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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time time time time, lucking load. So Michael
Verry Show is on the air. It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke.
I can feel a good one coming on. It's the
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Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Any attempt to restrict drinking and driving gear is viewed
by some as downright fun democratics.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Two six packs, Shatner, not a Nancid, putin ladder, Lucky's trackson,
a fifth of patrol Us now Edie glue cooler, take
a guess at all to do?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
I can feel a good one coming on.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Throwing a wildly Hubbard sing along to Red Deck and
other any blues I had before gone. Another working week
is over, no chane staying sober.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
I can feel a good one coming on.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yell Wenna.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Night.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
We gonna get to feeling ride.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
We gonna keep this tidy rock and feil the break
of dog.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, I can feel a.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Good one coming. Doll This guy to getting calmed.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
This when Calac I put in a hard day's words,
put in eleven five hours a day and they ain't
getting you drunk? And the lace right one or two
beers three.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
I want you to hear me say this, and I
want you to take it to heart, follow us down
to the lake, and I want you to stop being
ashamed of who you are. I want you to being
ashamed of who your parents and grandparents and forefathers were.
I want you to stop being ashamed of your faith,
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of your values, of your experiences, of your service. I
want to stop being ashamed of your opinions. You don't
need to apologize to anyone else.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
For who and what you are.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
You would be just as proud as anyone else of
who you are, and you should be. People will say
to me, you know, I'm nothing, Michael. Don't say that
to me. It aggravates me. I'm nobody, Michael, but I
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feel that why do you say that. I'm not here
to lift you up or bolster your spirits. I'm here
to tell you that's a problematic recitation. You've been taught
and you have embraced it without even realizing what you're doing.
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My opinion doesn't matter because I'm not a celebrity. They've
told you that, and you've bought it, and that's your introduction,
that's the preamble to your remarks. Because you've been taught that,
and deep down you kind of half believe it. You're
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telling me your opinion, which you feel strongly about. But
first you want to make sure that you state your place,
because there's no way you think other people feel.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
There's no way that.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
What you're going to say is going to in any
way be useful, or that your prospective could be worthwhile,
because you're a nobody. Because the people who matter are
the people who read lines from movies. Robert de Niro's
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opinion that matters, Megan Fox raising her boys as girls.
That matters, Bruce Springsteen or taylor'swift. They matter. I have
had the honored distinction awkwardness, whatever the word is, to
spend a fair amount of time, not by accident, Not
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by accident, I enjoy being around people whose art or
music or sports performance I like. But I'm gonna go
ahead and tell you Hall of Fame athletes, people who've
written or performed songs, people who've been in movies. They
still have the foot in mouth idiocy that the rest
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of us do. They still get tummy upsets and poop
their pants and fall down the stairs and say dumb
things just like anyone else.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
That is a unique.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Skill and a great deal of luck that made their
name something that rolls off your tongue because you've said
it before.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
We have to stop the nonsense.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
The beauty of the republic that we have created a
democratic republic where the people elect those who govern, and
the people have ultimate authority to toss them out in
the next election. This is a beautiful, wonderful process. We
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gave this to the world. It's a great gift. What
did Bono say, Ramon, I mean, it's really incredible what
we gave to the world. But the understanding there is
we don't wait, we don't give a special weight to
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one vote over the others. We gave this gift to
the world that your opinion is just as valuable as
the next guy.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
It's not a right left issue. It's a right wrong issue.
And America has constantly been on the side of what's
right because when it comes down to it, this is
about keeping faith with the idea of America, because America
is an idea, isn't it. I mean, Ireland's a great country,
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but it's not an idea. Great Britain is a great country,
it's not an idea. That's how we see you around
the world. That's one of the greatest ideas in human history,
right up there with the Renaissance, right up there with
crop rotation on the Beatles' White album. The idea, the
American idea, it's an idea.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Idea is that.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
You and me are created equal and will ensure that
an economic recession need not become an equality of recession.
The idea that life is not meant to be endured
but enjoyed.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
The idea that if we have dignity, if we have justice,
then leave it to us. We will do the rest.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
This idea that we are a people of ideas.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I didn't make that happen. I was just lucky enough.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
To come into this world living in the United States
of America. But damned if I'm going to be ashamed
of it. Because some little tyrant who married her brother
comes to Mogadishu, I mean Minnesota and declares that this
country where she gets to live freely off the sweat
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of the brow of my forefathers, she gets to tell
us that this is a terrible place.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Then go the hell back to Somali.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Yeah, where they do clatoral mutilation so women don't enjoy sex.
Go the hell back to Somalia, where life is miserable
and short and violent. I don't ask you to thank
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me for how great life in America is because I
didn't create.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
It was already here.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
But I'll be damned if I'm going to be lectured
by you for coming here, enjoying the wonders of this
great nation and telling us how horrible it is.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
You never leave, do you?
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Wouldn't the world be a better place if every grown
ass man and lesbian woman popped the top on the
drive home?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
You bet it would. It's the Friday drive home on
the Michael Varies show. Phil the name of Undip. You're
a d artist.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
He's a former New York Times columnist, so he knows
everything about everything. Just ask him. And the author of
three books I haven't read. He was on MSNBC explaining
the significance of Tim Walls and what he would teach
the American.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
People, because this is what we need.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
We need people in government to teach us about transgenders
and tampons and the boys. This is what we don't
We don't need to build roads or secure our borders,
administer our our governmental system. What we need is these
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things that matter to these freaks and weirdos. So here
is a man of Indian descent, telling us about how
Tim Walls is going to teach the American people, and
namely white men.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
The significance of this man is that he is an
older white man in a moment in which the far
right is trying to convince white people that the future
is treacherous for them, trying to convince men that the
future is treacherous for them. And here is an older
white man, a coach, a soldier, who is very hard
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to dismiss as some kind of coastal illly, who is
telling older folks and white people, you do not need
to be afraid of the future. There is joy in
the future. There is joy in having your boss be
a black woman. There is joy in what is coming.
And I think he is going to teach lots of
people in addition to whatever real he plays an election
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and in the white at he's going to teach lots
of people through his role in the culture, that they're
going to be okay, and that there's joy on the
far side of realizing a multiracial democracy in this country.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
There is joy to giving up your culture.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
How much joy is there in Mogadishu, by which I
mean Minneapolis obviously not much. Have you seen the numbers
of how many people are leaving. I guess they're not
just not embracing the joy there, huhunt, They're just they're
not marching proudly to the miserable, miserable conditions. Forgive my German,
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because I don't know that this is correct. But above
the gate, the entrance gate to Auschwitz, as German Jews
and Gypsies and dissidents, but mostly Jews. When they were
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unloaded from the rail cars, they were goaded into, prodded
into entering the concentration camp, which would be their death.
Speaker 8 (12:09):
But before their death, they would be slowly sapped of
all energy and desire to fight back, to resist because
they wouldn't be provided food. But before their death they
would be worked to the point of complete exhaustion. And
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above the gates at the entrance of Auschwitz you still
see it to this day. Forgive my German. I've had
no German training, but it looks to be arbite, mocked fry,
which translates directly as work makes one free, or work
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sets you free, or work liber rates work makes you free.
Get in here and work to your death. Embrace your demise.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
There is joy in your future.
Speaker 8 (13:17):
And it is only that awful Jew over there, or
that Jew over there who.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Says you realize they're going to work us and starve
us until we die.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Do not let him reduce your joy.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
There is joy in your life, white man, and Tim
Walls is here to tell.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
You about it.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
There is joy in the future, a multi racial, multi cultural,
multi ethnic Mogadishu. You're going to be as happy as
the people of London, where the officers are now banging
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on the door to pull white men out and send
them to prison for posting things on Facebook that hurt
the feelings.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Of ilhan Omar.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
All the while a Muslim migrant who entered illegally rapes
and stabs a twelve year old girl and gets one
hundred and eighty hours of community service.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
He's not going to prison.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Because he didn't offend anybody, because that little girl's family
is embracing the multi cultural, multiethnic, multi racial democracy that
the Tim Waltzes are protecting. After the George Floyd riots,
where even Fry, the libtard mayor of Minneapolis, begged the
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governor to send in the National Guard, and he said,
We're not going to do it. His wife said she
opened the doors and kept as they burned the tires
and burned the city. She kept the windows open as
long as she could so she could soak in the
discontent of these people who were angry, and she wanted
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to embrace that. She wanted them to know that they
could murder everyone they needed to because they were angry.
She wanted them to know she understood. Her only regret,
I suspect was that she was a white woman and
could not join them because she understood that these these
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these poor locals, these people, these these these black people
are so angry, and she wanted them to know that
she understood their anger. And y'all can rage away. While
her little brat daughter released the plans for the National
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Guard as to where they were going to set up
to the rioters so they could avoid the National Guard
and burn and destroy even more. This is what you're
dealing with, friends. In one breath, they tell you you
have toxic masculinity. Your church, your religion will be mocked
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on the Olympics and they loved it.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Ah, that was the voice.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Your children will be emasculated, literally, your girls will be
taught to be angry. Your faith and your institutions will
be destroyed, your schools will be perverted, your life will
be mocked.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
In all the while.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
The tim Walls will be saying, please let me show
you how. I don't like white males, I don't like Christians,
I don't like America. I'm embarrassed. I apologize. Why do
these people come to this country, if it's so awful,
to change it and to own it, to subjugate you
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so that they may rule because they don't want to
rule the Third World? What did President Trump call it
a crap hole that they came from. They don't criticize
the cultures they came from. Do you ever notice that
elin Omar doesn't criticize Somalia? Oh no, the only thing
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that country's offered the world is piracy on the open seas,
but she doesn't criticize that. Oh no, we're remaking Minneapolis
in the image of Mogadishue and tim watas as showing
us how baby.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
This is a stir up success. Brought up in Range, Texas,
broke ass whole scholarship his way to two law degrees,
including one from her Magic to quantity, elected three or
four times, a lawyer, a husband, a father, but most
of all a higgin ass asking your seat there, pop
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your coat when they get.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Ready for more of them, mister Michaelbere repeat after me.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
I will not be lectured over my skin color. If
you're black, nobody can and should speak for you. But unfortunately,
you have a burden I don't have and I can't change.
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I tell my kids this all the time. I cannot
change certain things. I wish I could, but I cannot.
I cannot wipe away complicated matters. And I'm sorry to
say that if you are black, you have a burden
I don't have, and I can't change that for you.
Nobody claims to speak for me, but lots of people
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claim to speak for you. Not only that, not only
do they claim to speak for you and don't. But
when you dare say I don't agree with socialism, I
don't agree with black racism, I don't agree with the
welfare state and the constant victimization of black people, at
that moment, the thing that should be celebrated is your
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independence of thought, the fact that you came to your
own conclusions. I don't care if you agree with me
or not. I don't care if you like my ideas,
and I don't need it like yours, but the very
idea that you are brave enough to explore ideas that
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are different than you were taught by your pastor by
maybe a black teacher, by maybe a grandmother, by maybe
somebody on the street corner, by movies, by around the
fact that you said, you know what, I'm going to
explore how I feel about this. I'm going to explore
whether I'm a victim. I'm going to explore slavery and
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civil rights. But more importantly, I'm going to explore engineering
and architecture, and I'm not going to be judged for it.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
I'm going to read books.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
I'm going to explore thought, and not just by black
thinkers or artists or television shows. I'm going to figure
out how people feel about various issues, and I'm going
to attempt to understand white people, Hispanics, rich people, poor people, veterans, teachers.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
And various generation. I'm going to come to my own conclusions.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
I'm not going to let Jamal Bowman or Corey Bush,
or Nancy Pelosi for that matter, tell me what I'm
going to think. I'm not going to have Joe Biden
tell me that if I don't vote for him.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I'm not black. What level of audacity do you have
to have.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
I want you to understand, if you are black or
anything else, you have just as much right to your opinion,
however you reached it as the next guy. Let's take
Kamala Harris lecturing black people, or Joe Biden for that matter.
But let's take Kamala Harris lecturing black people. You've got
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somebody that's never worked in the private sector, and then
you got black people who nobody ever gave them anything.
They didn't get on their knee for Willie Brown. They
worked hard work, loud work, hot work, sweaty work, dirty
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work in an environment that didn't pay well, with a
boss that was a monster, with no real hope, and
maybe they lost their hearing in the process. I had
a lot of relatives that worked to Bethlehem Steel. Boy,
it was it was difficult when I was young and
they were still alive. My uncle Billy was so deaf
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and he didn't know it, but my parents taught me
from a young age that's not funny, Michael, because it
was funny until I understood why. Because Bethlehem Steel was
a loud, banging, steel on steel environment. And they didn't
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know about the damage to hearing. You're a tough old guy.
That banging cost him his hearing, cost him his to
communicate properly. So who am I to be bothered by
his lack of hearing. I don't know what he went
through in life. I don't know the struggles. I don't
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know the headaches that tonights and everything else that goes
with it. Nor do I know about the black guy
that goes to the plant or the construction site, or
drives an uber, drives a taxi, or maybe they're a doctor,
or an athlete, or a teacher, or a postal carrier.
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We don't talk enough about postal carriers. Ram I don't
know what.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
They go through.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
I tell my kids all the time, you're having a
very different experience than I did, because you present differently
than I do. I tell my kids we have tough conversations,
like I think we should all do this. There's nothing
off limits. We talk about adoption, talk about foster care,
talk about race, We talk about prejudice. Prejudice extends across
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the board. But we also talk about stereotypes. Why are
there stereotypes? Some stereotypes are very accurate. The stereotype that
a person walking at you with their face covered and
a pistol in their hand pointed at you at eleven
o'clock at night as you're walking down the road, there's
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a very good chance that person's going to mug you
or kill you. Well, logel how you gonna know until
you know how you know until you're dad that I'm
not stupid. There's a reason for that, because our brains
have been taught in such a situation. But I tell
my kids, listen, you're going to have to drive safer.
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You can't speed, you can't be reckless, because if the
last seven people that officer are rested, we're black, act
in a fool and you look anything like them, he's
going to pull you over. Not because he's a bad person,
but because that's what he keeps encountering. Be better, be better,
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be better than everybody else. People tell me all the time,
your boys are the most respectful, thereat they're not. They're
wonderful kids. But guess what, there's a lot of white
kids just like them. You just don't notice it. They're
doing what other well behaved young people do. Shaking your hand,
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look you in the eye, be polite, offer to help.
It's just that you don't see as much of that
as you should amongst black kids. Don't be afraid to
have honest conversations for it's another work.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Week in the books. Getting you geared up for the weekend.
It's the Friday drive home one of Michael Bhaer Show.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
I'm sorry for laying the heavy stuff on you today,
I really am.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
It's Friday evening. We don't normally do that.
Speaker 7 (26:11):
But.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Let me say this. You're gonna have a couple of days.
For most of you. You won't be working this weekend.
Plenty of you will, but you may have some time
to just be alone with your thoughts. And that's a
good thing. That's a good thing, and I want to
encourage you to do that. This is an important time.
This is a time for choosing. It's not just a
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time for choosing who you're going to vote for. Most
of you've probably already made up your mind. It's a
time for choosing your role in the success of this civilization. See,
we're not a nation of buildings or planes or cars.
We're a nation of people and ideas. What are we
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going to be? What are we going to leave? What
are we going to build, What are we going to share?
How are we going to live? Are we going to
be a free people and understand the consequences of freedom,
freedom to make dumb decisions and that will happen. Or
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are we going to be a people afraid and in
that fear seeking tyranny because tyranny gives comfort, doesn't it?
Speaker 1 (27:32):
You realize that.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
The reason tyrants come to power, often in a bloodless coup,
is the promise of security. Just think of what you
lived through with COVID and if you're not able to
it's because you're the problem. Think of how many things
were imposed upon Americans that had not been imposed in
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our lifetimes. Martial law, curfew, business closings. People lost their jobs,
they lost their livelihoods, They lost their houses. Many took
their own lives because of the desperation they were plunged into.
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Why because we were scared of a virus fear, we
didn't end fear When finally we got tired of the
nonsense and went back to work. You know, we never
missed a day of work. I'm not bragging, I'm just
telling you who we are. We never missed a day
of work. There were days we went into a building
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that we were the only people in the building.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
That was when we built our own studio.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
We never missed a day of work because what were
we going to do sit at home and worry.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
That's awful.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
You got to be mindful of your own mental health
the same way you got to be mindful of your
own physical health. You have to exercise your muscles to
keep them strong. You have to exercise your mind to
keep it strong. Don't let the flab in. You have
to make a decision for yourself, every single one of you.
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This is a time for choosing spend some time. What
are you willing to do? You know, my oldest now
he's graduated high school, we talk about, you know, what
do you think you wish?
Speaker 1 (29:28):
What do you wish you'd done differently?
Speaker 5 (29:30):
And I encourage this conversation because I think it's important
to say, you know, I wish howd to I wish
I'd have done, I wish I'd taken this class, I
wish i'd I wish i'd have done this event, I
wish I'd have been in this group. And I'll say,
you know why, it's important to assess such a thing
because you're going to have another opportunity in your life
where something's going to be presented to you, and maybe
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you choose at that moment to pass on it, and
you regret that later, draw upon that experience. This election
will be over in a matter of days, and I
don't want you to say when things go really bad,
which they will, I don't want you to say, God,
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I wish I wish I'd had done more.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
But realistically most people won't do that. Most people will
say Trump blew it.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
I knew he was gonna blow it, and they'll blame
something he's said here or something. It's important you understand
your role in the larger plan. If nobody is a
drop in the ocean, then what happens If everybody is
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waiting for the grand act but not doing their own part,
what happens a million a billion individual actions from a
few million people, day in and day out. If you've
ever lost weight, you realize you don't decide on a
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diet and the next wet day you're skinny. If you've
built a company, you know you started and it didn't
look like it was possible, and many.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Years later, here you are. Wow.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
If you've developed a skill first time, you hit a
pickleball or a tennis ball, or through a baseball, or
through a football, or hit a golf ball.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
You know that, boy, this is never going to happen.
And in time it does.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
One hundred hours, one thousand hours, How many thousand hours
and actions repeatedly does it take until one day you
realize I have mastered that, I've made a contribution.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
I have developed a skill parenting. I see these rapper
women who you know.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
My children are my life. Okay, but why do they
live with your mom? That's weird. I do anything for
my children. You hadn't seen them in eight months. Parenting,
like being a good citizen in the Republic, is consistency
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and constancy. It's parenting when you don't want to parent.
It's patience when you don't have any. It's presence at
things you'd rather not be at. It's turning down the
phone call from your friend who wants to gossip, and
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being there for the conversation your child needs to have
with you because they're trying to figure out life. That's
what it means to also devote some small part of
yourself and your energies and your talents to winning this election.
Every day someone will say what can I do? And
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my answer is always the same, everything all the time.
I don't know what your skills are. Maybe you're a boss,
Maybe you got an eight member crew. Maybe you say, hey, guys,
on Monday, I'm buying water burger for everybody. But in exchange,
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you got to give me ten minutes to explain who
I'm voting for. That's all I ask for. And if
anybody else wants to buy water burger for the eight
of us, you can have ten minutes to talk about
whatever you want to talk about. You can share your
you have ten we're gonna start the clock. You can
sell us on life insurance. You can sell us on
your wife's what was that thing, erba, what was it called?
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Herbal life? You can sell us on why your football
team's gonna you buy lunch. You get ten minutes of
our undivided attention.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
I don't know. Maybe that's it. Maybe you've got a
decent following.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
You can affect ten people with your opinion on social media.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Maybe while you're teaching.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
Sunday school this Sunday, you could incorporate your heartfelt beliefs.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
Sure, people are going to push back, of course, they
are bear your burden, carry your cross, Do what you
need to do.