1 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:12,160 Speaker 1: It's that time time times luck and load. The Michael 2 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:14,160 Speaker 1: Verry Show is on the air. 3 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:24,440 Speaker 2: Good morning, Michaelberry, gild morning, Michael. 4 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 1: Berry, Good morning, Michael, Good morning, Michael good mornings. 5 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 3: Are good morning, Michael, Zave Sailor, Good morning, El Casina. 6 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 1: Good morning, Michael. Hello, Hello, are you there? Good morning you, 7 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 1: Michael Berry. How you learned that? Are ready tomorrow? Money 8 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 1: more excess. 9 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 4: Listen to this good morning Texas morning, your car, Good 10 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 4: morning Texas. 11 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:56,720 Speaker 3: We're happy here to. 12 00:00:56,800 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 4: Talk about everything. 13 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:02,200 Speaker 1: We're not wearing. 14 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:20,480 Speaker 4: Goody, good hardy Lauri wake Unstam. 15 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 1: The Quorum Report reported yesterday headline Trump pollster finds Texas 16 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 1: GOP voters oppose th HC Band by double digits via 17 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 1: the pollsters at Fabrizio, Lee and Associates. Quote, the polling 18 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:53,800 Speaker 1: data reveals troubling signs for the Republicans electoral prospects, with 19 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 1: Republican voters opposing Governor Abbott signing SB three That's Dan 20 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 1: Patrick's pot bill into law or pot prohibition by a 21 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:12,400 Speaker 1: significant forty four to thirty one percent margin. This internal 22 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 1: party division could prove costly in future elections, particularly as 23 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 1: Republicans have traditionally relied on unified support from their base. 24 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 1: The political damage extends beyond Governor Abbott, with the hemp 25 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: ban making voters less favorable toward the Texas State Legislature 26 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:38,680 Speaker 1: by a devastating fifty one point margin. Among voters aware 27 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 1: of the ban, fifty seven percent report being less favorable 28 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 1: toward the legislature, while only six percent view it more favorably, 29 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:58,960 Speaker 1: a nearly ten to one negative ratio. Well, let's go 30 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 1: ahead and have that conversation that makes people uncomfortable, shall we. 31 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:13,680 Speaker 1: The reason for the hemp man was never ever that 32 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:18,520 Speaker 1: Hemp's going to kill you. When Dan Patrick held like 33 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:22,519 Speaker 1: he had dog treats, held a bag up in front 34 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 1: of his press conference and said, why are we debating this? 35 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:33,519 Speaker 1: Would you take this? You could die? I was embarrassed 36 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 1: for him. Pau Paul, please don't talk about things you 37 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 1: don't know anything about, because there's only two options here. 38 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 1: Either number one, you're so stupid, and I feel bad 39 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 1: if you are. You're so stupid that you believe that, 40 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:58,200 Speaker 1: or number two, you're smarter than that. You don't believe that, 41 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 1: but you're saying stupid things because you're dancing to somebody 42 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:10,560 Speaker 1: else's tune. Texas Medical marijuana company spent big on Republican 43 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 1: lobbyists to push the THCHC ban. Medical marijuana company Texas 44 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 1: Original Compassionate Cultivation has been pushing for a ban over 45 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:24,280 Speaker 1: falling sales because users switch to Delta eight, Delta nine 46 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 1: or THCHCA that can be purchased through retail stores. In 47 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:32,160 Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, in order to sell the THHC ban, 48 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:37,800 Speaker 1: they quote hired lobbyist Logan Spence, Patrick's former chief of staff. 49 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:42,799 Speaker 1: Ethics requirements for lobbyists in Texas do not require exact reporting, 50 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:46,599 Speaker 1: but Texas Original has paid spends at least two hundred 51 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:49,840 Speaker 1: nine thousand dollars and possibly more than four hundred seventeen 52 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:56,040 Speaker 1: thousand dollars as of December thirty. First, let me tell 53 00:04:56,080 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 1: you why this matters. We have had republic condominance since 54 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four when George W. Bush beat Ann Richards. 55 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 1: That began a cascade domino effect of Republicans dominating state 56 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 1: wide office. You'll remember when President Bush, then Governor Bush, 57 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:27,280 Speaker 1: ran for president in two thousand, he had Speaker of 58 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:33,000 Speaker 1: the State House Pete Laney in his opening video and 59 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:37,279 Speaker 1: at the convention nominating him. George Bush's a good guy. 60 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:41,920 Speaker 1: I'm an old fashioned Democrat. Pete Laney here, Speaker of 61 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:46,000 Speaker 1: the House of Texas. I've enjoyed working with George Bush. 62 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 1: Democrats still held a number of positions, and Pete Laney 63 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:57,599 Speaker 1: was no Liberal, but Republicans began a domination by winning 64 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:01,800 Speaker 1: state rep seats. By winning the state Senate seats, Republicans 65 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:11,680 Speaker 1: began an incredible run and as a result, Democrats that's 66 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:13,920 Speaker 1: why George Soross is pouring money back into the state. 67 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:19,520 Speaker 1: We're out. You want to know how you squander that lead. 68 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:23,320 Speaker 1: You want to know how you squander that dominance. You 69 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 1: go into the home of people, some of them veterans, 70 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:32,200 Speaker 1: some of them elderly, some of them guys are thirty 71 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:35,680 Speaker 1: years old. That ain't bothering you. You kick down their door, 72 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:37,200 Speaker 1: you arrest them, and you send them to prison for 73 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:43,760 Speaker 1: smoking pot. Are they harming anybody? Nope, This ain't really 74 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:50,040 Speaker 1: for madness anymore, this idea that them dope heads are 75 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:55,800 Speaker 1: out harming anybody. Because here's the problem. You're not picking 76 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:57,919 Speaker 1: on some nineteen year old black kid you don't like 77 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:03,159 Speaker 1: anymore in the hood smoking pot. Now that same drug 78 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:06,479 Speaker 1: is being used by an eighty five year old woman 79 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:12,720 Speaker 1: with chronic arthritis. That same woman is being used by 80 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 1: somebody who looks like Marcus Littrell, Ardakota Meyer or Chris Kyle. 81 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 1: And he's got a wife, and he's got kids, and 82 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 1: he's got parents, and truth be told, he's got a 83 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 1: lot of other veterans who are doing the same thing 84 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:34,080 Speaker 1: because they're suffering, and that's giving them relief. And Dan 85 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 1: Patrick is in the process of destroying that Republican majority, 86 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:42,680 Speaker 1: destroying his legacy. I like Dan Patrick, known him a 87 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:46,880 Speaker 1: long time. But as I've said all along, no matter 88 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:50,000 Speaker 1: who the person is, what's good for the country, my 89 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:52,640 Speaker 1: kids are going to inherit is bigger than my friendship 90 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:56,440 Speaker 1: with you. Nothing personal. But I'm going to tell you 91 00:07:56,520 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 1: the truth. This wasn't about him. This was about people 92 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:06,440 Speaker 1: in positions, people like Alan blakemore, people like Logan Pence, 93 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 1: people who serve just as the Democrats do in Washington, DC, 94 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,200 Speaker 1: and frankly some of the Republicans. This is about Staffer's 95 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 1: getting paid a lot of money by people who wanted 96 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 1: the laws changed to make them a lot of money. 97 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:23,720 Speaker 1: And it has to be called out period. 98 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 3: In the story, Hey, what to do with Paul out 99 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:43,720 Speaker 3: of peve samba. Right now you're listening into the Michael Berryson. 100 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 2: Left a second. 101 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:51,480 Speaker 1: Longsigree, so long. 102 00:08:53,520 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 3: Long log. They you clause on the on the. 103 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:19,559 Speaker 1: Move on my debu, Get on my jac Co SUIVI 104 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:35,400 Speaker 1: jack on Jack Oh you swish the house fans out 105 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 1: there who were wondering how on earth Paul Wall made 106 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:44,719 Speaker 1: it onto our show. Funny story last week, I was 107 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 1: talking about Cody Johnson and I'm kind of giving him 108 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:52,120 Speaker 1: some grief because he's a good friend of mine, and 109 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:56,160 Speaker 1: that's what I do when I like you. And he, hey, dude, 110 00:09:56,880 --> 00:10:00,720 Speaker 1: look at this text exchange. And Paul Wall had sent 111 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:03,000 Speaker 1: him a message saying, hey, Michael Berry's talking about you 112 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 1: right now. And Cody had said, yeah, that's fine. Michael's 113 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:10,640 Speaker 1: one of my best friends. But how do you know that? 114 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 2: He says, I drive around and listen to him every day. 115 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 2: You're kidding, that's so weird. And he said, dude, I 116 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:23,240 Speaker 2: love it. And so he had filmed his car radio 117 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 2: showing seven forty AM and he said, here's an insider's trick. 118 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:32,440 Speaker 2: Turn it to ninety nine point one and you can 119 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 2: hear him better because then it's in high def HD. 120 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:39,559 Speaker 2: And so Paul Wall says in five minutes sent back 121 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 2: and he said, no, man, it's all music, because now. 122 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:48,000 Speaker 1: That's Sunday ninety nine point one. When you get there, 123 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 1: then you're like a safecracker. You turn the knob a 124 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 1: time or two and ninety nine point one point one 125 00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:01,199 Speaker 1: or whatever. I don't know how you anyway, nine nine 126 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:04,319 Speaker 1: point one is Sunday ninety nine point one. Yes, that 127 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:09,040 Speaker 1: is Dana and the crew, Dana and Jay and used 128 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:12,720 Speaker 1: to be Mark Sherman. Uh, who was the other guy? Ramon? 129 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:16,640 Speaker 1: It was Jay? Anthony? Oh so, I'm sorry it's Dana 130 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:19,959 Speaker 1: and Anthony did? Was is Jay no longer there? Or 131 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:24,520 Speaker 1: Anthony's hoon? Who? But Jay's been excuse I liked Jay. 132 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:27,679 Speaker 1: Jay was always he was always so it's always so 133 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:30,880 Speaker 1: earnest in the hallway. He was always so earnest. He 134 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:34,599 Speaker 1: he very serious and said, hey, Jay, what's up? And 135 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:38,439 Speaker 1: oh yeah, like dude, we're in radio Okay, you you 136 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:40,800 Speaker 1: don't have the nuclear codes. This ain't chernobyl. I don't 137 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 1: know what why you're so serious? Okay, you need to relax. Yeah, 138 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 1: you're right, I'm sorry, it's just we're way behind. What 139 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:48,959 Speaker 1: are you behind? 140 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 4: On? 141 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:54,079 Speaker 1: What are you? Why are you so serious? I never 142 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:57,320 Speaker 1: understood that. Rod Ryan's that way, Uh, what's up? What's up? 143 00:11:57,480 --> 00:11:59,840 Speaker 1: You see him in the hallway. What's up? What's up? Rod? 144 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:03,520 Speaker 1: We're in radio like, why are you what? It's You 145 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 1: know you've seen Loan Survivor, right. You remember the guy 146 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:14,320 Speaker 1: that gets the call from uh was it Axe or Murphy? 147 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 1: I mean his Axe. He gets the call, Hey, we're 148 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:20,120 Speaker 1: in trouble. You got to come get us. But the 149 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:23,599 Speaker 1: call doesn't go through. He just gets the call and 150 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:28,599 Speaker 1: the guys, he's a young seal and he gets the 151 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:31,120 Speaker 1: call and he goes, you know, get the lieutenant commander, 152 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:32,640 Speaker 1: I forget what the rank of the guy, Get the 153 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:36,520 Speaker 1: big dog on the phone. We're in trouble. And so 154 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:39,400 Speaker 1: he's like, oh, I can't wake him up, and he 155 00:12:39,559 --> 00:12:42,760 Speaker 1: has this very troubled look. So he goes over to 156 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:45,240 Speaker 1: his immediate boss and he goes, hey, we haven't heard 157 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 1: from the guys in whatever it is, six cycles. Well, 158 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:50,679 Speaker 1: if we can't get communication from them in six cycles, 159 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 1: we got problems. We're gonna need to call in the 160 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:56,880 Speaker 1: you know, the big you know, there's gonna be chinooks, 161 00:12:56,880 --> 00:13:00,079 Speaker 1: there's gonna be a bunch of dudes, but uh, I 162 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:02,200 Speaker 1: don't want to go wake him up because he's asleep, 163 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:04,600 Speaker 1: and said, you go wake him up, and he has 164 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:07,720 Speaker 1: this very serious look as he goes over to knock 165 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:10,079 Speaker 1: on the door because he knows he's gonna It's just 166 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:14,520 Speaker 1: it's a no win situation anyway. So that was Jay. 167 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:18,480 Speaker 1: Then there's Anthony. And the funniest thing about this is 168 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 1: on the entire programming floor and we were there for 169 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:23,600 Speaker 1: almost twenty years before we moved to our own studio. 170 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:28,839 Speaker 1: On the entire programming floor, the most talented musician on 171 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:33,599 Speaker 1: the floor, no questions asked, is Anthony. Anthony and his 172 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:37,839 Speaker 1: buddy played some gigs for us at the RCC and 173 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:42,439 Speaker 1: his buddy and I forget his name, Hardy. You know 174 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 1: what I'm talking about, Ramon, you know what I'm talking about, 175 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:50,199 Speaker 1: used to be a seller for us and then he 176 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:55,320 Speaker 1: went to like Cox or CBS. I forget anyway, something Hardy. 177 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:58,079 Speaker 1: I believe he does the best Willie Nelson you've ever heard. 178 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:02,360 Speaker 1: And they they would do a two man set that 179 00:14:02,640 --> 00:14:05,040 Speaker 1: was a show stopper. It was it was I guess, 180 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:06,720 Speaker 1: teckle me, we want the show stopper. But you get 181 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:10,679 Speaker 1: my point. Anyway. So Cody says, no, no. When you 182 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:13,760 Speaker 1: get to ninety nine point one, wait there for a moment, 183 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 1: and then slightly turn the dial one click or two clicks. 184 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:20,960 Speaker 1: I forget how many it is. And that's a little 185 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:23,960 Speaker 1: insider secret that you can try out now if you're driving. 186 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 1: And so now instead of listening to us at seven 187 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:30,880 Speaker 1: forty am on your radio dial. You can't do this 188 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,000 Speaker 1: on the old fashioned radio. We got a lot of 189 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:36,480 Speaker 1: folks that listened on the old radio that you can 190 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:38,720 Speaker 1: pick up and carry around in the in the machine 191 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:43,560 Speaker 1: shop or wherever else. But on your truck radio you 192 00:14:43,680 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 1: can go from AM seven forty am. You wait till 193 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 1: we're in the break to do this, because you don't 194 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:50,720 Speaker 1: want to bay to get hurt at home, And you 195 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:53,520 Speaker 1: turn it over to ninety nine point one, and then 196 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:57,800 Speaker 1: you wait a second, and then real delicately, you turn 197 00:14:57,920 --> 00:15:02,080 Speaker 1: it one more time, and it'll go to ninety nine 198 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 1: point one point two or something nine nine point one 199 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:08,560 Speaker 1: HD three or whatever the thing is. And now all 200 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 1: of a sudden, we sound good, real good. But the 201 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:14,080 Speaker 1: only reason not to do that is the whole reason 202 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:18,960 Speaker 1: that TV stations should have never gone to HDTV, because 203 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:22,480 Speaker 1: now you notice. Oh that how woman I used to like, 204 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:25,760 Speaker 1: she's got pock marks from when she had acne as 205 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:28,720 Speaker 1: a teenager. So if you hear everything, you'll hear me. 206 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:32,120 Speaker 1: Oh Robert Hardy. Yeah, you know what. I've been waiting 207 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:34,440 Speaker 1: for that moment that Kunda would be valuable to the show. 208 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:37,880 Speaker 1: Konda just told me. It's Robert Hardy, That's what it was. 209 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 1: And guess what else, Jay from Sunday nine to nine 210 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:44,920 Speaker 1: point one is now the general manager for the Good 211 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:51,120 Speaker 1: Sense Sandwich Shop by Kunda's house in Katie. I always 212 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:54,800 Speaker 1: like to know where people go from radio, Like who'se 213 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:58,960 Speaker 1: guy did the sports tickers? Delatti? David de Lotti? David 214 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:04,160 Speaker 1: Delotti now owns like four hundred us it quick cuts, 215 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:07,240 Speaker 1: pro cuts. What's the name of the thing, sports clips? 216 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:10,160 Speaker 1: He owns like four hundred sports clips now, which is 217 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:14,200 Speaker 1: funny because he's bald, right, But I guess I guess, 218 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:17,400 Speaker 1: you know, I guess he figured out other people new. 219 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 1: I always like David Delatty. You like David Dolatti? Why not? 220 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:25,080 Speaker 1: Oh you do love him? Oh okay, they just said, yeah, okay, 221 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:29,040 Speaker 1: all right. So anyway back to Paul Wall. What I 222 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:32,080 Speaker 1: was saying was so we was riding his slab on 223 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:35,920 Speaker 1: my way to get my grills, and Johnny Dang was like, oh, y'all. 224 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:40,080 Speaker 3: Come fins, And I was like, that's what he do 225 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:42,880 Speaker 3: is call out of people. Champ, what's up baby? Right 226 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:45,040 Speaker 3: now you are on then to the Michael Berry Show. 227 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:47,920 Speaker 3: Keep it like right here, more truth on the way, 228 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:50,600 Speaker 3: more honest and pions coming at you right here. 229 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:58,400 Speaker 1: Only on the Michael Berry Show. I said to play 230 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:06,440 Speaker 1: Paul wall Mount, Paul Mucker. Oh it's his birthday. Oh okay, Well, 231 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:14,280 Speaker 1: Paul McCartney's one hundred and eighteen years old today. All right, 232 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:21,359 Speaker 1: So let's go back to what's going on here. You know, 233 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:28,720 Speaker 1: it pains me that this is happening, But let me 234 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:33,920 Speaker 1: explain to you why and how this happens. Let's take 235 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:37,600 Speaker 1: the Republican Party back to how far do you want 236 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:42,639 Speaker 1: to go back? Eisenhower debated whether to run as a 237 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:46,679 Speaker 1: Republican or a Democrat. Douglas MacArthur did the same thing. 238 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:52,600 Speaker 1: So if we go back to nineteen fifty two, you're 239 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:58,920 Speaker 1: coming out of World War two. Truman defeats Dewey Chicago 240 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:06,480 Speaker 1: Tribune headline, Notwithstanding, Truman defeats Dewey, there is an era 241 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:10,720 Speaker 1: of good feeling in the United States. We won the war. 242 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:17,080 Speaker 1: Young men were coming back from the war, reuniting with 243 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:23,919 Speaker 1: their girl, settling in. Our economy was booming. We were 244 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:26,360 Speaker 1: really the only place in the world where our economy 245 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:32,160 Speaker 1: was booming. Great Britain was in shambles. France had been devastated, 246 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:39,760 Speaker 1: Japan had been hit by a nuclear arsenal, China had 247 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:44,520 Speaker 1: been occupied by Japan and the China of that day. 248 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:47,680 Speaker 1: If you spend any time, and it's not an easy read, 249 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:52,959 Speaker 1: but if you spend any time studying China's history, if 250 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:58,040 Speaker 1: Chang Kaishek had been able to maintain his leadership role 251 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:04,200 Speaker 1: in China, Mao and the Communists had not succeeded, China 252 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:07,200 Speaker 1: today would look very different. It's pure speculation of what 253 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:09,200 Speaker 1: it would look like, but it would look very different. 254 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:13,720 Speaker 1: But Chang Kaschek had a lot of economic problems hit 255 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:18,720 Speaker 1: him now, and the Communists the sort of farmers revolution, 256 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:21,679 Speaker 1: and then he devastated the farmers. But be that as 257 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:25,200 Speaker 1: it may, the United States after World War Two was 258 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:31,680 Speaker 1: the boom country. Much of Africa and Asia was in 259 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:38,000 Speaker 1: the process of seeking and attaining independence from their overlords. 260 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:43,800 Speaker 1: Germany France, and most notably United Kingdom. So here was 261 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:49,320 Speaker 1: the United States absolutely booming, soldiers coming home from war, 262 00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:52,879 Speaker 1: glad to be out of war. There was a housing 263 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:57,320 Speaker 1: boom because all these nineteen twenty twenty three, twenty five 264 00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:01,040 Speaker 1: year old young men, they were up with women, they 265 00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:06,760 Speaker 1: were making babies. And that's where you got this explosion 266 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 1: in the population of young babies being made, families being built. 267 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:16,760 Speaker 1: And so nineteen forty eight Truman manages to capitalize on that. 268 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:21,200 Speaker 1: The Democrat who got us through the end of the war. 269 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:27,800 Speaker 1: Nineteen fifty two, Eisenhower chooses, interestingly to run as a Republican, 270 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:33,000 Speaker 1: and he beats a guy named Adelie Stevenson, who was 271 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:37,959 Speaker 1: a professor, pretty good speaker, hell of a writer, who 272 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:40,760 Speaker 1: wore a bow tie. Think of Paul Simon if you 273 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:44,320 Speaker 1: remember the eighty eight election, Not Paul Simon, the musician, 274 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:47,760 Speaker 1: Paul Simon, the dweeb. Think of George will That was 275 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:54,320 Speaker 1: Adelie Stevenson, just a nerd. And what's the guysnam Benstein? 276 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:58,840 Speaker 1: Think of a ben Stein. Dude, funny but nerdy. So 277 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:03,440 Speaker 1: Eisenhower takes the Republican Party, takes the reins, beats a 278 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:06,720 Speaker 1: guy beats a real Republican by the name of Bob Taft, 279 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:12,159 Speaker 1: and Taft was a conservative Republican. Eisenhower was more of 280 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:16,639 Speaker 1: an administrator. He didn't have a pure political theory, just 281 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:20,840 Speaker 1: kind of what feels right, do the right thing. Interestingly, 282 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:26,280 Speaker 1: as Eisenhower is leaving the White House, he delivers practically 283 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:30,440 Speaker 1: the same speech that after two terms George Washington delivered, 284 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:37,800 Speaker 1: and that was, beware the military industrial complex, Beware the 285 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:42,840 Speaker 1: people who, in the name of a frenzied patriotism, will 286 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:46,600 Speaker 1: run your government so that taxpayers can buy their guns. 287 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:52,320 Speaker 1: Eisenhower leaves the White House in sixty his vice president, 288 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:59,639 Speaker 1: a more traditionally Republican, Richard Nixon, runs. Nixon wins the election, 289 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:03,520 Speaker 1: but much like twenty twenty, JFK steals it. Actually LBJ 290 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:06,639 Speaker 1: stole it. He stall it in Illinois, installed it in Texas. 291 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:12,399 Speaker 1: JFK saying that his father, the rich bootlegger, had said, 292 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:18,879 Speaker 1: I'll buy you a win. I won't pay for a landslide. Haha. 293 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:22,359 Speaker 1: That's funny, because we all know you cheated. The Republican 294 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:27,879 Speaker 1: Party over the years grew into a Mike Pence Republican 295 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:32,400 Speaker 1: Party that is, get your shoes shined once a week, 296 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:35,360 Speaker 1: keep your hair real short because you want like any hippies. 297 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:40,160 Speaker 1: It grew into an old white party, an old white 298 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:45,000 Speaker 1: party that was fearful of everything and everybody. It was 299 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:49,040 Speaker 1: fearful of that dope. It was fearful of gambling. Think 300 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:52,240 Speaker 1: about think about Texas politics now. It was fearful of 301 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 1: that dope. It was fearful of that gambling. It was 302 00:22:56,960 --> 00:23:02,159 Speaker 1: fearful of things that it was unaware or unaccustomed to. 303 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:06,199 Speaker 1: It was fearful of change. And so you ended up 304 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:12,120 Speaker 1: with a party whose answer to every challenge. Hey, property 305 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:16,560 Speaker 1: taxes have now gotten out of control, absolutely out of control. 306 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:20,960 Speaker 1: You're building football stadiums that are taj mahas, You're rebuilding 307 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,960 Speaker 1: buildings that don't need to be rebuilt. You keep giving 308 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:26,280 Speaker 1: teacher raises. And the Republicans were in on this because 309 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:28,160 Speaker 1: they don't want to be the non teacher people. Because 310 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:29,800 Speaker 1: you got the rural Republicans that are owned by the 311 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:34,600 Speaker 1: school districts. And every time anybody says, hey, guys, Republicans 312 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:36,760 Speaker 1: are in charge, you're kind of screwing things up. We'll 313 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:42,720 Speaker 1: do something about abortion. Wait what I said, property taxes 314 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:45,760 Speaker 1: are out of control. We'll make it illegal to write 315 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:51,040 Speaker 1: the word abortion. Wait, what property taxes are out of control? 316 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:57,440 Speaker 1: Absolutely insane. You're killing people. You're going to cost us elections. 317 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:02,880 Speaker 1: You can't have an abortion before you get married. Nobody's 318 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:09,800 Speaker 1: talking about abortion. What's really all we have? How can 319 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:12,040 Speaker 1: we be against gambling? Oh, we'll go after the Lottery 320 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:14,280 Speaker 1: Commission for their corruption. Their corruption has been going on 321 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:16,000 Speaker 1: for ten years. Now, we're going to address it. Okay, 322 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:19,760 Speaker 1: So we go after gambling. Probably got some abortion bills 323 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:21,920 Speaker 1: in there somewhere, because that's always good for the base. 324 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:28,200 Speaker 1: And then we go after marijuana. And all the while, 325 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:32,679 Speaker 1: the liquor companies are paying Dan Patrick's staff all around him. 326 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:36,440 Speaker 1: I told Dan Patrick before he got elected, when he 327 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:39,760 Speaker 1: was still running, I said, Alan Blakemore, who worked for 328 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:44,159 Speaker 1: me in two thousand and three, is a crook. He 329 00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:50,320 Speaker 1: is an utter, debased, awful human beings and he will 330 00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:53,440 Speaker 1: get you in trouble. And before this has all come out, 331 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:55,920 Speaker 1: you're going to find out how much money Alan Blakemore, 332 00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:59,000 Speaker 1: who's supposed to be his advisor, got paid by the 333 00:24:59,040 --> 00:24:59,679 Speaker 1: liquor company. 334 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,640 Speaker 3: I won't be going to Peoples Champion right now. You're 335 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:03,840 Speaker 3: listening to the Michael Berryson. 336 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:13,640 Speaker 1: The reason I went into the history of the Republican 337 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:21,840 Speaker 1: pony is it's important to understand how bad ideas are 338 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:27,120 Speaker 1: passed off by a generation of people who don't understand 339 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:30,920 Speaker 1: how things have changed. So we were talking about the 340 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:39,480 Speaker 1: Republican Party up through Nixon, and Reagan was more of 341 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:46,680 Speaker 1: a Trump than I think people realize. Reagan's slogan in 342 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:52,520 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty People look at me askance when I say this. 343 00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:59,399 Speaker 1: Reagan's slogan was actually a reference to bringing back an 344 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:05,840 Speaker 1: America before the crazy sixties, before the crazy seventies, before 345 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:12,480 Speaker 1: the hyperinflation of Carter, before bussing, which was bad for 346 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:19,640 Speaker 1: black kids and white kids, before the era of stagflation 347 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:30,680 Speaker 1: and failure. His slogan was make America great again. It 348 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:35,760 Speaker 1: was a reference to bringing America back to the fundamentals, 349 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:39,800 Speaker 1: bringing America back to being the greatest in the world. 350 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:44,920 Speaker 1: See if eight Years of Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan famously 351 00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:49,800 Speaker 1: said that libertarianism is the heart and soul of conservatism. 352 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:55,840 Speaker 1: The reason that was important is you have to realize 353 00:26:56,359 --> 00:27:02,600 Speaker 1: that within the Republican tent, there is a certain contingent that, 354 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:06,200 Speaker 1: if left to their own devices, would never win an election. Ever, 355 00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:11,800 Speaker 1: they would never win but they would like that because 356 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:15,840 Speaker 1: they see that as sort of the suffering of righteousness. 357 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:23,440 Speaker 1: These people will often cloak themselves in a very showy 358 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:28,240 Speaker 1: version of Christianity. You know the guy that when you 359 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:31,240 Speaker 1: see he says, oh, we haven't seen you at church lately. 360 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:38,359 Speaker 1: Not the most Christian approach. But if you know this 361 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:42,480 Speaker 1: type of person, you know that Christianity is not for 362 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:46,600 Speaker 1: him a faith. It's like a country club membership. It's 363 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:51,359 Speaker 1: a way to say I'm not gay or weird, nor 364 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:56,480 Speaker 1: do I have tattoos. I am righteous, and I like 365 00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:04,280 Speaker 1: being righteous. The Bible points out people like this, and 366 00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:08,160 Speaker 1: not in a good way. So we have this group 367 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:13,479 Speaker 1: of people. They're not really for anything, but they are 368 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:20,280 Speaker 1: against many things. Gambling is evil. Now do they ever 369 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:23,520 Speaker 1: go over to Late Charles and the Golden Nugget? Do 370 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:26,879 Speaker 1: they ever go to Vegas? Well, they do, but they 371 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:30,919 Speaker 1: like to be naughty. They feel very naughty when they 372 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:35,680 Speaker 1: do that, because Jesus wouldn't want you to gamble, or 373 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:40,400 Speaker 1: so they'd say. Somehow, it's okay if Jesus grants the 374 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:46,080 Speaker 1: Indians the license to do that. Feather not dot, because 375 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,680 Speaker 1: Jesus doesn't mind if the Indians make a little money 376 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:53,960 Speaker 1: on the reservation. These are people who are against gambling. 377 00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:58,959 Speaker 1: These are people who focus their entire lives and by 378 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 1: the way, be very clear, and this makes people uncomfortable. 379 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:10,680 Speaker 1: It is true the tendency to sit around as a bitter, 380 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:17,480 Speaker 1: angry person claiming to be of deep faith. And he's 381 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:18,800 Speaker 1: had fun over there? What's he doing over there? 382 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:19,000 Speaker 4: Check? 383 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:20,400 Speaker 1: Check what he's doing. Check what he's doing to make 384 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,880 Speaker 1: it illegal? Oh? What's she doing over there? Her skirt's 385 00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:26,560 Speaker 1: too high? She does she have fun? No? 386 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:27,160 Speaker 4: No, no, no no. 387 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:37,520 Speaker 1: That mindset, the angry, bitter, jealous, controlling mindset, is at 388 00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:44,479 Speaker 1: the heart of the Islamic crowd in the world. You're 389 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:49,400 Speaker 1: stopping to think to yourself, how does somebody, as a 390 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:53,440 Speaker 1: Muslim feel good about throwing homos off the top of 391 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:58,760 Speaker 1: a building. How do you justify that in your mind? 392 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,240 Speaker 1: Your home? Therefore, you get pushed off the side of 393 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:07,760 Speaker 1: a building, how do you do that? How do you 394 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:16,080 Speaker 1: justify burying a woman waists deep her hands in the 395 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:20,800 Speaker 1: dirt where she can't move them, and stoning her to death. 396 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:26,360 Speaker 1: There's a movie called The Stoning of Soriah. It's I 397 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,600 Speaker 1: think it's an Irani movie, and a man is having 398 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:34,480 Speaker 1: an affair with another woman, and so in order to 399 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:38,320 Speaker 1: keep his wife from exposing it, he accuses her of 400 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:41,520 Speaker 1: having an affair with another man, which she hadn't and 401 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:44,880 Speaker 1: they bury her. In most of the movie, you think 402 00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:46,760 Speaker 1: of the idea of a woman being stoned to death 403 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:51,760 Speaker 1: for alleged infidelity, and you go, that's pretty brutal. They 404 00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:56,400 Speaker 1: bring it home, they really really bring it home, and 405 00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:00,640 Speaker 1: they make you think about things like the stoning is 406 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:06,040 Speaker 1: not the worst part. The worst part is she wishes 407 00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:09,640 Speaker 1: she was dead ten minutes into it. The first rock 408 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:13,200 Speaker 1: that is throne that hits her. Just kill me, But 409 00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:16,200 Speaker 1: you don't. You have to suffer. You have to suffer 410 00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:19,320 Speaker 1: until you die. And that's worse than the original stoning. 411 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:23,400 Speaker 1: So there is among the Republican Party a group of 412 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:27,400 Speaker 1: people who are not very smart, but they're very angry. 413 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:32,840 Speaker 1: They're angry at everyone. They're angry at wealth, they're angry 414 00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:35,880 Speaker 1: at gambling, they're angry at sex, they're angry at art, 415 00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:40,520 Speaker 1: they're angry at everything. They don't believe you should ever 416 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:44,959 Speaker 1: have any fun, and they're better suited to live in Iran. Frankly, 417 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:49,800 Speaker 1: the fact that they're white people doesn't change that These 418 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:55,760 Speaker 1: are the worst impulses of our people. They take what 419 00:31:55,920 --> 00:32:02,200 Speaker 1: is good and decent, righteous, good behaviors, and they take 420 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:07,360 Speaker 1: it to a level where it's judgmental, it's off putting, 421 00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:13,400 Speaker 1: and it kills us in elections. When I saw Dan 422 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:19,680 Speaker 1: Patrick holding a bag of THHC treats and a reporter 423 00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:24,200 Speaker 1: asked him a question, and he says, indignantly, would you 424 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:30,320 Speaker 1: take this? Would you you would die? I was embarrassed. 425 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:37,080 Speaker 1: I wasn't angry. I was embarrassed for him, Papa. That 426 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:41,480 Speaker 1: was a Joe Biden moment, It really was. I was 427 00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:46,120 Speaker 1: less embarrassed for Joe Biden talking about cornpop than I 428 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:50,520 Speaker 1: was Dan Patrick saying if you take this, you will die. Now, 429 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:52,720 Speaker 1: there will always be a lot of scared mothers and 430 00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:58,200 Speaker 1: grandmothers out there whose kid odd on heroin, and they'll go, well, 431 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:01,200 Speaker 1: if we can just make it illegal. The problem is 432 00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:04,760 Speaker 1: the world is a very complicated place. You can't make 433 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:08,360 Speaker 1: it illegal to be a stupid kid. You can't make 434 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:13,520 Speaker 1: it illegal to do stupid things like trying drugs and 435 00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:18,680 Speaker 1: make that go away. You make good laws. But remember 436 00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:21,760 Speaker 1: where we started. We didn't start with the idea that 437 00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:24,560 Speaker 1: we'll get to judge people and crush people and restrict 438 00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:28,080 Speaker 1: people and handcuff people. And we started with the idea 439 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:32,760 Speaker 1: that we believe in freedom. We believe in freedom, and 440 00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:35,400 Speaker 1: when you understand that freedom is a powerful thing and 441 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:39,680 Speaker 1: it's not always pretty. We believe in the freedom to 442 00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:45,520 Speaker 1: have a drink. We believe in the freedom to do 443 00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:49,200 Speaker 1: most things. And when you start taking away those freedoms, 444 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,160 Speaker 1: you shrink the size of this party, and you shrink 445 00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:54,760 Speaker 1: the coalition that we have enjoyed being a part of 446 00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:55,400 Speaker 1: the freedom