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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Dairy Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Hello, babe, we got a full tank of gas, half
a pack of cigarettes.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
It's dark and we're wearing sunglasses. Hit it. Well, that's
where we go, riding in the turn a whopping and
a whooping.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Ever living thing it moves within an inch of its
last Sorry, folks, parks closed the moves you do o.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
For Jesus, make Mountha Berry show. For some reason or another,
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who signed a little toller on radio?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
You remember the game warden we had on name A Yoder,
Kyle Yoder from Washington County. Real earnest fella, remember that. Well,
it was one of those deals where I think, about
a minute into it, he wished he wasn't in this
conversation because I'm liable to say something to get him
in trouble. So he thought. I heard nothing but great
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things about that guy. Just what a solid, solid young
man he is. Well, he has apparently taken a demotion.
At ten o'clock this morning, he will graduate as a
DPS trooper. I didn't know that was the order. I
didn't know. If you were a game warden, you wanted
to be a trooper or maybe that's a you know,
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parallel line lateral higher. I don't know. I've always maybe
because my brother was obsessed with game wardens, But game
Warden was always the deal. You can go off in
the woods and hide, especially if you're an outdoorsman. You
can go off in the woods, build a little fire,
cook yourself a coon, you know, get caught up on
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your whitland, especially in the county like that. Long as
you harass at least a person or two per day,
just pull up, farmer Jones, everything right over here. Well,
I notice you're watering during the no water zone. All
shoot game ward and I'll turn it off, all right,
don't make me have to come back out here and
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and give you a ticket. All right, miss Arline doing
all right? Yep, all right, Well I'm gonna let you
go on your way. But let's you know, don't put
me in a bad spot. Okay, there's people calling. I
know y'all got an aer rated system everything, but we're
not supposed to be doing that today, Yes, sir, yes, sir, okay,
I mean that's the gig, right, you drive around. I mean,
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if that's what you like to do, that would have
been my brother's dream job. He'd go out there, he'd
have found spots in land nobody was supposed to be
hunting or trespassing on and he would have put him
in a little farm, you know, put him in a
little garden out there, and he'd go back and check
on him. I mean, that would have been his dream job.
Instead he had had to deal with meth heads on
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it and traffickers. But anyway, I'm happy for Kyle Yoder
because apparently that's what he wanted to do. So he
will no longer be a Washington County game warden. He
will now be a DPS trooper. Now, I will say
they do have cool uniforms. People underestimate the value of
the cool uniform. Ramona and I have had many offers
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to be honorary law enforcement officers from all of the
departments in the region, saving except a couple, and they're
on my crap list. But our decision will eventually come down,
and it you know, it's it's gonna be a bit.
It's like lebron choosing, you know, Cleveland or Miami, just
a bigger deal. It will come down primarily to the uniform,
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but to the hat as well, and and what kind
of vehicle we're driving. I'm gonna tell you this right now.
Those little bitty things, bless their heart, that they got
the HPD officers in the little bitty Ford. Uh. I
don't know what that is. It's not even it's like
a Ford escape. It's not a whole lot bigger than
Suzuki Samurai. That's you know, that's part of the problem.
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We got people trying to challenge the cops. The cops
come rolling up and they got that lead, a bitty
squeezed in suv. You don't think to yourself, well, that's intimidating.
You go, that's probably some little girl in there. She
can't take me down if I run. The girls are
the ones that will shoot you. My brother told me
that years ago. The girls will shoot you because they
can't fight you. You want to fight a cop. You're feeling
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in the mood you met out of your head. You
got heroin coursing through you. Fine, big old cop, Steve
waterd big. They'll fight you and they'll win, but you'll
be okay. You'll live. One of the little bitty girls.
They'll shoot you. They have to. They can't fight you.
They know that anyway, I don't know how we got
off on that, James writes, I was about four or five.
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I was going to a friend's house for a sleepover.
It was about nineteen seventy two. I was in the
back of my friend's car. His dad was driving. His
mother and sister were in the car with us. My
friend's dad told a joke and then he asked me, Skeeter,
does your daddy tease And my response was, yes, he
teasing the pot. All these years later, we all still
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laugh about that line. Teach you just here, Yes, sir,
mister Jones, he teasing the pot. All right, let's go too,
Let's go to David. You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Go ahead, sir.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Michael.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
I'm a veteran, and I used the the v A
for my assurance, and I recently had a rash of
uh boys ivy. I went to a h what is it?
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh doc game? I
(06:31):
think right now? Uh Incent, care for for some some help.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
I got my my my letter from try West.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
This is not a bill that just shows me what
uh what it costs? Okay, the the visit costs two
hundred and five two hundred and six dollars to see
(07:12):
the physician's assistant for fifteen minutes. That was two hundred
six dollars. I got a shot.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
That was thirty six dollars and a band aid which
they call a therapeutic prophylactic that was forty eight dollars.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Where'd they put the prophylactic.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
In my butt?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Inside or around the edge or on the crease where
the cocksix used to be or what?
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Oh? No, I just draw my shots. And she gave
me a shot in the butt.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Okay, oh on the butt cheap? Oh yeah, okay, we're
not talking about the bunny, but I.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Mean a visit, a shot and a band aid two
hundred and ninety dollars, And I thought, well, she is
a va getting ripped off or what?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
You are listening to Michael Barry's show.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
One of our Saturday podcasts tomorrow will be Antonin Scalia's
American Exceptionalism. It's one of my favorite. I think it's
the first we've repeated. It's been several years since we
played it, and I think I'll go two to three
years between playing in between because we're always cycling in
(08:52):
new people. New people joined the show, and we're putting
out enough podcasts now that I know no longer have
any pressure If you go I think I heard that
years ago. If you don't want to hear it again,
you can just skip it and there's still something for
you on that day. I like to re listen to
things and reread books and rewatch movies, And in fact,
(09:14):
I suspect this has something to do with my age
and season in life. When I go to the shelf
to pull off the next book to read, I did
this the other day. I find myself if I see
things that I still haven't read that I've carried around
for years, I go, well, I should read that, And
then I go, well, I really like to read this
(09:37):
over here was good? Let me read you know I've
forgotten a lot of that. Let me let me reread that.
When I'm scrolling through for movies, I find that I
will I will land on a movie I've seen many
times before rather than try out a movie I haven't seen.
And I don't know if I'm just averse to ending
(10:00):
up investing thirty minutes into a movie until I'm convinced
there's no way out of this. This isn't any good
because then you almost have to hang around fromon'd you
watched the football last night? Yeah, Crockett, And I love
football season because I love football season. I love football
season because that means it's starting to cool off and
you've got a Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Year, and
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I love all of that. I love the foods that
come out, and I can even tolerate that pumpkin stuff
for about an hour and then they just overdo it.
But I really love that. It's always been a tradition
that I watched the games with my boys, and so
Crockett yesterday, I didn't say anything, but he said, Dad,
we're gonna watch the game together. No day before that,
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We're gonna watch the game together tomorrow night. And I
didn't realize we had a Thursday night game this week.
And I said, well, of course, what else would we do?
And he said, okay, good, And he said, I got
testing on this day at this time. When I got
this is because you know, college testing and all that
stuff's still going on. And he said, I'll finish up
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my homework early games at seven thirty, so I should
be good to go. Locked in at seven thirty. All right,
let's do this, so he wasn't through at seven thirty,
and this was this is a treat. We didn't have
this when I was growing up on you young whipper
snappers might have. But so what we do is if
we can't start the game at the right time, we
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just start the program and then pause it. And then
we don't We can just you can just zoom. You
don't even have to watch halftime. And you just watched
football the way red zone used to be before they
put commercials in it. And I know what you're thinking, Well,
you got too many commercials in your show. I agree.
I agree. That's not my decision. It's not a decision
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that I made. It's not a decision I can change.
And you know, I would love to tell you I
wish there were no commercials, but that is how we
get paid and how the company gets paid and what
makes the show free. Now, I wish there were a
lot of other things that could be cut out. But
you know, it's funny. I used to run the stations
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from seven to about ten or so somewhere about that.
I don't know how long. It was several years, starting
in May first of o seven. And it's funny because
if I had my way, now they would take out news,
traffic and weather during our show and give us that
time back because I don't. I'm not a news traffic,
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weather guy. I get all that on my phone. But
when I pitch it to people, I'm surprised how many
people they really like, especially our listeners, especially a morning
news listener, but even still in our show, they do
like to get their news, traffic, weather, and they like
to get it from KTRH because they have for years
and years and years. And part of how I know
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that is people love love love Sky Mike Sky. Mike's
a rockstar. He really is. He is. He is an
absolute rock star. By the way, I mentioned earlier in
the week that we would be doing the UH that
I would be having the conversation with my dad's endo chronologist,
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who's a concierge doctor. She can be your family doctor.
That is UH that has a specialty as well in menopause.
And I have been inundated with questions from from folks
and I just want you to know I take it
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as a great compliment that you feel comfortable asking me
to share with her very personal details about something I think,
you know, if somebody had to tell you they had
a canker sorel on their butt cheek. They'd be okay
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telling that, But when you start talking about the who who,
I don't care how old you are. It's kind of what.
It's a taboo topic. And so I just want you
to know. For those of you who shared those stories
and asked me to ask a story, I actually take
a black magic marker on those and I mark out
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your name on there so that during our discussion I
won't accidentally I would have never done it on purpose,
but I won't accidentally read your full name on the air.
That being said, for every person who takes the time
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it's heavy stuff. Your son just got called up to
the New York Yankees ten minutes ago, he just got
the call. Or your sixteen year old son just committed
suicide last night and you're not sure what to do
with your day, sure where to go with that. I
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consider it a great honor that you that you trust
me with that, with that type of thing, and that
we have that report. I just want you to know
that allow me to introduce myself.
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My name is Mitch michael Berry Genius.
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To the pull line we go seven one three one thousand,
seven one three nine one thousand, And of course you
can always email me through the website Michael Berryshow dot
com that comes directly to me. There's been some confusion
over the years. Emily also reads the emails, what I
send to you and what you send to me, and
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if it's something she can handle, she'll grab it and
handle it. But for listener emails, that is one of
my favorite forms of show prep. So I do read
each and everyone. I cannot possibly respond to each and everyone.
To Charles, we go, you're up, Charles, You're on the
Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
Oh, Michael, I was just I was calling to tell
ramone to tell you what a wonderful answer you gave
me to the question I ask you. My wife and
I both agreed that was perfectly logical and it answered
a lot of my questions. And the only other thing.
Have you heard the joke about if God would intended
Texans to ski, he would have made bs white?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Yeah? I have not heard it, but I have now
you know, Charles, that that speaks to something I find.
This is not you. I'm want to be clear. Sometimes
people think that my answer to their question my wife
being among them is somehow a repudiation and what I
think they are or what they've said, and that's not
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the case. I just start talking about what's on my mind.
When you do five hours of radio a day, you
can't afford to think through what you're going to say
before you say it. You just have to say what
you believe to be the case. You have to be
honest and say I'm going to say what I believe
whether people like it or not, and I'm going to
feel comfortable saying it and also feel comfortable that there
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will always be somebody that doesn't like what you have
to say. I got an email. It did kind of
It made me stop and think for a second because
I was trashing Walmart earlier this week, because Walmart in
the Inner City is one of the most awful experiences
you'll you'll undertake it in terms of a retail experience.
It's terrible. It's what's happened to a lot of them alls.
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I once ended up at the Walmart at South Post
Oak in six' ten AND i go in there And
i'm back towards the, back minding my own, business when
all of a, SUDDEN i, REALIZE i don't know what's,
happening BUT i think we're having a black panther meeting in.
Here this thing is just hooting and hollering and running
around and carrying. On And i'm, thinking, Man walmart's good for.
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It they could, steal they could pick the bones off
of this, store And walmart will. RECOVER i JUST i
don't know if they're going to take out the people
who were inside here at the. Time AND i looked
around to, see if you, KNOW i might create a,
coalition you, know of like minded non black. PEOPLE i
was gonna pull The, indians The, chinese everybody, in you,
know just us against them in case it's you, know
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mutually assured disaster, packed you, Know nato Of, walmart and
nobody wanted to make eye. Contact AND i, realized you're
probably on your own, here SO i, thought, well MAYBE
i can go in the restroom and lock it. Up
and THEN i, thought, no you don't want. To you
don't want your family to find out your dying moments
were hiding in the. Restroom so What i'm gonna? Do,
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YEAH i was armed with a pea. Shooter what's my
little three eighty gonna. Do some of the girls were
so big it wouldn't have made it to an internal
ORGAN i mean they get. BIG i mean these girls get.
Big so, anyway this poor fella, Said, michael how come
you to Criticize walmart like? THAT i like The. WALMART
i go To walmart a couple, times AND i REALIZED
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i stopped and thought, about, well His walmart is very
different than The. WALMART i see The walmart in. Gettings oh,
man that's, nice they'll help. You The walmart inside The
Houston city, limits you better, run it's a whole different.
OPERATION i got an email from a. Lady she, SAID
i have a crazy work, schedule SO i have to
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binge to the, podcast So i'm late to the. STORY
i went to the school and offered to buy them
The Ten commandments so they could put them. Up how
many did they? Need because you had said you can
get them for a dollar. Apiece and they, said oh, no,
no we're not putting them. Up there's a restraining there's
a cease and desist letter from The Texas Education agency
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that there's a, lawsuit and not to put them. Up
until that's been. Resolved so the lady asked me if
that was, true SO i sent it to somebody who
would know who researched. It, no it's not. True in,
fact they ran it to. Ground it's not. True you're
supposed to put it, up but you're not required to
put it up. Tomorrow but you cannot if someone offers
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to pay for, it you cannot reject that. Offer, so
AS i, said this woman had, Offered i'll pay for,
them just let me know how much they'll. Be and
the school didn't do, it and she, thought maybe you know,
what trust but. Verify so we think she exposed these
people don't want to put it. Up SO i asked, her,
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well you got to tell me what the school. Is she,
said It's HARDEN isd In, Hardened. Texas so that is
your little. Reminder this is a two part don't just
listen to the first. Part two part number. One the
problems of this country cannot be solved By Donald. Trump
he can only give you the framework and the Wherewithal
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if all you want to do is cheer For trump
by Watching Fox news in the, evening or listen TO
us and the latest executive, order that's not going to
fix our. Country our country fell for the very same
reason that people on our side are still waiting On
trump to solve all their. Problems laws are not self.
Enforcing markets have to. React where people who don't like
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a company don't buy from the, Company where people who
don't like a politician don't vote for the, politician even
if he's A. Republican make him do what you want
him to. Do don't allow him to, say, well at
Least i'm not A, democrat and keep sending him. Back
if you keep settling for what you've been, getting you'll
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just get more of. It but then there comes to part,
two and that is as you seek to bring, change you,
Know Johnny, appleseed just just spreading these seeds of goodness
glitter dust all around the, society the, community the, household the,
church the workplace in which you. Operate as you do,
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that remember, this if you go into these interactions at
the grocery, store at your kid's, school at your, church
if you go, in if you had to get real
good and pissed, OFF i mean real good and pissed
off in order to muster up the, anger to summon
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it to confront the powers that be over what they've.
Done then a passer by might see you as a crazy.
Person one of the reasons for the tectonic shift among
independent voters in this country toward more common, sense traditional
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values and behaviors is nothing we. Did it's that the
left went crazy when grown men with a beard or
without a, beard grown men go prancing into schools in
bikini and her feather boa and grind in the face
of eight year old, kids and if you don't like,
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it they start calling you awful names and trying to cancel.
You independent voters saw, that and they got. It they
may not always agree with us on every. Issue they
might think we're, overreacting they might, think but they got.
It it was easy to see who the good guy
and the bad guy. Was, chicago you see what's going on,
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there and THEY dc where the mayors even had to
come out Of. California you see These you see these
crime riddle places that don't Want trump to fix the.
Crime the independent voter gets. It don't be. Them don't
be the person that's ready to snap and pitch a
fit and boycott and scream and. Holler go in with
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a smile on your. Face ask honestly look for a
way to help them because there are still people around
you and you still want to win them.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Over The Michael Barry, show shoptone indicates everything is ready
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Speaker 1 (24:09):
Somebody this. Week it's in my prep for the weekend.
Podcast by the, way if if you listen to The
morning and want more, show we do two hours in the.
Evening now we do occasionally repeat a segment IF i
think it's a really good. Segment it's, timely but not,
much probably five percent of the time or, less and
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you can always skip through. That so if you listen
to The, morning there's two more hours in the. Evening
the evening show we cut up a lot less and
it's more about what's going on IN, dc what's going
on With, Trump, congress mostly political. Matters it's more a
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Traditional Glen Back Sean hannity type show in the Sense Martin,
levin in the sense that we're sticking to the issues
that people are already coming there expecting to. Hear as you,
know our morning show tends to be more of a
variety show and to me a lot more fun to.
Do but in any, case one of the comments there
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AND i can't remember who said it might have been Jad,
vans but we'll get it'll be in there this. Weekend
and they talked about the fact That trump has changed
The Republican party to bring in working Class. Americans it's
something that the Met romney's and The bushes and, McCain's
and none of them were able to. Do going all
the way back To reagan and a GUY i went
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to law school with THAT i have not talked to
since law. School for some, reason his comment popped up
on My facebook feed and it said this was On Labor.
Day on This Labor, day and Amidst President trump's outgoing
ongoing realignment Of american, politics whereby working Class americans of
all backgrounds flocked to The republican banner while so many
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laptop class professionals lie the flags Of kamala Aoc zora And.
MUMDANI i am reminded Of nixon's silent Majority Reagan democrats
and this passage From Ronald reagan's nineteen seventy seven speech
to The Conservative Political Action CONFERENCE seapac, quote the New
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Republican PARTY i envision will not be and cannot be
one limited to the country, club big business image that
for years for reasons both fair and. Unfair it is
burdened With, today the New Republican PARTY i am speaking
about is going to have room for the man and
woman in the, factories for the, farmer for the cop
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on the, beat and the millions Of americans who have
made you have never thought of joining our party, before
but whose interests coincide with those represented by Principled. REPUBLICANISM
i grew up in A democrat. HOUSEHOLD i grew up
the son of a maintenance, worker and the understand of
the people Of, orange almost every one of, them was
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that The Republican party was for the rich. Party they
didn't want, us and that was not entirely. True but
it was not entirely untrue either when you look at
the demographics of The Republican party and how it has,
changed where it, dominated where it. Failed the big change
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in The Republican party that was going back to The Wendel,
wilkie The Republican, party The Herbert Hoover Republican. Party the
big change was happening in The south and led almost
entirely out Of. Texas and that change began in the,
fifties and that's when The Conservative democrats and when that's
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when the Conservative democrats began battling it out with The Northeastern,
democrats and as The Northeastern democrats took control of the.
Party if nineteen sixty had been, Different If Lyndon johnson
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Beats JOHN. F kennedy in nineteen, sixty The Democrat party
at least for some period of time thereafter and maybe,
forever we don't, know would have been a very Different Democrat.
Party and a lot of folks that Are trump voters
now but haven't Voted republican, today those folks would have
Been democrats back. Then So jaya SORRY lbj figures out
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that the future of the party is in appealing to
get one hundred percent black vote and university intellectuals and.
Labor and we got to get. Labor that was the.
Challenge so how do you keep labor and this black? Agenda,
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well what started as a civil rights agenda for equality
quickly turned into being about black, nationalism and there's no
doubt about. That you, know when someone says black lives,
matter and you say all lives, matter and they get
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angry to the point that they want your career. Destroyed
they want to hurt you in any way. Possible there
are only two explanations for why someone would be offended by.
That number one is if you say black lives, matter
but you don't believe that all lives. Matter that means
that you believe that blacks and only blacks, matter and
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other lives don't, matter in which case you're a black.
Nationalist and make no, mistake most of what is posing
as anti racism today is black. Nationalism you, know there's
a thrill to any, group always has been throughout. History
my people's the. Best that's really what you're. Getting that's
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What Jasmine, Crockett Sheila, Jackson, Lee Maxine, Waters Sylvester, Turner Rodney.
Ellis that's what's being preached to parishioners in the church
by black. Politicians we're the chosen. Ones they don't actually believe.
It to be, clear you don't have to. Worry they
don't believe. It you don't have to cite literacy, rates crime,
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rates poverty. Rates they don't believe. It the tragedy, is
but they enjoy hearing. It it makes them feel. Good
you'll see somebody post On facebook and she's four hundred
and eighty pounds on the hoof and all the other, women,
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girl you look so, Good well she, doesn't and we
all know she. Doesn't and THAT'S. Ok but you can
tell they're trying too, hard and you know what she
pretends to. Believe and it feels. Good if you tell
me you don't like to be, COMPLIMENTED i don't care
who you, are how confident you, ARE i don't care.
What it's nice to be. Complimented it's nice to be,
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validated it's nice to be. Affirmed so most of what
is passing as anti racism is itself racist in. Nature
it is black affirmation that rises to the level of black. Supremacy,
now people are not scared of black supremacy because everyone
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knows that blacks don't feel that they're actually. Superior even
when they say that they know there are a lot
of problems amongst a lot of blacks in this, country
no matter how wealthy you get or, whatever you look
around and go got to be able to address these.
Things but the language still feels good to. Say and
that's what they're pitching. Well as those Conservative democrats.
Speaker 7 (32:01):
Moved into The Republican, Party John connolly being a prominent,
example they brought the, money the, power the policy into
The Republican party and The Democrat party then had to
lock down and get a higher percentage of their original.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Vote and that's the two big changes
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Dairy Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Hello, babe, we got a full tank of gas, half
a pack of cigarettes.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
It's dark and we're wearing sunglasses. Hit it. Well, that's
where we go, riding in the turn a whopping and
a whooping.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Ever living thing it moves within an inch of its
last Sorry, folks, parks closed the moves you do o.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
For Jesus, make Mountha Berry show. For some reason or another,
(01:02):
who signed a little toller on radio?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
You remember the game warden we had on name A Yoder,
Kyle Yoder from Washington County. Real earnest fella, remember that. Well,
it was one of those deals where I think, about
a minute into it, he wished he wasn't in this
conversation because I'm liable to say something to get him
in trouble. So he thought. I heard nothing but great
(01:40):
things about that guy. Just what a solid, solid young
man he is. Well, he has apparently taken a demotion.
At ten o'clock this morning, he will graduate as a
DPS trooper. I didn't know that was the order. I
didn't know. If you were a game warden, you wanted
to be a trooper or maybe that's a you know,
(02:01):
parallel line lateral higher. I don't know. I've always maybe
because my brother was obsessed with game wardens, But game
Warden was always the deal. You can go off in
the woods and hide, especially if you're an outdoorsman. You
can go off in the woods, build a little fire,
cook yourself a coon, you know, get caught up on
(02:22):
your whitland, especially in the county like that. Long as
you harass at least a person or two per day,
just pull up, farmer Jones, everything right over here. Well,
I notice you're watering during the no water zone. All
shoot game ward and I'll turn it off, all right,
don't make me have to come back out here and
(02:45):
and give you a ticket. All right, miss Arline doing
all right? Yep, all right, Well I'm gonna let you
go on your way. But let's you know, don't put
me in a bad spot. Okay, there's people calling. I
know y'all got an aer rated system everything, but we're
not supposed to be doing that today, Yes, sir, yes, sir, okay,
I mean that's the gig, right, you drive around. I mean,
(03:06):
if that's what you like to do, that would have
been my brother's dream job. He'd go out there, he'd
have found spots in land nobody was supposed to be
hunting or trespassing on and he would have put him
in a little farm, you know, put him in a
little garden out there, and he'd go back and check
on him. I mean, that would have been his dream job.
Instead he had had to deal with meth heads on
(03:27):
it and traffickers. But anyway, I'm happy for Kyle Yoder
because apparently that's what he wanted to do. So he
will no longer be a Washington County game warden. He
will now be a DPS trooper. Now, I will say
they do have cool uniforms. People underestimate the value of
the cool uniform. Ramona and I have had many offers
(03:48):
to be honorary law enforcement officers from all of the
departments in the region, saving except a couple, and they're
on my crap list. But our decision will eventually come down,
and it you know, it's it's gonna be a bit.
It's like lebron choosing, you know, Cleveland or Miami, just
a bigger deal. It will come down primarily to the uniform,
(04:11):
but to the hat as well, and and what kind
of vehicle we're driving. I'm gonna tell you this right now.
Those little bitty things, bless their heart, that they got
the HPD officers in the little bitty Ford. Uh. I
don't know what that is. It's not even it's like
a Ford escape. It's not a whole lot bigger than
Suzuki Samurai. That's you know, that's part of the problem.
(04:32):
We got people trying to challenge the cops. The cops
come rolling up and they got that lead, a bitty
squeezed in suv. You don't think to yourself, well, that's intimidating.
You go, that's probably some little girl in there. She
can't take me down if I run. The girls are
the ones that will shoot you. My brother told me
that years ago. The girls will shoot you because they
can't fight you. You want to fight a cop. You're feeling
(04:53):
in the mood you met out of your head. You
got heroin coursing through you. Fine, big old cop, Steve
waterd big. They'll fight you and they'll win, but you'll
be okay. You'll live. One of the little bitty girls.
They'll shoot you. They have to. They can't fight you.
They know that anyway, I don't know how we got
off on that, James writes, I was about four or five.
(05:15):
I was going to a friend's house for a sleepover.
It was about nineteen seventy two. I was in the
back of my friend's car. His dad was driving. His
mother and sister were in the car with us. My
friend's dad told a joke and then he asked me, Skeeter,
does your daddy tease And my response was, yes, he
teasing the pot. All these years later, we all still
(05:35):
laugh about that line. Teach you just here, Yes, sir,
mister Jones, he teasing the pot. All right, let's go too,
Let's go to David. You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Go ahead, sir.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Michael.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
I'm a veteran, and I used the the v A
for my assurance, and I recently had a rash of
uh boys ivy. I went to a h what is it?
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh doc game? I
(06:31):
think right now? Uh Incent, care for for some some help.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
I got my my my letter from try West.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
This is not a bill that just shows me what
uh what it costs? Okay, the the visit costs two
hundred and five two hundred and six dollars to see
(07:12):
the physician's assistant for fifteen minutes. That was two hundred
six dollars. I got a shot.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
That was thirty six dollars and a band aid which
they call a therapeutic prophylactic that was forty eight dollars.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Where'd they put the prophylactic.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
In my butt?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Inside or around the edge or on the crease where
the cocksix used to be or what?
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Oh? No, I just draw my shots. And she gave
me a shot in the butt.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Okay, oh on the butt cheap? Oh yeah, okay, we're
not talking about the bunny, but I.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Mean a visit, a shot and a band aid two
hundred and ninety dollars, And I thought, well, she is
a va getting ripped off or what?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
You are listening to Michael Barry's show.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
One of our Saturday podcasts tomorrow will be Antonin Scalia's
American Exceptionalism. It's one of my favorite. I think it's
the first we've repeated. It's been several years since we
played it, and I think I'll go two to three
years between playing in between because we're always cycling in
(08:52):
new people. New people joined the show, and we're putting
out enough podcasts now that I know no longer have
any pressure If you go I think I heard that
years ago. If you don't want to hear it again,
you can just skip it and there's still something for
you on that day. I like to re listen to
things and reread books and rewatch movies, And in fact,
(09:14):
I suspect this has something to do with my age
and season in life. When I go to the shelf
to pull off the next book to read, I did
this the other day. I find myself if I see
things that I still haven't read that I've carried around
for years, I go, well, I should read that, And
then I go, well, I really like to read this
(09:37):
over here was good? Let me read you know I've
forgotten a lot of that. Let me let me reread that.
When I'm scrolling through for movies, I find that I
will I will land on a movie I've seen many
times before rather than try out a movie I haven't seen.
And I don't know if I'm just averse to ending
(10:00):
up investing thirty minutes into a movie until I'm convinced
there's no way out of this. This isn't any good
because then you almost have to hang around fromon'd you
watched the football last night? Yeah, Crockett, And I love
football season because I love football season. I love football
season because that means it's starting to cool off and
you've got a Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Year, and
(10:24):
I love all of that. I love the foods that
come out, and I can even tolerate that pumpkin stuff
for about an hour and then they just overdo it.
But I really love that. It's always been a tradition
that I watched the games with my boys, and so
Crockett yesterday, I didn't say anything, but he said, Dad,
we're gonna watch the game together. No day before that,
(10:45):
We're gonna watch the game together tomorrow night. And I
didn't realize we had a Thursday night game this week.
And I said, well, of course, what else would we do?
And he said, okay, good, And he said, I got
testing on this day at this time. When I got
this is because you know, college testing and all that
stuff's still going on. And he said, I'll finish up
(11:06):
my homework early games at seven thirty, so I should
be good to go. Locked in at seven thirty. All right,
let's do this, so he wasn't through at seven thirty,
and this was this is a treat. We didn't have
this when I was growing up on you young whipper
snappers might have. But so what we do is if
we can't start the game at the right time, we
(11:28):
just start the program and then pause it. And then
we don't We can just you can just zoom. You
don't even have to watch halftime. And you just watched
football the way red zone used to be before they
put commercials in it. And I know what you're thinking, Well,
you got too many commercials in your show. I agree.
I agree. That's not my decision. It's not a decision
(11:48):
that I made. It's not a decision I can change.
And you know, I would love to tell you I
wish there were no commercials, but that is how we
get paid and how the company gets paid and what
makes the show free. Now, I wish there were a
lot of other things that could be cut out. But
you know, it's funny. I used to run the stations
(12:11):
from seven to about ten or so somewhere about that.
I don't know how long. It was several years, starting
in May first of o seven. And it's funny because
if I had my way, now they would take out news,
traffic and weather during our show and give us that
time back because I don't. I'm not a news traffic,
(12:33):
weather guy. I get all that on my phone. But
when I pitch it to people, I'm surprised how many
people they really like, especially our listeners, especially a morning
news listener, but even still in our show, they do
like to get their news, traffic, weather, and they like
to get it from KTRH because they have for years
and years and years. And part of how I know
(12:53):
that is people love love love Sky Mike Sky. Mike's
a rockstar. He really is. He is. He is an
absolute rock star. By the way, I mentioned earlier in
the week that we would be doing the UH that
I would be having the conversation with my dad's endo chronologist,
(13:15):
who's a concierge doctor. She can be your family doctor.
That is UH that has a specialty as well in menopause.
And I have been inundated with questions from from folks
and I just want you to know I take it
(13:35):
as a great compliment that you feel comfortable asking me
to share with her very personal details about something I think,
you know, if somebody had to tell you they had
a canker sorel on their butt cheek. They'd be okay
(13:57):
telling that, But when you start talking about the who who,
I don't care how old you are. It's kind of what.
It's a taboo topic. And so I just want you
to know. For those of you who shared those stories
and asked me to ask a story, I actually take
a black magic marker on those and I mark out
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your name on there so that during our discussion I
won't accidentally I would have never done it on purpose,
but I won't accidentally read your full name on the air.
That being said, for every person who takes the time
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and share a story, and they come in every day,
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the New York Yankees ten minutes ago, he just got
the call. Or your sixteen year old son just committed
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with your day, sure where to go with that. I
(15:03):
consider it a great honor that you that you trust
me with that, with that type of thing, and that
we have that report. I just want you to know
that allow me to introduce myself.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
My name is Mitch michael Berry Genius.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
To the pull line we go seven one three one thousand,
seven one three nine one thousand, And of course you
can always email me through the website Michael Berryshow dot
com that comes directly to me. There's been some confusion
over the years. Emily also reads the emails, what I
send to you and what you send to me, and
(15:43):
if it's something she can handle, she'll grab it and
handle it. But for listener emails, that is one of
my favorite forms of show prep. So I do read
each and everyone. I cannot possibly respond to each and everyone.
To Charles, we go, you're up, Charles, You're on the
Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
Oh, Michael, I was just I was calling to tell
ramone to tell you what a wonderful answer you gave
me to the question I ask you. My wife and
I both agreed that was perfectly logical and it answered
a lot of my questions. And the only other thing.
Have you heard the joke about if God would intended
Texans to ski, he would have made bs white?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Yeah? I have not heard it, but I have now
you know, Charles, that that speaks to something I find.
This is not you. I'm want to be clear. Sometimes
people think that my answer to their question my wife
being among them is somehow a repudiation and what I
think they are or what they've said, and that's not
(16:48):
the case. I just start talking about what's on my mind.
When you do five hours of radio a day, you
can't afford to think through what you're going to say
before you say it. You just have to say what
you believe to be the case. You have to be
honest and say I'm going to say what I believe
whether people like it or not, and I'm going to
feel comfortable saying it and also feel comfortable that there
(17:11):
will always be somebody that doesn't like what you have
to say. I got an email. It did kind of
It made me stop and think for a second because
I was trashing Walmart earlier this week, because Walmart in
the Inner City is one of the most awful experiences
you'll you'll undertake it in terms of a retail experience.
It's terrible. It's what's happened to a lot of them alls.
(17:34):
I once ended up at the Walmart at South Post
Oak in six' ten AND i go in there And
i'm back towards the, back minding my own, business when
all of a, SUDDEN i, REALIZE i don't know what's,
happening BUT i think we're having a black panther meeting in.
Here this thing is just hooting and hollering and running
around and carrying. On And i'm, thinking, Man walmart's good for.
(17:58):
It they could, steal they could pick the bones off
of this, store And walmart will. RECOVER i JUST i
don't know if they're going to take out the people
who were inside here at the. Time AND i looked
around to, see if you, KNOW i might create a,
coalition you, know of like minded non black. PEOPLE i
was gonna pull The, indians The, chinese everybody, in you,
know just us against them in case it's you, know
(18:19):
mutually assured disaster, packed you, Know nato Of, walmart and
nobody wanted to make eye. Contact AND i, realized you're
probably on your own, here SO i, thought, well MAYBE
i can go in the restroom and lock it. Up
and THEN i, thought, no you don't want. To you
don't want your family to find out your dying moments
were hiding in the. Restroom so What i'm gonna? Do,
(18:42):
YEAH i was armed with a pea. Shooter what's my
little three eighty gonna. Do some of the girls were
so big it wouldn't have made it to an internal
ORGAN i mean they get. BIG i mean these girls get.
Big so, anyway this poor fella, Said, michael how come
you to Criticize walmart like? THAT i like The. WALMART
i go To walmart a couple, times AND i REALIZED
(19:05):
i stopped and thought, about, well His walmart is very
different than The. WALMART i see The walmart in. Gettings oh,
man that's, nice they'll help. You The walmart inside The
Houston city, limits you better, run it's a whole different.
OPERATION i got an email from a. Lady she, SAID
i have a crazy work, schedule SO i have to
(19:26):
binge to the, podcast So i'm late to the. STORY
i went to the school and offered to buy them
The Ten commandments so they could put them. Up how
many did they? Need because you had said you can
get them for a dollar. Apiece and they, said oh, no,
no we're not putting them. Up there's a restraining there's
a cease and desist letter from The Texas Education agency
(19:50):
that there's a, lawsuit and not to put them. Up
until that's been. Resolved so the lady asked me if
that was, true SO i sent it to somebody who
would know who researched. It, no it's not. True in,
fact they ran it to. Ground it's not. True you're
supposed to put it, up but you're not required to
put it up. Tomorrow but you cannot if someone offers
(20:11):
to pay for, it you cannot reject that. Offer, so
AS i, said this woman had, Offered i'll pay for,
them just let me know how much they'll. Be and
the school didn't do, it and she, thought maybe you know,
what trust but. Verify so we think she exposed these
people don't want to put it. Up SO i asked, her,
(20:32):
well you got to tell me what the school. Is she,
said It's HARDEN isd In, Hardened. Texas so that is
your little. Reminder this is a two part don't just
listen to the first. Part two part number. One the
problems of this country cannot be solved By Donald. Trump
he can only give you the framework and the Wherewithal
(20:55):
if all you want to do is cheer For trump
by Watching Fox news in the, evening or listen TO
us and the latest executive, order that's not going to
fix our. Country our country fell for the very same
reason that people on our side are still waiting On
trump to solve all their. Problems laws are not self.
Enforcing markets have to. React where people who don't like
(21:17):
a company don't buy from the, Company where people who
don't like a politician don't vote for the, politician even
if he's A. Republican make him do what you want
him to. Do don't allow him to, say, well at
Least i'm not A, democrat and keep sending him. Back
if you keep settling for what you've been, getting you'll
(21:38):
just get more of. It but then there comes to part,
two and that is as you seek to bring, change you,
Know Johnny, appleseed just just spreading these seeds of goodness
glitter dust all around the, society the, community the, household the,
church the workplace in which you. Operate as you do,
(22:00):
that remember, this if you go into these interactions at
the grocery, store at your kid's, school at your, church
if you go, in if you had to get real
good and pissed, OFF i mean real good and pissed
off in order to muster up the, anger to summon
(22:24):
it to confront the powers that be over what they've.
Done then a passer by might see you as a crazy.
Person one of the reasons for the tectonic shift among
independent voters in this country toward more common, sense traditional
(22:45):
values and behaviors is nothing we. Did it's that the
left went crazy when grown men with a beard or
without a, beard grown men go prancing into schools in
bikini and her feather boa and grind in the face
of eight year old, kids and if you don't like,
(23:06):
it they start calling you awful names and trying to cancel.
You independent voters saw, that and they got. It they
may not always agree with us on every. Issue they
might think we're, overreacting they might, think but they got.
It it was easy to see who the good guy
and the bad guy. Was, chicago you see what's going on,
(23:30):
there and THEY dc where the mayors even had to
come out Of. California you see These you see these
crime riddle places that don't Want trump to fix the.
Crime the independent voter gets. It don't be. Them don't
be the person that's ready to snap and pitch a
fit and boycott and scream and. Holler go in with
(23:51):
a smile on your. Face ask honestly look for a
way to help them because there are still people around
you and you still want to win them.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Over The Michael Barry, show shoptone indicates everything is ready
for your call.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Somebody this. Week it's in my prep for the weekend.
Podcast by the, way if if you listen to The
morning and want more, show we do two hours in the.
Evening now we do occasionally repeat a segment IF i
think it's a really good. Segment it's, timely but not,
much probably five percent of the time or, less and
(24:29):
you can always skip through. That so if you listen
to The, morning there's two more hours in the. Evening
the evening show we cut up a lot less and
it's more about what's going on IN, dc what's going
on With, Trump, congress mostly political. Matters it's more a
(24:50):
Traditional Glen Back Sean hannity type show in the Sense Martin,
levin in the sense that we're sticking to the issues
that people are already coming there expecting to. Hear as you,
know our morning show tends to be more of a
variety show and to me a lot more fun to.
Do but in any, case one of the comments there
(25:11):
AND i can't remember who said it might have been Jad,
vans but we'll get it'll be in there this. Weekend
and they talked about the fact That trump has changed
The Republican party to bring in working Class. Americans it's
something that the Met romney's and The bushes and, McCain's
and none of them were able to. Do going all
the way back To reagan and a GUY i went
(25:35):
to law school with THAT i have not talked to
since law. School for some, reason his comment popped up
on My facebook feed and it said this was On Labor.
Day on This Labor, day and Amidst President trump's outgoing
ongoing realignment Of american, politics whereby working Class americans of
all backgrounds flocked to The republican banner while so many
(25:58):
laptop class professionals lie the flags Of kamala Aoc zora And.
MUMDANI i am reminded Of nixon's silent Majority Reagan democrats
and this passage From Ronald reagan's nineteen seventy seven speech
to The Conservative Political Action CONFERENCE seapac, quote the New
(26:19):
Republican PARTY i envision will not be and cannot be
one limited to the country, club big business image that
for years for reasons both fair and. Unfair it is
burdened With, today the New Republican PARTY i am speaking
about is going to have room for the man and
woman in the, factories for the, farmer for the cop
(26:40):
on the, beat and the millions Of americans who have
made you have never thought of joining our party, before
but whose interests coincide with those represented by Principled. REPUBLICANISM
i grew up in A democrat. HOUSEHOLD i grew up
the son of a maintenance, worker and the understand of
the people Of, orange almost every one of, them was
(27:04):
that The Republican party was for the rich. Party they
didn't want, us and that was not entirely. True but
it was not entirely untrue either when you look at
the demographics of The Republican party and how it has,
changed where it, dominated where it. Failed the big change
(27:26):
in The Republican party that was going back to The Wendel,
wilkie The Republican, party The Herbert Hoover Republican. Party the
big change was happening in The south and led almost
entirely out Of. Texas and that change began in the,
fifties and that's when The Conservative democrats and when that's
(27:53):
when the Conservative democrats began battling it out with The Northeastern,
democrats and as The Northeastern democrats took control of the.
Party if nineteen sixty had been, Different If Lyndon johnson
(28:14):
Beats JOHN. F kennedy in nineteen, sixty The Democrat party
at least for some period of time thereafter and maybe,
forever we don't, know would have been a very Different Democrat.
Party and a lot of folks that Are trump voters
now but haven't Voted republican, today those folks would have
Been democrats back. Then So jaya SORRY lbj figures out
(28:42):
that the future of the party is in appealing to
get one hundred percent black vote and university intellectuals and.
Labor and we got to get. Labor that was the.
Challenge so how do you keep labor and this black? Agenda,
(29:04):
well what started as a civil rights agenda for equality
quickly turned into being about black, nationalism and there's no
doubt about. That you, know when someone says black lives,
matter and you say all lives, matter and they get
(29:24):
angry to the point that they want your career. Destroyed
they want to hurt you in any way. Possible there
are only two explanations for why someone would be offended by.
That number one is if you say black lives, matter
but you don't believe that all lives. Matter that means
that you believe that blacks and only blacks, matter and
(29:47):
other lives don't, matter in which case you're a black.
Nationalist and make no, mistake most of what is posing
as anti racism today is black. Nationalism you, know there's
a thrill to any, group always has been throughout. History
my people's the. Best that's really what you're. Getting that's
(30:11):
What Jasmine, Crockett Sheila, Jackson, Lee Maxine, Waters Sylvester, Turner Rodney.
Ellis that's what's being preached to parishioners in the church
by black. Politicians we're the chosen. Ones they don't actually believe.
It to be, clear you don't have to. Worry they
don't believe. It you don't have to cite literacy, rates crime,
(30:35):
rates poverty. Rates they don't believe. It the tragedy, is
but they enjoy hearing. It it makes them feel. Good
you'll see somebody post On facebook and she's four hundred
and eighty pounds on the hoof and all the other, women,
(30:55):
girl you look so, Good well she, doesn't and we
all know she. Doesn't and THAT'S. Ok but you can
tell they're trying too, hard and you know what she
pretends to. Believe and it feels. Good if you tell
me you don't like to be, COMPLIMENTED i don't care
who you, are how confident you, ARE i don't care.
What it's nice to be. Complimented it's nice to be,
(31:19):
validated it's nice to be. Affirmed so most of what
is passing as anti racism is itself racist in. Nature
it is black affirmation that rises to the level of black. Supremacy,
now people are not scared of black supremacy because everyone
(31:40):
knows that blacks don't feel that they're actually. Superior even
when they say that they know there are a lot
of problems amongst a lot of blacks in this, country
no matter how wealthy you get or, whatever you look
around and go got to be able to address these.
Things but the language still feels good to. Say and
that's what they're pitching. Well as those Conservative democrats.
Speaker 7 (32:01):
Moved into The Republican, Party John connolly being a prominent,
example they brought the, money the, power the policy into
The Republican party and The Democrat party then had to
lock down and get a higher percentage of their original.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Vote and that's the two big changes
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