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Speaker 2: The Michael Varry Show is on the air show whoa

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Speaker 1: State Representative Brian Harrison, I think makes a very good point.

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Speaker 1: You know, the Republicans don't leave the state. Republicans stay

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Speaker 2: I believe it was.

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Speaker 1: It's a bigger issue, it's a more existential issue. It's

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Speaker 1: a question. Politics does not typically lend itself to a bigger,

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Speaker 1: overarching principle, and I think it would be healthier if

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Speaker 2: There is there's a book called.

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Speaker 1: Of Human Bondage, and the protagonist of the book is

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Speaker 1: a little boy named Philip Carey. I don't remember if

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Speaker 1: I don't remember, but you follow this little boy in

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Speaker 2: A very very strict.

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Speaker 1: Calvinist of some denomination and his wife, old fashioned family,

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Speaker 2: And this kid. And in the midst of this all,

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Speaker 1: And he creates this sort of Rube Goldberg type apparatus

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Speaker 1: how you really feel about issues that transcend what's in

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Speaker 1: the news today. For instance, who should direct the course

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Speaker 1: most people at this point will say, well, that person,

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Speaker 1: that's liberty, Michael, the natural right of self determination. I agree,

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Speaker 2: I'll ask what do you truly believe?

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Speaker 2: This is not a chance for a.

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Speaker 1: the calls are being made right now. Gauging Wesley Hunt's

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Speaker 1: It also tests negative messaging against John Cornyan.

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Speaker 2: So here's part of the poll.

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Speaker 2: For each statement, please.

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Speaker 1: After nearly two decades in the Senate and a grab

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Speaker 2: These are people who don't like.

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Speaker 2: Hey, I need a poll. I want it to be believable.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to say ninety nine percent of people

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Speaker 2: I wanted to say only twenty seven.

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Speaker 2: The funny thing about this example is.

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Speaker 1: high you don't need to pump them anymore. This could

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Speaker 1: be a pro Wesley Hunt poll that is saying, hey,

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Speaker 2: And the third one could be Paxton.

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Speaker 1: I defeat Cornyan with? Which message should I push? He's

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Speaker 1: one pm, Texas time in the World Series, which look well.

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Speaker 1: I have asked her to tell me if that game

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Speaker 1: is going to be broadcast, and if it is.

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Speaker 2: I will find out and share with you the details.

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Speaker 1: I told you that Lamar little League, the voice from Richmond,

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Speaker 1: will be playing in the league World Series.

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Speaker 2: I think that's a week from today.

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Speaker 1: Miss Gary Mcklelhannon says, I got a ticket for not

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Speaker 1: wearing a seat belt, so I called Percy Foreman to

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Speaker 1: take my case. He said, little lady, I don't take

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Speaker 1: cases like that, but when you shoot someone, call me. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: that was a long time ago, so I went to

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Speaker 1: court pro see that means defending yourself, and the case

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Speaker 1: was tossed out because the policeman who gave me the

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Speaker 1: ticket was not there. It's an I truly believe, and

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Speaker 1: Lisa is our first call. Lisa, sweetheart, what do you

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Speaker 1: truly believe?

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Speaker 4: I truly believe that there are deep state evil people

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Speaker 4: in every government agency and their job.

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Speaker 3: Is just to chick us off.

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Speaker 1: You're right about the first, but there's no profit to

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Speaker 1: ticking you off. You being ticked off is a byproduct

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Speaker 1: of the real reason they do it, which is to

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Speaker 1: assert control and monetize the gains. People get very very

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Speaker 1: rich off of the actions they take which just happen

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Speaker 1: to tick you off. They do a lot of things

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Speaker 1: you don't know about that would tick you off, but

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Speaker 1: they don't bother to tell you even though that would

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Speaker 1: tick you off. Ticking you off is not in and

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Speaker 1: of itself a profitable endeavor worth their time. It's a

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Speaker 1: necessary byproduct that they will fade the heat on.

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Speaker 3: Eric.

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Speaker 2: You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir.

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Speaker 1: I truely believe being a dog owner is better than

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Speaker 1: having a cat.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I never got the whole cat thing.

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Speaker 1: I've kind of softened on cats as I've gotten older,

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Speaker 1: because when you have a place out in the country,

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Speaker 1: cats can be very useful with regard to snakes and

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Speaker 1: rats and things. And they're very very useful. You know,

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Speaker 1: you get a good barn cat and they will keep

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Speaker 1: that barn relatively free of the stuff you don't want

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Speaker 1: out there, and that is very very useful. Oh, Gary

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Speaker 1: McFarland Wright Simpson makes shoes for race car drivers. That's

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Speaker 1: what those shoes look like. That's it, the race car driver.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't remember what the shoes were for.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was race car drivers.

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Speaker 3: That was it.

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Speaker 2: Did we go to Eric?

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, then I'll tell my Howard Stern answer. Several

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Speaker 1: people asked my thoughts on Howard Stern. Well, first, let's

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Speaker 1: talk about the Howard Stern economic model. When Stern came out,

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Speaker 1: he was what used to be called a shock jock,

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Speaker 1: pure and simple, he embraced it.

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Speaker 2: Everybody knew it.

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Speaker 1: And that was a guy who played a lot of

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Speaker 1: music on rock stations in the New York metropolitan area,

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Speaker 1: which he didn't stay there, but that's where that was

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Speaker 1: the biggest audience that he was going to find, and

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Speaker 1: that's where he naturally Billy and and in New York.

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Speaker 1: And he was pretty good at it. He is by result.

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Speaker 1: He's a very good interviewer. There's no doubting that he's

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Speaker 1: one of the best interviewers of all time of famous people.

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Speaker 1: And the reason is he developed a brand, and the

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Speaker 1: brand was even if you're a person who does not

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Speaker 1: reveal their personal secrets, if you go on Stern, you

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Speaker 1: understand you.

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Speaker 2: Do that there.

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Speaker 1: So he got a lot of people to talk on

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Speaker 1: his show about things that they wouldn't normally. In some ways,

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Speaker 1: it was similar to Rogan in that way because it

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Speaker 1: was a very long form interview and it was celebrity driven,

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Speaker 1: interview driven, and.

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Speaker 2: He broke He made the news a lot. Now.

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Speaker 1: Stern's big break came when he was being pushed off

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Speaker 1: of terrestrial radio. That's radio where you're most of you

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Speaker 1: unless you're on the podcast or listening to us. Now

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Speaker 1: and there were there was XIM, and there was serious

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Speaker 1: and they needed a talk show long format for truckers.

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Speaker 1: And the deal they cut with him was based on subscriptions,

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Speaker 1: So you can't fault he didn't get overpaid. I've heard

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Speaker 1: people say he got overpaid because he made hundred million dollars.

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Speaker 2: He did not.

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Speaker 1: He signed a deal that was a commission based deal.

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Speaker 1: He got to eat part of what he killed, the

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Speaker 1: numbers he generated for people who paid for XIM and

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Speaker 1: then who paid separately for his subscription. He kept a

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Speaker 1: percentage of that. You can't fault him for that. You

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Speaker 1: can't say he didn't earn that. It wasn't a Kirk Cousins.

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Speaker 1: You know why you paying a guy one hundred and

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Speaker 1: eighty million dollars he's not even starting quarterback.

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Speaker 2: It was real.

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Speaker 1: But in time, I think that a lot of Stearn's

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Speaker 1: audience grew up. And I'm not saying he was childish

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Speaker 1: or sophomore. I think his style didn't last, and I

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Speaker 1: think that a lot of people stopped listening. And then

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Speaker 1: he fell in love with being a celebrity and doing

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Speaker 1: things other than the show, and then he went crazy.

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Speaker 1: He went absolutely nuts during COVID. He didn't come out.

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Speaker 1: He insulted everyone else, and I think he drove his

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Speaker 1: audience away. And the numbers are not there anymore, and

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Speaker 1: the numbers for a subscription are not there anymore. An

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Speaker 1: XM satellite doesn't have extra cash.

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Speaker 2: To throw serious XM.

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Speaker 1: They had to consolidate the two because there wasn't a

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Speaker 1: market enough for both of them. That last time I

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Speaker 1: saw the percentage of revenues of revenues spent on marketing

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Speaker 1: that satellite radio picked up, it was less than five.

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Speaker 1: At one point it was up to seven. And clear

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Speaker 1: Channel of the company we work for, iHeart now owns

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Speaker 1: a percentage of it. That business model cannot afford his

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Speaker 1: dollars anymore, So good riddings. He's an ass. He's a

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Speaker 1: complete and utter ass. Aside from everything else,