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Speaker 1: Michael Verie Show is on the air.

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Speaker 2: What happened?

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Speaker 1: Something must have happened.

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Speaker 2: It's not you, it's me.

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Speaker 3: You're giving me the it's not you, it's me routine

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Speaker 1: It's not you, it's me. Nobody tells me it's them,

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Speaker 1: not me. If it's anybody, it's me. George, it's you.

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Speaker 1: You're a damn right, it's me.

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Speaker 4: Let's start with a new polling that shows the Democratic

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Speaker 4: Party has preached an all time low in popularity. The

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Speaker 4: latest NBC News national poll finds that a majority of

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Speaker 4: registered voters fifty five percent have a negative view of

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Speaker 4: the party, while twenty percent just over a quarter of

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Speaker 4: party's lowest rating in NBC News polling dating back to

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Speaker 4: nineteen ninety Meanwhile, though a new CNNSSRS poll finds the

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Speaker 4: Democratic Party's favorability rating at just twenty nine percent, a

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Speaker 4: record low going back to nineteen ninety two, and a

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Speaker 4: What's more, just sixty three percent of Democrats and Democratic

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Speaker 5: I know good.

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Speaker 1: You know good, Baby, you know good. I just need

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Speaker 1: to say one thing I've been meaning to mention this.

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Speaker 1: A woman whose emails Joy eighty nine to ninety five,

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Speaker 1: thank you for sending this about softball's player of the

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Speaker 1: two twenty five home runs. I don't know who they

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Speaker 1: and I just wanted to bring that to your attention.

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Speaker 1: Congrats to this young lady. She is a stud, pure

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Speaker 1: to Erica.

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Speaker 1: You're on the Michael Berry Show, Sweethart. We were talking

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Speaker 6: My thoughts are Michael that I am totally against this bill.

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Speaker 6: I just think it's kind of Dan Patrick being a

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Speaker 6: modern day Carrie Nation. I'm a woman over sixty and

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Speaker 6: It's not so much to be high, but to help

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so balance, how do you get it? How do

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Speaker 1: This time, I do too. And here's the problem with this, Rick,

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Speaker 1: Because I'm gonna tell you what it's gonna do, It's

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Speaker 1: find fifty to fifty divisive issues that nobody was talking about.

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Speaker 1: You make it your biggest issue. You say, I'm gonna

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Speaker 5: Go ahead, sir, Hey Michael Berry, first time, long time.

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Speaker 2: going to go play in college, and we played tournaments

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Speaker 2: every single weekend. I probably would have, you know, eased

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Speaker 2: doesn't all have to belf off self off, but that's

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Speaker 2: also led by your kid. But your kid leads the road.

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Speaker 2: So if you're the one, you know, saying, come on,

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Speaker 2: we've got to go to practice, then you know it's

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Speaker 2: too much. She's the one, come on, we got to

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Speaker 2: go to practice. You know, it's a little bit different.

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Speaker 2: But I think as they get older, the advice that

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Speaker 2: I would give to Molly Ellis and the other ones

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Speaker 2: is do a lot more research on the colleges and

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Speaker 2: the coaches. Ask questions, ask others, find out how many

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Speaker 2: assistant coaches they've had, and you know, are they constantly

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Speaker 2: coming and going. Those types of things are really important

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Speaker 2: because at that time it's all a fairy tale. Michael

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Speaker 2: and you get caught up in everything and most the parents,

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Speaker 2: we're all looking at the schools and education and all

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Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. But really focus also on who's

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Speaker 2: going to be coaching your child and make sure you

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Speaker 2: know a little bit more than just the you know,

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Speaker 2: nice sweet things that they're telling you if they're recruiting you.

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Speaker 2: That's that's my biggest advice.

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Speaker 1: So I looked this up and apparently Oklahoma is the powerhouse.

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Speaker 1: You know, they've they've won in five years, I think

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Speaker 1: four or five times, but Arkansas is a very strong

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Speaker 1: team as well. Was obviously she's player of the Year

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Speaker 1: and the dominant player in college softball this year. But

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Speaker 1: maybe she wasn't a couple of years ago. Was there

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Speaker 1: a reason she didn't go to Oklahoma?

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Speaker 2: She wasn't interested. There are reasons that girls go to Oklahoma,

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Speaker 2: and she just wasn't interested in that. And at Oklahoma

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Speaker 2: it is and the tensity at a higher level than

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Speaker 2: even Brianna practices at and she school is very important

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Speaker 2: to her. She really smart and education, what is her

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Speaker 2: major data and analytics.

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Speaker 1: And what does she think she wants to do long

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Speaker 1: term post ball?

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Speaker 2: Well, originally when she went into this, she wanted to

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Speaker 2: do the data and stats for the Astros. She our

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Speaker 2: whole family, but she in particular is a huge Astros fan.

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Speaker 2: But she has since turned her attention into not only

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Speaker 2: playing softball in the Pro League, but helping to grow

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Speaker 2: the Pro League in the back office and eventually making

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Speaker 2: that her her career and doing data and analytics for

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Speaker 2: softball and things like that. She also would love to

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Speaker 2: be a broadcaster for softball, called softball games. So I

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Speaker 2: think after she leaves, she's going to talk to Arkansas

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Speaker 2: because the Pro League is only three months, so she'll

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Speaker 2: do something else, and that hopefully would be calling softball games,

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Speaker 2: doing something else sports wise with the university and you know,

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Speaker 2: other universities somewhere in the SEC.

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Speaker 1: Did she play year round as a kid, because that's

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Speaker 1: a battle. I hear Crockett is obsessed with soccer and

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Speaker 1: we have prevented him from playing year round because he

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Speaker 1: had to get high grades this semester and finish, you know,

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Speaker 1: and take the Act and all that. And he was

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Speaker 1: furious at us because all his friends play year round

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Speaker 1: and I don't think it's healthy to play you around.

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Speaker 1: I think it's important to break to break that up.

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Speaker 1: For repetitive injuries and stuff. But anyway, did she play around.

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Speaker 2: She did. She did since she was really, you know,

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Speaker 2: six or eight years old. Now, her father Ron said

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Speaker 2: to both the girls, Okay, you cannot just play softball.

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Speaker 2: You have I want you to play all the sports

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Speaker 2: before you pick one, and if you can't find a team,

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Speaker 2: I will coach you. So the girls played basketball, they swam,

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Speaker 2: Brianna I think played volleyball one year. They both played soccer,

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Speaker 2: and Ron coach both of the girls soccer teams basketball teams,

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Speaker 2: so that that was really important. Now, Michael, really just

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Speaker 2: depends on what your kid wants to do after high school.

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Speaker 2: Because reality is there's a place for everybody. There's a

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Speaker 2: place for a kid that really wants to play that

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Speaker 2: maybe just doesn't have the talent. There are teams for that.

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Speaker 2: There are teams for I'm really good and I really

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Speaker 2: want to play, but I don't want to play year round.

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Speaker 2: There's just summer ball leagues. And then there are teams

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Speaker 2: that I am very talented, I want to play year

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Speaker 2: round and I want to play in college, and there's

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Speaker 2: leagues for that. So there's leagues for everyone. College has

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Speaker 2: co ed and not co ed softball. What is it

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Speaker 2: called when you don't play professional? The oh you know

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Speaker 2: the college where they go and play in college, the

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Speaker 2: different sports, the rex sports. They can play in college Interviewal,

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Speaker 2: thank you, Michael. They can play in college with your friends.

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Speaker 2: So there's a place for everyone. But in high school,

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Speaker 2: if your goal is to play D one softball or

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Speaker 2: anything like that, you got to play year round. And

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Speaker 2: just quick note because I hear the music when high

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Speaker 2: school ball starts, travel ball ends. So