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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
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Speaker 3 (00:21):
Ah, yes.
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And the phone lines are... Thank you.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Open.
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
Get us started.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
As we always do, courtesy of the.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Greatest executive producer in all the land, Chadakoni Nakanishi. I
watched the Jetsons, Brody. I thought we were going to
see some great thing. And what are we doing? We're
arguing over whether a dude with a willy is a
girl if he says, I'm a girl.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
We're arguing over that.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
The GOP ruling class is angry. They are so angry,
I believe they are willing to sink Attorney General Ken
Paxton's run for the United States Senate in Texas.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
John Cornyn said this this week, quote, Paxton's a poor campaigner.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
He's lazy and doesn't raise money.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
The stench of sour grapes hangs over John Cornyn like
cheap perfume.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I mean, it is It's sad.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
We have Republicans who, if they don't get their way,
will work against us and work for Democrats. And what
you see very clearly is the establishment.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Republicans, the Karl Rove Republicans, if they're not the nominee,
they're going to work for the Democrats. President Trump says
Lake Ontario is changing its name.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Changing the name of Lake Ontario, effective immediately to Lake America.
That's going to take place right now as I sign
the order.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
If you look at the Great Lakes in Google Maps,
you'll notice things have changed.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
The company announcing users in the U.S. will see the
name Lake America. It's amazing how worked up people get
over these sorts of things. Angry white liberal woman.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Saying, you can't just give something a new name and
that makes it that. The response was, you told me
that Steve is now Jessica.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
A Huntsville family is thanking a group of nurses for
helping fulfill.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
A loved one's final wish. To be baptized. Her three
nurses found a way to make it happen. Door dashing,
an inflatable kiddie pool from Walgreens.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Ooh.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
God imbues those people with patience and kindness and mercy.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
That really is a godly thing to do.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Jell-O pudding pops, frozen pudding on a stick.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
The Michael Perry Show.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Jell-O brand pudding pops, made with the goodness of real
Jell-O pudding.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I am often asked to give interviews. And I turn
them all down. And it's not that surprising. That's not
a flex. When you have a show of any sort,
a lot of people don't have much to say. So
they just all interview each other. And they have a conversation.
(03:16):
And then you don't really have to prepare. You don't
have to be interesting. You don't have to. And there's
nothing wrong with that. There's a big appetite for that.
But I don't do it.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Because, A, I don't have the time. B, I don't
like to have anything on my schedule.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
And C, sometimes people will have you on their show
for the sole purpose of getting into a fight. Because
even if your listeners or viewers, whatever your brand, hate them,
it gives them what's called clout. And I don't need
to contribute to anybody else's clout. I'm beyond that. But
(03:51):
Clay and Buck asked me to come on the show
because they asked me if Paxton could win. And I said, yes.
And they said, would you come on and make the case?
I said, absolutely. And I am surprised how many people
don't realize that Paxton can win. And at that moment,
(04:13):
I am reminded that most people are living in Groundhog Day.
They're going to take another COVID shot. It'll be called
something else, and the factors will change, and I'll go,
what are you doing? Why are you taking the shot?
And they'll go, I know, I know, I know. I
know I said I never did it. My wife said
we have to. I agree COVID was bad, but have
(04:39):
we learned nothing? So people will ask, is Paxton going
to win? That's like asking– Are the Longhorns going to
beat Texas State tomorrow? I'm not a big predictor.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I'm not one.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
But you make news and people like it's good content
to make predictions.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Nobody cares if you ever get it right.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
The answer would be for Longhorn fans and for every
favored team, favored that big, if they show up and
do what they're supposed to do, yes, they should win
and handily. But it happens that you don't. Well, are
the Longhorns going to go undefeated this season? If they
play as well as they played last year, plus one.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
But that's not a foregone conclusion. There is a part
everybody is going to play. The Tallarico campaign has a
lot of money. They're going to pour it into it.
It's going to keep coming. The Paxton money is just
now coming. But I think some people don't like conflict.
I love conflict. I'm itching for this fight. I'm looking
(05:44):
forward to it. Anyway, I was on yesterday, and here
was the case I made.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
We have so many people asking what's going on down
in Texas, what's going on with Tallarico Paxton. You're there
on the ground. How optimistic are you in the Paxton race?
How pessimistic are you? Where would you assess us about
60 days out when we know, obviously, early voting starts
sooner rather than later?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And by the way, Vice President J.D.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Vance going to be doing a White House press briefing
any moment.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
We will be running on that. Caroline Leavitt has left.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
There is no White House press secretary that has been
named to take her place yet.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
And so the vice president.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
J.D.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Vance will be answering questions from the media momentarily. But
back to that race in Texas, Michael, thanks for coming on.
What should we know? How pessimistic or optimistic are you
right now?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Well, if people show up and vote the way they
have in the past, Texans care about this state. They're
just now beginning to really focus on who Tallarico is,
and he cannot withstand the scrutiny.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
J.D.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Vance, who you mentioned, will be in Houston next Wednesday.
The president again next Thursday. It's the first midterm convention
we've seen in modern American history. Look, we're taking this very,
very seriously. Trump won Texas in 16, 20, and 24,
and 24 was the largest number of votes, a Texas
record with 6.4 million, 56% of the votes. This is
a Republican state that wants a Republican senator. Ken Paxton
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defeated the 24-year, very unpopular sitting John Cornyn. He's won
statewide three times before. California is pouring a lot of
money into this state to make a third Senate seat
for them in New York. And Texans are realizing that
the guy that was sold to them as a country
preacher is an absolute freak. And he does not agree
with us on anything. He's a Democrat socialist. He wants
open borders. He's anti-beef, kill oil and gas, anti-capitalism, anti-Christian,
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gun grabber. That's not going to sell in Texas. Well,
you know, last night, Michael, czar.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
Last night, Trump was speaking in the Rose Garden, and
he had a name. I hadn't heard this one before.
I've heard Talafrico, but this is cut 12, guys. Mike,
I'll let you react to this one. Here's Trump talking
about Talacripo, play 12.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
He was maybe the best attorney, and everybody admits it.
He was a great attorney general in Texas, and he's
running against Talacripo. And this guy, he has that name
for a reason.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
He's terrible.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
He's radical left-wing.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Now he says he loves meat.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
You know what he does?
Speaker 5 (08:16):
He eats meat and he goes outside and he throws
up all over the place. Because in Texas, if you
don't eat meat, you're in deep trouble. It's not a
good thing not to be able to eat meat.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
He was wearing a mask six months ago. He had
a mask on.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
When somebody's wearing a mask six months ago, you're.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
In deep trouble.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
Is that really true that he's wearing a mask? And also,
was he trying to win in Texas, but he's a vegan?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
We're vegetarians. He was a vegan. They're a vegan campaign.
This is the cattle industry state. He's tried to grab
guns three different times. We are gun owners. The NRA
has moved here. But the creepiest thing, and the word
creep is correct. The president is smart with these labels.
There's an ick factor to him. His big issue is
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transing kids. He was a school teacher for a brief
period of time. And he was asked recently, what's your
favorite thing? Not your family, not your friends. What's something
that's really special and wonderful to you? And He said,
trans children. And there was a collective gasp. Oh, we
can't let the voters in suburban Texas see this sort
of craziness. This is weird. He's voted against a bill
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banning transgender surgery for minors, Buck. Multiple times. This guy
is an absolute, he's called us Christofascist. He said he's
a Christian who hates Christianity. There really is a creep
factor as if at any moment there's going to be
a big news story that pops and you're going to go.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I believe that about that guy.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Well, what an honor to get to talk directly with
Bill Dance.
Speaker 8 (09:47):
Mr.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Michael Berry. Michael, you need to come to Tennessee and
maybe we can just make a fishing trip out of it.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Warren Buffett famously said that if he could just invest
in seeing.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
We are joined now by our friend that many of
you listened to earlier in the day in houston in
particular later in the day and other places as well
Michael Berry, Beto was a great candidate. And I can
understand why people thought, hey, he might be able to
pull off a win. Tallarico is an awful candidate. Are
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people just not taking him seriously enough? Because as Buck
just laid out, you got a vegan pro trans weirdo.
who is running for office. And Texans just think there's
no way this guy's gonna win. Whereas Beto was actually
pretty compelling.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
He was a great candidate. Am I wrong here? How
would you assess those two?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
You are dead on. Ted Cruz beat Beto by one
percentage point. President Trump came in at the end and
really rallied the forces. And he's doing the same thing
for Paxton. The national Republican establishment led by Karl Rove,
which is why Fox is trashing Paxton every day. It's
amazing what they're doing. Karl Rove would rather a Democrat
win because he got defeated with the candidate he owned,
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which was John Cornyn. So Rove and the establishment and
the other senators, they're not spending any money on Paxton.
So we're counting on Trump to bring in a lot
of money, which he's committed to do. Elon has committed
to bring in a lot of money. Ted Cruz is
bringing in from his pack a lot of money, and
it's out. on the hustings, Paxton's gonna work his butt off.
What people are gonna have to see is it's not
a referendum on Paxton, it's a referendum on Tallarico, cuz
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you don't wanna sit in there for six years. But
Paxton's record, Clay, is amazing. He's brought over $ 5. 1 billion
back to Texas. He sued Meta in one, he sued
Google in one, he sued Big Pharma in one. He
sued the Purdue folks with the pain medication. He sued
these Medicare fraudsters in one. He's the best attorney general
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in the country. So did he go through a divorce?
Was it unpleasant? Yeah. I haven't known anybody who went
through a pleasant divorce. It's ugly. It's unfortunate all the
way around. But there's a lot of things that the
outside public doesn't see and doesn't need to know. Is
he going to do a good job?
Speaker 8 (11:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
He's a mechanic who's going to fix your car. He's
a quarterback that's going to score touchdowns. He's a senator
who's going to vote for Trump, and that's why Trump's
supporting him. So we can be proud of the senator
he will be, and we would be ashamed of who
Tallarico is.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
So, Michael, we're talking to Michael Baer, everybody. It's our
talk based out of Houston. You're all familiar with his show.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
Michael, we're getting people that write in, call in, all
of the above, and they're upset because they say, I'm seeing... Again,
I don't live in Texas, so I'm not seeing it,
but they're saying, I'm seeing all over local TV, all
over the airwaves, nothing but Tallarico ads. Obviously, this guy's
getting a lot of money from the state. I'm sure
plenty of money from in-state, too, but a lot of
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money from out-of-state. And it's all over the place. They
feel like there's saturation. There's Tallarico saturation going on. They're
living in a Tallarico world, right?
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Where's Paxton?
Speaker 7 (12:50):
Are you telling us that the cavalry is coming and
you're going to be seeing a lot more Paxton and
you're confident in that? Or is there a little bit
more of a wake up call where Paxton's people thought, oh,
we didn't need to spend money, but now we're going
to have to.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Right.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Is it is this.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
Tactical or is this a reorienting of Paxton's campaign?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
No, it's scrambling. I mean, if you win the Super
Bowl the next season, you start having had less time
off and less time to regroup and less, you don't
get the first round draft pick. Paxton, I mean, Tallarico
had an easy, easy primary with Jasmine Crockett, but he
pissed off a lot of black voters and he's really
struggling with black voters. He's pandering in a manner right
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now that makes Tim Walz look authentic. It's sad for him.
So he's struggling with black voters really badly. And Paxton
started with zero. The Republican establishment spent over $ 100 million
attacking him. And as soon as he came out of that,
then California, Reid Hoffman, Epstein, Buddy, and the like is
after him. And they're pouring all this money. I mean,
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the last number I saw, I know you have the
Attorney General on shortly, he can tell you. Last number
I saw was they spent $ 70 million just since then.
Paxton started at zero. So he's going out. Cruz is
helping him. President Trump is weighing in heavily now. Elon
is very involved. He's got the big TerraFab project here.
He wants his new home state to have the right U.S. senator.
I mean, Paxton would be a great senator because he's
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been a great attorney general. And once people see his
actual record and who Tallarico is, they're going to turn
to Paxton. I would argue that the election just began
two days ago, September 1st. That's when the independents and
the moderates start paying attention. They realize Tallarico is a
guy who grew up in a Bible Belt state in
a small town where they played Friday night football and
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Sunday morning church. And they wear guns and they work
in the oil field. And he's against all of that.
He comes back home to Texas from Harvard looking like
Rachel Maddow and sounding like the love child of Abdul
El-Sayed and Bernie Sanders. It's not going to fly in
Texas and Texans are paying attention to it now.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
You mentioned black voters. Jasmine Crockett ran a campaign. I said,
I don't know if you echoed it, that I actually
thought Jasmine Crockett was a bigger threat to Ken Paxton,
more talented politician.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Believe it or not, more normal politician.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Um uh for a lot of texans i'm not saying
jasmine crockett was a uh was a perfect uh representation
of texas by any stretch of the imagination but i
think she's a better representation of the democrat party in
texas than talarico is and for casual voters i think
she likely would have had better appeal um what is
going to happen with black voters is there a great
deal of reticence there is jasmine crockett going to be
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on the campaign trail how is that all playing out
a lot of talk about the republican side what about
the democrat side.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Well, Clay, you guys have talked about it. Nice profile
in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, by the way.
Speaker 8 (15:41):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Thank you. Not too bad. The Wall Street Journal is
saying something nice. Yeah. You know, the Democrat Party is
in the middle of an absolute rift, a civil war,
kind of like what we went through with the Republican
Party in 2016 when all these voters came to the
table and said, hey, we're taking over this party. The
Tea Party folks, the MAGA folks, the Trump folks, the populists,
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the nationalists, the Christians. And there was this resettling of
the table, and we're still at the tail end of that.
The Democrats are just beginning this. So Tallarico can't decide
on Monday if he's a Democrat socialist or if he
wants to pretend he's a Texan in a rented truck,
no joke. and a cowboy hat that didn't fit. And
Chris knew cowboy get up that he's never worn before.
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I mean, he's wrong on every single, he wanted an
open border with the front porch and Democrat Socialist. He
is out of touch and he does not have black support.
He is sort of this new DSA candidate, whereas Jasmine
was the old-style black Democrat, and the old Democrats are
really struggling. You hear this with Bill Maher, or you
see what Fetterman's saying, or you see what Rahm Emanuel's
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saying out of Chicago, or listen to James Carville in Louisiana.
This new breed, which Tallarico is part of, it gives
a great discomfort to Texans. It's like watching Tim Walsh
do jazz hands as he comes out on the stage,
and you see Tallarico, and you go, I see a
lot of frightening similarities.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Michael, before we let you go, I'm just wondering, outside
of your home state of Texas, where, by the way,
Clay and I have to come down there and visit.
You've got your buddy Jesse Kelly just down the road.
We've got fun stuff to do when we come out
of Texas. We'll go drink with Ted Cruz or somebody
who's down there.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
We'll have a lot of fun.
Speaker 7 (17:19):
We've got to come visit, but beside that, outside of
your home state, What is the Senate race that you
are either most concerned about or most dialed in on
because of how important it is?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Those things kind of bleed together.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
But which one are you really looking at and following
with the most intensity?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I'll tell you that Texans are so proud of Florida
and what Florida has become since DeSantis won in 2018.
And he barely won over a guy that ended up
butt naked and drugged out of his mind in a
hotel room a few weeks, a few months later, the
former mayor of Tallahassee. I'm not worried about the Florida
seat against Nixon. I am worried about Michigan, and I'm
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watching Michigan closely, and it's going to be interesting to
see how many Democrats are willing to go over for
Rogers and vote for a Republican and hold their nose
because they realize Abdul El-Sayed is a– they can't dress
him up in cowboy duds like they do Tallarico. They
can only make him so local. He has too much
of a past. and his Hassan Piker Association. I think
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that race, if Republicans can win that seat and hold Texas,
this is going to be a good next two years,
next six years.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
Michael Berry, everybody. Zara Talk out of Houston. Great to
talk to you, buddy. Thanks for being here with us.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Thank you, guys. Always appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
You've got the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
We've all got a new tattoo, so there's that.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
I was thinking, you know.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Isn't really made that big a deal out of doing
a 43-day fast.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Oh, he's made a big deal of it now. Yeah.
Look what you did, Marcus Luttrell.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I said, hey, I'm going to mention your tattoo on
the show at some point today.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Is that all right? And he said, yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
My parents don't know yet. Well, it ain't exactly the
first one. Let's not get ourselves. You got a stupid
Superman on the side. This boy does get impressed with himself,
doesn't he? I just realized that. By the way, a
bit of advice. Do not order hay for your horse
off of Amazon. After a couple of days, they'll ask
(19:38):
for your feedback. A lonely frog telephones a psychic hotline
and asks what his future holds.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
His personal psychic advisor tells him. him, you're going to.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Meet a beautiful young girl who will want to know
everything about you.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
The frog is thrilled. He says, that is fantastic. Will
I meet her at a party?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
The psychic says, no, in biology class.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Two cannibals meet one day.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
The first cannibal says, you know, I just can't seem
to get a tender missionary.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
I've baked them. I've roasted them. I've stewed them.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
I've tried every sort of marinade. I just can't seem
to get them tender. Second cannibal asks, what kind of
missionary did you use? The other replied, you know, the
ones that hang out at that place at the bend
of the river, they have those brown cloaks with a
rope around the waist and they're sort of bald on
top with a funny ring of hair on their heads.
The second cannibal says, you goof, no wonder.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Those are fryers.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
That's why he couldn't get them tender, Ramone, because he
was roasting them and stewing them and every sort of marinade,
but he couldn't get them tender.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
You goof, those are fryers.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
You big dummy those are friars glad you are the
first call of the week be awesome 713-999-1000 you can
always email me through the website michaelberryshow.com okay i.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
Just got a couple comments one uh As far as
Paxton is concerned, the ads that I'm seeing him run,
which is basically the whole idea that's sort of anti-mental midget,
the fact that the Chinese are buying up a lot
of land, I don't think a lot of people really
care about that, particularly with the amount of land that
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they're buying up is probably the size of a postage
stamp compared to everything that's in Texas. The other thing
I don't understand... Let's stop there, because it'll be too complicated.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
So.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
In your opinion, that's not the issue they should buy
an add-on to win votes.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Bingo. Okay.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
And how many people have you talked about it?
Speaker 3 (22:11):
How many people? I'm sorry?
Speaker 1 (22:12):
How many people have you talked to about this?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Oh, probably two or three. Okay.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Let me ask you this because I get this a lot.
Why do you think they ran that spot? Do you
think they ran that spot on the basis of we
have no idea what we're going to talk about, but
let's pick this one thing? Or do you think there's
a chance that they know something you don't know and
that they've done polling that said that's an issue that
matters and Tallarico is tied to it and you can't
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deny it?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Which one would you think that would be? I would
think it would be the latter.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Right.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
And so if you're running a campaign and you're looking
at data, that says, here's what we're going to hit
him with, a series of 7, 9, 11, 17 things, right?
And you're going to start with one of the top
five that the polls tell you.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Not you, not me, not.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
The guy at the coffee shop, not Stan Dukeman. You
are seeing the data that the voters you need— care
about this issue and you've got the goods on Tallarico,
wouldn't you do it?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Well, yeah, I certainly would do it.
Speaker 8 (23:21):
It's just that there's kind of a contradiction, because on
one side, we hear people say, don't really trust the polls,
particularly because they're typically slanted toward a Democratic viewpoint anyway.
And now you're basically saying, yeah, let's go ahead and
trust the polls and make the polls.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Well, it makes all the difference in the world. It
makes all the difference.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
It's who's doing the poll, who conducts it, what you ask,
and who you ask. So a poll that is taken
for the purpose of convincing Clyde and Michael Berry that
Tallarico is going to win, you could do that. I
can write that poll. I can give you the mix
of people to talk to, registered voters versus likely. There's
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a lot of things we could do. But you do
internal polling that you don't release, and you ask questions
that the public doesn't know. And they're seeing from that
that the Chinese issue is very important. to a certain
demographic that you need. So I understand the frustration from you.
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I get this all the time. People will say, you know,
sports fans, you know, why did they put this player in?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
And then the guy hits a home run.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
You find out that the guy that they wanted in
there has a broken ankle, but they didn't want.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Anybody to know, and he couldn't go up there. He
ain't Kirk Gibson.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
So what I would say is there are things at
play that– that you don't know that's not to say
you can't question we can't discuss them but i will
tell you this that's not a dumb ad well.
Speaker 8 (24:48):
I guess we'll all decide whether that was a good
thing or not in a couple of months.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
But you had another one i interrupted you.
Speaker 8 (24:57):
The other thing, I wish that Paxton would come out
and basically expose his various foibles. In other words, talk
about his divorce. Talk about the things that Tallarico is
kind of bringing up. But talk about it in the
light of, yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
I made a mistake. But, you know, I've been in
the ring.
Speaker 8 (25:14):
I've had a lot of fights. And I know the
way the system works. This metal midget who basically looks
like he came out of junior high school hasn't a
clue as to how things actually do work. You know,
go ahead and let people know that, yeah, I've got
a couple of black marks against me.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
So what?
Speaker 8 (25:31):
You're going to get those when you're in the ring
talking about these issues, fighting these various, you know, bringing
up these lawsuits against so on and so forth. So
I know the way the system works. This other guy
doesn't have a clue.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Right. No, I.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I hear this. I hear this. And where would you
have him do that? What would be the format where
he would do that?
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Probably, well, obviously an ad would be the format.
Speaker 8 (25:57):
But in the ad, kind of sit down instead of
surrounding himself with a bunch of, you know, people, you know,
psychopaths who are just kind of sitting there and listening
to him. here's what happened here here's you know yeah
i own 15 homes or whatever you know but but
you know 14 of those are just rental properties because
(26:17):
i'm a good investor yeah i i have this amount
of money.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
But this is how it was how.
Speaker 8 (26:22):
It was uh uh accumulated over the years i haven't
done anything wrong or maybe maybe i did do a
couple of things wrong and you know yeah but but
but i had to do.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
It okay i'm up against the break cloud let me
just say this Paxton is still introducing himself this cycle
to a lot of people, okay? He's still introducing Tallarico
because people don't know all the stuff Tallarico has done.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
And he hasn't had any money until now.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
So I know everybody wants to run the campaign and
everybody wants to say the candidates should be better. We're
either going to have a Democrat representing California from Texas
or we're not.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
It's going to come down. It's that simple.
It's that time. Lock and load.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
The Michael Derry Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Ah, yes.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
And the phone lines are... Thank you.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Open.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
713-999-1000. 713-999-1000.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Get us started.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
As we always do, courtesy of the.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Greatest executive producer in all the land, Chadakoni Nakanishi. I
watched the Jetsons, Brody. I thought we were going to
see some great thing. And what are we doing? We're
arguing over whether a dude with a willy is a
girl if he says, I'm a girl.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
We're arguing over that.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
The GOP ruling class is angry. They are so angry,
I believe they are willing to sink Attorney General Ken
Paxton's run for the United States Senate in Texas.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
John Cornyn said this this week, quote, Paxton's a poor campaigner.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
He's lazy and doesn't raise money.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
The stench of sour grapes hangs over John Cornyn like
cheap perfume.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I mean, it is It's sad.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
We have Republicans who, if they don't get their way,
will work against us and work for Democrats. And what
you see very clearly is the establishment.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Republicans, the Karl Rove Republicans, if they're not the nominee,
they're going to work for the Democrats. President Trump says
Lake Ontario is changing its name.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Changing the name of Lake Ontario, effective immediately to Lake America.
That's going to take place right now as I sign
the order.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
If you look at the Great Lakes in Google Maps,
you'll notice things have changed.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
The company announcing users in the U.S. will see the
name Lake America. It's amazing how worked up people get
over these sorts of things. Angry white liberal woman.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Saying, you can't just give something a new name and
that makes it that. The response was, you told me
that Steve is now Jessica.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
A Huntsville family is thanking a group of nurses for
helping fulfill.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
A loved one's final wish. To be baptized. Her three
nurses found a way to make it happen. Door dashing,
an inflatable kiddie pool from Walgreens.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Ooh.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
God imbues those people with patience and kindness and mercy.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
That really is a godly thing to do.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Jell-O pudding pops, frozen pudding on a stick.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
The Michael Perry Show.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Jell-O brand pudding pops, made with the goodness of real
Jell-O pudding.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I am often asked to give interviews. And I turn
them all down. And it's not that surprising. That's not
a flex. When you have a show of any sort,
a lot of people don't have much to say. So
they just all interview each other. And they have a conversation.
(03:16):
And then you don't really have to prepare. You don't
have to be interesting. You don't have to. And there's
nothing wrong with that. There's a big appetite for that.
But I don't do it.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Because, A, I don't have the time. B, I don't
like to have anything on my schedule.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
And C, sometimes people will have you on their show
for the sole purpose of getting into a fight. Because
even if your listeners or viewers, whatever your brand, hate them,
it gives them what's called clout. And I don't need
to contribute to anybody else's clout. I'm beyond that. But
(03:51):
Clay and Buck asked me to come on the show
because they asked me if Paxton could win. And I said, yes.
And they said, would you come on and make the case?
I said, absolutely. And I am surprised how many people
don't realize that Paxton can win. And at that moment,
(04:13):
I am reminded that most people are living in Groundhog Day.
They're going to take another COVID shot. It'll be called
something else, and the factors will change, and I'll go,
what are you doing? Why are you taking the shot?
And they'll go, I know, I know, I know. I
know I said I never did it. My wife said
we have to. I agree COVID was bad, but have
(04:39):
we learned nothing? So people will ask, is Paxton going
to win? That's like asking– Are the Longhorns going to
beat Texas State tomorrow? I'm not a big predictor.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I'm not one.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
But you make news and people like it's good content
to make predictions.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Nobody cares if you ever get it right.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
The answer would be for Longhorn fans and for every
favored team, favored that big, if they show up and
do what they're supposed to do, yes, they should win
and handily. But it happens that you don't. Well, are
the Longhorns going to go undefeated this season? If they
play as well as they played last year, plus one.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
But that's not a foregone conclusion. There is a part
everybody is going to play. The Tallarico campaign has a
lot of money. They're going to pour it into it.
It's going to keep coming. The Paxton money is just
now coming. But I think some people don't like conflict.
I love conflict. I'm itching for this fight. I'm looking
(05:44):
forward to it. Anyway, I was on yesterday, and here
was the case I made.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
We have so many people asking what's going on down
in Texas, what's going on with Tallarico Paxton. You're there
on the ground. How optimistic are you in the Paxton race?
How pessimistic are you? Where would you assess us about
60 days out when we know, obviously, early voting starts
sooner rather than later?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And by the way, Vice President J.D.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Vance going to be doing a White House press briefing
any moment.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
We will be running on that. Caroline Leavitt has left.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
There is no White House press secretary that has been
named to take her place yet.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
And so the vice president.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
J.D.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Vance will be answering questions from the media momentarily. But
back to that race in Texas, Michael, thanks for coming on.
What should we know? How pessimistic or optimistic are you
right now?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Well, if people show up and vote the way they
have in the past, Texans care about this state. They're
just now beginning to really focus on who Tallarico is,
and he cannot withstand the scrutiny.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
J.D.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Vance, who you mentioned, will be in Houston next Wednesday.
The president again next Thursday. It's the first midterm convention
we've seen in modern American history. Look, we're taking this very,
very seriously. Trump won Texas in 16, 20, and 24,
and 24 was the largest number of votes, a Texas
record with 6.4 million, 56% of the votes. This is
a Republican state that wants a Republican senator. Ken Paxton
(07:14):
defeated the 24-year, very unpopular sitting John Cornyn. He's won
statewide three times before. California is pouring a lot of
money into this state to make a third Senate seat
for them in New York. And Texans are realizing that
the guy that was sold to them as a country
preacher is an absolute freak. And he does not agree
with us on anything. He's a Democrat socialist. He wants
open borders. He's anti-beef, kill oil and gas, anti-capitalism, anti-Christian,
(07:38):
gun grabber. That's not going to sell in Texas. Well,
you know, last night, Michael, czar.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
Last night, Trump was speaking in the Rose Garden, and
he had a name. I hadn't heard this one before.
I've heard Talafrico, but this is cut 12, guys. Mike,
I'll let you react to this one. Here's Trump talking
about Talacripo, play 12.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
He was maybe the best attorney, and everybody admits it.
He was a great attorney general in Texas, and he's
running against Talacripo. And this guy, he has that name
for a reason.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
He's terrible.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
He's radical left-wing.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Now he says he loves meat.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
You know what he does?
Speaker 5 (08:16):
He eats meat and he goes outside and he throws
up all over the place. Because in Texas, if you
don't eat meat, you're in deep trouble. It's not a
good thing not to be able to eat meat.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
He was wearing a mask six months ago. He had
a mask on.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
When somebody's wearing a mask six months ago, you're.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
In deep trouble.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
Is that really true that he's wearing a mask? And also,
was he trying to win in Texas, but he's a vegan?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
We're vegetarians. He was a vegan. They're a vegan campaign.
This is the cattle industry state. He's tried to grab
guns three different times. We are gun owners. The NRA
has moved here. But the creepiest thing, and the word
creep is correct. The president is smart with these labels.
There's an ick factor to him. His big issue is
(08:59):
transing kids. He was a school teacher for a brief
period of time. And he was asked recently, what's your
favorite thing? Not your family, not your friends. What's something
that's really special and wonderful to you? And He said,
trans children. And there was a collective gasp. Oh, we
can't let the voters in suburban Texas see this sort
of craziness. This is weird. He's voted against a bill
(09:22):
banning transgender surgery for minors, Buck. Multiple times. This guy
is an absolute, he's called us Christofascist. He said he's
a Christian who hates Christianity. There really is a creep
factor as if at any moment there's going to be
a big news story that pops and you're going to go.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I believe that about that guy.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Well, what an honor to get to talk directly with
Bill Dance.
Speaker 8 (09:47):
Mr.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Michael Berry. Michael, you need to come to Tennessee and
maybe we can just make a fishing trip out of it.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Warren Buffett famously said that if he could just invest
in seeing.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
We are joined now by our friend that many of
you listened to earlier in the day in houston in
particular later in the day and other places as well
Michael Berry, Beto was a great candidate. And I can
understand why people thought, hey, he might be able to
pull off a win. Tallarico is an awful candidate. Are
(10:22):
people just not taking him seriously enough? Because as Buck
just laid out, you got a vegan pro trans weirdo.
who is running for office. And Texans just think there's
no way this guy's gonna win. Whereas Beto was actually
pretty compelling.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
He was a great candidate. Am I wrong here? How
would you assess those two?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
You are dead on. Ted Cruz beat Beto by one
percentage point. President Trump came in at the end and
really rallied the forces. And he's doing the same thing
for Paxton. The national Republican establishment led by Karl Rove,
which is why Fox is trashing Paxton every day. It's
amazing what they're doing. Karl Rove would rather a Democrat
win because he got defeated with the candidate he owned,
(11:02):
which was John Cornyn. So Rove and the establishment and
the other senators, they're not spending any money on Paxton.
So we're counting on Trump to bring in a lot
of money, which he's committed to do. Elon has committed
to bring in a lot of money. Ted Cruz is
bringing in from his pack a lot of money, and
it's out. on the hustings, Paxton's gonna work his butt off.
What people are gonna have to see is it's not
a referendum on Paxton, it's a referendum on Tallarico, cuz
(11:25):
you don't wanna sit in there for six years. But
Paxton's record, Clay, is amazing. He's brought over $ 5. 1 billion
back to Texas. He sued Meta in one, he sued
Google in one, he sued Big Pharma in one. He
sued the Purdue folks with the pain medication. He sued
these Medicare fraudsters in one. He's the best attorney general
(11:45):
in the country. So did he go through a divorce?
Was it unpleasant? Yeah. I haven't known anybody who went
through a pleasant divorce. It's ugly. It's unfortunate all the
way around. But there's a lot of things that the
outside public doesn't see and doesn't need to know. Is
he going to do a good job?
Speaker 8 (11:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
He's a mechanic who's going to fix your car. He's
a quarterback that's going to score touchdowns. He's a senator
who's going to vote for Trump, and that's why Trump's
supporting him. So we can be proud of the senator
he will be, and we would be ashamed of who
Tallarico is.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
So, Michael, we're talking to Michael Baer, everybody. It's our
talk based out of Houston. You're all familiar with his show.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
Michael, we're getting people that write in, call in, all
of the above, and they're upset because they say, I'm seeing... Again,
I don't live in Texas, so I'm not seeing it,
but they're saying, I'm seeing all over local TV, all
over the airwaves, nothing but Tallarico ads. Obviously, this guy's
getting a lot of money from the state. I'm sure
plenty of money from in-state, too, but a lot of
(12:39):
money from out-of-state. And it's all over the place. They
feel like there's saturation. There's Tallarico saturation going on. They're
living in a Tallarico world, right?
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Where's Paxton?
Speaker 7 (12:50):
Are you telling us that the cavalry is coming and
you're going to be seeing a lot more Paxton and
you're confident in that? Or is there a little bit
more of a wake up call where Paxton's people thought, oh,
we didn't need to spend money, but now we're going
to have to.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Right.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Is it is this.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
Tactical or is this a reorienting of Paxton's campaign?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
No, it's scrambling. I mean, if you win the Super
Bowl the next season, you start having had less time
off and less time to regroup and less, you don't
get the first round draft pick. Paxton, I mean, Tallarico
had an easy, easy primary with Jasmine Crockett, but he
pissed off a lot of black voters and he's really
struggling with black voters. He's pandering in a manner right
(13:30):
now that makes Tim Walz look authentic. It's sad for him.
So he's struggling with black voters really badly. And Paxton
started with zero. The Republican establishment spent over $ 100 million
attacking him. And as soon as he came out of that,
then California, Reid Hoffman, Epstein, Buddy, and the like is
after him. And they're pouring all this money. I mean,
(13:50):
the last number I saw, I know you have the
Attorney General on shortly, he can tell you. Last number
I saw was they spent $ 70 million just since then.
Paxton started at zero. So he's going out. Cruz is
helping him. President Trump is weighing in heavily now. Elon
is very involved. He's got the big TerraFab project here.
He wants his new home state to have the right U.S. senator.
I mean, Paxton would be a great senator because he's
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been a great attorney general. And once people see his
actual record and who Tallarico is, they're going to turn
to Paxton. I would argue that the election just began
two days ago, September 1st. That's when the independents and
the moderates start paying attention. They realize Tallarico is a
guy who grew up in a Bible Belt state in
a small town where they played Friday night football and
(14:34):
Sunday morning church. And they wear guns and they work
in the oil field. And he's against all of that.
He comes back home to Texas from Harvard looking like
Rachel Maddow and sounding like the love child of Abdul
El-Sayed and Bernie Sanders. It's not going to fly in
Texas and Texans are paying attention to it now.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
You mentioned black voters. Jasmine Crockett ran a campaign. I said,
I don't know if you echoed it, that I actually
thought Jasmine Crockett was a bigger threat to Ken Paxton,
more talented politician.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Believe it or not, more normal politician.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Um uh for a lot of texans i'm not saying
jasmine crockett was a uh was a perfect uh representation
of texas by any stretch of the imagination but i
think she's a better representation of the democrat party in
texas than talarico is and for casual voters i think
she likely would have had better appeal um what is
going to happen with black voters is there a great
deal of reticence there is jasmine crockett going to be
(15:30):
on the campaign trail how is that all playing out
a lot of talk about the republican side what about
the democrat side.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Well, Clay, you guys have talked about it. Nice profile
in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, by the way.
Speaker 8 (15:41):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Thank you. Not too bad. The Wall Street Journal is
saying something nice. Yeah. You know, the Democrat Party is
in the middle of an absolute rift, a civil war,
kind of like what we went through with the Republican
Party in 2016 when all these voters came to the
table and said, hey, we're taking over this party. The
Tea Party folks, the MAGA folks, the Trump folks, the populists,
(16:02):
the nationalists, the Christians. And there was this resettling of
the table, and we're still at the tail end of that.
The Democrats are just beginning this. So Tallarico can't decide
on Monday if he's a Democrat socialist or if he
wants to pretend he's a Texan in a rented truck,
no joke. and a cowboy hat that didn't fit. And
Chris knew cowboy get up that he's never worn before.
(16:24):
I mean, he's wrong on every single, he wanted an
open border with the front porch and Democrat Socialist. He
is out of touch and he does not have black support.
He is sort of this new DSA candidate, whereas Jasmine
was the old-style black Democrat, and the old Democrats are
really struggling. You hear this with Bill Maher, or you
see what Fetterman's saying, or you see what Rahm Emanuel's
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saying out of Chicago, or listen to James Carville in Louisiana.
This new breed, which Tallarico is part of, it gives
a great discomfort to Texans. It's like watching Tim Walsh
do jazz hands as he comes out on the stage,
and you see Tallarico, and you go, I see a
lot of frightening similarities.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Michael, before we let you go, I'm just wondering, outside
of your home state of Texas, where, by the way,
Clay and I have to come down there and visit.
You've got your buddy Jesse Kelly just down the road.
We've got fun stuff to do when we come out
of Texas. We'll go drink with Ted Cruz or somebody
who's down there.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
We'll have a lot of fun.
Speaker 7 (17:19):
We've got to come visit, but beside that, outside of
your home state, What is the Senate race that you
are either most concerned about or most dialed in on
because of how important it is?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Those things kind of bleed together.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
But which one are you really looking at and following
with the most intensity?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I'll tell you that Texans are so proud of Florida
and what Florida has become since DeSantis won in 2018.
And he barely won over a guy that ended up
butt naked and drugged out of his mind in a
hotel room a few weeks, a few months later, the
former mayor of Tallahassee. I'm not worried about the Florida
seat against Nixon. I am worried about Michigan, and I'm
(17:59):
watching Michigan closely, and it's going to be interesting to
see how many Democrats are willing to go over for
Rogers and vote for a Republican and hold their nose
because they realize Abdul El-Sayed is a– they can't dress
him up in cowboy duds like they do Tallarico. They
can only make him so local. He has too much
of a past. and his Hassan Piker Association. I think
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that race, if Republicans can win that seat and hold Texas,
this is going to be a good next two years,
next six years.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
Michael Berry, everybody. Zara Talk out of Houston. Great to
talk to you, buddy. Thanks for being here with us.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Thank you, guys. Always appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
You've got the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
We've all got a new tattoo, so there's that.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
I was thinking, you know.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Isn't really made that big a deal out of doing
a 43-day fast.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Oh, he's made a big deal of it now. Yeah.
Look what you did, Marcus Luttrell.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I said, hey, I'm going to mention your tattoo on
the show at some point today.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Is that all right? And he said, yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
My parents don't know yet. Well, it ain't exactly the
first one. Let's not get ourselves. You got a stupid
Superman on the side. This boy does get impressed with himself,
doesn't he? I just realized that. By the way, a
bit of advice. Do not order hay for your horse
off of Amazon. After a couple of days, they'll ask
(19:38):
for your feedback. A lonely frog telephones a psychic hotline
and asks what his future holds.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
His personal psychic advisor tells him. him, you're going to.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Meet a beautiful young girl who will want to know
everything about you.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
The frog is thrilled. He says, that is fantastic. Will
I meet her at a party?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
The psychic says, no, in biology class.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Two cannibals meet one day.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
The first cannibal says, you know, I just can't seem
to get a tender missionary.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
I've baked them. I've roasted them. I've stewed them.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
I've tried every sort of marinade. I just can't seem
to get them tender. Second cannibal asks, what kind of
missionary did you use? The other replied, you know, the
ones that hang out at that place at the bend
of the river, they have those brown cloaks with a
rope around the waist and they're sort of bald on
top with a funny ring of hair on their heads.
The second cannibal says, you goof, no wonder.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Those are fryers.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
That's why he couldn't get them tender, Ramone, because he
was roasting them and stewing them and every sort of marinade,
but he couldn't get them tender.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
You goof, those are fryers.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
You big dummy those are friars glad you are the
first call of the week be awesome 713-999-1000 you can
always email me through the website michaelberryshow.com okay i.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
Just got a couple comments one uh As far as
Paxton is concerned, the ads that I'm seeing him run,
which is basically the whole idea that's sort of anti-mental midget,
the fact that the Chinese are buying up a lot
of land, I don't think a lot of people really
care about that, particularly with the amount of land that
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they're buying up is probably the size of a postage
stamp compared to everything that's in Texas. The other thing
I don't understand... Let's stop there, because it'll be too complicated.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
So.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
In your opinion, that's not the issue they should buy
an add-on to win votes.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Bingo. Okay.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
And how many people have you talked about it?
Speaker 3 (22:11):
How many people? I'm sorry?
Speaker 1 (22:12):
How many people have you talked to about this?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Oh, probably two or three. Okay.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Let me ask you this because I get this a lot.
Why do you think they ran that spot? Do you
think they ran that spot on the basis of we
have no idea what we're going to talk about, but
let's pick this one thing? Or do you think there's
a chance that they know something you don't know and
that they've done polling that said that's an issue that
matters and Tallarico is tied to it and you can't
(22:40):
deny it?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Which one would you think that would be? I would
think it would be the latter.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Right.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
And so if you're running a campaign and you're looking
at data, that says, here's what we're going to hit
him with, a series of 7, 9, 11, 17 things, right?
And you're going to start with one of the top
five that the polls tell you.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Not you, not me, not.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
The guy at the coffee shop, not Stan Dukeman. You
are seeing the data that the voters you need— care
about this issue and you've got the goods on Tallarico,
wouldn't you do it?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Well, yeah, I certainly would do it.
Speaker 8 (23:21):
It's just that there's kind of a contradiction, because on
one side, we hear people say, don't really trust the polls,
particularly because they're typically slanted toward a Democratic viewpoint anyway.
And now you're basically saying, yeah, let's go ahead and
trust the polls and make the polls.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Well, it makes all the difference in the world. It
makes all the difference.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
It's who's doing the poll, who conducts it, what you ask,
and who you ask. So a poll that is taken
for the purpose of convincing Clyde and Michael Berry that
Tallarico is going to win, you could do that. I
can write that poll. I can give you the mix
of people to talk to, registered voters versus likely. There's
(24:01):
a lot of things we could do. But you do
internal polling that you don't release, and you ask questions
that the public doesn't know. And they're seeing from that
that the Chinese issue is very important. to a certain
demographic that you need. So I understand the frustration from you.
(24:21):
I get this all the time. People will say, you know,
sports fans, you know, why did they put this player in?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
And then the guy hits a home run.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
You find out that the guy that they wanted in
there has a broken ankle, but they didn't want.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Anybody to know, and he couldn't go up there. He
ain't Kirk Gibson.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
So what I would say is there are things at
play that– that you don't know that's not to say
you can't question we can't discuss them but i will
tell you this that's not a dumb ad well.
Speaker 8 (24:48):
I guess we'll all decide whether that was a good
thing or not in a couple of months.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
But you had another one i interrupted you.
Speaker 8 (24:57):
The other thing, I wish that Paxton would come out
and basically expose his various foibles. In other words, talk
about his divorce. Talk about the things that Tallarico is
kind of bringing up. But talk about it in the
light of, yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
I made a mistake. But, you know, I've been in
the ring.
Speaker 8 (25:14):
I've had a lot of fights. And I know the
way the system works. This metal midget who basically looks
like he came out of junior high school hasn't a
clue as to how things actually do work. You know,
go ahead and let people know that, yeah, I've got
a couple of black marks against me.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
So what?
Speaker 8 (25:31):
You're going to get those when you're in the ring
talking about these issues, fighting these various, you know, bringing
up these lawsuits against so on and so forth. So
I know the way the system works. This other guy
doesn't have a clue.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Right. No, I.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I hear this. I hear this. And where would you
have him do that? What would be the format where
he would do that?
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Probably, well, obviously an ad would be the format.
Speaker 8 (25:57):
But in the ad, kind of sit down instead of
surrounding himself with a bunch of, you know, people, you know,
psychopaths who are just kind of sitting there and listening
to him. here's what happened here here's you know yeah
i own 15 homes or whatever you know but but
you know 14 of those are just rental properties because
(26:17):
i'm a good investor yeah i i have this amount
of money.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
But this is how it was how.
Speaker 8 (26:22):
It was uh uh accumulated over the years i haven't
done anything wrong or maybe maybe i did do a
couple of things wrong and you know yeah but but
but i had to do.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
It okay i'm up against the break cloud let me
just say this Paxton is still introducing himself this cycle
to a lot of people, okay? He's still introducing Tallarico
because people don't know all the stuff Tallarico has done.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
And he hasn't had any money until now.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
So I know everybody wants to run the campaign and
everybody wants to say the candidates should be better. We're
either going to have a Democrat representing California from Texas
or we're not.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
It's going to come down. It's that simple.
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