AM Show Hr 2 | Be Unburdened By What Has Been

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time time.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Time, luck and load. The Michael Vari Show is on
the air.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
The US is the first time in the history of
the world where a government was organized with a constitution
laying out the rules that the individual was supreme and
domb and that is what led to the US becoming
the greatest country ever because it unleashed people to be
the best they could be, unlike it had ever happened.
That's American exceptionalisms.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain
five thirty five years ago? Why the Atlantic? Why does
Rice play Texas? We choose to go to the moon.
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to
go to the moon and disscate and do the other thing,

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not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

Speaker 5 (01:08):
If we look to the answer as to why for
so many years we achieved so much, prospered as no
other people on Earth, it was because here in this
land we unleash the energy and individual genius of man
to a greater extent than has ever been done before.
Freedom and the dignity the individual have been more available

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and assured here than in any other place on Earth.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yours I am well aware.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Of the reality that the lifeblood of talk radio is anger.
If people weren't angry at what's going on in this country,
then many of them will not tune into talk radio.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
I understand that.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
I cannot, however, simply be an agent of that anger,
stoke it and go home in good conscience, not from
my own good health, nor the people who are participating
in it, because it is unproductive to the extent that
it's not bringing change, and that is a good portion

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of it. I can't tell you how many emails I
have received since Tuesday night Wednesday morning. It would shock
you how many emails with a very similar message. We
should not be celebrating. We should be worried about this
and this and this and this, okay. And it reminds

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me of Kamala Harris lecturing a crowd years ago when
she said, how dare we say Merry Christmas when somewhere
there is a child without food and presents? You can
choose how you live. I'm simply not going to be
a part of that. And I suppose I could just

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ignore it and move on down the road. But I
don't find that very enriching. If you can't find joy
in your family, your faith, in your business, and your community,
in other positive people. That's simply a choice you are making,
and if you want to make that choice, you are
welcome to make that choice. But I cannot, in good

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conscience tell you that I think it's a good choice,
and I cannot be one of those people. And there
are plenty doing what we're doing. I could send you
to the names of the show if you want them,
who will stake you up into a fever pitch of
pissed off and keep you there all day long, every day,

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because that is the mountain they've built for themselves. It's
not where I want to be. I will express displeasure,
I will point out things that need to be changed
and how we can do that, but it is also
a goal of mine to focus on things that are good,

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where we can make a difference, and in the meantime
we're not walking around like a sourpuss. One of the
major reasons the Democrats lost, we'd all like to believe
it's our particular issue. One of the major reasons the
Democrats lost is they come off as angry and crazy,

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and people don't like that. You would, ladies, you wouldn't
want to dance with a guy who came over with
a sour attitude and an angry demeanor disposition. You don't
want to hire that person. You don't want to live
next door to them if you become that person, and

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it's easy to do. Politics has become sport. It's become entertainment.
It's a single most popular thing in America today. It
has far surpassed sports, far surpassed the church, far surpassed
professional life, the stock market, finance, travel, literature, me a film, music.

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People spend way more time at political rallies on both
sides of the eye than they do a concerts or
have in a long time. They spend way more time
on political television than they do movies.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
And you have to justify it.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
And it's just not just conservatives, This is across the board.
You have to JUSTI one has to justify these decisions.
So the justification is I'm staying informed, I'm a good citizen.
There comes a point where moderation is necessary, There comes
a point of diminishing return, and there even comes a
point where it's contrary to the overall goal. And we

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all see that there has to be a pivot. Now
for a period of time to focus on our culture, ourselves,
our families, our businesses, to be productive and prosperous, because otherwise,
what were we fighting for in the first place, Not
a sport we want to win because we hate the

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Texas Rangers or the Los Angeles Dodgers. Do I hope
that Dodgers fans went from cheering the World Series when
to being deported within two weeks? Yes, but that's a
sporting event. We're talking about important things. David. You're on
the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, Yeah, Michael.

Speaker 6 (07:25):
Since it's a good Friday that we have right here,
I'd like to nominate Tyris aka George Murdoch for Secretary
of Education and Rick Grennell for Secretary of State.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
You know, I wouldn't be surprised if Grenell is not
in contention. I don't know if it'll be Secretary of State.
Wouldn't surprise me. Trump clearly relies on him and his advice.
It'll be funny because the right will say, see, we
got a home over secretary of state, and the left
will say he's a sellout, he's horrible, he's dreadful, and

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they'll tear him down. That being said, I think Grennell's
a pretty darn good choice. I will say this. People
suggest to me names for things all the time, and
this is not to criticize you, is just to speak
generally to the issue. There is a tendency for us
to want to place people in the cabinet in the

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administration based on the fact that we already know who
they are, right. I will tell you that I see
administrations do that, and I don't think it's a good idea.
Jeff Sessions was made Attorney General because Sessions was the
first senator that came out for Donald Trump. He turned
out to be a disaster. So we don't have to

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put Ken Paxton or Ted Cruzer. All the people we
see on TV or we know are There's plenty of
good people in this country.

Speaker 7 (08:55):
You are listening to Michael Barry's show.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
We are still seeking sponsors for our Saint Jude Golf term.
It's the Saint Jude.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
I don't run it. I just raise money for it
every year.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
The Saint Jude Golf Tournament, which will be Monday, December
ninth at the Golf Club of Houston. It is a foursome.
You can use as you like or if you say Michael,
I just want to donate to Saint Jude to help
you get to your number. Give the team to camp.
Hope you can do that too. You can. Before you
do that, I always tell people put it out to
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Pike and Saint Jude. They put together. It starts with
a breakfast and it's boozy and it's fun and it's
a blast. And the groups that are out there are
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It's pronounced c Ramona. It's se a y Steve c
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Sports Floors and also famously married to Cindy van Hook.
It's five thousand dollars for a foursome and you're not
limited to one. Ramon will be clear. I don't. I'm
worried somebody's out there going we'll shoot Michael. I'd like to.
I'd like to pay for four of them. And they're
not emailing me because they're not sure if they can
do that. Yes, we will allow as a special exception

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today we would do that. Just email me Michael Berryshow
dot com and it'll show you where to send me
an email. Let's go to Michael. You're on the Michael
Berry Show.

Speaker 8 (10:27):
Go ahead, Hey, Michael, I just want to give a
call because I haven't heard anybody mention this. But I
think the person that we all need to thank most
for Donald Trump's victory is back Barack Obama. And the
reason being is I don't think Donald Trump will have
ever stepped into politics if it wasn't for Barack Obama

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chiding him. I think it was twenty fifteen or twenty
fourteen at the Al Smith dinner, we looked at Trump
and said one thing, you'll never be as president or
something on that line. Then that really pushed Trump to
want to run for a presidency. Then over this past
election cycle, I don't think well, first off, Barack Obama

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forced Joe Biden out of the president out of the race.
I honestly think they will have been able to cheat
if Biden will stayed in because it will have been
a lot closer than it was against Kamala. So we
can thank him for that, and we can also thank
him for charting all the African American men for not

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being black enough if they didn't vote for Kamala, So
I think his pompousness is what's really driven in MAGA
movement and drove the Black vote to get out and
vote for Donald Trump. So all in all, I think
we really need to thank Barack Obama for Donald Trump's
rise and the rise of the MAGA movement.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
But I get the point in the irony or satire
that is intended. It's not lost on me. But I
don't give Barack Obama credit for anything, nor will I now.
I do attribute his errors, his arrogance, his evil. I

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believe the man has committed crimes, serious crimes. I believe that.
I don't care if his wife has a wiener or not.
People focus on those sorts of things. I guess that's
another thing they can add to what they don't like
about him. He's a bad human being. And somewhere along
the way, in the course of the life of our republic,

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this free people. And by the way, one of the
great joys is that in twenty twenty six, during the
middle of Donald Trump's presidency, will be the two hundred
and fiftieth anniversary of our people being free. We didn't
have a constitution yet, but we were free. We were
in depend that we were our own, our own civilization,

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our own community, our own In the Max Weber since nation,
it wasn't just that we shared a language or tract
of land. It was that there was a spirit.

Speaker 8 (13:16):
You know.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
Bono had one of the deepest things I've ever heard
said about the United States. And I don't care much
for his politics, but he makes I think a brilliant point.
I mean, he's a songwriter, He's a man who expresses
ideas and words beautifully, and I love this particular phrasing

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and concept by him.

Speaker 9 (13:39):
It's not a right left issue, it's a right wrong issue.
And America has constantly been on the side of what's
right because when it comes down to it, this is
about keeping faith with the idea of America, because America
is an idea, isn't it. I mean, Island's a great country,

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it's not an idea.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
Great Britain's a great country.

Speaker 9 (14:04):
It's not an idea. That's how we see you around
the world as one of the greatest ideas in human history,
right up there with the Renaissance, right up there with
crop rotation on the Beatles White album. The idea, the
American idea, it's an idea.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
The idea is that.

Speaker 9 (14:24):
You and me are created equal. It will ensure that
an economic recession need not become an equality recession. The
idea that life is not meant to be endured but enjoyed.
The idea that if we have dignity, if we have justice,
then leave it to us.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
We'll do the rest.

Speaker 9 (14:42):
This country was the first to claw its way out
of darkness and put that on paper. And God love
you for it, because these aren't just American ideas anymore.
There's no copyright on them. You brought them into the world.
It's a wide world now.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
I know.

Speaker 9 (14:59):
American say they're a bit of the world in them,
and you do. The family tree has lots of branches.
But the thing is, the world has a bit of
America in it too. These truths, your truths, they're self
evident in us.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
We're the only nation born of an idea. When does
Germany start? When does France start? You know, you study
the civilizations of the Gauls or what we now call Germany,
and you bring together these pieces. You know, Italy was

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the Neapolitans and the Sicilians, and the Tuscans and the Genuines,
and you bring them together under a flag, and you
call them a nation, and you muster an army. But
at the end of the day, it's not on the
basis of an idea. It's typically by brute force. It's

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typically by brute force. And the beauty of July fourth,
seventeen seventy six is that was the moment that in
a rented room on Main Street in Philadelphia, Jefferson presents
the final draft of a document outlining as a people
who and what we are? I mean, I can't begin
to tell you how moving I find this to be.

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I realized these are the things that you learned in
civics when you really just wanted to get with Susie
behind the building. But it really is deep. It's so
profoundly deep in a religious, spiritual way, when you consider
whether you were born here or you came here, that

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there's nowhere on earth that people want to be more
than here the entire world. Like ants to the honey,
ants to the sugar, want to get here because it's freedom,
it's opportunity. Now, many of them don't understand how you
get that freedom, how you maintain that freedom, how you
maintain that opportunity, Because they come from cultures that didn't

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have that, so they want to institute all that they know,
which would actually destroy that freedom and opportunity. But God
bless America that we live in this place.

Speaker 8 (17:21):
Informed decisions, and you're giving them the into the Michael.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
Arry because you're a public Paul Revere kind of ringing
the warning though the horse she must be in a
questrian or something. One hundred and seventy two years ago today,
November eighth, eighteen fifty two, the first recorded mention of

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the distinctive Mexican circus in Texas appeared in the San
Antone Ledger. Though the performing groups may have been in
Texas prior to this date, the San Antone Ledger marked
the first documentation of the circuses in the Lone Star State.
The Mexican circuses evolved over the years from sixteenth century

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performers called voladores flyers that means the flyers because they're
they're well, they're flying across. They're they're crazy if you've
ever seen it, and Spanish minstrels and jugglers to include
motto meadows. I think motal meadows are Uh's the word
in English. It's not a Mexican sweet. Let you idiot.

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Mama Martha's listening and she doesn't know if you really
don't know, as acrobat is the word in English and
dramatic performers. By the time they got to Texas, the
Mexican circuses had incorporated Italian, English, and American influences, including
the English clown carpas. I think that's a.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
What would you call that?

Speaker 4 (19:04):
P T.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
Barnum and the like a tint circus. I think that's
what that is. Proved popular into the twentieth century throughout
the Rio, Grand Valley and South in central Texas, and
several companies made San Antone their home base. The Karpas,
often family based, delivered commentary on Tehano social life, and

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influenced the development of Mexican American theater El Teatro for
you from month. Interesting how families would travel, whether it
was a medicine show or flying acrobats across the fruited plain.

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Not just in the United States. Gypsies did that all
over the world. And you would have these families and
everybody in the family had a duty. It was like
a farm. Right. Hey, listen, you're pretty healthy, both your
eyes and we already gouged out one of our kid's
eyes and made him a cyclops. So we're gonna bind
your foot behind you so that you have to hop
along and you got a foot coming out your back

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like a tail. Sorry, but that's what we're adding to
the show. So this is gonna hurt a little bit.
And that's what they did. That's what they did. Jeremy,
you are on the Michael Berry Show, and we're glad
you are. Seven won, three nine, nine, nine, one thousand?
Did you call? Did you call for a I did
for a team in the Saint Jude Tournament? Not only

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five thousand dollars going fast.

Speaker 10 (20:36):
Well, that's the reason I'm calling is I just started
a new company called Yes I Know a guy dot
com and it's a direct connection for people to get
direct contact with expert general contractors who can refer, advise,
and recommend. And I just launched it and hope to
be a sponsor of yours really soon.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
But not today, not today. Okay, but that's not why
you called. I apologize. No, I'm just kidding you. That's
not why you called. No, sure, well go ahead, Well, no.

Speaker 10 (21:13):
The reason I called this for my company, my new company,
Yes I know guy dot com.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
I see what happened. You must have called in on
the day that I think it was Jennifer called about
her son being sent to the Principle for doing a
good thing. Oh yeah, Principal Patterson, and I think you
called afterwards, and our phone system, because they had to

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reset it to go back and get all our voicemails,
our phone system picks up what you last called about,
so it listed as the reason you called in son
was sent to principle for the same thing. So I
just assumed you did a little intro like the old
radio shows. You know, this hour brought to you by

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Haappyle o' daniel and the Dope Crust Boys, and then
they would go into the song or the programer, this
hour brought to you by Wrigley Spearmint Gum or something
like that. I love those old radio programs and how
they what Marlboro cigarettes? Uh, what was when Winston tastes good?
You got to Shirley cue lickor on Winston the Winston

(22:22):
tastes good like a cigarette should. I love the fact
that those lung darts were promoted for flavor. Now they're like, look,
we know you gotta hide over in the corner to
smoke this thing, okay, but here it is it is uh.
They don't they don't even try to promote them anymore.
Back in the day, it was like, we're having a

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women's tennis tournament, but.

Speaker 2 (22:45):
In the middle of it.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
If you can believe this, huh better than sex, you
can have a Virginia Slim cigarette and go to flavored Town.
What I'm talking about? How you there?

Speaker 11 (22:58):
And this is silly cute liquor with the United States
Pro Smoking Comedy. We saw him this last night at
my house. Winston's tastes good like a cigarette shoe. Winston's
just tastes good lights a cigarette shues and Winston give
you real flavor, full rich tobacco flavor. Winston easy drawing too.

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The filters put the flavor through Winston's taste good like
a cigarette shoe.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
I don't need me a smoke breaking Now, let's go
to ortiz or Tees. You're on the Michael Berry Show.
That's a last name. Why are you calling them the
last name? By the way, I have been asked to
put in a Latino line because the Latino showed up
so much. And why is it that blacks get the

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black line and Latinos don't get the Latino line, little
behind the scenes peak, behind the curtain fire. We typically
take women first, and that's for a number of reasons.
Ladies first, number one and number two. I read an
article ten years ago that said that women don't listen
to talk radio, It's all men, and I thought, well, shoot,

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women comprise over fifty percent of the voters. If we
can't get women to tune in and we can't talk
to them, then we can't fix the problems. Right. Women
are just as important as the men, folks, So we
always try. And women are not as likely as men
to call in. So when we get one on the line,
I mean we we reel it in. We hooked Ane thousand.

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You'll be up first or piece. The Michael Berry Show
shot tone indicates everything is ready for your call.

Speaker 9 (24:45):
Be good again.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
Years ago I started noticing them. Businesses were trying to
create social media because that's what they were told they
needed to do. So you would have a guy that
be somewhere between fifty and seventy years old, depending on

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if this daughter was from his first marriage or his
second marriage, and she had just graduated from college and
she had all these new fangled ideas and she would say, Dad,
you don't even have a social media page, and you
know he'd have a tractor company or a car dealership
or distributorship of whatever. And a lot of those people

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make way more money than you can imagine. You can't
see it, but they are somewhere in the logistical chain
and they're making a lot of times, they're making the
lion's share of the money in the chain from manufacture
to consumer, between the distributor of products and whoever's financing it,

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which is also why a number of distributors of products
in one way or another, got into the finance business.
And the dirty little secret is many retailers today don't
actually make much of if any profit as a retailer.
The only profit they make is the sluice, the juice

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they get on the financing. That's why when you go
in and you say to any of these you go
to electronics retailer, and they go, would you like to
finance that?

Speaker 12 (26:35):
No?

Speaker 1 (26:35):
You Weirdoh I'm paying for it now. Would you like
to sign up for a credit card? No, I'm going
to use my check book, And they freak out right
because that's where they need to make well, how about this,
how about a warranty on it? A warranty? Are you joking?
Because it got so competitive actually selling a product that

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they had to find ways to pile things on other
than the item itself.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
Right, So these.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
Guys, their daughter would would graduate at ut or wherever
she went, and she would say, Dad, you don't have
a social media for you to have a social media presence,
and I'd be at lunch with these guys. These companies
that would make for this guy alone, for his family alone,
These companies will be making three to ten million dollars

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a year, the ones I'm thinking of. And I said,
what do you think, Michael, I need to need social media?
And I'd say, you distribute valves. Let me ask you
a question. Do you expect that I'm going to follow
you on social media? Because Robinson Valve Company, whatever y'all

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have to say today, is really not very interesting to me.
Social media is a way for people to interact with friends, family,
and for whom they are fans because a person's famous
or interesting. When people figured it out that anybody can
start a podcast, I was overwhelmed with emails, Hey I

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started podcast, will you give it a listen? No, why not?
It's what you do. Yeah, Hey, I'm gonna rip the
engine out of my car and watch YouTube videos on
how to put it back together. Would you like to
come watch? No, I'm a master mechanic, exactly exactly. You're

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good at what you do. I'm good at what I do.
If you want to do what I do, I'm not
going to participate in it, because you're not going to
be any good at it, just as I'm not any
good at being a master mechanic. So you fast forward
and the daughter came back, and so Dad gives her
a job and overpays her because it's a way to
give your kids money. Right, You hire your kids to

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go to work for you, and you get to work
with him.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
It's a good thing.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
And all of a sudden, the daughter would have all
these crazy ideas, are going to use social media for
Dad's valve shop or carburetor shop, or roofing company or
fill into blank asphalt company. And it was the dumbest
thing ever. And so you had only social media pages
popping up for companies, and the guy, instead of focusing

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his energy on his business, would be trying to appease
his daughter, who told him he needed a social media page. Well, no,
he doesn't need to make movies or write songs either.
There are content creators and then there are people who
are You don't need to be a content creator just
because your daughter went and got a degree in marketing

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from a college and she's coming home and this is
the only job she's going to get. So she's going
to create a social media page for your valve company,
which is the craziest idea. Do you understand nobody wants
to follow a valve company's social media page. All that
being said, you know who's really really good at using
social media.

Speaker 2 (30:05):
A former.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
Two time national champion University of Texas Longhorn football player
named Jim Mackingville aka Mattress. Matt The guy's a master
at it.

Speaker 8 (30:19):
Now.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
He'll do kookie stuff, he'll do crazy stuff and do
stuff that make you face palm. But he's got people.
He's got teenagers following him and interested in him. He
just put this up about Donald Trump. Just the guy's amazing.

Speaker 13 (30:33):
Matthew mack here and my friend Sean and Jerry. The
unique story to tell starts win Sewan.

Speaker 7 (30:39):
Started on March twenty eighth.

Speaker 13 (30:41):
March twenty eight so I have known President Trump, president
elect Trump congratulation. By the way, I had heard that
President Trump wanted to get some mattresses this spring of
twenty twenty three, right, sir, February March, spring twenty twenty three.
And so he called me late night and tell me

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he wanted mattresses, and he wanted mattresses with a firm
any support.

Speaker 7 (31:06):
So here was our ballroom number two. See this a
lot on TV. President Trump likes to speak in this room.
So we had our set ready to go. Hearts racing,
two sets right, two sets right.

Speaker 13 (31:21):
They were sterne of Us right, Sterns.

Speaker 7 (31:23):
And Foster, justle bases, and they had the special they
have the edge support on the mattresses. And then we
were told President Trump was out golfing.

Speaker 12 (31:33):
So it's all right, make sure y'all use the bathroom whatever,
because he's on the way. You can't leave no more.
So we're in there and then he walks in.

Speaker 7 (31:42):
And then we see President Trump come walking in. We
saw him coming to it and he comes around the.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
Corner as a marine.

Speaker 7 (31:50):
I'm just locking up.

Speaker 12 (31:51):
As soon as he walks in, I say, mister President,
how you doing. I'm Jordan Willas he looks at me.
See tell mac we areout twenty something point.

Speaker 7 (32:00):
You've heard our story. The takeaway from it was, this
is the most powerful man on the planet here he
is Donald President of the United States. And it was
just like he was an old friend. He was just
so so personable, so caring. He cared about us, how

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our drive was.

Speaker 12 (32:22):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (32:23):
He just very genuine.

Speaker 12 (32:24):
Come on with me. So he walks with a shoulder,
the shoulder all the way to the kitchen, introduced me
to his sons and people that's walking by. It was
just unbelievable congratulation.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
President