1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:06,560 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time. 2 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:08,959 Speaker 2: Luck and load. 3 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 1: So Michael Barry Show is on the air. 4 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:23,040 Speaker 3: The Fox News Decision Desk can now officially project that 5 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 3: Donald Trump will become the forty seventh president of the 6 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:36,800 Speaker 3: United States. 7 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 1: He indeed, yes it is. Let's start with Emily. Emily, 8 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:57,800 Speaker 1: you're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sweetheart, speaking 9 00:00:57,880 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 1: of names at. 10 00:00:58,400 --> 00:00:59,040 Speaker 2: Thirty year old. 11 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:06,800 Speaker 4: Now, yeah, well I'm thirty five, so that's yes. 12 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 2: Yes. 13 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 4: I had two points. First, listening to the Megan lady 14 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:17,319 Speaker 4: who just called the TikTok responses. You know, we it 15 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:20,760 Speaker 4: seems like the world stage is like finally we've got 16 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 4: a grown up sitting back at the table. You know, 17 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:26,279 Speaker 4: we were close to losing uh being the world leader. 18 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 4: And for me, I've got three small kids and two 19 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:39,800 Speaker 4: of which are boys, Caucasian, love Jesus straight conservative, and 20 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 4: I have been the last three years been very concerned 21 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 4: about what it looks like in this country by the 22 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 4: time they get to be adults. And today I feel 23 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:54,560 Speaker 4: like the Lord has given us another opportunity to uh 24 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 4: start a new start new to get this craziness out 25 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:04,680 Speaker 4: of our out of our schools, these out of these 26 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 4: culture wars of is someone really a man? 27 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 5: Is really a woman? 28 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 4: I'm getting that out. And then on the other side, 29 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 4: I am an attorney, and I'm in a county adjacent 30 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:19,080 Speaker 4: to Harris County and seeing the Republican judges went in 31 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:21,680 Speaker 4: Harris County, gives me hosts and. 32 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 1: The sweep and the sweep of the Court of. 33 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 4: Appeals right exactly here, and given him so fine jurists. 34 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:31,399 Speaker 1: I mean, we've got we're going to have a Court 35 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 1: of Appeals. Yeah, I know, we can be very very 36 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:40,119 Speaker 1: very proud of. You know, these stories, and I'm kind 37 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:42,239 Speaker 1: of sparing all a lot of the data today. We'll 38 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 1: get into them in time. But you know, I was 39 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:49,359 Speaker 1: talking about Star County, which is ninety seven percent Hispanic 40 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:53,919 Speaker 1: on the Texas Mexico border in South Texas. And Trump 41 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:58,800 Speaker 1: had lost in sixteen by sixty six zero percentage points. 42 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:02,720 Speaker 1: He had lost eight. Now he came back in one 43 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 1: fifty eight forty two, and a listener sent me an 44 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:11,639 Speaker 1: email a good point I hadn't thought about. She wrote. 45 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:15,519 Speaker 1: One thing about Star County not to be overlooked is 46 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:18,920 Speaker 1: that Elon donated over twenty million dollars to local schools 47 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 1: in that area that is near Starbase. Where he has 48 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:26,360 Speaker 1: built thousands of jobs, local infrastructure, improved quality of life, 49 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:30,800 Speaker 1: and made Texas the gateway to Mars. Wouldn't surprise me 50 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 1: to see Trump there, to see the next launch and 51 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 1: rocket catch in person, ad Astra. So when people see 52 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:45,480 Speaker 1: that if you can unthrottle industry, unthrottle the individual, get 53 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:48,839 Speaker 1: the government out of all the nonsense, the amazing things 54 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: that can be done, they never look back. They love it. 55 00:03:53,640 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 1: It's thrilling, it's exciting. Kathy Wrights Czar. Trump carried not 56 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 1: only Star County Hidalgo Cameron will see Star is the 57 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 1: most Hispanic county in the United States. They had not 58 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:14,360 Speaker 1: chosen a Republican in one hundred and thirty two years. 59 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 1: That's correct, eighteen ninety two, the last time a Republican 60 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 1: won that county. Incredible, Ben, You're on the Michael Berry Show. 61 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 1: Mostly just because we didn't want to get the other 62 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:26,479 Speaker 1: girls on there. We didn't want eybody to think it 63 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:27,720 Speaker 1: was just girls that were calling. 64 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:34,679 Speaker 6: Good morning, Sarah. I'm calling to say a few things 65 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:37,400 Speaker 6: about what has happened last night. I have been very 66 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:42,720 Speaker 6: disappointed and angry for the past four years because back 67 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:47,159 Speaker 6: in twenty twenty November, I was in McAllen helping to 68 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:50,640 Speaker 6: patrol the border, and I saw what happened the day 69 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:55,480 Speaker 6: that Donald Trump supposedly lost. I saw how the illegals 70 00:04:55,640 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 6: started to come in with no respect for there's laws, 71 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:06,320 Speaker 6: and they had this nasty attitude where us were surprised 72 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 6: by it because nowaday we had our president and the 73 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:15,200 Speaker 6: vice president telling him to come over. So they went away. 74 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:22,279 Speaker 6: They got away with basically importing millions of people to 75 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:27,840 Speaker 6: our country for their votes. And I witnessed that, and 76 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:32,040 Speaker 6: I had been angry since I saw the border material 77 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 6: the steel war and all the materials sit under the 78 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:42,440 Speaker 6: sun and the rain and the dust and get deteriorated 79 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:48,480 Speaker 6: for months on end, ding day out, while the illegals 80 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 6: would laugh at our pace while they were coming in. 81 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:56,800 Speaker 6: I've been angry because I was born and raised in 82 00:05:56,960 --> 00:06:00,719 Speaker 6: Yvon and came to the US as a refuge kid 83 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 6: by myself as a teenager, and I did it the 84 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:10,480 Speaker 6: right way. And to see how the administration created an 85 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 6: app where people could go on their cell phone and 86 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 6: apply and the Harris and Biden would send a plane 87 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:21,359 Speaker 6: to bring it to the US. 88 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 7: It just. 89 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 6: Act of war and treason when you think about it. 90 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:32,120 Speaker 6: No country in the on Earth would do this to 91 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:37,039 Speaker 6: their citizens. You know, to me, government is there to 92 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:41,480 Speaker 6: protect our borders and our constitution and these people didn't 93 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 6: do either. But this morning I woke up with different 94 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 6: point of view. I believe and accepted everything happen for 95 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:54,680 Speaker 6: a reason. And if Donald Trump would have won back 96 00:06:54,720 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 6: in twenty twenty, he wouldn't have RFK. And that's huge 97 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:09,840 Speaker 6: by itself. Do you realize over seventy percent of our boys, 98 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:15,240 Speaker 6: our men cannot are not eligible to join the US 99 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:19,240 Speaker 6: Army because they are diagnosed with some kind of ele 100 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 6: chronic disease. Eighty percent of our population is chronically ill 101 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:29,440 Speaker 6: and fat and suffering from diabetes. 102 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 1: Ben It is when you look at these issues and 103 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:44,000 Speaker 1: you realize. So Sandy Peterson, our research director, is she 104 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 1: likes facts and data and science and scientific method and 105 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:52,120 Speaker 1: so she got a blood gluecose monitor as part of 106 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:56,400 Speaker 1: her carnivore diet. And she's always reading studies and things 107 00:07:56,480 --> 00:07:59,320 Speaker 1: like this, and so she started experimenting on herself. She 108 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:02,400 Speaker 1: puts his blood glucose monitor on and I've lost the 109 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:05,240 Speaker 1: email where she sent it to me. She said she 110 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:10,320 Speaker 1: had some Yukon gold potatoes. Russ roasted, not fried, a 111 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 1: tenderloin and something else. It sounded like a rather healthy meal, 112 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:18,080 Speaker 1: and it spiked her blood sugar by thirty points and 113 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 1: it remained elevated, and she said, I realized, if I 114 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:24,880 Speaker 1: eat that meal consistently, I will have a metabolic disease. 115 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:29,040 Speaker 1: That's not water burger. That is what passes as a 116 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:32,640 Speaker 1: healthy meal. When you consider the sugar that's being dumped 117 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 1: into our foods, when you consider the high fruit toase 118 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:40,200 Speaker 1: corn shirt, when you consider all of those things over 119 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:43,320 Speaker 1: the course of a period of time, you're talking about 120 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:46,600 Speaker 1: chronic illness for people who don't even realize how unhealthy 121 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 1: they are. And it's everyone. It's got to stop, and 122 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:54,760 Speaker 1: people need to be aware of. And that's part of 123 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 1: that's part of the charge. 124 00:08:57,400 --> 00:09:28,400 Speaker 8: On the Michael Berry Show, I was all right. 125 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:31,200 Speaker 7: I think if you look at the New York Times 126 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:35,040 Speaker 7: this morning, the headline was America makes a perilous choice. 127 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:38,320 Speaker 7: I think that in twenty sixteen, we didn't know what 128 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:42,280 Speaker 7: we would get from a Trump administration. But we know now, 129 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:46,800 Speaker 7: and we know now that he will have almost unfettered power, 130 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 7: and so I worry not about myself. Actually, I don't 131 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:53,000 Speaker 7: worry about my station in life. I worry about the 132 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:56,400 Speaker 7: working class. I worry about my mother, a retired teacher. 133 00:09:56,800 --> 00:09:59,360 Speaker 7: I worry about our elderly and their social security and 134 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:03,600 Speaker 7: their medicare I worry about my children's future, especially my daughter, 135 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:07,480 Speaker 7: who now has less rights than I have. And I 136 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 7: remember my father telling me many, many years ago that 137 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:15,000 Speaker 7: I was the first person in his family to enjoy 138 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 7: full civil rights. And now I have less civil rights 139 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:21,240 Speaker 7: than I had when he told me that. So again, 140 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:24,800 Speaker 7: I'm profoundly disturbed that the fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution 141 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:29,840 Speaker 7: did not prevent someone who participated in an insurrection from 142 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:31,520 Speaker 7: becoming president of the United States. 143 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:33,160 Speaker 1: I think that. 144 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 7: Going forward, the convicted felon box unemployment applications better be 145 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:39,520 Speaker 7: taken off, because if you can meet the President of 146 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:43,920 Speaker 7: the United States, the US have not be prevented when 147 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:47,040 Speaker 7: its women in this country, because I remember applying for 148 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:50,200 Speaker 7: my jobs as a federal prosecutor, and there was a 149 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:53,800 Speaker 7: box for convicted felons, and so that box better be 150 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:54,280 Speaker 7: taken off. 151 00:10:55,200 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 9: Loan, now you're fell fron momental try. 152 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:34,559 Speaker 1: Roy Orbison's voice is often described as punting. It's true, 153 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:36,400 Speaker 1: It's just it's up there, man. 154 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:36,840 Speaker 2: Wow. 155 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:43,200 Speaker 1: It always feels like it's it's like the wind is 156 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:49,160 Speaker 1: blowing across his voice. It's not static, right, almost a 157 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:59,240 Speaker 1: Doppler effects. You're in a canyon and voice Lewis seven 158 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:05,440 Speaker 1: one three, nine, one thousand. Jim, you are on the 159 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:06,360 Speaker 1: Michael Berry Show. 160 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:12,160 Speaker 10: Proceed Hey, Michael, I am so happy about the Cruise election. 161 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:14,720 Speaker 10: I was sweating bullets over that one. I'm so happy 162 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:17,800 Speaker 10: to see he won by that margin. But that's not 163 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:20,600 Speaker 10: the real reason why I'm calling you. Would the House 164 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:24,440 Speaker 10: be I'm sorry, with the Senate now being a majority 165 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:29,880 Speaker 10: of Republicans, cal is the Senate majority leader chosen. I 166 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:31,920 Speaker 10: hope it's not Corning, but I think he's going to 167 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:34,520 Speaker 10: be in the out there, in the running looking for it. 168 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:39,520 Speaker 1: I think it will be Corning. It's chosen by the 169 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:43,720 Speaker 1: by the caucus, by the Republicans. It's Corning or a Thune. 170 00:12:44,679 --> 00:12:45,360 Speaker 1: Those are the two. 171 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:48,400 Speaker 2: You know. 172 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:50,960 Speaker 10: I'd look for it to be Kennedy, but I don't 173 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:53,160 Speaker 10: know whether he's, you know, in the running for anything 174 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:55,360 Speaker 10: like that or not. It's almost like a papal conclave 175 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:56,560 Speaker 10: from what I think they're saying. 176 00:12:56,720 --> 00:13:01,199 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's that's fair to say. That's very well said, 177 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:05,920 Speaker 1: I do love waiting and watching the smoke though. That's 178 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,360 Speaker 1: a cool deal. I'm not even Catholic, and I can 179 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:11,679 Speaker 1: get into that. I can dig on traditions that are, 180 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:14,719 Speaker 1: you know, a thousand years old or more. I don't 181 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:16,080 Speaker 1: know how old it is, but I know it's been 182 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:21,880 Speaker 1: around a long time. But as for Kennedy, Kennedy is 183 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:25,080 Speaker 1: not well liked among his peers, and there is a 184 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:31,240 Speaker 1: reason for that. Kennedy spends most of his time sitting 185 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:34,840 Speaker 1: and writing clever lines that he's going to use turns 186 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:43,200 Speaker 1: of phrase, and then doing interviews and dropping those turns 187 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:46,040 Speaker 1: of phrase in there. He's a great entertainer, he's a 188 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:51,960 Speaker 1: great SoundBite, but he's not well regarded. And I will 189 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:58,319 Speaker 1: tell you if you actually watch Kennedy, he will always 190 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:03,959 Speaker 1: take the position of the grassroots voter and have a 191 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:08,559 Speaker 1: very clever turn of phrase as to why he's doing it. 192 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:12,760 Speaker 1: And it might be a southern agrarian phrase of at 193 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:15,160 Speaker 1: like a as like a get that high pitch with 194 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:19,240 Speaker 1: at like a a pigging slot. It's a goat with it, 195 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:21,400 Speaker 1: and it'll be oh, you go, oh, he's so clever. 196 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:25,960 Speaker 1: But if you look at the follow through, he'll sneak 197 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:28,840 Speaker 1: around on the backside and vote against what he claimed 198 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:32,480 Speaker 1: he was for. He is not for people who follow 199 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:36,880 Speaker 1: the Senate. If you look at his votes, he will 200 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 1: sell us out a lot. Now that's not why he's 201 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:42,240 Speaker 1: not going to be the Senate majority leader. That's a 202 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:45,040 Speaker 1: whole different thing. He's considered not very trustworthy, can't keep 203 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:49,680 Speaker 1: a secret, not you know, he's not someone that that 204 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:53,400 Speaker 1: they that they that his peers respect. Look out of 205 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 1: one hundred senators, take a moment right now and think 206 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:03,360 Speaker 1: about this. How many senators can you name? For most 207 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:06,400 Speaker 1: people in our listening audience. You can name Cornyon because 208 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:09,280 Speaker 1: he's terrible and he's a sellout. You can name Cruz. 209 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:13,520 Speaker 1: Some can name John Kennedy because on TV every day. 210 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:17,560 Speaker 1: You can name McConnell because he's been dead for five years, 211 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:20,320 Speaker 1: but they keep propping him up. Maybe you can name 212 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:25,320 Speaker 1: Tommy Tubberville because he's old ball coach. You can name 213 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:30,240 Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer because he looks like some sort of a rat. 214 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:33,880 Speaker 1: Who else can you name? Think about that for a moment. 215 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:38,160 Speaker 1: Think about that if you didn't see them on the 216 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:42,840 Speaker 1: ballot last night. I mean, you can name jd Vance 217 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:46,960 Speaker 1: because he's been running for vice president, but you probably 218 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:52,400 Speaker 1: couldn't have otherwise. You can't think of you can you 219 00:15:52,400 --> 00:16:00,440 Speaker 1: can name Lil Marco Rubio. Who are your senators? From Kansas, 220 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 1: from New Mexico, from Idaho. Most of those guys are 221 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 1: a big deal in their own mind and nobody knows 222 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:12,480 Speaker 1: who they are. They don't like the guys that get 223 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 1: out in front of the camera. Corning doesn't. Corning is extreme. 224 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:18,920 Speaker 1: You know. The dirty little secret is Corning hates Ted Cruise, 225 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:26,520 Speaker 1: absolutely despises Ted Cruise because everywhere Corning goes, the grassroots says, 226 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:29,160 Speaker 1: you know, Ted Cruz is doing this, why aren't you? 227 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 1: And Corning Corning might as well be a Democrat. I 228 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:35,720 Speaker 1: wish he was, because then we could run a real 229 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:39,480 Speaker 1: Republican against him and beat him. The problem is he 230 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:42,960 Speaker 1: wears our uniform, so we don't kick him out. And 231 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:45,640 Speaker 1: then it's very hard to beat somebody in the primary. 232 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:48,760 Speaker 1: Our folks get real fired up to beat the Democrats, 233 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:50,720 Speaker 1: but it's hard to get our folks fired up in 234 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 1: a primary. It's very, very difficult to beat an incumbent 235 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:59,560 Speaker 1: senator an incumbent period in a primary. That's well, they 236 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:01,600 Speaker 1: got a really really have a scandal, and you've gotta 237 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:04,880 Speaker 1: have a you got to have a candidate that has 238 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:08,960 Speaker 1: a public name, a good organization, and a lot of money. 239 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:14,160 Speaker 1: It's just hard to do. It's it's it's just it's 240 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:16,880 Speaker 1: just hard to do. Dave. You're on the Michael Berry Show. 241 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:21,920 Speaker 2: Go ahead, Dave, Hey, Michael, listen. I'm a senior citizen. 242 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,920 Speaker 2: I just turned sixty five this year and I did 243 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:27,800 Speaker 2: something I had never done before, and that was get 244 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:32,920 Speaker 2: involved in the political process. I'm a conservative, Christian, white guy, 245 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:36,440 Speaker 2: you know, the most evil guy in America, but h 246 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:42,919 Speaker 2: and a Republican. But I got involved and became a 247 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:46,160 Speaker 2: pole watcher this year. And I want to encourage all 248 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:50,159 Speaker 2: of the semi retired and retired people out there to 249 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:54,560 Speaker 2: get involved and be a pole watcher or a judge 250 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:57,679 Speaker 2: or something like that and you know, make you know, 251 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:02,679 Speaker 2: get offfee button, do something, you know. And I'm so 252 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 2: glad I did. And what inspired me was that my 253 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:16,639 Speaker 2: wife's co worker was a French immigrant. 254 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:29,400 Speaker 1: This sound like a nineteenth century novelism, just well done. 255 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:47,600 Speaker 11: So this is the Michael Berry Show, and. 256 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:51,560 Speaker 12: I just say, really critically too, Democrats need to even 257 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:55,119 Speaker 12: sure and they need to be honest and they. 258 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:56,399 Speaker 8: Need to say, yes, there is. 259 00:18:56,920 --> 00:19:01,160 Speaker 12: There's misogyny, but it's not just misogyny from white men. 260 00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:04,520 Speaker 1: It's misogyny from Hispanic. 261 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:07,760 Speaker 12: Men, it's misogyny from black men. Things we've all been 262 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:10,760 Speaker 12: talking about who do not want a woman leading them 263 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:15,800 Speaker 12: might be race issues with Hispanics. They don't want a 264 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:18,240 Speaker 12: black woman as president. And I say, you know, the 265 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:22,159 Speaker 12: Democratic Party, I've always found when you're sitting around talking, 266 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:27,760 Speaker 12: they love to just sort of balkanize everybody into these 267 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:32,320 Speaker 12: separate groups and say, oh, white people don't like women 268 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:41,520 Speaker 12: and black people. Now it is time for the Democrats 269 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:42,360 Speaker 12: to say okay. 270 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 1: And you and I have talked. 271 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:47,960 Speaker 12: About this before. A lot of Hispanic voters have problems 272 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:50,119 Speaker 12: with black candidates. 273 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:54,960 Speaker 1: Right, don't like each other. 274 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:58,920 Speaker 13: And some of the most misogynist things I've heard going 275 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:01,360 Speaker 13: on and get out the vote to her came from 276 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:04,760 Speaker 13: black men, I mean, misogynist things. So you're absolutely right, 277 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:08,600 Speaker 13: it's not simplistic and we've got to have realizes conversations 278 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:09,080 Speaker 13: about her. 279 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:15,480 Speaker 2: That is a. 280 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:22,920 Speaker 1: Panel that includes Al Sharpton talking about cultural trends. Boy, 281 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 1: I don't know where in the Roman Empire the fall 282 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:30,399 Speaker 1: was imminent, but it had to be a moment something 283 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:37,879 Speaker 1: like that. You know the funny thing about that. My 284 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:44,440 Speaker 1: first race I ran against a woman, Claudia Williamson. It's 285 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:50,000 Speaker 1: very attractive, but not attractive in a way that makes 286 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:59,440 Speaker 1: older women uncomfortable. She's not. She dressed very conservatively, her 287 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:05,159 Speaker 1: hair kind of shortlike a bob, very very professional, carried 288 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:13,000 Speaker 1: herself in a very professional manner, but strikingly attractive. Actually 289 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:16,680 Speaker 1: looked a lot like Melissa Wilson at Fox twenty six. 290 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:21,360 Speaker 1: And my struggle in that race, which I managed to win, 291 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:27,359 Speaker 1: was Republican women wanted to vote for a woman, and 292 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:31,280 Speaker 1: I would come up against that and men would tell 293 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:32,920 Speaker 1: me to get out of that race. It was an 294 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:35,679 Speaker 1: at large citywide race. There had never been a Republican 295 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:38,280 Speaker 1: to win in an at large race, which means you 296 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:42,760 Speaker 1: run in the whole city, and so there was no 297 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:45,959 Speaker 1: way I was going to win as a first time candidate, Republican, 298 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:50,080 Speaker 1: white male against a female that was well funded and 299 00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:55,000 Speaker 1: had Lee Brown's endorsement. But I did. And they told 300 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:56,600 Speaker 1: me to get out because they said it's hard to 301 00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:58,359 Speaker 1: run and get the consultants told me and get out 302 00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:01,560 Speaker 1: because it's hard to run against a woman. Because all 303 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:04,200 Speaker 1: the women will support a woman for being a woman, 304 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 1: and only a few men will say I'm not voting 305 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:12,680 Speaker 1: for a woman. See that's the bullying they do. So 306 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:17,400 Speaker 1: it's an uphill climb. Women are more likely to win 307 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:20,879 Speaker 1: a race by being a woman than they are to 308 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:25,159 Speaker 1: lose a race because they are a woman, and women 309 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:29,439 Speaker 1: vote more. I saw some numbers. I don't know what 310 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:31,480 Speaker 1: the final number is. I'll have it by tonight's show, 311 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:36,240 Speaker 1: but I'll bet you it ended up being somewhere around 312 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:42,840 Speaker 1: fifty three percent male up sorry, female voters, and obviously 313 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 1: forty seven or so male. So if all the women 314 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:48,479 Speaker 1: vote for women and all the men vote for men, 315 00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:52,440 Speaker 1: we don't win any races. This idea that you would 316 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:56,520 Speaker 1: divide people and accuse people who didn't Well, how about 317 00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:58,640 Speaker 1: the women who didn't vote? How about the men who 318 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:01,440 Speaker 1: didn't vote for Sarah Palin in two thousand and eight? 319 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:05,040 Speaker 1: What about that? Should we assume that was because she 320 00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:09,399 Speaker 1: was a woman. This is nonsense. It's so silly and ridiculous. 321 00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:13,040 Speaker 1: These people are dumb and they've been rejected. And I 322 00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:16,600 Speaker 1: love that. I just love that, Alex. You're on the 323 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:18,680 Speaker 1: Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, Alex. 324 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:23,960 Speaker 5: Ran Michael I just wanted to think three entities here, 325 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:27,960 Speaker 5: the first one being first God and in the second 326 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 5: the radio talk show hosts like you and the alternative 327 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:36,680 Speaker 5: media who really made the push. And then third, I 328 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:40,439 Speaker 5: would like to thank Laura Trump because I think you know, 329 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:44,480 Speaker 5: with her being CoA chair of the RNC, she really but. 330 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:48,400 Speaker 2: She really put boots. 331 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:51,200 Speaker 5: On the ground over there in those battleground states. 332 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:59,800 Speaker 1: She did a phenomenal job, and she has not It's 333 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:03,360 Speaker 1: in important that during the post mortem, the follow up, 334 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:08,720 Speaker 1: the after what do you call that after an event, 335 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:10,720 Speaker 1: not just a post mortal. There's a term for that, 336 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:16,879 Speaker 1: the wrap up, the rap. It's important that we notice 337 00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:19,480 Speaker 1: there were a lot of factors that came together to 338 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:22,040 Speaker 1: create this win, and it's important to understand those so 339 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:25,720 Speaker 1: that you replicate them. Number One, the difference between having 340 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:29,600 Speaker 1: Rona McDaniel Ronna Romney McDaniel in charge of the RNC 341 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:33,520 Speaker 1: and Laura Trump was night and day. There were one 342 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:36,800 Speaker 1: hundred and sixty eight thousand duplicate votes in Michigan. She 343 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:41,080 Speaker 1: jumped on that. That's Number one. The RNC has got 344 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:43,800 Speaker 1: to be in lockstep with your candidate the way the 345 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:49,199 Speaker 1: Democrats do. That's very important. Number two, You've got to 346 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:53,479 Speaker 1: have a rapid response legal team that goes in and 347 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:58,120 Speaker 1: kicks ass. Because George Soros funds a guy named Mark Elias, 348 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:03,159 Speaker 1: and he's evil and he's good, and he uses his 349 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:07,440 Speaker 1: law license to stir up crap and cause problems across 350 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:11,840 Speaker 1: the country. He is demonic and very effective. You've got 351 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:16,080 Speaker 1: to have people as a rapid response like the Rachel 352 00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:19,600 Speaker 1: Hoopers in Houston that is General counsel of the State 353 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:22,760 Speaker 1: Republican Party. You've got to have people like that that 354 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 1: are tough and smart and willing to hop on a 355 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:30,119 Speaker 1: plane on a moment's notice and go to Nowheresville, North Carolina, 356 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:32,560 Speaker 1: and walk in a room and just start kicking ass. 357 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:38,600 Speaker 1: George W. Bush had Jimmy Baker in two thousand and 358 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:43,680 Speaker 1: when James A. Baker, the third, former chief of staff 359 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:47,960 Speaker 1: to Reagan, former Commerce Secretary, former Secretary of State, when 360 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:53,040 Speaker 1: he went marching into that Florida vote recount, and he 361 00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:57,240 Speaker 1: went marching into the courtrooms there to battle that case. 362 00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:01,280 Speaker 1: The Democrats let out a collective side because they knew 363 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:05,600 Speaker 1: that James A. Baker the Third would win the case 364 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:10,080 Speaker 1: for George W. Bush and he would be president. And 365 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:14,440 Speaker 1: he did, and he was those things you are right 366 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:16,920 Speaker 1: to point out. The other thing was going after, as 367 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 1: you said, alternative media. The Rogan's going after alternative people. 368 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:25,200 Speaker 11: Elon Musk, lucky you, The Michael Berry Show continues. 369 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:26,960 Speaker 9: Must be your lucky day. 370 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:41,720 Speaker 1: Here the old Jack Doones come back. No mo no 371 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:45,920 Speaker 1: man no manamah through Jammy. 372 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:49,399 Speaker 14: I asked Kamala Harris that why is it that people 373 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:52,080 Speaker 14: don't know you? What is it that's going wrong? And 374 00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:54,960 Speaker 14: she said to me, you know, she said, realize this. 375 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:58,520 Speaker 14: They have never seen anybody that looks like me run 376 00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:02,080 Speaker 14: for this, and until you see it, you don't process 377 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,520 Speaker 14: it right. So they don't know and what silo they 378 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,520 Speaker 14: don't know where to put me in, how to define me? 379 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:09,600 Speaker 14: I think she's she has a point on that. Look, 380 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:13,880 Speaker 14: I think I'm very proud of the campaign she ran. 381 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:17,160 Speaker 14: The country had a very stark contrast to pick from. 382 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:21,720 Speaker 14: She decided to run a campaign of optimism and joy, 383 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:27,720 Speaker 14: of a of a unified vision for America. 384 00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:32,560 Speaker 15: It is time for us to do what we have 385 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:36,480 Speaker 15: been doing in that time is every day, every day. 386 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:41,080 Speaker 15: It is time for us to agree that there are 387 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,160 Speaker 15: things and tools that are available to us to slow 388 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:44,520 Speaker 15: this thing. 389 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,440 Speaker 14: The country had a very stark contrast to pick from. 390 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:52,000 Speaker 14: She decided to run a campaign of optimism and joy, 391 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:57,560 Speaker 14: of a of a unified vision for America people. 392 00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,919 Speaker 15: That is, in the millions of Americans who have not 393 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:05,000 Speaker 15: been vaccinated and could be vaccinated, and we are urging 394 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:08,359 Speaker 15: them to get vaccinated because it will save their life. 395 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,040 Speaker 8: At at what point, like the administration acknowledge these people 396 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:12,280 Speaker 8: aren't going. 397 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:12,720 Speaker 2: To get the shot. 398 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,520 Speaker 15: I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by 399 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:21,600 Speaker 15: what has been. You know, what can be unburdened. 400 00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:22,000 Speaker 9: By what has been? 401 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:26,560 Speaker 15: What can be unburdened by what has been? 402 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:33,320 Speaker 16: As we all know, elections matter, and when folks vote, 403 00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:36,040 Speaker 16: they order what they want, and in this case they 404 00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:37,400 Speaker 16: got what they asked for. 405 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:42,040 Speaker 15: It is time for us to do what we have 406 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:45,920 Speaker 15: been doing in that time is every day, every day. 407 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:49,000 Speaker 15: It is time for us to agree talking about the 408 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:52,960 Speaker 15: significance of the passage of time, right, the significance of 409 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:56,120 Speaker 15: the passage of time. So when you think about it, 410 00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:59,080 Speaker 15: there is great significance to the passage of time. And 411 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:05,520 Speaker 15: standing here on the northern flank, on the eastern flank, 412 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:08,920 Speaker 15: talking about what we have in terms of the Eastern 413 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,200 Speaker 15: flank and our NATO allies. 414 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:15,240 Speaker 8: Outstoe come bag. 415 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:15,520 Speaker 13: No. 416 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:21,600 Speaker 1: A couple of my stations our affiliates have reached out 417 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,400 Speaker 1: and said, I guess kama is going to speak at 418 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:28,400 Speaker 1: five today. That's the plan, he said. Will you be 419 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:33,800 Speaker 1: carrying that? Absolutely not. I will not give her a 420 00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:38,920 Speaker 1: moment to speak to our audience. If anybody in our 421 00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:42,040 Speaker 1: audience wants to hear Kamala Harris speak, they can go 422 00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:44,920 Speaker 1: to NBC, ABC, CBS and all the other places that 423 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:49,360 Speaker 1: love her to hear that nonsense. Our listeners comes to 424 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:52,080 Speaker 1: the show to hear me talk, to hear what Ramon 425 00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:55,840 Speaker 1: and Chad and Jim have put together to hear from listeners. 426 00:29:56,760 --> 00:30:01,640 Speaker 1: I don't want to hear that idiot blather on. Absolutely not. 427 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:06,280 Speaker 1: We are not a news program. We're a commentary program. 428 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:08,440 Speaker 1: It's the Michael Berry Show. It's not the news Hour. 429 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:12,480 Speaker 1: I will battle this till the day I die, but 430 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:15,360 Speaker 1: people are starting to come around. You can get the 431 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:19,920 Speaker 1: news anywhere, anytime, often before I get it. The old 432 00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:25,600 Speaker 1: days of going to the radio for the news are gone. 433 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:30,920 Speaker 1: Today's world. You can get the news on your phone 434 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,480 Speaker 1: as fast as it's posted somewhere, and if you follow 435 00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:36,240 Speaker 1: enough people. You can get it faster than people in 436 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:40,920 Speaker 1: the newsroom, especially because people in the newsroom are having 437 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:42,960 Speaker 1: to do a broadcast and then go find the news, 438 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:46,280 Speaker 1: and you're ahead of them. People come to our show 439 00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:51,920 Speaker 1: to find out what the news means, why it's important. 440 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:57,760 Speaker 1: It's an overload of news. People want to know what 441 00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:00,880 Speaker 1: are the priority stories, what's the story bye behind the news, 442 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:04,720 Speaker 1: why is that news story important? They know Trump won, 443 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:07,880 Speaker 1: I want to know why he won. That's what the 444 00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:12,880 Speaker 1: news can't give you. Even radio news. KTRH, I think, 445 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:17,120 Speaker 1: is fantastic as a news organization and has been. I 446 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:20,239 Speaker 1: mean talking about he lost his way, But at one 447 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:23,720 Speaker 1: point Dan Rather was a very well regarded newsman, Walter 448 00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:29,160 Speaker 1: Konkite as well. Those men cut their teeth at KTRH News. 449 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:33,880 Speaker 1: There is a news, a heritage news brand there that 450 00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:42,120 Speaker 1: remains to this day. Fantastic news anchors and reporters have 451 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,719 Speaker 1: come through that organization in the one hundred years it 452 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:51,480 Speaker 1: has existed. But I think in twenty twenty four, when 453 00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:53,600 Speaker 1: a listener at the top or bottom of the hour 454 00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:58,400 Speaker 1: listens into the news, they're not listening for a news 455 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:01,600 Speaker 1: story to find out the news because they can get 456 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:05,280 Speaker 1: the news anywhere they're listening because k TRH has prioritized 457 00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:09,080 Speaker 1: that news, and in some cases KTRH is kind of 458 00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:11,440 Speaker 1: breaking that news or adding something to that news. But 459 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,640 Speaker 1: if you if you notice, it's because there'll be a 460 00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:19,640 Speaker 1: news story and then there will be some audios, some 461 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:24,840 Speaker 1: sound to go with that and flesh that story out. 462 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,440 Speaker 1: That's what you can't get in a dry written news 463 00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:31,840 Speaker 1: alert from a local news station. It's just a change. 464 00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:33,560 Speaker 1: It's a change in how we do think. And ktr 465 00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:36,200 Speaker 1: has had to change. I mean, you didn't have talk shows. 466 00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:39,240 Speaker 1: You have people doing what I do. Rush really built. 467 00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:42,600 Speaker 1: That makes me feel very good, very good. Indeed, I 468 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:44,520 Speaker 1: must tell you for those of you who sent messages, 469 00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:51,760 Speaker 1: Rush passed on February seventeenth, twenty twenty one. So we'll 470 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:53,720 Speaker 1: be coming up in a few months on the four 471 00:32:53,800 --> 00:33:01,200 Speaker 1: year anniversary of his unfortunate and far too early passing. 472 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:04,400 Speaker 1: And so I wonder sometimes, you know, I have people 473 00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:06,800 Speaker 1: forgotten Rush it it's only been three and a half years. 474 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:09,840 Speaker 1: That's our inspiration. I wonder if people have kind of 475 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,920 Speaker 1: moved on. And then this morning was a day and 476 00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:15,040 Speaker 1: they may not say it every day, but this morning 477 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:18,040 Speaker 1: was a day that people send me emails saying, Michael, 478 00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:22,840 Speaker 1: praying for you, praying for your team, praying for this country, 479 00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:26,680 Speaker 1: praying for Trump, and I miss I miss Rush on 480 00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:29,440 Speaker 1: a day like today, And that makes me feel so 481 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:34,880 Speaker 1: good that people remember that on a day like today, 482 00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:41,640 Speaker 1: people remember. I think that's glorious and wonderful. If you're 483 00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:43,720 Speaker 1: on hold, hang with me for a moment, I'll talk 484 00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:46,400 Speaker 1: to you off air and we'll post those. But I 485 00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:50,160 Speaker 1: just want to take a moment because we're going to 486 00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:54,360 Speaker 1: have more elections. I look forward to not being in 487 00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:57,360 Speaker 1: an election cycle. So we can so ramon can take 488 00:33:57,480 --> 00:33:59,600 Speaker 1: make some goofy list, and we can take one off 489 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:03,120 Speaker 1: and put one and on. We can debate DLR domind 490 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:06,440 Speaker 1: Dave versus whatever the guy was it replaced him, and 491 00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:11,040 Speaker 1: how important Eddie van Halen was to the music if 492 00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:14,359 Speaker 1: he never wrote a lyric. But these these are fun 493 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:18,160 Speaker 1: things to talk about. And I want to tell you, 494 00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:20,480 Speaker 1: you know, you, folks, we couldn't do this show if 495 00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,759 Speaker 1: you didn't support us, if you didn't support our sponsors, 496 00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:26,080 Speaker 1: and if you didn't support us, if our sponsors didn't 497 00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:30,359 Speaker 1: support us, we couldn't do what we do without that. 498 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,879 Speaker 1: And I just wanted to take a moment to say 499 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:37,239 Speaker 1: I thank you for that. I say year round and 500 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:40,520 Speaker 1: year after year. We are not going to talk politics 501 00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:43,880 Speaker 1: all day every day, but when we do talk politics, 502 00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:47,160 Speaker 1: you'll know that that's when it's important. When you hear 503 00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:52,040 Speaker 1: me focused in on politics and like a laser locked in, 504 00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:55,439 Speaker 1: that's when it's time to pay attention to what's going 505 00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:59,799 Speaker 1: on because it's important, and you folks have risen to 506 00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:03,680 Speaker 1: the occasion. The show prep, you send, the commentary, you 507 00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:08,359 Speaker 1: you sent, you send, the confessional, the research, the all 508 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:11,160 Speaker 1: of it. It makes our show better and so thank you. 509 00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:15,520 Speaker 2: M m m m m m