AM Show Hr 3 | Truth, Art, and Cancel Culture: A Conversation with Dalisia Ballinger

The Michael Berry Show

KTRH

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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From a museum mishap that redefines “art” to a Memphis journalist who lost her job for speaking her truth, this episode dives into class, culture, and courage. Michael Berry talks with Dalisia Ballinger about crime, community, and the cost of honesty in today’s media landscape.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.3	Guaranteed Human.
0:07.7	It's that time.
0:11.6	Lock and load.
0:15.0	The Michael Vary Show is on the air.
0:23.0	The following feature has been rated R
0:24.3	it is intended for mature audiences
0:26.5	I just wanted to say to everyone out there
0:28.5	I'm no longer mainlining acid or smoking
0:30.7	PCP it's official
0:32.1	well here's a story
0:33.4	it says a lot
0:34.9	about what most of us think
0:36.9	of art particularly what would be called fine art.
0:41.8	A museum volunteer was cleaning the museum, voluntarily, big fan, want to help,identally destroyed an art piece.
0:57.2	No, not moving it, not lifting it, or hanging it.
1:03.4	After mistaking it for a dirty mirror and cleaning it.
1:15.7	Because it, well, if you see a picture of it, it looks like a dirty mirror.
1:25.7	The work by Chin Sung-chi is said to symbolize, quote, the distorted self-awareness of the middle class.
1:30.3	A volunteer at the Keylung Museum of Art in Taiwan accidentally destroyed a valuable artwork by cleaning it with toilet paper.
1:34.3	The piece entitled Inverted Syntax 16
1:37.2	features a dust-covered mirror mounted on a simple wooden board with a
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