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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, luck and load. So Michael
Verie Show is on the air. My wife sent me

(00:37):
an email. She is not a pop culture person, to
say the least in growing up in India. A lot
of frames of reference I have she doesn't have, because
you take for granted when you say where's the beef,
that everybody knows what you're talking about, or who Elvis
Costello is or none of that. None of that means anything.

(01:01):
So she sends me an email of an article she
has written, she has read and its subject line is
Goldfish is changing its name to Chilean Sea Bass. Here's why,
And she writes, this is very troubling. I assume it's true.

(01:23):
And it's an article in Food and Wine magazine that says,
say hello to Chilean sea bass, say goodbye to Goldfish.
You know the little goldfish. You like them, at least
for a little while. On Wednesday, the famous snack brand
announced it is officially changing its name to Chilean Sea Bass,
which will be available for sale at Chilean seabasscrackers dot com.

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Why because, according to Goldfish or Chilean Sea Bass, it
wanted to remind everyone that it's crackers aren't just for
little kids. So they go through the whole thing, and
I respond to her as follows. This made me chuckle,

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especially that it caught your attention. Some PR firm is
going to get a massive bonus for what they just did.
Number one change the name for a brief period and
only online. Number two make it ridiculous, but with a
straight face. And then I gave her an example of
someone we know in common if I don't want to
say who I think faked something to get attention. Number

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three alert the press, give them lots of info and
pictures for this ridiculous story. Number four drop the story
right after the election when people want fluff pieces. Number
five send the stories that are written about it. Next
phase to late night TV talk show host comedians, so
they then talk about it having been in the news.

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Number six do interviews about it, soak up the press.
Number seven, once done, change the name back to Goldfish
and hopefully drain a little more attention out of the
move back to the name. This is how you jump
start a flagging brand for very little money. Well played,
PR firm. Well played, and she sent back a one

(03:15):
word response, cynic no, hey, they got they got some
PR for we could call what's her name, Karen Henry
with the PR boutique. I'm sure she's done something like
that over the years. I mean, if they can't afford

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to be on our show, they can at least afford
a PR firm to run a little gimmick on a
national brand that people tend to kind of forget about.
You know. That's that's that's what happens. The Harris County
numbers are very strong. The State of Texas numbers are

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even stronger. Hidalgo County. I told you about Star County.
See if I can pull this up, Hidalgo County is
just absolutely impressive as all get out, these South Texas counties.
When you look at the numbers, when you look at

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the numbers across Texas, if you look at it as
just a color coded map, there were a few blue
patches and those are all gone, I mean not all gone.
Those have reduced dramatically overnight. We have results, final results
in era not final, but Arizona has been declared for

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Donald Trump. Nevada had been declared a few hours earlier,
which means all the swing states Trump wins, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan,
in North Carolina. That is, he ran the table. That's

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a mandate. And we're going to be talking in the
coming days and weeks about why that is. But I
read a think piece yesterday on the issue of masculinity,
and I believe this is the kind of thing that
Vanity Fair in the New York Times write about. We

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may not use the same words that psychology majors do
and social scientists do. We put it in simpler terms.
But there's something to this. There's something to the fact
that Democrats lost white males Trump won. I give you
the numbers in a minute. But Trump won a majority

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of white males. He won a majority of white females
that nobody saw coming. Because white married women would vote
for Trump. We knew that. But you lose so many
of the white single women, and that's the sex and

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the city crowd. But Trump won overall white males and
white females, which accounts for seventy three percent of the vote.
Trump won Hispanic males, which I think is six percent
of the vote. He lost Hispanic females, but not by much.

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He got between twenty two depending on the state overall
things twenty three, He got twenty three percent of black males,
got the highest black voter turnout since black voter percentage
since nineteen eighty eight for a Republican. Republicans won the
White House, the popular vote, a Senate majority, House majority,

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a majority of state governors, and a majority of state legislatures.
We haven't seen this a run like this. I have
to go back and look. I know twenty ten was
pretty good for us. Obviously we didn't get the White
House because it wasn't enough for grabs. But Obama turned

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particularly southern. There's a swath from Texas to Georgia that
after Obama's election, eight blue or purple areas began flipping
red and they stayed red for several years. And it
was from Texas to from Austin to Atlanta. And the

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reason was Obamacare. Obamacare was the biggest. Illegal immigration was
not as big, but that was a big issue. This
is a massive, massive mandate. So I saw someone one
of the talking points that the Democrats are putting out

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is that the billionaires. This is what the left looffs
to say. The billionaires won this election for Donald Trump. Actually,
Kamala Harris had eighty three, there aren't that many. Eighty
three billionaires backing her, far more backing her than Trump.

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Forbes magazine counted eighty three of them and fifty two
supporting Trump. And remember, of those eighty three backing Kamala,
most of them knew Trump before, and of the fifty
two backing Trump, they knew him, so he had an
advantage of being their friend. But when they're voting on
their crazy guilt, their white guilt, which is what it is,

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they vote democratic. Eight The Michael Barry Show.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
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winds is heavy on the board. Remember me.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
To one who lives there.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
She one's one, a true love of man. See for me,
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a fresh See for me, better hair hanging down. That's
so I remember her bed here you go, when the

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snow plague fall, when the river street.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
When my wife called me a synic over the goldfish gimmick,
Jim Mud reminded me, that's like what I hopped in.
Remember I hop said, you know, on this date, at
this time, we're going to make a big announcement like
nine o'clock or November eighth or whatever, nine am, and

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the big announcement was I Hop was changing their name
to I hob as they were becoming the Intern International
House some burgers, and that was their way of achieving
twofold number one. Make you talk about I Hop, which
you tend to forget about. Nobody says I hate I Hop.
I'm never going there again. They just forget it exists.

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And you know who masters masters the branding game, waffle House.
Waffle House owns that. You got the every time there's
a big storm, there's the waffle House standard. And the
waffle House standard is you look at when a waffle
house closes in a community that is considered okay, that

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community is underwater, that's you can't survive there right now.
When the waffle house reopens, then you're weeks away from
people being able to kind of, you know, get back in.
Waffle House is the last stand. That's that Japanese dude
that I just am fascinated by. Remember he was on
the island and they tell him, look, if the Americans come,

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you never surrender. And what they're going to say is
everybody else surrendered. Then they're gonna drop pamphlets and say,
come on out. Everybody is surrendered. That dude stayed in
there for twenty years. He's still shooting people for twenty years.
Is the last holdout anyway? So yes, I am somewhat cynical,

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but not in a bad way. I told my wife,
I'm fascinated by the ability to pull a gimmick off
like that. I'm fascinated by it. But I get an
email from Russell Lavara, and this is fascinating, he said,
I promise you this is a true story. Chile and

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sea bass is a name that was given to a
particular fish that was extremely ugly and very hard to
sell because of its name. It was the Patagonian toothfish.
And it turns out that's true, the Patagonian toothfish who

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wants to eat something called a tooth. The Patagonian toothfish
was renamed the Chilean sea bass. Oh what a nice
ring to it. Yes, Chile, Yes, I'll have a Chilean
wine to pair with my Chilean sea bass instead of

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you want some merlow with your Patagonian toothfish. Nobody's eating
merlow with sea bass from my own? What are you?
But yes, I am a touch cynical, because when you
read news headlines all day, you grow a touch cynical,
and I grew a touch cynical and everything. But we

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made a sound We made a montage of this election,
and we've been playing it, and there's a moment where
what sounds like nothing more than a pellet gun, Pat
Pat goes and Trump stopped speaking. And every time I

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hear it, and I've heard it one hundred times now,
I've studied it for how many shots are fired. I've
studied it for how long he's still firing off rounds?
How did he only hit the president once? He didn't
fire one shot? Bolt action tm Trump, Tom tramp Trump.
He's firing with a split second in between for a while.

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It really is amazing that he only hit the president
one time. It would have only taken one if it
was an inch over. Every time I hear that, I
can't help but stop and imagine, not just Donald Trump
the human being, not just Donald Trump the president. I

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can't help but imagine what would that have done to
our country? Twenty years from now. We would be a
different place because of it. You think of what the
Lincoln assassination. It's not just that It's taught in every
school at every age, and it's what that did to

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the country at that moment. You think about John F.
Kennedy's assassination, that's sixty one years ago. Ask your grandmother
about that. They'll tell you where they were at that moment.
We like to do that now because we don't have
moments like that. My generation will say the Challenger explosion

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in what eighty six, But that's not real. People can't
really tell you. You know, I was in third period Miss
Read's English class. That's us making things up today. You
would have remember if he had died, you would have
remembered that. You would have remembered that for the rest

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of your life. As it is now. It was July thirteenth,
less than four months ago, and some people are listening
right now, going, dang, I've kind of forgotten that. When
we look back and tell the story on the timeline,

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every day there was a different thing. Every day there
was a different thing, and every day you think, well,
that's the October surprise, that's the thing that did it.
But we're going to remember those shots ringing out. We're
going to remember that assassination attempt that set in place
a series of events. I remember it was that night,

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maybe that afternoon, but that night that Elon Musk tweeted,
I'm coming out and supporting Donald Trump. I can't, I
can't not do I have to come out. Him coming
forward and announcing that broke the levee. The number of

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people who said, if Elon can do it, I can
do it, leading of course to the appearance on Rogan,
leading to the Rogan endorsement. I don't think the Rogan
endorsement was covered widely enough. I think you got everything
you needed out of him being on Rogan for three hours,
and the review of that Elon coming out happened because

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of the shooting. There were a number of other celebrities
who stepped forward at that moment who I think were
probably privately saying, man, that woman's crazy. Can you believe
they just they smothered Biden and put her in there.
That's that's shocking. It discan't continue. I sure hope Trump wins,

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But they didn't see themselves as active participants, as influencers
in the purest sense of the word, people who could
have an actual influence, people who could could move the
ball forward, and a lot of them did. There are
a lot of people who deserve a lot of credit.

(18:19):
Scott Presler. I don't know how many votes Scott Presler
actually got out the Omish and everybody else in Pennsylvania,
but I know he became an inspiration to people, if
this guy can do it. There's a lot Scott Jennings
on CNN. By the way, I'm hearing inside rumbling that
Scott Jennings been considered Press secretary. I hope so. I
think it'd be good. You've got cornpop was a bad dude.

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The Michael Berry Show Blade a mighty feel. The temperaturrizon

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higher higher. It's party food and my soul, girl, girl girl,
you gonna set me on fire, the brain explain. I
don't know which way to go. You can't see every

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high like the sweet soul, all loness guy life. My
wife reminded me that she would pack a few goldfish
in the boys lunch at school because they loved it
so much. And she said, you have to imagine how

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much they loved it for me, of all people to
put it in there. Because she's a health food nut
and she thinks we all eat too many processed foods
or too many you know, the type. Anyway, I'm gonna
bore you with that. You know the type. And she said,
but I had to because they loved it so much.
So that was like their dessert, that was their treat.
And she said, My understanding is that for as long

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as goldfish have been around, mothers have been putting them
in their kids lunches. And she said, and the truth is,
I think adults sneak a few goldfish as well, because
I did. And she said the name Chile and sea
bass as a snack is disgusting. Well, they're not actually
printed on the bag because that would cost some money.
It says all a pr scam. You go to the

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website to order them. Yeah, I bet the website has links.
It don't work. So Facebook took my site down, my
page down, and then they put the page back up.
Our company reached out to them, so they agreed to
put the page back up for iHeart, not for me.

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And when they put the page back up, they it
required so I go to log back in and when
I go to log back in, I have to click
a link to log in. Okay, well the link didn't work.
So my company reaches out to them again. So now
they made the link work, and you know days are

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going by. This is all election time, right, This all
started four or five weeks ago. No, it's October or whatever.
It's getting close to the election at this point. And
then the link works, but I have to use two
factor authentication. Well I didn't have to factor authentication, so
I couldn't get an authentication code. So that's how they

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kept me locked out. Why did I bring that up
from mom? Because the man is trying to hold us down.
I said, that's very well said. I get emails like
this all the time, and I love them. El Telsino.
My name is Sherry, and I'm married to a man
that's listened to Rush, and today I met him. Each
time I got in his truck, Rush was on, and

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I would turn it off and make a nasty comment.
Fast forward to February of twenty twenty, COVID was on
every news station. As I tried to learn about COVID,
I realized that we were not getting any truth from
mainstream media. On February third, twenty twenty, I decided that
I would turn Rush on that we were sorry, and
see if I could understand why my husband loved him,

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and if I could get a clear picture of truth
on COVID. I listened to his show, and I fell
in love with him. In fact, I couldn't wait to
tell my rush loving husband. At the end of the show,
I had more knowledge regarding COVID than I had learned
from any other media source. Then at the end of
the show, he announced his cancer diagnosis. I was shocked
and very sad. I listened to him each day until

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his death. I'm sad that I did not have years
of his insight that others do. But for the short
time I had to learn from him, I cherished every day.
So for this Texan girl, I will never forget him.
Thanks to our point earlier about people were not making
decisions until the election was over, Diana Greenwood writes Zara,

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I have my own executive leadership and team coaching practice.
In June, I was expecting to sign three clients and
another two by September. First. Of those five, only one
hired me, and that was in September. The other four
were waiting until after the election. Yesterday, I took time
to celebrate the election results. Today I reach out to

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the remaining four. I think I'll sign them all. I
want to remind you, folks, there's a lot of defeatism.
Defeatism as a mindset is a terrible impediment. It's a disability.
When they can convince you that your vote doesn't matter,

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when they can convince you that you are powerless, then
you won't even take the action. So then you will
never win anything. And so many of our people over
the years have been so depressed by being beaten down
that their way of hoping is to not even try.

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Because if you don't even try, you can't be disappointed.
You close yourself off, you can't be hurt. And if
everybody does that, then we have one party rule and
we'll never get it back. You got to get back
out on the field. Your team's in last place. You far,
You've got to get back out there. That's part of it.
It's tough. Life is tough, but we've got to be tougher.

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You've got to get your ass back up, get back
out on the field. And people did it. And to
think about it is we think of it as all
being Marcus Latrell badasses. It's a lot of little old ladies, tough,
little Martha Golden and are nine. Send me a picture
there she is beautiful as all get out. Ninety something

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years old, just a smile from ear to ear. Voting
made me so proud. Now we've got to take that
same approach with a smile, firmly, with a kind heart,
but a strong back and a strength of conviction. We've

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got to take back our schools, take back our businesses,
take back our homeowners association, take back our churches, take
back our communities. And by the way, a lot of
you not just because the election's over. You're going to
start planning any day. You won't even realize it's happened.

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It's like women have this thing where something goes off,
you know, like bears know when to go to hibernate.
Women have this thing and they go, oh, we gotta
get a tree, and it just goes all well, I'm
in the middle of the game. Put it on pause. No,
because it's the biggest game of the year. And if
we go get a tree right now, people are gonna say,

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can you believe tax is lost? Or can you believe
A and M lost? Or we can't do it? Well,
how later are the games going, Well, it's Saturday. I
get up, I lay on the couch, I watch them
all day long. Okay, we'll go tomorrow. Well I got
in and fail tomorrow. It's that that that way, So
y'all are gonna you're gonna start making purchases for end
of year. For all that, Email me and let me

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every day. Email me directly. I'm happy to connect you
directly with the owners of these businesses. People get ridy

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and have a train a comment. You don't need no baggage,
you just get off. Oh you need is faith to
hear the deed.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
This pme.

Speaker 1 (27:19):
Don't lock chicket, you just fad. So people get rid
of this the train to join.

Speaker 4 (27:39):
I'm gonna Have you ever ordered a fish called orange ruffy?
Popular Fish Discover magazine had a story that scientists in
New Zealand have determined the age of a fish called
an orange ruffy at about two hun hundred and thirty

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to two hundred and forty five years old, making it
one of the longest lived fin fish on record. The
ancient fish was caught in the late seventeen hundreds. I'm
so it was born in the late seventeen hundreds and
then caught in twenty fifteen by a New Zealand commercial

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fishing boat on the Louisville Ridge, a chain of seamounts
in the South Pacific around nine hundred thirty miles east
of the mainland.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
The spiny scarlet creature was hauled in by a troll
I say troll. He's supposed to say troll net from
its deep dark home more than three thousand feet below
the surface. But before it was sold in eaten, New
Zealand government observers on board the ship extracted samples from
inside the creature's head to determine its age. Orange roughy

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was known as slimehead before a marketing makeover in the seventies.
They're mainly caught off the coast of New Zealand and
Australia and then sold abroad, mostly to the United States.
Whole Foods, Trader Joe's and some other retailers refused to

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stalk the species, citing sustainability concerns and the environmental impacts
of bottom trolley. Well, I always love when people will
say you talk about catfish. Catfish is a bottom feeder. Yeah,
catfish good, that's pulp fiction. Pork's good. Pork chop good. Oh,

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I get that. Every time some yankee that's moved down
here to my state goes and gets himself a pair
of boots and I'm ticks, he tells people. I mean,
I mean, you got me some boots. I'm kicks. You
don't eat catfish, You're not Texan. I'll make your list
of ten things, and if you can't say all ten
of them, you can get out for us. I'm concerned,

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or at least stop bragging back home, acting like you're
riding a horse and taking it to the hitching post,
going in and having a drink in the saloon. Well,
Louis Lamore writes stories about your lifestyle, and you don't
eat catfish because it's a bottom feeder. Good grief. I'm

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looking at this list of Linda. I like what Linda
has to say. Linda, you're on the Michael Berry Show. Sweetheart,
you're eighty five years old, Is that right? Yes, sir,
well you are? You are up. You being eighty five
moved you to the front of the line.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
Oh well, thank you very much. I'm an arian.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
That's a registered nurse. Ramon, Linda. Linda died on us
right there on the line. God should have gone to
her earlier. You're right, is that her? Okay, Linda, Hello,
what happened?

Speaker 3 (31:16):
I don't know. I really don't know. But the reason
I wanted to talk to you at first. I've been
working two jobs up to this age. But I'm also
very glad to be here this age and see this
a lecture like it was. It happened like it was.
It's just wonderful. I had so many people tell me, well,

(31:38):
I'm not going to vote because they're just gonna cheat again,
or if they heard well he's ahead already, they go,
I'm not going to vote. He's already ahead. And I
tried to encourage them, and I'm so glad so many
people voted. It's just wonderful. Are you there.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
I'm listening, sweetheart, I'm you. You moved me with your
especially when you said I'm glad you can't even be here.
Of course, you work in two jobs at eighty five?
Has my attention?

Speaker 3 (32:10):
Well? I hoped it would, but you know, everybody asked quiet.
But you know, you really lose your mind if you
retire and just lay on the couch and watch TV.
And so I'm a widow and I have no children
at home, so I can do pretty much which I want.
What I want. So I'm working to dogs.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
What are the jobs and.

Speaker 3 (32:33):
It's home health. Do you enjoy that and that that
is one of the that. Oh yes, because you can
go with the patient's houses and talk to them. And
I used to be younger than them and they would
talk about when they were young and I just loved
it because I love history anyway. But now I'm older
than they are, are the same old age, you know,

(32:56):
and we have a lot in Colin so we can talk,
you know, if we want to a lot. However, Linda,
are going out of.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
A very sortry style of speaking. Oh really, yeah, it's
it's hot.

Speaker 3 (33:12):
Originally from Edna. That's the school. Yes, I was born
in Arkansas.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
Carol Jan's from Edmund Who Carol Jane, she'd be younger
than you. I don't think you'd knowing. Yeah, you have
a very soler style of talking. There's a wonderful documentary
on Netflix right now. Do you have Netflix, Linda, Yes,
I do, Okay, it's called Martha. It's about Martha Stewart Martha,

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and Martha has a way about her. She's a very
tough woman, very stern and they kind of go through it.
But she has a way about her and I don't
know how much of it is contrived and how much
of it was learned and how much of it is natural.
But she has a way. She has a charm that
she turns on when she talks. And it's very sexy.

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But it's not sexy in a college girl you know,
girls gone wild, you know twerking sexy. It's sexy in
a in a very feminine charm sort of way. Do
you know what I'm talking about? Did we lose Linda again?
We got to get her better than a cricket phone.

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This is not one was working two jobs. What are
you thinking if you're you're at home and you're seventy
eight and this home healthcare nurse come walking in and
she's eighty five? Linda, what is happening on this phone?

Speaker 3 (34:37):
I don't know. On my phone is very old and
I need a new one, but I can't afford it,
so it acts crazy a lot. Where do you live anyway?
I live in Hardening, Cricketure.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
In Yeah, I know where Harden is. I grew up Orange. Linda.
You're lucky, I'm you because you are. I will stop
you up in a second.

Speaker 3 (35:04):
In a second, I would said, well, thank you. I
would like to have you too.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
Well.

Speaker 3 (35:09):
Oh my goodness, I love listening to you.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
I love listening to you. I think you are just
a hoot. There'd be no bad days for Linda. I
can guarantee you that get her number. Hold on just
a second. I know I don't mean like that you're weirdo,
but I would