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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Time, time, luck and load. The Michael Verie Show is
on the air, Probably a good time to address this.
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Monday of this week was the last day to file
for the primaries Democrat and Republican in March, the winners
of which will represent their party in November of twenty
twenty six. And so this all happens so early before
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anybody's thinking about any of it. But that's the way
the system works.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Unless you are a person who is a close observer
of this, it sneaks up on you and then it
gets to be about October of twenty two.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Who are these candidates wen today? How they get there?
Who put them there?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Out?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
And know, well, I've told you one hundred times how
it happens, but it didn't matter at the time. And
that's okay because you're busy with what you're busy with
right now. You're busy getting ready for Christmas, you're busy
closing out the books for the year.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Understandable. Fine. I receive a lot of.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Emails from people who want to know what to do
to get involved in politics, and my succinct answer is
there is no right answer. I can tell you what
I did, but mine is a little atypical. But if
I were to give you a generalized answer, because now
it's a good time to put this into practice, I
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will say this a good campaign. If you work on
a good campaign, it can be very exciting, it can
be a lot of fun. But it's also not glamorous.
It's important to understand that it's not glamorous.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
It means that.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Let's say, let's say you work for a candidate. Let's
say you know somebody who's a candidate's running for profice
that person needs help with little things. When I was
running for mayor, I had a friend who paid his
daughter to drive their car to drive me around all
day long because he didn't believe I should be running,
I should be driving. I should be able to work
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during the day. I couldn't afford a driver. That wasn't
an option. It made a world of difference. My scheduler
would coordinate every day what times she needed to pick
me up.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I would come out.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
They would have all my documents I needed to read
to be briefed on what I was doing for the day,
and a call sheet of people I was calling to
dial for dollars. Because you got to constantly be raising money.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Rachel what's her name?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
And she was fantastic and she made my life so
much better Now her dad paid her, Otherwise she would
have been paid. But one of the things I will
tell you is that campaigns don't have much money for
tasks that need to be performed. So, whether that's phone calling, driving, delivering,
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campaigns have to so yard signs. Somebody has to receive
the call or the email requests put the sign, put
make them out, deliver the sign, put the sign in
the yard for people. These sorts of things, they're the
nuts and bolts of campaigns. Events, debates, rallies, Coordinating with
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people who are doing a coffee or a tea for
a candidate, or a speaking engagement, all of these things.
Whether you ever intend to run or not, it's a
learning experience. Now I will tell you before you do it,
you're going to feel like you weren't appreciated sufficiently. Because
a campaign is moving, they don't have time to Susie,
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it's really wonderful you're here, and Susie, you're I've watched
people get angry they didn't appreciate me. No, you had
unrealistic expectations. Were you there to contribute and help the
candidate win, or were you there to get lots of
laudits that Susie had shown up and she was doing it,
because you're not going to get that. Campaigns are just
not They don't have the time, a lot of them
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don't have the social skills, and they're so focused on
task in hand, which is going full blast. Because remember,
it's like starting a company overnight. A campaign didn't exist,
and all of a sudden it does exist. So you're
already behind the eight ball. You already have more tasks
to do and you have time for and you're staring
at a deadline. This isn't a career. We got a
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deadline of election day, March, the primary. So with that
in mind, you've got to understand that it's a learning experience.
You're not going to get lots of praise. You're going
to be barked at by people under tight deadlines and
high stress. But it's a great way to see the
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process at play. It's not the process of governing. That's
a very different process, but it is the process of campaigning,
and within reason, it hasn't really changed in the course
of my lifetime. There's still a lot of shoe leather.
There's still a lot of getting to events. There's still
a lot of incoming calls people who say they're interested,
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or emails and getting them what they need so that
you keep them excited. Find yourself a campaign right now
that you want to help, and don't put your emotions
on your sleeve. Don't go in because you'll be so
disappointed and burned out if you do. And focus on that,
candidate it and do everything you can to a march.
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It's a brief period of time. It's a finite period
of time. Whether you're a young person or an old
person or wherever you are in between, get involved in
a campaign. They're going to be imperfect. You're gonna find
out they cheated on their wife, or they got a DWI.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Or they filed a bankruptcy.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Figure that out ahead of time, and then figure out
if you want to work on this campaign, and then
go in and learn and enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Continue with the Michael Barry Show. I don't want to
be a part of this nonsense, all right, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
A couple of them random stories I couldn't build into one,
but some audio bits I didn't get to yet that
I wanted to.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
This is Hillary Clinton from last year.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
She's on CNN and she's talking about the need of
social media companies to moderate content.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
She says something very important. This is clip four o two.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
She says, if social media companies don't moderate content, then
we lose total control.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
There should be a lot of things done.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
We should be, in my view, repealing something called Section
two thirty, which gave platforms on the Internet immunity because
they were thought to be just passed throughs, that they
shouldn't be judged for the content that is posted. But
we now know that that was an overly simple view
that if the platforms, whether it's Facebook or Twitter x
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or Instagram or TikTok, whatever they are, if they don't
moderate and monitor the content, we lose total control.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Why do you need control control over what, control over
what the truth is and isn't, so that you can
call lies truth and the truth lies. We saw what
happened when social media took over during COVID. We saw
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where ivermectin, which, by the way, just this past week,
ivermectin is now being sold over the counter in the
state of Texas. We saw what happened this week when
ivermectin I mean, we saw what happened during COVID when
ivermectin was called horse paste. People were told not to
take it. But what they were told to take so
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big farmer could make money was a shot. A shot
that killed my brother. He was only fifty four years old.
A shot that killed a lot of people. Go look up,
died suddenly. That's kind of the hashtag that ties all
these together. Look at how many young men, young black men, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen,
eighteen years old bringing the ball up the court. One
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case out of a kid I think out of Alabama
or Mississippi. He was a five star recruit. This kid
may have made it to the pros. He had the
stuff and he dies with a heart attack. Now that's
not to say there aren't random deaths. I understand that,
but they'll show you statistically, there's a traditional baseline about
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the same number of people die in these random deaths.
You know a condition, a congenital heart condition that you
didn't know you had, but by in large, that doesn't
happen that often, and there's been a huge spike. What's
the one variable. The one variable is the COVID shot. Well,
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if you criticize the COVID shot. I lost my Facebook
account at three hundred and fifty thousand followers.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
It's not going to make me a.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Major social media influencer. Those are three hundred and fifty
thousand people who follow the show. So I could throw
ideas out there. Hey, does anybody know where I can
find this product? Or anybody have a suggestion on an
author who has talked about this, or a lecture series
or anybody tell me? You know, I use that knowledge
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and that goes a long way. And there are people
who study things and never apply and never learn. Same
thing with the law. There are people who go to
law school, get a laugery and never practice. And there
are people who practice but stay within a narrow area.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
And then there are people.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Who are in prison who sit and read about the
law all day every day. This election time, and when
that happens, Greg Abbott starts playing Santa Claus here, We're
going to eliminate property taxes. He does it every election.
It's amazing it still works. We'll see if it does
this because he never actually does anything about it. Well,
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now he is going after the Muslim communities. There's one
in Plano, Texas, or one in the Dallas area called Epic.
There's the meadow in Plano, and there's a guy named
Yasir Kadi. He's supposedly one of the main moving forces,
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driving forces behind this whole thing. And here he is
giving a speech. And I want you to listen carefully
because I want you to hear.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
What it was.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
It Maya Angelo who said, or Tony Morrison. I can't
remember one of the two. I think it was my Angelo.
When people tell you who they are, believe them when
he says, participation in democracy is our jihad. This is
how we take over. Is that what you're seeking to
do to take over? What does that mean? What are
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you going to take over? And what will you do
when you do? When people use jihad, that's not your peaceful, moderate, peaceful,
tolerant Muslim.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
That is the language of radicals. And I will tell you.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
That Muslims understand what that language means, and they understand
how radicalism has destroyed countries, even almost exclusively Muslim countries.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Iran was once.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
A a beacon of culture, cuisine, literature, architecture, art, commerce,
but after the Ayatola came in with a bunch of
goons and they promised to create the the shia Uh
high point in Islam.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
They destroyed it.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Now nobody you ever hear anybody go to vacation, go
on vacation in Iran. You ever wonder why Damascus, Syria
was once a civil, civilizational leader in culture. Now it's
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a backwater Islamic radical incubator.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Anyway, listen to this. We need to stand for election.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
We need to take charge of our country.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
If we don't do something, these seculars, these liberals, are
gonna come.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
So they started giving fun to us.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
One of the most famous one amongst them said, I
used to say that democracy is harmed.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Now why say participation in democracy.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Is our jihad. That's our Jihad's got to fight, not
through the bullets fed the ballats.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
He literally made that phrase in Arabic.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
That's going to be our jihad, going to the Poles
and making sure that we win.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
What is your duty as a member of the Umah,
now that you are also an American, It is our
physical jiad duty to fight the entire earth until we
enter it into the Ummah.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Scott Bessen, I don't think I played this the other day.
I've got some.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Random quotes that wanted to get to our Treasury secretary,
who's turned out to be very very good. He was
speaking at the Hill and Valley Forum.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Probably some think tank. They probably turned out to awful,
but whatever.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
I saw the quote, and he's making a very interesting
point about the FED and the problems we've had with
the FED. And he says something. This is not a
guy who speaks lightly or off the cuff. He thinks
about what he's going to say before he says it.
And he says something about the FED turning into a
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universal basic income for PhD economists. I want you to
listen to this. I want you to think about what
he's saying and the consequences of it.
Speaker 8 (14:36):
My worry is that the FED is turning into universal
basic income for PhD.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Eccom right, But I don't know what they do. They're
never right. If you were to me, you should.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
Double the number of PhDs, if you go to seven hundred,
they might get it right.
Speaker 8 (14:52):
Well, look, I mean if you were to look at
the central value tendency versus how they've done, it's shocking.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
It's shocking.
Speaker 8 (15:01):
I said, like if air traffic controllers did this, no
one to get in an airplane.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Jeff Bisos or Besos, however you want to say his name,
I've heard it both times. Is one weird dude. Weird's okay,
but he's a dude I think most people probably would
not like. Nevertheless, he is a guy who had a
vision and he made the vision happen, and it's pretty
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staggeringly amazing how he pulled it off. I remember an
interview years ago when his company had switched, had pivoted
from selling books online to now picking up new products,
product lines, and he was disrupting the entirety of the
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retail space, the retail process.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
He was going against Walmart. And at that time, Walmart
was the behemoth. You couldn't touch Walmart. People don't even
talk about Walmart anymore. Now they're still there, They're still powerful,
they still touch a lot of lives. In terms of
brick and mortar, they's still the dominant force.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
But b Sos was speaking at the Stanford Graduate School
of businesses Entrepreneurship Conference in two thousand and five, and
I don't know about you, but I and every redneck
I know loves to talk about duct tape and.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
WD forty, everything about it.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
B Soce was telling a story about WD forty to
the Stanford Graduate School of Businesses Entrepreneurship Conference. And I
say that because it strikes me as the sort of
thing that they're not used to hearing about.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
They like to hear about.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Data, and they like to hear about private equity and such.
The inscalability he's talking about a product. You know that
there's an old line if it moves and it shouldn't,
duct tape if it doesn't, and it should WD forty.
I grew up in a household my dad. It was
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WD forty or duct tape on almost everything every day.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I love this story, and I hope you do too.
Speaker 9 (17:22):
One of my favorites, w D forty was a small team,
a small company of three people got a government contract
to develop a some kind of coating that they could
put on the skin of Atlas missiles while they sat
in their silos to keep them from rusting. And they
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worked on this for a long time to find this
right compound that would do this job, and finally did it.
It turned out that the Atlas missile market was a
fairly small one, so that the company wasn't really able
to make much progress. And what does w D forty
stand for? It stands for water displaced forty at a
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ten and that's the name right out of the lab
book when they did all this work to invent w
D forty. So when they properly recognized the size of
the Atlas missile market, they started to think about a
different business plan. And the company is called the Rocket
Chemical Corporation, and it was their only chemical, it was
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their only product. And so about ten years later they
renamed the company the WD forty Company.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
And you know the rest is.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
And they listened to the Michael Berry Show that.
Speaker 10 (18:46):
I about you as a Catholic though no, it's true.
I both confirmed a Catholic back in the day. And
they asked me, do I agree with it thing the
Pope has said and everything the church is talled? I said, girl,
I don't know nothing about all this history.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
I do the best I could.
Speaker 10 (19:08):
And then come to find out they got Jimmy sitch
Coo and these crazy things, and the Pope of the
Catholic Church blessing ice cubes, and then they're gonna have
a Muslim bowing down room. I've told you that the
word mosque comes from Mosquito due to the way they
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squat down and face Mecca. Oh Lord, I don't know.
And now they got this new Anglican church. Do that
mean it's like crazy Episopalians? Uh, the ones that was
supposedly to be there. I don't know what church to journ.
I feel like Joseph Smith of the Mormons.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
I won't do.
Speaker 10 (19:50):
I ain't gonna go as far as to invent my
own religion around my own scriptures.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Now what So what you think about the Marmons.
Speaker 10 (19:57):
They were the first one came to my house and
rescued me after all these down hurricane.
Speaker 11 (20:06):
I don't care what church they go to, how they do.
They seem real, real nice.
Speaker 10 (20:12):
I know it's really difficult to discourage the Mormings.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
And they're all teenage boys.
Speaker 10 (20:20):
I have not to count lately, but I think about
half of my Cheerdren's teenagers.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Oh I wish they would go on a mission.
Speaker 10 (20:28):
I would love to send they ask to Africa or
Canada or Taiwan or whatever.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
And just make them appreciate what they got going on here.
At least the Moments got the gift of tongues, don't they.
It's like they go to.
Speaker 10 (20:43):
A seminar and they learn a foreign language in six weeks.
Oh my god, I can't speak Cajun yet much less Espanolia.
Speaker 11 (20:53):
Oh lord, shure, I'm sorry to tell you you would
be the worst moment ever with your old drinking smoke
and cussing.
Speaker 10 (21:00):
The ignorant, judgmental as you is not go fit in
the church. I understand that, and that don't matter. What
matter is I still get chills. His runs is up
and down my leg every time I hear a moment
telling a.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Choiet honey.
Speaker 12 (21:18):
Call two, sir, give baked potato, the TuS wee cream
and nice chives we'll make. You will be a nice
bake potato come to my house all ride.
Speaker 10 (21:37):
What to say? I don't think you understand the purpose
of the church, and so I'm gonna ask.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
You to refrain. Okay, day, Dave, You're only Michael Berry show.
Go ahead, sir.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Oh Michael, how's your Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Fantastic? And you it was good.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
I was up in New Jersey. I was on a
mission to find great pizza since that's the one thing
Texas doesn't have.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Whoa uh, I'm gonna let that go for a minute.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
I'm sorry, Michael, but Texas do not know about pizza.
When you see Dominos getting five star reviews, I have
to I have to call that.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
That's right, that's right, we got it.
Speaker 10 (22:15):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Well, you also have to realize that if you look,
if you, if you, when they do a survey, you
know what's the best burger in any place, it'll be
a local fast food burger because most people don't have
the the heightened taste. But you know, gay people always
think they have better taste than the rest of us anyway,
so that might just.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Be well, I know, I'm a pizza snob, I will say,
and do you know that Dave Fortnite, guy from a
Marsol Sports he does one bite pizza review saying, well,
he had a place in New Jersey, and uh, kind
of about an hour away from my folks, and when
I'm home, everything's kind of crazy, so we find reasons
to get out of the house and get away from
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everyone for for a little bit. I love my family,
They're great.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
I love that family, but a lot of yelling.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Everyone's very loud.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
And the pizza live up to the hype.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
It did not. Okay, Well, first of all, we couldn't
get to the one that had the highest score he
ever gave, because you had to call ahead, and you
had to get there, and you know, they wouldn't even
answer the phone. So I gave up. I went to
another one that he rated real high, and it was
it was good, but it was like kind of like, uh,
it was like thin crust. That's not a New New
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York style pizza.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
No, I don't like I like a thin crust.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Yeah, well you might like this one. Then I think
crust is okay, but I like a New York style,
but it still should be crispy on the bottom.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
And then we went I want a huge because I
don't think he's consistent, but on his pizza reviews, there
is something I agree with. I don't like a pizza
that if you hold it from the end from the crust,
that it flops over.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
It should have the structure.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
You're right, But again, personal tastes, and you know, as
long as people they should understand that's just his personal taste.
Because a deep dish pizza like a you know, you
see one of those Gino's pizzas, that's not going to
hold up to his standard.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
But that's just his personal preference, which is fine.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Now, yeah, well that deep dish Chicago thing is pizza.
That's something else.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
But we did. We did.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
I went up to in Connecticut. They have clam pizza.
Have you ever heard of this white white clam pizza? No,
the thing there. So we went to New Haven and
there's another place that's supposedly one of the best pizza places.
It's been on my list for a while. And we
went and visited some friends there to get away from
the family again and see some friends. And we went
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to Pepe's Pizza in New Haven and it's kind of
famous for clam pizza. And I know, I'm gay and
I'm you know not. You know, clams aren't usually high
on my list of things I like, but I thought
i'd try it. And it did not hold up to
the reputation it was. It was terrible. I don't know
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why people like this stuff, but it wasn't very good.
But the other pizza there is pretty good. The other place.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Gay dave extra credit for that day. Okay, so where
did you grow up?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
So?
Speaker 4 (25:16):
I grew up in central Jersey Town called Monroe Township, Okay,
south of the Brunswicks if you know where that is, near.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
My wife's aunt and uncle who ended up coming down
here to live near US, lived in Princeton, New.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Jersey, and we used to go up in.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
I know that area all the way, you know, Newark
and Princeton, and I know that area pretty well.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Yeah, okay, Well, you know what's funny.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Growing up in Texas, we always had this impression of
New Jersey as this just filthy, uh polluted, ugly place,
like you know what Trenton is today, And and then
I go and visit, and you know, you see the
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slogan as the Garden State, and I always thought, oh,
that's cute. There's maybe somebody has a garden somewhere that
hasn't died off. There are parts of New Jersey on
the turnpike that are beautiful, I mean, gloriously green and beautiful.
It looks like an Irish or an English countryside.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
It's bucolic pestory.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
I like that reputation because it keeps all the riff
raff out. Yeah, and they don't come there thinking it's bad.
But yeah, a Jersey tomato is one of the greatest
things you can eat. Yeah, it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Yeah, no, I was. I was very surprised.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
It's one of those unkept I mean, it's one of
those well kept secrets of course. Look, I'm of the
opinion that if you want the most beautiful drives in America,
you drive through West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, and people
snicker when I say that. I say, Okay, clearly you've
never driven it, because if you put aside your own issues,
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I'm gonna tell you it's it's some of the most beautiful,
beautiful landscape you will see in this in this country.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
It's absolutely amazing. Yay, Dave. We always appreciate your calls.
Keep it up. Thanks for your public service product.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Mmmmm
It's that time.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Time, time, luck and load. The Michael Verie Show is
on the air, Probably a good time to address this.
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Monday of this week was the last day to file
for the primaries Democrat and Republican in March, the winners
of which will represent their party in November of twenty
twenty six. And so this all happens so early before
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anybody's thinking about any of it. But that's the way
the system works.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Unless you are a person who is a close observer
of this, it sneaks up on you and then it
gets to be about October of twenty two.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Who are these candidates wen today? How they get there?
Who put them there?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Out?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
And know, well, I've told you one hundred times how
it happens, but it didn't matter at the time. And
that's okay because you're busy with what you're busy with
right now. You're busy getting ready for Christmas, you're busy
closing out the books for the year.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Understandable. Fine. I receive a lot of.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Emails from people who want to know what to do
to get involved in politics, and my succinct answer is
there is no right answer. I can tell you what
I did, but mine is a little atypical. But if
I were to give you a generalized answer, because now
it's a good time to put this into practice, I
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will say this a good campaign. If you work on
a good campaign, it can be very exciting, it can
be a lot of fun. But it's also not glamorous.
It's important to understand that it's not glamorous.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
It means that.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Let's say, let's say you work for a candidate. Let's
say you know somebody who's a candidate's running for profice
that person needs help with little things. When I was
running for mayor, I had a friend who paid his
daughter to drive their car to drive me around all
day long because he didn't believe I should be running,
I should be driving. I should be able to work
(02:28):
during the day. I couldn't afford a driver. That wasn't
an option. It made a world of difference. My scheduler
would coordinate every day what times she needed to pick
me up.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I would come out.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
They would have all my documents I needed to read
to be briefed on what I was doing for the day,
and a call sheet of people I was calling to
dial for dollars. Because you got to constantly be raising money.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Rachel what's her name?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
And she was fantastic and she made my life so
much better Now her dad paid her, Otherwise she would
have been paid. But one of the things I will
tell you is that campaigns don't have much money for
tasks that need to be performed. So, whether that's phone calling, driving, delivering,
(03:25):
campaigns have to so yard signs. Somebody has to receive
the call or the email requests put the sign, put
make them out, deliver the sign, put the sign in
the yard for people. These sorts of things, they're the
nuts and bolts of campaigns. Events, debates, rallies, Coordinating with
(03:49):
people who are doing a coffee or a tea for
a candidate, or a speaking engagement, all of these things.
Whether you ever intend to run or not, it's a
learning experience. Now I will tell you before you do it,
you're going to feel like you weren't appreciated sufficiently. Because
a campaign is moving, they don't have time to Susie,
(04:11):
it's really wonderful you're here, and Susie, you're I've watched
people get angry they didn't appreciate me. No, you had
unrealistic expectations. Were you there to contribute and help the
candidate win, or were you there to get lots of
laudits that Susie had shown up and she was doing it,
because you're not going to get that. Campaigns are just
not They don't have the time, a lot of them
(04:31):
don't have the social skills, and they're so focused on
task in hand, which is going full blast. Because remember,
it's like starting a company overnight. A campaign didn't exist,
and all of a sudden it does exist. So you're
already behind the eight ball. You already have more tasks
to do and you have time for and you're staring
at a deadline. This isn't a career. We got a
(04:54):
deadline of election day, March, the primary. So with that
in mind, you've got to understand that it's a learning experience.
You're not going to get lots of praise. You're going
to be barked at by people under tight deadlines and
high stress. But it's a great way to see the
(05:17):
process at play. It's not the process of governing. That's
a very different process, but it is the process of campaigning,
and within reason, it hasn't really changed in the course
of my lifetime. There's still a lot of shoe leather.
There's still a lot of getting to events. There's still
a lot of incoming calls people who say they're interested,
(05:40):
or emails and getting them what they need so that
you keep them excited. Find yourself a campaign right now
that you want to help, and don't put your emotions
on your sleeve. Don't go in because you'll be so
disappointed and burned out if you do. And focus on that,
candidate it and do everything you can to a march.
(06:02):
It's a brief period of time. It's a finite period
of time. Whether you're a young person or an old
person or wherever you are in between, get involved in
a campaign. They're going to be imperfect. You're gonna find
out they cheated on their wife, or they got a DWI.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Or they filed a bankruptcy.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Figure that out ahead of time, and then figure out
if you want to work on this campaign, and then
go in and learn and enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Continue with the Michael Barry Show. I don't want to
be a part of this nonsense, all right, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
A couple of them random stories I couldn't build into one,
but some audio bits I didn't get to yet that
I wanted to.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
This is Hillary Clinton from last year.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
She's on CNN and she's talking about the need of
social media companies to moderate content.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
She says something very important. This is clip four o two.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
She says, if social media companies don't moderate content, then
we lose total control.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
There should be a lot of things done.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
We should be, in my view, repealing something called Section
two thirty, which gave platforms on the Internet immunity because
they were thought to be just passed throughs, that they
shouldn't be judged for the content that is posted. But
we now know that that was an overly simple view
that if the platforms, whether it's Facebook or Twitter x
(07:24):
or Instagram or TikTok, whatever they are, if they don't
moderate and monitor the content, we lose total control.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Why do you need control control over what, control over
what the truth is and isn't, so that you can
call lies truth and the truth lies. We saw what
happened when social media took over during COVID. We saw
(07:56):
where ivermectin, which, by the way, just this past week,
ivermectin is now being sold over the counter in the
state of Texas. We saw what happened this week when
ivermectin I mean, we saw what happened during COVID when
ivermectin was called horse paste. People were told not to
take it. But what they were told to take so
(08:19):
big farmer could make money was a shot. A shot
that killed my brother. He was only fifty four years old.
A shot that killed a lot of people. Go look up,
died suddenly. That's kind of the hashtag that ties all
these together. Look at how many young men, young black men, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen,
eighteen years old bringing the ball up the court. One
(08:42):
case out of a kid I think out of Alabama
or Mississippi. He was a five star recruit. This kid
may have made it to the pros. He had the
stuff and he dies with a heart attack. Now that's
not to say there aren't random deaths. I understand that,
but they'll show you statistically, there's a traditional baseline about
(09:02):
the same number of people die in these random deaths.
You know a condition, a congenital heart condition that you
didn't know you had, but by in large, that doesn't
happen that often, and there's been a huge spike. What's
the one variable. The one variable is the COVID shot. Well,
(09:28):
if you criticize the COVID shot. I lost my Facebook
account at three hundred and fifty thousand followers.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
It's not going to make me a.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Major social media influencer. Those are three hundred and fifty
thousand people who follow the show. So I could throw
ideas out there. Hey, does anybody know where I can
find this product? Or anybody have a suggestion on an
author who has talked about this, or a lecture series
or anybody tell me? You know, I use that knowledge
(09:56):
and that goes a long way. And there are people
who study things and never apply and never learn. Same
thing with the law. There are people who go to
law school, get a laugery and never practice. And there
are people who practice but stay within a narrow area.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
And then there are people.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Who are in prison who sit and read about the
law all day every day. This election time, and when
that happens, Greg Abbott starts playing Santa Claus here, We're
going to eliminate property taxes. He does it every election.
It's amazing it still works. We'll see if it does
this because he never actually does anything about it. Well,
(10:37):
now he is going after the Muslim communities. There's one
in Plano, Texas, or one in the Dallas area called Epic.
There's the meadow in Plano, and there's a guy named
Yasir Kadi. He's supposedly one of the main moving forces,
(10:57):
driving forces behind this whole thing. And here he is
giving a speech. And I want you to listen carefully
because I want you to hear.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
What it was.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
It Maya Angelo who said, or Tony Morrison. I can't
remember one of the two. I think it was my Angelo.
When people tell you who they are, believe them when
he says, participation in democracy is our jihad. This is
how we take over. Is that what you're seeking to
do to take over? What does that mean? What are
(11:36):
you going to take over? And what will you do
when you do? When people use jihad, that's not your peaceful, moderate, peaceful,
tolerant Muslim.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
That is the language of radicals. And I will tell you.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
That Muslims understand what that language means, and they understand
how radicalism has destroyed countries, even almost exclusively Muslim countries.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Iran was once.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
A a beacon of culture, cuisine, literature, architecture, art, commerce,
but after the Ayatola came in with a bunch of
goons and they promised to create the the shia Uh
high point in Islam.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
They destroyed it.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Now nobody you ever hear anybody go to vacation, go
on vacation in Iran. You ever wonder why Damascus, Syria
was once a civil, civilizational leader in culture. Now it's
(12:57):
a backwater Islamic radical incubator.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Anyway, listen to this. We need to stand for election.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
We need to take charge of our country.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
If we don't do something, these seculars, these liberals, are
gonna come.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
So they started giving fun to us.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
One of the most famous one amongst them said, I
used to say that democracy is harmed.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Now why say participation in democracy.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Is our jihad. That's our Jihad's got to fight, not
through the bullets fed the ballats.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
He literally made that phrase in Arabic.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
That's going to be our jihad, going to the Poles
and making sure that we win.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
What is your duty as a member of the Umah,
now that you are also an American, It is our
physical jiad duty to fight the entire earth until we
enter it into the Ummah.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Scott Bessen, I don't think I played this the other day.
I've got some.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Random quotes that wanted to get to our Treasury secretary,
who's turned out to be very very good. He was
speaking at the Hill and Valley Forum.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Probably some think tank. They probably turned out to awful,
but whatever.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
I saw the quote, and he's making a very interesting
point about the FED and the problems we've had with
the FED. And he says something. This is not a
guy who speaks lightly or off the cuff. He thinks
about what he's going to say before he says it.
And he says something about the FED turning into a
(14:23):
universal basic income for PhD economists. I want you to
listen to this. I want you to think about what
he's saying and the consequences of it.
Speaker 8 (14:36):
My worry is that the FED is turning into universal
basic income for PhD.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Eccom right, But I don't know what they do. They're
never right. If you were to me, you should.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
Double the number of PhDs, if you go to seven hundred,
they might get it right.
Speaker 8 (14:52):
Well, look, I mean if you were to look at
the central value tendency versus how they've done, it's shocking.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
It's shocking.
Speaker 8 (15:01):
I said, like if air traffic controllers did this, no
one to get in an airplane.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Jeff Bisos or Besos, however you want to say his name,
I've heard it both times. Is one weird dude. Weird's okay,
but he's a dude I think most people probably would
not like. Nevertheless, he is a guy who had a
vision and he made the vision happen, and it's pretty
(15:29):
staggeringly amazing how he pulled it off. I remember an
interview years ago when his company had switched, had pivoted
from selling books online to now picking up new products,
product lines, and he was disrupting the entirety of the
(15:53):
retail space, the retail process.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
He was going against Walmart. And at that time, Walmart
was the behemoth. You couldn't touch Walmart. People don't even
talk about Walmart anymore. Now they're still there, They're still powerful,
they still touch a lot of lives. In terms of
brick and mortar, they's still the dominant force.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
But b Sos was speaking at the Stanford Graduate School
of businesses Entrepreneurship Conference in two thousand and five, and
I don't know about you, but I and every redneck
I know loves to talk about duct tape and.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
WD forty, everything about it.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
B Soce was telling a story about WD forty to
the Stanford Graduate School of Businesses Entrepreneurship Conference. And I
say that because it strikes me as the sort of
thing that they're not used to hearing about.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
They like to hear about.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Data, and they like to hear about private equity and such.
The inscalability he's talking about a product. You know that
there's an old line if it moves and it shouldn't,
duct tape if it doesn't, and it should WD forty.
I grew up in a household my dad. It was
(17:15):
WD forty or duct tape on almost everything every day.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I love this story, and I hope you do too.
Speaker 9 (17:22):
One of my favorites, w D forty was a small team,
a small company of three people got a government contract
to develop a some kind of coating that they could
put on the skin of Atlas missiles while they sat
in their silos to keep them from rusting. And they
(17:48):
worked on this for a long time to find this
right compound that would do this job, and finally did it.
It turned out that the Atlas missile market was a
fairly small one, so that the company wasn't really able
to make much progress. And what does w D forty
stand for? It stands for water displaced forty at a
(18:11):
ten and that's the name right out of the lab
book when they did all this work to invent w
D forty. So when they properly recognized the size of
the Atlas missile market, they started to think about a
different business plan. And the company is called the Rocket
Chemical Corporation, and it was their only chemical, it was
(18:33):
their only product. And so about ten years later they
renamed the company the WD forty Company.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
And you know the rest is.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
And they listened to the Michael Berry Show that.
Speaker 10 (18:46):
I about you as a Catholic though no, it's true.
I both confirmed a Catholic back in the day. And
they asked me, do I agree with it thing the
Pope has said and everything the church is talled? I said, girl,
I don't know nothing about all this history.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
I do the best I could.
Speaker 10 (19:08):
And then come to find out they got Jimmy sitch
Coo and these crazy things, and the Pope of the
Catholic Church blessing ice cubes, and then they're gonna have
a Muslim bowing down room. I've told you that the
word mosque comes from Mosquito due to the way they
(19:28):
squat down and face Mecca. Oh Lord, I don't know.
And now they got this new Anglican church. Do that
mean it's like crazy Episopalians? Uh, the ones that was
supposedly to be there. I don't know what church to journ.
I feel like Joseph Smith of the Mormons.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
I won't do.
Speaker 10 (19:50):
I ain't gonna go as far as to invent my
own religion around my own scriptures.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Now what So what you think about the Marmons.
Speaker 10 (19:57):
They were the first one came to my house and
rescued me after all these down hurricane.
Speaker 11 (20:06):
I don't care what church they go to, how they do.
They seem real, real nice.
Speaker 10 (20:12):
I know it's really difficult to discourage the Mormings.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
And they're all teenage boys.
Speaker 10 (20:20):
I have not to count lately, but I think about
half of my Cheerdren's teenagers.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Oh I wish they would go on a mission.
Speaker 10 (20:28):
I would love to send they ask to Africa or
Canada or Taiwan or whatever.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
And just make them appreciate what they got going on here.
At least the Moments got the gift of tongues, don't they.
It's like they go to.
Speaker 10 (20:43):
A seminar and they learn a foreign language in six weeks.
Oh my god, I can't speak Cajun yet much less Espanolia.
Speaker 11 (20:53):
Oh lord, shure, I'm sorry to tell you you would
be the worst moment ever with your old drinking smoke
and cussing.
Speaker 10 (21:00):
The ignorant, judgmental as you is not go fit in
the church. I understand that, and that don't matter. What
matter is I still get chills. His runs is up
and down my leg every time I hear a moment
telling a.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Choiet honey.
Speaker 12 (21:18):
Call two, sir, give baked potato, the TuS wee cream
and nice chives we'll make. You will be a nice
bake potato come to my house all ride.
Speaker 10 (21:37):
What to say? I don't think you understand the purpose
of the church, and so I'm gonna ask.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
You to refrain. Okay, day, Dave, You're only Michael Berry show.
Go ahead, sir.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Oh Michael, how's your Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Fantastic? And you it was good.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
I was up in New Jersey. I was on a
mission to find great pizza since that's the one thing
Texas doesn't have.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Whoa uh, I'm gonna let that go for a minute.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
I'm sorry, Michael, but Texas do not know about pizza.
When you see Dominos getting five star reviews, I have
to I have to call that.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
That's right, that's right, we got it.
Speaker 10 (22:15):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Well, you also have to realize that if you look,
if you, if you, when they do a survey, you
know what's the best burger in any place, it'll be
a local fast food burger because most people don't have
the the heightened taste. But you know, gay people always
think they have better taste than the rest of us anyway,
so that might just.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Be well, I know, I'm a pizza snob, I will say,
and do you know that Dave Fortnite, guy from a
Marsol Sports he does one bite pizza review saying, well,
he had a place in New Jersey, and uh, kind
of about an hour away from my folks, and when
I'm home, everything's kind of crazy, so we find reasons
to get out of the house and get away from
(22:54):
everyone for for a little bit. I love my family,
They're great.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
I love that family, but a lot of yelling.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Everyone's very loud.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
And the pizza live up to the hype.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
It did not. Okay, Well, first of all, we couldn't
get to the one that had the highest score he
ever gave, because you had to call ahead, and you
had to get there, and you know, they wouldn't even
answer the phone. So I gave up. I went to
another one that he rated real high, and it was
it was good, but it was like kind of like, uh,
it was like thin crust. That's not a New New
(23:26):
York style pizza.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
No, I don't like I like a thin crust.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Yeah, well you might like this one. Then I think
crust is okay, but I like a New York style,
but it still should be crispy on the bottom.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
And then we went I want a huge because I
don't think he's consistent, but on his pizza reviews, there
is something I agree with. I don't like a pizza
that if you hold it from the end from the crust,
that it flops over.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
It should have the structure.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
You're right, But again, personal tastes, and you know, as
long as people they should understand that's just his personal taste.
Because a deep dish pizza like a you know, you
see one of those Gino's pizzas, that's not going to
hold up to his standard.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
But that's just his personal preference, which is fine.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Now, yeah, well that deep dish Chicago thing is pizza.
That's something else.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
But we did. We did.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
I went up to in Connecticut. They have clam pizza.
Have you ever heard of this white white clam pizza? No,
the thing there. So we went to New Haven and
there's another place that's supposedly one of the best pizza places.
It's been on my list for a while. And we
went and visited some friends there to get away from
the family again and see some friends. And we went
(24:42):
to Pepe's Pizza in New Haven and it's kind of
famous for clam pizza. And I know, I'm gay and
I'm you know not. You know, clams aren't usually high
on my list of things I like, but I thought
i'd try it. And it did not hold up to
the reputation it was. It was terrible. I don't know
(25:02):
why people like this stuff, but it wasn't very good.
But the other pizza there is pretty good. The other place.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Gay dave extra credit for that day. Okay, so where
did you grow up?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
So?
Speaker 4 (25:16):
I grew up in central Jersey Town called Monroe Township, Okay,
south of the Brunswicks if you know where that is, near.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
My wife's aunt and uncle who ended up coming down
here to live near US, lived in Princeton, New.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Jersey, and we used to go up in.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
I know that area all the way, you know, Newark
and Princeton, and I know that area pretty well.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Yeah, okay, Well, you know what's funny.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Growing up in Texas, we always had this impression of
New Jersey as this just filthy, uh polluted, ugly place,
like you know what Trenton is today, And and then
I go and visit, and you know, you see the
(26:05):
slogan as the Garden State, and I always thought, oh,
that's cute. There's maybe somebody has a garden somewhere that
hasn't died off. There are parts of New Jersey on
the turnpike that are beautiful, I mean, gloriously green and beautiful.
It looks like an Irish or an English countryside.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
It's bucolic pestory.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
I like that reputation because it keeps all the riff
raff out. Yeah, and they don't come there thinking it's bad.
But yeah, a Jersey tomato is one of the greatest
things you can eat. Yeah, it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Yeah, no, I was. I was very surprised.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
It's one of those unkept I mean, it's one of
those well kept secrets of course. Look, I'm of the
opinion that if you want the most beautiful drives in America,
you drive through West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, and people
snicker when I say that. I say, Okay, clearly you've
never driven it, because if you put aside your own issues,
(27:02):
I'm gonna tell you it's it's some of the most beautiful,
beautiful landscape you will see in this in this country.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
It's absolutely amazing. Yay, Dave. We always appreciate your calls.
Keep it up. Thanks for your public service product.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
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