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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time. Time, time, luck and load. The Michael
Very Show is on the air. New York Times rand
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of story entitled how a far right takeover of Georgia's
election board could swing the election? Do you know what
the far right takeover of Georgia's election board could do
to swing the election? They want the ballots for early
voting tabulated every day and compared against the machine totals
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to make sure they match. And they want the county
officials to look into what they're actually certifying, because they
certify the results. See what we do in Georgia is
you wait around till late endo the night election night.
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You delay the county and say everybody go home, and
then the steal is on and votes start showing up,
votes that didn't exist before. And it's so overwhelming that
even the Republican Secretary of State and governor said, cover
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this up and certify the election and move on down
the road, because they did not want to have to
dig into it. Why do some people have some bird
on them they don't want exposed. That's blackmail. It happens
a lot. Probably do they not want the fight because
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they don't see it as their fight. They see it
as Trump's fight. Almost certainly are they unwilling to stand
up to the type of people who will cheat an
election because they're thugs and goons and they have lawyers
like Mark Elias. Absolutely, Sadly, most people on our side
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are afraid of a fight. It'd be surprised. I hope
it's not you, but I can tell you it's more
people than you realize. They're real big when they're listening
to the radio or the TV. I'll tell you what
I do. I stand up. You want to do a
damn thing, because I've seen it. I've seen it when
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those people start threatening, calling you a racist, calling you
of this, calling you of that, threatening your job, protesting
out in front of your house. When kwant Alex and
his goons were out in front of our house, they
had notified the police, and the police chief came by
my house that morning. He said, Michael, please leave. I'm
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assuming you're going to I said, absolutely, not not leaving
my house. They cannot make me leave my house. My
wife doesn't want to leave. I'm not going to leave.
And he said, this is a very difficult situation.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
They have announced they're bringing the long guns, which legally
they could do. I'm aware it was a nineteen oh
seven house, so you could shoot through the clapboard walls.
So when quantulexin the group came, they're out front. The
police department had about fifteen police officers staged in between
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them and us at the gate, and there were way
more of them than us. So we invited the media
into the house. My wife had dinner ready on the
table and she waited until the media came in, and
we had eaten half our meal and left it there.
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And the story was her and me sitting on the
couch and they filmed our half eaten meal and they
described our half eaten meal. That was the story that
ran that night. It was a Sunday night. By Monday,
the story was there were eighty two police officers staged
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a block over and on the rooftops of all the
buildings around. Because the cops loved me, they were not
going to let something bad happen to me. That there
were snipers on all the buildings around. So the next
day's question was did city councilman get too much protection?
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You got fifty people standing out in front of your house,
the black panthers who announce they're bringing the long guns, rifles.
They announce it, and they're calling you a white devil,
and you're worried that there was too much police presence,
because if you had run the background on the guys
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that were in that crowd, there were more than a
few felons and more than a few people that would
love to take a shot at me. I didn't go
peek out the window, not that dumb or brave. So
the one day story, I didn't ask to beat to
have this happen. And do you know what I had
done wrong? I had mobilized the mayor could never be
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defeated by the city council, but we beat him. It
was a resolution supporting reparations, a resolution that was going
to Congress from the Houston City Council, which has no
legal authority. Nobody was getting they check. But I mobilized
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support against Lee P. Brown. But do you know who
put that whole thing together? This was two thousand and
early two thousand and three, early summer two thousand and three.
I don't know if I've ever told this. The person
who put that whole thing together was the candidate I
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was running for mayor against who I was cutting into
the black vote. I was winning a lot of the
black vote, and that's all he could hope to get.
There were four of us running, Bill White, Orlando Sanchez,
Me and a black candidate, and the black candidate jinned
the whole thing up, made the calls. He's the one
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who did the press, car who got the press the
next day. He's the one who got the details of
how many the officers were there to protect me in
my wife, none other than Sylvester Turner. And that's how
they play the game. Do I regret it, not one bit.
I can't tell you to this day how many black
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supporters I have who said, you stood up to those goons.
I can't tell you how many people who said I
remember on TV when they were out in front of
your house. First of all, I don't believe in reparations
because I think you can't determine who was that time
has passed, that ship has sailed. It's just a giveaway.
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It breaks the economy, and it's not a giveaway on
the basis of anything anyone has qualified for. You cannot
determine eligibility. You can't do it. And I think it's toxic.
I think it further divides us. We need to be
moving forward. We already have enough giveaways at a race
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based we had affirmative action for too long. We're slowly
cutting that out. DEI was a step back. We're cutting
that out more companies. Microsoft has dropped DEI. My goodness,
Auburn University just dropped DEI. Now, I know what you're thinking.
Why is Auburn in Alabama? Why did they have a
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d I got it, I got it. But let's celebrate
the progress. Let's keep moving forward. The point was, I
knew when I did that they how they would react.
I knew that that would be a target on me.
My ghetto pass was famously revoked. I still did press
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that week, and they said, how do you respond to
the fact that they say your ghetto pass has been revoked?
I said, I wish they'd stopped issuing passes to the
ghetto and opened the city up so that black people
wouldn't need to live in them. I don't care if
somebody disrespects you, you can't shoot them. Show hittle pass.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
It's been revoked.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Twenty four breaking. In a stunning new leaked video, jd
Vance claims that childless adults should pay more in taxes.
It's clear jd Vance wants to wage war against Americans.
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Eighteen days later, breaking, Kamala Harris just announced that if
she's elected, she will restore the child tax credit. This
is huge. It's the same policy proposal by two different people.
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But when jd Vance does it, it is punishing childless adults.
When Kamala Harris does it, it is restoring the child
tax credit. Same action. By the way, you know why
she did it because they're polling showed it was popular
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with independent voters. I'm going to say this a lot
of times between now and the election. The election will
not be one based on how many people show up
at rallies. The election will not be one based on
how angry you get at the Democrats. You can ratchet
that anger up to eleven. You can go what you do,
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whatever you want. The election will be won and lost
based on how well we get low information. They call
them undecided, but they're typically low information voters to vote.
I know people who voted for Obama in a eight
and twelve who it would surprise you today. They're Republicans today.
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They see the writing on the wall today they see
but at that time not bad people, low information voters.
This is why the Democrats hold on to things like
Republicans are mean. Nobody wants to be mean. Nobody likes
the person who's rude and mean and brash, and so
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they paint Trump that way. Somebody told me this weekend,
what I worry about what Kamala is. She smiles a
lot and she laughs. It's true. We have to convince
the people around us, whom most people are not spending
any time trying to get to vote because you don't
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think of them as voters. But they're going to vote
a lot of them now if they could lose their
job between now and the election, that it helped, if
a family member was a victim of crime, that would
affect them. See, when governmental policy affects their life, all
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of a sudden, they care a great deal. But before
that they didn't. Before that, they were susceptible to arguments like, well,
Kamala is a historic candidate. You know, we need a
black woman. You know we do. You know we need
a black woman. We hadn't had that. We should do that.
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You can't pull your hair out. You have to engage.
You have to win them over if you actually want
to win. Some people don't want to win. Don't be
that person. Some people want to be right and righteous.
You've got to want to win. It's and I truly believe,
mister Roublass, are truly do you believe? And what do
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you truly believe? Sweetheart?
Speaker 4 (13:18):
I truly believe that Tim Walsh is the Manchurian candidate.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Why do you say that?
Speaker 5 (13:27):
His beliefs and he's been to China thirty four times.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
He believes that China is.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Better than we are.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
So I believe that he.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Has been turned and will try to continue to turn
our government.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
You know, some of his students have spoken out and
talked about the things he said in class. They've never
had a teacher talk about. He worships China. He worships
the complete control of the people. You said he's been
thirty four times. I already had been twenty five. I
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don't know that it matters. I don't know anybody who's
been that many times. And I know people who do
business there, I know people who manufacture there. I don't
know anybody's been that many times. That is a disturbing
number of people. He went there on his honeymoon. You know,
when you start roaring on your honeymoon to Russia or China.
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You're in the company of Lee, Harvey Oswald and Bernie Sanders.
Nobody wants to be in that company. Nobody wants to
be in that company. Russell, what do you truly believe, sir?
I truly believe thanks to UTU.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
My ears have developed a gag week.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
That's pretty good. Well done, sir, calling the day, Ben,
What do you truly believe.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Mister Michael Berry? I truly believe that we can all
hear Ramone and Rob Lists in the background very lightly,
and if you're not careful, he's going to get his
own show.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
You know, people tell me this, I can hear, and
I'll tell you what happens. So I don't do the
overhead big they're called cans in the business. I don't
do that because I don't I don't like it on
my ear, So I go with a little tiny in ear.
So if I turn my head to look out the
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window or at another screen and Ramone's talking to me,
it comes through the microphone. You can hear it distantly
into the microphone. And I guess I'm kind of at
a point almost twenty years in where I go, Okay,
is it ruining the experience is at the end of
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the world. Is Kama looking win because of it? Because
I guess we can figure out a work around. But
I'm just I'm wondering if maybe people need to not
worry if my jaw clicks or there's a sound in
there or something. Maybe just kind of enjoy the show
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and destress. How about we're putting on a show. It's free,
it's five hours a day, plus bonus podcast. How about
we all just agree. Hey, man, I'm at this almost
twenty years. If there's a better show out there, please
listen to it. I kind of you know, if the
signal's down, fine, What I ought to do is stop
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reading emails. That is my fault and I know it.
My wife tells me this, Ralone tells me this. It
is my fault. I am too accessible because people will say, hey, today,
there was a moment where for point eight seconds the
audio cutout. Did you miss something? No, it was in
the middle of a song and I knew this song already. Okay,
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you need to know that because that's not good. Okay,
And then what it makes me do is just rage,
and I shouldn't do that, so I it is I'm
way too accessible. Because if I were to say, I
tell you what, don't listen to the show. I love
your show. It's the greatest show ever. Will then stop
picking at every detail because you wear me out. So
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what I should do turn the email off, focus on
the show and not and not receive all this input.
The problem is I enjoy it so much, but it's
to the point now I'm not really enjoying it anymore.
I'm realizing people overstep their bounds. This used to happen
at the RCC. People would come by so excited there
gonna meet Michael Berry and show up at the RCC,
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and they come over and they can walk it all
over and Michael, I'm Bob, I'm your biggest fan. Thank you. Hey,
y'all have ten stalls in the bathroom on stall eight,
there's no toilet paper, y'all. You should replace that toilet paper. Well,
right now I'm trying to deal with getting Jamie Johnson
on stage or getting willing enough. Well, I'm just telling
you it's installed number. And then you realize, you know,
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maybe there's a reason you don't make yourself that accessible.
Maybe that's a bad idea because that effects Rush didn't
do that. Nobody does that, and I probably shouldn't just
that send. Y'all really didn't need to hear that. I'm
just kind of working this through in my head and
one stick.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Deep to come up with the right character with the
Michael Barrier.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
That's how I found my first ten Wives. My apology,
I shouldn't. I tend to work things out in my
head online radio, as you may have noticed, and sometimes
when I'm working something out in my head, I'm expressing
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it on the show because I'm in a different mind space.
When I'm on the air. My mind is sharper, and
I'm more capable of communing with the audience. When I'm
off the air, I let that go, and so decision
making when I'm off the air is not as good
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as when I'm making a decision or kind of having
this argument with myself on the air and sometimes expressing
that and forcing myself to express that, whether it's frustration, elation, gratitude, motivation,
whatever I'm trying to convey to you. As I'm trying
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to explain that to you, it helps me understand it
in my own mind. If that makes sense. I don't
know if it does, but it does make sense to me.
And I don't consciously do that. I've just learned to
do that over the years, and sometimes that's my way
of saying to people, whether it be back off, I
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don't need to hear it every complaint, or hey guys,
we got to do more than be here on this show.
We've got to go get the votes. We've got to win,
or hey, guys, I know you're frustrated. I know you're
feeling defeated, but we've got to talk to people we
don't know or whatever that is. Talking to you in
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a way that I feel explains where I am on
an issue really helps me because I become, in some
weird way like a listener myself. And I will say
to myself later that was not a very compelling argument.
The argument I made, if it were made to me,
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would not be very compelling. So I need to rethink
is that really how I feel? Or did I do
a poor job of explaining that issue? And I mean,
I think if any of us who do what we
do is any good, you should constantly subject yourself to
that rather than just spouting opinions. Because it's easy to
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spout opinions that you later realize you don't really feel
that way. You said it because you read it, or
you said it because it's popular, or you said it
because you think the audience wanted to hear it. And
I think authenticity is everything. If you're going to do
what we do for any long period of time, people
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have to know. Look, they may not like what you
have to say. We made it through twenty sixteen bashing
Trump all day, every day, and I don't regret that.
I think that was a growing pain. I did not
believe that Trump would be the president he turned out
to be. Did not believe it. I thought it was
a sham. I thought he was being a character. I
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thought he was lying. And yes, I'm aware that many
of you, not as many as you now claim, but
many of you. You worshiped him from day one before
he ever had an opinion, and you thought he was
a hero, and you saw some that's great. You were
right and I was wrong, absolutely admit that. But I
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also think it deepened the relationship that we had an
honest disagreement, and I didn't hold back, not one bit.
Trumpkin Tom was not meant to be a compliment. It
was what I was hearing from people every day, and
I wanted to create a character to allow that to breathe,
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so you could see it for yourself what I was witnessing.
And as I've said, you don't have to pile on
I was wrong. Trump turned out to be good. Trump
turned out to be the candidate for twenty sixteen and
not Cruise. I admit it. I'm glad it worked out
the way it did. I don't think anybody could have
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beaten Hillary other than Trump. And I was dead wrong
on Trump, like anybody else. I have my criticisms. I
don't want Scaramucci in the White House. I don't want
Amrosa in the White House. I think there's some I
don't want Michael Cohen in the White House. I thought
those guys were clowns and criminals and crooks. I think
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there's some more out there, some that are still hovering.
But Trump himself turned out to have a very good
gut judgment of what was wrong in DC. And in
some ways the things I did not like about him.
He was too much of an insider. He had dealt
with the Democrats and done too much for the Democrats.
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He managed to use as assets to help him get
things done. But I worked that out in my head
throughout that election, and we had arguments on air and
off air. We lost show sponsors. I had show sponsors
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who yanked off the show and they weren't allowed back
at a time when the company did not appreciate that
we were costing money. There was money on the books,
that was taking off the books, and they said, I
don't like your opinion, so we're going off. Don't talk
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about that anymore. That's not how this works now, audience
will our little family here would not respect me if
I did that, and it was rough, because that affects
the bottom line, my bottom line, the company's bottom line.
You start costing the company money, people start looking at it.
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They start looking very closely at those sorts of things.
So the fact that we survived that, I think meant
that for the people who stayed and those who came later,
we know where we are. And if nothing else, and
you've heard this on shows, you know I'm not gonna pander.
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You know that you're gonna know where I'm at on
an issue at a given time, even if it's not
where you want me to be. We'll get back to
the I truly believe. But I want to be clear
that where we are today, first day of the DNC,
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you've got a week of a freak show, and I
understand there's a certain grudge watch that we do. Look
at those freaks we have got, We're gonna We're gonna
another week is going to be gone. Early voting is
going to begin. We have got to identify voters who
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were going to get to the polls to vote. And
I'm going to tell you have got to block out
the person who says it don't matter, Michael, They're just
gonna cheap. Look, there are good people, at least in Texas,
the general a count, the state party, other party officials
who have taken over for the fact that Greg Abbott
won't do it to try to ensure election integrity. By
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the way, we still need ballot judges. If you'll email me,
I'll connect you to that. No, no, no, don't even I'll
give you the website coming up. I received an email
earlier today from a lady who's said, Zara, I participated
in a protect the Vote webinar this weekend in order
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to help with pole watching and ballot counting. We need
all we can get this will link people to their
state and county. It is protectthevote dot Com. I know
some of the people who were involved in this project,
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all of whom are volunteers. Ninety nine point nine percent
of people who will say, well, he's gonna cheat, will
not lift a finger to help. They'd rather it be
the case that they're going to cheat and nothing can
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ever be done. This is where the conspiracy theories feed
into the laziness. So you get the guy who's very opinionated,
extremely lazy, and very connected and deepening. He'll just feed
their websites who do this all day long. Nothing really happened,
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Nobody really went to the grocery store. It was all
a simulation. It's the whole thing, and it fits into
something that is a hallmark of his entire life, which
is this guy never does a damn thing for anybody.
Deadbeat dad of five different kids. But if each one
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of those women is a bitch, and she's horrible, and
she won't let him see his own kids, and she
just wants to get money out of him, and that's
why he won't pay her child support, and she's a
whore and she's a bet. If he can spend. If
he can weave this, it doesn't matter how many women,
and the less credible he becomes. What he's really doing
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is making an excuse for being a deadbeat dad. Right.
They're only playing politics at the At the company, it's
all politics, you know. That's how they decide who gets
paid and who gets promoted. What about the fact that
you're a crank and constantly complain, Well you would too
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if you have, You will notice these people they have.
It's it's a loop of them. I mean, I hope
they'll vote for Trump. Some of them won't show up
and vote. They'll just complain because why would they vote there?
You know, they're so proud that they're not going to
cast a vote because the system is so crooked. Well
that's that's really three D genius there. If only everybody
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did that, we'd show them, wouldn't we. I mean, you
have to realize you're going to be part of the
solution or you're just complaining. I got an email earlier
from a lady who said that she was at a
dinner this weekend and there were two older Democrats there
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and they go twice a week to two different campuses
and they eat lunch on the campus and they talk
to the students about why they should vote Democrat. Yes,
one thing about the Democrats. They are going to fight
to win. They're not just going to complain about They're
going to do the things because it's not easy, right.
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It's one thing to watch TV and listen to radio
and read the websites, but to actually get out in
the heat and talk to people and gauge people, it's brutal.
I mean, most people are not gonna do it, and
for good reason. It's not fun. It's but if you're committed,
you do it. It's an I truly believe ten.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
What do you think, Hey, good morning, Michael Barry. Hey,
I truly believe that people that rely upon, depend on,
and benefit from our government, with the exception of veterrends
and people with disability, are of zero benefit to society.
It's like the McDonald worker that's looking for thirty dollars
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an hour. This is not a career path, this was
a career choice. You're not gonna get thirty dollars working
at McDonald's. And these people are just way out of
tune with what's reality.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
In this world.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
You know, if people ever got wind of the retirement
packages of government employees. It's probably spiraled so big. There
are government employees who make more money in retirement than
they made working. And I can't tell you how many
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people work their tail off and they don't have a pension.
They have a self funded retirement. Maybe they got a
roth ira. If they're lucky, they got a four to
oh one K, but probably doesn't have a match because
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they don't do the matches the way they used to.
So most people don't realize the government employee is getting
so far ahead of you during the course of their careers,
and then you get a guaranteed payment upon death. And
that's why in municipal elections, government employees are the largest
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block of voters by far. And I'll tell you where
it turned, Lee P. Brown. Lee P. Brown came in
and promised the government workers that if he won, they
would be rich, and he delivered. The only group he
didn't deliver for was the firefighters. And now Whitmyer's made
up for that. When you look at the retirement packages,
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they are rich. They're absolutely rich. And look, I want
people to be well taken care of, but I would
rather pay people on the front end and encourage people
to invest in their own retirement package. But the bill
will come do. There's no doubt in my mind the
bill will come do. Brenda, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Go ahead, take okay.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
I truly believe that voting early gives the opponents an
opportunity to know how many votes they have to make
up or fabricate to win the election on election day.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
I think everybody needs to take the day off.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
We need to go on election day cast our vote.
Don't give them an opportunity to have any heads up
on how many of us are voting for Trump.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
That's what people did in the twenty two November election,
and so the election office didn't send ballots out, and
so all of Alex Meeler's voters were waiting to vote
and couldn't vote.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
It's a push in the right direction, because we really
need to have days off when you shut everything down,
go past your vote on one day, and then take care.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
Of all the other problems as we go forward.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
First of all, I don't want it to be easier
to vote. I want it to be harder. Why should
it be an easy thing to do something that people
gave their lives to ensure people want you to vote.
We're talking about choosing who's going to be the president
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of the United States of America. You don't need a
day off for that if you can't figure out. I
don't want more people voting. I want fewer people voting.
I want people who give a damn enough to go
wait in line, take time off from work, or go
on a weekend and stand in line and vote. I
don't want every jackass voting. And I Brenda, I think
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your idea is the worst idea ever. People are gonna
get sick, they're gonna die, it's gonna be raining, they're
gonna be traveling. I hear this idea floated by the
conspiracy theorists. It is junk. If you like the Michael
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man like Leonard Skinnard told you, and God bless America. Finally,
if you know a veteran suffering from PTSD, call Camp
Hope at a seven seven one seven PTSD and a
combat veteran will answer the phone to provide free counseling.
It's that time. Time, time, luck and load. The Michael
Very Show is on the air. New York Times rand
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of story entitled how a far right takeover of Georgia's
election board could swing the election? Do you know what
the far right takeover of Georgia's election board could do
to swing the election? They want the ballots for early
voting tabulated every day and compared against the machine totals
(01:11):
to make sure they match. And they want the county
officials to look into what they're actually certifying, because they
certify the results. See what we do in Georgia is
you wait around till late endo the night election night.
(01:36):
You delay the county and say everybody go home, and
then the steal is on and votes start showing up,
votes that didn't exist before. And it's so overwhelming that
even the Republican Secretary of State and governor said, cover
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this up and certify the election and move on down
the road, because they did not want to have to
dig into it. Why do some people have some bird
on them they don't want exposed. That's blackmail. It happens
a lot. Probably do they not want the fight because
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they don't see it as their fight. They see it
as Trump's fight. Almost certainly are they unwilling to stand
up to the type of people who will cheat an
election because they're thugs and goons and they have lawyers
like Mark Elias. Absolutely, Sadly, most people on our side
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are afraid of a fight. It'd be surprised. I hope
it's not you, but I can tell you it's more
people than you realize. They're real big when they're listening
to the radio or the TV. I'll tell you what
I do. I stand up. You want to do a
damn thing, because I've seen it. I've seen it when
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those people start threatening, calling you a racist, calling you
of this, calling you of that, threatening your job, protesting
out in front of your house. When kwant Alex and
his goons were out in front of our house, they
had notified the police, and the police chief came by
my house that morning. He said, Michael, please leave. I'm
(03:24):
assuming you're going to I said, absolutely, not not leaving
my house. They cannot make me leave my house. My
wife doesn't want to leave. I'm not going to leave.
And he said, this is a very difficult situation.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
They have announced they're bringing the long guns, which legally
they could do. I'm aware it was a nineteen oh
seven house, so you could shoot through the clapboard walls.
So when quantulexin the group came, they're out front. The
police department had about fifteen police officers staged in between
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them and us at the gate, and there were way
more of them than us. So we invited the media
into the house. My wife had dinner ready on the
table and she waited until the media came in, and
we had eaten half our meal and left it there.
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And the story was her and me sitting on the
couch and they filmed our half eaten meal and they
described our half eaten meal. That was the story that
ran that night. It was a Sunday night. By Monday,
the story was there were eighty two police officers staged
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a block over and on the rooftops of all the
buildings around. Because the cops loved me, they were not
going to let something bad happen to me. That there
were snipers on all the buildings around. So the next
day's question was did city councilman get too much protection?
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You got fifty people standing out in front of your house,
the black panthers who announce they're bringing the long guns, rifles.
They announce it, and they're calling you a white devil,
and you're worried that there was too much police presence,
because if you had run the background on the guys
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that were in that crowd, there were more than a
few felons and more than a few people that would
love to take a shot at me. I didn't go
peek out the window, not that dumb or brave. So
the one day story, I didn't ask to beat to
have this happen. And do you know what I had
done wrong? I had mobilized the mayor could never be
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defeated by the city council, but we beat him. It
was a resolution supporting reparations, a resolution that was going
to Congress from the Houston City Council, which has no
legal authority. Nobody was getting they check. But I mobilized
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support against Lee P. Brown. But do you know who
put that whole thing together? This was two thousand and
early two thousand and three, early summer two thousand and three.
I don't know if I've ever told this. The person
who put that whole thing together was the candidate I
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was running for mayor against who I was cutting into
the black vote. I was winning a lot of the
black vote, and that's all he could hope to get.
There were four of us running, Bill White, Orlando Sanchez,
Me and a black candidate, and the black candidate jinned
the whole thing up, made the calls. He's the one
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who did the press, car who got the press the
next day. He's the one who got the details of
how many the officers were there to protect me in
my wife, none other than Sylvester Turner. And that's how
they play the game. Do I regret it, not one bit.
I can't tell you to this day how many black
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supporters I have who said, you stood up to those goons.
I can't tell you how many people who said I
remember on TV when they were out in front of
your house. First of all, I don't believe in reparations
because I think you can't determine who was that time
has passed, that ship has sailed. It's just a giveaway.
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It breaks the economy, and it's not a giveaway on
the basis of anything anyone has qualified for. You cannot
determine eligibility. You can't do it. And I think it's toxic.
I think it further divides us. We need to be
moving forward. We already have enough giveaways at a race
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based we had affirmative action for too long. We're slowly
cutting that out. DEI was a step back. We're cutting
that out more companies. Microsoft has dropped DEI. My goodness,
Auburn University just dropped DEI. Now, I know what you're thinking.
Why is Auburn in Alabama? Why did they have a
(08:18):
d I got it, I got it. But let's celebrate
the progress. Let's keep moving forward. The point was, I
knew when I did that they how they would react.
I knew that that would be a target on me.
My ghetto pass was famously revoked. I still did press
(08:38):
that week, and they said, how do you respond to
the fact that they say your ghetto pass has been revoked?
I said, I wish they'd stopped issuing passes to the
ghetto and opened the city up so that black people
wouldn't need to live in them. I don't care if
somebody disrespects you, you can't shoot them. Show hittle pass.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
It's been revoked.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Twenty four breaking. In a stunning new leaked video, jd
Vance claims that childless adults should pay more in taxes.
It's clear jd Vance wants to wage war against Americans.
(09:31):
Eighteen days later, breaking, Kamala Harris just announced that if
she's elected, she will restore the child tax credit. This
is huge. It's the same policy proposal by two different people.
(09:54):
But when jd Vance does it, it is punishing childless adults.
When Kamala Harris does it, it is restoring the child
tax credit. Same action. By the way, you know why
she did it because they're polling showed it was popular
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with independent voters. I'm going to say this a lot
of times between now and the election. The election will
not be one based on how many people show up
at rallies. The election will not be one based on
how angry you get at the Democrats. You can ratchet
that anger up to eleven. You can go what you do,
(10:41):
whatever you want. The election will be won and lost
based on how well we get low information. They call
them undecided, but they're typically low information voters to vote.
I know people who voted for Obama in a eight
and twelve who it would surprise you today. They're Republicans today.
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They see the writing on the wall today they see
but at that time not bad people, low information voters.
This is why the Democrats hold on to things like
Republicans are mean. Nobody wants to be mean. Nobody likes
the person who's rude and mean and brash, and so
(11:28):
they paint Trump that way. Somebody told me this weekend,
what I worry about what Kamala is. She smiles a
lot and she laughs. It's true. We have to convince
the people around us, whom most people are not spending
any time trying to get to vote because you don't
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think of them as voters. But they're going to vote
a lot of them now if they could lose their
job between now and the election, that it helped, if
a family member was a victim of crime, that would
affect them. See, when governmental policy affects their life, all
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of a sudden, they care a great deal. But before
that they didn't. Before that, they were susceptible to arguments like, well,
Kamala is a historic candidate. You know, we need a
black woman. You know we do. You know we need
a black woman. We hadn't had that. We should do that.
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You can't pull your hair out. You have to engage.
You have to win them over if you actually want
to win. Some people don't want to win. Don't be
that person. Some people want to be right and righteous.
You've got to want to win. It's and I truly believe,
mister Roublass, are truly do you believe? And what do
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you truly believe? Sweetheart?
Speaker 4 (13:18):
I truly believe that Tim Walsh is the Manchurian candidate.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Why do you say that?
Speaker 5 (13:27):
His beliefs and he's been to China thirty four times.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
He believes that China is.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Better than we are.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
So I believe that he.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Has been turned and will try to continue to turn
our government.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
You know, some of his students have spoken out and
talked about the things he said in class. They've never
had a teacher talk about. He worships China. He worships
the complete control of the people. You said he's been
thirty four times. I already had been twenty five. I
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don't know that it matters. I don't know anybody who's
been that many times. And I know people who do
business there, I know people who manufacture there. I don't
know anybody's been that many times. That is a disturbing
number of people. He went there on his honeymoon. You know,
when you start roaring on your honeymoon to Russia or China.
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You're in the company of Lee, Harvey Oswald and Bernie Sanders.
Nobody wants to be in that company. Nobody wants to
be in that company. Russell, what do you truly believe, sir?
I truly believe thanks to UTU.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
My ears have developed a gag week.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
That's pretty good. Well done, sir, calling the day, Ben,
What do you truly believe.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Mister Michael Berry? I truly believe that we can all
hear Ramone and Rob Lists in the background very lightly,
and if you're not careful, he's going to get his
own show.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
You know, people tell me this, I can hear, and
I'll tell you what happens. So I don't do the
overhead big they're called cans in the business. I don't
do that because I don't I don't like it on
my ear, So I go with a little tiny in ear.
So if I turn my head to look out the
(15:36):
window or at another screen and Ramone's talking to me,
it comes through the microphone. You can hear it distantly
into the microphone. And I guess I'm kind of at
a point almost twenty years in where I go, Okay,
is it ruining the experience is at the end of
(15:57):
the world. Is Kama looking win because of it? Because
I guess we can figure out a work around. But
I'm just I'm wondering if maybe people need to not
worry if my jaw clicks or there's a sound in
there or something. Maybe just kind of enjoy the show
(16:20):
and destress. How about we're putting on a show. It's free,
it's five hours a day, plus bonus podcast. How about
we all just agree. Hey, man, I'm at this almost
twenty years. If there's a better show out there, please
listen to it. I kind of you know, if the
signal's down, fine, What I ought to do is stop
(16:41):
reading emails. That is my fault and I know it.
My wife tells me this, Ralone tells me this. It
is my fault. I am too accessible because people will say, hey, today,
there was a moment where for point eight seconds the
audio cutout. Did you miss something? No, it was in
the middle of a song and I knew this song already. Okay,
(17:02):
you need to know that because that's not good. Okay,
And then what it makes me do is just rage,
and I shouldn't do that, so I it is I'm
way too accessible. Because if I were to say, I
tell you what, don't listen to the show. I love
your show. It's the greatest show ever. Will then stop
picking at every detail because you wear me out. So
(17:23):
what I should do turn the email off, focus on
the show and not and not receive all this input.
The problem is I enjoy it so much, but it's
to the point now I'm not really enjoying it anymore.
I'm realizing people overstep their bounds. This used to happen
at the RCC. People would come by so excited there
gonna meet Michael Berry and show up at the RCC,
(17:44):
and they come over and they can walk it all
over and Michael, I'm Bob, I'm your biggest fan. Thank you. Hey,
y'all have ten stalls in the bathroom on stall eight,
there's no toilet paper, y'all. You should replace that toilet paper. Well,
right now I'm trying to deal with getting Jamie Johnson
on stage or getting willing enough. Well, I'm just telling
you it's installed number. And then you realize, you know,
(18:07):
maybe there's a reason you don't make yourself that accessible.
Maybe that's a bad idea because that effects Rush didn't
do that. Nobody does that, and I probably shouldn't just
that send. Y'all really didn't need to hear that. I'm
just kind of working this through in my head and
one stick.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Deep to come up with the right character with the
Michael Barrier.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
That's how I found my first ten Wives. My apology,
I shouldn't. I tend to work things out in my
head online radio, as you may have noticed, and sometimes
when I'm working something out in my head, I'm expressing
(18:50):
it on the show because I'm in a different mind space.
When I'm on the air. My mind is sharper, and
I'm more capable of communing with the audience. When I'm
off the air, I let that go, and so decision
making when I'm off the air is not as good
(19:13):
as when I'm making a decision or kind of having
this argument with myself on the air and sometimes expressing
that and forcing myself to express that, whether it's frustration, elation, gratitude, motivation,
whatever I'm trying to convey to you. As I'm trying
(19:35):
to explain that to you, it helps me understand it
in my own mind. If that makes sense. I don't
know if it does, but it does make sense to me.
And I don't consciously do that. I've just learned to
do that over the years, and sometimes that's my way
of saying to people, whether it be back off, I
(19:59):
don't need to hear it every complaint, or hey guys,
we got to do more than be here on this show.
We've got to go get the votes. We've got to win,
or hey, guys, I know you're frustrated. I know you're
feeling defeated, but we've got to talk to people we
don't know or whatever that is. Talking to you in
(20:24):
a way that I feel explains where I am on
an issue really helps me because I become, in some
weird way like a listener myself. And I will say
to myself later that was not a very compelling argument.
The argument I made, if it were made to me,
(20:45):
would not be very compelling. So I need to rethink
is that really how I feel? Or did I do
a poor job of explaining that issue? And I mean,
I think if any of us who do what we
do is any good, you should constantly subject yourself to
that rather than just spouting opinions. Because it's easy to
(21:09):
spout opinions that you later realize you don't really feel
that way. You said it because you read it, or
you said it because it's popular, or you said it
because you think the audience wanted to hear it. And
I think authenticity is everything. If you're going to do
what we do for any long period of time, people
(21:29):
have to know. Look, they may not like what you
have to say. We made it through twenty sixteen bashing
Trump all day, every day, and I don't regret that.
I think that was a growing pain. I did not
believe that Trump would be the president he turned out
to be. Did not believe it. I thought it was
a sham. I thought he was being a character. I
(21:54):
thought he was lying. And yes, I'm aware that many
of you, not as many as you now claim, but
many of you. You worshiped him from day one before
he ever had an opinion, and you thought he was
a hero, and you saw some that's great. You were
right and I was wrong, absolutely admit that. But I
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also think it deepened the relationship that we had an
honest disagreement, and I didn't hold back, not one bit.
Trumpkin Tom was not meant to be a compliment. It
was what I was hearing from people every day, and
I wanted to create a character to allow that to breathe,
(22:37):
so you could see it for yourself what I was witnessing.
And as I've said, you don't have to pile on
I was wrong. Trump turned out to be good. Trump
turned out to be the candidate for twenty sixteen and
not Cruise. I admit it. I'm glad it worked out
the way it did. I don't think anybody could have
(22:59):
beaten Hillary other than Trump. And I was dead wrong
on Trump, like anybody else. I have my criticisms. I
don't want Scaramucci in the White House. I don't want
Amrosa in the White House. I think there's some I
don't want Michael Cohen in the White House. I thought
those guys were clowns and criminals and crooks. I think
(23:20):
there's some more out there, some that are still hovering.
But Trump himself turned out to have a very good
gut judgment of what was wrong in DC. And in
some ways the things I did not like about him.
He was too much of an insider. He had dealt
with the Democrats and done too much for the Democrats.
(23:41):
He managed to use as assets to help him get
things done. But I worked that out in my head
throughout that election, and we had arguments on air and
off air. We lost show sponsors. I had show sponsors
(24:01):
who yanked off the show and they weren't allowed back
at a time when the company did not appreciate that
we were costing money. There was money on the books,
that was taking off the books, and they said, I
don't like your opinion, so we're going off. Don't talk
(24:21):
about that anymore. That's not how this works now, audience
will our little family here would not respect me if
I did that, and it was rough, because that affects
the bottom line, my bottom line, the company's bottom line.
You start costing the company money, people start looking at it.
(24:42):
They start looking very closely at those sorts of things.
So the fact that we survived that, I think meant
that for the people who stayed and those who came later,
we know where we are. And if nothing else, and
you've heard this on shows, you know I'm not gonna pander.
(25:05):
You know that you're gonna know where I'm at on
an issue at a given time, even if it's not
where you want me to be. We'll get back to
the I truly believe. But I want to be clear
that where we are today, first day of the DNC,
(25:25):
you've got a week of a freak show, and I
understand there's a certain grudge watch that we do. Look
at those freaks we have got, We're gonna We're gonna
another week is going to be gone. Early voting is
going to begin. We have got to identify voters who
(25:46):
were going to get to the polls to vote. And
I'm going to tell you have got to block out
the person who says it don't matter, Michael, They're just
gonna cheap. Look, there are good people, at least in Texas,
the general a count, the state party, other party officials
who have taken over for the fact that Greg Abbott
won't do it to try to ensure election integrity. By
(26:07):
the way, we still need ballot judges. If you'll email me,
I'll connect you to that. No, no, no, don't even I'll
give you the website coming up. I received an email
earlier today from a lady who's said, Zara, I participated
in a protect the Vote webinar this weekend in order
(26:29):
to help with pole watching and ballot counting. We need
all we can get this will link people to their
state and county. It is protectthevote dot Com. I know
some of the people who were involved in this project,
(26:52):
all of whom are volunteers. Ninety nine point nine percent
of people who will say, well, he's gonna cheat, will
not lift a finger to help. They'd rather it be
the case that they're going to cheat and nothing can
(27:13):
ever be done. This is where the conspiracy theories feed
into the laziness. So you get the guy who's very opinionated,
extremely lazy, and very connected and deepening. He'll just feed
their websites who do this all day long. Nothing really happened,
(27:34):
Nobody really went to the grocery store. It was all
a simulation. It's the whole thing, and it fits into
something that is a hallmark of his entire life, which
is this guy never does a damn thing for anybody.
Deadbeat dad of five different kids. But if each one
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of those women is a bitch, and she's horrible, and
she won't let him see his own kids, and she
just wants to get money out of him, and that's
why he won't pay her child support, and she's a
whore and she's a bet. If he can spend. If
he can weave this, it doesn't matter how many women,
and the less credible he becomes. What he's really doing
(28:20):
is making an excuse for being a deadbeat dad. Right.
They're only playing politics at the At the company, it's
all politics, you know. That's how they decide who gets
paid and who gets promoted. What about the fact that
you're a crank and constantly complain, Well you would too
(28:41):
if you have, You will notice these people they have.
It's it's a loop of them. I mean, I hope
they'll vote for Trump. Some of them won't show up
and vote. They'll just complain because why would they vote there?
You know, they're so proud that they're not going to
cast a vote because the system is so crooked. Well
that's that's really three D genius there. If only everybody
(29:06):
did that, we'd show them, wouldn't we. I mean, you
have to realize you're going to be part of the
solution or you're just complaining. I got an email earlier
from a lady who said that she was at a
dinner this weekend and there were two older Democrats there
(29:28):
and they go twice a week to two different campuses
and they eat lunch on the campus and they talk
to the students about why they should vote Democrat. Yes,
one thing about the Democrats. They are going to fight
to win. They're not just going to complain about They're
going to do the things because it's not easy, right.
(29:51):
It's one thing to watch TV and listen to radio
and read the websites, but to actually get out in
the heat and talk to people and gauge people, it's brutal.
I mean, most people are not gonna do it, and
for good reason. It's not fun. It's but if you're committed,
you do it. It's an I truly believe ten.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
What do you think, Hey, good morning, Michael Barry. Hey,
I truly believe that people that rely upon, depend on,
and benefit from our government, with the exception of veterrends
and people with disability, are of zero benefit to society.
It's like the McDonald worker that's looking for thirty dollars
(30:33):
an hour. This is not a career path, this was
a career choice. You're not gonna get thirty dollars working
at McDonald's. And these people are just way out of
tune with what's reality.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
In this world.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
You know, if people ever got wind of the retirement
packages of government employees. It's probably spiraled so big. There
are government employees who make more money in retirement than
they made working. And I can't tell you how many
(31:09):
people work their tail off and they don't have a pension.
They have a self funded retirement. Maybe they got a
roth ira. If they're lucky, they got a four to
oh one K, but probably doesn't have a match because
(31:29):
they don't do the matches the way they used to.
So most people don't realize the government employee is getting
so far ahead of you during the course of their careers,
and then you get a guaranteed payment upon death. And
that's why in municipal elections, government employees are the largest
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block of voters by far. And I'll tell you where
it turned, Lee P. Brown. Lee P. Brown came in
and promised the government workers that if he won, they
would be rich, and he delivered. The only group he
didn't deliver for was the firefighters. And now Whitmyer's made
up for that. When you look at the retirement packages,
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they are rich. They're absolutely rich. And look, I want
people to be well taken care of, but I would
rather pay people on the front end and encourage people
to invest in their own retirement package. But the bill
will come do. There's no doubt in my mind the
bill will come do. Brenda, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Go ahead, take okay.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
I truly believe that voting early gives the opponents an
opportunity to know how many votes they have to make
up or fabricate to win the election on election day.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
I think everybody needs to take the day off.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
We need to go on election day cast our vote.
Don't give them an opportunity to have any heads up
on how many of us are voting for Trump.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
That's what people did in the twenty two November election,
and so the election office didn't send ballots out, and
so all of Alex Meeler's voters were waiting to vote
and couldn't vote.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
It's a push in the right direction, because we really
need to have days off when you shut everything down,
go past your vote on one day, and then take care.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
Of all the other problems as we go forward.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
First of all, I don't want it to be easier
to vote. I want it to be harder. Why should
it be an easy thing to do something that people
gave their lives to ensure people want you to vote.
We're talking about choosing who's going to be the president
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of the United States of America. You don't need a
day off for that if you can't figure out. I
don't want more people voting. I want fewer people voting.
I want people who give a damn enough to go
wait in line, take time off from work, or go
on a weekend and stand in line and vote. I
don't want every jackass voting. And I Brenda, I think
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your idea is the worst idea ever. People are gonna
get sick, they're gonna die, it's gonna be raining, they're
gonna be traveling. I hear this idea floated by the
conspiracy theorists. It is junk. If you like the Michael
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we take all the credit for ourselves. God bless the
memory of Rush Limbaugh. Long live Elvis, be a simple
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man like Leonard Skinnard told you, and God bless America. Finally,
if you know a veteran suffering from PTSD, call Camp
Hope at a seven seven one seven PTSD and a
combat veteran will answer the phone to provide free counseling.
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