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It's that time time, time, time.
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The Michael Very Show is on the air.
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Usually you're ready for listener, do my best, your best
losers always whine about their best.
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Winners, go home and the prom queen.
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It's long been a simple alcatraz of whatever it is.
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I mean, you know, it's a sad symbol, but it's
a it's a symbol of law and order, and uh,
you know.
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It's got quite a history, frankly, so I think we're
going to.
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Do that, and we're looking at it right now.
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On ICE's non detained docket, there are currently tracking four
hundred and twenty five thousand non citizens who have been
convicted of a.
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Crime Welcome to the Rocker.
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Over thirteen thousand non citizens have convictions for homicide and
are on the non detained docket, meaning they're roaming the
country right now. On top of that, there are another
fifteen thousand, eight hundred and eleven non citizens convicted of
sexual assault.
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This morning, I we played a song by Color Me
Band and it was from nineteen ninety one. It was
Oh I Adore Mia Moore. And I don't know nineties
music because I frequently refer to the nineties as my
lost decade. And the reason was in the nineties, I
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was in college, in law school, then more law school,
then a junior associated the big law firm, then starting
my own business. So I never had the time I
had had when I was younger. I didn't have leisure time.
I was always studying, working, working another job, trying to
better myself. You know, it was an intense time. That
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was my boot camp. Not to say it's anything like
military boot camp, but it's sort of. You know, when
you go off to boot camp, you lose you lose
touch with everything else. You's focused on this thing, right,
we all have that aspect of our lives, that time
in our lives. For me, that was the nineties, so
I refer to the nineties as my lost decade. It's
also a lost decade for Japanese. That's a different subject
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for a different day. And Ramone informed me Ramone's big
music guy. He informed me that that album was the
first CD he ever purchased, not the first music he
ever purchased, but the first CD, and that led us
to taking some phone calls from listeners, putting aside the
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political and news of the day and having some fun
with a what was the first CD you ever bought
the band the song and why you wanted it you
saw it in a movie or whatever else. And what
was the first piece of music you ever bought, whether
that's an album, cassette, eight track, whatever that was. We're
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not going to take calls this evening on that, but
I just want to tell you if if you started
thinking about that and that brings back a good memory,
feel free to share that with me by email. Through
our website Michael Berryshow dot com. You'll see send Michael
an email, and then late tonight I'll be sitting out
back prepping for the show tomorrow and your email will
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come in and I'll read it. A lot of them
I will respond to, but I can't respond all of them,
but I will read them all. And it's always fun
to hear your perspectives on different things, including music. And
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It tells you what we talked about this morning and
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joke of the day, which is some goofy, silly joke
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that you would tell to your kid that if they're
in kindergarten they might think it's funny, but by fourth
grade they're going Dad Stop. It's an important day in
the lives of many, this particular day May six. First
of all, it was this day thirty years ago that
our own Jim Mudd married his bride and her name
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is I'm not joking Dusty Dusty Mud. Jim and Dusty
Mud were married three years ago. Today. Jim is our
creative director. It was on this day in nineteen thirty
one that the say Hey Kid, Willie Mays was born,
the man who made, probably after the cold shot home
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run by Babe Ruth, maybe the most famous play in
all of baseball history. I tee in the modern era
Kurt Gibson's home run and then you know Hank and
the horn as he turned the corner on that bad
back probably be pretty high up there. But the say
Hey Kids catch in the fifty four World Series has
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been for shoot seventy one years. It's been probably the definitive,
the definitive call. There's a lot, way way.
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Time with me. What's happened without having allergion?
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A lot of people?
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What a moment? What a time? Baseball is the best
on radio. Baseball is a radio ready sport. Speaking of
legends of radio, something I share with Glenn Beck is
a a fascination with and deep respect for the great
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orson Wells, actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and the famous moment
War of the worlds.
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We know now that in the early years of the
twentieth century, this world was being watched closely by intelligences
greater than man's, yet as mortal as his own. We
know now that as human beings busied themselves about their
various concerns, they were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as
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narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the
transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
With infinite complaisance, people went to and fro the earth
about their little affairs, serene in the assurance of their
dominion over this small spinning fragment of solar driftwood, which,
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by chance or design, man has inherited out of the
dark mystery of time and space. Yet across an immense
ethereal gulf minds that are to our minds as ours
are of the beasts in the jungle, intellects vast, cool
and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly
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and surely drew their plans against us.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Speaking of great baseball calls, it was on this day
in nineteen fifteen the George Hermann Babe Ruth, then a
picture for the Boston Red Sox, would hit his first
major League home run.
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When it comes to Beards, Brisket and Berry, letting it
all hang out, going against the grain is what we
do on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
We're not gonna spend the evening listening to music ninety one,
are we? Because I mean, everybody else can change the dial.
I'm stuck here. I got to sit up across it
aisle from you. An interesting email today, The woman by
the name of Isla asked zar, I am noticing that
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people use the word unlively. They refer to people being
unalived or someone unaliving a person. Where did this come from?
And what's wrong with just saying killed or murdered. Well,
my understanding of the reason that term started being used,
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although I went back, it's been used as early as
the eighteen twenties. That's typically to refer to a state
of being, as in dead, he is unlive. And I
suppose there might be some reasons you would want to
refer to that as those living and those unalive, and
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maybe you would refer to states that were in between.
I don't know. But the simple answer for why unalive
is used, and it's always in kind of a cheeky manner,
is because you could not on the internet use the
term suicide, murder, kill, anything like that, so people had
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to come up with the euphemism. So, uh, you know,
a drug dealer is an unregistered pharmacist for instance. Or
illegal alien what's the one they use for illegal aliens
undocumented workers. Yeah, yeah, they just they just don't have
the documents. They're good people, though, good people, I'll tell you.
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Just remember that while they're raping, raping you, murdering you,
trafficking your children, or selling your drugs that are going
to kill you. What. Yeah, they're unliving you. Yes, they're
unliving you. But it speaks to a bigger issue, and
that is the lack of honest, direct communication, the opposite
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of which is obfuscation, the towers of Babbel, for instance,
the ability to communicate. If you have ever been in
a situation where you needed to communicate with another person
but you didn't speak the same language literally and they
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did not have sufficient knowledge of your language, that being English,
it's a real pickle. Americans are always very ashamed that
we do not typically speak other languages. I speak Spanish
passing Spanish fourth grade level maybe third grade level maybe,
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and I practice a lot. Anytime I recognize that someone
is a Spanish language first speaker, I will insist we
speak in Spanish, not English, because that's the only way
you stay in practice. I have passing street level Hindi
from living from visiting India with my wife, but it's
not good, just enough, just enough to get myself in trouble.
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And I have even less than that with Amharic from
visiting in Ethiopia. Whereas maybe not your average German, French Italian,
certainly Dutch will speak typically three or more languages their
native tongue, English and then typically Spanish or Italian, which
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is close enough to it, the reason being that we
don't have need for these languages in order to conduct
commerce or go to school on a day to day basis.
A number of people speak English out of necessity. The
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Chinese learn English so they can come here and spy
on us and steal our technology, and eventually their hope
is overthrow us and subjugate us, because I do believe
that is what the Chinese government wants. I do believe
that people learn a language typically because they have to.
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Now you get the language expert or language passionate hobbyist
at learning languages, but that's a very small percentage of languages.
If you've ever had that moment where you've tried to
communicate and you can't and you need something, You need
an officer, you need to find the hospital, somebody's in trouble,
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or something of that nature, it is. It is confusing,
frustrating on a grand scale. By changing our language and
by frightening people that you're going to be canceled constantly,
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you create in the populace a fear of communication. You
can see this in small ways when people are gonna
make a joe you know, hey, did the lady deliver yourself. Yeah,
was it the lady from down the street. I don't
know what does she look like? And they lean in,
they look around. She's a black lady. Well that's a
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factual statement. But people are scared. People are extraordinary. White
people are extraordinarily scared. They're scared because they see they
don't know who's getting canceled. And when they know that
they've seen people being canceled that they didn't think had
really done anything wrong. They know that people get canceled
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when they didn't intend to be offensive. I intended, But
they know that people get canceled when they didn't intend it,
and sometimes they don't even know what they've done quote
unquote wrong. The idea of censoring language, the idea of
slowing down a social media page, which becomes a way
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that people communicate with In many cases they're families. You know,
we think of social media as the Kardashians. You think
of social media as that poor idiot at the restaurant
holding his wife's purse and taking photos of her because
she's an influencer on Instagram and he's sitting there looking pitiful.
But truthfully, most social media is Grandma. Going on to
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look at pictures of her grandchild who lives four states away.
She's in Iowa, he's in Florida. She's in Iowa. He's
in Florida, and she wants to see, you know, the
new pictures that his mom put up. And mom may
not send every picture to grandma. That's what social media is.
So if Grandma goes on and says, hey, there's an election,
I'm for Trump. I believe he's the best choice to
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solve the crime problem, the illegal immigration problem. I think
we were lied to about Farma, and hopefully Robert F.
Kennedy Junior is going to get to the bottom of that.
If she says things that the social media overlords don't
like and she loses her pay, she loses her connection
to her family. So it's not simply a question of well,
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if you don't like it, you don't have to shop there.
That it may have taken her years to build that connection.
Those social media sites have as platforms, they have an
incredible number of legal protections that prevented them from doing that,
and what they've done is Orwellian. If you haven't read
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nineteen eighty four by Georgia Orwell, do yourself a favorite
and read that book.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Damn it all right, This is Mark Chestnut and Jar
Bizar of talk radio.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
You remember nineteen eighty four. You read it in school
if you haven't urged you to read it because it
will give you a language. That book was so influential
that it created a language to refer in shorthand to
complicated concepts like big brother, Big Brother is watching you.
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The idea of a deep state that is watching your
internet connection, your cell phone that has a box that
you say a woman's name and it listens to everything
you do. Those have now been subpoenaed in criminal cases,
and conversations can be reviewed. It is in nineteen eighty
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four the television behind the screen was a camera, and
that screen was watching you in your living room at
all times. And the idea that you were basically in
a prison and there was a panopticon so that the guards,
the overlords, lords could watch you at all times has
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come true. How many times has it happened to you
that you're referring to ice water, or you're referring to microwaves,
or you're referring to brisket, and then you get online
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and pop up comes up for brisket and you haven't
searched risk it in maybe since you've on on this
computer and all of a sudden that came up. Well,
of course these devices are at all times spying on us.
We know that. The question is who has access to
the information. It's just that simple. There's no doubt you're
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being spied on. The question is who has access to
the information and what are they doing with it. I
think a lot of people, unfortunately believe I don't mind
being spied on if it gives me through the algorithm,
you know good places to shop I can find. You know,
ladies will say I can find new ideas on shoe fashion,
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and I like that. If I've already been talking about it,
I don't mind it having that that's fine. But any
information of yours that can be taken from you, especially
without you knowing it, and used by someone, whether in
your mind it's benign they just sell you shoes or
pitch you on shoes, but what if they're giving it
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to the deep state. Many people, unfortunately have a disturbing
naivete when it comes to the evil things that could
be done to you. If January sixth didn't tell you anything,
then I'm not sure what can. If COVID didn't tell
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you anything, I'm not sure what can. But there were people.
Let me tell you something. What's happening in England right
now I never would have believed would actually come to
pass in that formerly great nation. It is disturbing on
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a level that it's like a sci fi movie. It
goes so far you can't believe that it's actually happening.
And what it is is Englishmen will post that the
country's being taken over by islamis that there are Muslims everywhere.
The city's mayor's Muslim, everybody around them is Muslim. A
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guy said his daughter was raped by a group of
Muslim men. The police came found his claim to be true.
It's not like he's some lunatic that just makes stuff up.
He was arrested for speaking out about the incident. I
think there are four hundred people so far who've been
by Keir Starmer, the current Prime minister, that have been
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arrested and are being will be imprisoned. That is a
cautionary tale. What's interesting is there is some percentage of Muslims,
and I don't know what it is. I don't know
if it's I suspect it's more than one percent. It's
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certainly not ninety nine percent. But there's some percentage of
Muslims who are incapable of living in a land of freedom.
They will go to the land of freedom and then
convert it into the very hell hole they left, whether
that be Pakistan, Lebanon, Jordan, Yayman, speaking of which we're
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going to talk later in the show. About the Suez Canal,
President Trump has demanded free passage for American ships through
the Suez Canal. He wants Egypt to grant this no
more toll for American ships going through there, because he says,
we're the ones who keep the canal safe. We're the
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ones who provide the security instable in the region to
allow ships safe passage through there. If you take a
look on a map, and I haven't in a while,
but if you look at goods that are coming from India,
China and in the East Asian Tiger nations that are
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that are pumping out so many things, South Korea, Malaysia,
the Philippines, of course, Japan, and you look at at
the trade route. They're basically hugging the coast, coming westward
and then heading north up through the Red Sea. And
what happens is, if you look at the map and
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you're not looking closely, you've got to your left, your
westward side, you've got Africa. To your right, your eastward side,
you've got Middle East. And you head up and as
you get to the northeast corner of Africa, you've got
Egypt right there, and it looks like there's no way
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to get over water up to Europe. You're going to
turn back around and go down south of Africa and
go the long way around the cape and all of
that and then come back in to get to Europe.
But if you look carefully, there's a little canal right there,
just like the Panama Canal allows you to take the
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shortcut across Central and South America. So to the Suis Canal, Well,
there's an interesting thing happening there that President Trump is
injecting himself into on behalf of American interest. I think
it's more than an issue of free passage for our ships.
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You've probably begun to notice a pattern with President Trump,
and he does not like patterns because then you start
to create a strategy around that. But you will notice
that there is a pattern around the president, and that
pattern is that he walks up, he punches you in
the nose real hard, then your nose starts watering or bleeding,
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your eyes fill up with water, and then about the
time you know you get your bearings, he'll say, now
do you want some of that car at the price
I want it or not? And you go yes, now
I do, just don't hit me in the nose again.
So one of the things he will do is a takeaway,
either a regulatory threat or you know, he did it
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with an executive order of NPR and PBS yesterday. I
don't think he's going to finish them off. I wish
he would, but I don't think he's going to. I
think he's going to, hopefully in his mind, extract better
behavior by them. But the problem is that will only
be while he's there. After January sixth, and after what
was done to so many people, including Ashley Babbitt, who
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we don't get back. I want the left crushed. Jordan
Peterson may call that the woke right. I don't care.
I am no longer one of those people who wants culture.
I don't want to go back to normal when we're
in power and then have to deal. I want them
to suffer. I want them to fear. I want them
to fear what we have done to them. I want
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them arrested. I want I want, I want someone proverb
now quoted by Sheila Jackson leans I dot the.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
You want to welcome one O four nine the Patriot
in Saint Louis to our family of affiliates. Saint Louis interesting,
interesting town. Don't get upset if you're from there. I
like to term town. It feels like it has more
more of a community than a city. City. Sounds like
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a legal designation town. I like this town. Get out
of this town. What are you doing in this town?
This town is what my kind of town. Yeah, you
don't say city. Saint Louis was the starting point for
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westward expansion, which is why it came to be known
as the gateway to the West. It's a fascinating history,
a Mormon history there. If you don't know, you'll have
to read that read up on that the Mormons were
in Missouri. Missouri had an incredible influence around the era
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of the Civil War on the direction of this nation.
Saint Louis has the tallest man made monument in the
United States. The Gateway Arch stands at six hundred and
thirty feet. City was founded in seventeen sixty four by
French traders and named after King Louis the ninth of France.
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That's why it's Saint Louis, or as we say, San
Louis or as we say Saint Louis. The first US
kindergarten was established in Saint Louis eighteen seventy three. It
is the home of Anheuser Busch and the people of
Saint Louis, who were apparently Saint Louis Lewison's Saint Louians,
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Saint Louians, Saint Louiss. I got to ask Jim about that.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
They.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
I mean, I'm sure there are bigger baseball fans, but
I don't I don't know. I mean, maybe the Cubbies, maybe.
I don't think the Yankees fans. Yankees fans like the
Yankees because and Dodgers fans like the Dodge because they win.
Saint Louis, they're there. I got to tell you, I
loved those teams, the small ball teams of Tom Hurr
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and Willie was It, Willie McGee and Ozzie Smith, at short,
those were some you know what I'm getting. I get
the Cardinals in the Phillies of that era mixed up.
I have to go back and look at that. But
those were some good teams, all right. There's an interesting
thing happening with Democrats. Know they're in trouble. The polling
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data shows them, and so what they're doing is trying
to keep the heat on Trump, so nobody notices they're
in trouble and they can go incubate somebody to come
out as the savior the way Obama did in two
thousand and eight, because they knew Hillary wasn't the answer. Well,
they're trying to find the savior. And I'll get to
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that in a moment, but you're going to hear it
said that the Democrats have a messaging problem. We don't
have a problem. We just have a messaging problem. That's
like saying there's nothing wrong with his car. You can
take it on your trip from Miami to Los Angeles
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and back. Don't worry. The only reason you're worried is
because there's some chips on the paint. But there's nothing.
She's cherry. You got this. They don't have a messaging problem.
They have a policy problem, and they have a problem
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that they're not making decisions and doing things because they
believe they will be good things. They're doing and saying
things or saying and then actually doing things in order
to appease the most radical element of their party and
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of society. And that is always a dangerous thing. It
gets you in deep trouble when you start doing something
that you don't that is in direct contradiction of what
you said last year, because you have to do that
to make the most extreme wing of the gay lobby happy,
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or the training lobby, or the illegal alien lobby or
Black lives matter. When you start doing things, and the
reason this happens is you don't ever want to be
attacked from the flank of your party that your party
occupies on that end of the continuum. So if you're
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a Republican candidate, you don't want to be challenged in
the primary by somebody more conservative than you. That's what's
going to take down John Wayne mccornyn in Texas. That's
why he's back in Texas now. I'm back in town,
John Wayne mccorny. I'm back here because I love Texas.
The trees of the right height, and the grass is real,
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green and pretty, and the people are sturdy and strong.
I'm John Wayne mccorny. Vote for me. He becomes John
Wayne mccorny in an election time. He's no longer John Cornyan,
the guy selling us down the river. He's John Wayne mccornyn.
He's just like you. He's he's getting a burr at
the joint round the corner. Will be John Wayne mccorn
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is one of us.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
His business card has his fax number on it, and
his belt has his name on the back and an
old Western font called tin can. His belt buckle, it's big,
looks like a pewter toilet seat lid. He slips that
belt through the loops of his wrangler, big and tall,
rugged ware, cowboy cut blue jeans. Some folks brag about
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the audacity of their leather boots. John WAYN mccornan has
boots made out of the actual Clydesdale's from the nineteen
eighties TV commercials don't get more American than that. And
speaking of the eighties, did you vote for John Wayne mccornyn.
He'll bring back alf An Airwolf family ties. What other
senator will bring back the eighties?
Speaker 4 (31:47):
For you.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
If you love Dexy's Midnight Runners like John Wayne mccorn does,
and you do because you're just like him, then you'll
vote for him in November. Someone else, well, Cinderella said
it best.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
So our Attorney General Ken Paxton has been under attack
by the Karl Rove wing of the Republican Party. That's
the Bushes and Romney's and McCain's and Nikki Hayley's and
the never trumpers and the sellout country club unprincipled crowd
who ran the party for so long. And they ran
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the party because you couldn't ever get a toe hold
in the tent under the tent, the camel's nose under
the tent, because they kept you out. They kept the power,
They got the big money guys, they had the network.
They all look out for each other. We send our
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boys to lots of wars. We tell how proud we are,
we wear the flag, lapel pen, We raise taxes and
spend money. We hang out with the Democrats, but claim
that we're so different in that whole game worked for
a long time, and John Cornyn played that game. He
was very good at it, but he sold out the
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state of Texas and he's not going to win the
Republican primary come next year because now our Attorney General
Ken Paxton is running against him, and Cornyn's own internal
polls have him down by over twenty percent. That means
sixty forty or sixty one thirty nine. He can't win
a Republican primary because he has sold us out for
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too long. And by the way, Dan Crenshaw's got a
couple of challengers. I have been contacted by more than
one challenger to Dan Crenshaw, which is just wanting to
make for an interesting time. It's a good time the primary, Frenshaw,
because you already have the people coming out to support
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Ken Paxton to defeat John Cornyn. It's going to be
an interesting time.
It's that time time, time, time.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Luck and load.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
The Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Usually you're ready for listener, do my best, your best
losers always whine about their best.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Winners, go home and the prom queen.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
It's long been a simple alcatraz of whatever it is.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
I mean, you know, it's a sad symbol, but it's
a it's a symbol of law and order, and uh,
you know.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
It's got quite a history, frankly, so I think we're
going to.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Do that, and we're looking at it right now.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
On ICE's non detained docket, there are currently tracking four
hundred and twenty five thousand non citizens who have been
convicted of a.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Crime Welcome to the Rocker.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Over thirteen thousand non citizens have convictions for homicide and
are on the non detained docket, meaning they're roaming the
country right now. On top of that, there are another
fifteen thousand, eight hundred and eleven non citizens convicted of
sexual assault.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
This morning, I we played a song by Color Me
Band and it was from nineteen ninety one. It was
Oh I Adore Mia Moore. And I don't know nineties
music because I frequently refer to the nineties as my
lost decade. And the reason was in the nineties, I
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was in college, in law school, then more law school,
then a junior associated the big law firm, then starting
my own business. So I never had the time I
had had when I was younger. I didn't have leisure time.
I was always studying, working, working another job, trying to
better myself. You know, it was an intense time. That
(02:36):
was my boot camp. Not to say it's anything like
military boot camp, but it's sort of. You know, when
you go off to boot camp, you lose you lose
touch with everything else. You's focused on this thing, right,
we all have that aspect of our lives, that time
in our lives. For me, that was the nineties, so
I refer to the nineties as my lost decade. It's
also a lost decade for Japanese. That's a different subject
(02:58):
for a different day. And Ramone informed me Ramone's big
music guy. He informed me that that album was the
first CD he ever purchased, not the first music he
ever purchased, but the first CD, and that led us
to taking some phone calls from listeners, putting aside the
(03:20):
political and news of the day and having some fun
with a what was the first CD you ever bought
the band the song and why you wanted it you
saw it in a movie or whatever else. And what
was the first piece of music you ever bought, whether
that's an album, cassette, eight track, whatever that was. We're
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not going to take calls this evening on that, but
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that you would tell to your kid that if they're
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is I'm not joking Dusty Dusty Mud. Jim and Dusty
Mud were married three years ago. Today. Jim is our
creative director. It was on this day in nineteen thirty
one that the say Hey Kid, Willie Mays was born,
the man who made, probably after the cold shot home
(05:31):
run by Babe Ruth, maybe the most famous play in
all of baseball history. I tee in the modern era
Kurt Gibson's home run and then you know Hank and
the horn as he turned the corner on that bad
back probably be pretty high up there. But the say
Hey Kids catch in the fifty four World Series has
(05:53):
been for shoot seventy one years. It's been probably the definitive,
the definitive call. There's a lot, way way.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Time with me. What's happened without having allergion?
Speaker 6 (06:16):
A lot of people?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
What a moment? What a time? Baseball is the best
on radio. Baseball is a radio ready sport. Speaking of
legends of radio, something I share with Glenn Beck is
a a fascination with and deep respect for the great
(06:40):
orson Wells, actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and the famous moment
War of the worlds.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
We know now that in the early years of the
twentieth century, this world was being watched closely by intelligences
greater than man's, yet as mortal as his own. We
know now that as human beings busied themselves about their
various concerns, they were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as
(07:11):
narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the
transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
With infinite complaisance, people went to and fro the earth
about their little affairs, serene in the assurance of their
dominion over this small spinning fragment of solar driftwood, which,
(07:33):
by chance or design, man has inherited out of the
dark mystery of time and space. Yet across an immense
ethereal gulf minds that are to our minds as ours
are of the beasts in the jungle, intellects vast, cool
and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly
(07:58):
and surely drew their plans against us.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Speaking of great baseball calls, it was on this day
in nineteen fifteen the George Hermann Babe Ruth, then a
picture for the Boston Red Sox, would hit his first
major League home run.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
When it comes to Beards, Brisket and Berry, letting it
all hang out, going against the grain is what we
do on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
We're not gonna spend the evening listening to music ninety one,
are we? Because I mean, everybody else can change the dial.
I'm stuck here. I got to sit up across it
aisle from you. An interesting email today, The woman by
the name of Isla asked zar, I am noticing that
(08:56):
people use the word unlively. They refer to people being
unalived or someone unaliving a person. Where did this come from?
And what's wrong with just saying killed or murdered. Well,
my understanding of the reason that term started being used,
(09:18):
although I went back, it's been used as early as
the eighteen twenties. That's typically to refer to a state
of being, as in dead, he is unlive. And I
suppose there might be some reasons you would want to
refer to that as those living and those unalive, and
(09:43):
maybe you would refer to states that were in between.
I don't know. But the simple answer for why unalive
is used, and it's always in kind of a cheeky manner,
is because you could not on the internet use the
term suicide, murder, kill, anything like that, so people had
(10:07):
to come up with the euphemism. So, uh, you know,
a drug dealer is an unregistered pharmacist for instance. Or
illegal alien what's the one they use for illegal aliens
undocumented workers. Yeah, yeah, they just they just don't have
the documents. They're good people, though, good people, I'll tell you.
(10:27):
Just remember that while they're raping, raping you, murdering you,
trafficking your children, or selling your drugs that are going
to kill you. What. Yeah, they're unliving you. Yes, they're
unliving you. But it speaks to a bigger issue, and
that is the lack of honest, direct communication, the opposite
(10:52):
of which is obfuscation, the towers of Babbel, for instance,
the ability to communicate. If you have ever been in
a situation where you needed to communicate with another person
but you didn't speak the same language literally and they
(11:13):
did not have sufficient knowledge of your language, that being English,
it's a real pickle. Americans are always very ashamed that
we do not typically speak other languages. I speak Spanish
passing Spanish fourth grade level maybe third grade level maybe,
(11:35):
and I practice a lot. Anytime I recognize that someone
is a Spanish language first speaker, I will insist we
speak in Spanish, not English, because that's the only way
you stay in practice. I have passing street level Hindi
from living from visiting India with my wife, but it's
not good, just enough, just enough to get myself in trouble.
(11:58):
And I have even less than that with Amharic from
visiting in Ethiopia. Whereas maybe not your average German, French Italian,
certainly Dutch will speak typically three or more languages their
native tongue, English and then typically Spanish or Italian, which
(12:21):
is close enough to it, the reason being that we
don't have need for these languages in order to conduct
commerce or go to school on a day to day basis.
A number of people speak English out of necessity. The
(12:41):
Chinese learn English so they can come here and spy
on us and steal our technology, and eventually their hope
is overthrow us and subjugate us, because I do believe
that is what the Chinese government wants. I do believe
that people learn a language typically because they have to.
(13:05):
Now you get the language expert or language passionate hobbyist
at learning languages, but that's a very small percentage of languages.
If you've ever had that moment where you've tried to
communicate and you can't and you need something, You need
an officer, you need to find the hospital, somebody's in trouble,
(13:28):
or something of that nature, it is. It is confusing,
frustrating on a grand scale. By changing our language and
by frightening people that you're going to be canceled constantly,
(13:51):
you create in the populace a fear of communication. You
can see this in small ways when people are gonna
make a joe you know, hey, did the lady deliver yourself. Yeah,
was it the lady from down the street. I don't
know what does she look like? And they lean in,
they look around. She's a black lady. Well that's a
(14:14):
factual statement. But people are scared. People are extraordinary. White
people are extraordinarily scared. They're scared because they see they
don't know who's getting canceled. And when they know that
they've seen people being canceled that they didn't think had
really done anything wrong. They know that people get canceled
(14:35):
when they didn't intend to be offensive. I intended, But
they know that people get canceled when they didn't intend it,
and sometimes they don't even know what they've done quote
unquote wrong. The idea of censoring language, the idea of
slowing down a social media page, which becomes a way
(14:55):
that people communicate with In many cases they're families. You know,
we think of social media as the Kardashians. You think
of social media as that poor idiot at the restaurant
holding his wife's purse and taking photos of her because
she's an influencer on Instagram and he's sitting there looking pitiful.
But truthfully, most social media is Grandma. Going on to
(15:20):
look at pictures of her grandchild who lives four states away.
She's in Iowa, he's in Florida. She's in Iowa. He's
in Florida, and she wants to see, you know, the
new pictures that his mom put up. And mom may
not send every picture to grandma. That's what social media is.
So if Grandma goes on and says, hey, there's an election,
I'm for Trump. I believe he's the best choice to
(15:43):
solve the crime problem, the illegal immigration problem. I think
we were lied to about Farma, and hopefully Robert F.
Kennedy Junior is going to get to the bottom of that.
If she says things that the social media overlords don't
like and she loses her pay, she loses her connection
to her family. So it's not simply a question of well,
(16:04):
if you don't like it, you don't have to shop there.
That it may have taken her years to build that connection.
Those social media sites have as platforms, they have an
incredible number of legal protections that prevented them from doing that,
and what they've done is Orwellian. If you haven't read
(16:24):
nineteen eighty four by Georgia Orwell, do yourself a favorite
and read that book.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Damn it all right, This is Mark Chestnut and Jar
Bizar of talk radio.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
You remember nineteen eighty four. You read it in school
if you haven't urged you to read it because it
will give you a language. That book was so influential
that it created a language to refer in shorthand to
complicated concepts like big brother, Big Brother is watching you.
(17:03):
The idea of a deep state that is watching your
internet connection, your cell phone that has a box that
you say a woman's name and it listens to everything
you do. Those have now been subpoenaed in criminal cases,
and conversations can be reviewed. It is in nineteen eighty
(17:25):
four the television behind the screen was a camera, and
that screen was watching you in your living room at
all times. And the idea that you were basically in
a prison and there was a panopticon so that the guards,
the overlords, lords could watch you at all times has
(17:48):
come true. How many times has it happened to you
that you're referring to ice water, or you're referring to microwaves,
or you're referring to brisket, and then you get online
(18:09):
and pop up comes up for brisket and you haven't
searched risk it in maybe since you've on on this
computer and all of a sudden that came up. Well,
of course these devices are at all times spying on us.
We know that. The question is who has access to
the information. It's just that simple. There's no doubt you're
(18:33):
being spied on. The question is who has access to
the information and what are they doing with it. I
think a lot of people, unfortunately believe I don't mind
being spied on if it gives me through the algorithm,
you know good places to shop I can find. You know,
ladies will say I can find new ideas on shoe fashion,
(18:56):
and I like that. If I've already been talking about it,
I don't mind it having that that's fine. But any
information of yours that can be taken from you, especially
without you knowing it, and used by someone, whether in
your mind it's benign they just sell you shoes or
pitch you on shoes, but what if they're giving it
(19:19):
to the deep state. Many people, unfortunately have a disturbing
naivete when it comes to the evil things that could
be done to you. If January sixth didn't tell you anything,
then I'm not sure what can. If COVID didn't tell
(19:40):
you anything, I'm not sure what can. But there were people.
Let me tell you something. What's happening in England right
now I never would have believed would actually come to
pass in that formerly great nation. It is disturbing on
(20:03):
a level that it's like a sci fi movie. It
goes so far you can't believe that it's actually happening.
And what it is is Englishmen will post that the
country's being taken over by islamis that there are Muslims everywhere.
The city's mayor's Muslim, everybody around them is Muslim. A
(20:26):
guy said his daughter was raped by a group of
Muslim men. The police came found his claim to be true.
It's not like he's some lunatic that just makes stuff up.
He was arrested for speaking out about the incident. I
think there are four hundred people so far who've been
by Keir Starmer, the current Prime minister, that have been
(20:49):
arrested and are being will be imprisoned. That is a
cautionary tale. What's interesting is there is some percentage of Muslims,
and I don't know what it is. I don't know
if it's I suspect it's more than one percent. It's
(21:10):
certainly not ninety nine percent. But there's some percentage of
Muslims who are incapable of living in a land of freedom.
They will go to the land of freedom and then
convert it into the very hell hole they left, whether
that be Pakistan, Lebanon, Jordan, Yayman, speaking of which we're
(21:35):
going to talk later in the show. About the Suez Canal,
President Trump has demanded free passage for American ships through
the Suez Canal. He wants Egypt to grant this no
more toll for American ships going through there, because he says,
we're the ones who keep the canal safe. We're the
(21:57):
ones who provide the security instable in the region to
allow ships safe passage through there. If you take a
look on a map, and I haven't in a while,
but if you look at goods that are coming from India,
China and in the East Asian Tiger nations that are
(22:18):
that are pumping out so many things, South Korea, Malaysia,
the Philippines, of course, Japan, and you look at at
the trade route. They're basically hugging the coast, coming westward
and then heading north up through the Red Sea. And
what happens is, if you look at the map and
(22:39):
you're not looking closely, you've got to your left, your
westward side, you've got Africa. To your right, your eastward side,
you've got Middle East. And you head up and as
you get to the northeast corner of Africa, you've got
Egypt right there, and it looks like there's no way
(23:00):
to get over water up to Europe. You're going to
turn back around and go down south of Africa and
go the long way around the cape and all of
that and then come back in to get to Europe.
But if you look carefully, there's a little canal right there,
just like the Panama Canal allows you to take the
(23:23):
shortcut across Central and South America. So to the Suis Canal, Well,
there's an interesting thing happening there that President Trump is
injecting himself into on behalf of American interest. I think
it's more than an issue of free passage for our ships.
(23:45):
You've probably begun to notice a pattern with President Trump,
and he does not like patterns because then you start
to create a strategy around that. But you will notice
that there is a pattern around the president, and that
pattern is that he walks up, he punches you in
the nose real hard, then your nose starts watering or bleeding,
(24:06):
your eyes fill up with water, and then about the
time you know you get your bearings, he'll say, now
do you want some of that car at the price
I want it or not? And you go yes, now
I do, just don't hit me in the nose again.
So one of the things he will do is a takeaway,
either a regulatory threat or you know, he did it
(24:27):
with an executive order of NPR and PBS yesterday. I
don't think he's going to finish them off. I wish
he would, but I don't think he's going to. I
think he's going to, hopefully in his mind, extract better
behavior by them. But the problem is that will only
be while he's there. After January sixth, and after what
was done to so many people, including Ashley Babbitt, who
(24:49):
we don't get back. I want the left crushed. Jordan
Peterson may call that the woke right. I don't care.
I am no longer one of those people who wants culture.
I don't want to go back to normal when we're
in power and then have to deal. I want them
to suffer. I want them to fear. I want them
to fear what we have done to them. I want
(25:11):
them arrested. I want I want, I want someone proverb
now quoted by Sheila Jackson leans I dot the.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
You want to welcome one O four nine the Patriot
in Saint Louis to our family of affiliates. Saint Louis interesting,
interesting town. Don't get upset if you're from there. I
like to term town. It feels like it has more
more of a community than a city. City. Sounds like
(25:42):
a legal designation town. I like this town. Get out
of this town. What are you doing in this town?
This town is what my kind of town. Yeah, you
don't say city. Saint Louis was the starting point for
(26:02):
westward expansion, which is why it came to be known
as the gateway to the West. It's a fascinating history,
a Mormon history there. If you don't know, you'll have
to read that read up on that the Mormons were
in Missouri. Missouri had an incredible influence around the era
(26:27):
of the Civil War on the direction of this nation.
Saint Louis has the tallest man made monument in the
United States. The Gateway Arch stands at six hundred and
thirty feet. City was founded in seventeen sixty four by
French traders and named after King Louis the ninth of France.
(26:53):
That's why it's Saint Louis, or as we say, San
Louis or as we say Saint Louis. The first US
kindergarten was established in Saint Louis eighteen seventy three. It
is the home of Anheuser Busch and the people of
Saint Louis, who were apparently Saint Louis Lewison's Saint Louians,
(27:16):
Saint Louians, Saint Louiss. I got to ask Jim about that.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
They.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
I mean, I'm sure there are bigger baseball fans, but
I don't I don't know. I mean, maybe the Cubbies, maybe.
I don't think the Yankees fans. Yankees fans like the
Yankees because and Dodgers fans like the Dodge because they win.
Saint Louis, they're there. I got to tell you, I
loved those teams, the small ball teams of Tom Hurr
(27:44):
and Willie was It, Willie McGee and Ozzie Smith, at short,
those were some you know what I'm getting. I get
the Cardinals in the Phillies of that era mixed up.
I have to go back and look at that. But
those were some good teams, all right. There's an interesting
thing happening with Democrats. Know they're in trouble. The polling
(28:08):
data shows them, and so what they're doing is trying
to keep the heat on Trump, so nobody notices they're
in trouble and they can go incubate somebody to come
out as the savior the way Obama did in two
thousand and eight, because they knew Hillary wasn't the answer. Well,
they're trying to find the savior. And I'll get to
(28:30):
that in a moment, but you're going to hear it
said that the Democrats have a messaging problem. We don't
have a problem. We just have a messaging problem. That's
like saying there's nothing wrong with his car. You can
take it on your trip from Miami to Los Angeles
(28:51):
and back. Don't worry. The only reason you're worried is
because there's some chips on the paint. But there's nothing.
She's cherry. You got this. They don't have a messaging problem.
They have a policy problem, and they have a problem
(29:12):
that they're not making decisions and doing things because they
believe they will be good things. They're doing and saying
things or saying and then actually doing things in order
to appease the most radical element of their party and
(29:32):
of society. And that is always a dangerous thing. It
gets you in deep trouble when you start doing something
that you don't that is in direct contradiction of what
you said last year, because you have to do that
to make the most extreme wing of the gay lobby happy,
(29:58):
or the training lobby, or the illegal alien lobby or
Black lives matter. When you start doing things, and the
reason this happens is you don't ever want to be
attacked from the flank of your party that your party
occupies on that end of the continuum. So if you're
(30:19):
a Republican candidate, you don't want to be challenged in
the primary by somebody more conservative than you. That's what's
going to take down John Wayne mccornyn in Texas. That's
why he's back in Texas now. I'm back in town,
John Wayne mccorny. I'm back here because I love Texas.
The trees of the right height, and the grass is real,
(30:41):
green and pretty, and the people are sturdy and strong.
I'm John Wayne mccorny. Vote for me. He becomes John
Wayne mccorny in an election time. He's no longer John Cornyan,
the guy selling us down the river. He's John Wayne mccornyn.
He's just like you. He's he's getting a burr at
the joint round the corner. Will be John Wayne mccorn
(31:03):
is one of us.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
His business card has his fax number on it, and
his belt has his name on the back and an
old Western font called tin can. His belt buckle, it's big,
looks like a pewter toilet seat lid. He slips that
belt through the loops of his wrangler, big and tall,
rugged ware, cowboy cut blue jeans. Some folks brag about
(31:26):
the audacity of their leather boots. John WAYN mccornan has
boots made out of the actual Clydesdale's from the nineteen
eighties TV commercials don't get more American than that. And
speaking of the eighties, did you vote for John Wayne mccornyn.
He'll bring back alf An Airwolf family ties. What other
senator will bring back the eighties?
Speaker 4 (31:47):
For you.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
If you love Dexy's Midnight Runners like John Wayne mccorn does,
and you do because you're just like him, then you'll
vote for him in November. Someone else, well, Cinderella said
it best.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
So our Attorney General Ken Paxton has been under attack
by the Karl Rove wing of the Republican Party. That's
the Bushes and Romney's and McCain's and Nikki Hayley's and
the never trumpers and the sellout country club unprincipled crowd
who ran the party for so long. And they ran
(32:39):
the party because you couldn't ever get a toe hold
in the tent under the tent, the camel's nose under
the tent, because they kept you out. They kept the power,
They got the big money guys, they had the network.
They all look out for each other. We send our
(33:00):
boys to lots of wars. We tell how proud we are,
we wear the flag, lapel pen, We raise taxes and
spend money. We hang out with the Democrats, but claim
that we're so different in that whole game worked for
a long time, and John Cornyn played that game. He
was very good at it, but he sold out the
(33:20):
state of Texas and he's not going to win the
Republican primary come next year because now our Attorney General
Ken Paxton is running against him, and Cornyn's own internal
polls have him down by over twenty percent. That means
sixty forty or sixty one thirty nine. He can't win
a Republican primary because he has sold us out for
(33:43):
too long. And by the way, Dan Crenshaw's got a
couple of challengers. I have been contacted by more than
one challenger to Dan Crenshaw, which is just wanting to
make for an interesting time. It's a good time the primary, Frenshaw,
because you already have the people coming out to support
(34:05):
Ken Paxton to defeat John Cornyn. It's going to be
an interesting time.
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