December 17, 2025 • 32 mins
Michael Berry remembers sci-fi legends like Gil Gerard while dissecting today’s political chaos in Texas and beyond.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, luck and load. So Michael
Berry Show is on the air. Good morning, Michael Berry.
I heard you were traplic for Christmas, but no, you
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can stay in that to use my bathroom. Good morning,
Michael Berry. It's Center Hope you've been good this year.
Good morning, Michael Berry. This is seton Connery. Heard you
at a Christmas party last night, Betty, I wasn't invited.
Good morning, Michael Berry.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I'm all jacked up on Christmas cookies and candy canes.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Good morning, Michaelberry. How you learned? Did I read it
to my money?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Good morning, listen to this. Good morning, your car, Good Marny.
Texas is on his death and we're happy to be
here to talk about everything.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Good morning, We're not wearing past.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Good morning Texas, Good Barty, Texas, Good Bury, Texes.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Good morning, Wake up District gone damn.
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Well.
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A little moment from my childhood. But Rogers the twenty
first century gilled Gil Girard has passed at the age
of eighty two.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
In the year in nineteen eighty seven, NASA launched the
last of America's deep space prose aboard this combat starship
alone astronaut Captain William buck Rogers was to experience cosmic
forses beyond all comprehension. In a pre mishap, his life
support systems were frozen by temperatures beyond imagination. Ringer three
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was rolled out of its playing projectory into an orbit
one thousand times more vast, the orbit which was to
return buck Rogers to Earth fire one hundred years later.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Ramona, I just had a moment from my childhood. I
never realized the show ran from seventy nine to eighty one.
I never realized it was buck Rogers in the twenty
fifth century. I thought it was buck Rogers and the
twenty first century. Wow, don't fault me. I was only
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nine years old. Gil Gerard wrote a message prior to
his death that his wife posted on Facebook, saying, my
life has been an amazing journey. The opportunities I've had,
the people I've met, the love I have given and
received have made my eighty two years on the planet
deeply satisfying. Variety magazine wrote. Girard's death was confirmed by
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his wife Janet in a Facebook post Tuesday evening. Quote,
early this morning, gil my soulmate lost his fight with
a rare and viciously aggressive form of cancer, from the
moment when we knew something was wrong to his death.
This morning was only a few days. No matter how
many years I got to spend with him, it would
have never been enough. Hold the ones you have tight
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and love them fiercely. Gerard also released his own statement
on Facebook Tuesday night, which he asked his wife to
share after he died. My wife has been an amazing journey.
The opportunities I've had to people I've met, and the
love I have given and received have made my eighty
two years on this planet deeply satisfying. My journey has
taken me from Arkansas, to New York, to la and
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finally to my home in North Georgia with my amazing wife,
Janet of eighteen years. It's been a great ride, but
inevitably one that comes to a close, as mine has.
Don't waste your time on anything that doesn't thrill you
or bring you love. See you out here somewhere in
the cosmos, Variety magazine notes. Buck Rogers in the twenty
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first Century ran for two seasons from seventy nine to
eighty one. The show, based on the character created by
Philip frantzs Nolan in nineteen twenty eight, was first adapted
as a made for TV movie, which grows to twenty
one million dollars and it's nineteen seventy nine theatrical debut.
Universal and NBC quickly began work on a weekly sci
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fi series. Later that same year, the film was split
in half for a two part series premiere. Buck Rogers
followed Gerard as Captain William buck Rogers, a twentieth century
astronaut who was frozen in space for five hundred and
four years and wakes up in the year twenty four
ninety one, just a few short years away. Give me
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the theme song again at pus Men, a good spot.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
In the year.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
In nineteen eighty seven, NASA launched the last of America's
deep space probes. Aboard this compact starship, a long astronaut,
Captain William buck Rodgers was to experience cosmic courses beyond
all comprehension. In a freak mishap, his life support systems
were frozen by temperatures beyond imagination. Ranger three was blown
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out of its planned projectory into an orbit one thousand
times more events and orbit which was to.
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Return buck Rogers to Earth.
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And five, one hundred years later, the.
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Primary winner continues to show Ken Paxton in first, Wesley
Hunt in second, and John Cornyn in third, despite the
fact that they have spent some reports that I'm getting
out of DC or that they have spent seventy seven
zero million dollars. The more they spend, the further behind
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they fall. I think, I honestly believe when people see
his face, they forget they don't like him, and they
remember they don't like him. They had forgotten they don't
like him. And then he does the BUCkies bit, and
then he panders, and then he makes claims that aren't true.
The more he attacks the other guys, the worse it gets.
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And then when Wesley Hunt entered the race, he couldn't
just attack Ken Paxton. Now he had to attack Wesley Hunt.
And when Hunt first entered the race, he really went
hard at Hunt. I mean, said some really nasty things
that now apparently have turned out to be quite embarrassing
for the DC crowd. The National Republican Senatorial Committee's Director
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or PR director, works for Senator Tim Scott, and she
she made a comment that black people will make about
black people, but you rarely hear anybody other than me
say about black people as a joke. It didn't come
off well. And now Tim Scott is getting some blowback,
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and it has emerged that Tim Scott's trying to protect
his buddy John Cornyn in the good Old Boys Club.
It has also been made clear that all of this
money is being spent to try to tell Texans who
to elect in a Republican primary. This is money that
is given by Republican donors to keep a Republican majority.
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We're fifty one to forty nine right now with two
of them really really squish. This is money that was
given to keep a Republican majority in the Senate, and
they're squandering it all in an internacine, inter party Republican race.
It's a terrible, terrible look for John Cormyn. What a legacy,
What a loser show. President Trump announced yesterday he will
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be delivering an addressed to the Nation tonight at eight
pm Central. The subject has not been revealed. There is
speculation as to a number of things, but that is
tonight at eight pm Central. We'll talk later in the show.
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President Trump's chief of Staff Kathy Wiley, gave an amazing
amount of access to vanity fair, and they wrote an
article that is absolutely scathing toward the administration. Kathy Wiles
is now saying she was taken out of context. It
wasn't fair press, the Press secretary saying that there are
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errors by omission, and anybody who's been around the process
is simply saying, why on earth did you do that?
Why did you sit down with a dog? And are
you surprised you got up with fleas? This is ridiculous.
There is a desperate need for every conservative, for every Republican,
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a desperate need to be considered nice, to be considered
part of the group, to fit in with the liberal media.
Last night, I did something that is a fool's errand
but I did it anyway. I spent an hour plus
an extra sec trying to explain President Trump's mindset with
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regard to Rob Reiner. Well, there are a lot of
people who are stupid and nuances beyond them. As you
defending it, you're defending it as I talk. You're defending it.
You're not PopEd to defend it. You're not poping day
thing like that about somebody when they died. So you
realize you'll never get through to that person. The important
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thing to remember. I didn't say that what Trump said
was right or wrong. Doesn't matter. I don't care. I
don't pass judgment on whether what he says is right
or wrong. And I also don't feel the need to
run to social media and announce I love Trump, but
I don't like that one thing he said about Rob
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Ryin or y'all.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
I'm a good person, Okay. I'm not racist, nor misogynist,
nor transphobic. R's nphobic or nothing. Okay, y'all got me
on the record. Y'all got me on the record. I
don't agree with the president. Okay, you got me.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I just want to get that in because I don't
anybody think I'm mean or nothing. Why are people so eager,
so keen to put themselves on the record as if
as if there's a vote on the matter. You don't
have to endorse everything Donald Trump says or does. What
makes you think you do? Except you do, and you
know you do, because that's what the liberal media and
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the Democrats do to you. They force you into every
time Trump does something that's supposedly controversial, that you have
to run and say I don't agree with that, Okay, Okay,
don't get me in trouble. I'm not a bad person.
Because the who's a nice guy and who's a bad
guy games are what wins elections for Democrats, I'll remind you.
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In twenty twelve, they did an exit poll on election day,
the afternoon of the election. It was Mitt Romney versus
Barack Obama. Barack Obama was underwater. It was the worst
polling for a sitting president since polling had begun, and
there were two questions that were asked, who do you
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think can most fix the economy? Romney won something like
fifty five five, fifty eight, forty two. It was big.
That should have been enough to win the election. Very unpopular.
Barack Obama November twenty twelve, very unpopular. However, the second
question flipped the other direction. Who would you most want
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to have a beer with? Nobody want to have a
beer with Mitt Romney. He's not a nice guy. Barack
Obama's cool. He's a good dude. And the cool vibe
was carefully calculated. That was by design. Oh, he'd walk
past the basketball court like he was Steph Curry. He
would growl, he would drain it. Oh, I look at it.
He gains May cool. He liked Billy Dee Williams. Remember
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that line. It was people on CNN talking this way.
He just defined cool. Barack Obama's cool. He's a good guy.
He might make some mistakes, he might be in over
his head. We might have some honest disagreement, but he cool.
Billy d Williams cool, No Jerry Curls, but cool man
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Brock Obama cool. It's very important for the Democrats to
portray you and your president is uncool, uncouth, crass, crude.
You wouldn't want to have him over, You wouldt to
be seen with him. You don't want to have to
defend him because at any moment he may say something
that's impolite, it's uncivilizing. We don't want the kids to
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learn from that. All the while, Joe Biden selling the
country to the Chinese through his son, the crackhead, his
own his own little Nick Reiner selling the country through
his own little nick ner crackhead son. But as long
as nobody says he's mean or crass or impolite, nobody
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feels the need to jump up and say I'm a Democrat,
I'm not with Biden. Because they smile while they're knifeing you,
they smile. And I made the point as I believe
that Donald Trump has been subjected to things that the
average American can't understand. And just like a professional boxer
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or athlete or many people warrior in battle, you don't
get to turn Donald Trump on and off with a button.
The man who can get shot in the head and
get up and say fight, fight, fight, when the rest
of us would not. The man who can be indicted
over thirty times. The man who, now we find out
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yesterday the Department of Justice reveals memos. Even the Biden
White House knew that there was not sufficient evidentiary standards
to raid Marlago, but they did it anyway. And yet
you haven't had your wife's panty drawers raided. You even't
had your home invader. You haven't been dragged a court
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in Florida, Atlanta, d C. New York. You haven't had
to collateralize your entire business with cash. You don't keep
around because it's an illiquid business. Because fat Tish, who
herself is engaged in mortgage fraud, accuses you of mortgage fraud.
You haven't had the number three at the Department of
Justice dispatched to New York so that double Ard District
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attorney could bring charges against you. Yeah, those were separate.
You haven't had that happen to you. Oh but Michael,
he's dead and we ought not saying thing but nice things.
If you can't say something nice and don't say nothing
at all, you wouldn't last a minute in that game.
He lives it every day. I'm just grateful that Donald
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Trump it's willing to fight for us. He gave it
all up Michael to fight for us. Okay, well, some
of his fighting is he's bitter and angry and resentful
and lashes out. I wish you wouldn't do that. That's
too far. I don't want to do that. That's not nice.
I don't know why I needed to say that, you've
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got Cornpop was a bad dude. The Michael Berry Show
quite a lot of drum in Harris County between the
whites and the minorities. Within the Democrat Party. It has
created quite the rift the white lesbians on one side
with the older white conservative Democrat against the minorities. Or
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you could simply define it as Rodney Ella's versus Jan Whitmyer,
which I knew was going to play out exactly as
it has. Lena Adalgo has entered the fray with her
Crai cray ass, which always adds to the fun. We'll
get to that in just a moment, but first, a
lot of people been very critical of Donald Trump because
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of a truth social post put up let's call it
a tweet. It's easier, so he puts up a tweet.
A tweet, mind you. I feel like Alan Iverson is
practice man practice. We talk about practice, practice, We talked
about practice. I think he would go on to win
the MVP of the League that year. We're talking about
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a tweet, not a speech to the United Nations, not
the State of the Union, a tweet. It's always bothered
me how righteous people get that when a public person
makes an offhanded remark during an interview, during a broadcast,
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people love to say, Oh, he shouldn't have said that.
Have you never said anything that if played before an audience,
you wouldn't be embarrassed by Hand me your phone right now,
give me ten minutes, I can start scrolling text messages.
I guarantee you told an off color joke. Guaranteed. I
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bet you've made a statement that you couldn't stand behind,
and you go, oh, man, I was just out of it.
Well no, no, Well, Michael, he's the president. That's so stupid.
You think you stopped being a person. Rob Reiner's been
kicking him in the nuts for ten years. Rob Reiner
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was behind an organization with Clapper and Brennan that were
meeting to depose him. They overturned the twenty twenty election.
Rob Reiner wasn't just meathead. Why don't you learn what
the man was actually doing? But Michael, I feel so
bad his son killed him. Would you feel bad if
Hitler's son killed him? Would you feel bad if Osama
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ban Lauden's son killed him? Well this is different, is it?
Why is it okay to hate assamb bin Laden, to
gloat in his death. Tell me you didn't think when
you learned we got him that you hope he suffered.
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Tell me you haven't ever thought to yourself the only
good thing Hitler ever did was kill Hitler. Nobody says, well,
that's not right. He died down there in that bunker
with the woman he loved. You don't have to approve
of what Trump says. Do you understand that you and
Trump are not friends, you didn't write his letter of
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recommendation to get hired at your company. But I voted
for him, and I told people to vote for him.
I doubt anybody voted for him because you said too,
I really do. And if they did, just say, yeah,
guess what. He's imperfect. Turns out when they keep kicking
him while he's down, he takes some of it. Person
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You love everything about Donald Trump that.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Is not like you.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
You love the grit, You love the fire in the belly.
You love that thing you cannot understand because you don't
have it and I don't have it, and nobody else
has it. You love that about him until you don't.
You can step back and admire that. Bill Belichick's probably
the greatest NFL coach, certainly most successful in all of history,
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with a run we've never seen before, we'll never see again.
You seen him after the games. He's never smiling, but now,
well he how come he can't just be happy after
the super Bowl because it's what you would have done,
because you keep projecting your personality on him. How come
after Belichick wins the super Bowl? How come he can't
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just be happy for once because he's not like you?
How come you can't? How come you can't win approaching
ten super Bowls? That's wrong with you? Why can't you
do that? Why can't you my old team after team,
as they keep pulling away the core parts and his
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coaching staff, why can't you do that? And when super Bowls?
Why can't anybody else? For the very reason, he can't
hug or smile with his players after he wins it
all because his warped mind has immediately started going into
game film review for next season while he's standing on
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the field and the confetti's coming down. How come Nick Saban,
even after they win, has to be so angry and
yell at people? How Come Nick Saban is Nick Saban?
You're not Nick Saban? How come you with your small
mind can't grasp how different he is? Do you think
you understand Trump? Do you really think you understand Trump?
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Do you do you think you understand what drives a
man to go through what he's gone? We live simple lives.
We try to balance our checkbook or our online bank statement.
We try to have more on the ledger than we owe.
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We try to squirrel away a little money for retirement.
We try to keep our marriages together, keep our kids
between the lines, try to do a pretty good job
at work, Try to be a pretty agreeable person, not
be crazy. Occasionally twist one off and hope we don't
get arrested for it. Mouth off, but not too much.
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Have a clever saying here and there, do something nice
here and there. That's our lives and that's good. It's
what we should be doing. That's what the mass of
men do. But don't think you can understand Trump. Don't
think you can understand them motivations of a man to
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go through what he's been through and get back up
the next day, especially not when once a week, I'm
under attack. What happened? Are you okay?
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Is?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Did they get you? They wound you? They they did
the nice to go knee cut an arm off? No, no,
but I'm under attack. It's just crazy what happened. I
posted Merry Christmas on our company site, and I've got
people on there saying that that's triggered down and they're offending,
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and they're gonna protest us, and they're talking about uh,
they're never coming back, and they're gonna tell every they're
gonna give bad reviews. I'm under attack. You're you're what buckup, buttercup.
I think you'll be okay, And you think you can
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pass judgment on what Donald Trump should say when a
man who horribly terroristed him. It isn't just what Rob
Reiner said, he created an organization to do. He called
him a traitor. It's a felony punishable by death. This
man said the worst possible things of Trump and worked
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with Clapper and Britain and the CIA. Trump knows stuff
you'll never know, ohe But he was impolite when he died. Yeah,
and you know what, you're not mature enough to understand
what it takes to be a warrior. How about that?
You still bothered our marines pissed on the guy that
killed their buddy.
Speaker 7 (24:34):
Now Tana side were the adversary?
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Is but a scratch? A scratch?
Speaker 4 (24:38):
The arms off now, isn't? Well? What's that?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Then?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
I had worse? Come on, you, pansy.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
Victory is mine. We thank thee Lord did in thy mother?
Come on then, what you ain't We need briefs tonight?
But the fight is mine. Oh, I don't look just
to be bastard. You've got the arms left, yes I have?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Look's just a fishwood look, stop thatch against chicken. I'll
have your leg right.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Right, I'll do you for that. You know, what can you?
Speaker 1 (25:21):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Plead on me?
Speaker 1 (25:23):
I mean all you're a looney. Reports are that the
state of California will seek the death penalty against Nick Reiner. Hmm,
well let me dare not question that or criticize that
on behalf of the families of all the victims for
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whom the state did not seek the death penalty when
their loved one was lost. But then again, even most conservatives,
when you get right down to it, have a weakness
for celebrity. Rob Reiner should be treated with respect. He's
a celebrity. Because if I don't believe that, then people
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will be right. I was mean, a mean old conservative.
What do you think they're gonna do when Trump dies?
Because they're going to dance on his grave. How about
Kathy Griffin when she posed for a picture holding what
looked like his head, blood dripping down and she'd just
cut it off. Did you see Democrats rush to call
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for her to apologize. Oh but she's not President. Michael,
good grief to you? Hear yourself so desperately craving their approval.
Deep down, you believe the criticisms against not just Trump,
but you it's more important to be polite. That's the
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problem with our side. That's how we got overwhelmed with
the legal aliens as a concept. Academically, we wanted the
border closed, but we didn't want anybody actually extracted and removed.
As a concept, we want criminals prosecuted and thrown in
a cage until one of them has a mama who's
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begging for her boy not to go to prison after
he's committed horrible, heinous crimes. We're weak, what it comes
down to. We are weak. Trump's not. That's the difference.
How many Republicans have we had? We got war on drugs,
all right, war on drugs. We got a lot of weaponry.
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Let's start dropping bombs targeting the narco terrorist boats that
are coming here to kill our kids with drugs. Well,
let's not do that. I said what I said, war
on drugs. I meant, you know, euphemistically, you know, I
was using big language. I didn't really mean it mean
it like that.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
That's that's very strong state there. Let's let let's not
go back to that. That that's too much Flashback twenty
twenty one clip six oh one ramon the television showed
the view the day after rush Limbaugh died.
Speaker 8 (28:15):
He just normalized hatred, He normalized racism, and you know,
I think he really weaponized white male grievance. And you know,
he sort of hardened these like rural white listeners, people
you know, sitting in their trucks in the middle of
America and in the South, and you know, listening to
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rush Limbaugh, this wasn't someone who was a nice person.
This is someone that spewed racism and hatred. Yet he
is now considered, I guess, the most an influential person
in building the modern Republican Party and conservatism.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
To me, that is not something to be proud.
Speaker 9 (28:54):
Any people are mourning the loss of him today and
many are not. And I it was not a fan
at all of Rush Limbaugh. I think he paved the
way for political extremism and pushed baseless claims. He was
the beginning of conspiracy theories. He was like the predecessor
to the Alex Jones. Is a lot of the things
we're seeing that we don't like now. He in a
sense kind of bastardized the party in a way, because
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I know there are conservative ideals that Sonny was referencing,
and we're you know, many of us are saying, please
speak up and represent those because I don't like to
even think of him as representing Republicans or conservatives. He
represents very extreme views. He said a ton of despicable
things that we could never We don't even have enough
time on one show to cover this stuff. Is just
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I have a visceral reaction to so many of his words.
But the first thing that ran through my head when
I saw the news was, now, it's judgment day at
the end of our lives.
Speaker 7 (29:46):
It's just us.
Speaker 9 (29:47):
Answering for everything we did, who we were, what we said,
and how we treated people. And so now judgment day
has arrived for Rush Limba.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I'm hoping that his legacy will be the return of
the Fairness Doctrine. The Fairness Doctrine.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Required that stations on air to air contrasting responsible views
on important issues at the threat of losing their license.
I think that Trump actually learned to talk the way
Rush talked. He thought it would they all think they're funny. Also,
Rush used to think he was a comedian. Trump thinks
he's hilarious when he's out there with his Trump bites,
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you know, loving everything he says. I think that there's
a direct connection between Rush Limbaugh and Donald Trump and where.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
We are today.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
They go on the air and they few their hatred,
their prejudices, their lives, as did Rush Limbaugh for the
Almighty Dollar, and they fool Americans into believing that they
are authentic.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
They are not authentic. How do you think Catherine felt
hearing that none of these people who've rushed to condemn
Donald Trump, including all the Republicans, rushed to condemn the view.
None of them. They hate you. Spend ten minutes go
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look up what Rob Reiner said, not just about Trump,
but about you. You represent the breeders, the middle Americans,
the losers, the racists, the inbreads. You are evil and
you are awful. And he hated you, and he said
so well, Michael, I understand that. But still the man
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is dead. Rush Limbo is dead. Did it stop them?
Which part about cultural war? Do you not understand? There's
going to come a point where you're going to understand
that these people will cut your throat, they will take
your business, They will get you fired for not taking
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their shot. They will get you canceled for not using
the word they've created for the last week, and you,
the whole while will be kissing their ass because you
are so afraid that they will be right, that you
are a bad person, because deep down you have doubts
they're so damn good that deep down you're not sure
if you're as bad as they paint you to be.
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And you're struggling with that daily. So as long as
when Rob Reiner dies you can say I disagreed with
him viscerally, I'll tell you, but nobody should die at
the hands of their son who took drugs that Donald
Trump was trying to keep out of it.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Wait,
It's that time time, time, luck and load. So Michael
Berry Show is on the air. Good morning, Michael Berry.
I heard you were traplic for Christmas, but no, you
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can stay in that to use my bathroom. Good morning,
Michael Berry. It's Center Hope you've been good this year.
Good morning, Michael Berry. This is seton Connery. Heard you
at a Christmas party last night, Betty, I wasn't invited.
Good morning, Michael Berry.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I'm all jacked up on Christmas cookies and candy canes.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Good morning, Michaelberry. How you learned? Did I read it
to my money?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Good morning, listen to this. Good morning, your car, Good Marny.
Texas is on his death and we're happy to be
here to talk about everything.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Good morning, We're not wearing past.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Good morning Texas, Good Barty, Texas, Good Bury, Texes.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Good morning, Wake up District gone damn.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Well.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
A little moment from my childhood. But Rogers the twenty
first century gilled Gil Girard has passed at the age
of eighty two.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
In the year in nineteen eighty seven, NASA launched the
last of America's deep space prose aboard this combat starship
alone astronaut Captain William buck Rogers was to experience cosmic
forses beyond all comprehension. In a pre mishap, his life
support systems were frozen by temperatures beyond imagination. Ringer three
(02:16):
was rolled out of its playing projectory into an orbit
one thousand times more vast, the orbit which was to
return buck Rogers to Earth fire one hundred years later.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Ramona, I just had a moment from my childhood. I
never realized the show ran from seventy nine to eighty one.
I never realized it was buck Rogers in the twenty
fifth century. I thought it was buck Rogers and the
twenty first century. Wow, don't fault me. I was only
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nine years old. Gil Gerard wrote a message prior to
his death that his wife posted on Facebook, saying, my
life has been an amazing journey. The opportunities I've had,
the people I've met, the love I have given and
received have made my eighty two years on the planet
deeply satisfying. Variety magazine wrote. Girard's death was confirmed by
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his wife Janet in a Facebook post Tuesday evening. Quote,
early this morning, gil my soulmate lost his fight with
a rare and viciously aggressive form of cancer, from the
moment when we knew something was wrong to his death.
This morning was only a few days. No matter how
many years I got to spend with him, it would
have never been enough. Hold the ones you have tight
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and love them fiercely. Gerard also released his own statement
on Facebook Tuesday night, which he asked his wife to
share after he died. My wife has been an amazing journey.
The opportunities I've had to people I've met, and the
love I have given and received have made my eighty
two years on this planet deeply satisfying. My journey has
taken me from Arkansas, to New York, to la and
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finally to my home in North Georgia with my amazing wife,
Janet of eighteen years. It's been a great ride, but
inevitably one that comes to a close, as mine has.
Don't waste your time on anything that doesn't thrill you
or bring you love. See you out here somewhere in
the cosmos, Variety magazine notes. Buck Rogers in the twenty
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first Century ran for two seasons from seventy nine to
eighty one. The show, based on the character created by
Philip frantzs Nolan in nineteen twenty eight, was first adapted
as a made for TV movie, which grows to twenty
one million dollars and it's nineteen seventy nine theatrical debut.
Universal and NBC quickly began work on a weekly sci
(04:56):
fi series. Later that same year, the film was split
in half for a two part series premiere. Buck Rogers
followed Gerard as Captain William buck Rogers, a twentieth century
astronaut who was frozen in space for five hundred and
four years and wakes up in the year twenty four
ninety one, just a few short years away. Give me
(05:18):
the theme song again at pus Men, a good spot.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
In the year.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
In nineteen eighty seven, NASA launched the last of America's
deep space probes. Aboard this compact starship, a long astronaut,
Captain William buck Rodgers was to experience cosmic courses beyond
all comprehension. In a freak mishap, his life support systems
were frozen by temperatures beyond imagination. Ranger three was blown
(05:46):
out of its planned projectory into an orbit one thousand
times more events and orbit which was to.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Return buck Rogers to Earth.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
And five, one hundred years later, the.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Primary winner continues to show Ken Paxton in first, Wesley
Hunt in second, and John Cornyn in third, despite the
fact that they have spent some reports that I'm getting
out of DC or that they have spent seventy seven
zero million dollars. The more they spend, the further behind
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they fall. I think, I honestly believe when people see
his face, they forget they don't like him, and they
remember they don't like him. They had forgotten they don't
like him. And then he does the BUCkies bit, and
then he panders, and then he makes claims that aren't true.
The more he attacks the other guys, the worse it gets.
(06:55):
And then when Wesley Hunt entered the race, he couldn't
just attack Ken Paxton. Now he had to attack Wesley Hunt.
And when Hunt first entered the race, he really went
hard at Hunt. I mean, said some really nasty things
that now apparently have turned out to be quite embarrassing
for the DC crowd. The National Republican Senatorial Committee's Director
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or PR director, works for Senator Tim Scott, and she
she made a comment that black people will make about
black people, but you rarely hear anybody other than me
say about black people as a joke. It didn't come
off well. And now Tim Scott is getting some blowback,
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and it has emerged that Tim Scott's trying to protect
his buddy John Cornyn in the good Old Boys Club.
It has also been made clear that all of this
money is being spent to try to tell Texans who
to elect in a Republican primary. This is money that
is given by Republican donors to keep a Republican majority.
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We're fifty one to forty nine right now with two
of them really really squish. This is money that was
given to keep a Republican majority in the Senate, and
they're squandering it all in an internacine, inter party Republican race.
It's a terrible, terrible look for John Cormyn. What a legacy,
What a loser show. President Trump announced yesterday he will
(08:31):
be delivering an addressed to the Nation tonight at eight
pm Central. The subject has not been revealed. There is
speculation as to a number of things, but that is
tonight at eight pm Central. We'll talk later in the show.
(08:52):
President Trump's chief of Staff Kathy Wiley, gave an amazing
amount of access to vanity fair, and they wrote an
article that is absolutely scathing toward the administration. Kathy Wiles
is now saying she was taken out of context. It
wasn't fair press, the Press secretary saying that there are
(09:19):
errors by omission, and anybody who's been around the process
is simply saying, why on earth did you do that?
Why did you sit down with a dog? And are
you surprised you got up with fleas? This is ridiculous.
There is a desperate need for every conservative, for every Republican,
(09:42):
a desperate need to be considered nice, to be considered
part of the group, to fit in with the liberal media.
Last night, I did something that is a fool's errand
but I did it anyway. I spent an hour plus
an extra sec trying to explain President Trump's mindset with
(10:04):
regard to Rob Reiner. Well, there are a lot of
people who are stupid and nuances beyond them. As you
defending it, you're defending it as I talk. You're defending it.
You're not PopEd to defend it. You're not poping day
thing like that about somebody when they died. So you
realize you'll never get through to that person. The important
(10:26):
thing to remember. I didn't say that what Trump said
was right or wrong. Doesn't matter. I don't care. I
don't pass judgment on whether what he says is right
or wrong. And I also don't feel the need to
run to social media and announce I love Trump, but
I don't like that one thing he said about Rob
(10:47):
Ryin or y'all.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
I'm a good person, Okay. I'm not racist, nor misogynist,
nor transphobic. R's nphobic or nothing. Okay, y'all got me
on the record. Y'all got me on the record. I
don't agree with the president. Okay, you got me.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I just want to get that in because I don't
anybody think I'm mean or nothing. Why are people so eager,
so keen to put themselves on the record as if
as if there's a vote on the matter. You don't
have to endorse everything Donald Trump says or does. What
makes you think you do? Except you do, and you
know you do, because that's what the liberal media and
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the Democrats do to you. They force you into every
time Trump does something that's supposedly controversial, that you have
to run and say I don't agree with that, Okay, Okay,
don't get me in trouble. I'm not a bad person.
Because the who's a nice guy and who's a bad
guy games are what wins elections for Democrats, I'll remind you.
(11:43):
In twenty twelve, they did an exit poll on election day,
the afternoon of the election. It was Mitt Romney versus
Barack Obama. Barack Obama was underwater. It was the worst
polling for a sitting president since polling had begun, and
there were two questions that were asked, who do you
(12:04):
think can most fix the economy? Romney won something like
fifty five five, fifty eight, forty two. It was big.
That should have been enough to win the election. Very unpopular.
Barack Obama November twenty twelve, very unpopular. However, the second
question flipped the other direction. Who would you most want
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to have a beer with? Nobody want to have a
beer with Mitt Romney. He's not a nice guy. Barack
Obama's cool. He's a good dude. And the cool vibe
was carefully calculated. That was by design. Oh, he'd walk
past the basketball court like he was Steph Curry. He
would growl, he would drain it. Oh, I look at it.
He gains May cool. He liked Billy Dee Williams. Remember
(12:49):
that line. It was people on CNN talking this way.
He just defined cool. Barack Obama's cool. He's a good guy.
He might make some mistakes, he might be in over
his head. We might have some honest disagreement, but he cool.
Billy d Williams cool, No Jerry Curls, but cool man
(13:10):
Brock Obama cool. It's very important for the Democrats to
portray you and your president is uncool, uncouth, crass, crude.
You wouldn't want to have him over, You wouldt to
be seen with him. You don't want to have to
defend him because at any moment he may say something
that's impolite, it's uncivilizing. We don't want the kids to
(13:32):
learn from that. All the while, Joe Biden selling the
country to the Chinese through his son, the crackhead, his
own his own little Nick Reiner selling the country through
his own little nick ner crackhead son. But as long
as nobody says he's mean or crass or impolite, nobody
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feels the need to jump up and say I'm a Democrat,
I'm not with Biden. Because they smile while they're knifeing you,
they smile. And I made the point as I believe
that Donald Trump has been subjected to things that the
average American can't understand. And just like a professional boxer
(14:17):
or athlete or many people warrior in battle, you don't
get to turn Donald Trump on and off with a button.
The man who can get shot in the head and
get up and say fight, fight, fight, when the rest
of us would not. The man who can be indicted
over thirty times. The man who, now we find out
(14:39):
yesterday the Department of Justice reveals memos. Even the Biden
White House knew that there was not sufficient evidentiary standards
to raid Marlago, but they did it anyway. And yet
you haven't had your wife's panty drawers raided. You even't
had your home invader. You haven't been dragged a court
(15:03):
in Florida, Atlanta, d C. New York. You haven't had
to collateralize your entire business with cash. You don't keep
around because it's an illiquid business. Because fat Tish, who
herself is engaged in mortgage fraud, accuses you of mortgage fraud.
You haven't had the number three at the Department of
Justice dispatched to New York so that double Ard District
(15:25):
attorney could bring charges against you. Yeah, those were separate.
You haven't had that happen to you. Oh but Michael,
he's dead and we ought not saying thing but nice things.
If you can't say something nice and don't say nothing
at all, you wouldn't last a minute in that game.
He lives it every day. I'm just grateful that Donald
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Trump it's willing to fight for us. He gave it
all up Michael to fight for us. Okay, well, some
of his fighting is he's bitter and angry and resentful
and lashes out. I wish you wouldn't do that. That's
too far. I don't want to do that. That's not nice.
I don't know why I needed to say that, you've
(16:11):
got Cornpop was a bad dude. The Michael Berry Show
quite a lot of drum in Harris County between the
whites and the minorities. Within the Democrat Party. It has
created quite the rift the white lesbians on one side
with the older white conservative Democrat against the minorities. Or
(16:35):
you could simply define it as Rodney Ella's versus Jan Whitmyer,
which I knew was going to play out exactly as
it has. Lena Adalgo has entered the fray with her
Crai cray ass, which always adds to the fun. We'll
get to that in just a moment, but first, a
lot of people been very critical of Donald Trump because
(16:58):
of a truth social post put up let's call it
a tweet. It's easier, so he puts up a tweet.
A tweet, mind you. I feel like Alan Iverson is
practice man practice. We talk about practice, practice, We talked
about practice. I think he would go on to win
the MVP of the League that year. We're talking about
(17:18):
a tweet, not a speech to the United Nations, not
the State of the Union, a tweet. It's always bothered
me how righteous people get that when a public person
makes an offhanded remark during an interview, during a broadcast,
(17:42):
people love to say, Oh, he shouldn't have said that.
Have you never said anything that if played before an audience,
you wouldn't be embarrassed by Hand me your phone right now,
give me ten minutes, I can start scrolling text messages.
I guarantee you told an off color joke. Guaranteed. I
(18:08):
bet you've made a statement that you couldn't stand behind,
and you go, oh, man, I was just out of it.
Well no, no, Well, Michael, he's the president. That's so stupid.
You think you stopped being a person. Rob Reiner's been
kicking him in the nuts for ten years. Rob Reiner
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was behind an organization with Clapper and Brennan that were
meeting to depose him. They overturned the twenty twenty election.
Rob Reiner wasn't just meathead. Why don't you learn what
the man was actually doing? But Michael, I feel so
bad his son killed him. Would you feel bad if
Hitler's son killed him? Would you feel bad if Osama
(18:55):
ban Lauden's son killed him? Well this is different, is it?
Why is it okay to hate assamb bin Laden, to
gloat in his death. Tell me you didn't think when
you learned we got him that you hope he suffered.
(19:17):
Tell me you haven't ever thought to yourself the only
good thing Hitler ever did was kill Hitler. Nobody says, well,
that's not right. He died down there in that bunker
with the woman he loved. You don't have to approve
of what Trump says. Do you understand that you and
Trump are not friends, you didn't write his letter of
(19:41):
recommendation to get hired at your company. But I voted
for him, and I told people to vote for him.
I doubt anybody voted for him because you said too,
I really do. And if they did, just say, yeah,
guess what. He's imperfect. Turns out when they keep kicking
him while he's down, he takes some of it. Person
(20:02):
You love everything about Donald Trump that.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Is not like you.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
You love the grit, You love the fire in the belly.
You love that thing you cannot understand because you don't
have it and I don't have it, and nobody else
has it. You love that about him until you don't.
You can step back and admire that. Bill Belichick's probably
the greatest NFL coach, certainly most successful in all of history,
(20:26):
with a run we've never seen before, we'll never see again.
You seen him after the games. He's never smiling, but now,
well he how come he can't just be happy after
the super Bowl because it's what you would have done,
because you keep projecting your personality on him. How come
after Belichick wins the super Bowl? How come he can't
(20:47):
just be happy for once because he's not like you?
How come you can't? How come you can't win approaching
ten super Bowls? That's wrong with you? Why can't you
do that? Why can't you my old team after team,
as they keep pulling away the core parts and his
(21:07):
coaching staff, why can't you do that? And when super Bowls?
Why can't anybody else? For the very reason, he can't
hug or smile with his players after he wins it
all because his warped mind has immediately started going into
game film review for next season while he's standing on
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the field and the confetti's coming down. How come Nick Saban,
even after they win, has to be so angry and
yell at people? How Come Nick Saban is Nick Saban?
You're not Nick Saban? How come you with your small
mind can't grasp how different he is? Do you think
you understand Trump? Do you really think you understand Trump?
(21:53):
Do you do you think you understand what drives a
man to go through what he's gone? We live simple lives.
We try to balance our checkbook or our online bank statement.
We try to have more on the ledger than we owe.
(22:14):
We try to squirrel away a little money for retirement.
We try to keep our marriages together, keep our kids
between the lines, try to do a pretty good job
at work, Try to be a pretty agreeable person, not
be crazy. Occasionally twist one off and hope we don't
get arrested for it. Mouth off, but not too much.
(22:41):
Have a clever saying here and there, do something nice
here and there. That's our lives and that's good. It's
what we should be doing. That's what the mass of
men do. But don't think you can understand Trump. Don't
think you can understand them motivations of a man to
(23:02):
go through what he's been through and get back up
the next day, especially not when once a week, I'm
under attack. What happened? Are you okay?
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Is?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Did they get you? They wound you? They they did
the nice to go knee cut an arm off? No, no,
but I'm under attack. It's just crazy what happened. I
posted Merry Christmas on our company site, and I've got
people on there saying that that's triggered down and they're offending,
(23:34):
and they're gonna protest us, and they're talking about uh,
they're never coming back, and they're gonna tell every they're
gonna give bad reviews. I'm under attack. You're you're what buckup, buttercup.
I think you'll be okay, And you think you can
(23:55):
pass judgment on what Donald Trump should say when a
man who horribly terroristed him. It isn't just what Rob
Reiner said, he created an organization to do. He called
him a traitor. It's a felony punishable by death. This
man said the worst possible things of Trump and worked
(24:17):
with Clapper and Britain and the CIA. Trump knows stuff
you'll never know, ohe But he was impolite when he died. Yeah,
and you know what, you're not mature enough to understand
what it takes to be a warrior. How about that?
You still bothered our marines pissed on the guy that
killed their buddy.
Speaker 7 (24:34):
Now Tana side were the adversary?
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Is but a scratch? A scratch?
Speaker 4 (24:38):
The arms off now, isn't? Well? What's that?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Then?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
I had worse? Come on, you, pansy.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
Victory is mine. We thank thee Lord did in thy mother?
Come on then, what you ain't We need briefs tonight?
But the fight is mine. Oh, I don't look just
to be bastard. You've got the arms left, yes I have?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Look's just a fishwood look, stop thatch against chicken. I'll
have your leg right.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Right, I'll do you for that. You know, what can you?
Speaker 1 (25:21):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Plead on me?
Speaker 1 (25:23):
I mean all you're a looney. Reports are that the
state of California will seek the death penalty against Nick Reiner. Hmm,
well let me dare not question that or criticize that
on behalf of the families of all the victims for
(25:45):
whom the state did not seek the death penalty when
their loved one was lost. But then again, even most conservatives,
when you get right down to it, have a weakness
for celebrity. Rob Reiner should be treated with respect. He's
a celebrity. Because if I don't believe that, then people
(26:08):
will be right. I was mean, a mean old conservative.
What do you think they're gonna do when Trump dies?
Because they're going to dance on his grave. How about
Kathy Griffin when she posed for a picture holding what
looked like his head, blood dripping down and she'd just
cut it off. Did you see Democrats rush to call
(26:32):
for her to apologize. Oh but she's not President. Michael,
good grief to you? Hear yourself so desperately craving their approval.
Deep down, you believe the criticisms against not just Trump,
but you it's more important to be polite. That's the
(26:55):
problem with our side. That's how we got overwhelmed with
the legal aliens as a concept. Academically, we wanted the
border closed, but we didn't want anybody actually extracted and removed.
As a concept, we want criminals prosecuted and thrown in
a cage until one of them has a mama who's
(27:16):
begging for her boy not to go to prison after
he's committed horrible, heinous crimes. We're weak, what it comes
down to. We are weak. Trump's not. That's the difference.
How many Republicans have we had? We got war on drugs,
all right, war on drugs. We got a lot of weaponry.
(27:37):
Let's start dropping bombs targeting the narco terrorist boats that
are coming here to kill our kids with drugs. Well,
let's not do that. I said what I said, war
on drugs. I meant, you know, euphemistically, you know, I
was using big language. I didn't really mean it mean
it like that.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
That's that's very strong state there. Let's let let's not
go back to that. That that's too much Flashback twenty
twenty one clip six oh one ramon the television showed
the view the day after rush Limbaugh died.
Speaker 8 (28:15):
He just normalized hatred, He normalized racism, and you know,
I think he really weaponized white male grievance. And you know,
he sort of hardened these like rural white listeners, people
you know, sitting in their trucks in the middle of
America and in the South, and you know, listening to
(28:35):
rush Limbaugh, this wasn't someone who was a nice person.
This is someone that spewed racism and hatred. Yet he
is now considered, I guess, the most an influential person
in building the modern Republican Party and conservatism.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
To me, that is not something to be proud.
Speaker 9 (28:54):
Any people are mourning the loss of him today and
many are not. And I it was not a fan
at all of Rush Limbaugh. I think he paved the
way for political extremism and pushed baseless claims. He was
the beginning of conspiracy theories. He was like the predecessor
to the Alex Jones. Is a lot of the things
we're seeing that we don't like now. He in a
sense kind of bastardized the party in a way, because
(29:17):
I know there are conservative ideals that Sonny was referencing,
and we're you know, many of us are saying, please
speak up and represent those because I don't like to
even think of him as representing Republicans or conservatives. He
represents very extreme views. He said a ton of despicable
things that we could never We don't even have enough
time on one show to cover this stuff. Is just
(29:38):
I have a visceral reaction to so many of his words.
But the first thing that ran through my head when
I saw the news was, now, it's judgment day at
the end of our lives.
Speaker 7 (29:46):
It's just us.
Speaker 9 (29:47):
Answering for everything we did, who we were, what we said,
and how we treated people. And so now judgment day
has arrived for Rush Limba.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I'm hoping that his legacy will be the return of
the Fairness Doctrine. The Fairness Doctrine.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Required that stations on air to air contrasting responsible views
on important issues at the threat of losing their license.
I think that Trump actually learned to talk the way
Rush talked. He thought it would they all think they're funny. Also,
Rush used to think he was a comedian. Trump thinks
he's hilarious when he's out there with his Trump bites,
(30:26):
you know, loving everything he says. I think that there's
a direct connection between Rush Limbaugh and Donald Trump and where.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
We are today.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
They go on the air and they few their hatred,
their prejudices, their lives, as did Rush Limbaugh for the
Almighty Dollar, and they fool Americans into believing that they
are authentic.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
They are not authentic. How do you think Catherine felt
hearing that none of these people who've rushed to condemn
Donald Trump, including all the Republicans, rushed to condemn the view.
None of them. They hate you. Spend ten minutes go
(31:09):
look up what Rob Reiner said, not just about Trump,
but about you. You represent the breeders, the middle Americans,
the losers, the racists, the inbreads. You are evil and
you are awful. And he hated you, and he said
so well, Michael, I understand that. But still the man
(31:30):
is dead. Rush Limbo is dead. Did it stop them?
Which part about cultural war? Do you not understand? There's
going to come a point where you're going to understand
that these people will cut your throat, they will take
your business, They will get you fired for not taking
(31:51):
their shot. They will get you canceled for not using
the word they've created for the last week, and you,
the whole while will be kissing their ass because you
are so afraid that they will be right, that you
are a bad person, because deep down you have doubts
they're so damn good that deep down you're not sure
if you're as bad as they paint you to be.
(32:13):
And you're struggling with that daily. So as long as
when Rob Reiner dies you can say I disagreed with
him viscerally, I'll tell you, but nobody should die at
the hands of their son who took drugs that Donald
Trump was trying to keep out of it.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
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