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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Michael Berry Show. Forgive me for the repetition, but
some things deserve the attention of multiple days of consideration.
And I find that what's happening is there is so
much content being created today, not just our show, but
so many people out there, that what ends up happening

(00:22):
is we end up a mile wide and an inch deep.
So we never go to phase two of a story.
And I compare that sort of to just getting headlines
but never any depth. So and I think in large
part of me that Twitter Twitter created in their algorithm

(00:45):
if you read the headline of a story and go
to forward it, they'll ask you, well, would you like
to read the article you're about to comment on before
you put your name behind the commentary on it? Not,
in his eyes, got headlines, which sometimes they're not even accurate.
But I think we end up there. So I wanted

(01:06):
to discuss what we have been talking about, which is
the takedown of Chuck Schumer by John Oliver, and the
hit is out on Chuck Schumer, or it sure seems
to be. This is clip six oh two John Oliver
last week with John Oliver, Chuck Schumer made up Joe

(01:28):
and Eileen Bailey. This is really really this is the
kind of stuff. You know, Schumer's wrong on taxes. There's
a certain part of the electorate that says, ah, yeah,
that's not good. It's bad policies. But when you catch
somebody in a sexual scandal or a financial fraud, everybody

(01:50):
can understand that Schumer is a liar. He makes things up.
He's a classic liar. And here he's not lying about
he's lying about people that supposedly exist. And he just grew.
This kind of thing tends to land as a punch better.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
I actually want to talk less about Chuck Schumer himself
and more about two of his favorite people, Joe and
Eileen Bailey. There are a couple that throughout Schumer's career
he has talked about a lot.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
They're a middle class couple in Massapequa, which is a
suburb on Long Island. Joe and Eileen Bailey, this middle
class couple. They bought into Reagan Republicanism in nineteen eighty.
Joe and Eileen are worried about losing their jobs or
their friends jobs. That Baileys really don't believe in trickle down.
They don't believe in a whole lot of government spending
but they believe in tax breaks for kids to go

(02:40):
to college. He's an insurance adjuster and lives in the
New York suburbs. By New York standards, he makes fifty
thousand years. If he lived in the middle of the country,
make forty. Wife works in a medical office. She makes
about twenty. She might make fifteen elsewhere. And you know,
I have guided my political life through the Baileies.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Okay, first stop putting all that business out there. Choel
makes fifty thousand dollars a year, Eileen makes twenty. They
own two cars, a Taurus and Honder Odyssey, and they
have sex three times a week. Joe lead. Joe usually
initiates with their therapistscouraging Eileen to get more in touch
with her sensual side, and surprise Joe with some sexy
lingerie when he gets home from insurance aggusting, which again

(03:18):
pays him fifty thousand dollars. But you heard him. The
Baileys have guided Chuck Schumer's political life, which is a
little weird given they don't exist. Seriously, he invented them.
Schumer first introduced the world to the Baileyes in his
two thousand and seven book Positively American winning back the
middle class majority, one family at a time. In it,

(03:39):
he mentions the Bailes and astonishing two hundred and sixty
five times in two hundred and sixty four pages, but
he'd apparently been talking about them for years before the
book was published. One of his former spokespeople said he's
always asking what would the Bailees think? And to be fair,
Schumer acknowledges that some may find this a little weird.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
If you wear that's my staff. I've been talking about them,
talking to the Baileys for fifteen years. I have conversations
with them. One of my staff for as one said,
I had imaginary friends to the press got me in
some trouble. But these people are real and I respect
them and I really love them and I care about them.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Okay, sure, but they're literally not real, Juck. You invented them.
And look, I'm not saying that. Imagining a manifestation of
your target demos once and it is necessarily a bad thing.
I do it myself. I have a made up couple
that I consult when making this show. Jerry and Patricia
Globdukes from New York City, Iowa. Jerry's a dental hygienist

(04:38):
who makes thirty seven dollars a year, and Patricia's a
snake masso who makes sixty thousand, but she might make
twenty million elsewhere. I love the glob Dukes and I
fear them. Occasionally my stuff will say, should we make
the show fun this week and not talk about something
incredibly sad or boring? But the glob Dukes will shout, no, John,
you need to do a twenty five minute deep dive
about corn. So I say, well, if that's what well,

(05:00):
the glob Dukes ones, let's give it to though.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
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