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morning Texas.
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Talk about everything.
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The Quorum Report reported yesterday headline Trump pollster finds Texas
GOP voters oppose th HC Band by double digits via
the pollsters at Fabrizio, Lee and Associates. Quote, the polling
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data reveals troubling signs for the Republicans electoral prospects, with
Republican voters opposing Governor Abbott signing SB three That's Dan
Patrick's pot bill into law or pot prohibition by a
significant forty four to thirty one percent margin. This internal
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party division could prove costly in future elections, particularly as
Republicans have traditionally relied on unified support from their base.
The political damage extends beyond Governor Abbott, with the hemp
ban making voters less favorable toward the Texas State Legislature
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by a devastating fifty one point margin. Among voters aware
of the ban, fifty seven percent report being less favorable
toward the legislature, while only six percent view it more favorably,
a nearly ten to one negative ratio. Well, let's go
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ahead and have that conversation that makes people uncomfortable, shall we.
The reason for the hemp man was never ever that
Hemp's going to kill you. When Dan Patrick held like
he had dog treats, held a bag up in front
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of his press conference and said, why are we debating this?
Would you take this? You could die? I was embarrassed
for him. Pau Paul, please don't talk about things you
don't know anything about, because there's only two options here.
Either number one, you're so stupid, and I feel bad
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if you are. You're so stupid that you believe that,
or number two, you're smarter than that. You don't believe that,
but you're saying stupid things because you're dancing to somebody
else's tune. Texas Medical marijuana company spent big on Republican
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lobbyists to push the THCHC ban. Medical marijuana company Texas
Original Compassionate Cultivation has been pushing for a ban over
falling sales because users switch to Delta eight, Delta nine
or THCHCA that can be purchased through retail stores. In
twenty twenty three, in order to sell the THHC ban,
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they quote hired lobbyist Logan Spence, Patrick's former chief of staff.
Ethics requirements for lobbyists in Texas do not require exact reporting,
but Texas Original has paid spends at least two hundred
nine thousand dollars and possibly more than four hundred seventeen
thousand dollars as of December thirty. First, let me tell
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you why this matters. We have had republic condominance since
nineteen ninety four when George W. Bush beat Ann Richards.
That began a cascade domino effect of Republicans dominating state
wide office. You'll remember when President Bush, then Governor Bush,
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ran for president in two thousand, he had Speaker of
the State House Pete Laney in his opening video and
at the convention nominating him. George Bush's a good guy.
I'm an old fashioned Democrat. Pete Laney here, Speaker of
the House of Texas. I've enjoyed working with George Bush.
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Democrats still held a number of positions, and Pete Laney
was no Liberal, but Republicans began a domination by winning
state rep seats. By winning the state Senate seats, Republicans
began an incredible run and as a result, Democrats that's
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why George Soross is pouring money back into the state.
We're out. You want to know how you squander that lead.
You want to know how you squander that dominance. You
go into the home of people, some of them veterans,
some of them elderly, some of them guys are thirty
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years old. That ain't bothering you. You kick down their door,
you arrest them, and you send them to prison for
smoking pot. Are they harming anybody? Nope, This ain't really
for madness anymore, this idea that them dope heads are
out harming anybody. Because here's the problem. You're not picking
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on some nineteen year old black kid you don't like
anymore in the hood smoking pot. Now that same drug
is being used by an eighty five year old woman
with chronic arthritis. That same woman is being used by
somebody who looks like Marcus Littrell, Ardakota Meyer or Chris Kyle.
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And he's got a wife, and he's got kids, and
he's got parents, and truth be told, he's got a
lot of other veterans who are doing the same thing
because they're suffering, and that's giving them relief. And Dan
Patrick is in the process of destroying that Republican majority,
destroying his legacy. I like Dan Patrick, known him a
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long time. But as I've said all along, no matter
who the person is, what's good for the country, my
kids are going to inherit is bigger than my friendship
with you. Nothing personal. But I'm going to tell you
the truth. This wasn't about him. This was about people
in positions, people like Alan blakemore, people like Logan Pence,
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people who serve just as the Democrats do in Washington, DC,
and frankly some of the Republicans. This is about Staffer's
getting paid a lot of money by people who wanted
the laws changed to make them a lot of money.
And it has to be called out period.
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of peve samba. Right now you're listening into the Michael Berryson.
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Longsigree, so long.
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Long log. They you clause on the on the.
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Move on my debu, Get on my jac Co SUIVI
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jack on Jack Oh you swish the house fans out
there who were wondering how on earth Paul Wall made
it onto our show. Funny story last week, I was
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talking about Cody Johnson and I'm kind of giving him
some grief because he's a good friend of mine, and
that's what I do when I like you. And he, hey, dude,
look at this text exchange. And Paul Wall had sent
him a message saying, hey, Michael Berry's talking about you
right now. And Cody had said, yeah, that's fine. Michael's
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one of my best friends. But how do you know that?
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He says, I drive around and listen to him every day.
You're kidding, that's so weird. And he said, dude, I
love it. And so he had filmed his car radio
showing seven forty AM and he said, here's an insider's trick.
Turn it to ninety nine point one and you can
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hear him better because then it's in high def HD.
And so Paul Wall says in five minutes sent back
and he said, no, man, it's all music, because now.
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That's Sunday ninety nine point one. When you get there,
then you're like a safecracker. You turn the knob a
time or two and ninety nine point one point one
or whatever. I don't know how you anyway, nine nine
point one is Sunday ninety nine point one. Yes, that
is Dana and the crew, Dana and Jay and used
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to be Mark Sherman. Uh, who was the other guy? Ramon?
It was Jay? Anthony? Oh so, I'm sorry it's Dana
and Anthony did? Was is Jay no longer there? Or
Anthony's hoon? Who? But Jay's been excuse I liked Jay.
Jay was always he was always so it's always so
earnest in the hallway. He was always so earnest. He
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he very serious and said, hey, Jay, what's up? And
oh yeah, like dude, we're in radio Okay, you you
don't have the nuclear codes. This ain't chernobyl. I don't
know what why you're so serious? Okay, you need to relax. Yeah,
you're right, I'm sorry, it's just we're way behind. What
are you behind?
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On?
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What are you? Why are you so serious? I never
understood that. Rod Ryan's that way, Uh, what's up? What's up?
You see him in the hallway. What's up? What's up? Rod?
We're in radio like, why are you what? It's You
know you've seen Loan Survivor, right. You remember the guy
that gets the call from uh was it Axe or Murphy?
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I mean his Axe. He gets the call, Hey, we're
in trouble. You got to come get us. But the
call doesn't go through. He just gets the call and
the guys, he's a young seal and he gets the
call and he goes, you know, get the lieutenant commander,
I forget what the rank of the guy, Get the
big dog on the phone. We're in trouble. And so
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he's like, oh, I can't wake him up, and he
has this very troubled look. So he goes over to
his immediate boss and he goes, hey, we haven't heard
from the guys in whatever it is, six cycles. Well,
if we can't get communication from them in six cycles,
we got problems. We're gonna need to call in the
you know, the big you know, there's gonna be chinooks,
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there's gonna be a bunch of dudes, but uh, I
don't want to go wake him up because he's asleep,
and said, you go wake him up, and he has
this very serious look as he goes over to knock
on the door because he knows he's gonna It's just
it's a no win situation anyway. So that was Jay.
Then there's Anthony. And the funniest thing about this is
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on the entire programming floor and we were there for
almost twenty years before we moved to our own studio.
On the entire programming floor, the most talented musician on
the floor, no questions asked, is Anthony. Anthony and his
buddy played some gigs for us at the RCC and
his buddy and I forget his name, Hardy. You know
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what I'm talking about, Ramon, you know what I'm talking about,
used to be a seller for us and then he
went to like Cox or CBS. I forget anyway, something Hardy.
I believe he does the best Willie Nelson you've ever heard.
And they they would do a two man set that
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was a show stopper. It was it was I guess,
teckle me, we want the show stopper. But you get
my point. Anyway. So Cody says, no, no. When you
get to ninety nine point one, wait there for a moment,
and then slightly turn the dial one click or two clicks.
I forget how many it is. And that's a little
insider secret that you can try out now if you're driving.
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And so now instead of listening to us at seven
forty am on your radio dial. You can't do this
on the old fashioned radio. We got a lot of
folks that listened on the old radio that you can
pick up and carry around in the in the machine
shop or wherever else. But on your truck radio you
can go from AM seven forty am. You wait till
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we're in the break to do this, because you don't
want to bay to get hurt at home, And you
turn it over to ninety nine point one, and then
you wait a second, and then real delicately, you turn
it one more time, and it'll go to ninety nine
point one point two or something nine nine point one
HD three or whatever the thing is. And now all
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of a sudden, we sound good, real good. But the
only reason not to do that is the whole reason
that TV stations should have never gone to HDTV, because
now you notice. Oh that how woman I used to like,
she's got pock marks from when she had acne as
a teenager. So if you hear everything, you'll hear me.
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Oh Robert Hardy. Yeah, you know what. I've been waiting
for that moment that Kunda would be valuable to the show.
Konda just told me. It's Robert Hardy, That's what it was.
And guess what else, Jay from Sunday nine to nine
point one is now the general manager for the Good
Sense Sandwich Shop by Kunda's house in Katie. I always
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like to know where people go from radio, Like who'se
guy did the sports tickers? Delatti? David de Lotti? David
Delotti now owns like four hundred us it quick cuts,
pro cuts. What's the name of the thing, sports clips?
He owns like four hundred sports clips now, which is
funny because he's bald, right, But I guess I guess,
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you know, I guess he figured out other people new.
I always like David Delatty. You like David Dolatti? Why not?
Oh you do love him? Oh okay, they just said, yeah, okay,
all right. So anyway back to Paul Wall. What I
was saying was so we was riding his slab on
my way to get my grills, and Johnny Dang was like, oh, y'all.
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Come fins, And I was like, that's what he do
is call out of people. Champ, what's up baby? Right
now you are on then to the Michael Berry Show.
Keep it like right here, more truth on the way,
more honest and pions coming at you right here.
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Only on the Michael Berry Show. I said to play
Paul wall Mount, Paul Mucker. Oh it's his birthday. Oh okay, Well,
Paul McCartney's one hundred and eighteen years old today. All right,
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So let's go back to what's going on here. You know,
it pains me that this is happening, But let me
explain to you why and how this happens. Let's take
the Republican Party back to how far do you want
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to go back? Eisenhower debated whether to run as a
Republican or a Democrat. Douglas MacArthur did the same thing.
So if we go back to nineteen fifty two, you're
coming out of World War two. Truman defeats Dewey Chicago
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Tribune headline, Notwithstanding, Truman defeats Dewey, there is an era
of good feeling in the United States. We won the war.
Young men were coming back from the war, reuniting with
their girl, settling in. Our economy was booming. We were
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really the only place in the world where our economy
was booming. Great Britain was in shambles. France had been devastated,
Japan had been hit by a nuclear arsenal, China had
been occupied by Japan and the China of that day.
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If you spend any time, and it's not an easy read,
but if you spend any time studying China's history, if
Chang Kaishek had been able to maintain his leadership role
in China, Mao and the Communists had not succeeded, China
today would look very different. It's pure speculation of what
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it would look like, but it would look very different.
But Chang Kaschek had a lot of economic problems hit
him now, and the Communists the sort of farmers revolution,
and then he devastated the farmers. But be that as
it may, the United States after World War Two was
the boom country. Much of Africa and Asia was in
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the process of seeking and attaining independence from their overlords.
Germany France, and most notably United Kingdom. So here was
the United States absolutely booming, soldiers coming home from war,
glad to be out of war. There was a housing
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boom because all these nineteen twenty twenty three, twenty five
year old young men, they were up with women, they
were making babies. And that's where you got this explosion
in the population of young babies being made, families being built.
And so nineteen forty eight Truman manages to capitalize on that.
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The Democrat who got us through the end of the war.
Nineteen fifty two, Eisenhower chooses, interestingly to run as a Republican,
and he beats a guy named Adelie Stevenson, who was
a professor, pretty good speaker, hell of a writer, who
wore a bow tie. Think of Paul Simon if you
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remember the eighty eight election, Not Paul Simon, the musician,
Paul Simon, the dweeb. Think of George will That was
Adelie Stevenson, just a nerd. And what's the guysnam Benstein?
Think of a ben Stein. Dude, funny but nerdy. So
Eisenhower takes the Republican Party, takes the reins, beats a
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guy beats a real Republican by the name of Bob Taft,
and Taft was a conservative Republican. Eisenhower was more of
an administrator. He didn't have a pure political theory, just
kind of what feels right, do the right thing. Interestingly,
as Eisenhower is leaving the White House, he delivers practically
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the same speech that after two terms George Washington delivered,
and that was, beware the military industrial complex, Beware the
people who, in the name of a frenzied patriotism, will
run your government so that taxpayers can buy their guns.
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Eisenhower leaves the White House in sixty his vice president,
a more traditionally Republican, Richard Nixon, runs. Nixon wins the election,
but much like twenty twenty, JFK steals it. Actually LBJ
stole it. He stall it in Illinois, installed it in Texas.
JFK saying that his father, the rich bootlegger, had said,
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I'll buy you a win. I won't pay for a landslide. Haha.
That's funny, because we all know you cheated. The Republican
Party over the years grew into a Mike Pence Republican
Party that is, get your shoes shined once a week,
keep your hair real short because you want like any hippies.
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It grew into an old white party, an old white
party that was fearful of everything and everybody. It was
fearful of that dope. It was fearful of gambling. Think
about think about Texas politics now. It was fearful of
that dope. It was fearful of that gambling. It was
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fearful of things that it was unaware or unaccustomed to.
It was fearful of change. And so you ended up
with a party whose answer to every challenge. Hey, property
taxes have now gotten out of control, absolutely out of control.
You're building football stadiums that are taj mahas, You're rebuilding
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buildings that don't need to be rebuilt. You keep giving
teacher raises. And the Republicans were in on this because
they don't want to be the non teacher people. Because
you got the rural Republicans that are owned by the
school districts. And every time anybody says, hey, guys, Republicans
are in charge, you're kind of screwing things up. We'll
do something about abortion. Wait what I said, property taxes
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are out of control. We'll make it illegal to write
the word abortion. Wait, what property taxes are out of control?
Absolutely insane. You're killing people. You're going to cost us elections.
You can't have an abortion before you get married. Nobody's
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talking about abortion. What's really all we have? How can
we be against gambling? Oh, we'll go after the Lottery
Commission for their corruption. Their corruption has been going on
for ten years. Now, we're going to address it. Okay,
So we go after gambling. Probably got some abortion bills
in there somewhere, because that's always good for the base.
And then we go after marijuana. And all the while,
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the liquor companies are paying Dan Patrick's staff all around him.
I told Dan Patrick before he got elected, when he
was still running, I said, Alan Blakemore, who worked for
me in two thousand and three, is a crook. He
is an utter, debased, awful human beings and he will
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get you in trouble. And before this has all come out,
you're going to find out how much money Alan Blakemore,
who's supposed to be his advisor, got paid by the
liquor company.
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I won't be going to Peoples Champion right now. You're
listening to the Michael Berryson.
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The reason I went into the history of the Republican
pony is it's important to understand how bad ideas are
passed off by a generation of people who don't understand
how things have changed. So we were talking about the
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Republican Party up through Nixon, and Reagan was more of
a Trump than I think people realize. Reagan's slogan in
nineteen eighty People look at me askance when I say this.
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Reagan's slogan was actually a reference to bringing back an
America before the crazy sixties, before the crazy seventies, before
the hyperinflation of Carter, before bussing, which was bad for
black kids and white kids, before the era of stagflation
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and failure. His slogan was make America great again. It
was a reference to bringing America back to the fundamentals,
bringing America back to being the greatest in the world.
See if eight Years of Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan famously
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said that libertarianism is the heart and soul of conservatism.
The reason that was important is you have to realize
that within the Republican tent, there is a certain contingent that,
if left to their own devices, would never win an election. Ever,
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they would never win but they would like that because
they see that as sort of the suffering of righteousness.
These people will often cloak themselves in a very showy
version of Christianity. You know the guy that when you
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see he says, oh, we haven't seen you at church lately.
Not the most Christian approach. But if you know this
type of person, you know that Christianity is not for
him a faith. It's like a country club membership. It's
a way to say I'm not gay or weird, nor
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do I have tattoos. I am righteous, and I like
being righteous. The Bible points out people like this, and
not in a good way. So we have this group
of people. They're not really for anything, but they are
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against many things. Gambling is evil. Now do they ever
go over to Late Charles and the Golden Nugget? Do
they ever go to Vegas? Well, they do, but they
like to be naughty. They feel very naughty when they
do that, because Jesus wouldn't want you to gamble, or
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so they'd say. Somehow, it's okay if Jesus grants the
Indians the license to do that. Feather not dot, because
Jesus doesn't mind if the Indians make a little money
on the reservation. These are people who are against gambling.
These are people who focus their entire lives and by
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the way, be very clear, and this makes people uncomfortable.
It is true the tendency to sit around as a bitter,
angry person claiming to be of deep faith. And he's
had fun over there? What's he doing over there?
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Check?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Check what he's doing. Check what he's doing to make
it illegal? Oh? What's she doing over there? Her skirt's
too high? She does she have fun? No?
Speaker 4 (29:26):
No, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
That mindset, the angry, bitter, jealous, controlling mindset, is at
the heart of the Islamic crowd in the world. You're
stopping to think to yourself, how does somebody, as a
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Muslim feel good about throwing homos off the top of
a building. How do you justify that in your mind?
Your home? Therefore, you get pushed off the side of
a building, how do you do that? How do you
justify burying a woman waists deep her hands in the
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dirt where she can't move them, and stoning her to death.
There's a movie called The Stoning of Soriah. It's I
think it's an Irani movie, and a man is having
an affair with another woman, and so in order to
keep his wife from exposing it, he accuses her of
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having an affair with another man, which she hadn't and
they bury her. In most of the movie, you think
of the idea of a woman being stoned to death
for alleged infidelity, and you go, that's pretty brutal. They
bring it home, they really really bring it home, and
they make you think about things like the stoning is
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not the worst part. The worst part is she wishes
she was dead ten minutes into it. The first rock
that is throne that hits her. Just kill me, But
you don't. You have to suffer. You have to suffer
until you die. And that's worse than the original stoning.
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So there is among the Republican Party a group of
people who are not very smart, but they're very angry.
They're angry at everyone. They're angry at wealth, they're angry
at gambling, they're angry at sex, they're angry at art,
they're angry at everything. They don't believe you should ever
have any fun, and they're better suited to live in Iran. Frankly,
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the fact that they're white people doesn't change that These
are the worst impulses of our people. They take what
is good and decent, righteous, good behaviors, and they take
it to a level where it's judgmental, it's off putting,
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and it kills us in elections. When I saw Dan
Patrick holding a bag of THHC treats and a reporter
asked him a question, and he says, indignantly, would you
take this? Would you you would die? I was embarrassed.
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I wasn't angry. I was embarrassed for him, Papa. That
was a Joe Biden moment, It really was. I was
less embarrassed for Joe Biden talking about cornpop than I
was Dan Patrick saying if you take this, you will die. Now,
there will always be a lot of scared mothers and
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grandmothers out there whose kid odd on heroin, and they'll go, well,
if we can just make it illegal. The problem is
the world is a very complicated place. You can't make
it illegal to be a stupid kid. You can't make
it illegal to do stupid things like trying drugs and
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make that go away. You make good laws. But remember
where we started. We didn't start with the idea that
we'll get to judge people and crush people and restrict
people and handcuff people. And we started with the idea
that we believe in freedom. We believe in freedom, and
when you understand that freedom is a powerful thing and
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it's not always pretty. We believe in the freedom to
have a drink. We believe in the freedom to do
most things. And when you start taking away those freedoms,
you shrink the size of this party, and you shrink
the coalition that we have enjoyed being a part of
the freedom
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Good morning, Michaelberry, gild morning, Michael.
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Berry, Good morning, Michael, Good morning, Michael good mornings.
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Are good morning, Michael, Zave Sailor, Good morning, El Casina.
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Good morning, Michael. Hello, Hello, are you there? Good morning you,
Michael Berry. How you learned that? Are ready tomorrow? Money
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Listen to this good morning Texas morning, your car, Good
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We're happy here to.
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Talk about everything.
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We're not wearing.
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Goody, good hardy Lauri wake Unstam.
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The Quorum Report reported yesterday headline Trump pollster finds Texas
GOP voters oppose th HC Band by double digits via
the pollsters at Fabrizio, Lee and Associates. Quote, the polling
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data reveals troubling signs for the Republicans electoral prospects, with
Republican voters opposing Governor Abbott signing SB three That's Dan
Patrick's pot bill into law or pot prohibition by a
significant forty four to thirty one percent margin. This internal
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party division could prove costly in future elections, particularly as
Republicans have traditionally relied on unified support from their base.
The political damage extends beyond Governor Abbott, with the hemp
ban making voters less favorable toward the Texas State Legislature
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by a devastating fifty one point margin. Among voters aware
of the ban, fifty seven percent report being less favorable
toward the legislature, while only six percent view it more favorably,
a nearly ten to one negative ratio. Well, let's go
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ahead and have that conversation that makes people uncomfortable, shall we.
The reason for the hemp man was never ever that
Hemp's going to kill you. When Dan Patrick held like
he had dog treats, held a bag up in front
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of his press conference and said, why are we debating this?
Would you take this? You could die? I was embarrassed
for him. Pau Paul, please don't talk about things you
don't know anything about, because there's only two options here.
Either number one, you're so stupid, and I feel bad
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if you are. You're so stupid that you believe that,
or number two, you're smarter than that. You don't believe that,
but you're saying stupid things because you're dancing to somebody
else's tune. Texas Medical marijuana company spent big on Republican
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lobbyists to push the THCHC ban. Medical marijuana company Texas
Original Compassionate Cultivation has been pushing for a ban over
falling sales because users switch to Delta eight, Delta nine
or THCHCA that can be purchased through retail stores. In
twenty twenty three, in order to sell the THHC ban,
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they quote hired lobbyist Logan Spence, Patrick's former chief of staff.
Ethics requirements for lobbyists in Texas do not require exact reporting,
but Texas Original has paid spends at least two hundred
nine thousand dollars and possibly more than four hundred seventeen
thousand dollars as of December thirty. First, let me tell
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you why this matters. We have had republic condominance since
nineteen ninety four when George W. Bush beat Ann Richards.
That began a cascade domino effect of Republicans dominating state
wide office. You'll remember when President Bush, then Governor Bush,
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ran for president in two thousand, he had Speaker of
the State House Pete Laney in his opening video and
at the convention nominating him. George Bush's a good guy.
I'm an old fashioned Democrat. Pete Laney here, Speaker of
the House of Texas. I've enjoyed working with George Bush.
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Democrats still held a number of positions, and Pete Laney
was no Liberal, but Republicans began a domination by winning
state rep seats. By winning the state Senate seats, Republicans
began an incredible run and as a result, Democrats that's
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why George Soross is pouring money back into the state.
We're out. You want to know how you squander that lead.
You want to know how you squander that dominance. You
go into the home of people, some of them veterans,
some of them elderly, some of them guys are thirty
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years old. That ain't bothering you. You kick down their door,
you arrest them, and you send them to prison for
smoking pot. Are they harming anybody? Nope, This ain't really
for madness anymore, this idea that them dope heads are
out harming anybody. Because here's the problem. You're not picking
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on some nineteen year old black kid you don't like
anymore in the hood smoking pot. Now that same drug
is being used by an eighty five year old woman
with chronic arthritis. That same woman is being used by
somebody who looks like Marcus Littrell, Ardakota Meyer or Chris Kyle.
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And he's got a wife, and he's got kids, and
he's got parents, and truth be told, he's got a
lot of other veterans who are doing the same thing
because they're suffering, and that's giving them relief. And Dan
Patrick is in the process of destroying that Republican majority,
destroying his legacy. I like Dan Patrick, known him a
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long time. But as I've said all along, no matter
who the person is, what's good for the country, my
kids are going to inherit is bigger than my friendship
with you. Nothing personal. But I'm going to tell you
the truth. This wasn't about him. This was about people
in positions, people like Alan blakemore, people like Logan Pence,
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people who serve just as the Democrats do in Washington, DC,
and frankly some of the Republicans. This is about Staffer's
getting paid a lot of money by people who wanted
the laws changed to make them a lot of money.
And it has to be called out period.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
In the story, Hey, what to do with Paul out
of peve samba. Right now you're listening into the Michael Berryson.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Left a second.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Longsigree, so long.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Long log. They you clause on the on the.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Move on my debu, Get on my jac Co SUIVI
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jack on Jack Oh you swish the house fans out
there who were wondering how on earth Paul Wall made
it onto our show. Funny story last week, I was
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talking about Cody Johnson and I'm kind of giving him
some grief because he's a good friend of mine, and
that's what I do when I like you. And he, hey, dude,
look at this text exchange. And Paul Wall had sent
him a message saying, hey, Michael Berry's talking about you
right now. And Cody had said, yeah, that's fine. Michael's
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one of my best friends. But how do you know that?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
He says, I drive around and listen to him every day.
You're kidding, that's so weird. And he said, dude, I
love it. And so he had filmed his car radio
showing seven forty AM and he said, here's an insider's trick.
Turn it to ninety nine point one and you can
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hear him better because then it's in high def HD.
And so Paul Wall says in five minutes sent back
and he said, no, man, it's all music, because now.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
That's Sunday ninety nine point one. When you get there,
then you're like a safecracker. You turn the knob a
time or two and ninety nine point one point one
or whatever. I don't know how you anyway, nine nine
point one is Sunday ninety nine point one. Yes, that
is Dana and the crew, Dana and Jay and used
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to be Mark Sherman. Uh, who was the other guy? Ramon?
It was Jay? Anthony? Oh so, I'm sorry it's Dana
and Anthony did? Was is Jay no longer there? Or
Anthony's hoon? Who? But Jay's been excuse I liked Jay.
Jay was always he was always so it's always so
earnest in the hallway. He was always so earnest. He
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he very serious and said, hey, Jay, what's up? And
oh yeah, like dude, we're in radio Okay, you you
don't have the nuclear codes. This ain't chernobyl. I don't
know what why you're so serious? Okay, you need to relax. Yeah,
you're right, I'm sorry, it's just we're way behind. What
are you behind?
Speaker 4 (11:49):
On?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
What are you? Why are you so serious? I never
understood that. Rod Ryan's that way, Uh, what's up? What's up?
You see him in the hallway. What's up? What's up? Rod?
We're in radio like, why are you what? It's You
know you've seen Loan Survivor, right. You remember the guy
that gets the call from uh was it Axe or Murphy?
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I mean his Axe. He gets the call, Hey, we're
in trouble. You got to come get us. But the
call doesn't go through. He just gets the call and
the guys, he's a young seal and he gets the
call and he goes, you know, get the lieutenant commander,
I forget what the rank of the guy, Get the
big dog on the phone. We're in trouble. And so
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he's like, oh, I can't wake him up, and he
has this very troubled look. So he goes over to
his immediate boss and he goes, hey, we haven't heard
from the guys in whatever it is, six cycles. Well,
if we can't get communication from them in six cycles,
we got problems. We're gonna need to call in the
you know, the big you know, there's gonna be chinooks,
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there's gonna be a bunch of dudes, but uh, I
don't want to go wake him up because he's asleep,
and said, you go wake him up, and he has
this very serious look as he goes over to knock
on the door because he knows he's gonna It's just
it's a no win situation anyway. So that was Jay.
Then there's Anthony. And the funniest thing about this is
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on the entire programming floor and we were there for
almost twenty years before we moved to our own studio.
On the entire programming floor, the most talented musician on
the floor, no questions asked, is Anthony. Anthony and his
buddy played some gigs for us at the RCC and
his buddy and I forget his name, Hardy. You know
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what I'm talking about, Ramon, you know what I'm talking about,
used to be a seller for us and then he
went to like Cox or CBS. I forget anyway, something Hardy.
I believe he does the best Willie Nelson you've ever heard.
And they they would do a two man set that
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was a show stopper. It was it was I guess,
teckle me, we want the show stopper. But you get
my point. Anyway. So Cody says, no, no. When you
get to ninety nine point one, wait there for a moment,
and then slightly turn the dial one click or two clicks.
I forget how many it is. And that's a little
insider secret that you can try out now if you're driving.
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And so now instead of listening to us at seven
forty am on your radio dial. You can't do this
on the old fashioned radio. We got a lot of
folks that listened on the old radio that you can
pick up and carry around in the in the machine
shop or wherever else. But on your truck radio you
can go from AM seven forty am. You wait till
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we're in the break to do this, because you don't
want to bay to get hurt at home, And you
turn it over to ninety nine point one, and then
you wait a second, and then real delicately, you turn
it one more time, and it'll go to ninety nine
point one point two or something nine nine point one
HD three or whatever the thing is. And now all
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of a sudden, we sound good, real good. But the
only reason not to do that is the whole reason
that TV stations should have never gone to HDTV, because
now you notice. Oh that how woman I used to like,
she's got pock marks from when she had acne as
a teenager. So if you hear everything, you'll hear me.
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Oh Robert Hardy. Yeah, you know what. I've been waiting
for that moment that Kunda would be valuable to the show.
Konda just told me. It's Robert Hardy, That's what it was.
And guess what else, Jay from Sunday nine to nine
point one is now the general manager for the Good
Sense Sandwich Shop by Kunda's house in Katie. I always
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like to know where people go from radio, Like who'se
guy did the sports tickers? Delatti? David de Lotti? David
Delotti now owns like four hundred us it quick cuts,
pro cuts. What's the name of the thing, sports clips?
He owns like four hundred sports clips now, which is
funny because he's bald, right, But I guess I guess,
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you know, I guess he figured out other people new.
I always like David Delatty. You like David Dolatti? Why not?
Oh you do love him? Oh okay, they just said, yeah, okay,
all right. So anyway back to Paul Wall. What I
was saying was so we was riding his slab on
my way to get my grills, and Johnny Dang was like, oh, y'all.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Come fins, And I was like, that's what he do
is call out of people. Champ, what's up baby? Right
now you are on then to the Michael Berry Show.
Keep it like right here, more truth on the way,
more honest and pions coming at you right here.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Only on the Michael Berry Show. I said to play
Paul wall Mount, Paul Mucker. Oh it's his birthday. Oh okay, Well,
Paul McCartney's one hundred and eighteen years old today. All right,
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So let's go back to what's going on here. You know,
it pains me that this is happening, But let me
explain to you why and how this happens. Let's take
the Republican Party back to how far do you want
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to go back? Eisenhower debated whether to run as a
Republican or a Democrat. Douglas MacArthur did the same thing.
So if we go back to nineteen fifty two, you're
coming out of World War two. Truman defeats Dewey Chicago
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Tribune headline, Notwithstanding, Truman defeats Dewey, there is an era
of good feeling in the United States. We won the war.
Young men were coming back from the war, reuniting with
their girl, settling in. Our economy was booming. We were
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really the only place in the world where our economy
was booming. Great Britain was in shambles. France had been devastated,
Japan had been hit by a nuclear arsenal, China had
been occupied by Japan and the China of that day.
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If you spend any time, and it's not an easy read,
but if you spend any time studying China's history, if
Chang Kaishek had been able to maintain his leadership role
in China, Mao and the Communists had not succeeded, China
today would look very different. It's pure speculation of what
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it would look like, but it would look very different.
But Chang Kaschek had a lot of economic problems hit
him now, and the Communists the sort of farmers revolution,
and then he devastated the farmers. But be that as
it may, the United States after World War Two was
the boom country. Much of Africa and Asia was in
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the process of seeking and attaining independence from their overlords.
Germany France, and most notably United Kingdom. So here was
the United States absolutely booming, soldiers coming home from war,
glad to be out of war. There was a housing
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boom because all these nineteen twenty twenty three, twenty five
year old young men, they were up with women, they
were making babies. And that's where you got this explosion
in the population of young babies being made, families being built.
And so nineteen forty eight Truman manages to capitalize on that.
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The Democrat who got us through the end of the war.
Nineteen fifty two, Eisenhower chooses, interestingly to run as a Republican,
and he beats a guy named Adelie Stevenson, who was
a professor, pretty good speaker, hell of a writer, who
wore a bow tie. Think of Paul Simon if you
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remember the eighty eight election, Not Paul Simon, the musician,
Paul Simon, the dweeb. Think of George will That was
Adelie Stevenson, just a nerd. And what's the guysnam Benstein?
Think of a ben Stein. Dude, funny but nerdy. So
Eisenhower takes the Republican Party, takes the reins, beats a
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guy beats a real Republican by the name of Bob Taft,
and Taft was a conservative Republican. Eisenhower was more of
an administrator. He didn't have a pure political theory, just
kind of what feels right, do the right thing. Interestingly,
as Eisenhower is leaving the White House, he delivers practically
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the same speech that after two terms George Washington delivered,
and that was, beware the military industrial complex, Beware the
people who, in the name of a frenzied patriotism, will
run your government so that taxpayers can buy their guns.
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Eisenhower leaves the White House in sixty his vice president,
a more traditionally Republican, Richard Nixon, runs. Nixon wins the election,
but much like twenty twenty, JFK steals it. Actually LBJ
stole it. He stall it in Illinois, installed it in Texas.
JFK saying that his father, the rich bootlegger, had said,
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I'll buy you a win. I won't pay for a landslide. Haha.
That's funny, because we all know you cheated. The Republican
Party over the years grew into a Mike Pence Republican
Party that is, get your shoes shined once a week,
keep your hair real short because you want like any hippies.
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It grew into an old white party, an old white
party that was fearful of everything and everybody. It was
fearful of that dope. It was fearful of gambling. Think
about think about Texas politics now. It was fearful of
that dope. It was fearful of that gambling. It was
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fearful of things that it was unaware or unaccustomed to.
It was fearful of change. And so you ended up
with a party whose answer to every challenge. Hey, property
taxes have now gotten out of control, absolutely out of control.
You're building football stadiums that are taj mahas, You're rebuilding
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buildings that don't need to be rebuilt. You keep giving
teacher raises. And the Republicans were in on this because
they don't want to be the non teacher people. Because
you got the rural Republicans that are owned by the
school districts. And every time anybody says, hey, guys, Republicans
are in charge, you're kind of screwing things up. We'll
do something about abortion. Wait what I said, property taxes
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are out of control. We'll make it illegal to write
the word abortion. Wait, what property taxes are out of control?
Absolutely insane. You're killing people. You're going to cost us elections.
You can't have an abortion before you get married. Nobody's
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talking about abortion. What's really all we have? How can
we be against gambling? Oh, we'll go after the Lottery
Commission for their corruption. Their corruption has been going on
for ten years. Now, we're going to address it. Okay,
So we go after gambling. Probably got some abortion bills
in there somewhere, because that's always good for the base.
And then we go after marijuana. And all the while,
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the liquor companies are paying Dan Patrick's staff all around him.
I told Dan Patrick before he got elected, when he
was still running, I said, Alan Blakemore, who worked for
me in two thousand and three, is a crook. He
is an utter, debased, awful human beings and he will
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get you in trouble. And before this has all come out,
you're going to find out how much money Alan Blakemore,
who's supposed to be his advisor, got paid by the
liquor company.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
I won't be going to Peoples Champion right now. You're
listening to the Michael Berryson.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
The reason I went into the history of the Republican
pony is it's important to understand how bad ideas are
passed off by a generation of people who don't understand
how things have changed. So we were talking about the
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Republican Party up through Nixon, and Reagan was more of
a Trump than I think people realize. Reagan's slogan in
nineteen eighty People look at me askance when I say this.
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Reagan's slogan was actually a reference to bringing back an
America before the crazy sixties, before the crazy seventies, before
the hyperinflation of Carter, before bussing, which was bad for
black kids and white kids, before the era of stagflation
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and failure. His slogan was make America great again. It
was a reference to bringing America back to the fundamentals,
bringing America back to being the greatest in the world.
See if eight Years of Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan famously
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said that libertarianism is the heart and soul of conservatism.
The reason that was important is you have to realize
that within the Republican tent, there is a certain contingent that,
if left to their own devices, would never win an election. Ever,
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they would never win but they would like that because
they see that as sort of the suffering of righteousness.
These people will often cloak themselves in a very showy
version of Christianity. You know the guy that when you
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see he says, oh, we haven't seen you at church lately.
Not the most Christian approach. But if you know this
type of person, you know that Christianity is not for
him a faith. It's like a country club membership. It's
a way to say I'm not gay or weird, nor
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do I have tattoos. I am righteous, and I like
being righteous. The Bible points out people like this, and
not in a good way. So we have this group
of people. They're not really for anything, but they are
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against many things. Gambling is evil. Now do they ever
go over to Late Charles and the Golden Nugget? Do
they ever go to Vegas? Well, they do, but they
like to be naughty. They feel very naughty when they
do that, because Jesus wouldn't want you to gamble, or
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so they'd say. Somehow, it's okay if Jesus grants the
Indians the license to do that. Feather not dot, because
Jesus doesn't mind if the Indians make a little money
on the reservation. These are people who are against gambling.
These are people who focus their entire lives and by
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the way, be very clear, and this makes people uncomfortable.
It is true the tendency to sit around as a bitter,
angry person claiming to be of deep faith. And he's
had fun over there? What's he doing over there?
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Check?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Check what he's doing. Check what he's doing to make
it illegal? Oh? What's she doing over there? Her skirt's
too high? She does she have fun? No?
Speaker 4 (29:26):
No, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
That mindset, the angry, bitter, jealous, controlling mindset, is at
the heart of the Islamic crowd in the world. You're
stopping to think to yourself, how does somebody, as a
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Muslim feel good about throwing homos off the top of
a building. How do you justify that in your mind?
Your home? Therefore, you get pushed off the side of
a building, how do you do that? How do you
justify burying a woman waists deep her hands in the
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dirt where she can't move them, and stoning her to death.
There's a movie called The Stoning of Soriah. It's I
think it's an Irani movie, and a man is having
an affair with another woman, and so in order to
keep his wife from exposing it, he accuses her of
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having an affair with another man, which she hadn't and
they bury her. In most of the movie, you think
of the idea of a woman being stoned to death
for alleged infidelity, and you go, that's pretty brutal. They
bring it home, they really really bring it home, and
they make you think about things like the stoning is
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not the worst part. The worst part is she wishes
she was dead ten minutes into it. The first rock
that is throne that hits her. Just kill me, But
you don't. You have to suffer. You have to suffer
until you die. And that's worse than the original stoning.
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So there is among the Republican Party a group of
people who are not very smart, but they're very angry.
They're angry at everyone. They're angry at wealth, they're angry
at gambling, they're angry at sex, they're angry at art,
they're angry at everything. They don't believe you should ever
have any fun, and they're better suited to live in Iran. Frankly,
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the fact that they're white people doesn't change that These
are the worst impulses of our people. They take what
is good and decent, righteous, good behaviors, and they take
it to a level where it's judgmental, it's off putting,
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and it kills us in elections. When I saw Dan
Patrick holding a bag of THHC treats and a reporter
asked him a question, and he says, indignantly, would you
take this? Would you you would die? I was embarrassed.
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I wasn't angry. I was embarrassed for him, Papa. That
was a Joe Biden moment, It really was. I was
less embarrassed for Joe Biden talking about cornpop than I
was Dan Patrick saying if you take this, you will die. Now,
there will always be a lot of scared mothers and
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grandmothers out there whose kid odd on heroin, and they'll go, well,
if we can just make it illegal. The problem is
the world is a very complicated place. You can't make
it illegal to be a stupid kid. You can't make
it illegal to do stupid things like trying drugs and
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make that go away. You make good laws. But remember
where we started. We didn't start with the idea that
we'll get to judge people and crush people and restrict
people and handcuff people. And we started with the idea
that we believe in freedom. We believe in freedom, and
when you understand that freedom is a powerful thing and
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it's not always pretty. We believe in the freedom to
have a drink. We believe in the freedom to do
most things. And when you start taking away those freedoms,
you shrink the size of this party, and you shrink
the coalition that we have enjoyed being a part of
the freedom
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