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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. Michael
Verie show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
That sharks a couple of months old.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
And if you want to really see something that said,
take a look at what happened.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Along two Thief.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Part of why I admire and support Jo Biden is
that his tone has been geared towards trying to bring
us together.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
The Republican Party today is dominated, and driven and timid.
Today is the two year anniversary of a dark day
in our country. Not just because our president was shot
in the head, thank god he survived, but because the
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things that fell into place to allow that moment to
happen should frighten every American and should awaken every American.
Anthony Codevilla, who I learned about from Russian limball reading
an article of his Codevilla wrote an article that became
very influential, wherein he said that politics in America are
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not Republicans versus Democrats. They want you to believe that
it is the political class and it is the country
class country as in rural, the people the outside the Beltway.
And he wrote about the fact rush read the entire article,
which he very rarely did on air, and then I
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scurried and read the article. And I've read the article
over the years on air many times, and I've refamiliarized
myself with the article. And he said, you know, the
average American doesn't understand that there are deals being cut
in DC with your future, with your children's lives, with
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our military, with our treasury, with our immigration policy. And
in order to keep you from engaging in revolution, whether
violent or nonviolent, they keep you believing, They keep you
distracted by a number of different things that are supposed
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to occupy a bunch of your time. Republicans will do
this at primary time by saying we're gonna have a
balanced budget amendment. We're going to know that there's several
issues the Save Act. We're now being told that Lindsey
Graham was the biggest proponent of the Save Act and
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so his memory must be honored. He was a great
man who wanted to Save Act. Because the Save Act
is the most popular thing among polling of Republican primary voters.
Why because we have had absolute fraud in our elections
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and twenty twenty was a theft right before our very eyes.
How is it carried out precisely according to plan? I
used to watch a show that went away. I don't
know why it went away. It was a brilliant show.
I wish it hadn't gone away. It was called Masterminds,
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and the point of Masterminds was they would go through
the guy who had created the perfect crime. But of
course he had to be caught so we'd know who
he was, so it would be a bank heister, or
trying to get the Hope diamond, or or any number
of just very clever things. There is in the American psyche,
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the only psyche I can speak to. There is an
appreciation for a well laid plan, a well devised crime.
We are mildly obsessed with such things. The number one
podcast category is not politics, media culture, movies, parenting, no history.
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It's always true crime, and it's women more than men.
But we are fascinated by the concept of the perfect crime.
When you look at carrying out a crime against a bank,
against a business, against an individual, and you make that happen, Okay,
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all right, you got to go to prison, and we
hate you for it, but we can appreciate how genius
you are. And you want to know how that's true,
take the flip of it. It's not enough that a
criminal gets caught robbing me a bank. Is there anything
worse other than calling someone a pedophile than saying you're
a dumb criminal? I mean, we've had TV shows dumb criminals.
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It's not the criminal that people hate as much as
the fact that they're dumb. Right, Well, when you consider
how twenty twenty was carried out the George Floyd case,
if it hadn't been Floyd, there was another woman you
probably don't remember her name, they were going to use
that there was going to be an attack on law
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and order, the law enforcement agencies, and the rule of
law must be shattered, so that anyone who speaks in
favor of law and order, the rule of law, prosecuting criminals,
that person becomes evil. And so what you do is
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you mobilize minority support, which is already very very fertile
ground against law enforcement. You go into a black slum.
We don't use that term anymore we used to. You
go into Action eight housing in this country that is predominantly,
if not exclusively, black, and you say, the cops shot
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Johnny and they don't even need to know who Johnny is. Yeah,
what do we need to do? Is there a riot?
Is there a rally, So you've got this very fertile ground.
So that's what George Floyd was about, is telling us.
And by the way, the whole thing's manufactured. That guy's
in the commission of a crime and he takes fentanyl,
which he'd done before as the cops approached, so he
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wouldn't be caught with it because then he go back
to prison and he dies. Then you've got COVID, the
whole thing manufactured, the lockdowns, all of it. So now
you've got mail in ballots. We just saw what happened
in California. You can win election day, you can win
early voting, and they still win the mayor's race, the
governor's race. That's what they do right in front of
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our very eyes. So Republicans care about the Save Act.
And now all of a sudden, a guy who's spent
ninety nine point nine percent of his time in the
Senate on behalf of Ukraine funding to Ukraine, just billions
of dollars there he was in Ukraine the day before,
and more activity in war because he had a fetish
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for war. Okay, I'm sorry he died, I am I
feel bad for his family. Okay, they're mourning him. But
let me tell you something. When I die, one hundred
percent of people aren't gonna go, Oh, Michael Barry died.
He was a great guy. You know what they're gonna say.
He was meaned, he was vicious, he was Yes, I
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am on behalf of the little people who don't have
a microphone. I could sit up here and tell you
Lindsey Graham's agate a great guy. I could sit up
here and tell you that that he's served on. I
don't believe that you can't tell me on Monday that
there's a swamp that's destroying this country, and on Tuesday
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when they die, tell me they were heroes. I think
Corning is a bad human being. I think Mitch McConnell's
a bad human being. I think Lindsey Graham was a
bad human being. I think what they did was horrible
for our country. I believe that to be the case. Okay,
I think there is bad for our country as Barack
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Obama in some ways worse. You don't have to like it,
it's my opinion. You do expect me to be honest
with you, right.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Michael Berry Julia.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Today is July thirteenth, a day that should be emblazoned
upon our mind. Do you know what happened on July thirteenth?
A number of things if you were to look at
this day in history. In nineteen eighty five, the Live
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Aid concert took place in London and Philadelphia and was
an international raging success. It is Johnny Gilbert's birthday, the
voice of Jeopardy that introduces the contestants as they come on.
It's Bob Crane's birthday, who was the star of Hogan's
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Heroes and then met a little less positive end. Al Rex,
American musician, the bassist for Bill Haley and the Comments,
who was from South Texas. By the way. Patrick Stewart
was born on this day. Of a lot of movies
that you remember, including the X Men movie series. Harrison
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Ford born on this day eighty four years ago, an
absolute legend of the big screen in his day. Cheech
Marin of the Chiech and Chong franchise, which had a
pretty good little run there turns eighty today. Mark Mendosa,
the bassist for Twisted Sister, was born on this day.
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But it was two years ago on this day that
the very credible attempt on President Trump's life was carried
out in Butler, Pennsylvania. Go ahead, Jim, and.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Then the worst president in the history of our country
took over. And look what happened to our country, probably
twenty million people.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
And you know that's a little bit old.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
That art that charts a couple of months old.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And if you want to really see.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Something that said, take a look at what happened.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Over you know, I think there is zero chance that
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one individual planned and executed that act. There are some
comparisons to Charlie Kirk, sure, but Charlie Kirk received a
whole lot less protection than Donald Trump did. Charlie Kirk's
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protection tended to center around his person. So someone running
up on him, I think there was probably the expectation
of a much greater likelihood that someone would try to
run up and punch him, maybe stab him, maybe a
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close quarters shooting, but more likely that someone would run
up and try to punch him. Now, he had spoken
to quite a few people about his imminent fears of assassination.
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I suspect that he had been advised by the White
House or the FBI that there were credible people we
now know, and it wasn't hidden at the time that
there were public posts about him coming to town, and
this was the end of Charlie Kirk. But we also
know that that wasn't the first time that was done.
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And so when people cry wolf enough times, you realize
what they're trying to do is instill terror, which is
what terrorism is. They're trying to instill fear. They're trying
to prevent you from speaking. They're trying to get you
to prevent yourself from not speaking. The assassination attempt on
President Trump is barely even discussed or remembered because the
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fellow missed by an inch. If he doesn't miss, this
is an absolutely entirely different conversation and an entirely different country,
so many dramatic changes by the most minute movement of
a barrel, And sometimes I think about what would have happened,
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How would the American people have reacted, How would the
deep state have reacted? Would we have ever learned who
was actually involved? You know the thing about that camera
that we don't like in the phone that everybody takes
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photos of all the time, is it does enable us
a lot more angles than this the Bruder film. So
you've got the guy crawling up, you have officers interacting
with him. You have him being taken out the minute
he raises his head. That's odd. That's odd that they
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they made sure he was dead real fast. We don't
even know his name. I've not bothered to remember it,
but I try to make it a general practice, not
one hundred percent that I don't mention the names of assassins,
because that's part of why they do what they do.
But the response the poor Secret Service protection, and it
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was poor allowing the individual to set up the way
he did, allowing him a sight line. I remember I
was at the University of Houston in late eighties and
technically early nineties, and they had the G seven conference
there on the UH campus, which was really cool, and
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I remember the campus was swarming, swarming with Secret Service
and prep teams, and there were a there he is
that were cordoned off like a murder scene. If I
recall correctly, and this is my memory, it's granted it's
been thirty five years ago, but I recall us talking
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about the fact that they had welded shut the manhole covers.
I believe that was the case. I've not read that
or heard that that was what was happening at the time,
and we've had this conversation with my wife and I
since then. But you're going to those extremes. And then
here is a situation where he's giving a speech basically
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out in the field, and there are a couple of buildings,
and you don't secure the top of that building, and
you give him a shot to lay down Chris Kyle's
style with the best sighting you could possibly get from
far enough that a five year old couldn't make the shot,
but a very makeable shot. And had the President not
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turned his head at that moment, clearly he would have
made it. You can't tell me. I won't believe it
that our services, our intelligence services, our law enforcement services.
And by the way, the Butler Police, the Butler Police
were the ones that were sounding the call that there
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were problems here before all of that, that was just
two years ago. How quickly we forget right the intherios,
the butterflies with the Michael Berry they're all Duncans.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
And do you know Duncan means.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yo yo was on this day in nineteen forty nine
that Poke Pious the twelfth excommunicated all Communists from the
Catholic Church, calling Marxism the quote irreconcilable enemy end quote
of Christianity. Now can you imagine that in twenty twenty six.
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But let's think about us, think about the communist mindset.
You know, it's it's fascinating to me, it's really fascinating.
And that's not a euphemism. It is fascinating to me.
How the modern communist. When you say communism has failed
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literally everywhere it's been tried, we'll say, oh, they didn't
do it right. Well, that's odd, Okay, what did they
do wrong? Communism reflects the complete control of the state
over the individual, and in order to gain that control,
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typically you vote your way into communism, but you have
to shoot your way out of it. Communism never gives
way to democracy, but democracy he can give way to communism.
And the way that comes about is that you promise
people something other than communism. You promise them the very
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things for which they are weak. Look, there's a lot
of strip clubs in this country, and there are a
lot of people going in there for an ego boost
or a belief that a beautiful woman might in some
way be interested in them. And if there has to
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be an exchange of cash and so be it. They
needed that, right. There are a lot of things for
which we as humans are weak, sex, drugs, money. In fact,
it's quite amazing how timeless temptation is. And it's not
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just humans. I can get my German shepherd George to
do most anything, bite you, or love on you, or
fetch a ball or lay down based on yogurt covered pretzels.
She's willing to sell out her dignity for a yogurt
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covered pretzel. So it's not the human species, it is alone.
If you read Oh what was Burt Lancaster and Elizabeth
Taming of the Shrew, the great Shakespearean play, you see
that he tamed the Shrewish wife into being the wife
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that he wanted by training her in the same way
that the trainer of a hawk trains his hawk. Now
that's politically very incorrect today, and it would probably wouldn't
be remade today, and to my knowledge hasn't been for
what seventy years when it was such a popular movie.
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But human beings are prone to temptation, and communism plays
to the weakest among us, and in those weakest, to
the things about which they are most weak. If you
tell poor people that you will not be poor anymore.
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You will have everything you want and do not currently
have if you just do what I tell you, Just
do this one thing. I'm the guy that will make
everything good for you. Their sense is what do I
have to lose? I've been lied to before, but I'm
willing to be lied to again. You see women that
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will go that, after having been beaten by three boyfriends
in a row, will date another guy that you look
at him and his behaviors, his attitude, and his criminal record,
you go, he's gonna beat her. Hey, Susie, he's not
the one. He's gonna beat you. I think you have
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a propensity for bad boys, and bad boys are often
going to beat their women. It's a thing likewise. How
many times have you known a guy who comes out
of a divorce with a stripper and marries another one.
What were the chances? But he's got a thing for
big boobs and hot legs and whatever else that she
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entices him with. It's not just communism that draws people in,
but when you look at the great temptations, the temptation
if you're poor to no longer be poor, and the
willingness to sacrifice everything for that because someone else will
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give you. This is important to understand. Why are poor
people so willing to believe this? Well, your reaction is, hey,
I'm not rich, but I've got a little something in life.
I've paid off my cars, I've paid off my house.
I own a house. I can send my kids to
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private school, nothing fancy, the local Catholic school at the
church parish. I can do that. Now I've got to
work two jobs. I got to miss a lot of
time with them. Poor people want everything you've got too,
but they don't want to work for it. Or they'll
tell you, well, I can't get a job because I'm
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a felon. Who made you a fellon? Well, I made
a mistake, Okay, Well. Part of why people want to
hold onto what they have is that they made sacrifices
to get there. But communism always destroys the church because
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communism makes government. The church government is God. I study
data often, and atheists are democrats because they worship the state,
or should I say the worshippers of the state are democrats.
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Not every atheist is a democrat, but every democrat is
some form of atheist if they're honest about it. So
the Catholic Church came to the conclusion rightfully that communism
and Catholicism, the Catholic Church, what they call the One
True Church, could not exist, organize religion in that form,
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could not exist, could not coexist. And the reason was
they'd seen it. They saw what happened in Russia and
continued through the Soviet Union. They saw what happened in Poland,
which had a great Catholic tradition. You saw the Catholic
Church for Eastern European devastated, burned to the ground by
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the Communists. And they've done it everywhere else. And the
reason is for the same reason that the King of
England created the Church of England when the Catholic Church said, no,
we will not annul your marriage. We already gave you
one indulgence, and he said, I will create my own church,
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the Church of England, and I will appoint my own self,
effectively the Pope, the head of it. This is why
when Jefferson wrote to the Baptist at Danbury and they said,
we fear government will take over the church, he said
there will be separation of church and state. He did
not say the church cannot participate in the state. He
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said the state will not dictate the rules to the church.
This important understanding. So here's the Pope Pious of twelfth
and here's to the Catholics returning to their great tradition
because they have strayed from it. At least the Pope
Ram Plattner formal dropping out of the Senate race today,
which was the deadline for him to exit, so the
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Democrat insiders can anoint their replacement to appear on the
ballot and be friends with the next Lindsey Graham and
be the political class that they are. CBS is Tony
Docupill actually destroys the narrative of the Democrats. It's nice
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to hear this. This was on CBS. I'm not even
gonna lead into it. I'm just gonna I'm gonna let
you hear what he said.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
The big questions tonight is why in so many in
the Democratic Party, the party of Black Lives Matter and
believe women, continue to see Graham Platner as a future star,
despite scandal after scandal that seemed to undermine those principles,
and more, despite his old Reddit comments about, among other things,
why Platner thinks black people don't tip, despite his chest
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tattoo with the Nazi history, and despite the accusations of
abuse against women. Through all of that and more, Platner
downplayed or denied the claims and was defended by the
party in.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Some of its biggest voices. I do believe people should
have second chances. If this is a character election, the
incumbent has a lot to answer for as well. I'm
going to do everything I can to make sure that
Grand Platner is the next senator from the state of Maine.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
So what's behind all that support for him until now?
Could it simply be that he was winning, that he'd
blown out the sitting governor in the Democratic primary? It
sure seemed like the Democrats best chance to beat Maine's
Republican Senator, Susan Collins. In political circles, the answer, it appears,
was yes. Many Democrats knew Platner had character issues. The
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theory from Daniel moraf, the political strategist who plucked Platner
from obscurity and made him into a star, was that
the voters wouldn't care that they wanted to quote real
people who have lived real lives.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I mean, we want people who didn't run for student council,
right we want people who have not been spending their
entire lives planning their assent to political power.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
But after Platner was accused of rape this week, it
turned out that theory had its limits.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Character does matter.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Platter denied the accusation, but for some Democrats he had
committed the one offense no political party can tolerate.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
He started to look like a loser. In other news,
the Wisconsin judge convicted of felamy obstruction of justice for
helping an illegal alien stage an escape from Ice agents
from her courtroom. Remember this was given a slap on
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the wrist, ordered to pay a five thousand dollars fine
and no prison time. The judge is a Clinton nominee
who's a former Democrat state rep and went as far
as defending the woman. So, folks, if you ever consider
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voting for the other side, just remember you give them
the power to put judges on the bench for life,
for life, so that twenty years later, when you see
the error of your ways, you're still dealing with these people.
You are still dealing with these people. Meanwhile, since we're
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on the subject, this will be clip number two from
Chad's prep. Mitch McConnell's office has released a quote healthy
picture of him alongside his wife Elaine Chow from the hospital.
And I don't know how far you are into the
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conspiracies or disbelief of anything that is released, but let's
just say I think the majority of people I know
believe that this picture is fake. Who knows this was
This is just a good opportunity to play a fun
old ad. This was Don Blankenship who was running in
the republic primary for the Senate in West Virginia, and
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he was criticizing the Republican leadership of Mitch McConnell. And
this was his spot. This was in twenty eighteen. It's
number two from Chi.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
I'm Don Blankship, candidate for you a Senate and I
approved this message. Captain Mitch McConnell has created millions of
jobs for China people. While doing so, Mitch has gotten rich.
In fact, this China family has given him tens of
millions of dollars. Mitch's swamp people are now running false
negative ads against me. They are also childishly calling me
despicable and mentally ill. The war to drain the swamp
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and create jobs for West Virginia people has begun that
will beat Joe Manchin and ditch cocaine Mitch for the sake.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Of the kids. I must have been that. I get
a kick out of that. You know, there are a
lot of people who don't believe there's any place for
this kind of language in politics, and they'll tell me
you shouldn't encourage that sort of stuff. You like Trump.
Do I need to remind you that Trump gave nicknames
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to every one of his Republican competitors in twenty sixteen.
Do I need to remind you that long before he
criticized Hillary Clinton and Joe he was criticizing his fellow
Republican candidates for the presidency in twenty sixteen. He was
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the first to pull this off. And by the way,
it turned out to be a stroke of genius. And
the reason was because the average voter never felt that
Mitt Romney or John McCain or George W. Bush connected
with them, or Bob Dole or George H. W. Bush.
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The average person, especially men, but a lot of women
as well, we're tired of being talked to in this
political speak. Oh yes, well, we must criticize our opponent
in such a manner that the average person. They go, Hey,
give me some locker room talk. Is this guy a
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bad guy? Yeah, he's a bad guy. He he's low energy,
he's not one you'd want on your team. He's not
a good person. And people people responded to that, and
so I think there is something to be said. I
think Trump taught a lot of Republicans. I've seen how
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Republicans have changed the way they campaign on the basis
that they understand that you need to connect with voters
where they are. I wanted to get to this before
we close the show because his most fascinating story of
the weekend the grandfather who was who was thrown in
the air by the bison. NBC News with a story, Jim,
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if you have time for it, play it. If you don't,
play it to the break, it's a great story.
Speaker 6 (32:45):
This was the terrifying scene at Yellowstone National Park, a
bison charging tournament and a young person moments before the
two taking photos from a distance as it lays down.
When the animal gets up and bolts in their direction,
they tried to run and hide As the bison chases
the man around, a tree, shakes another one, and then
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the bison slams into that man. With brutal force, throwing
him feet into the air.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
It was like watching a bulldozer move out at forty
five miles an hour.
Speaker 6 (33:19):
Photographer Mike McCloud recorded that video, but stopped and ran
to help.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Has for thank you and good night.
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. Michael
Verie show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
That sharks a couple of months old.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
And if you want to really see something that said,
take a look at what happened.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Along two Thief.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Part of why I admire and support Jo Biden is
that his tone has been geared towards trying to bring
us together.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
The Republican Party today is dominated, and driven and timid.
Today is the two year anniversary of a dark day
in our country. Not just because our president was shot
in the head, thank god he survived, but because the
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things that fell into place to allow that moment to
happen should frighten every American and should awaken every American.
Anthony Codevilla, who I learned about from Russian limball reading
an article of his Codevilla wrote an article that became
very influential, wherein he said that politics in America are
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not Republicans versus Democrats. They want you to believe that
it is the political class and it is the country
class country as in rural, the people the outside the Beltway.
And he wrote about the fact rush read the entire article,
which he very rarely did on air, and then I
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scurried and read the article. And I've read the article
over the years on air many times, and I've refamiliarized
myself with the article. And he said, you know, the
average American doesn't understand that there are deals being cut
in DC with your future, with your children's lives, with
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our military, with our treasury, with our immigration policy. And
in order to keep you from engaging in revolution, whether
violent or nonviolent, they keep you believing, They keep you
distracted by a number of different things that are supposed
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to occupy a bunch of your time. Republicans will do
this at primary time by saying we're gonna have a
balanced budget amendment. We're going to know that there's several
issues the Save Act. We're now being told that Lindsey
Graham was the biggest proponent of the Save Act and
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so his memory must be honored. He was a great
man who wanted to Save Act. Because the Save Act
is the most popular thing among polling of Republican primary voters.
Why because we have had absolute fraud in our elections
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and twenty twenty was a theft right before our very eyes.
How is it carried out precisely according to plan? I
used to watch a show that went away. I don't
know why it went away. It was a brilliant show.
I wish it hadn't gone away. It was called Masterminds,
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and the point of Masterminds was they would go through
the guy who had created the perfect crime. But of
course he had to be caught so we'd know who
he was, so it would be a bank heister, or
trying to get the Hope diamond, or or any number
of just very clever things. There is in the American psyche,
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the only psyche I can speak to. There is an
appreciation for a well laid plan, a well devised crime.
We are mildly obsessed with such things. The number one
podcast category is not politics, media culture, movies, parenting, no history.
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It's always true crime, and it's women more than men.
But we are fascinated by the concept of the perfect crime.
When you look at carrying out a crime against a bank,
against a business, against an individual, and you make that happen, Okay,
(04:34):
all right, you got to go to prison, and we
hate you for it, but we can appreciate how genius
you are. And you want to know how that's true,
take the flip of it. It's not enough that a
criminal gets caught robbing me a bank. Is there anything
worse other than calling someone a pedophile than saying you're
a dumb criminal? I mean, we've had TV shows dumb criminals.
(05:00):
It's not the criminal that people hate as much as
the fact that they're dumb. Right, Well, when you consider
how twenty twenty was carried out the George Floyd case,
if it hadn't been Floyd, there was another woman you
probably don't remember her name, they were going to use
that there was going to be an attack on law
(05:21):
and order, the law enforcement agencies, and the rule of
law must be shattered, so that anyone who speaks in
favor of law and order, the rule of law, prosecuting criminals,
that person becomes evil. And so what you do is
(05:44):
you mobilize minority support, which is already very very fertile
ground against law enforcement. You go into a black slum.
We don't use that term anymore we used to. You
go into Action eight housing in this country that is predominantly,
if not exclusively, black, and you say, the cops shot
(06:08):
Johnny and they don't even need to know who Johnny is. Yeah,
what do we need to do? Is there a riot?
Is there a rally, So you've got this very fertile ground.
So that's what George Floyd was about, is telling us.
And by the way, the whole thing's manufactured. That guy's
in the commission of a crime and he takes fentanyl,
which he'd done before as the cops approached, so he
(06:30):
wouldn't be caught with it because then he go back
to prison and he dies. Then you've got COVID, the
whole thing manufactured, the lockdowns, all of it. So now
you've got mail in ballots. We just saw what happened
in California. You can win election day, you can win
early voting, and they still win the mayor's race, the
governor's race. That's what they do right in front of
(06:52):
our very eyes. So Republicans care about the Save Act.
And now all of a sudden, a guy who's spent
ninety nine point nine percent of his time in the
Senate on behalf of Ukraine funding to Ukraine, just billions
of dollars there he was in Ukraine the day before,
and more activity in war because he had a fetish
(07:14):
for war. Okay, I'm sorry he died, I am I
feel bad for his family. Okay, they're mourning him. But
let me tell you something. When I die, one hundred
percent of people aren't gonna go, Oh, Michael Barry died.
He was a great guy. You know what they're gonna say.
He was meaned, he was vicious, he was Yes, I
(07:35):
am on behalf of the little people who don't have
a microphone. I could sit up here and tell you
Lindsey Graham's agate a great guy. I could sit up
here and tell you that that he's served on. I
don't believe that you can't tell me on Monday that
there's a swamp that's destroying this country, and on Tuesday
(07:55):
when they die, tell me they were heroes. I think
Corning is a bad human being. I think Mitch McConnell's
a bad human being. I think Lindsey Graham was a
bad human being. I think what they did was horrible
for our country. I believe that to be the case. Okay,
I think there is bad for our country as Barack
(08:15):
Obama in some ways worse. You don't have to like it,
it's my opinion. You do expect me to be honest
with you, right.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Michael Berry Julia.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Today is July thirteenth, a day that should be emblazoned
upon our mind. Do you know what happened on July thirteenth?
A number of things if you were to look at
this day in history. In nineteen eighty five, the Live
(08:51):
Aid concert took place in London and Philadelphia and was
an international raging success. It is Johnny Gilbert's birthday, the
voice of Jeopardy that introduces the contestants as they come on.
It's Bob Crane's birthday, who was the star of Hogan's
(09:12):
Heroes and then met a little less positive end. Al Rex,
American musician, the bassist for Bill Haley and the Comments,
who was from South Texas. By the way. Patrick Stewart
was born on this day. Of a lot of movies
that you remember, including the X Men movie series. Harrison
(09:35):
Ford born on this day eighty four years ago, an
absolute legend of the big screen in his day. Cheech
Marin of the Chiech and Chong franchise, which had a
pretty good little run there turns eighty today. Mark Mendosa,
the bassist for Twisted Sister, was born on this day.
(09:57):
But it was two years ago on this day that
the very credible attempt on President Trump's life was carried
out in Butler, Pennsylvania. Go ahead, Jim, and.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Then the worst president in the history of our country
took over. And look what happened to our country, probably
twenty million people.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
And you know that's a little bit old.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
That art that charts a couple of months old.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And if you want to really see.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Something that said, take a look at what happened.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Over you know, I think there is zero chance that
(10:53):
one individual planned and executed that act. There are some
comparisons to Charlie Kirk, sure, but Charlie Kirk received a
whole lot less protection than Donald Trump did. Charlie Kirk's
(11:17):
protection tended to center around his person. So someone running
up on him, I think there was probably the expectation
of a much greater likelihood that someone would try to
run up and punch him, maybe stab him, maybe a
(11:37):
close quarters shooting, but more likely that someone would run
up and try to punch him. Now, he had spoken
to quite a few people about his imminent fears of assassination.
(11:58):
I suspect that he had been advised by the White
House or the FBI that there were credible people we
now know, and it wasn't hidden at the time that
there were public posts about him coming to town, and
this was the end of Charlie Kirk. But we also
know that that wasn't the first time that was done.
(12:19):
And so when people cry wolf enough times, you realize
what they're trying to do is instill terror, which is
what terrorism is. They're trying to instill fear. They're trying
to prevent you from speaking. They're trying to get you
to prevent yourself from not speaking. The assassination attempt on
President Trump is barely even discussed or remembered because the
(12:45):
fellow missed by an inch. If he doesn't miss, this
is an absolutely entirely different conversation and an entirely different country,
so many dramatic changes by the most minute movement of
a barrel, And sometimes I think about what would have happened,
(13:12):
How would the American people have reacted, How would the
deep state have reacted? Would we have ever learned who
was actually involved? You know the thing about that camera
that we don't like in the phone that everybody takes
(13:32):
photos of all the time, is it does enable us
a lot more angles than this the Bruder film. So
you've got the guy crawling up, you have officers interacting
with him. You have him being taken out the minute
he raises his head. That's odd. That's odd that they
(14:00):
they made sure he was dead real fast. We don't
even know his name. I've not bothered to remember it,
but I try to make it a general practice, not
one hundred percent that I don't mention the names of assassins,
because that's part of why they do what they do.
But the response the poor Secret Service protection, and it
(14:25):
was poor allowing the individual to set up the way
he did, allowing him a sight line. I remember I
was at the University of Houston in late eighties and
technically early nineties, and they had the G seven conference
there on the UH campus, which was really cool, and
(14:49):
I remember the campus was swarming, swarming with Secret Service
and prep teams, and there were a there he is
that were cordoned off like a murder scene. If I
recall correctly, and this is my memory, it's granted it's
been thirty five years ago, but I recall us talking
(15:11):
about the fact that they had welded shut the manhole covers.
I believe that was the case. I've not read that
or heard that that was what was happening at the time,
and we've had this conversation with my wife and I
since then. But you're going to those extremes. And then
here is a situation where he's giving a speech basically
(15:32):
out in the field, and there are a couple of buildings,
and you don't secure the top of that building, and
you give him a shot to lay down Chris Kyle's
style with the best sighting you could possibly get from
far enough that a five year old couldn't make the shot,
but a very makeable shot. And had the President not
(15:55):
turned his head at that moment, clearly he would have
made it. You can't tell me. I won't believe it
that our services, our intelligence services, our law enforcement services.
And by the way, the Butler Police, the Butler Police
were the ones that were sounding the call that there
(16:17):
were problems here before all of that, that was just
two years ago. How quickly we forget right the intherios,
the butterflies with the Michael Berry they're all Duncans.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
And do you know Duncan means.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yo yo was on this day in nineteen forty nine
that Poke Pious the twelfth excommunicated all Communists from the
Catholic Church, calling Marxism the quote irreconcilable enemy end quote
of Christianity. Now can you imagine that in twenty twenty six.
(17:00):
But let's think about us, think about the communist mindset.
You know, it's it's fascinating to me, it's really fascinating.
And that's not a euphemism. It is fascinating to me.
How the modern communist. When you say communism has failed
(17:23):
literally everywhere it's been tried, we'll say, oh, they didn't
do it right. Well, that's odd, Okay, what did they
do wrong? Communism reflects the complete control of the state
over the individual, and in order to gain that control,
(17:47):
typically you vote your way into communism, but you have
to shoot your way out of it. Communism never gives
way to democracy, but democracy he can give way to communism.
And the way that comes about is that you promise
people something other than communism. You promise them the very
(18:12):
things for which they are weak. Look, there's a lot
of strip clubs in this country, and there are a
lot of people going in there for an ego boost
or a belief that a beautiful woman might in some
way be interested in them. And if there has to
(18:33):
be an exchange of cash and so be it. They
needed that, right. There are a lot of things for
which we as humans are weak, sex, drugs, money. In fact,
it's quite amazing how timeless temptation is. And it's not
(19:01):
just humans. I can get my German shepherd George to
do most anything, bite you, or love on you, or
fetch a ball or lay down based on yogurt covered pretzels.
She's willing to sell out her dignity for a yogurt
(19:24):
covered pretzel. So it's not the human species, it is alone.
If you read Oh what was Burt Lancaster and Elizabeth
Taming of the Shrew, the great Shakespearean play, you see
that he tamed the Shrewish wife into being the wife
(19:48):
that he wanted by training her in the same way
that the trainer of a hawk trains his hawk. Now
that's politically very incorrect today, and it would probably wouldn't
be remade today, and to my knowledge hasn't been for
what seventy years when it was such a popular movie.
(20:10):
But human beings are prone to temptation, and communism plays
to the weakest among us, and in those weakest, to
the things about which they are most weak. If you
tell poor people that you will not be poor anymore.
(20:35):
You will have everything you want and do not currently
have if you just do what I tell you, Just
do this one thing. I'm the guy that will make
everything good for you. Their sense is what do I
have to lose? I've been lied to before, but I'm
willing to be lied to again. You see women that
(20:59):
will go that, after having been beaten by three boyfriends
in a row, will date another guy that you look
at him and his behaviors, his attitude, and his criminal record,
you go, he's gonna beat her. Hey, Susie, he's not
the one. He's gonna beat you. I think you have
(21:19):
a propensity for bad boys, and bad boys are often
going to beat their women. It's a thing likewise. How
many times have you known a guy who comes out
of a divorce with a stripper and marries another one.
What were the chances? But he's got a thing for
big boobs and hot legs and whatever else that she
(21:45):
entices him with. It's not just communism that draws people in,
but when you look at the great temptations, the temptation
if you're poor to no longer be poor, and the
willingness to sacrifice everything for that because someone else will
(22:05):
give you. This is important to understand. Why are poor
people so willing to believe this? Well, your reaction is, hey,
I'm not rich, but I've got a little something in life.
I've paid off my cars, I've paid off my house.
I own a house. I can send my kids to
(22:26):
private school, nothing fancy, the local Catholic school at the
church parish. I can do that. Now I've got to
work two jobs. I got to miss a lot of
time with them. Poor people want everything you've got too,
but they don't want to work for it. Or they'll
tell you, well, I can't get a job because I'm
(22:46):
a felon. Who made you a fellon? Well, I made
a mistake, Okay, Well. Part of why people want to
hold onto what they have is that they made sacrifices
to get there. But communism always destroys the church because
(23:07):
communism makes government. The church government is God. I study
data often, and atheists are democrats because they worship the state,
or should I say the worshippers of the state are democrats.
(23:31):
Not every atheist is a democrat, but every democrat is
some form of atheist if they're honest about it. So
the Catholic Church came to the conclusion rightfully that communism
and Catholicism, the Catholic Church, what they call the One
True Church, could not exist, organize religion in that form,
(23:54):
could not exist, could not coexist. And the reason was
they'd seen it. They saw what happened in Russia and
continued through the Soviet Union. They saw what happened in Poland,
which had a great Catholic tradition. You saw the Catholic
Church for Eastern European devastated, burned to the ground by
(24:19):
the Communists. And they've done it everywhere else. And the
reason is for the same reason that the King of
England created the Church of England when the Catholic Church said, no,
we will not annul your marriage. We already gave you
one indulgence, and he said, I will create my own church,
(24:44):
the Church of England, and I will appoint my own self,
effectively the Pope, the head of it. This is why
when Jefferson wrote to the Baptist at Danbury and they said,
we fear government will take over the church, he said
there will be separation of church and state. He did
not say the church cannot participate in the state. He
(25:06):
said the state will not dictate the rules to the church.
This important understanding. So here's the Pope Pious of twelfth
and here's to the Catholics returning to their great tradition
because they have strayed from it. At least the Pope
Ram Plattner formal dropping out of the Senate race today,
which was the deadline for him to exit, so the
(25:29):
Democrat insiders can anoint their replacement to appear on the
ballot and be friends with the next Lindsey Graham and
be the political class that they are. CBS is Tony
Docupill actually destroys the narrative of the Democrats. It's nice
(25:49):
to hear this. This was on CBS. I'm not even
gonna lead into it. I'm just gonna I'm gonna let
you hear what he said.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
The big questions tonight is why in so many in
the Democratic Party, the party of Black Lives Matter and
believe women, continue to see Graham Platner as a future star,
despite scandal after scandal that seemed to undermine those principles,
and more, despite his old Reddit comments about, among other things,
why Platner thinks black people don't tip, despite his chest
(26:19):
tattoo with the Nazi history, and despite the accusations of
abuse against women. Through all of that and more, Platner
downplayed or denied the claims and was defended by the
party in.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Some of its biggest voices. I do believe people should
have second chances. If this is a character election, the
incumbent has a lot to answer for as well. I'm
going to do everything I can to make sure that
Grand Platner is the next senator from the state of Maine.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
So what's behind all that support for him until now?
Could it simply be that he was winning, that he'd
blown out the sitting governor in the Democratic primary? It
sure seemed like the Democrats best chance to beat Maine's
Republican Senator, Susan Collins. In political circles, the answer, it appears,
was yes. Many Democrats knew Platner had character issues. The
(27:12):
theory from Daniel moraf, the political strategist who plucked Platner
from obscurity and made him into a star, was that
the voters wouldn't care that they wanted to quote real
people who have lived real lives.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I mean, we want people who didn't run for student council,
right we want people who have not been spending their
entire lives planning their assent to political power.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
But after Platner was accused of rape this week, it
turned out that theory had its limits.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Character does matter.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Platter denied the accusation, but for some Democrats he had
committed the one offense no political party can tolerate.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
He started to look like a loser. In other news,
the Wisconsin judge convicted of felamy obstruction of justice for
helping an illegal alien stage an escape from Ice agents
from her courtroom. Remember this was given a slap on
(28:12):
the wrist, ordered to pay a five thousand dollars fine
and no prison time. The judge is a Clinton nominee
who's a former Democrat state rep and went as far
as defending the woman. So, folks, if you ever consider
(28:36):
voting for the other side, just remember you give them
the power to put judges on the bench for life,
for life, so that twenty years later, when you see
the error of your ways, you're still dealing with these people.
You are still dealing with these people. Meanwhile, since we're
(29:01):
on the subject, this will be clip number two from
Chad's prep. Mitch McConnell's office has released a quote healthy
picture of him alongside his wife Elaine Chow from the hospital.
And I don't know how far you are into the
(29:22):
conspiracies or disbelief of anything that is released, but let's
just say I think the majority of people I know
believe that this picture is fake. Who knows this was
This is just a good opportunity to play a fun
old ad. This was Don Blankenship who was running in
the republic primary for the Senate in West Virginia, and
(29:47):
he was criticizing the Republican leadership of Mitch McConnell. And
this was his spot. This was in twenty eighteen. It's
number two from Chi.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
I'm Don Blankship, candidate for you a Senate and I
approved this message. Captain Mitch McConnell has created millions of
jobs for China people. While doing so, Mitch has gotten rich.
In fact, this China family has given him tens of
millions of dollars. Mitch's swamp people are now running false
negative ads against me. They are also childishly calling me
despicable and mentally ill. The war to drain the swamp
(30:19):
and create jobs for West Virginia people has begun that
will beat Joe Manchin and ditch cocaine Mitch for the sake.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Of the kids. I must have been that. I get
a kick out of that. You know, there are a
lot of people who don't believe there's any place for
this kind of language in politics, and they'll tell me
you shouldn't encourage that sort of stuff. You like Trump.
Do I need to remind you that Trump gave nicknames
(30:48):
to every one of his Republican competitors in twenty sixteen.
Do I need to remind you that long before he
criticized Hillary Clinton and Joe he was criticizing his fellow
Republican candidates for the presidency in twenty sixteen. He was
(31:08):
the first to pull this off. And by the way,
it turned out to be a stroke of genius. And
the reason was because the average voter never felt that
Mitt Romney or John McCain or George W. Bush connected
with them, or Bob Dole or George H. W. Bush.
(31:33):
The average person, especially men, but a lot of women
as well, we're tired of being talked to in this
political speak. Oh yes, well, we must criticize our opponent
in such a manner that the average person. They go, Hey,
give me some locker room talk. Is this guy a
(31:55):
bad guy? Yeah, he's a bad guy. He he's low energy,
he's not one you'd want on your team. He's not
a good person. And people people responded to that, and
so I think there is something to be said. I
think Trump taught a lot of Republicans. I've seen how
(32:18):
Republicans have changed the way they campaign on the basis
that they understand that you need to connect with voters
where they are. I wanted to get to this before
we close the show because his most fascinating story of
the weekend the grandfather who was who was thrown in
the air by the bison. NBC News with a story, Jim,
(32:40):
if you have time for it, play it. If you don't,
play it to the break, it's a great story.
Speaker 6 (32:45):
This was the terrifying scene at Yellowstone National Park, a
bison charging tournament and a young person moments before the
two taking photos from a distance as it lays down.
When the animal gets up and bolts in their direction,
they tried to run and hide As the bison chases
the man around, a tree, shakes another one, and then
(33:07):
the bison slams into that man. With brutal force, throwing
him feet into the air.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
It was like watching a bulldozer move out at forty
five miles an hour.
Speaker 6 (33:19):
Photographer Mike McCloud recorded that video, but stopped and ran
to help.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Has for thank you and good night.
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