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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time. Lock and load. The Michael Berry Show
is on the air.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
The Democrat Party does not fight for, care about, or
represent American citizens. It is an entity devoted exclusively to
the defense of hardened criminals, gangbangers.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
And illegal alien killers and terrorists.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
Donald Trump, you know he trashed Oakland. He lied about us.
But Oakland is not afraid. We embrace all residents, including
our immigrant communities. Our police do not cooperate with ICE.

Speaker 4 (00:51):
We don't.

Speaker 5 (00:52):
As the mayor of this city, I can tell you
that Chicagoans are not calling for military occupation. They are
calling for the same thing that we've been calling for
for some time.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
And that's investment.

Speaker 5 (01:05):
What safe cities across America all have in common, they
invest in people. And that's what we're doing in Chicago.
We cannot incarcerate our way. out of violence. We've already
tried that. And we've ended up with the largest prison
population in the world without solving the problems of crime
and violence. The addiction on jails and incarceration in this country,

(01:28):
we have moved past that.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
It is racist. It is immoral. It is unholy.

Speaker 5 (01:33):
And it is not the way to drive violence down.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Oh, girl, just stand by me.

Speaker 6 (01:43):
The Trump administration has said all along that their actions
on immigration are to make America safer.

Speaker 7 (01:57):
So as a member of the Homeland Security Committee, what
you see in those pictures, is it making America safer?

Speaker 8 (02:03):
No, it's terrorizing Americans, our friends and neighbors, otherwise known
as immigrants, many of them.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
But Chris, we're not helpless.

Speaker 8 (02:12):
Democratic attorneys general in these states have their own law
enforcement abilities. And I would recommend, and I have recommended
to them, use those capabilities.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Give us an example of how. Well, if these.

Speaker 8 (02:26):
Agents are committing assault or battery, you can charge them
with assault and battery.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
So we're not helpless. You should meet their chaos with chaos.
Having done the work I've done.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
It is our undocumented immigrants that are.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
The least likely to commit a crime.

Speaker 6 (02:44):
The allegation of groomer and pedophile, it is alleging that
a person is criminal somehow and engaged in criminal acts
merely because.

Speaker 5 (02:54):
Of their identity.

Speaker 9 (03:18):
I'm going to make sure I have security because I
know I have had attempts on my life and I
have too much work to do. There are too many
people that need help right now for me to allow that.
I get to be here to do the work. So
suck it up and defunding the police has to happen.

Speaker 10 (03:53):
It has already begun the midterm convention in Dallas.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Started late this afternoon.

Speaker 10 (04:04):
And President Trump will speak this evening, I think at
8 o'clock. But there are a series of speakers, one
after the other. Tomorrow, I think it starts at 3
o'clock Central also. And it will conclude... with J.D. Vance
as the headliner and President Trump closing remarks, I believe

(04:27):
is how it's scheduled at this point. These things tend
to be fluid. I think one of the things I'm
most like, I'm most delighted about at the midterm convention,
it's the national midterm convention, there are candidates and office
holders It just happens to be in Texas because Texas

(04:50):
is a battleground state, oddly enough, this election season because
the Democrats are throwing everything they have at it.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
Bully for them.

Speaker 10 (05:00):
What I like most is they have segments entitled Everyday American.
And then they tell what that Everyday American represents. And
the reason they do that is twofold. Number one, you're
not going to know that person's name for most of them.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
And secondly, to.

Speaker 10 (05:17):
to represent, to illustrate that that person speaks for a
lot of people, as we would say in the legal world,
similarly situated. When you have a class action lawsuit, everybody that,
every woman that had the vaginal mesh procedure was affected

(05:39):
and harmed in a similar way, so they're all brought
together and it's one collective against that company.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
So they can throw more resources at the lawsuit.

Speaker 10 (05:51):
In this case, you've got the working man, the stay-at-home mom.
It's the things that you don't see on the evening news,
and that bothers me a great deal. I've spent time
in newsrooms, and I will tell you it's even more
the case for national than local.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
It's much more the case than national than local.

Speaker 10 (06:16):
These people fall into the back of a limo at
their apartment on the Upper East Side, and they go
to the studio where someone does their makeup while someone
feeds them their food. They don't live the life of
middle America, which, if you look at the bell curve,
It's the middle that's the fat part. That's where most

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Americans live. And most Americans were struggling with illegal immigration.
But if you live behind gated walls in these high-rise buildings,
you don't understand how that was a big deal. And
that's the disconnect. I think they've made a real effort
with this midterm convention to do that.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
A couple of things.

Speaker 10 (06:58):
Tomorrow will be, so today started the midterm convention. You
can get all of that on network TV. You can
get it on the internet. There's going to be lots
of clips. You'll be able to see all of that.
Watch some speeches of some people you don't know. You
might be interested in seeing, and there will be some
people who disappoint you. That's always going to happen. Don't
stress out over that. But there will be some people

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who will look just like you. They're a firefighter in
small-town America. They're a, I don't know, I don't know
who the people are.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
They're a mechanic.

Speaker 10 (07:29):
And they're going to get up and talk from the
heart about how crime affected them, how illegal immigration affected them,
how the tax cut helped their small business. Those kinds
of things matter. That's real. That's authentic. And Trump does
that better than anybody. He shoots past the media over
their heads and goes down and burrows down into real,

(07:50):
authentic America. Tomorrow is the one year deadline. A sad
anniversary of Charlie Kirk's passing. We will note that at
the beginning of the show tomorrow. We'll spend tomorrow morning's show,
a lot of it on that. For those of you,
this is the evening show. You're welcome to listen to
our morning show or to listen to it on the podcast,
as many of you do. And Friday will be our

(08:12):
9-11 25-year commemoration. So we have more themed shows than usual.
I'm just kind of warning you ahead of time. We
don't do a lot of those. but we will because
these are very important.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
Southern Pride. Southern Pride. The Michael Berry Show. It is 2026.

Speaker 10 (08:32):
We are, Elon is, I don't know how realistic it is,
contemplating populating Mars. We are now able to replicate thinking
smart learning of machines that is increasing at the speed

(08:54):
of faster than anything I can describe. We are curing
ailments that plagued Americans for centuries and developing ailments that
we've never seen because the foods we're eating are not
by any historical sense a food.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
We are able to treat.

Speaker 10 (09:19):
Physical issues of baldness or incontinence or erectile dysfunction or
stomach disorders. And yet, and yet, we're creating new problems
with drugs that we've made that have negative effects, right?

(09:43):
We lived through a man-created COVID that destroyed a big
portion of our economy and an important part of it,
small businesses. Lives were lost, my brother being one of them.
And yet we're in this very complicated time where we're
having to we're struggling with whatever side you're on. Just
hear me frame the argument. Some people are incapable of

(10:06):
just that. Just hear what I'm saying. We are debating
whether we want to have data centers in our own communities.
That's a major discussion we're having in this country and
we should have.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
It is healthy.

Speaker 10 (10:23):
Now, there are people who will say, no, we shouldn't
have it here or we better have it here or
we're going to lose out on everything. OK, so just
understand you're on one side of the issue or the
other or you want to learn more.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
That's fine.

Speaker 10 (10:36):
These are the sorts of things we should be discussing
as a society in the same way. that we had
to discuss how important were railroads to our community. Railroads moved,
most importantly, people, but also goods across the country. Maybe
goods were more important, I don't know, but they were

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both important.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
But in order to do.

Speaker 10 (10:59):
That, you had to go across people's property where they
didn't want you going across. You had to come through
communities where they didn't want you to be. They didn't
want outsiders there. And the railroads amassed a great deal
of power in their own police force, and they spent
a lot of money, and they bought politicians, and if
you opposed them, they crushed a lot of people, and
there were monopolistic tendencies of those people, and all of

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these things, right? But these are the sorts of things
you have to talk about as a society. They're public
policy that matters most. And yet, it's not what we're
talking about. We're talking about whether, as the Democrats claim,
Every little boy whose mommy tells him she'd rather he
be a girl should have his entire plumbing ripped out

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for life and be put on hormones. Little boys who
are too young to serve in the military or own
a gun or get a tattoo or smoke or even drive.
They're too young to go to many movies by themselves,
but we're saying they're old enough to make these decisions?

Speaker 1 (12:06):
It's crazy. This is what the.

Speaker 10 (12:09):
Democrats are up to. And they're trying to win votes
and power, not on the basis of this would be
a good policy for my countrymen, for my country going forward,
because policies matter, but on who was a slave and
who wasn't.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
This is Abdul.

Speaker 10 (12:31):
El-Sayed in Michigan speaking to a CARE event, which has
been labeled a terrorist organization in this country.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
I've been reading our history.

Speaker 11 (12:41):
Muslims have been in this part of the country since 1527.
Estevenico of Azador, probably a name you've never heard, probably
the first recorded Muslim to touch ground on what is
now these United States of America. Estimates suggest up to 50%

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of people who were brought here against their will as
slaves were Muslims.

Speaker 12 (13:09):
Literally built this country.

Speaker 11 (13:12):
A man by the name of Bilali Afula, another name
we probably don't know because we are cut off from
our history, fought in the War of 1812 against British tyranny.
And in the 1960s, when our country forgot what these
truths were, we had people like Muhammad Ali and Malcolm
X who were there to remind us. That is our

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history in this country. We have a long and abiding
history in these United States of America. We all know
how stained our history is with the legacy of white supremacy,
whether that be against our African American brothers and sisters,
our Native American brothers and sisters, our Latinx brothers and sisters.

Speaker 12 (13:52):
We know that stain.

Speaker 10 (13:54):
Oh, we're back to Latinx again.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
Good grief.

Speaker 10 (14:00):
I guess he'll bring in the gay X and the
Asian X too. In 2018, he was running for governor
of Michigan. And he made a promise, a very specific,
very public promise about what Michigan would and would not
do when it came to federal immigration laws.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
He's now running for the U.S. Senate. This is what
he said at that time.

Speaker 13 (14:23):
Under my leadership, our state will not expend a dime
of state taxpayer resources enforcing federal immigration policy that at
best is incoherent and at worst is heartless. We will
not participate with them through our state police. We will
not participate with them through the State Department of Corrections
because I do not believe that they are doing what's
in the best interest of our state. Because every time

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we watch one of these deportations, you're talking about a
family that's been torn apart and you're talking about a
portion of our economy that's been shipped out.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
And I'm not willing to be a part of that.
Beyond that, I.

Speaker 13 (14:54):
Look forward to pushing forward legislation that would preempt localities
from participating with ICE and using their local resources to
do the same. Beyond that, we've also got to make
sure that in this state, we are not discriminating by
documentation status. Right now, if you're undocumented, you don't get
access to a driver's license, so you're stuck. You don't
get access to a lot of the basic things the

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state offers everybody else.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
And I think that's ridiculous.

Speaker 13 (15:18):
And so we've got to stop discrimination, discriminating that way.
And I also believe that we've got to make sure
that if we're honest and serious about empowering our immigrant communities,
that we've got to put some money behind making sure
that folks have the access to be able to train
in their profession of choice, to be able to get re-licensed,
to do what they do here in the United States.
And invest in basic things like English language training.

Speaker 12 (15:41):
Would refugees be a part of this plan?

Speaker 1 (15:42):
Absolutely.

Speaker 13 (15:43):
We as a country, I believe, owe it to the
world to open our doors.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
And we're better because of it, right?

Speaker 13 (15:50):
I've never met an immigrant in my life.

Speaker 11 (15:51):
No, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
Stop, stop, stop, stop.

Speaker 10 (15:53):
We're not better because of it. I'm worried China lacks diversity.
How are they prospering? I'm worried Japan lacks diversity. How
are they prospering? If it's so great, why doesn't Saudi
Arabia or Iran have it? Because diversity is not our

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strength when diversity is tearing away at the core fabric
of the culture that made this country great.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
And I'm sorry, that wasn't Muslim.

Speaker 10 (16:24):
That was white Anglo-Saxon Protestants who came to this country
from England.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
And if that bothers you, be bothered. I will die
for this country. I will die for this flag. The
Michael Perry Show. It's a big honor to be here.
Living in the United States.

Speaker 10 (16:45):
I would like to play for you a clip that
Laura Ingraham played of James Tallarico. And I often say
that Labor Day, which we just went through, is the
moment that voters start paying attention in November. So polls
are not really indicative of results before Labor Day because

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that's when people are going to learn something about someone.
And I will give you this example, again.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
Another analogy.

Speaker 10 (17:18):
My brother was divorced after years of marriage, and it
was tough for me to watch him go through that.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
We liked his ex-wife, still do.

Speaker 10 (17:26):
And now he was on the singles market and he
would tell me about online dating. And he ended up
getting married. He was very happily married till the day
he died and all worked out. But in many cases,
it doesn't. So I've known a lot of friends out
there who are my age. I'm 55 and they get
divorced and now they're on the market.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
And so, you know, I mean, I think there's just
complete hookup sites for people, hey, let's get.

Speaker 10 (17:52):
Together and have sex. And then there's for people looking
for somebody to go on a date with that might
end up in sex. And then there's people who are serious.
They're looking for a life mate. And that was kind
of what eHarmony did, and I think Match may have been,
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
Anyway, I hear these stories, though. And I want you
to imagine... For.

Speaker 10 (18:13):
Those of you who've gone through that, and more people
have gone through that than you would imagine. It's not
just for young people. It's hard for older people. Their
spouse dies. They get divorced. Their spouse goes insane, and
they can't deal with them anymore. Their spouse runs away
with someone else. There's lots of things that can happen

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where a good, honorable, decent person ends up single in
their 40s, 50s, 60s. I have had mostly women ask
me to put together a singles event of Michael Berry
Show listeners for years because they want to go to
an event where they know the person shares their values.

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And that's the problem, right? And that gets to my
next point. So I learned this phrase years ago called catfishing.
And apparently this is an internet dating site phenomenon. And
catfishing is apparently done by both sexes. And what catfishing is,

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is a guy shows up thinking he's about to see.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
Brooke Shields. Am I dating myself on that, Ramon? Cindy Crawford.

Speaker 10 (19:33):
I guess I'm dating myself again. And instead, it's Lulu
from HeHawk. And you could argue, well, it shouldn't matter,
but it does. To some people, it really matters, the looks.
And so they'll use a picture that's 20 years and
200 pounds ago, or they'll use a picture that's not

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even their own, or they'll use a filter, apparently you
can put a filter on your photos, I don't know
how this works, but apparently it's able to be done,
and it will change your looks dramatically. So imagine you
show up and the person you expect.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
To meet is not who you meet. And now you're
stuck with them for six years. It'd be a problem.

Speaker 10 (20:24):
But OK, some people will say, well, people are too
concerned about physical looks. All right. What if that person
told you they were a Christian? What if they told
you they grew up in a town just like yours,
just up the way? and that they share your same
values on every aspect of life, and you think this

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is a value-based match, and you show up, and they're
reasonably attracted by your standards, and you all get together,
and three months into it, you find out that person
has the exact opposite values to everything you do. They
told you they were a neat freak. You're a neat freak.

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They're a hoarder and a slob.

Speaker 11 (21:09):
Right.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
They told you they hate.

Speaker 13 (21:12):
Sorry.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
They told you they love dogs. Your dogs are important
to you. You come home. Your dogs are dead. Your
dogs are gone. They're missing. That person accidentally left the
door open. But, you know, it was on purpose. They
told you they're very frugal and believe in saving.

Speaker 10 (21:28):
And you notice that they have a zero bank account
and they've raided your bank account a few months in.
You'd be pretty mad, wouldn't you? Well, they didn't lie
to you on accident. They lied to you. They lied
to you to win you over, to get you to
make a decision you wouldn't otherwise make. This is why

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we exposed the Abdul El-Sayed. This is why we exposed
Angie Nixon in Florida. This is why out of Maine
we're telling you the story about the dude and his
cousin and before that the Nazi. This is why it's
important you understand who these people are. This is James
Tallarico who's been sold to Texans as just like you.

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They run these ads. Y'all wouldn't see them, but they
run these ads. He's sitting out on the porch with
his papaw. He's just like it. He hates his papaw's values.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
Hates them. But listen to this. This is Laurie Ingram.

Speaker 5 (22:24):
Go ahead.

Speaker 7 (22:25):
Newly unearthed video from a 2020 environmental event, we see
and we hear exactly what Tallarico believes.

Speaker 4 (22:35):
I am so thankful that you asked this question and
also thankful that young activists have really drawn the link
between climate change and white supremacy and capitalism in our country.
And I think only in the ways that all three
of those oppressive systems work together are we going to
be able to begin the process of dismantling them.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
Capitalism and white supremacy. That's a winner in Texas.

Speaker 10 (22:58):
And then this is going to crash into the break.
But this is Laura doing a wonderful, wonderful job. By
the way, we don't hesitate. There's no pride in authorship.
We will play clips of Jesse Waters.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
We'll play clips of him.

Speaker 10 (23:10):
Like what someone says, for whatever purpose, we're going to
play other shows, just so you know.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
We do that.

Speaker 7 (23:16):
I don't want to take a flyer on this guy,
but why would they want to trust anyone who's ever
used the words white supremacy and capitalism in the same paragraph,
let alone the same sentence? The truth is, Tallarico's views
are way outside the sensible middle in America, let alone
in the Lone Star State. And instead of addressing legitimate

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questions about his expressed views about capitalism and the oil industry,
Tallarico deflects.

Speaker 14 (23:45):
They're going to claim that this new dream is radical.
They're going to claim this new dream is extreme. They're
going to claim we are socialists or communists or whatever
sounds scariest in a headline.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
Zero substance.

Speaker 7 (24:02):
Instead of a fact-based defense of his Medicare for all plan,
which will kill, as we all know, private insurance as
we know it, he goes into preacher mode.

Speaker 14 (24:12):
Go back and see what Jesus spends most of his
time doing. It's not preaching. It's not teaching.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
It's healing. It's healing people.

Speaker 14 (24:22):
And that is what we are called to do, whether
you're religious or not, is ensure that our neighbors have
the care that they need. And that is going to
be the end result of this plan.

Speaker 7 (24:37):
Well, we Catholics know the Bible too, and lying is
not just prohibited by the ninth commandment, the Old Testament,
thou shalt not bear false witness. It's also a no-no
in the New Testament as well. Colossians chapter three, verses
nine and 10, do not lie to each other since
you have taken off your old self with its practices
and have put on the new self. In Ephesians chapter four,

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verse 25, therefore, each of you must put off all
false falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
Are all members of one body. And right from the.

Speaker 7 (25:11):
Start, Tyler Rico's campaign, let's face it, has been one
big lie because he's pretending to be someone he's not
to get elected. He's pretending also that Christianity affirms his
views on everything from abortion to the trans agenda, along
with the rest of his hard left police.

Speaker 12 (25:31):
Diamonds are forever.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
And so, Mr. Michael Berry, remember that. It is campaign season.

Speaker 10 (25:45):
You're going to hear me talk about elections, policy, candidates,
way more than you ever do because this is when
it matters. This isn't sport. I don't do it year-round.
This is when it matters. A number of you were
emailing me, what is Paxton doing? Why isn't Paxton doing more?
What is Paxton doing? And I said, hold your horses.

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They are reloading. They are fundraising. They want to get
on TV, watching Tallarico.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
Okay. Well, let me ask you this.

Speaker 10 (26:23):
The Kardashians own five Rolls Royces.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
Why don't you? Where are your Rolls Royces?

Speaker 10 (26:30):
I can see their house in Beverly Hills with five
Rolls Royces, and I don't see one in front of yours.

Speaker 12 (26:35):
Why?

Speaker 1 (26:36):
Oh, you don't have the money.

Speaker 5 (26:38):
Right.

Speaker 10 (26:39):
Paxton went through a brutal primary. People email me, we've
got to have term limits.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
We do. They're called elections.

Speaker 10 (26:46):
You can't beat an incumbent. We just did. We beat
a sitting congressman. We beat a four-term U.S.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
Senator. It can be done. It can.

Speaker 10 (26:57):
The establishment doesn't want it, but it can, and we
just did it. Now we've got to close the deal.
It's like when a team wins the AFC championship, now
they made it to the Super Bowl, but the toughest
team was in the AFC championship. But you still got
to close out to be Super Bowl champions. So we

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got to close out. And we will close out. And
that's what we're doing. But for everybody who said to me,
what's Paxton doing? He's not on TV and Tallarico's on
the Astros game every day. Tallarico's got a lot of
money from California. Look, I'm sorry to tell you, there's
a lot of money in California that wants to buy
more than two senatorial seats. They don't want us to

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have two and them have two. They want to have
four and us have none. That's why they funded Beto
against Cruz in 2018. And they are funding Tallarico big
time this time. And so you might say, well, why
don't we fund? Okay, how much are you in for?
How much can I put you down for? A lot

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of the people who fund these campaigns were with Cornyn.
They're not with Paxton. And that's the hard part for
you to understand. It's a hard part for us all
to grapple with. There's a lot of big money boys
that liked Cornyn. He was their guy. They don't trust you.

(28:27):
They don't feel comfortable around you. You live in trailer parks.
You live in modest homes. Your nails aren't done. Your
truck's beat up. That's not their politics. They need your votes,
but you're very, very different. And there's more of you

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than there are of them. And when you defy what
they tell you and what Karl Rove tells you and
you vote on your own, Ken Paxton, it makes them mad.
And then guess what they do? They pout. And they're pouting.
They're not writing checks to Ken Paxton. But here's what
we're going to do. So Elon is in. Elon has
started coughing up some cash. And Trump's PAC is in. Well, Michael,

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what about the National Republican Senator?

Speaker 12 (29:15):
Uh-uh.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
They're not going to.

Speaker 10 (29:17):
Cornyn was one of their three or four top guys.
And we beat him. It's not just Paxton who beat him.
You beat him.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
And they're punishing you right now.

Speaker 10 (29:27):
And there's nothing you can do about it except the
joy of winning. But we can't sit around saying, well,
how come they won't give us any money? They're not
giving you money. Karl Rove is not giving you money.
and he controls that. Mitch McConnell doesn't know where he is,
but if he was, he wouldn't give you money. Lindsey
Graham wouldn't give you money if he was still alive.

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John Thune is not giving you money. John Thune knows
you're calling for his head. He's not going to send
another guy up there who's a Trump guy who's going
to be criticizing him.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
He's not going to do it. So we're going to
have to win this on our own. How do we
do that?

Speaker 10 (30:05):
Trump won without spending hardly any money in 2016. He
had what is known in the business as earned media.
And earned media is exactly what it sounds like.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
There's paid media. There's earned media. Do you know what
Donald Trump's earned media was? CNN couldn't turn him off.

Speaker 10 (30:25):
Zucker told their staff, I don't care if we are
in the middle of the biggest documentary it took us
two years to produce. If Trump gets up and speaks,
you cut to it. That was number one. But number
two was you. Don't underestimate the power of you. Every
time Trump.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
Spoke, you posted about it.

Speaker 10 (30:46):
Every time you saw a video of him speaking, you
reposted that. You said simple, punchy, powerful things about your
personal support for him. And it made a difference. I've
never seen a juggernaut like that in my life. I've
studied careers. I've never seen a campaign like that. Nothing

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else compares. Not in the modern era, nothing going back.
That campaign was not Donald Trump being the most amazing
person in the history of the world.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
If you believe he is, that's fine. But he still
had to have people act. And they did. They took action.

Speaker 10 (31:24):
So you're going to see a lot of videos and things.
on social media, and if you repost every one from
now until election day, we'll win.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
That's a fact.

Speaker 10 (31:35):
Because the overlap, the concentric circles, the Venn diagram of
your influence and our influence is going to win. Ken
Paxton released a TV ad exposing Tallarico's weaponizing of the
Christian faith for political gain.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
This was important to do. Listen to this.

Speaker 10 (31:51):
In the beginning, God was non-binary, and he wasn't a Christian.

Speaker 12 (31:55):
And God said, let there be six genders, and there were.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
Then God so loved the world that he.

Speaker 7 (32:00):
Gave us his only son, who was a radical feminist
and never asked people to worship him.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
Look, I always think of myself as a Christian who
hates Christianity. James Tallarico. Wrong for Texas. America is not
a Christian nation. And wrong for America, too.

Speaker 10 (32:17):
I'm Ken Paxton and I pray this message. What's great
about that ad is the parts you can't see. There's
a James Tallarico lookalike writing with crayon in the King
James Tallarico Bible, reciting his own spin on scripture. To
most of us, rewriting the Bible sounds crazy, but I
bet the liberal media thinks this might be a good idea.
They're as crazy as Tallarico, and they're less Christian even

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than he is, if that's possible. They would praise the
King James Tallarico Bible.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
The following program is only made possible by contributions from
listeners like you. Good evening.

Speaker 12 (32:52):
This is Hard Facts, Soft Voices, and I'm Wesley Cardigan. Tonight,
a modest proposal, and I want to say it out
loud into a microphone. So it becomes real. James Tallarico
should rewrite the Bible. Now, I've read the Gospels, parts
of them, adjacent to them, and I think we have

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to be honest about Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. They
were men of their time. Untrained. Unsourced.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
No editor.

Speaker 12 (33:23):
No sensitivity reader. Four separate accounts that don't even agree
with each other. And nobody fact-checked it. And it just
went out. And they were writing for a first-century audience. Fisherman.
tax collectors people who had never once examined their own
privilege james is writing for an evolved audience because james

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doesn't just know scripture james understands the modern gospel the
gospel of grace of inclusion of universal pre-k imagine the
beatitudes with a land acknowledgement Imagine the loaves and the fishes,
but plant-based and equitably distributed with a QR code.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
Matthew gave us a genealogy. James would give us a framework.

Speaker 12 (34:09):
We here at Hard Facts saw voices believe in scripture,
in revision, in fleece. The King James Tallarico Bible, coming,
God willing. I must remind you that immediately following this program,
Rainwater Featherstone will demonstrate how to turn your own poo

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into fertilizer for your garden. I'm Wesley Cardigan, and this
has been A Lot.