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Speaker 1: So Michael Arry Show is on the air.

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Speaker 3: To the calls.

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Speaker 1: We go, Mike, your thoughts on what you saw last night?

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Speaker 4: Go ahead, sir, Yeah, Mike, Yes, go ahead, Yeah you're up, sir,

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Speaker 5: Oh yes, okay.

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Speaker 6: I made some notes on this doing the break.

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Speaker 5: I watched the vate last time. Mike Colin Allred did

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Speaker 6: Think if Steve said early.

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Speaker 5: He didn't address why he says he doesn't support boys

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Speaker 5: The moderators, they did the best they could while trying

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Speaker 5: They have to because that's what they're bouts told. They

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Speaker 5: they're doing what the best they could. But what we

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Speaker 5: Senator cruise is the most brilliant mind to come out of.

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Speaker 5: So people need to remember that at they're listening this morning,

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Speaker 5: that we have Senator Cruz who is a brilliant attorney,

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Speaker 5: someone that can really help our country versus a football player,

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Speaker 5: a retired one nice guy. I'm sure that's just put

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Speaker 5: and it has some one liners. Who do you want

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Speaker 5: to pull apart? Use common sense, folks, Use common sense.

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Speaker 1: Cindy here on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, Cindy.

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Speaker 7: I I only gave it three minutes, and my thought

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Speaker 2: Thank you for checking my call. Michael. I all right,

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Speaker 2: I watched from the very beginning and saw how cordial

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Speaker 1: Well said, Elizabeth, you're on the Michael Barry Show. Go ahead, sweetheart.

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Speaker 8: I thought Ted Cruise is discerated Colin all Red and

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Speaker 1: And why do I know?

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Speaker 1: Here's what I know. All read votes with Nancy Pelosi

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Speaker 6: I will die for this country.

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Speaker 11: I will die for this class, the Michael Berry Show,

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Speaker 1: But nothing improves the lives of blacks quite like a

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Speaker 1: A lot of racial shit, a lot of racials was

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Speaker 1: We want? What the did we win? Every day I

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Speaker 3: He won us. He just like us.

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Speaker 1: Here a felon got twenty babies he ain't never met,

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Speaker 1: Between Sylvester Turner and Rodney Ellis and Sheila Jackson, Lee

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Speaker 1: And this isn't a decline by neglect. This is a

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Speaker 1: They're questioning me. They're racists. These are the worst of

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Speaker 1: They've had enough of this, this gravy train, these these

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Speaker 1: But this dumb, dumb KP. George and what they got going.

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Speaker 1: They've got a couple of Pakistani guys down there and

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Speaker 1: this little network of what they are, what they are doing,

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Speaker 1: it is inglorious.

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Speaker 6: It is it is.

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Speaker 1: It is third world level politics and theft. It's incredible

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Speaker 1: that it's been allowed to have happened for this long

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Speaker 1: because a lot of people don't want to speak up

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Speaker 1: about it. But the number of people. You've got one

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Speaker 1: guy who's not an engineer, he's a principal of an

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Speaker 1: engineering firm. He's not a lawyer, he's a principal of

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Speaker 1: a law firm, and he's all up in the business

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Speaker 1: of the same guy. He's a major player in all

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Speaker 1: sorts of firms that have all this county business. And

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Speaker 1: by the way, these firms are also cross pollinating into

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Speaker 1: Harris County business, the Harris County Independent School District. That's

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Speaker 1: why they didn't want Miles coming in here. That's why

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Speaker 1: the state had to take it over. This is all

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Speaker 1: a corrupt business like Detroit