1 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:06,320 Speaker 1: It's that time time time time. 2 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:09,119 Speaker 2: Lucking load. 3 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 1: So Michael Arry Show is on the air. 4 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:21,920 Speaker 3: It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke. 5 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:23,680 Speaker 4: I can feel a good one coming on. 6 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 3: It's the Michael Berry Show. 7 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 2: Any attempt to restrict drinking and driving here is viewed 8 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 2: by some that's downright undemocratic. 9 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:37,920 Speaker 5: Two six packs, Shiner, ninety nine, sid Putine Ladder, Lucky 10 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 5: strack center, fifth of patrol, ice down, attig, glue cooler. 11 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:49,839 Speaker 5: Take a guess at all to do? I can feel 12 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 5: a good one coming on. Home, Throw in a real 13 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 5: Wildy Hubbard sing alone to red deck and mother. 14 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:07,680 Speaker 6: Any blues I had before or gone another working week 15 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 6: is over, no chance to staying sober. I can feel 16 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:14,400 Speaker 6: a good one coming on. 17 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:20,760 Speaker 5: Yeah, we are all long, non we gonna get the 18 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 5: feeling arin. 19 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:25,480 Speaker 3: We gonna keep this party rock until. 20 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 7: The break a doll. 21 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 6: Yeah, I can feel a good one coming on. 22 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 4: I gotta getting calling it one, ba, can't. I put 23 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:36,839 Speaker 4: in a hard day's work, put in eleven twelve hours 24 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:38,760 Speaker 4: a day, and they ain't getting you drucked in the 25 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:45,840 Speaker 4: last right one or two bears. 26 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 5: Three blocks in a rack top Mustang followed us down 27 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 5: to the leaking didn't have to think about that too long. 28 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 5: Skinny dipping in the bright moonlight situation couldn't be more. 29 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:02,240 Speaker 6: I can feel a good. 30 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 8: One coming on, yell, we are up long night. 31 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:10,800 Speaker 1: We gonna get to feel it right. 32 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:17,960 Speaker 8: We gonna keep this body rock until the break of nong. Yeah, 33 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:23,240 Speaker 8: I can feel a good one. Feel like a good one. 34 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 8: I can feel a good one coming. 35 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:29,520 Speaker 4: All they're making it last where you can't drink when 36 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:31,280 Speaker 4: you want to, can't. 37 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 7: You have to wear a seat felt when you're driving. Christy, 38 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 7: we're gonna be calm this country. 39 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 3: Whoo. 40 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 1: I haven't eaten a Burger King, and I can't take 41 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:52,160 Speaker 1: last time I ate in Burger King. I was driving 42 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 1: across your grip and the kids said, Dad, we got it. 43 00:02:57,280 --> 00:02:59,600 Speaker 1: You want us to try foreign foods. We've been on board. 44 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:04,280 Speaker 1: Can we just have one fast food meal? And it 45 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 1: was maybe eight o'clock in the evening. We're trying to 46 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 1: decide where to stop for the night and eat and stay. 47 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:14,080 Speaker 1: And I said, okay, that's a pretty persuasive argument because 48 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 1: I'm all into trying new foods, and my wife's all 49 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 1: of them trying new foods, and you're in Europe. Let's 50 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 1: try some foods from places that you know you're not 51 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:24,919 Speaker 1: going to see a lot of. And so we stopped 52 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:29,640 Speaker 1: at at Burger King. And the funny thing is my wife, 53 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:31,519 Speaker 1: who didn't grow up in this country and really tries 54 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:36,560 Speaker 1: not to eat fast food at all. The boys said, 55 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: well that this is terrible. Is Burger King always as bad? 56 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 1: And my wife said, oh, well, that's just because we're 57 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 1: in Germany. They don't you know, they don't do fast 58 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 1: American fast food right when you leave America, when you 59 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 1: leave American. I said, no, it's not because we're in Germany. 60 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 1: Burger King is just that bad. So Burger King did 61 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:01,680 Speaker 1: something and I think I know why they did it, 62 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 1: and that is Burger King was struggling because they can't 63 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 1: They can't compete their food, their service, their brand. They 64 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 1: can't compete with with all the new burger joints and 65 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:17,640 Speaker 1: and you know, the water burgers and in and out. 66 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 1: There's so many now and Burger King just didn't keep up. 67 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 1: McDonald's has a loyalty, particularly among blacks, that they focused 68 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 1: on and they've held on to. McDonald's locations were in 69 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 1: in in urban areas where they've built a lot of 70 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:41,040 Speaker 1: brand equity, and even though Burger King tries to put 71 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 1: as many of their locations next to McDonald's as possible, 72 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:47,720 Speaker 1: they don't have the brand equity from the people who 73 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 1: eat out. They just they just don't. We just file 74 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:55,160 Speaker 1: this one under go go bro. Burger King decided, well, 75 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:57,240 Speaker 1: if we can't, if we can't compete because we have 76 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:03,560 Speaker 1: a good product, we will become a woke company and 77 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 1: that's how people will know us. Remember those Tom's shoes. 78 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:09,280 Speaker 1: You buy a pair, and they told you they'd give 79 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:11,800 Speaker 1: a pair to somebody in a country that wears t 80 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:15,159 Speaker 1: shirts of the San Francisco forty nine Ers super Bowl champion, 81 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 1: because that's where that stuff gets sent. Remember that. Well, 82 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 1: Burger King wanted to be They wanted people to buy 83 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:27,640 Speaker 1: buy from them for reasons other than their food was good. 84 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 1: So they became woke. They campaigned about the pink tax 85 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:36,760 Speaker 1: that oppressed women fuel while you know women don't get 86 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 1: paid as much as men. And then they did the 87 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:45,040 Speaker 1: meatless whopper during a football game. There might be somebody 88 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:47,400 Speaker 1: would eat a meatless whopper, but not somebody's watching a 89 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 1: football game. So now they are announcing the closure of 90 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 1: four hundred restaurants. This was their ad in twenty nineteen 91 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 1: net neutrality, because if there's one thing you care about 92 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:04,680 Speaker 1: when you're eating a burger, is you want to know 93 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:09,400 Speaker 1: that they're in favor of a left wing cause, hey, 94 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 1: how are you doing? 95 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:12,880 Speaker 6: You know what number ninety eight was following number ninety eight? 96 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 1: You got the whopper? 97 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:19,040 Speaker 8: Yeah, so you got the slow access whopper pass. 98 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:21,120 Speaker 7: It's on the menu right there at the fast, medium and. 99 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:26,920 Speaker 3: Slow, the slow mbps, fast MVPs or hyper fast mbps 100 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:29,640 Speaker 3: MVPs of course standing for making burgers per second. 101 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 4: So if you know a wapper, now we have to 102 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 4: take twenty six dollars. 103 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 3: Well, that's that's how you get it fast. 104 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:35,160 Speaker 5: It's the highest priority. 105 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 3: This is like a Latens like fifteen yeah, fastening slow 106 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 3: Link's like maybe like fifteen twenty nuts. 107 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 1: What are you talking about? 108 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 3: Burgurking Corporation believes that they can sell more and make 109 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,000 Speaker 3: more money selling like chicken sandwiches and chicken fries. So 110 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 3: now they're slowing down the access to the walker. Were 111 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:50,159 Speaker 3: you giving an option of the chicken sandwich or yeah, 112 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:51,919 Speaker 3: I don't want a chicken sandwich. I doadn't want a wopper. 113 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 6: You don't have any werst ready that aren't. 114 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:59,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, the sandwich is ready. 115 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:01,160 Speaker 3: I'm just not allowed to actually deliver to get it 116 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 3: to you. You can't give me the sandwich. 117 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 1: It's ready, but you can't give it to me. The 118 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:06,480 Speaker 1: waterer neutility was repealed. They voted on it. 119 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:07,599 Speaker 4: This doesn't make any sense. 120 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 3: Unfortunately, I have no other choice. Oh my god, this 121 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:11,840 Speaker 3: is the worst thing I've ever heard of. See like, 122 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 3: he got the best and now he's he to me. 123 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 6: You paid twenty. 124 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, he ordered it. 125 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:21,160 Speaker 1: Now he's a higher priority. So I came across this 126 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 1: ad and it tickled me. It's a man by the 127 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:28,600 Speaker 1: name of Terrence, and he's a white guy, looks about 128 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:32,000 Speaker 1: like Ed Sheeran, and he wanted to complain about a 129 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:34,200 Speaker 1: burger that he had purchased at a local Burger King. 130 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 1: So he sent a direct message to Burger King through 131 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:39,160 Speaker 1: social media. 132 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:42,200 Speaker 3: I DMed Burger King and said I need to make 133 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 3: a complaint. They said, Hi, Terrence, what is the complaint? 134 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:48,200 Speaker 3: So I sent them a picture of one of their 135 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 3: burgers and said, ain't no one eating this? Look at it, 136 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 3: to which they replied with look at you. And sent 137 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,640 Speaker 3: a picture of me and said, big off forehead. It's 138 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 3: obviously photoshopped. So I said, nah, that's photoshopped, and then 139 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 3: they sent you again, playing TikTok toe on my forehead 140 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:11,720 Speaker 3: and said your turn, it's obviously edited. How do you 141 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 3: even reply to this? 142 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:16,880 Speaker 1: The worst part the picture of him wasn't photoshopped at all. 143 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:20,440 Speaker 1: You can tell him, Kurt Cameron of the famous Growing 144 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 1: Pains man. If it worked for Growing Pains, I wouldn't 145 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 1: be on the Michael Berry Show. The media bubble is real. 146 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:37,120 Speaker 1: A new study shows a massive disconnect between journalists and 147 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:37,560 Speaker 1: the public. 148 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:38,320 Speaker 2: Now. 149 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:42,000 Speaker 1: I know that's nothing new to you, but it is 150 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 1: worth noting because I was at a dinner party last 151 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 1: night and the starting point for every conversation is stories 152 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:53,960 Speaker 1: that are in the news. Now. The good thing is 153 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:58,720 Speaker 1: there's more competition to provide news than there ever was, 154 00:08:59,679 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 1: and that means a couple of different things. It means 155 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 1: you can choose your news. You want liberal news, you 156 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:09,080 Speaker 1: want conservative news. It's hard to get down the road, 157 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 1: down the middle of the road, you know, objective news 158 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:17,400 Speaker 1: any longer that doesn't have any spin because what used 159 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:20,240 Speaker 1: to be considered that is all left wing now. So 160 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:22,960 Speaker 1: now everything that is not left wing is a reaction 161 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:28,319 Speaker 1: to that, but it means that at least you can 162 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:32,079 Speaker 1: flip channels and see how a story's being portrayed by 163 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:36,719 Speaker 1: various networks and maybe from that come to your conclusion. 164 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:41,520 Speaker 1: What I find interesting, however, is that as the news 165 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:47,520 Speaker 1: business is dying, and they are dying, especially particularly on 166 00:09:47,559 --> 00:09:51,840 Speaker 1: the left, as that is happening, they don't seem willing 167 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:57,360 Speaker 1: or able to self correct because they have no sense 168 00:09:57,640 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 1: of self awareness. They don't realize they're the problem. They 169 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:05,640 Speaker 1: hate you, and they just keep getting madder at you. 170 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:10,079 Speaker 1: But there's not enough of them to support them. They've 171 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:14,200 Speaker 1: tried liberal talk radio again and again and again, and 172 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:18,960 Speaker 1: they just can't get it. They cannot get it. There 173 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:22,320 Speaker 1: are so many conservative talkers in this country. There are 174 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:26,720 Speaker 1: people that are lifelong liberals who wanted to be talkers 175 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:30,160 Speaker 1: and switched over to being a conservative. Some of them 176 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 1: are national now some of them and I'm not faulting them. 177 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:35,439 Speaker 1: Look as long as they're saying what I think is 178 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:37,080 Speaker 1: the right thing, I really they don't care where they 179 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:41,520 Speaker 1: came from. But there are people. There is so much 180 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:47,559 Speaker 1: conservative content out there. There's kind of right wing neocon conservative, 181 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 1: a lot of that. There's conservatorian, there's more libertarian than conservatorian. 182 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 1: But that's where the American public is now. So A 183 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 1: new in depth study by the supposedly non partisan but 184 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:07,440 Speaker 1: very left leaning Pew Research Center found that sixty five 185 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:11,920 Speaker 1: percent of the nearly twelve thousand journalists surveyed say the 186 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:16,920 Speaker 1: media do a solid job of quote covering the most 187 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:21,880 Speaker 1: important stories of the day and reporting news accurately. Sixty 188 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:25,600 Speaker 1: five percent of the twelve thousand journalists believe, yeah, they're 189 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 1: doing a great job, but a solid majority of the 190 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:33,720 Speaker 1: American public at large has the opposite view. Only thirty 191 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:36,839 Speaker 1: five percent of them feel that way. That's a thirty 192 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 1: thirty point perception gap that means these people have no 193 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:51,040 Speaker 1: clue how they are perceived. When asked if journalists perform 194 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:55,160 Speaker 1: well when quote serving as a watchdog over elected leaders, 195 00:11:55,880 --> 00:12:00,760 Speaker 1: fifty two percent of journalists agreed, but the number dropped 196 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:05,839 Speaker 1: precipitously when the general public was asked, with fewer than 197 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:13,280 Speaker 1: thirty percent agreeing with the assessment. When asked if journalists 198 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 1: manage and correct misinformation consistently, forty three percent of those 199 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:22,040 Speaker 1: in the industry said yes, So look, more than half 200 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:23,840 Speaker 1: of them agree, yeah, we don't do that very well. 201 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:26,920 Speaker 1: While just twenty five percent of the general public agreed. 202 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:31,800 Speaker 1: Almost half forty six percent of journalists said they felt 203 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:36,240 Speaker 1: connected to their readers and viewers, while just one quarter 204 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:38,439 Speaker 1: of the public says they feel connected to the media 205 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:43,520 Speaker 1: outlets from which they get their news. And imagine that. 206 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 1: Imagine that there was once a day of Walter cronkink 207 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:50,240 Speaker 1: Edward R. 208 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:50,640 Speaker 2: Murrow. 209 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:59,400 Speaker 1: We respected and admired these people. Bob Schiffer, longtime journalist, 210 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:05,800 Speaker 1: did a piece several years ago on how insulated journalists 211 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:09,960 Speaker 1: have become. Here's an example. In the twenty twenty election, 212 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 1: just nine percent of Manhattan voters voted for Donald Trump. 213 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:17,920 Speaker 1: In DC he got just five point four percent. Think 214 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 1: about that. So these people that's where they live. They 215 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:24,000 Speaker 1: live in New York and DC. They're surrounded by other 216 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:27,839 Speaker 1: people who view the world exactly and so you get 217 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:31,920 Speaker 1: a confirmation bias. You know, how do the people in 218 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:35,200 Speaker 1: Charlie Manson's cult think what they're doing is okay because 219 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:38,800 Speaker 1: everybody around them says it is. If everybody around you 220 00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 1: lives in a polygamous cult, you think that's normal. That's 221 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 1: why they don't let you see the outside world. That's 222 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:48,520 Speaker 1: why in Iran and China. They shut off the outside world, 223 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:52,240 Speaker 1: the Internet and television. And because as long as you 224 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 1: don't know what else is going on out there, you 225 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 1: think the whole world is living the way you are. 226 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:04,000 Speaker 1: Just give you a couple of examples of how out 227 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:06,520 Speaker 1: of touch the media is. And look, we could play 228 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:09,360 Speaker 1: this game all day. I get it. Let's start with 229 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:10,320 Speaker 1: Don Lemon. 230 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 7: I don't do opinion, and I know that the difference 231 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:16,000 Speaker 7: for me is I do point of view. So I'm 232 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,880 Speaker 7: giving my point of view as an American, as a 233 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:21,920 Speaker 7: black man who happens to be gay. But I'm through 234 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:26,320 Speaker 7: that lens. But I'm also I'm also I also represent CNN, 235 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:28,640 Speaker 7: and so I must tell the truth. And if I don't, 236 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:31,080 Speaker 7: if my facts are wrong, then I have to clarify 237 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:32,480 Speaker 7: it and I have to come on television and I 238 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 7: have to apologize and I say I got that wrong. 239 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:39,920 Speaker 1: How about we do a little montage of this unbiased 240 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:43,680 Speaker 1: because they think they are this unbiased news. This is 241 00:14:43,680 --> 00:14:47,080 Speaker 1: a montage of CNN and MSNBC. 242 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:49,840 Speaker 9: You're hitting a lot of Republicans who are outrage over 243 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:52,640 Speaker 9: President Biden's handling of the exit, especially in the so 244 00:14:52,760 --> 00:14:57,720 Speaker 9: called Freedom Caucus. If they support the former guy, the 245 00:14:57,720 --> 00:14:59,720 Speaker 9: one who set all of this in motion in. 246 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:00,400 Speaker 1: The first place. 247 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:06,280 Speaker 9: The hypocrisy is off the charts and it is sickening. 248 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:09,080 Speaker 10: All right, everybody, good evening. We begin the readout tonight 249 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 10: with two cases which will once again tell us where 250 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:15,840 Speaker 10: we are as a country. Whether armed primarily white men 251 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:18,240 Speaker 10: can continue to take matters into their own hands and 252 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:20,920 Speaker 10: serve as judge, jury, and executioner. 253 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 1: So I had this segment laid out where I was 254 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:24,960 Speaker 1: going to call out all of the people who are 255 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:29,240 Speaker 1: prolonging this pandemic with phony COVID cures and anti vaccine garbage. 256 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:30,680 Speaker 11: Now in a moment, you're going to see the sheer 257 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:33,360 Speaker 11: spectacle of a sitting Republican US senator, one of the 258 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:36,520 Speaker 11: most powerful individuals in the country, representing one of the 259 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:39,800 Speaker 11: biggest states in the nation, pretty much grobbling at the 260 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:43,000 Speaker 11: feet of a right wing cable TV entertainer, which certainly 261 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 11: reflects the state of the Union. 262 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:48,280 Speaker 1: Was the peaceful transfer of power in January something of 263 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:48,960 Speaker 1: a miracle. 264 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 10: We're moving toward a kind of politics where I remember 265 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:55,080 Speaker 10: the new Republican strategy is to follow voters to their cars. 266 00:15:55,480 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 10: They now have normalized the idea of using political violence 267 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:00,600 Speaker 10: to get the ends they want that. 268 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:06,480 Speaker 1: About twenty million people across America watched Thursday's prime time hearing. 269 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:09,640 Speaker 11: Twenty million viewers is in the ballpark with big television 270 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:10,200 Speaker 11: events like. 271 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:12,360 Speaker 1: Sunday Night football. Oh my god, But I want you 272 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:13,240 Speaker 1: to compare. 273 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:18,200 Speaker 2: Those twenty million viewers with the biggest ratings. Donald Trump 274 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:20,560 Speaker 2: gardnered for his reality show. 275 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:23,400 Speaker 1: Awent fourteen Show of Celebrity Fami. 276 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:25,400 Speaker 11: This was the build up. 277 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:30,440 Speaker 2: They had seven point six million viewers. 278 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:40,320 Speaker 1: That's what's become of independent, impartial, non biased, unbiased objective journalism. 279 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:45,400 Speaker 2: The Michael Berry Show. 280 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 1: Of job creation in the United States since February of 281 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 1: nineteen twenty, over fifty percent of the three million net 282 00:16:55,000 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 1: jobs added in the last three years we're created in 283 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:09,359 Speaker 1: only two states. Can you guess? Texas and Florida? In 284 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:14,119 Speaker 1: other words, take those two states out and you reduce 285 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:18,480 Speaker 1: to only half the job description out of the other 286 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:21,640 Speaker 1: forty eight states. The proof is in the putting. It's 287 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:26,160 Speaker 1: why federalism works on many levels when you have fifty 288 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:34,840 Speaker 1: different states with fifty different sets of rules, regulations, courts, laws, cultures. 289 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:39,600 Speaker 1: This is why democrats don't want states to be able 290 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:43,520 Speaker 1: to do anything other than what the federal government tells 291 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:48,280 Speaker 1: them to do because they want crammed down policies at 292 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:54,879 Speaker 1: the national level. That way, Texas or Florida won't be 293 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:59,159 Speaker 1: able to reduce their tax rate and see how that works. 294 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:03,879 Speaker 1: They won't be able to reduce the choke hold regulation 295 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:08,920 Speaker 1: on businesses. They won't be able to allow the individual 296 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:12,320 Speaker 1: to own a gun. After basic safeguards are put in place, 297 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:17,280 Speaker 1: they'll be able to take away the guns from everybody 298 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:20,480 Speaker 1: but the cops and the criminals. Good luck waiting on 299 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:24,080 Speaker 1: the cops to get there, because if it's three minutes, 300 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:27,119 Speaker 1: that's two minutes fifty seconds too long, not their fault, 301 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:34,080 Speaker 1: but fifty laboratories to experiment, and the beauty of those 302 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:39,240 Speaker 1: laboratories are. Then you really get to see how California's 303 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:43,520 Speaker 1: leftist policies are hurting them. California has the prettiest weather 304 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:48,439 Speaker 1: in topography in the country. Is there any doubt Is 305 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:53,440 Speaker 1: there any doubt of that? No, It's why so many 306 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:58,040 Speaker 1: people moved out there once the industries began to develop, 307 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:03,560 Speaker 1: particularly for creative people, the movies and music and those 308 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:06,600 Speaker 1: sorts of things. It's why people moved from New York 309 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 1: out there to enjoy the wonderful weather, followed by Florida. 310 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:17,119 Speaker 1: That's no secret. But look at how many people have 311 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:22,040 Speaker 1: moved from California to Florida because you've got similar weather 312 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 1: and much better regulatory environment, much better culture. When every 313 00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:35,080 Speaker 1: state can create their own framework for how you live 314 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:41,800 Speaker 1: that the people of that state embrace and embody, then 315 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:43,720 Speaker 1: the rest of us can say, I might like to 316 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:47,440 Speaker 1: move to Florida or Texas or Tennessee or Louisiana or 317 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:52,160 Speaker 1: Mississippi or Georgia. And that's what people are doing. And 318 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 1: how many people are now moving to California or New 319 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:05,919 Speaker 1: York or Illinois. The Blue states are watching jobs disappear, 320 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:12,040 Speaker 1: and those jobs are not just going away, they're relocating 321 00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:20,400 Speaker 1: to the Red states. They're relocating to better, more business 322 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:28,800 Speaker 1: friendly environments, more freedom friendly environments. My wife was Secretary 323 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:31,400 Speaker 1: of State of Texas almost ten years and nine years ago, 324 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:36,879 Speaker 1: and one of her responsibilities was economic development, So she 325 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:39,960 Speaker 1: spent a lot of time talking to companies looking to 326 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:46,840 Speaker 1: move to Texas and those companies were primarily from California, 327 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 1: New York, and Illinois, and they were blown away. You 328 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:54,359 Speaker 1: mean you have no income tax. No, we have a 329 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:57,680 Speaker 1: franchise tax. But no income tax, but it's a lower 330 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:01,000 Speaker 1: tax burden, to be clear. And you are going to 331 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:03,560 Speaker 1: take pay property taxes, and you are going to have 332 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:06,320 Speaker 1: a franchise tax on your business, but you're not going 333 00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:09,680 Speaker 1: to have that income tax. It's going to make a 334 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:13,760 Speaker 1: huge difference. Wow. Yeah, And we don't allow it. We 335 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:16,320 Speaker 1: have tort reform here. We don't allow you to get 336 00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:19,280 Speaker 1: sued just because you're a business and somebody wants to 337 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:21,520 Speaker 1: make make you know, wants a lottery ticket of what 338 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:26,639 Speaker 1: can they get out of you? And and and and 339 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,639 Speaker 1: fill in the blank. All the different reasons people wanted 340 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:35,240 Speaker 1: to come to this state, dramatic reasons to come to 341 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:40,639 Speaker 1: this state. Those reasons matter, and it makes a big 342 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:47,840 Speaker 1: difference for how businesses operate. The problem is the mentality 343 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:50,600 Speaker 1: in Washington, d C. Is the same mentality of the 344 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:55,160 Speaker 1: Blue States, and the same mentality that is lost. That 345 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 1: that that has resulted in job losses and wealth loss 346 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:03,159 Speaker 1: in the Blue States has been brought to the federal 347 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:11,720 Speaker 1: government and that is bringing our country down. We are 348 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:16,159 Speaker 1: not improving our ability to manufacture, We're not improving our 349 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:22,480 Speaker 1: ability to find and improve upon energy sources. We are 350 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:29,359 Speaker 1: not improving on our ability to do business. Whatever reason 351 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:31,359 Speaker 1: you may think for the United States to be the 352 00:22:31,359 --> 00:22:40,199 Speaker 1: world's superpower, it is not primarily our military. It is 353 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:46,159 Speaker 1: primarily our economy. The fact that we could create so 354 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:51,720 Speaker 1: much wealth meant we could build a great military. The 355 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:55,480 Speaker 1: fact that we had stability in our court system, the 356 00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 1: fact that we had a sense of fairness and opportunity, 357 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:01,800 Speaker 1: meant that we became the dream team, the all star 358 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:07,960 Speaker 1: team for the world. We didn't build this great country 359 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:12,800 Speaker 1: on illegal aliens fleeing the court systems and the prison 360 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 1: systems and as cartel operatives coming through our southern border. 361 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:23,280 Speaker 1: We got the best and brightest Jews fleeing Nazi Germany 362 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:28,160 Speaker 1: that would go on to make great developments and discoveries 363 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:40,440 Speaker 1: and inventions came to this country. Irani's fleeing, the Homani cartel, 364 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:47,919 Speaker 1: the Muslim theocracy came to this country. Indians who wanted 365 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:53,520 Speaker 1: to learn engineering, in physics and mathematics came to this country. 366 00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:58,840 Speaker 1: The world came to this country. Money flowed to this country. 367 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:07,960 Speaker 1: Now that is changing, and it's not accidental, and it's 368 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:14,000 Speaker 1: not fatalistic, and it's not a destiny. It's bad decisions. 369 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:18,000 Speaker 1: Our bad decision in Ukraine pushed Russia in a corner, 370 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:22,960 Speaker 1: and Russian Russia turned out to be a very very 371 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:28,640 Speaker 1: powerful foe in convincing the Chinese how they could bring 372 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:33,320 Speaker 1: us harm that and the Chinese owned Joe Biden, who's 373 00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:35,600 Speaker 1: collapsing our government in front of us. And we are 374 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:39,640 Speaker 1: watching a reordering on the world stage that is going 375 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:46,400 Speaker 1: to be a generational setback. It's coming. Inflation in levels 376 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:52,199 Speaker 1: you've not seen in your lifetime, a reduction in the 377 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:54,840 Speaker 1: quality the standard of living in this country that you've 378 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 1: not seen in your lifetime, a setback of all the 379 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:02,640 Speaker 1: great gains. It is coming. I don't wish it to come. 380 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:06,440 Speaker 1: I don't revel in it. I see it, and I'm 381 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:10,080 Speaker 1: preparing for it. 382 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:15,679 Speaker 2: Very brigade activate the Michael Berry Show. 383 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:22,000 Speaker 1: You've all heard of the reference to the slippery slope, right. 384 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:25,320 Speaker 1: I was reading a report yesterday in a medical journal 385 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:37,040 Speaker 1: that said that cigarettes are a gateway to more powerful drugs, 386 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:40,040 Speaker 1: and it's not. There are lots of there's been lots 387 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:45,359 Speaker 1: of study of this over the years. But one of 388 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:48,880 Speaker 1: the reasons they find that to be the case. I'm sorry, 389 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:58,400 Speaker 1: not cigarettes marijuana is that it opens up receptors to addiction. 390 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:03,000 Speaker 1: No out I don't believe that marijuana should be illegal. 391 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 1: You're free to disagree with me. You're free to think 392 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:10,800 Speaker 1: I'm a horrible person. That's fine, and you're free to think, well, 393 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:12,800 Speaker 1: the only thinks that because he's a user. I'm not 394 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:16,439 Speaker 1: a user. I have tried it, but it didn't do 395 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:21,840 Speaker 1: anything for me. I do like bourbon and wine and beer. 396 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:24,960 Speaker 1: And there was a time that the same mindset was 397 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,760 Speaker 1: in effect with that we had prohibition in this country, 398 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:31,359 Speaker 1: might I remind you, And it did not end well. 399 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:36,359 Speaker 1: In fact, our government, this same United States government, during prohibition, 400 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 1: one of their ways to get people to stop drinking, 401 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:43,679 Speaker 1: which they couldn't seem to be able to do, was 402 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:48,439 Speaker 1: they sent out poisoned alcohol so that when people would 403 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:52,479 Speaker 1: consume the alcohol, they would die. And that was supposed 404 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:54,880 Speaker 1: to spread fear in the land that I don't want 405 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:58,359 Speaker 1: to drink that alcohol or I'll die. But it didn't work. 406 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:05,199 Speaker 1: But the government murdered people for their purposes. Wow, was 407 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:09,120 Speaker 1: that a precursor That should have been our wake up 408 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:11,800 Speaker 1: call to stop trusting a government. And that was one 409 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:15,879 Speaker 1: hundred years ago. The only thing that came out of 410 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:23,359 Speaker 1: that prohibition was NASCAR. The mafia was more powerful than ever. 411 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:26,679 Speaker 1: You see, when people want something bad enough, they'll go 412 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:31,000 Speaker 1: underground to get it. You can't just say, can't just 413 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:37,760 Speaker 1: by legislative fiat say not gonna happen. But I have 414 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:41,000 Speaker 1: to ask you, you know, when we talk about the 415 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:45,760 Speaker 1: slippery slopes of arguments, if I were to ask you, 416 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:53,119 Speaker 1: let's take the pandemic. What more could our government have 417 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:58,199 Speaker 1: done to punish us? What more tyranny could they have 418 00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:02,960 Speaker 1: visited upon us that they did? If we started with 419 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:07,160 Speaker 1: them doing nothing, how far from there to the worst 420 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:12,160 Speaker 1: thing you can imagine did we get? In Australia, they 421 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:17,639 Speaker 1: locked people into prisons. In China, they literally fastened the 422 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:21,000 Speaker 1: doors closed. You could not escape. Can you imagine how 423 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:24,879 Speaker 1: claustrophobic you had to feel. Can you imagine how mad 424 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:27,520 Speaker 1: you would have to go in that rubber room. That's 425 00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:33,600 Speaker 1: a torture palace. That's awful. Our government may not have 426 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:36,720 Speaker 1: gone that far, but they went pretty damn far. Do 427 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:40,120 Speaker 1: you remember the moms that were out in the park 428 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:43,720 Speaker 1: because they lived in tiny apartments and their kids were 429 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:47,000 Speaker 1: stir crazy, and the moms needed a moment. These kids 430 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:49,880 Speaker 1: needed some fresh air, and they took them out and 431 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,600 Speaker 1: they arrested them in front of their children, mothers and 432 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:56,240 Speaker 1: fathers in front of their children. You wouldn't believe that 433 00:28:56,240 --> 00:29:00,920 Speaker 1: would happen in this country, but it did. Go look 434 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,440 Speaker 1: up the Tuskegee syphilis study. It's a wonder black people 435 00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:08,360 Speaker 1: trust the government to this day. Go look at what 436 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:11,080 Speaker 1: they did to black people so they could study syphilis, 437 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:18,440 Speaker 1: treating them like mice, like animals. How quickly people have 438 00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:22,560 Speaker 1: forgotten what our government has done where our government has lied. 439 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:29,760 Speaker 1: Was fdr In any way aware ahead of time or 440 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:35,560 Speaker 1: more of Pearl Harbor? I don't know, but I'll tell 441 00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:38,080 Speaker 1: you the people who said that he was and allowed 442 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:44,160 Speaker 1: it to happen, because that inspired the action that inspired 443 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:47,120 Speaker 1: us to get into the war, that dragged us into 444 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:52,880 Speaker 1: the war. This idea of provoking a clash, a shooting, 445 00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:59,520 Speaker 1: a riot, a murder, this is not new. You remember 446 00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:02,640 Speaker 1: the white punk in South Carolina that went into a 447 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:06,040 Speaker 1: prayer group and as the members of the church were 448 00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:09,960 Speaker 1: holding his hand to pray over him, he pulls out 449 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:12,720 Speaker 1: his gun and shoots all of them. Do you remember 450 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 1: why he did it? He wanted to incite a race riot. 451 00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:25,520 Speaker 1: The Blacks would be so angry over this that they'd 452 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:34,440 Speaker 1: start killing white people. So, if you were the devil, 453 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:40,400 Speaker 1: what would you do that's not currently being done? I 454 00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:41,920 Speaker 1: send it to the Great Paul Harvey. 455 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:47,600 Speaker 2: If I were the devil, If I were the devil, 456 00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:52,880 Speaker 2: if I were the Prince of darkness, I'd want to 457 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:55,760 Speaker 2: indulp the whole world in darkness, and I'd have a 458 00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,640 Speaker 2: third of its real estate and four fifths of its population. 459 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:01,360 Speaker 2: But I wouldn't be happy. I have seized the ripest 460 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:06,560 Speaker 2: apple on the tree the So I'd set about, however 461 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:11,520 Speaker 2: necessary to take over the United States. I'd subvert the churches. First. 462 00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:14,560 Speaker 2: I'd begin with a campaign of whispers. With the wisdom 463 00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:16,560 Speaker 2: of a serpent, I would whisper to you as I 464 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:20,680 Speaker 2: whispered to Eve, do as you please. To the young, 465 00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:23,040 Speaker 2: I would whisper that the Bible is a myth. I 466 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:25,960 Speaker 2: would convince them that man created God instead of the 467 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,800 Speaker 2: other way around. I would confide that what's bad is 468 00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:32,760 Speaker 2: good and what's good is square. And the old I 469 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:37,760 Speaker 2: would teach to pray after me our father, which are 470 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:43,600 Speaker 2: in Washington. And then I'd get organized. I'd educate authors 471 00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:46,520 Speaker 2: in how to make the lirid literature exciting, so that 472 00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,800 Speaker 2: anything else would appear dull. And noninteresting. I'd threaten TV 473 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:53,800 Speaker 2: with dirtier movies and vice versa. I peddle narcotics to 474 00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:56,760 Speaker 2: whom I could. I'd sell alcohol to ladies and gentlemen 475 00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:01,160 Speaker 2: of distinction. I'd tranquilize the rest with pill If I 476 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:04,160 Speaker 2: were the Devil, I'd soon have families at war with themselves, 477 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:07,760 Speaker 2: churches at war with themselves, and nations at war with 478 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:12,840 Speaker 2: themselves until each in its turn was consumed, and with 479 00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:19,240 Speaker 2: promises of higher ratings. I'd have mesmerizing media fanning the flames. 480 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:22,680 Speaker 2: If I were the Devil, I would encourage schools to 481 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:26,120 Speaker 2: refine young intellects, but neglect to discipline emotions, just let 482 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,560 Speaker 2: those run wild until before you knew it. You'd have 483 00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:32,720 Speaker 2: to have drug sniffing dogs and metal detectors at every 484 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:38,600 Speaker 2: school house door. Within a decade, i'd have prisons overflowing. 485 00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:43,480 Speaker 2: I'd have judges promoting pornography. Soon I could evict God 486 00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:46,760 Speaker 2: from the courthouse, then from the schoolhouse, and then from 487 00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:49,560 Speaker 2: the houses of Congress and in his own churches. I 488 00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:54,200 Speaker 2: would substitute psychology for religion and deify science. I would 489 00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:58,240 Speaker 2: lure priests and pastures into misusing boys and girls, and 490 00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:01,040 Speaker 2: church money. If I so the devil, I'd make the 491 00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:04,560 Speaker 2: symbol of Easter an egg, and the symbol of Christmas 492 00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:07,160 Speaker 2: a bottle. If I were the devil, I'd take from 493 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:11,040 Speaker 2: those who have and give to those who wanted, until 494 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:14,840 Speaker 2: I had killed the incentive of the ambitious. And what 495 00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:19,520 Speaker 2: will you bet? I couldn't get whole states to promote 496 00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:22,840 Speaker 2: gambling as the way to get rich. 497 00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:25,680 Speaker 1: I would caution. 498 00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:31,800 Speaker 2: Against extremes in hard work, in patriotism, in moral conduct. 499 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,680 Speaker 2: I would convince the young that marriage is old fashioned, 500 00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:40,200 Speaker 2: that swinging is more fun, that what you see on 501 00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:44,440 Speaker 2: TV is the way to be. And thus I could 502 00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:49,040 Speaker 2: undress you in public, and I could lure you into 503 00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:55,560 Speaker 2: bed with diseases for which there is no cure. In 504 00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:57,400 Speaker 2: other words, if I were the devil, I'd just keep 505 00:33:57,480 --> 00:33:58,920 Speaker 2: right on doing what he's doing.