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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Verie Show is.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Why do you say you feel trapped in a man's body.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Well, sometimes I get the minstrel craves real hard.
Speaker 5 (00:23):
For me, sports is about belonging. It's about inclusivity. It's
about allowing everyone to be their authentic self.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
You know, I'm big on that.
Speaker 5 (00:34):
Just because I have been criticized for my height, for
my ethnicity. I've been in those you shouldn't belong here
many times, and for me, I don't want that space,
especially Golden State, to ever feel like that. So I'm
all about women, little girls deserving to play, and that
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includes trans women.
Speaker 6 (00:57):
There's a lot of kids for discourse around trans athletes
and where they can compete in. I would welcome a
trans adea on my team more against my team anytime.
I don't think it's a problem in the world. It's
just another way to kind of attack trans people.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I am strong and.
Speaker 7 (01:20):
Simply declaring who you are is all that's required that
I meet every single requirement necessary to compete in the WNBA.
My team and I have carefully examined the WA's eligibility
criteria and governing framework surrounding self identification and inclusion. Based
on the current guidelines, I can and am officially declaring
my eligibility for the upcoming WNBA draft in May twenty
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twenty seven. I am definitely not here to mock, make
fun of, or disuspect any community or personal choices. I
am simply asking that the current rules be applied equally
to everyone, the rules that represent the very values many
WNBA players and coaches have publicly advocated for my team,
and I are prepared to ensure these guidelines are applied consistently,
agreed god exception, and I look forward through WNB honoring
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it's state of principles.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
I've always trusted the science, and I thought I was
a man my entire life. But you know, after further review, I,
you know, look a strong look at my personal preferences,
it would appear that I am indeed sometimes identifying as
a transgender woman. And I think it's only fair I
get a chance to play with with some of my
queens here in the twilight of my career, at my
athletic prime.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
We embrace justice, equity, diversity and inclusion. The Players Union said,
those are the values that unite this union. And allow
it to protect women's sports while creating transformational change. Hate
abuse and demonization of in person or group of people,
including transgender people, only fuel fear, division and harm. We
will continue to have hard conversations, but we will not
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be used as political poems.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
And of course, Sophie Cunningham, the enforcer for Caitlin Clark
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the Mountain, said that men should not be in women's sports.
The coach of one of the women's teams. I don't
know which city or which mascot who does. I think
it was in Seattle, but I'm not sure that wore
a shirt about that. As you know, there are some
black lesbian players in the league who have basically mauled
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an acosted violently. Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham's job is
to give it back when they do that. With all
his talk about Sophie Cunningham bearing the brunt of saying, hey,
I thought we were about women's empowerment here. If you're
gonna let men boys to men from the earliest to
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the professional leagues, if you're gonna let them come in
and be women, you're gonna destroy the strides that we made.
Martinez Averertilova a couple of months ago said, and she's
been a big, big advocate for you know, this feminazi philosophy,
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the women's strength whatever. She came out and said, what
are we doing, ladies? If we allow men to declare
themselves to be women, they're gonna come into women's sports
and dominate it. There's a reason we don't play them.
There's a reason women don't play in the NFL or
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the NBA because they're not as strong, they don't have
the bone density, they don't have the size. Everyone knows this,
but you realize what we're arguing now. Give the left credit,
Give Soros credit. He's got us arguing over whether capitalism works.
Sitting in the wealthiest country in the world in history.
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He's got us arguing over whether a man can be
a woman because he decides it would be advantageous to him.
And we're actually having to argue these sorts of things.
It's crazy. So President Trump would go back to twenty
twenty two, four years ago, said I'd be the greatest
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women's coach in history because he'd get men like Lebron
to just declare they were women wherever.
Speaker 8 (05:56):
I'd be the greatest women's basketball coach.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Because I don't like Lebron James. I like Michael Jordan
much better.
Speaker 8 (06:04):
But i'd.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
But I'd go up to Lebron James.
Speaker 8 (06:09):
It doesn't matter. I say, Lebron, did you ever have
any desire to be a woman? Because what I'd love
you to do is star on my team that I'm
building up.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I will have the greatest team in history. They'll never lose.
Speaker 8 (06:21):
Nobody who will come within seventy points.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Of this team.
Speaker 8 (06:25):
Now, we have to change that, and we have to
make it okay to talk about it. Do you know
the young lady I was talking about is afraid to
talk about it. She's shunned and she's canceled when she
talks about it.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
This is crazy. It is crazy. We were imagining Milo
Hamilton and Charles Barkley calling a WNBA game with a
bunch of guys on the court.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Hello again, of Brabody, this is Milo Hamilton And as
we come to the end of the third quarter here
at the Climate Pledge Arena by broadcast partner, Charles Barkley
will get you scores from around the league. But first
stepping in for the storm, it's Enos Cantoy Freedom eleven
years in the NBA, and tonight she's listed in your
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program at five foot eight, ohly Toledo. That woman looks
a lot taller than that, Charles. Yeah, something don't add
up here, Mallow. There are more beards on this court
than a lumberjack convention. Freedom takes the inbounds, turns and
slams at home.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Ooo.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Baby, you can put a blue star all over that
one dang mallow. This defense has no answer for Enis.
They look terrible now, folks. I had lunch with Venus
Canty Freedom this afternoon, chicken fried steak, cream gravy, and
she ordered three. Reminds me of a fella I broadcast
with back in fifty one, Whitey Pinkerton. Ooh, Whitey could eat,
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but Whitey could not jump.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I gotta tell you, Charles, it's hotter than a deep
post stove in this building. While the grounds crew wipe
sweat off the court, I want to tell you about
my friend a trader Joe's. They've got a sale going
on Adam's apples. Speaking of Adam's apples, this lady Enis
canto A Freedom has an Adam's Apple on her. You
can hang a lantern from Bob's like a cork and
a rain barrel. But these are the fruit. These are
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the eating kind, crisp, sweet, red as a cardinal's cap,
and they're on sale this week at your Trader Joe's.
Holy Toledo. That's a good apple. I had four of
them with my lunch today, had a chicken salad sandwich.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Two.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Arlen would have said that's too much apple for one man,
and Arlean would have been right.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
So go see them.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Tell Amlo sent you Trader Joe's and put a blue
star all over that produce section. Hey, Malo, it says
here next Tuesday's dot a dog night.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I didn't think sausage was that popular with this crowd.
Definitely seems to be gaining traction. Snowflakes, prepare for a
complete meltdown with more of the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I got a.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Text and a photo from a buddy of mine who's Popo,
and he sent a picture of the Bonanza and he said,
right now, I'm sitting across from the old Pasadena Bonanza.
I missed the old times. Yes, I sent him back,
are you on a steakout? And I was so proud
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of myself. I thought that was so clever. He got
a good laugh.
Speaker 9 (09:36):
Out of it.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
John, You're on the Michael Berry Show. What say you, sir?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Oh, I've been trying to figure out where you playing,
Miss You by the Stones. I was going to tell
you about the weekend I had, and I've been trying
to be out which aspect you'll discuss first. I took
a long but brief road trip to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and
spent a weekend with a much I'm sixty with a
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forty three year old Puerto Rican woman and had a blast.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
A Puerto Rican, a forty three year old Puerto Rican
woman and what happened?
Speaker 3 (10:14):
And I had a blast. It was a fantastic weekend.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
You think she had a good time, Oh, I would
say so.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
She'd been texting me quite a bit, but Gettysburg was
I had no idea that it was as tourist as
it was.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
How do you meet a forty three year old Puerto
Rican woman in Alabama.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Online like you do everything else we've been we've been
up like online acquaintances so ober a year and then
everything just clicked and that quite a good time. I
think I'm pretty sure I had a better time than
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Gettysburg than Lee did.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Uhh, Now we're making Roberty Lee jokes. Too soon? Too soon.
I can't hear you for some reason. I don't know
what to tell you. What does your profile say?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
What?
Speaker 5 (11:20):
What?
Speaker 6 (11:20):
What?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
What about your profile? Would I find funny?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
What profile are you talking about here?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
The profile that she saw you on? She has one
and you have one. Y'all met online.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
I think I mentioned the fact that I had a
deep voice. I haven't checked out my profile in years.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
So you haven't changed your photo either, have you? Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Man, I like I would be passive aggressive lately.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Yeah, that's your thing now the last three calls or so,
you've been.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
On that.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Oh my profile picture.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
My brother used to do that. He'd get something in
his head that he thought was really, really clever, and
he'd say it and I'd chuckle just to acknowledge so
we could move past it. But he had kind of
really thought it through and he was real proud of it,
so he'd just keep bringing it up again and again,
and I'd finally have to tell him, Christy, it's not
that complex a theory. You've said it. It's not that good.
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Anyone who knows me knows that I am extraordinarily passive aggressive.
It's my deliveries. It's how I get away with saying things.
It's intentional. You're not surprising me. So yeah, but that's
I guess in that sense, it's a good thing. But
back to it, So you haven't changed the photo? No,
But was her photo her dated? Was her photo current?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Oh? Yeah, very very kind of, very nice looking Guerto
Rican woman and she was just proud of being plad
Reacans you mentioned at the time or two, and you
mentioned Prederricans this morning.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
So is she a big girl? M hm three, Well
that's not the one. Is she is that wide or tall?
Speaker 3 (13:15):
That's right, Michael, she's she's from Pennsylvania. I don't want
to wht in Pennsylvania like they don't have had people.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
What was that about? Hey, have you ever been to
a BUCkies.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
I've passed a bunch album, but I've never been in one.
I've never been wanted to buy a canoe while I.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Was out of it. Yeah, well you could finally, Yeah,
good point. But we stopped in the Buggies and bass
Drop yesterday coming back from Austin, and I don't I
don't know if they if they have a sign out
front that says, you know, fat people will love this place,
or if they don't let you know, because they don't
let eighteen wheelers park there because they don't want, you know,
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sex in the toilets, and and and the drug culture.
And they say it's because of the space. But the
fact is there is a certain drug culture among some
in the eighteen wheeler community. And I have to say some, John,
because if I point out that there is in fact
a drug culture within a subculture within the eighteen wheeler community,
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then I have to hear from the guys. Is I
don't do no drugs. I didn't say you did, but
you and I both know that there is there are
lizard lots for people who are sleeping overnight, and there
is a rather rampant drug problem among everybody. But you,
I didn't say you did it. But in any case,
I wonder if BUCkies how BUCkies does this, because you know,
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Bucky's big promo is clean toilets, But now you know
they do all sorts of other stuff as well, and
there's a lot of there's peanut bretel and brownies and
fudge and glades almonds. Yeah, and all sorts of little
stuff that you have. You you didn't realize you needed
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until you went in there. But you're you're sitting in
the car with nothing to do, why wouldn't you consume
some you know, yogurt covered pretzels or glazed pecans or
any number of other delectables. But I saw something John
yesterday I've never seen before. I went in the restroom.
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The men's restroom had a line. All they're all built
same way, so it makes an L and then it
comes back like a like a chair, revers sized chair.
And it was all the way out to the to
the dispensers, to the slurping machines, was the line. And
I couldn't understand how this line was this long because
they have so many urinals, and so I kind of,
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you know, did that little Nobody wants to talk when
you're in a line like that, you know, you're looking down,
and so I said, uh, this line's kind of along,
and he said yeah. I said, but they got a
bunch of jurnals. He said, yeah, it doesn't make any sense.
So now that I was on record, I go walking up. Well,
every urinal was open, every single every single toilet, The cans.
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The stalls was taken, you know, because they got the
red light green light like a parking lot every although
one of them had green and it was red. So
the progressive guy would have told me not to. I
went to see if it was open, but it was.
I feel compelled to say every time I hear a
Bob Seger song that he is underrated, incredibly incredibly underrated
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as a writer, first and foremost as a writer, and
secondly as a singer because it distinctive voice and delivery
and time. And he has a real identity. You know
zz Tops, that little band from Texas, right, he has
a real identity as as you know, that's tied to
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his motor City Uh persona Roger. You're on the Michael
Berry Show. Go ahead, sir, Hello Michael.
Speaker 9 (17:06):
My wife and I have just been laying in the
weeds and watching all the political advertising, and we see
Taller Rico every day all over the place on lots
of television channels and lots of apps that we watch,
and it goes on and on and on, and we're
looking for Paxton. We don't see him anywhere. I mean,
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we just don't see any commercials. Does he realize that
election day is in November.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
He does not, He's been distracted and he's not aware.
I'm going to text him this morning and let him know.
Speaker 9 (17:50):
Well, I think it's time to start trying to score
because it's laying in the game and you need some points.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
How do you score?
Speaker 9 (17:58):
Get people's attention?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Somebody to do that for you? The usual way?
Speaker 9 (18:06):
Michael, you tell people that you're running or Senate and
that they ought to vote for you.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
How do you tell and not the other guy? What Roger?
Calm down? Okay, calm down, you called up with a point.
I'm asking you questions. How do you tell him?
Speaker 9 (18:25):
How do you tell him the Michael Berry shows a
good mouthpiece. Maybe he'll get back to him.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
He's going to be on the show tomorrow. Okay, No, No,
How do you tell people you're running and the other
guy's a bad guy? How do you how do you
do that?
Speaker 9 (18:39):
You spend some of your your campaign do?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
How much mind does he have? I don't know, but
I hear he has a lot you.
Speaker 9 (18:46):
Maybe more than other than Sorow's money, a lot more
than Tall Rico. Not true, but Tall Rico's really no.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Okay, no, and so this this is the great frustration.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
For you.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
This is an election will come and go for him.
It's his whole life. He could have been Attorney General
till the day he died. So he put it all
on the line. It's the first time I ever recall
a four term sitting US senator who's part of the
triumvirate of triumvirate of evil, that is the Senate Republican leadership.
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That was Lindsay Gramnesty, Mitch McConnell, and him, and he
beat him in his own primary. They spent more than
one hundred million dollars. Everything he raised he had to spend,
which was pennies on the dollar against Corning pennies on
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the dollar. And the base wanted corn and beaten. That's
what happened. The base did not want cornying right. Well,
there's a lot of people that are not part of
the base. And what our people forget again and again
and again. That's why they trust Fauci and take a shot.
That's why they don't send their kid to school. That's
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why they that's why they didn't believe that there was
fraud on January sixth, That's why they thought that Trump
somehow manifested a revolution a riot, a takeover. It's why
they voted for Obama, because they were so keen to
vote for a black guy that feel better about themselves,
that would convince them that they weren't a racist. Our
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people are easily duped, and our people were told by
people who want Abdul l said and Mamdani and Gavin Newsom.
Those people handpicked tall Rico. He was a lowly state rep.
The last time you seen a lowly state Rep win
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a primary in a major state to be a US Senator.
He was hand picked because he hadn't been out there
as much as some of the other folks. An Obama strategy,
so they ran him. He had token resistance. She happened
to be black, but she didn't mobilize black voters, and
she couldn't decide whether she wanted to be defensive. Talking
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black woman went that he wanted to keep it ready,
and y'all go, I'd get yell he and so she
went back and forth and it freaked everybody out. So
that was his big win. And then and then the
money poured in, and it is he is flush with cash.
Every one of those ads takes money a lot of money.
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And so what happened was Cornan still won't say he's
supporting tall Rico. That ought to be what That's the
only thing anybody should ever need to know. How do
you behave when you lose? Corning has come after Trump.
That's why you couldn't get the ag over the finish
line until a couple of days ago. Is Corning did
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all that and Corning's people and then you've got a
very very very powerful group in the state of Texas
that owns the Republican Party, and that's the group who
brought the impeachment charges. I'll tell you something. You get
bored this weekend or anytime, go look at the cross
examination by Tony Busby of the chief deputy in the
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Attorney General's office. I'll get his name in a minute,
and he goes through case in point. That guy resigns
on I think he's August thirtieth, a couple of years ago.
He resigns on. I believe it's August thirtieth, And on
August thirty first, and August Septeber, and on September one,
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that morning, George W. Bush renews his law license, which
had been expired like mine for years. Well, that's odd.
Nobody even knew he had resigned. It hadn't been reported
in the press. The whole thing was orchestrated by a
small cabal of the most powerful, powerful force in Republican politics,
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and usually a force for good. But they didn't like Paxton.
They haven't liked Paxton for almost fifteen years. He beat
Dan Branch, he beat their candidates. And they wanted George W.
Bush because they love them some Bush family, and they
wanted and they wanted George W. Bush in there. George
George H. Bush. What's his name? What's the little George?
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What's the little Bush? It's not George George H. How
am I forgetting this good grief Michael? Anyway, they wanted
him in there, and they ran him and he got trounced.
And this group is very, very very mad. And this group, frankly,
is what George P. Bush. Yes, this group is prepared
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to write off this Senate seat to prove their point.
This is what and this group is very aligned with
Karl RoAF And this is what Karl Rove has done
again and again and again. Karl Rove wants Republicans to
win elections and win power, but only if they're his Republicans,
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and if they're not his Republicans, then he will actively
work to defeat them because a Democrat. You can run
a Republican against a Democrat in the next election because
he'll be fine. He makes his money off this. So
those groups came after Paxton. So Paxton won a bruising
primary and came out of it frankly beat to hell.
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You watch this TV show on Netflix called Quarterbacks, and
you see how after a game those guys are beat
to hell. And you know that I didn't know you
had an a seed. It's it's apparently called an ac
in the shoulder. They separate these shoulders out. Anyway, Paxton's
campaign is getting rolling. Now there's a big announcement. I
thought it was gonna be made on Saturday, and it
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didn't get made. Paxton has worked. It's our job to
tell the story. Okay, it's our Senate seat.
Speaker 8 (25:03):
Let me.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Take a different approach to Roger's comment upon reflection, Roger's
not the problem. Roger just tweaked something that has irritated
me for a little while, and so I took it
out on Roger. Not his fault. Roger shares with me,
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and you a desire that we hold onto the Senate.
I'm going to get into that on a deeper level here. Shortly,
we are supposedly at a fifty three forty seven split
in the US Senate right now, but that's not really
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the full picture. Because you've got Susan Collins in Maine.
She voted against President Trump's attorney general candidate last week,
so she's not reliable Republican. You've got Lisa Murkowski Murkowski
in Alaska, she's not a reliable Republican. So you really
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got fifty one forty nine. And when you're fifty one
forty nine, one senator, any one senator, which of course
could be Mitch McConnell or whoever's his power of attorney.
Now I'm pretty sure he's dead, but who are whatever
condition he's in, and I honestly say this, I honestly
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mean this. He may be dead, but whatever condition he's in,
he makes it a point to vote against the president.
So now you're at fifty to fifty, which is why
jd Vance has been having to cast tie breaking votes.
That also gives a Republican senator an incredible amount of
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power that they would not otherwise have as a member
of one of one hundred. You know, if you join
a group that you're one of one hundred, you don't
have much influence over the direction of it. But if
it's a majority vote and it gets to be fifty
to fifty, you could literally walk across to the other
team and go, hey, guys, I'll sell out my guys
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if you'll give me this thing I want. And it
happens every day, so it makes it very, very very difficult.
Now you've got the Republicans trying to flip a the
Democrats trying to flip a couple of seats, and let's
talk about well, it's not the right time because it's
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a full segment. I'll get to it in a moment.
They're leading right now in North Carolina, where you had
a Republican Tom Tillis who's now just declared war on
Trump tom Tillis's replacement, And I'll get into these details,
and we're going to spend a lot of time this
evening on this issue. I didn't plan to get to
it this morning. But the point is this Senate race
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is very, very important. It's probably going to be the
most important Senate race. The Michigan race has taken up
a lot of interest right now because abdul L said,
beat the establishment Democrat candidate and he's his big buddy.
Campaign manager is Hassan Piker, and Hassan Piker has said
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things like We're going to send felons into the colleges
to rape all the white girls. He's just said some
awful I mean horrible, horrible things about whites and Christians
and Americans. And this abdul L said, is horrible. Well,
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I posted the other day and I heard from a
lot of people within my industry. Do what I do
commenting on you know, you're right, we need to push
this more. And that is tall. Rico is Francesca Holng
he is AOC, he is Abdul L said, he is
no different than them. He will vote with Bernie Sanders
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on every single issue. He will vote and he has.
He has not only voted with the far left in
the state in the state House of Texas, he has
voted he has led the charge. I'm going to tell you,
We're going to find out something on his interest in
trans children. It is unnatural. He's not a father. We're
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going to find out. We're going to find things out
about his personal childhood, and we're going to find out things.
I'm certain of it. I don't know for sure. I
don't know for sure. I have a sneaking suspicion. I
have a knack for these things for a moment. But
to Roger's point, which is fair, there is a frustration
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over what seems to be tul Rico's momentum or coverage
and his voice. Now, let me explain what's going on.
The Houston Chronicle every day does a protele Rico anti
Paxton piece. That's a fact. So as much as we
hate the Chronicle, as much as people say, I don't
subscribe it, I only use it for the litter to
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line in the bottom of my bird casa, the Houston
Chronicle is still the primary print sorted the print, the
primary print news in the Greater Houston area. When I
say primary, When you hear that somebody has been arrested,
when you hear there's been a shooting, when you hear
mccullors has been released from the astros or your non's
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going on the injured Reserve, you most likely hear that
from a You only hear that from a primary news source.
You don't get that from the astros press box. You
don't get that from the candidate, typically themselves. So you
go to a news aggregator, to an o stry, to
a primary news source that writes up the story, and
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then people like me and there's a lot of us
who comment on the news. We then comment on what
we read, but they've provided the primary news. Primary news
gathering and delivery is extraordinarily expensive, and that's why everybody's
gotten out of it. Cities like Houston had the Post
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and the Chronicle, most major cities had. Chicago, New York
had more than that. New York like London, a big
newspaper city. But all these major cities had two competing
rival newspapers. Now you're down to one, and they are
a shell of themselves. There's skeleton of what they used
to be. So they're doing tall Rico every day, so
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you're hearing tall rico, tall Rico, tall rico. All right.
Number two, there are the paid campaign ads. They are
spending a fortune, and that money is coming in from
people like Reid Hoffman, who was close to Jeffrey Epstein.
These people want to control the Senate. They don't have
any particular affinity for this little trans fetish weirdo Tellafrico,
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they don't care about him. He's a useful idiot. He's
a quarterback that if he can get us to the
super Bowl, we put him in there. But the minute
he can't, he's out right. You saw that with DeShawn.
Nobody cares about these people. He is a means to
an end. He's a horse Cignna ride. And this seat
when they pull their chessboard out, this is the one
they want if they can put a Democrat in the
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Senate from Texas. They have destroyed that. They have broke
the back of everyday Americans in MAGA. So they're pouring
a ton of cash into it. MAGA was supposed to
put money into Paxton. They have it yet the Republican
National Committee, the people who just lost their buddy John Cornyon,
they won't put any money in. It's not Paxton's fault,
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he doesn't have money. It's the establishment.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Verie Show is.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Why do you say you feel trapped in a man's body.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Well, sometimes I get the minstrel craves real hard.
Speaker 5 (00:23):
For me, sports is about belonging. It's about inclusivity. It's
about allowing everyone to be their authentic self.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
You know, I'm big on that.
Speaker 5 (00:34):
Just because I have been criticized for my height, for
my ethnicity. I've been in those you shouldn't belong here
many times, and for me, I don't want that space,
especially Golden State, to ever feel like that. So I'm
all about women, little girls deserving to play, and that
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includes trans women.
Speaker 6 (00:57):
There's a lot of kids for discourse around trans athletes
and where they can compete in. I would welcome a
trans adea on my team more against my team anytime.
I don't think it's a problem in the world. It's
just another way to kind of attack trans people.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I am strong and.
Speaker 7 (01:20):
Simply declaring who you are is all that's required that
I meet every single requirement necessary to compete in the WNBA.
My team and I have carefully examined the WA's eligibility
criteria and governing framework surrounding self identification and inclusion. Based
on the current guidelines, I can and am officially declaring
my eligibility for the upcoming WNBA draft in May twenty
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twenty seven. I am definitely not here to mock, make
fun of, or disuspect any community or personal choices. I
am simply asking that the current rules be applied equally
to everyone, the rules that represent the very values many
WNBA players and coaches have publicly advocated for my team,
and I are prepared to ensure these guidelines are applied consistently,
agreed god exception, and I look forward through WNB honoring
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it's state of principles.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
I've always trusted the science, and I thought I was
a man my entire life. But you know, after further review, I,
you know, look a strong look at my personal preferences,
it would appear that I am indeed sometimes identifying as
a transgender woman. And I think it's only fair I
get a chance to play with with some of my
queens here in the twilight of my career, at my
athletic prime.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
We embrace justice, equity, diversity and inclusion. The Players Union said,
those are the values that unite this union. And allow
it to protect women's sports while creating transformational change. Hate
abuse and demonization of in person or group of people,
including transgender people, only fuel fear, division and harm. We
will continue to have hard conversations, but we will not
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be used as political poems.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
And of course, Sophie Cunningham, the enforcer for Caitlin Clark
(03:34):
the Mountain, said that men should not be in women's sports.
The coach of one of the women's teams. I don't
know which city or which mascot who does. I think
it was in Seattle, but I'm not sure that wore
a shirt about that. As you know, there are some
black lesbian players in the league who have basically mauled
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an acosted violently. Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham's job is
to give it back when they do that. With all
his talk about Sophie Cunningham bearing the brunt of saying, hey,
I thought we were about women's empowerment here. If you're
gonna let men boys to men from the earliest to
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the professional leagues, if you're gonna let them come in
and be women, you're gonna destroy the strides that we made.
Martinez Averertilova a couple of months ago said, and she's
been a big, big advocate for you know, this feminazi philosophy,
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the women's strength whatever. She came out and said, what
are we doing, ladies? If we allow men to declare
themselves to be women, they're gonna come into women's sports
and dominate it. There's a reason we don't play them.
There's a reason women don't play in the NFL or
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the NBA because they're not as strong, they don't have
the bone density, they don't have the size. Everyone knows this,
but you realize what we're arguing now. Give the left credit,
Give Soros credit. He's got us arguing over whether capitalism works.
Sitting in the wealthiest country in the world in history.
(05:26):
He's got us arguing over whether a man can be
a woman because he decides it would be advantageous to him.
And we're actually having to argue these sorts of things.
It's crazy. So President Trump would go back to twenty
twenty two, four years ago, said I'd be the greatest
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women's coach in history because he'd get men like Lebron
to just declare they were women wherever.
Speaker 8 (05:56):
I'd be the greatest women's basketball coach.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Because I don't like Lebron James. I like Michael Jordan
much better.
Speaker 8 (06:04):
But i'd.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
But I'd go up to Lebron James.
Speaker 8 (06:09):
It doesn't matter. I say, Lebron, did you ever have
any desire to be a woman? Because what I'd love
you to do is star on my team that I'm
building up.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I will have the greatest team in history. They'll never lose.
Speaker 8 (06:21):
Nobody who will come within seventy points.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Of this team.
Speaker 8 (06:25):
Now, we have to change that, and we have to
make it okay to talk about it. Do you know
the young lady I was talking about is afraid to
talk about it. She's shunned and she's canceled when she
talks about it.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
This is crazy. It is crazy. We were imagining Milo
Hamilton and Charles Barkley calling a WNBA game with a
bunch of guys on the court.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Hello again, of Brabody, this is Milo Hamilton And as
we come to the end of the third quarter here
at the Climate Pledge Arena by broadcast partner, Charles Barkley
will get you scores from around the league. But first
stepping in for the storm, it's Enos Cantoy Freedom eleven
years in the NBA, and tonight she's listed in your
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program at five foot eight, ohly Toledo. That woman looks
a lot taller than that, Charles. Yeah, something don't add
up here, Mallow. There are more beards on this court
than a lumberjack convention. Freedom takes the inbounds, turns and
slams at home.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Ooo.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Baby, you can put a blue star all over that
one dang mallow. This defense has no answer for Enis.
They look terrible now, folks. I had lunch with Venus
Canty Freedom this afternoon, chicken fried steak, cream gravy, and
she ordered three. Reminds me of a fella I broadcast
with back in fifty one, Whitey Pinkerton. Ooh, Whitey could eat,
(07:50):
but Whitey could not jump.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I gotta tell you, Charles, it's hotter than a deep
post stove in this building. While the grounds crew wipe
sweat off the court, I want to tell you about
my friend a trader Joe's. They've got a sale going
on Adam's apples. Speaking of Adam's apples, this lady Enis
canto A Freedom has an Adam's Apple on her. You
can hang a lantern from Bob's like a cork and
a rain barrel. But these are the fruit. These are
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the eating kind, crisp, sweet, red as a cardinal's cap,
and they're on sale this week at your Trader Joe's.
Holy Toledo. That's a good apple. I had four of
them with my lunch today, had a chicken salad sandwich.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Two.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Arlen would have said that's too much apple for one man,
and Arlean would have been right.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
So go see them.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Tell Amlo sent you Trader Joe's and put a blue
star all over that produce section. Hey, Malo, it says
here next Tuesday's dot a dog night.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I didn't think sausage was that popular with this crowd.
Definitely seems to be gaining traction. Snowflakes, prepare for a
complete meltdown with more of the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I got a.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Text and a photo from a buddy of mine who's Popo,
and he sent a picture of the Bonanza and he said,
right now, I'm sitting across from the old Pasadena Bonanza.
I missed the old times. Yes, I sent him back,
are you on a steakout? And I was so proud
(09:31):
of myself. I thought that was so clever. He got
a good laugh.
Speaker 9 (09:36):
Out of it.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
John, You're on the Michael Berry Show. What say you, sir?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Oh, I've been trying to figure out where you playing,
Miss You by the Stones. I was going to tell
you about the weekend I had, and I've been trying
to be out which aspect you'll discuss first. I took
a long but brief road trip to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and
spent a weekend with a much I'm sixty with a
(10:04):
forty three year old Puerto Rican woman and had a blast.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
A Puerto Rican, a forty three year old Puerto Rican
woman and what happened?
Speaker 3 (10:14):
And I had a blast. It was a fantastic weekend.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
You think she had a good time, Oh, I would
say so.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
She'd been texting me quite a bit, but Gettysburg was
I had no idea that it was as tourist as
it was.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
How do you meet a forty three year old Puerto
Rican woman in Alabama.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Online like you do everything else we've been we've been
up like online acquaintances so ober a year and then
everything just clicked and that quite a good time. I
think I'm pretty sure I had a better time than
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Gettysburg than Lee did.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Uhh, Now we're making Roberty Lee jokes. Too soon? Too soon.
I can't hear you for some reason. I don't know
what to tell you. What does your profile say?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
What?
Speaker 5 (11:20):
What?
Speaker 6 (11:20):
What?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
What about your profile? Would I find funny?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
What profile are you talking about here?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
The profile that she saw you on? She has one
and you have one. Y'all met online.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
I think I mentioned the fact that I had a
deep voice. I haven't checked out my profile in years.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
So you haven't changed your photo either, have you? Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Man, I like I would be passive aggressive lately.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Yeah, that's your thing now the last three calls or so,
you've been.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
On that.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Oh my profile picture.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
My brother used to do that. He'd get something in
his head that he thought was really, really clever, and
he'd say it and I'd chuckle just to acknowledge so
we could move past it. But he had kind of
really thought it through and he was real proud of it,
so he'd just keep bringing it up again and again,
and I'd finally have to tell him, Christy, it's not
that complex a theory. You've said it. It's not that good.
(12:26):
Anyone who knows me knows that I am extraordinarily passive aggressive.
It's my deliveries. It's how I get away with saying things.
It's intentional. You're not surprising me. So yeah, but that's
I guess in that sense, it's a good thing. But
back to it, So you haven't changed the photo? No,
But was her photo her dated? Was her photo current?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Oh? Yeah, very very kind of, very nice looking Guerto
Rican woman and she was just proud of being plad
Reacans you mentioned at the time or two, and you
mentioned Prederricans this morning.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
So is she a big girl? M hm three, Well
that's not the one. Is she is that wide or tall?
Speaker 3 (13:15):
That's right, Michael, she's she's from Pennsylvania. I don't want
to wht in Pennsylvania like they don't have had people.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
What was that about? Hey, have you ever been to
a BUCkies.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
I've passed a bunch album, but I've never been in one.
I've never been wanted to buy a canoe while I.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Was out of it. Yeah, well you could finally, Yeah,
good point. But we stopped in the Buggies and bass
Drop yesterday coming back from Austin, and I don't I
don't know if they if they have a sign out
front that says, you know, fat people will love this place,
or if they don't let you know, because they don't
let eighteen wheelers park there because they don't want, you know,
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sex in the toilets, and and and the drug culture.
And they say it's because of the space. But the
fact is there is a certain drug culture among some
in the eighteen wheeler community. And I have to say some, John,
because if I point out that there is in fact
a drug culture within a subculture within the eighteen wheeler community,
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then I have to hear from the guys. Is I
don't do no drugs. I didn't say you did, but
you and I both know that there is there are
lizard lots for people who are sleeping overnight, and there
is a rather rampant drug problem among everybody. But you,
I didn't say you did it. But in any case,
I wonder if BUCkies how BUCkies does this, because you know,
(14:41):
Bucky's big promo is clean toilets, But now you know
they do all sorts of other stuff as well, and
there's a lot of there's peanut bretel and brownies and
fudge and glades almonds. Yeah, and all sorts of little
stuff that you have. You you didn't realize you needed
(15:03):
until you went in there. But you're you're sitting in
the car with nothing to do, why wouldn't you consume
some you know, yogurt covered pretzels or glazed pecans or
any number of other delectables. But I saw something John
yesterday I've never seen before. I went in the restroom.
(15:24):
The men's restroom had a line. All they're all built
same way, so it makes an L and then it
comes back like a like a chair, revers sized chair.
And it was all the way out to the to
the dispensers, to the slurping machines, was the line. And
I couldn't understand how this line was this long because
they have so many urinals, and so I kind of,
(15:47):
you know, did that little Nobody wants to talk when
you're in a line like that, you know, you're looking down,
and so I said, uh, this line's kind of along,
and he said yeah. I said, but they got a
bunch of jurnals. He said, yeah, it doesn't make any sense.
So now that I was on record, I go walking up. Well,
every urinal was open, every single every single toilet, The cans.
(16:14):
The stalls was taken, you know, because they got the
red light green light like a parking lot every although
one of them had green and it was red. So
the progressive guy would have told me not to. I
went to see if it was open, but it was.
I feel compelled to say every time I hear a
Bob Seger song that he is underrated, incredibly incredibly underrated
(16:36):
as a writer, first and foremost as a writer, and
secondly as a singer because it distinctive voice and delivery
and time. And he has a real identity. You know
zz Tops, that little band from Texas, right, he has
a real identity as as you know, that's tied to
(16:57):
his motor City Uh persona Roger. You're on the Michael
Berry Show. Go ahead, sir, Hello Michael.
Speaker 9 (17:06):
My wife and I have just been laying in the
weeds and watching all the political advertising, and we see
Taller Rico every day all over the place on lots
of television channels and lots of apps that we watch,
and it goes on and on and on, and we're
looking for Paxton. We don't see him anywhere. I mean,
(17:29):
we just don't see any commercials. Does he realize that
election day is in November.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
He does not, He's been distracted and he's not aware.
I'm going to text him this morning and let him know.
Speaker 9 (17:50):
Well, I think it's time to start trying to score
because it's laying in the game and you need some points.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
How do you score?
Speaker 9 (17:58):
Get people's attention?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Somebody to do that for you? The usual way?
Speaker 9 (18:06):
Michael, you tell people that you're running or Senate and
that they ought to vote for you.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
How do you tell and not the other guy? What Roger?
Calm down? Okay, calm down, you called up with a point.
I'm asking you questions. How do you tell him?
Speaker 9 (18:25):
How do you tell him the Michael Berry shows a
good mouthpiece. Maybe he'll get back to him.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
He's going to be on the show tomorrow. Okay, No, No,
How do you tell people you're running and the other
guy's a bad guy? How do you how do you
do that?
Speaker 9 (18:39):
You spend some of your your campaign do?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
How much mind does he have? I don't know, but
I hear he has a lot you.
Speaker 9 (18:46):
Maybe more than other than Sorow's money, a lot more
than Tall Rico. Not true, but Tall Rico's really no.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Okay, no, and so this this is the great frustration.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
For you.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
This is an election will come and go for him.
It's his whole life. He could have been Attorney General
till the day he died. So he put it all
on the line. It's the first time I ever recall
a four term sitting US senator who's part of the
triumvirate of triumvirate of evil, that is the Senate Republican leadership.
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That was Lindsay Gramnesty, Mitch McConnell, and him, and he
beat him in his own primary. They spent more than
one hundred million dollars. Everything he raised he had to spend,
which was pennies on the dollar against Corning pennies on
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the dollar. And the base wanted corn and beaten. That's
what happened. The base did not want cornying right. Well,
there's a lot of people that are not part of
the base. And what our people forget again and again
and again. That's why they trust Fauci and take a shot.
That's why they don't send their kid to school. That's
(20:04):
why they that's why they didn't believe that there was
fraud on January sixth, That's why they thought that Trump
somehow manifested a revolution a riot, a takeover. It's why
they voted for Obama, because they were so keen to
vote for a black guy that feel better about themselves,
that would convince them that they weren't a racist. Our
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people are easily duped, and our people were told by
people who want Abdul l said and Mamdani and Gavin Newsom.
Those people handpicked tall Rico. He was a lowly state rep.
The last time you seen a lowly state Rep win
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a primary in a major state to be a US Senator.
He was hand picked because he hadn't been out there
as much as some of the other folks. An Obama strategy,
so they ran him. He had token resistance. She happened
to be black, but she didn't mobilize black voters, and
she couldn't decide whether she wanted to be defensive. Talking
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black woman went that he wanted to keep it ready,
and y'all go, I'd get yell he and so she
went back and forth and it freaked everybody out. So
that was his big win. And then and then the
money poured in, and it is he is flush with cash.
Every one of those ads takes money a lot of money.
(21:35):
And so what happened was Cornan still won't say he's
supporting tall Rico. That ought to be what That's the
only thing anybody should ever need to know. How do
you behave when you lose? Corning has come after Trump.
That's why you couldn't get the ag over the finish
line until a couple of days ago. Is Corning did
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all that and Corning's people and then you've got a
very very very powerful group in the state of Texas
that owns the Republican Party, and that's the group who
brought the impeachment charges. I'll tell you something. You get
bored this weekend or anytime, go look at the cross
examination by Tony Busby of the chief deputy in the
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Attorney General's office. I'll get his name in a minute,
and he goes through case in point. That guy resigns
on I think he's August thirtieth, a couple of years ago.
He resigns on. I believe it's August thirtieth, And on
August thirty first, and August Septeber, and on September one,
(22:43):
that morning, George W. Bush renews his law license, which
had been expired like mine for years. Well, that's odd.
Nobody even knew he had resigned. It hadn't been reported
in the press. The whole thing was orchestrated by a
small cabal of the most powerful, powerful force in Republican politics,
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and usually a force for good. But they didn't like Paxton.
They haven't liked Paxton for almost fifteen years. He beat
Dan Branch, he beat their candidates. And they wanted George W.
Bush because they love them some Bush family, and they
wanted and they wanted George W. Bush in there. George
George H. Bush. What's his name? What's the little George?
(23:28):
What's the little Bush? It's not George George H. How
am I forgetting this good grief Michael? Anyway, they wanted
him in there, and they ran him and he got trounced.
And this group is very, very very mad. And this group, frankly,
is what George P. Bush. Yes, this group is prepared
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to write off this Senate seat to prove their point.
This is what and this group is very aligned with
Karl RoAF And this is what Karl Rove has done
again and again and again. Karl Rove wants Republicans to
win elections and win power, but only if they're his Republicans,
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and if they're not his Republicans, then he will actively
work to defeat them because a Democrat. You can run
a Republican against a Democrat in the next election because
he'll be fine. He makes his money off this. So
those groups came after Paxton. So Paxton won a bruising
primary and came out of it frankly beat to hell.
(24:34):
You watch this TV show on Netflix called Quarterbacks, and
you see how after a game those guys are beat
to hell. And you know that I didn't know you
had an a seed. It's it's apparently called an ac
in the shoulder. They separate these shoulders out. Anyway, Paxton's
campaign is getting rolling. Now there's a big announcement. I
thought it was gonna be made on Saturday, and it
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didn't get made. Paxton has worked. It's our job to
tell the story. Okay, it's our Senate seat.
Speaker 8 (25:03):
Let me.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Take a different approach to Roger's comment upon reflection, Roger's
not the problem. Roger just tweaked something that has irritated
me for a little while, and so I took it
out on Roger. Not his fault. Roger shares with me,
(25:26):
and you a desire that we hold onto the Senate.
I'm going to get into that on a deeper level here. Shortly,
we are supposedly at a fifty three forty seven split
in the US Senate right now, but that's not really
(25:48):
the full picture. Because you've got Susan Collins in Maine.
She voted against President Trump's attorney general candidate last week,
so she's not reliable Republican. You've got Lisa Murkowski Murkowski
in Alaska, she's not a reliable Republican. So you really
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got fifty one forty nine. And when you're fifty one
forty nine, one senator, any one senator, which of course
could be Mitch McConnell or whoever's his power of attorney.
Now I'm pretty sure he's dead, but who are whatever
condition he's in, and I honestly say this, I honestly
(26:28):
mean this. He may be dead, but whatever condition he's in,
he makes it a point to vote against the president.
So now you're at fifty to fifty, which is why
jd Vance has been having to cast tie breaking votes.
That also gives a Republican senator an incredible amount of
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power that they would not otherwise have as a member
of one of one hundred. You know, if you join
a group that you're one of one hundred, you don't
have much influence over the direction of it. But if
it's a majority vote and it gets to be fifty
to fifty, you could literally walk across to the other
team and go, hey, guys, I'll sell out my guys
(27:11):
if you'll give me this thing I want. And it
happens every day, so it makes it very, very very difficult.
Now you've got the Republicans trying to flip a the
Democrats trying to flip a couple of seats, and let's
talk about well, it's not the right time because it's
(27:32):
a full segment. I'll get to it in a moment.
They're leading right now in North Carolina, where you had
a Republican Tom Tillis who's now just declared war on
Trump tom Tillis's replacement, And I'll get into these details,
and we're going to spend a lot of time this
evening on this issue. I didn't plan to get to
it this morning. But the point is this Senate race
(27:55):
is very, very important. It's probably going to be the
most important Senate race. The Michigan race has taken up
a lot of interest right now because abdul L said,
beat the establishment Democrat candidate and he's his big buddy.
Campaign manager is Hassan Piker, and Hassan Piker has said
(28:18):
things like We're going to send felons into the colleges
to rape all the white girls. He's just said some
awful I mean horrible, horrible things about whites and Christians
and Americans. And this abdul L said, is horrible. Well,
(28:39):
I posted the other day and I heard from a
lot of people within my industry. Do what I do
commenting on you know, you're right, we need to push
this more. And that is tall. Rico is Francesca Holng
he is AOC, he is Abdul L said, he is
no different than them. He will vote with Bernie Sanders
(29:02):
on every single issue. He will vote and he has.
He has not only voted with the far left in
the state in the state House of Texas, he has
voted he has led the charge. I'm going to tell you,
We're going to find out something on his interest in
trans children. It is unnatural. He's not a father. We're
(29:29):
going to find out. We're going to find things out
about his personal childhood, and we're going to find out things.
I'm certain of it. I don't know for sure. I
don't know for sure. I have a sneaking suspicion. I
have a knack for these things for a moment. But
to Roger's point, which is fair, there is a frustration
(29:49):
over what seems to be tul Rico's momentum or coverage
and his voice. Now, let me explain what's going on.
The Houston Chronicle every day does a protele Rico anti
Paxton piece. That's a fact. So as much as we
hate the Chronicle, as much as people say, I don't
subscribe it, I only use it for the litter to
(30:11):
line in the bottom of my bird casa, the Houston
Chronicle is still the primary print sorted the print, the
primary print news in the Greater Houston area. When I
say primary, When you hear that somebody has been arrested,
when you hear there's been a shooting, when you hear
mccullors has been released from the astros or your non's
(30:34):
going on the injured Reserve, you most likely hear that
from a You only hear that from a primary news source.
You don't get that from the astros press box. You
don't get that from the candidate, typically themselves. So you
go to a news aggregator, to an o stry, to
a primary news source that writes up the story, and
(30:56):
then people like me and there's a lot of us
who comment on the news. We then comment on what
we read, but they've provided the primary news. Primary news
gathering and delivery is extraordinarily expensive, and that's why everybody's
gotten out of it. Cities like Houston had the Post
(31:16):
and the Chronicle, most major cities had. Chicago, New York
had more than that. New York like London, a big
newspaper city. But all these major cities had two competing
rival newspapers. Now you're down to one, and they are
a shell of themselves. There's skeleton of what they used
to be. So they're doing tall Rico every day, so
(31:38):
you're hearing tall rico, tall Rico, tall rico. All right.
Number two, there are the paid campaign ads. They are
spending a fortune, and that money is coming in from
people like Reid Hoffman, who was close to Jeffrey Epstein.
These people want to control the Senate. They don't have
any particular affinity for this little trans fetish weirdo Tellafrico,
(32:02):
they don't care about him. He's a useful idiot. He's
a quarterback that if he can get us to the
super Bowl, we put him in there. But the minute
he can't, he's out right. You saw that with DeShawn.
Nobody cares about these people. He is a means to
an end. He's a horse Cignna ride. And this seat
when they pull their chessboard out, this is the one
they want if they can put a Democrat in the
(32:24):
Senate from Texas. They have destroyed that. They have broke
the back of everyday Americans in MAGA. So they're pouring
a ton of cash into it. MAGA was supposed to
put money into Paxton. They have it yet the Republican
National Committee, the people who just lost their buddy John Cornyon,
they won't put any money in. It's not Paxton's fault,
(32:46):
he doesn't have money. It's the establishment.
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