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Speaker 1: The Michael Berry Show. Forgive me for the repetition, but

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Speaker 1: some things deserve the attention of multiple days of consideration.

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Speaker 1: And I find that what's happening is there is so

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Speaker 1: much content being created today, not just our show, but

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Speaker 1: so many people out there, that what ends up happening

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Speaker 1: is we end up a mile wide and an inch deep.

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Speaker 1: So we never go to phase two of a story.

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Speaker 1: And I compare that sort of to just getting headlines

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Speaker 1: but never any depth. So and I think in large

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Speaker 1: part of me that Twitter Twitter created in their algorithm

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Speaker 1: if you read the headline of a story and go

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Speaker 1: to forward it, they'll ask you, well, would you like

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Speaker 1: to read the article you're about to comment on before

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Speaker 1: you put your name behind the commentary on it? Not,

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Speaker 1: in his eyes, got headlines, which sometimes they're not even accurate.

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Speaker 1: But I think we end up there. So I wanted

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Speaker 1: to discuss what we have been talking about, which is

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Speaker 1: the takedown of Chuck Schumer by John Oliver, and the

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Speaker 1: hit is out on Chuck Schumer, or it sure seems

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Speaker 1: to be. This is clip six oh two John Oliver

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Speaker 1: last week with John Oliver, Chuck Schumer made up Joe

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Speaker 1: and Eileen Bailey. This is really really this is the

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Speaker 1: kind of stuff. You know, Schumer's wrong on taxes. There's

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Speaker 1: a certain part of the electorate that says, ah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's not good. It's bad policies. But when you catch

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Speaker 1: somebody in a sexual scandal or a financial fraud, everybody

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Speaker 1: can understand that Schumer is a liar. He makes things up.

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Speaker 1: He's a classic liar. And here he's not lying about

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Speaker 1: he's lying about people that supposedly exist. And he just grew.

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Speaker 1: This kind of thing tends to land as a punch better.

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Speaker 2: I actually want to talk less about Chuck Schumer himself

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Speaker 2: and more about two of his favorite people, Joe and

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Speaker 2: Eileen Bailey. There are a couple that throughout Schumer's career

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Speaker 2: he has talked about a lot.

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Speaker 3: They're a middle class couple in Massapequa, which is a

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Speaker 3: suburb on Long Island. Joe and Eileen Bailey, this middle

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Speaker 3: class couple. They bought into Reagan Republicanism in nineteen eighty.

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Speaker 3: Joe and Eileen are worried about losing their jobs or

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Speaker 3: their friends jobs. That Baileys really don't believe in trickle down.

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Speaker 3: They don't believe in a whole lot of government spending

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Speaker 3: but they believe in tax breaks for kids to go

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Speaker 3: to college. He's an insurance adjuster and lives in the

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Speaker 3: New York suburbs. By New York standards, he makes fifty

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Speaker 3: thousand years. If he lived in the middle of the country,

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Speaker 3: make forty. Wife works in a medical office. She makes

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Speaker 3: about twenty. She might make fifteen elsewhere. And you know,

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Speaker 3: I have guided my political life through the Baileies.

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Speaker 2: Okay, first stop putting all that business out there. Choel

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Speaker 2: makes fifty thousand dollars a year, Eileen makes twenty. They

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Speaker 2: own two cars, a Taurus and Honder Odyssey, and they

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Speaker 2: have sex three times a week. Joe lead. Joe usually

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Speaker 2: initiates with their therapistscouraging Eileen to get more in touch

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Speaker 2: with her sensual side, and surprise Joe with some sexy

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Speaker 2: lingerie when he gets home from insurance aggusting, which again

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Speaker 2: pays him fifty thousand dollars. But you heard him. The

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Speaker 2: Baileys have guided Chuck Schumer's political life, which is a

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Speaker 2: little weird given they don't exist. Seriously, he invented them.

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Speaker 2: Schumer first introduced the world to the Baileyes in his

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Speaker 2: two thousand and seven book Positively American winning back the

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Speaker 2: middle class majority, one family at a time. In it,

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Speaker 2: he mentions the Bailes and astonishing two hundred and sixty

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Speaker 2: five times in two hundred and sixty four pages, but

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Speaker 2: he'd apparently been talking about them for years before the

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Speaker 2: book was published. One of his former spokespeople said he's

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Speaker 2: always asking what would the Bailees think? And to be fair,

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Speaker 2: Schumer acknowledges that some may find this a little weird.

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Speaker 3: If you wear that's my staff. I've been talking about them,

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Speaker 3: talking to the Baileys for fifteen years. I have conversations

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Speaker 3: with them. One of my staff for as one said,

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Speaker 3: I had imaginary friends to the press got me in

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Speaker 3: some trouble. But these people are real and I respect

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Speaker 3: them and I really love them and I care about them.

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Speaker 2: Okay, sure, but they're literally not real, Juck. You invented them.

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Speaker 2: And look, I'm not saying that. Imagining a manifestation of

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Speaker 2: your target demos once and it is necessarily a bad thing.

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Speaker 2: I do it myself. I have a made up couple

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Speaker 2: that I consult when making this show. Jerry and Patricia

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Speaker 2: Globdukes from New York City, Iowa. Jerry's a dental hygienist

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Speaker 2: who makes thirty seven dollars a year, and Patricia's a

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Speaker 2: snake masso who makes sixty thousand, but she might make

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Speaker 2: twenty million elsewhere. I love the glob Dukes and I

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Speaker 2: fear them. Occasionally my stuff will say, should we make

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Speaker 2: the show fun this week and not talk about something

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Speaker 2: incredibly sad or boring? But the glob Dukes will shout, no, John,

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Speaker 2: you need to do a twenty five minute deep dive

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Speaker 2: about corn. So I say, well, if that's what well,

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Speaker 2: the glob Dukes ones, let's give it to though.

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