AM Show HR 3 - You Have To Call Out So-Called Republicans

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, sometimes you have to call out people claiming to
be Republicans because they are more useful to the Democrats
than any Democrat could ever be, because they weasele and
slither their way through the Republican party apparatus, and they

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work very hard using terms that appeal to you. They've
learned to do that.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
You know, the.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Guy who hates his country but runs a convenience store
in New York and then nine to eleven happens the
next day. He's got a big flag behind him. You
fell in love with America overnight, did you? Or now
you're worried that people will be mad at you. There
are certain people who are attracted. We had this with

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the Tea Party. I remember twenty ten. The Deep I've
never seen anything like it. It was this organic, grassroots
effort of people who wanted change and said, oh, you know,
we have a title for this. We didn't call it.
And it meant different things to different people, to be sure,
but by and large, it meant a certain set of

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core values, and there was the understanding that there were
a lot of people in elected office who were not
representing that. And remember John McCain had been our nominee
and everybody knew something was wrong. I mean, we were
going to work to help McCain beat Obama, But helping

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McCain beat Obama it feels like helping Andrew Cuomo beat
Zora Mumdani. Even when we win, we lose. Nobody thought
we're gonna help McCain because he's going to get the
country back on the right track. No, we're gonna help
McCain because Obama's bad. But McCain, when he gets there,

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he understands the government is the problem. No, he's been
in it for decades. We're gonna help McCain beat Obama
because when we beat Obama with McCain, McCain will get
there and he'll he'll break up the old boy system
of self dealing in the Keating five. But he was one,

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that's right, remember that scandal. So now, so now you've
got this this odd situation in New York where you've
got Andrew Cuomo, the guy who refused that the ships

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to save people's lives in New York Harbor, the guy
who locked down the state, the guy who, along with
his brother Chris, thought they had the world by the tail,
The corrupt governor of New York who was the son
of a corrupt governor of New York. And by the way,

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there was real talk of Andrew Cuomo being their presidential nominee,
and then he had a me too movement and he's done,
and so then he does his little time off, you know,
like Wiener. Wiener always comes back. And then he's back.

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His brother driven out of CNN. Turns out they were
cutting a little side deals in violation of his CNN deal,
and so now his brother's on another network, but still
with a little bit of influence, a little bit and
certainly not among Democrats, but among moderate Republicans. And so

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now you've got Republicans thinking how bad is Mamdannie that
we have to support Andrew Cuomo. You got Curtis Sliwa
who's run for mayor practically every election for thirty years,
and you know, the question every day is is he
going to get out? Because if he gets out, Cuomo

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can win. If he doesn't, Cuomo can't win. And so
you're racing toward the moment where Mamdani wins, and if
Sleiwa doesn't get out, Mamdanni wins, there's no doubt. And
what does that tell you about New York. What does
that say about that state, about that that city. What

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does it tell you that no matter what you expose
about Mamdani, the voters there are still voting for him. Well,
I'll tell you this. You could go to Karachi and say, hey,
your mayor is going to do this, this, and this,
and that mayor would still win. You could go to

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certain places that you would consider very poorly run with
terrible values and tell the people that that's what's going
to happen, and they go, yeah, that's exactly what we
voted for. We expect that there's a combination of factors
that come together to create a fertile environment for this

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sort of thing. And that's that's how you end up
with a Mamdani. And it's very easy, and in fact,
it's easier to simply say, you know what, let New
York burn. That's what they deserve. It's easy to say that,

(05:50):
I get it. But it's a more profound change than
I think folks. Some folks realize when you put Mamdani
in charge of the city of New York. If he's
ten percent as evil as I believe he is, he's
not just evil. He's young and ambitious. He's not just

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going to get elected. He's like Barack Obama. He's going
to want to do the things that he has committed to,
and he's going to bring in a lot of goons
that are able to do that. And you'll see some
folks from the Obama administration who will come in with him,
some folks who are determined to topple this country, who

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can talk real pretty at the Finance conference and then
go and sign the order to execute a thousand people.
These are ruthless, ruthless, but smart people. And they all
went to Harvard, and they all have excellent credentials, and
they all have a daddy who's a professor at Columbia

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or Yale or Harvard, Stanford or Swarthmore or wherever else.
I mean, these these are the blue blood intellectuals of
the evil left, sort of like the Allende government in Chile.
You've seen this before, You've seen this type before. This
is like the group of people that swept in with
Barack Obama. Oh, we can't be a bad guy. At Harvard.

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He's a constitutional law professor. His wife went to Princeton.
I mean, these are these are good people. Yeah, good credentials,
you know, you just don't like them because they're black.
You don't like him because he's Muslim, owners you don't
like him. Lucky you The Michael Berry Show continues your
lucky days. Carlos, You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir, Hey.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
Michael, how are you doing good? These Carlos aquesto science? Hey,
I got the Uh, we need to look at the
biggest picture of my friend. If we're gonna be talking
about evil and cunning people, we need to be talking
about Cidel Castro and all these other people that have
uh talking not just a town. Uh, they have taken

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a country to a higher level of poverty and destruction.
And it's because they are all just like you were saying,
people that sweet talk masses. So that's just my two
cents on your talk.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
Okay, But just so I understand when you say we
need to look at the bigger picture. How I was
talking about the mayoral candidate of New York. Uh tell
me what to add to that that I didn't manage
to cover.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
Well, that is, I I got to the show a
little bit late when you were talking about the mayor
and then if he gets elected and uh, he started
swreak talking all the people. He will do just the
same thing that Michael were saying. We're gonna elect somebody
that is gonna sweet talk to you and then put

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you behind bar and he's yes, yes, no.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
You're exactly right. Communists never come to power with promises
to do that which they eventually do, because they wouldn't
get elected. I'm going to lord over you in an
authoritarian way. If you disagree with me, even in thought,
I'm going to execute you. I'm going to separate families.

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I'm going to execute the professional class that will include professors.
I'm going to destroy the church because there can be
but only one church, and that is me the state.
You will not be allowed the private worship of your God.
You will not be allowed to move about freely to
avoid you beginning to gather and spread ideas and question

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my authority. You will not be allowed to accumulate anything
beyond basic sustenance, because that means wealth, and that would
mean that even though you worked hard or smarter, you
would have more than someone else. And everyone must be
equally poor rather than unequally free, and that I cannot tolerate.

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If they promised those things, and people still voted for
it to be one thing, but they promise something that
is very seductive, and mankind is weak. We know this
mankind is weak and given to certain things with seductive
powers over which he almost has no control. It's like

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Odysseus returning home after the war and he knows the
nymphs will be calling for him, and so he has
himself tied down because he wants to come home to
his wife and he doesn't want to be distracted and
have to go to the mistresses. He understood before the

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temptation presented itself that the temptation would be greater than
he could withstand, and so he has himself tied down
to prevent himself from engaging in something that he knew
was counterproductive to his long term goal, because he had
been gone for what was it, twenty five years and
he wanted to get home. I think that the seductive

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powers of socialism alone are always attractive to people because
there will always be more people who want more than
they have than have more than they could live with
and could understand the difference. There will always be people who,

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by choices they made, whether that's career choice, marital choice,
drug abuse, work ethic, don't have as much as they
would like to have, and they see someone else with it,
and so that jealousy builds. And it's a very natural

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thing that jealousy builds, and the way to exact that jealousy.
I don't think people really believe in most cases that
voting for this or that candidate is going to improve
their lot in life. But I do think they trust
that a Mamdani will knock down the other people. People

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have a love hate relationship with wealth. They're obsessed with it.
They want to see more lifestyles of the rich and famous.
They will know what they drive, what they wear, what
they eat, where they eat, how they live, how they travel,
and they will try to mimic that. There is no
doubt that there was a several year imitation of the

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Kardashians where girls all became little mini means of the Kardashians.
You see young women and through the use of makeup
and hair coloring and button hip implants and boob implants,
they all. My wife was telling me this weekend, and
this just blows my mouth. I said to her, we

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were walking along the street and this woman was walking
past us, and I said, that's another one of those
Kardashian clones. And she said, yeah, I said, she wouldn't
believe it. The makeups and all this is all designed
to give you that certain Kardashian look. And she said,
I don't know if I told you. There is a
trend now that girls want the big ass. She didn't

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say ass, big butt. They want the big butt and
the very narrow waiste. And I said, well, that can't
be easy, and she said, oh no, you're not going
to believe this. They're doing surgeries where they remove the
bottom rib because the bottom rib is a place where

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right if you want the shirt to lose its form,
you take the coat hanger out of there. So they
take that bottom rib out so that it collapses and
makes it artificially thinner. I said, sweetheart, men, the most

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men will do for vanity is comb their hair. That's
like a big deal. But women, I say that gay
Dave is going to send me a message say it's
not true. Gay men will go to great links to
remain good looking and present themselves the best, but a

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straight dude won't. Absolutely not. It's good to be a dude,
because I see the trouble that women go to I mean,
we're bothered that we have to wait on them while
they do all these awful things to the selves, but
we still don't do all these old things for ourselves.

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We have it so good that we are bothered that
we have to wait while they torture themselves without even
thinking about the fact that they're torturing themselves, every single
one of them. To your ears, this is the Michael
Berry Show. Scott writes, you're talking of academics and highly

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educated left wing individuals. I saw this as the son
of a left wing PhD qualified professor. Left Wing academic
types think that because they were awarded a PhD after
writing a thesis about a very small niche topic, they
are experts on everything. They don't have the self awareness

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to realize, maybe I don't know a thing about business,
so they vote Democrat. It reminds me of the old
Ronald Reagan line. The trouble with our liberal friends is
not that they are ignorant. It's just that they know
so much that isn't so. The trouble with our liberal

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friends is not that they are ignorant. It's just that
they know so much that isn't so. So much of
what they quote. So much of what they believe to
be true it just isn't.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
So.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
There was a professor named Johnson, I can't remember his
first name. Gosh, I never thought this would happen. I
went about reading everything he wrote. This has been thirty
years ago. And he wrote a book called The Intellectuals,
and he picked ten left wing intellectuals whose personal lives

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were at complete odds with everything they got rich writing
about it'd be the Bernie Sanders basically, and Rousseau was
an absolute monster, and Karl Marx was an absolute horrible
person who lived off of old, rich women who were
the children of capitalists. And here he was writing against capitalism.

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It's just just amazing. Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson
says thousands of likely non citizens have been found on
the state's voter rolls. Harris County has the largest number,
with three hundred and sixty two. Nelson said a crosscheck
of state voter records found that more than twenty seven
hundred possible illegal aliens were registered on the voter rolls,

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leading to an eligibility review across the two hundred and
fifty four counties. She said the data came from a
full comparison of texas eighteen million registered voters against federal
citizenship records in the US Citizenship and Immigration Services SAVED database.
She added that only eligible US citizens may participate in
our elections. The Trump administration's decision to give it's free
and direct access to this data set for the first

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time has been a game changer, and we appreciate the
partnership with the federal government to verify the citizenship of
those on our voter rolls and maintain accurate voter lists.
Nelson said the review is part of an effort to
maintain an accurate voter list and to safeguard election integrity
ahead of the twenty twenty six election cycle. In other words,

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let's protect Greg Abbott. See Greg Abbott, Secretary of State.
Didn't give a damn about election integrity when he wasn't
on the ballot, But now that he's there, they'd get
a twofer. One they wipe a few illegal alien voters
off the rolls and Democrats, and two they say to

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the right wing, hey man, y'all keep saying we don't
do anything for election integrity.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
Here.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
We spent five minutes voted over here. Unbelievable. The never
ending story of the Turkey Leg Hut. Yes, Turkey Leg Hut.
Turkey Leg Hut was a spot in the Third Ward
where the hoy ploy of black entertainers, politicians, business owners,

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college students would hang out and the food critics could
not write enough in the society critic Oh, my goodness, look,
this rapper was here, and this rapper was here. Oh,
it was the best thing ever. And yet all the
while it appears to have been some sort of criminal
enterprise and unfolding before our very eyes. Nikiah Holmes was

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the co owner of a husband wife team of the
now closed restaurant, and she is charged with hindering apprehension
of a felon accused of aggravated kidnapping. Meanwhile, her ex
husband in this relationship, Went Sour, was indicted earlier this
year on federal arson charges. Holmes this is his wife,

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was arrested last week in charge with hindering the arrest
of wanted suspect Jonathan Sayson. Court documents state officers saw
Sayson at Holmes's home in Cyprus at the end of
her driveway, she came back to her home and left
again with another person. Documents claimed the officers conducted a
traffic stop and asked if anyone was at her home.

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Records say she did not answer, but officers told her
that Sayson was seen at her home and he had
warrants for his arrest. She then allegedly maintained that no
one was at her house and she had no knowledge
of Sayson, and if you'll give me just a moment,
I'll call him, tell him to leave. No, I just
had up for her. During the traffic stop, officers were
told Sayson was seen jumping the back fence of Holmes's house.

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According to court records, Holmes chart changed her story to
officers and told them she picked up Seyson's mother. Say
Zoon told Holmes he thought a cop passed by and
told her to look when she came back home. She
did not know if Sayson had left or was in hiding.
Say his own is charged with aggravated kidnapping after he

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is accused of attacking his ex girlfriend with a tire
iron you know, as one will do, and kidnapping her
while he was out on bond for previous charges. So wait,
you're already in trouble with the law, so you go
beat your girlfriend with a tire iron. And kidnap her. Yeah,

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I mean uh hmm, okay, yeah, I guess. You know,
you notice around certain people there is a culture of criminality.

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Every story related to the Turkey lug Hut. For the
last five years they had a business partner and then
he opened a place across the street, and then he
they didn't pay their bills. You know, in the restaurant
and bar business, you find out pretty quickly who's in
trouble because the folks who manage the accounts, they know
everybody's business. And the reason they know everybody's business is

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liquor cannot be delivered beer, wine and liquor cannot be
delivered on consignment. You can't have terms. You have to
pay for that the moment you receive it. It's the
one thing that way, even the food companies until you
fall behind, in which case they'll require cash on demand,
but cash up front. But with the liquor companies, if

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you can't pay when they deliver, they won't deliver. If
they arrive and you can't pay, they'll turn and walk out,
and so they'll tell other people, hey, oh so and
so is going out of business. So if you ever
want to know who's going out of business. Just ask
a restaurant and bar owner, especially a bar owner, because
the moment you can't pay for your liquor means you're
going to have to run through what you have, and

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if you don't have a good stock of it, and
if you don't have booze, and especially if you're in
the bar business, you're not going to last anyway. So
bars will continue to operate. And what some bars will do,
because they don't intend to pay their employees at the end,
what some bars will do is they'll operate till the
very end, you know, telling their employees, oh, just give

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me one more week and drain every last dollar out
of there because they can't order new boots with more
of The Michael Berry Show Show. Bud Adams died on
this day twelve years ago. Born on this day in
nineteen fifty seven, the lead guitarist for the band The

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super Band Toto. Born in San Fernando Valley, noted studio
musician and songwriter who worked on Michael Jackson's Thriller. Played
guitar on The Girl Is Mine. He played beat It,
except he didn't play the solo. That was actually Eddie
Van Halen and Human Nature. He played bass, un beat it,

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and he arranged human Nature. There's a documentary that's not
just about him, but largely includes him and his guitar prowess.
What was his name? If you know it, email it
to me. Harry Fisher born on this day sixty nine
years ago. Also born on this day, Manfred Man born

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Manfred steps Lubowitz in Johannesburg, Transval Union of South Africa.
Born on this day ninety years ago. Mel Street American
country music singer, songwriter and guitarist, loving on backstreets and
all sorts of other songs. The writer of I don't

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like that song, I'm not going to mention now. I'm
not going to mention that one today. It was on
this day in nineteen fifty six that Elvis visited his
favorite local movie theater, The Memphian. He just made it big,
but he was beset by an adoring crowd, who, in
the ensuing melee scratched his new Cadillac Come On Man.

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Thus began Elvis's new habit of renting the entire theater
whenever he wanted to watch a movie. A year later,
on this day, Jelhouse Rock goes to number one in America.
A couple weeks later, he played a convict turn singing
sensation in the terrible movie of the same name. On

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this day in nineteen sixty eight, perhaps at the peak
of his career, Johnny Cash wins Best Country Best Album
at the Country Music Awards for his live release Johnny
Cash at Fulsome Prison You Had The Johnny Can Show
on television. On this day. In nineteen seventy two, Chuck
Berry lands his only number one hit on the Hot

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one hundred with My Dingling, a novelty song about well.
On this day in seventy two, Curtis Mayfield's Superfly soundtrack
hits number one in America, where it would stay for
four weeks. Who knows what more Curtis Mayfield would have
given the world had he not been I think on
stage in New York. I think it's actually in Central

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Park when a lighting scaffold falls and crushes his back,
leaving him to live only a few more years, and
that too, laid out in a bed paralyzed. On this
day in nineteen seventy two, during a home game against
the University of Alabama, the University of Tennessee's Pride of

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the Southland Band debuts what will become the school's unofficial
fight anthem. Rocky Top. The bluegrass Homage to Tennessee was
first recorded by the Osborne Brothers five years earlier. It
would be recorded by everyone who was anyone in country
music and beyond, but by far the best version goes

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to you know who, how'd you do? This is, sirle
q liquor hoodeed?

Speaker 4 (27:18):
Last night me Watusa was sitting up reliving the old
days when we used to have the moonshine steels.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
You remember that Guz way back.

Speaker 4 (27:26):
Yond up in the hills in Tennessee. You know that
the coin won't roll at all, Old rocket Top, that
dirt gets two dirty rocket by far. That's why all
the white folks on Rocket Top drank them out liquor
from a job. Men's is all hicking it up there,
old rocket type.

Speaker 1 (27:46):
Ain't one of them got their liquor.

Speaker 4 (27:47):
Sens all Rocket Top sulloways me home sweet home for
me God a rocket type. Oh Lord, get tops ten
u see come on stalk girl, rocking time. You always
me homewed harm to me. I know moonshine nika a

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rocket tized tenetic got you know we're crazy.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
Down there when we get to dragon. I was recently
watching Paul Harvey's speech to the American Broadcasters Association where
he was receiving a Lifetime Achievement award, and he got
a little choked up. And he told the story about
a guy who had mentioned his name to someone else
after hearing his show and said to him, this was

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very early in his career. He was a young man.
The fellow said to him that Paul Harvey sounds pretty
good for his age, and he said, I feel that
way about myself today. The use of age. Nineteen eighty four,
the second Reagan Mondell debate occurred in Kansas City, Missouri.

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During the debate, incumbent President Reagan was seventy three years old,
mind you, Donald Trump is seventy nine today, and he
famously responded to a question about his age by saying,
I will not make age an issue of this campaign.
I'm not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's
youth and inexperience. It was a line that they had

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rehearsed again and again. Richard ben Kramer writes about that
in an article later for Esquire magazine. It wasn't that
the line was so great that made this special. There
are great lines that are written by writers. Reagan didn't
write the line, as a matter of fact. It was

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the delivery. It was the fact that he was a
great actor, and that when you laid it, when you
walked into the trap, he snapped it shut. He delivered
his lines so perfectly. Here's what he said.

Speaker 5 (30:01):
You already are the oldest president in history, and some
of your staff say you were tired after your most
recent encounter with mister Mondale. I recall yet, that President
Kennedy had to go for days on end with very
little sleep during the Cuba missile crisis. Is there any
doubt in your mind that you would be able to
function in such circumstances. Not at all.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
It's true and I and I want you to know
that also, I will not make age an issue of
this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political
purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
One of the greatest lines of all time of a
political debate, and I must say, giving credit to a Democrat,
a Texas Democrat at that. In nineteen eighty eight, Michael
Ducaccus chooses senior Tech his Senator Lloyd Benson as his

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running mate, and Benson's opponent was Dan Quell in the
vice presidential debate, and Quill was saying, they say I'm
too young, they say I'm too young. I'm older than
John F. Kennedy was. And Benson had prepared and prepared
and prepared the delivery of this line, and he kept

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flubbing it, but he didn't flubb it that night when
he famously said, Senator I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy
was my friend, and Senator you're no Jack Kennedy. That
was the line of the night Benson won the vice
presidential debate. It wasn't enough for Dukacas to win the election.

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But the amazing thing if you read the book, which
out of print, which you can find it, we'll call
What It Takes by Richard ben Kramer, is they had
practiced at a hundred times and he flubbed it one
hundred times before that