still went to the national championship. So don't give me that.
Everybody has a bad week. But either way, whatever your position,
(17:42):
if your whole reason you will not entertain an idea
is you hate that school so much because you love
your school so much, you're just as irrational as political people.
And people will go that's okay, I'm agi fan, I
believe maroon. Okay, But now do you understand why Democrats
are the way they are. Their team is a Democrat party.
(18:04):
The team they hate is Donald Trump. So if you're
an Aggie who hates the Longhorns, it goes both ways,
or a Longhorn who hates the Aggies, then you're really
just a Democrats Democrat who hates Republicans. That's how the
mindset works, and it's pretty harmless. In sports. Sports are
(18:26):
a diversion of life. Earlier today we buried, or we
had a memorial service. We're a dear friend of mine
who died suddenly at sixty seven years old. I'd seen
him just a couple of days before, I talked to him,
just a couple of hours before heart attack dies no
idea that's heavy man. Sports are a great diversion from
(18:50):
things that are heavy man sports are a great diversion.
They're an opportunity to be silly and scream, holler and cheer,
get excited and be sad. And it's not the real world, right,
It's not the real world. And in that sense, it's
fun to watch our mindset related to it. I actually
enjoy the x'es and o's and the jimmy and jimmies
(19:12):
and Joe's. I actually enjoy the strategies that coaches employee.
I enjoy the personalities behind it all. But what's amazing
to me is there is so much. There's no other
sport with the strategy that football has, none the different
schemes and scenarios and film that's watched, nothing like that,
(19:32):
nothing like that in any of sports in the world.
And yet it amazes me that here we are during
rivalry week, where games are going to determine who's going
to the playoffs and who might win the national championship
and this is what you've you've put all your blood,
sweat and tears into. And the guys announcing the game,
they don't care about the biggest games of the year.
(19:55):
All they care about is the drama of where Lane
Kiffin is going to go. To the point that it
was comical. Welcome to the biggest game of the weekend.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Two teams battling for both the conference championship title and
a coveted spot in the twelve team playoffs.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
It doesn't get much bigger than this.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
But first, let's check in on what America really cares
about the Lane Kiffen decision twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Well, thank you, Bob.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
We're on pins and needles here at the studio as
Lane Kiffin could certainly maybe possibly stay or not stay
at the University of Mississippi. Half my sources say he
stays and sixty percent say he goes. All right, thanks
for that update. We're ready for kickoff in the game
of the year. Simmons has it at the fifteen yard line.
All right, a little bit of breaking news here. We'll
get you back out to that big game of the week.
(20:40):
But first we just confirmed from sources that Lane Kiffin
just had a bowl of gumbo and a shrimp po
boy for lunch in the coach's lounge. That's a big
development in the Kiffin decision. Twenty twenty five. Looks like
he might be headed to the Bayou Bengals. Guys, back
out to you, all.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Right, while you're away.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Simmons had the Return of the Year, breaking six tackles
and taking the ball all the way to the three
yard line where it's first and goal. Quarterback takes the snap,
scrambles out of the pocket, throws to the end zone.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
End. All right, we'll get you back out to the
Game of the year.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
But first, another source has just confirmed that fried catfish
just made its way out to the coach's lounge. Maybe possibly,
but not certain, that Lane Kiffin could be staying at Mississippi.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Back to the guys in the booth, all right, while
you're away.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
This time, the Wildcats scored a touchdown and the Bulldogs
have it at the forty yard line where Jackson takes
the snap heaves it downfield.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
All right.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
If you want to keep watching the Game of the Year,
it's over on espno show. As we've moved to wall
to wall coverage of Kiffin decision twenty twenty five, and
we've now gotten word that Lane Kiffin has taken both
the gumbo and catfish to go and is headed to
the airport.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Let's take a look in Live Ah.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Yes, you gotta love the passion of the college football fan. Well,
the plane is in the air and what's that. Oh,
now we hear it's detouring to Nashville for a quick
visit to the Tight.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Who are one and eleven on the year. This is
getting wild see tune books. The strange irony to it
all is you've got ole Miss, which now has banned
him from talking to the players. He's taken four of
his coaches with him, including Charlie Weiss, and he went
from being the most beloved coach in ole Miss history
(22:20):
with the most successful season they've ever had eleven wins
in a regular season, the most successful era over his
six year tenure, to being the most hated man. It's crazy.
And you've got the agg He's who lost to ut
They're eleven in one as well. They're the only ones relieved.
(22:41):
At least someone's mattered than them. Both of them are
having amazing seasons and the fans couldn't be Madter. You've
got to love sports. I'm not sure what your question was,
Michael Berry. I lost the plot somewhere you did. It's
the pandering season, all the political season. It's primary season
(23:04):
early March in Texas, like many of you across the country,
on your own schedule, which they vary, which they vary.
The over two decade long senator from the state of Texas,
John Cornyn is a swamp creature and he's a guy
(23:29):
that is the problem because he holds down a seat
and you think, well, at least he's not a Democrat.
Sometimes you wonder if he's not worse because you first
got to beat him in a Republican primary. He's being
challenged by the sitting Attorney General Ken Paxton, who's a
maga guy, and in recent polls, Paxton is leading Cornon
(23:52):
despite all the money of the national Republican parties pouring
into Corny because they like their swamp creatures they can
they own and control. So you got Paxton in first,
Cornying in a distant second, and right behind Cornyan one
percentage point behind him is a congressman from Houston named
(24:12):
Wesley Hunt, who's only popped onto the scene relatively recently.
If you add the Paxton and Hunt votes, which are
anti John Cornyn votes, you get something like seventy some
percent of the vote. Cornyn has I think twenty five,
(24:36):
and he doesn't get all the other vote because some
of it's undecided. When votes break, as we say, when
they decide who they're going to voter, decide who they're
going to vote for late. It's a bad sign for
the incumbent that they're not with you early because you're
the name they know. People like to answer that they
(24:57):
if they're three names given to them and they don't
know the other, they'll pick the one they know, even
if they don't like that person, because they don't want
to admit that they don't know who's running. So you
got Cornyan, who liked a lot of the swamp creatures,
is in real trouble and should be. Cornyn was a guy.
There's no reason you'd know this. He's the senator from Texas.
(25:19):
But Cornyn was the guy who last year when President
Trump announced in the spring he's running or is campaigning
in the spring, Cornyn said it's time for America to
move past Donald Trump. Donald Trump should not run. Wow, well,
(25:41):
then Trump gets re elected and now John Wayne mccorny
and I call him John Wayne mccorny, and his name
is John Cornyn because about election time every year he
comes back down to Texas and starts putting on a
little bit of a drawl. You know, you Texans, I'm
so proud of you, so proud to be of you,
just like you. You know, I was scratching myself in
(26:03):
another regions a minute ago, because that's what we do
down here in Texas. Odd do you live in d C.
And you never talked like that. I was just wearing
my ten gallon hat. It's a time for timer, you know,
I'm gonna be have some cheese. I was watching John
Wayne movies last night. That's what I do. You know,
when I'm when I'm not on the cenate floor, I'm
(26:24):
mostly watching John Wayne movies. You know a lot of
people call me Rooster Cockburn. Literally, nobody ever calls you that. Yeah,
they called me Rooster Cogburn, you know, and John Wayne
kind of things sort of cross between Aldie Murphy and
U uh uh Rooster Cogburn and you know all the
great Texans. No, no nobody ever calls you that. So
(26:49):
so after trashing Trump and working behind the scenes to
hurt Trump, he gets photographed and posts it on his
Twitter page. He stays a photograph of reading the art
of reading the art of the deal because you know now,
you know he wants to be a Trump acolyte. You
had an overnight conversion. Nope, he's pandering and if he's reelected,
(27:13):
he's got six years to torment us. And then he
went to a place called Trump Burger here in Houston,
took a photo. Who is a good burger? This Trump Burger.
They went out of business shortly thereafter. Well, now the
most popular gas do nation. I came up with that term.
I gave it to Beaver Applin, the owner the Buckies'
(27:34):
gas station chain is a national phenomenon now, but Texans
are very proud of BUCkies. It was it was a
single dad. It was a single dad. It was raising
a little girl, and he took it to a gas
station about an hour south of Houston in Freeport, and
it was his weekend to have her and he was
(27:56):
going to send her into the restroom and it was
so filthy. She was very young. He determined right there
in there, I'm going to fix this. This is embarrassing.
He owned a gas station at them, and he's set
about with the concept of clean of clean gas stations,
a clean gas, clean bathrooms, trying to think ahead. So
(28:18):
BUCkies is kind of a legendary in Texas. You take
road trips, He's long road trips of big state and
you stop at Bucky's. So what does our senator do?
It's election time. He can't say I'm doing the right
thing for our country because, for instance, this Afghan resettlement
we talked about, he was part of the move to
(28:40):
bring these Afghan nationals to this country. And now they
say we didn't know the Biden administration wasn't vetting them. Well,
then why were you for doing it? Why did you
vote to do it if you didn't know how they
were going to determine who they brought here. They brought
terrorists here and they dropped them on the American seats streets.
(29:04):
They brought terrorists here and dropped them on the American
streets and you supported it. But you can't vote for that.
You can't, I mean, you can't campaign on that. You
can't say vote for me, I'm the guy that brought
the Afghans here, you know, like the one in uh Washington,
(29:25):
d C. You know, one of the things you laugh
about when you have elementary school elections is whoever's running
for student body president of the third grade will promise
we'll have ice cream social every Friday, and people will
vote for that, because what else are you going to
do is student body president right of third grade? And
that's kind of what John Wayne mccornyan is doing. He
(29:48):
is campaigning his ass off in the state of Texas
because he's running behind, and he's running scared, and he's
doing it on the basis of, Oh, you like hamburgers.
I like hamburgers. You like to swim, I like to swim.
So he took this most embarrassingly painful, cringe worthy video
of himself at Buckis and they cleared every body off
behind him in front of the BUCkies brass monuments. It's terrible.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
John Wayne mccordon spent the Thanksgiving holiday fighting for Texas.
We've told you for months now he shouldered to shoulder
toe to toe ninety seven point two percent of the
time with Donald J. Trump helping keep our borders safe.
John Wayne mccornan.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Is Texas to the bone.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
That's why he spent Thanksgiving at BUCkies, standing shoulder to
shoulder with Bucky the Beaver, making sure his hired photographer
got every awkward angle. He spent hours shaking hands with
people mass exiting the bathrooms, all while wearing a cowboy hat,
giant beaver belt buckle, and sipping a big gulp cherry
slushy because he knows that's what Texans do. John Wayne
(30:52):
mccornan is a brisket connoisseur, so it's only natural that
he jumped behind the counter and served brisket sandwiches all
wild chin that famous BUCkies anthem.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Fred Uh, sir, it's brisk and weed. We don't serve
beaver meating. Oh yeah right.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
John Wayne mcconnan finished his day at the car wash,
slowly moving his arm forward, telling you to place your
car in neutral, and giggling as the BUCkies hologram logos
slowly moves across your windshield because he believes in keeping
Texas clean. You love Texas and you love BUCkies. John
Wayne mccornan has spent time in both. Therefore you love
(31:32):
John Wayne mccornyn Texan to the bone.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Wayne McConney
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