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Speaker 1: The Michael Berry Show.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to our weekend podcast. This is still a kind

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Speaker 2: of new thing for us. I've received a lot of

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Speaker 2: feedback from y'all. In fact, one person said, hey, why

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Speaker 2: are y'all just saying Saturday podcasts and then there's another

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Speaker 2: one Saturday podcast and then Saturday podcast or weekend podcast.

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Speaker 2: That's lazy, that's no good. And I said, hey, hey, hey,

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Speaker 2: calm down. Our team jumped up when I said, hey, guys,

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Speaker 2: I'm getting a lot of requests from more content. Let's

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Speaker 2: make more content. We already do more radio than ninety

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Speaker 2: nine point nine percent of people in radio, five hours

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Speaker 2: live per day. We speak for across the country, one

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Speaker 2: hundred companies. It's a long week. We keep a very

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Speaker 2: active newsletter going. We create our own bits. I mean, look,

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Speaker 2: I'm not asking for a pat on the back. Some of

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Speaker 2: you are out there digging ditches in the heat. I

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Speaker 2: get it. I'm not you, But we're not lazy, and

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Speaker 2: we don't mail it in. If we use audio for

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Speaker 2: a second time, it's because it's good audio. And I

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Speaker 2: can't make that point a different way. If I've got

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Speaker 2: to show you the video, U we don't have video,

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Speaker 2: but get the point here. If I got to show

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Speaker 2: you the video of Donald Trump being shot in the head,

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Speaker 2: and I have to show it the second time, so

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Speaker 2: you get the point. Nobody says you alught to show that.

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Speaker 2: So relax, We're not lazy. You don't need us to jump.

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Speaker 2: There's three percent of you who send these emails. But

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Speaker 2: that's who this is dedicated at. I'm tired of being

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Speaker 2: told that if you don't like something, it's lazy. I

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Speaker 2: don't work for you. The show is free. We bust

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Speaker 2: our ass because we love doing this show, and we

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Speaker 2: love the feedback we get from people who enjoy it.

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Speaker 2: And we love when people tell us that, in some small,

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Speaker 2: goofy way, we made a difference in their lives. Man,

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Speaker 2: that's it. That's that's a high like you can't imagine.

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Speaker 2: I had a guy told me he went to Afghanistan

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Speaker 2: serving in the military and listening to me, and he

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Speaker 2: heard my testimony one day and he came home and

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Speaker 2: he rededicated his life to Christ and fixed his life

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Speaker 2: and he's proud of the man he is now. And

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Speaker 2: he just wanted me to know that. And I said, wow,

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Speaker 2: that's a lot. That's heavy. Man, that's heavy. But in

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Speaker 2: any case, the email was about Hey, the tone was

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Speaker 2: all wrong, but the idea was right. Oh you lazy,

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Speaker 2: you just call him Weekend our guy, Darryl Coonda Man.

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Speaker 2: He didn't even think about it. Was the first podcast

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Speaker 2: he started loading. He took over the Weekend podcast. So

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Speaker 2: we said, hey, Coonda Man, if you don't mind, just

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Speaker 2: start labeling them as to who I talk to and

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Speaker 2: what I talk about, so that if somebody wants to

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Speaker 2: go find something later, they can find it. They don't

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Speaker 2: have to look through just Weekend Podcast one, Weekend Podcast two.

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Speaker 2: He said, I don't even think about that. So your

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Speaker 2: suggestions are definitely taken to heart. We're not cracker barrel.

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Speaker 2: We care what you think, and we don't hate you.

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Speaker 2: We love you, and we wouldn't get to do what

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Speaker 2: we do if it wasn't for you. So when you

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Speaker 2: have suggestions, criticisms, additions, subtractions, whatever you have for the show, recommendations,

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Speaker 2: just remember I'm reading a lot of emails, and so

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Speaker 2: in the middle of reading emails your email comes in,

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Speaker 2: just maybe take a slightly softer tone. We're not lazy,

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Speaker 2: and if you like our show and you're talking to me,

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Speaker 2: why not talk in a tone, because I tend to

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Speaker 2: snap back. I'll stay up till two o'clock in the

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Speaker 2: morning to finish reading every email every day, and sometimes

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Speaker 2: at about one forty five, I might have had a touch,

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Speaker 2: just a nip of bourbon. I might have had won

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Speaker 2: too many cigars, and I might know that I should

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Speaker 2: have been in bed four hours ago. But before I

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Speaker 2: because if you take the time to write it, I

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Speaker 2: take the time to read it. So in any case,

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Speaker 2: here we go. Truck drivers have been in the news

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Speaker 2: of late. Well. One of the issues in the news

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Speaker 2: is these drivers, eighteen wheeler truck drivers coming here who

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Speaker 2: don't even speak English. This Punjabi fellow from California, who

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Speaker 2: of his insane actions while driving his truck. So President

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Speaker 2: Trump now Fox News reporting this week that the federal

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Speaker 2: government will revoke funding for California, New Mexico, and Washington

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Speaker 2: if they do not fully enforce English language proficiency as

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Speaker 2: a requirement to get a driver's license. You cannot be

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Speaker 2: If you can't understand the basic traffic laws and messages

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Speaker 3: The Department of Transportation announcing formal action against three states

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Speaker 3: for failing to enforce federal English language proficiency requirements for

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Speaker 3: commercial motor vehicle drivers. Listen here that.

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Speaker 4: Time period, we've identified several states that have not been

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Speaker 4: a compliance. That would be Washington, California, and New Mexico.

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Speaker 4: Those are the three states that have not complied with

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Speaker 4: this rule. We are going to give these states thirty

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Speaker 4: days to come into compliance with truck drivers speaking proficiently

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Speaker 4: the English language, or we're going to look at federal funding.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So the reason this is important, Bill, you were

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Speaker 3: with me yesterday. We were talking to the state of

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Speaker 3: Florida because they have just started to require these English

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Speaker 3: language proficiency tests at way stations for commercial truck drivers.

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Speaker 3: This after the Indian driver who didn't speak any English

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Speaker 3: killed three people in.

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Speaker 5: April, and you were curious kind of how those English

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Speaker 5: tests work. I think you said it's sixteen different questions,

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Speaker 5: also involving road signs. But yeah, Florida bringing the hammer down.

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Speaker 5: You just heard Sean Duffy say there, if you don't

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Speaker 5: get up to par with this, we're gonna start removing

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Speaker 5: some of your federal funding. And they announced yesterday they're

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Speaker 5: turning all of their way stations in agriculture checkpoints into

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Speaker 5: federal immigration enforcements. So any of these like illegal immigrant

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Speaker 5: drivers who are out there with IDs from different states,

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Speaker 5: there's a lot of way stations in the state of

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Speaker 5: Florida and they might start getting caught up soon.

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Speaker 3: So Seann Daffy just announcing that, and we'll no doubt

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Speaker 3: they'll be more. And I don't know if he will

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Speaker 3: be at the cabinet meeting that's happened at at eleven,

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Speaker 3: so this could be a question that the president gets

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Speaker 3: there as well.

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Speaker 2: So one of the things that really upset me about

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Speaker 2: President Trump's nominations, which is something that has been done

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Speaker 2: in the past as a courtesy. John Thune is not

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Speaker 2: our friend, but the news broke that he is now

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Speaker 2: altering the Senate procedure to allow Trump's nominations to be

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Speaker 2: fast tracked. Now, one of the things they do is

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Speaker 2: something called recess appointment. So when Congress goes home to

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Speaker 2: games and hang out and fly all over the world

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Speaker 2: because they don't want to stay in DC and work.

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Speaker 2: They are in recess, and so presidents are still appointed.

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Speaker 2: a judicial candidate, judicial nominee, and so as those come out,

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Speaker 2: be heard well as the president sends those up. If

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Speaker 2: the senate's in recess, you can move those through. But

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Speaker 2: what Thune has been doing is keeping a person in

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Speaker 2: the Senate, keeping just enough of an operation going in

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Speaker 2: the Senate that Trump can't do that. He's actually putting

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Speaker 2: that's not what he campaigned on. And I think a

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Speaker 2: lot of Americans don't.

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Speaker 6: Know that Senate majority of the John thun says Democrats

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Speaker 6: filibustered each of the President's nominees, even some which were

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Speaker 6: not controversial. Thuon says that has never happened before. As

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Speaker 6: it easier to speed through nominees.

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Speaker 7: This neece stuff is just silly, and I'm tired of it.

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Speaker 2: Just going through things that I had held over from

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Speaker 2: the week's sort of interesting. CNN is reporting that Democrats

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Speaker 2: are not happy because the Democrat Party is being forced

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Speaker 2: to pay off the debt of Kamala Harris's expensive, failed

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four campaign along with Joe Biden's legal.

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Speaker 7: Bills the morning after Kamala Harris lost last November. The

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Speaker 7: problem that he is facing is that the depression among

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Speaker 7: Democrats is really there, and he has a lot of

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Speaker 7: both mental and literal debts that he has to be

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Speaker 7: paying at the At the there's been a lot of

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Speaker 7: debt from Kamala at Harris's campaign that I get into

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Speaker 7: really been reported before exactly what happened. And even hundreds

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Speaker 7: of thousand dollars of debt or payments that are going

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Speaker 7: to Joe Biden's legal bills for the oversight hearings that

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Speaker 7: are on Capitol Hill. It's a lot of things that

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Speaker 7: are coming together and making it even more difficult for

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Speaker 7: Democrats as they are trying to figure out the way

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Speaker 7: forward into the midterms next year and beyond.

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