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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Lock and load.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
The Michael Berry Show is on the air. Why are
you shipping these slaves up north? We need them to
pick the crops.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Keep your hand on that plow.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hold on.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Food is not reaching our table because those who pick
the crops have been removed.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
You're going to have vegetables rotting in the fields.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Our vegetables would rot in the ground if they weren't
being picked by many slaves.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
If you think your groceries are expensive now, wait until
the farms are empty.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
If you look at the food that's on your table,
think about.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
Who picked it.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
It's going to deport 20 million people, the people who
pick your crops.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
The regularity from Mexico usually to work in the fields.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Those slaves.
Speaker 6 (01:07):
They come into our country, they work the fields, something
that we ain't done in a long time.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I can't wait until American women can't get blueberries for
their smoothies.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Good news, Red Seeds.
Speaker 6 (01:18):
You can now pick your own fruits and vegetables in
the blazing hot sun for $.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
5 an hour.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
The people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings,
who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants.
Speaker 6 (01:29):
What's going to happen here is that milk gets a
lot higher because I don't know if any of you
have ever been on a dairy farm.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
It is God awful work.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Have no slaves and we would have no food on
our plates. We would have nobody cleaning up in the hospitals.
And I have friends texting me like all morning.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
My gardener didn't show up.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
My housekeeper didn't show up. You're going to actually have
to do some work around your house.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
We're not going to have anybody around to wipe our
asses because we don't have enough people.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
If you kick every slave out of this country, then
who is going to be cleaning your toilet door from?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I try to find one story in the news. that
I think represents something bigger than the day-to-day. It represents trends.
And I will often start the show with that, not always.
Let me start by saying, with regard to this case
of Lindsay Clancy, I know less about this case than
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probably almost everybody listening right now. There's an old adage
in journalism that.
Dog bites man, doesn't make the news. Man bites dog,
front page above the fold. Quirky, weird stories. And this
is a quirky, weird story. The data would suggest that
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it's not very common that a mother kills her children.
You can name the cases. I'm not going to do
it now. You know who they are. Of the women
who have achieved some sort of notoriety. There's a famous
case in Houston where it happened. whether it's drowning kids
or choking kids to death. It's a horrible, terrible thing,
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and it goes against everything we believe. But I think
there is an example of almost every horrible thing imaginable.
If you can dream it up, it has happened. The
bigger question about our culture is why are so many women,
it's being called now the Lindsay Clancy fan club. Why
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are women cheering for this? There's a meme that's floated
around that's the crazy white liberal woman, the short haircut,
the college student or college graduate, and she's talking about,
how abortion is destroying families. I'm sorry, ICE is destroying families.
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It's separating families, and she's upset about that. But then
Lindsay Clancy, she's cheering for a woman who murdered her kids.
I saw some data this week that is consistent over
the last couple of years, but there's a much deeper
dive into this now. And it is the difference of
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opinion and values of people who go to college and
people who don't. I have to tell you, my parents
desperately wanted to go to college because they didn't get to.
And going to college meant I was going to learn
and I was going to have opportunities. I'd be able
to work in the air conditioning and I'd be paid
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well and life would be good for me. The university,
this magical place that I was going to go off
to and it was going to be grand and I
loved it. I'll tell you, I loved it. I was
student body president. I got involved in student politics. I
took every class I possibly could. I loved my professors.
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I got to know them on a personal level. They
wrote my letters of recommendation to law school. I went
to law school and I sat and I learned about
how we structure our society, how we punish crime, what
is and isn't a crime, how we create a system
that tries to achieve some level of fairness. We're the
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model of the world. How we encourage businesses to do
business in such a manner that if you clearly lay
it out with a contract, it'll be enforceable or there
will be damages, and how we have private property and
how we defend that and how you own it and
how you transfer it and how you finance it and
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finance itself. And all of these things, going back to
our Constitution, which is our bylaws for how the country
will work, I loved school. I was a better person
for it. I started school a Labor Democrat, which was
what my father was. I was an Al Gore Democrat
in 1988. And I came out of college and law school.
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I had a great professor by the name of Lino Graglia.
He was very conservative. He was nominated by President Reagan
to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals at the same
time as another Italian-American, Antonin Scalia.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
And the thought.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Was that Scalia would be more controversial than Graglia, my professor.
So they put Graglia up first, and then Scalia was
to be next, but Graglia was shot down by the
American Bar Association the first time, they've done it a
lot since, that they recommended against nominating a judge because
he was too conservative. I came out far more conservative.
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I thought about things differently. I read different things. I
read classical economists. I read Hayek. I read Bill Buckley.
I read all sorts of new things, and my mind
was expanded. But that's not happening today. Kids, which is
what they are at 18, who choose to go to
the university instead of the military or into the workforce
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are coming out the worst for it. They're coming out
with values that are different than their parents. When you
look at the numbers of people who are college-educated versus non-college-educated,
you've got Democrats over here and Republicans over here. Democrats
are made up of minority groups. and special interest groups
and college-educated people. Republicans are made up of non-college-educated people
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who are raising the families and running the businesses and
fighting the wars, and that's a fact. And that means
college in America today is a real problem.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Please clap.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Please clap.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
With an election upon us, one of the issues of
great concern to me personally, and I think a lot
of Americans... is the war in Iran and the Strait
of Hormuz and oil and gas prices. What's going on
in Venezuela? And what does this mean for Texas energy producers,
a state that is the energy capital of the country,
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if not the world? And how does it affect every
one of us at the pump? What will those prices be?
What's our refining capacity going to be? Can we keep up?
What will the price at the pump be for families?
heading home for Thanksgiving or Christmas. Matt Cody is the
president of the Oil and Gas Workers Association. Welcome back
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to the program, Matt.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Hey, thanks. Great to be on with you again.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Let me start with the question I get more than
anything else. Why are the prices at the pump what
they are if we are increasing production in Texas, if
we're increasing refining? Why aren't the prices at the pump
dropping faster?
Speaker 5 (08:59):
That's the best question of all.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
And in fact, a few months ago, we did like
a little explainer video on the refinery situation and American
oil and production levels. Because the very simple question that
most Americans ask is this. If America has all this oil,
why are gas prices going up? You know, it makes sense,
especially us being from Texas. We know that the Permian
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Basin produces about 50 percent of all the U.S.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
's oil. And so we go, wait a minute, the
Strait of.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Hormuz, the Iran conflict, international problems, those shouldn't affect us.
but they do because of the way our refineries are
set up. So years ago, whenever most of our refineries
were built, they were set up to process a heavier
crude than the crude oil that we produce here in
the United States. It's a lighter, sweeter crude. It's a
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different refining process. So we can increase production all day long,
but our oil actually fits refineries that are outside of
the United States, and so we're still dependent on foreign
oil imports.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
That is as concise an answer as I have ever
received on that subject. Where are we today with the
Strait of Hormuz?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
How does the and the region, the world's oil supply.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Well, anytime you have Australia where most blocks, you know, 20%
of all the world's oil goes through there, you're a
very intelligent man.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
Most of your listeners are very intelligent people.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
I heard that one dummy one time, but you didn't
have them on for very long. This isn't a Lena
Hidalgo listenership. This is intelligent people who understand supply and demand.
This is people who understand, hey, look, anytime there's an interruption,
the global supply prices go up. Whenever that resolves itself,
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whenever we're able to clear the Strait of Hormuz and
get back to normal shipping routes, well, then the supply
is back. And so we don't have that war premium
built in again, and then prices start to come down. So, yes,
the Strait of Hormuz being blocked for a while has
driven those prices up.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah, it's frustrating because we've got an election in November,
and a number of voters will vote on that basis alone,
whether we like it or not, on something that could
be temporary. And that's kind of scary because we have
a lot at stake in this election, as we always do.
What does production look like in the state of Texas
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right now? What's going on in the Permian? What are
we seeing with regard to jobs and investment in our
state specifically?
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Well, when you just talk about Texas, so we talk
about the Permian Basin, which isn't just Texas. You know,
it's also southeastern New Mexico, especially those three big oil
producing counties, Lee, Chavez, Eddy.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
So whenever we.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Talk about that, it's roughly 40, 47, almost 50 percent
of all.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Of America's oil production.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
So I'm going to loop in that southeast New Mexico
whenever I talk about Texas production. And if Speaker Burroughs
and State Representative Randall Pettigrew from New Mexico can get
it pulled together, maybe we just annex in those three.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Counties this next year. I don't think that's going to happen.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
But what are producers doing? So there's a whole lot
of hesitance because if this trade of Hormuz blockage gets resolved,
if we're able to finish the job in Iran, well,
then there's no longer a need for increased oil production.
And in fact, oil prices will drop. President Trump was
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right whenever he said, you know, prices would drop like
a rock once that was cleared. And so if I'm
a producer, if I'm a Diamondback Energy, if I'm Case
out there, if I'm somebody else, Exxon, Chevron, any one
of the producers, and I'm looking at, do I want
to invest.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Money in more production?
Speaker 4 (13:08):
The answer is, man, I'm not sure because we're up,
we're down. You know, if we had more refining capacity
where I could depend on demand for my oil, then
heck yeah, I'd run out there every day and drill
new wells. But that's why we don't see a whole
lot of new investment right now is because people are
just uncertain of what's going to happen.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
You know, and you mentioned this as a big voting issue.
We talked about this in the Biden administration. Now, Joe
Biden and Kamala Harris, by design... drove a whole lot
of fear and hesitance into the U.S.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Oil market.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
They said, you know, on the campaign.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Trail, we're going to transition away from your oil jobs.
Kamala Harris on the campaign trail said, of course, she
was in favor of banning fracking. On day one, Joe
Biden canceled the final leg of the Keystone XL permit.
And then, of course, they banned drilling or– I'm sorry,
drilling on federal lands, drove up royalty rates. And so
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all of the Biden-Harris administration's actions to hurt the American
oil and gas workers, they drove a whole lot of
that market hesitation in there as well, which drove investment
dollars out of the United States. That, by extension, hurts
every American. What we get with President Trump is we
get a president who really loves.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
American oil and gas workers. He understands our industry.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
And, of course, he's brought in people like Secretary Wright,
Secretary Burgum, who understand our industry really well. And, of course,
he's got friends like Harold Hamm, Continental Resources, really the
father of the Shell Revolution, who– help perfect george mitchell's
hydraulic traction technology so he's got really brilliant people around
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him he loves our industry but we can't deny you
and i or anybody else that going into these midterms
high gas prices and an economy that could be a
lot better it weighs on people.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
It does, and it is the commodity even more than
eggs and milk that people see, that everyone sees.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Men and women.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
And it concerns me because there are a lot of
decisions that will be made in the next two, four,
and six years that we're going to elect people to
be in a position to make, and I don't want
the prices to be artificially high. when perhaps ending the
war in Iran would have had a very positive.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Impact in that way. Matt Cody, president, Oil and Gas
Workers Association. Thanks for being here. I will die for
this country.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I will die for this flag.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
The Michael Perry Show.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
It's a big honor to be living in the United States.
A Pabst Blue Ribbon PBR truck carrying more than 50,000
cans of beer. It's been stolen in Southern California in
what may be the biggest beer heist ever. WISN-TV in
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Milwaukee with the story.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Police in Southern California are tracking a pair of huge
beer heists. And a beloved Milwaukee brand is at the
center of it all. Pabst Blue Ribbon says someone made
off with a fully loaded delivery truck August 17th. That's
about 40,000 pounds of beer. Pabst asked for help in
this Instagram post, giving the thief 18 days to bring
the truck back, no questions asked. The truck was last
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seen last week at a distribution center in Montclair, California.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
That's just west of Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Today, the police.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
Department there shared that the PBR theft.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Was just ongoing.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
One of two beer heists that took place within an
hour of each other.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Those combined shipments.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
Are worth $ 70, 000. Police are investigating if the two robberies
are connected.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
We happen to have sources involved in this case. And
from what we're hearing, the sheriff who was in pursuit
of the thief may have, unbeknownst to him at that moment,
had an interaction with the perp.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
I'm going to tell you, ma'am. A dollar and a half.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
There you are. Keep changing.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Just keep your eye out for that Mr.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Bandit.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Let me have a Diablo sandwich of Dr. Pepper.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Make it fast.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I'm in a damn hurry. You want some? We ain't
got no time for that. You son of a bitch.
Diablo and Doc.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Stack it by slicker.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
He must be in a hell of a hurry, huh, Sheriff?
Bet your ass on that boy. Oh, you've got a
little mess there. Let me help you out here. Get
that off of there. That's a wigger. I'm looking for it.
Who are you chasing?
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Somebody chasing you?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Nobody's chasing me, boy. I bet there's not that many
all the way from Texas.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Really?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Was he a bank robber? Bank robber?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Back-dropping is big alongside of what this dude is doing.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Almost killed 20 law officers.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Driving to people's backyards, knocking down mailboxes. Got a broad
in the car, took him across the state line, got
the man out. I don't think he's got a permission,
and that's getting him. How's that for high-jerk?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Jackie Gleason.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Supposedly, the story goes that they didn't, Hal Needham didn't
have any influence over him. He just did what he
wanted and half of what he did was just whatever
he wanted to do. So back to the campaign, shall we?
The race has turned negative from Tallarico. He has launched
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his first major negative ad of the campaign. It's a
30-second spot titled Most Corrupt. And it has an eight-figure
statewide buy.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
It follows, so.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Far, $ 29 million being spent trying to define the.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Telefrico, this is what you do.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
You first start with your guy, Telefrico in this case,
who is a state rep, not known across the state,
and a state rep. one of 150, not particularly well-known
outside the money circles. He did win a primary, but
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anybody who knows anything about that knows that Jasmine Crockett
was the worst candidate they could possibly ever put up.
She couldn't decide whether she was going to try to
be David Attenborough or a ghetto queen and pop her fingers.
And she tried to go back and forth, and it
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just didn't work. And she also didn't have a statewide name, presence, organization.
And unfortunately, the more people who met her, the fewer
people who liked her. So Tallarico skates through the primary.
And he hasn't really been hit at that point. And
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you follow that up with a lot of money. Most
of it coming from outside and a lot of it
coming from California, including Reid Hoffman, the Epstein buddy who
hates Trump. So now you move to phase two. But
during that time, Paxton, because he was in a contested primary,
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was getting battered. And he was getting battered from within
Republican establishment ranks. The Karl Roves were out there just
absolutely knocking him around. But he still won because you
preferred him. And so then there is the runoff. And
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then after that, you've depleted all your cash. So you're
starting with nothing. The Democrat is sitting on a load
of money, and they see an opportunity. This is their
big chance to pick off a seat. And I say
it often because it's important that we all understand it.
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It's for six years. You put that person in there,
and there's a good chance they stay beyond six years
because now they have the power of incumbency. And Feingold,
the law that was supposed to reform... election spending, all
it really did was create a much broader rift between
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the Senate incumbent and a Senate challenger, which was, of course,
the goal. So since June, the spending has gone from
6.7 to 1, 6.7 for every Tallarico dollar and 1
for every Paxton dollar. Democrats have reported $ 31. 5 million in spending.
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$ 31. 3 of that is for Tallarico. It's the only race
they're pouring money into. So they're not hitting Greg Abbott
for governor. They're not hitting Dan Patrick for lieutenant governor.
They're not hitting Mays Middleton for attorney general and Nate
Sheets for ag commissioner.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
They're going all in on this.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Senate seat and throwing everything they have at it While
they've been spending 31.5, Republicans all in have spent 4.7.
And for Paxton, 150,000. Now, there is supposed to be
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a MAGA Inc. war chest that has been largely untapped
to this point of $ 400 million.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
There might occasionally.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Be a time where there is a slight exaggeration coming
from that camp. I'm not saying this is it, but
there might be. It's going to take a lot of money.
And it's going to take the MAGA PAC. It's going
to take Elon. And it's going to take voters getting engaged.
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And that's just all there is to it. Now, if
you're panicked about the polls... This is a delicate balance. Yes,
you should be panicked. Yes, the polls show Tallarico winning.
I've been involved in campaigns for a very long time.
Paxton can win if our people get fired up. You
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get an email from a woman named Carla, and it said,
Arnold Hayes fighting Aggie class of 52, hospice wish granted.
She says, this is my friend Clyde's father. The post
is extra, extra special. And it goes like this. A
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very special hospice wish was granted this week for one
of our patients, Mr. Arnold Hayes, a proud member of
the Fighting Texas Aggie Class of 1952 and the Texas
A & M Corps of Cadets, majored in agricultural engineering
and served in the United States Air Force, wanted to
return to campus one last time. On Tuesday, he toured
the campus by golf cart, attended his own personal yell practice,
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received a special pin from the Corps, met the beautiful
Miss Reveille, and enjoyed his favorite barbecue from C &
J Barbecue.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
His lovely bride of 59 years, there's.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Something on my screen blocking the night, his hospice nurse
and staff, and many family members were able to be
in attendance for this extraordinary day. A huge thank you
to the Association of Former Students and the Akara Hospice
Foundation for making this all possible.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Whoop and gig'em, Mr.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Hayes.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
What a joy to serve.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
You and witness such a beautiful day.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
That's pretty cool. We are on this earth to serve others.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
And to make someone's dream come true like that as
they're leaving this earth, that's pretty cool. I saw a
story this morning that two prominent retired Republican judges are
not backing the Republican nominee to be Attorney General. They're
backing the Democrat, Nathan Johnson, from Dallas. Nathan Johnson rolled
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out endorsements from two former Republican members of the Texas
Supreme Court, as first reported by the Texas Tribune. Former
Chief Justice Tom Phillips and former Justice Deborah Hankinson backed
Johnson for attorney general over Republican Mays Middleton in this
year's midterm elections.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
They went on to say how great Nathan Johnson is.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Tom Phillips is a partner in the Austin office of
Baker Botts. His practice centers on appellate litigation, complex legal issues,
and alternative dispute resolutions. He serves on the Texas Judicial
District's board. He was reappointed by Governor Abbott through the
end of 2026. Deborah Hankinson leads her own firm, Hankinson PLLC,
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in Dallas. She offers a full range of whatever she does.
Hankinson has donated, she's a Republican judge supposedly, to Beto O'Rourke,
Colin Allred, Pete Gallegos, the Obama Victory Fund, Amy Klobuchar,
Emily's List, and Act Blue.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
She's given a lot of money to Democrats.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Tom Phillips was the Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court.
He served with Cornyn for the entirety of Cornyn's six-plus
years on the court.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Don Phillips served with Abbott for Abbott's entire tenure on
the court. There is.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
An interesting time in American politics, but in Texas politics.
And unfortunately, it's going to get worse before it gets better.
And some people are quite uncomfortable with conflict. I understand that.
And my answer to you is you're going to have
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to get over that. This is a necessary thing. This
is a nonviolent civil war. The answer for you, if
you're that person, is to let the establishment continue to
run the party, which we did for a very long time.
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The answer is to be on the outside shaking our
fists For no good reason.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
To no real avail. Frustrated. Why can't we never get
nothing done? Even when we're in power, we can't never
get nothing done.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
We're getting things done now. That's how this works.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
The people who were the reason we can't get nothing
done are the people who now won't endorse our candidates.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
That's what's going on.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
There are people who were Republicans who are now openly
supporting Democrats, working behind the scenes to turn off the
spigot of funds to candidates we supported. People who told you,
vote Republican for our nation, for our state. Them Democrats
is bad people. Put me in there so me and
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all my friends can be in power.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
That's what they said. And we did. dutifully, even when
they disappoint.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
Us.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
We did it, dutifully, for a long time.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
And their bow ties and their country clubs and their
inner circle and their shoes were shined and their nails
were polished. And they told us this was God and country.
We were supporting Democrats. They weren't as good as them.
So we needed to support them until we started realizing,
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wait a second, we're just supporting their clique.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
They don't really dislike the Democrats, their buddies with them.
And we saw it again and again and again.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
They told us how awful those Democrats were and we
had to vote for them. But then they would side
with the Democrats over us. And as we started expressing concerns,
they called us crazy. Karl Rove openly, openly insulted the
Tea Party. Openly insulted Trump and still does. Gets on
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Fox News every day with his stupid little whiteboard and
his chubby little fingers. Underneath his greasy chin dripping down
with the little numbers.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Well, you have to understand. You see, the problem is
that Trump makes people unhappy.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
You can't call people names like this.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
It makes people mad. It makes people mad.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Because the days of the polite politician in their insider
dealing are over. If you want to make an omelet,
you've got to break some eggs. There are a lot
of people who are lifelong Republicans who are uncomfortable right
now because everything they campaigned on, we're demanding that they do.
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Close the border. The border is closed. Whatever one thinks
of Trump, and we need to get out of Iran,
he closed the border. How many Republicans told us we
could not close the border? It was too complicated. It
was multifaceted. We'd have to have a comprehensive bill and
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give trillions of dollars to the Democrats. It was the
fact that people were employing the illegals. It was the
fact of this. It was the fact of that. There
was this over here and then this over there, and
it couldn't be done. And Trump did it. And when
he did, Cornyn was out there saying it could not
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be done.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
It was a fool's errand.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
And Paxton was fighting in the courts to allow us
to close our border.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Which we wanted, we demanded.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
And Paxton was holding the line at the front of
the line, fighting like hell for the state of Texas
to get it done. That's why Trump supported him. That
should matter. These things should matter. Now, the Hollywood Democrats
that want a third senator here and the Republican establishment
who did nothing, well, they're going to tell you otherwise.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Don't let them win.
It's that time.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Lock and load.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
The Michael Berry Show is on the air. Why are
you shipping these slaves up north? We need them to
pick the crops.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Keep your hand on that plow.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hold on.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Food is not reaching our table because those who pick
the crops have been removed.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
You're going to have vegetables rotting in the fields.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Our vegetables would rot in the ground if they weren't
being picked by many slaves.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
If you think your groceries are expensive now, wait until
the farms are empty.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
If you look at the food that's on your table,
think about.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
Who picked it.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
It's going to deport 20 million people, the people who
pick your crops.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
The regularity from Mexico usually to work in the fields.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Those slaves.
Speaker 6 (01:07):
They come into our country, they work the fields, something
that we ain't done in a long time.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I can't wait until American women can't get blueberries for
their smoothies.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Good news, Red Seeds.
Speaker 6 (01:18):
You can now pick your own fruits and vegetables in
the blazing hot sun for $.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
5 an hour.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
The people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings,
who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants.
Speaker 6 (01:29):
What's going to happen here is that milk gets a
lot higher because I don't know if any of you
have ever been on a dairy farm.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
It is God awful work.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Have no slaves and we would have no food on
our plates. We would have nobody cleaning up in the hospitals.
And I have friends texting me like all morning.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
My gardener didn't show up.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
My housekeeper didn't show up. You're going to actually have
to do some work around your house.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
We're not going to have anybody around to wipe our
asses because we don't have enough people.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
If you kick every slave out of this country, then
who is going to be cleaning your toilet door from?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I try to find one story in the news. that
I think represents something bigger than the day-to-day. It represents trends.
And I will often start the show with that, not always.
Let me start by saying, with regard to this case
of Lindsay Clancy, I know less about this case than
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probably almost everybody listening right now. There's an old adage
in journalism that.
Dog bites man, doesn't make the news. Man bites dog,
front page above the fold. Quirky, weird stories. And this
is a quirky, weird story. The data would suggest that
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it's not very common that a mother kills her children.
You can name the cases. I'm not going to do
it now. You know who they are. Of the women
who have achieved some sort of notoriety. There's a famous
case in Houston where it happened. whether it's drowning kids
or choking kids to death. It's a horrible, terrible thing,
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and it goes against everything we believe. But I think
there is an example of almost every horrible thing imaginable.
If you can dream it up, it has happened. The
bigger question about our culture is why are so many women,
it's being called now the Lindsay Clancy fan club. Why
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are women cheering for this? There's a meme that's floated
around that's the crazy white liberal woman, the short haircut,
the college student or college graduate, and she's talking about,
how abortion is destroying families. I'm sorry, ICE is destroying families.
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It's separating families, and she's upset about that. But then
Lindsay Clancy, she's cheering for a woman who murdered her kids.
I saw some data this week that is consistent over
the last couple of years, but there's a much deeper
dive into this now. And it is the difference of
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opinion and values of people who go to college and
people who don't. I have to tell you, my parents
desperately wanted to go to college because they didn't get to.
And going to college meant I was going to learn
and I was going to have opportunities. I'd be able
to work in the air conditioning and I'd be paid
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well and life would be good for me. The university,
this magical place that I was going to go off
to and it was going to be grand and I
loved it. I'll tell you, I loved it. I was
student body president. I got involved in student politics. I
took every class I possibly could. I loved my professors.
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I got to know them on a personal level. They
wrote my letters of recommendation to law school. I went
to law school and I sat and I learned about
how we structure our society, how we punish crime, what
is and isn't a crime, how we create a system
that tries to achieve some level of fairness. We're the
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model of the world. How we encourage businesses to do
business in such a manner that if you clearly lay
it out with a contract, it'll be enforceable or there
will be damages, and how we have private property and
how we defend that and how you own it and
how you transfer it and how you finance it and
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finance itself. And all of these things, going back to
our Constitution, which is our bylaws for how the country
will work, I loved school. I was a better person
for it. I started school a Labor Democrat, which was
what my father was. I was an Al Gore Democrat
in 1988. And I came out of college and law school.
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I had a great professor by the name of Lino Graglia.
He was very conservative. He was nominated by President Reagan
to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals at the same
time as another Italian-American, Antonin Scalia.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
And the thought.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Was that Scalia would be more controversial than Graglia, my professor.
So they put Graglia up first, and then Scalia was
to be next, but Graglia was shot down by the
American Bar Association the first time, they've done it a
lot since, that they recommended against nominating a judge because
he was too conservative. I came out far more conservative.
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I thought about things differently. I read different things. I
read classical economists. I read Hayek. I read Bill Buckley.
I read all sorts of new things, and my mind
was expanded. But that's not happening today. Kids, which is
what they are at 18, who choose to go to
the university instead of the military or into the workforce
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are coming out the worst for it. They're coming out
with values that are different than their parents. When you
look at the numbers of people who are college-educated versus non-college-educated,
you've got Democrats over here and Republicans over here. Democrats
are made up of minority groups. and special interest groups
and college-educated people. Republicans are made up of non-college-educated people
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who are raising the families and running the businesses and
fighting the wars, and that's a fact. And that means
college in America today is a real problem.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Please clap.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Please clap.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
With an election upon us, one of the issues of
great concern to me personally, and I think a lot
of Americans... is the war in Iran and the Strait
of Hormuz and oil and gas prices. What's going on
in Venezuela? And what does this mean for Texas energy producers,
a state that is the energy capital of the country,
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if not the world? And how does it affect every
one of us at the pump? What will those prices be?
What's our refining capacity going to be? Can we keep up?
What will the price at the pump be for families?
heading home for Thanksgiving or Christmas. Matt Cody is the
president of the Oil and Gas Workers Association. Welcome back
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to the program, Matt.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Hey, thanks. Great to be on with you again.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Let me start with the question I get more than
anything else. Why are the prices at the pump what
they are if we are increasing production in Texas, if
we're increasing refining? Why aren't the prices at the pump
dropping faster?
Speaker 5 (08:59):
That's the best question of all.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
And in fact, a few months ago, we did like
a little explainer video on the refinery situation and American
oil and production levels. Because the very simple question that
most Americans ask is this. If America has all this oil,
why are gas prices going up? You know, it makes sense,
especially us being from Texas. We know that the Permian
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Basin produces about 50 percent of all the U.S.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
's oil. And so we go, wait a minute, the
Strait of.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Hormuz, the Iran conflict, international problems, those shouldn't affect us.
but they do because of the way our refineries are
set up. So years ago, whenever most of our refineries
were built, they were set up to process a heavier
crude than the crude oil that we produce here in
the United States. It's a lighter, sweeter crude. It's a
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different refining process. So we can increase production all day long,
but our oil actually fits refineries that are outside of
the United States, and so we're still dependent on foreign
oil imports.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
That is as concise an answer as I have ever
received on that subject. Where are we today with the
Strait of Hormuz?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
How does the and the region, the world's oil supply.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Well, anytime you have Australia where most blocks, you know, 20%
of all the world's oil goes through there, you're a
very intelligent man.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
Most of your listeners are very intelligent people.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
I heard that one dummy one time, but you didn't
have them on for very long. This isn't a Lena
Hidalgo listenership. This is intelligent people who understand supply and demand.
This is people who understand, hey, look, anytime there's an interruption,
the global supply prices go up. Whenever that resolves itself,
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whenever we're able to clear the Strait of Hormuz and
get back to normal shipping routes, well, then the supply
is back. And so we don't have that war premium
built in again, and then prices start to come down. So, yes,
the Strait of Hormuz being blocked for a while has
driven those prices up.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah, it's frustrating because we've got an election in November,
and a number of voters will vote on that basis alone,
whether we like it or not, on something that could
be temporary. And that's kind of scary because we have
a lot at stake in this election, as we always do.
What does production look like in the state of Texas
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right now? What's going on in the Permian? What are
we seeing with regard to jobs and investment in our
state specifically?
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Well, when you just talk about Texas, so we talk
about the Permian Basin, which isn't just Texas. You know,
it's also southeastern New Mexico, especially those three big oil
producing counties, Lee, Chavez, Eddy.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
So whenever we.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Talk about that, it's roughly 40, 47, almost 50 percent
of all.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Of America's oil production.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
So I'm going to loop in that southeast New Mexico
whenever I talk about Texas production. And if Speaker Burroughs
and State Representative Randall Pettigrew from New Mexico can get
it pulled together, maybe we just annex in those three.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Counties this next year. I don't think that's going to happen.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
But what are producers doing? So there's a whole lot
of hesitance because if this trade of Hormuz blockage gets resolved,
if we're able to finish the job in Iran, well,
then there's no longer a need for increased oil production.
And in fact, oil prices will drop. President Trump was
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right whenever he said, you know, prices would drop like
a rock once that was cleared. And so if I'm
a producer, if I'm a Diamondback Energy, if I'm Case
out there, if I'm somebody else, Exxon, Chevron, any one
of the producers, and I'm looking at, do I want
to invest.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Money in more production?
Speaker 4 (13:08):
The answer is, man, I'm not sure because we're up,
we're down. You know, if we had more refining capacity
where I could depend on demand for my oil, then
heck yeah, I'd run out there every day and drill
new wells. But that's why we don't see a whole
lot of new investment right now is because people are
just uncertain of what's going to happen.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
You know, and you mentioned this as a big voting issue.
We talked about this in the Biden administration. Now, Joe
Biden and Kamala Harris, by design... drove a whole lot
of fear and hesitance into the U.S.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Oil market.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
They said, you know, on the campaign.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Trail, we're going to transition away from your oil jobs.
Kamala Harris on the campaign trail said, of course, she
was in favor of banning fracking. On day one, Joe
Biden canceled the final leg of the Keystone XL permit.
And then, of course, they banned drilling or– I'm sorry,
drilling on federal lands, drove up royalty rates. And so
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all of the Biden-Harris administration's actions to hurt the American
oil and gas workers, they drove a whole lot of
that market hesitation in there as well, which drove investment
dollars out of the United States. That, by extension, hurts
every American. What we get with President Trump is we
get a president who really loves.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
American oil and gas workers. He understands our industry.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
And, of course, he's brought in people like Secretary Wright,
Secretary Burgum, who understand our industry really well. And, of course,
he's got friends like Harold Hamm, Continental Resources, really the
father of the Shell Revolution, who– help perfect george mitchell's
hydraulic traction technology so he's got really brilliant people around
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him he loves our industry but we can't deny you
and i or anybody else that going into these midterms
high gas prices and an economy that could be a
lot better it weighs on people.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
It does, and it is the commodity even more than
eggs and milk that people see, that everyone sees.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Men and women.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
And it concerns me because there are a lot of
decisions that will be made in the next two, four,
and six years that we're going to elect people to
be in a position to make, and I don't want
the prices to be artificially high. when perhaps ending the
war in Iran would have had a very positive.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Impact in that way. Matt Cody, president, Oil and Gas
Workers Association. Thanks for being here. I will die for
this country.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I will die for this flag.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
The Michael Perry Show.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
It's a big honor to be living in the United States.
A Pabst Blue Ribbon PBR truck carrying more than 50,000
cans of beer. It's been stolen in Southern California in
what may be the biggest beer heist ever. WISN-TV in
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Milwaukee with the story.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Police in Southern California are tracking a pair of huge
beer heists. And a beloved Milwaukee brand is at the
center of it all. Pabst Blue Ribbon says someone made
off with a fully loaded delivery truck August 17th. That's
about 40,000 pounds of beer. Pabst asked for help in
this Instagram post, giving the thief 18 days to bring
the truck back, no questions asked. The truck was last
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seen last week at a distribution center in Montclair, California.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
That's just west of Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Today, the police.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
Department there shared that the PBR theft.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Was just ongoing.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
One of two beer heists that took place within an
hour of each other.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Those combined shipments.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
Are worth $ 70, 000. Police are investigating if the two robberies
are connected.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
We happen to have sources involved in this case. And
from what we're hearing, the sheriff who was in pursuit
of the thief may have, unbeknownst to him at that moment,
had an interaction with the perp.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
I'm going to tell you, ma'am. A dollar and a half.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
There you are. Keep changing.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Just keep your eye out for that Mr.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Bandit.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Let me have a Diablo sandwich of Dr. Pepper.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Make it fast.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I'm in a damn hurry. You want some? We ain't
got no time for that. You son of a bitch.
Diablo and Doc.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Stack it by slicker.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
He must be in a hell of a hurry, huh, Sheriff?
Bet your ass on that boy. Oh, you've got a
little mess there. Let me help you out here. Get
that off of there. That's a wigger. I'm looking for it.
Who are you chasing?
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Somebody chasing you?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Nobody's chasing me, boy. I bet there's not that many
all the way from Texas.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Really?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Was he a bank robber? Bank robber?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Back-dropping is big alongside of what this dude is doing.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Almost killed 20 law officers.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Driving to people's backyards, knocking down mailboxes. Got a broad
in the car, took him across the state line, got
the man out. I don't think he's got a permission,
and that's getting him. How's that for high-jerk?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Jackie Gleason.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Supposedly, the story goes that they didn't, Hal Needham didn't
have any influence over him. He just did what he
wanted and half of what he did was just whatever
he wanted to do. So back to the campaign, shall we?
The race has turned negative from Tallarico. He has launched
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his first major negative ad of the campaign. It's a
30-second spot titled Most Corrupt. And it has an eight-figure
statewide buy.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
It follows, so.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Far, $ 29 million being spent trying to define the.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Telefrico, this is what you do.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
You first start with your guy, Telefrico in this case,
who is a state rep, not known across the state,
and a state rep. one of 150, not particularly well-known
outside the money circles. He did win a primary, but
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anybody who knows anything about that knows that Jasmine Crockett
was the worst candidate they could possibly ever put up.
She couldn't decide whether she was going to try to
be David Attenborough or a ghetto queen and pop her fingers.
And she tried to go back and forth, and it
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just didn't work. And she also didn't have a statewide name, presence, organization.
And unfortunately, the more people who met her, the fewer
people who liked her. So Tallarico skates through the primary.
And he hasn't really been hit at that point. And
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you follow that up with a lot of money. Most
of it coming from outside and a lot of it
coming from California, including Reid Hoffman, the Epstein buddy who
hates Trump. So now you move to phase two. But
during that time, Paxton, because he was in a contested primary,
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was getting battered. And he was getting battered from within
Republican establishment ranks. The Karl Roves were out there just
absolutely knocking him around. But he still won because you
preferred him. And so then there is the runoff. And
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then after that, you've depleted all your cash. So you're
starting with nothing. The Democrat is sitting on a load
of money, and they see an opportunity. This is their
big chance to pick off a seat. And I say
it often because it's important that we all understand it.
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It's for six years. You put that person in there,
and there's a good chance they stay beyond six years
because now they have the power of incumbency. And Feingold,
the law that was supposed to reform... election spending, all
it really did was create a much broader rift between
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the Senate incumbent and a Senate challenger, which was, of course,
the goal. So since June, the spending has gone from
6.7 to 1, 6.7 for every Tallarico dollar and 1
for every Paxton dollar. Democrats have reported $ 31. 5 million in spending.
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$ 31. 3 of that is for Tallarico. It's the only race
they're pouring money into. So they're not hitting Greg Abbott
for governor. They're not hitting Dan Patrick for lieutenant governor.
They're not hitting Mays Middleton for attorney general and Nate
Sheets for ag commissioner.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
They're going all in on this.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Senate seat and throwing everything they have at it While
they've been spending 31.5, Republicans all in have spent 4.7.
And for Paxton, 150,000. Now, there is supposed to be
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a MAGA Inc. war chest that has been largely untapped
to this point of $ 400 million.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
There might occasionally.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Be a time where there is a slight exaggeration coming
from that camp. I'm not saying this is it, but
there might be. It's going to take a lot of money.
And it's going to take the MAGA PAC. It's going
to take Elon. And it's going to take voters getting engaged.
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And that's just all there is to it. Now, if
you're panicked about the polls... This is a delicate balance. Yes,
you should be panicked. Yes, the polls show Tallarico winning.
I've been involved in campaigns for a very long time.
Paxton can win if our people get fired up. You
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get an email from a woman named Carla, and it said,
Arnold Hayes fighting Aggie class of 52, hospice wish granted.
She says, this is my friend Clyde's father. The post
is extra, extra special. And it goes like this. A
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very special hospice wish was granted this week for one
of our patients, Mr. Arnold Hayes, a proud member of
the Fighting Texas Aggie Class of 1952 and the Texas
A & M Corps of Cadets, majored in agricultural engineering
and served in the United States Air Force, wanted to
return to campus one last time. On Tuesday, he toured
the campus by golf cart, attended his own personal yell practice,
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received a special pin from the Corps, met the beautiful
Miss Reveille, and enjoyed his favorite barbecue from C &
J Barbecue.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
His lovely bride of 59 years, there's.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Something on my screen blocking the night, his hospice nurse
and staff, and many family members were able to be
in attendance for this extraordinary day. A huge thank you
to the Association of Former Students and the Akara Hospice
Foundation for making this all possible.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Whoop and gig'em, Mr.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Hayes.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
What a joy to serve.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
You and witness such a beautiful day.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
That's pretty cool. We are on this earth to serve others.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
And to make someone's dream come true like that as
they're leaving this earth, that's pretty cool. I saw a
story this morning that two prominent retired Republican judges are
not backing the Republican nominee to be Attorney General. They're
backing the Democrat, Nathan Johnson, from Dallas. Nathan Johnson rolled
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out endorsements from two former Republican members of the Texas
Supreme Court, as first reported by the Texas Tribune. Former
Chief Justice Tom Phillips and former Justice Deborah Hankinson backed
Johnson for attorney general over Republican Mays Middleton in this
year's midterm elections.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
They went on to say how great Nathan Johnson is.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Tom Phillips is a partner in the Austin office of
Baker Botts. His practice centers on appellate litigation, complex legal issues,
and alternative dispute resolutions. He serves on the Texas Judicial
District's board. He was reappointed by Governor Abbott through the
end of 2026. Deborah Hankinson leads her own firm, Hankinson PLLC,
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in Dallas. She offers a full range of whatever she does.
Hankinson has donated, she's a Republican judge supposedly, to Beto O'Rourke,
Colin Allred, Pete Gallegos, the Obama Victory Fund, Amy Klobuchar,
Emily's List, and Act Blue.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
She's given a lot of money to Democrats.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Tom Phillips was the Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court.
He served with Cornyn for the entirety of Cornyn's six-plus
years on the court.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Don Phillips served with Abbott for Abbott's entire tenure on
the court. There is.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
An interesting time in American politics, but in Texas politics.
And unfortunately, it's going to get worse before it gets better.
And some people are quite uncomfortable with conflict. I understand that.
And my answer to you is you're going to have
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to get over that. This is a necessary thing. This
is a nonviolent civil war. The answer for you, if
you're that person, is to let the establishment continue to
run the party, which we did for a very long time.
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The answer is to be on the outside shaking our
fists For no good reason.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
To no real avail. Frustrated. Why can't we never get
nothing done? Even when we're in power, we can't never
get nothing done.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
We're getting things done now. That's how this works.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
The people who were the reason we can't get nothing
done are the people who now won't endorse our candidates.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
That's what's going on.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
There are people who were Republicans who are now openly
supporting Democrats, working behind the scenes to turn off the
spigot of funds to candidates we supported. People who told you,
vote Republican for our nation, for our state. Them Democrats
is bad people. Put me in there so me and
(29:32):
all my friends can be in power.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
That's what they said. And we did. dutifully, even when
they disappoint.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
Us.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
We did it, dutifully, for a long time.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
And their bow ties and their country clubs and their
inner circle and their shoes were shined and their nails
were polished. And they told us this was God and country.
We were supporting Democrats. They weren't as good as them.
So we needed to support them until we started realizing,
(30:08):
wait a second, we're just supporting their clique.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
They don't really dislike the Democrats, their buddies with them.
And we saw it again and again and again.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
They told us how awful those Democrats were and we
had to vote for them. But then they would side
with the Democrats over us. And as we started expressing concerns,
they called us crazy. Karl Rove openly, openly insulted the
Tea Party. Openly insulted Trump and still does. Gets on
(30:41):
Fox News every day with his stupid little whiteboard and
his chubby little fingers. Underneath his greasy chin dripping down
with the little numbers.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Well, you have to understand. You see, the problem is
that Trump makes people unhappy.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
You can't call people names like this.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
It makes people mad. It makes people mad.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Because the days of the polite politician in their insider
dealing are over. If you want to make an omelet,
you've got to break some eggs. There are a lot
of people who are lifelong Republicans who are uncomfortable right
now because everything they campaigned on, we're demanding that they do.
(31:26):
Close the border. The border is closed. Whatever one thinks
of Trump, and we need to get out of Iran,
he closed the border. How many Republicans told us we
could not close the border? It was too complicated. It
was multifaceted. We'd have to have a comprehensive bill and
(31:48):
give trillions of dollars to the Democrats. It was the
fact that people were employing the illegals. It was the
fact of this. It was the fact of that. There
was this over here and then this over there, and
it couldn't be done. And Trump did it. And when
he did, Cornyn was out there saying it could not
(32:08):
be done.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
It was a fool's errand.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
And Paxton was fighting in the courts to allow us
to close our border.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Which we wanted, we demanded.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
And Paxton was holding the line at the front of
the line, fighting like hell for the state of Texas
to get it done. That's why Trump supported him. That
should matter. These things should matter. Now, the Hollywood Democrats
that want a third senator here and the Republican establishment
who did nothing, well, they're going to tell you otherwise.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Don't let them win.
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