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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's that time. Time, time, luck and load. The Michael
Varie Show.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
President Trump spoke to the nation last night in an
eighteen minute address at primetime, and you know it was
an absolute home run because the media isn't covering it.
Here was perhaps the biggest statement of the night, something
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that Democrats and Republicans said could never be done. He
did it. He said he would do it, and he
did it. Clip five oh one, please remote.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
A major factor in driving up housing costs was the
colossal border invasion.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
We have never been invaded.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
This is the worst thing that Frankly, in my opinion,
the worst thing that the Biden administration did to our
country is the invasion at the border. The last administration
and their allies in Congress brought in millions and millions
of migrants and gave them taxpayer funded housing while your
rent and housing costs chirocketed over sixty percent of growth
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and the rental market came from foreign migrants. At the
same time, illegal aliens soul American jobs and flooded emergency rooms,
getting free health care and education paid for by you.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
The American taxpayer.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
They also increased the costs of law enforcement by numbers
so high that they are not even to be mentioned.
For the first time in fifty years, we are now
seeing reverse migration as migrants go back home, leaving more
housing and more jobs for Americans. In the year before
my election, all net creation of jobs was going to
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foreign migrants.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Since I took office.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
One hundred percent of all net job creation has gone
to American born citizens.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
One hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
That's called America First. I'm going to play that clip
in every segment tonight. Let me tell you why, because
people are coming and going. You might be on your
way into the officer home and we might get to
the end of a segment and you get out and
you go in, or you're not listening for whatever reason,
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because life gets in the way. I want to make
sure every single person here's what he just said. And
the reason is because people are disillusioned. They're not disillusioned
with Democrats. We know who the Democrats are. It's like
the Dinny Green comment after their team after the Cardinals
lost and should have won. We know who the Democrats are.
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They tell us who they are. We don't doubt that
they show us who they are. People are disillusioned because
of the Republicans making promises. They don't keep a guy
like John Cornyn, who's worked against Trump at every turn,
complete swamp monster, gets to DC and works against everything
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we stand for, and then every six years comes in
with loads of cash that the establishment has given him,
the swamp has given him, to pour it on people
and hope they're not paying attention and tell them what
a good guy he is, and he shares your values,
and then claim that his position on every major issue
is exactly what he's done. I mean, it is not
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the exact opposite of what he's done. And so he
comes back and says he's for acts when the whole
time he's been for why And it's just it's it's infuriating.
It is absolutely infuriating. The next clip from last night's
speech by our president, he said that we are governed
by politicians who prioritize only the interests of insiders. Boy,
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you ever see this happens, by the way, this is
what's happened to our schools. You've got school districts where
the leadership is just self dealing. The kids are ancillary,
They don't care anything about the kids, anything to do
with the kids. It's all about how we can get
more money for ourselves as a superintendent and as a
principal and assistant principal. You see this in organizations. You
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see it sometimes in businesses where the leadership is at
a site separate from where the work is being done.
Do you know what Elon Musk did. It's pretty amazing.
He put a desk a table next to the floor,
the manufacturing floor where the teslas were being made. And
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then he brought in a pillow and a what do
you call the thing.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
That if you camp out, it's to you zip it
up and you get inside it. No, no, no, sleeping bag.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
He brought a sleeping bag and a pillow and he
would stay there twenty four hours a day.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
You think that didn't motivate people.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
He moved the engineers away from the office building where
they were and he put them right next to the floor,
and the engineers hated it.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
And the reason he did it.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Is if the guy who was making a part, if
that part didn't work, he.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Knows better than anybody that the part doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
So now he can walk over and say, hey, Einstein,
can you come over here?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
This doesn't work? Is there a way you.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Can shave this down, or way you can design this
piece differently. That's how things get done well. Our government
complete self dealing insiders.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I was elected in a landslide, winning the popular vote
and all seven swing states and everything else, with a
mandate to take on a sick and corrupt system that
extra really just took the wealth from people and crushed
the dreams of the American people.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
For the last four years.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
The United States was ruled by politicians who fought only
for insiders, illegal aliens, career criminals, corporate lobbyists, prisoners, terrorists,
and above all, foreign nations which took advantage of US
at levels never seen before. They flooded your cities and
towns with illegal aliens, They decimated your hard earned savings.
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They indoctrinated your children with hate for America. Released really,
I mean, they just released a level of violent felons
that we had never seen to prey on innocent They
caused war, They caused Mayam, They caused a horrible situation.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
All over the glow.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
But now you have a president who fights for the
law abiding, hard working people of our country, the ones
who make this nation run, who make this nation work.
And after just one year we have achieved more than
anyone could have imagined.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
That's right, He's right. What he tweets doesn't matter. What
he does does it's making our country better. He is
using the power entrusted to him to do things that
make our lives better. You would think there would be
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an outpouring of support, whereas Barack Obama did the exact opposite,
and all we heard was how great he was because
he was black. The media doesn't want to tell you
what Donald Trump is doing. I'm not a Trump humper.
I wasn't for Trump in sixteen. I never thought he'd
be a good president. I thought he'd be terrible. He's
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turned out to be the best president of my lifetime,
no questions asked, Far better than Reagan. President Trump noted
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that Americans have been forced to watch as corrupt, self
dealing politicians plundered the halls of power of this country
that many.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Of you fought for, that all of you treasure and
whole deer to whom you pay.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Taxes to fund a government that they plunder the president.
You know, you think of the addresses given by presidents
to the people, and you get the sense, hey, dude,
are you getting any advice. Are you getting any advice
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from anybody? Because you talk like somebody from another planet.
Nobody identifies with what you're talking about. Do you understand
that what he's talking about right here? I've never heard
of president talk on this level.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
This is the kind of.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Stuff that real people that work at a chemical plant
or drive a truck or any number of other jobs
that DC looks down on. This is what people are
talking about at the dinner table. This is what real
people think.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
In the end, government either serves.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
The productive, patriotic, hard working an American citizen, or it service
those who break the laws, cheat the system, and seek
power and profit at the expense of our nation. Look
at Minnesota, where some millions have taken over the economics
of the state and have stolen billions and billions of
dollars from Minnesota and indeed from the United States of American.
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We're going to put an end to it. For so
long as before my election, the vast majority of good
and decent Americans were forced to watch as corrupt politician
plundered the halls of power, exploited our taxpayers, and pillaged
every system that makes civilized society function.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
But not anymore. And you see that every day. Not anymore.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
We're putting America first, and we are making America great again.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Very simple. We are making America great again.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Amen. Amen. Amen.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
It's important to understand that our vision of making America
great again is not shared by Ilhan, Omar Aoc or
Jasmine Crockett. They don't want that America. They don't like
that America. That's the America they came to, but they
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resent it. They don't feel like they fit in. They
don't look like the other people. They don't talk like
the other people, they don't worship like the other people,
they don't act like the other people. So what they
want is a group therapy session where they are told
that the way you act is good. That's what this
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is all about, really, when you get right down to it,
President Trump said what we've always known about the green
energy scam. It was simply an excuse for radical Democrats
to funnel billions of dollars into massive slush funds. They
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could have done that without creating the whole green energy
craft that in our lives, but they didn't, did They
They did it by convincing a lot of low information
people who were do gooders that the earth was on fire,
so give the Democrats money.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Another major focus is the cost of energy. For years,
the radical left Democrats exploited the green energy scam as
an excuse to funnel many billions of dollars into their
own massive slush funds. As their energy restrictions drastically drove
up prices, and they drove them up at record levels.
Electricity cost surge thirty to one hundred percent under Biden,
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and the typical family lost five thousand to ten thousand
dollars in higher energy costs. Think of that five thousand
to ten thousand dollars you lost. On day one, I
declared a national energy emergency. Gasoline is now under two
dollars and fifty cents a gallon in much of the country.
In some states it, by the way, just hit one
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dollar and ninety nine cents a gallon.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
And within the next twelve months, we will have.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Opened one thousand, six hundred new electrical generating plants, a record,
and it's a record that won't be beaten by practically,
I would say, by anybody, or certainly not very soon.
Prices or electricity and everything else will fall dramatically.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
You'd think this speech would be getting more attention, wouldn't you.
You'd think that this would be the sort of thing
that at least Republicans would be trumpeting. But do here's
the problem. They're in on the scam too. They're all
in on it. Some of you will remember years ago,
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there was this deal where it was a federal I
think it was an EPA requirement. When you were pumping gas,
you couldn't put the lock in there so that your
gas would keep pumping, so you could do something else,
usually play on your phone instead of standing there holding
the pump. And supposedly that was you know, we were
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all going to die and the earth was on fire,
and so they required them to take that mechanism off.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
And I don't actually know how it happened.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Somebody got it changed where you don't have to do
that anymore because it turned out that wasn't making a
bit of difference. The gas stations had to pay a
lot of money to take the mechanism off and then
to put it back on because it turns out we
like it. Well, the gas station just passes that cost
on to us. We pay for the regulation. That's what
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I think the low information voter doesn't understand every dollar
a company spends in compliance with regulation, they then have
to pass on to you. People talk about the high
cost of getting buy talk about inflation. One of the
inflationary factors is that businesses have higher costs of input.
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Labor costs more. And these same people bitching about the
high cost of things want every employee to get paid
a minimum wage. That does not make sense. So what
does the company have to do. A company can't stay
in business they lose money. So when the cost of
labor rises, they have to increase the cost of the
product in order to stay in business. So if you
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want to tell them to pay more, pay more for
their employees, you must understand that what you were saying
is I will personally pay your employees more. I'll pay
two dollars more per burger. But people want the company
to pay them more for their burger. Then they don't
want to pay more at the at the cash register
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for the product. Which cognitive dissonance. That for that pig
jump here is easy up and I'll wear that for
what the ditch the Michael Very Show, the Evil can
Evil stunt cycle. One of the things that Trump understands
better than most politicians, is that almost everything he does
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is foreign to the average American. He he negotiated, completed, coaxed, threatened, intimidated,
managed ten piece deals. And the media makes a big deal,
and the counsel on fearm relations makes a big deal,
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and maybe there's a you try to get people excited
about it. But the average guy, the average guy, if
we're honest, and there's nothing wrong with this, is waking
up in the morning to a body that hurts, doesn't
feel as goods it used to, and beginning the day
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staggering into the shower, brushing his teeth, looking in the
mirror at someone he doesn't like as much as he
used to like, because he's getting older. He doesn't he's
losing his hair, he's getting wrinkles, he's getting fatter. This
his life, right, there's wear and tear daily, it's the
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aging process. Then he gets dressed, either in the work
uniform or the suit, which is just a costume for
people in offices. It's no different than what a guy
wears out on a rig or at a mechanic shop.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
And then.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
He has some coffee to wake up and help him
poop ramon that always helps, And then maybe he has
some breakfast, which is usually on the go, never a
meal that he gets to slow down and enjoy. But
all right, he hops in his truck and he starts
hearing all the bad news. And most people never figure
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out it's always going to be bad news. There's never
going to be good news because good news doesn't make
the news.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
It's only going to be bad news.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
So he drives to work and from the moment he
walks in, he starts reacting.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
This has signaled to noise ratio again.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
He starts reacting to the other people's drama, whether it's
the fact that a competitor has dropped prices, or whether
someone brings their letter of resignation in, or if he
is a boss of people, then he's having to deal
with all the children that are his employees and all
of their drama. Who didn't show up to work today.
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Buddy of mine owns restaurants. Matt Rice is his name.
He's in Houston. It's called Federal American Grill, and he
hires very well. He has greatmployees. But they had some
employees got sick, and their rule is if you're sick,
you're not coming into work and getting the patrons, the
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diners sick, so he had several folks out and his
bench wasn't deep enough. So he's back in the back cooking.
When he owns one, two, three, four or fives soon
to be six restaurants. It's not what he wanted to
be doing because he's got issues related to purchasing and
employees and bank meetings and all these sorts of things.
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But he was in the kitchen cooking because that's what
you do if you are an employer. And he wasn't
mad about it. In fact, he was saying, you know,
it's good for me to do these things. I need
to stay up on my skills. But if you're a
boss in any business, you're dealing with all the things
coming out you from your employees. You're looking at what
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your competition is doing. The government's on your back, between
regulators and inspectors and irs.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
And OSHA and filling the blank.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
You're probably getting sued because somebody is suing you because
they want to take what you have, just like the
government wants to take what you have.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
It's a rough, rough deal. And you're a boss. Imagine
you're an employee.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Now you're waking up going through that whole routine going
to your workplace where you're not in control of whether
you're getting fired today, whether you're getting laid off, whether
you're getting reassigned, whether you're getting yelled at because somebody
had a bad day and their job is somehow in
the hierarchy above you.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
So that guy in the midst of all that his
kid got in trouble.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
In school, Well it turns out the teacher is a
knee jerk reaction. His kid got cold and needs to
come home because he's sick, and mama's, you know, three
hours away dealing with her parents being sick.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
So dad's got to take off from work.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Work doesn't want to let him off, but he's got
to go and get the kid and bring the kid home,
or the kid got suspended today for doing something that
he probably did himself when he was in school. And
then he gets home the grass hadn't been cut. The
light's coming on on his truck, the check engine light.
Doesn't know what the hell's wrong with it, and he's
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not particularly technical, so he doesn't know what to do.
Nobody's open it this hour to fix it. He's not
sure if his truck's going to start in the morning
to get him to work. His wife's gnawing his ass
over something who knows what, because his ex girlfriend from
high school wrote a nice comment on a Facebook page
she put up and he doesn't even know that she
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did it. He hadn't seen a woman in thirty years.
Next door neighbors music's too loud and he's just about
hat it with the neighbor. And his own mom is
in a bad mood because she doesn't feel well, and
his brother has now upset her, and he borrowed a
bunch of money from the parents and won't pay her back,
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and so he's telling mom stop loaning money to his
deadbeat brother. That's what most people are going through. So
I'm sorry, Washington, DC, but they don't have time to
keep up with what you're doing. So it's important for
President Trump to show a guy like that that while
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that guy's going through all the aspects of his life,
Trump is doing things to make his life better to
the extent that he can. That means getting out of
that guy's life, but it also means undoing bad things
that were done. And ladies, I'm not leaving you out.
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We'll get to you in a moment. But President Trump
talked about his work to lower prescription drug prices. That's
not glamorous, but that's meaningful because I'm going to tell
you at fifty five, with the dad who's eighty five,
we pick up his prescriptions. There's a lot of time
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spent picking up medicine for old people. Blood pressure and
the diabetes and a skin rash, and you name it.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
You have it all. And the older you get, the
more you need this.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
And people feel like those prices are out of control.
And they find out that we're paying far more in
this country where our government has subsidized these companies and
their research, than people in other countries are, and it
makes you mad. And Trump says, we have been enriching
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the robber baron prescription drug companies for too long. This
is how you govern. This is how you build a
coalition to win elections. This is how you win seven
swing states. You do things that make people's lives better,
and then you tell them what you've done.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Because the media is not going to die.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Bravo, President Trump, a masterclassing government.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
This is Norman there from Orange, Texas and you're listening
to my son on the Michael berge.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
I mentioned President Trump's world for lower prescription drug prices.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
This is what he said about that.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
In addition, I'm doing what no politician of either party
has ever done, standing up to the special interest to dramatically.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Reduce the price of prescription drugs.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
I negotiated directly with the drug companies and foreign nations
which were taken advantage of our country for many decades,
to slash prices on drugs and pharmaceuticals by as much
as four hundred, five hundred and even six hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
In other words, your drug.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Costs will I'll be plummeting downward, and I use the
thread of tariffs to get foreign countries who would never
have done it to pay the cost of this giant
dollar reduction. They stop ripping us off. And it began
as of four days ago. There has never been anything
like this in the history of our country.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Drugs have only.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Gone up, but now they'll be going down by numbers
never conceived possible. It's called most favored Nation, and no
presidents has ever had the courage or ability to get
this done until now. The first of these unprecedented price
reductions will be available starting in January through a new
website trumprx dot gov and these big price cuts will
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greatly reduce the cost of health care.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
You know.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
The things that bother people about Trump putting his name
on everything, gold plating everything, all these things, they're all
style over substance. But it's amazing to me how many
people value style over substance. They would rather Trump not
post mean tweets and not get anything done.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Not crazy. What really matters in your life?
Speaker 3 (26:21):
If a doctor has a bad bedside manner, but it
turns out he's the only guy that can cure the
cancer that you have. But another guy he whistles in
the room, he's got a quick quip, funny joke, holds
your hand while he talks to you. But absolutely positively
you're going to die if he's your doctor. Which one
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do you choose? Wait it now, nat be either or Michael.
But sometimes it does because you have to take the
doctor as you find him. You have to take Donald
Trump as you find him. Donald Trump is and who
he is, You're not going to change that. He will
turn eighty June fourteenth. But he has so many great
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traits that we've never seen before. Can you just like
the ones that he has and not feel the need
to defend the ones that he doesn't. You're not asked
to endorse one hundred percent of what he does. Is
there anybody else that you think is perfect all the time?
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Me?
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Neither.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Ramon said, I didn't discuss how the average woman's life goes. Well,
I'll try to be empathetic. I'm not that good at it.
I don't understand women, and not because I think they're
crazy or you know, it's not a men are from Mars,
women are from Venus kind of deal or whatever that is.
It said, I just don't know. The older I get,
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the less I know, And I've come to that conclusion.
And the reason is because the older I get, the
better the perspective that things I think I know don't know.
Ronald Reagan had a great line. He said, the trouble
with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant, it's
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just that they know so much that isn't so. The
older I get, the more I realize that a lot
of things I thought to be true are not true.
They're passed off, they're repeated because there are false indicators,
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false affirmations.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
You know.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
The Tawny Kataine model laid across the red sports car.
In the commercial, she doesn't come with the car. A
lot of people don't figure that out for a few months.
In their mind, she's just going to show back up
once they get this car home. Well, there are so
many things that I thought I knew based on behaviors
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of women that I watched my mother and my wife primarily,
and now I realize, for instance, mood. So I had
low testosterone. Most men my age do, and several years
ago I started going and getting testosterone replacement and it
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made a world of difference to me. And people think
that that's all about, you know, like a viagra pill.
It's so much more than that. It is a mood changer.
And the way I explain it to people is you
ever notice that young people are generally pretty happy. People
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in their young twenties, in their early twenties, they're generally
pretty happy, or they were when I was growing up.
Now they've got they've learned a whole new behavior, but
they're generally pretty happy and optimistic. Things are good and
they're going to be good. And they go into business
ventures or relationships or partnerships that are ill advised. And
we know that because we're old and cynical and we've
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been burned a few times.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
But you young people, no, no, it'll work out.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Well.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
What testosterone does is it makes you much more optimistic,
much more pleasant, I have said, And it makes me
sound cookie, but it's true. I will find myself driving
on a pretty afternoon, rolling the window down and hearing
birds chirping, and noticing how pretty the flowers are on
the side of the road. That's not the kind of
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thing I did, not kind of thing I ever remembered doing.
So in that sense, I was taking a happy drug.
So I start reading more and more and more. And
as it turns out, men lose their male hormone the
same way women do anthropause.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
It's like menopause. But we don't like to talk about that.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
That's not the kind of thing John Wayne would talk about,
is it. It'll be tough, But as it turns out,
losing your male hormone is for men the same way
it is for women. And as that hormone seeps out
of your body and you don't produce as much anymore,
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you become a different person. You become grumpy, you become
Archie Bunker, you become the guy who sits on the couch.
You become the guy who doesn't want to go out
in public, become the guy that doesn't want to meet
anybody new, you become the guy that's, you know, grumpy
old dad. Well, part of that is those changes. So
I guess what I would say is I have learned
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that I don't know what other people are going through
because I'm not going through what they're going through. And
to me, that's a greater level of knowledge is to
acknowledge that you don't know what you thought you know.
And the older you get, the more humble you get,
because you begin recognizing your own limitations for what you
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can possibly understand or comprehend anyway, because you haven't done
the things that other people have done. I don't know
what it's like in the fourth quarter with one minute
left in the Super Bowl to have a broken ankle
and go back out and play on it, because I've
never experienced that kind of pain and needed to get
back in the game.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
But every other fan
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Wants to tell you what that guy ought to do
based on their experience doing what fourth grade
It's that time. Time, time, luck and load. The Michael
Varie Show.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
President Trump spoke to the nation last night in an
eighteen minute address at primetime, and you know it was
an absolute home run because the media isn't covering it.
Here was perhaps the biggest statement of the night, something
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that Democrats and Republicans said could never be done. He
did it. He said he would do it, and he
did it. Clip five oh one, please remote.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
A major factor in driving up housing costs was the
colossal border invasion.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
We have never been invaded.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
This is the worst thing that Frankly, in my opinion,
the worst thing that the Biden administration did to our
country is the invasion at the border. The last administration
and their allies in Congress brought in millions and millions
of migrants and gave them taxpayer funded housing while your
rent and housing costs chirocketed over sixty percent of growth
(01:33):
and the rental market came from foreign migrants. At the
same time, illegal aliens soul American jobs and flooded emergency rooms,
getting free health care and education paid for by you.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
The American taxpayer.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
They also increased the costs of law enforcement by numbers
so high that they are not even to be mentioned.
For the first time in fifty years, we are now
seeing reverse migration as migrants go back home, leaving more
housing and more jobs for Americans. In the year before
my election, all net creation of jobs was going to
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foreign migrants.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Since I took office.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
One hundred percent of all net job creation has gone
to American born citizens.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
One hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
That's called America First. I'm going to play that clip
in every segment tonight. Let me tell you why, because
people are coming and going. You might be on your
way into the officer home and we might get to
the end of a segment and you get out and
you go in, or you're not listening for whatever reason,
(02:44):
because life gets in the way. I want to make
sure every single person here's what he just said. And
the reason is because people are disillusioned. They're not disillusioned
with Democrats. We know who the Democrats are. It's like
the Dinny Green comment after their team after the Cardinals
lost and should have won. We know who the Democrats are.
(03:06):
They tell us who they are. We don't doubt that
they show us who they are. People are disillusioned because
of the Republicans making promises. They don't keep a guy
like John Cornyn, who's worked against Trump at every turn,
complete swamp monster, gets to DC and works against everything
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we stand for, and then every six years comes in
with loads of cash that the establishment has given him,
the swamp has given him, to pour it on people
and hope they're not paying attention and tell them what
a good guy he is, and he shares your values,
and then claim that his position on every major issue
is exactly what he's done. I mean, it is not
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the exact opposite of what he's done. And so he
comes back and says he's for acts when the whole
time he's been for why And it's just it's it's infuriating.
It is absolutely infuriating. The next clip from last night's
speech by our president, he said that we are governed
by politicians who prioritize only the interests of insiders. Boy,
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you ever see this happens, by the way, this is
what's happened to our schools. You've got school districts where
the leadership is just self dealing. The kids are ancillary,
They don't care anything about the kids, anything to do
with the kids. It's all about how we can get
more money for ourselves as a superintendent and as a
principal and assistant principal. You see this in organizations. You
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see it sometimes in businesses where the leadership is at
a site separate from where the work is being done.
Do you know what Elon Musk did. It's pretty amazing.
He put a desk a table next to the floor,
the manufacturing floor where the teslas were being made. And
(05:05):
then he brought in a pillow and a what do
you call the thing.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
That if you camp out, it's to you zip it
up and you get inside it. No, no, no, sleeping bag.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
He brought a sleeping bag and a pillow and he
would stay there twenty four hours a day.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
You think that didn't motivate people.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
He moved the engineers away from the office building where
they were and he put them right next to the floor,
and the engineers hated it.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
And the reason he did it.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Is if the guy who was making a part, if
that part didn't work, he.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Knows better than anybody that the part doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
So now he can walk over and say, hey, Einstein,
can you come over here?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
This doesn't work? Is there a way you.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Can shave this down, or way you can design this
piece differently. That's how things get done well. Our government
complete self dealing insiders.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I was elected in a landslide, winning the popular vote
and all seven swing states and everything else, with a
mandate to take on a sick and corrupt system that
extra really just took the wealth from people and crushed
the dreams of the American people.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
For the last four years.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
The United States was ruled by politicians who fought only
for insiders, illegal aliens, career criminals, corporate lobbyists, prisoners, terrorists,
and above all, foreign nations which took advantage of US
at levels never seen before. They flooded your cities and
towns with illegal aliens, They decimated your hard earned savings.
(06:49):
They indoctrinated your children with hate for America. Released really,
I mean, they just released a level of violent felons
that we had never seen to prey on innocent They
caused war, They caused Mayam, They caused a horrible situation.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
All over the glow.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
But now you have a president who fights for the
law abiding, hard working people of our country, the ones
who make this nation run, who make this nation work.
And after just one year we have achieved more than
anyone could have imagined.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
That's right, He's right. What he tweets doesn't matter. What
he does does it's making our country better. He is
using the power entrusted to him to do things that
make our lives better. You would think there would be
(07:46):
an outpouring of support, whereas Barack Obama did the exact opposite,
and all we heard was how great he was because
he was black. The media doesn't want to tell you
what Donald Trump is doing. I'm not a Trump humper.
I wasn't for Trump in sixteen. I never thought he'd
be a good president. I thought he'd be terrible. He's
(08:08):
turned out to be the best president of my lifetime,
no questions asked, Far better than Reagan. President Trump noted
(08:28):
that Americans have been forced to watch as corrupt, self
dealing politicians plundered the halls of power of this country
that many.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Of you fought for, that all of you treasure and
whole deer to whom you pay.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Taxes to fund a government that they plunder the president.
You know, you think of the addresses given by presidents
to the people, and you get the sense, hey, dude,
are you getting any advice. Are you getting any advice
(09:10):
from anybody? Because you talk like somebody from another planet.
Nobody identifies with what you're talking about. Do you understand
that what he's talking about right here? I've never heard
of president talk on this level.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
This is the kind of.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Stuff that real people that work at a chemical plant
or drive a truck or any number of other jobs
that DC looks down on. This is what people are
talking about at the dinner table. This is what real
people think.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
In the end, government either serves.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
The productive, patriotic, hard working an American citizen, or it service
those who break the laws, cheat the system, and seek
power and profit at the expense of our nation. Look
at Minnesota, where some millions have taken over the economics
of the state and have stolen billions and billions of
dollars from Minnesota and indeed from the United States of American.
(10:12):
We're going to put an end to it. For so
long as before my election, the vast majority of good
and decent Americans were forced to watch as corrupt politician
plundered the halls of power, exploited our taxpayers, and pillaged
every system that makes civilized society function.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
But not anymore. And you see that every day. Not anymore.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
We're putting America first, and we are making America great again.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Very simple. We are making America great again.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Amen. Amen. Amen.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
It's important to understand that our vision of making America
great again is not shared by Ilhan, Omar Aoc or
Jasmine Crockett. They don't want that America. They don't like
that America. That's the America they came to, but they
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resent it. They don't feel like they fit in. They
don't look like the other people. They don't talk like
the other people, they don't worship like the other people,
they don't act like the other people. So what they
want is a group therapy session where they are told
that the way you act is good. That's what this
(11:35):
is all about, really, when you get right down to it,
President Trump said what we've always known about the green
energy scam. It was simply an excuse for radical Democrats
to funnel billions of dollars into massive slush funds. They
(11:56):
could have done that without creating the whole green energy
craft that in our lives, but they didn't, did They
They did it by convincing a lot of low information
people who were do gooders that the earth was on fire,
so give the Democrats money.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Another major focus is the cost of energy. For years,
the radical left Democrats exploited the green energy scam as
an excuse to funnel many billions of dollars into their
own massive slush funds. As their energy restrictions drastically drove
up prices, and they drove them up at record levels.
Electricity cost surge thirty to one hundred percent under Biden,
(12:40):
and the typical family lost five thousand to ten thousand
dollars in higher energy costs. Think of that five thousand
to ten thousand dollars you lost. On day one, I
declared a national energy emergency. Gasoline is now under two
dollars and fifty cents a gallon in much of the country.
In some states it, by the way, just hit one
(13:03):
dollar and ninety nine cents a gallon.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
And within the next twelve months, we will have.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Opened one thousand, six hundred new electrical generating plants, a record,
and it's a record that won't be beaten by practically,
I would say, by anybody, or certainly not very soon.
Prices or electricity and everything else will fall dramatically.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
You'd think this speech would be getting more attention, wouldn't you.
You'd think that this would be the sort of thing
that at least Republicans would be trumpeting. But do here's
the problem. They're in on the scam too. They're all
in on it. Some of you will remember years ago,
(13:50):
there was this deal where it was a federal I
think it was an EPA requirement. When you were pumping gas,
you couldn't put the lock in there so that your
gas would keep pumping, so you could do something else,
usually play on your phone instead of standing there holding
the pump. And supposedly that was you know, we were
(14:10):
all going to die and the earth was on fire,
and so they required them to take that mechanism off.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
And I don't actually know how it happened.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Somebody got it changed where you don't have to do
that anymore because it turned out that wasn't making a
bit of difference. The gas stations had to pay a
lot of money to take the mechanism off and then
to put it back on because it turns out we
like it. Well, the gas station just passes that cost
on to us. We pay for the regulation. That's what
(14:39):
I think the low information voter doesn't understand every dollar
a company spends in compliance with regulation, they then have
to pass on to you. People talk about the high
cost of getting buy talk about inflation. One of the
inflationary factors is that businesses have higher costs of input.
(15:04):
Labor costs more. And these same people bitching about the
high cost of things want every employee to get paid
a minimum wage. That does not make sense. So what
does the company have to do. A company can't stay
in business they lose money. So when the cost of
labor rises, they have to increase the cost of the
product in order to stay in business. So if you
(15:26):
want to tell them to pay more, pay more for
their employees, you must understand that what you were saying
is I will personally pay your employees more. I'll pay
two dollars more per burger. But people want the company
to pay them more for their burger. Then they don't
want to pay more at the at the cash register
(15:47):
for the product. Which cognitive dissonance. That for that pig
jump here is easy up and I'll wear that for
what the ditch the Michael Very Show, the Evil can
Evil stunt cycle. One of the things that Trump understands
better than most politicians, is that almost everything he does
(16:13):
is foreign to the average American. He he negotiated, completed, coaxed, threatened, intimidated,
managed ten piece deals. And the media makes a big deal,
and the counsel on fearm relations makes a big deal,
(16:35):
and maybe there's a you try to get people excited
about it. But the average guy, the average guy, if
we're honest, and there's nothing wrong with this, is waking
up in the morning to a body that hurts, doesn't
feel as goods it used to, and beginning the day
(16:58):
staggering into the shower, brushing his teeth, looking in the
mirror at someone he doesn't like as much as he
used to like, because he's getting older. He doesn't he's
losing his hair, he's getting wrinkles, he's getting fatter. This
his life, right, there's wear and tear daily, it's the
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aging process. Then he gets dressed, either in the work
uniform or the suit, which is just a costume for
people in offices. It's no different than what a guy
wears out on a rig or at a mechanic shop.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
And then.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
He has some coffee to wake up and help him
poop ramon that always helps, And then maybe he has
some breakfast, which is usually on the go, never a
meal that he gets to slow down and enjoy. But
all right, he hops in his truck and he starts
hearing all the bad news. And most people never figure
(18:02):
out it's always going to be bad news. There's never
going to be good news because good news doesn't make
the news.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
It's only going to be bad news.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
So he drives to work and from the moment he
walks in, he starts reacting.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
This has signaled to noise ratio again.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
He starts reacting to the other people's drama, whether it's
the fact that a competitor has dropped prices, or whether
someone brings their letter of resignation in, or if he
is a boss of people, then he's having to deal
with all the children that are his employees and all
of their drama. Who didn't show up to work today.
(18:49):
Buddy of mine owns restaurants. Matt Rice is his name.
He's in Houston. It's called Federal American Grill, and he
hires very well. He has greatmployees. But they had some
employees got sick, and their rule is if you're sick,
you're not coming into work and getting the patrons, the
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diners sick, so he had several folks out and his
bench wasn't deep enough. So he's back in the back cooking.
When he owns one, two, three, four or fives soon
to be six restaurants. It's not what he wanted to
be doing because he's got issues related to purchasing and
employees and bank meetings and all these sorts of things.
(19:33):
But he was in the kitchen cooking because that's what
you do if you are an employer. And he wasn't
mad about it. In fact, he was saying, you know,
it's good for me to do these things. I need
to stay up on my skills. But if you're a
boss in any business, you're dealing with all the things
coming out you from your employees. You're looking at what
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your competition is doing. The government's on your back, between
regulators and inspectors and irs.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
And OSHA and filling the blank.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
You're probably getting sued because somebody is suing you because
they want to take what you have, just like the
government wants to take what you have.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
It's a rough, rough deal. And you're a boss. Imagine
you're an employee.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Now you're waking up going through that whole routine going
to your workplace where you're not in control of whether
you're getting fired today, whether you're getting laid off, whether
you're getting reassigned, whether you're getting yelled at because somebody
had a bad day and their job is somehow in
the hierarchy above you.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
So that guy in the midst of all that his
kid got in trouble.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
In school, Well it turns out the teacher is a
knee jerk reaction. His kid got cold and needs to
come home because he's sick, and mama's, you know, three
hours away dealing with her parents being sick.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
So dad's got to take off from work.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Work doesn't want to let him off, but he's got
to go and get the kid and bring the kid home,
or the kid got suspended today for doing something that
he probably did himself when he was in school. And
then he gets home the grass hadn't been cut. The
light's coming on on his truck, the check engine light.
Doesn't know what the hell's wrong with it, and he's
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not particularly technical, so he doesn't know what to do.
Nobody's open it this hour to fix it. He's not
sure if his truck's going to start in the morning
to get him to work. His wife's gnawing his ass
over something who knows what, because his ex girlfriend from
high school wrote a nice comment on a Facebook page
she put up and he doesn't even know that she
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did it. He hadn't seen a woman in thirty years.
Next door neighbors music's too loud and he's just about
hat it with the neighbor. And his own mom is
in a bad mood because she doesn't feel well, and
his brother has now upset her, and he borrowed a
bunch of money from the parents and won't pay her back,
(22:06):
and so he's telling mom stop loaning money to his
deadbeat brother. That's what most people are going through. So
I'm sorry, Washington, DC, but they don't have time to
keep up with what you're doing. So it's important for
President Trump to show a guy like that that while
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that guy's going through all the aspects of his life,
Trump is doing things to make his life better to
the extent that he can. That means getting out of
that guy's life, but it also means undoing bad things
that were done. And ladies, I'm not leaving you out.
(22:46):
We'll get to you in a moment. But President Trump
talked about his work to lower prescription drug prices. That's
not glamorous, but that's meaningful because I'm going to tell
you at fifty five, with the dad who's eighty five,
we pick up his prescriptions. There's a lot of time
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spent picking up medicine for old people. Blood pressure and
the diabetes and a skin rash, and you name it.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
You have it all. And the older you get, the
more you need this.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
And people feel like those prices are out of control.
And they find out that we're paying far more in
this country where our government has subsidized these companies and
their research, than people in other countries are, and it
makes you mad. And Trump says, we have been enriching
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the robber baron prescription drug companies for too long. This
is how you govern. This is how you build a
coalition to win elections. This is how you win seven
swing states. You do things that make people's lives better,
and then you tell them what you've done.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Because the media is not going to die.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Bravo, President Trump, a masterclassing government.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
This is Norman there from Orange, Texas and you're listening
to my son on the Michael berge.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
I mentioned President Trump's world for lower prescription drug prices.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
This is what he said about that.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
In addition, I'm doing what no politician of either party
has ever done, standing up to the special interest to dramatically.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Reduce the price of prescription drugs.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
I negotiated directly with the drug companies and foreign nations
which were taken advantage of our country for many decades,
to slash prices on drugs and pharmaceuticals by as much
as four hundred, five hundred and even six hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
In other words, your drug.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Costs will I'll be plummeting downward, and I use the
thread of tariffs to get foreign countries who would never
have done it to pay the cost of this giant
dollar reduction. They stop ripping us off. And it began
as of four days ago. There has never been anything
like this in the history of our country.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Drugs have only.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Gone up, but now they'll be going down by numbers
never conceived possible. It's called most favored Nation, and no
presidents has ever had the courage or ability to get
this done until now. The first of these unprecedented price
reductions will be available starting in January through a new
website trumprx dot gov and these big price cuts will
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greatly reduce the cost of health care.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
You know.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
The things that bother people about Trump putting his name
on everything, gold plating everything, all these things, they're all
style over substance. But it's amazing to me how many
people value style over substance. They would rather Trump not
post mean tweets and not get anything done.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Not crazy. What really matters in your life?
Speaker 3 (26:21):
If a doctor has a bad bedside manner, but it
turns out he's the only guy that can cure the
cancer that you have. But another guy he whistles in
the room, he's got a quick quip, funny joke, holds
your hand while he talks to you. But absolutely positively
you're going to die if he's your doctor. Which one
(26:43):
do you choose? Wait it now, nat be either or Michael.
But sometimes it does because you have to take the
doctor as you find him. You have to take Donald
Trump as you find him. Donald Trump is and who
he is, You're not going to change that. He will
turn eighty June fourteenth. But he has so many great
(27:05):
traits that we've never seen before. Can you just like
the ones that he has and not feel the need
to defend the ones that he doesn't. You're not asked
to endorse one hundred percent of what he does. Is
there anybody else that you think is perfect all the time?
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Me?
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Neither.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Ramon said, I didn't discuss how the average woman's life goes. Well,
I'll try to be empathetic. I'm not that good at it.
I don't understand women, and not because I think they're
crazy or you know, it's not a men are from Mars,
women are from Venus kind of deal or whatever that is.
It said, I just don't know. The older I get,
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the less I know, And I've come to that conclusion.
And the reason is because the older I get, the
better the perspective that things I think I know don't know.
Ronald Reagan had a great line. He said, the trouble
with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant, it's
(28:12):
just that they know so much that isn't so. The
older I get, the more I realize that a lot
of things I thought to be true are not true.
They're passed off, they're repeated because there are false indicators,
(28:35):
false affirmations.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
You know.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
The Tawny Kataine model laid across the red sports car.
In the commercial, she doesn't come with the car. A
lot of people don't figure that out for a few months.
In their mind, she's just going to show back up
once they get this car home. Well, there are so
many things that I thought I knew based on behaviors
(29:04):
of women that I watched my mother and my wife primarily,
and now I realize, for instance, mood. So I had
low testosterone. Most men my age do, and several years
ago I started going and getting testosterone replacement and it
(29:24):
made a world of difference to me. And people think
that that's all about, you know, like a viagra pill.
It's so much more than that. It is a mood changer.
And the way I explain it to people is you
ever notice that young people are generally pretty happy. People
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in their young twenties, in their early twenties, they're generally
pretty happy, or they were when I was growing up.
Now they've got they've learned a whole new behavior, but
they're generally pretty happy and optimistic. Things are good and
they're going to be good. And they go into business
ventures or relationships or partnerships that are ill advised. And
we know that because we're old and cynical and we've
(30:06):
been burned a few times.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
But you young people, no, no, it'll work out.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Well.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
What testosterone does is it makes you much more optimistic,
much more pleasant, I have said, And it makes me
sound cookie, but it's true. I will find myself driving
on a pretty afternoon, rolling the window down and hearing
birds chirping, and noticing how pretty the flowers are on
the side of the road. That's not the kind of
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thing I did, not kind of thing I ever remembered doing.
So in that sense, I was taking a happy drug.
So I start reading more and more and more. And
as it turns out, men lose their male hormone the
same way women do anthropause.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
It's like menopause. But we don't like to talk about that.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
That's not the kind of thing John Wayne would talk about,
is it. It'll be tough, But as it turns out,
losing your male hormone is for men the same way
it is for women. And as that hormone seeps out
of your body and you don't produce as much anymore,
(31:16):
you become a different person. You become grumpy, you become
Archie Bunker, you become the guy who sits on the couch.
You become the guy who doesn't want to go out
in public, become the guy that doesn't want to meet
anybody new, you become the guy that's, you know, grumpy
old dad. Well, part of that is those changes. So
I guess what I would say is I have learned
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that I don't know what other people are going through
because I'm not going through what they're going through. And
to me, that's a greater level of knowledge is to
acknowledge that you don't know what you thought you know.
And the older you get, the more humble you get,
because you begin recognizing your own limitations for what you
(31:58):
can possibly understand or comprehend anyway, because you haven't done
the things that other people have done. I don't know
what it's like in the fourth quarter with one minute
left in the Super Bowl to have a broken ankle
and go back out and play on it, because I've
never experienced that kind of pain and needed to get
back in the game.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
But every other fan
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Wants to tell you what that guy ought to do
based on their experience doing what fourth grade
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Betrayal Weekly is back for a brand new season. Every Thursday, Betrayal Weekly shares first-hand accounts of broken trust, shocking deceptions, and the trail of destruction they leave behind. Hosted by Andrea Gunning, this weekly ongoing series digs into real-life stories of betrayal and the aftermath. From stories of double lives to dark discoveries, these are cautionary tales and accounts of resilience against all odds. From the producers of the critically acclaimed Betrayal series, Betrayal Weekly drops new episodes every Thursday. Please join our Substack for additional exclusive content, curated book recommendations and community discussions. Sign up FREE by clicking this link Beyond Betrayal Substack. Join our community dedicated to truth, resilience and healing. Your voice matters! Be a part of our Betrayal journey on Substack. And make sure to check out Seasons 1-4 of Betrayal, along with Betrayal Weekly Season 1.