PM Show Hr 2 | How Has JD Vance Done as Vice President?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We changed our voicemail system recently. We're always tweaking things.

(00:04):
If you haven't noticed, and it's not it does not
always to a good end. I should probably just leave
things b but it's my nature to constantly try to improve,
and usually what I do is screw it up. We
had been unable to retrieve our voicemails until now, and
that was one of the things I wanted to get
our voicemail system back when we moved our phone system,
because I love to get phone calls from you. A

(00:27):
lot of them are late at night calls. Sometimes people
in early in the morning on their way to the office.
They'll call and leave us a voicemail. So we haven't
done this in a while, but we do love our voicemail.
Our first voicemail comes from a fella in Alabama and
he enjoyed our conversation yesterday with Ray Wiley Hubbard, and
he recalls seeing Ray Hubbard in the late seventies.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Mister Barry, send here to listen to you interview and
Ray Wiley Hubbard if you talk to him again, asking
if you're remembers to play in South Garland High School
in Texas, Garland, Texas in the seventies because I washed

(01:10):
Eeden and that was something else in the seventies, the
late seventies. This is bea from Alabama, but I am
from Texas. I grew up in Dallas and moved to Garblan.
Love you, show brother, see you.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Our next listmail comes from Lindsay. I get these quite
a bit. Lindsay doesn't like the fact that I criticize
Republicans when they don't do their jobs, when they promise
things that they don't deliver, when they have an opportunity
to win on a key policy point that the public
wants and they choose not to engage in the battle

(01:54):
because they don't want any scars. They don't want to
use their political capital. And I don't like that. You
have a job to do. You're in there, do your job,
and when you don't, I'm going to criticize you. It'd
be a lot easier to just praise Republicans and criticize
Democrats all day long. And that's what some people want

(02:14):
me to do. Don't criticize Republicans. If you don't criticize Republicans,
then there's no one keeping them honest. All they ever
have to do is not be a Democrat. That's not
good enough.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Michael Lindsey calling you to please begging you stop cutting
down Greg Abbot when you don't do one tenth of
the job he does, not one one hundredth of the
job he does.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
You have no.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Business cutting down Greg Abbot or anybody else in our
government when you aren't doing anything but talking the cheap
talk and lose the fake accent. By the way, I
can not stand when you come on, but I do
love Hannity in between, and I also don't mind the

(03:07):
guy who plays football games and wrote a book named Balls. Anyway,
I'm done.

Speaker 4 (03:13):
With listening to your show.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
If you're going to continue to cut down my favorite conservatives,
this is not conservative talk radio.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
Good night.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah, it sounds like you should probably find somewhere else
to get your jolly's. I don't think we're exactly aligned
in our sensibilities, Lindsey. Let's go back to Alabama and
a voicemail from Wally.

Speaker 5 (03:40):
This is Wally from him Alabama, Right.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Well, I was just wondering why you didn't talk more
about Vick.

Speaker 4 (03:46):
Trainey this week, and then I answered wrong question.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Oh yeah, this is nobody gives us three.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Well done, Wally good call. Eve called and left a
list of things that she's of.

Speaker 6 (04:02):
Hey, Michael, this is Eve, and I've got a list
of things that I'm just tired of. I'm tired of
the phony politicians like John Cornyn who always talks tufts
when he's ready to run for office. I'm tired of
saying things like them saying things like well, when those
you know Texans get that from Illinoying, they may lose

(04:22):
their seats.

Speaker 7 (04:23):
Just a bunch of tough talk. I'm tired of all
the money that is being taken from us. I'm tired
of all the book writings for media and politicians. I'm
tired of the Carl Rose and the poll guesters. I'm
tired of the David Mason's that destroys a beautiful state
and then things you can run for an even bigger
office like the president. I'm tired of the Dan Crenshaws

(04:44):
that run as a Republican, that vote with every Democrat
every time.

Speaker 6 (04:49):
Have a great day.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Bye, Well, Lindsey, wouldn't like that. You're not supposed to
criticize Republicans. Our final voicemail this week is from an
unknown woman in Portland, unknown because she didn't give her name.
She wants to build cities for homeless people like FDR
did for the Japanese during World War Two.

Speaker 4 (05:12):
So the question is what on earth to do with
this situation because spending billions of dollars every year on
homeless shelters quote unquote, that is not a solution. Us
to me that a solution might be brand new cities
with some type of factory connected to the housing. That

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people are homeless would have to kind of build them
for themselves, and they could make it better if they
wanted to earn it making it better. And because I think,
if wellthy you and I were not born when the
Japanese was put into instrument camps because of the fear
of them being some of them being willing to, you know,

(05:57):
slip the information to Japanese these submarines off the coast.
But so Manzanita I think, or Manzanars something like that.
The people were Scentics, my next surname was on either
side of us were Japanese and when they were kids,
their families got transported to these camps inland and then

(06:19):
they were able to build the places and then fix
them up all over there. Now, wasn't wonderful. It's pretty
pretty uh guessperate at first, but the whole point was
they were able to make it better. And uh so
I do think that probably the anterest starting these cities,

(06:40):
you know, Inland, in another state or something, so that
they are away from their drug dealing and uh oh gosh,
it's just really a mess. We can't go on like
it is. So that's ridiculous and absurd and it makes.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
Everybody want to leave.

Speaker 4 (06:59):
Uh Okay, what would you do, Michael, that's the question.

Speaker 5 (07:09):
Michael Mary.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
Vice President jd. Vance is really growing into the job.
I'm very proud of the job he's done. I didn't
know how he would do. I don't just assume, well,
your Trump's running mate, you'll be great. It's a big job.
It's a tough job. You're called on to be tough.
You're called on to deal with the left. You're called

(07:40):
on to be smart, You're called on to put in
long hours and travel and especially with this president. My goodness,
I'm twenty five years younger than this president, and I'm
marvel at the schedule he keeps. I'm marvel at it.
It is really really impressive. You've got the fit. It's
physically grueling. It takes a toll on your family. He's

(08:04):
got a wife and young kids. You're constantly being criticized.
They're they're accusing him of everything. They're they're you know,
you made Susie madd in fourth grade when you didn't
take her to homecoming, you humped a couch. I mean,
they just make all this stuff up. I'm sure there's
somebody out there claiming he ate his boogers, and maybe

(08:25):
he did. It's a terrible toll that that that they
put our people through. But in any way, he was
on Fox with Sean Hannity, and I like this answer.
This is the reason, this is the reason we're playing
this clip. I really like this answer. It's very, very thoughtful.

(08:47):
Listen to this five oh won Roman. What if you
learned from President Trump? I mean, he is a force
of nature. He is. What have you learn from him?
You know a few things.

Speaker 8 (08:57):
Number One, the President is amazing at compartmentalizing things when
something is going on.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
There's always a crisis.

Speaker 8 (09:05):
The very best day in the West Wing, there's at
least one crisis somewhere in the world that somebody's putting
your desk. The president has an incredible ability to sort
of say, Okay, focus on that for fifteen minutes and
then go and focus on something totally different for fifteen minutes.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
That's not naturally how I am.

Speaker 8 (09:22):
If something bad is going on, I tend to want
to think about that thing and solve that problem before.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
I go on to something else.

Speaker 8 (09:28):
The President is incredible at that compartmentalization. I think that's
one of the reasons why he can handle ten different
problems at once, is because he's able to troubleshoot and
then move on to the next thing, troubleshoot and move
on to the next thing. The second thing that I've
learned from the President sean and I've tried to absorb
it as much as I can. And I think some
of this is just who he is and his natural
instincts is he has better instincts about human beings than

(09:52):
anybody that I've ever met.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
I have maintained that Trump is the guy in the
dog Kingdom. If you ever go to a dog park,
you watch various species breeds interact. Trump is the one
that can go up and tell who's the big dog
that's in the chuahwa's body, who's the wimp that's in

(10:18):
the big fluffy dog's body. He can tell you he
can sense things about people and whether to use the
carrot and the stick and when to use it. But
I wanted to say about the first thing he pointed out.
I study people because I'm interested in it. I like

(10:40):
to take them apart and put them back together. But
I also study people for what can I learn from
that and apply to my own life. What he said
there was that Trump doesn't labor the point. He troubleshoots
and moves on. Really effective people make quick decisions, not

(11:04):
hasty decisions. Quick decisions. I'm give you an example, and
they move on. I have noted people that you know,
you call you haven't talked to them in a long time. Hey,
how are you doing. I'm pretty good. I lost my mom,
you know, three months ago, so you know I'm having

(11:25):
to deal with that. I never mentioned to a single
person I talked to that my mother had passed. I
mentioned it on the air, and I said, I don't
want to talk about it. Why are you three months later?

Speaker 2 (11:39):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (11:39):
How much of your time is that occupying? Well? We
got to get the house cleaned out. We had to
clean out the house. Well, you know, there's her estate.
I had to deal with her estate. I had to
deal with every penny I had to deal with. Getting
my father moved to an old folks home, had to
sell the house, had to tie everything up, had to
get the pictures that they had accumulated in seventy nine

(12:02):
years alive to the various grandkids. Yeah, you do it
and you move on. It's not about the size of
the task, It's about your skill set in prioritizing. If
you ever heard it said, if you want to get
something done, give it to a busy person. Never were
truer words spoken spoken That maxim is so true. And

(12:24):
do you know why, because busy people solve problems. People
that tell you how busy they are are people who
don't get problems solved. They fill their time with whatever
they have to do, so they drag it out. They

(12:45):
talk about what they're going to have to do rather
than doing it. When you get so busy. I give
it example, Chance McLain. My dear friend has a company
called Heritage Films, and they make documentaries of your mom
or your dad, or your grandfather grandmother. And he sits
down and he makes a biography. Because why should you
only have biographies of famous people, why not have one

(13:06):
of your mom and dad? The first one he did.
He had a production company he made commercials, and I
had him sit down with my dad for several hours
and he made a biography film from my dad ten
years ago when my dad was turning seventy five, so
that my kids as they grew up, if my dad died,
they would always have the story of his childhood, my childhood,

(13:27):
first time he met his grandkids. You know, all of
these things, where he worked, what he enjoyed, what were
his favorite foods, Where did his family come from? All
of those things. Well, when he started the business and
I started bragging on him, the business picked up, and
about a year into it, he was able to hire
every member of his family to come and join his company.

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And he said, Man, I'm so busy. I couldn't be Man,
I am crazy busy. I couldn't be more busy. And
I said, chance, you're not half as busy as you're
going to be in two years, that's impossible. Michael, I
am as busy as I could possibly be. And today,
ten years later, we laugh about He says, I didn't
know what I didn't know, and you were right. I
didn't realize how much more I could get done as

(14:12):
I got more busy, because now you don't have time
to belabor the point when someone calls you wanting to
do business, and you're a person who lets you know
there's three minutes worth of business and twenty minutes worth
of bs, you get the business done and move on
because you don't have time. If you don't have a

(14:34):
reason to cut the conversation short, you'll fill the time.
Trump does that. He makes quick decisions and he moves on.
He doesn't doubt himself, he doesn't regret things. He keeps moving.
That is the sign of a high functioning executive who
will well, I figure you need a good laugh right

(14:56):
about now. Kamala Harris continues her book tour. Can you
imagine the whole nation has forgotten you exist? She's got
to show up knowing there's a good chance that nobody
will be there, and so she drinks. She drinks hard
and heavy, and she goes staggering in there, and she

(15:20):
says the same things again and again and again. It's
really it's a sad, sad life if you're Kamala Harris.
But the ridiculousness. I find to be incredibly comical. Here's
and you have to learn to laugh. You can't be
mad at Kamala Harris. You have to laugh because it
is hilarious. Like when she says during the twenty twenty

(15:45):
four election last year, she was playing three D chess.

Speaker 9 (15:49):
I was aware of my opponent's strategy and I wasn't
about to fall prey.

Speaker 1 (15:57):
Or fall into those traps. Wait, hold on, That awkward
laugh is one of the strangest tics I have ever seen,
and a politician in a politician in my life. I
don't know if she developed it on her own or

(16:18):
if it was taught to her, because when you get
to a certain level, there are professionals that will sit
down with these people and teach them, you know, how
to make eye contact, how much to move their hands,
how to dress, how to wear their makeup, how to
hold their head, how to modulate their voice, how to

(16:42):
deliver things, what kind of words to use, and what
words to stay away from. And it would have been
a glaring, glaringly obvious aspect of Kamala Harris doing an
interview for giving a speech, that there are moments where

(17:03):
she has gaps and she's not a substantive person. That's
not an insult, it's just a statement of fact. And
she's not very quick witted, so she lacks knowledge and
she lacks skills, so she finds herself with an uncomfortable

(17:27):
silence and she doesn't have anything to fill it with.
So I don't know if it was by default or
design she learned to laugh, but it's a very awkward
laugh because it's typically unrelated to anything being funny, so
she just cackles. Now people will say, well, her being

(17:49):
a woman, you hold her to a higher standard. It
is different. I will admit that it is more grating
because she is a woman, there's no doubt. But there
are people who like her more because she's a woman.
You can't take that out of anything, but that awkward laugh.
I must admit that's one of the reasons. That's one

(18:09):
of the big reasons I'm glad I don't have to
hear her anymore. And so now I just laugh at
the laugh, and I think she can't help, but she
can't get out of her own way.

Speaker 9 (18:20):
I was aware of my opponent's strategy, and I wasn't
about to fall prey or fall into those traps, and
part of his strategy and those around him was to
try and take me off are gang and message, and

(18:43):
I wasn't about to be distracted by those little those
plans that he was trying to throw to get me
away from one of my highest priority, which was talking
to people about the economy and their well being in
terms of their financial well being.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
And that's so I was.

Speaker 9 (19:01):
I understood the game that was being played, and I
made a decision that I wasn't gonna get played and
three dimensional chests, I'm telling you, yeah, yeah, Now let's go.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
Let's throw it a little ghetto fray. You know, you
don't know who I is. You know, this girl o't play.
You know, at that moment after the you know, we
start real serious and then we run out of things
to say. We're speaking about something that did not happen.
You didn't out smart Donald Trump. And then there's a pause,

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and then there is the cackle, which is designed to
kind of make you relatable and then in order to
throw you off and hopefully keep you from paying attention
to the fact that this is a person. This is
in school. You called this a social promotion person. Who
would who would be graduated from year to year in

(20:05):
school because a teacher didn't want them back in their
class even though they had not shown mastery of the subjects.
This is the ultimate DEI higher. You've got one at
your company. Everybody does. You may have more than that.
You've got one in every aspect of your life. Who's your?
Who's ours? You know the old rule. If you have

(20:26):
to ask who's ours? Ramon probably really named Raymond. I'm
not even you don't even speak Spanish.

Speaker 8 (20:37):
Because some don't want to hear it, He'll just go
ahead and say it.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
Sorry. The Michael Arry Show is ingratitude. Anyone who knows
me knows I will do over the top nice things
for people, not for them, because it makes me feel good.
It's a selfish thing. That's why we do nice things

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because it gives us a good feeling. That's why a
lot of people, when they do something nice for someone,
then want to tell everybody about it because it prolongs
the high. Nothing wrong with that. That's the basis of charity.
Now when people say, oh, that's not true, I give
because no, it's okay. I'm just more comfortable with it.
It's a good feeling. It's a good feeling to help

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another person. It doesn't have to be a bad feeling.
You don't have to say it's a bad feeling. It
doesn't have to be that it's a terrible, horrible thing.
But you do it anyway. It's a wonderful, beautiful thing.
And if we would explain that, more people would do it.
If people would understand, it's a glorious high. It's a

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high that's not a drug. It's a high that's very natural.
It's a high that's very righteous. Pursue it do things
for people. That's why you see people who become missionaries,
or you see people who who spend You see women
who their kids go off to college and they have

(22:05):
extra time and they go volunteer. They don't even get paid,
and they don't mail it in. They come home they're
talking about what's going on all day and the husband's going,
wait a second, isn't this an unpaid deal? You're on me,
what are we doing here? And she's so engaged in it. Well, yeah,
because this is something she's doing to apply her passions.

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She has talents and gifts and she wants to apply
those and that's a wonderful thing. It's a great thing
if we actually started as people when we have time
and energy, or as we Southern Baptists say, gifts. If
we have those talents and gifts and we apply them
to people and we start helping our neighbors, then we

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won't need social services. And then we can call for
the end of social services because social services are evil.
And when we get involved with young children who don't
have a father, and young women who don't have a
man in their life and they're short of cash, we
can help them make better decisions because we're naturally going

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to mentor them even though we don't even realize it.
That's how you solve society's problems. There's the answer to
everything you want. You want to fix, so ingratitude. I
said all that to tell you that people who do
not appreciate things, people who are not thankful grateful, are broken.

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One of the best things you can learn to do
is be thankful, grateful for whatever it is you have
God's hand in your life, a person who loves you.
And I'll give you a great example of this. A
lot of men are of the opinion that, well, I'm
married to her, she and he's pretty issue. Once was well,

(24:01):
are you as handsome as you once were, Are you
as wonderful as you think you are? Well, she's had
kids now, and yeah, and you fart all the time
and scratch yourself. I'm just speaking for myself. And your
breat's bad in the morning, and you stagger into the bathroom.
Sometimes you throw up, and sometimes you're crass, and sometimes

(24:24):
you're lazy, and you know you've lost your hair or
you've gotten fat. None of us are what we were.
But the point of the love is that it endures.
And so while she's not what she wants, wasn't, neither
are you. But what about being grateful? What about being grateful?
A friend of mine, Kenny Allen, lives outside of Houston,
about an hour out in Waller, and he posted a

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picture of his dinner last night and his wife had
made it for him. And I could see some people
because Houston is the Text mex capital of the world.
There's no other Text Mex like in Houston. It's not
even close. And I'm not trying to be provocative or
spur a conversation should It's just sort of like saying
a man is a man and a woman as a woman,
and you can argue that a woman can be a
man or a man could be a woman if they

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call himselves out. But you can argue that, but I'm
not going to argue with you, because this is a
factual thing. It's the best text max in the world.
And he had made she had made him this text, Maxine,
and he posted a picture of it that you know,
you know, Enchilada's at home, thanks Mama, something like that,
called his wife mama, the mother of their kids. And

(25:29):
he was being grateful for such a small act. But
he was being grateful for this act of love that
she had undertaken, for him being grateful for what we have.
You know, when people will tell me they're upset about
their kid because their kids not studying hard enough in
school and not getting all a's, and it's not you know,

(25:50):
the star of the team is not this, and it's
not that, and it's not this. I'll say, is your
child healthy? Be grateful for that. You ever been around
a parent of a child, it's not healthy a parent,
it's had to bury a child. Well, it'll change your
perspective in a minute. And if you're grateful for what

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you have, it makes you a person that is happy.
Ingratitude is based in evil, It's based in selfishness, a
lack of self awareness, a lack of understanding of what
other people do for you. So that's my lead up
to the most ungrateful person in public life that I

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can ever imagine is Michelle Obama. So she's out promoting
her book. That's the only time she goes out in
public because she wants people to give her money. And
her book is called The Look, And the latest cut
we're going to play for you comes from her podcast.
The episode is titled The Power of Hair, Identity, Legacy

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and Black Womanhood, and he says, black female beauty is
so powerful we are owed respect.

Speaker 10 (27:09):
We have to start educating people about all kinds of beauty. Yes,
and our beauty is so powerful and so unique that
it is that it is worthy of the conversation, and
it's worthy of demanding the respect that we're old for
who we are and what we offer to the world.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
Absolutely, absolutely, you know, it's good that a woman feels beautiful.
It is I encourage that. Courage my wife to feel beautiful,
encourage my mom to feel beautiful. I think it's good
that everyone feels beautiful. It's a natural thing. It's a
good thing. If you don't feel beautiful, then that's unfortunate.

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You don't have to be the perfect size, quote unquote perfect.
You don't have to be any of those things to
feel and be beautiful. But this woman is determined in
the most race based way to convince everybody that black
is better. You know why, because she feels inferior. Everything

(28:15):
she accuses you of is actually what she's upset about.
She wishes she wasn't black. She doesn't like that she's black,
and so she has to tell you how great black.
You don't need to do that. White women don't need
to do that. Hispanic women don't do that. Asian women
don't need to do that. She also sat down with
Amy Poehler where she was dumbfounded that someone would not
take her advice.

Speaker 10 (28:36):
People line up for my advice, and you're walking away
like I'm stupid. It's like I've written books, I've given speeches.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
And so I leave you now, friends with this bit
of advice. If I may be so impertinent, be grateful.
Count your blessings, name them one by one. Count your blessings.
See what God hath done on this drive room tonight
or over the weekend, just take a moment right down
on the list, what are you grateful for? Make the

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longest list you can. I bet you have more blessings.
You have more things to say grace over as we
approach Thanksgiving than you could ever ever fully elsns left
for killing, thank you, and good night.