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Speaker 1 (00:02):
It's that time time time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Verry Show is on the air. It's Charlie from
BlackBerry Smoke. I can feel a good one coming on.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
It's the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Yes, I drive home.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
You know.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
One of the things that irritates me emotions until the
break is when someone criticizes something I've done by saying
you're better than that. I assure you I am not.
That's just it. I am not, nor do I want
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to be. Listen. It's usually or often it's somebody that
I know how they voted, and I say, listen. President
Trump on Easter Sunday morning posted to his truth Social account,
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which then, of course then just get sent over to
Twitter because he's the only person that's on truth Social.
The only reason anybody's on true social is to see
what he posted and put it on Twitter. He's dropping
the f bomb on truth Social and you're not emailing him.
You're better than that. Now, I know what you're thinking.
You're thinking, well, I wish he wouldn't do that either.
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But the point is the whole you're better than that,
this whole acting grown up, this whole not having any fun.
This is why people like to be around the kids,
and then especially the grandkids. It's because they're tired of
having to act like old people. They're tired of being
so staid, especially white people. White people are too uptight.
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You know, you got to give them Mexicans and Black's credit.
They'll dance, they'll they'll saunter around, they'll put some music on,
and then too many old white people are judging y'all
having too much fun over or turn it down. I
don't want to grow old and stiff and boring. Yeah,
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So with that in mind, you know, we here at
Michael Barry Show believe that at the end of a long,
hard week of work, grown ass man or a Lebesian woman,
I'll to be able to papatop on a cold on
the drive home. Yeah, we do. I didn't say it
was legal. It used to be a long story behind that.
We believe that a fellow or we'll get to that
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in a minute, that worked hard all week headed should
be able to have a you know, take the edge off.
They'll knock the edge off a little. And yes, we
do make an exception for Lebesian women. And I'm often
asked for Michael, I've been a listener of your show
for twenty years. I'm a big fan. I'm a's trade woman.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I know.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
No, this is not a nice guy competition. That's the rule,
grown ass man or Levisian woman. I'm sure some other
show would be glad to condone it. If you do
it on your own, just don't tell me. Boy, that's it.
It's as simple as that. All right. We've got a
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I keep swearing that I'm gonna stop doing it because
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I enjoy hearing what you have to say, all right,
to get a start, as we always do, courtesy the
greatest ext producer in all the land, Chattleconi Nakanishi.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
You we can vulgar resustinct has to be rescued from
insight at chimney.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
Holonder believes that the suspects climbed the fence, got onto
the roof, got onto the chimney, took.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
The top off, and then climbed down feet first. But
that's where his plans went up and smoked. All of
a sudden, I started.
Speaker 7 (04:52):
Hearing insigned the powerplace and this guy is speaking Spanish.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
He was pretty You walk from the southern tip of
Mexico to get to Texas, You stand around all day
at the home depot and you decide, I'm going to
break into that house right there, But how will I
get in? They made a door for man. But I
shan't do that. I will make like a turtle dove
and enter the chimney and hope the flu is opening.
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The digital age has one Los Angeles man very upset
with the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
He says the team refuses to.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Print his tickets.
Speaker 8 (05:29):
This year, I received a notice that no longer will
I be able to get printed tickets, he says.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
The team told him they've gone fully digital and printing
tickets is no longer an option. That's a problem for Errold.
He doesn't use a computer.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Fifteen years, five generations.
Speaker 8 (05:44):
I've had these tickets fifty years, and they threw me
under the book.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Pull it up on your phone. I don't use a phone.
It's a flip phone. I don't have a computer.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I want to go to the game. I'm willing to
pay you for it. There's so many ways that people
flew their soul over technology.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
This is sixteen hundred am kgt Ora range tections.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Can I say, byby Rs, could you play Snaky's name
for Michael out michlass as you're can Michael, you just
hang on just a minute. But in my mind it
was gonna sound like a great warrior had called in.
You know, claw, you come, we make baby, we ain't
climb melted. But instead it was RC coulk gt. Now
leaves there to return tomorrow morning at six ould time.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Way a new cattle. Cattle. I had a fine box.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Of gnad Michael Barry in the You ever noticed that
when senators announced that they're retiring times that they often
drift into the ideological hotbed of the other side, and
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that it's always from the right going to the left.
The only exception I've seen to that is Joe Manchin,
who was still in the Senate becoming more and more conservative.
But West Virginia is arguably seventy to thirty Republican and
he's a Democrat. So again that's more sort of pandering
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than anything else. But if you notice how often you
get a Liz Shaney who, once she's voted out, goes
just scorched earth after Trump and after Maga, after Republicans,
or Adam Kin Singer, or if you look at Mitch McConnell.
Mitch McConnell was the supposed leader of party in the Senate,
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and then all of a sudden he's working against everything
that he said he was for and he said he
was for those things because we're for those things. He
is a reliable left wing vote. Now you look at
Tom Tillis from North Carolina. Tom Tillis has said with
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the opening of the attorney general position that Tom Tillis
will not vote for anyone for attorney general who makes
excuses for January sixth. Well, there is a real split
of opinion in this country about what happened on January sixth.
I'll remind you that President Trump issued over one thousand
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pardons on I believe it was day one of Trump
two point zero January twentieth of last year. If it
wasn't the first day, it was the second, but I
believe it was the first. He issued a blanket pardon
for almost every single person involved. That is a tacit statement.
Tacit statement that there was an overreaction to what was
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a peaceful protest. Mind you, doors were kicked in, careers
were ruined, people went to prison, people were financially destroyed.
One man committed suicide because of what they put him
through and what did they do again an insurrection. It's
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very important for the left and the establishment Republicans to
tell you it was an insurrection. It was an attempt.
It was a coups attempt to take over our country. Well,
I got to tell you, let's assume for a moment
they're right. That was the most pathetic coup I've ever
seen in my life. Not one person was armed. You
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see the troops they brought in little old ladies. That
was the coup. That's the best we got. We the
crazy radicals, as John Cornan loves to call us, the
Maga Americans out here. This was our big shot to
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take over the government. And that's who we sent. A
dude with a buffalo head on and his face painted
like he's, you know, super fan at a football game.
That wasn't insurrection. It was as peaceful a protest as
you can get. The only person killed was Ashley Babbitt,
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a veteran who was shot through the glass, A little,
tiny woman who was shot through the glass by a
police officer who they tried to keep us from knowing
who he was. They didn't try to keep us from
knowing who Jerk Chauvin was when George Floyd died of
an overdose, but they didn't want us to know who
Michael Bird was and guess what, look up, what's happened
to him since then? Byrd oh, he's a real saint.
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He's a real good fella. That one. This January sixth split,
this is as important as anything in our country. This
is your litmus test, because just like the Russia hoax
they pulled on Trump in twenty sixteen, this is your
litmus test. This was where they were trying to kill
off the ghost of Donald Trump. This was where they
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were trying to smother him and his movement because January
sixth they knew they had stolen the election from him
in November, two months earlier in twenty twenty. So here
we were January sixth, twenty twenty one. They wanted to
use They wanted that this was entrapman, and they wanted
to destroy the movement and destroy the Trump candidacy. And
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then what did they do. They brought all these cases
again it against him. They brought that Jene Carrol nut
job out, remember her. And then LaToya the destroyer, Big LaToya,
the New York Attorney General. She filed a case against
him for supposed mortgage fraud, which was thrown out and
she committed it. Then you had the fat fellow that
was the district attorney in Manhattan, and they sent the
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number three from Department of Justice to bring that case.
And then you had what was Tubby that was having
an affair with Nathan's foot long down in Atlanta. And
then you had the case they brought in Florida where
they raided Millenia's painting drawers. And then you had Jack Smith,
who was their star. He was there, Mariano Rivera. He
was going to close this thing out and put Trump
in prison. All those cases, all those felony indictments to
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finish Trump off that was added to the January sixth.
This was all strategically employed. And make no mistake about it.
The media hates Trump personally. The Democrats hate him because
he defeats them, But make no mistake, there are Republican
members of the establishment who hate Trump because he embarrasses them,
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because he exposes that the Washington generals aren't actually trying
to win. He exposes that the Harlem globetrotters are supposed
to win. That's the show. He goes inside the camel's tent,
inside the tent to show that guess what, it's all
a charade. They're all in on a game. They're never
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going to cut taxes, they're never going to balance the budget.
They're going to send your boys to fake wars. It's
all a game, and they don't like that he exposes
it because it makes the base rally against them. So
here is longtime Republican Senator Tom Tillis just like John Cornyn.
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Here's what he has to say. He was on CNN
with Caitlyn Collins.
Speaker 8 (13:49):
For me, the threshold for somebody following Pam Bondy ends
the moment I hear they said one thing that excused
the events of January the sixth.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I've been very clear on that, so.
Speaker 8 (13:59):
I hope whoever they have in mind to follow General
Bondy was very clear eyed on my possession on January
the sex. That's why I didn't support two other nominees
who were coming through Judiciary Committee, and I won't support
any nominee who thought that any element of January six
was excuse.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
This guy's been a US senator for eleven years. In
January sixth, this is his litmus test. Not the Russian hoax,
not any of the things you care about, not any
things they've done to Trump, not the Epstein files. He
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wants to make sure that whoever wants to be Attorney
General will repeat the lines that everyone's been given in
the most Orwellian fashion. That January sixth was the biggest
threat to our country in its history, as he has said.
Mine Oil Schreiver is an author and a life wound Democrat.
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So Jim Mudd found this clip from the trigger Nometry
podcast and he referred to the fact that she discussed
how the Biden and I said, can you check and
make sure that Lionel is a she? And he looked
it up and discovered that at age fifteen, Margaret Ann
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Shriver changed her name from Margaret Ann to Lionel because,
being a tomboy, she felt a conventionally masculine name was
more appropriate. So I don't know anything else about Lionel
Shrever other than this was a woman who changed her
name to a man's name. Do with that what you want.
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She was on the podcast called trigger Nometry, and she
discussed how the Biden administration invited foreign nationals into the
country to achieve a one party state. Now what's interesting
here is this is a lifelong Democrat saying this.
Speaker 9 (16:08):
I resisted for a long time this notion that Democrats
were deliberately inviting masses of foreigners into the country because
they wanted to grow little Democrats and create a one
party state.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
I've started to come round to that view. Before Trump.
Speaker 9 (16:33):
Effectively closed the southern border, I imagined a lot of
it was in competence and fecklessness. Now there may be
an element of that, but I think it was more
intentional that Biden administration opened that border on purpose and
ship people all over the country wherever they wanted to go.
They put illegal migrants with no ID onto commercial airplanes
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with regular passengers who all have to have, you know,
an impeccable actional ID.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
It's just it. There is design behind it. And I.
Speaker 9 (17:14):
Don't have any other theory aside from this pathological passion
for minorities and a weird notion that people who are
non wide are superior.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I don't see any other reason for inviting.
Speaker 9 (17:36):
So many people in, especially because you know, on the
one hand, the left talks about, oh, we need these
people economically. You know, we have this aging age structure,
and you know, social securities imperiled, and medicare costs too much,
and we need young people to fill out the workforce.
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But then you know they support family reunification, which means
these people can bring in their parents, right. I mean,
so much for improving the age structure.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Anyone who has brought up the Great Replacement has been
framed as a racist, conspiracy theorist. Now, the Great Replacement
is the theory that the Left couldn't win elections by
appealing to the American voter, so they diluted the vote
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by replacing you with foreigners who come from socialist countries
and are more eager to subscribe to socialist canards. And
isn't it interesting that people come to this country because
of the opportunity to make more, to work for, to
do more, to improve yourself, and then immediately vot vote
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for the policies that made their own socialist countries killers
of opportunity. It's interesting, but it's also dangerous. It's dangerous
for our country anyway. Here's the montage.
Speaker 10 (19:14):
With increasing frequency, Republicans are facing questions about their parties, association, planned,
or otherwise with what is commonly known as quote the
Great Replacement theory. This theory essentially argues that minorities and
or immigrants are usurping white people of their political and
economic primacy in Western society.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
Extremists and the unhinged will always be with us, but
they haven't always had people in positions of power and
influence amplifying and justifying their message. That's why Tucker Carlson's
double down defense of replacement theory is worth more than
his trademark confused dog Loaf Well.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
The Great Replacement is a conspiracy theory that is promoted
by white supremacists not only in this country, only in
the US, but around the world, especially Western European countries,
that asserts that white people are purposely being replaced with immigrants, migrants, Muslims,
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people from Africa, refugees from across the world, and it
primarily affects Western European countries and the United States.
Speaker 11 (20:22):
Officials believe the gunmen accused of the mass shooting in
Buffalo was inspired by the white replacement conspiracy theory. Now,
this is a baseless belief that white people are being
slowly but intentionally replaced by minorities and immigrants.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
The replacement theory the fear by a few outspoken white
people that they're being replaced by ethnic minorities.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Not racism, was dressed up in something called the great
replacement theory, which is as dangerous as it is preposterous.
And it's very preposterous. You have to scare the Bejesus
out of people.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Way to scare it.
Speaker 10 (20:58):
They say, you know, this replacement the this is not
just coming from some dark corner of the web. This
is the Republican platform.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Back in twenty eleven, fifteen years ago, Pat Buchanan predicted
that whites would be a minority in the United States
by twenty forty one. Here he is on CNN with
that prediction.
Speaker 12 (21:23):
Your book is a chapter called the end of White America, right,
which it's a startling term. And I'm curious what you mean,
because isn't the end of white America, as we see
the rise of Hispanics a good thing, proof that America
is a melting pot that anybody can succeed here, no
matter the color of your skin, or your religion or whatever.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Well, that's a little concern, and people say, Pat, the
majority of people looking like you, that's coming to an end. Pat,
So let me say this. What's wrong with this is
is the idea that when whites term minority in this
country in twenty forty one and Hispanics are one hundred
and fifty million. What is going to hold us together
when we don't have a common religion, We don't have
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common beliefs about right and wrong and morality as we
used to. We are at war over you know, whether
or not equality means equality of rights or quality of rewards.
Speaker 12 (22:14):
The American dream, the freedom, the belief what will cause
the air of spring.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
That's that's what holds together people.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
Freedom and the idea of socialist equality and freedom are
in mortal conflict. I was in China before you were born,
with Richard Nixon in nineteen seventy two, the most equal
society you've ever seen. Everybody had a blue mouth jacket on,
and they were the poorest people you've ever seen. Now tyranny,
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the most much of the tyranny has been lifted of maoism,
and it's an unequal society in China. Millionaires and billionaires,
as Barack Obama would say, and poor people, but it
is freer. Freedom and absolute equality are in conflict.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
But equality of opportunity, yeah, more people want you have
rights and a quality of opportunity.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
You got to be honest with you, A bo Michael
Berry almost for good fella it is.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
I don't know where I first discovered Benstein, probably from
Ferris Bueller Mueller, Buller Buehler. He's sick. My best friend,
sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows
this kid.
Speaker 9 (23:30):
Is going with the girl who saw Ferris passed out
at thirty one Flavors last night.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
I guess it's pretty serious. Thank you, Simon, no problem whatsoever.
But I didn't know much behind him. And then I
used to read his pieces for uh, well, was it American?
What was the magazine? Benstein used to write the articles
for the editor lives here in Houston now. But they
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were wonderful articles. And then there was a TV show
when Benstein's Money. I've always thought Benstein was a fascinating
cat anyway, Benstein American spectator.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Benstein wrote a book in nineteen seventy nine called The
View from Sunset Boulevard America has Brought to You by
the people who make Television, and he goes behind the
scenes of the television industry. He sat down with a
bunch of writers and producers to get a sense of
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how they saw the world and how that shapes what
ends up on scene. I'm sorry on screen, and because
movies shape culture, there's no doubt about it. So he
wanted to understand who are the people that is shaping
your culture and what are the influences shaping them. What
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he found was a pretty noticeable gap between the perspectives
of the people making television in those of everyday Americans.
They didn't live the lives of Middle America. They weren't
interested in the stories of Middle America. They had different
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views on most everything, whether marriage could be fulfilling, the
importance of being involved in the life of your child,
instilling values for your child, the role of America. Is
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America a good country? Are we a good people? So
here he was at the time nineteen seventy nine describing
how television had become an engine of moral demoralization. In
twenty twenty six, we know this to be true. For
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him to say this forty seven years ago, this was
so ahead of its time.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
The book points out, and I point out to you,
miss Foldhem, the TV is highly stereotypical, homogeneous, and ideological,
and that if you and what the results of that
will be, I'm not quite sure. I do think that
it is worth noting that the most powerful medium in
the history of the world is controlled by a very small, idiosyncratic,
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homogeneous group of people. I mean, I think it's the
people write and produce for TV. But I noticed on
television is that there are certain characteristics that certain people,
certain stereotypical people have on television.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
For instance, all.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Businessmen if it's an adventure show, are evil, murderous, hypocritical,
cheating scoundrels. If it's a situation on television, if you
know a business who's not a murder that, it seems
to me is not a true delineation of them. It's
similarly on television to all small towns are evil, vicious
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places where the big city innocent goes as car breaks
down and gets caught in a web of murdering, kidnapping, extortion,
And all military men are if it's an adventure show,
are planning for a neo Nazi takeover, and if it's
a sitcom there buffoons. On crime shows, the criminal is
almost always a middle class so well to do a
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person of the majority group. There are almost no poor
people portrayed as committing crimes. The criminals, even if a
poor person has committed a crime who has been forced
into doing it by a businessman or some other middle
class seeming person.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
There are no.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Useful or vital religious figures on television. They're all either
buffoons are kind of helpless fuddy dudies. They there is
this kind of overwhelming stereotyping of certain power centers and
power groups in the society as either bad or foolish.
Let me to say that that that even the people
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who make television, even the Gary Marshalls and Norman Lears
of Hollywood, do not really dispute that this stereotype. The
point is just that there is an enormous amount of
kind of background noise on these TV shows, which is
a full alternate reality, a fully alternate reality. There still
alternative reality of American life. People watch TV so much
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that it's like a second life for them, and in
this second life, conditions are very different from what they
are in real life. That is, in real life, one
occasionally minds a businessman who is not plotting to murder
his go go dancer girlfriend on TV. If that a
standard episode of Stars on TV, a standard episode of
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Barney Jones or Starsky and Hutch will be that a
go go dancer has been murdered and there are three suspects,
and one is her boyfriend who has just gotten out
of jail after serving twenty years for murder. And the
other one will be the janitor who cleans up the club,
and he is a heroin addict. And the other one
will be the head of the local utility company who
stops in there for a drink on his way to
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the train. Now invariably the killer will be the head
of the local utility company. And this is a reality
which it seems to be on TV, which it seems
to me, tends to screw up most people's perceptions of
real life.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Ben Stein went on to use Mash as the perfect
example of how the producer's worldview was portrayed on that program.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
I watch Mash, I watch Barney Miller.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
Well, Mash is a perfect example of what the book
is about, because one of the parts of the book
is that on television, military men are in two different categories.
They are enlisted men or draftees. They are saintly virtuous people.
If they are professional military officers, they are killers. Their
whole aim in life is to kill me. Oh, it
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is absolutely true.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
In Charge is a very nice guy, but but he
is a draftee.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
All the people in the in the mobile surgical hospital
are draftees. The people who come over from headquarters are
only concerned with bombing civilians. Mash is the absolutely plu
perfect example of how on television a professional army man
is one inch away from being an SS man. I think,
to whatever extent public television are, these infrequent high culture
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events on commercial television occur, there is an enormous backlash
going in the other direction, which is the television tends
to lower the standard of national culture by taking time
that people might otherwise spend reading or doing almost anything,
and instead subjecting them to this kind of alternate reality,
which is a reality which nothing is difficult, There is
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no thought, there is no analysis. Everything is done by
squealing automobile tires. And you have to say to yourself,
look at a generation that's grown up watching nothing but television.
What must they think of people who are businessman? What
must they think of professional military officers? What must they
think of bureaucrats? What must they think of clergymen? After
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being exposed, almost anybody who goes
Speaker 5 (31:30):
Right
It's that time time time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Verry Show is on the air. It's Charlie from
BlackBerry Smoke. I can feel a good one coming on.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
It's the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Yes, I drive home.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
You know.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
One of the things that irritates me emotions until the
break is when someone criticizes something I've done by saying
you're better than that. I assure you I am not.
That's just it. I am not, nor do I want
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to be. Listen. It's usually or often it's somebody that
I know how they voted, and I say, listen. President
Trump on Easter Sunday morning posted to his truth Social account,
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which then, of course then just get sent over to
Twitter because he's the only person that's on truth Social.
The only reason anybody's on true social is to see
what he posted and put it on Twitter. He's dropping
the f bomb on truth Social and you're not emailing him.
You're better than that. Now, I know what you're thinking.
You're thinking, well, I wish he wouldn't do that either.
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But the point is the whole you're better than that,
this whole acting grown up, this whole not having any fun.
This is why people like to be around the kids,
and then especially the grandkids. It's because they're tired of
having to act like old people. They're tired of being
so staid, especially white people. White people are too uptight.
(01:59):
You know, you got to give them Mexicans and Black's credit.
They'll dance, they'll they'll saunter around, they'll put some music on,
and then too many old white people are judging y'all
having too much fun over or turn it down. I
don't want to grow old and stiff and boring. Yeah,
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So with that in mind, you know, we here at
Michael Barry Show believe that at the end of a long,
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I'll to be able to papatop on a cold on
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We believe that a fellow or we'll get to that
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be able to have a you know, take the edge off.
They'll knock the edge off a little. And yes, we
do make an exception for Lebesian women. And I'm often
asked for Michael, I've been a listener of your show
for twenty years. I'm a big fan. I'm a's trade woman.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I know.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
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grown ass man or Levisian woman. I'm sure some other
show would be glad to condone it. If you do
it on your own, just don't tell me. Boy, that's it.
It's as simple as that. All right. We've got a
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(03:54):
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I keep swearing that I'm gonna stop doing it because
it's gotten to be so many, because we have over
one hundred philiates today. But the truth is, I enjoy it.
I enjoy hearing what you have to say, all right,
to get a start, as we always do, courtesy the
greatest ext producer in all the land, Chattleconi Nakanishi.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
You we can vulgar resustinct has to be rescued from
insight at chimney.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
Holonder believes that the suspects climbed the fence, got onto
the roof, got onto the chimney, took.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
The top off, and then climbed down feet first. But
that's where his plans went up and smoked. All of
a sudden, I started.
Speaker 7 (04:52):
Hearing insigned the powerplace and this guy is speaking Spanish.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
He was pretty You walk from the southern tip of
Mexico to get to Texas, You stand around all day
at the home depot and you decide, I'm going to
break into that house right there, But how will I
get in? They made a door for man. But I
shan't do that. I will make like a turtle dove
and enter the chimney and hope the flu is opening.
(05:21):
The digital age has one Los Angeles man very upset
with the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
He says the team refuses to.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Print his tickets.
Speaker 8 (05:29):
This year, I received a notice that no longer will
I be able to get printed tickets, he says.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
The team told him they've gone fully digital and printing
tickets is no longer an option. That's a problem for Errold.
He doesn't use a computer.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Fifteen years, five generations.
Speaker 8 (05:44):
I've had these tickets fifty years, and they threw me
under the book.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Pull it up on your phone. I don't use a phone.
It's a flip phone. I don't have a computer.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I want to go to the game. I'm willing to
pay you for it. There's so many ways that people
flew their soul over technology.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
This is sixteen hundred am kgt Ora range tections.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Can I say, byby Rs, could you play Snaky's name
for Michael out michlass as you're can Michael, you just
hang on just a minute. But in my mind it
was gonna sound like a great warrior had called in.
You know, claw, you come, we make baby, we ain't
climb melted. But instead it was RC coulk gt. Now
leaves there to return tomorrow morning at six ould time.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Way a new cattle. Cattle. I had a fine box.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Of gnad Michael Barry in the You ever noticed that
when senators announced that they're retiring times that they often
drift into the ideological hotbed of the other side, and
(07:11):
that it's always from the right going to the left.
The only exception I've seen to that is Joe Manchin,
who was still in the Senate becoming more and more conservative.
But West Virginia is arguably seventy to thirty Republican and
he's a Democrat. So again that's more sort of pandering
(07:35):
than anything else. But if you notice how often you
get a Liz Shaney who, once she's voted out, goes
just scorched earth after Trump and after Maga, after Republicans,
or Adam Kin Singer, or if you look at Mitch McConnell.
Mitch McConnell was the supposed leader of party in the Senate,
(08:04):
and then all of a sudden he's working against everything
that he said he was for and he said he
was for those things because we're for those things. He
is a reliable left wing vote. Now you look at
Tom Tillis from North Carolina. Tom Tillis has said with
(08:25):
the opening of the attorney general position that Tom Tillis
will not vote for anyone for attorney general who makes
excuses for January sixth. Well, there is a real split
of opinion in this country about what happened on January sixth.
I'll remind you that President Trump issued over one thousand
(08:47):
pardons on I believe it was day one of Trump
two point zero January twentieth of last year. If it
wasn't the first day, it was the second, but I
believe it was the first. He issued a blanket pardon
for almost every single person involved. That is a tacit statement.
Tacit statement that there was an overreaction to what was
(09:10):
a peaceful protest. Mind you, doors were kicked in, careers
were ruined, people went to prison, people were financially destroyed.
One man committed suicide because of what they put him
through and what did they do again an insurrection. It's
(09:30):
very important for the left and the establishment Republicans to
tell you it was an insurrection. It was an attempt.
It was a coups attempt to take over our country. Well,
I got to tell you, let's assume for a moment
they're right. That was the most pathetic coup I've ever
seen in my life. Not one person was armed. You
(09:52):
see the troops they brought in little old ladies. That
was the coup. That's the best we got. We the
crazy radicals, as John Cornan loves to call us, the
Maga Americans out here. This was our big shot to
(10:15):
take over the government. And that's who we sent. A
dude with a buffalo head on and his face painted
like he's, you know, super fan at a football game.
That wasn't insurrection. It was as peaceful a protest as
you can get. The only person killed was Ashley Babbitt,
(10:38):
a veteran who was shot through the glass, A little,
tiny woman who was shot through the glass by a
police officer who they tried to keep us from knowing
who he was. They didn't try to keep us from
knowing who Jerk Chauvin was when George Floyd died of
an overdose, but they didn't want us to know who
Michael Bird was and guess what, look up, what's happened
to him since then? Byrd oh, he's a real saint.
(11:01):
He's a real good fella. That one. This January sixth split,
this is as important as anything in our country. This
is your litmus test, because just like the Russia hoax
they pulled on Trump in twenty sixteen, this is your
litmus test. This was where they were trying to kill
off the ghost of Donald Trump. This was where they
(11:26):
were trying to smother him and his movement because January
sixth they knew they had stolen the election from him
in November, two months earlier in twenty twenty. So here
we were January sixth, twenty twenty one. They wanted to
use They wanted that this was entrapman, and they wanted
to destroy the movement and destroy the Trump candidacy. And
(11:49):
then what did they do. They brought all these cases
again it against him. They brought that Jene Carrol nut
job out, remember her. And then LaToya the destroyer, Big LaToya,
the New York Attorney General. She filed a case against
him for supposed mortgage fraud, which was thrown out and
she committed it. Then you had the fat fellow that
was the district attorney in Manhattan, and they sent the
(12:14):
number three from Department of Justice to bring that case.
And then you had what was Tubby that was having
an affair with Nathan's foot long down in Atlanta. And
then you had the case they brought in Florida where
they raided Millenia's painting drawers. And then you had Jack Smith,
who was their star. He was there, Mariano Rivera. He
was going to close this thing out and put Trump
in prison. All those cases, all those felony indictments to
(12:37):
finish Trump off that was added to the January sixth.
This was all strategically employed. And make no mistake about it.
The media hates Trump personally. The Democrats hate him because
he defeats them, But make no mistake, there are Republican
members of the establishment who hate Trump because he embarrasses them,
(13:03):
because he exposes that the Washington generals aren't actually trying
to win. He exposes that the Harlem globetrotters are supposed
to win. That's the show. He goes inside the camel's tent,
inside the tent to show that guess what, it's all
a charade. They're all in on a game. They're never
(13:25):
going to cut taxes, they're never going to balance the budget.
They're going to send your boys to fake wars. It's
all a game, and they don't like that he exposes
it because it makes the base rally against them. So
here is longtime Republican Senator Tom Tillis just like John Cornyn.
(13:46):
Here's what he has to say. He was on CNN
with Caitlyn Collins.
Speaker 8 (13:49):
For me, the threshold for somebody following Pam Bondy ends
the moment I hear they said one thing that excused
the events of January the sixth.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I've been very clear on that, so.
Speaker 8 (13:59):
I hope whoever they have in mind to follow General
Bondy was very clear eyed on my possession on January
the sex. That's why I didn't support two other nominees
who were coming through Judiciary Committee, and I won't support
any nominee who thought that any element of January six
was excuse.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
This guy's been a US senator for eleven years. In
January sixth, this is his litmus test. Not the Russian hoax,
not any of the things you care about, not any
things they've done to Trump, not the Epstein files. He
(14:37):
wants to make sure that whoever wants to be Attorney
General will repeat the lines that everyone's been given in
the most Orwellian fashion. That January sixth was the biggest
threat to our country in its history, as he has said.
Mine Oil Schreiver is an author and a life wound Democrat.
(15:00):
So Jim Mudd found this clip from the trigger Nometry
podcast and he referred to the fact that she discussed
how the Biden and I said, can you check and
make sure that Lionel is a she? And he looked
it up and discovered that at age fifteen, Margaret Ann
(15:23):
Shriver changed her name from Margaret Ann to Lionel because,
being a tomboy, she felt a conventionally masculine name was
more appropriate. So I don't know anything else about Lionel
Shrever other than this was a woman who changed her
name to a man's name. Do with that what you want.
(15:47):
She was on the podcast called trigger Nometry, and she
discussed how the Biden administration invited foreign nationals into the
country to achieve a one party state. Now what's interesting
here is this is a lifelong Democrat saying this.
Speaker 9 (16:08):
I resisted for a long time this notion that Democrats
were deliberately inviting masses of foreigners into the country because
they wanted to grow little Democrats and create a one
party state.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
I've started to come round to that view. Before Trump.
Speaker 9 (16:33):
Effectively closed the southern border, I imagined a lot of
it was in competence and fecklessness. Now there may be
an element of that, but I think it was more
intentional that Biden administration opened that border on purpose and
ship people all over the country wherever they wanted to go.
They put illegal migrants with no ID onto commercial airplanes
(17:00):
with regular passengers who all have to have, you know,
an impeccable actional ID.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
It's just it. There is design behind it. And I.
Speaker 9 (17:14):
Don't have any other theory aside from this pathological passion
for minorities and a weird notion that people who are
non wide are superior.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I don't see any other reason for inviting.
Speaker 9 (17:36):
So many people in, especially because you know, on the
one hand, the left talks about, oh, we need these
people economically. You know, we have this aging age structure,
and you know, social securities imperiled, and medicare costs too much,
and we need young people to fill out the workforce.
(17:57):
But then you know they support family reunification, which means
these people can bring in their parents, right. I mean,
so much for improving the age structure.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Anyone who has brought up the Great Replacement has been
framed as a racist, conspiracy theorist. Now, the Great Replacement
is the theory that the Left couldn't win elections by
appealing to the American voter, so they diluted the vote
(18:35):
by replacing you with foreigners who come from socialist countries
and are more eager to subscribe to socialist canards. And
isn't it interesting that people come to this country because
of the opportunity to make more, to work for, to
do more, to improve yourself, and then immediately vot vote
(19:00):
for the policies that made their own socialist countries killers
of opportunity. It's interesting, but it's also dangerous. It's dangerous
for our country anyway. Here's the montage.
Speaker 10 (19:14):
With increasing frequency, Republicans are facing questions about their parties, association, planned,
or otherwise with what is commonly known as quote the
Great Replacement theory. This theory essentially argues that minorities and
or immigrants are usurping white people of their political and
economic primacy in Western society.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
Extremists and the unhinged will always be with us, but
they haven't always had people in positions of power and
influence amplifying and justifying their message. That's why Tucker Carlson's
double down defense of replacement theory is worth more than
his trademark confused dog Loaf Well.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
The Great Replacement is a conspiracy theory that is promoted
by white supremacists not only in this country, only in
the US, but around the world, especially Western European countries,
that asserts that white people are purposely being replaced with immigrants, migrants, Muslims,
(20:12):
people from Africa, refugees from across the world, and it
primarily affects Western European countries and the United States.
Speaker 11 (20:22):
Officials believe the gunmen accused of the mass shooting in
Buffalo was inspired by the white replacement conspiracy theory. Now,
this is a baseless belief that white people are being
slowly but intentionally replaced by minorities and immigrants.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
The replacement theory the fear by a few outspoken white
people that they're being replaced by ethnic minorities.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Not racism, was dressed up in something called the great
replacement theory, which is as dangerous as it is preposterous.
And it's very preposterous. You have to scare the Bejesus
out of people.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Way to scare it.
Speaker 10 (20:58):
They say, you know, this replacement the this is not
just coming from some dark corner of the web. This
is the Republican platform.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Back in twenty eleven, fifteen years ago, Pat Buchanan predicted
that whites would be a minority in the United States
by twenty forty one. Here he is on CNN with
that prediction.
Speaker 12 (21:23):
Your book is a chapter called the end of White America, right,
which it's a startling term. And I'm curious what you mean,
because isn't the end of white America, as we see
the rise of Hispanics a good thing, proof that America
is a melting pot that anybody can succeed here, no
matter the color of your skin, or your religion or whatever.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Well, that's a little concern, and people say, Pat, the
majority of people looking like you, that's coming to an end. Pat,
So let me say this. What's wrong with this is
is the idea that when whites term minority in this
country in twenty forty one and Hispanics are one hundred
and fifty million. What is going to hold us together
when we don't have a common religion, We don't have
(22:03):
common beliefs about right and wrong and morality as we
used to. We are at war over you know, whether
or not equality means equality of rights or quality of rewards.
Speaker 12 (22:14):
The American dream, the freedom, the belief what will cause
the air of spring.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
That's that's what holds together people.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
Freedom and the idea of socialist equality and freedom are
in mortal conflict. I was in China before you were born,
with Richard Nixon in nineteen seventy two, the most equal
society you've ever seen. Everybody had a blue mouth jacket on,
and they were the poorest people you've ever seen. Now tyranny,
(22:40):
the most much of the tyranny has been lifted of maoism,
and it's an unequal society in China. Millionaires and billionaires,
as Barack Obama would say, and poor people, but it
is freer. Freedom and absolute equality are in conflict.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
But equality of opportunity, yeah, more people want you have
rights and a quality of opportunity.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
You got to be honest with you, A bo Michael
Berry almost for good fella it is.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
I don't know where I first discovered Benstein, probably from
Ferris Bueller Mueller, Buller Buehler. He's sick. My best friend,
sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows
this kid.
Speaker 9 (23:30):
Is going with the girl who saw Ferris passed out
at thirty one Flavors last night.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
I guess it's pretty serious. Thank you, Simon, no problem whatsoever.
But I didn't know much behind him. And then I
used to read his pieces for uh, well, was it American?
What was the magazine? Benstein used to write the articles
for the editor lives here in Houston now. But they
(23:57):
were wonderful articles. And then there was a TV show
when Benstein's Money. I've always thought Benstein was a fascinating
cat anyway, Benstein American spectator.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Benstein wrote a book in nineteen seventy nine called The
View from Sunset Boulevard America has Brought to You by
the people who make Television, and he goes behind the
scenes of the television industry. He sat down with a
bunch of writers and producers to get a sense of
(24:33):
how they saw the world and how that shapes what
ends up on scene. I'm sorry on screen, and because
movies shape culture, there's no doubt about it. So he
wanted to understand who are the people that is shaping
your culture and what are the influences shaping them. What
(24:58):
he found was a pretty noticeable gap between the perspectives
of the people making television in those of everyday Americans.
They didn't live the lives of Middle America. They weren't
interested in the stories of Middle America. They had different
(25:21):
views on most everything, whether marriage could be fulfilling, the
importance of being involved in the life of your child,
instilling values for your child, the role of America. Is
(25:41):
America a good country? Are we a good people? So
here he was at the time nineteen seventy nine describing
how television had become an engine of moral demoralization. In
twenty twenty six, we know this to be true. For
(26:03):
him to say this forty seven years ago, this was
so ahead of its time.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
The book points out, and I point out to you,
miss Foldhem, the TV is highly stereotypical, homogeneous, and ideological,
and that if you and what the results of that
will be, I'm not quite sure. I do think that
it is worth noting that the most powerful medium in
the history of the world is controlled by a very small, idiosyncratic,
(26:32):
homogeneous group of people. I mean, I think it's the
people write and produce for TV. But I noticed on
television is that there are certain characteristics that certain people,
certain stereotypical people have on television.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
For instance, all.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Businessmen if it's an adventure show, are evil, murderous, hypocritical,
cheating scoundrels. If it's a situation on television, if you
know a business who's not a murder that, it seems
to me is not a true delineation of them. It's
similarly on television to all small towns are evil, vicious
(27:09):
places where the big city innocent goes as car breaks
down and gets caught in a web of murdering, kidnapping, extortion,
And all military men are if it's an adventure show,
are planning for a neo Nazi takeover, and if it's
a sitcom there buffoons. On crime shows, the criminal is
almost always a middle class so well to do a
(27:32):
person of the majority group. There are almost no poor
people portrayed as committing crimes. The criminals, even if a
poor person has committed a crime who has been forced
into doing it by a businessman or some other middle
class seeming person.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
There are no.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Useful or vital religious figures on television. They're all either
buffoons are kind of helpless fuddy dudies. They there is
this kind of overwhelming stereotyping of certain power centers and
power groups in the society as either bad or foolish.
Let me to say that that that even the people
(28:12):
who make television, even the Gary Marshalls and Norman Lears
of Hollywood, do not really dispute that this stereotype. The
point is just that there is an enormous amount of
kind of background noise on these TV shows, which is
a full alternate reality, a fully alternate reality. There still
alternative reality of American life. People watch TV so much
(28:37):
that it's like a second life for them, and in
this second life, conditions are very different from what they
are in real life. That is, in real life, one
occasionally minds a businessman who is not plotting to murder
his go go dancer girlfriend on TV. If that a
standard episode of Stars on TV, a standard episode of
(28:59):
Barney Jones or Starsky and Hutch will be that a
go go dancer has been murdered and there are three suspects,
and one is her boyfriend who has just gotten out
of jail after serving twenty years for murder. And the
other one will be the janitor who cleans up the club,
and he is a heroin addict. And the other one
will be the head of the local utility company who
stops in there for a drink on his way to
(29:21):
the train. Now invariably the killer will be the head
of the local utility company. And this is a reality
which it seems to be on TV, which it seems
to me, tends to screw up most people's perceptions of
real life.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Ben Stein went on to use Mash as the perfect
example of how the producer's worldview was portrayed on that program.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
I watch Mash, I watch Barney Miller.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
Well, Mash is a perfect example of what the book
is about, because one of the parts of the book
is that on television, military men are in two different categories.
They are enlisted men or draftees. They are saintly virtuous people.
If they are professional military officers, they are killers. Their
whole aim in life is to kill me. Oh, it
(30:10):
is absolutely true.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
In Charge is a very nice guy, but but he
is a draftee.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
All the people in the in the mobile surgical hospital
are draftees. The people who come over from headquarters are
only concerned with bombing civilians. Mash is the absolutely plu
perfect example of how on television a professional army man
is one inch away from being an SS man. I think,
to whatever extent public television are, these infrequent high culture
(30:43):
events on commercial television occur, there is an enormous backlash
going in the other direction, which is the television tends
to lower the standard of national culture by taking time
that people might otherwise spend reading or doing almost anything,
and instead subjecting them to this kind of alternate reality,
which is a reality which nothing is difficult, There is
(31:04):
no thought, there is no analysis. Everything is done by
squealing automobile tires. And you have to say to yourself,
look at a generation that's grown up watching nothing but television.
What must they think of people who are businessman? What
must they think of professional military officers? What must they
think of bureaucrats? What must they think of clergymen? After
(31:26):
being exposed, almost anybody who goes
Speaker 5 (31:30):
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