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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What it's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
So Michael Very Show.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Is on the air, John Wards from you A Senator
John Corton out of Texas, the Republican says former President
Donald Trump can't win the twenty twenty four in general
election for President Cornyn saying, I think President Trump's time
is passed him by.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Are you saying don't vote for Donald Trump?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
You know it too important to gamble.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
I do think it's very important that we have a
candidate who can win in twenty twenty four, and I'm
not sure President Trump is that candidate.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
You've said that. Do you think it's time for the
Republican Party to move on from President Trump?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
You know, in politics, unless you can win an election,
you're pretty much irrelevant.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
The senator didn't say who he intends to support, but
he didn't double down on who he believes the Republican
Arty should not nominates. Former President Donald Trump born untold
Fox twenty six. He won't be supporting former President Trump,
and neither should all the Republicans.
Speaker 6 (01:09):
So you prom and think this song is about You're so.
Speaker 7 (01:19):
Do you think this song.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Is about.
Speaker 8 (01:25):
I can tell you that I've worked with Senator Cornyn,
who is a for re election a number of times
on a number of pieces of legislation, he's actually not
been the worst Republican that you can find in the Senate.
To be perfectly honest.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I know Republicans voters, and as I said earlier, really
it's a question of who bothers to show up. If
only the most radical people show up in the primary,
then I think that's going to be a analogy song.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
This song is a bound your.
Speaker 9 (02:17):
Texas Senator John Cornyan to negotiate with Democrats to see
if there is a compromise to be reached. Cornan joins
a bipartisan group of senators who say they will work
on the issue throughout the Memorial Day recess.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I expector will be an informed debate about reforms we
can make, and I look forward to participating in those discussions.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I've been working for more than three years on a
red flag statute that seems now to have met its moment.
Speaker 10 (02:47):
Senator John Cornan, conservative like you the songs. Now, there
are some Republicans, including former President Trump, who are ripping
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this and ripping you as well. The deal on gun
control currently being structured and pushed in the Senate by
the radical left Democrats with the help of Mitch McConnell,
Rhino Senator John Corner of Texas and others will go
down in history. Is the first step of the movement
to take your guns away.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
The wall, I have to tell you, doctor, is non'm
going to stop your llegal immigration.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
The wall is an immorality. What we need is a
virtual border.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Giant wall from sea to shining sea makes no sense.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
What's what? Elections can get very complicated, and complication and
(04:02):
confusion can cause frustration. I see it every day. Voters
are frustrated. The comment I get is, oh, I can't
wait till those selection is over. So how do I
just see all these commercials on TV? I don't know
the TV advertising business very well, but I would tell
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you this. I don't believe it to be the case
that the total number of commercials interrupting your programming increases
during political season. I don't believe it to be the
case that it does. It may slightly, they may have expanded.
We have that in the radio business, but marginally it's
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not enough that would make a difference. So what's really
happening here? When you listen to the radio or watch TV.
You have content and you have commercials, and then you
have service elements. In radio you have traffic, which are
in news which are called service elements. But basically you
have content and commercials. And what you're telling me is
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for the I don't know on TV what the percentage
is twenty percent. For the twenty percent of the time
that we're not in content, you can sell me cars,
you can sell me sell phone service, you can sell
me promotions for other shows. But for the love of anything,
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don't ask me to vote for somebody that feels weird.
It feels like an odd thing to say. Yeah, so
how you can get back to watch the TV and
the commercials will be different than they are right now,
do the commercials normally bother you that much?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Only political? Okay, so you'll still have as many commercials.
So if Billy Bob or whoever the other guy is
is just repeatedly telling you that this is a cell
phone service you should use, that doesn't bother you, right,
But don't ask me to pay attention to something that
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actually affects my life, which is who my congressman, Senator
Doug Catcher is correct. Don't like it Okay, all right,
I got it. I said where you're going here? All right?
Let me ask you think how best to approach this question.
(06:34):
How much do you know about individual office holders? Nothing?
I just heard nothing know anything? How else would you
know anything? We can't trust anything they say, true, true point,
But wouldn't you at least like to know what they
have to say before you cats the vote, even if
they're lying when you at least like to hear it
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because who you choose to put in your government, or
or what we could do this is my favorite, we
could declare because once you do this, you're checked out
and it's no longer any responsibility. I'm gonna vote. They're
all terrible. I'm not going to vote. They're all terrible. Okay, yeah,
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all of them. All the politicians are terrible. Are they terrible?
Are they terrible because they're politicians or were they terrible
before they were politicians? And so there's a casting call says,
all terrible people come and file for the office you're
running for. Only terrible people allowed to file, And some
good people showed up, and they're like, uh uh uh uh,
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you're a good one. You stay out. Anybody else here
who's terrible over here. Okay, yeah, you get in here?
So or are you terrible because you're a politician? Because
how about this? How about you, mister good guy, how
about you run for office and not be terrible. I'd
never get in all this stuff on my record. Well wait,
get it all. Wait, my advasso, Mitch Michael Berry fucking
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who had.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Been bill escaped from the ordinary.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I'm gonna say this for the one thousandth time, and
thick headed people are not going to get it. But
I'm gonna for those of you who are genuinely curious,
I'm gonna say for that. By the way, phone lines
are open. Here's what I don't want. I don't want
you to call up and announce that you're running or
people should support you if you are a person. This
is hard to get because the kind of people who
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want to call are all people who are inside baseball.
But there's nothing more pure and wonderful to me in
our format than Paul the president of the Garden club
out in Dobbin, Texas, calling in to tell you when
he voted. Uh. The problem is the kind of people
you most want to call are least likely to call,
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and the kind of people who are not authentic, they're
you know, the campaign manager for Joe Blow Those people,
we'll rush to call in. But if you are the former,
not the ladder, and you just you thought about it,
and you came to this conclusion to vote for this candidate,
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I would love to hear from you seven one three
nine nine nine one thousand seven one three nine nine
nine one thousand, seven one three one thousand. And if
you're seventy plus you get moved to the front of
the line, And if you're twenty five and below, you
get moved to the front line. I'll tell you why
in just a moment, But first I keep getting this question. Michael.
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I went to your ballot, which is at Michael Berryshow
dot com. Remember, if you're going to vote today, take
whatever printed materials you can print out my ballot off
the website. Anything you got in the mail that you
want to take with you, Any voting card, sheet, endorsement list,
handwritten notes you've made, you can take all of those
with you. You cannot open your phone when you're in
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the voting booth. Is that a stupid rule, maybe, but
that is the rule. When I was voting, there was
a fellow behind me, and you know, you kind of
walked it was. They made a horseshoe shape out of it,
and I'm voting on the horseshoe part to the right,
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and he's voting the horseshoe part to the left. And
he pulls his phone out and the nice little old
white lady who was working the poles said first, very sweetly,
and I mean, you know, her name was Verlin or
Verdine or Olive or Gertrude or Beatrice or something, just
sweet little white lady, old and she said, sir, I'm sorry,
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you can't use your phone, and he proceeded not to
hear her, and she was like, that's my trick. So
she paused and she waited, and she she's closing in
on him as she does this, and she's a little
bity tiny thing, and she's that kind of old where
people get where their body is kind of misshaping right,
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so there's like no neck left, and she's kind of
crumpled over, like she's like a half finished aluminum can
of Coca cola, and she's kind of like you went
to crunch it, but you didn't get a good you
know how when you put a ramona when you put
a can on the on the concrete, and you go
to stomp it to make it tiny to put in
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the trash, but you only hit side of it, so
she just crumpled up. The little lady. She's real sweet,
and she starts toward him and she says it again,
very politely, sir, you can't use your phone. Well, at
this point, he's starting, she's getting real close on him,
and so he can't use the old I can't hear
you get him anymore. So then he starts trying to
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rapidly vote, but you can't rapidly vote on those machines.
So at this point, she very sweetly puts her hand
on the back of his arm, and she's about to
do that thing my mom used to do when we were little,
which just pinched him on the back of that thing
hurts ooh, on the back of the bicep. So he said, okay, okay,
puts his phone note and then he proceeds for five
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minutes to explain to her how this is the st
stupidest ruling in the world. I agree, but it's not
her rules. She says, said it to enforced the rule.
She doesn't like telling a cop you think a law
is stupid. He's not the guy that can change it.
He's got a job to do anyway. So I keep
getting this question of term limits, where your ballot says
that you're four one through ten, item number six is
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or you're in favor of one through ten. Item six
is term limits, so you're in favor of term limits,
to which I answer, and I will say this, nobody
seems to understand this. I don't give a damn about
term moments. I really don't. I'm not for them or
against them. I said four because I didn't want to
confuse people on the items one through ten. I'm not
against them necessarily. But here's what makes me mad that
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nobody seems to get because everybody is convinced that if
you just change that, you can you can have good government.
If you just write new laws, if you have new restrictions,
your kids will no longer be having promiscuous sex all
night long, unprotected, doing drugs, driving one hundred dollars an hour,
sneaking out of the house, and engaged in all sorts
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of bad behaviors. If you just write it down that
they can't do that, well, that's not how it works.
So here's the point. You have term limits, You f
things have term limits. Why is it so hard to understand?
If you're in favor of term limits, what's your terminate
three two year terms for a congressman? Vote out every
congressman they've all been in that long. Well, like my guy,
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Then you don't want term limits. You want a law
that keeps you from doing what you're doing right now.
This is like sex fiends who run around as pornography crusaders,
and then you find out that they're obsessed Ted Haggard,
they're obsessed with porn. This is like people run around
him homos and homos are taking over the world, and
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then you find out they got fifteen homo escorts coming
to their house. These people that have this this sort
of frustration as to who they are or what they do,
are their inability to make decisions, so they run around
changing laws. You can be for termaments, but how about this,
how about vote against every incumbent, Vote against Cornyn, vote
against Crenshaw, vote against Abbot, vote against all of them.
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All right, your calls coming up, Luis and add Michael
Bay try to the bone lines. We go so much
to say, but I promise we'd get to your calls,
and I love your calls, so let's do that. I
do want to say before we start that, thank you
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to Next Wave Energy. They just did a golf tournament,
their eleventh annual golf tournament in this year. They did
it to benefit Camp Hope and they wrote a check
for three hundred and sixty five thousand dollars to Camp
Hope at the end of it. So Sean Diamond and
your entire team at next Way Energy dot Com, next
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Wave Energy Partners, thank you very much. That's very cool.
Lives will be saved, lives will be changed, a difference
will be made because you did that, you and your
entire team. So everybody who was involved with the Next
Wave golf tournament, thank you. All right, So the phone
lines we go. Let's get right to it. Yeah, Bill,
(15:24):
you're up, go.
Speaker 11 (15:27):
Michael.
Speaker 12 (15:27):
Thanks.
Speaker 11 (15:28):
I've been meaning to call you for about two years
because the Good Friday in twenty four monologue that you did.
I never thought i'd hear that on public radio. It
was terrific. So I listened to your show regularly. I'm
up in spring, I'm in District two, and at the
end of January I met Dan Crawford of briefing that
he covered up near where we lived, and it was
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the most obnoxious thing I ever saw, with everybody in
their red cards and the Democrats and interrupting every question,
and he was going to ask. But I'm still going
to vote for him. I had a chance to talk
to him afterwards. I'll vote for Paxston and as well.
Hees new to Texas. This is the tenth state I've
lived in and I traveled to all fifty and I
almost got booted out of my own family for voting
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for Trump three times. But you know, we persevere. But
I just want to say, love your show and listen
to it when I'm in the car.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Thanks you, buddy, Lyndy. You're ol Michael Berry Show, Sir.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
Go ahead, Hello, Michael, I'm driving down I chant in
my farm. I'm a retired energy person and I voted
first day of early voting, and I basically followed your
recommendation with a couple of exceptions. Exception one was I'm
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a Leshly Hunt supporter, and two I went for Abbot
as opposed to your recommendation.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Okay, tell me why you went with.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Abbott more of a known commodity than anything. I just
generally like what I see from him. I didn't know
anything about him not supporting trying to get to the
bottom of the mealer problem in Houston. But you know,
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other than that, I'm pretty cool with that.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Abbot. Let me ask you a question, and I'm not.
Your vote is cast, so I'm just and maybe it
wouldn't make a difference.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
It's done.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
So in the last couple of days, there's been a
lot of people talking about the fact that with the
issue of the guy in Austin with the property of Allah,
Abbot's biggest donor is a Pakistani man that's given him
fourteen million dollars with strong ties to Pakistan. His head
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of the Texas Medical Board has also been tied to
a Pakistani position in the medical field. There's a video
of him talking to a group called Muslim Health and
telling people how to come to this country and become
doctors when we have doctors here who can't find positions
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because they're not available. He has a disturbing tie to
Pakistani businessman. I'm assuming you probably didn't know that, But
if you did know that, would that bother you?
Speaker 6 (18:23):
Not particularly?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I did not know that, Okay, No, no, if it doesn't.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
But I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Okay, let me ask you another question. I'm asking because
I want to know how these things play to voters,
not to change your vote. You've already cast your vote.
He received I think it was four or five different checks,
so it's not a one time oversight from Colony Ridge.
And I'm assuming you know what Coliny Ridge is for
well over a million dollars from the Colony Ridge developer
and then separately from his wife. Does that bother you?
Speaker 6 (18:53):
I guess you're thinking a little about illegal immigration.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
No, no, my opinion. It doesn't matter here. I'm curious
about your opinion. Everybody gets to have their own opinion.
And it's legitimate and authentic and rich connection. What's that?
Speaker 6 (19:09):
That's the colony rich connection?
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Yeah, but no, But I'm just asking, do you know
what Connie Ridge is? And does that bother you?
Speaker 6 (19:18):
That kind of does?
Speaker 12 (19:19):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Okay? When they give him over a million dollars, why
do you think they do? You think they just kind
of want good government?
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Well, I would imagine they are clearly thinking he's going
to support what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Right, And why do you think he would take the
money when there had been so complaints able.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
Don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I can, I can give you some ideas. I'm not
trying to beat you up. You're actually the perfect case.
I think it's good to hear what people have to say.
There is no perfect candid. I don't mean say that
there is. I do believe that there is evil afoot
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and I do believe that we have people in office
who make a deal with the devil, knowing it's a
deal with the devil, and counting on the fact that
you won't know about it, or that they can use
the money to claim that anyone questioning them is awful,
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and that that that that that is a calculation they
make because it's always worked before. I do believe that,
and I think we're gonna you see that in your elections.
You see that in people who who do things that
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are unthinkable and then they have to come back before
the voters. And nobody comes back before the voters and says,
you know what, you called me, that was a horrible
thing I did. I should be ashamed of myself. I apologize,
and I want to ask your forgiveness, and I want
to ask for your vote. They don't do that. They
just start smearing the other guy really hard and claiming
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that anyone who questions them is a demon. And the
reality is, it works. And it doesn't work because there's
a tsunami in Thailand, and it doesn't work because there's
heavy rain in Beaumont. It works because we are fallible
human beings who are capable of being swayed, and we
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are capable of being swayed into taking a shot that
ends up killing us. We are capable of being swayed
into believing that Obamacare is healthcare for everybody. We are
capable of being manipulated. And we may not like that
because it doesn't come off well, but it's true. And again,
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I'm not trying to be up on callers. I'm trying
to have some fun in exchange and engage. I appreciate
Lindy being honest about that. I'm not asking you to
regret your vote. Greg, You're up, go ahead.
Speaker 12 (22:10):
Hey, Michael, thanks for taking my car. Hey just wanted
to let you know I took your advice last week
and went and voted early and took my cheat sheet
with me that you had online. And my wife went
today and took the cheat sheet with her and she
just called me a little bit Ago said when she
got up there to vote, when she was done or
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when she was going through the ballot, there were no
Republicans on the ballot. It was all Democrats, and she
didn't realize what was going on, so all she got
to vote for was the propositions. And when she was
done voting, she asked the lady there, what why are
there no Republicans on the ballot, and she just told her,
well that this is all Democrats. So I'm confused how
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she got into the wrong voting area there, it did seem.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Sorry to Michael Verry show, let me just say this,
if you're retired or off work today or otherwise have
some free time and you want to you're feeling the
election spirit. If you call the campaign that you support,
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they'll send you out to a campaign location. It's not
real formal, there's no training. You just stand there and go, hey,
please vote for Steve Toath, please vote for Alex Meeler,
whoever the candidate is. And the other thing is, even
if you don't know anybody, even if you have to
go by yourself. This is how I started. When I
came to Houston, I would go to campaign. I would
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go to election night events before I knew anybody, and
I just look around see who the players were, and
I learned pretty quickly. But go to you. If you
look at the website for the candidate you support at
whatever level, there's there's probably an election night watch party
tonight and there's no cost and there's no ticket required.
You just show up and at seven o'clock you'll get
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the first round of election of you'll start getting the
early vote will drop, and then through the course of
the evening you'll get earlier returns than you do in
November because the Democrat cheating will only be on the
Democrats side. The Republicans will turn the votes in pretty fast.
The way we used to where you could have your
election would be put to bed about ten o'clock. But
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those are open. If you go to the candidate, you
choose their website or look them up, it's not that hard.
You can go to their parties and they usually start
at about seven o'clock and it's a fun thing to do.
There's usually free food and drinks too. So all right,
who are you voting for? And why Dan? You're up?
Speaker 7 (24:47):
Go ahead, Hey, Michael, Dan.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Call call it.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
I'm actually coming from voting, and I just moved here
just under four years ago. I'm a scapee from the
People's Republic of New York and so this is my
first primary voting here. Interesting observation. I don't know if
anyone's told you this. On the list of candidates for Senate,
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everyone is listed except for one. Because there's no room.
You have to push the Seymour candidate's button to reveal
Ken Paxton. So I thought that was kind of interesting
in wondering if anybody's it is.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
And obviously that stresses people out. Now I tested it.
You can't move to the next page until you scroll down,
so the first page is everybody in the race, because
there's a bunch of people other than Paxton, and then
when you look at the bottom, it says scroll down.
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It's not easy to find. I think for an older
voter who's not you know, my kids are walking it
popop because it's very intuitive to them. But for an
older voter it might be very stressful. But you cannot
go to the next vote, to the next race unless
you scroll down and see Paxton's name. So there is
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I guess some sort of a safeguard. I don't know
what to make of that. I also know you know
what I don't understand, and this was kind of odd
to me. Why couldn't you make the font a little smaller?
How many of us didn't have a paper we had
to submit, and you know it had to be ten
pages when we turned it in and we only had six,
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So we just changed our margin and added more space
in between. The professors knew what we were doing, but
you can stretch her. You could have programmed this damn
thing where you'd have all the votes, all the candidates
on one page. That felt very weird that they couldn't
fix that. I mean, how hard would that be to do?
Because they knew this was happening really really weird. I
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thought that whole deal was really really weird. Carla, what
you got? Glands from heart?
Speaker 11 (27:04):
Hi?
Speaker 6 (27:05):
Yes, I.
Speaker 13 (27:08):
Wanted to say that I voted for Hawkdown Lap for
her Bay Road Commission. And the reason I did that
is because there's this lady that's been going around and
she has these real videos about zombie wells and she's
been addressing this for some time and having her content
with the state about it and the oil companies and
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and it is an issue. But the thing is one
day I saw this real nursous guy out there helping
her doing this day, and I said, is the real
and yeah, So I.
Speaker 12 (27:42):
Voted for him for that.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
I I can barely hear you, but I got I
got the thrust of your argument. Uh, Steve, You're up,
Go ahead.
Speaker 12 (27:52):
Hey, thanks a lot.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
I was calling to let you know about my boat
for Senate as well as for the proposition on term limits.
So percentate, I voted for Ken Paxton, and simply because
his record is so good and what he's done as
our attorney general versus what I haven't seen done by
Senator Cornyn. And I don't think we have enough time
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with Congressman Hunt to realize what his track record is
going to be at this point. So I think the
best choice for me was Ken Paxton for Senator, and
just praying for him and his family and understanding there's
some rough things to go through that that shouldn't dissuade
any of us from the record that he can has
done and can do as the senator for our state.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Thank you. I want to go to clip number fourteen, Ramon,
this is if I were to sew up this entire
election cycle, really, the entire election process. This is it
in a nutshell. This is John Cornyn on with CBS
a couple of days ago. Listen to this.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
I know Republicans voters, and as I said earlier, really
it's a question of who bothers to show up. If
only the most radical people show up in the primary,
then I think that's.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Going to be a challenge. If we get a broad.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Spectrum of Republican voters to turn out in the primary.
I'm optimistic about the outcompany.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
When we refer to Muslims or Islam, what is the
word we use to take it from the guy who
works in the lab down the hall, from us to
the person who will blow the whole place up in
murder children. One word radical? He says, if only the
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most radical people show up, that I won't win. Show
up where in the Republican primary? Who are these radical
people of which you speak? Are they not Republicans? Because
he doesn't want to close primary. Neither is Greg Abbott
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for that matter. Do you know why they don't want
to close primary? They want Democrats to vote in our primary.
Do you know why? Because they don't want just the
base to vote in our primary? Because they do better
among Democrats than the radical Republican in the race. He's
not talking about candidates. He's not saying Paxton is radical.
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He believes he is. He's saying you're radical. You know
why you're radical because you don't support him. You know
why you're radical because you don't want red flag laws
and he does. You know why as you're radical because
you wanted Donald Trump in twenty twenty four when he
say shit, you know why you're radical because you wanted
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a border wall when he said that was silly and ridiculous,
because you don't want to send money to Ukraine. All
of these things make you radical. And if all you
radicals show up in the Republican primary, he won't win
because you radicals don't like him. That is how Crinshaw
views you. That is how Cornyn views you. That is
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how Abbott views you. That is how chip Roy views you.
And they say it ever so often, they say it.
Go vote, folks, Today is your day.
What it's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
So Michael Very Show.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Is on the air, John Wards from you A Senator
John Corton out of Texas, the Republican says former President
Donald Trump can't win the twenty twenty four in general
election for President Cornyn saying, I think President Trump's time
is passed him by.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Are you saying don't vote for Donald Trump?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
You know it too important to gamble.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
I do think it's very important that we have a
candidate who can win in twenty twenty four, and I'm
not sure President Trump is that candidate.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
You've said that. Do you think it's time for the
Republican Party to move on from President Trump?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
You know, in politics, unless you can win an election,
you're pretty much irrelevant.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
The senator didn't say who he intends to support, but
he didn't double down on who he believes the Republican
Arty should not nominates. Former President Donald Trump born untold
Fox twenty six. He won't be supporting former President Trump,
and neither should all the Republicans.
Speaker 6 (01:09):
So you prom and think this song is about You're so.
Speaker 7 (01:19):
Do you think this song.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Is about.
Speaker 8 (01:25):
I can tell you that I've worked with Senator Cornyn,
who is a for re election a number of times
on a number of pieces of legislation, he's actually not
been the worst Republican that you can find in the Senate.
To be perfectly honest.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I know Republicans voters, and as I said earlier, really
it's a question of who bothers to show up. If
only the most radical people show up in the primary,
then I think that's going to be a analogy song.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
This song is a bound your.
Speaker 9 (02:17):
Texas Senator John Cornyan to negotiate with Democrats to see
if there is a compromise to be reached. Cornan joins
a bipartisan group of senators who say they will work
on the issue throughout the Memorial Day recess.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I expector will be an informed debate about reforms we
can make, and I look forward to participating in those discussions.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I've been working for more than three years on a
red flag statute that seems now to have met its moment.
Speaker 10 (02:47):
Senator John Cornan, conservative like you the songs. Now, there
are some Republicans, including former President Trump, who are ripping
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this and ripping you as well. The deal on gun
control currently being structured and pushed in the Senate by
the radical left Democrats with the help of Mitch McConnell,
Rhino Senator John Corner of Texas and others will go
down in history. Is the first step of the movement
to take your guns away.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
The wall, I have to tell you, doctor, is non'm
going to stop your llegal immigration.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
The wall is an immorality. What we need is a
virtual border.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Giant wall from sea to shining sea makes no sense.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
What's what? Elections can get very complicated, and complication and
(04:02):
confusion can cause frustration. I see it every day. Voters
are frustrated. The comment I get is, oh, I can't
wait till those selection is over. So how do I
just see all these commercials on TV? I don't know
the TV advertising business very well, but I would tell
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you this. I don't believe it to be the case
that the total number of commercials interrupting your programming increases
during political season. I don't believe it to be the
case that it does. It may slightly, they may have expanded.
We have that in the radio business, but marginally it's
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not enough that would make a difference. So what's really
happening here? When you listen to the radio or watch TV.
You have content and you have commercials, and then you
have service elements. In radio you have traffic, which are
in news which are called service elements. But basically you
have content and commercials. And what you're telling me is
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for the I don't know on TV what the percentage
is twenty percent. For the twenty percent of the time
that we're not in content, you can sell me cars,
you can sell me sell phone service, you can sell
me promotions for other shows. But for the love of anything,
(05:30):
don't ask me to vote for somebody that feels weird.
It feels like an odd thing to say. Yeah, so
how you can get back to watch the TV and
the commercials will be different than they are right now,
do the commercials normally bother you that much?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Only political? Okay, so you'll still have as many commercials.
So if Billy Bob or whoever the other guy is
is just repeatedly telling you that this is a cell
phone service you should use, that doesn't bother you, right,
But don't ask me to pay attention to something that
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actually affects my life, which is who my congressman, Senator
Doug Catcher is correct. Don't like it Okay, all right,
I got it. I said where you're going here? All right?
Let me ask you think how best to approach this question.
(06:34):
How much do you know about individual office holders? Nothing?
I just heard nothing know anything? How else would you
know anything? We can't trust anything they say, true, true point,
But wouldn't you at least like to know what they
have to say before you cats the vote, even if
they're lying when you at least like to hear it
(06:57):
because who you choose to put in your government, or
or what we could do this is my favorite, we
could declare because once you do this, you're checked out
and it's no longer any responsibility. I'm gonna vote. They're
all terrible. I'm not going to vote. They're all terrible. Okay, yeah,
(07:18):
all of them. All the politicians are terrible. Are they terrible?
Are they terrible because they're politicians or were they terrible
before they were politicians? And so there's a casting call says,
all terrible people come and file for the office you're
running for. Only terrible people allowed to file, And some
good people showed up, and they're like, uh uh uh uh,
(07:39):
you're a good one. You stay out. Anybody else here
who's terrible over here. Okay, yeah, you get in here?
So or are you terrible because you're a politician? Because
how about this? How about you, mister good guy, how
about you run for office and not be terrible. I'd
never get in all this stuff on my record. Well wait,
get it all. Wait, my advasso, Mitch Michael Berry fucking
(08:03):
who had.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Been bill escaped from the ordinary.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I'm gonna say this for the one thousandth time, and
thick headed people are not going to get it. But
I'm gonna for those of you who are genuinely curious,
I'm gonna say for that. By the way, phone lines
are open. Here's what I don't want. I don't want
you to call up and announce that you're running or
people should support you if you are a person. This
is hard to get because the kind of people who
(08:30):
want to call are all people who are inside baseball.
But there's nothing more pure and wonderful to me in
our format than Paul the president of the Garden club
out in Dobbin, Texas, calling in to tell you when
he voted. Uh. The problem is the kind of people
you most want to call are least likely to call,
(08:52):
and the kind of people who are not authentic, they're
you know, the campaign manager for Joe Blow Those people,
we'll rush to call in. But if you are the former,
not the ladder, and you just you thought about it,
and you came to this conclusion to vote for this candidate,
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I would love to hear from you seven one three
nine nine nine one thousand seven one three nine nine
nine one thousand, seven one three one thousand. And if
you're seventy plus you get moved to the front of
the line, And if you're twenty five and below, you
get moved to the front line. I'll tell you why
in just a moment, But first I keep getting this question. Michael.
(09:33):
I went to your ballot, which is at Michael Berryshow
dot com. Remember, if you're going to vote today, take
whatever printed materials you can print out my ballot off
the website. Anything you got in the mail that you
want to take with you, Any voting card, sheet, endorsement list,
handwritten notes you've made, you can take all of those
with you. You cannot open your phone when you're in
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the voting booth. Is that a stupid rule, maybe, but
that is the rule. When I was voting, there was
a fellow behind me, and you know, you kind of
walked it was. They made a horseshoe shape out of it,
and I'm voting on the horseshoe part to the right,
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and he's voting the horseshoe part to the left. And
he pulls his phone out and the nice little old
white lady who was working the poles said first, very sweetly,
and I mean, you know, her name was Verlin or
Verdine or Olive or Gertrude or Beatrice or something, just
sweet little white lady, old and she said, sir, I'm sorry,
(10:40):
you can't use your phone, and he proceeded not to
hear her, and she was like, that's my trick. So
she paused and she waited, and she she's closing in
on him as she does this, and she's a little
bity tiny thing, and she's that kind of old where
people get where their body is kind of misshaping right,
(11:01):
so there's like no neck left, and she's kind of
crumpled over, like she's like a half finished aluminum can
of Coca cola, and she's kind of like you went
to crunch it, but you didn't get a good you
know how when you put a ramona when you put
a can on the on the concrete, and you go
to stomp it to make it tiny to put in
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the trash, but you only hit side of it, so
she just crumpled up. The little lady. She's real sweet,
and she starts toward him and she says it again,
very politely, sir, you can't use your phone. Well, at
this point, he's starting, she's getting real close on him,
and so he can't use the old I can't hear
you get him anymore. So then he starts trying to
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rapidly vote, but you can't rapidly vote on those machines.
So at this point, she very sweetly puts her hand
on the back of his arm, and she's about to
do that thing my mom used to do when we were little,
which just pinched him on the back of that thing
hurts ooh, on the back of the bicep. So he said, okay, okay,
puts his phone note and then he proceeds for five
(12:04):
minutes to explain to her how this is the st
stupidest ruling in the world. I agree, but it's not
her rules. She says, said it to enforced the rule.
She doesn't like telling a cop you think a law
is stupid. He's not the guy that can change it.
He's got a job to do anyway. So I keep
getting this question of term limits, where your ballot says
that you're four one through ten, item number six is
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or you're in favor of one through ten. Item six
is term limits, so you're in favor of term limits,
to which I answer, and I will say this, nobody
seems to understand this. I don't give a damn about
term moments. I really don't. I'm not for them or
against them. I said four because I didn't want to
confuse people on the items one through ten. I'm not
against them necessarily. But here's what makes me mad that
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nobody seems to get because everybody is convinced that if
you just change that, you can you can have good government.
If you just write new laws, if you have new restrictions,
your kids will no longer be having promiscuous sex all
night long, unprotected, doing drugs, driving one hundred dollars an hour,
sneaking out of the house, and engaged in all sorts
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of bad behaviors. If you just write it down that
they can't do that, well, that's not how it works.
So here's the point. You have term limits, You f
things have term limits. Why is it so hard to understand?
If you're in favor of term limits, what's your terminate
three two year terms for a congressman? Vote out every
congressman they've all been in that long. Well, like my guy,
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Then you don't want term limits. You want a law
that keeps you from doing what you're doing right now.
This is like sex fiends who run around as pornography crusaders,
and then you find out that they're obsessed Ted Haggard,
they're obsessed with porn. This is like people run around
him homos and homos are taking over the world, and
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then you find out they got fifteen homo escorts coming
to their house. These people that have this this sort
of frustration as to who they are or what they do,
are their inability to make decisions, so they run around
changing laws. You can be for termaments, but how about this,
how about vote against every incumbent, Vote against Cornyn, vote
against Crenshaw, vote against Abbot, vote against all of them.
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All right, your calls coming up, Luis and add Michael
Bay try to the bone lines. We go so much
to say, but I promise we'd get to your calls,
and I love your calls, so let's do that. I
do want to say before we start that, thank you
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to Next Wave Energy. They just did a golf tournament,
their eleventh annual golf tournament in this year. They did
it to benefit Camp Hope and they wrote a check
for three hundred and sixty five thousand dollars to Camp
Hope at the end of it. So Sean Diamond and
your entire team at next Way Energy dot Com, next
(15:02):
Wave Energy Partners, thank you very much. That's very cool.
Lives will be saved, lives will be changed, a difference
will be made because you did that, you and your
entire team. So everybody who was involved with the Next
Wave golf tournament, thank you. All right, So the phone
lines we go. Let's get right to it. Yeah, Bill,
(15:24):
you're up, go.
Speaker 11 (15:27):
Michael.
Speaker 12 (15:27):
Thanks.
Speaker 11 (15:28):
I've been meaning to call you for about two years
because the Good Friday in twenty four monologue that you did.
I never thought i'd hear that on public radio. It
was terrific. So I listened to your show regularly. I'm
up in spring, I'm in District two, and at the
end of January I met Dan Crawford of briefing that
he covered up near where we lived, and it was
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the most obnoxious thing I ever saw, with everybody in
their red cards and the Democrats and interrupting every question,
and he was going to ask. But I'm still going
to vote for him. I had a chance to talk
to him afterwards. I'll vote for Paxston and as well.
Hees new to Texas. This is the tenth state I've
lived in and I traveled to all fifty and I
almost got booted out of my own family for voting
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for Trump three times. But you know, we persevere. But
I just want to say, love your show and listen
to it when I'm in the car.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Thanks you, buddy, Lyndy. You're ol Michael Berry Show, Sir.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
Go ahead, Hello, Michael, I'm driving down I chant in
my farm. I'm a retired energy person and I voted
first day of early voting, and I basically followed your
recommendation with a couple of exceptions. Exception one was I'm
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a Leshly Hunt supporter, and two I went for Abbot
as opposed to your recommendation.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Okay, tell me why you went with.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Abbott more of a known commodity than anything. I just
generally like what I see from him. I didn't know
anything about him not supporting trying to get to the
bottom of the mealer problem in Houston. But you know,
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other than that, I'm pretty cool with that.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Abbot. Let me ask you a question, and I'm not.
Your vote is cast, so I'm just and maybe it
wouldn't make a difference.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
It's done.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
So in the last couple of days, there's been a
lot of people talking about the fact that with the
issue of the guy in Austin with the property of Allah,
Abbot's biggest donor is a Pakistani man that's given him
fourteen million dollars with strong ties to Pakistan. His head
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of the Texas Medical Board has also been tied to
a Pakistani position in the medical field. There's a video
of him talking to a group called Muslim Health and
telling people how to come to this country and become
doctors when we have doctors here who can't find positions
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because they're not available. He has a disturbing tie to
Pakistani businessman. I'm assuming you probably didn't know that, But
if you did know that, would that bother you?
Speaker 6 (18:23):
Not particularly?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I did not know that, Okay, No, no, if it doesn't.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
But I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Okay, let me ask you another question. I'm asking because
I want to know how these things play to voters,
not to change your vote. You've already cast your vote.
He received I think it was four or five different checks,
so it's not a one time oversight from Colony Ridge.
And I'm assuming you know what Coliny Ridge is for
well over a million dollars from the Colony Ridge developer
and then separately from his wife. Does that bother you?
Speaker 6 (18:53):
I guess you're thinking a little about illegal immigration.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
No, no, my opinion. It doesn't matter here. I'm curious
about your opinion. Everybody gets to have their own opinion.
And it's legitimate and authentic and rich connection. What's that?
Speaker 6 (19:09):
That's the colony rich connection?
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Yeah, but no, But I'm just asking, do you know
what Connie Ridge is? And does that bother you?
Speaker 6 (19:18):
That kind of does?
Speaker 12 (19:19):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Okay? When they give him over a million dollars, why
do you think they do? You think they just kind
of want good government?
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Well, I would imagine they are clearly thinking he's going
to support what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Right, And why do you think he would take the
money when there had been so complaints able.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
Don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I can, I can give you some ideas. I'm not
trying to beat you up. You're actually the perfect case.
I think it's good to hear what people have to say.
There is no perfect candid. I don't mean say that
there is. I do believe that there is evil afoot
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and I do believe that we have people in office
who make a deal with the devil, knowing it's a
deal with the devil, and counting on the fact that
you won't know about it, or that they can use
the money to claim that anyone questioning them is awful,
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and that that that that that is a calculation they
make because it's always worked before. I do believe that,
and I think we're gonna you see that in your elections.
You see that in people who who do things that
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are unthinkable and then they have to come back before
the voters. And nobody comes back before the voters and says,
you know what, you called me, that was a horrible
thing I did. I should be ashamed of myself. I apologize,
and I want to ask your forgiveness, and I want
to ask for your vote. They don't do that. They
just start smearing the other guy really hard and claiming
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that anyone who questions them is a demon. And the
reality is, it works. And it doesn't work because there's
a tsunami in Thailand, and it doesn't work because there's
heavy rain in Beaumont. It works because we are fallible
human beings who are capable of being swayed, and we
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are capable of being swayed into taking a shot that
ends up killing us. We are capable of being swayed
into believing that Obamacare is healthcare for everybody. We are
capable of being manipulated. And we may not like that
because it doesn't come off well, but it's true. And again,
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I'm not trying to be up on callers. I'm trying
to have some fun in exchange and engage. I appreciate
Lindy being honest about that. I'm not asking you to
regret your vote. Greg, You're up, go ahead.
Speaker 12 (22:10):
Hey, Michael, thanks for taking my car. Hey just wanted
to let you know I took your advice last week
and went and voted early and took my cheat sheet
with me that you had online. And my wife went
today and took the cheat sheet with her and she
just called me a little bit Ago said when she
got up there to vote, when she was done or
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when she was going through the ballot, there were no
Republicans on the ballot. It was all Democrats, and she
didn't realize what was going on, so all she got
to vote for was the propositions. And when she was
done voting, she asked the lady there, what why are
there no Republicans on the ballot, and she just told her,
well that this is all Democrats. So I'm confused how
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she got into the wrong voting area there, it did seem.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Sorry to Michael Verry show, let me just say this,
if you're retired or off work today or otherwise have
some free time and you want to you're feeling the
election spirit. If you call the campaign that you support,
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they'll send you out to a campaign location. It's not
real formal, there's no training. You just stand there and go, hey,
please vote for Steve Toath, please vote for Alex Meeler,
whoever the candidate is. And the other thing is, even
if you don't know anybody, even if you have to
go by yourself. This is how I started. When I
came to Houston, I would go to campaign. I would
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go to election night events before I knew anybody, and
I just look around see who the players were, and
I learned pretty quickly. But go to you. If you
look at the website for the candidate you support at
whatever level, there's there's probably an election night watch party
tonight and there's no cost and there's no ticket required.
You just show up and at seven o'clock you'll get
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the first round of election of you'll start getting the
early vote will drop, and then through the course of
the evening you'll get earlier returns than you do in
November because the Democrat cheating will only be on the
Democrats side. The Republicans will turn the votes in pretty fast.
The way we used to where you could have your
election would be put to bed about ten o'clock. But
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those are open. If you go to the candidate, you
choose their website or look them up, it's not that hard.
You can go to their parties and they usually start
at about seven o'clock and it's a fun thing to do.
There's usually free food and drinks too. So all right,
who are you voting for? And why Dan? You're up?
Speaker 7 (24:47):
Go ahead, Hey, Michael, Dan.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Call call it.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
I'm actually coming from voting, and I just moved here
just under four years ago. I'm a scapee from the
People's Republic of New York and so this is my
first primary voting here. Interesting observation. I don't know if
anyone's told you this. On the list of candidates for Senate,
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everyone is listed except for one. Because there's no room.
You have to push the Seymour candidate's button to reveal
Ken Paxton. So I thought that was kind of interesting
in wondering if anybody's it is.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
And obviously that stresses people out. Now I tested it.
You can't move to the next page until you scroll down,
so the first page is everybody in the race, because
there's a bunch of people other than Paxton, and then
when you look at the bottom, it says scroll down.
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It's not easy to find. I think for an older
voter who's not you know, my kids are walking it
popop because it's very intuitive to them. But for an
older voter it might be very stressful. But you cannot
go to the next vote, to the next race unless
you scroll down and see Paxton's name. So there is
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I guess some sort of a safeguard. I don't know
what to make of that. I also know you know
what I don't understand, and this was kind of odd
to me. Why couldn't you make the font a little smaller?
How many of us didn't have a paper we had
to submit, and you know it had to be ten
pages when we turned it in and we only had six,
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So we just changed our margin and added more space
in between. The professors knew what we were doing, but
you can stretch her. You could have programmed this damn
thing where you'd have all the votes, all the candidates
on one page. That felt very weird that they couldn't
fix that. I mean, how hard would that be to do?
Because they knew this was happening really really weird. I
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thought that whole deal was really really weird. Carla, what
you got? Glands from heart?
Speaker 11 (27:04):
Hi?
Speaker 6 (27:05):
Yes, I.
Speaker 13 (27:08):
Wanted to say that I voted for Hawkdown Lap for
her Bay Road Commission. And the reason I did that
is because there's this lady that's been going around and
she has these real videos about zombie wells and she's
been addressing this for some time and having her content
with the state about it and the oil companies and
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and it is an issue. But the thing is one
day I saw this real nursous guy out there helping
her doing this day, and I said, is the real
and yeah, So I.
Speaker 12 (27:42):
Voted for him for that.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
I I can barely hear you, but I got I
got the thrust of your argument. Uh, Steve, You're up,
Go ahead.
Speaker 12 (27:52):
Hey, thanks a lot.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
I was calling to let you know about my boat
for Senate as well as for the proposition on term limits.
So percentate, I voted for Ken Paxton, and simply because
his record is so good and what he's done as
our attorney general versus what I haven't seen done by
Senator Cornyn. And I don't think we have enough time
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with Congressman Hunt to realize what his track record is
going to be at this point. So I think the
best choice for me was Ken Paxton for Senator, and
just praying for him and his family and understanding there's
some rough things to go through that that shouldn't dissuade
any of us from the record that he can has
done and can do as the senator for our state.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Thank you. I want to go to clip number fourteen, Ramon,
this is if I were to sew up this entire
election cycle, really, the entire election process. This is it
in a nutshell. This is John Cornyn on with CBS
a couple of days ago. Listen to this.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
I know Republicans voters, and as I said earlier, really
it's a question of who bothers to show up. If
only the most radical people show up in the primary,
then I think that's.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Going to be a challenge. If we get a broad.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Spectrum of Republican voters to turn out in the primary.
I'm optimistic about the outcompany.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
When we refer to Muslims or Islam, what is the
word we use to take it from the guy who
works in the lab down the hall, from us to
the person who will blow the whole place up in
murder children. One word radical? He says, if only the
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most radical people show up, that I won't win. Show
up where in the Republican primary? Who are these radical
people of which you speak? Are they not Republicans? Because
he doesn't want to close primary. Neither is Greg Abbott
(30:09):
for that matter. Do you know why they don't want
to close primary? They want Democrats to vote in our primary.
Do you know why? Because they don't want just the
base to vote in our primary? Because they do better
among Democrats than the radical Republican in the race. He's
not talking about candidates. He's not saying Paxton is radical.
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He believes he is. He's saying you're radical. You know
why you're radical because you don't support him. You know
why you're radical because you don't want red flag laws
and he does. You know why as you're radical because
you wanted Donald Trump in twenty twenty four when he
say shit, you know why you're radical because you wanted
(30:53):
a border wall when he said that was silly and ridiculous,
because you don't want to send money to Ukraine. All
of these things make you radical. And if all you
radicals show up in the Republican primary, he won't win
because you radicals don't like him. That is how Crinshaw
views you. That is how Cornyn views you. That is
(31:16):
how Abbott views you. That is how chip Roy views you.
And they say it ever so often, they say it.
Go vote, folks, Today is your day.
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