July 29, 2025 • 33 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Varry Show is on the air. Go win with
every single facet. We're gonna win so much.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
You may even.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Get tired of winning.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
And you'll say, please, please, it's too much winning.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
We can't take it anymore, mister President, it's too much.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
And I'll say, no, it isn't.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
We have to keep winning.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
We have to win more.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
We're gonna win more. We're gonna win so much.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
What how much we've been collecting in revenues. And I
did this in part because Wilfrid's here and he can
talk about the UK trade deal. But just this is
the monthly numbers, and they have gone up a lot.
June is actually set for another big increase of twenty
seven billion. That is money coming into US coffers from tariffs.
We are collecting a lot of revenue. So far, Guys
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one hundred and twenty one billion dollars has flowed into
the US government since the start of the fiscal year.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
It's still a.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
Tiny portion of the overall revenues that the US government gets,
but it's.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Increasingly a lot.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Especially we haven't seen it in terms of the consumer
paying off higher inflation.
Speaker 6 (01:20):
One, he is able to go to the trading partners
and say, look, I am happy to take in this
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tariff income. If you don't want to negotiate, this is
a high rate. But the US is taking a massive
amounts of tariff income. We had the first June budget
surplus since twenty fifteen that we reported it this month,
and so we are taking in substantial income. So President
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Trump is creating this leverage by saying, if you don't
want to negotiate with me, I've sent you a letter
with a high rate. You have at the high rate,
or come and negotiate in better fashion.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
The money. My dad was in memory care a few
years ago. He and another military guy would hang out
and eat dinner together, but he was like meeting someone
new each day. That was how bad their dementia was. Anyway,
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one evening they actually got into a spat. The taller
one got my dad into a headlock, and then the
nurse had to break it up. They of course had
to call me to tell me what happened, and all
I could do was laugh and ask if they were
Mma training down there. Nowadays, it became one of the
funniest stories for us to tell I have changed my
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views on advanced aging dramatically through the experiences I've had
with my parents over the last few years. Watching my
mother die was very unpleasant, very very unpleasant, being in
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a constant state of pain. She had her full mental faculties,
but physically her body in a very short period of time.
My mother's family's made of ruddy stuff. Man. They are
tough stock, German peasants stock, tough people. It really surprised me.
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My grandfather abused his body and he lived well into
his eighties. He smoked, drank, dip, you name it, he
did it. He worked outside, he was always severely sunburned.
He cooked massiveness, a great cook. He was the one
married to my grandmother, always bragging her cook and between
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the two of them, they were both amazing. Anytime you
were going to eat a meal at their house, it
was going to be amazing. His chili, his gumbo, his
homemade ice cream, I mean, his dressing Thanksgiving, Oh my goodness,
it was incredible, just incredible. Anyway, I have come to
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change my view. You know, when I follow this fellow
named Peter Attiyah, and he has a website on longevity,
and I've known people who want to live to be
one hundred or they want to live to be and
they picked some age, and I go, go ahead, knock
yourself out, because I don't. I definitely don't, and I
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mean that I don't have a death wish per se.
But living well into a number versus living a quality
of life during the years you have are a very
different thing. And the other thing that I think doesn't
get talked about is if you live to be one hundred,
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nobody that you loved is left anymore. At some point
you bury your own children to old age. My mentor,
Walter Zivli, I used to kid with him. He died
it I think eighty two. I used a kid with
him and say, Walter, do you realize when you die,
how many people are going to be at your funeral?
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Because he was so beloved by so many people, said
you realize how many people going to be at your funeral?
And he'd say, Michael, everybody I know's dead, nobody's coming
to my funeral. Well, I was right and he was wrong.
It was very very well attended, beautiful, beautiful service at
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Bethel Independent, but all of those people were younger than him.
His wife, Nancy had passed a few months before his
own mother. He was an only child who didn't have
any siblings. But it's one of those things that doesn't
get talked about. If you live into a ripe old age,
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nobody that you once knew and loved is still around.
It's just the next generation, and that's fine. But there's
something about your generation and the people that you love
and who love you, and part of growing old. I
also spend a fair amount of time in an old
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folks home now, and I can tell you that there
are people who are alive physically but don't know where
they are. There are other people who are clearly in
a state of constant pain. There are other people who
are in a state of diminished mental capacity. And that
does not appear from where I'm looking to be a
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happy state. They're angry, they're frustrated. Frustration seems to be
a great part of it, in much the same way
as a little kid first trying to walk or trying
to put blocks in their place, but having once done it,
now very angry, whereas a child doesn't know any better,
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and much like a child unable to walk in a wheelchair,
being pushed around, being at the mercy of someone else
who has to wipe your ass and change your diaper,
or bring you your food, or give you your shots, or
give you your medicine. You're in a constant state of
of measuring blood sugar and heart rate and all these
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various things. You've got healthcare professionals coming in all the
time because of little many emergencies.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Getting the oldest help. I had no idea of help.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Good speakers, smart devices.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
From Michael's brain to your ears.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
This is the Michael Arry Show.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Like it's not a profeon statements.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
My mind can't wrap itself around how we had a
period of blind singers and then nobody sins in and
nobody before that. Stevie Ray Charles Ronnie Mills said, Jeff Healey's.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I mean you think about well, my kids took.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Piano, and piano's very good for math. I had no
music's very good for math. I had no idea. I
have zero musical skills zero. I was the worst in
our family. My wife was better than me, and she
has no rhythm. I mean we laugh about the fact
that she's like, how could I be better than you?
I have no rhythm. My kids got pretty good at
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it and still enjoyed sitting down and playing. But what
I did not know is how much math has to
do with that. But I just think about how you know,
you look at your fingers on the keys and a
blind person can't do that really just amazes me. So
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Robert Reese was his birthday earlier this week and he
asked for his birthday that I guess yesterday must have
been his birthday.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
It is today Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
He asked that all for his birthday, that I announced
his show sponsors on air, that would be his present.
So he went back and looked at every show sponsor
we've had in twenty years of doing this, and we
have had ten show sponsors who have been with us
for fifteen years. Think about that for a moment. Abacus Plumbing,
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All Star Construction, Dean and Draper Insurance, Flaarty's Flooring America,
Mcaulay's Lumber, Oop Steam Cleaning plants for all seasons, Southern
front Doors, Texas Renters, Top Tax Defenders. You know, we
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had a vision twenty years ago for how the show
was going to work, and I am extremely difficult to
deal with if you're a sales rep. And the sales
reps will be honest with you about that. I am
extremely difficult to deal with. And the major reason for
that is that somebody will want to be a part
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of the show. They're a listener and they want you
as their customers because they've heard, you know, They've talked
to Lewis Florey and he says, you know, seventy five
percent of my business is for Michael Berryshaw Listeners or
Chance McLain. One hundred percent of my business business is
Michael Berrishall Listeners or Michael Petru. Ninety percent of my
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business is Michael Barryshell Listeners. And they see how it's
it's morphed into a business model for people. But just
like every business this, there are sort of conventional ways
that things get done, and people like to stick to
the conventional.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
For instance, over the.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Years, I've had to yell at people because they'll say, hey,
we're doing a special for Memorial dam and I say, well,
nothing says that I love fallen soldiers quite like ten
percent off. No, I'm not doing it well, but they're
really putting a lot of effort into it. No, I'm
not doing it, but they really want you to know
I'm not doing it which is my advice to you.
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See where you're going, be confident that's a good route.
Be willing to steer into the other lane a little
if you need to, but don't let anybody take you
off that. Surround yourself with good people. It's amazing to
me how often someone will tell me when I ask them,
what's the biggest impediment to you grow in your business? Well?
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Not very good? Well why is she there? I don't know.
I like her, she's nice, but she's not good. No,
she runs off all the good people.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
She's always sick.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
She she's always got some excuse once she's not coming in.
Well what about your planet?
Speaker 6 (13:17):
No?
Speaker 3 (13:18):
She just oh she's sorry. You know, I got tired
of arguing with her. Are you so afraid of change
that you can't fire that person? Are you sleeping with her?
Is she your sister? These aren't rational decisions. Choose the
life you want to have and then live it. And
for people who don't want to be part of your
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life under your terms, eliminate them from your life. Extricate them.
Don't allow other people to put you in the situation.
For this one little life, you have to not absolutely
love it. Period. End of story. Move on?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Is that easy? Now?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
That means that not everybody's going to like you. That
means that you have to make tough decisions.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
It means that you have to focus on good people
and eliminate bad people. But that's what life's about. That's
what good coaches do.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
You know, when the Packers got rid of Brett Fharr,
that was a tough decision, but they knew they had
Aaron Rodgers, and they knew that they had more good
years out of him than than Brett Farr, and that
that was the right decision. When the forty nine Ers
let Joe Montana go, I was so mad at them.
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I wanted him to win a Super Bowl with the
Chiefs so bad. But long term, it was the right decision.
They had the quarterback of the future, and what a
great quarterback he turned out to be. In Montana was
just not a shell of himself just yet, but he
would be soon. You've got to make tough decisions in
your life to have the life you want to have.
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The life you want to have is not going to
fall into your lap. You have to constantly prune the
friendship tree. I was talking about blocking people on your
phone because every time you see their name come up,
you cringe. You're miserable. And a friend of mine that
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once a year will thank me, and he will thank
me because there's one guy who would call him constantly,
and when he called, he would start in on him.
And you didn't call me. You don't come around, you
haven't done this. I need this, you don't do this.
And finally he said, you know, I don't need that
guy in my life. So he goes home and he said, hey,
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listen to Michael talking about this, and what do you think?
And she said, I've never liked that guy. Every time
he calls, if we're on vacation, if we're out at dinner,
he makes your life miserable. Why do you take his call?
Because y'all went to school together. Got him out.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
With more of the Michael Berry Show. I don't do TikTok.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
So I don't know if this is true or not,
but I'm going to read it because I thought it
was well written, and for those of you who are
on there, you can tell me if it's true or not.
Chris writes Zar somewhere between the gas station Beggar and
the board Suburban Wife, too timid for only fans. A
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new breed of hustler has emerged, wrapped in filters, fake
tears and desperate pleas for digital roses. Welcome to TikTok Live.
Where the currency is attention, the hustle is emotional manipulation,
and Daddy she that's the leader of China gets his
cut from every gift scent. This isn't content. It's high
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gloss panhandling performed not on a street corner, but from
a ring lit bed, disguised as entertainment but driven by
the same shameless grind. You're not tipping a creator. You're
enabling a dopamine fueled dance of desperation and feeding a
machine that launders your sympathy into profit, all under the
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watchful eye of the CCP. There's no hustle like the
sympathy hustle. Watch long enough and you'll see it all.
Grown adults fake crying over made up rent emergencies, Moms
with their tits barely out, winding about daycare bills. Dudes
with three thousand followers begging for a galaxy so they
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can eat tonight. Spare me. What we're watching isn't hardship.
It's monetized emotional cosplay, spoon fed to viewers like pixelated meth.
And the worst part, it works because this isn't a
platform anymore. It's a global digital swap meet for validation
starved grifters running run out of Beijing. The algorithm doesn't
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care about truth. It rewards whatever gets the most taps,
the most pity tips, the most people whispering oh my god,
are they okay in the comments while chucking coins at
the screen. And for every one hundred dollars in roses,
lions and whatever the hell else, TikTok Live is slaying daddy.
She scrapes a chunk off the top and thanks you
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for your support of Chinese tech imperialism.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Let's call this what it is, a bastardized.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Blend of panhandling, cam girl desperation and black mirror social theater,
except now the pimp is a Communist party stakeholder.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Gone are the days of earning your keep.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Just boot up your lives, slap on a SOB story,
and beg for your dinner with sparkly filters and emoji tears.
Got a disability, perfect exploit it mental health issues even better,
break down on camera and rake it in lost your job,
cry for ten minutes, fake a power outage and call
it content. This is not about connection, it's about commodified despair.
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And if you're not exploiting your own suffering yet, you're
leaving money on the table. Meanwhile, the viewers, the suckers,
keep feeding the beast because sending a virtual lion makes
them feel like philanthropists without the inconvenience of actual generosity.
You're not donating, you're paying to be emotionally manipulated in
real time by someone who treats victimhood like a side hustle. Congrats,
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you just funded someone's vape pen and made the CCP
a little richer in the process. And if you dare
question the whole rotten charade, get ready for the mob.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Don't judge.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
They'll scream as if this isn't Judgment season twenty four
to seven on the very app. They're defending they're just
trying to survive. Yeah, so are people working twelve hour
shifts without shaking their tits for tips or faking seizures
on live stream. We've reached a point where dignity is
optional and desperation is marketable. So long as you've got
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a ring light in a sad face. Street corners used
to be the bottom. Now it's TikTok Live, where American
dignity is sold in thirty second loops and streams straight
to Beijing like oil through a pipeline. The real horror.
We're not even shocked anymore. We scroll past it like
it's just another day in clown world. A man pretending
to be an NPC for money. Cute, A single mom
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dancing while her kid cries off screen. Brave, a teenager
with visible scars whispering. Tap the screen if you care relatable.
This isn't just sad, it's cultural decay and ten eighty
P live streamed and monetized by the minute. And let's
not forget. TikTok doesn't just allow this, it engineers it.
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The same algorithm that silences political dissent, that buries anything
remotely critical of China or the CCP actively boosts videos
where Americans look weak, desperate, and dysfunctional. Why Because nothing
says global dominance like having your geopolitical rivals dancing, begging
and trauma dumping for your profit. This is warfare by humiliation,
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and the foot soldiers are doing it voluntarily for clout
for sympathy, for scraps, the creators their addicts, not to substances,
but to attention, validation, and the steady drip of coins
that trickle in with every emoji reaction. TikTok doesn't build influencers,
It builds dependents. People so wrapped in their own sob
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story personas they forget where the performance ends in reality
begins and the audience. You're not better, You're complicit. You watch,
you engage, you gift not because you care, but because
you're bored, because parasocial pity gives you a rush. Because
this is your entertainment now, watching people unravel in real
time and calling it empathy and beneath it all, Daddy,
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she smiles, because TikTok is the most successful social trojan
horse ever deployed. No need to hack American infrastructure when
you can it's culture from within. No need to fight
a war when you can make your adversary willingly humiliate
itself in public. Well started as lip syncing and dance trends,
has devolved into a digital freak show, a marketplace of
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manipulated sadness where the house always wins and the house
just happens to be in Beijing.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
This isn't entertainment.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
This is cultural rot packaged its content, a panhandling circus
with ring lights instead of corners, and filters instead of faces.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
TikTok lives aren't just cringed.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
They're a sign that we've sold our dignity for coins
on an app owned by a regime that thrives on
our collapse. Every gift, every rose, every galaxy is proof
that America is not just losing its edge, it's losing
its pride. It's amazing to me that China is our
mortal enemy. They thwart our efforts everywhere we discover a
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new Chinese spy in the high ranks of our top
secret research, the military, or our government seemingly weakly.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
And yet what do we do? What do we do?
Are we so?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
I'll post that to the Facebook? By the way, are
we so addicted to cheap crap that we are willing
to empower of people who hate us? Why do we
allow any Chinese researchers to come to this country when
so many have been outed as spies? How many people
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remember in Houston that at the consulate, once it was
discovered they were stealing medical records from the Houston Medical
Center as to how we were dealing with COVID, seemingly
so they could morph the disease to kill more of us.
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But their motives will well will agree to disagree over.
Once it was discovered that they were stealing our our
intellectual property and a raid was imminent, they opened the
internal courtyard and set a funeral power there and dumped
all the documents into it.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Remember there was smoke everywhere.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
They were burning documents in Houston, Texas they had solen
from our medical center.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Good agree, these people are our Emmy, this is I
know what's the name?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
You say, Michael Buddy?
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
And then she gonna tell people that nobody gonna pay
no attention to shut up. Guard, come here from my story.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Okay, look like sands through the.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Yeah, every day, look in at my flute. Jer came wait,
well day, come on.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
There's a comedian named Jerry Wayne Longmire and I'd been
following him for a while without even knowing he lives
in Houston. And I posted some of his stuff a
few years ago and he wrote me a nice note
back and say, you sure appreciate it, and so how'd
you know? I did it? And he said, he lives
in Houston, and we got some mutual friends through the
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Houston comedy community. He's the one that does the bits.
If you've ever seen where he'll do the this is uh,
this is what your.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Truck says about you, or those.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Sorts of things. Well, a listener named Robert Townsend sent
me a post he didn't know. I knew who Jerry
Wayne Longmire is, but simply it's called a Texan's Ode
to Evan Williams. Evan Williams is a is a premium bourbon,
and it is so well written and so funny that
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I had to share it with you. So here it is.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I'm a man dispossessed.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Enjoy the fiery flavor of the ghost of Rye and Corn,
especially those spirits conjured in the great state of Kentucky,
a land of both cliff and tree, where high culture
wears a wide brim hat and pearl button pride, and
the finest dressed lady at the Derby shares air with
the windswept hush of Pikeville, where Appalachian air, a thousand
years old, moves like a hymn. Nobody remembers writing when
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Evan Williams hits my throat. There's no urgency. It don't
come in kicking doors. It slips in like memory, like
the first time you see a mermaid hair girl. You
don't know why you love it, but you can picture
it spread across your pillow. You're just a hapless witness
to something beautiful. That's evan on the escyphagus, a mystic
code only interpreted by a tongue tethered to a soul
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that's lived a little. It don't just taste their single barrel.
You feel it like a friend you forgot to call
for some time. They remind you that you exist, that
they're still warmth in your bones. It loosens the voice
inside you. But your best stay in the place where
that boy speaks of beauty, not the dark. It's a
pleasure that comes with responsibility. Everything in moderation, Son, they'll say,
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not to wet your parade, but to keep you sheltered,
sheltered from the steep cost of over in Biben, where
the road and arrows and the signs fall silent, and
a water moccasin of trouble lies sleek among the leaves,
quietly waiting, learning your limit.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
That's the key.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
John writes, Zora, I made it to fifty nine years
old without ever changing a diaper, never had kids of
my own. Only diaper I ever changed was my dad's
when he had bladder cancer. Wouldn't wish it on anyone.
Lost him in April, just sort of his eighty fifth birthday.
He was a great dad. You don't know how much
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you love your mom and dad until you change their diaper.
That's the fact talked about the don't plan your weddings
on big football days. You got the whole rest of
the year. Matt writes, My late grandmother was an English
major with distinguished honors at Michigan State who was known
for her wit. Think of an Irish Michigander, Barbara Bush. Anyway,
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I was complaining to her about my cheapskate friend who
booked his wedding on the Saturday of the Michigan State
Michigan game, when she delivered the following cautionary anecdote. Oh heavens,
I had a sorority sister who decided she would plan
her wedding on the day of the University of Michigan
game because she said she wanted to find out who
her real friends were and oh, did she ever find out?
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I just thought you might get a kick out of this,
since I've twice heard you do monologues on this subject,
which is also a very serious subject in Michigan, not
just Texas. Terry Wheeler writes on July twenty third, twenty
twenty five, Mattressmac helped launch the Harris County Magapack to
a crowd of nearly four hundred people. H C Magapack
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is the only America First organization in Harris County and
is focused on building a war chest and grassroots army
of volunteers. Trump received seven hundred and twenty three thousand
votes in Harris County, and many of those were first
time voters that don't necessarily identify with the Republican Party.
They are all in on MAGA, though, engaging and recruiting
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those new MAGA voters is of paramount importance to our country.
One in seven Texas Republican voters reside in Harris County.
This is almost twice as many as Terrant County, the
second highest county in Texas. The future of Western civilization
may well be decided about here in Harris County. If
Harris County falls Texas falls. If Texas falls, so does
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the rest of the country. Please help us get the
word out. Going to tell you something, the Harris County
Republican Party is feckless. It's run by Cindy Siegel, who's
a nice enough lady, but not a tough lady, not
the kind of person that engineers victories for the county judge,
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for county positions for swing districts. And she serves completely
one hundred percent at the discretion of Paul Bettencourt, a
state senator whose real job is as the face of
a company that does tax protests, so he has no
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interest in lowering taxes because the hire your taxes and
more money his business makes. He's really really good at
giving interviews to Wayne Delchraffino, who does fantastic work or
the local news about how bad things are in Austin
and then doing nothing about it. And other than that,
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we have no real Republican party to speak of in
the region. That's why you're not hearing about any of
the candidates for Harris County Judge. On the Republican side,
there is the mayor of one of the Memorial villages
who has been serving there for about two cups of coffee,
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and she's going to run county wide. And the reason
I'm told by the old white guys who want me
to support her is because she's a non white woman
and that's what it takes to win. Now, Boy, if
you had to hear some of the conversations out here,
we got this woman. She's foreign born, not white, and
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a woman. We got a good one. Okay, But is
there anything other than her demographic profile that you'd like
to offer to me as to why you're supporting her. Well,
Michael the day sure, you know this. You're not a
stupid guy. The days of the white guy winning anymore,
those are over. You're gonna have to play the game
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the way they play the game. So what you just
told me is the way to beat the Democrats is
to be the Democrats. You've gone and found somebody who's
a non white woman with no real political experience to
speak of other than being the unpaid mayor of a
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little bitty hamlet of a few hundred people, and you're
going to run that against Rodney Ellis, who's going to
be well funded, a candidate with zero name ID, or
you're going to get the president of the Firefighters Union.
This is who you're going to run on what basis?
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And that is why the largest county in Texas has
fallen to Rodney ellis not just because he's devious and clever,
but because our leadership is feckless. And this is why
I tell you what's gonna happen. It might be in
twenty twenty six, if none, it will be by twenty
twenty eight. We're gonna lose a statewide election because Rodney's
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gonna cheat so big that you won't be able to
believe it. It's gonna be twenty twenty Joe Biden's stuff
and people won't be able to believe it. And Greg
Abbott and Dan Patrick and all of them will have
themselves to blame because they didn't want to do anything
for Harris County until it bit them on the ass.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Varry Show is on the air. Go win with
every single facet. We're gonna win so much.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
You may even.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Get tired of winning.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
And you'll say, please, please, it's too much winning.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
We can't take it anymore, mister President, it's too much.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
And I'll say, no, it isn't.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
We have to keep winning.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
We have to win more.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
We're gonna win more. We're gonna win so much.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
What how much we've been collecting in revenues. And I
did this in part because Wilfrid's here and he can
talk about the UK trade deal. But just this is
the monthly numbers, and they have gone up a lot.
June is actually set for another big increase of twenty
seven billion. That is money coming into US coffers from tariffs.
We are collecting a lot of revenue. So far, Guys
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one hundred and twenty one billion dollars has flowed into
the US government since the start of the fiscal year.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
It's still a.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
Tiny portion of the overall revenues that the US government gets,
but it's.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Increasingly a lot.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Especially we haven't seen it in terms of the consumer
paying off higher inflation.
Speaker 6 (01:20):
One, he is able to go to the trading partners
and say, look, I am happy to take in this
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tariff income. If you don't want to negotiate, this is
a high rate. But the US is taking a massive
amounts of tariff income. We had the first June budget
surplus since twenty fifteen that we reported it this month,
and so we are taking in substantial income. So President
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Trump is creating this leverage by saying, if you don't
want to negotiate with me, I've sent you a letter
with a high rate. You have at the high rate,
or come and negotiate in better fashion.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
The money. My dad was in memory care a few
years ago. He and another military guy would hang out
and eat dinner together, but he was like meeting someone
new each day. That was how bad their dementia was. Anyway,
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one evening they actually got into a spat. The taller
one got my dad into a headlock, and then the
nurse had to break it up. They of course had
to call me to tell me what happened, and all
I could do was laugh and ask if they were
Mma training down there. Nowadays, it became one of the
funniest stories for us to tell I have changed my
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views on advanced aging dramatically through the experiences I've had
with my parents over the last few years. Watching my
mother die was very unpleasant, very very unpleasant, being in
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a constant state of pain. She had her full mental faculties,
but physically her body in a very short period of time.
My mother's family's made of ruddy stuff. Man. They are
tough stock, German peasants stock, tough people. It really surprised me.
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My grandfather abused his body and he lived well into
his eighties. He smoked, drank, dip, you name it, he
did it. He worked outside, he was always severely sunburned.
He cooked massiveness, a great cook. He was the one
married to my grandmother, always bragging her cook and between
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the two of them, they were both amazing. Anytime you
were going to eat a meal at their house, it
was going to be amazing. His chili, his gumbo, his
homemade ice cream, I mean, his dressing Thanksgiving, Oh my goodness,
it was incredible, just incredible. Anyway, I have come to
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change my view. You know, when I follow this fellow
named Peter Attiyah, and he has a website on longevity,
and I've known people who want to live to be
one hundred or they want to live to be and
they picked some age, and I go, go ahead, knock
yourself out, because I don't. I definitely don't, and I
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mean that I don't have a death wish per se.
But living well into a number versus living a quality
of life during the years you have are a very
different thing. And the other thing that I think doesn't
get talked about is if you live to be one hundred,
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nobody that you loved is left anymore. At some point
you bury your own children to old age. My mentor,
Walter Zivli, I used to kid with him. He died
it I think eighty two. I used a kid with
him and say, Walter, do you realize when you die,
how many people are going to be at your funeral?
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Because he was so beloved by so many people, said
you realize how many people going to be at your funeral?
And he'd say, Michael, everybody I know's dead, nobody's coming
to my funeral. Well, I was right and he was wrong.
It was very very well attended, beautiful, beautiful service at
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Bethel Independent, but all of those people were younger than him.
His wife, Nancy had passed a few months before his
own mother. He was an only child who didn't have
any siblings. But it's one of those things that doesn't
get talked about. If you live into a ripe old age,
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nobody that you once knew and loved is still around.
It's just the next generation, and that's fine. But there's
something about your generation and the people that you love
and who love you, and part of growing old. I
also spend a fair amount of time in an old
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folks home now, and I can tell you that there
are people who are alive physically but don't know where
they are. There are other people who are clearly in
a state of constant pain. There are other people who
are in a state of diminished mental capacity. And that
does not appear from where I'm looking to be a
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happy state. They're angry, they're frustrated. Frustration seems to be
a great part of it, in much the same way
as a little kid first trying to walk or trying
to put blocks in their place, but having once done it,
now very angry, whereas a child doesn't know any better,
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and much like a child unable to walk in a wheelchair,
being pushed around, being at the mercy of someone else
who has to wipe your ass and change your diaper,
or bring you your food, or give you your shots, or
give you your medicine. You're in a constant state of
of measuring blood sugar and heart rate and all these
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various things. You've got healthcare professionals coming in all the
time because of little many emergencies.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Getting the oldest help. I had no idea of help.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Good speakers, smart devices.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
From Michael's brain to your ears.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
This is the Michael Arry Show.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Like it's not a profeon statements.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
My mind can't wrap itself around how we had a
period of blind singers and then nobody sins in and
nobody before that. Stevie Ray Charles Ronnie Mills said, Jeff Healey's.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I mean you think about well, my kids took.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Piano, and piano's very good for math. I had no
music's very good for math. I had no idea. I
have zero musical skills zero. I was the worst in
our family. My wife was better than me, and she
has no rhythm. I mean we laugh about the fact
that she's like, how could I be better than you?
I have no rhythm. My kids got pretty good at
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it and still enjoyed sitting down and playing. But what
I did not know is how much math has to
do with that. But I just think about how you know,
you look at your fingers on the keys and a
blind person can't do that really just amazes me. So
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Robert Reese was his birthday earlier this week and he
asked for his birthday that I guess yesterday must have
been his birthday.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
It is today Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
He asked that all for his birthday, that I announced
his show sponsors on air, that would be his present.
So he went back and looked at every show sponsor
we've had in twenty years of doing this, and we
have had ten show sponsors who have been with us
for fifteen years. Think about that for a moment. Abacus Plumbing,
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All Star Construction, Dean and Draper Insurance, Flaarty's Flooring America,
Mcaulay's Lumber, Oop Steam Cleaning plants for all seasons, Southern
front Doors, Texas Renters, Top Tax Defenders. You know, we
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had a vision twenty years ago for how the show
was going to work, and I am extremely difficult to
deal with if you're a sales rep. And the sales
reps will be honest with you about that. I am
extremely difficult to deal with. And the major reason for
that is that somebody will want to be a part
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of the show. They're a listener and they want you
as their customers because they've heard, you know, They've talked
to Lewis Florey and he says, you know, seventy five
percent of my business is for Michael Berryshaw Listeners or
Chance McLain. One hundred percent of my business business is
Michael Berrishall Listeners or Michael Petru. Ninety percent of my
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business is Michael Barryshell Listeners. And they see how it's
it's morphed into a business model for people. But just
like every business this, there are sort of conventional ways
that things get done, and people like to stick to
the conventional.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
For instance, over the.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Years, I've had to yell at people because they'll say, hey,
we're doing a special for Memorial dam and I say, well,
nothing says that I love fallen soldiers quite like ten
percent off. No, I'm not doing it well, but they're
really putting a lot of effort into it. No, I'm
not doing it, but they really want you to know
I'm not doing it which is my advice to you.
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See where you're going, be confident that's a good route.
Be willing to steer into the other lane a little
if you need to, but don't let anybody take you
off that. Surround yourself with good people. It's amazing to
me how often someone will tell me when I ask them,
what's the biggest impediment to you grow in your business? Well?
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Not very good? Well why is she there? I don't know.
I like her, she's nice, but she's not good. No,
she runs off all the good people.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
She's always sick.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
She she's always got some excuse once she's not coming in.
Well what about your planet?
Speaker 6 (13:17):
No?
Speaker 3 (13:18):
She just oh she's sorry. You know, I got tired
of arguing with her. Are you so afraid of change
that you can't fire that person? Are you sleeping with her?
Is she your sister? These aren't rational decisions. Choose the
life you want to have and then live it. And
for people who don't want to be part of your
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life under your terms, eliminate them from your life. Extricate them.
Don't allow other people to put you in the situation.
For this one little life, you have to not absolutely
love it. Period. End of story. Move on?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Is that easy? Now?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
That means that not everybody's going to like you. That
means that you have to make tough decisions.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
It means that you have to focus on good people
and eliminate bad people. But that's what life's about. That's
what good coaches do.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
You know, when the Packers got rid of Brett Fharr,
that was a tough decision, but they knew they had
Aaron Rodgers, and they knew that they had more good
years out of him than than Brett Farr, and that
that was the right decision. When the forty nine Ers
let Joe Montana go, I was so mad at them.
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I wanted him to win a Super Bowl with the
Chiefs so bad. But long term, it was the right decision.
They had the quarterback of the future, and what a
great quarterback he turned out to be. In Montana was
just not a shell of himself just yet, but he
would be soon. You've got to make tough decisions in
your life to have the life you want to have.
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The life you want to have is not going to
fall into your lap. You have to constantly prune the
friendship tree. I was talking about blocking people on your
phone because every time you see their name come up,
you cringe. You're miserable. And a friend of mine that
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once a year will thank me, and he will thank
me because there's one guy who would call him constantly,
and when he called, he would start in on him.
And you didn't call me. You don't come around, you
haven't done this. I need this, you don't do this.
And finally he said, you know, I don't need that
guy in my life. So he goes home and he said, hey,
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listen to Michael talking about this, and what do you think?
And she said, I've never liked that guy. Every time
he calls, if we're on vacation, if we're out at dinner,
he makes your life miserable. Why do you take his call?
Because y'all went to school together. Got him out.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
With more of the Michael Berry Show. I don't do TikTok.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
So I don't know if this is true or not,
but I'm going to read it because I thought it
was well written, and for those of you who are
on there, you can tell me if it's true or not.
Chris writes Zar somewhere between the gas station Beggar and
the board Suburban Wife, too timid for only fans. A
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new breed of hustler has emerged, wrapped in filters, fake
tears and desperate pleas for digital roses. Welcome to TikTok Live.
Where the currency is attention, the hustle is emotional manipulation,
and Daddy she that's the leader of China gets his
cut from every gift scent. This isn't content. It's high
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gloss panhandling performed not on a street corner, but from
a ring lit bed, disguised as entertainment but driven by
the same shameless grind. You're not tipping a creator. You're
enabling a dopamine fueled dance of desperation and feeding a
machine that launders your sympathy into profit, all under the
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watchful eye of the CCP. There's no hustle like the
sympathy hustle. Watch long enough and you'll see it all.
Grown adults fake crying over made up rent emergencies, Moms
with their tits barely out, winding about daycare bills. Dudes
with three thousand followers begging for a galaxy so they
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can eat tonight. Spare me. What we're watching isn't hardship.
It's monetized emotional cosplay, spoon fed to viewers like pixelated meth.
And the worst part, it works because this isn't a
platform anymore. It's a global digital swap meet for validation
starved grifters running run out of Beijing. The algorithm doesn't
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care about truth. It rewards whatever gets the most taps,
the most pity tips, the most people whispering oh my god,
are they okay in the comments while chucking coins at
the screen. And for every one hundred dollars in roses,
lions and whatever the hell else, TikTok Live is slaying daddy.
She scrapes a chunk off the top and thanks you
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for your support of Chinese tech imperialism.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Let's call this what it is, a bastardized.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Blend of panhandling, cam girl desperation and black mirror social theater,
except now the pimp is a Communist party stakeholder.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Gone are the days of earning your keep.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Just boot up your lives, slap on a SOB story,
and beg for your dinner with sparkly filters and emoji tears.
Got a disability, perfect exploit it mental health issues even better,
break down on camera and rake it in lost your job,
cry for ten minutes, fake a power outage and call
it content. This is not about connection, it's about commodified despair.
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And if you're not exploiting your own suffering yet, you're
leaving money on the table. Meanwhile, the viewers, the suckers,
keep feeding the beast because sending a virtual lion makes
them feel like philanthropists without the inconvenience of actual generosity.
You're not donating, you're paying to be emotionally manipulated in
real time by someone who treats victimhood like a side hustle. Congrats,
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you just funded someone's vape pen and made the CCP
a little richer in the process. And if you dare
question the whole rotten charade, get ready for the mob.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Don't judge.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
They'll scream as if this isn't Judgment season twenty four
to seven on the very app. They're defending they're just
trying to survive. Yeah, so are people working twelve hour
shifts without shaking their tits for tips or faking seizures
on live stream. We've reached a point where dignity is
optional and desperation is marketable. So long as you've got
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a ring light in a sad face. Street corners used
to be the bottom. Now it's TikTok Live, where American
dignity is sold in thirty second loops and streams straight
to Beijing like oil through a pipeline. The real horror.
We're not even shocked anymore. We scroll past it like
it's just another day in clown world. A man pretending
to be an NPC for money. Cute, A single mom
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dancing while her kid cries off screen. Brave, a teenager
with visible scars whispering. Tap the screen if you care relatable.
This isn't just sad, it's cultural decay and ten eighty
P live streamed and monetized by the minute. And let's
not forget. TikTok doesn't just allow this, it engineers it.
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The same algorithm that silences political dissent, that buries anything
remotely critical of China or the CCP actively boosts videos
where Americans look weak, desperate, and dysfunctional. Why Because nothing
says global dominance like having your geopolitical rivals dancing, begging
and trauma dumping for your profit. This is warfare by humiliation,
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and the foot soldiers are doing it voluntarily for clout
for sympathy, for scraps, the creators their addicts, not to substances,
but to attention, validation, and the steady drip of coins
that trickle in with every emoji reaction. TikTok doesn't build influencers,
It builds dependents. People so wrapped in their own sob
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story personas they forget where the performance ends in reality
begins and the audience. You're not better, You're complicit. You watch,
you engage, you gift not because you care, but because
you're bored, because parasocial pity gives you a rush. Because
this is your entertainment now, watching people unravel in real
time and calling it empathy and beneath it all, Daddy,
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she smiles, because TikTok is the most successful social trojan
horse ever deployed. No need to hack American infrastructure when
you can it's culture from within. No need to fight
a war when you can make your adversary willingly humiliate
itself in public. Well started as lip syncing and dance trends,
has devolved into a digital freak show, a marketplace of
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manipulated sadness where the house always wins and the house
just happens to be in Beijing.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
This isn't entertainment.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
This is cultural rot packaged its content, a panhandling circus
with ring lights instead of corners, and filters instead of faces.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
TikTok lives aren't just cringed.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
They're a sign that we've sold our dignity for coins
on an app owned by a regime that thrives on
our collapse. Every gift, every rose, every galaxy is proof
that America is not just losing its edge, it's losing
its pride. It's amazing to me that China is our
mortal enemy. They thwart our efforts everywhere we discover a
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new Chinese spy in the high ranks of our top
secret research, the military, or our government seemingly weakly.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
And yet what do we do? What do we do?
Are we so?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
I'll post that to the Facebook? By the way, are
we so addicted to cheap crap that we are willing
to empower of people who hate us? Why do we
allow any Chinese researchers to come to this country when
so many have been outed as spies? How many people
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remember in Houston that at the consulate, once it was
discovered they were stealing medical records from the Houston Medical
Center as to how we were dealing with COVID, seemingly
so they could morph the disease to kill more of us.
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But their motives will well will agree to disagree over.
Once it was discovered that they were stealing our our
intellectual property and a raid was imminent, they opened the
internal courtyard and set a funeral power there and dumped
all the documents into it.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Remember there was smoke everywhere.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
They were burning documents in Houston, Texas they had solen
from our medical center.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Good agree, these people are our Emmy, this is I
know what's the name?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
You say, Michael Buddy?
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
And then she gonna tell people that nobody gonna pay
no attention to shut up. Guard, come here from my story.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Okay, look like sands through the.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Yeah, every day, look in at my flute. Jer came wait,
well day, come on.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
There's a comedian named Jerry Wayne Longmire and I'd been
following him for a while without even knowing he lives
in Houston. And I posted some of his stuff a
few years ago and he wrote me a nice note
back and say, you sure appreciate it, and so how'd
you know? I did it? And he said, he lives
in Houston, and we got some mutual friends through the
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Houston comedy community. He's the one that does the bits.
If you've ever seen where he'll do the this is uh,
this is what your.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Truck says about you, or those.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Sorts of things. Well, a listener named Robert Townsend sent
me a post he didn't know. I knew who Jerry
Wayne Longmire is, but simply it's called a Texan's Ode
to Evan Williams. Evan Williams is a is a premium bourbon,
and it is so well written and so funny that
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I had to share it with you. So here it is.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I'm a man dispossessed.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Enjoy the fiery flavor of the ghost of Rye and Corn,
especially those spirits conjured in the great state of Kentucky,
a land of both cliff and tree, where high culture
wears a wide brim hat and pearl button pride, and
the finest dressed lady at the Derby shares air with
the windswept hush of Pikeville, where Appalachian air, a thousand
years old, moves like a hymn. Nobody remembers writing when
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Evan Williams hits my throat. There's no urgency. It don't
come in kicking doors. It slips in like memory, like
the first time you see a mermaid hair girl. You
don't know why you love it, but you can picture
it spread across your pillow. You're just a hapless witness
to something beautiful. That's evan on the escyphagus, a mystic
code only interpreted by a tongue tethered to a soul
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that's lived a little. It don't just taste their single barrel.
You feel it like a friend you forgot to call
for some time. They remind you that you exist, that
they're still warmth in your bones. It loosens the voice
inside you. But your best stay in the place where
that boy speaks of beauty, not the dark. It's a
pleasure that comes with responsibility. Everything in moderation, Son, they'll say,
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not to wet your parade, but to keep you sheltered,
sheltered from the steep cost of over in Biben, where
the road and arrows and the signs fall silent, and
a water moccasin of trouble lies sleek among the leaves,
quietly waiting, learning your limit.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
That's the key.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
John writes, Zora, I made it to fifty nine years
old without ever changing a diaper, never had kids of
my own. Only diaper I ever changed was my dad's
when he had bladder cancer. Wouldn't wish it on anyone.
Lost him in April, just sort of his eighty fifth birthday.
He was a great dad. You don't know how much
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you love your mom and dad until you change their diaper.
That's the fact talked about the don't plan your weddings
on big football days. You got the whole rest of
the year. Matt writes, My late grandmother was an English
major with distinguished honors at Michigan State who was known
for her wit. Think of an Irish Michigander, Barbara Bush. Anyway,
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I was complaining to her about my cheapskate friend who
booked his wedding on the Saturday of the Michigan State
Michigan game, when she delivered the following cautionary anecdote. Oh heavens,
I had a sorority sister who decided she would plan
her wedding on the day of the University of Michigan
game because she said she wanted to find out who
her real friends were and oh, did she ever find out?
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I just thought you might get a kick out of this,
since I've twice heard you do monologues on this subject,
which is also a very serious subject in Michigan, not
just Texas. Terry Wheeler writes on July twenty third, twenty
twenty five, Mattressmac helped launch the Harris County Magapack to
a crowd of nearly four hundred people. H C Magapack
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is the only America First organization in Harris County and
is focused on building a war chest and grassroots army
of volunteers. Trump received seven hundred and twenty three thousand
votes in Harris County, and many of those were first
time voters that don't necessarily identify with the Republican Party.
They are all in on MAGA, though, engaging and recruiting
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those new MAGA voters is of paramount importance to our country.
One in seven Texas Republican voters reside in Harris County.
This is almost twice as many as Terrant County, the
second highest county in Texas. The future of Western civilization
may well be decided about here in Harris County. If
Harris County falls Texas falls. If Texas falls, so does
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the rest of the country. Please help us get the
word out. Going to tell you something, the Harris County
Republican Party is feckless. It's run by Cindy Siegel, who's
a nice enough lady, but not a tough lady, not
the kind of person that engineers victories for the county judge,
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for county positions for swing districts. And she serves completely
one hundred percent at the discretion of Paul Bettencourt, a
state senator whose real job is as the face of
a company that does tax protests, so he has no
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interest in lowering taxes because the hire your taxes and
more money his business makes. He's really really good at
giving interviews to Wayne Delchraffino, who does fantastic work or
the local news about how bad things are in Austin
and then doing nothing about it. And other than that,
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we have no real Republican party to speak of in
the region. That's why you're not hearing about any of
the candidates for Harris County Judge. On the Republican side,
there is the mayor of one of the Memorial villages
who has been serving there for about two cups of coffee,
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and she's going to run county wide. And the reason
I'm told by the old white guys who want me
to support her is because she's a non white woman
and that's what it takes to win. Now, Boy, if
you had to hear some of the conversations out here,
we got this woman. She's foreign born, not white, and
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a woman. We got a good one. Okay, But is
there anything other than her demographic profile that you'd like
to offer to me as to why you're supporting her. Well,
Michael the day sure, you know this. You're not a
stupid guy. The days of the white guy winning anymore,
those are over. You're gonna have to play the game
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the way they play the game. So what you just
told me is the way to beat the Democrats is
to be the Democrats. You've gone and found somebody who's
a non white woman with no real political experience to
speak of other than being the unpaid mayor of a
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little bitty hamlet of a few hundred people, and you're
going to run that against Rodney Ellis, who's going to
be well funded, a candidate with zero name ID, or
you're going to get the president of the Firefighters Union.
This is who you're going to run on what basis?
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And that is why the largest county in Texas has
fallen to Rodney ellis not just because he's devious and clever,
but because our leadership is feckless. And this is why
I tell you what's gonna happen. It might be in
twenty twenty six, if none, it will be by twenty
twenty eight. We're gonna lose a statewide election because Rodney's
(33:11):
gonna cheat so big that you won't be able to
believe it. It's gonna be twenty twenty Joe Biden's stuff
and people won't be able to believe it. And Greg
Abbott and Dan Patrick and all of them will have
themselves to blame because they didn't want to do anything
for Harris County until it bit them on the ass.
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