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Speaker 1: It's that time. Lock and load.
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Speaker 2: The Michael Berry Show is on the air.
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Speaker 1: It's Charlie from Blackberry Smoke.
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Speaker 2: I can feel a good one coming on.
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Speaker 3: It's the Michael Berry Show.
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Speaker 2: Ron DeSantis in 2018. Barely beat Andrew Gillum for governor. At that time, I mean, a handful of votes. I don't remember. It was a sliver. Gillum ends up a few months later, butt naked, laid out in a hotel room with a prostitute and drugs everywhere. And the former mayor of Tallahassee was, shall we say, a mess. He's been arrested more times since then. DeSantis went on to be the best governor in America. The problem was in 2024. Well, let's take 2022. DeSantis gets reelected. And then at that time, a lot of insiders believed that Trump would not be eligible to run for president in 2024. A lot of people believe that now. The Trump core, the Trump juggernaut said, nobody better run. We need to leave the seat open for Trump. Trump says he's going to run. If Trump hadn't been able to run or had chosen not to run, it would have put us in a bad situation where we didn't have anybody. So DeSantis was in a tough situation. And DeSantis jumped in. I think Nikki Haley jumped in. If DeSantis doesn't run that year, DeSantis would be arguably the frontrunner, along with J.D.
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Speaker 4: Vance.
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Speaker 2: I don't think Rubio is as strong, but I know he has his. DeSantis running turned Trump world against him. And arguably he's never really recovered, or his brand has never really recovered. But he's been a hell of a governor. I wasn't on Team DeSantis, but I watched. A lot of my friends were. And my thought was, if Trump runs, Trump beats him. There's no doubt in my mind. And Trump did run, and he did beat him. DeSantis got out pretty early. I think he was out by early February. Well, DeSantis is a guy that now, you know, on the presidency in 2028. I'm not a big one for talking about elections this early on, but let me just tell you, as somebody who studies elections, if you think you know who's going to win the nomination in 2028 based on a poll today, then you have not been around presidential elections at all. Because whoever is winning today is typically not going to be the nominee in two years. A lot of things are going to happen. And I don't know how DeSantis will do. I don't know how J.D. Vance will do. I don't know how Marco Rubio will do. And there will be others who will get in. I don't know. But I do know that he's somebody who should be taken seriously. And if he doesn't win, I would hope somebody would put him in their administration. I think Trump really doesn't like him for daring to challenge him. Otherwise, he would put him in his cabinet for the next two years because DeSantis is a former member of Congress. I think he's a real leader. I think he's a guy that should be part of our team, whether he's the leader or not. Anyway, here he is walking through Florida's fiscal record, which is his record. I mean, he's saying, hey, I've done a great job, and there's nothing wrong with that. And he's making the case in numbers, not ideology. He reduced the budget in Florida four years in a row. As their state's population and inflation were growing, he paid off 54% of all the debt Floridians had accumulated in in the history of that state. He now has the smallest government per capita of any state in the country. That's per capita. That's factoring in how many people. Anyway, this is what he had to say.
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Speaker 3: We've reduced our budget four years in a row under my tenure. inflation has been happening, population's been growing, our budget's less today than it was four years ago. If you take all the debt Florida's accumulated in its history, I've paid off 54% of it just in my tenure as governor. The size of government in Florida is smaller today than the day I took office, and we have the smallest government per capita of any state in the United States. And what has that led to? More economic growth than any state. This decade during my tenure as governor, it's led to more income moving into our state that not only has moved into any other state during that period that has ever moved into any other state in the history of the United States of America.
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Speaker 1: So that works.
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Speaker 3: But that is a vision of government having a limited role, being fiscally prudent and responsible. but also having policy that is trying to create a strong market and free enterprise, but is not indulging in crony capitalism or picking winners and losers in the market. The Democrats are going to be very good at that, right? That's what they do. So we've shown, I think, in Florida a great pathway forward to lift people up. But that affordability all goes back to the federal borrowing and spending. And if they didn't do that, we would be in a much different place in terms of pricing.
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Speaker 2: Nick Shirley, young man with a phone who exposed the Somali fraud in Minnesota when all the media couldn't. He's interviewed a woman from Wales. She's now a U.S. citizen, has been for nine years. She lives in Washington, D.C. She flew to Dearborn, Michigan to protest what she calls the Islamic takeover. She left the United Kingdom at 18 because she saw where it was going. Popo came to her school in Wales to announce a no-go zone for females. That means it's dangerous for y'all to go into this area because the Muslim men will grope you or rape you. That was the answer to Popo. the Islamic behavior toward women is to say women don't go over there. She counts 82 Sharia courts in England and Wales. She gives the United States three to five years before the same thing happens here. This is her talking to Nick Shirley.
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Speaker 1: Where are you from?
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Speaker 5: I'm from the UK. Yes, I'm from Wales.
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Speaker 1: So what are.
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Speaker 4: You doing here in
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Dearborn, Michigan right now at a protest about the rise of Islam here inside of Dearborn, Michigan in the United States?
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Speaker 5: Yes, I got here last night. I live in D.C. I've been living in America for nine years, just became a citizen. And given that I'm from the UK, I've seen the fall of Europe. I've seen the fall of the UK. There's 82 Sharia courts in England and Wales. And I do worry that it is becoming too popular too fast. And we need to definitely have conversations about it. And this is obviously a big part of that.
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Speaker 4: Why do you think Islam is becoming so popular right now? It's the fastest growing religion in the United States.
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Speaker 5: I would say birth rates. They outbreed us in every aspect.
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Speaker 4: And what do you see in your home country in the United Kingdom and Wales with the rise of Islam?
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Speaker 5: I see white guilt and colonizer guilt. I see people self-censoring and the government not standing up for the people that have been there for generations.
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Speaker 4: Do you think if people don't take a stand, eventually the United States will be similar to Europe and the United Kingdom if they've gone with the.
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Speaker 1: Rise of Islam? Unfortunately, yes.
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Speaker 5: I think that today men are extremely weak and they need to fight for what they believe in and the fundamentals of their country.
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Speaker 4: How many more years do you give the United States until it's a bigger issue here with Islam and Christians per se?
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Speaker 5: Three to five years.
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Speaker 4: Three to five years?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, but for me, I saw it when I was 12 or 13, and I left the UK when I was 18 for this exact reason.
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Speaker 4: And how do women feel in Islamic towns, like such as the one you left, or that was growing to become an Islamic town?
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Speaker 5: I felt extremely unsafe, actually. We had police officers come into our school and say, this area of Wales is now going to be a no-go zone, so don't go there if you're a female. And I thought, that's ridiculous. I come from a long line of Celtic people, And we should feel safe walking through our towns and our villages.
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Speaker 4: So do you think eventually women won't feel safe walking through their own towns here.
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Speaker 1: In the United States?
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Speaker 5: I already feel unsafe walking through here. I have two bodyguards with me today.
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Speaker 2: My friend Clay Travis, who, along with Buck Sexton, hosts the midday show across the country, Clay and Buck. had a very interesting perspective on what happened in Texas. And I'm just going to play the clip. It's less than two minutes long. And this was a few days ago, and I actually meant to play this, and we're coming to the end of the week. He talks about Abbott's vote total in 2018, 4.65 million, Abbott's vote total in 2022, 4.43, similar. And Abbott's vote total in 2026, which is
actually up a little, 4.5. And yet Abbott lost, our governor, lost by nearly 10 points. So Abbott actually got more votes in 2026 than he did four years ago in a year that was a big Republican year. It isn't that he didn't get more votes. It's that the Democrats got a lot more votes. Now, one of the problems with all of this is that we have, I think the last number I saw, 621,000 Republicans who voted four years ago who didn't vote this time. So how did we get more votes? Well, we know more people have moved into the state. And a lot of them voted Republican. But a lot of them didn't. And Democrats believed this year, for the first time in a long time, that they had a real chance. And they showed up. They got organized.
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Speaker 1: Did they cheat?
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Speaker 2: I'm sure of it. Yeah, I'm not afraid to tell you I think they cheated. Did they cheat enough to make up the margin of victory? I'm not ready to say that yet.
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Speaker 6: Listen to the numbers for Texas Governor Greg Abbott and just what the surge of sudden Democrat support meant. In 2018, Greg Abbott got 4.65 million votes for governor and won with 55.8% of the overall vote.
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Speaker 1: In 2022, Greg Abbott got.
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Speaker 6: 4.4 million votes and won with around 54.8% of the overall vote. In 2026, Greg Abbott got 4.5 million votes and lost by nearly 10 points. So, What's interesting here is in Texas, four point six five million, four point four three million, four point.
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Speaker 1: Five two million.
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Speaker 6: The number of voters for Republican Governor Greg Abbott between 18, 22 and 26 nearly quadrupled.
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Speaker 1: Completely the same.
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Speaker 6: In fact, Greg Abbott got 100,000 nearly more votes in 2026 than he got four years ago in 2022, which was a very good year for Republicans. It wasn't that Republicans didn't show up as they typically have.
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Speaker 1: It was that Democrat.
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Speaker 6: Turnout was through the roof relative to midterms. In fact, Democrats showed up in the midterms in many states, nearly identical to how they showed up in the general election already.
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Speaker 1: Diamonds are forever.
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Speaker 3: Woo!
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Speaker 4: And so, Mr.
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Speaker 1: Michael Perry, remember that. Woo!
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Speaker 3: Woo!
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Speaker 2: There's a fellow named Scott Galloway. If you don't know who he is, that's perfectly acceptable. He was on something called Pivot. He's a professor at NYU and a podcaster, and he's influential in Democrat world. You might have heard his name after Mamdani was elected mayor in New York. And he imposed a tax on– they called it a millionaire's tax. But it was on something called a pied-à-terre, which as you know means a piece of earth. It's a French term. It means a piece of earth, pied-à-terre. And it is very common in places like Paris, London, New York to have– well, D.C., For people who travel to a place, but they don't stay very long,
and they're not hanging out there, they may only be coming by themselves, and so they keep a little piece of earth, a little place there, not their primary residence. So Mamdani rightfully or correctly determined, if I need to get a lot of money, The people who have a pied-a-terre, a very small unit, like high dollar, small unit, these are rich people. So I can go in and hit them because they've got a lot of money. So Scott Galloway was part of the group of people, I guess, that has one of these. And the names, I forget exactly how it worked out, but the names of people who owned these things was released. And Galloway lost his mind. I voted for Mamdani. And now, in this environment, he's putting me at risk.
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Speaker 1: Well, why?
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Speaker 2: It's public information. Why is he putting you at risk? Or with whom is he putting you at risk? Well, he's putting you at risk by putting your name on this list with the very people who supported him. Let's be honest. It ain't going to be Republicans who are going to hang you or put a pitchfork through you, it's going to be the very Democrats who you love. It's going to be the madding crowds. It's going to be the rioters and the quote-unquote protesters and the Black Lives Matter and the Antifa and the socialists who you love to whip up, who you want to control things. See, he doesn't mind the crazy crowds of socialists pulling somebody out of their home burning it down and hanging them in front of everyone. He just doesn't want it happening to him. So that's how Scott Galloway became known to a lot of people. So now he is, I will use this as an example for how unstable a lot of these people are. He's talking about selling his Tesla. Of course, this is his anti-Elon thing. And he said he owned... Well, here's what he had to say. Let's play this first.
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Speaker 1: I had a Tesla. Great car.
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Speaker 3: You started on Twitter, so I sold it, not before taking a giant dump in the passenger seat.
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Speaker 1: True story. Not good for resale value.
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Speaker 2: First of all, I don't believe him. Often when people on the left tell you something crazy, like one of the ones they'll do is, you know, their little child just came in and asked, Mama, what are we going to do if Mr. Trump wins and it's going to be the end of the world? And their kid's three years old. It didn't happen. And then they'll say, true story. I follow a couple of guys on YouTube. who study mannerisms and presentation and verbal tics and facial tics and body language. And one of the things that is kind of universally discussed is when someone feels the need to say true story on something that clearly is highly questionable, their brain has just been triggered that they made that up and they don't believe it because it's not true. So they know you don't believe it. So what they're trying to say is, hey, please believe what I know to be a lie. So when he says he pooped in the passenger seat of the car he
bought that is owned by Elon Musk, that company anyway, is that somehow supposed to hurt Elon?
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Speaker 1: Because even if you did do it, you didn't.
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Speaker 2: But even if you did do it, he's already sold the car. And in fact, it's not in his interest that you put another car on the market to compete with his new cars that he still needs to sell. Number one. And number two. if you took a dump, as you say, in the passenger seat of the car that you own, that you're selling that, by the way, you admit you loved the car. But then when Elon criticized you over what I just explained a minute ago, You're supportive of Mamdani and then now upset that Mamdani did exactly what he said he was going to do, but you're the one that was rich, not someone else. That doesn't hurt Elon. Why on earth would you think it did? What you're experiencing there is him telling a live audience that he did something to hurt Elon Musk. He has personalized his rage. You'll see these people on social media, which is one of the most unhealthy aspects of social media. You'll see these people. It's usually women. Sometimes it's very effeminate men. And they'll be in their car, and they'll put a camera right up on their face. And they will scream like a child who doesn't want to go home from a play date. And they're screaming that they hate Trump or they hate Elon or something of this sort. This type of behavior to a sane, stable person.
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Speaker 1: Is nuts.
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Speaker 2: But this type of behavior appeals to other people like this. And I know people get angry when I say this, but I'm going to say it again. We have become a nation of counselors and therapists and therapists and Sessions, and what are these, SSR drugs. We have become a nation obsessed with quote-unquote mental health. And the more of it we do, the worse we get because we have encouraged people to become a victim. I might be white so I don't get to be black, but I can be crazy. And if I'm crazy, I suffer from mental health problems. And now I can take mental health days. I can go to my sessions. I can talk to my counselor. I can be a victim. Somebody will listen to me. This is not a recipe for a successful country. And I would argue the numbers are so high. Have you ever seen the stats, Ramon? Have you ever seen the stats? some sort of a drug for their craziness. And we're always told, oh, no, no, no, don't question that. You question that, that's the old way. Now, if someone just identifies as crazy, we all have to tell them.
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Speaker 1: It's all over. They have mental health problems. Diamonds are forever. Woo! And so, Mr. Michael Berry, remember that.
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Speaker 3: Woo!
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Speaker 5: Woo!
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Speaker 2: Well, if you spend any time with our show, you know that sonic branding is a big part of what we do. Our Friday morning show, our Friday evening show, open with distinctive songs that we consistently use. Our Monday morning song, our Friday morning song. And we close our Friday morning show and then this, our Friday evening show, with a sonic branding, so a song and a sound related to this time in the program. And that, of course, means that the end of our Friday shows is upon us. And I'm always mindful that that means that we'll have more time. For most people, that means if you're still in the working world, that means more time with family this weekend. It means more time to think. Maybe that's why you're tinkering on your old car or gardening or driving to visit the grandkids, whatever that might be. But as you do, I think it's a good time to really give some consideration to things. And let me lecture if I could, and it'll be worth what you pay for it. And I understand it's lecturing, but let me just offer a few bits of thought at this moment. Most of us are frustrated with the results of the election. Most of the people I know and most of the people that are going to listen to our show. And there is a healthy dose of fear because Democrats make bad decisions. And we don't want to become complacent and simply say, well, everything is fine. We'll get through it one way or another. That's not always true. Great societies do fail and they do fall. But I also think we have to be mindful of that we still have other responsibilities in addition to being a good citizen of the republic, and that is our responsibility to our spouse and our children and our parents and the people with whom we work and the people with whom we live. And so we don't want to, in a fit of fever, a frenzy, be someone that we look back and say, yeah, I wasn't a good person or wasn't a person I'd ideally like to be. And the reason was I was upset about whatever was.
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Speaker 5: In the news.
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Speaker 2: I just want to remind you for your own health, your healthy relationships, and literally your own physical health, I want to remind you that every talk show, every website, every Facebook page, every television show, every radio show, every newsletter, every one of them is competing for your attention. And every one of them is tempted to be more outlandish. Good news stations die. But your brain is not built for Christmas season 2026. It's like the Vegas Strip. There's too much neon. It's like Times Square. And your brain cannot handle all of that. And so the coping mechanism tends to be extreme fatigue. Your adrenal glands are overexpressed. There are real consequences to this. It leads to depression. It leads to anger. It leads to powerlessness. It leads to things that need to be medicated, whether you're delivering it or a doctor is. It leads to a mental and physical health that is not sustainable. And so it's hard to imagine this. But a good portion of this, we have to be responsible for ourselves. Do we really want to do that to ourselves? Wouldn't we like to live a little longer? And I know the response. The response is, yeah, but things are terrible. Okay. When were they better? When I was growing up? No.
Your parents didn't let you see how miserable things were. When you were growing up, you mean when we had the OPEC crisis?
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 2: You mean when the president was about to be impeached and resigned? And we thought it was the end of the world because Nixon was supposedly the monster? You mean then? You mean when Americans were taken hostage and our president couldn't do anything about it? You mean like when Mike Renfro caught the touchdown in Pittsburgh and they wouldn't overrule it? We didn't have instant replay yet? And somehow we survived? Still mad about it, but we survived. You mean when we were in the war? You mean when an entire generation was off in Vietnam being shot to hell? Coming home, suffering from PTSD, and I think twice as many of them would take their own lives as would die there? You mean things were going great then? You mean things were going great when dad lost his job three years in a row? No, they weren't going great. But your parents didn't emote all the time because they weren't getting a negative feedback loop that told them that wherever they were all the time, on their phone, on the television, on the radio, that things were going to hell, and so they couldn't bring themselves to do anything other than just be frenzied. That's not good parenting. That's not neighborliness. That's not good Christian behavior. It's not that things got all of a sudden so bad we've had challenges.
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Speaker 1: It's that we put.
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Speaker 2: Ourselves in a situation where we're in this romper room of an echo chamber, and it's creating in us the inability to focus on what matters. It's creating in us the inability to compartmentalize emotions and roles that we play. If you find yourself incapable of engaging as a parent with your children or a grandparent because you're so upset about the election, that doesn't show how much you care about the country. It shows how little you care about the role you need to play for the people you love. And being so upset that I can't see straight does not convey to your children and grandchildren, to your employees and your neighbors, to your spouse... that you're a patriot, it conveys that you're unstable, that you cannot play the role you need, that they need you to play, that civilization needs. So you need to remember there are people whose job it is to wake up tomorrow, no matter what happens today, and find something so outlandish that will scare you and upset you so much that you won't be able to do anything else that you plan to do. You'll have to be glued to the screen, whatever that screen may be. And it doesn't matter what happens today. That's their job. And they're good at it. And you're letting them do that to you.
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Speaker 3: Don't.
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Speaker 2: You put everything you had in this election. I did. You did. And we'll have more. And we'll stay up to date on the latest quote-unquote news. But maybe let's take a couple of days off. Let's focus on who we are as people and as a community and as a Christian and as a neighbor and as a husband. Let's give some time back to the people around.
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Speaker 1: Hey, you know what, guys?
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Speaker 2: I'm putting my phone down this weekend. You know what y'all need? Y'all need some of me. Can I take y'all to the lake? Can I spend some time with y'all? Can I cut your grass? Let's go shopping. Let's go do something for you. I have been focused too much on this lake.
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Speaker 1: Let's focus on you. Thank you, and good night.