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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Luck and load.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
So Michael Barry Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
The Fox News Decision Desk can now officially project that
Donald Trump will become the forty seventh president of the
United States.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
He indeed, yes it is. Let's start with Emily. Emily,
you're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sweetheart, speaking
of names at thirty year old.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Now, yeah, well I'm thirty five, so that's yes.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
I had two points. First, listening to the Megan lady
who just called the TikTok responses. You know, we it
seems like the world stage is like finally we've got
a grown up sitting back at the table. You know,
we were close to losing uh being the world leader.
And for me, I've got three small kids and two
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of which are boys, Caucasian, love Jesus straight conservative, and
I have been the last three years been very concerned
about what it looks like in this country by the
time they get to be adults. And today I feel
like the Lord has given us another opportunity to uh
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start a new start new to get this craziness out
of our out of our schools, these out of these
culture wars of is someone really a man?
Speaker 6 (02:07):
Is really a woman?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
I'm getting that out. And then on the other side,
I am an attorney, and I'm in a county adjacent
to Harris County and seeing the Republican judges went in
Harris County, gives me hosts.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
And the sweep and the sweep of the Court.
Speaker 7 (02:23):
Of Appeals.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Right exactly here, and given him so fine jurists.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I mean, we've got we're going to have a Court
of Appeals. Yeah, I know, we can be very very
very proud of. You know, these stories, and I'm kind
of sparing all a lot of the data today. We'll
get into them in time. But you know, I was
talking about Star County, which is ninety seven percent Hispanic
on the Texas Mexico border in South Texas. And Trump
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had lost in sixteen by sixty six zero percentage points.
He had lost eight. Now he came back in one
fifty eight forty two, and a listener sent me an
email a good point I hadn't thought about.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
She wrote.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
One thing about Star County not to be overlooked is
that Elon donated over twenty million dollars to local schools
in that area that is near Starbase. Where he has
built thousands of jobs, local infrastructure, improved quality of life,
and made Texas the gateway to Mars. Wouldn't surprise me
to see Trump there, to see the next launch and
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rocket catch in person, ad Astra. So when people see
that if you can unthrottle industry, unthrottle the individual, get
the government out of all the nonsense, the amazing things
that can be done, they never look back. They love it.
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It's thrilling, it's exciting. Kathy Wrights Czar. Trump carried not
only Star County Hidalgo Cameron will see Star is the
most Hispanic county in the United States. They had not
chosen a Republican in one hundred and thirty two years.
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That's correct, eighteen ninety two, the last time a Republican
won that county. Incredible, Ben, You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Mostly just because we didn't want to get the other
girls on there. We didn't want eybody to think it
was just girls that were calling.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Good morning, Sarah. I'm calling to say a few things
about what has happened last night. I have been very
disappointed and angry for the past four years because back
in twenty twenty November, I was in McAllen helping to
patrol the border, and I saw what happened the day
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that Donald Trump supposedly lost. I saw how the illegals
started to come in with no respect for there's laws,
and they had this nasty attitude where us were surprised
by it because nowaday we had our president and the
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vice president telling him to come over. So they went away.
They got away with basically importing millions of people to
our country for their votes. And I witnessed that, and
I had been angry since I saw the border material
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the steel war and all the materials sit under the
sun and the rain and the dust and get deteriorated
for months on end, ding day out, while the illegals
would laugh at our pace while they were coming in.
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I've been angry because I was born and raised in
Yvon and came to the US as a refuge kid
by myself as a teenager, and I did it the
right way. And to see how the administration created an
app where people could go on their cell phone and
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apply and the Harris and Biden would send a plane
to bring it to the US. It just act of
war and treason when you think about it. No country
in the on Earth would do this to their citizens.
You know, to me, government is there to protect our
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borders and our constitution and these people didn't do either.
But this morning I woke up with different point of view.
I believe and accepted everything happen for a reason. And
if Donald Trump would have won back in twenty twenty,
he wouldn't have RFK. And that's huge by itself. Do
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you realize over seventy percent of our boys, our men
cannot are not eligible to join the US Army because
they are diagnosed with some kind of ele chronic disease.
Eighty percent of our population is chronically ill and fat
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and suffering from diabetes.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Ben It is when you look at these issues and
you realize. So Sandy Peterson, our research director, is she
likes facts and data and science and scientific method and
so she got a blood gluecose monitor as part of
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her carnivore diet. And she's always reading studies and things
like this, and so she started experimenting on herself. She
puts his blood glucose monitor on and I've lost the
email where she sent it to me. She said she
had some Yukon gold potatoes. Russ roasted, not fried, a
tenderloin and something else. It sounded like a rather healthy meal,
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and it spiked her blood sugar by thirty points and
it remained elevated, and she said, I realized, if I
eat that meal consistently, I will have a metabolic disease.
That's not water burger. That is what passes as a
healthy meal. When you consider the sugar that's being dumped
into our foods, when you consider the high fruit toase
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corn shirt, when you consider all of those things over
the course of a period of time, you're talking about
chronic illness for people who don't even realize how unhealthy
they are. And it's everyone. It's got to stop, and
people need to be aware of and that's part of
it's part of the charge.
Speaker 8 (08:57):
On the Michael Berry Show, I.
Speaker 9 (09:27):
Was all right.
Speaker 10 (09:28):
I think if you look at the New York Times
this morning, the headline was America makes a perilous choice.
I think that in twenty sixteen, we didn't know what
we would get from a Trump administration. But we know now,
and we know now that he will have almost unfettered power,
and so I worry not about myself. Actually, I don't
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worry about my station in life. I worry about the
working class. I worry about my mother, a retired teacher.
I worry about our elderly and their social security and
their medicare I worry about my children's future, especially my daughter,
who now has less rights than I have. And I
remember my father telling me many, many years ago that
I was the first person in his family to enjoy
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full civil rights. And now I have less civil rights
than I had when he told me that. So again,
I'm profoundly disturbed that the fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution
did not prevent someone who participated in an insurrection from
becoming president of the United States. I think that going forward,
the convicted felon box unemployment applications better be taken off,
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because if you can meet the President of the United States,
they used to not be prevented when as women in
this country, because I remember applying for my jobs as
a federal prosecutor, and there was a box for convicted felons,
and so that box better be taken off.
Speaker 11 (10:55):
Loan, Now you're fell wrong, momental.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Do try.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Roy Orbison's voice is often described as haunting. It's true,
It's just it's up there, man.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
It always feels like it's it's like the wind is
blowing across his voice. It's not static, right, almost a
Doppler effects. You're in a canyon and voice Lewis seven
one three, nine, one thousand. Jim, you are on the
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Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 12 (12:06):
Proceed Hey, Michael, I am so happy about the Cruise election.
I was sweating bullets over that one. I'm so happy
to see he won by that margin. But that's not
the real reason why I'm calling you. Would the House
be I'm sorry, with the Senate now being a majority
of Republicans, cal is the Senate majority leader chosen. I
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hope it's not Corning, but I think he's going to
be in the out there, in the running looking for it.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I think it will be Corning. It's chosen by the
by the caucus, by the Republicans. It's Corning or a Thune.
Those are the two.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
You know.
Speaker 12 (12:48):
I'd look for it to be Kennedy, but I don't
know whether he's, you know, in the running for anything
like that or not. It's almost like a papal conclave
from what I think they're saying.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's fair to say. That's very well said,
I do love waiting and watching the smoke though. That's
a cool deal. I'm not even Catholic, and I can
get into that. I can dig on traditions that are,
you know, a thousand years old or more. I don't
know how old it is, but I know it's been
around a long time. But as for Kennedy, Kennedy is
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not well liked among his peers, and there is a
reason for that. Kennedy spends most of his time sitting
and writing clever lines that he's going to use turns
of phrase, and then doing interviews and dropping those turns
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of phrase in there. He's a great entertainer, he's a
great SoundBite, but he's not well regarded. And I will
tell you if you actually watch Kennedy, he will always
take the position of the grassroots voter and have a
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very clever turn of phrase as to why he's doing it.
And it might be a southern agrarian phrase of at
like a as like a get that high pitched with
at like a a pigging slot. It's a goat with it,
and it'll be oh, you go, oh, he's so clever.
But if you look at the follow through, he'll sneak
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around on the backside and vote against what he claimed
he was for. He is not for people who follow
the Senate. If you look at his votes, he will
sell us out a lot. Now that's not why he's
not going to be the Senate majority leader. That's a
whole different thing. He's considered not very trustworthy, can't keep
a secret, not you know, he's not someone that that
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they that they that his peers respect. Look out of
one hundred senators, take a moment right now and think
about this. How many senators can you name? For most
people in our listening audience. You can name Cornyon because
he's terrible and he's a sellout. You can name Cruz.
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Some can name John Kennedy because on TV every day.
You can name McConnell because he's been dead for five years,
but they keep propping him up. Maybe you can name
Tommy Tubberville because he's old ball coach. You can name
Chuck Schumer because he looks like some sort.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
Of a rat.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Who else can you name? Think about that for a moment.
Think about that if you didn't see them on the
ballot last night. I mean, you can name jd Vance
because he's been running for vice president, but you probably
couldn't have otherwise. You can't think of you can you
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can name Lil Marco Rubio. Who are your senators? From Kansas,
from New Mexico, from Idaho. Most of those guys are
a big deal in their own mind and nobody knows
who they are. They don't like the guys that get
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out in front of the camera. Corning doesn't. Corning is extreme.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
You know.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
The dirty little secret is Corning hates Ted Cruise, absolutely
despises Ted Cruise because everywhere Corning goes, the grassroots says,
you know, Ted Cruz is doing this, why aren't you?
And Corning Corning might as well be a Democrat. I
wish he was, because then we could run a real
Republican against him and beat him. The problem is he
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wears our uniform, so we don't kick him out. And
then it's very hard to beat somebody in the primary.
Our folks get real fired up to beat the Democrats,
but it's hard to get our folks fired up in
a primary. It's very, very difficult to beat an incumbent
senator an incumbent period in a primary. That's well, they
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got a really really have a scandal, and you've gotta
have a you got to have a candidate that has
a public name, a good organization, and a lot of money.
It's just hard to do. It's it's it's just it's
just hard to do. Dave. You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Go ahead, Dave, Hey, Michael, listen. I'm a senior citizen.
I just turned sixty five this year and I did
something I had never done before, and that was get
involved in the political process. I'm a conservative, Christian, white guy,
you know, the most evil guy in America, but uh,
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and a Republican. But I got involved and became a
pole watcher this year. And I want to encourage all
of the semi retired and retired people out there to
get involved and be a pole watcher or a judge
or something like that and you know, make you know,
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get offfee button, do something, you know. And I'm so
glad I did. And what inspired me was that my
wife's co worker was a French immigrant.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
This sound like a nineteenth century novelism, just well done.
Speaker 13 (18:29):
So this is the Michael Berry Show, and.
Speaker 14 (18:47):
I just say, really critically too, Democrats need to even
sure and they need to be honest and they need
to say, yes, there is. There's misogyny, but it's not
just misogyny from white men. It's misogyny from Hispanic men,
it's misogyny from black men. Things we've all been talking
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about who do not want a woman leading them might
be race issues with Hispanics. They don't want a black
woman as president. And I say, you know, the Democratic Party,
I've always found when you're sitting around talking, they love
to just sort of balkanize everybody into these separate groups
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and say, oh, white people don't like women and black people.
Now it is time for the Democrats to say okay.
And you and I have talked about this before. A
lot of Hispanic voters have problems with black candidates.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Right, don't like each other.
Speaker 7 (19:55):
And some of the most misogynist things I've heard going
on get out the vote to her came from black men,
I mean, misogynist things. So you're absolutely right, it's not
simplistic and we've got to have realiziest conversations about her.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
That is a panel that includes Al Sharpton talking about
cultural trends. Boy, I don't know where in the Roman
Empire the fall was imminent, but it had to be
a moment something like that. You know the funny thing
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about that. My first race I ran against a woman,
Claudia Williamson. It's very attractive, but not attractive in a
way that makes older women uncomfortable. She's not. She dressed
very conservatively, her hair kind of shortlike a bob, very
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very professional, carried herself in a very professional manner, but
strikingly attractive. Actually looked a lot like Melissa Wilson at
Fox twenty six. And my struggle in that race, which
I managed to win, was Republican women wanted to vote
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for a woman, and I would come up against that
and men would tell me to get out of that race.
It was an at large citywide race. There had never
been a Republican to win in an at large race,
which means you run in the whole city, and so
there was no way I was going to win as
a first time candidate, Republican, white male against a female
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that was well funded and had Lee Brown's endorsement. But
I did. And they told me to get out because
they said it's hard to run and get the consultants
told me and get out because it's hard to run
against a woman. Because all the women will support a
woman for being a woman, and only a few men
will say I'm not voting for a woman. See that's
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the bullying they do. So it's an uphill climb. Women
are more likely to win a race by being a
woman than they are to lose a race because they
are a woman, and women vote more. I saw some numbers.
I don't know what the final number is. I'll have
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it by tonight's show, but I'll bet you it ended
up being somewhere around fifty three percent male up sorry,
female voters, and obviously forty seven or so male. So
if all the women vote for women and all the
men vote for men, we don't win any races. This
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idea that you would divide people and accuse people who
didn't Well, how about the women who didn't vote? How
about the men who didn't vote for Sarah Palin in
two thousand and eight? What about that? Should we assume
that was because she was a woman. This is nonsense.
It's so silly and ridiculous. These people are dumb and
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they've been rejected. And I love that. I just love that, Alex.
You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, Alex.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Ran Michael I just wanted to think three entities here,
the first one being first God and in the second
the radio talk show hosts like you and the alternative
media who really made the push. And then third, I
would like to thank Laura Trump because I think you know,
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with her being CoA chair of the RNC, she really
but she really put boots on the ground over there
in those battleground states.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
She did a phenomenal job, and she has not It's
in important that during the post mortem, the follow up,
the after what do you call that after an event,
not just a post mortal. There's a term for that,
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the wrap up, the rap. It's important that we notice
there were a lot of factors that came together to
create this win, and it's important to understand those so
that you replicate them. Number One, the difference between having
Rona McDaniel Ronna Romney McDaniel in charge of the RNC
and Laura Trump was night and day. There were one
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hundred and sixty eight thousand duplicate votes in Michigan. She
jumped on that. That's Number one. The RNC has got
to be in lockstep with your candidate the way the
Democrats do. That's very important. Number two, You've got to
have a rapid response legal team that goes in and
kicks ass. Because George Soros funds a guy named Mark Elias,
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and he's evil and he's good, and he uses his
law license to stir up crap and cause problems across
the country. He is demonic and very effective. You've got
to have people as a rapid response like the Rachel
Hoopers in Houston that is General counsel of the State
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Republican Party. You've got to have people like that that
are tough and smart and willing to hop on a
plane on a moment's notice and go to Nowheresville, North Carolina,
and walk in a room and just start kicking ass.
George W. Bush had Jimmy Baker in two thousand and
when James A. Baker, the third, former chief of staff
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to Reagan, former Commerce secretary, former Secretary of State, when
he went marching into that Florida vote recount, and he
went marching into the courtrooms there to battle that case.
The Democrats let out a collective side because they knew
that James A. Beaker the Third would win the case
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for George W. Bush and he would be president. And
he did, and he was those things you are right
to point out. The other thing was going after, as
you said, alternative media. The Rogan's going after alternative people.
Speaker 13 (26:20):
Elon Musk, lucky you, The Michael Berry Show continues.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
This must be your lucky day.
Speaker 10 (26:37):
Here the old Jack Doones come back.
Speaker 15 (26:40):
No mo no man no manamah through Jammy.
Speaker 16 (26:47):
I asked Kamala Harris that why is it that people
don't know you? What is it that's going wrong? And
she said to me, you know, she said, realize this.
They have never seen anybody that looks like me run
for this, and until you see it, you don't process
it right. So they don't know and what silo they
don't know where to put me in, how to define me?
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I think she's she has a point on that. Look,
I think I'm very proud of the campaign she ran.
The country had a very stark contrast to pick from.
She decided to run a campaign of optimism and joy,
of a of a unified vision for America.
Speaker 9 (27:29):
It is time for us to do what we have
been doing in that time is every day, every day.
It is time for us to agree that there are
things and tools that are available to us to slow
this thing.
Speaker 16 (27:44):
The country had a very stark contrast to pick from.
She decided to run a campaign of optimism and joy,
of a of a unified vision for America people.
Speaker 9 (27:57):
That is, in the millions of Americans who have not
been vaccinated and could be vaccinated, and we are urging
them to get vaccinated because it will save their life.
Speaker 8 (28:08):
At at what point, like the administration acknowledge these people
aren't going.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
To get the shot.
Speaker 9 (28:13):
I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by
what has been. You know, what can be unburdened.
Speaker 11 (28:21):
By what has been?
Speaker 9 (28:22):
What can be unburdened by what has been?
Speaker 17 (28:27):
As we all know, elections matter, and when folks vote,
they order what they want, and in this case, they
got what they asked for. It is time for us
to do what we have been doing in that time
is every day, every day. It is time for us
to agree.
Speaker 9 (28:48):
Talking about the significance of the passage of time, right,
the significance of the passage of time. So when you
think about it, there is great significance to the passage
of time. And standing here on the northern flank, on
the eastern flank, talking about what we have in terms
of the Eastern flank and our NATO allies.
Speaker 8 (29:13):
Out stage come bag.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
A couple of my stations, our affiliates have reached out
and said, I guess kama is going to speak at
five today. That's the plan, he said. Will you be
carrying that? Absolutely not. I will not give her a
moment to speak to our audience. If anybody in our
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audience wants to hear Kamala Harris speak, they can go
to NBC, ABC, CBS and all the other places that
love her to hear that nonsense. Our listeners comes to
the show to hear me talk, to hear what Ramon
and Chad and Jim have put together to hear from listeners.
I don't want to hear that idiot blather on. Absolutely not.
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We are not a news program. We're a commentary program.
It's the Michael Berry Show. It's not the news hour.
I will battle this till the day I die, but
people are starting to come around. You can get the
news anywhere, anytime, often before I get it. The old
days of going to the radio for the news are gone.
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Today's world. You can get the news on your phone
as fast as it's posted somewhere, and if you follow
enough people, you can get it faster than people in
the newsroom, especially because people in the newsroom are having
to do a broadcast and then go find the news,
and you're ahead of them. People come to our show
to find out what the news means, why it's important.
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It's an overload of news. People want to know what
are the priority stories, what's the story bye behind the news?
Why is that news story important? They know Trump won,
I want to know why he won. That's what the
news can't give you. Even radio news. KTRH, I think,
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is fantastic as a news organization and has been. I
mean talking about he lost his way, but at one
point Dan Rather was a very well regarded newsman, Walter
Konkite as well. Those men cut their teeth at KTRH News.
There is a news, a heritage news brand there that
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remains to this day. Fantastic news anchors and reporters have
come through that organization in the one hundred years it
has existed. But I think in twenty twenty four, when
a listener at the top or bottom of the hour
listens into the news, they're not listening for a news
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story to find out the news because they can get
the news anywhere they're listening because k TRH has prioritized
that news, and in some cases KTRH is kind of
breaking that news or adding something to that news. But
if you if you notice, it's because there'll be a
news story and then there will be some audios, some
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sound to go with that and flesh that story out.
That's what you can't get in a dry written news
alert from a local news station. It's just a change.
It's a change in how we do think. And ktr
has had to change. I mean, you didn't have talk shows.
You have people doing what I do. Rush really built.
That makes me feel very good, very good. Indeed, I
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must tell you for those of you who sent messages,
Rush passed on February seventeenth, twenty twenty one. So we'll
be coming up in a few months on the four
year anniversary of his unfortunate and far too early passing.
And so I wonder sometimes, you know, I have people
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forgotten Rush it it's only been three and a half years.
That's our inspiration. I wonder if people have kind of
moved on. And then this morning was a day and
they may not say it every day, but this morning
was a day that people send me emails saying, Michael,
praying for you, praying for your team, praying for this country,
praying for Trump, and I miss I.
Speaker 15 (33:25):
Miss Rush on a day like today, And that makes
me feel so good that people remember that on a
day like today, people remember.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
I think that's glorious and wonderful. If you're on hold,
hang with me for a moment, I'll talk to you
off air and we'll post those. But I just want
to take a moment because we're going to have more elections.
I look forward to not being in an election cycle.
So we can so ramon can take make some goofy list,
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and we can take one off and put one and on.
We can debate DLR domind Dave versus whatever the guy
was it replaced him, and how important Eddie van Halen
was to the music if he never wrote a lyric.
But these these are fun things to talk about. And
I want to tell you, you know, you, folks, we
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couldn't do this show if you didn't support us, if
you didn't support our sponsors, and if you didn't support us,
if our sponsors didn't support us, we couldn't do what
we do without that. And I just wanted to take
a moment to say I thank you for that. I
say year round and year after year, we are not
going to talk politics all day every day, but when
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we do talk politics, you'll know that that's when it's important.
When you hear me focused in on politics and like
a laser locked in, that's when it's time to pay
attention to what's going on because it's important, and you
folks have risen to the occasion. The show prep, you send,
the commentary, you you sent, you send, the confessional, the research,
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the all of it. It makes our show better and
so thank you.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
M m m m m m
It's that time, time, time, time.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Luck and load.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
So Michael Barry Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
The Fox News Decision Desk can now officially project that
Donald Trump will become the forty seventh president of the
United States.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
He indeed, yes it is. Let's start with Emily. Emily,
you're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sweetheart, speaking
of names at thirty year old.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Now, yeah, well I'm thirty five, so that's yes.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
I had two points. First, listening to the Megan lady
who just called the TikTok responses. You know, we it
seems like the world stage is like finally we've got
a grown up sitting back at the table. You know,
we were close to losing uh being the world leader.
And for me, I've got three small kids and two
(01:30):
of which are boys, Caucasian, love Jesus straight conservative, and
I have been the last three years been very concerned
about what it looks like in this country by the
time they get to be adults. And today I feel
like the Lord has given us another opportunity to uh
(01:54):
start a new start new to get this craziness out
of our out of our schools, these out of these
culture wars of is someone really a man?
Speaker 6 (02:07):
Is really a woman?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
I'm getting that out. And then on the other side,
I am an attorney, and I'm in a county adjacent
to Harris County and seeing the Republican judges went in
Harris County, gives me hosts.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
And the sweep and the sweep of the Court.
Speaker 7 (02:23):
Of Appeals.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Right exactly here, and given him so fine jurists.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I mean, we've got we're going to have a Court
of Appeals. Yeah, I know, we can be very very
very proud of. You know, these stories, and I'm kind
of sparing all a lot of the data today. We'll
get into them in time. But you know, I was
talking about Star County, which is ninety seven percent Hispanic
on the Texas Mexico border in South Texas. And Trump
(02:53):
had lost in sixteen by sixty six zero percentage points.
He had lost eight. Now he came back in one
fifty eight forty two, and a listener sent me an
email a good point I hadn't thought about.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
She wrote.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
One thing about Star County not to be overlooked is
that Elon donated over twenty million dollars to local schools
in that area that is near Starbase. Where he has
built thousands of jobs, local infrastructure, improved quality of life,
and made Texas the gateway to Mars. Wouldn't surprise me
to see Trump there, to see the next launch and
(03:33):
rocket catch in person, ad Astra. So when people see
that if you can unthrottle industry, unthrottle the individual, get
the government out of all the nonsense, the amazing things
that can be done, they never look back. They love it.
(03:53):
It's thrilling, it's exciting. Kathy Wrights Czar. Trump carried not
only Star County Hidalgo Cameron will see Star is the
most Hispanic county in the United States. They had not
chosen a Republican in one hundred and thirty two years.
(04:14):
That's correct, eighteen ninety two, the last time a Republican
won that county. Incredible, Ben, You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Mostly just because we didn't want to get the other
girls on there. We didn't want eybody to think it
was just girls that were calling.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Good morning, Sarah. I'm calling to say a few things
about what has happened last night. I have been very
disappointed and angry for the past four years because back
in twenty twenty November, I was in McAllen helping to
patrol the border, and I saw what happened the day
(04:50):
that Donald Trump supposedly lost. I saw how the illegals
started to come in with no respect for there's laws,
and they had this nasty attitude where us were surprised
by it because nowaday we had our president and the
(05:11):
vice president telling him to come over. So they went away.
They got away with basically importing millions of people to
our country for their votes. And I witnessed that, and
I had been angry since I saw the border material
(05:32):
the steel war and all the materials sit under the
sun and the rain and the dust and get deteriorated
for months on end, ding day out, while the illegals
would laugh at our pace while they were coming in.
(05:52):
I've been angry because I was born and raised in
Yvon and came to the US as a refuge kid
by myself as a teenager, and I did it the
right way. And to see how the administration created an
app where people could go on their cell phone and
(06:14):
apply and the Harris and Biden would send a plane
to bring it to the US. It just act of
war and treason when you think about it. No country
in the on Earth would do this to their citizens.
You know, to me, government is there to protect our
(06:37):
borders and our constitution and these people didn't do either.
But this morning I woke up with different point of view.
I believe and accepted everything happen for a reason. And
if Donald Trump would have won back in twenty twenty,
he wouldn't have RFK. And that's huge by itself. Do
(07:06):
you realize over seventy percent of our boys, our men
cannot are not eligible to join the US Army because
they are diagnosed with some kind of ele chronic disease.
Eighty percent of our population is chronically ill and fat
(07:26):
and suffering from diabetes.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Ben It is when you look at these issues and
you realize. So Sandy Peterson, our research director, is she
likes facts and data and science and scientific method and
so she got a blood gluecose monitor as part of
(07:52):
her carnivore diet. And she's always reading studies and things
like this, and so she started experimenting on herself. She
puts his blood glucose monitor on and I've lost the
email where she sent it to me. She said she
had some Yukon gold potatoes. Russ roasted, not fried, a
tenderloin and something else. It sounded like a rather healthy meal,
(08:15):
and it spiked her blood sugar by thirty points and
it remained elevated, and she said, I realized, if I
eat that meal consistently, I will have a metabolic disease.
That's not water burger. That is what passes as a
healthy meal. When you consider the sugar that's being dumped
into our foods, when you consider the high fruit toase
(08:36):
corn shirt, when you consider all of those things over
the course of a period of time, you're talking about
chronic illness for people who don't even realize how unhealthy
they are. And it's everyone. It's got to stop, and
people need to be aware of and that's part of
it's part of the charge.
Speaker 8 (08:57):
On the Michael Berry Show, I.
Speaker 9 (09:27):
Was all right.
Speaker 10 (09:28):
I think if you look at the New York Times
this morning, the headline was America makes a perilous choice.
I think that in twenty sixteen, we didn't know what
we would get from a Trump administration. But we know now,
and we know now that he will have almost unfettered power,
and so I worry not about myself. Actually, I don't
(09:50):
worry about my station in life. I worry about the
working class. I worry about my mother, a retired teacher.
I worry about our elderly and their social security and
their medicare I worry about my children's future, especially my daughter,
who now has less rights than I have. And I
remember my father telling me many, many years ago that
I was the first person in his family to enjoy
(10:15):
full civil rights. And now I have less civil rights
than I had when he told me that. So again,
I'm profoundly disturbed that the fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution
did not prevent someone who participated in an insurrection from
becoming president of the United States. I think that going forward,
the convicted felon box unemployment applications better be taken off,
(10:38):
because if you can meet the President of the United States,
they used to not be prevented when as women in
this country, because I remember applying for my jobs as
a federal prosecutor, and there was a box for convicted felons,
and so that box better be taken off.
Speaker 11 (10:55):
Loan, Now you're fell wrong, momental.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Do try.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Roy Orbison's voice is often described as haunting. It's true,
It's just it's up there, man.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
It always feels like it's it's like the wind is
blowing across his voice. It's not static, right, almost a
Doppler effects. You're in a canyon and voice Lewis seven
one three, nine, one thousand. Jim, you are on the
(12:05):
Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 12 (12:06):
Proceed Hey, Michael, I am so happy about the Cruise election.
I was sweating bullets over that one. I'm so happy
to see he won by that margin. But that's not
the real reason why I'm calling you. Would the House
be I'm sorry, with the Senate now being a majority
of Republicans, cal is the Senate majority leader chosen. I
(12:29):
hope it's not Corning, but I think he's going to
be in the out there, in the running looking for it.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I think it will be Corning. It's chosen by the
by the caucus, by the Republicans. It's Corning or a Thune.
Those are the two.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
You know.
Speaker 12 (12:48):
I'd look for it to be Kennedy, but I don't
know whether he's, you know, in the running for anything
like that or not. It's almost like a papal conclave
from what I think they're saying.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's fair to say. That's very well said,
I do love waiting and watching the smoke though. That's
a cool deal. I'm not even Catholic, and I can
get into that. I can dig on traditions that are,
you know, a thousand years old or more. I don't
know how old it is, but I know it's been
around a long time. But as for Kennedy, Kennedy is
(13:21):
not well liked among his peers, and there is a
reason for that. Kennedy spends most of his time sitting
and writing clever lines that he's going to use turns
of phrase, and then doing interviews and dropping those turns
(13:43):
of phrase in there. He's a great entertainer, he's a
great SoundBite, but he's not well regarded. And I will
tell you if you actually watch Kennedy, he will always
take the position of the grassroots voter and have a
(14:04):
very clever turn of phrase as to why he's doing it.
And it might be a southern agrarian phrase of at
like a as like a get that high pitched with
at like a a pigging slot. It's a goat with it,
and it'll be oh, you go, oh, he's so clever.
But if you look at the follow through, he'll sneak
(14:25):
around on the backside and vote against what he claimed
he was for. He is not for people who follow
the Senate. If you look at his votes, he will
sell us out a lot. Now that's not why he's
not going to be the Senate majority leader. That's a
whole different thing. He's considered not very trustworthy, can't keep
a secret, not you know, he's not someone that that
(14:49):
they that they that his peers respect. Look out of
one hundred senators, take a moment right now and think
about this. How many senators can you name? For most
people in our listening audience. You can name Cornyon because
he's terrible and he's a sellout. You can name Cruz.
(15:10):
Some can name John Kennedy because on TV every day.
You can name McConnell because he's been dead for five years,
but they keep propping him up. Maybe you can name
Tommy Tubberville because he's old ball coach. You can name
Chuck Schumer because he looks like some sort.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
Of a rat.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Who else can you name? Think about that for a moment.
Think about that if you didn't see them on the
ballot last night. I mean, you can name jd Vance
because he's been running for vice president, but you probably
couldn't have otherwise. You can't think of you can you
(15:52):
can name Lil Marco Rubio. Who are your senators? From Kansas,
from New Mexico, from Idaho. Most of those guys are
a big deal in their own mind and nobody knows
who they are. They don't like the guys that get
(16:12):
out in front of the camera. Corning doesn't. Corning is extreme.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
You know.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
The dirty little secret is Corning hates Ted Cruise, absolutely
despises Ted Cruise because everywhere Corning goes, the grassroots says,
you know, Ted Cruz is doing this, why aren't you?
And Corning Corning might as well be a Democrat. I
wish he was, because then we could run a real
Republican against him and beat him. The problem is he
(16:39):
wears our uniform, so we don't kick him out. And
then it's very hard to beat somebody in the primary.
Our folks get real fired up to beat the Democrats,
but it's hard to get our folks fired up in
a primary. It's very, very difficult to beat an incumbent
senator an incumbent period in a primary. That's well, they
(16:59):
got a really really have a scandal, and you've gotta
have a you got to have a candidate that has
a public name, a good organization, and a lot of money.
It's just hard to do. It's it's it's just it's
just hard to do. Dave. You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Go ahead, Dave, Hey, Michael, listen. I'm a senior citizen.
I just turned sixty five this year and I did
something I had never done before, and that was get
involved in the political process. I'm a conservative, Christian, white guy,
you know, the most evil guy in America, but uh,
(17:37):
and a Republican. But I got involved and became a
pole watcher this year. And I want to encourage all
of the semi retired and retired people out there to
get involved and be a pole watcher or a judge
or something like that and you know, make you know,
(17:58):
get offfee button, do something, you know. And I'm so
glad I did. And what inspired me was that my
wife's co worker was a French immigrant.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
This sound like a nineteenth century novelism, just well done.
Speaker 13 (18:29):
So this is the Michael Berry Show, and.
Speaker 14 (18:47):
I just say, really critically too, Democrats need to even
sure and they need to be honest and they need
to say, yes, there is. There's misogyny, but it's not
just misogyny from white men. It's misogyny from Hispanic men,
it's misogyny from black men. Things we've all been talking
(19:08):
about who do not want a woman leading them might
be race issues with Hispanics. They don't want a black
woman as president. And I say, you know, the Democratic Party,
I've always found when you're sitting around talking, they love
to just sort of balkanize everybody into these separate groups
(19:28):
and say, oh, white people don't like women and black people.
Now it is time for the Democrats to say okay.
And you and I have talked about this before. A
lot of Hispanic voters have problems with black candidates.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Right, don't like each other.
Speaker 7 (19:55):
And some of the most misogynist things I've heard going
on get out the vote to her came from black men,
I mean, misogynist things. So you're absolutely right, it's not
simplistic and we've got to have realiziest conversations about her.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
That is a panel that includes Al Sharpton talking about
cultural trends. Boy, I don't know where in the Roman
Empire the fall was imminent, but it had to be
a moment something like that. You know the funny thing
(20:37):
about that. My first race I ran against a woman,
Claudia Williamson. It's very attractive, but not attractive in a
way that makes older women uncomfortable. She's not. She dressed
very conservatively, her hair kind of shortlike a bob, very
(21:02):
very professional, carried herself in a very professional manner, but
strikingly attractive. Actually looked a lot like Melissa Wilson at
Fox twenty six. And my struggle in that race, which
I managed to win, was Republican women wanted to vote
(21:25):
for a woman, and I would come up against that
and men would tell me to get out of that race.
It was an at large citywide race. There had never
been a Republican to win in an at large race,
which means you run in the whole city, and so
there was no way I was going to win as
a first time candidate, Republican, white male against a female
(21:48):
that was well funded and had Lee Brown's endorsement. But
I did. And they told me to get out because
they said it's hard to run and get the consultants
told me and get out because it's hard to run
against a woman. Because all the women will support a
woman for being a woman, and only a few men
will say I'm not voting for a woman. See that's
(22:10):
the bullying they do. So it's an uphill climb. Women
are more likely to win a race by being a
woman than they are to lose a race because they
are a woman, and women vote more. I saw some numbers.
I don't know what the final number is. I'll have
(22:30):
it by tonight's show, but I'll bet you it ended
up being somewhere around fifty three percent male up sorry,
female voters, and obviously forty seven or so male. So
if all the women vote for women and all the
men vote for men, we don't win any races. This
(22:51):
idea that you would divide people and accuse people who
didn't Well, how about the women who didn't vote? How
about the men who didn't vote for Sarah Palin in
two thousand and eight? What about that? Should we assume
that was because she was a woman. This is nonsense.
It's so silly and ridiculous. These people are dumb and
(23:11):
they've been rejected. And I love that. I just love that, Alex.
You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, Alex.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Ran Michael I just wanted to think three entities here,
the first one being first God and in the second
the radio talk show hosts like you and the alternative
media who really made the push. And then third, I
would like to thank Laura Trump because I think you know,
(23:40):
with her being CoA chair of the RNC, she really
but she really put boots on the ground over there
in those battleground states.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
She did a phenomenal job, and she has not It's
in important that during the post mortem, the follow up,
the after what do you call that after an event,
not just a post mortal. There's a term for that,
(24:12):
the wrap up, the rap. It's important that we notice
there were a lot of factors that came together to
create this win, and it's important to understand those so
that you replicate them. Number One, the difference between having
Rona McDaniel Ronna Romney McDaniel in charge of the RNC
and Laura Trump was night and day. There were one
(24:33):
hundred and sixty eight thousand duplicate votes in Michigan. She
jumped on that. That's Number one. The RNC has got
to be in lockstep with your candidate the way the
Democrats do. That's very important. Number two, You've got to
have a rapid response legal team that goes in and
kicks ass. Because George Soros funds a guy named Mark Elias,
(24:58):
and he's evil and he's good, and he uses his
law license to stir up crap and cause problems across
the country. He is demonic and very effective. You've got
to have people as a rapid response like the Rachel
Hoopers in Houston that is General counsel of the State
(25:19):
Republican Party. You've got to have people like that that
are tough and smart and willing to hop on a
plane on a moment's notice and go to Nowheresville, North Carolina,
and walk in a room and just start kicking ass.
George W. Bush had Jimmy Baker in two thousand and
when James A. Baker, the third, former chief of staff
(25:43):
to Reagan, former Commerce secretary, former Secretary of State, when
he went marching into that Florida vote recount, and he
went marching into the courtrooms there to battle that case.
The Democrats let out a collective side because they knew
that James A. Beaker the Third would win the case
(26:06):
for George W. Bush and he would be president. And
he did, and he was those things you are right
to point out. The other thing was going after, as
you said, alternative media. The Rogan's going after alternative people.
Speaker 13 (26:20):
Elon Musk, lucky you, The Michael Berry Show continues.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
This must be your lucky day.
Speaker 10 (26:37):
Here the old Jack Doones come back.
Speaker 15 (26:40):
No mo no man no manamah through Jammy.
Speaker 16 (26:47):
I asked Kamala Harris that why is it that people
don't know you? What is it that's going wrong? And
she said to me, you know, she said, realize this.
They have never seen anybody that looks like me run
for this, and until you see it, you don't process
it right. So they don't know and what silo they
don't know where to put me in, how to define me?
(27:07):
I think she's she has a point on that. Look,
I think I'm very proud of the campaign she ran.
The country had a very stark contrast to pick from.
She decided to run a campaign of optimism and joy,
of a of a unified vision for America.
Speaker 9 (27:29):
It is time for us to do what we have
been doing in that time is every day, every day.
It is time for us to agree that there are
things and tools that are available to us to slow
this thing.
Speaker 16 (27:44):
The country had a very stark contrast to pick from.
She decided to run a campaign of optimism and joy,
of a of a unified vision for America people.
Speaker 9 (27:57):
That is, in the millions of Americans who have not
been vaccinated and could be vaccinated, and we are urging
them to get vaccinated because it will save their life.
Speaker 8 (28:08):
At at what point, like the administration acknowledge these people
aren't going.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
To get the shot.
Speaker 9 (28:13):
I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by
what has been. You know, what can be unburdened.
Speaker 11 (28:21):
By what has been?
Speaker 9 (28:22):
What can be unburdened by what has been?
Speaker 17 (28:27):
As we all know, elections matter, and when folks vote,
they order what they want, and in this case, they
got what they asked for. It is time for us
to do what we have been doing in that time
is every day, every day. It is time for us
to agree.
Speaker 9 (28:48):
Talking about the significance of the passage of time, right,
the significance of the passage of time. So when you
think about it, there is great significance to the passage
of time. And standing here on the northern flank, on
the eastern flank, talking about what we have in terms
of the Eastern flank and our NATO allies.
Speaker 8 (29:13):
Out stage come bag.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
A couple of my stations, our affiliates have reached out
and said, I guess kama is going to speak at
five today. That's the plan, he said. Will you be
carrying that? Absolutely not. I will not give her a
moment to speak to our audience. If anybody in our
(29:38):
audience wants to hear Kamala Harris speak, they can go
to NBC, ABC, CBS and all the other places that
love her to hear that nonsense. Our listeners comes to
the show to hear me talk, to hear what Ramon
and Chad and Jim have put together to hear from listeners.
I don't want to hear that idiot blather on. Absolutely not.
(30:01):
We are not a news program. We're a commentary program.
It's the Michael Berry Show. It's not the news hour.
I will battle this till the day I die, but
people are starting to come around. You can get the
news anywhere, anytime, often before I get it. The old
days of going to the radio for the news are gone.
(30:27):
Today's world. You can get the news on your phone
as fast as it's posted somewhere, and if you follow
enough people, you can get it faster than people in
the newsroom, especially because people in the newsroom are having
to do a broadcast and then go find the news,
and you're ahead of them. People come to our show
to find out what the news means, why it's important.
(30:51):
It's an overload of news. People want to know what
are the priority stories, what's the story bye behind the news?
Why is that news story important? They know Trump won,
I want to know why he won. That's what the
news can't give you. Even radio news. KTRH, I think,
(31:12):
is fantastic as a news organization and has been. I
mean talking about he lost his way, but at one
point Dan Rather was a very well regarded newsman, Walter
Konkite as well. Those men cut their teeth at KTRH News.
There is a news, a heritage news brand there that
(31:34):
remains to this day. Fantastic news anchors and reporters have
come through that organization in the one hundred years it
has existed. But I think in twenty twenty four, when
a listener at the top or bottom of the hour
listens into the news, they're not listening for a news
(31:58):
story to find out the news because they can get
the news anywhere they're listening because k TRH has prioritized
that news, and in some cases KTRH is kind of
breaking that news or adding something to that news. But
if you if you notice, it's because there'll be a
news story and then there will be some audios, some
(32:20):
sound to go with that and flesh that story out.
That's what you can't get in a dry written news
alert from a local news station. It's just a change.
It's a change in how we do think. And ktr
has had to change. I mean, you didn't have talk shows.
You have people doing what I do. Rush really built.
That makes me feel very good, very good. Indeed, I
(32:42):
must tell you for those of you who sent messages,
Rush passed on February seventeenth, twenty twenty one. So we'll
be coming up in a few months on the four
year anniversary of his unfortunate and far too early passing.
And so I wonder sometimes, you know, I have people
(33:04):
forgotten Rush it it's only been three and a half years.
That's our inspiration. I wonder if people have kind of
moved on. And then this morning was a day and
they may not say it every day, but this morning
was a day that people send me emails saying, Michael,
praying for you, praying for your team, praying for this country,
praying for Trump, and I miss I.
Speaker 15 (33:25):
Miss Rush on a day like today, And that makes
me feel so good that people remember that on a
day like today, people remember.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
I think that's glorious and wonderful. If you're on hold,
hang with me for a moment, I'll talk to you
off air and we'll post those. But I just want
to take a moment because we're going to have more elections.
I look forward to not being in an election cycle.
So we can so ramon can take make some goofy list,
(33:58):
and we can take one off and put one and on.
We can debate DLR domind Dave versus whatever the guy
was it replaced him, and how important Eddie van Halen
was to the music if he never wrote a lyric.
But these these are fun things to talk about. And
I want to tell you, you know, you, folks, we
(34:19):
couldn't do this show if you didn't support us, if
you didn't support our sponsors, and if you didn't support us,
if our sponsors didn't support us, we couldn't do what
we do without that. And I just wanted to take
a moment to say I thank you for that. I
say year round and year after year, we are not
going to talk politics all day every day, but when
(34:42):
we do talk politics, you'll know that that's when it's important.
When you hear me focused in on politics and like
a laser locked in, that's when it's time to pay
attention to what's going on because it's important, and you
folks have risen to the occasion. The show prep, you send,
the commentary, you you sent, you send, the confessional, the research,
(35:07):
the all of it. It makes our show better and
so thank you.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
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