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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Till Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
What will we do with this moment? How will we
be remembered? Look at the opportunities before us.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
We need to remember above and beyond that we must
love our neighbors, That we must.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Treat other people as we hope to be treated.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
The people dreamed this country, and it's the people who
are making America great again now at all.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
Together, they crossed the oceans, settled the continent, tame the wilderness,
laid down the railroads, raised up those mighty skyscrapers, built
the highways, one two world wars, defeated fascism and communism,
and launched American astronauts to the moon. It was hardworking
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patriots like you who built this country. And now it's
hardworking patriots like you who are going to save our country.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Do you tomorrow?
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Now, we.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
Are one people, one family, and one glorious nation under God.
We will never give in, We will never give up,
we will never ever back down, and we will never
ever ever ever surrender.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
Together, we will fight, fight, fight, and we.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Will win win win.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
We're gonna win, win, win.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
So tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
It is election days, promise we will put America first,
and we will take back the nation that we all.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Love right here, right now, right now. The only thing missing,
Dom and Dave. Early voting in Texas will give you
some Texas numbers. Over nine million ballots have been cast.
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That's nearly half of the state's registered voters, voters with
a history of Republican primary participation. We can't know how
someone voted, but we can know when we see voter
John Smith has voted, we can see that he voted,
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and we can cross tabulate, cross reference and know that
he's voted in one, two, three, five, ten Republican primaries.
The more Republican primaries he has voted in in the
past and never having voted in a Democrat primary, the
more that we call him a one R means he's
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voted in one Republican primary, two R, three R. Three
rs are kind of shorthand for what we would call
him radio A P one. In the old days, when
you would push the button on your radio and it
would move the dial up and down, you'd have your
top three and then there were five. You'd push it
to your P one. That that button was called a
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P one. That was your favorite station. So when Ramon
will be out at an event and he'll say, that
guy over there's a p one. He's been to three
of our events. That means we're their favorite show. A
three R is a three time Republican primary voter. If
that guy showed up to vote, we can pretty much
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presume he voted for Trump and Cruise. There will be
some Bush, Romney, McCain Republicans who have been reliable Republican
voters who will vote for Kamala because they're butt hurt
because they're going to lose their contract and you know,
we won't be in war, which is what they want.
There will be that. But and there by the way,
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there will also be some Democrats who will vote Republican
see Tulsey Gabbard, Nicole Shanahan, RFK. I mean, by golly,
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Not just voting Republican, but campaigning
Republican voters with a history of Republican primary participation led
in turnout so far, with each passing day, that difference
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between Republicans and Democrats who shown up so far widened.
Now I'll get a hundred emails by the time I
go to bre Michael, don't tell them that, because then
people won't vote. Please lose my number. That's not how
it works. People will show up to vote when they
believe we're going to win. Democrats will stay home when
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I say that. High turnout areas were primarily concentrated in
Republican held congressional and legislative districts, reflecting a pattern scene
in previous election cycles. The data suggests strong Republican engagement
in early voting, with trends looking more like twenty sixteen
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than the Democrat surge of twenty twenty. Forty eight point
six of all registered voters in Texas voted early. When
you take out twenty twenty, which had the highest that's
more votes that have been cast in any presidential election
in Texas history. Voters with previous Republican primary history versus
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those with previous day Democrat primary history, Republicans led by
eight hundred sixty six thousand votes. If everybody held true,
Democrats would have to have an eight hundred sixty six
thousand vote majority on the people who vote today, which
is still possible. But if we all show up to vote,
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they can't even cheat themselves to that. This looks much
more like twenty sixteen when we won than twenty twenty
when we struggled. Of the early votes cast in Texas,
fifty three percent were women, forty four percent were men.
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In twenty twenty, or perspective, women's share of the vote
was fifty two So women increased by one percent. It
was expected that they would increase by much more than
that because as commal as people have just been hammering abortion, abortion, abortion, abortion, abortion.
Now only a stupid woman would show up and vote
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on the one issue of abortion, especially because it's not well,
I'm not gonna waste so much time. Voters under thirty
in twenty twenty they were fifteen percent. This year that
went down to thirteen percent. Voters seventy plus in twenty
twenty was seventeen percent. This year is nineteen percent. More
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old people voted, fewer young people voted. One point eight
million voters aged seventy plus participated in early voting, which
is up from one point six million in twenty twenty.
Those are our vote.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
The immigrant is not a criminal.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
To Michael, Arry Joe, do you have to correct course
in this conversation?
Speaker 6 (09:08):
And this is the greatest political movement by far in
the history of our countries. Tried to stop it, but
that brush with death did not stop us. It only
made us more determined to finish the job that we
had only just started.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
This is my take my life. I've still got a
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lot of blast in me.
Speaker 7 (09:59):
Many people say that God saved me in order to
save America. Many many people saying, and with your help,
we will fulfill that extraordinary mission.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Together, we're gonna fulfill it. We're gonna save our country.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
This is my life song, take back my life.
Speaker 8 (10:24):
See, Well, what Tusa? I always say, I don't give
her enough compliments, I don't give her enough critic I
don't tell her this and that. But what Tusa, I
would like to pay you one extremely truthful comment. Well
that's a nice change. Yes, So you are exactly more
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competent being an ad liver cord than Kamakola Harris have
ever been able to do. And you don't even have
no teleprompter.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
What dare you?
Speaker 8 (10:56):
I don't know, I really don't, but uh, you come
across as there's a whole hell of all. I'm most
smarter than that in the asthe I really appreciate you
telling me that. Girl. I'm gonna go in there and
sit on the floor and eat me some i'mon Joyce.
You do you girl, That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 9 (11:17):
Ohone?
Speaker 8 (11:18):
Hell well, see net Let's go back to the Mica
bed program.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
How you dr last detail on Texas and I'll get
to your calls. Top five largest counties in Texas accounted
for forty percent of all early votes in twenty twenty.
That was forty three percent the large counties tend to
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lean Democrat. In twenty twenty. Across the large counties, Biden
held fifty nine percent of those votes. Hillary in twenty
sixteen had fifty five percent of those vote votes. Biden
held nearly a one million vote lead in the top
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five counties over Donald Trump in twenty twenty. So let's take,
for instance, Harris County. You're going to have your inner
city vote that's going to go pretty heavily Democrat in
the past, and that's where all your cheating is going
to occur. But you're still going to have your Cadis.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
And your.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Kingwoods and your Clear Lakes and the like. Those big
counties obviously are Harris, Tarrant, Travis Bear, and I don't
know who would be fifth. I don't know if it's
Dallas County or not. I always think of Dallas being
in Dallas County, but obviously it's Tarrant County, and Tarrant
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County tends to do well as a county. The city
does not, but the county does. Voters with Hispanics names
accounted for eighteen percent of early votes, which is less
than in twenty twenty when it was nineteen percent, and
exactly the same as twenty sixteen when it was eighteen percent.
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But you can't know that much about Hispanic last names.
The way in the past blacks were reliably Democrat, that
will be less so this time as a higher percentage
of blacks. We're not talking about half. We're not even
talking about a third, although that would be amazing, but
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we're talking about enough to make a difference. I don't
want to jinx it. We're talking about enough to make
a difference. And a lot of blacks are staying home,
and I think that is their protest vote. I'm hearing that,
I'm seeing that. It's consistent with the data. A lot
of blacks are staying home because they don't abide Kamala Harris.
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They don't want to enable her and they don't believe
that Trump is so bad. After all, it's a second
step to vote for Trump. The first step is I'm
not voting for that bitch. I don't like her, I
don't like what Biden has done. I feel insulted, and
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I'm tired of these illegals coming in here because it's
hitting us hard. Truth is, inner city residents are hit
harder by illegal immigration than rural residents. Now, the Democrats
want to chase you down. They want to dump a
bunch of Haitians to eat your cats and dogs in Springfelle, Ohio,
or Belleville or bas Drop, Brenham, Burton. That's what they
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want to do, and if they have their way, they will.
But for now, that's where we are. Rural voters will
save the day in Texas, and sixty percent of voters
are outside the top five counties, and that's where we
pick it up. That's East Texas, that's West Texas, that's
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Central Texas. You drive those highways and you see what
people have on their fence out front, and how proud
they are to tell you who they're voting for. You
could be lulled into believing, oh, well, then everybody's for
Trump because all the signs are for Trump. Democrats don't
put signs. They live in apartments, they live in the
inner city, they live like in ant hills. They don't
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put signs out front. People that put signs out front
are the people that you wish were all the people voting.
But it's hard to get a density of those people.
Let's go to Maria. Maria, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Go ahead, sweetheart.
Speaker 9 (15:44):
Hi, good morning, Michael Berry. How are you today.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I'm good?
Speaker 9 (15:48):
Okay, So, first of all, I am a Hispanic. I
was raised here in Houston, Texas. My parents moved here
when I was two years old from that US.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
You sound just cute.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
As I.
Speaker 9 (16:04):
Thank you. That's sweet. That's besides Trump winning, He's going
to win. You've made my day. So the other thing
is I have two kids. One's an adult. One's fixing
to be an adult in February, so he's not able
to vote. But I've been on my daughter letting her
know you need, you need to really focus and vote
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for Trump because if you don't look at the what
could happen what we've been dealing.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
With for the last four years.
Speaker 9 (16:32):
So she's in Connecticut and she never received her ballot.
She ordered it, never received it. So she's trying to
vote today and I don't know if she's able to
do that. But it's sad.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
But it is sad, and we're going to hear a
lot of those stories. But we just have to stay
positive and get every vote in that we possibly can.
We're going to hear a lot of these. They're going
to keep coming in. I'm assuring you. Let's go ten ten.
You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Go ahead, hey, ten ten here, Thank you, Michael. This
is a great day to be alive. That was a
quote from my old football and baseball coach in high
school Graduatessul, who was I wanted to point out that
my father, Harry tray Big, he was probably one of
the most significant people in my entire life. After I
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lost my father in high school, he became an immediate
Where did you go to high school? I went. I
went to high school in Galison. It was O'Connell High School.
It was a private Catholic school. It was probably the.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Well did you come over in seventy six?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Yes, sir, that was me. I've called and talked to
you a couple of times.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
You No, No, I just most of the boat people
came over in seventy six, so I just assumed you
were probably part of that. And what year did your
dad pass?
Speaker 4 (17:57):
He passed in nineteen ninety one, month before my high
school graduation.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Oh man, what did he do?
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Yeah? It was I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
What did he do for a living?
Speaker 4 (18:10):
What was?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (18:12):
He was a longshoreman. He worked on the docks in
gallop and pull on a second ten.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Now they have pledged to carry out the largest deportation,
a mass deportation. With you imagine what that would look
like us?
Speaker 7 (18:32):
You trust.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
I'm here tonight to ladd a vision for the whole
nation to every citizen, whether you're a young or old,
man or woman, Democrat, Republican or independent, Black or white,
Asian or Hispanic, I extend to you a hand of
loyalty and of friendship. Together, we will lead America to
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new heights of greatness like the world has never seen before.
Under our leadership, the United States will be respected again.
No nation will question our power, no enemy will doubt
our might. Our borders will be totally secure, our economy
will soar. We will return law in order to our
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streets patriotism to our schools, and importantly, we will restore peace, stability,
and harmony all throughout the world. This will be the
most important election in the history of our country. Under
the current administration, we are indeed a nation in decline.
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We have an inflation crisis that is making life unaffordable,
ravaging the end comes of working and low income families,
and crushing just simply crushing our people like never before.
They've never seen anything like it. We also have an
illegal immigration crisis, and it's taking place right now as
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we sit here in this beautiful arena.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
It's the.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
Inflation has wiped out the life savings of our citizens
and forced the middle class into a state of depression
and despair. That's what it is. It's despair and depression.
We cannot and will not let this continue. Less than
four years ago, we were a great nation, and we
will soon be a great nation again. We're going to
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be a great nation again to our citizens. Starting on
day one, we will drive down prices and make America
affordable again.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
We have to make it affordable.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
It's not affordable.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
People can't live like a Under my plan, incomes will skyrocket,
inflation will vanish completely, jobs will come roaring back, and
the middle class will prosper like never ever before. And
we're going to do it very rapidly. I will bring
back the American dream. That's what we're going to do.
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You don't even hear about the American Dreamen and there,
with great humility, I am asking you to be excited
about the future of our country. Be excited, Be excited.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I was just sent a clip from a few minutes
ago on CNN. It is a clearly low tee man
and he's very proud. He's just voted for Family Harris.
And the woman asked him, why did you vote for
Kamala Harris? And he said, I have three daughters. Women's
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rights is pretty important to them and my daughters. I'm sorry,
I'm getting a little emotional. I didn't think I was
going to do that. Their bodies, their choice kind of mentality.
You've got three daughters, young daughters. He's a pretty young guy.
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What are they six, eight and ten? And you're terribly
concerned how easy it'll be for them to get abortions,
You jackass. Why don't you teach them how people get pregnant.
Why don't we have a conversation about personal accountability. Stop
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laying down with men if you're not gonna use protection
and then waking up pregnant and running around like a
chicken with your head cut off multiple times in your lifetime,
And dare I bring up you're gonna end up with
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an STD. Good grief, that's never discussed, you nutjob. What
about your three daughters getting raped by illegal aliens? What
about the country being overrun, bankrupted by illegal aliens? Well,
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at least they'll still have the abortions. You know, people
like this, This is what's wrong. If this guy worked
for me, i'd fire him. But I'd never hire him
because I'd spot him when he walked in the door.
The lisp dead giveaway. Ten, I'm sorry, you're up. Tell
me about your dad. What was his name?
Speaker 4 (24:05):
My dad? His name was Don Meehan. He was Irish
and he married an Italian mom. I was separated from
both of my parents during the evacuation of Vietnam, and
I didn't see either one of them again until I
was almost twenty years old. But I was a five
year old when he took me in, and he was
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already in his sixties and my mom was already in
her fifties, so you know, they they were not the
conventional parent setting that would have a five year old.
They already had grown kids of their own.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
But you never know, my this guy's got a fascinating story,
and you never would have known that unless you ask
really awkward questions. Yeah, so what served agency? What organization
placed you with them?
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Well, actually I was. I was kind of a toss
back and forth between my dad's side of the family.
So my dad I had separated from my mom after
they found out that she was pregnant, and my father's
side never approved of their courtship because of the I guess,
the different classification, the different education. My dad's side of
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the family was very rich and very educated and my
mom was totally opposite. So my dad's father never approved
the relationship. My dad, in fact, his family encouraged my
mom to have me aboord it, and thank goodness that
didn't happen, you know, thanks to the love of my mother.
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It's why I'm still here today. And you know, I
don't talk about this often, but I always love to
share it when the topic comes up. So I was
kind of tossed back and forth between my dad's side
of the family between you know, his brothers and sisters.
We made our way to Texas, where I made my
way to Texas back in seventy six by way of
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France because I was over there with one of my
dad's sisters. And when we came to Texas, I stayed
in Nebraska for a few months with one of his brothers.
Then we made our way down to Galveston to where
I stayed with another one and two sisters. They already
had a bunch of kids, so they were trying to
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basically find another house for me, and she was going
to a nursing school with a friend of hers as
one of her friends. If they would be wait.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
Don't you think socialist cool?
Speaker 10 (26:47):
To win with every single facet. We're gonna win so
much you may even get tired of winning. And you'll say, please, please,
it's too much winning. We can't take it anymore. It's
too much, And I'll say, no, it isn't. We have
to keep winning. We have to win more. We're gonna
win more. We're gonna win so much.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Doing we wait, I mean, no matter what talking money
on my mind, I can't never get it up.
Speaker 10 (27:16):
And every time I fell up in the beauded.
Speaker 8 (27:19):
Everybody hand go, It's just awfully good that someone with
the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of
the law in our country.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Because you'd be in jail.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
And they stayed there and they say have and.
Speaker 11 (27:32):
They pay their w's the standard line for them. Donald
Trump is a threat to democracy. I'm just the opposite.
I'm the one that fixed our military. I'm the one
that knocked out isis. I'm the one I did so much.
I also took a bullet.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Now they just said it this just winning, baby, do
it win, We win no matter what fuck out money
on my man.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
I can never get it up.
Speaker 10 (27:55):
And every time I step up in the beauded.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Everybody had up.
Speaker 6 (28:01):
The attacker in Pennsylvania wanted to stop our movement. But
the truth is, the movement has never been about me.
It has always been about you. It's your movement. It's
the biggest movement in the history of our country by far.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
Can't be stucked.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
It can't be stucked.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
And they stay there and they say hell, and they
say down, down, down, It's all.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
I do with please, please, please, And then you go
in in any complain.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Friends of mine brought home their baby a few days ago.
They'd been trying to get pregnant for about fifteen years.
Those friends of ours, they've come to the house. They're younger,
a bit younger than we are, ten ten twelve years
younger than than us, and they know our kids very well.
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And we didn't know they were trying or had been
trying for a number of years, which can be very
stressful in a marriage. Women tend to put a lot
of pressure on themselves. They feel like they failed when
they think they may be pregnant and they haven't told
their husband yet, and then they see some spotting and
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they realize, Okay, it didn't work again, and that's just
very traumatic. You know, it can be tough. And so
you know, you do this ten twelve times a year
or so over the course of years. So one day
they asked us if they could talk to us, and
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they wanted to talk about adoption, obviously knowing our story
and that is a passion of mine. Speaking of which
you had to pick which they were doing our adoption
special this year that's usually mid November, so we advise
them when he sent them to some different people. They went,
they took all the classes and it's been a couple
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of years, they finally just broke down and said, yeah,
we got to do this, and so they did, and
the baby was born. I think the baby was born
on Monday, and they brought it home. And they brought
the baby home on Tuesday. I think that's right. Anyway,
they're just extraordinarily happy. And if you follow me on Twitter,
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they shut down my Facebook page. They won't let me
post anymore there. But I'm still on Twitter because Elon
owns it and he doesn't mind me posting a picture
of Trump's event or whatever. Anyway, there's a picture of
the little boy, and my goodness, if you want to
see the face of God, this little boy is such
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a precious miracle. It is just glorious. He's got his
eyes closed and his hand up under his chin, kind
of curled up, and Mama is holding him. You can't
see her, you can just see her beautiful hands and
it just if you want to see something glorious and
uplift your day, there it is.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Go check that out.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
Ten.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Tell me about the reunion with your parents when you
did connect with them at twenty.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Well, after many years of my father knew where I
was at the whole time. That he never bothered to
contact me. My mother had been looking for me for
probably over ten years. She had actually met some friends
that were mutual friends of my aunt on my dad's
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side in Hawaii after she left Vietnam. So that friend
put her in contact with my aunt, and my mom asked, hey,
you know, you know where my son's at. Please put
me in contact with him. And for some reason that
I cannot explain, but I hold no grudge, my aunt
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would not divulge my local and so my mom tried
for many more years, and then finally, I want to say,
I was I'm twenty years old and my aunt called
me out of the blue and she says, hey, we
found your mom. Do you want to meet her? And
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of course I said yes. I mean because I had
no recollection of my father, because I never saw him.
But I always wondered where I was always wondering where
my mom was. And so I got in contact with
my mom. She was in San Diego, she had remarried.
She had two other daughters and three other sons, which
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I'd never met before in my life, and so we arranged,
you know, for me to fly out there was shortly
after Christmas. I can't remember what year. I want to
say it was early two thousands, No, I'm sorry, or
mid nineteen ninety. So I flew out there and all
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my brothers and sisters were there, my mom with her husband, David,
you know, and I just gave my mom a hug
right away. You know, it was like we were never separated.
We instantly bonded. You know, I could see the love
in her eyes. Sorry, I'm trying to hold it together,
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but you know, it was. It was great. I mean,
I fell in love with San Diego. I love the weather.
They I think we went to disney World or Disneyland,
whatever it was over there, and you know, I spent
the time, got to know my little brothers and sisters,
and you know, I spent about a week out there.
But then I had to come back to Texas because
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my mom was still here, she was still alive. There
was a situation to where I went up to Santa
Anna where there's a big Asian community, and one of
my uncles, the one that I actually lived with Nebraska for
a few months, wanted to see me. So my mom
asked me if I wanted to go see him and
go out to dinner and of course I went, and
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because I remembered him, So I went to this dinner
and there was probably over twenty people there, nobody that
I recognized except for my uncle and his family. And
after that dinner, my mom told.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Me ten, I want to have you back to tell
your story. I'm up against her break. The show's almost over.
I would be remiss if I did not remind people,
this is it right here, right now. You've got eight
hours in Texas. The poles close at seven. Get there
before seven. Just had a woman she was getting color
done at her hairstylist, and her stylist said she was
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going to get off at six tonight and then rush
over and vote. And she said, if you'll go vote
right now, I will sit here and wait. The woman left,
her hairstylist, left, went and voted and came back, and
when she came back, everybody in the salon gave her
a standing ovation. Just had it move me to tears.
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She said, no, do not wait till six o'clock. We
don't know what will happen.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
It might be raining.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
This is it right here right now.
Speaker 6 (35:14):
Go vote.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Get someone else to go vote. Let's do this
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Till Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
What will we do with this moment? How will we
be remembered? Look at the opportunities before us.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
We need to remember above and beyond that we must
love our neighbors, That we must.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Treat other people as we hope to be treated.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
The people dreamed this country, and it's the people who
are making America great again now at all.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
Together, they crossed the oceans, settled the continent, tame the wilderness,
laid down the railroads, raised up those mighty skyscrapers, built
the highways, one two world wars, defeated fascism and communism,
and launched American astronauts to the moon. It was hardworking
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patriots like you who built this country. And now it's
hardworking patriots like you who are going to save our country.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Do you tomorrow?
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Now, we.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
Are one people, one family, and one glorious nation under God.
We will never give in, We will never give up,
we will never ever back down, and we will never
ever ever ever surrender.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
Together, we will fight, fight, fight, and we.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Will win win win.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
We're gonna win, win, win.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
So tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
It is election days, promise we will put America first,
and we will take back the nation that we all.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Love right here, right now, right now. The only thing missing,
Dom and Dave. Early voting in Texas will give you
some Texas numbers. Over nine million ballots have been cast.
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That's nearly half of the state's registered voters, voters with
a history of Republican primary participation. We can't know how
someone voted, but we can know when we see voter
John Smith has voted, we can see that he voted,
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and we can cross tabulate, cross reference and know that
he's voted in one, two, three, five, ten Republican primaries.
The more Republican primaries he has voted in in the
past and never having voted in a Democrat primary, the
more that we call him a one R means he's
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voted in one Republican primary, two R, three R. Three
rs are kind of shorthand for what we would call
him radio A P one. In the old days, when
you would push the button on your radio and it
would move the dial up and down, you'd have your
top three and then there were five. You'd push it
to your P one. That that button was called a
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P one. That was your favorite station. So when Ramon
will be out at an event and he'll say, that
guy over there's a p one. He's been to three
of our events. That means we're their favorite show. A
three R is a three time Republican primary voter. If
that guy showed up to vote, we can pretty much
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presume he voted for Trump and Cruise. There will be
some Bush, Romney, McCain Republicans who have been reliable Republican
voters who will vote for Kamala because they're butt hurt
because they're going to lose their contract and you know,
we won't be in war, which is what they want.
There will be that. But and there by the way,
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there will also be some Democrats who will vote Republican
see Tulsey Gabbard, Nicole Shanahan, RFK. I mean, by golly,
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Not just voting Republican, but campaigning
Republican voters with a history of Republican primary participation led
in turnout so far, with each passing day, that difference
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between Republicans and Democrats who shown up so far widened.
Now I'll get a hundred emails by the time I
go to bre Michael, don't tell them that, because then
people won't vote. Please lose my number. That's not how
it works. People will show up to vote when they
believe we're going to win. Democrats will stay home when
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I say that. High turnout areas were primarily concentrated in
Republican held congressional and legislative districts, reflecting a pattern scene
in previous election cycles. The data suggests strong Republican engagement
in early voting, with trends looking more like twenty sixteen
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than the Democrat surge of twenty twenty. Forty eight point
six of all registered voters in Texas voted early. When
you take out twenty twenty, which had the highest that's
more votes that have been cast in any presidential election
in Texas history. Voters with previous Republican primary history versus
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those with previous day Democrat primary history, Republicans led by
eight hundred sixty six thousand votes. If everybody held true,
Democrats would have to have an eight hundred sixty six
thousand vote majority on the people who vote today, which
is still possible. But if we all show up to vote,
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they can't even cheat themselves to that. This looks much
more like twenty sixteen when we won than twenty twenty
when we struggled. Of the early votes cast in Texas,
fifty three percent were women, forty four percent were men.
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In twenty twenty, or perspective, women's share of the vote
was fifty two So women increased by one percent. It
was expected that they would increase by much more than
that because as commal as people have just been hammering abortion, abortion, abortion, abortion, abortion.
Now only a stupid woman would show up and vote
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on the one issue of abortion, especially because it's not well,
I'm not gonna waste so much time. Voters under thirty
in twenty twenty they were fifteen percent. This year that
went down to thirteen percent. Voters seventy plus in twenty
twenty was seventeen percent. This year is nineteen percent. More
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old people voted, fewer young people voted. One point eight
million voters aged seventy plus participated in early voting, which
is up from one point six million in twenty twenty.
Those are our vote.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
The immigrant is not a criminal.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
To Michael, Arry Joe, do you have to correct course
in this conversation?
Speaker 6 (09:08):
And this is the greatest political movement by far in
the history of our countries. Tried to stop it, but
that brush with death did not stop us. It only
made us more determined to finish the job that we
had only just started.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
This is my take my life. I've still got a
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lot of blast in me.
Speaker 7 (09:59):
Many people say that God saved me in order to
save America. Many many people saying, and with your help,
we will fulfill that extraordinary mission.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Together, we're gonna fulfill it. We're gonna save our country.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
This is my life song, take back my life.
Speaker 8 (10:24):
See, Well, what Tusa? I always say, I don't give
her enough compliments, I don't give her enough critic I
don't tell her this and that. But what Tusa, I
would like to pay you one extremely truthful comment. Well
that's a nice change. Yes, So you are exactly more
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competent being an ad liver cord than Kamakola Harris have
ever been able to do. And you don't even have
no teleprompter.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
What dare you?
Speaker 8 (10:56):
I don't know, I really don't, but uh, you come
across as there's a whole hell of all. I'm most
smarter than that in the asthe I really appreciate you
telling me that. Girl. I'm gonna go in there and
sit on the floor and eat me some i'mon Joyce.
You do you girl, That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 9 (11:17):
Ohone?
Speaker 8 (11:18):
Hell well, see net Let's go back to the Mica
bed program.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
How you dr last detail on Texas and I'll get
to your calls. Top five largest counties in Texas accounted
for forty percent of all early votes in twenty twenty.
That was forty three percent the large counties tend to
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lean Democrat. In twenty twenty. Across the large counties, Biden
held fifty nine percent of those votes. Hillary in twenty
sixteen had fifty five percent of those vote votes. Biden
held nearly a one million vote lead in the top
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five counties over Donald Trump in twenty twenty. So let's take,
for instance, Harris County. You're going to have your inner
city vote that's going to go pretty heavily Democrat in
the past, and that's where all your cheating is going
to occur. But you're still going to have your Cadis.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
And your.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Kingwoods and your Clear Lakes and the like. Those big
counties obviously are Harris, Tarrant, Travis Bear, and I don't
know who would be fifth. I don't know if it's
Dallas County or not. I always think of Dallas being
in Dallas County, but obviously it's Tarrant County, and Tarrant
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County tends to do well as a county. The city
does not, but the county does. Voters with Hispanics names
accounted for eighteen percent of early votes, which is less
than in twenty twenty when it was nineteen percent, and
exactly the same as twenty sixteen when it was eighteen percent.
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But you can't know that much about Hispanic last names.
The way in the past blacks were reliably Democrat, that
will be less so this time as a higher percentage
of blacks. We're not talking about half. We're not even
talking about a third, although that would be amazing, but
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we're talking about enough to make a difference. I don't
want to jinx it. We're talking about enough to make
a difference. And a lot of blacks are staying home,
and I think that is their protest vote. I'm hearing that,
I'm seeing that. It's consistent with the data. A lot
of blacks are staying home because they don't abide Kamala Harris.
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They don't want to enable her and they don't believe
that Trump is so bad. After all, it's a second
step to vote for Trump. The first step is I'm
not voting for that bitch. I don't like her, I
don't like what Biden has done. I feel insulted, and
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I'm tired of these illegals coming in here because it's
hitting us hard. Truth is, inner city residents are hit
harder by illegal immigration than rural residents. Now, the Democrats
want to chase you down. They want to dump a
bunch of Haitians to eat your cats and dogs in Springfelle, Ohio,
or Belleville or bas Drop, Brenham, Burton. That's what they
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want to do, and if they have their way, they will.
But for now, that's where we are. Rural voters will
save the day in Texas, and sixty percent of voters
are outside the top five counties, and that's where we
pick it up. That's East Texas, that's West Texas, that's
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Central Texas. You drive those highways and you see what
people have on their fence out front, and how proud
they are to tell you who they're voting for. You
could be lulled into believing, oh, well, then everybody's for
Trump because all the signs are for Trump. Democrats don't
put signs. They live in apartments, they live in the
inner city, they live like in ant hills. They don't
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put signs out front. People that put signs out front
are the people that you wish were all the people voting.
But it's hard to get a density of those people.
Let's go to Maria. Maria, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Go ahead, sweetheart.
Speaker 9 (15:44):
Hi, good morning, Michael Berry. How are you today.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I'm good?
Speaker 9 (15:48):
Okay, So, first of all, I am a Hispanic. I
was raised here in Houston, Texas. My parents moved here
when I was two years old from that US.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
You sound just cute.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
As I.
Speaker 9 (16:04):
Thank you. That's sweet. That's besides Trump winning, He's going
to win. You've made my day. So the other thing
is I have two kids. One's an adult. One's fixing
to be an adult in February, so he's not able
to vote. But I've been on my daughter letting her
know you need, you need to really focus and vote
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for Trump because if you don't look at the what
could happen what we've been dealing.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
With for the last four years.
Speaker 9 (16:32):
So she's in Connecticut and she never received her ballot.
She ordered it, never received it. So she's trying to
vote today and I don't know if she's able to
do that. But it's sad.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
But it is sad, and we're going to hear a
lot of those stories. But we just have to stay
positive and get every vote in that we possibly can.
We're going to hear a lot of these. They're going
to keep coming in. I'm assuring you. Let's go ten ten.
You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Go ahead, hey, ten ten here, Thank you, Michael. This
is a great day to be alive. That was a
quote from my old football and baseball coach in high
school Graduatessul, who was I wanted to point out that
my father, Harry tray Big, he was probably one of
the most significant people in my entire life. After I
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lost my father in high school, he became an immediate
Where did you go to high school? I went. I
went to high school in Galison. It was O'Connell High School.
It was a private Catholic school. It was probably the.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Well did you come over in seventy six?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Yes, sir, that was me. I've called and talked to
you a couple of times.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
You No, No, I just most of the boat people
came over in seventy six, so I just assumed you
were probably part of that. And what year did your
dad pass?
Speaker 4 (17:57):
He passed in nineteen ninety one, month before my high
school graduation.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Oh man, what did he do?
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Yeah? It was I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
What did he do for a living?
Speaker 4 (18:10):
What was?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (18:12):
He was a longshoreman. He worked on the docks in
gallop and pull on a second ten.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Now they have pledged to carry out the largest deportation,
a mass deportation. With you imagine what that would look
like us?
Speaker 7 (18:32):
You trust.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
I'm here tonight to ladd a vision for the whole
nation to every citizen, whether you're a young or old,
man or woman, Democrat, Republican or independent, Black or white,
Asian or Hispanic, I extend to you a hand of
loyalty and of friendship. Together, we will lead America to
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new heights of greatness like the world has never seen before.
Under our leadership, the United States will be respected again.
No nation will question our power, no enemy will doubt
our might. Our borders will be totally secure, our economy
will soar. We will return law in order to our
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streets patriotism to our schools, and importantly, we will restore peace, stability,
and harmony all throughout the world. This will be the
most important election in the history of our country. Under
the current administration, we are indeed a nation in decline.
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We have an inflation crisis that is making life unaffordable,
ravaging the end comes of working and low income families,
and crushing just simply crushing our people like never before.
They've never seen anything like it. We also have an
illegal immigration crisis, and it's taking place right now as
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we sit here in this beautiful arena.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
It's the.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
Inflation has wiped out the life savings of our citizens
and forced the middle class into a state of depression
and despair. That's what it is. It's despair and depression.
We cannot and will not let this continue. Less than
four years ago, we were a great nation, and we
will soon be a great nation again. We're going to
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be a great nation again to our citizens. Starting on
day one, we will drive down prices and make America
affordable again.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
We have to make it affordable.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
It's not affordable.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
People can't live like a Under my plan, incomes will skyrocket,
inflation will vanish completely, jobs will come roaring back, and
the middle class will prosper like never ever before. And
we're going to do it very rapidly. I will bring
back the American dream. That's what we're going to do.
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You don't even hear about the American Dreamen and there,
with great humility, I am asking you to be excited
about the future of our country. Be excited, Be excited.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I was just sent a clip from a few minutes
ago on CNN. It is a clearly low tee man
and he's very proud. He's just voted for Family Harris.
And the woman asked him, why did you vote for
Kamala Harris? And he said, I have three daughters. Women's
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rights is pretty important to them and my daughters. I'm sorry,
I'm getting a little emotional. I didn't think I was
going to do that. Their bodies, their choice kind of mentality.
You've got three daughters, young daughters. He's a pretty young guy.
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What are they six, eight and ten? And you're terribly
concerned how easy it'll be for them to get abortions,
You jackass. Why don't you teach them how people get pregnant.
Why don't we have a conversation about personal accountability. Stop
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laying down with men if you're not gonna use protection
and then waking up pregnant and running around like a
chicken with your head cut off multiple times in your lifetime,
And dare I bring up you're gonna end up with
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an STD. Good grief, that's never discussed, you nutjob. What
about your three daughters getting raped by illegal aliens? What
about the country being overrun, bankrupted by illegal aliens? Well,
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at least they'll still have the abortions. You know, people
like this, This is what's wrong. If this guy worked
for me, i'd fire him. But I'd never hire him
because I'd spot him when he walked in the door.
The lisp dead giveaway. Ten, I'm sorry, you're up. Tell
me about your dad. What was his name?
Speaker 4 (24:05):
My dad? His name was Don Meehan. He was Irish
and he married an Italian mom. I was separated from
both of my parents during the evacuation of Vietnam, and
I didn't see either one of them again until I
was almost twenty years old. But I was a five
year old when he took me in, and he was
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already in his sixties and my mom was already in
her fifties, so you know, they they were not the
conventional parent setting that would have a five year old.
They already had grown kids of their own.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
But you never know, my this guy's got a fascinating story,
and you never would have known that unless you ask
really awkward questions. Yeah, so what served agency? What organization
placed you with them?
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Well, actually I was. I was kind of a toss
back and forth between my dad's side of the family.
So my dad I had separated from my mom after
they found out that she was pregnant, and my father's
side never approved of their courtship because of the I guess,
the different classification, the different education. My dad's side of
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the family was very rich and very educated and my
mom was totally opposite. So my dad's father never approved
the relationship. My dad, in fact, his family encouraged my
mom to have me aboord it, and thank goodness that
didn't happen, you know, thanks to the love of my mother.
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It's why I'm still here today. And you know, I
don't talk about this often, but I always love to
share it when the topic comes up. So I was
kind of tossed back and forth between my dad's side
of the family between you know, his brothers and sisters.
We made our way to Texas, where I made my
way to Texas back in seventy six by way of
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France because I was over there with one of my
dad's sisters. And when we came to Texas, I stayed
in Nebraska for a few months with one of his brothers.
Then we made our way down to Galveston to where
I stayed with another one and two sisters. They already
had a bunch of kids, so they were trying to
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basically find another house for me, and she was going
to a nursing school with a friend of hers as
one of her friends. If they would be wait.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
Don't you think socialist cool?
Speaker 10 (26:47):
To win with every single facet. We're gonna win so
much you may even get tired of winning. And you'll say, please, please,
it's too much winning. We can't take it anymore. It's
too much, And I'll say, no, it isn't. We have
to keep winning. We have to win more. We're gonna
win more. We're gonna win so much.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Doing we wait, I mean, no matter what talking money
on my mind, I can't never get it up.
Speaker 10 (27:16):
And every time I fell up in the beauded.
Speaker 8 (27:19):
Everybody hand go, It's just awfully good that someone with
the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of
the law in our country.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Because you'd be in jail.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
And they stayed there and they say have and.
Speaker 11 (27:32):
They pay their w's the standard line for them. Donald
Trump is a threat to democracy. I'm just the opposite.
I'm the one that fixed our military. I'm the one
that knocked out isis. I'm the one I did so much.
I also took a bullet.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Now they just said it this just winning, baby, do
it win, We win no matter what fuck out money
on my man.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
I can never get it up.
Speaker 10 (27:55):
And every time I step up in the beauded.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Everybody had up.
Speaker 6 (28:01):
The attacker in Pennsylvania wanted to stop our movement. But
the truth is, the movement has never been about me.
It has always been about you. It's your movement. It's
the biggest movement in the history of our country by far.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
Can't be stucked.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
It can't be stucked.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
And they stay there and they say hell, and they
say down, down, down, It's all.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
I do with please, please, please, And then you go
in in any complain.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Friends of mine brought home their baby a few days ago.
They'd been trying to get pregnant for about fifteen years.
Those friends of ours, they've come to the house. They're younger,
a bit younger than we are, ten ten twelve years
younger than than us, and they know our kids very well.
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And we didn't know they were trying or had been
trying for a number of years, which can be very
stressful in a marriage. Women tend to put a lot
of pressure on themselves. They feel like they failed when
they think they may be pregnant and they haven't told
their husband yet, and then they see some spotting and
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they realize, Okay, it didn't work again, and that's just
very traumatic. You know, it can be tough. And so
you know, you do this ten twelve times a year
or so over the course of years. So one day
they asked us if they could talk to us, and
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they wanted to talk about adoption, obviously knowing our story
and that is a passion of mine. Speaking of which
you had to pick which they were doing our adoption
special this year that's usually mid November, so we advise
them when he sent them to some different people. They went,
they took all the classes and it's been a couple
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of years, they finally just broke down and said, yeah,
we got to do this, and so they did, and
the baby was born. I think the baby was born
on Monday, and they brought it home. And they brought
the baby home on Tuesday. I think that's right. Anyway,
they're just extraordinarily happy. And if you follow me on Twitter,
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they shut down my Facebook page. They won't let me
post anymore there. But I'm still on Twitter because Elon
owns it and he doesn't mind me posting a picture
of Trump's event or whatever. Anyway, there's a picture of
the little boy, and my goodness, if you want to
see the face of God, this little boy is such
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a precious miracle. It is just glorious. He's got his
eyes closed and his hand up under his chin, kind
of curled up, and Mama is holding him. You can't
see her, you can just see her beautiful hands and
it just if you want to see something glorious and
uplift your day, there it is.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Go check that out.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
Ten.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Tell me about the reunion with your parents when you
did connect with them at twenty.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Well, after many years of my father knew where I
was at the whole time. That he never bothered to
contact me. My mother had been looking for me for
probably over ten years. She had actually met some friends
that were mutual friends of my aunt on my dad's
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side in Hawaii after she left Vietnam. So that friend
put her in contact with my aunt, and my mom asked, hey,
you know, you know where my son's at. Please put
me in contact with him. And for some reason that
I cannot explain, but I hold no grudge, my aunt
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would not divulge my local and so my mom tried
for many more years, and then finally, I want to say,
I was I'm twenty years old and my aunt called
me out of the blue and she says, hey, we
found your mom. Do you want to meet her? And
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of course I said yes. I mean because I had
no recollection of my father, because I never saw him.
But I always wondered where I was always wondering where
my mom was. And so I got in contact with
my mom. She was in San Diego, she had remarried.
She had two other daughters and three other sons, which
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I'd never met before in my life, and so we arranged,
you know, for me to fly out there was shortly
after Christmas. I can't remember what year. I want to
say it was early two thousands, No, I'm sorry, or
mid nineteen ninety. So I flew out there and all
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my brothers and sisters were there, my mom with her husband, David,
you know, and I just gave my mom a hug
right away. You know, it was like we were never separated.
We instantly bonded. You know, I could see the love
in her eyes. Sorry, I'm trying to hold it together,
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but you know, it was. It was great. I mean,
I fell in love with San Diego. I love the weather.
They I think we went to disney World or Disneyland,
whatever it was over there, and you know, I spent
the time, got to know my little brothers and sisters,
and you know, I spent about a week out there.
But then I had to come back to Texas because
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my mom was still here, she was still alive. There
was a situation to where I went up to Santa
Anna where there's a big Asian community, and one of
my uncles, the one that I actually lived with Nebraska for
a few months, wanted to see me. So my mom
asked me if I wanted to go see him and
go out to dinner and of course I went, and
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because I remembered him, So I went to this dinner
and there was probably over twenty people there, nobody that
I recognized except for my uncle and his family. And
after that dinner, my mom told.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Me ten, I want to have you back to tell
your story. I'm up against her break. The show's almost over.
I would be remiss if I did not remind people,
this is it right here, right now. You've got eight
hours in Texas. The poles close at seven. Get there
before seven. Just had a woman she was getting color
done at her hairstylist, and her stylist said she was
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going to get off at six tonight and then rush
over and vote. And she said, if you'll go vote
right now, I will sit here and wait. The woman left,
her hairstylist, left, went and voted and came back, and
when she came back, everybody in the salon gave her
a standing ovation. Just had it move me to tears.
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She said, no, do not wait till six o'clock. We
don't know what will happen.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
It might be raining.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
This is it right here right now.
Speaker 6 (35:14):
Go vote.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Get someone else to go vote. Let's do this
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