December 17, 2025 • 31 mins
Inside Harris County’s political chess match, Black Girl Magic judges, and the Rodney Ellis vs. Whitmire feud. Michael Berry breaks down the stories shaping Texas and America.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Verie Show is on the air. I would
leave that subject for a moment because I could go
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on the entirety of the show. In my tone betrays
an actual anger that I have. It is an anger.
It feels like you're on a ball field with a
group of people who have decided it's fourth quarter, you're
down by ten points, only three minutes left, and they're
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planning where they're going to go after the game. They
have given up and don't even realize it. We didn't
get to the point where we are in this country
overrun by illegal aliens, where Brown University is refusing to
release the video footage of the shooting, or the testimony
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eyewitness testimony of individuals who saw the shooting of a
Jewish girl who was the head of the Republican party
on campus by a chubby shooter who sure looks a
lot like somebody who has been identified as a prime
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suspect in the police chief lost his mind that you
should not say that when they did release the name
of a white male military veteran before that, when in
fact it's impossible that it could be him. Or what
about January sixth where good people went to prison. At
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least one I know of committed suicide because his life
was ruined. People were banked, erupted for walking through the Capitol,
and you were told it was an insurrection to take
over the country. That Alexandria A Cassio Cortes feared for
her life because they were beating at the door and
they were saying they were going to rape her. It
turned out she was three blocks away and never in
a moment's jeopardy. Or how about the fact that the
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fellow who put his boots up on Nancy Pelosi's desk,
apparently a crime most foul in our republic, did more
time than the people who burned down Minneapolis after Saint
George Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose. And what of fentanyl?
What of this dangerous drug that obviously between heroin and
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other drugs, Nick Reyner, if not was the trigger, was
the problem altogether? What of the president who's literally gone
to war to stop that product from arriving on our
shores and had nothing but insult because of it. What
if Rob Reiner had been assaulted and murdered by your
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average street corner thug who'd been released five, ten fifty
times for violent crimes before violent crimes that Donald Trump
has worked hard despite Democrats working against him to stop.
Would we still blame Trump? Would we still blame Trump?
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I lapsed back into it, Ramon. I lapsed back into
it because this is probably more important than anything else
we would talk about, and that is whether we have
the fire in the belly to save this country. And
I'm not much of a defeatist, but I will tell
you most people do not. Most people think you're going
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to save this country politely overwastle at the Christmas party,
looking both directions and going I voted for Trump. Now,
some of the stuff he says civility. What is civility.
Civility is talking nicely and wearing your tie properly and
having your hair cut nice and short, and no tattoos
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that are visible to the public. That's civility. All the
while our republic is crumbling, but do so nicely. That's
what the left is so good at, looking you right
in the eye and using the nicest of terms. I
saw James Talerico was speaking at some sort of church yesterday,
this white liberal monster, and he was saying, God does
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not make you hate people. Loving God does not mean
turning away your neighbor who comes to you for help.
Loving God does not mean this and loving that. Loving
God does not mean butchering a baby inside a woman's
womb either. But it hasn't stopped you, has it, James.
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And when you are whipped by a black woman who's
going to mop the floor with you, who decided at
the last minute to get in after you had wired
this thing and even pushed Colin Alred out because he
didn't want a bruising campaign, well we'll see how you
feel at that point, which brings us to the split
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within the Democrat Party today. On the state level. We
now know that Jasmine Crockett was working very, very diligently,
Dallas Morning News reports, days before launching her campaign to
develop a slate of Democrat candidates to run with her
in the midterms. Fellow Democrats who were already running, she
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tried to push them out and have them join her ticket,
which is exactly what week Colin Alred did. Dallas Morning
News reports. Crockett and other Democrats theorize running their best
Democrats in races up and down the ballot, particularly in
statewide races for governor, Lieutenant governor, Attorney General, and comptroller,
improves their chances to break through. Crockett's challenge was convincing
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fellow Democrats to put aside campaigns already in motion as
the deadline to file candidacies for the March third primaries
fast approached. Her effort failed. Former Congressman Colin Allred dropped
out of the Democrat Senate race and opted to run
in Dallas County anchored Congressional District thirty three, setting up
a clash with Congressman Julie Johnson, a farmer's branch who
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had already filed her candidacy, but there were others who filed.
We learned this week that she visited revisited the church
she had attended while she was at the University of
Houston Law Center. And who would be by her side
but the Boss Tweed of Tammany Hall, Harris County, Rodney Ellis,
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because you see, Rodney Ellis wants to own the Senator.
More importantly, Rodney Ellis wants to own Harris County. He
hasn't quite consolidated all of the power. He's got to
get Whitmyer out. But believe me, he's working very hard
behind the scenes to do that. And that is why
the Democrat Party censured John Whitmyer this week. They censured him.
They will no longer endorse him. Well, he's he's not
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up for election anytime soon. Well, would never endorse him again.
We mean it, okay, but he didn't need your endorsement
right now. We're not gonna know, okay, Well, how about
you just decide you're not gonna when the time would
come to endorse him, which would be quite some time
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from now. I don't know. We're not gonna endorse him
because we're trying to induce another candidate to get into
the race against Whipmyer. Because Whitmyer and Rodney Ellis hate,
and I mean hate. You have no idea Donald Trump
doesn't hate Rob Reiner. Rob Reiner doesn't hate Donald Trump
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as much as Rodney Ellis and John Whitmyer hate each other.
If we have time today, I'll get to you. I'll
explain some of the background behind that. But it is rancors.
It is nasty, it is vicious. Whitmeyer had mostly let
it go. Rodney Ellis is not. It has now spilled
over into the eighteenth Congressional district, and it hasilled spilled
over into Looneylena dot Common, Dante and Anice Porker, and
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Looney Lena says there's another candidate about to get into
the Democrat County judge race. It's going to be fun
to watch them tear each other. Apart to Michael Arry
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thank you very much for partnering with good people. That's
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and they're going to make sure because of it. Mike
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He just found a two thousand and eight Jaguar XJ
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six with low miles, which you can't find because one
of our listeners said, Hey, I know you're a Chevy dealer,
but can you find me that vehicle? And he said,
I asked him if he was how serious he was
about it, and he was serious. He found the vehicle
in Pennsylvania, took him two weeks to get it down
here and the deal was done. Well, if I'm Sonic
that owns that dealership, I don't want my general manager
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spending that much time on a deal. But he gets
caught up and then he loves our show. He loves
what we do, and he loves our listeners, and he
does that. In any case, this time of year is
a great time of year. It's a festive time. We're
kind of blowing out the end of the year. You're
having more drinks than the usual or being more social
than usual. Please take an ober. I don't want one
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of you to get in trouble and ruin your life.
I've seen it happen too many times. And be responsible
when you go to the party. I hate to be
the buzzkill, but I've watched too many people, too many
people ruin their careers at the Christmas party. It happens
all too often. And it's always Steve in accounting, who's
the nicest guy in the whole company, never does anything wrong,
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shows up, has for years, and he gets a few
drinks in him and starts making snow angels, and before
you know it, he's dry humping the CEO's wife behind
the drummer over to the side. Just don't do it.
Please know your limits. I've watched it happen too many
times too many times. I started life at a law
firm called Jenkins and Go Chris, and we had a woman,
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older black woman, and she was the boss. She was
like wheezy in good times. She had that same voice,
same imperious tone. Nobody ever questioned her for anything. And
she came in the morning after the company Christmas party
that was in the company offices, and she found a
trail of a woman's clothes and his clothes from when
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you got off the elevator to the conference room. And
apparently they had walked out like everybody else, both married
to other people, and come back up godall and they're
stripping off like in the movies as they made it
to the conference room. And she gets to the conference
room and there they are laid out on the conference
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room table, having fallen asleep after a passionate rolic and
a lot of booze. Needless to say, they lost their jobs.
It wasn't pretty. But at the end of the year,
as you start thinking about the new year and your
health and wellness, whether it's your hair or your eyes.
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I'm having an eye surgery in January. I'm pretty excited
about it. I didn't want to have it done before
the Christmas break. I didn't. I had some things coming
up on to get done. And then I'll have you know, Ramona,
I'm having I'm having cosmetics surgery. Full disclosure. I'm having
my eyebrow reattached. I'm having it drop down so I
won't have that furrowed eyebrow at all times. And before
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you think I'm vain, first of all, I am to
start with I am vain. And number two, I won't
have to wear glasses anymore, so my eyebrow will be
more prominent. And I'm going to have that eyebrow drop down.
In there. I might have a little work done on
the crow's feet. I don't know. I'm not opposed to it.
I earned these wrinkles, but you know, you know I
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have to have all of them, you know. I mean,
long as you don't go completely don't like that out,
I think you can, huh. I'll tell you what I
am going to have done. And I told Jeff Witstt
that he doesn't do this. My brother had it, my
mom had it. We have these heavy eyelids, and so
when I take a photo, I do the shocked look.
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You don't notice it because I always do it, but
I'm happy to get rid of that. Also, your financial
good health. You need a CPA, you need a financial LIVI.
These are all things you can start thinking about. Let's
get those relationships in place to start twenty twenty six right.
I would love to help you with that stuff. It's
a good feeling to get your house in order, physically, fiscally,
all of it. Buddy of mine got in trouble with
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his wife. She asked how he looked before a party,
and he said, your eyebrows are drawn on too high.
She looked, surprised.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
The moon.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
If you have seven pairs in one hand and ten
in the other, what do you have giant hands? Rand
of mine gave up his career as a farmer. I said,
why did you give up your career as a farmer?
He said, he chose the wrong field, and chose the
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wrong Fielding SCUBA is an acronym for self contained underwater
breathing apparatus. Tuba little known fact is an acronym for
terrible underwater breathing apparatus. Prepare yourself because we will begin
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and I truly believe statement segment in the next segment,
But first I need to catch you up on what's
going on in Democrat politics, and it goes like this.
So Lena hid Allgo was politely informed against her wishes
that you will not be running for re election. A
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nice porker started building her coalition. A niece is a
very smart lady. I spent two years of my six
years on city council sitting next to her. A niece
will sell her best friend down the river for her
own advancement. She is insanely ambitious and insanely transactional. Nothing
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is sacred to a niece. That being said, that's what
makes her dangerous. It's what made Bill White dangerous. It's
what made Joe Biden dangerous. If they actually did what
they believe, you could tolerate them. It's what makes Bill
Clinton dangerous. The white liberal, tactically sound, strategic minded, very
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ambitious politician is extremely dangerous. That being said, she's also
very very smart. Aniceporker started running for city council in
I think ninety five. She lost, then she came back
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and won. She was the first openly lesbian city council
in the city of Houston. Not an easy thing to
pull off. She defeated Reverend Jimmy Dixon, who was a
semester turner acolyte, well known in the black community. She
defeated a Republican. She went on to be the controller
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and then she went from there to be the mayor.
Not an easy thing to pull off. She did it.
She's clever, she's Wilie, and she started building the coalition.
She has a strategist, a guy named Grant Martin. Grant
Martin came out of gay coalition politics. Beware people who
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do that because they're very, very smart. And the reason
is you start an election with more people against you
than for you because you're gay. Grant Martin is very
very smart. I didn't know he was still around. She
was the only candidate I ever knew of that he had.
But he is absent, absolutely brilliant. The man is very
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very good at getting to fifty one percent of the
vote using public policy, getting people who might be creeped
out by gaytom or freaked out or prejudiced or biased
or whatever else of gay people to vote for a
gay person. It is not an asset to be gay
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in Harris County. It's not. People can think it is
because when you see someone who's gay, or you see
someone who's transgender or whatever that is. It feels like
they're getting all the advantages. That is not true. It
is a tougher hill to climb because for everybody gay
who's going to vote for you because you're gay, there
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are lots of people who won't vote for you because
you're gay and they're gay. And there are a whole
lot of people who won't vote for you because you're
gay because they are Evangelical Christian. So you've got to
win the race. Despite that. Being black in the city
of Houston is actually an advantage because you could have
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upwards of forty percent of the electric vote that are black,
and unlike gays, blacks vote in block you can get
over ninety percent of the vote, so you can lock up.
Out of forty percent of the vote, you can already
be at thirty six percent, which means you've got to
get to fourteen percent out of the remaining sixty percent,
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that's about a quarter of the vote. You've got a
number of white liberals who will vote for a black
over a white just to prove to themselves they're not racist.
Trust me, that happens. So being black in the city
of Houston is an Asset County wide and Harris County
is still not still not. But we will see. Now,
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Lena had aalgo, wanted to run for reelection. She has
nothing else to do. She's like Richard gear and officer
and gentlemen. She's got nowhere else to go, nothing else
to do. Nobody wants to hire her. He's been in
the looney bin a number of times. Even her nerdy
husband finally had to say enough and cut her loose.
So she goes on an unhinged rant that she will
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not be supporting an East porker. Well it just so happens.
That was three days after another unhinged rant where she
called on the Democrat party to support a resolution condemning
John Whitmyer for allowing the Houston Police Department to cooperate
with federal authorities serving ice warrants. See what's being played
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out here is sides are being picked. Rodney ellis over here.
Rodney has told Lena that he will take care of her.
Do you continue to do what I say?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
No?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I didn't let you run for reelection because we can't steal.
Here's the problem. Democrats could steal the general election, and
they did against Alex Meeler. They stole that election. They
didn't send ballots out to the West Side on election day,
so thousands and thousands and thousands of people didn't get
to vote. It was enough to win the election. They
know exactly what they're doing, and that's what they did.
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Remember he put Clifford Tatum in there after they had
put Chas Bono in there, and Chas Bono rigged the primary.
She rigged the primary so bad that the Democrats demanded
that she be kicked out because Rodney had rigged the primary,
remember that, and they paid her out as if she
had been a long term employee. She was brought in
to rig the primary for Rodney's candidates. Rodney doesn't just
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rig the election on election day for the general election,
he rigs the primary too. He has been slowly but
surely replacing the white Democrat judges with black women judges.
They call it Black Girl Magic BGM. There's articles written
about it. NPR covered it nationally. And these women one
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I'm a real estate agent who had never practiced law before,
much less been inside a courtroom, and they owe everything
to the godfather. That's Rodney. What he has pulled off
is nothing short of amazing, absolutely amazing. He has complete
dominance over the Harris County Judiciary. Criminal and cibyl he
had complete dominance, are close enough of the Harris County
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Commissioner's Court, but Leslie Brionis has been bucking him of late.
Adrian garcia Will used to do what he wanted to do,
but I think Adrian is angling for himself now and
has realized that Rodney's going to drag him down, if
not to court, to prison. So you've got Rodney over
here against Whitmyer, and they've got their candidate. They won't
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say who it is yet, but it's not Lena, and
they're against Anee Porker, who's kind of lined up now
with Whitmyer and the more conservative white candidates in the
gay candidates.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
And you are about to see a cat fight, and
I'm here for it. Everyone listens to Michael Berry Show.
Aaron Barker was in town when I came. He wrote
that song.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
And a number of other songs that you would recognize,
and he's a great songwriter. He started, like many guys,
as a singer songwriter, but he figured out that he
wasn't blessed with a George, George Strait, Tracy Bird, Mark
Chestnutt Voice, and he focused primarily on writing songs, and
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I suspect he's made a small fortune on that. And
he and another famous singer songwriter who are known as
primarily songwriters, we're going to be in town. And he
sent an email and said, hey, we listened to you
at Nashville and if you're around, we'd love to grab
a cup of coffee. Absolutely, so we did, and I said, well,
how about you come into the studio because if I
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do something on my own, it's not really that important.
It's like, why you got to take a photo to
show your friends. I'd rather just have you on the
air and let's have the same conversation we're going to have,
but let's share it with a lot of people. So
he did the show, and I set up to have
a house full of people at my home that night
and for him to perform, so no band, no nothing,
just an acoustic guitar. And I said, just tell the
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stories before you play the song, because people don't know
you wrote that song. But there's something special to me
to hearing the poet who wrote the song that means
so much to you because George Strait didn't. And George Strait,
especially in his own way, he brings his own feel
to his own emotion to things. But there's something to
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be said about the guy who wrote it and lived
it and felt it and put pen to paper, and
now that song will exist forever, and it didn't before that.
And so he does a little show there in front
of everybody, and I had to kick a few people
out because some people are incapable of being quiet while
someone is at the mic, and it drives me nuts.
So I just say, I don't care how good a
friend you are, get out and go outside. They can't
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help themselves. But that's another point for another day. Maybe
somebody in the future will be quite when we're having
an event because they've heard me say that. So anyway,
I asked him to leave the Bluebell Song for the end,
because it's probably the only time you've ever heard Aaron
Barker sing. You've just heard his words so many times.
And he said, well, Michael asked me to leave this
last one for last. And maybe it's because we're in Texas,
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and maybe it's because he loves Bluebelt, and maybe it's
because the only time you've ever actually heard my voice,
even though you know all my songs, and so I'd
like to do it for y'all now, and if you would,
I'd like you to sing along. And it was just
one of those moments. I'm glad nobody pulled their lighters
out because we were in my living room, but it
was one of those moments. It's just one of those
you're kind of you got chill bumps. It's so silly
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and so absurd and so kitchy and corny, but it
was fantastic. If your chance will Plain or Sean Welling
and you make movies or commercials or whatever, there's something
called storybooking, I believe that's the term. And they'll take
these boards like a poster board, and they will create
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like a graphic novel. They will create blocks of all right,
we're going to go from this scene, and we're gonna
cut to this scene. And they lay out to the side,
all right, what are we doing here? Well, we're first
establishing the scene. We're in small rural Texas. Anywheresville, Texas.
Everyone should identify. There's a house off a red dirt road.
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There's a little girl coming off the steps. It's nostalgic,
but it's not ancient history. It could be our own childhood.
And she's running down the steps as an old truck
comes up the road, but it's not the era of
that old truck. It's Grandpa driving a truck maybe that
he's on for forty years. And the dust is coming
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up as he heads down the red dirt road toward her,
and she knows the sound of that gravel. And then
the dog comes from around the side, because you've got
to have the dog's old yeller. It's Americana, and she's
running toward him in her arms outstretched, and he gets
out with that knowing smile of that's my baby girl.
And so there's this very emotional scene, and you know,
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you storybook this whole thing out. That song paints that
picture so perfectly that if you've never seen the TV commercial,
you don't need to. Just even the way the music
is this sort of lofty music floats started again. Just
listen to this lofty it's kind of an old fashion
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and no modern musical instrumentation could have been created in
nineteen forty two. It's just perfect. That's what is just perfect,
and it's exactly what you want if you're Bluebell. Now
let's leave a side that they need to stop these
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stupid new flavors. You need homemade vanilla, and at Christmas
time you can do pistachio almond. And that's about it.
That's all you need. You don't need to do all
other stuff. It's all of that stuff is a distraction
from what's important. This is what gets us in trouble.
You keep your eye on the prize. Oh, we're gonna
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go to Perry first because he's been holding and we're
gonna do And I truly believe you can you can say,
I truly believe Michael Berry you're crazy about an opinion
I have. But you're gonna have to say why make
it quick, make it punchy, rehearse it in your mind.
If you think you're on, then you're on. Don't ruin
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the pacing. We like the high pacing, the high call,
the high call, count, the quick turn. And if you
sit there going huh is this may Darryl is Daryl,
then we're just gonna drop you because you're ruining the game.
And then the bluebil sour. Nobody wants that. Nobody likes
that guy. Seven one, three, nine, nine, nine one thousand.
If you can't get through, just keep trying seven one
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three nine nine nine one thousand, or you can email
me through the website Michael Berry's Show dot com.
It's that time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Verie Show is on the air. I would
leave that subject for a moment because I could go
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on the entirety of the show. In my tone betrays
an actual anger that I have. It is an anger.
It feels like you're on a ball field with a
group of people who have decided it's fourth quarter, you're
down by ten points, only three minutes left, and they're
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planning where they're going to go after the game. They
have given up and don't even realize it. We didn't
get to the point where we are in this country
overrun by illegal aliens, where Brown University is refusing to
release the video footage of the shooting, or the testimony
(01:12):
eyewitness testimony of individuals who saw the shooting of a
Jewish girl who was the head of the Republican party
on campus by a chubby shooter who sure looks a
lot like somebody who has been identified as a prime
(01:35):
suspect in the police chief lost his mind that you
should not say that when they did release the name
of a white male military veteran before that, when in
fact it's impossible that it could be him. Or what
about January sixth where good people went to prison. At
(01:55):
least one I know of committed suicide because his life
was ruined. People were banked, erupted for walking through the Capitol,
and you were told it was an insurrection to take
over the country. That Alexandria A Cassio Cortes feared for
her life because they were beating at the door and
they were saying they were going to rape her. It
turned out she was three blocks away and never in
a moment's jeopardy. Or how about the fact that the
(02:17):
fellow who put his boots up on Nancy Pelosi's desk,
apparently a crime most foul in our republic, did more
time than the people who burned down Minneapolis after Saint
George Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose. And what of fentanyl?
What of this dangerous drug that obviously between heroin and
(02:38):
other drugs, Nick Reyner, if not was the trigger, was
the problem altogether? What of the president who's literally gone
to war to stop that product from arriving on our
shores and had nothing but insult because of it. What
if Rob Reiner had been assaulted and murdered by your
(03:00):
average street corner thug who'd been released five, ten fifty
times for violent crimes before violent crimes that Donald Trump
has worked hard despite Democrats working against him to stop.
Would we still blame Trump? Would we still blame Trump?
(03:20):
I lapsed back into it, Ramon. I lapsed back into
it because this is probably more important than anything else
we would talk about, and that is whether we have
the fire in the belly to save this country. And
I'm not much of a defeatist, but I will tell
you most people do not. Most people think you're going
(03:41):
to save this country politely overwastle at the Christmas party,
looking both directions and going I voted for Trump. Now,
some of the stuff he says civility. What is civility.
Civility is talking nicely and wearing your tie properly and
having your hair cut nice and short, and no tattoos
(04:03):
that are visible to the public. That's civility. All the
while our republic is crumbling, but do so nicely. That's
what the left is so good at, looking you right
in the eye and using the nicest of terms. I
saw James Talerico was speaking at some sort of church yesterday,
this white liberal monster, and he was saying, God does
(04:27):
not make you hate people. Loving God does not mean
turning away your neighbor who comes to you for help.
Loving God does not mean this and loving that. Loving
God does not mean butchering a baby inside a woman's
womb either. But it hasn't stopped you, has it, James.
(04:50):
And when you are whipped by a black woman who's
going to mop the floor with you, who decided at
the last minute to get in after you had wired
this thing and even pushed Colin Alred out because he
didn't want a bruising campaign, well we'll see how you
feel at that point, which brings us to the split
(05:12):
within the Democrat Party today. On the state level. We
now know that Jasmine Crockett was working very, very diligently,
Dallas Morning News reports, days before launching her campaign to
develop a slate of Democrat candidates to run with her
in the midterms. Fellow Democrats who were already running, she
(05:35):
tried to push them out and have them join her ticket,
which is exactly what week Colin Alred did. Dallas Morning
News reports. Crockett and other Democrats theorize running their best
Democrats in races up and down the ballot, particularly in
statewide races for governor, Lieutenant governor, Attorney General, and comptroller,
improves their chances to break through. Crockett's challenge was convincing
(05:57):
fellow Democrats to put aside campaigns already in motion as
the deadline to file candidacies for the March third primaries
fast approached. Her effort failed. Former Congressman Colin Allred dropped
out of the Democrat Senate race and opted to run
in Dallas County anchored Congressional District thirty three, setting up
a clash with Congressman Julie Johnson, a farmer's branch who
(06:19):
had already filed her candidacy, but there were others who filed.
We learned this week that she visited revisited the church
she had attended while she was at the University of
Houston Law Center. And who would be by her side
but the Boss Tweed of Tammany Hall, Harris County, Rodney Ellis,
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because you see, Rodney Ellis wants to own the Senator.
More importantly, Rodney Ellis wants to own Harris County. He
hasn't quite consolidated all of the power. He's got to
get Whitmyer out. But believe me, he's working very hard
behind the scenes to do that. And that is why
the Democrat Party censured John Whitmyer this week. They censured him.
They will no longer endorse him. Well, he's he's not
(07:11):
up for election anytime soon. Well, would never endorse him again.
We mean it, okay, but he didn't need your endorsement
right now. We're not gonna know, okay, Well, how about
you just decide you're not gonna when the time would
come to endorse him, which would be quite some time
(07:31):
from now. I don't know. We're not gonna endorse him
because we're trying to induce another candidate to get into
the race against Whipmyer. Because Whitmyer and Rodney Ellis hate,
and I mean hate. You have no idea Donald Trump
doesn't hate Rob Reiner. Rob Reiner doesn't hate Donald Trump
(07:53):
as much as Rodney Ellis and John Whitmyer hate each other.
If we have time today, I'll get to you. I'll
explain some of the background behind that. But it is rancors.
It is nasty, it is vicious. Whitmeyer had mostly let
it go. Rodney Ellis is not. It has now spilled
over into the eighteenth Congressional district, and it hasilled spilled
over into Looneylena dot Common, Dante and Anice Porker, and
(08:15):
Looney Lena says there's another candidate about to get into
the Democrat County judge race. It's going to be fun
to watch them tear each other. Apart to Michael Arry
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If you're good at what you do and you can
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not a charitable donation. I tell people this all the time.
Don't sponsor our show. We actually have some folks who
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This is an opportunity for you to get to talk
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got a nice email on Lewis Florey, somebody that Lewis
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thank you very much for partnering with good people. That's
the model's taking us twenty years. But I feel good
about where we are. Lady drove in from the other
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And she'd driven to a Corey Diamonds and Design and said,
I drove past places to get to them, and I
see why you're so high on them, because they are wonderful.
That is the goal, and I want before you talk
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like to think that every person who calls every or
emails every one of our show sponsors every time is
going to get a number one, the best service ever.
But you and I both know. You catch me at
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I might be at C plus because I'm tired, or
I'm busy, or I'm distracted. But when I can connect
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make sure that their top guy is on it. There's
only one top guy at every company. It's just the
way it is. That's the nature of the top guy,
and they're going to make sure because of it. Mike
BATCHI said lone star Chevy was saying that he is
spending an increasing amount of his time actually on deals
themselves because our listeners will be looking for a bit.
He just found a two thousand and eight Jaguar XJ
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six with low miles, which you can't find because one
of our listeners said, Hey, I know you're a Chevy dealer,
but can you find me that vehicle? And he said,
I asked him if he was how serious he was
about it, and he was serious. He found the vehicle
in Pennsylvania, took him two weeks to get it down
here and the deal was done. Well, if I'm Sonic
that owns that dealership, I don't want my general manager
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spending that much time on a deal. But he gets
caught up and then he loves our show. He loves
what we do, and he loves our listeners, and he
does that. In any case, this time of year is
a great time of year. It's a festive time. We're
kind of blowing out the end of the year. You're
having more drinks than the usual or being more social
than usual. Please take an ober. I don't want one
(12:54):
of you to get in trouble and ruin your life.
I've seen it happen too many times. And be responsible
when you go to the party. I hate to be
the buzzkill, but I've watched too many people, too many
people ruin their careers at the Christmas party. It happens
all too often. And it's always Steve in accounting, who's
the nicest guy in the whole company, never does anything wrong,
(13:16):
shows up, has for years, and he gets a few
drinks in him and starts making snow angels, and before
you know it, he's dry humping the CEO's wife behind
the drummer over to the side. Just don't do it.
Please know your limits. I've watched it happen too many
times too many times. I started life at a law
firm called Jenkins and Go Chris, and we had a woman,
(13:40):
older black woman, and she was the boss. She was
like wheezy in good times. She had that same voice,
same imperious tone. Nobody ever questioned her for anything. And
she came in the morning after the company Christmas party
that was in the company offices, and she found a
trail of a woman's clothes and his clothes from when
(14:03):
you got off the elevator to the conference room. And
apparently they had walked out like everybody else, both married
to other people, and come back up godall and they're
stripping off like in the movies as they made it
to the conference room. And she gets to the conference
room and there they are laid out on the conference
(14:25):
room table, having fallen asleep after a passionate rolic and
a lot of booze. Needless to say, they lost their jobs.
It wasn't pretty. But at the end of the year,
as you start thinking about the new year and your
health and wellness, whether it's your hair or your eyes.
(14:48):
I'm having an eye surgery in January. I'm pretty excited
about it. I didn't want to have it done before
the Christmas break. I didn't. I had some things coming
up on to get done. And then I'll have you know, Ramona,
I'm having I'm having cosmetics surgery. Full disclosure. I'm having
my eyebrow reattached. I'm having it drop down so I
won't have that furrowed eyebrow at all times. And before
(15:10):
you think I'm vain, first of all, I am to
start with I am vain. And number two, I won't
have to wear glasses anymore, so my eyebrow will be
more prominent. And I'm going to have that eyebrow drop down.
In there. I might have a little work done on
the crow's feet. I don't know. I'm not opposed to it.
I earned these wrinkles, but you know, you know I
(15:31):
have to have all of them, you know. I mean,
long as you don't go completely don't like that out,
I think you can, huh. I'll tell you what I
am going to have done. And I told Jeff Witstt
that he doesn't do this. My brother had it, my
mom had it. We have these heavy eyelids, and so
when I take a photo, I do the shocked look.
(15:52):
You don't notice it because I always do it, but
I'm happy to get rid of that. Also, your financial
good health. You need a CPA, you need a financial LIVI.
These are all things you can start thinking about. Let's
get those relationships in place to start twenty twenty six right.
I would love to help you with that stuff. It's
a good feeling to get your house in order, physically, fiscally,
all of it. Buddy of mine got in trouble with
(16:15):
his wife. She asked how he looked before a party,
and he said, your eyebrows are drawn on too high.
She looked, surprised.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
The moon.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
If you have seven pairs in one hand and ten
in the other, what do you have giant hands? Rand
of mine gave up his career as a farmer. I said,
why did you give up your career as a farmer?
He said, he chose the wrong field, and chose the
(16:51):
wrong Fielding SCUBA is an acronym for self contained underwater
breathing apparatus. Tuba little known fact is an acronym for
terrible underwater breathing apparatus. Prepare yourself because we will begin
(17:18):
and I truly believe statement segment in the next segment,
But first I need to catch you up on what's
going on in Democrat politics, and it goes like this.
So Lena hid Allgo was politely informed against her wishes
that you will not be running for re election. A
(17:40):
nice porker started building her coalition. A niece is a
very smart lady. I spent two years of my six
years on city council sitting next to her. A niece
will sell her best friend down the river for her
own advancement. She is insanely ambitious and insanely transactional. Nothing
(18:07):
is sacred to a niece. That being said, that's what
makes her dangerous. It's what made Bill White dangerous. It's
what made Joe Biden dangerous. If they actually did what
they believe, you could tolerate them. It's what makes Bill
Clinton dangerous. The white liberal, tactically sound, strategic minded, very
(18:32):
ambitious politician is extremely dangerous. That being said, she's also
very very smart. Aniceporker started running for city council in
I think ninety five. She lost, then she came back
(18:55):
and won. She was the first openly lesbian city council
in the city of Houston. Not an easy thing to
pull off. She defeated Reverend Jimmy Dixon, who was a
semester turner acolyte, well known in the black community. She
defeated a Republican. She went on to be the controller
(19:20):
and then she went from there to be the mayor.
Not an easy thing to pull off. She did it.
She's clever, she's Wilie, and she started building the coalition.
She has a strategist, a guy named Grant Martin. Grant
Martin came out of gay coalition politics. Beware people who
(19:40):
do that because they're very, very smart. And the reason
is you start an election with more people against you
than for you because you're gay. Grant Martin is very
very smart. I didn't know he was still around. She
was the only candidate I ever knew of that he had.
But he is absent, absolutely brilliant. The man is very
(20:03):
very good at getting to fifty one percent of the
vote using public policy, getting people who might be creeped
out by gaytom or freaked out or prejudiced or biased
or whatever else of gay people to vote for a
gay person. It is not an asset to be gay
(20:23):
in Harris County. It's not. People can think it is
because when you see someone who's gay, or you see
someone who's transgender or whatever that is. It feels like
they're getting all the advantages. That is not true. It
is a tougher hill to climb because for everybody gay
who's going to vote for you because you're gay, there
(20:44):
are lots of people who won't vote for you because
you're gay and they're gay. And there are a whole
lot of people who won't vote for you because you're
gay because they are Evangelical Christian. So you've got to
win the race. Despite that. Being black in the city
of Houston is actually an advantage because you could have
(21:04):
upwards of forty percent of the electric vote that are black,
and unlike gays, blacks vote in block you can get
over ninety percent of the vote, so you can lock up.
Out of forty percent of the vote, you can already
be at thirty six percent, which means you've got to
get to fourteen percent out of the remaining sixty percent,
(21:27):
that's about a quarter of the vote. You've got a
number of white liberals who will vote for a black
over a white just to prove to themselves they're not racist.
Trust me, that happens. So being black in the city
of Houston is an Asset County wide and Harris County
is still not still not. But we will see. Now,
(21:48):
Lena had aalgo, wanted to run for reelection. She has
nothing else to do. She's like Richard gear and officer
and gentlemen. She's got nowhere else to go, nothing else
to do. Nobody wants to hire her. He's been in
the looney bin a number of times. Even her nerdy
husband finally had to say enough and cut her loose.
So she goes on an unhinged rant that she will
(22:11):
not be supporting an East porker. Well it just so happens.
That was three days after another unhinged rant where she
called on the Democrat party to support a resolution condemning
John Whitmyer for allowing the Houston Police Department to cooperate
with federal authorities serving ice warrants. See what's being played
(22:34):
out here is sides are being picked. Rodney ellis over here.
Rodney has told Lena that he will take care of her.
Do you continue to do what I say?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
No?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I didn't let you run for reelection because we can't steal.
Here's the problem. Democrats could steal the general election, and
they did against Alex Meeler. They stole that election. They
didn't send ballots out to the West Side on election day,
so thousands and thousands and thousands of people didn't get
to vote. It was enough to win the election. They
know exactly what they're doing, and that's what they did.
(23:08):
Remember he put Clifford Tatum in there after they had
put Chas Bono in there, and Chas Bono rigged the primary.
She rigged the primary so bad that the Democrats demanded
that she be kicked out because Rodney had rigged the primary,
remember that, and they paid her out as if she
had been a long term employee. She was brought in
to rig the primary for Rodney's candidates. Rodney doesn't just
(23:31):
rig the election on election day for the general election,
he rigs the primary too. He has been slowly but
surely replacing the white Democrat judges with black women judges.
They call it Black Girl Magic BGM. There's articles written
about it. NPR covered it nationally. And these women one
(23:52):
I'm a real estate agent who had never practiced law before,
much less been inside a courtroom, and they owe everything
to the godfather. That's Rodney. What he has pulled off
is nothing short of amazing, absolutely amazing. He has complete
dominance over the Harris County Judiciary. Criminal and cibyl he
had complete dominance, are close enough of the Harris County
(24:14):
Commissioner's Court, but Leslie Brionis has been bucking him of late.
Adrian garcia Will used to do what he wanted to do,
but I think Adrian is angling for himself now and
has realized that Rodney's going to drag him down, if
not to court, to prison. So you've got Rodney over
here against Whitmyer, and they've got their candidate. They won't
(24:37):
say who it is yet, but it's not Lena, and
they're against Anee Porker, who's kind of lined up now
with Whitmyer and the more conservative white candidates in the
gay candidates.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
And you are about to see a cat fight, and
I'm here for it. Everyone listens to Michael Berry Show.
Aaron Barker was in town when I came. He wrote
that song.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
And a number of other songs that you would recognize,
and he's a great songwriter. He started, like many guys,
as a singer songwriter, but he figured out that he
wasn't blessed with a George, George Strait, Tracy Bird, Mark
Chestnutt Voice, and he focused primarily on writing songs, and
(25:25):
I suspect he's made a small fortune on that. And
he and another famous singer songwriter who are known as
primarily songwriters, we're going to be in town. And he
sent an email and said, hey, we listened to you
at Nashville and if you're around, we'd love to grab
a cup of coffee. Absolutely, so we did, and I said, well,
how about you come into the studio because if I
(25:46):
do something on my own, it's not really that important.
It's like, why you got to take a photo to
show your friends. I'd rather just have you on the
air and let's have the same conversation we're going to have,
but let's share it with a lot of people. So
he did the show, and I set up to have
a house full of people at my home that night
and for him to perform, so no band, no nothing,
just an acoustic guitar. And I said, just tell the
(26:07):
stories before you play the song, because people don't know
you wrote that song. But there's something special to me
to hearing the poet who wrote the song that means
so much to you because George Strait didn't. And George Strait,
especially in his own way, he brings his own feel
to his own emotion to things. But there's something to
(26:28):
be said about the guy who wrote it and lived
it and felt it and put pen to paper, and
now that song will exist forever, and it didn't before that.
And so he does a little show there in front
of everybody, and I had to kick a few people
out because some people are incapable of being quiet while
someone is at the mic, and it drives me nuts.
So I just say, I don't care how good a
friend you are, get out and go outside. They can't
(26:50):
help themselves. But that's another point for another day. Maybe
somebody in the future will be quite when we're having
an event because they've heard me say that. So anyway,
I asked him to leave the Bluebell Song for the end,
because it's probably the only time you've ever heard Aaron
Barker sing. You've just heard his words so many times.
And he said, well, Michael asked me to leave this
last one for last. And maybe it's because we're in Texas,
(27:13):
and maybe it's because he loves Bluebelt, and maybe it's
because the only time you've ever actually heard my voice,
even though you know all my songs, and so I'd
like to do it for y'all now, and if you would,
I'd like you to sing along. And it was just
one of those moments. I'm glad nobody pulled their lighters
out because we were in my living room, but it
was one of those moments. It's just one of those
you're kind of you got chill bumps. It's so silly
(27:35):
and so absurd and so kitchy and corny, but it
was fantastic. If your chance will Plain or Sean Welling
and you make movies or commercials or whatever, there's something
called storybooking, I believe that's the term. And they'll take
these boards like a poster board, and they will create
(27:56):
like a graphic novel. They will create blocks of all right,
we're going to go from this scene, and we're gonna
cut to this scene. And they lay out to the side,
all right, what are we doing here? Well, we're first
establishing the scene. We're in small rural Texas. Anywheresville, Texas.
Everyone should identify. There's a house off a red dirt road.
(28:20):
There's a little girl coming off the steps. It's nostalgic,
but it's not ancient history. It could be our own childhood.
And she's running down the steps as an old truck
comes up the road, but it's not the era of
that old truck. It's Grandpa driving a truck maybe that
he's on for forty years. And the dust is coming
(28:41):
up as he heads down the red dirt road toward her,
and she knows the sound of that gravel. And then
the dog comes from around the side, because you've got
to have the dog's old yeller. It's Americana, and she's
running toward him in her arms outstretched, and he gets
out with that knowing smile of that's my baby girl.
And so there's this very emotional scene, and you know,
(29:03):
you storybook this whole thing out. That song paints that
picture so perfectly that if you've never seen the TV commercial,
you don't need to. Just even the way the music
is this sort of lofty music floats started again. Just
listen to this lofty it's kind of an old fashion
(29:25):
and no modern musical instrumentation could have been created in
nineteen forty two. It's just perfect. That's what is just perfect,
and it's exactly what you want if you're Bluebell. Now
let's leave a side that they need to stop these
(29:47):
stupid new flavors. You need homemade vanilla, and at Christmas
time you can do pistachio almond. And that's about it.
That's all you need. You don't need to do all
other stuff. It's all of that stuff is a distraction
from what's important. This is what gets us in trouble.
You keep your eye on the prize. Oh, we're gonna
(30:09):
go to Perry first because he's been holding and we're
gonna do And I truly believe you can you can say,
I truly believe Michael Berry you're crazy about an opinion
I have. But you're gonna have to say why make
it quick, make it punchy, rehearse it in your mind.
If you think you're on, then you're on. Don't ruin
(30:30):
the pacing. We like the high pacing, the high call,
the high call, count, the quick turn. And if you
sit there going huh is this may Darryl is Daryl,
then we're just gonna drop you because you're ruining the game.
And then the bluebil sour. Nobody wants that. Nobody likes
that guy. Seven one, three, nine, nine, nine one thousand.
If you can't get through, just keep trying seven one
(30:52):
three nine nine nine one thousand, or you can email
me through the website Michael Berry's Show dot com.
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