AM Show Hr 2 | So You Wanna Be A Game Warden?

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Varry Show is on the air. I wonder

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how many game wardens they hire. November fifteenth is the
recruitment date. I guess that's when the window opens, right,
you can't apply before that. Kyle Yoder is the game
warden for Washington County. Warden Yoder. Do you ever amble

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into Fayette County?

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:01):
Yeah, Bay County. All of good stuff happening over there.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Do you do you drive into Roundtop?

Speaker 4 (01:08):
I do.

Speaker 5 (01:08):
I try to.

Speaker 4 (01:09):
Avoid it most of the time, just because of the traffic.
It's it's almost like dropping into DFW.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
You know. Two thirty seven is I mean, there's no
way around it. I mean the Round Top Antique Festival.
And now they they've whoever programs that stuff. It's it's
quite impressive what they've done. But we started going out
there twenty five years ago and to see what it
has become in the meantime. It is basically river Oaks

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and Tanglewood and Cyprus and Tomball, you know, relocated to
the little beady tiny town of Roundtop, and you can't
get up and down two thirty seven. During that period
of time, everybody I know that lives out there. They
just leave during that time because it's so crazy.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
It's time for vacation.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
No, it's not. They got the bell of Roundtop for
sale right now. I don't know if you've seen it.
It's a four million dollar house. It's an antebellum beautiful house,
right up on that Strawberry Hill, just at the edge
of town. That'd be nice. The old bed and breakfast.
You know what I'm talking about, Yes, I do. I
think it's on Day's End. Is the street. Ramon wants

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to know. He doesn't have a full college degree, but
he has an associate's degree, and then for some reason,
he got another associate's degree. Now they're kind of questionable
associates degrees because they're from the Columbia School of Broadcasting.
And I'm not joking, but is that what it's called.
What's it called? Oh, it is Alvin community called both
of them are from Alvin. Oh, excuse me, mister Harvard, Okay,

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the Harvard of the Brasses. I didn't realize. He wants
to know if he can put the two associates degrees
together and qualify.

Speaker 4 (02:55):
Unfortunately, no, it doesn't have to be one bachelor's degree. Now,
the thing is it can be in anything, so it's
there's we don't specify in a conservation or a you know,
a biology or anything like that. It can be in
any four year degree, but you have to have it
as a bachelor's.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
It says here, hair for both male and female officers
in uniform must be of natural color and in length
and style. Yes, sir, how will we know if that's
the natural color a lot or not?

Speaker 4 (03:30):
You know, that's a that that'll be a question for
someone that's above my pay grade to make that decision.
I think it's just the natural colors.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
You know. I don't.

Speaker 4 (03:41):
I don't know if it's at face value or if
it's a you know, where somebody's gonna have to be
put under a test to find out.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
But so my sons, when they were younger, we were
talking about hair color or something at some point and
my wife said, Dad's hair is blonde, and the boys said, no, oh,
it's not blonde, it's brown. And she said, no, let
me show you a picture when he was younger. It's blonde.

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And she explained to them that many people in the
United States as adults who have what looks like yellow
or toe headed whitish yellow hair that that's coloring. Very
few people have true blonde hair as full on adults.
So if somebody was to put a little color in it,
would that be all right?

Speaker 4 (04:30):
I think it would be just fun to be right
with that. Well, you know, we've all got a little
gray that we're trying to cover up here and there.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
It says no tattoos from the neck and above to
include any part of the head are allowed. Commissioned personnel
shall not wear tattoos invisible or exposed, that are of
an offensive manner or nature while in uniform. What's uh
like Dallas cowboys tattoos? No tattoos from the neck and

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above to include any part of the head. Well, Emily
is never going to be a game warden, that's for sure.
Warden Yoder, my assistant has tattoos. I mean she has
tattoos everywhere that we can see. You know, we're not
married to her, so we don't know about all the
nether regions. But she's got tattoos on her hands, she's

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got tattoos on her neck, she's got tattoos on her ear.
Did we lose word and Yoder?

Speaker 4 (05:27):
No, I'm still here. Unfortunately, by those guidelines, you know,
that's not something that we can take. If it's if
it can be covered up, if it's from the neck down.
They do a lot of visible tattoos, you know, on
the arms for the sleeves and half sleeves, that type
of thing. But you know, when it's it's offensive, obviously not.

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But from the neck up, what.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
About facial hairlines?

Speaker 4 (05:53):
We do allow facial hair yes.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Sir, because I think Texas ought to be able to
wear a handlebar mustache, you know, like old Sam Elliott billet,
old Dick must dash it. That just kind of that's
very Texas law man.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
Sometimes it comes with the territory, for sure.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
What are you doing right now? Are you stalking some dude?
You gotta you gotta beat on him. He's out there
and don't know you're coming.

Speaker 4 (06:15):
Not not right now, Not right now, I'm not, but
it's uh, it is getting to be those those hours
where the hunters are coming out of the stands and
so we're gonna start looking for him pretty quick.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
So what are you looking for?

Speaker 4 (06:30):
You know? This off year, it's with last weekend, the
beginning of general deer season in most of Texas and
the very last weekend was general duck season beginning most
of Texas. So we're looking for hunters. Were looking for
guys that are out there either doing it the wrong
way or you know, just doing our normal checks on
on good citizens.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
What is the most common wrong way? What's what's the
thing that you're on the lookout for.

Speaker 6 (06:57):
Uh during it's during duck season especially, you know, we're
out listening early. We're looking for people that are starting
too early, taking the wrong types of ducks that are
very you know, there are certain types of ducks that
you can only take so many of. For instance, penttail
you can generally just take one. And so we're looking
for the guys that are taking the wrong top or
taking too many for dear season. Depending on where you're

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at in the state, they're angler restriction counties and dough
restriction counties, So we're looking for those that are taking
the wrong top at the wrong time.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
Do you ever see sand hill cranes in Washington County?

Speaker 4 (07:36):
I do occasionally, as they're mostly passing through. Don't get
many of them feeding, but we do get some.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
That's a Rabbi of the sky ramon. You want to
eat some sand hill crane. All right, I'm going to
close with this game more than Kyle Yoder of Washington
County on this day. In eighteen sixty, cattleman Henry Black
registered a brand in Fannin County. He may have used it,
they believe as early as eighteen fifty six. At least
six other Texas ranches have registered and used a brand

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of this item in various forms. This man, Henry Black,
served in the Confederate Army, returned after the Civil War
to find out that his home had been burned and
his wife had died. He remarried and began fording herds
across the Red River and selling clothing made by his
second wife. By eighteen seventy seven, their herd had outgrown

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their property, so the family moved to Stephens County, taking
with them a thousand cattle and five hundred horses. He
would later purchase land and establish a ranch named after
this brand, where his descendants were still using the brand
one hundred years later. Do you know the name of
the brand? Mule shoe? Thank you? I wonder what he's doing.

(09:03):
Sell all the world chine hands and.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
Fall a trump trained, a trump train, Sell all the world,
shine hands and fall a Trump chain, a Trump chain.

Speaker 7 (09:19):
One day one, I will sign a new executive order
to cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory,
transgender and sanity, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political
content onto our children. I will keep men out of
women's sports. We will protect innocent life, and we will

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restore free speech. And I will secure our elections.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
We want a landslide. We have to win. We have
to win so that it's too big, too rigged.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
Sell all the world, hint hands and fall a Trump shain,
a Trump shain, sellout.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
Shine too big to rick. My trainer, Michael Petrow told
me yesterday and he was at the grocery store and
he has a Trump Vance sticker on his car, and

(10:22):
he said, this woman came up and she said, I
love your sticker. You know, I tell people, I quote
Donald Trump. We have to fight, fight, fight, That's what
it's going to take to take our country back. We
have to fight. Trump is right, We have to fight.
We have to be ready to fight. Misis Michael. She
was sixty seconds into the fight. I thought she was

(10:43):
ready to punch somebody. He said, So I just casually said,
I love it. Well, can I give you. I got
another one of these bumper stickers? Can I give it
to you for your She said, oh no, I couldn't
do that. And he said, I'm thinking I'm in an

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episode of punk. This was this is one of those
you know, what would you do in that situation? How
would you respond to? Oh, just kidding, of course I wouldn't.
I'm sitting there. You just said you came up to
me and said, I love that Trump bumper sticker, and

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Trump has inspired me to fight, fight, fight, but you
won't put a bumper sticker on your care Well what
fighting are you doing? Looking both ways to make sure
nobody got mad at you or was offended that you
loved Trump? And once you're certain nobody else can hear

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you say I really love Trump, but we got a fight?
Really all right? Jesse says, sorry. You actually cannot watch
Yellowstone on Paramount streaming. You can watch past episodes, including
the fifth season part one, on Peacock Streaming. However, part

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two is not yet available. If you have Hulu, you
can watch it there. There is cussing in it even
when streamed on Hulu, and depending on the package you have,
you can fast forward commercials Gator has more talking parts
in the fifth season. You know, the deal is, Uh,

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what's the guy's name, Sheridan, You know what I'm talking? Huh No, Sheridan.

Speaker 6 (12:42):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
The guy's a genius. I mean he is an absolute genius.
He's a real cowboy. And Sheridan Taylor, Yeah, oh, Taylor
Sheridan is that it that sounds like a stripper's name,
But you know, Taylor Sheridan is like Lyle Lovett. He

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runs the gamut, He's the he's the consummate cowboy, even
though he's a pretty boy, but he is a real cowboy,
like a legit real cowboy. You don't have to be
poor to be a cowboy, or weathered or look like
the Marlborough Man. But yet he has this artistic sense

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that is absolutely genius. I mean, the transformation of what
Yellowstone has done in American culture, it's on a scale
and scope that you wouldn't even think about, not the
least of which is I know multiple people that have

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places in Montana and since Yellowstone. It is people that
used to go people in Houston, in Dallas and LA
that used to go to Martha's Vineyard or Dana Island
now go to Montana. That happened because of Yellowstone, the brand,

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the style of clothes, the whole, the whole deal. And
I will say this, I hate his politics. Kevin Costner
was an inspired choice for that, and Costner was a
little past his prime. You know, when you're the leading man,
good looking guy. You know that whole Bodyguard movie era stuff.

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You know, there was a period of time that Costner
was golden. Whatever he touched was golden. But this role
he I'm still mad at him for coming out and
endorsing Liz Cheney and trying to act like, you know,
trying to tell the people awayoming. You know, I'm a
cowboy just like you and us cowboys have to stick

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together for Liz and nobody. You know, people might like
the show, but they booted her out. I barely have
time for this, but I want to do it now.
Do you remember Shelley Luther. She owned the hair salon
in Dallas, and in twenty twenty, when COVID came out,
she refused to close her hair salon because she said,

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I got stylists here and they got to make a living.
They literally threw her in jail, and shame on Greg Abbott.
He would not step in, he would not help her out.
Then she ran for the Senate, and he and the
lobbyist worked very very hard to keep her from winning
because they don't want her raising Hell in the Capitol.

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Because this woman is fearless, I tell you, fearless. Well,
she's been running for office since then, and she won.
Last week. She was finally elected to the Texas House
with nearly seventy eight percent of the vote for District
sixty two, which includes North Texas counties of Fannin of
the Muleshoe Rant of the Muleshoe Founder by the Way,

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Grayson County, Franklin County, and Delta County. Here is the
story about the persistence she liked Mary Tally Boden. Hell
hath no fury like a woman's scorn. You get certain
of these women, man, They are fearless and they are tough.

Speaker 8 (16:20):
Outside the courthouse, a small group of supporters gathered with
flags and guns to watch the hearing on their phones
and to cheer on Shelley Luther. The determination has been
made that you are in contempt of this court.

Speaker 4 (16:34):
As you can see, we are still open.

Speaker 8 (16:38):
The salon owner openly defined the governor's order that salons
remain closed, ripped up a seasoned assist letter from the county,
and ignored a temporary restraining order from the court.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
If you would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge
that your actions were selfish, putting your own interest ahead
of those of the community.

Speaker 8 (16:59):
In which Judge Eric Moyer offered Luther a chance to
avoid jail time. He asked if she would apologize, acknowledge
she was wrong, and agreed to shut down her business
until Friday, but Luther would not yield.

Speaker 4 (17:14):
I have to disagree with me, sir, when you say
that I'm selfish, because beating my kids is not selfish.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
I have here stylists that are going hungry because they'd
rather feed their kids.

Speaker 4 (17:29):
So, sir, if you think the law is more important.

Speaker 8 (17:32):
Than the kids getting fed, and please go ahead with
your decision.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
But I am not going to shut this so long.

Speaker 8 (17:38):
The judge sentenced her to serve seven days in jail.
Please defend custom if you please one day behind bars
for each day her business opened its doors while so
many others stayed shut. Well the night Luther is here
in the Dallas County jail. The judge said Luther could
not ignore the orders of elected official simply because she

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disagreed with them. Her attorney said he would immediately be
appealing the decision, and he said he believed that her
business will continue to open its doors, accruing an extra
five hundred dollars fine for every day it does.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
Before Friday, she met it in the house. Good for her,
Mitch Little, He's gonna make a fantastic, fantastic representative as well.
Good things happening. Lots of rumors from my friends in
Austin that Paxton is very very likely the next Attorney General.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
Michael Barry's show.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
Because I wear my kind of head. I go through
periods where I'll get on a Merle haggardsone and I'll
just wear it out. My wife will laugh because she'll
walk in and I'm brushing my teeth or spending three

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seconds combing my hair or whatever. I'm in the bathroom,
and I'll have this blasting away to the point that
she even knows the lyrics at this point, and I'll go,
but you know, that may be his greatest song ever.
And then I got to go back, well, hold on

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the way. I am pretty strong, but that song right
there that I think it was nineteen seventy nine was
my own kind of hat. There is a period from
about I'll say seventy two. I could have said seventy

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you could actually go back earlier than that, but there's
a period for about ten years there that is the
opus of Merle Haggard's work, where he's writing most of
it and singing all of it, and it's just it's
it's it's incredible. I mean, in my opinion, the greatest

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singer slash songwriter in all of music, in all of history.
I mean, there might be some dude in romani and
I don't know about, but pretty well there. And yes,
I am aware of Willie Nelson for my money, greatest
singer songwriter. I said this once before, and somebody sent

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me an email about George Jones, and I said, name
the five greatest songs that George Jones wrote. Please stay
in your lane. George Jones was not a great writer.
He wrote well, he's not a great writer, and very
little of what he writes is in, is in, is
ever gonna make it any We're adjacent to a greatest

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Hits album, just just not the case. Anyway. I think
that song is wonderful and if you want a deep dive.
Because we we have a lot of listeners on the
podcast from around the country who will say they enjoy
when we talk about country music because they don't know
where to start. They didn't raise they weren't raised on it.
And that's that's fine. That's what I'm here for.

Speaker 4 (21:15):
Mom.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
No, I said, greatest singer songwriter of all time. Okay,
I don't know what you're oh, John Len, I'm sorry
he didn't have the help fluff up the bed while
he was on a revolution, laying with his whole ugly,
screeching catterwall and wife and then the staff, you know,
makes the bed all up so they can then lay

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in it and all the media can see. Yeah, I'm
sorry that he's not from Liverpool, because you can't be
from Bakersfield and be any good. I know you've been
told that by Rolling Stone Magazine. I said greatest singer songwriter,
and I'm in it. I didn't I didn't hesitate, but
I'm not on him right now. I'm about to talk
about who co wrote that song with him, if I
remember correctly, which is Red Lad who's from Bogalusa, bog Lusa, Louisiana.

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I think originally he's from Zona Louisiana. But I just
like saying Bogelusa Louisiana. It makes me happy. Yeah, So
there you go. There is so much rich, lush, beautiful
textured music and writing that comes out of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama.

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It's it's unbelievable how much of it. So much of
what ended up in Nashville started in in in those places. Jim,
you're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir? What
say you, Jim?

Speaker 4 (22:54):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 2 (22:54):
Yes, sir? Go ahead? Got about a minute go.

Speaker 5 (22:56):
Ahead about Kamala becoming president that Biden would be magnanimous
and stand aside and let her do it. That way,
she could give Hunter the pardon. Second thing I wanted
to throw out at you is what do you think
about Kerry Lake for Press secretary?

Speaker 2 (23:21):
Probably a better I not say she does have She
does have a media background. She was a broadcaster. Uh.
I think you need more discipline. You know. Trump doesn't

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need a bunch of many Trumps around him for Trump
to be Trump. He needs a bunch of Susie Wiles's.
Does that make sense? He needs a bunch of people
who are detail oriented, who are less egotistical, who are
serving him? You don't want a bunch of That was
Scaramuci's problem. Gramoci wanted to be Trump. No, you don't
get to be Trump. Only Trump can be Trump. Your

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job is to help Trump be Trump. And I just
put that on the Michael Bearis Michael Barry Show.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
I wake up in the morning in a state of
fright on the wrong side of the bed all night,
clinging to the broke and the heart inside my head
opened my eyes and I moved my hands from around

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her pillow to the night stand, straining miss Emily's picture
by my bed.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
The great Red Lane, who co wrote My own kind
of Hat, wrote miss Emily's picture. Of course. John Conley
made famous John Connley, who was an overnight DJ on
WLAC Radio where our show now airs in Nashville. He
was also an overnight mortician while he was trying to

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make it in music. He would sometimes go from gigs
to dead bodies. True story, true story, wonderful man, absolutely wonderful,
Prince of a man drunk. Dade's challenger for a Speaker
of the House, David Cook, has forty seven votes. I'm

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told he only needs six more to get where he
needs to be. I don't know why that is. Reports
have drunk Dad at just eleven. Luke Macyus tells Houston
Morning News k t RH that quote, Dade Feeling is
less likely to be the Speaker than he is to

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remain in his chair. The odds are definitely stacked against
him at this time. On December seventh, the Republican Caucus
is going to get together, and if fifty three Republicans
choose someone other than Dade Feelin, then David Cook would
then have the caucus endorsement. This would make it even

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harder for Dad to keep his coalition together. Right now,
Cook already has forty seven votes from fellow Republican members,
meaning he only needs six more votes to secure the nomination.
Massias adds, at this point, I definitely feel very strong
and confident that the reformers are building a winning coalition.

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All Right, the election is over. We can hold the
ranker for a moment. I'm gonna say this without any
one individual or race in mind. There has been a
relatively quiet, monumental battle going on in the state of

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Texas and also in DC within the ranks of Republicanism
and I'll tell you what it is. There is a
group of people in Washington, d C. Jonah Goldberg, who
was mister smart, mister fancy pants, mister fine wine, mister

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well read and well spoken. He was the next Bill Buckley.
His mother is a hoardy toyy uh press agent in
New York. And he would sit on the Sunday morning
programs and he would opine, and I thought he was bright.

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I read the National Review every week, thought he was brilliant.
And then there was Bill Crystal. Oh, he was the
Jewish Intelligence and he had been chief of staff for that,
for that giant of a man. Dan can even carry
that out, Dan Quell, who was vice president to George H. W. Bush.

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And you have these types of people who were so
George will Oh with the oh tie, and they ate
pau gras, and they were welcomed into the salons of Georgetown,
and they would speak and dripping from their mouths like

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the oracle on high would be wisdom on conservatism. And
everyone respected them. And they populated the first Bush administration,
and they dressed the part, and they acted a part.
And they had homes on Martha's Vignut, and they had

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homes in Maine and Massachusetts, and perhaps Aspen and Palm Beach,
and they were the people who decided which Republican we
were allowed to have. And then in twenty ten something

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began to happen. Populism has sparked in American history before.
In fact, Wisconsin had a fellow named Lafalette, Bob Lafalette.
There was Huey Long in Louisiana. And many people argue
with me that the Huey Long movement was not a

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populist movement. You don't understand it. The true populist movement
is not to be confused with progressivism. The true populist
movement is so far to the right it might look
like it comes back around to the left in its

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hatred of the rich, or more importantly, hatred of the establishment.
In Texas particularly, there is a strain of populism that
is informed by a sort of libertarianism, rancher mentality, fiercely independent,

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anti government, anti authority. But there's a split. Is also
a fierce fervor for law and order, but a sort
of Buford t Pusser style of law and order, a
judge roy Bean, a hang them high. We don't tolerate criminals.

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We hang horse thieves around here, well, believe it or not.
And the numbers bear this out. The people moving to Texas,
the fear was always, don't California my Texas. And yes,
you know somebody invariably who is that person? The whole

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food shopper, Tesla driving, Yeah, the whole thing. Who is
the you know they bring their own bag to the
grocery store. Look at me, I've woven this bag at home.
Everyone watch me. I don't buy I don't have them
give me plastic or paper. I bring my own bag.

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You know the type. But most of the people who
are coming here are making Texas and Florida more red
because the people moving here, the majority of the people
moving to Texas are fleeing the California ways and do
share our views. It's not true that California was always

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left wing. The John Birch Society began in California. Remember
Governor Duke Magen. Remember that Ronald Reagan started as the
governor in California. I mean Pete Wilson was the guy
who made the stand against illegal immigration, and they drove
him out. That the early nineties loss to the illegal

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immigration lobby and progressivism in California was the death of California.
But even in California, and I didn't look this morning,
forty percent of California went for Trump. This is unheard of.
Even California is going more red