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Let's start with Beckett. Let me see if Pott. There
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we go. Beckett, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Go ahead, sir, Hey Michael, thanks for taking my call.
A big fan. If I'm in the car and you're on,
I'm listening grateful for all you do for small businesses
and veterans and so forth. But I was listening to
yesterday and you said that more businesses don't take advantage
of calling in and promoting their business on your show.
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So I'm going to call in and shamelessly promote my
business and we can talk business or politics or anything
you'd like.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
What is your business?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
So we have a restaurant in Cyprus, and I've actually
sent you sor I was walking. I've actually sent you
several emails inviting you back years ago when you were
eating healthy. We have a farm or table restaurant in Cyprus.
We actually have eight acres and so we have a
farm on site, so we grow pretty much everything there.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna interrupt you because I mean, well,
it probably comes off as crass or mean or what
is the name.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Of the restaurant Seasons Harvest Cafe.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Okay, so what I what I would advise you, It's
my advice is worst what you pay for it is
before you ever tell anybody about it. Say the name beautiful.
I'm looking at your line beautiful, absolutely love it, glorious.
I remember looking this up once before. Fantastic. Did I
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speak to you in the air once before?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Nope, I've sent yourself what emails inviting you to come eat.
I'm not the impression that you ever come.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, I have gotten I've gotten online and checked you
out because of the chef design sutery. I love it.
Milk co Op market, raw milk co op. You know,
it's probably three percent of our audience, but there is
a part of our audience that is really into the
raw milk thing.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Very interesting. So seasons and we.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Have done We've had Dan Patrick out several times. We've
done the event for Wesley Hunt there. We've done the
event for Tom Oliver Sudden, had Commissioner Ramsay out there
where Christian conservative family self made business. My wife and
I are the owners. We've built this because we felt
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like God told us to, and we've been in business
for fourteen years. We're in the process of opening a
new location and the black Horse Ranch area, which will
be like a small account of service place. The place
we have now is a dine in concept. The second place,
which will be open month, will be all to go meals.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Why is your name Beckett spelled b E K E T.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I think my mom just wanted to be original or
maybe make it easy for me.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
You have five kids.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
We have five children. We homeschool are kids. My one
of my kids has his own business now also, and
what's that we have. We've homeschooled for twenty five years.
He has a I'm going to tell you the name
of it first. It's called Premier's Sharpening. He has a
mobile knife and tool sharpening business. So he goes to
businesses and farmers' markets and just anywhere that has tools
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or knives, hardware stores and sharpens knives and tools, and
he does it mobilely, and he has more business than
he can handle. He does. He does a great job.
He does primarily restaurant knives, but he goes to stores.
They'll have customers come drop off, like a hardware story
that there'll be a drop off, they'll drop off all
their tools. He'll come by one day a week sharpening
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all those tools. They'll come pick them back up.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
You know, there's so many things like that, Beckett that
if a person finds the thing they're going to do
to provide a service, add value.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
You don't have to ask for a wage increase or whatever.
If you provide value, people will pay for it. We
used to pay I don't remember who it was, but
I remember when I would look at the bills for
the RCC and it always felt like it costs more
to run the place than it should, because I'd never
run a restaurant before, even though it had a lot
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of conversations. And I would look at the expenses and
it would be this expense to scare a Meani or
something as an Italian name, and it was massive. I mean,
it'd be twelve hundred dollars. And I would say what
is this for? Because it just kept coming up again
and again. Well, that's our knife sharpener. And I'd say,
why are we spending all this money on knife sharpening?
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Because the expense is just little things, just nikeling and
ime just add up and they just get you yep,
And they said, well, I said, what if we cut that?
What what happens if we just eliminate our knife sharpening?
And our chef said, you can. The problem is it'll
take us. It could take us five, six, seven times
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as long to cut the meat, and your labor costs
will add up. I understand it is high, but what
we're trying to do is reduce the amount of time
it takes. Now was he Bs and me. I don't know,
but but it made me think about a lot of things.
So good for you that you are encouraging that. I'm
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looking at your website. I love it. It looks fantastic.
I love that your homeschool the kids. I love the
whole I love the whole picture. I think, I think,
I think what you're doing is interesting. And you know, Beckett,
I will tell you it's seasons.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Let's see.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Make sure I got that way, Seasons harvest dot farm.
But you can look up Seasons farm and anybody can
find it. Let me say this, the reason I am
so passionate about independent business doesn't have to be small business.
Independent business is if you look at who is funding
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your candidates, if you look at who is making a
stand against, whether it's COVID government lockdowns. Matt Brice taking
a stand against Lena Hidalgo in her COVID lockdown was
what launched federal American growth. He'd been in business for
ten years. That was the moment. And Ed Hindy, I'll
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never forget this. This means so much to me. Ed Hindy,
who should technically be his rival, Taste of Texas, the
big boy on the block just up the street. And
Matt decided he was going to open and if Lena
Hudoalga wanted to shut him down. She could shut him down.
He had just opened and he had these employees and
he had to pay their bills. And ed Hendy said,
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can I come on opening night? And he said, sure,
I'll get you a table. Said I don't want a table.
I want to help you. See meet and greet and seat,
and he and his wife Nina did that that night.
This is helping somebody who is a competitor. But he
doesn't look at the world like that, which neither does
Russell Lebar, neither do people that you want to be around.
They figure there's enough out there for everybody. Let's all
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help each other. And he came and he stood and
he seated folks, and that standing up for that when
a lot of other places, corporate restaurants closed down. We
have got to support our independent businesses because people that
work for big businesses they won't speak out, and at
some point that's what the left wants. We're all on
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welfare or working for a big corporation.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Murdered too.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Native American Michael.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Ferry showay, you have my attention. A program in Oregon
called Hacienda Straightforward on the website grant for first time
home buyers in the state of Oregon thirty thousand dollars
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conditions only for people who are not American citizens. For example,
ITI in holders, DACA recipient refugees, assyles, Green card holders,
amongst others, must have pre approval for a mortgage loan.
They are literally replacing you, literally replacing you, and there's
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going to be a moment, and it's very close where
it's too late for you to do anything about it.
It's no longer political, it's cultural. You're seeing it in
your schools. Go to the hospital in the emergency room.
God help you. I hope you don't. But you end
up in the emergency room and there's your dad in
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his eighties and you're out in the hallway, and nobody
in the group speaks a word of English. You got
to figure most of those people are here illegally and
it's not an emergency. They're just using the emergency room,
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and that's not weird to them. When you come from
a country with socialized medicine and socialized education and socialized value,
so you go to the emergency room, you go to
the medical clinic for medical care. You have become accustomed to.
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You don't matter, so you wait as long as you
have to wait. You don't seek rev Your senses have
been dulled. You're insignificant. And you will notice in cultures
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like this that it is not encouraged that you create,
that you contribute. Is it is encouraged that you distract.
There's always lots of dancing in sports, because this is
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what this is the bread and circuses. In a socialized economy.
You don't want people to focus in an industrious way
on creating. You don't want them creating the government creates.
You want them to dance and play sports, cheap sports.
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Here's the ball, kick it, and lots of dancing, and
you have festivals and big parties. This is the democrat approach,
and it's very popular to these demographics because that's all
they've ever known. They don't know there's anything different. It's
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not their fault. That's the culture they came from. So
the fact that they would replace one overlord with another
is befuddling to you. But understand this, they don't know
there's a better way. They A lot of folks didn't
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come here from those countries seeking opportunity. They came here
to recreate the very life they've always lived. Just you know,
with air conditioning in their house and better food. They
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didn't come here to recreate with a sense of true freedom.
They can't imagine that that's available. The people that are
dangerous to the Democrats are people who did know that
was That's why your Cuban immigrants who come here are
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a very different breed. That's why so many of them
become Republicans because they don't want to be subjugated. They
know what Castro took away, they know how it could
be better. That's why this round of Venezuelans that are
coming listen to what those people say. This is why
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the Vietnamese who come here listen to what those people say.
Look how many Chinese dissidents come here, and I mean
they're screaming America. Do you do you not understand? If
you don't fix yourself, you're the last hope. When you
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saw people being welded into their home during COVID in China,
you saw an authoritarian, tyrannical government that treats people the
way you would treat ants in a mound out in
front of your house. That's human nature. That's not impossible
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to happen here. We've got people imprisoned. Over January sixth,
our president was shot in the face. None of this
is accidental, but we have become so accustomed to no
matter what, it'll be Okay, we're America. I suppose. No,
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that's not how it works. The Venice Whilen's thought that
the Cubans thought that you can absolutely fall off the
side of the earth. And it's the same mindsets and
the same types of people doing this with the same promises.
Tyrants don't aspire to power and lead revolution on the
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basis that you'll be starving at the end of this.
They promise those rich bastards over there that you hate
because they're rich, we'll take everything they've got and we'll
kill them if we have to, and you'll have what
they have. We'll replace them with you. You'll be over there.
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That's what they believe. That is the idea. You know,
there's a lot of complaining about Kamala Harrison price controls.
You can't just declare what prices should be and what
she calls price gouging. And I'm delighted that people oppose
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her and they say, yes, that's correct, But wait a second,
what do you call it when someone owns a gas
station and they're short on gas, and they try to priorit.
They say, we'll open up, but only if we can
make more money. Because a lot of you email me
and go ma, they shouldn't be able to that's price gouging,
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and even in the state of Texas, we have laws
against it. So you know what happens exactly what's going
to happen under Kamala Harris. They shut the gas station down,
lock the door, and drive away. So then people go,
we got to require them to be open. The gas
station has to stay open, and they can't make an
extra dollar during that time. Well you kind of like
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a little price control yourself, don't you. But you don't
mind that for the super Bowl? Can you believe it?
There's thirty thousand dollars a ticket for the super Bowl.
Is that not price scouging? Is that not supply and demand?
Why do we say? And it's all the Republican governors
comes in, We're gonna require those damn gas stations. They're
gonna stay open and they're not gonna charge a pennymore. Okay,
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they're gonna work under tougher conditions. They're gonna have to
get people to come in when they didn't want to.
What should they take a loss because of that time,
Either you believe in the laws of economics or you don't.
Were they just gonna have plentiful gasoline?
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Do we just say this?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
It is very well documented that words nowadays can actually
break your bones. Why you're not at the time the
Michael Berry Show, there's when drunk Daid and his big
owners who have a personal ax to grind when with
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Ken Paxton, when they talked their minions into impeaching Ken
Paxton and sent that to the Senate, and we fought
like hell to keep Ken Paxton the Attorney general. It
wasn't because I think he's handsome, or because he's a
buddy of mine. I don't think I've ever met him
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in person. It wasn't because I don't know, I like
his ties or anything else. It was because he does
his job as Attorney General in a way that no
one else would. And that's why they wanted to replace
him with George P. Bush. And that's why he whipped
his ass, and that's why they they tried with Guzman
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raising nine million dollars. They didn't want him to be
the Attorney general because dirty little secret. A lot of
Republicans don't actually want who accomplish what they campaign on
and what we demand. Well, Paxton didn't get the memo.
He's actually going after these things. He's being a sledgehammer
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against these people. Headline. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launches
investigation into reports that organizations may be illegally registering non
citizens to vote. You've been hearing about this. These NGOs,
these non government organizations are registering illegals and non citizens
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to vote, which they're not allowed to do. Well, nobody
else wants to take it on, but the attorney general does.
Ken Paxton is our guest.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Welcomes, good morning.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
How concerned are you, General Paxton that non citizens are
presently being registered. Obviously we're at the investigation stage, but
you're not going to deploy scarce resources unless there's a
real chance of this.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
So let me set this up. On day one of
Biden's administration, he announced that he was not going to
deport anybody anymore. He didn't wait for a week, he
didn't wait for a month, he didn't wait for two days.
It was number one on his list and why he
wanted the cartels to know that they could. They needed
to start bringing people in that they could profit, and
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they wanted to get as many people here as possible
who no longer had to hide from border patrol because
boarder patrol was their greater and then logistics to get
into the states that Biden wanted them in, which is
places like Texas, swing states that they don't yet control.
And so I've been concerned forever that that was the plan.
And sure enough we find out that these NGOs are
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operating on state property registering people. And you're saying, well,
that sounds fairly innocuous, right, registering people to vote. But
these people had come out of a motor vehicle place
where they are getting their license, where they're automatically registered
to vote if they're qualified to vote, if they are
a citizen. So why is it that we are putting
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on state property, allowing on state property NGOs to register
people to vote who are not qualified to register at
the Department of Motor Vehicle spot where they're getting their
driver's life. That to me is suspicious, and that's why
we started going around to these locations, and that's why
we're investigating this right now.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
So if upon your investigation, I mean the best thing
to happen, in my humble opinion, is they shut down
their efforts or it reduces their efforts such that they
can't skew an election against it. We just want integrity
in our elections. But these folks are bold and they
want to win at all costs. So if they continue
and you catch them and you're sure they've done it,
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what is the remedy from there?
Speaker 3 (21:56):
So the remedy and we need to get this remedy out.
Sure you can go I legally, though, take your chances,
but you can be prosecuted and we're going to do
everything we can to prosecute you. And we've got limitations
here because of the Court of Chromal Appeals that you
and I have talked about, but we're on our way
back and there's no doubt that we're going to have
that ability soon, so we can come prosecute these people.
And the penalties for organizing this stuff are more than
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just illegal voting and legal voting. There is a penalty,
there is prosecution available, but if you organize illegal voting
like some of these non profs are, that's we're talking
long term sentences for affecting elections. In a more dramatic way.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
You know, would you explain? Because I think it's good
for people to understand exactly what the appellate court did
and how they ruled a supposedly Republican court, because I
think that's a very very dirty story.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
It's a very dirty story that in ninety nine point
nine percent of the people don't know, and they don't
know because for the media didn't tell. We have a
confusing judicial system in Texas. We have the Texas Supreme Court,
which is the final court of appeal for civil cases,
but we have a different criminal Court of Appeal which
is like the Supreme Court on criminal matters that no
one knows. They're nine members, all Republicans, and unfortunately no
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one knows them. So I think that they were many
of them were put there by guys like George Source
to make sure that they did what they did, which
was they struck down a statute that was passed in
nineteen fifty one by the Texas legislature to acquire that
the Attorney general prosecute voter fraud. And I think this
was a responsible was going on back in the LBJ days,
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realizing that local prosecutors weren't going to do it because
of political reasons, and so they gave that job at
the turning General. Thousands of cases have been brought. We
had almost a thousand investigations and prosecutions going when the
Stevens decision came down out of the blue two days
after the following deadline to run against anybody on the
quarter call appeals. They struck down the statute arguing that
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the Attorney General holding that the Attorney General didn't have
the authority to go to court because he was in
he or she was in the executive branch and therefore
couldn't go into court to prosecute company. So if they
are right, no attorney general in the country could because
it's a violation of separation of powers, whether it's me
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or any other state attorney general. It was the most
ludicrous decision. It overrode, you know, seventy one years of precedent,
thousands of cases of prosecutions, and so every one of
our prosecutions, real voter fraud that we were prosecuting, was dismissed.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
And I want to be very clear so people understand
why we go after people like drunk Daid and why
we go after plenty of other Republicans. These were Republicans
who did this, and when you dig deep, these are
Nicky Haley Republicans. When you dig deep, these are anti
Trump Republicans. When you dig deep and look at where
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their funding is coming from. This is a little cabal.
This is not This isn't random people coming to some
conclusion on their own. There is clearly a Deus ex
machina overseeing this production and telling each person to play
their part. This is not accidental, folks. It would take
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a long time, and I've done it here to explain
how all this worked. Attorney General Ken Paxson is our guest. Hangtick,
can you hold with us for one more moment?
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Absolutely right now?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
What's cricket say?
Speaker 1 (25:31):
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Speaker 3 (25:36):
Low can't last long, so hurry into cricket city.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
The Attorney General Texas Ken Paxton is our guest. General Paxton,
This issue of election integrity a foremost concern in Pennsylvania,
the state that is most likely to be the Florida
of two thousand, the state's going to make the biggest
difference in Philadelphia has a great deal of election fraud.
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What kind of strategy do you have to ensure that
whether someone is Republican or Democrat as a candidate a voter,
that there will be integrity in our elections, because I'll
tell you in twenty twenty two, I'm certain Clifford Tatum
and Rodney Ellis and we know this guy that they
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finally just brought charges on that there was massive fraud
and Alex Meeler would have been the county judge and
a lot of changes would have occurred. I'm concerned that
that happened again, particularly in Harris County.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Concern and one of the challenges I now have is
I don't have the authority until we get it back,
which I am working on by trying to change the
Court of Criminal fields and also getting the House to
pass Colson the Senate to reauthorize me to prosecute voter fraud.
But right now, in order if there was a voter
fraud in Harris County, would be the Harris County DA
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that would have to prosecute. There's no backup, and that's
one of the challenges we have. That's why they took
me out of that position because they knew then that
Travis County, Soros DA, Bear County Soros da. These big
counties have solros das and they're not going to prosecute
voter fraud, and so it opens the door to vote
fraud until the legislature gets back in this game and
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realize this, We're going to lose the state if we
don't fix this staff. We have real issues in Texas.
So all I can do is talk about how we
will prosecute you. It may be down the road, it
may be a year from now, who knows, but we
will when we can come, come back and prosecute people
so they know that they are taking some risk that
they could end up in prison if they're going to
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cheat people out of their vote.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Speaking of election integrity and entities who get very involved
to swing elections, and we saw it in twenty twenty
and we're seeing it again in twenty twenty four. I
know that my Facebook page has been slowed. You have
gone after meta with you own Facebook, alphabet, with Jones,
Google and other big tech for targeting the citizens of Texas.
And you are the representative of the people of Texas
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as an agent of the court. Talk about some of
the wins and why those cases are important.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
So I came to my second term. The reason I
ran was to deal with some of the big tech
issues because I was very concerned that they were going
to control our elections, control our speech. And I realized,
if we don't find some way to address this very soon,
that these big tech companies, we're going to make our
elections very one sided. And I didn't know if we
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didn't address it soon, I didn't see a way out
of this in the future, and so we went off
into research. I was in Palo Alto a lot talking
to professors from Stanford technology experts, experts on anti trust,
and we started, you know, figuring out some of this.
We don't have it all figured out, but we figured
out how to file lawsuits C and Google, and we
filed four. And they're important because if we don't find
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some way to restructure them and to take away their
ability to control the entire marketplace of searching, the entire
marketplace of advertising on the internet, the ability to censor,
we are going to not have a free country because
we're not going to be able to exchange ideas in
a way that people can take them in.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
And the idea that we're having to argue over things
that we all thought were a hallmark of America. Free
and fair elections that matter, and the winner wins and
the loser loses, and the voters had their choice, and
that will be our government. The fact that this would
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even be up for grabs, it feels like we're on
our heels here. It feels like we're having to battle
over things that we previously would have all shared as
part of the fabric of America.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Yeah, and that look, I think the models changed under
the Obama administration. I truly believe that President Obama's the
first president of the United States that didn't love America
and wanted to see it restructured. And so the idea
now is we don't we don't all believe in it.
In a free country where the people get to decide.
There are certain elements of the elitist, both Republican and Democrat,
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who think that they can better decide for us how
we should run this country, and they want to make
all the decisions because we're not smart enough, or gifted enough,
or something enough elite enough to know what the right
thing to do is. So we need we need the
Obamas of the world, We need the Bushes of the
world to tell us, you know, how things are going
to be, and so they want to pick, they want
to decide who gets elected at the highest levels and
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make it look like we have a representative former government.
The reality is they want a one party system that
they control where we have elections that they're all dominated
by laws that allow for easy cheating, so that just
like Venzuela, they can control the elect She's the highest level.
Ken Paxton, were.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Exactly, Kin Paxton, keep up the fight. You are doing
great work and you're making us very proud. And I
am proud that I supported you and stood for you
because I asked you to do a job and that
is what you were elected to do, and you continue
to do it despite and maybe because of the very
people who come after you. Thank you, sir, well, thank you.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Have a great day.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
And with that, our bonus podcast today, there may be two,
depending on how much time we have, but our first
bonus podcast, which will be posted just a few minutes
after we go off the air here shortly. Some of
you will remember Monica. She was a woman who called
in I don't know six weeks eight weeks ago, and
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she is a woman who was in the workforce and
then I believe she left the workforce when she hit
child number two, number three. I don't remember all the details,
but I remember feeling like people like this, their voice
is not being heard. These are not the people at
the convention. This is not the Kamala Harris, this is
not the Nancy Pelosi. I've been around politics, and I've
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been around the people who hold these positions. Hillary Clinton
is not like you. Kamala Harris is not like you.
Nancy Pelosi is not like you. AOC is not like you.
Ilhan Omar is not like you. And there is a
massive portion of America, particularly American women, who are being
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left out. Their values don't matter. They care about their children.
I call them mommy issues, and some people get upset.
I don't know why. There's nothing sweeter to me than
when a kid calls out to mommy. They love their mommy.
I see the respect my children have for my wife,
who's now mom or mama. But I don't know why
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that makes people uncomfortable. Mommy issues are America's issues. They're
really the two biggest issues in our country are children
and our elderly, their health, their dignity, and the third
is small business. And that's why I talk about them
so much that that is the core of the country.
Everything else stems from that. Anyway, She's our bonus podcast,
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so if you follow us on the podcast, that will
be dropped here in just a few minutes as soon
as we go off the air, and you can hear
all of our other just in case you don't know.
When we finish every day at eleven, we then start
doing a lot of production, start prepping for the evening show,
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and then we look at the extra show prep we
have that hasn't been used, and many times we are
creating a bonus podcast, sometimes too, about ten minutes each
because the bite size seems to work. Those that we
posted here in just a moment on the podcast