1 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. Michael 2 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:22,280 Speaker 1: Arry Show is on the air. It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke. 3 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:24,560 Speaker 1: I can feel a good one coming on. It's the 4 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 1: Michael Berry Show. Any attempt to restrict drinking and driving 5 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:32,479 Speaker 1: here is viewed by Sun as downright undemocratic. He saw 6 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:37,879 Speaker 1: Fox used pole today that was titled Fox was reporting 7 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:40,879 Speaker 1: on it. Took a screenshot. I said, issues where more 8 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 1: voters favored Democrats than Republicans transgender Democrats plus twenty two, 9 00:00:52,400 --> 00:01:01,200 Speaker 1: that's sixty forty. So why do people care where a 10 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:06,839 Speaker 1: politician is on the issue of transgender Why does that matter? 11 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:15,839 Speaker 1: I'll tell you. I study Democrats and how they think 12 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:21,319 Speaker 1: and what they say, and it goes like this, people 13 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:24,280 Speaker 1: who vote Democrat, which is really the only thing. What 14 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 1: someone's opinion is doesn't matter. The question is every two years, 15 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 1: what do they do when they go into the ballot box. 16 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 1: So it's almost a cognitive dissonance. It's a real weird deal. 17 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:41,479 Speaker 1: I've studied this over the years, and it's true of 18 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:44,840 Speaker 1: white Democrats who I don't mean the people with the 19 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 1: blue hair and a nose who they're and out at 20 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 1: the protest trying to get shot. I mean a suburban 21 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 1: housewife whose husband has a small business and he's a veteran, 22 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 1: and he's sick and tired of what's going on in 23 00:01:56,720 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 1: this country, and she secretly vosts Democrat. Those people like 24 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 1: and then black voters, especially older black voters, they tend 25 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 1: to be socially more conservative, so they will show up 26 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:10,720 Speaker 1: and vote Democrat every time because that's what black people do. 27 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 1: That's what they've been told to do. It's all they've 28 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:14,359 Speaker 1: ever done, is what their parents and grandparents did before them. 29 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 1: They vote Democrat. They don't know why they vote Democrat. 30 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 1: They just vote Democrat. But they reliably vote Democrat. And 31 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 1: the only thing that matters to sway elections one way 32 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: or another because Blacks are going to vote Democrat is 33 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 1: how many Blacks show up to vote. But they're going 34 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:31,960 Speaker 1: to vote Democratic. They show up. Now, Oh, Michael, not me. 35 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 1: I okay, I understand that, But I can show you 36 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 1: the data. You're the exception to the rule and bully 37 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 1: on you for it. I mean bully for you. That's great. 38 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 1: But statistically speaking, if I'm ever going to be able 39 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 1: to make a point, we're going to have to understand 40 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:48,919 Speaker 1: black's vote Democrat they do. Now, we can change that, 41 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 1: but we're a long way from changing in And the 42 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 1: only thing that matters is do they show up and 43 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 1: vote or not. And if you are a black who's 44 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 1: been freed from the plantation, great, I love that for 45 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:04,800 Speaker 1: you and our country, but most haven't. And that's just 46 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 1: the way the data plays out. I don't make the rules. 47 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:12,839 Speaker 1: So let's go with the average white person. A lot 48 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:16,679 Speaker 1: of that is younger white voters who may not be 49 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:20,800 Speaker 1: left wing nuts. They're the product of schools, public schools. 50 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 1: They're sports fans and sports drills politics at all times. 51 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 1: So you'll get a lot of white guys twenty eight 52 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 1: years old. They work at an investment bank, maybe they're 53 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 1: a young lawyer, and over the years they've heard one 54 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: of their frat brothers, one of their classmates, or a 55 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 1: member of their team use the N word or say 56 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 1: something that they would consider to be racist, and that 57 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 1: bothered them a great deal. Really upset them because there 58 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 1: was a black member of the football team, and there's 59 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 1: a favorite quarterback is black, and blacks are not a 60 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:07,600 Speaker 1: lot of blacks are going to prison, and a lot 61 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 1: of blacks are fatherless, and there's a lot of crime 62 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:13,840 Speaker 1: being committed by blacks, and they don't they haven't figured 63 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:16,680 Speaker 1: out how to how to how to process all of 64 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:22,159 Speaker 1: this yet it's all very frustrating. So what they do is, 65 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:26,599 Speaker 1: on the most basic level, they decide that racism is 66 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 1: the problem and that otherwise good people are engaged in racism, 67 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 1: and damn it, they're not a racist, but they wonder 68 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: because they do lock their doors when they drive into 69 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 1: certain neighborhoods, and they do find it problematic if a 70 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:47,479 Speaker 1: black person breaks the line, and they do see the 71 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:52,120 Speaker 1: details on who's on welfare, who's committing crimes, and so 72 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:54,160 Speaker 1: they have they have these jumbled up ideas and they 73 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:56,359 Speaker 1: don't know what, they don't know how to how to 74 00:04:57,080 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 1: grapple with this. So what they do is they decide 75 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 1: that these feelings are like being gay or liking transgender 76 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:10,359 Speaker 1: or you know, some other weird. It's weird, and they 77 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 1: don't want to feel it, and so they deny it 78 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 1: and they go the other direction. And they decide, if 79 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: I just scream I'm not a racist, and I point 80 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:24,960 Speaker 1: to everybody else in my life who I like as 81 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:30,920 Speaker 1: being racist, then I feel better about myself. And so 82 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:33,760 Speaker 1: that's what they do. These are the people who go 83 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:35,800 Speaker 1: on to Reddit. These are the people who go on 84 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:39,360 Speaker 1: to social media platforms. These are the people who love 85 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 1: to fight with the people who went to their high 86 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:44,839 Speaker 1: school and went to their college their own parents. These 87 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:48,120 Speaker 1: are not the far left. Let's be clear on that 88 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:51,960 Speaker 1: these are not radicalized. Although some of them will be 89 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:56,040 Speaker 1: radicalized in this process, these are not people who are radicalized. 90 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:58,480 Speaker 1: These are not people who are crazy. These are actually 91 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:01,000 Speaker 1: good people. They grew up in the church and nice people. 92 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:03,320 Speaker 1: But they're confused by all of this, and damn it, 93 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 1: I'm not a racist, and I'm going to vote Democrat 94 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:08,160 Speaker 1: and and that's but if you ask them about the 95 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 1: transgender stuff, they go, Man, that whole thing just doesn't 96 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 1: make sense to me, but they will vote Democrats. He's 97 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:20,480 Speaker 1: got the brains of the mules. Give an example. I 98 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 1: am that little sound. I had a club for almost 99 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 1: ten years called the RCC, and our listeners would show 100 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:36,479 Speaker 1: up for concerts. We had Willie Nelson, Jamie Johnson, Charlie Pride, 101 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:41,359 Speaker 1: Kenney Rogers, Mickey Gilly. But we also had Uncle Lucia's Hayes, 102 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:47,719 Speaker 1: Carl and Pat Green, Corymorrow, Johnny Lee from Urban Cowboy, 103 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:55,680 Speaker 1: and I got to know over the years a lot 104 00:06:55,680 --> 00:07:00,200 Speaker 1: of musicians, and something very interesting. I noticed the Johnny 105 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 1: Lee types, the TG Shepherd types, the Gene Watson types. 106 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:10,120 Speaker 1: The older guys were politically very conservative. Mo Bandy, oh 107 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:13,400 Speaker 1: my goodness. Mo Bandy is as right wing as they 108 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 1: get and loves to talk about politics, and they can't 109 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 1: understand what's happened to their country. That generation, those guys, 110 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:28,920 Speaker 1: the younger and I tell you how it goes, younger 111 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 1: white guys named Jason or Josh or Tyler or that's 112 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 1: the big ones, not Josh Fuller. This isn't true. But 113 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 1: you get these younger white guys and maybe they go 114 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 1: to Tech, maybe they go to A and M. Maybe 115 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 1: they go to LSU, Maybey go to Old Miss. They 116 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 1: come into school and they get a day job, but 117 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 1: they're picking at night. You have girlfriend that they're not wild. 118 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 1: You know, they're not going to marry, but she's their girlfriend. 119 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 1: They drink beer with their buddies, they go to an 120 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:07,480 Speaker 1: open white night. It kind of build up, and some 121 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 1: of them will stay at it long enough and get 122 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 1: a break and have enough talent, but that will be 123 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:16,360 Speaker 1: their full time job. And I noticed over the years 124 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:21,600 Speaker 1: that what happens with that guy is you're hanging out 125 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:24,880 Speaker 1: and having a beer with him. You love his music. 126 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:31,840 Speaker 1: He seems like a really cool cat. But sometimes, many times, 127 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 1: especially the real young ones, that guy voted for Obama twice, 128 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:44,319 Speaker 1: and then Joe Biden and then Kamala Harris. And my 129 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:48,840 Speaker 1: rule has always been at my club, shut up and 130 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:52,880 Speaker 1: sing dance monkey. I don't care to know what your 131 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:57,080 Speaker 1: politics are. You got that really good song, Play that 132 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:00,839 Speaker 1: really good song. That's what people showed up for. What 133 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:04,080 Speaker 1: they didn't show up for is somebody whose political opinions 134 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 1: they've never heard, offering political opinions. And I'm not going 135 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:10,640 Speaker 1: to have you doing that, not because I like or 136 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 1: don't like your political opinions, but because these people paid, 137 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 1: And I'm the host of the event and I'm kind 138 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 1: of the referee here. You just shut up and dribbled. 139 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:24,560 Speaker 1: That's what they came out for. Don't confuse that you 140 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:28,520 Speaker 1: dribble well, or sing a tune or act in a 141 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 1: movie with people wanting to hear your opinion. Don't confuse 142 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:35,520 Speaker 1: that because they don't. If they want an opinion, they'll 143 00:09:35,559 --> 00:09:38,360 Speaker 1: come to me. They don't pay to see me dribble 144 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:41,720 Speaker 1: a basketball they could ramon. I mean, I'm not going 145 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:44,520 Speaker 1: to run point, but I'll be the two guard if 146 00:09:44,559 --> 00:09:49,200 Speaker 1: you need me to. No, I'm not playing low post. 147 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:52,719 Speaker 1: I'm six feet I am six feet tall. No, I'm 148 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:54,920 Speaker 1: not playing low post. What are we in the church 149 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 1: league here? That the over sixty Church League? I'm going 150 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:02,920 Speaker 1: to be playing low post? Are you serious? No, I'm not. 151 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:05,840 Speaker 1: I'll be the two guard. I'll be the point guard 152 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:08,360 Speaker 1: if that's what it's gonna take to shoot. If I got, 153 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 1: If I got a point guard that's just bringing the 154 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:13,400 Speaker 1: ball up like James Harden and then jacket it every time, 155 00:10:13,559 --> 00:10:16,240 Speaker 1: then I'll take over the point. But otherwise, I just 156 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:19,200 Speaker 1: I need kind of ad Jason Williams. You met little 157 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:22,080 Speaker 1: Jason Williams black acting due. I need a guy that's 158 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:24,800 Speaker 1: gonna dribble up and pull my guy off of me, 159 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:28,080 Speaker 1: make me a good crisp pass, hit me in the 160 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:31,880 Speaker 1: hands where I'm set up, and I'm just gonna drain 161 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:36,319 Speaker 1: threes all day long. That's what I did. Miss the 162 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:38,040 Speaker 1: free throw at the Rockets game, if you must know, 163 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 1: And it was for charity for Camp Hope and everybody 164 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:44,199 Speaker 1: who had pledged that if I got, if I made 165 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:47,160 Speaker 1: the free throw. Everybody who had pledged if I made 166 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:49,559 Speaker 1: the free throw honored that. And then someone raised over 167 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars. Now here's what you don't tell people 168 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:54,280 Speaker 1: at home don't know this. Now we got all these markets, 169 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:56,120 Speaker 1: over one hundred cities across the country, and they don't 170 00:10:56,160 --> 00:10:59,079 Speaker 1: know this is that if you look at the technique 171 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:01,560 Speaker 1: and you slow it down, ain't by frame. And you 172 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:04,839 Speaker 1: see my technique and you lay it out right there 173 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 1: and then and then you put the time lapse photography 174 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:13,360 Speaker 1: or the Sepia tone or whatever, and you and you 175 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:16,920 Speaker 1: put me in the short shorts of Rick Berry, arguably 176 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:20,040 Speaker 1: the greatest free throw shooter of all time in NBA history, 177 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:26,960 Speaker 1: and you go Rick Berry Michael Berry. Very similar, very similar. Now, 178 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 1: I don't shoot underhand like he did, and I don't 179 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:34,320 Speaker 1: get all that spin back spin that he does. I'm 180 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:36,520 Speaker 1: more of a trade. I'm not Larry Bird. I can't 181 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:41,760 Speaker 1: shoot from behind my head, but there is a pretty natural, 182 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:48,280 Speaker 1: pretty natural snap. I would say, remember Chris Mullens played 183 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:53,000 Speaker 1: for Saint John's. I'd say you kind of kind of 184 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:57,240 Speaker 1: like that. I'd say Sam Perkins, big smoove. If you 185 00:11:57,280 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 1: remember his it's it's a real smooth release and then 186 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:05,199 Speaker 1: and then the face. It's not Jordan. I mean, Jordan 187 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:08,200 Speaker 1: had a special shot and it's not Clyde Drexler. He 188 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 1: shot line drives I like a little arch on my stuff. 189 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:13,480 Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, I don't know why how we got 190 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:18,319 Speaker 1: off into that, But that's that. So anyway, we've got 191 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:22,920 Speaker 1: a lot of people. It's easy to believe that the 192 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 1: chasm in this country, that the real rift is whites 193 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:31,920 Speaker 1: and blacks or urban and rural. Urban and rural is 194 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:34,640 Speaker 1: only a rift because the people who don't want to 195 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:37,240 Speaker 1: live that nonsense, that live in the urban environment move 196 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:41,959 Speaker 1: out to rural in suburban. The reason we can't win 197 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:45,280 Speaker 1: elections is not because we can't defeat these kooks that 198 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:47,959 Speaker 1: are out in the streets. The reason we can't win 199 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 1: elections is our wives and sisters and nieces and daughters 200 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:57,400 Speaker 1: are voting for those people quietly because deep down they 201 00:12:57,440 --> 00:13:00,679 Speaker 1: think we're mean. That's why they don't argue our position. 202 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:04,440 Speaker 1: They just argue that we're mean, and let's talk about 203 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:08,280 Speaker 1: what's actually going on in this country. I realize that 204 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:10,600 Speaker 1: some of the things I say make people very uncomfortable. 205 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:17,679 Speaker 1: I'm not a shock jock provocateur. If I shock you, 206 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:22,240 Speaker 1: it is inadvertent. I assure you it is not my 207 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:27,640 Speaker 1: goal to shock you. It is my goal to speak 208 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:33,760 Speaker 1: of what I consider to be truth in reality. I 209 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:40,520 Speaker 1: do often engage in a passionate discourse, and in that 210 00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:45,640 Speaker 1: passion I scream and holler. But as I've grown older, 211 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:50,560 Speaker 1: I've learned to moderate that, because I have come to 212 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:55,359 Speaker 1: learn that when I allow my passions to be inflamed, 213 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:00,079 Speaker 1: that creates a great thrill for people who already do 214 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:03,920 Speaker 1: you agree with me, but a terrible turn off for 215 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:11,840 Speaker 1: people who don't. We are losing the battle in this country. 216 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:16,440 Speaker 1: I don't say that because I'm a negative person. I 217 00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:23,120 Speaker 1: say it because even despite winning the election, we are 218 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:26,360 Speaker 1: in the last gasp of the republic we once knew. 219 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:29,440 Speaker 1: And I'm not a person who always says things are 220 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:31,720 Speaker 1: getting worse, things are getting worse, things are getting worse. 221 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 1: That's not what I'm trying to do, and that's not 222 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:39,680 Speaker 1: been my approach my entire life. I am generally an optimist. 223 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:44,200 Speaker 1: I am a big believer, for instance, in self governance. 224 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:48,840 Speaker 1: I'm a big believer in letting the individual make decisions 225 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:55,800 Speaker 1: for himself. Right, But I don't trust the average radicalized 226 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:59,640 Speaker 1: Muslim in Pakistan to make good decisions. As a member 227 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:04,640 Speaker 1: of a charging me with blasphemy, I don't think that 228 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 1: guy's set up for that, and I don't trust that 229 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:12,640 Speaker 1: he'd come to the right conclusions, for instance. So what 230 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:16,600 Speaker 1: I'm seeing and this doesn't get a lot of attention, 231 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:19,040 Speaker 1: but I've spent a fair amount of time thinking about it, 232 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 1: and I just you'll have some time this weekend and 233 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:28,080 Speaker 1: Fox News is going to constantly hit you with alert, alert, 234 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 1: breaking news, and none of it's going to be consequential. 235 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 1: It is gratifying, it's indulgent. Don Lemon was arrested, This happened, 236 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:40,840 Speaker 1: This happened, And we do discuss those things because they're 237 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:43,360 Speaker 1: in the news today and people are going to go. 238 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:48,040 Speaker 1: People will tell me that on Friday, their Friday drive home, 239 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:51,120 Speaker 1: they're more likely to listen than any night during the 240 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:54,880 Speaker 1: week because they're going to a dinner party tonight and 241 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 1: they've been working long hours at the office and they 242 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:00,200 Speaker 1: haven't paid attention to the news, and they don't want 243 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:04,440 Speaker 1: to sit there at the dinner party with the neighbor's 244 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:07,600 Speaker 1: friend who's the screaming liberal who comes in ready for 245 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 1: a fight, and they're not armed, as if these discussions 246 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:15,160 Speaker 1: lead to any real resolution or progress. But they want 247 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:17,040 Speaker 1: to know what's going on, and so that's why they 248 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 1: tune in on Friday. They might be going to dinner 249 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:24,040 Speaker 1: party Saturday or this sort of thing. But where we're losing, 250 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:31,320 Speaker 1: and this is a really really complicated, nuanced issue, but 251 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:42,239 Speaker 1: particularly white Westerners value concepts of niceness. This is particularly 252 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:51,120 Speaker 1: true of your Episcopalians and Lutherans and Methodists, your non 253 00:16:51,200 --> 00:17:02,200 Speaker 1: denominational Christians, Unitarians. Nice is everything. Nice is more important 254 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:12,159 Speaker 1: than justice, patriotism, honor, fairness, nice, Nice is righteous to 255 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:19,760 Speaker 1: these people. The idea that they haven't harmed anyone, nobody 256 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:24,000 Speaker 1: has been offended nothing, They've left no trace. They're like 257 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:27,480 Speaker 1: the old speed lunker's motto. They've left no trace from 258 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:32,160 Speaker 1: their path. They've not bothered anybody. Nobody is bothered by them, 259 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:37,399 Speaker 1: nobody's offended by them. They have minimized their footprint. You know, 260 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:40,280 Speaker 1: the whole global warming thing was just an extension for 261 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:43,840 Speaker 1: this type of people. It was just one more extension 262 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:50,200 Speaker 1: of their mindset, which is due no harm, offend, no 263 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:55,560 Speaker 1: one harm, no one bother, no one killed, no one. 264 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:58,880 Speaker 1: These are the people who go on a safari, for instance, 265 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:02,680 Speaker 1: in Africa, and on that safari, they're very excited because 266 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:05,719 Speaker 1: they're going to get to nature. They're going to go 267 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 1: where there are lots of poor black people up in 268 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:13,080 Speaker 1: the bush, and they've read National Geographic and they know 269 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:14,840 Speaker 1: that none of the people they go to church with 270 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:17,720 Speaker 1: would go to this place, because those people don't. These 271 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:21,320 Speaker 1: are the people you will encounter on your worldly travels, 272 00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:23,480 Speaker 1: particularly the Third world countries, which I've done a lot 273 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:25,760 Speaker 1: of it, and these are the people who love to run 274 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:30,040 Speaker 1: down to people around. You know, Americans, they don't appreciate 275 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:33,080 Speaker 1: that this is really good food. They would never eat this, 276 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:39,360 Speaker 1: and the unspoken flex there is but I will look 277 00:18:39,359 --> 00:18:42,960 Speaker 1: at me. I'm one of the good ones. I'm worldly. 278 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:47,520 Speaker 1: I don't look down on you. I'm not a bad person. 279 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:51,720 Speaker 1: These people have an inner monologue going of which they 280 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:55,040 Speaker 1: are not aware that is tormenting them. That's why they're 281 00:18:55,040 --> 00:18:59,760 Speaker 1: all in therapy. These are people who are prone to 282 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:06,240 Speaker 1: tea an outbursts and anger, but never at the types 283 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:09,880 Speaker 1: of people who bring them harm. Always at the types 284 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:13,560 Speaker 1: of people who are more kindred spirits with them than 285 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:17,680 Speaker 1: anything else. These are people who go on a safari, 286 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:22,040 Speaker 1: feeling so good about themselves. And then that very rough 287 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:27,480 Speaker 1: and tumble former captain or general of the Rwandan or 288 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:36,359 Speaker 1: East African military that now has converted their lands to 289 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:41,320 Speaker 1: conservation facility. They take them out on a safari and 290 00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:45,240 Speaker 1: they see a lion attacking their natural prey, maybe the 291 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:48,800 Speaker 1: wild to beast, and these are the people who will 292 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:53,760 Speaker 1: demand that the guide throws something at the lion to 293 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 1: make him stop eating the wild to beast, drive the 294 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:01,800 Speaker 1: car into the lion, something to keep the lion from 295 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:06,560 Speaker 1: eating his natural prey, because that's evil and it's mean, 296 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:11,760 Speaker 1: it's wrong, it's not nice because they have no understanding 297 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:15,720 Speaker 1: of the natural ecology in the cycle of life. The 298 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 1: lion is not being nice. These are the people who 299 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 1: that this is the reason that TikTok and all this 300 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:25,520 Speaker 1: has videos of one species that normally kills another species 301 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:31,760 Speaker 1: playing nice with them, because nice is everything. Once you 302 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:35,640 Speaker 1: understand that everything must be filtered through this, you start 303 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:38,760 Speaker 1: to understand why we lose elections even though the Democrats 304 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:42,320 Speaker 1: are crazy, because they tell the media tells us we're 305 00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:54,560 Speaker 1: not nice, what the Democrats are, we're mean. We still 306 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:58,760 Speaker 1: do the show with a mindset of our primary audience 307 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:03,600 Speaker 1: being people listening and truck on the drive home. And 308 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:09,880 Speaker 1: the reality is that's no longer exclusively true. It's probably 309 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 1: no longer even largely true, because so many people now 310 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:22,000 Speaker 1: listen on demand on a time shift. We know this 311 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:25,080 Speaker 1: because we have data, but I know it anecdotally because 312 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:28,200 Speaker 1: I read my emails, and I get emails from people 313 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:31,840 Speaker 1: at five o'clock in the morning say, hey, I was 314 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:34,359 Speaker 1: just listening to you talk about the naive neighbor and 315 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:37,119 Speaker 1: how niceness is what's killing this country and all that, 316 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:39,120 Speaker 1: and you know, you make a really good point. Oh, 317 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:42,000 Speaker 1: if you're wondering why I'm hearing you right now, I'm 318 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:45,760 Speaker 1: an over the road truck driver, and I listened to 319 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:48,760 Speaker 1: your show from earlier in the day and I'm listening 320 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:50,440 Speaker 1: to the end of the day now. I've listened to 321 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:52,600 Speaker 1: your morning show already and I just got to this, 322 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:54,240 Speaker 1: So I know it sounds weird that I'm sending you 323 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:59,840 Speaker 1: an email about last night's show today. So we view 324 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:04,840 Speaker 1: our listener primarily, And it's easy to get into this 325 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 1: this idea because for so long that was the truth. 326 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:12,000 Speaker 1: When I started in radio twenty years ago, you turned 327 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 1: the microphone on and talked and if someone heard you, 328 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:17,399 Speaker 1: then they knew what you were, what you said, but 329 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:20,119 Speaker 1: if they missed it, that was it. They didn't hear you. 330 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:24,120 Speaker 1: And then over the years we added the podcast, which 331 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:27,879 Speaker 1: for us, our podcast is a rebroadcast. So I always 332 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:31,280 Speaker 1: tell people before you asked me, what did you say 333 00:22:31,359 --> 00:22:33,919 Speaker 1: at this time? Or tell me you said this and 334 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:35,760 Speaker 1: you're why don't you go back and listen to what 335 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:39,200 Speaker 1: I said? Can you imagine if every word you said 336 00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:43,080 Speaker 1: was recorded and posted for people to pick apart later 337 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:46,120 Speaker 1: for years. Because that's what happens with me, and I'm 338 00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 1: good with that. I don't say things I don't mean. 339 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:53,199 Speaker 1: I do say things that upset people, and I'm okay 340 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:57,760 Speaker 1: with that. And in fact, this is the continuation. This 341 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:01,439 Speaker 1: should be a week long series. This is the continuation 342 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:07,680 Speaker 1: of the nice neighbor, the naive nice neighbor. A lot 343 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:13,200 Speaker 1: of people will email me and they'll say, I really 344 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:15,840 Speaker 1: like your show. I know where this is going already, 345 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:19,560 Speaker 1: I'm a big fan. And so they will first lay 346 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:22,560 Speaker 1: down their credentials so they get admission into the conversation. 347 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:25,040 Speaker 1: Those credentials go, I listened to your show. I've listened 348 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:27,520 Speaker 1: for the X amount of time. I love your show. 349 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:30,160 Speaker 1: I've brought other people to your show. It's always okay. 350 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:35,480 Speaker 1: So all of that is establishing their credentials. This isn't 351 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:38,080 Speaker 1: a nobody that you should dismiss their opinion. You should 352 00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:41,560 Speaker 1: pay close attention because this is a big fan. Okay, 353 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:45,560 Speaker 1: all right, you have my attention. That was your goal. Now. 354 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:52,320 Speaker 1: I think that when you criticize il han Omer, you 355 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:58,879 Speaker 1: set us back. All right, I'm in a mood. I'll play. 356 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:03,040 Speaker 1: What am I setting us back from? Well, you just 357 00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 1: sound hateful? Okay? You a sports fan? Yeah, what team? 358 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:14,680 Speaker 1: The Eagles? Do you know that the Eagles are thought 359 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:18,639 Speaker 1: to be the most hateful sports fans in all of 360 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:22,040 Speaker 1: professional sports, in every sport? Do you know that people 361 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:26,240 Speaker 1: won't travel to see their home team play in Philadelphia 362 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:31,000 Speaker 1: because the fans are notorious for being hateful? You ever 363 00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:33,200 Speaker 1: go to a game? Yeah, we are hard on people. 364 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:38,439 Speaker 1: But that's different. How's it different? I need to understand 365 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:42,119 Speaker 1: how it's different. I need you to understand how it's different, 366 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:47,840 Speaker 1: because it's not. You are passionate about your sports team 367 00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:52,560 Speaker 1: because they have the city that you live in emblazoned 368 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:56,639 Speaker 1: on the uniform they wear, and so at this moment 369 00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:59,960 Speaker 1: you love them. Now, I also know that you love 370 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,639 Speaker 1: them and would give them your kidney until the moment 371 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:07,600 Speaker 1: that they're traded to another team and come back to 372 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:10,080 Speaker 1: your city, and then you hope they die of cancer 373 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:13,679 Speaker 1: before the game starts. So it's not a deep and 374 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:18,200 Speaker 1: abiding love by any stretch of imagination, but at that moment, 375 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:23,440 Speaker 1: it's very momentary, transactional love that you feel for these people. However, 376 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:30,000 Speaker 1: you don't feel bad about the fact that sports fans, 377 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:34,240 Speaker 1: spouses of players of teams that are playing in Philadelphia 378 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:36,320 Speaker 1: will say that they're not going to go to the 379 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:38,560 Speaker 1: game to watch their husband. They won't bring their kids 380 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:41,040 Speaker 1: because they're scared to death of having stuff thrown on them. 381 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:43,600 Speaker 1: You think that's okay, because I assure you I'm not 382 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:47,720 Speaker 1: throwing beer on people, I'm not harassing people's wives. I'm 383 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:51,040 Speaker 1: just stating my opinion. But that, to you is very upsetting. 384 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:55,280 Speaker 1: Why is that? Let's spend some time exploring that. Why 385 00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:59,280 Speaker 1: is it so bothersome to you that the things I 386 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,359 Speaker 1: say be determined to be hateful and that I not 387 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:05,560 Speaker 1: say them. Why is it so important to be nice 388 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 1: to ilhan Omar? Why is it so important to be 389 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:15,360 Speaker 1: nice to non white people especially. Nobody gets mad if 390 00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:20,640 Speaker 1: I ridicule white liberals. Nobody's bothered. Nobody will say, I'm 391 00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:24,720 Speaker 1: your fan, you shouldn't do that. Nobody will say that's 392 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:28,240 Speaker 1: a bridge too far. I can rip white liberals all 393 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:35,440 Speaker 1: day long. Nobody's bothered by that. But you dare rip 394 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:41,320 Speaker 1: a black purse, you dare rip a muslim An. Immigrant 395 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:48,800 Speaker 1: people have an almost instinctive and I would say instinctive, 396 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:53,399 Speaker 1: except it's been taught, not inherited, reaction to that, and 397 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:59,639 Speaker 1: it is visceral. It's like something evil has It's like 398 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:01,960 Speaker 1: ud or poop has been thrown on them, and they've 399 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,720 Speaker 1: got to get it off of them. They have to cleanse. 400 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:07,080 Speaker 1: For my words, it's very upsetting to them that I've 401 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:13,280 Speaker 1: done this that was taught to them. The great undoing 402 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,840 Speaker 1: in our country is so much more than winning an election, 403 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:20,120 Speaker 1: and that's the frightening part. It's so much more than 404 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:24,240 Speaker 1: getting Donald Trump elected or winning a Republican majority. Yes, 405 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:27,400 Speaker 1: we have to do those things. It's so much deeper. 406 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:32,640 Speaker 1: It is embedded like a tick, into our schools, into 407 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:36,840 Speaker 1: our homes, into every program, into our churches. We lost 408 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:40,480 Speaker 1: the churches along the way. It is embedded into every 409 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:43,879 Speaker 1: It's embedded in our sports. There is never a moment 410 00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:45,920 Speaker 1: you can get away with it, get away from it. 411 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:51,040 Speaker 1: That's something to think about. I don't say that to 412 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:54,800 Speaker 1: leave you for the evening miserable or sad or depressed 413 00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:58,679 Speaker 1: or desiring to disconnect. I say that to tell you 414 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:02,560 Speaker 1: that everything we do should be purposeful, Everything we do 415 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:06,560 Speaker 1: should have meaning. That we should deconstruct every aspect of 416 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:10,119 Speaker 1: our lives, everything we teach our children. Is it important 417 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:12,800 Speaker 1: to be nice all the time? If a woman's being 418 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 1: raped and we walk past it, should we be nice 419 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,880 Speaker 1: to the man who's doing that. If you walk upon 420 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 1: someone who puts a bullet into an innocent storekeeper, shopkeeper, 421 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:27,120 Speaker 1: and then his gun jams, should you politely ask him 422 00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:31,560 Speaker 1: not to load another. I mean, these just things you 423 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:34,480 Speaker 1: have to think about. Right. There's the questions you have 424 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:36,840 Speaker 1: to grapple with, and I think it's important we grapple 425 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:38,600 Speaker 1: with it. I think it's important we grapple with the 426 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:42,320 Speaker 1: right questions. We get to have conversation with you about 427 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,000 Speaker 1: how we're going to live in the greatest nation on earth, 428 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:46,360 Speaker 1: what our future is going to look like, who's going 429 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:48,560 Speaker 1: to live here, and who's not what we're gonna teach 430 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:50,719 Speaker 1: our kids. And that is all because you support our 431 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:53,320 Speaker 1: show and our sponsors, and I cannot thank you enough 432 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,960 Speaker 1: for that. If I've said something made you want to interact, 433 00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:58,640 Speaker 1: send me an email through the website Michael Berryshow dot com. 434 00:28:58,720 --> 00:28:59,040 Speaker 1: Thank you.