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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time time luck and look you
Michael Arry Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke. I can feel a good
one coming on.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
It's the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I guess it is. Resident came to Texas today, Zoo
six pats Sherpus Christie. Not Dallas, Austin, Send and Town.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Houston luggas jackson of Corpus Christie. But true assault of
the Earth, South Texas. That's what a brilliant move, what
a great move. I love this. I told the story
this morning because I've spent a long time thinking about it.
And I got an email from my fellow yesterday and
he said, I listened to you from Ohio, and I
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should be bothered by the fact that you've been talking
about the Republican primary in Texas every day, but I'm not.
And the reason is, even though I'm not in Texas,
the results of your primary are going to affect my life.
They're going to affect every aspect of my life because
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John Cornyn, if he's put back in the Senate, is
going to have the power to prevent the Save Act
from passing, which is what he'll do, and to send
all our money to Ukraine and to stab Trump in
the back, which is what he's done. And he's right,
He's absolutely right. And so I thought of the words
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that Robert E. Lee used for his troops. He would say,
the eyes of the South are upon you. He's really
calling upon a nobler ideal, you know, You're way of life,
the independence from a federal government. And then when the
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war was over, he went to Washington College in Virginia,
which would become Washington and Lee in his honor later,
and there was a professor, there was a student there
named William L. Prather, and he admired Robert E. Lee
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very much, and Roberty Lee was a mentor of his
and told him, you're a great debater, you should be
a lawyer, you should study, you have a big future.
And it really made a difference to him. And so
he would leave Washington and Lee and he would go
to the University of Texas in Austin, and he would
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give these lectures to the student body. And this was
when the University of Texas was figuring out what it
was going to be, and he had he wanted an
August institutions.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Some of the state of Texas will be proud of.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
And he would end his remarks to the student body,
which he delivered often, he would end his remarks with
the eyes of Texas are upon you instead of the
eyes of the South, and the idea that being a
Texan was a high calling and you should do your
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best for the people of this state, past, present, future.
And in fact, anyone who knows anything about the University
of Texas that every Longhorn knows the words to the
eyes of Texas are upon You, which were written during
this time, and that is the school song now, and
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it's a beautiful moment, these histories, these traditions. The eyes
of Texas are upon you. And my oldest son is
at the University of Texas, My youngest son will be
going there, and I've told them. You know the meaning
of this and why this is important to every graduate,
because you have a responsibility to more than just yourself
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and us. You have a responsibility to the people who
pay the bills for the university. And by the way,
it's not the parents or the kid you pay a
small percentage of a university education. You have a responsibility
to the people of our state and country who've given money.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
To make this thing possible.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
But I was thinking about Dwight David Eisenhower's General Eisenhower,
when he was preparing our men to go into Normandy,
where many of them were certain to die, and he said,
the eyes of the world are upon you. And can
you imagine that's not hyperbole, the eyes of the world.
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And it's true. What they did at Normandy saved the world.
And so that's my admonition to you. It might sound hokey,
but the vote you cast, not just in November, but
the votes you cast in your state primary. And today
at seven pm in Texas is the last day of
early voting, and then you can vote on Tuesday. Those
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votes are going to make a world of difference. They're
going to change the world for better or for worse.
And the eyes of the world are upon you, and
that's that's our responsibility as Americans. Voicemails, you don't do
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the voicemailion tro We'll get the voicemails a bit, but
use a couple of voicemails to make some points, if
you would. Today is the last day of early voting
in the Texas primary seven pm Central, and then Tuesday will.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Be election day all day.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
But I always encourage people to vote early because you
never know what will happen on quote election day. So
lou In Dallas received a flyer for the Senator, the
senior Senator of our state, John Corny's been in the
job for twenty four years, complete sellout, told Trump not
to run in twenty twenty four. The country had moved
past him. Now claims he's Trump's best friend. And every
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six years, John Cornyn comes back to Texas to tell
us he's just like us, he's one of us, but
he's not. He's not He's a swamp creature. And this
is the first time there's been a well funded, well known,
grassroots Trump supporting Trump loved candidate, our attorney general running
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against him, plus Congressman Wesley Hunt. So Cornyn's in real trouble.
Well Low and Dallas received a flyer from the Corning campaign,
and I thought that'd be a good opportunity for us
to talk about this.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
I just wish you could see this piece of literature
or got in my mail today from mister Cornyn. Well
mister Paxson sues him and mister Hunt sues him. It's
despicable and got a Timbs up picture with him and
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my president on there. I don't know whether they call
that photo shopping or something. How they can take a
picture and change it. That's what they've done with this
piece of garbage. As sure as you could see this,
I've been so mad. I can't love from Dallas by.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
I would love to give Loo from Dallas a hug.
She's just adorable. I'm so glad she took the time
to call us. Actually, my favorite part about that I
lost my mom September of twenty twenty four is the
fact that she referred to the flyer that she received
as some literature, because that's what my mother would say,
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I got some you're here in the mail. I don't
know what you think about it. They're telling us you
know who to vote for? Do you do you want
to tell us how to vote? That's what my mom
would say, I got some literature here from she'd tell
who the candidate was. But what lou is upset about
is that John Cornyan's campaign has mailed to her a
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picture with John Cornyan and Donald Trump on it, and
lou Is informed enough. A lot of people won't be
that she knows that John Cornan stabbed Donald Trump in
the back. He said that Trump shouldn't run again in
twenty twenty four. The country had moved past him and
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it was time he recognized that that's the ultimate betrayal. So,
whether you like Trump or not, it is just honest
to act like y'all are best friends. And Trump has
had to navigate delicate a very very difficult situation. Trump
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likes Wesley Hunt, who's one of the challengers, and he
likes Ken Paxton, who's the attorney general who's running, who's
leading in the race. And Trump does not like Cornyn,
and Trump won't endorse Cornyn. But the swamp has been
threatening Trump that he has to endorse Cornyan.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Now, one of.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
The threats they use is if Trump doesn't endorse corn
and Cornyn won't win. If Trump doesn't endorse Cornyn, then
Cornyn finishes the year as a Senator and he will
work against Trump constantly. Now what does that tell you
about John Cornyn's character, Because that's exactly what Mitch McConnell
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has done. The Kentucky primary has got what's the guy's name, NA,
there's one guy. He's got one ad he's running in
the state of Kentucky. Right now, I think January February
March April May. I think the I think election day
in Kentucky was January Ferry March April May five, nineteen,
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if I remember correctly.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
But he is Nate Morris. Is that Nate Morris? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Yeah, he is running ads where there is a cardboard
cutout of Mitch McConnell.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I believe it's Nate Morris to and he throws it
in the trash.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Mitch McConnell went from being the ranking Republican in the
US Senate to being the guy working the hardest against
our president, the most popular Republican of my lifetime, the
most consequential Republican of my lifetime. And here's mister, here's
Mitch McConnell working as hard as he can against him.
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Susan Collins does that for me. Murkowski does that in Alaska.
And I will remind you Lisa Murkowski lost her own
Republican primary, ran as an independent. The Democrats teamed up
with her daddy's machine till she comes from a machine
family and got her sent back up there. She's not
a Republican either, folks. That's on us, the reason we
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can't get anything done, even when we win is that
the people who win win by lying to us. Fool
me once, fine, but when they keep lying to us,
it is our responsibility to vote against them.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
And never forget this.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Every piece of mail, every radio ad, every TV ad,
those are not crafted by the candidate or the officeholder.
Those are crafted by professionals. You know all the things
that you ate that weren't good for you, the red
dye and the yellow dye. You know all the things
you were told, I ain't got to take this shot,
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it's good for you. There are people whose job it
is to get you to do that which is contrary
to your best interests, and they're good at it. They
study you, They study what makes you act, They study
what makes you take action, They study what scares you,
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what turns you on, what worries you, what thrills you,
and then they craft a message to push your buttons.
And if they're good at what they do, they leave
you coming to a conclusion tim will be for that
guy because the other guy's terrible. That you're coming to
that conclusion on your own, and that that is the ultimate.
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When they can convince people you ain't fooling lou You're
not gonna fool Lou. You can stick picture, you can
put pictures of him and corner all day. Lou ain't
gonna be fooled.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
We like Lou. Lou doesn't get fooled. Lou can't be
told what to do. We like Lou. Well, it's Friday, and.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
We're overdue to share some of our favorite things in
the whole wide world, and that is the voicemails you
leave for us at seven one three one thousand. You
can always email me directly through the website Michael Berryshow
dot com. But when you call and leave voicemails, we
really enjoy this. And we come in every morning, we
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replay the voicemails from overnight and we decide which ones
are going to make it to the show on Friday,
and which ones are going to make to the Hall
of Fame.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Which ones we have fun, We have funny. Hello, boys
and girls. That's Friday, So you know what that means.
It's time to check Michael. All I see you've called.
This week, We'll start with Ty.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
He has a theory as to why Gavin Newsom called
JD Vance more dangerous than President Trump.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Okay, Tolly. Gavin Newsom did a podcast at Jensaki, where
he said he was more afraid of jd Vance than
Donald Trump, but he never explained why.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Here's my theory.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Donald Trump's only going to be president for the next
three years, but mister Newsom is afraid that jd Vance
is going to be the next president after Trump for
eight years and after the end of this year, Newsom
is just going to be a private citizen fighting for
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recognition for the next ten years, last years of Donald
Trump's presidency and then eight years under jd vance presidency.
So here'll be an old forgotten man before the next
chance comes up.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
By If you haven't heard the comments, Ty was referencing
specifically here he is on MS now with old Obama
and Biden hacked jin Psaki.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
There are some people waiting in the wings in the
Maga world who would love to be the chosen ones
of the Trump orbits. Jd Vance is one of them.
Marco Rubio is one of them. Do you think they
can carry on the Maga flame here?
Speaker 5 (15:43):
No?
Speaker 8 (15:43):
But Vance, for whatever reason scares me. Why almost more
than Trump?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (15:53):
I just I mean talk about a guy put a
mask on and his face grew into it. I mean
Jadi Vassi mar K Ruby were two of the most
effective critics. Just like that guy what's his name, Graham
lindsay of Donald Trump, what frauds?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
What phony's.
Speaker 8 (16:13):
But JD is a unique fraud in phony, and he's
a little more dangerous. And and the folks around him,
these are not folks that believe. I mean, listen to
some its biggest funders. The way they talk is a
nihilism to the way they talk about the world. I
know these guys, I literally know them, not figuratively know them.
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Some of them are in the book, knew them back when.
So again, I don't want to be overly hyperbolic about this,
but uh, you know it's but that said, it's gonna
be hard for Trump. Trump's still you know, you think
this guy is going to sit there in the Oval
office waiting for you to ask him a question and say, well, sir,
Jen's not here and she's in Iowa with the debate
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with Vance, there's no damn way on earth.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
So he's going to.
Speaker 8 (16:58):
Try to run this out until right after the end,
until he can pick and choose who goes behind him
or God forbid, we don't take back the House of representatives.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
He may be on that ballot. I'll try.
Speaker 8 (17:13):
I just wouldn't put it past him.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
You know, Gavin Newsom is everything that is wrong in
politics today. Everything so there is there is this thing
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that happens where these people who desperately want the power
that then leads to the wealth of being in American politics.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
And these are not normal people.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Would they would you know if they're on the Titanic
they're going in the lifeboat. They're not They're not saving
anybody else, They're taking the last vest. They're awful human beings.
I've been around these people. I'm gonna tell you.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
It's why they.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Can't stay married. It's why none of them have relations
with their own kids. It's it's it's a brutal, ugly,
ugly underbelly of humanity.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
They're not normal people. They're not like you.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
And that's why when you when you ascribe to them
the behaviors of what you would do in that situation,
you're always wrong because they are not you. They don't
think the way you do. They are capable of saying anything.
Trust me on this. If you question anything I say,
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let it not be this. When you think to yourself, well,
if I was in hissues, what would I do? And no, no,
that's not how they operate. They operate to make you
think they are like you.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
And that is the trick.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
It's an entire industry, you know, there's a whole industry
to sell shoes to make your wife think this shoe
is going to make her look good, or make you
think this shoes is going to help you run faster
or whatever else when you understand that what they're doing
is trying to make these swamp creatures who live in DC,
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who steal your tax dollars, who cut deals, who would
rather send money to Ukraine that they take from you
than give it back to you. And that's the problem
with John Cornyan, who we call John Wayn mccornyn because
just about this time every six years he comes out
and says how he's just like us. And the worst
part is if it was just like us, he'd hate himself.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
John Wayne mccornan is one of us.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
He is just like us.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Not to look a difference between John Wayne mccornyn and
your neighbor. That gets really into Halloween Bill. He gets
frustrated by the same things you do. In fact, he
hates political ads. He is so tired of political ads
that he can't sleep at night.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
He hates the robo calls. Hell, he hates his own
robo calls.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
He hates the email spam, and he hates and I
mean hates, the onslaught of text messages. John Wayne mccornyn
is so much like you that he even hates John
Wayne mccornyn. He's such a man of the people that
he knows you hate him, and he's right there with you,
and he'll tell you to your face if you join
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him at one of the weekend Cul de Sac parties
in his very normal subdivision, his neighbor will walk up
and say, you suck, and he'll go tell me about
it and then spit like he's disgusted, self loathing, self hating,
humiliated by how he betrayed President Trump, walking embarrassment to himself,
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and he's proud of it. He knows you hate him,
and he's right there with you. He's so much like
us that he can't stand himself. It's complex. So when
you step into the voting booth, just know that John
Wayne mccornyn is well aware that you can't stand him,
and he's arm in arm with you because he's one
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of us.
Speaker 9 (21:31):
Johayd captain something wong, Well, something must be right.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
You're listening to Michael Barry.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
This is a message crafted out of Washington, DC to
get voters who don't want to vote for our senator
John Cornyn. He's losing badly. They don't want to vote
for him because he doesn't do what he says he'll do.
He works against our interests. He backstabbed Trump. So before
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you go in and vote, they go it. Wait, wait,
don't vote for who you want to vote for because
they won't win in November. Vote for who you don't
want to vote for, because he'll win in November.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Wait.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
So the guy I don't want to vote for is
the guy you want me to vote for. Yeah, because
even though nobody wants to vote for him in November,
he's the only one anyone will want to vote for,
which doesn't make any sense, but it doesn't need to
because every voter, deep down, every voter deep down feels
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you know, I have my emotions.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
And all, but I'm not an expert. I don't always
know who's going to.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Win, and I don't want to vote for somebody who's
going to lose if I could have voted for the
other guy that I don't like, but he would have won.
So what the DC swamp figures out is that you
hate Democrats more than you love Republicans, and that you
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hate losing more than you love winning. Once you understand
that core psychological trait of almost every voter, you begin
crafting a message to that effect. And so that message
goes like this, all right, we're in the primary. You
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don't like the Republican who's been there for twenty four years.
He's doing a horrible job. We get it. But the
only alternative to him is a Democrat. That's called a
Hobbesian choice. It's a false choice, that's what it is.
Either way, you lose, but you lose less with Cornyn
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he's the devil, you know. So this is the message
we're stuck with every October. Hey, I know these Republicans
are awful, but they're not as awful as the Democrats.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
And you know what, that is more or less.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
True, although they're more dangerous because when you got people
that you're trying to get to go to the polls
and vote and they go, na, no, I'm done, I'm
done with it. I'm done, I'm tired. I want to
do it.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
We got to.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
The Democrats are terrible and they go. Republicans are terrible too,
and in many ways they're right. So what we got
to do is get the bad Republicans out, because no
matter what you say about Trump, Trump's doing what.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
He said he would. He closed the border, he's supporting people.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
He did more on day one with the executive orders
than the Republican Congress has done in twenty years, because
they're not doers, they're talkers and campaigners. So this is Lindsay.
Lindsey would not vote for Cornyn, but she's tempted to
vote for Cornyn because Tim Scott, who ran against Trump,
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said that we'll lose Texas to the Democrats somehow, Jasmine
Crockett will become the senator if you vote for who
you want. And how does Tim Scott know he's from
South Carolina and lives in DC. Well he doesn't, but
he's a name in a face people recognize, so he's
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not telling people in Texas how to vote, and bless
her heart, it's kind of working.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Listen, Michael Lindsey calling you to say that. Cableese Today
said if we don't vote for John Cornyan. Tim Scott
is telling us that we will lose Texas to the
Democratic Party, which I really don't want to happen. So
I am a voter here and I'm sitting on the fence,
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and I don't want to go with Wesley Hunt if
he voted for the Clinton, and I don't want to
go with with Kim Paxton with all his challenges. We're
seeing commercials about and I get my information from you
in cable news, and so I just wanted to throw
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in my cheat sense, which is I'm tempted to vote
for John Cronan because I want the Conservative Party to
win the seat for Trump, and I am a Trump supporter.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
But I don't see.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
How it was sp lit it all up into pieces
with moderates and Wesley Hunt saying one thing but doing
another in the past that I can comfortably vote for him.
I like the interview you did that I'm not going
to do it. I'm not going to risk new people
who can ruin Texas for good. And I'm still thinking Cronan,
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But I would like to know your thoughts because I
know your thoughts go against mine, and today they're saying
something new bye for now. I love listening to your
show in the car and the radio, and you have
smart things to stay like yesterday, Bye for now.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
First of all, let me say, Lindsey, it takes a
lot of courage to put yourself out there and ask
a question like that. It does not easy to do. Secondly,
you seem like a very thoughtful person. If somebody tries
to sell you a Rolls Royce as it's safer than
the car you're driving, you have kids, you don't want
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your kids today, you'd go.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
You know, I can't afford that.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
It's not a good decision because you would trust your judgment.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
These people.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
This is why the media in DC and national news
always want to tell you the experts no more than
you do. Who were you to question whether the clock
shot worked or not. You're not a doctor. Here's a doctor.
Now he's paid by big Pharma. Here's a doctor. He
says you have to take it, and he's a doctor.
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You don't know anything because you're not a doctor. Trust
your gut. The way a democratic republic works is not
that the experts in Washington, d C. Tell you here's
how to win, and here's what the way it works
is that every person earnestly, in good faith shows up
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to express their opinion. And if that happens, John Cornyn
doesn't win.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
He can't.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
He gets fired by the voters for the actions he
has taken. So how did they keep him from getting fired?
They tell you that he's the only one that can
do it. If he doesn't do it, it has to
be that bad person over there, because your person can't win.
And Lindsey said, well, I don't like Paxton with all
his everything. I've heard on the commercials you ever heard
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of the Democrats have said about Donald Trump. I get
emails every day telling me Trump's a pedophile. Trump ran
Epstein Island. Trump is a convict thirty four convictions. Trump
is a monster. Trump is a monster. Trump is a monster.
You didn't believe them, So why are you believing this?
Because you love Trump? Because Trump has something he has
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that Jena Sai quality.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
You can't quit.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
You ever realize that they're just running the same playbook
on everybody else that they ran on Trump, and you
didn't let them win.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Don't let them win.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
No, h
It's that time time, time time luck and look you
Michael Arry Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke. I can feel a good
one coming on.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
It's the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I guess it is. Resident came to Texas today, Zoo
six pats Sherpus Christie. Not Dallas, Austin, Send and Town.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Houston luggas jackson of Corpus Christie. But true assault of
the Earth, South Texas. That's what a brilliant move, what
a great move. I love this. I told the story
this morning because I've spent a long time thinking about it.
And I got an email from my fellow yesterday and
he said, I listened to you from Ohio, and I
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should be bothered by the fact that you've been talking
about the Republican primary in Texas every day, but I'm not.
And the reason is, even though I'm not in Texas,
the results of your primary are going to affect my life.
They're going to affect every aspect of my life because
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John Cornyn, if he's put back in the Senate, is
going to have the power to prevent the Save Act
from passing, which is what he'll do, and to send
all our money to Ukraine and to stab Trump in
the back, which is what he's done. And he's right,
He's absolutely right. And so I thought of the words
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that Robert E. Lee used for his troops. He would say,
the eyes of the South are upon you. He's really
calling upon a nobler ideal, you know, You're way of life,
the independence from a federal government. And then when the
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war was over, he went to Washington College in Virginia,
which would become Washington and Lee in his honor later,
and there was a professor, there was a student there
named William L. Prather, and he admired Robert E. Lee
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very much, and Roberty Lee was a mentor of his
and told him, you're a great debater, you should be
a lawyer, you should study, you have a big future.
And it really made a difference to him. And so
he would leave Washington and Lee and he would go
to the University of Texas in Austin, and he would
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give these lectures to the student body. And this was
when the University of Texas was figuring out what it
was going to be, and he had he wanted an
August institutions.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Some of the state of Texas will be proud of.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
And he would end his remarks to the student body,
which he delivered often, he would end his remarks with
the eyes of Texas are upon you instead of the
eyes of the South, and the idea that being a
Texan was a high calling and you should do your
(03:24):
best for the people of this state, past, present, future.
And in fact, anyone who knows anything about the University
of Texas that every Longhorn knows the words to the
eyes of Texas are upon You, which were written during
this time, and that is the school song now, and
(03:46):
it's a beautiful moment, these histories, these traditions. The eyes
of Texas are upon you. And my oldest son is
at the University of Texas, My youngest son will be
going there, and I've told them. You know the meaning
of this and why this is important to every graduate,
because you have a responsibility to more than just yourself
(04:08):
and us. You have a responsibility to the people who
pay the bills for the university. And by the way,
it's not the parents or the kid you pay a
small percentage of a university education. You have a responsibility
to the people of our state and country who've given money.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
To make this thing possible.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
But I was thinking about Dwight David Eisenhower's General Eisenhower,
when he was preparing our men to go into Normandy,
where many of them were certain to die, and he said,
the eyes of the world are upon you. And can
you imagine that's not hyperbole, the eyes of the world.
(04:49):
And it's true. What they did at Normandy saved the world.
And so that's my admonition to you. It might sound hokey,
but the vote you cast, not just in November, but
the votes you cast in your state primary. And today
at seven pm in Texas is the last day of
early voting, and then you can vote on Tuesday. Those
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votes are going to make a world of difference. They're
going to change the world for better or for worse.
And the eyes of the world are upon you, and
that's that's our responsibility as Americans. Voicemails, you don't do
(05:32):
the voicemailion tro We'll get the voicemails a bit, but
use a couple of voicemails to make some points, if
you would. Today is the last day of early voting
in the Texas primary seven pm Central, and then Tuesday will.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Be election day all day.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
But I always encourage people to vote early because you
never know what will happen on quote election day. So
lou In Dallas received a flyer for the Senator, the
senior Senator of our state, John Corny's been in the
job for twenty four years, complete sellout, told Trump not
to run in twenty twenty four. The country had moved
past him. Now claims he's Trump's best friend. And every
(06:12):
six years, John Cornyn comes back to Texas to tell
us he's just like us, he's one of us, but
he's not. He's not He's a swamp creature. And this
is the first time there's been a well funded, well known,
grassroots Trump supporting Trump loved candidate, our attorney general running
(06:33):
against him, plus Congressman Wesley Hunt. So Cornyn's in real trouble.
Well Low and Dallas received a flyer from the Corning campaign,
and I thought that'd be a good opportunity for us
to talk about this.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
I just wish you could see this piece of literature
or got in my mail today from mister Cornyn. Well
mister Paxson sues him and mister Hunt sues him. It's
despicable and got a Timbs up picture with him and
(07:13):
my president on there. I don't know whether they call
that photo shopping or something. How they can take a
picture and change it. That's what they've done with this
piece of garbage. As sure as you could see this,
I've been so mad. I can't love from Dallas by.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
I would love to give Loo from Dallas a hug.
She's just adorable. I'm so glad she took the time
to call us. Actually, my favorite part about that I
lost my mom September of twenty twenty four is the
fact that she referred to the flyer that she received
as some literature, because that's what my mother would say,
(07:59):
I got some you're here in the mail. I don't
know what you think about it. They're telling us you
know who to vote for? Do you do you want
to tell us how to vote? That's what my mom
would say, I got some literature here from she'd tell
who the candidate was. But what lou is upset about
is that John Cornyan's campaign has mailed to her a
(08:21):
picture with John Cornyan and Donald Trump on it, and
lou Is informed enough. A lot of people won't be
that she knows that John Cornan stabbed Donald Trump in
the back. He said that Trump shouldn't run again in
twenty twenty four. The country had moved past him and
(08:44):
it was time he recognized that that's the ultimate betrayal. So,
whether you like Trump or not, it is just honest
to act like y'all are best friends. And Trump has
had to navigate delicate a very very difficult situation. Trump
(09:05):
likes Wesley Hunt, who's one of the challengers, and he
likes Ken Paxton, who's the attorney general who's running, who's
leading in the race. And Trump does not like Cornyn,
and Trump won't endorse Cornyn. But the swamp has been
threatening Trump that he has to endorse Cornyan.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Now, one of.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
The threats they use is if Trump doesn't endorse corn
and Cornyn won't win. If Trump doesn't endorse Cornyn, then
Cornyn finishes the year as a Senator and he will
work against Trump constantly. Now what does that tell you
about John Cornyn's character, Because that's exactly what Mitch McConnell
(09:53):
has done. The Kentucky primary has got what's the guy's name, NA,
there's one guy. He's got one ad he's running in
the state of Kentucky. Right now, I think January February
March April May. I think the I think election day
in Kentucky was January Ferry March April May five, nineteen,
(10:15):
if I remember correctly.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
But he is Nate Morris. Is that Nate Morris? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Yeah, he is running ads where there is a cardboard
cutout of Mitch McConnell.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I believe it's Nate Morris to and he throws it
in the trash.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Mitch McConnell went from being the ranking Republican in the
US Senate to being the guy working the hardest against
our president, the most popular Republican of my lifetime, the
most consequential Republican of my lifetime. And here's mister, here's
Mitch McConnell working as hard as he can against him.
(10:58):
Susan Collins does that for me. Murkowski does that in Alaska.
And I will remind you Lisa Murkowski lost her own
Republican primary, ran as an independent. The Democrats teamed up
with her daddy's machine till she comes from a machine
family and got her sent back up there. She's not
a Republican either, folks. That's on us, the reason we
(11:22):
can't get anything done, even when we win is that
the people who win win by lying to us. Fool
me once, fine, but when they keep lying to us,
it is our responsibility to vote against them.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
And never forget this.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Every piece of mail, every radio ad, every TV ad,
those are not crafted by the candidate or the officeholder.
Those are crafted by professionals. You know all the things
that you ate that weren't good for you, the red
dye and the yellow dye. You know all the things
you were told, I ain't got to take this shot,
(12:06):
it's good for you. There are people whose job it
is to get you to do that which is contrary
to your best interests, and they're good at it. They
study you, They study what makes you act, They study
what makes you take action, They study what scares you,
(12:28):
what turns you on, what worries you, what thrills you,
and then they craft a message to push your buttons.
And if they're good at what they do, they leave
you coming to a conclusion tim will be for that
guy because the other guy's terrible. That you're coming to
that conclusion on your own, and that that is the ultimate.
(12:52):
When they can convince people you ain't fooling lou You're
not gonna fool Lou. You can stick picture, you can
put pictures of him and corner all day. Lou ain't
gonna be fooled.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
We like Lou. Lou doesn't get fooled. Lou can't be
told what to do. We like Lou. Well, it's Friday, and.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
We're overdue to share some of our favorite things in
the whole wide world, and that is the voicemails you
leave for us at seven one three one thousand. You
can always email me directly through the website Michael Berryshow
dot com. But when you call and leave voicemails, we
really enjoy this. And we come in every morning, we
(13:33):
replay the voicemails from overnight and we decide which ones
are going to make it to the show on Friday,
and which ones are going to make to the Hall
of Fame.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Which ones we have fun, We have funny. Hello, boys
and girls. That's Friday, So you know what that means.
It's time to check Michael. All I see you've called.
This week, We'll start with Ty.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
He has a theory as to why Gavin Newsom called
JD Vance more dangerous than President Trump.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Okay, Tolly. Gavin Newsom did a podcast at Jensaki, where
he said he was more afraid of jd Vance than
Donald Trump, but he never explained why.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Here's my theory.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Donald Trump's only going to be president for the next
three years, but mister Newsom is afraid that jd Vance
is going to be the next president after Trump for
eight years and after the end of this year, Newsom
is just going to be a private citizen fighting for
(14:51):
recognition for the next ten years, last years of Donald
Trump's presidency and then eight years under jd vance presidency.
So here'll be an old forgotten man before the next
chance comes up.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
By If you haven't heard the comments, Ty was referencing
specifically here he is on MS now with old Obama
and Biden hacked jin Psaki.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
There are some people waiting in the wings in the
Maga world who would love to be the chosen ones
of the Trump orbits. Jd Vance is one of them.
Marco Rubio is one of them. Do you think they
can carry on the Maga flame here?
Speaker 5 (15:43):
No?
Speaker 8 (15:43):
But Vance, for whatever reason scares me. Why almost more
than Trump?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (15:53):
I just I mean talk about a guy put a
mask on and his face grew into it. I mean
Jadi Vassi mar K Ruby were two of the most
effective critics. Just like that guy what's his name, Graham
lindsay of Donald Trump, what frauds?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
What phony's.
Speaker 8 (16:13):
But JD is a unique fraud in phony, and he's
a little more dangerous. And and the folks around him,
these are not folks that believe. I mean, listen to
some its biggest funders. The way they talk is a
nihilism to the way they talk about the world. I
know these guys, I literally know them, not figuratively know them.
(16:33):
Some of them are in the book, knew them back when.
So again, I don't want to be overly hyperbolic about this,
but uh, you know it's but that said, it's gonna
be hard for Trump. Trump's still you know, you think
this guy is going to sit there in the Oval
office waiting for you to ask him a question and say, well, sir,
Jen's not here and she's in Iowa with the debate
(16:55):
with Vance, there's no damn way on earth.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
So he's going to.
Speaker 8 (16:58):
Try to run this out until right after the end,
until he can pick and choose who goes behind him
or God forbid, we don't take back the House of representatives.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
He may be on that ballot. I'll try.
Speaker 8 (17:13):
I just wouldn't put it past him.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
You know, Gavin Newsom is everything that is wrong in
politics today. Everything so there is there is this thing
(17:39):
that happens where these people who desperately want the power
that then leads to the wealth of being in American politics.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
And these are not normal people.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Would they would you know if they're on the Titanic
they're going in the lifeboat. They're not They're not saving
anybody else, They're taking the last vest. They're awful human beings.
I've been around these people. I'm gonna tell you.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
It's why they.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Can't stay married. It's why none of them have relations
with their own kids. It's it's it's a brutal, ugly,
ugly underbelly of humanity.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
They're not normal people. They're not like you.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
And that's why when you when you ascribe to them
the behaviors of what you would do in that situation,
you're always wrong because they are not you. They don't
think the way you do. They are capable of saying anything.
Trust me on this. If you question anything I say,
(18:49):
let it not be this. When you think to yourself, well,
if I was in hissues, what would I do? And no, no,
that's not how they operate. They operate to make you
think they are like you.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
And that is the trick.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
It's an entire industry, you know, there's a whole industry
to sell shoes to make your wife think this shoe
is going to make her look good, or make you
think this shoes is going to help you run faster
or whatever else when you understand that what they're doing
is trying to make these swamp creatures who live in DC,
(19:30):
who steal your tax dollars, who cut deals, who would
rather send money to Ukraine that they take from you
than give it back to you. And that's the problem
with John Cornyan, who we call John Wayn mccornyn because
just about this time every six years he comes out
and says how he's just like us. And the worst
part is if it was just like us, he'd hate himself.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
John Wayne mccornan is one of us.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
He is just like us.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Not to look a difference between John Wayne mccornyn and
your neighbor. That gets really into Halloween Bill. He gets
frustrated by the same things you do. In fact, he
hates political ads. He is so tired of political ads
that he can't sleep at night.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
He hates the robo calls. Hell, he hates his own
robo calls.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
He hates the email spam, and he hates and I
mean hates, the onslaught of text messages. John Wayne mccornyn
is so much like you that he even hates John
Wayne mccornyn. He's such a man of the people that
he knows you hate him, and he's right there with you,
and he'll tell you to your face if you join
(20:46):
him at one of the weekend Cul de Sac parties
in his very normal subdivision, his neighbor will walk up
and say, you suck, and he'll go tell me about
it and then spit like he's disgusted, self loathing, self hating,
humiliated by how he betrayed President Trump, walking embarrassment to himself,
(21:07):
and he's proud of it. He knows you hate him,
and he's right there with you. He's so much like
us that he can't stand himself. It's complex. So when
you step into the voting booth, just know that John
Wayne mccornyn is well aware that you can't stand him,
and he's arm in arm with you because he's one
(21:29):
of us.
Speaker 9 (21:31):
Johayd captain something wong, Well, something must be right.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
You're listening to Michael Barry.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
This is a message crafted out of Washington, DC to
get voters who don't want to vote for our senator
John Cornyn. He's losing badly. They don't want to vote
for him because he doesn't do what he says he'll do.
He works against our interests. He backstabbed Trump. So before
(22:13):
you go in and vote, they go it. Wait, wait,
don't vote for who you want to vote for because
they won't win in November. Vote for who you don't
want to vote for, because he'll win in November.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Wait.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
So the guy I don't want to vote for is
the guy you want me to vote for. Yeah, because
even though nobody wants to vote for him in November,
he's the only one anyone will want to vote for,
which doesn't make any sense, but it doesn't need to
because every voter, deep down, every voter deep down feels
(22:57):
you know, I have my emotions.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
And all, but I'm not an expert. I don't always
know who's going to.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Win, and I don't want to vote for somebody who's
going to lose if I could have voted for the
other guy that I don't like, but he would have won.
So what the DC swamp figures out is that you
hate Democrats more than you love Republicans, and that you
(23:28):
hate losing more than you love winning. Once you understand
that core psychological trait of almost every voter, you begin
crafting a message to that effect. And so that message
goes like this, all right, we're in the primary. You
(23:49):
don't like the Republican who's been there for twenty four years.
He's doing a horrible job. We get it. But the
only alternative to him is a Democrat. That's called a
Hobbesian choice. It's a false choice, that's what it is.
Either way, you lose, but you lose less with Cornyn
(24:14):
he's the devil, you know. So this is the message
we're stuck with every October. Hey, I know these Republicans
are awful, but they're not as awful as the Democrats.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
And you know what, that is more or less.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
True, although they're more dangerous because when you got people
that you're trying to get to go to the polls
and vote and they go, na, no, I'm done, I'm
done with it. I'm done, I'm tired. I want to
do it.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
We got to.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
The Democrats are terrible and they go. Republicans are terrible too,
and in many ways they're right. So what we got
to do is get the bad Republicans out, because no
matter what you say about Trump, Trump's doing what.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
He said he would. He closed the border, he's supporting people.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
He did more on day one with the executive orders
than the Republican Congress has done in twenty years, because
they're not doers, they're talkers and campaigners. So this is Lindsay.
Lindsey would not vote for Cornyn, but she's tempted to
vote for Cornyn because Tim Scott, who ran against Trump,
(25:29):
said that we'll lose Texas to the Democrats somehow, Jasmine
Crockett will become the senator if you vote for who
you want. And how does Tim Scott know he's from
South Carolina and lives in DC. Well he doesn't, but
he's a name in a face people recognize, so he's
(25:52):
not telling people in Texas how to vote, and bless
her heart, it's kind of working.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Listen, Michael Lindsey calling you to say that. Cableese Today
said if we don't vote for John Cornyan. Tim Scott
is telling us that we will lose Texas to the
Democratic Party, which I really don't want to happen. So
I am a voter here and I'm sitting on the fence,
(26:22):
and I don't want to go with Wesley Hunt if
he voted for the Clinton, and I don't want to
go with with Kim Paxton with all his challenges. We're
seeing commercials about and I get my information from you
in cable news, and so I just wanted to throw
(26:42):
in my cheat sense, which is I'm tempted to vote
for John Cronan because I want the Conservative Party to
win the seat for Trump, and I am a Trump supporter.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
But I don't see.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
How it was sp lit it all up into pieces
with moderates and Wesley Hunt saying one thing but doing
another in the past that I can comfortably vote for him.
I like the interview you did that I'm not going
to do it. I'm not going to risk new people
who can ruin Texas for good. And I'm still thinking Cronan,
(27:20):
But I would like to know your thoughts because I
know your thoughts go against mine, and today they're saying
something new bye for now. I love listening to your
show in the car and the radio, and you have
smart things to stay like yesterday, Bye for now.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
First of all, let me say, Lindsey, it takes a
lot of courage to put yourself out there and ask
a question like that. It does not easy to do. Secondly,
you seem like a very thoughtful person. If somebody tries
to sell you a Rolls Royce as it's safer than
the car you're driving, you have kids, you don't want
(27:59):
your kids today, you'd go.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
You know, I can't afford that.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
It's not a good decision because you would trust your judgment.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
These people.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
This is why the media in DC and national news
always want to tell you the experts no more than
you do. Who were you to question whether the clock
shot worked or not. You're not a doctor. Here's a doctor.
Now he's paid by big Pharma. Here's a doctor. He
says you have to take it, and he's a doctor.
(28:32):
You don't know anything because you're not a doctor. Trust
your gut. The way a democratic republic works is not
that the experts in Washington, d C. Tell you here's
how to win, and here's what the way it works
is that every person earnestly, in good faith shows up
(28:58):
to express their opinion. And if that happens, John Cornyn
doesn't win.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
He can't.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
He gets fired by the voters for the actions he
has taken. So how did they keep him from getting fired?
They tell you that he's the only one that can
do it. If he doesn't do it, it has to
be that bad person over there, because your person can't win.
And Lindsey said, well, I don't like Paxton with all
his everything. I've heard on the commercials you ever heard
(29:30):
of the Democrats have said about Donald Trump. I get
emails every day telling me Trump's a pedophile. Trump ran
Epstein Island. Trump is a convict thirty four convictions. Trump
is a monster. Trump is a monster. Trump is a monster.
You didn't believe them, So why are you believing this?
Because you love Trump? Because Trump has something he has
(29:50):
that Jena Sai quality.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
You can't quit.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
You ever realize that they're just running the same playbook
on everybody else that they ran on Trump, and you
didn't let them win.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Don't let them win.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
No, h
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