Welcome to the Tom Bernard Show with the family with co-host Catherine Brandt and Andy Bram Bernard.

There you have it, ladies and gentlemen. We are back. Michael Brandt's going to call in today because he's got, you know, he's just the busy attorney non-stop yes he's doing something we had

someone before the show even started they were in the chat and someone named jared said he just

turned 32 years old yesterday and he's been listening to tom for more than half his life 17 17 years, baby. 16 17 years. Who loves you more than Uncle Tommy? That's what I want to know. Amazing. Happy birthday. I love the show and he's a concrete finisher. So it's his birthday today? Yesterday. Yesterday. Okay, happy birthday yesterday, Pally. Thank you for supporting the family. We have a job because of you. So we understand that.

And as a concrete finisher, he has a job because of Minnesota winter. Yeah. There is a refinish every square inch of concrete in the entire state every year. So hey. There you go. Everyone wins.

That's wonderful. Well, see, that's so nice. Getting messages like that is so nice.

I'm very lucky with that stuff.

The listeners they show are very, very pleasant. And thank you. Our audience does come, Andy, am I correct, that the audience continues to build week after week? Yep. I mean, he's still got a long way to go to catch Joe and people like that, but hey, we're the latest in town, so we've got to build when we build, right?

Well, Joe is... I mean, he's still got a long way to go to catch Joe and people like that, but hey, we're the latest in town, so we got to build when we build, right?

Well, Joe is smart, in my opinion, because he's taken the conservative voice.

Yeah, he sure has.

That there aren't any in Minnesota.

No, it was the other one, yeah.

Not many.

And, yeah, and he's definitely built a huge following on that.

Well, the problem you have with that, and I'm going to be very honest with people about this,

if you take, and not even a severe opposing opinion, like, oh, you're a Democrat, well, I hate you.

I don't mean that at all.

I just mean if you take an opposing view to a lot of people in the state of Minnesota, they will do anything

they can. I'm talking about the people who run the stuff. They will ruin your reputation. They will

lie and say you did things you never did. They will accuse you of being racist, homophobic, this.

I mean, they will just unload it on me like there's no tomorrow, and none of it was true.

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