PM Show Hr 1 | Having Fun with the Kennedy Center Honorees

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. Michael
Very show is on the air. Where was his father?

Speaker 2 (00:16):
It starts in the house, It starts in the home,
and yeah, well, well my father got locked up?

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Well where was his father? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (00:24):
You know, like I did talk about my three closest friends,
and they did you know fifteen to twenty five?

Speaker 1 (00:30):
One did?

Speaker 4 (00:30):
Twenty eight is and that I was the only one
of the three to have a father in my life,
even though my parents were together, but I still had
a father who was a gentleman.

Speaker 5 (00:40):
Too much violent crime being committed by young punks who
think that they can get together in games and crews
and beat the hell out of you or anyone else.
They don't care where they are. They can be in
DuPont circle. But they know that we can't touch them.
Why because the laws are weak. I can't touch you.
If you're fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years old and you

(01:03):
have a gun. I convict someone of shooting another person
with an illegal gun on a public bus in the chest,
intent to kill.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
I convict him, and you know what, the.

Speaker 5 (01:13):
Judge gives him probation, says you should go to college.
We need to go after the DC Council and their
absurd laws. We need to get rid of this concept
of no cash fail. We need to recognize that the
people who matter are the law abiding citizens.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
I did a poster of.

Speaker 5 (01:30):
The young man from Doge who was beaten bloody, with
a severe concussion, a broken nose, and then I did
a poster of what happens to those kids because I
can't arrest them, I can't prosecute them. They go to
family court and they get to do yoga and arts
and crafts. Enough it changes.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
March first, twenty twelve, we lost a great American, very smart,
very influential American named Andrew Breitbart. I'm not going to
say that Andrew and I were best friends or I
was closer to Andrew than anyone else, but we spent

(02:12):
some time together. We texted often. We were just in
d C together where the Radio Row d C just
before he passed, and he got up on a table.
We had something called Radio Row. They still do this.
I just don't go to him anywhere. I don't like

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to be around people. And Radio Row was where you
would they give you a spot at the table and
you'd broadcast from there. And the reason it works is
the politicians. They do this at the Super Bowl. I mean,
you'll see professional athletes, you know, they'll sit down and

(02:54):
there's a reference to group sex.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
That is not a politically correct.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Term as to how you do an interview like this
initials or GB But I can't say it on the air,
but wouldn't It's probably not it's probably not prudent anyway.
But you're all sitting there and the politicians will come
down because they can just do one interview in one interview,
in one interview, and there.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
You gets you all right there.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
It's a good way to get a good hit across
the country in this manner. And Andrew came in after
I had finished that day. We're all kind of wrapping up,
and he hops up on a table and he says
he has big news. He's got big news and be
breaking big news very soon as you'll be breaking big news.
And he would die shortly thereafter. I was at the
time working on a book on how to influence policy

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government this country, and I had suggested to him that
I would fly out, get a hotel and spend several
days following him around and record, and he was going
to be one of the chapters in my book. I
wanted to do Russe Limbaugh anyway, and he passes, he'd

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agreed to do it, and he passes shortly thereafter, like
just after that.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
And he was so young.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
He was born in sixty nine, So what does that
make him at that point forty two, forty three, forty
three years old.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
He's too young. That's Elvis young. Anyway.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Andrew had a great, great line. It's been attributed to
him that politics is downstream from culture. When the culture wars,
and you'll win the political wars. I have come to
learn how true that is. But I didn't understand that
when he first started saying. I just thought it was

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a clever line. And it's kind of an oil and
gas type line with the use of the downstream, and
it always sounded so clever. You know, sometimes you have
a clever phrase that appeal to you, but you don't
really know what it means. You know, if you hear
the phrase he's run around like a chicken his head
cut off. Well, for most people, they have the sense

(05:09):
that that means that you're you know, you're not you're
not being reasonable, You're Tasmanian devil. Frenzied in your behavior.
But my grandmother would before she cooked chicken, she'd go
out into the yard, into the into the chicken pen
and chicken coop, and she'd take one out and she'd
snap his neck, and then she'd drop him down and

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let him run till to amuse me, let him run
until and he'd run for a few seconds, and then
he'd fall over. And it was a It's a visual
that sticks with you for the rest of your life.
President Trump understands that you've got to win the culture
wars to win back the country, and he understands it
better than anyone in the country, in any profession, in

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any film. He understands it. And so he decided that
that's why he's doing the thing with the Olympics. He
decided that he would be the head of the Kennedy Center.
We're not leaving culture to these left wing nuts anymore,
and in so doing, it allows him to honor luminaries
of the culture that are not just left wing nuts

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any longer. Today, the Kennedy Center honorees were announced by
President Trump.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
I'll tell you about that. I actually we'll play you
from this morning when I had a little fun with it.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
Show programming note, we got the news this morning of
the Kennedy Center honorees while we were on air.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
We had a little fun with it. We got really excited.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
We thought it was awesome, and we thought you wou'd
play you a little bit of our morning show today
and how we reacted on air, and you'll get I
think a bit of the flavor for how different our
morning show is than this our evening show. And there
are reasons for that. But anyway, we were really excited
about it. So here's what happened. President Trump, as the
head of the Kennedy Center, denounce that George Straight will

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be honored at the Kennedy Center high as civilian honor
you can receive. And I think about I wasn't there.
You've seen photos. I think about George Straight being chosen
by the Houston Livestock showing rodeo to cover a missed date.

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Do you remember who missed the date? Who very good
to cover for a missed date? And how that really launched. Obviously,
I think that was the biggest effect on a person's career.
What MTV did for zz Top, the Houston Livestock Showing

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Rodeo did for George Strait, and I think about this
little bitty fellow, little skinny, fair faced, fresh faced kilboy
in his boots.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
These genes prest down in the middle.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Line and he's reaching out there and shaking people's hands,
and he's happy to be here.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
And that's George Straight, and now he's going to be honored.
You ever been to the Kennedy Center, James.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
None and I went up because the kids were interning
in Congress this summer, and spent some time, and we
went back to things that I had worked at a
law firm there and I hadn't but I hadn't spent
any real time there in a while, so I had
to make multiple trips to DC, and so sometimes this
summer I was doing my show from my hotel room.

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And it's good that you didn't notice. It means our
equipment is good.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
And don't try to say you notice now that I
told you.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Anyway, we went to a show at the Kennedy Center,
and I mean, it's it's kind of a tired old building,
to be honest with you, but it the grandeur and
the fact that Trump understood just like he's taking over
the Olympics.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
Why let the left have these things.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Why not so George Strait will be honored, Gloria Gaynor
will be honored.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
Michael Crawford.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
I think he's actually an Englishman, but he's famous for
being the voice of the of the Phantom and Phantom
of the Opera.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
He's kind of the voice.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
That's a nod to the cultural or to the high culture,
to the to the fine, to the performing arts. Sylvester
stillone and last, but not least, kiss Well.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
I want to thank you all very much.

Speaker 6 (09:32):
This is great.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
These are our friends. We have thousand different.

Speaker 6 (09:39):
Said I won't fight for you, for your family and
your future every single day. I will be fighting for
you and make our country better.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
Than on the screen has displayed a picture of Bill
Clinton in the blue dress and red high heels that
hung in Epstein's New York home, and Hillary just keeps fainting,
but they put smelling sauce under her and say, no
face the music, Hillary, you ain't no ways time.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
That's just how I imagine that might not. I don't know.
That's not a fishal Listen to the Michael Berry Show podcast.
If you dare.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
New little Iceberg Iceberg ice Prector like you do it.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
At the conferences or conventions where you go around.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
Hi, I'm Michael. What's one thing about me you might
not have known. I'm from Houston, Texas. Let's see.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
I like kiss. I love kiss.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
When I was eight years old, I had a birthday
party at the Spinning Wheels roller rink and my birthday present,
which my mother said she would get for me if
I didn't cry when I had a shot. I was

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having tubes put in to my nose because I've always
had allergy problems and I'm sorry tubes put into my
ears and they had to put me under in order
to do that, and I hate needles, so I didn't
cry over the pain. I cried over the needle, and
my mom said, if you don't cry when they go

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to stick you with that needle in your leg, then
I won't. I'll then you'll get your present for your birthday,
which was my kiss. Huh that needs it wasn't there yet.
I was only eight, and so she said, I'll buy
you the belt bow to about two.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
Or three dollars. But I wanted it. It's my birthday,
so I was excited.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
And then it was a red and blue kind of
metallic kiss.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
Well I did cry.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
I screamed and hollered and cried and carried on.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
And I hate needles.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
It was a big needle, and then my little leg
in the big old needle.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
My littw leg.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
So as it what happened my birthday, I have my
couple of my friends that I grew up with and
were skating over the to the side of where you skated,
and there was my mom's present that she had placed there,
and it was my kiss belt buckle. So I proceeded

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to open it at her direction, and I took off.
Back in those days, this was seventy eight. You it was,
I don't know if it was where you lived this
was happening, but in southeast Texas where I lived in
Orange on the Louisiana border, the big deal back then
was you go down to the Horseman store and you'd

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get a belt and it was kind of it has
some turquoise specs in it in brown leather, and it
was real popular when I was growing up. And there
would be there would be a clear spot in the
middle of the back of the belt and that's where
you would put your name. It was kind of like

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your your license plate. You put your your custom put
your name on there.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
And so.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
I was wearing that belt on the day of my
birthday party. And I always had my shirt tucked in
because my dad always tucked his shirt in as we
were supposed to do that.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
I don't do that now, but I did back then.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
And I got my jeans on, and I got my
skates on, and I immediately took the buckle out and
I put.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
It on my on my brown leather belt.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
And I was very, very happy with my kiss belt
buckle Kiss being honored by President Trump.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
I can't wait till the emails come in tonight.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
You know, Kiss is a Satan worshiping man Michael, that
stands for not since Satan's service. I can't believe he
was playing them today. Oh, I agree. They're heathens. They're
just vessels of the devil, sent here to destroy us. All.
I wish they'd be arrested and thrown under the prison,
put them into Hooscal right now. Only this reason I

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was doing it was out of respect for President Donald J. Trump, because,
as the chairman of the board of the Kennedy Center,
he announced today that he will be honoring them with
the nation's highest civilian war oh oh well, uh, you know,
if anybody can fix them, it'll be Trump.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
Yeah, so I just you know, I agree with you.
They're the worst thing ever. But are you still okay
with that? If President Donald J. Trump is honoring him?
Uh well, I wished he wouldn't do it, but uh yeah, yeah,
that'd be all right.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
I'd be all right.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
At least they're putting George s Trade in there, yeah,
because he's Yeah, okay, I just I wanted to be
I wanted to be clear that I could do so
something as long as Donald Trump is doing it.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
So we are, you know, I.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
Quoted Andrew Breitbart. Politics is downstream from culture. If you
get the culture right, you don't have to battle so
many things in the politics. Trump is a culture warrior, badass.
He has won back the political center by winning back

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first the cultural center. They're not so different. It took
me a long time to realize this. I always thought
of politics as this portion, the compartment of our lives.

Speaker 5 (15:49):
And we.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
Live our lives and we have things in compartments. Now
some people's compartments spill out. For me, sex is something
between a man and a woman behind closed doors, and
not to be done in public, not to be flaunted,
not to you know, whatever else.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
I'm not a prude. I think there is a place
for that. I think there is.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
You know, we have compartments of our lives and where
we put things. The language we use in the locker
room versus the language we use at church. I don't
think those are incompatible. I think at different times it
calls for different behaviors around some friends.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
I'm jocular and goofy.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
Around some older folks that I know, or visiting my
dad in the old folks home, I have a different
a different presentation of who I am. So culture is
very important, and for the President to be spending so
much of his energy on this, I think really reflects

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his understanding that culture is how we win things back.
I also think it enables him to connect with people.
For instance, George Strait is King George. He's called in Texas.

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He is the biggest thing in Texas. I mean he
might be big in Tennessee, but in Texas. Here is
the President announcing that George Straight would be an honoree
this year.

Speaker 6 (17:32):
The Board has selected a truly exceptional class of honorees,
I mean really exceptional.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
First is country.

Speaker 6 (17:40):
Music star actor and producer George Straight Great. Over an
extraordinary four decade career, George has sold more than one
hundred and twenty million records world worldwide, a mass sixty

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number one hits wow, and produced thirty three platinum certified albums,
more than any other living American.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
That is amazing.

Speaker 6 (18:13):
He's believed by millions of people to just be as
good as you can get. And he's beloved by hundreds
of millions of people all over the world. He's really something.
And they call him the King of Country. And we
know him very well.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
George Strait, Okay, he's Oh and it looks nice. You're
a good looking guy. I hope he still looks like that.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
Listening to the Michael Berry Show podcast, is Sexy be Sexy?
Gloria Gaynor announced by President Trump today to be receiving
highest civilian on it be the head of the Kennedy
Arts Center. He has another job. What else does he do?

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He's head of the Kennedy Arts Oh, President, he's also president.
She will be one of the honorees at the event.
A loan with George Strait, Sylvester Stallone, Michael Crawford, the
voice of The Phantom in Phantom of the Opera. I
think Michael Crawford's an Englishman if I'm not mistaken, but

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I could be wrong on that. If memory serves he
is an Englishman.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
Uh and kiss Pretty cool? Pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
The President's influence on the Kennedy Arts Center is being seen.
These are people that Americans actually love, and not people
who say that they hate other Americans and they hate
Maga because that's been the basis of late in Aquaman,
without which.

Speaker 1 (19:56):
You couldn't really be honored.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
They've they've taken to honoring people on the basis of
their political views, not their art. Good for President Trump.
Gloria Gaynor is among that group. She will be inducted
by her birth name. I'm sorry, she will be inducted
by her stage name, Gloria Gaynor.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
She was born Gloria Fowls or Foles. I'm not sure
f ow l e s Owls.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
Maybe maybe it's Foles. I don't know how she pronounced it.
But it's a great honor. It's fantastic. President Trump made
the point, in his right to do so, that the
Academy Awards drew big numbers until they went well, what
President Trump is doing?

Speaker 1 (20:43):
You know?

Speaker 2 (20:43):
You start thinking. I call it the stained glass window
stage of life. When you get older, you start thinking
about the future more. You start thinking about the time
when you're not around or having children made me circumspect

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as it relates to the future, and you start to
care more about the country because you realize that you're
going to be gone, and you've got to have safeguards
and improvements and infrastructure and systems in your country so
that your kids and their kids and their kids will
have the opportunities you had, the opportunity of fairness, the

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opportunity to succeed if you work hard and take risks
and those sorts of things.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
And what the.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
President is now doing is changing. He's not just rearranging
the decks on the Titanic. He is making systemic changes.
He's pointing out that these institutions have to change. That's
why of these universities are having to pay these big fines.
He's trying to scare them into changing their ways. This

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is what happens when you change the culture. School in Midland, Texas.
Midland is an oilfield town. It's a if you've seen landman,
Midland is is that That's that's Midland. That's what they're
going for there. If you've seen Friday Night Lights. There's
a lot of things that I would say are the

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Texas oil field that may not have necessarily been filmed
in Midland or be necessarily directly specifically about Midland. But
Midland is the central casting of Midland and Odessa, Ira
Ann these communities. But Midland's what you're gonna know. Midland
also has some really really rich people in it, and

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it's all oil money. But there's a lot of roughnecks.
There's a lot of guys that work and it's it's
an oil town. And I don't mean it's that's mostly
what that is it. There's nothing else Midland. You work
in the oil patch in one way or another. That's
what you do.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
Midland Lee named after Robert E. Lee Long Midland Lee.
I don't know how. The school was one hundred years old.
A few years ago.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
They changed their name from Midland Lee, which it had
always been heritage school, to just Midland. They dropped the
Lee because Roberty Lee was supposedly horrible, not when he
was serving the country at West Point, not when he
was serving prior to the Civil War, but because he
chose to join his fellow Virginians rather than what when

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Phil Scott wanted him to do, history would make him
out to be such a monster. He would go on
to lead a university, He would go on to call
on the nation to heal Oh. But it was very
important for some dumb people, the Jasmine Crocketts of our society,
that his name be taken off of things. And maybe
we'll put Sheila Jackson Lee's name on something. Because my

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community where I live has been very eager to put
Sheila Jackson Lee's name on city building's county building statement.
They want to put her name everywhere, as if she
was some beacon, really really really dumb person. But being
dumb is not a sin. She was a very mean person.
She was a very corrupt person. And I won't have

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it said that she was a good person who did
good things for other people when she was a self centered,
very destructive person who caused a lot of harm. If
you're that desperate to look for black people to honor,
I can hand you a few. Thomas Soul, the greatest

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living social scientist today, the greatest economist, greatest speaker on
issues of race. Thomas Soul, He's black, how come nobody
honors him because he's not black and stupid because he's
not black and liberal. Clarence Thomas the greatest justice on

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the Supreme Court today, the second greatest justice of my lifetime,
behind only Antonin's Khaliah.

Speaker 1 (24:57):
Let's honor him. If you want to honor people, I'll.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
Be glad to give you plenty of black people to honor,
plenty who are beacons, who who are representative of what
makes America great. But don't hand me some divisive bitch,
some mean spirited person. You got remember what she called

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the guy that the guy that worked for She had
an employee that worked for. She would make her staff
drive driver around. She she harangued this poor man so
badly he committed suicide.

Speaker 1 (25:33):
You got that clip.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
Here's he recorded her undercover because nobody would have ever
believed she talked to her staff this way.

Speaker 4 (25:43):
Favors from that woman regarding something that those I don't care,
where is it, what what they were for?

Speaker 1 (25:49):
Help from?

Speaker 2 (25:58):
I don't want to.

Speaker 4 (26:00):
I want you to have a brain. I want you
to gep read it. I want you to Congressoman it
was such and such states. That's what I want her.
That's the kind of staff that I want to have.
So some stupid other money did it, and you and
I don't have the information. Nobody sent me the information
I need to ensure my experience schedule. And uh, you
know if a Google did it, have did it? They

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did it. Nobody knows what stay in my office gat nothing.
I gave it to you. Your job was to get
on the calendar I printed in your brain. Want send
me the information back, saying Congressman, I made sure that
the old duncan tell Evan that you gave me for
so and so. Date at seven is on.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
The podcast she Wants Through. She wants through a book
at a blind staffer that she had.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
She was named the worst Congressman out of four hundred
and fifty four and thirty five.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
Yeah, no, don't be naming things after her. They're naming
things at robey leagain and good night