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Speaker 1 (00:00):
A friend was kind enough to send me the the
commercial that George P. Bush ran that was the the
Zoom Zoom I call it the Zoom Zoom ad. And
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it's the one where he's on the four wheeler. And
I think to myself, as much ridicule as we made
of that awful ad, seemingly reasonable people had to go
into a room to test that ad. All right, guys,
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here's the final creative on this. What do y'all think?
And reasonable people had to say, that's the one, yep,
the four wheeler riding across the ridge. That that's the
one that says he'll be a great attorney general. Wait
a second, what I say?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
All Right, y'all asked us.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
To review this thing ten times before we got here
and make our notes. I have a note. I guess
I'm only one. He's not wearing sunglasses. Were he to
wear sunglasses while writing on the four wheeler on the ridge,
that would make the spot. Okay, guys, but do you
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know what, He's not wrong. He's not wrong. I don't
want to go back into the field and shoot this thing.
But if you guys are determined, I agree, And look,
if we're gonna have to go back in the field
and shoot this shot. I understand, you got it. You
know you got drones, you got all that, And we're
adding to the production cost and we really want to
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put that money into airing the spot instead of making
the spot. But if we're going to do that, I
think we need to go to a way sternware store
and get him some off the rack, really really crisp,
brand new, like you just came from Japan and it's
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your first rodeo. Look, you know, like when your host
company you've come to visit and we're gonna take you
to rodeo. Oh and then they put you in the
really really brand new jeans and button up shirt and
boots that have never been worn and everybody can tell
you just came out of the dressing room and you're
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at your first rodeo.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yes, here, here is.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Some corn on a stick, and here is a funnel cake.
Be careful, the confectioner sugar will get all over you. Now,
hop on the four wheeler. We got the sun all right,
we got sunglasses, we got the attire, yet all of it. Okay,
we got three Okay, no shadows. Make sure no shadows
from the drones. When he's riding all right, get after it, GP,
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get on it.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Woom boom, boom boom.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
There were people who thought that was a good idea.
There were people who thought that And I bring that
up because the consultant who thought that was a good idea,
Chris Laslovita, who worked for Trump, is the consultant for
Aaron Wright's, and so I have passed a message through
mutual friends. Watch that ad because I don't know Aaron Wrights.
(03:23):
Watch that ad and ask yourself if this is really
the guy you want run in the campaign. Wes, you're
on the Michael Berry Show, Go ahead. I truly believe
that the Michael Berry audience would rather listen to the
King and Dean host the show on days Michael is
traveling than reruns of Ted NuGen.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Interviews only when you're traveling.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Okay, give me a shot, give me a shot.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah, I'm you know, if Ramone wanted to host the show,
Ramon would host the show on the issue of a
rerun let me, I'm glad you brought that up. This
is a good conversation. I'm not going to criticize anybody
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else in radio, but if you were to look at
the number of days that people who do what I do,
and none of them do five hours a day.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
But if you were to look at the number of
people who.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Do what I do and the number of vacation days
they take, that means days they are not on the air,
you would find it is far.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
In excess of what we do. But that's okay.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I don't really need to account to anyone for when
I'm behind the mic and when I'm not. Many times
things come up at the very last moment. I've had
two elderly parents in and out of the hospital at
the last minute over the last few years. So we've
got a couple of things that we call evergreen that
should I be called to the hospital at the last minute,
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they air. And my response to that is this, it's
a free radio program. You are welcome to turn the
dial if there's something you don't like. Michael, you do
too much of this, You talk too much politics, You
don't talk politics enough.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
You do it.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Everyone feels that the customer is always right. That is
the worst approach you can possibly have. But rest assured,
since this comes up. If Ramone wanted to host the show,
Ramone would host the show. Do the math, He doesn't.
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I would love to come and look over your shoulder
and tell you the ten things you would most like
to improve. But you know, I learned a long time ago.
The first couple of years we were in radio, nobody
cared to pick at the show and tell me I
love the show, I wish it was one more hour.
I love the show. And I realized you reach a
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certain point that people are so connected with the show
that they feel the need to say ninety nine percent
of the show is awesome. The only thing that would
be better is if you did this one extra thing.
And it took me a long time to understand that
is the ultimate compliment, because when you make the mistake
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of taking feedback from that broad an audience that often
it feels like it becomes a little exhausting that every
person out there who has an opinion as to how
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you can do things better, we'll offer it.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
You don't offer the.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Worst restaurant in the world advice on how you When
I'm with Russell Lebarro, people will say, man, I love Ringos.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Text makes I love it.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
You know what I wish you would do is, wait
a minute, why can't you just love it?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Does it ever?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
End does the Is your life so perfect you've solved
everything in your own life? My apologies that.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Is that is a sore spot. It pissed.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
If you want to be blocked, if you want me
to hate you, make a suggestion like that. You didn't
know who Ramone was until he and I teamed up
and I told the whole world how great he was.
Now I have people going, you don't know how great
Ramone is?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Do you?
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Do you?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yeah? So that's out of my list. I'm fifty four
years old, and there comes a point in your life
where you just need to cut ties with everybody and
start over. This is what one of my quote unquote
friends just texted me ramon radio. It's time let it go.
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You had a good run. It's time. That's Jimmy Pappas,
I said, you proud of that.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
They make you.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
See, that's not a friend, Jim, that's not a person
who's a friend that. It's not funny. It's not funny,
it's it's ass behavior. I can't say both of those
words for some reason. I can't say both of those words.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
And the same.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
But the initials are ah, just what it is. See,
that's not what I need in my life right now,
I need to just start over with a whole new
group of friends. All right, do you have the sounder
for the I truly believe segment.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
And all the Michael are.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
So remember the rules. No blue tooth, no speakerphone. If
you're on it, we're cutting you off that second. Don't
think you can turn to it. We get it's awful radio,
and nobody wants to hear that. Nobody wants to hear that. Tim,
you're on the Michael Berry Show. What do you truly believe?
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Just, sir, I truly believe that the Democratic Party, because
of their demonic behavior and decisions, I truly believe they've
been infiltrated by the nephelum and hybrids. Just look at
the behavior of Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi, and our.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Own Sorry well it was going too long anyway, but
short and punchy. Great voice by the way, jack Wagon.
What do you truly believe?
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Michael?
Speaker 7 (09:57):
I truly believe that after lentless research and tireless experimentation,
I have concluded that underwear can be worn four times,
although I only recommend twice.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I concur when when I'm camping or or stuff doesn't
show or whatever I've done four days. I mean it
depends on the conditions. I mean, you do what you
got to do.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I wonder what folks did before underwear if you think
about it, Ed, what do you truly believe?
Speaker 8 (10:35):
I've truly believed that if you played the day that
you let producer Kenny on the show, oh boy, wouldn't
have said something about Ramona on the show. But you
should play that for us for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Producer Kenny is next door from nine fifty every afternoon
and mornings while well, he's hilarious. Yeah, and he's a
dear friend of mine, and.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I suggest that you'd probably be better.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Suited listening to him. Yeah, I can already tell a
dear friend of mine, But how about you go listen
to his show when it airs instead of Yeah, that'll
worked too, Josh the Landscaper, you're up?
Speaker 2 (11:17):
What do you truly believe?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I truly believe, Michael Berry, that I need to go
on here and step up and be your feelings so
these people can stop telling you who you need to
put on your show, because I love your replace. Sometimes
I missaying and when.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
I replayed, I say ooh, I got it.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
One thing, Michael, it takes a lot to feel your shoes,
and you build that reputation over the years when you
first jumped on. Okay, but you got history in miles.
Now it's gonna take a big, big person to feel
those shoes, to feel in for you. And I think
I need to go on here and stop playing.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
And you're ready, You're ready, Just all right, brother.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
All right, you're first in line.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
The funny thing is.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
When Rush would have feelings, I would always be so
bummed out. I thought Mark Stein hated his accent. Rush
never had villains that could replace him. It was almost
never a radio person. Mark Davis and Mark Belling were
the only ones. It was mostly people who were not
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radio people, and I think he thought that made the
show more interesting. I made a decision pretty early on
that our listeners come to hear our content. It's not
that it's the best, it's the best. You want to
hear any other show. You can hear any other show.
Our listeners came to our show for what we do,
and so I decided that even if for whatever reason
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I had to be out, we weren't going to have
a guest host because I never liked a guest host.
I don't tune into a radio show to hear Rush
Limbaugh or some other dude. I would have rather if
Rush wasn't there, play one of Rush's best shows. Play him.
I'm laying out the thirty five rules, immutable rules.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I'd rather hear that I would. That's just me.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
If someone wouldn't, that's fine. It's a whole lot easier
to put a guest host on. I never believed that
was the best approach, and that is my heartfelt opinion.
I have felt that for many years, many many times.
If we're going to be out Thanksgiving or Christmas, we
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pre record a number of segments so it's still our
content during our show, rather than the very easy approach,
which is to have a list of people dying to
fill in and call them. And that's what people are
used to. And sometimes when people are used to something,
even if it's not what they would prefer, it's what
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they will request because they've grown used to it. But
in any case, yeah, that's the last I'm going to
say to that, because there is a certain kind of
personality that makes that statement, and that kind of personality
is somebody I know I hate in person, and so
maybe that's the.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Trigger of all of that.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
But in any case, if you like the show, listen,
if you don't turn it off, I mean, what a
waste of my time for you to keep bringing it up. Honestly,
you've hit a nerve. Yes, if that makes you happy, great,
but what yeah, John, you're up, Go ahead, Czar.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
I truly believe that there are two kinds of fish
in this world, fried catfish and everything else.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
What I don't understand is why do people look down
on fried catfish. I would never understand that, have they
not had it.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
You probably you'll probably never understand why people call it
and tell you how to do your show either. Brother,
don't even try?
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Well, well, said brother, Well said I it's all day,
every day.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
The beauty is.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
So I had Outlook email for years, and then I
switched over to a Gmail platform, and now that's the
Michael Berry Show emails and unlike Outlook, which you got
to refilter them, and all.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
That all you have to do is hit block. So
there are people who.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Say, hey, I've been emailing you and you don't respond,
and I'll say, well, I've probably blocked you. Oh well,
that one time. I said, yeah, just don't do that.
I don't come up and knock on your door and go, hey,
your wife is hideous, and your kids a little punk,
and your your grass is too high, And a year
later goes, how come we're not talking anymore.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Because I don't need to hear it.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
I choose not to hear it.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Talk Radio The Michael Barry Show. I just got.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
A message from my wife. And she normally doesn't communicate
with me while I'm on the air because it's a distraction.
And she said, I just spoke to dad. He sounds great.
He be dialed me. My wife doesn't curse, and I
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guess for her to use the word but with me
would be awkward. She said, he had be dialed me.
His sugar is at a nice two point fifty. He
thinks it's too high, but I told him that's exactly
where you want it. My wife laughs, because no matter
what anybody says to my dad, his answer is, well,
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that's how Michael wants it. That's how Michael wants it.
That's how we're going to do it. Because in his mind,
I know more than the doctors, the caretakers, anybody. Michael
knows everything, which, as it turns out, I tend to
agree with. But in any case, I have, like a
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it's not truly believe we'll get back to your calls
in just a second. I have, like a lot of you,
struggled with processing what has happened in Kerrville. And the
truth is, if we're completely honest, it's not so different
than what happened in Carolinas. It's not so different than
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the tornadoes who come through the fertilizer explosion in West Texas.
The number of people really shouldn't matter. It's the devastation,
it's the senselessness, it's the immediacy, it is the tragedy
of it, and the scale and scope of it really
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shouldn't matter whether is it one hundred dead or one
hundred and twenty or fifty or thirty.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Or one hundred.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
It's awful, and no single family suffers the loss of
one hundred and twenty people. You suffer the loss of
your little Chloe childress. You suffer the loss of your
little baby girl or baby boy. And so I've really
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struggled with kind of where to put that in the
response to it and all the things that go with that.
And one of the things that I've struggled with is
we have a lot of listeners who are engineers and
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inventor types and tinkerers and hand radio people, and the
kind of people who may or may not have a
college degree, and may or may not have a college
degree in this subject, but many didn't go to college,
went straight in the military and went straight to work.
But in terms of technical proficiency, hand them a piece
of equipment from nineteen forty eight, and hand your average
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engineering student comes out of college today, even A and
M or Purdue or wherever else, and I'll give it
to the guy that, like my dad, was a maintenance
worker that had to learn based on.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Tinkering.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
And one of the things I've noticed is how many
suggestions I have received from listeners as to, hey, we
can build an alarm system in a situation like this,
We can build an alarm system using solar power or
using a float system, or using this, or using this,
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or using this. And I kind of struggled to where
to put that, because the easy answer is just disregard
the statement. And then it kind of all made sense
because I realized it's sort of the old you know,
a lot of guys will tell me that their wife
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will will explain a problem they're having. You know, their
wife's best friend is dating a bad guy and she
don't want him dating and or their wife's best friend
is upset with this is and so the answer is, oh,
I got this, I'll fix this. And we are different.
Men and women are different. It's not just on the
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sporting field or body density or masks or strength or
any number of Adam's apples or wieners or whatever else.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
We are different.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
And so it's kind of the age old conundrum of
a woman wants to talk about it and the husband wants.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
To solve it.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
We don't want to talk about it. Oh, the next
door neighbor is playing the music too loud, and you're
sure that she knows she's playing the music too loud
During the day. When I'm gone, I'll go deal it.
No no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
The school told our kid that he can't wear a
cross to school because it might upset people, and that
has you upset. I'll go to the school, I'll tear
the whole damn place down, and I'll come home and
our kid will wear a cross and you won't have
to fret a men. No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I don't want you to fix it. I want a vent.
I want to talk it.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
I want to We're all different, and not every woman
is that way and not every man is that way.
But I came to realize that, particularly because of the
grief involved in all of this, the sense of helplessness
involved in I saw a story of two guys I
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think they were they were military men. They were they
weren't special forces, but they were pretty advanced in their
military career. And they looked like JJ Watt and TJ Watt.
We have big boys, big strong, fulking and that they're
hugging their parents perished in the Curveville flood. And I'm
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thinking to myself, those guys have to be thinking, if
we had been here, we could have put one on
mom on your back and dad on mine, and we
could have run to safety. The sense of helplessness that
you weren't there, That sense of helplessness that a cop
has when his wife is a victim of crime, when
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he thinks, if I had been there.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I could have protected her.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Or a doctor when their child needs a medical care
and doesn't get it because they're in an accident and
they perish. If I had been there, I could have
staunched the bleeding. I could have saved my child's life.
That it makes you crazy, absolutely crazy. But I realized
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that for all of the talk that people have the
frustrate what has dismissed as conspiracy theory, were the clouds seated?
How much silver eye down and they put in there,
how much rain is typical and how much rain was
a result of the seating.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Was there a tornado or was there a flood system?
Did it work?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
If not, why when did it come out? For everyone
who is angry at those questions being asked, and when
those questions are being asked. My wife taught me early
on that when my kids were being a brat, which
was rare, but what happened there were two reasons. They
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were hungry or they were sleepy and off from both,
and I'd say, I'm going to turn around and I'm
gonna let him have it. I'm going to berate him
to the point that she'd say, can we just eat
something first and then you can do whatever you want,
And amazingly, you.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Eat and you got your child back.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
It was like a Chia Pett just grew back into
being your child again when you understand, because I know
there's a lot of criticism of people who want answers
to what has happened in Curville. And maybe they're asking
too fast. Okay, I got it, because they don't have
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three funerals to.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Go to before they ask.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
But I think that comes from a good place of
people wanting to never have this happen again, and and
that is a commendable trick. Michael Berry, it isn't you believe?
Seven one three nine one thousand, seven one three nine
one thousand.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
We start with.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
All are truly.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
James? What do you truly believe?
Speaker 8 (24:39):
Sir?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Sir?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
I truly believe that Donald Trump's statement about move on
was a pardon to somebody there or maybe several people there,
that he's protected. Just my thoughts. I love Donald Trump
and all he's done, but there's just something doesn doesn't
past the smell test.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
James.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I don't agree or disagree with you. It's not important
that I do, but I want to make sure I
understand your point. So I know you were being quick
because that's what I asked people to do. Explain that
to me so I understand it.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
I think it's a statement. Yeah, he does want to
move on. I just believe there's there's somebody or a
group of people, or or enough that he just doesn't
want them all to get in trouble. They're not going
to get nobody's gonna get tried, or nobody's gonna get
really get in trouble. It's going to be passed on.
But I truly believe he's he's protecting a lot of
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people and just wants to get away from it and
get back to business at hand.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
And do you think that is primarily because some not all,
of those people are friends of his and he has
the prerogative to protect them and he is loyal to
people that that that he likes, or do you think
it is because to allow it to continue would be
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something of a distraction from the work at hand, or
some combination.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Of the two.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
I believe it's people that he needs or he's going
to be working through and he doesn't want them discredited
by this whole scene.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Interesting, you know, sometimes I think about the fact that
there there will be people who will go to prison
for what, in the grand scheme of things, are relatively minor,
at least to the life of the republic, but there
is a sort of a.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Too big to fail.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
If you're big and powerful enough, then it's almost as
if you are untouchable. And that's not what Alexis to
Topeville wrote about in the mid eighteen thirties when he
traveled America, the concept of it, quality and freedom lived
side by side in the way he had never seen before.
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And he would later say, since the idea that there
is no king, that is interesting. I was listening to
a Milton Friedman podcast or book yesterday, Free to Choose,
and they were talking about the Great Depression was partly
occasioned because of errors made between President Hoover's term and
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FDR's term, and they referred to that as interregnum, which
in Latin means between the two regencies, between the two kings.
We don't refer to the time now. Back then it
was till March, but today the president takes off as
January twentieth. We don't refer to the time between a
president being president the first week of November and the
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new president being sworn in January twentieth. If that president
is not re elected, we don't refer to that as interregnantle.
Even though it's a Latin phrase and you know now
what it means, and you get the concept that the
point between the two kings, regency reade being that Latin
for for for the monarch. It just feels so antithetical
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to the American spirit, This idea of people being beyond
the reach of the law, corporations being beyond the reach.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Of the law.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
It violates everything that I hold here. And maybe I'm naive,
Maybe that's it, maybe we're all naive. But but when
we see the Clintons get away with what they get
away with, when we see the when we see the
server smashed, Hillary's server smashed, we think, wow, what she did.
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But somehow crimes against children. We are a prudish, puritanical people.
I think that's our Calvinist roots coming from England originally.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
We are.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
That violation bothers us more than a financial fraud.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
But this particular.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Case, well known to every American, involving the rape of children,
the trafficking of children to very powerful men and women,
and then that information very likely being used to get
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those people to do what someone else, a foreign government,
a powerful deep state figure wants them to do. This
is at the heart of what offends every American and
particularly people who who believe in the integrity of our system.
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This is really the first time I have seen the
base say no, we're not just gonna let it go. No,
we're not just gonna have you tell us it doesn't matter.
You can't just tell us it doesn't matter at a
time like this. I read my emails to see what
people will think.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I was curious, are.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
People going to Are people gonna say, no, Trump, you
can't just tell us to look away from Epstein. We'll
trust you on everything. We know the cases against you
were frauds. We know the arrests against you were fraud
We believe you on that. But no, we don't believe
you on this. Or would people say you got to
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trust the president? Don't get distracted?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Would they?
Speaker 1 (30:50):
And this is where Donald Trump is very effective. No
one's been as effective as this. Donald Trump gives his
most loyal followers the world words they need to use
to defend him, and I hear them. I hear those
words then given to me and that person. I think
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some people think they are their own words. They have
so incorporated them. That is brilliant messaging. That is not
a criticism of Trump.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
It's brilliant.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
You want to get your followers to defend you, you
give them the actual template of here's how you do it.
I have been very interested to follow this. I don't
think it's going away if and when, and I think
he will. Bongino steps down and Bongino goes back behind
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the mic. He now knows things he did not know,
not just with regard to Epstein, but with regard to
who is behind all this, and what he says at
that point is going to be very very interesting, very interesting.
As always, you can email me through the website Michael
(32:05):
Berryshow dot com. You can buy our merch there. You
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send emails and you'll get a reply and we'll see
you this Eve.
A friend was kind enough to send me the the
commercial that George P. Bush ran that was the the
Zoom Zoom I call it the Zoom Zoom ad. And
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it's the one where he's on the four wheeler. And
I think to myself, as much ridicule as we made
of that awful ad, seemingly reasonable people had to go
into a room to test that ad. All right, guys,
(00:44):
here's the final creative on this. What do y'all think?
And reasonable people had to say, that's the one, yep,
the four wheeler riding across the ridge. That that's the
one that says he'll be a great attorney general. Wait
a second, what I say?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
All Right, y'all asked us.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
To review this thing ten times before we got here
and make our notes. I have a note. I guess
I'm only one. He's not wearing sunglasses. Were he to
wear sunglasses while writing on the four wheeler on the ridge,
that would make the spot. Okay, guys, but do you
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know what, He's not wrong. He's not wrong. I don't
want to go back into the field and shoot this thing.
But if you guys are determined, I agree, And look,
if we're gonna have to go back in the field
and shoot this shot. I understand, you got it. You
know you got drones, you got all that, And we're
adding to the production cost and we really want to
(01:49):
put that money into airing the spot instead of making
the spot. But if we're going to do that, I
think we need to go to a way sternware store
and get him some off the rack, really really crisp,
brand new, like you just came from Japan and it's
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your first rodeo. Look, you know, like when your host
company you've come to visit and we're gonna take you
to rodeo. Oh and then they put you in the
really really brand new jeans and button up shirt and
boots that have never been worn and everybody can tell
you just came out of the dressing room and you're
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at your first rodeo.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yes, here, here is.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Some corn on a stick, and here is a funnel cake.
Be careful, the confectioner sugar will get all over you. Now,
hop on the four wheeler. We got the sun all right,
we got sunglasses, we got the attire, yet all of it. Okay,
we got three Okay, no shadows. Make sure no shadows
from the drones. When he's riding all right, get after it, GP,
(02:58):
get on it.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Woom boom, boom boom.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
There were people who thought that was a good idea.
There were people who thought that And I bring that
up because the consultant who thought that was a good idea,
Chris Laslovita, who worked for Trump, is the consultant for
Aaron Wright's, and so I have passed a message through
mutual friends. Watch that ad because I don't know Aaron Wrights.
(03:23):
Watch that ad and ask yourself if this is really
the guy you want run in the campaign. Wes, you're
on the Michael Berry Show, Go ahead. I truly believe
that the Michael Berry audience would rather listen to the
King and Dean host the show on days Michael is
traveling than reruns of Ted NuGen.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Interviews only when you're traveling.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Okay, give me a shot, give me a shot.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah, I'm you know, if Ramone wanted to host the show,
Ramon would host the show on the issue of a
rerun let me, I'm glad you brought that up. This
is a good conversation. I'm not going to criticize anybody
(04:13):
else in radio, but if you were to look at
the number of days that people who do what I do,
and none of them do five hours a day.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
But if you were to look at the number of
people who.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Do what I do and the number of vacation days
they take, that means days they are not on the air,
you would find it is far.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
In excess of what we do. But that's okay.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I don't really need to account to anyone for when
I'm behind the mic and when I'm not. Many times
things come up at the very last moment. I've had
two elderly parents in and out of the hospital at
the last minute over the last few years. So we've
got a couple of things that we call evergreen that
should I be called to the hospital at the last minute,
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they air. And my response to that is this, it's
a free radio program. You are welcome to turn the
dial if there's something you don't like. Michael, you do
too much of this, You talk too much politics, You
don't talk politics enough.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
You do it.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Everyone feels that the customer is always right. That is
the worst approach you can possibly have. But rest assured,
since this comes up. If Ramone wanted to host the show,
Ramone would host the show. Do the math, He doesn't.
(05:42):
I would love to come and look over your shoulder
and tell you the ten things you would most like
to improve. But you know, I learned a long time ago.
The first couple of years we were in radio, nobody
cared to pick at the show and tell me I
love the show, I wish it was one more hour.
I love the show. And I realized you reach a
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certain point that people are so connected with the show
that they feel the need to say ninety nine percent
of the show is awesome. The only thing that would
be better is if you did this one extra thing.
And it took me a long time to understand that
is the ultimate compliment, because when you make the mistake
(06:26):
of taking feedback from that broad an audience that often
it feels like it becomes a little exhausting that every
person out there who has an opinion as to how
(06:46):
you can do things better, we'll offer it.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
You don't offer the.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Worst restaurant in the world advice on how you When
I'm with Russell Lebarro, people will say, man, I love Ringos.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Text makes I love it.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
You know what I wish you would do is, wait
a minute, why can't you just love it?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Does it ever?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
End does the Is your life so perfect you've solved
everything in your own life? My apologies that.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Is that is a sore spot. It pissed.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
If you want to be blocked, if you want me
to hate you, make a suggestion like that. You didn't
know who Ramone was until he and I teamed up
and I told the whole world how great he was.
Now I have people going, you don't know how great
Ramone is?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Do you?
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Do you?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yeah? So that's out of my list. I'm fifty four
years old, and there comes a point in your life
where you just need to cut ties with everybody and
start over. This is what one of my quote unquote
friends just texted me ramon radio. It's time let it go.
(08:06):
You had a good run. It's time. That's Jimmy Pappas,
I said, you proud of that.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
They make you.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
See, that's not a friend, Jim, that's not a person
who's a friend that. It's not funny. It's not funny,
it's it's ass behavior. I can't say both of those
words for some reason. I can't say both of those words.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
And the same.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
But the initials are ah, just what it is. See,
that's not what I need in my life right now,
I need to just start over with a whole new
group of friends. All right, do you have the sounder
for the I truly believe segment.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
And all the Michael are.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
So remember the rules. No blue tooth, no speakerphone. If
you're on it, we're cutting you off that second. Don't
think you can turn to it. We get it's awful radio,
and nobody wants to hear that. Nobody wants to hear that. Tim,
you're on the Michael Berry Show. What do you truly believe?
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Just, sir, I truly believe that the Democratic Party, because
of their demonic behavior and decisions, I truly believe they've
been infiltrated by the nephelum and hybrids. Just look at
the behavior of Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi, and our.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Own Sorry well it was going too long anyway, but
short and punchy. Great voice by the way, jack Wagon.
What do you truly believe?
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Michael?
Speaker 7 (09:57):
I truly believe that after lentless research and tireless experimentation,
I have concluded that underwear can be worn four times,
although I only recommend twice.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I concur when when I'm camping or or stuff doesn't
show or whatever I've done four days. I mean it
depends on the conditions. I mean, you do what you
got to do.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I wonder what folks did before underwear if you think
about it, Ed, what do you truly believe?
Speaker 8 (10:35):
I've truly believed that if you played the day that
you let producer Kenny on the show, oh boy, wouldn't
have said something about Ramona on the show. But you
should play that for us for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Producer Kenny is next door from nine fifty every afternoon
and mornings while well, he's hilarious. Yeah, and he's a
dear friend of mine, and.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I suggest that you'd probably be better.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Suited listening to him. Yeah, I can already tell a
dear friend of mine, But how about you go listen
to his show when it airs instead of Yeah, that'll
worked too, Josh the Landscaper, you're up?
Speaker 2 (11:17):
What do you truly believe?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I truly believe, Michael Berry, that I need to go
on here and step up and be your feelings so
these people can stop telling you who you need to
put on your show, because I love your replace. Sometimes
I missaying and when.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
I replayed, I say ooh, I got it.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
One thing, Michael, it takes a lot to feel your shoes,
and you build that reputation over the years when you
first jumped on. Okay, but you got history in miles.
Now it's gonna take a big, big person to feel
those shoes, to feel in for you. And I think
I need to go on here and stop playing.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
And you're ready, You're ready, Just all right, brother.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
All right, you're first in line.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
The funny thing is.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
When Rush would have feelings, I would always be so
bummed out. I thought Mark Stein hated his accent. Rush
never had villains that could replace him. It was almost
never a radio person. Mark Davis and Mark Belling were
the only ones. It was mostly people who were not
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radio people, and I think he thought that made the
show more interesting. I made a decision pretty early on
that our listeners come to hear our content. It's not
that it's the best, it's the best. You want to
hear any other show. You can hear any other show.
Our listeners came to our show for what we do,
and so I decided that even if for whatever reason
(12:41):
I had to be out, we weren't going to have
a guest host because I never liked a guest host.
I don't tune into a radio show to hear Rush
Limbaugh or some other dude. I would have rather if
Rush wasn't there, play one of Rush's best shows. Play him.
I'm laying out the thirty five rules, immutable rules.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I'd rather hear that I would. That's just me.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
If someone wouldn't, that's fine. It's a whole lot easier
to put a guest host on. I never believed that
was the best approach, and that is my heartfelt opinion.
I have felt that for many years, many many times.
If we're going to be out Thanksgiving or Christmas, we
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pre record a number of segments so it's still our
content during our show, rather than the very easy approach,
which is to have a list of people dying to
fill in and call them. And that's what people are
used to. And sometimes when people are used to something,
even if it's not what they would prefer, it's what
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they will request because they've grown used to it. But
in any case, yeah, that's the last I'm going to
say to that, because there is a certain kind of
personality that makes that statement, and that kind of personality
is somebody I know I hate in person, and so
maybe that's the.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Trigger of all of that.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
But in any case, if you like the show, listen,
if you don't turn it off, I mean, what a
waste of my time for you to keep bringing it up. Honestly,
you've hit a nerve. Yes, if that makes you happy, great,
but what yeah, John, you're up, Go ahead, Czar.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
I truly believe that there are two kinds of fish
in this world, fried catfish and everything else.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
What I don't understand is why do people look down
on fried catfish. I would never understand that, have they
not had it.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
You probably you'll probably never understand why people call it
and tell you how to do your show either. Brother,
don't even try?
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Well, well, said brother, Well said I it's all day,
every day.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
The beauty is.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
So I had Outlook email for years, and then I
switched over to a Gmail platform, and now that's the
Michael Berry Show emails and unlike Outlook, which you got
to refilter them, and all.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
That all you have to do is hit block. So
there are people who.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Say, hey, I've been emailing you and you don't respond,
and I'll say, well, I've probably blocked you. Oh well,
that one time. I said, yeah, just don't do that.
I don't come up and knock on your door and go, hey,
your wife is hideous, and your kids a little punk,
and your your grass is too high, And a year
later goes, how come we're not talking anymore.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Because I don't need to hear it.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
I choose not to hear it.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Talk Radio The Michael Barry Show. I just got.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
A message from my wife. And she normally doesn't communicate
with me while I'm on the air because it's a distraction.
And she said, I just spoke to dad. He sounds great.
He be dialed me. My wife doesn't curse, and I
(16:09):
guess for her to use the word but with me
would be awkward. She said, he had be dialed me.
His sugar is at a nice two point fifty. He
thinks it's too high, but I told him that's exactly
where you want it. My wife laughs, because no matter
what anybody says to my dad, his answer is, well,
(16:30):
that's how Michael wants it. That's how Michael wants it.
That's how we're going to do it. Because in his mind,
I know more than the doctors, the caretakers, anybody. Michael
knows everything, which, as it turns out, I tend to
agree with. But in any case, I have, like a
(16:51):
it's not truly believe we'll get back to your calls
in just a second. I have, like a lot of you,
struggled with processing what has happened in Kerrville. And the
truth is, if we're completely honest, it's not so different
than what happened in Carolinas. It's not so different than
(17:14):
the tornadoes who come through the fertilizer explosion in West Texas.
The number of people really shouldn't matter. It's the devastation,
it's the senselessness, it's the immediacy, it is the tragedy
of it, and the scale and scope of it really
(17:34):
shouldn't matter whether is it one hundred dead or one
hundred and twenty or fifty or thirty.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Or one hundred.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
It's awful, and no single family suffers the loss of
one hundred and twenty people. You suffer the loss of
your little Chloe childress. You suffer the loss of your
little baby girl or baby boy. And so I've really
(18:01):
struggled with kind of where to put that in the
response to it and all the things that go with that.
And one of the things that I've struggled with is
we have a lot of listeners who are engineers and
(18:24):
inventor types and tinkerers and hand radio people, and the
kind of people who may or may not have a
college degree, and may or may not have a college
degree in this subject, but many didn't go to college,
went straight in the military and went straight to work.
But in terms of technical proficiency, hand them a piece
of equipment from nineteen forty eight, and hand your average
(18:46):
engineering student comes out of college today, even A and
M or Purdue or wherever else, and I'll give it
to the guy that, like my dad, was a maintenance
worker that had to learn based on.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Tinkering.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
And one of the things I've noticed is how many
suggestions I have received from listeners as to, hey, we
can build an alarm system in a situation like this,
We can build an alarm system using solar power or
using a float system, or using this, or using this,
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or using this. And I kind of struggled to where
to put that, because the easy answer is just disregard
the statement. And then it kind of all made sense
because I realized it's sort of the old you know,
a lot of guys will tell me that their wife
(19:46):
will will explain a problem they're having. You know, their
wife's best friend is dating a bad guy and she
don't want him dating and or their wife's best friend
is upset with this is and so the answer is, oh,
I got this, I'll fix this. And we are different.
Men and women are different. It's not just on the
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sporting field or body density or masks or strength or
any number of Adam's apples or wieners or whatever else.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
We are different.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
And so it's kind of the age old conundrum of
a woman wants to talk about it and the husband wants.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
To solve it.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
We don't want to talk about it. Oh, the next
door neighbor is playing the music too loud, and you're
sure that she knows she's playing the music too loud
During the day. When I'm gone, I'll go deal it.
No no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
The school told our kid that he can't wear a
cross to school because it might upset people, and that
has you upset. I'll go to the school, I'll tear
the whole damn place down, and I'll come home and
our kid will wear a cross and you won't have
to fret a men. No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I don't want you to fix it. I want a vent.
I want to talk it.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
I want to We're all different, and not every woman
is that way and not every man is that way.
But I came to realize that, particularly because of the
grief involved in all of this, the sense of helplessness
involved in I saw a story of two guys I
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think they were they were military men. They were they
weren't special forces, but they were pretty advanced in their
military career. And they looked like JJ Watt and TJ Watt.
We have big boys, big strong, fulking and that they're
hugging their parents perished in the Curveville flood. And I'm
(21:46):
thinking to myself, those guys have to be thinking, if
we had been here, we could have put one on
mom on your back and dad on mine, and we
could have run to safety. The sense of helplessness that
you weren't there, That sense of helplessness that a cop
has when his wife is a victim of crime, when
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he thinks, if I had been there.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I could have protected her.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Or a doctor when their child needs a medical care
and doesn't get it because they're in an accident and
they perish. If I had been there, I could have
staunched the bleeding. I could have saved my child's life.
That it makes you crazy, absolutely crazy. But I realized
(22:34):
that for all of the talk that people have the
frustrate what has dismissed as conspiracy theory, were the clouds seated?
How much silver eye down and they put in there,
how much rain is typical and how much rain was
a result of the seating.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Was there a tornado or was there a flood system?
Did it work?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
If not, why when did it come out? For everyone
who is angry at those questions being asked, and when
those questions are being asked. My wife taught me early
on that when my kids were being a brat, which
was rare, but what happened there were two reasons. They
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were hungry or they were sleepy and off from both,
and I'd say, I'm going to turn around and I'm
gonna let him have it. I'm going to berate him
to the point that she'd say, can we just eat
something first and then you can do whatever you want,
And amazingly, you.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Eat and you got your child back.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
It was like a Chia Pett just grew back into
being your child again when you understand, because I know
there's a lot of criticism of people who want answers
to what has happened in Curville. And maybe they're asking
too fast. Okay, I got it, because they don't have
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three funerals to.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Go to before they ask.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
But I think that comes from a good place of
people wanting to never have this happen again, and and
that is a commendable trick. Michael Berry, it isn't you believe?
Seven one three nine one thousand, seven one three nine
one thousand.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
We start with.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
All are truly.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
James? What do you truly believe?
Speaker 8 (24:39):
Sir?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Sir?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
I truly believe that Donald Trump's statement about move on
was a pardon to somebody there or maybe several people there,
that he's protected. Just my thoughts. I love Donald Trump
and all he's done, but there's just something doesn doesn't
past the smell test.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
James.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I don't agree or disagree with you. It's not important
that I do, but I want to make sure I
understand your point. So I know you were being quick
because that's what I asked people to do. Explain that
to me so I understand it.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
I think it's a statement. Yeah, he does want to
move on. I just believe there's there's somebody or a
group of people, or or enough that he just doesn't
want them all to get in trouble. They're not going
to get nobody's gonna get tried, or nobody's gonna get
really get in trouble. It's going to be passed on.
But I truly believe he's he's protecting a lot of
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people and just wants to get away from it and
get back to business at hand.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
And do you think that is primarily because some not all,
of those people are friends of his and he has
the prerogative to protect them and he is loyal to
people that that that he likes, or do you think
it is because to allow it to continue would be
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something of a distraction from the work at hand, or
some combination.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Of the two.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
I believe it's people that he needs or he's going
to be working through and he doesn't want them discredited
by this whole scene.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Interesting, you know, sometimes I think about the fact that
there there will be people who will go to prison
for what, in the grand scheme of things, are relatively minor,
at least to the life of the republic, but there
is a sort of a.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Too big to fail.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
If you're big and powerful enough, then it's almost as
if you are untouchable. And that's not what Alexis to
Topeville wrote about in the mid eighteen thirties when he
traveled America, the concept of it, quality and freedom lived
side by side in the way he had never seen before.
(27:05):
And he would later say, since the idea that there
is no king, that is interesting. I was listening to
a Milton Friedman podcast or book yesterday, Free to Choose,
and they were talking about the Great Depression was partly
occasioned because of errors made between President Hoover's term and
(27:30):
FDR's term, and they referred to that as interregnum, which
in Latin means between the two regencies, between the two kings.
We don't refer to the time now. Back then it
was till March, but today the president takes off as
January twentieth. We don't refer to the time between a
president being president the first week of November and the
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new president being sworn in January twentieth. If that president
is not re elected, we don't refer to that as interregnantle.
Even though it's a Latin phrase and you know now
what it means, and you get the concept that the
point between the two kings, regency reade being that Latin
for for for the monarch. It just feels so antithetical
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to the American spirit, This idea of people being beyond
the reach of the law, corporations being beyond the reach.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Of the law.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
It violates everything that I hold here. And maybe I'm naive,
Maybe that's it, maybe we're all naive. But but when
we see the Clintons get away with what they get
away with, when we see the when we see the
server smashed, Hillary's server smashed, we think, wow, what she did.
(28:58):
But somehow crimes against children. We are a prudish, puritanical people.
I think that's our Calvinist roots coming from England originally.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
We are.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
That violation bothers us more than a financial fraud.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
But this particular.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Case, well known to every American, involving the rape of children,
the trafficking of children to very powerful men and women,
and then that information very likely being used to get
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those people to do what someone else, a foreign government,
a powerful deep state figure wants them to do. This
is at the heart of what offends every American and
particularly people who who believe in the integrity of our system.
(30:06):
This is really the first time I have seen the
base say no, we're not just gonna let it go. No,
we're not just gonna have you tell us it doesn't matter.
You can't just tell us it doesn't matter at a
time like this. I read my emails to see what
people will think.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I was curious, are.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
People going to Are people gonna say, no, Trump, you
can't just tell us to look away from Epstein. We'll
trust you on everything. We know the cases against you
were frauds. We know the arrests against you were fraud
We believe you on that. But no, we don't believe
you on this. Or would people say you got to
(30:46):
trust the president? Don't get distracted?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Would they?
Speaker 1 (30:50):
And this is where Donald Trump is very effective. No
one's been as effective as this. Donald Trump gives his
most loyal followers the world words they need to use
to defend him, and I hear them. I hear those
words then given to me and that person. I think
(31:11):
some people think they are their own words. They have
so incorporated them. That is brilliant messaging. That is not
a criticism of Trump.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
It's brilliant.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
You want to get your followers to defend you, you
give them the actual template of here's how you do it.
I have been very interested to follow this. I don't
think it's going away if and when, and I think
he will. Bongino steps down and Bongino goes back behind
(31:43):
the mic. He now knows things he did not know,
not just with regard to Epstein, but with regard to
who is behind all this, and what he says at
that point is going to be very very interesting, very interesting.
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(32:05):
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