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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time. Lock and load.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
The Michael Berry Show is on the air.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Good morning, Michael. It's James Talafrico.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
When I stub my toe on a piece of furniture,
I say the Lord's name, and it makes me angry.
And not because I stubbed my toe.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Good morning, Michael. It's Bill Clinton.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Old Slick Willie's experienced a lot of things, but never
a six-gendered Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
But one in Rome. Good morning, sir. It's Detective Columbo.
One more question there, Mr. Telefrico.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
When you say there's six genders, how many fingers do
you see me holding up?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Lighten, Zwick, Scoob. Telefrico thinks there's six genders. Six genders? Why,
if I may have a chance. Good morning, Michael. It's
Hannibal Lecter. I once had six genders. Three for breakfast,
two for lunch, and one for dinner. Quite the casserole.
My God, Lecter. You had me at casserole. Good morning,
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Michael Berry. How you doing? Is it all ready tomorrow morning?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Good morning, Texas. Listen to the song. Good morning, Texas.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
At home or in your car.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Good morning, Texas. Good morning, Texas. Good morning, Texas.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Good morning. Wake up.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
It's awesome.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Tomorrow will be the one year anniversary of the assassination
of Charlie Kirk. And I will save my thoughts for
his life and death and what it meant to this
country and how we changed.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
If at all, I'll save that for tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I'll ask you to give some thought if you would
like to drop me a line by email through the website,
michaelberryshow.com of something you noticed in this country that changed
or that you had hoped would change and didn't, uh,
how it affected you. There was an evangelical revival that
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went on across the country. I don't know how long
that lasted. Um, But I felt it, I heard about it,
I saw it for a period of time afterwards. And
as frustrating as it certainly is that it did not
make a bigger difference in our country, such a callous
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act carried out so publicly, it is rather amazing that
one man and one man's death could change the country
so dramatically. And then I think to myself, well, George
Floyd's death changed the country dramatically. And he not only
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wasn't doing anything commendable, he was in the middle of
the commission of a felony, an absolute and utter thug,
a trash of a life who left a trail of
pain and suffering behind him. But as I said, we'll
get to that tomorrow. For anyone who thought, well, It'll
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be good for the country. It will show the left
the consequences of their violent ways, and they are violent.
Maybe by shame, maybe by remorse, maybe by guilt, maybe.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
By conscience, or just decency.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
The internet, and that's not real life, you have to understand,
and I certainly try to remind myself, but the.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Internet is littered, strewn.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
With angry white women cackling as they talk about the
cake they're going to bake on the assassination anniversary of
Charlie Kirk. Now, these are probably the same women, I'm certain,
who have been rooting for Lindsay Clancy because she is
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somehow in some weird, sick, twisted, wicked, demented way. She
is somehow their hero because she didn't just kill her
baby in the womb. She killed him on this earth.
That's a very high calling for these witches. We'll get to,
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on the show today, some interviews that were done with
the jurors in the Lindsay Clancy case. And you're going
to hear The voices of pure evil. It is surprising
to see how raw and open their evil really is.
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One of them made the statement that the one male
juror could not.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Get over the way she viciously killed her children. That's
the exact quote. I'm not looking at it. I remember it.
It's seared into my memory.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
He could not get over the way she viciously killed
her children. They laughed at points during the interview because
nobody cares about the children. Nobody ever cares about the victim.
Adam Smith famously said, mercy to the guilty is cruelty
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to the victim. Nobody throughout all of this has ever
talked about her children. And that's the problem with all
of the left's mindset, is the people they extol as
the criminal slash victim, the people they extol as the
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criminal slash hero, or the criminal protagonist, they take these
people that you're supposed to despise and they make them
into the hero. It's a mental gymnastic that I think
the modern university experience is largely part of. The idea
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that your natural, visceral, guttural reaction is to be disgusted
by George Floyd or woman who killed her kids. But
we're going to show you how that person is actually
the victim. And you're going to be so progressive, so thoughtful,
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so erudite that you're going to be able to say
that person is a great person. And only the non-college
educated working class breeders would say anything different. Because they
react to what they feel. But you see, we're better
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than that. This is James Tallarico saying, prisons are violence
and we've had too much violence. Talking about destroying our
prison system. I don't think Texans feel that we have
too much punishment.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Punishment. of our criminals.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I think we think there haven't been enough, but California does.
And that's who Senator he would be if they can
buy it.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
The Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
The first Republican midterm in the modern era kicks off today.
Today and tomorrow. In Dallas, President, I think it's J.D.
Vance today, President Trump tomorrow. I was told it is
a star-studded lineup.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I'm sure that's been released by now, but I read
that late last night and I didn't have the energy.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
To look up what that meant. So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
It is an opportunity. to speak directly to the voters.
And if handled correctly, it can be an opportunity for
a bump in the polls. We have a great disadvantage
in this country, and it's probably the only reason we don't, well,
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it's one of two reasons we don't dominate the country politically.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
The other being.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
That We have people within our party, both in elected
office and in the establishment class, who do not care
about good public policy. They do not care about you
or anything that matters to you. They are in a
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business and they are trying to rape it as much
as they possibly can, get as much money out of
it as they can possibly can. And call me old fashioned,
that shouldn't be what the political process is about. But
those people can cloak themselves to look like they're your
neighbors and your friends and share your values and push
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your buttons, and those people can lead us into wars
and have. Those people can wave a flag. Those people
can talk about issues that will never be resolved but
have historically been able to motivate our voters like aren't
the gays bad or we're going to have prayer in
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school or we're going to balance the budget. Those people
are the death of our party in this country. They're
why we can't dominate further.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
But there are mostly good people.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Who aside from being Republican, care about this country, care
about our families, our neighborhoods, our communities, our nation. They're good, honest, honorable,
decent people. And that's the best last hope we have.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
And so here we are.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
And so we're all giving it everything we have to
that end.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
So that is today and tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I will advise once I know I may have just
received a message with the, oh, here it is, the
agenda for the convention.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Thank you very much. Let's see. Oh, here we go.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
So 4 o'clock Eastern, so starting at 3 o'clock, we're
going to have Joe Gruters, the RNC chairman, Heather Washburn,
president of the host committee. See, the problem is you
get a lot of people who, because they have a role,
They get to speak. That's their treat. But that's not
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what they're good at. And so that's going to have
a snooze effect. Pastor Jack Graham, senior pastor of Prestonwood
Baptist Church. Congressman Monica de la Cruz, Carlos de la Cruz,
everyday American, former Democrat, turned America first, grassroots leader. The
Honorable Scott Turner, former state rep in Texas, who's now
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a cabinet official in the Trump administration. Anna Paulina Luna
and Derek Van Orden. I don't think it's accidental that
those are all Hispanic last names.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Five o'clock. That's the first hour. Five o'clock.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Everyday Americans, border residents and supporters of frontline law enforcement.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Then Steve Scalise.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
How many people remember that Steve Scalise was shot like,
Swiss cheese on the softball field as they prepared for the.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
For the D.C. softball game by a Bernie bro. These
people are violent.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Congressman Tom Emmer, the House majority whip. Michael Whatley, candidate
for U.S. Senate from North Carolina. Everyday Americans, medical professionals.
Senator Tim Scott.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Oh, great. That's going to be a real stem winder.
Not a Tim Scott fan.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Attorney General Knudsen, Austin Knudsen of the Republican Attorneys General Association.
Senator John Barrasso, Senate Majority Whip. Then at 6 o'clock,
Congressman Brandon Gill. That is the first speaker I have
seen here that is a speaker that will draw.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
People in to speak. I'm not saying these other folks.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
won't give good speeches and won't help us advance the message,
they may. I love the idea of the everyday American segment.
Those always turn out to be my favorite because you
see somebody that's a little bit nervous and not a
professional speaker, a firefighter that did something amazing and saved
someone's life or a police officer who did or a
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lifeguard who did or a good Samaritan who did. Those
end up being the thing that I think about the
most afterwards. But Brandon Gill is.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
A rising star. He's a great speaker.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
He's done a great job in Congress with sort of
cross-examinations of witnesses who come or speakers who come.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
That will be good.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Brandon Gill, Pastor Lorenzo Sewell, Paul Perez, President of the
National Border Patrol Council. Ken Paxton, candidate for U.S. Senate.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
This is all this evening at 6 o'clock.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Oh, sorry, 6 o'clock Eastern, so 5 to 6 p.m.
Rob Bresnahan, congressman from Pennsylvania. Everyday American factory worker, working mother,
and manufacturing success story.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
If done right, that could be fantastic.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Everyday American retiree and senior tax relief beneficiary. Good. You've
got to tell people, as Gordon Bethune taught me, Tell
people what you're going to do, do it, and then
tell people what you did. Trump has some great accomplishments.
The media beats you down with things that aren't. It's
important to do that. Candidate for at 6 o'clock Central,
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John Husted, candidate for U.S.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Senate from Ohio, T.W.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Shannon, candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma, Senator Dave McCormick,
everyday Americans, factory workers, steel union workers, and shipbuilders. Then
Mike LaPetrie, candidate for U.S. House in New York. Mike Collins,
candidate for U.S. Senate in Georgia. And the Honorable Todd Blanche,
that's the Attorney General. They should say that because I
wonder how many people actually know that because he's new
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to the job. Then at 7 o'clock, Dr. Mamet Oz,
Byron Donalds, candidate for Governor of Florida. Jay Feeley, candidate
for U.S. House from Arizona, former Chicago Bear. Captain Mike Bouchard,
candidate for U.S. House. The Honorable Scott Besson, that's the
Commerce Secretary. Actually, Treasury Secretary. Everyday American, working mother, and
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economic policy advocate. That would be a nice contrast to
Lindsey Clancy. Hi, I'm a working mother. I love my children.
I don't kill them. I'm not weird like white liberal women.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Oh, okay. Well, I'll vote for your party. Seriously. Then
President Trump will be 8 o'clock tonight.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Those are the speakers for the first night, President Trump
at 8 p.m.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Obviously, the keynote of the first night.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Night two will include starting at 3 o'clock Central.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Oh, wait a second. Let me see. I'm working off
my phone here, which is a bad idea. Yeah, they
do make bigger computer screens. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
I guess tomorrow night the keynote address will be.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
J.D.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Vance, our vice president, and closing remarks from President Trump.
Before that at 7 will be Robert F.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Kennedy Jr.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
who I think has really turned out to be– as
a result of his actions over the last few years.
And from my perspective, commendably, admirably, heroically, the mayor of Dallas,
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Eric Johnson, will be speaking tomorrow night. Carolyn Leavitt, the
former press secretary for the White House. Then the everyday
American will be the manufacturer, small business owner, and job creator,
and Donald Trump Jr.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Tomorrow night at 6 p.m. Yes, we're working backwards.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
We'll be Mike Lawler, congressman from New York, joined by
Angel Parents. There will be a tribute to the 25th
observance of September 11th, which we will mark on this
show on the 11th on Friday. Frank Siller, CEO of
Tunnel to Towers, will be speaking. And the Everyday American
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will be a father truck driver and.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Roadway safety advisor.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
We discussed this on the evening show night before last.
Scott Duffy, the transportation secretary, they just shut down 270
driving schools that were not actually running a driving school.
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They were basically pay-for-play licenses for truck drivers, a lot
of them from India actually. from the Punjab region, Punjabis
they're called.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
And these schools were being.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Run to give a license to drivers to be on
our freeways who don't speak English, which becomes a huge
problem for a number of different operational logistical issues, as
well as many of them simply did not know our laws,
had no experience. It's a terrible, terrible thing And rather
than have articles written about it and everyone say, wow,
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things are terrible, this is horrible, did you hear that?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
They shut them down.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
So that will be– that's the truck driver. Then tomorrow
night at 5 o'clock will be Speaker Mike Johnson from Louisiana,
Speaker of the House. Then a tribute to Charlie Kirk.
That will happen tomorrow evening at 5 p.m. And then
Mike Rogers, who is a candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan,
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of course, against Abdul El-Sayed. And for some reason, Greg
Abbott will be the speaker tomorrow night at 5 o'clock.
Tomorrow at 4, Marty O'Donnell, candidate for House from Nevada,
will speak at 4. Then the everyday American will be
a mother, conservative grassroots leader, and Maha, that's Make America
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Healthy Again, advocate. Then Derek Marin, candidate for U.S. House
in Ohio. Congressman Lisa McClain, House Republican conference chair. Congressman
Richard Hudson, who's the NRCC chair. Eric Flores, candidate for
the U.S. House from Texas. Tano Tiarina, candidate for U.S.
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House in Texas. Congressman Brian Jack, congressman from Georgia. And
Ted Cruz, that is tomorrow at 4. Yes, that is
tomorrow at 4. And I think that gets us to everything. No, tomorrow,
the opening speakers of tomorrow evening, Jim Gruters from the
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national Republican national committee chairman, uh, Heather Washburn, president of
the host committee. Uh, see my problem with things like
this is I'm sure she's as perfectly nice lady, and
I'm sure she's done a perfectly nice job with the convention,
but the spoils of being the person who does this is.
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You get to get up and give your remarks. Your
name's on the agenda. Everyone cheers for you. You were
up on stage. That gives you a vaunted status. That's fine,
but not for a made-for-TV event. And it's always bothered me,
and maybe I'm in the minority here, but to me, events.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Have a life all their own.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
They become the event itself, the mood, the feeling, the takeaway,
the vibe, all of these things, the energy or not.
You've been to a wedding that the minute you got there,
you wanted to leave. You've been to a wedding where
the speeches go on and on, punctuated only by lines of,
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now I'm going to wrap up here pretty quick.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
And you're thinking, honey, can we please go? Well, we
have to wait until Susie does her toast.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
This guy's been going on for 15 minutes. And sometimes
people who are, often people who are nervous giving a
speech because they're not good at it, when they are nervous,
they don't know how to close. It's a typical thing.
And so that person will ramble on and on and on.
I guess, oh, they're telling me I better sit down. Okay,
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all right, all right, I'll sit down. Okay, so here's
to the man.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
And then, okay.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
But in a made-for-TV event, You got to be tight.
I don't know who these people are, but the people
who have a position having arranged it, in my opinion,
should not be speaking.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Get right to the meat of it.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
If you get people to tune in, which we're all
hoping everyone will, and the first thing they see is
housekeeping matters and over-the-top flowery effusive things uh welcomes i
don't think that gets to it i don't think people
tune in for that but hey i could be wrong
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i i am a repeat player in this process not
a passerby maybe people like the formality and want to
hear the official welcome to the great state of texas
and to dallas which has been a good host I
want to thank all of our committee members who have
worked very hard to make sure that we got here.
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And my goodness, I'll tell you all one thing. I'm
not going to bore you all with the details, but
I'm going to tell you this. Some of the people
who are here, and they know who you are, are absolute.
They have dealt with, we have dealt with faucets that
busted and caused a leak, and we had to move
people in the middle of the night. We had reservation problems.
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We had traffic problems and it was my good. I
wasn't even sure I was going to get here this evening.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
You get the point. That's that's you've lost your audience.
You've lost your audience.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
You teach people when they're speaking that audiences will remember
the first thing you say, the last thing you said
and how you made them feel. And if your opening
is and always is, you'll go to every county event,
every every poll.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
They're always going to start with the person welcoming us
all there who should not be at.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
The start because you're not going to get right to it.
But there we are. I am hopeful people will watch this.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
I am hopeful the message of real America and our
policies will come clear.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
That's my prayer.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Ramon said during the break, you don't sound very high
on the convention. I said, oh, no, quite the opposite.
He said, I don't think that was conveyed. I should
probably say I spend a lot of my time apologizing
for harsh, direct, blunt, sometimes crass, often grumpy language. And
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I guess I assume I'm coming across in a certain
way when perhaps I'm coming across differently. This convention is important.
And it comes at the right time. I agree with
doing it. This is Trump at his best. This is
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what Trump understands that most other Republicans don't.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
He is a showman.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
That does not mean he lacks substance, but he understands
the importance.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Of the show.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
We need this. The base needs this. The casual voter
needs this. And people are beaten down with a steady
drumbeat of Trump is bad. And these policies are bad.
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And racism. And you know the whole drill, right? It's
important to see people that look, talk, and live like you.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
That's important because that's real life.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Talking to Ken Paxton about something he has worked on
in the past and he is working on for the U.S.
Senate as one of the first things he does is
increased penalties for scammers and increased resources within the FBI
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and the Department of Justice for people who scam you. Now,
that's not the sort of thing that traditional political conversations involve,
but it affects everybody. It affects women as well as men.
It has nobody backing it politically. You know, the abortion
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debate splits people. So if you go hard pro-life, you
do turn off politics. some pro-choice Republican women, whether people
like that or not. That's a political calculation. Whatever your issue,
there is a financial interest and usually a lobby and
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a voting bloc on the other side of it. But
everybody feels like if we can close the border and
deport illegal aliens, we can make this stop. I told
you the story, and no, it's not the most important
thing in the world, but it does affect a lot
of people because I hear about it a lot. That
over the weekend, I got yet another email from AT &
T that looked real, had every marking of being real.
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And you may say, well, just check your account. I
got a lot of accounts. And it's not that simple.
I wish it was that simple. I wish I had
one cell phone like a lot of people do and
just call them, hey, is this my bill?
Speaker 1 (28:06):
No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Well, we've got show station phone lines. We've got backup
phone lines. We've got phone lines to what? You have girlfriend?
Speaker 1 (28:19):
You have girlfriend phone?
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Who? What?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
You have a son-child? You're not having a Sanchez.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
You're probably getting hit up for Sanchez now that you're
202 pounds asking for directions to sub 200. But we
have a lot of phones. And I'm so neurotic about this.
We have duplication of everything we do. Every phone line
we do for broadcast, for connections, to all that, everyone
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has to have a duplication of another phone company. So
if AT & T goes down, we have multiple phone companies, duplication.
It's over the top, but I want to be on
the air. I don't want to not be on the air.
So anyway, these scammers have gotten good. And they create
websites that, you know, click here. So the old days,
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if you go to the website, there's AT & T,
it's not them. So this is affecting a lot of people.
These sorts of issues, and Trump really hit them in 2024.
Trump really spoke to people in a nonpolitical way. I
want you to remember how Bush, McCain, Romney, Bob Dole
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before that, George H.W. Bush, the elder before that, they
spoke in the contrived, rehearsed, established manner of political candidates.
They spoke about honor and dignity and we will do
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the right thing because we are patriotic people. Americans who
love our country. Okay, great. Put some bunting out in
front of you and you'll get the same people who've
been coming to political conventions forever and the same people
who've been coming. And that's great. Thank God for them.
Because if it wasn't for them, nobody else would. Nobody
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wants to. Everybody else is at the ball game. Their
little league kids game, their daughter's volleyball, their daughter's cheer.
And so you've got to find a way to connect
with people And it's marketing 101.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
We don't think of it that way, but it is.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
You think of the Where's the Beef commercial. Somebody dreamed
that up and executed that, and I'm talking about it
40 years later.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
And then there's everything else.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
There are certain things that was a spot. That was a,
remember he had to buzz him up? That connected with people.
Forget the product they were selling. We all remember what
it was, Bud Light. But that connected with people because
they caught, they captured a moment. You didn't need to
tell me what's in the beer. God bless Coors Light.
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They sell their beer on television as it's cold. You
want a Coors Light because it's cold. You have nothing
to do with the temperature at which it is served.
Either out of my refrigerator or at a bar or
at a convenience store. What do y'all want to drink, guys?
I'm going to go in and get beers for everybody.
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Get the Coors Light because it'll be cold. It's the
dumbest thing ever. I want our message because I believe
in our message. I believe in our country. I don't
love politics. I love my country and its people. Politics
is simply the way that we get the right people
or the least worst people in office.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
To get government off our backs, defend our borders.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
So, yeah, I'm passionate about it. And in the sense
that I'm passionate, you root for your kid and you
scream at your kid when.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
The ball goes through his legs or he throws a
wild pitch. Make no mistake.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
I'm excited about tonight and tomorrow. I hope you will
tune in. I hope our message is real and raw
and not rehearsed and not inside committee chairman. I hope
it is that because if it is, we will win big.
It's that time. Lock and load.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
The Michael Berry Show is on the air.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Good morning, Michael. It's James Talafrico.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
When I stub my toe on a piece of furniture,
I say the Lord's name, and it makes me angry.
And not because I stubbed my toe.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Good morning, Michael. It's Bill Clinton.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Old Slick Willie's experienced a lot of things, but never
a six-gendered Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
But one in Rome. Good morning, sir. It's Detective Columbo.
One more question there, Mr. Telefrico.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
When you say there's six genders, how many fingers do
you see me holding up?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Lighten, Zwick, Scoob. Telefrico thinks there's six genders. Six genders? Why,
if I may have a chance. Good morning, Michael. It's
Hannibal Lecter. I once had six genders. Three for breakfast,
two for lunch, and one for dinner. Quite the casserole.
My God, Lecter. You had me at casserole. Good morning,
(01:13):
Michael Berry. How you doing? Is it all ready tomorrow morning?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Good morning, Texas. Listen to the song. Good morning, Texas.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
At home or in your car.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Good morning, Texas. Good morning, Texas. Good morning, Texas.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Good morning. Wake up.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
It's awesome.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Tomorrow will be the one year anniversary of the assassination
of Charlie Kirk. And I will save my thoughts for
his life and death and what it meant to this
country and how we changed.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
If at all, I'll save that for tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I'll ask you to give some thought if you would
like to drop me a line by email through the website,
michaelberryshow.com of something you noticed in this country that changed
or that you had hoped would change and didn't, uh,
how it affected you. There was an evangelical revival that
(02:47):
went on across the country. I don't know how long
that lasted. Um, But I felt it, I heard about it,
I saw it for a period of time afterwards. And
as frustrating as it certainly is that it did not
make a bigger difference in our country, such a callous
(03:10):
act carried out so publicly, it is rather amazing that
one man and one man's death could change the country
so dramatically. And then I think to myself, well, George
Floyd's death changed the country dramatically. And he not only
(03:30):
wasn't doing anything commendable, he was in the middle of
the commission of a felony, an absolute and utter thug,
a trash of a life who left a trail of
pain and suffering behind him. But as I said, we'll
get to that tomorrow. For anyone who thought, well, It'll
(03:52):
be good for the country. It will show the left
the consequences of their violent ways, and they are violent.
Maybe by shame, maybe by remorse, maybe by guilt, maybe.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
By conscience, or just decency.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
The internet, and that's not real life, you have to understand,
and I certainly try to remind myself, but the.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Internet is littered, strewn.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
With angry white women cackling as they talk about the
cake they're going to bake on the assassination anniversary of
Charlie Kirk. Now, these are probably the same women, I'm certain,
who have been rooting for Lindsay Clancy because she is
(04:48):
somehow in some weird, sick, twisted, wicked, demented way. She
is somehow their hero because she didn't just kill her
baby in the womb. She killed him on this earth.
That's a very high calling for these witches. We'll get to,
(05:10):
on the show today, some interviews that were done with
the jurors in the Lindsay Clancy case. And you're going
to hear The voices of pure evil. It is surprising
to see how raw and open their evil really is.
(05:40):
One of them made the statement that the one male
juror could not.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Get over the way she viciously killed her children. That's
the exact quote. I'm not looking at it. I remember it.
It's seared into my memory.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
He could not get over the way she viciously killed
her children. They laughed at points during the interview because
nobody cares about the children. Nobody ever cares about the victim.
Adam Smith famously said, mercy to the guilty is cruelty
(06:18):
to the victim. Nobody throughout all of this has ever
talked about her children. And that's the problem with all
of the left's mindset, is the people they extol as
the criminal slash victim, the people they extol as the
(06:38):
criminal slash hero, or the criminal protagonist, they take these
people that you're supposed to despise and they make them
into the hero. It's a mental gymnastic that I think
the modern university experience is largely part of. The idea
(07:01):
that your natural, visceral, guttural reaction is to be disgusted
by George Floyd or woman who killed her kids. But
we're going to show you how that person is actually
the victim. And you're going to be so progressive, so thoughtful,
(07:26):
so erudite that you're going to be able to say
that person is a great person. And only the non-college
educated working class breeders would say anything different. Because they
react to what they feel. But you see, we're better
(07:48):
than that. This is James Tallarico saying, prisons are violence
and we've had too much violence. Talking about destroying our
prison system. I don't think Texans feel that we have
too much punishment.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Punishment. of our criminals.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I think we think there haven't been enough, but California does.
And that's who Senator he would be if they can
buy it.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
The Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
The first Republican midterm in the modern era kicks off today.
Today and tomorrow. In Dallas, President, I think it's J.D.
Vance today, President Trump tomorrow. I was told it is
a star-studded lineup.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I'm sure that's been released by now, but I read
that late last night and I didn't have the energy.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
To look up what that meant. So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
It is an opportunity. to speak directly to the voters.
And if handled correctly, it can be an opportunity for
a bump in the polls. We have a great disadvantage
in this country, and it's probably the only reason we don't, well,
(09:20):
it's one of two reasons we don't dominate the country politically.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
The other being.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
That We have people within our party, both in elected
office and in the establishment class, who do not care
about good public policy. They do not care about you
or anything that matters to you. They are in a
(09:45):
business and they are trying to rape it as much
as they possibly can, get as much money out of
it as they can possibly can. And call me old fashioned,
that shouldn't be what the political process is about. But
those people can cloak themselves to look like they're your
neighbors and your friends and share your values and push
(10:05):
your buttons, and those people can lead us into wars
and have. Those people can wave a flag. Those people
can talk about issues that will never be resolved but
have historically been able to motivate our voters like aren't
the gays bad or we're going to have prayer in
(10:27):
school or we're going to balance the budget. Those people
are the death of our party in this country. They're
why we can't dominate further.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
But there are mostly good people.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Who aside from being Republican, care about this country, care
about our families, our neighborhoods, our communities, our nation. They're good, honest, honorable,
decent people. And that's the best last hope we have.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
And so here we are.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
And so we're all giving it everything we have to
that end.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
So that is today and tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I will advise once I know I may have just
received a message with the, oh, here it is, the
agenda for the convention.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Thank you very much. Let's see. Oh, here we go.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
So 4 o'clock Eastern, so starting at 3 o'clock, we're
going to have Joe Gruters, the RNC chairman, Heather Washburn,
president of the host committee. See, the problem is you
get a lot of people who, because they have a role,
They get to speak. That's their treat. But that's not
(11:47):
what they're good at. And so that's going to have
a snooze effect. Pastor Jack Graham, senior pastor of Prestonwood
Baptist Church. Congressman Monica de la Cruz, Carlos de la Cruz,
everyday American, former Democrat, turned America first, grassroots leader. The
Honorable Scott Turner, former state rep in Texas, who's now
(12:09):
a cabinet official in the Trump administration. Anna Paulina Luna
and Derek Van Orden. I don't think it's accidental that
those are all Hispanic last names.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Five o'clock. That's the first hour. Five o'clock.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Everyday Americans, border residents and supporters of frontline law enforcement.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Then Steve Scalise.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
How many people remember that Steve Scalise was shot like,
Swiss cheese on the softball field as they prepared for the.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
For the D.C. softball game by a Bernie bro. These
people are violent.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Congressman Tom Emmer, the House majority whip. Michael Whatley, candidate
for U.S. Senate from North Carolina. Everyday Americans, medical professionals.
Senator Tim Scott.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Oh, great. That's going to be a real stem winder.
Not a Tim Scott fan.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Attorney General Knudsen, Austin Knudsen of the Republican Attorneys General Association.
Senator John Barrasso, Senate Majority Whip. Then at 6 o'clock,
Congressman Brandon Gill. That is the first speaker I have
seen here that is a speaker that will draw.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
People in to speak. I'm not saying these other folks.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
won't give good speeches and won't help us advance the message,
they may. I love the idea of the everyday American segment.
Those always turn out to be my favorite because you
see somebody that's a little bit nervous and not a
professional speaker, a firefighter that did something amazing and saved
someone's life or a police officer who did or a
(13:49):
lifeguard who did or a good Samaritan who did. Those
end up being the thing that I think about the
most afterwards. But Brandon Gill is.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
A rising star. He's a great speaker.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
He's done a great job in Congress with sort of
cross-examinations of witnesses who come or speakers who come.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
That will be good.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Brandon Gill, Pastor Lorenzo Sewell, Paul Perez, President of the
National Border Patrol Council. Ken Paxton, candidate for U.S. Senate.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
This is all this evening at 6 o'clock.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Oh, sorry, 6 o'clock Eastern, so 5 to 6 p.m.
Rob Bresnahan, congressman from Pennsylvania. Everyday American factory worker, working mother,
and manufacturing success story.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
If done right, that could be fantastic.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Everyday American retiree and senior tax relief beneficiary. Good. You've
got to tell people, as Gordon Bethune taught me, Tell
people what you're going to do, do it, and then
tell people what you did. Trump has some great accomplishments.
The media beats you down with things that aren't. It's
important to do that. Candidate for at 6 o'clock Central,
(15:02):
John Husted, candidate for U.S.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Senate from Ohio, T.W.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Shannon, candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma, Senator Dave McCormick,
everyday Americans, factory workers, steel union workers, and shipbuilders. Then
Mike LaPetrie, candidate for U.S. House in New York. Mike Collins,
candidate for U.S. Senate in Georgia. And the Honorable Todd Blanche,
that's the Attorney General. They should say that because I
wonder how many people actually know that because he's new
(15:26):
to the job. Then at 7 o'clock, Dr. Mamet Oz,
Byron Donalds, candidate for Governor of Florida. Jay Feeley, candidate
for U.S. House from Arizona, former Chicago Bear. Captain Mike Bouchard,
candidate for U.S. House. The Honorable Scott Besson, that's the
Commerce Secretary. Actually, Treasury Secretary. Everyday American, working mother, and
(15:53):
economic policy advocate. That would be a nice contrast to
Lindsey Clancy. Hi, I'm a working mother. I love my children.
I don't kill them. I'm not weird like white liberal women.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Oh, okay. Well, I'll vote for your party. Seriously. Then
President Trump will be 8 o'clock tonight.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Those are the speakers for the first night, President Trump
at 8 p.m.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Obviously, the keynote of the first night.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Night two will include starting at 3 o'clock Central.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Oh, wait a second. Let me see. I'm working off
my phone here, which is a bad idea. Yeah, they
do make bigger computer screens. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
I guess tomorrow night the keynote address will be.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
J.D.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Vance, our vice president, and closing remarks from President Trump.
Before that at 7 will be Robert F.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Kennedy Jr.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
who I think has really turned out to be– as
a result of his actions over the last few years.
And from my perspective, commendably, admirably, heroically, the mayor of Dallas,
(17:21):
Eric Johnson, will be speaking tomorrow night. Carolyn Leavitt, the
former press secretary for the White House. Then the everyday
American will be the manufacturer, small business owner, and job creator,
and Donald Trump Jr.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Tomorrow night at 6 p.m. Yes, we're working backwards.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
We'll be Mike Lawler, congressman from New York, joined by
Angel Parents. There will be a tribute to the 25th
observance of September 11th, which we will mark on this
show on the 11th on Friday. Frank Siller, CEO of
Tunnel to Towers, will be speaking. And the Everyday American
(18:05):
will be a father truck driver and.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Roadway safety advisor.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
We discussed this on the evening show night before last.
Scott Duffy, the transportation secretary, they just shut down 270
driving schools that were not actually running a driving school.
(18:31):
They were basically pay-for-play licenses for truck drivers, a lot
of them from India actually. from the Punjab region, Punjabis
they're called.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
And these schools were being.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Run to give a license to drivers to be on
our freeways who don't speak English, which becomes a huge
problem for a number of different operational logistical issues, as
well as many of them simply did not know our laws,
had no experience. It's a terrible, terrible thing And rather
than have articles written about it and everyone say, wow,
(19:08):
things are terrible, this is horrible, did you hear that?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
They shut them down.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
So that will be– that's the truck driver. Then tomorrow
night at 5 o'clock will be Speaker Mike Johnson from Louisiana,
Speaker of the House. Then a tribute to Charlie Kirk.
That will happen tomorrow evening at 5 p.m. And then
Mike Rogers, who is a candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan,
(19:34):
of course, against Abdul El-Sayed. And for some reason, Greg
Abbott will be the speaker tomorrow night at 5 o'clock.
Tomorrow at 4, Marty O'Donnell, candidate for House from Nevada,
will speak at 4. Then the everyday American will be
a mother, conservative grassroots leader, and Maha, that's Make America
(19:58):
Healthy Again, advocate. Then Derek Marin, candidate for U.S. House
in Ohio. Congressman Lisa McClain, House Republican conference chair. Congressman
Richard Hudson, who's the NRCC chair. Eric Flores, candidate for
the U.S. House from Texas. Tano Tiarina, candidate for U.S.
(20:19):
House in Texas. Congressman Brian Jack, congressman from Georgia. And
Ted Cruz, that is tomorrow at 4. Yes, that is
tomorrow at 4. And I think that gets us to everything. No, tomorrow,
the opening speakers of tomorrow evening, Jim Gruters from the
(20:41):
national Republican national committee chairman, uh, Heather Washburn, president of
the host committee. Uh, see my problem with things like
this is I'm sure she's as perfectly nice lady, and
I'm sure she's done a perfectly nice job with the convention,
but the spoils of being the person who does this is.
(21:03):
You get to get up and give your remarks. Your
name's on the agenda. Everyone cheers for you. You were
up on stage. That gives you a vaunted status. That's fine,
but not for a made-for-TV event. And it's always bothered me,
and maybe I'm in the minority here, but to me, events.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Have a life all their own.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
They become the event itself, the mood, the feeling, the takeaway,
the vibe, all of these things, the energy or not.
You've been to a wedding that the minute you got there,
you wanted to leave. You've been to a wedding where
the speeches go on and on, punctuated only by lines of,
(21:50):
now I'm going to wrap up here pretty quick.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
And you're thinking, honey, can we please go? Well, we
have to wait until Susie does her toast.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
This guy's been going on for 15 minutes. And sometimes
people who are, often people who are nervous giving a
speech because they're not good at it, when they are nervous,
they don't know how to close. It's a typical thing.
And so that person will ramble on and on and on.
I guess, oh, they're telling me I better sit down. Okay,
(22:19):
all right, all right, I'll sit down. Okay, so here's
to the man.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
And then, okay.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
But in a made-for-TV event, You got to be tight.
I don't know who these people are, but the people
who have a position having arranged it, in my opinion,
should not be speaking.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Get right to the meat of it.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
If you get people to tune in, which we're all
hoping everyone will, and the first thing they see is
housekeeping matters and over-the-top flowery effusive things uh welcomes i
don't think that gets to it i don't think people
tune in for that but hey i could be wrong
(23:02):
i i am a repeat player in this process not
a passerby maybe people like the formality and want to
hear the official welcome to the great state of texas
and to dallas which has been a good host I
want to thank all of our committee members who have
worked very hard to make sure that we got here.
(23:22):
And my goodness, I'll tell you all one thing. I'm
not going to bore you all with the details, but
I'm going to tell you this. Some of the people
who are here, and they know who you are, are absolute.
They have dealt with, we have dealt with faucets that
busted and caused a leak, and we had to move
people in the middle of the night. We had reservation problems.
(23:46):
We had traffic problems and it was my good. I
wasn't even sure I was going to get here this evening.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
You get the point. That's that's you've lost your audience.
You've lost your audience.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
You teach people when they're speaking that audiences will remember
the first thing you say, the last thing you said
and how you made them feel. And if your opening
is and always is, you'll go to every county event,
every every poll.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
They're always going to start with the person welcoming us
all there who should not be at.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
The start because you're not going to get right to it.
But there we are. I am hopeful people will watch this.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
I am hopeful the message of real America and our
policies will come clear.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
That's my prayer.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Ramon said during the break, you don't sound very high
on the convention. I said, oh, no, quite the opposite.
He said, I don't think that was conveyed. I should
probably say I spend a lot of my time apologizing
for harsh, direct, blunt, sometimes crass, often grumpy language. And
(24:57):
I guess I assume I'm coming across in a certain
way when perhaps I'm coming across differently. This convention is important.
And it comes at the right time. I agree with
doing it. This is Trump at his best. This is
(25:18):
what Trump understands that most other Republicans don't.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
He is a showman.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
That does not mean he lacks substance, but he understands
the importance.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Of the show.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
We need this. The base needs this. The casual voter
needs this. And people are beaten down with a steady
drumbeat of Trump is bad. And these policies are bad.
(25:56):
And racism. And you know the whole drill, right? It's
important to see people that look, talk, and live like you.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
That's important because that's real life.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Talking to Ken Paxton about something he has worked on
in the past and he is working on for the U.S.
Senate as one of the first things he does is
increased penalties for scammers and increased resources within the FBI
(26:34):
and the Department of Justice for people who scam you. Now,
that's not the sort of thing that traditional political conversations involve,
but it affects everybody. It affects women as well as men.
It has nobody backing it politically. You know, the abortion
(26:58):
debate splits people. So if you go hard pro-life, you
do turn off politics. some pro-choice Republican women, whether people
like that or not. That's a political calculation. Whatever your issue,
there is a financial interest and usually a lobby and
(27:19):
a voting bloc on the other side of it. But
everybody feels like if we can close the border and
deport illegal aliens, we can make this stop. I told
you the story, and no, it's not the most important
thing in the world, but it does affect a lot
of people because I hear about it a lot. That
over the weekend, I got yet another email from AT &
T that looked real, had every marking of being real.
(27:50):
And you may say, well, just check your account. I
got a lot of accounts. And it's not that simple.
I wish it was that simple. I wish I had
one cell phone like a lot of people do and
just call them, hey, is this my bill?
Speaker 1 (28:06):
No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Well, we've got show station phone lines. We've got backup
phone lines. We've got phone lines to what? You have girlfriend?
Speaker 1 (28:19):
You have girlfriend phone?
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Who? What?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
You have a son-child? You're not having a Sanchez.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
You're probably getting hit up for Sanchez now that you're
202 pounds asking for directions to sub 200. But we
have a lot of phones. And I'm so neurotic about this.
We have duplication of everything we do. Every phone line
we do for broadcast, for connections, to all that, everyone
(28:46):
has to have a duplication of another phone company. So
if AT & T goes down, we have multiple phone companies, duplication.
It's over the top, but I want to be on
the air. I don't want to not be on the air.
So anyway, these scammers have gotten good. And they create
websites that, you know, click here. So the old days,
(29:09):
if you go to the website, there's AT & T,
it's not them. So this is affecting a lot of people.
These sorts of issues, and Trump really hit them in 2024.
Trump really spoke to people in a nonpolitical way. I
want you to remember how Bush, McCain, Romney, Bob Dole
(29:35):
before that, George H.W. Bush, the elder before that, they
spoke in the contrived, rehearsed, established manner of political candidates.
They spoke about honor and dignity and we will do
(29:55):
the right thing because we are patriotic people. Americans who
love our country. Okay, great. Put some bunting out in
front of you and you'll get the same people who've
been coming to political conventions forever and the same people
who've been coming. And that's great. Thank God for them.
Because if it wasn't for them, nobody else would. Nobody
(30:16):
wants to. Everybody else is at the ball game. Their
little league kids game, their daughter's volleyball, their daughter's cheer.
And so you've got to find a way to connect
with people And it's marketing 101.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
We don't think of it that way, but it is.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
You think of the Where's the Beef commercial. Somebody dreamed
that up and executed that, and I'm talking about it
40 years later.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
And then there's everything else.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
There are certain things that was a spot. That was a,
remember he had to buzz him up? That connected with people.
Forget the product they were selling. We all remember what
it was, Bud Light. But that connected with people because
they caught, they captured a moment. You didn't need to
tell me what's in the beer. God bless Coors Light.
(31:08):
They sell their beer on television as it's cold. You
want a Coors Light because it's cold. You have nothing
to do with the temperature at which it is served.
Either out of my refrigerator or at a bar or
at a convenience store. What do y'all want to drink, guys?
I'm going to go in and get beers for everybody.
(31:29):
Get the Coors Light because it'll be cold. It's the
dumbest thing ever. I want our message because I believe
in our message. I believe in our country. I don't
love politics. I love my country and its people. Politics
is simply the way that we get the right people
or the least worst people in office.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
To get government off our backs, defend our borders.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
So, yeah, I'm passionate about it. And in the sense
that I'm passionate, you root for your kid and you
scream at your kid when.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
The ball goes through his legs or he throws a
wild pitch. Make no mistake.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
I'm excited about tonight and tomorrow. I hope you will
tune in. I hope our message is real and raw
and not rehearsed and not inside committee chairman. I hope
it is that because if it is, we will win big.
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