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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
The biggest question, not even close, The most popular question
that we got asked is are you single? Are you single?
So you have a girlfriend? I do have many years I.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Do, and she is She is my rock, she is
my best friend.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I don't know if I could have gotten through the
last six months of this crazy race if if she
hadn't been by my side. So yeah, thanks for asking
about her as well.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Do you want kids one day? What? What do you
what can you share with us about?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Well, now you sound like my mom asking when I'm
when I'm going to give her another grand baby.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I definitely do. I definitely do want to have kids
one day.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
You know, it's kind of hard in the middle of
this campaign to think, you know, the next week ahead.
It's certainly hard to think that far in advance. But
it's definitely something that I want to do one day.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
So we have jan Thinner's about ready.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I'm not hungry.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Hey, what's the problem, let's talk about it. There's nothing
to talk about. Genuinely make it worse. Keeping it yourself.
Nobody understands. Oh, I think we do chan Clark Tyson
is just one boy. One of these days you'll meet
another one.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
You sure will one hundreds of them.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Well, you mustn't feel left out because you don't have
a boyfriend now. But I do have a boyfriend. Oh
you do. He's one of the nicest boys in the
school and he thinks I'm super cool. That's wonderful, Jane.
What's his name? His name is George George What?
Speaker 5 (02:05):
Georgia, George Glass, George Glass.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I'lcome wash it for dinner.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
Yeah, my old girlfriend from Oklahoma was going to fly
out here from the dance, but she couldn't because she's
doing some modeling right now.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Is he?
Speaker 7 (02:42):
What?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
See for yourself? Wow?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I took her to the mall to get some glamour
shots for her birthday. One year I laid her bank.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Me too.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Later in the show, we will speak to the nurse
with the nurse who unwittingly became the whistleblower for the
fact that Texas Children's Hospital was engaged in a violation
of Medicare Medicaid laws. I believe it is. We'll find
out exactly what happened. Let me not say that until
(03:28):
I'm certain I have the details correct, but as I
understand it, they were running a transition clinic.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
They were.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Transitioning children from boy to girl and girl to boy.
This is more than shirts and skins, you know, putting
on a red penny and then red rover you go
over and you switch over to a blue penny, because
now you're on that dodgeball team and this one. You're
(03:59):
talking about a major surgery and we're not changing something
minor here. You're talking about redoing the plumbing, the hormones,
everything that is a part of a child's identity. It's
incredible to think that people could think this was okay.
(04:23):
She'll be our guest, and coming up in the next
segment will be the Attorney General in the state of
Texas who brought the case against Texas Children's Hospital. They
have now settled, and as part of that settlement, they
are opening a d transitioning clinic so that the children
who were harmed by all of this can begin the
(04:45):
long and arduous process of returning to their god assigned gender.
Attorney General Ken Paxton will be our guests in about
six or seven minutes to talk about that and his
campaign to be the next United States Senator. Today is
election day in Wisconsin and other places. That is the
(05:07):
most watched state where you have Francesca Hong, who is
an avowed Democrat Socialist of America candidate who has surged
toward the Democrat nomination, and by all accouncil it's like
she's going to win and she's going to be tough
to beat. There the socialists who are really communists have
(05:28):
taken over the Democrat Party and it happened much faster
than anyone could have imagined. Today's going to be an
interesting day with interesting race results. Tonight, wife said to
her husband, honey, is that a moose falling from the sky?
(05:48):
He said, it's reindeer? Or maybe he said it's rain. Dear,
oh god, do it both ways. Wife said to her husband, honey,
is that a moose falling from the sky? The husband said,
(06:13):
it's rain deer. Okay, that's one. Woman said to her husband, honey,
is that a moose falling from the sky? The husband said,
it's rain. There I got talking to a guy with
a heavy Russian accent and he told me that he
(06:35):
used to work for the KGB. I said, wow, you
must have some amazing stories. He said about me, or
about you. Son said to his dad, I watched someone
do fifty pushups. You think you could do that? Dad said,
(06:56):
of course, son on a bragman, I probably watched someone
to a hundred push ups. I wasn't done. See what's
(07:19):
going on with these little league games that are now
being played out not on the baseball field, but in
the courtroom. It's a crazy story. What's going on there.
The boys from Bernie thought they punched their ticket to
the Little League World Series in Williamsport after they beat
Ascension Paris and what was initially supposed to be the
elimination game, then Tulsa Little League was disqualified over an
(07:43):
ineligible player, so the elimination game turned into a winner
take all Southwest Regional Championship final. Then last night a
Waco judge granted a temporary restraining order ordering the team
from Tulsa to play Bernie today for the Southwest Regional title.
And in all likelihood, apparently from what I understand, Bernie
(08:04):
burned their best pictures yesterday playing in what they thought
was a championship game. They didn't hold anything back, and
if you know anything about little league baseball, at that
pitch counts everything. Oh, it's crazy. Attorney General Ken Paxton,
our next United States Senator, is our guest. Coming up
on the Pulse.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
The King of Team continues on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
The Attorney General of the State of Texas, Ken Paxton,
is our guest. He is vying to be our next
United States Senator in the November election after a bruising
Republican primary. General Paxton, Welcome to the program.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Good morning, Michael, thanks for having me back on.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Well, this is a tough race. It's well, it was
the most watched race in the country. I think Michigan
is now in competition for that. You obviously have had
everything possible thrown at you to elect tall Rico. I
know there is a lot of frustration. I hear it.
(09:10):
What's the Paxton campaign doing, what's the path to victory.
Let's talk about fundraising. I know that's been difficult. You
beat a twenty four year incumbent, obviously stepped on a
lot of toes. There's been some concern will there be
the money there to run the campaign it takes to win.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
I'mary there was eight months left until the general election.
We have a super long runoff three months which used
to be four weeks. It was changed, so then I
had to go raise money spend it during that three
month period of time, which allowed me to win my
runoff pretty decently. During that period of time, Dame Clarica
(09:52):
was raising lots of money out of state, particularly California,
and I think here is about thirty million dollars between
California and Act Blue from all of the probably world.
So as of June first, I had zero dollars. He
had thirty million. So we've been trying to accumulate to
raise the money. The challenge in Texas July and July
(10:12):
and first two weeks of ours started challenging because a
lot of people are gone. But look we are still.
We've worked it, we're raising money. We've got to keep
raising money because every dollar we raise allows us to
start sooner. But we definitely need we do need to
outfut help and we need more people getting at Kimpaxton
dot com because we are behind, not because we want
(10:34):
to be. We were behind because of that three month
lag sure, which is really prime time fundraising time in
the spring. So that's that's really the main issue. That's why.
And now when we started we only had five months
from the time that we finished on the election only
four and a half months till early liddings. So given
that we are the summer, it's a challenge to raise
(10:55):
you know, the kind of money we need to raise
that fast.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
It is tough. You have a record. Voters know that.
That's why you won the primary against a four term
city US Senator's been over one hundred million dollars, just
unheard of. You've been rewarded by the voters who want
a man of action to go to Washington, d C.
Let's talk about some of the things you've done. The
d transition clinic deal that you got out of Texas
(11:20):
Children's Hospital I consider a huge accomplishment. Talk a little
bit about that case, and because that's really your record,
that's what we're sending you there.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
For, right so, I know it was very concerned. Is
this sort of transitioning of children started taking effect and
became a sing not just in Texas but all over
the country. And we came out initially sort of the
first cello, which was we I came out with an
opinion saying that it was child abuse to transition children.
(11:51):
And then shortly thereafter, within that year, the legislature allowed
me to do something about it. So we've gone after
doctors and we put them out of business. We've gone
after hospitals and made them leave the state. In this case,
Texas Children's Hospital obviously a Texas hospital and been here
a long time and done a lot of good work,
but they were transitioning children as well. So we sued them.
(12:13):
Got thouss millions, actually millions of records so that they
were misleading Medicaid and the Texas health care system and
hiding their billing of transitioning children, and so we suit them.
We got an agreement that they would give the state
and the million, but also set up a the transitioning unit.
(12:36):
We don't think there's been one ever set up anywhere
in the country. And their agreement was they would set
it up for five years and they would not charge anybody.
Any kid that was affected by this would not be
charged for the first five years. So it gives these
these come back or at least have some help, because
a lot of them can't afford to come back and
(12:58):
make these changes. So I mean excited about it. I
really really am excited because I hope that other states
will follow suit. So we can provide more options for
these kids.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I know this race is top of mind to President Trump.
He got involved in your primary against a senator, a
pretty risky move on his part. Have y'all talked about
his involvement from here As we get closer to election day,
(13:31):
we got some sort of phone problem.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 7 (13:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:35):
I can.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
You must be traveling because it's cutting in and out,
but go ahead.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
So yeah. So the President is I think, committed to helping.
He's obviously coming here for the midterms. Commit So I
think good for me, good for the state, good for
every candidate. And then a month ago I was in
his office but Dan Patrick for a number of hours
(14:01):
and we discussed in coming to Texas and doing some
rallies and being involved here. So I think you will
see him involved this fall and things to help me.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I compare this race often to twenty eighteen when Democrats
from California and New York pulled a bunch of cash
into Beto O'Rourke against Ted Cruz and they came pretty close.
Cruise won by less than two percentage points, so they
beat the line for sure, and they're going to try
to do that again. But I remember the President's involvement
coming to the Toyota Center, and there was a sense
(14:34):
of energy he brought to that campaign at that time
that was very important. And I know that your race,
I know from inside his camp that your race is
very very important. He understands he's got to keep this
US Senate seat from Texas, and if he has to
be involved, then he will.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
No, there's no doubt. I mean Wheelers Texas. I mean,
there's a lot of bad things to happen, but we're
not going to retain the US Senate Republican control. Obviously,
other bad things happening out as socialist Democrat at the
top of the ticket and here for six years doing
bad things for Texas. So you know, there's a lot
of huge downsides to not winning that race. For your rights.
(15:14):
Very similar people didn't think we could possibly lose that
race that Ted Cruz won by, as you said, less
than two points. But if you don't take it seriously,
if Republicans don't get out to vote, we can lose
the race. And there is definitely in Republican states, there
tends to be an enthusiasm gap between Democrats and Republicans.
(15:34):
In Republican states like Michigan and Maine. The Republicans are
motivated because they've they've got bad leadership, and they're still
willing to go out and vote. So we have a
risk here of apathy among Republicans and not being motivated.
I see the Republicans out and we'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
I think you are absolutely right. We will be talking
a lot between now and November. Attorney General Paxson, good luck,
thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
From Portland to Walbany, all Greek cities in between. The
Michael Berry Show is nationwide.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
It was on this day twelve years ago that Robin
Williams passed, revealing to the world something most people didn't know,
and that was his deep, long time struggle with mental health,
(16:37):
and of course he took his own life. It was
on this day that I think a lot of people
recognized that there is a face we show to the
world and sometimes that's not what we're going through in
our real lives. And I think to some extent it
(16:59):
is an inverse of that. I have seen cases where
a person, a public person, takes their own life and
it will often be said he's the last or she's
the last person you would ever expect and then you
start to notice the consistency of this theme that a
(17:21):
person is is. It's a carefully staged act to avoid
anyone noticing what's going on. I think that too many
people in this country are in therapy and counseling and
whatever other forms of that. I think far too many.
(17:44):
I think there are too many people are doing it,
and they're doing it for too long. And the reason is,
if you're a therapist, it's a subscription model. Ever, no
one is ever healed. You need to talk, You need
to talk forever, and you need to pay for it.
And you've got now government streams of funding. Now. The
(18:05):
beauty of the industry, and this is where they deserve
a lot of credit, is that not only have they
managed to build a consensus among most adult Americans that
it's very important, they have managed to build in how
to overcome objection, so that if you're a person who
(18:28):
says I think we're spending too much money and time
on therapy and counseling and all this, then you're a
bad person. People have been have been taught how to
justify that, and we saw a lot of that during COVID,
for instance, where you had a government takeover of the
agency of the human body, and they taught people that
(18:49):
if anyone questions, they're a bad person for doing that.
You're trying to kill Grandma. So you're really equipping people
with the next phase, which is how to deal with
the objections to how much counseling you're actually getting. I
don't know that there is a simple answer to this.
(19:11):
I do think that it has become an acceptable form
of a self indulgence, and I think that a number
of people who struggle with mental help with mental health
have sought out this sort of thing as some sort
(19:35):
of comfort, and in many cases I think it doesn't work.
But I do think it's a problem. I think it's
a problem on a number of different levels. That being said,
I also think there are a lot of people who
struggle with mental health and it pains me to see,
(19:57):
to hear, to understand what they go through. I will
tell you, and I'm not joking. On a very serious note,
I feel sorry for Lena Hidalgo because she clearly has
very very deep, troubling problems and they're being played out
(20:21):
in front of her phone and then she posts it.
They're being played out in these sort of petulant displays
at County Commissioner's court, and everyone down there is just
very eager. It's like a bad dinner where dad yells
at everybody. You're just trying to, you know, keep the
(20:44):
momentum going. Let's get this dinner over with so we
can get out of here. They're just waiting on her
to be gone, and she knows that she's now Yesterday
she said, I decided I'm going to write about these
very troubling things that are going on at the county
(21:04):
in a sub stack, so please be the first to
read it. So now she's trying to build an audience
for her mad rantings. And you know, she got married
and we had the over the top wedding and you
had people doing business with the county who paid for
this big destination wedding, and then that the nerd if
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you remember, in just a few months he's out, and
so that played out in public, and it's all it's
all so tawdry to watch, and leaving aside the fact
that this is a very important position, and this is
what the Democrats do. They put people like her into
office without any regard for the consequences for the job
(21:46):
that needs to be done. If CJ. Stroud was having
these absolute breakdowns after every play and the team had
never scored in you know, ten weeks, you'd say bench
him and put somebody else in there. But they don't
do that, although I guess to some extent they kind
of have. Anyway, the Robin Williams thing has always bothered
me because you'd think Robin Williams had it all right.
(22:10):
Robin Williams had the ability to make all of us
smile and the ability to entertain us, make us laugh.
It's a very very powerful tool. And in fact he
had the ability to improve the mood of all of
us and not himself. And in a sense that's sort
of that's maybe the greatest tragedy of all. In this
(22:33):
scene from Good Morning Vietnam, it's Adrian Cronauer's debut on
American Forces Network in Vietnam. You'll remember this good money.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
Hey, this is not a test. This is rock and roll.
Time to rock it from the Delta to the DMZ.
Is that me or does that sound like an Elvis
Presley movie? Vivo dy ning, Oh, Vivo dyning. Don'nung me
went on a robe and hung there. Hey, it's a
little too early for being that loud?
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Hey too late? It's six hundred.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
What's the O stand for?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Oh my god, it's early? Speaking of early, how.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
About that chromag now, Marty.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Dry, what'sych you Marty for? Selky smooth sound?
Speaker 7 (23:21):
Make me sound like Peggy Lee?
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Good morning Vietnam.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
What the heck is that supposed to me? I don't know, Lutan,
I guess it means good morning Vietnam.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
Who gave anyone permission to program out of musing?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
You know what's amazing is I'll bet you as Ramon noted,
well it was playing. He said, I'll bet you if
you read the script, there'd be three words, let Robin cook.
Just let him go. They didn't know if that scene
was going to be twenty seconds that monologue, or that
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that that performance of him there and throughout, or whether
that was going to be five minutes. Just let him cook,
Let him do what he does and we'll see. Fun
fact related to that, to Adrian Cronow, that was a
true story about that that DJ on Armed Forces Network.
The person who replaced Adrian Cronower when he left Vietnam,
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the person who replaced him on that station in that
role was you know, you don't know, you have a guess,
was not Wolfman Jack, but how cool would that have been?
The person who replaced Adrian Cronower in real life when
Cronower was recalled from Vietnam in that role was former
(24:48):
Astro's broadcaster Bill Brown.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
Exclusively produced by Hawaiian Chad mcnishi.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Aloha bro Han to The Michael Barry Show. That of
course is a Billy Pauls. But we played that because
it is a celebration of the any third birthday of
songwriter Kenny Gamble born in Philadelphia, a city that is
(25:16):
a well spring of great soul and funk music. The
Philadelphia Sound does not get talked about enough. A lot
of what people think of as Motown is actually the
Philadelphia Sound. Some great music in the American songbook, especially
from the late sixties and through the mid to late
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seventies that from that little crap hole who was it.
A friend of mine was coming back from Philly the
other day and they were saying how bad Philadelphia is.
It really seems to have gone into a terrible decline.
(25:58):
Of course, Rob Brieese will tell you that it's great.
But Robberies, you follow Robberies you don't follow robberies on
social huh, yeah, well it's Robert, but now he's going
by rob I don't I don't know if he's you
call him Reese. I've never called him Reese. He's Robert
to me, but nobody calls him right Rob. I don't
know if it's like a cool thing or what he's
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he is sixty five, that's a com He's at that
age where men start like they're gonna have that one
final you know, get they roll up and they're in
there convertible and you're like, oh, yeah, you look young.
Oh that's weird, right, And he's like, oh, man, I
go to the old folks home every day. You're that's
what you're Yeah, you're you're almost right there at the
(26:40):
last minute. You're riding around with the top off. Yeah.
But anyway, so he'll go places and he'll post these
pictures and like, ah, that Philadelphia is great. I don't know,
I didn't know how great. And you're thinking, dear God,
this is gonna be weird at his funeral when he
gets mugged and killed, you know, walking along it one
am talking about how great it is drinking a dak
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or uh but he didn't, thank God, and then he
was at he was at the Hall of Fame. You
see this for Drew Brees, And all I'm thinking is, oh,
the same Drew Brees that came out when when the
players were all screaming racism, and the same guy that
put the little sticker on his hat. He didn't have
to do that, He didn't need to do that, but
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he did. He made a clown of himself. But I
will say this, I will say this, the guy I
don't think he You know, he's not a physical specimen.
Do you go to Westlake High School of No, Well,
neither one of them is physical specimen. He's as big
as him. But uh, Drew Brees. You talk about a
guy that drained every bit of performance out of his body.
(27:46):
Give Drew Brees credit for that. That little sawed off,
little tiny fella. He's not big, he's not strong, he's
not fast. He's gotta be smart. But he he just
managed to to by hook or by crook as a
thinking man's quarterback, just thread the needle, just dead and
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he willed those teams to victories. And if you think
about it, remember he was in was it San Diego
with the Chargers and they have to decide between him
and Philip Rivers, and they go with him, not like
Rivers is a you know, pushover. But boy did they
ever make a mistake on that. Maybe he didn't go
to New Orleans. You know, they caught lightning in a bottle?
(28:28):
Was it two thousand and five or two thousand and six?
Team two thousand and five was Katrina? What month was
Katrina in? It was this summer? Was it September? So
that was the year that they remember they had the
hole in Mercedes ben Stadium. Yeah, that was That was
a magical year. And they had they had the little
fellow from USC Reggie Bush. Yep, he he had. I
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don't think he had a great pro career, but I
remember that everything everything jelled for that team that year.
It was it was. It was magical anyway. So Robert
or Reese as you call him, was at the Hall
of Fame this weekend, and so he was posting pictures
and with it a bunch of his buddies, And all
I could think on every one of those pictures was
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they were outside all day. He kind of had that
glassy uh, glassy eyed and and he had sort of
you could tell that he was sunburned. But you're you're
trying to have a good time, but you know you're dehydrated,
and you're day drinking. And you started early, right because
he's from New Orleans, you know, they they started with
the with the Hair of the Dog, and and you
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know he's posting these things at about noon or one
o'clock and and he's not hammered yet, but he's got
that that buzz and you know, you're you don't know
you're dehydrated, but you can see if you're watching it,
you're dehydrated, and you're telling yourself you're having a good time.
And all I'm thinking is I'm gonna drink some water
and sit on the couch in the air conditioning. I
do not want to be where he is right now.
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But but he looks like he's having fun, and that's
all it matters. I say all that because he might
have got mugged in Cleveland too, but he, to his credit,
it's all perspective. To his credit, he's coming back. He's like,
I never been to the Mistake on the Lake or
whatever is that acron or Cleveland, which one is. Uh, yeah,
he said, I've never been, but it's a it's a
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really nice town. And I'm thinking, man, I wish I
could be that positive about something so trashy and awful.
But to his credit, you know, he's willing himself to
have a good time. I am that way with what.
Catfish's not trashing awful. Catfish's that's mother's milk to me.
We're gonna say that's what we should do it. Go
fund me for Robert Rees and send him to Detroit.
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Now send him into Harlem. Yeah, you know, people say
that that Harlem is not nice, but you know they
had a renaissance and and jazz and poetry and Langston
Hughes wrote some great things. And here's me and my
friend was not managing to not get mugged. Yeah, that's
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that would be a fun little bit to send Robert
Rees to war zones. Well, here we are in Kabul.
Everybody said it was going to be terrible, uh but
but frankly, it was quite interesting and it felt like
I was I was playing GTA in real life. It was.
It was quite wonderful. We're gonna talk to the nurse
in just a moment, who I don't really know all
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the details, but she was involved in the UH in
the revelation at Texas Children's Hospital was transitioning kids. That's
the case that Attorney General Ken Paxton UH fought on
behalf of the Texas UH the citizenry of Texas and won.
And now they've had to open a d transition clinic
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to try to undo some of the damage that that
they did. UH. Some of you asked about the phone call.
My guess is I didn't I didn't get where he's from.
But if you drive around our great state, you know
that there are apache es Owes. His cell phone was
cutting in and out. That doesn't mean he wouldn't be
a good senator. And by the way, Ken Paxton's not
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a great speaker, I understand, And I don't know where
some of you got this idea that you elect people
to the United States Senate based on the fact that
they give speeches. That Bill Clinton gives a good speech,
Barack Obama gives a good speech. There are orators that
are really good speakers, and they get up there and
vote the wrong way. This whole idea that this is
(32:32):
a somehow rhetorical competition is silly. People have gotten convinced
of this and that's dumb. There's nothing to do with anything.
I will tell you I don't think Ken Paxton's a
good speaker. Okay, I think he's the best Attorney General
we've ever had. The record speaks to that he did
really really good things. But on leading to Gibbil Butter
spleechs woggle, why why
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
The biggest question, not even close, The most popular question
that we got asked is are you single? Are you single?
So you have a girlfriend? I do have many years I.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Do, and she is She is my rock, she is
my best friend.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I don't know if I could have gotten through the
last six months of this crazy race if if she
hadn't been by my side. So yeah, thanks for asking
about her as well.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Do you want kids one day? What? What do you
what can you share with us about?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Well, now you sound like my mom asking when I'm
when I'm going to give her another grand baby.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I definitely do. I definitely do want to have kids
one day.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
You know, it's kind of hard in the middle of
this campaign to think, you know, the next week ahead.
It's certainly hard to think that far in advance. But
it's definitely something that I want to do one day.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
So we have jan Thinner's about ready.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I'm not hungry.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Hey, what's the problem, let's talk about it. There's nothing
to talk about. Genuinely make it worse. Keeping it yourself.
Nobody understands. Oh, I think we do chan Clark Tyson
is just one boy. One of these days you'll meet
another one.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
You sure will one hundreds of them.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Well, you mustn't feel left out because you don't have
a boyfriend now. But I do have a boyfriend. Oh
you do. He's one of the nicest boys in the
school and he thinks I'm super cool. That's wonderful, Jane.
What's his name? His name is George George What?
Speaker 5 (02:05):
Georgia, George Glass, George Glass.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I'lcome wash it for dinner.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
Yeah, my old girlfriend from Oklahoma was going to fly
out here from the dance, but she couldn't because she's
doing some modeling right now.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Is he?
Speaker 7 (02:42):
What?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
See for yourself? Wow?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I took her to the mall to get some glamour
shots for her birthday. One year I laid her bank.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Me too.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Later in the show, we will speak to the nurse
with the nurse who unwittingly became the whistleblower for the
fact that Texas Children's Hospital was engaged in a violation
of Medicare Medicaid laws. I believe it is. We'll find
out exactly what happened. Let me not say that until
(03:28):
I'm certain I have the details correct, but as I
understand it, they were running a transition clinic.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
They were.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Transitioning children from boy to girl and girl to boy.
This is more than shirts and skins, you know, putting
on a red penny and then red rover you go
over and you switch over to a blue penny, because
now you're on that dodgeball team and this one. You're
(03:59):
talking about a major surgery and we're not changing something
minor here. You're talking about redoing the plumbing, the hormones,
everything that is a part of a child's identity. It's
incredible to think that people could think this was okay.
(04:23):
She'll be our guest, and coming up in the next
segment will be the Attorney General in the state of
Texas who brought the case against Texas Children's Hospital. They
have now settled, and as part of that settlement, they
are opening a d transitioning clinic so that the children
who were harmed by all of this can begin the
(04:45):
long and arduous process of returning to their god assigned gender.
Attorney General Ken Paxton will be our guests in about
six or seven minutes to talk about that and his
campaign to be the next United States Senator. Today is
election day in Wisconsin and other places. That is the
(05:07):
most watched state where you have Francesca Hong, who is
an avowed Democrat Socialist of America candidate who has surged
toward the Democrat nomination, and by all accouncil it's like
she's going to win and she's going to be tough
to beat. There the socialists who are really communists have
(05:28):
taken over the Democrat Party and it happened much faster
than anyone could have imagined. Today's going to be an
interesting day with interesting race results. Tonight, wife said to
her husband, honey, is that a moose falling from the sky?
(05:48):
He said, it's reindeer? Or maybe he said it's rain. Dear,
oh god, do it both ways. Wife said to her husband, honey,
is that a moose falling from the sky? The husband said,
(06:13):
it's rain deer. Okay, that's one. Woman said to her husband, honey,
is that a moose falling from the sky? The husband said,
it's rain. There I got talking to a guy with
a heavy Russian accent and he told me that he
(06:35):
used to work for the KGB. I said, wow, you
must have some amazing stories. He said about me, or
about you. Son said to his dad, I watched someone
do fifty pushups. You think you could do that? Dad said,
(06:56):
of course, son on a bragman, I probably watched someone
to a hundred push ups. I wasn't done. See what's
(07:19):
going on with these little league games that are now
being played out not on the baseball field, but in
the courtroom. It's a crazy story. What's going on there.
The boys from Bernie thought they punched their ticket to
the Little League World Series in Williamsport after they beat
Ascension Paris and what was initially supposed to be the
elimination game, then Tulsa Little League was disqualified over an
(07:43):
ineligible player, so the elimination game turned into a winner
take all Southwest Regional Championship final. Then last night a
Waco judge granted a temporary restraining order ordering the team
from Tulsa to play Bernie today for the Southwest Regional title.
And in all likelihood, apparently from what I understand, Bernie
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burned their best pictures yesterday playing in what they thought
was a championship game. They didn't hold anything back, and
if you know anything about little league baseball, at that
pitch counts everything. Oh, it's crazy. Attorney General Ken Paxton,
our next United States Senator, is our guest. Coming up
on the Pulse.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
The King of Team continues on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
The Attorney General of the State of Texas, Ken Paxton,
is our guest. He is vying to be our next
United States Senator in the November election after a bruising
Republican primary. General Paxton, Welcome to the program.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Good morning, Michael, thanks for having me back on.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Well, this is a tough race. It's well, it was
the most watched race in the country. I think Michigan
is now in competition for that. You obviously have had
everything possible thrown at you to elect tall Rico. I
know there is a lot of frustration. I hear it.
(09:10):
What's the Paxton campaign doing, what's the path to victory.
Let's talk about fundraising. I know that's been difficult. You
beat a twenty four year incumbent, obviously stepped on a
lot of toes. There's been some concern will there be
the money there to run the campaign it takes to win.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
I'mary there was eight months left until the general election.
We have a super long runoff three months which used
to be four weeks. It was changed, so then I
had to go raise money spend it during that three
month period of time, which allowed me to win my
runoff pretty decently. During that period of time, Dame Clarica
(09:52):
was raising lots of money out of state, particularly California,
and I think here is about thirty million dollars between
California and Act Blue from all of the probably world.
So as of June first, I had zero dollars. He
had thirty million. So we've been trying to accumulate to
raise the money. The challenge in Texas July and July
(10:12):
and first two weeks of ours started challenging because a
lot of people are gone. But look we are still.
We've worked it, we're raising money. We've got to keep
raising money because every dollar we raise allows us to
start sooner. But we definitely need we do need to
outfut help and we need more people getting at Kimpaxton
dot com because we are behind, not because we want
(10:34):
to be. We were behind because of that three month
lag sure, which is really prime time fundraising time in
the spring. So that's that's really the main issue. That's why.
And now when we started we only had five months
from the time that we finished on the election only
four and a half months till early liddings. So given
that we are the summer, it's a challenge to raise
(10:55):
you know, the kind of money we need to raise
that fast.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
It is tough. You have a record. Voters know that.
That's why you won the primary against a four term
city US Senator's been over one hundred million dollars, just
unheard of. You've been rewarded by the voters who want
a man of action to go to Washington, d C.
Let's talk about some of the things you've done. The
d transition clinic deal that you got out of Texas
(11:20):
Children's Hospital I consider a huge accomplishment. Talk a little
bit about that case, and because that's really your record,
that's what we're sending you there.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
For, right so, I know it was very concerned. Is
this sort of transitioning of children started taking effect and
became a sing not just in Texas but all over
the country. And we came out initially sort of the
first cello, which was we I came out with an
opinion saying that it was child abuse to transition children.
(11:51):
And then shortly thereafter, within that year, the legislature allowed
me to do something about it. So we've gone after
doctors and we put them out of business. We've gone
after hospitals and made them leave the state. In this case,
Texas Children's Hospital obviously a Texas hospital and been here
a long time and done a lot of good work,
but they were transitioning children as well. So we sued them.
(12:13):
Got thouss millions, actually millions of records so that they
were misleading Medicaid and the Texas health care system and
hiding their billing of transitioning children, and so we suit them.
We got an agreement that they would give the state
and the million, but also set up a the transitioning unit.
(12:36):
We don't think there's been one ever set up anywhere
in the country. And their agreement was they would set
it up for five years and they would not charge anybody.
Any kid that was affected by this would not be
charged for the first five years. So it gives these
these come back or at least have some help, because
a lot of them can't afford to come back and
(12:58):
make these changes. So I mean excited about it. I
really really am excited because I hope that other states
will follow suit. So we can provide more options for
these kids.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I know this race is top of mind to President Trump.
He got involved in your primary against a senator, a
pretty risky move on his part. Have y'all talked about
his involvement from here As we get closer to election day,
(13:31):
we got some sort of phone problem.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 7 (13:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:35):
I can.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
You must be traveling because it's cutting in and out,
but go ahead.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
So yeah. So the President is I think, committed to helping.
He's obviously coming here for the midterms. Commit So I
think good for me, good for the state, good for
every candidate. And then a month ago I was in
his office but Dan Patrick for a number of hours
(14:01):
and we discussed in coming to Texas and doing some
rallies and being involved here. So I think you will
see him involved this fall and things to help me.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I compare this race often to twenty eighteen when Democrats
from California and New York pulled a bunch of cash
into Beto O'Rourke against Ted Cruz and they came pretty close.
Cruise won by less than two percentage points, so they
beat the line for sure, and they're going to try
to do that again. But I remember the President's involvement
coming to the Toyota Center, and there was a sense
(14:34):
of energy he brought to that campaign at that time
that was very important. And I know that your race,
I know from inside his camp that your race is
very very important. He understands he's got to keep this
US Senate seat from Texas, and if he has to
be involved, then he will.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
No, there's no doubt. I mean Wheelers Texas. I mean,
there's a lot of bad things to happen, but we're
not going to retain the US Senate Republican control. Obviously,
other bad things happening out as socialist Democrat at the
top of the ticket and here for six years doing
bad things for Texas. So you know, there's a lot
of huge downsides to not winning that race. For your rights.
(15:14):
Very similar people didn't think we could possibly lose that
race that Ted Cruz won by, as you said, less
than two points. But if you don't take it seriously,
if Republicans don't get out to vote, we can lose
the race. And there is definitely in Republican states, there
tends to be an enthusiasm gap between Democrats and Republicans.
(15:34):
In Republican states like Michigan and Maine. The Republicans are
motivated because they've they've got bad leadership, and they're still
willing to go out and vote. So we have a
risk here of apathy among Republicans and not being motivated.
I see the Republicans out and we'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
I think you are absolutely right. We will be talking
a lot between now and November. Attorney General Paxson, good luck,
thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
From Portland to Walbany, all Greek cities in between. The
Michael Berry Show is nationwide.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
It was on this day twelve years ago that Robin
Williams passed, revealing to the world something most people didn't know,
and that was his deep, long time struggle with mental health,
(16:37):
and of course he took his own life. It was
on this day that I think a lot of people
recognized that there is a face we show to the
world and sometimes that's not what we're going through in
our real lives. And I think to some extent it
(16:59):
is an inverse of that. I have seen cases where
a person, a public person, takes their own life and
it will often be said he's the last or she's
the last person you would ever expect and then you
start to notice the consistency of this theme that a
(17:21):
person is is. It's a carefully staged act to avoid
anyone noticing what's going on. I think that too many
people in this country are in therapy and counseling and
whatever other forms of that. I think far too many.
(17:44):
I think there are too many people are doing it,
and they're doing it for too long. And the reason is,
if you're a therapist, it's a subscription model. Ever, no
one is ever healed. You need to talk, You need
to talk forever, and you need to pay for it.
And you've got now government streams of funding. Now. The
(18:05):
beauty of the industry, and this is where they deserve
a lot of credit, is that not only have they
managed to build a consensus among most adult Americans that
it's very important, they have managed to build in how
to overcome objection, so that if you're a person who
(18:28):
says I think we're spending too much money and time
on therapy and counseling and all this, then you're a
bad person. People have been have been taught how to
justify that, and we saw a lot of that during COVID,
for instance, where you had a government takeover of the
agency of the human body, and they taught people that
(18:49):
if anyone questions, they're a bad person for doing that.
You're trying to kill Grandma. So you're really equipping people
with the next phase, which is how to deal with
the objections to how much counseling you're actually getting. I
don't know that there is a simple answer to this.
(19:11):
I do think that it has become an acceptable form
of a self indulgence, and I think that a number
of people who struggle with mental help with mental health
have sought out this sort of thing as some sort
(19:35):
of comfort, and in many cases I think it doesn't work.
But I do think it's a problem. I think it's
a problem on a number of different levels. That being said,
I also think there are a lot of people who
struggle with mental health and it pains me to see,
(19:57):
to hear, to understand what they go through. I will
tell you, and I'm not joking. On a very serious note,
I feel sorry for Lena Hidalgo because she clearly has
very very deep, troubling problems and they're being played out
(20:21):
in front of her phone and then she posts it.
They're being played out in these sort of petulant displays
at County Commissioner's court, and everyone down there is just
very eager. It's like a bad dinner where dad yells
at everybody. You're just trying to, you know, keep the
(20:44):
momentum going. Let's get this dinner over with so we
can get out of here. They're just waiting on her
to be gone, and she knows that she's now Yesterday
she said, I decided I'm going to write about these
very troubling things that are going on at the county
(21:04):
in a sub stack, so please be the first to
read it. So now she's trying to build an audience
for her mad rantings. And you know, she got married
and we had the over the top wedding and you
had people doing business with the county who paid for
this big destination wedding, and then that the nerd if
(21:24):
you remember, in just a few months he's out, and
so that played out in public, and it's all it's
all so tawdry to watch, and leaving aside the fact
that this is a very important position, and this is
what the Democrats do. They put people like her into
office without any regard for the consequences for the job
(21:46):
that needs to be done. If CJ. Stroud was having
these absolute breakdowns after every play and the team had
never scored in you know, ten weeks, you'd say bench
him and put somebody else in there. But they don't
do that, although I guess to some extent they kind
of have. Anyway, the Robin Williams thing has always bothered
me because you'd think Robin Williams had it all right.
(22:10):
Robin Williams had the ability to make all of us
smile and the ability to entertain us, make us laugh.
It's a very very powerful tool. And in fact he
had the ability to improve the mood of all of
us and not himself. And in a sense that's sort
of that's maybe the greatest tragedy of all. In this
(22:33):
scene from Good Morning Vietnam, it's Adrian Cronauer's debut on
American Forces Network in Vietnam. You'll remember this good money.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
Hey, this is not a test. This is rock and roll.
Time to rock it from the Delta to the DMZ.
Is that me or does that sound like an Elvis
Presley movie? Vivo dy ning, Oh, Vivo dyning. Don'nung me
went on a robe and hung there. Hey, it's a
little too early for being that loud?
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Hey too late? It's six hundred.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
What's the O stand for?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Oh my god, it's early? Speaking of early, how.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
About that chromag now, Marty.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Dry, what'sych you Marty for? Selky smooth sound?
Speaker 7 (23:21):
Make me sound like Peggy Lee?
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Good morning Vietnam.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
What the heck is that supposed to me? I don't know, Lutan,
I guess it means good morning Vietnam.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
Who gave anyone permission to program out of musing?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
You know what's amazing is I'll bet you as Ramon noted,
well it was playing. He said, I'll bet you if
you read the script, there'd be three words, let Robin cook.
Just let him go. They didn't know if that scene
was going to be twenty seconds that monologue, or that
(23:58):
that that performance of him there and throughout, or whether
that was going to be five minutes. Just let him cook,
Let him do what he does and we'll see. Fun
fact related to that, to Adrian Cronow, that was a
true story about that that DJ on Armed Forces Network.
The person who replaced Adrian Cronower when he left Vietnam,
(24:25):
the person who replaced him on that station in that
role was you know, you don't know, you have a guess,
was not Wolfman Jack, but how cool would that have been?
The person who replaced Adrian Cronower in real life when
Cronower was recalled from Vietnam in that role was former
(24:48):
Astro's broadcaster Bill Brown.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
Exclusively produced by Hawaiian Chad mcnishi.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Aloha bro Han to The Michael Barry Show. That of
course is a Billy Pauls. But we played that because
it is a celebration of the any third birthday of
songwriter Kenny Gamble born in Philadelphia, a city that is
(25:16):
a well spring of great soul and funk music. The
Philadelphia Sound does not get talked about enough. A lot
of what people think of as Motown is actually the
Philadelphia Sound. Some great music in the American songbook, especially
from the late sixties and through the mid to late
(25:38):
seventies that from that little crap hole who was it.
A friend of mine was coming back from Philly the
other day and they were saying how bad Philadelphia is.
It really seems to have gone into a terrible decline.
(25:58):
Of course, Rob Brieese will tell you that it's great.
But Robberies, you follow Robberies you don't follow robberies on
social huh, yeah, well it's Robert, but now he's going
by rob I don't I don't know if he's you
call him Reese. I've never called him Reese. He's Robert
to me, but nobody calls him right Rob. I don't
know if it's like a cool thing or what he's
(26:19):
he is sixty five, that's a com He's at that
age where men start like they're gonna have that one
final you know, get they roll up and they're in
there convertible and you're like, oh, yeah, you look young.
Oh that's weird, right, And he's like, oh, man, I
go to the old folks home every day. You're that's
what you're Yeah, you're you're almost right there at the
(26:40):
last minute. You're riding around with the top off. Yeah.
But anyway, so he'll go places and he'll post these
pictures and like, ah, that Philadelphia is great. I don't know,
I didn't know how great. And you're thinking, dear God,
this is gonna be weird at his funeral when he
gets mugged and killed, you know, walking along it one
am talking about how great it is drinking a dak
(27:02):
or uh but he didn't, thank God, and then he
was at he was at the Hall of Fame. You
see this for Drew Brees, And all I'm thinking is, oh,
the same Drew Brees that came out when when the
players were all screaming racism, and the same guy that
put the little sticker on his hat. He didn't have
to do that, He didn't need to do that, but
(27:23):
he did. He made a clown of himself. But I
will say this, I will say this, the guy I
don't think he You know, he's not a physical specimen.
Do you go to Westlake High School of No, Well,
neither one of them is physical specimen. He's as big
as him. But uh, Drew Brees. You talk about a
guy that drained every bit of performance out of his body.
(27:46):
Give Drew Brees credit for that. That little sawed off,
little tiny fella. He's not big, he's not strong, he's
not fast. He's gotta be smart. But he he just
managed to to by hook or by crook as a
thinking man's quarterback, just thread the needle, just dead and
(28:07):
he willed those teams to victories. And if you think
about it, remember he was in was it San Diego
with the Chargers and they have to decide between him
and Philip Rivers, and they go with him, not like
Rivers is a you know, pushover. But boy did they
ever make a mistake on that. Maybe he didn't go
to New Orleans. You know, they caught lightning in a bottle?
(28:28):
Was it two thousand and five or two thousand and six?
Team two thousand and five was Katrina? What month was
Katrina in? It was this summer? Was it September? So
that was the year that they remember they had the
hole in Mercedes ben Stadium. Yeah, that was That was
a magical year. And they had they had the little
fellow from USC Reggie Bush. Yep, he he had. I
(28:53):
don't think he had a great pro career, but I
remember that everything everything jelled for that team that year.
It was it was. It was magical anyway. So Robert
or Reese as you call him, was at the Hall
of Fame this weekend, and so he was posting pictures
and with it a bunch of his buddies, And all
I could think on every one of those pictures was
(29:14):
they were outside all day. He kind of had that
glassy uh, glassy eyed and and he had sort of
you could tell that he was sunburned. But you're you're
trying to have a good time, but you know you're dehydrated,
and you're day drinking. And you started early, right because
he's from New Orleans, you know, they they started with
the with the Hair of the Dog, and and you
(29:35):
know he's posting these things at about noon or one
o'clock and and he's not hammered yet, but he's got
that that buzz and you know, you're you don't know
you're dehydrated, but you can see if you're watching it,
you're dehydrated, and you're telling yourself you're having a good time.
And all I'm thinking is I'm gonna drink some water
and sit on the couch in the air conditioning. I
do not want to be where he is right now.
(29:55):
But but he looks like he's having fun, and that's
all it matters. I say all that because he might
have got mugged in Cleveland too, but he, to his credit,
it's all perspective. To his credit, he's coming back. He's like,
I never been to the Mistake on the Lake or
whatever is that acron or Cleveland, which one is. Uh, yeah,
he said, I've never been, but it's a it's a
(30:18):
really nice town. And I'm thinking, man, I wish I
could be that positive about something so trashy and awful.
But to his credit, you know, he's willing himself to
have a good time. I am that way with what.
Catfish's not trashing awful. Catfish's that's mother's milk to me.
We're gonna say that's what we should do it. Go
fund me for Robert Rees and send him to Detroit.
(30:41):
Now send him into Harlem. Yeah, you know, people say
that that Harlem is not nice, but you know they
had a renaissance and and jazz and poetry and Langston
Hughes wrote some great things. And here's me and my
friend was not managing to not get mugged. Yeah, that's
(31:03):
that would be a fun little bit to send Robert
Rees to war zones. Well, here we are in Kabul.
Everybody said it was going to be terrible, uh but
but frankly, it was quite interesting and it felt like
I was I was playing GTA in real life. It was.
It was quite wonderful. We're gonna talk to the nurse
in just a moment, who I don't really know all
(31:26):
the details, but she was involved in the UH in
the revelation at Texas Children's Hospital was transitioning kids. That's
the case that Attorney General Ken Paxton UH fought on
behalf of the Texas UH the citizenry of Texas and won.
And now they've had to open a d transition clinic
(31:48):
to try to undo some of the damage that that
they did. UH. Some of you asked about the phone call.
My guess is I didn't I didn't get where he's from.
But if you drive around our great state, you know
that there are apache es Owes. His cell phone was
cutting in and out. That doesn't mean he wouldn't be
a good senator. And by the way, Ken Paxton's not
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a great speaker, I understand, And I don't know where
some of you got this idea that you elect people
to the United States Senate based on the fact that
they give speeches. That Bill Clinton gives a good speech,
Barack Obama gives a good speech. There are orators that
are really good speakers, and they get up there and
vote the wrong way. This whole idea that this is
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a somehow rhetorical competition is silly. People have gotten convinced
of this and that's dumb. There's nothing to do with anything.
I will tell you I don't think Ken Paxton's a
good speaker. Okay, I think he's the best Attorney General
we've ever had. The record speaks to that he did
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