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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Arry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I can feel a good one coming on.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
It's the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Any attempt to restrict drinking and driving here is viewed
by some as downright undemocratic.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
We have been talking about I Can Feel a good one.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Jasmine Crockett in the Democrat primary and the evolution of
Jasmine Crockett. And when Jasmine Crockett came to the United
States Senate, she talked like everybody else. She didn't say
acts for ask she didn't misconjugate her b verbs. She
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didn't talk in a manner that you were thinking, oh,
I bet her EBT account is low, or you know
she had three baby daddies in prison. She talked like
a young lady on the make. She'd come to Congress.
She was ambitious. She didn't wow you with her genius,
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but you certainly wouldn't have thought she's a low performer.
But when she got there, she realized there's a lot
of that when needs that and got time for that.
So she started morphing into what she noticed was getting
better reaction. Much as Kamala did, and that was the
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ghetto the ghetto stick. So the ghetto stick became kind
of what she did most of the time. And the
part that's offensive is it's inauthentic. Authenticity is everything. If
someone is the way they are, so be it. But
when you behave in this manner in a public life,
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it makes one wonder are you doing that as the
ultimate insult unintended of your audience because you're giving them
back what you see in them? And then there is
the follow up, do you think they're so stupid they'll
believe it? And then there is the troubling question are
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they so? Gavin Newsom is running for president in twenty
twenty eight. We all know it. Young man in a hurry.
That's he's trying to be a young Bill Clinton. And
so he was speaking to a black audience the other
day and he said a line that he's taken to
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using a lot. He said, I'm not trying to impress you.
I'm trying to impress upon you that I'm just like you.
I have dyslexia. I can't read. You'll never see me
read a speech. I can't read. I only had a
nine to sixty on the SATA, and he basically lays out,
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listen to you, stupid black people. I'm just like you.
I'm not very smart. Don't think of me as white privilege.
Think of me as just like you. This is a
guy who claims he grew up eating peanut butter and
jelly sandwich. Is maybe he did. His father and grandfather
are incredibly connected in California. His father was the right
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hand man, conciliary lawyer fixer for the Getty family, one
of the three richest families in the world.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
Not likely.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
He claimed that the only thing he focused on as
a kid was ball, because you could just imagine him,
you know, playing basketball down at the you know, at
the corner court in who good. It's also grotesque this
desire to be what he thinks they want him to
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be as a mirror to them, because it tells you
what he thinks of them, as malleable, manipulatable idiots. And
it's disgusting when Democrats do that, except that's what John
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Wayne mccornyn is doing. Every six years, this swamp creature
comes back and tells you he loves Trump when he's
stabbed Trump.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
In the back, that he's just like you.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
He hangs out at places. He's just like you. He's not.
This is the most insulting thing ever.
Speaker 7 (04:50):
John Wayne mccornyan is one of us. He is just
like us. Not a look of difference between John Wayne
mccornyn and neighbor that gets really into Halloween Bill. He
gets frustrated by the same things you do. In fact,
he hates political ads. He is so tired of political
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ads that he can't sleep at night. He hates the
robo calls. Hell, he hates his own robo calls. He
hates the email spam, and he hates and I mean
hates the onslaught of text messages. John Wayne mccornyn is
so much like you that he even hates John Wayne mccornyn.
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He's such a man of the people that he knows
you hate him, and he's right there with you, and
he'll tell you to your face if you join him
at one of the weekend cul de Sac parties in
his very normal subdivision. His neighbor will walk up and say,
you suck, and he'll go tell me about it and
then spit like he's disgusted. He's a self loathing, self
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hating humiliated by how he betrayed. President Trump walking in
bear meant to himself and he's proud of it. He
knows you hate him, and he's right there with you.
He's so much like us that he can't stand himself.
It's complex. So when you step into the voting booth
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that John Wayne mccornyn is well aware that you can't
stand him, and he's arm in arm with.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
You because he's one of us.
Speaker 8 (06:33):
Just in here listening my Ferry.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Paul from Bonney says that President Trump took a page
out of our book during his State of the Union speech.
Before we play this clip, remember when they said that
Trump wasn't presidential, it was very important that he be presidential.
And if he wasn't presidential, then he couldn't be president.
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You know, he needed to be like the Bushes. You've
got to be presidential like Mitt Romney. You have to
stand up straight and use the right fork and spoon
at state dinners and have your shoes polished and use
the same words. Now, you don't have to ever do
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anything good for your people. You can send us into
war after war. Nothing more presidential in America than sending
our boys in to be blown up. And you think
about the fact that Donald Trump did not start a
single new war. Every president before him in my lifetime had.
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He didn't send boys to be brought home in body back.
So I guess he wasn't presidential because that's presidential. There
was this idea because see, there's a finishing school, and
finish school is coordinated through the types of people who
choose our leaders. Might sound like something Candice Owen says
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or Tucker Carlson says, but there's an audience for conspiracy
theories because there's a kernel of truth to so much
of it. Americans are tired of being told that this
is what we should do, and this over here is bad.
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We know the truth. We know we know the difference
between the truth and the shiny you know, facade they
give us. Anyway, here's what Lonnie had to say.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Hey, Michael, it's Lottie. Have you noticed how nobody says
that President Trump isn't presidential anymore? Do you remember that
old line back in the day. Now, I haven't heard
one person say that, because about as presidential as the
president can get, he that say of the end address,
he took a page out of year. Butook, Michael, you
know what he did. He listened up the heroes of
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every day America, the people that had lost somebody, the
people that had satisfied something, the people that had done
anything they could for greatness because they're Americans, and turns
me up, touts me up. Because he didn't do anything
self dealing, hisself gratifying. He took that time he had
to show how stupid the Democrats are and how great
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everyday Americans are. And what's more presidential than that? He
was the most selfless thing I've ever seen. So, you know,
I don't know, man, I just have to have to
say something because I try to be as non biased
as possible. I'm a little biased as amateur on supporter,
But my goodness, how can you not it? Just like
the Democratic I mean, how can you not get on
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board with this guy who loves our country and wants
us to do good. Just I don't get it. But
he's amazing. Thanks R You're amazing too. Thanks for the
job you do every day.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Nice thing to say. Now, this may or may not
be this next caller, may or may not be who
he claims to be, but he claims to be President Trump.
Speaker 9 (10:19):
Hello, Michael and Ramone, I'm sure you tuned into my
speech on Tuesday. Great speech, wonderful speech.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
It was listen, what are.
Speaker 9 (10:26):
You coming down to marrow Lago? The weather has been
absolutely tremendous. Bring Jim and that new guy Kunda. That
new guy Kuna does all kinds of crazy voices. Anyways,
I gotta run. The grandkids are coming over tonight. We're
gonna play fictionary. Then I'm gonna be doing so much winning.
I'm gonna win so much I'm gonna be tired of winning.
Have a great weekend, Michael.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
So, we have been in the throes of the primary
process and it is brutal. People are tired of it.
They're tired of, you know, fifteen twenty pieces of male
per day radio ads, TV ads, text messages. It's exhausting,
and it's exhausting in the way that if your child
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is getting married and you know you have to go
through that whole process, you're just ready for it to
be over. Well, that's how most Texans are. But there
have been some interesting developments in Texas with John Cornyn.
If John Cornyan is defeated, that sends the strongest message
to Washington, DC that hey, guys, we know that you're
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out to serve your master's special interest. We know you
don't serve us, but you're going to have to wonder
in the back of your mind before you do every
single thing. Is this going to be the reason I
lose my seat? You ever noticed how many of these
people are in their eighties, in their nineties and they
can't leave. Why do you think that is? They cannot
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walk away from it?
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Does that?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Don't you find that a little bit creepy? What is
it about it? If it was truly public service? Is
that what they would do? Does does somebody become the
homeowners association president in your neighborhood and they just won't
step down? And there they are at ninety and they're willing.
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You got a violation? The grass is too how to No,
you do your thing and you leave right. Corning is
going to be And I'll tell you another one. We
haven't had a Republican incumbent lose their reelection bid since
twenty fourteen. And there's a very good chance Dan Crenshaw
does a very good chance. And anybody who points out
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all the things they think he's doing wrong, he threatens
to sue him, which is really not a good look.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
My money is Dan Crenshaw. Let me be perfectly clear.
If you say I got rich in the stock market,
I will sue you. That's right, lawsuit and papers, corporate
the whole thing. If your cousin's barber's podcast host says
I timed a few trades, well, lawyer, if your mother
hence at portfolio performance lawyer, if you even think the
phrase insider trading and my general direction the lawyer. Now,
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apparently some of you have questions. I've seen the comments.
I've heard the chatter, like that young lady at the
town hall who raised her little hand and politely asked
about something I once said about Jesus, And I said, hey,
little girl, with all due respect, goat yourself. You can't
take my words and remember them.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
That's not how it works.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Look, I fight for you every day, and if you disagree,
I'll fight you too. I'm Dan Crenshaw, and don't ever
question my faith or if I approve this message.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
From the mail band, A fellow named Walsrom sent me
a long email, too long, frankly, and I'll just gel
it down to the two paragraphs I think, or the
thrust of his argument. He said, Yesterday's grilling of Secretary
Clinton is a great example of an unforced error. I
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dislike her and have never supported her, but that spectacle
came across to me as a waste of time and
money and was mean spirited and wrong. You have said
that this woman, who I dislike, is a savvy politician,
So the Republicans now give her the opportunity to step
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in front of the press and eviscerate the work of
the committee. If she and her husband are questioned for
many it raises a question of why they are not
interviewing President Trump. These are issues that now get great
attention to the detriment of the president, which would not
have gotten this attention if Hillary and Bill had not
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been called. And here is my response to that. You
are operating under the premise that we should never do
much of anything because it will always come across as
mean spirited when you look beyond one's own opinions. I
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can tell you this, sending Hillary Clinton to prison for
life would be the most popular thing Donald Trump could
ever do. He doesn't have that power, but it would be.
Let's start with this promise. Americans have had to live
through now almost thirty five years of Hillary Clinton they've
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had to watch after nine to eleven Benghazi and it
later being exposed what all happened, including good men who
died out of that, and her saying at this point,
what difference does it make? That is a burning rage.
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So dragging Hillary Clinton before Congress answer questions? You see
that as a misstep. I see that as if you
don't give the base something to bite into, you lose them.
I don't think our problem has been too many, as
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you call them, unforced errors. I think our problem hasn't
been not suiting up. Unforced errors can be worked through.
If you make a mistake, that's fine. If you think
that dragging Hillary Clinton and now Bill Clinton before Congress
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makes them bigger, stronger, then why do you think they
fought like hell to keep from going. If you in
some way think Hillary Clinton is in a better position
today than she was before that, then you're you're a suer.
Mean that her reaction to being dragged down there was
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fake and it's not. They have pulled every maneuver they
could to avoid going before the Commerce. They don't want
to be dragged down there. So one of the things
I've noticed about our side is that our side is
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very decent, and that's good. Our side is very kind, decent, nice.
These are things sort of a Christian ethic that are important,
and that's that's a good thing. But our side lacks
the killer instinct. And that is the reason we don't
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finish games. That's the reason when we get up on teams,
we let them come back and beat us, because we
can't finish him, as the Arcade game would say, because
we'd feel bad to do so. We feel bad. It
was mean spirited to drag her down there, let me
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tell you, so mean spirited. Do you know how many
people were howling at their television, Lock her up, lock
her up. Do you have any idea myself included, how
many people feel that way? When you say, don't bring
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her down, it looks mean. You don't understand. You're not
in touch with the sentiment of Americans. A lot of
people think that your politics should play to the middle.
This is an error a lot of people make. Hey,
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you know, I've asked four of my friends. First of all,
whatever four of you friends say, it's never a cross
section of America. Just know that no matter what your
four friends say, your four friends are your echo chamber.
Now one of them was black. Well, I was just
paying it. We were in the kitchen at the office. Okay,
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they still have a regional bias because you're all in
the same place. That's not a solid cross section. But
let's play a long A lot of people believe that
what we ought to do is we ought to do
things that avoid upsetting people that are easily upset by
the political game. You know, I gotta tell you a
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lot of people don't like Trump. Okay, so so Trump
needs me more nas. Okay, you know Trump Trump's Our
problem is.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
He is he?
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Because Trump won the nomination and the White House in
twenty sixteen, and there were a lot of Republicans that
didn't think we'd ever win the White House again, but
he did, and in twenty twenty he won again. And
I know it upsets people because it's not nice to
say they cheated, but most everybody with a brain understands
they cheated. And then in twenty twenty four he came
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back and won again after they convicted him a fella kniece.
So you want to tell me what the American people
want and don't want? Nice people finish last in the
political process. We've had a lot of nice people. We
had John McCain in two thousand and eight. He didn't
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want to criticize the upstart Democrat Barack Obama, who just
wanted hope and change. He just wanted every America to know, yes,
we can, that's all he wanted. And he's a black fellow.
Well couldn't we have a black president? And deep down,
John McCain agreed. So John m McCain didn't push back,
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he didn't attack, he didn't point things out because John
McCain's a nice guy, and in your mind, John McCain's
what we need because he didn't make anybody mad. He
didn't say anything controversial. Twenty twelve, Mitt Romney Obama wins again.
But at least Mitt Romney wasn't mean spirited. He let
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him beat the snot out of him and say the
most awful things about him, and he took it and
he lost like a good Republican does, because that's what
our nice neighbors want us to do, not be mean spirited.
Let me tell you something I want more mean spirited.
I want the Clintons in prison. I don't care if
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that makes you cringe. I want them in prison. I
want people in the FBI locked up for what they've done.
I am not your nice neighbor. You have me mistaken.
I want the people who've done awful things to this
country locked up and sent away as if they had
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ambled around the Capitol on January sixth. There's your precedent,
the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Please clap, please, please clap.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
You young folks don't know this, but that was a
time not so long ago. Your grandparents listened to music
on the AM radio. Huh yeah, that's true, crazy right.
Amplitude modulation a signal that can go a long way,
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but it's not very tight and crisp. It's sort of
like taking the concentrate and diluting it. That's how the
sound is can sound staticky. And then frequency modulation began
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the FM dial, and it's a light sound. You can
hear the bass better, you can hear it clearer, not further,
but clearer. And for the musical format, which was almost
the entirety of radio, that was a game changer. You
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could hear the instrumentation, You could hear that Mogue synthesizer
making those great sounds. You could hear the downbeat, you
could hear aspects of music that you couldn't hear before
because again it was kind of diluted and fuzzy. But
then the AM dial struggled for a long time. And
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but for Rush Limbaugh, who really made National Talk into
something that was viable, and now it's thriving. The am
dial was dying. People were sending back their license, they
were closing am stations. I say all that say this,
not every day you hear a song as it would
have been in the past on the AM dial. But
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a friend of mine named Justin Van Samp, he used
to work for me. I had a bar concert venue,
barbecue restaurant membership club called the RCC and it was
really more of a community gathering for our listeners in Houston.
I may do it again, close close to having a
deal done it to do it again. It was fun.
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I miss it. I miss getting to see listeners because
I talked to you and you listen to me, but
we never get to see each other, and I actually
really enjoy that. So anyway, so this guy named Justin
Van Samp, he was a he had a day job,
but he was a performer at our club and he
was a fan favorite and a super nice guy. And
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we ended up bringing him in as a shift manager,
and he was well liked because he was respectful to
the ladies. He's very happily married to the woman he loved.
They were just starting to have kids. He was happy
to have a stable job because being a full time
musician wasn't, you know, not the provider you'd like to be,
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Not the lifestyle you'd like to be when you're happily
married and want to be at home with your wife
every night. And he did the best cover of Neon
Moon I've ever heard anybody do the Brooks and Doune song.
It's actually not even originally in books and done so.
But anyway, so we've talked over the years, and over
the years we talked about you know, he went on
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to have another job with a friend of mine from
Beaumont n And Chris Spears, and he's worked in the
equipment business and now he's more sort of he's much
more dealing with people in the oil patch and kind
of more traditional old fashioned job. But he still keeps
his guitar and he'll still play it at events, and
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he still keeps up his musical side, and his wife's
a big supporter, is a sweetheart of a wife. But
we talk about the fact that you're moving through life.
And for him, you know, he dreamed of being up
on stage every night the Travis Trent song I will
be somebody. People are going to come from miles around
to hear me perform. And there comes a point in
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your life where you realize that what matters most is
at home my wife. And then you got those kids
and they need daddy there. I don't need to be
out playing up on stage for people. I need to
be at home with my kids. And so you make
lifestyle changes, but they're still in the back of your
mind this idea that you know, that was how I
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saw myself, and you don't want to die inside. So
it's a compromise you have to make. And everybody makes
that compromise one way or another. You know, when they
realize they're not going to be a professional athlete, or
if they are a professional ath they're not going to
be forever. And you know, there's so many of these
things that we deal with. So in the midst of
it all, he wrote a song called like Whitley and
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he said it to me and I've played it about
a year ago before he was finished with it, and
I thought I would close the show with it because
I think it's beautiful. It's deep he's talking about he's
just finished the song. It's not anyway, but it's about
the fact that you have to decide who and what
you are, and you may not be the famous musician, athlete,
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businessman you had planned on being, but you can leave
a legacy that matters. And I thought that was a
great message to end the week on. As you prepare
for the weekend and you think about what's going to
be your legacy.
Speaker 8 (27:48):
I never thought I was put on this ert play guitar.
I never wonted the fame, never wonted to tell kid
wait too far. Only wanted to.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Be good man to a good woman, raised a couple
good kids. So I did some say student this day,
I quit on all my dreams.
Speaker 8 (28:24):
But they don't know every dream I have. It's right
here next to me at ball gamess in Valley and
mom and dad it waits.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
I can't believe how blessed time these days.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
I want to leave my.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Kind of legacy.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
I want to follow my heart and my God, so
wall around me to be proud of the man of
trying me.
Speaker 8 (29:10):
I mean never saw or sing like a Whitley. So
while just believe.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Man kind of legacy, I almost forgot how good it
feels to have a guitar pick in my hand and
to stand behind.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
The microphone to crowd, to screaming face.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
But these days I'm teaching my son how to shake
the hand of a man and look.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
At me and me.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
And show him how to feel over a ride.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Sound't leave my.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Kind of legacy.
Speaker 8 (30:07):
I won't follow my heart.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
In my god.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Heny gentleman Eldus has
Speaker 1 (30:24):
My childen, thank him and goodnight.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Arry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I can feel a good one coming on.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
It's the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Any attempt to restrict drinking and driving here is viewed
by some as downright undemocratic.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
We have been talking about I Can Feel a good one.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Jasmine Crockett in the Democrat primary and the evolution of
Jasmine Crockett. And when Jasmine Crockett came to the United
States Senate, she talked like everybody else. She didn't say
acts for ask she didn't misconjugate her b verbs. She
(01:00):
didn't talk in a manner that you were thinking, oh,
I bet her EBT account is low, or you know
she had three baby daddies in prison. She talked like
a young lady on the make. She'd come to Congress.
She was ambitious. She didn't wow you with her genius,
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but you certainly wouldn't have thought she's a low performer.
But when she got there, she realized there's a lot
of that when needs that and got time for that.
So she started morphing into what she noticed was getting
better reaction. Much as Kamala did, and that was the
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ghetto the ghetto stick. So the ghetto stick became kind
of what she did most of the time. And the
part that's offensive is it's inauthentic. Authenticity is everything. If
someone is the way they are, so be it. But
when you behave in this manner in a public life,
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it makes one wonder are you doing that as the
ultimate insult unintended of your audience because you're giving them
back what you see in them? And then there is
the follow up, do you think they're so stupid they'll
believe it? And then there is the troubling question are
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they so? Gavin Newsom is running for president in twenty
twenty eight. We all know it. Young man in a hurry.
That's he's trying to be a young Bill Clinton. And
so he was speaking to a black audience the other
day and he said a line that he's taken to
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using a lot. He said, I'm not trying to impress you.
I'm trying to impress upon you that I'm just like you.
I have dyslexia. I can't read. You'll never see me
read a speech. I can't read. I only had a
nine to sixty on the SATA, and he basically lays out,
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listen to you, stupid black people. I'm just like you.
I'm not very smart. Don't think of me as white privilege.
Think of me as just like you. This is a
guy who claims he grew up eating peanut butter and
jelly sandwich. Is maybe he did. His father and grandfather
are incredibly connected in California. His father was the right
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hand man, conciliary lawyer fixer for the Getty family, one
of the three richest families in the world.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
Not likely.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
He claimed that the only thing he focused on as
a kid was ball, because you could just imagine him,
you know, playing basketball down at the you know, at
the corner court in who good. It's also grotesque this
desire to be what he thinks they want him to
(04:11):
be as a mirror to them, because it tells you
what he thinks of them, as malleable, manipulatable idiots. And
it's disgusting when Democrats do that, except that's what John
(04:31):
Wayne mccornyn is doing. Every six years, this swamp creature
comes back and tells you he loves Trump when he's
stabbed Trump.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
In the back, that he's just like you.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
He hangs out at places. He's just like you. He's not.
This is the most insulting thing ever.
Speaker 7 (04:50):
John Wayne mccornyan is one of us. He is just
like us. Not a look of difference between John Wayne
mccornyn and neighbor that gets really into Halloween Bill. He
gets frustrated by the same things you do. In fact,
he hates political ads. He is so tired of political
(05:12):
ads that he can't sleep at night. He hates the
robo calls. Hell, he hates his own robo calls. He
hates the email spam, and he hates and I mean
hates the onslaught of text messages. John Wayne mccornyn is
so much like you that he even hates John Wayne mccornyn.
(05:33):
He's such a man of the people that he knows
you hate him, and he's right there with you, and
he'll tell you to your face if you join him
at one of the weekend cul de Sac parties in
his very normal subdivision. His neighbor will walk up and say,
you suck, and he'll go tell me about it and
then spit like he's disgusted. He's a self loathing, self
(05:55):
hating humiliated by how he betrayed. President Trump walking in
bear meant to himself and he's proud of it. He
knows you hate him, and he's right there with you.
He's so much like us that he can't stand himself.
It's complex. So when you step into the voting booth
(06:15):
that John Wayne mccornyn is well aware that you can't
stand him, and he's arm in arm with.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
You because he's one of us.
Speaker 8 (06:33):
Just in here listening my Ferry.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Paul from Bonney says that President Trump took a page
out of our book during his State of the Union speech.
Before we play this clip, remember when they said that
Trump wasn't presidential, it was very important that he be presidential.
And if he wasn't presidential, then he couldn't be president.
(07:03):
You know, he needed to be like the Bushes. You've
got to be presidential like Mitt Romney. You have to
stand up straight and use the right fork and spoon
at state dinners and have your shoes polished and use
the same words. Now, you don't have to ever do
(07:25):
anything good for your people. You can send us into
war after war. Nothing more presidential in America than sending
our boys in to be blown up. And you think
about the fact that Donald Trump did not start a
single new war. Every president before him in my lifetime had.
(07:48):
He didn't send boys to be brought home in body back.
So I guess he wasn't presidential because that's presidential. There
was this idea because see, there's a finishing school, and
finish school is coordinated through the types of people who
choose our leaders. Might sound like something Candice Owen says
(08:10):
or Tucker Carlson says, but there's an audience for conspiracy
theories because there's a kernel of truth to so much
of it. Americans are tired of being told that this
is what we should do, and this over here is bad.
(08:31):
We know the truth. We know we know the difference
between the truth and the shiny you know, facade they
give us. Anyway, here's what Lonnie had to say.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Hey, Michael, it's Lottie. Have you noticed how nobody says
that President Trump isn't presidential anymore? Do you remember that
old line back in the day. Now, I haven't heard
one person say that, because about as presidential as the
president can get, he that say of the end address,
he took a page out of year. Butook, Michael, you
know what he did. He listened up the heroes of
(09:09):
every day America, the people that had lost somebody, the
people that had satisfied something, the people that had done
anything they could for greatness because they're Americans, and turns
me up, touts me up. Because he didn't do anything
self dealing, hisself gratifying. He took that time he had
to show how stupid the Democrats are and how great
(09:32):
everyday Americans are. And what's more presidential than that? He
was the most selfless thing I've ever seen. So, you know,
I don't know, man, I just have to have to
say something because I try to be as non biased
as possible. I'm a little biased as amateur on supporter,
But my goodness, how can you not it? Just like
the Democratic I mean, how can you not get on
(09:53):
board with this guy who loves our country and wants
us to do good. Just I don't get it. But
he's amazing. Thanks R You're amazing too. Thanks for the
job you do every day.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Nice thing to say. Now, this may or may not
be this next caller, may or may not be who
he claims to be, but he claims to be President Trump.
Speaker 9 (10:19):
Hello, Michael and Ramone, I'm sure you tuned into my
speech on Tuesday. Great speech, wonderful speech.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
It was listen, what are.
Speaker 9 (10:26):
You coming down to marrow Lago? The weather has been
absolutely tremendous. Bring Jim and that new guy Kunda. That
new guy Kuna does all kinds of crazy voices. Anyways,
I gotta run. The grandkids are coming over tonight. We're
gonna play fictionary. Then I'm gonna be doing so much winning.
I'm gonna win so much I'm gonna be tired of winning.
Have a great weekend, Michael.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
So, we have been in the throes of the primary
process and it is brutal. People are tired of it.
They're tired of, you know, fifteen twenty pieces of male
per day radio ads, TV ads, text messages. It's exhausting,
and it's exhausting in the way that if your child
(11:10):
is getting married and you know you have to go
through that whole process, you're just ready for it to
be over. Well, that's how most Texans are. But there
have been some interesting developments in Texas with John Cornyn.
If John Cornyan is defeated, that sends the strongest message
to Washington, DC that hey, guys, we know that you're
(11:33):
out to serve your master's special interest. We know you
don't serve us, but you're going to have to wonder
in the back of your mind before you do every
single thing. Is this going to be the reason I
lose my seat? You ever noticed how many of these
people are in their eighties, in their nineties and they
can't leave. Why do you think that is? They cannot
(11:58):
walk away from it?
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Does that?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Don't you find that a little bit creepy? What is
it about it? If it was truly public service? Is
that what they would do? Does does somebody become the
homeowners association president in your neighborhood and they just won't
step down? And there they are at ninety and they're willing.
(12:21):
You got a violation? The grass is too how to No,
you do your thing and you leave right. Corning is
going to be And I'll tell you another one. We
haven't had a Republican incumbent lose their reelection bid since
twenty fourteen. And there's a very good chance Dan Crenshaw
does a very good chance. And anybody who points out
(12:42):
all the things they think he's doing wrong, he threatens
to sue him, which is really not a good look.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
My money is Dan Crenshaw. Let me be perfectly clear.
If you say I got rich in the stock market,
I will sue you. That's right, lawsuit and papers, corporate
the whole thing. If your cousin's barber's podcast host says
I timed a few trades, well, lawyer, if your mother
hence at portfolio performance lawyer, if you even think the
phrase insider trading and my general direction the lawyer. Now,
(13:13):
apparently some of you have questions. I've seen the comments.
I've heard the chatter, like that young lady at the
town hall who raised her little hand and politely asked
about something I once said about Jesus, And I said, hey,
little girl, with all due respect, goat yourself. You can't
take my words and remember them.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
That's not how it works.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Look, I fight for you every day, and if you disagree,
I'll fight you too. I'm Dan Crenshaw, and don't ever
question my faith or if I approve this message.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
From the mail band, A fellow named Walsrom sent me
a long email, too long, frankly, and I'll just gel
it down to the two paragraphs I think, or the
thrust of his argument. He said, Yesterday's grilling of Secretary
Clinton is a great example of an unforced error. I
(14:03):
dislike her and have never supported her, but that spectacle
came across to me as a waste of time and
money and was mean spirited and wrong. You have said
that this woman, who I dislike, is a savvy politician,
So the Republicans now give her the opportunity to step
(14:24):
in front of the press and eviscerate the work of
the committee. If she and her husband are questioned for
many it raises a question of why they are not
interviewing President Trump. These are issues that now get great
attention to the detriment of the president, which would not
have gotten this attention if Hillary and Bill had not
(14:45):
been called. And here is my response to that. You
are operating under the premise that we should never do
much of anything because it will always come across as
mean spirited when you look beyond one's own opinions. I
(15:09):
can tell you this, sending Hillary Clinton to prison for
life would be the most popular thing Donald Trump could
ever do. He doesn't have that power, but it would be.
Let's start with this promise. Americans have had to live
through now almost thirty five years of Hillary Clinton they've
(15:34):
had to watch after nine to eleven Benghazi and it
later being exposed what all happened, including good men who
died out of that, and her saying at this point,
what difference does it make? That is a burning rage.
(15:57):
So dragging Hillary Clinton before Congress answer questions? You see
that as a misstep. I see that as if you
don't give the base something to bite into, you lose them.
I don't think our problem has been too many, as
(16:20):
you call them, unforced errors. I think our problem hasn't
been not suiting up. Unforced errors can be worked through.
If you make a mistake, that's fine. If you think
that dragging Hillary Clinton and now Bill Clinton before Congress
(16:41):
makes them bigger, stronger, then why do you think they
fought like hell to keep from going. If you in
some way think Hillary Clinton is in a better position
today than she was before that, then you're you're a suer.
Mean that her reaction to being dragged down there was
(17:04):
fake and it's not. They have pulled every maneuver they
could to avoid going before the Commerce. They don't want
to be dragged down there. So one of the things
I've noticed about our side is that our side is
(17:26):
very decent, and that's good. Our side is very kind, decent, nice.
These are things sort of a Christian ethic that are important,
and that's that's a good thing. But our side lacks
the killer instinct. And that is the reason we don't
(17:49):
finish games. That's the reason when we get up on teams,
we let them come back and beat us, because we
can't finish him, as the Arcade game would say, because
we'd feel bad to do so. We feel bad. It
was mean spirited to drag her down there, let me
(18:10):
tell you, so mean spirited. Do you know how many
people were howling at their television, Lock her up, lock
her up. Do you have any idea myself included, how
many people feel that way? When you say, don't bring
(18:33):
her down, it looks mean. You don't understand. You're not
in touch with the sentiment of Americans. A lot of
people think that your politics should play to the middle.
This is an error a lot of people make. Hey,
(18:55):
you know, I've asked four of my friends. First of all,
whatever four of you friends say, it's never a cross
section of America. Just know that no matter what your
four friends say, your four friends are your echo chamber.
Now one of them was black. Well, I was just
paying it. We were in the kitchen at the office. Okay,
(19:16):
they still have a regional bias because you're all in
the same place. That's not a solid cross section. But
let's play a long A lot of people believe that
what we ought to do is we ought to do
things that avoid upsetting people that are easily upset by
the political game. You know, I gotta tell you a
(19:37):
lot of people don't like Trump. Okay, so so Trump
needs me more nas. Okay, you know Trump Trump's Our
problem is.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
He is he?
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Because Trump won the nomination and the White House in
twenty sixteen, and there were a lot of Republicans that
didn't think we'd ever win the White House again, but
he did, and in twenty twenty he won again. And
I know it upsets people because it's not nice to
say they cheated, but most everybody with a brain understands
they cheated. And then in twenty twenty four he came
(20:11):
back and won again after they convicted him a fella kniece.
So you want to tell me what the American people
want and don't want? Nice people finish last in the
political process. We've had a lot of nice people. We
had John McCain in two thousand and eight. He didn't
(20:31):
want to criticize the upstart Democrat Barack Obama, who just
wanted hope and change. He just wanted every America to know, yes,
we can, that's all he wanted. And he's a black fellow.
Well couldn't we have a black president? And deep down,
John McCain agreed. So John m McCain didn't push back,
(20:53):
he didn't attack, he didn't point things out because John
McCain's a nice guy, and in your mind, John McCain's
what we need because he didn't make anybody mad. He
didn't say anything controversial. Twenty twelve, Mitt Romney Obama wins again.
But at least Mitt Romney wasn't mean spirited. He let
(21:14):
him beat the snot out of him and say the
most awful things about him, and he took it and
he lost like a good Republican does, because that's what
our nice neighbors want us to do, not be mean spirited.
Let me tell you something I want more mean spirited.
I want the Clintons in prison. I don't care if
(21:38):
that makes you cringe. I want them in prison. I
want people in the FBI locked up for what they've done.
I am not your nice neighbor. You have me mistaken.
I want the people who've done awful things to this
country locked up and sent away as if they had
(22:01):
ambled around the Capitol on January sixth. There's your precedent,
the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Please clap, please, please clap.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
You young folks don't know this, but that was a
time not so long ago. Your grandparents listened to music
on the AM radio. Huh yeah, that's true, crazy right.
Amplitude modulation a signal that can go a long way,
(22:36):
but it's not very tight and crisp. It's sort of
like taking the concentrate and diluting it. That's how the
sound is can sound staticky. And then frequency modulation began
(22:57):
the FM dial, and it's a light sound. You can
hear the bass better, you can hear it clearer, not further,
but clearer. And for the musical format, which was almost
the entirety of radio, that was a game changer. You
(23:17):
could hear the instrumentation, You could hear that Mogue synthesizer
making those great sounds. You could hear the downbeat, you
could hear aspects of music that you couldn't hear before
because again it was kind of diluted and fuzzy. But
then the AM dial struggled for a long time. And
(23:41):
but for Rush Limbaugh, who really made National Talk into
something that was viable, and now it's thriving. The am
dial was dying. People were sending back their license, they
were closing am stations. I say all that say this,
not every day you hear a song as it would
have been in the past on the AM dial. But
(24:05):
a friend of mine named Justin Van Samp, he used
to work for me. I had a bar concert venue,
barbecue restaurant membership club called the RCC and it was
really more of a community gathering for our listeners in Houston.
I may do it again, close close to having a
deal done it to do it again. It was fun.
(24:27):
I miss it. I miss getting to see listeners because
I talked to you and you listen to me, but
we never get to see each other, and I actually
really enjoy that. So anyway, so this guy named Justin
Van Samp, he was a he had a day job,
but he was a performer at our club and he
was a fan favorite and a super nice guy. And
(24:48):
we ended up bringing him in as a shift manager,
and he was well liked because he was respectful to
the ladies. He's very happily married to the woman he loved.
They were just starting to have kids. He was happy
to have a stable job because being a full time
musician wasn't, you know, not the provider you'd like to be,
(25:10):
Not the lifestyle you'd like to be when you're happily
married and want to be at home with your wife
every night. And he did the best cover of Neon
Moon I've ever heard anybody do the Brooks and Doune song.
It's actually not even originally in books and done so.
But anyway, so we've talked over the years, and over
the years we talked about you know, he went on
(25:31):
to have another job with a friend of mine from
Beaumont n And Chris Spears, and he's worked in the
equipment business and now he's more sort of he's much
more dealing with people in the oil patch and kind
of more traditional old fashioned job. But he still keeps
his guitar and he'll still play it at events, and
(25:52):
he still keeps up his musical side, and his wife's
a big supporter, is a sweetheart of a wife. But
we talk about the fact that you're moving through life.
And for him, you know, he dreamed of being up
on stage every night the Travis Trent song I will
be somebody. People are going to come from miles around
to hear me perform. And there comes a point in
(26:13):
your life where you realize that what matters most is
at home my wife. And then you got those kids
and they need daddy there. I don't need to be
out playing up on stage for people. I need to
be at home with my kids. And so you make
lifestyle changes, but they're still in the back of your
mind this idea that you know, that was how I
(26:34):
saw myself, and you don't want to die inside. So
it's a compromise you have to make. And everybody makes
that compromise one way or another. You know, when they
realize they're not going to be a professional athlete, or
if they are a professional ath they're not going to
be forever. And you know, there's so many of these
things that we deal with. So in the midst of
it all, he wrote a song called like Whitley and
(26:57):
he said it to me and I've played it about
a year ago before he was finished with it, and
I thought I would close the show with it because
I think it's beautiful. It's deep he's talking about he's
just finished the song. It's not anyway, but it's about
the fact that you have to decide who and what
you are, and you may not be the famous musician, athlete,
(27:19):
businessman you had planned on being, but you can leave
a legacy that matters. And I thought that was a
great message to end the week on. As you prepare
for the weekend and you think about what's going to
be your legacy.
Speaker 8 (27:48):
I never thought I was put on this ert play guitar.
I never wonted the fame, never wonted to tell kid
wait too far. Only wanted to.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Be good man to a good woman, raised a couple
good kids. So I did some say student this day,
I quit on all my dreams.
Speaker 8 (28:24):
But they don't know every dream I have. It's right
here next to me at ball gamess in Valley and
mom and dad it waits.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
I can't believe how blessed time these days.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
I want to leave my.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Kind of legacy.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
I want to follow my heart and my God, so
wall around me to be proud of the man of
trying me.
Speaker 8 (29:10):
I mean never saw or sing like a Whitley. So
while just believe.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Man kind of legacy, I almost forgot how good it
feels to have a guitar pick in my hand and
to stand behind.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
The microphone to crowd, to screaming face.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
But these days I'm teaching my son how to shake
the hand of a man and look.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
At me and me.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
And show him how to feel over a ride.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Sound't leave my.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Kind of legacy.
Speaker 8 (30:07):
I won't follow my heart.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
In my god.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Heny gentleman Eldus has
Speaker 1 (30:24):
My childen, thank him and goodnight.
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