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Speaker 1 (00:06):
It's that time.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Time time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
The Michael Verie Show is on the air. At least
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be a patient of your own hold.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I will get to.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
This is why I read emails. Sometimes people drive me
crazy and I realize I need to leave that off
the air. It doesn't make good show count when I
get mad at things I get. I'm working on it.
Trust me, I know it's annoying. I'm working on it.
I should take the good and leave the bad. I've
not done a good job of that lately, and I'll
tell you why. It's not an excuse, it's an explanation.
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Our show, you may have noticed, has been very, very serious,
and I don't like doing serious shows five hours a day.
It exhausts me mentally and emotionally. Hannity can do it
all day, every day, and it's his dispositions. I'm not criticizing.
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Sean has been nothing but nice to me. But Hannity
can do that show all day every day. He can
do three hours of radio and then march over to
the TV studio and do it again. I can't. It'll
make me crazy. And I'm not joking when I say
I would blow my brains out. I know I would,
I'd go crazy, and it's why I resisted it from
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the very beginning. That is a lot of talk shows
and talk show hosts, and that's how they that's not me.
I am very very aware of my limitations and my
personal needs mental health wise, to stay positive in order
to be the full person I need to be, and
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that means being a husband and a father and coddling Ramone. Chad.
If everybody was Chad, life would be great. The whole
world was Chad Nakanishi, life would be great. Like literally
never people say you never talk about Chad. Yeah, because
Chad doesn't cause me problems. Ramone and now his sidekick,
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our creative director, Jim Mudd, who by the way, is
working on the show from the grounds of Graceland. He
is in Memphis, I'm sorry, not Graceland. He's at Johnny
cash Is home. This afternoon sent me a picture of
the Highwayman yesterday and it was a poster that they
had signed and wanted to know if he wanted me
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to buy it and get reimbursed when he came back
and I said, absolutely how much was it ten thousand?
Absolutely not. I'll make my own and forge their signatures.
But back to the point, hang with me cars. This
is why I read mamails because we have seventy five
show sponsors, and this is the kind of stuff I
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get every day. This is from JD. Pettigo, he owns
Velocity Business Products. Good mornings are. I know you're on
the air, so I didn't text you didn't want to
bother you. You can read this when you get off
the air. I have about forty really nice and really
expensive round cafeteria tables, with a couple of them being
Ada because we do have some guys in wheelchairs at
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Camp Hope. I had to eat these from a big
job about a year ago, and I need to move
them out to bring in new furniture. I contacted my
church they didn't need them, and listening to you, I thought,
of course you would want them for Camp Hope. I'm
not sure how they all eat together, group sessions or individually,
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but I would be happy to deliver them myself. I
just I get emotional thinking about that's my pick me up,
that's my drug, that's my that's my joy is that
every day I get something like this. I had a
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guy email me yesterday and he said they do a
shooting competition in a group he's in, and he said
they raised eleven thousand dollars for Camp Hope last year.
Eleven thousand dollars. I'll bet you there are. I don't
want to exaggerate. There are probably two hundred and fifty
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events benefiting Camp Hope every year, each one individually organically,
they pop up. If they hand over one thousand dollars,
that's a win. Eleven thousand dollars, that's incredible. I'll find
that email. It's in the pile somewhere. That's incredible. But anyway,
so VELOCITYBP dot com they're the They provide all your
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furniture stuff, all your office supplies. Jenitory supplies all of it.
He's an aggie local guy joined the show about four
months ago. Wonderful, wonderful guy. But it's just that stuff
every day. Mac Hey, Michael, I got some mattresses I
need to move out. Could Camp Hope you yet? You
don't even need to Yes, Yes, Camp Hope could use
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them every day. I remember our suit drive now long ago.
Our suit drive was ten years and I get people,
I don't know if it's ten years, and I'm off
on all my numbers today, so it might not be ten.
This a long time ago. We ended up with over
seven thousand full suits, not to mention shoes, and he
will still email me. And I got one this weekend.
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Ley said, my husband passed away and he has some
really nice, expensive suits, some of which have never been born.
And I said, unfortunately, we ran out of space a
long time ago. But how sweet of you to do that.
I wish we could accept them, book, but we can't wheelchairs.
We can't accept wheelchairs because we don't need anymore. But
the point is just the kindness and generosity that I see.
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Ramon tells a story that he heard Tony Robbins tell
and there was a group of people in a room
to which to whom he's speaking, and he said, I
want you to look around the room, and I want
you to count how many items you see that have
read in them in some way or another. All right, now,
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close your eyes, and I want you to tell me
all the things you saw that have brown in them.
And nobody could name anything, because when you're focused on
the red, you don't notice the brown. When you're focused
on the good, when you choose to wake up and
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do something for other people, who are not as lucky,
not as healthy, not as young, not as rich, not
as and we're all rich one way or another. We
are all rich. Then you see the good and you
don't see the brown. You don't have to be in
a bad mood all day to vote for Trump. You
don't have to be in a bad mood all day
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to be focused on fixing the woes of this country.
You don't have to be in a bad mood all
day to avoid being called naive or sheep. You can
be extremely positive. You can smile all day long. In fact,
it might do some good, might win over some more people.
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All Right, I did not get to the calls this segment.
Please be patient. I will get to you. I have
a favor to ask, just straight up favor. I'm just
be honest with me. We have a new show sponsor.
It's a national show sponsor. They started in Houston. It
came from our national office. It was a big deal
that they chose to start in Houston. And I want
to blow the doors out for them. I don't want
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anybody to buy anything you don't already need. It's called
Acorn stairlifts, and what it is is it's exactly what
it is, and you know, you might chuckle if you're
a young person, but we're all going to get there.
My parents are there. They're in a one story home though,
and it is the largest I believe it's the largest
stairlift company. The owners came to me directly. If you
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know somebody that needs mobility and dignity that's older, maybe
it's your parent, email me directly. The first person that
has one of these installed Ramon will come out during
the installation. Okay, I'll come with you the first one,
just because I want to show these guys I appreciate
them splay. Email me directly and I'll connection.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
With make Macaberry's show.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
All right, let's head to your call, Jackson. You're on
the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, Jackson, Sir, Sir, can
you hear me? Yeah? Hold on second, do you spell
your name like Mississippi or Reggie.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
For purposes of this conversation is yes, it's j A
C K S O N.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Okay, all right, ramone spelled at J A X O N.
And I didn't know. Now I can't think about anything
but that, but anyway, iPods go ahead, sir?
Speaker 4 (09:44):
That okay?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (09:47):
I want to touch on the cabal in Aris County
and City of Houston. Do you know who the insurance
who insures every UH employee at Houston, Houston City and
Aris County?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
I do not a flat.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Kelsey Seabot did not know that. Okay, yeah, they even
have their own Medicare plan now, so when the people
retire from you know, Harris County or City of Houston,
But why do you get them on their healthchair system.
It's just take a look at the money. Follow the money, bickle.
They're breaking the ground all over the city. When I
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got five years ago, there might have been a half
dozen of those big three story clinics. Now there's probably
twenty five, and they're building more every day.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
When people tell me, go do my own tell me
what I'm supposed to know, finish the loop for me.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Well, just like you said, the money, there's a lot
of money in that, and you always touching on like
the airport things and stuff like that. I'm just saying
to get one of your investigative reporter buddies to look
into it, because I bet you there's a lot of
money going back to Rodney and his career. I'm sure
of it.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I mean, okay, I don't doubt, and I'm very skeptical
and cynical about these sorts of things, and I think
there's a lot of money changing hands that would shock
people when it comes to these big contracts with the county.
I just I think we lose credibility if we say, well,
Kelsey Seabowl is building new clinics, therefore and they are
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the PPO, or whatever the relationship with the city in
county is. I have spent a lot of time in
the last ten years studying the issue of public policy
or policy as it relates to the provision of healthcare,
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and I think that there is a big role for
a Kelsey Seabold in that process. I'm not saying the
personalities involved. I'm not endorsing every one of their decisions
or initiatives. I'm saying that type of health care facility
there is a big place for that, and I believe
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in that. Now, I will tell you my research and
in my experience, in my conversations, which is a lot,
and that's I guess I'm trying to build credibility artificially.
That's dumb. I'll just tell you what I think. I
think we need more. Next level MD. I think that
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that is a they're a former show sponsor, but before
they were a show sponsor, I was a patient and
I am a big, big, big believer in what they do.
They're not a show sponsor now, so full disclosure. But
what they do is they're these you know, you see
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these emergency care clinics and urgent care clinics and they're
they're popping up everywhere. That's for when your kid gets
sick or has an injury on the base ball field
and you rush there because you don't want to go
to the emergency room anymore. But what ends up happening
that the next level MD model is you got all
this equipment, you got X rays and you know, all
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this stuff, and a nurse, probably a nurse practitioner, which
ninety five percent of the time that's all you need,
and maybe there's a doctor there I don't know, twenty
four hours a day, but you've got a sunk cost.
You got to be sitting there waiting. So it's just
like the bakery that sells common bond does this next
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day half off at five o'clock on cupcakes and bagels
or whatever. It's a spoilage problem airlines have this problem.
You want to get maximum dollar for every seat, but
a seat their most expensive seat to the airline is
the one for which you get nothing. That's a problem.
So all most, no, a lot of companies are battling
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the spoilage problem inventory management, especially for things that go bad.
That's why there's a daily special at the restaurant. It's
not because the chef fell in love with this particular fish.
It's because they got to move that fish today. That
doesn't mean don't order it, it's just that's what they're
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trying to do. They've got a revolving door, and you've
got to move that stuff. And the same is true
for anything that goes bad, from milk to bread to bakeries,
all of those things. Automobiles. What are we at now,
August twenty seventh. Any dealership sitting on a twenty twenty
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four needs to move them to make room for the
twenty twenty fives. Not that they don't have space on
their lot for that, but they don't want to. They
don't want to drag down the price of the twenty
twenty five model because they I'm still sitting on a
twenty twenty four, which you're thinking you should give me
a better deal on that. Get those out of there.
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If you want this vehicle, you got to buy this one.
And that's really true when they do a model change,
because now I remember when the Tahoe changed. I've driven
a Tahoe for twenty five years, three of them, not
the same one. I would drive the same one. But anyway,
what ends up happening is I remember when they went
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from the big Tahoe, which I liked, at big clunker,
big tank, and they went to the more streamlined, and
then from there they went to a more streamlined that
looks like a sprinter van. It's taller and narrower. And
that was because a lot of women were buying them
as people movers, soccer and volleyball, kid delivery mechanisms, so
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the moms needed a narrower vehicle. But anyway, I got distracted. Heather,
you're on the Michael Berry Show. Welcome sweetheart, Thank you
taking you off.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
A speaker was waiting for you to finish talking not
about the Harvey.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
But I'm sorry you were cutting out. I mean, can
you start that over?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
I said, I'm calling. We were calling about the hurricane.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
That's what we were yes.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Yeah, I was like, okay, well hospitals. I got all
confused too. But my Katrina experience, I was recently divorced.
I had two girls with me. One was four and
one was in sixth grade. She was twelve. We of
course no, I was actually born in Long Island, but
originally Long Island, New York.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Okay, yeah, well you know this. But there is a
parallel from the Brooklyn accent to the New Orleans accent,
and they've linguists have traced it from that. That was
a very common port transfer. That's why you can put
somebody from Brooklyn somebody from New yor work together and
hear some of the same sounds in the way they're pronounced.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Hold on a second, hill, I don't know what's happening
to her, Heather.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Are you in danger?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Sorry? My phone's no, not at all. I had a
bluetooth on while I was waiting for you, so I
was putting it away so I wouldn't lose it.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
And I don't normally like Long Island accents, but yours
is adorable.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Well, thank you, I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
All right. So you you came here recently divorced, You
had a four year old and how.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Old a twelve year old I was. I was living
in New Orleans for a while. I went to Tulane,
so I graduated from college and stayed because I liked it.
And then thank you about my accent.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
By the way.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Okay, yeah, now yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
And good, I'm sorry. Okay, So so we evacuated.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
When I get so interested in accents in people's history
and how we arrived at this day and the things
we've been through and all that, so it sometimes can
be bad radio. If you were a cross from me
and we were filming this, I would would be able
to know when we're interrupting the other one. So my apologies.
I'm I'm gonna come back, and I'm gonna introduce you,
and I'm gonna give you two minutes and you tell
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your story and I'll turn off my microphone. I think
that would be better. Hold on the Border is Secure
The Michael Verry Show.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Border is secure.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
The only reason the border is not secure is Donald Trumper,
who is my Republican friends writes that caller is not right,
but about the county insurance. Kelsey Sea Bowl is a
vendor you can select, but you're not forced to select them.
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You can select any in network doctor or clinic. I
retired from the county and I still have my county insurance,
which just switched this year from SIGNA to no. Look,
I think it's very good to be skeptical. I think
it's very good to be looking for. We know that
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there is massive corruption at the county. We see it
in the elections. Well, they're not corrupt and cheating in
the elections for no reason. They're cheating in the elections
to hold the positions where they can enrich themselves. And
they are enriching themselves. If you look at how many
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billion dollars are now flowing through the county, that's another
four hundred and fifty million they're about to hit you for.
And they've got the Democrats. They kicked Cagel off and
put Leslie Brioni's on, and they they rig the election
to win the county judge seat. And they're pulling it off.
I mean, it's happening before our very eyes, and everyone
is standing back on they're not really doing this. I
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can't believe they're doing it. And they're going, yeah, I'm
real sorry that you're upset. Have all the right, that's
just indignation you want, We're still going to win it.
But anyway, you can't just assume that because Kelsey Sea
Bowl clinics are popping up that somehow that is corruption,
because it's not. I think Kelsey Seabolt has a good model.
I used to do their executive assessment executive I forget
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what it was. I'd go once a year and what
was the doctor's named, Brian Rnari, I think, great guy.
I would go once a year and you would they
would do all your male tests or your prostate they'd
take they do a whole blood panel and they make
a binder out of it. And I do this through
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Low T Center now and I do it more often,
but at the time, this is what I was doing
fifteen twenty years ago. And you would have the same
doctor and he would pull your chart out and they'd
take all your blood numbers and then you would review them.
We look at everyone. You know, here's here's this number,
and this number and this number and this number. And
it was I thought it was a good way to
do an annual checkup. I try to use January to
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do that, and I did that for years over there.
But anyway, the next level MD I think is a
great model because you've got these emergency centers that already
have a doctor, a nurse and all the equipment. And
so what they did they went to companies because a
lot of companies don't provide health insurance, and so they
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kind of self insure. And it's not very much, I
don't know, sixty sixty bucks an employee something like that
not a great cost for a company in the grand
scheme of things. And so what you do is you
get that policy which gets you all your tests and
all the stuff you can go in and do, so
the employee never has to pay extra for it. And
then you buy a catastrophic plan. And so this is
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what I tell everybody to do. Buy catastrophic insurance at
a minimum that means everything. I think it's at fifteen
thousand and up and everything else. Pay cash because if
you walk in and pay cash, should get a discount everywhere,
if you're willing to do it, if you're not ashamed
to say, is there a cash discount? Because doctor's office,
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the bane of doctor's existence is dealing with insurance companies.
They will give you pennies on the dollar to pay cash.
And so pay cash for everything all the way. People
don't want to pay for a doctor's visit, but they
don't understand you're paying through the premiums. You pay every month,
and if you're healthy, you make good decisions and you
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stay healthy, which most people under sixty are going to do.
You shouldn't have hardly any health care expenses. Which, by
the way, doctor Mary Tally Boden, who came on our
show to talk about sinus issues, how quaint to look
back sinus and sleep issues before COVID. Then COVID hit
and she became nationally famous for her work speaking out
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against all the lockdowns and the COVID vaccine, and she
continued to treat patients, including using ivermectin, which had won
a Nobel Prize for the founder of it. Throughout all
of that. She is a show sponsor. I wouldn't let
her be a show sponsor for years because she was
already so busy from COVID, and I said, when you
add another doctor to your practice, because you're a mommy first,
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and I don't want you overwhelmed, because you're going to
be overwhelmed by our listeners. And so she emailed, I
don't know a couple months back and said, I've added
another doctor, and I think you were right. It's a
good judgment. She wasn't happy with me at the time,
and she said, I got doctor Lou. She's fantastic. It's
amazing story and anyway, and I said, well, let's give
her a few months to get caught up and integrated
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into your practice. And now that's what she's doing. So
if anybody needs a great doctor that is an advocate
for you the patient, email me and I'll connect you
directly with them, or just go to breathemd dot org.
But I am happy to have her as a show sponsor.
If you can't tell, we don't accept advertising on the
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Michael Berry Show. We partner with people who are going
to take care of you to give you the best
experience we possibly can do. They get it right one
hundred percent of the time. No, neither do I. Neither
do you. But they make every effort to fix it
if they fail, and they give you a lot better
care than you're going to get whatever the service is
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anywhere else. And that part is true. All right, let's
go to Kim. Kim, You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Go ahead, sweetie. Oh, we have to go back to Heather. Okay, Heather,
what happened with Heather? Oh? Man, I completely forgot.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I do this all the time, Heather. I absolutely blew it.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
That's all right, I'm here.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
All right, you got one minute and I'll come back
out of the break. You gotta remind me of stuff.
You just sit there and look at me and let
me make a fool of myself, all right, go ahead, hello, yeah,
go ahead?
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Okay. Yeah. Well, we evacuated from Araby, Louisiana to Birmingham,
and I had two daughters, two dogs, one of my daughters.
We lost the house and Araby never went back, lost
the whole community because nobody went back to Araby for
the longest time. But now they're building houses. Went to Birmingham.
That was our first stay, and I remember the first
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night we were there. You're gonna hate me for this,
Please don't, though, But I remember we were all sitting
it was like an embassy suite, and we're all sitting
in the lobby eating and watching the news about what
was going on with the hurricane. And then Houston came
on and said, we're going to open the people from
New Orleans with open arms and half of the people.
Half of us said, Oh, they're gonna be sorry. And
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the people that wasn't some New Orleans just couldn't understand
what we were talking about. Yes, you didn't remember. And
the girls all get pretty at closing time.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
When you're listening to the Michael Berry.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Show documentary on William on Netflix or Prime.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
I never know, just check them both. That's out right now.
And I appreciate the fact that they didn't focus on
his awful politics at all, and that made it. That
made it wonderful. I thought it was very, very well done.
It just came out seven one three nine nine, nine
one thousand. Did we go to kim Seven years ago today,
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we were in the throes of Harvey. It's hard to
say on this day because it lasted for multiple days.
Depends on where you are. I had friends out in
the Energy corridor. They were having hurricane survivor parties out
on the driveway. Nobody was going to work, and they're
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all sitting out taking photos, posting them on Facebook, and
you know, relieved, and they're sitting out in their lawn
chairs and drinking their rosees or froze or bourbons or beers,
and you know, having a little block party, and they
they missed Harvey, they didn't have the flooding that some
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of their friends, and they're all telling stories and so relieved,
and then they release the levee the reservoir and that
really upset people. It's understandable there are things that should
have been done differently to increase capacity. There are things
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that could have been done that would have affected how
much they had to release. But there does come a
point where it's bursting at the seams, and is it
bursting or busting? Is it bursting bursting and busting and
further and farther or the two. I know the answer.
Don't please don't email me. I'll have every English mavin
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out there will be sending me the but anyway, but
at some point you do have to I get the
science behind it. I've talked to a lot of people
that aren't involved and aren't protecting their own defense, and
they tell me, yes, there comes a point like that
in Harris County, that was the case where you had
to release the levee or you could collapse the entire
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system and then we're all in trouble. So those people
that weren't hit in the first band the first round
of it later or hit in it seemingly by choice.
There was a there was a story in New Orleans.
I think it was nineteen twenty seven. I'm pretty sure
it was nineteen twenties, and the parish that New Orleans
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sits in was spared the big flood because I think
it was Sam Bernard. I think it was Bernard Parish.
I may get this wrong, but what they did is
they decided to release the levee upstream and basically bypass
New Orleans, which, if you're king, that's what you would do.
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But if you're a local resident, you don't appreciate that
you were chosen as the ones to take the beating
so that New Orleans, with its commerce and culture and
great architecture, could be spared. You don't appreciate that one bit.
But it kind of reminded me of that whole story.
Ben Gentle, Ben, you're on Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Go ahead, Yes, yes, sir, Yes, sir? How are you?
Speaker 3 (29:31):
It was?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
I guess a little bit after the storm, when the
you know, the storm had blown through, I grabbed my
john boat and headed up forty five and started pulling
people out of Dickinson off of roofs and getting them
to high ground. And it was there was a bunch
of good old boys doing the same thing. And you know,
there wasn't really a plan in place, but it seemed
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that everybody just worked together in a really cool, cool
thing to be experience and be a part of you know.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
And where you from?
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Ben, I guess I think it was two. I'm from Galveston, Texas.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Where do you oh? Okay, so not one of the
other Galveston's.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Oh no, sir, not the other one.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
What do you do? Form just kidding you, Ben, what
do you do for a living?
Speaker 2 (30:17):
I'm a building maintenance contractor where I'm all over the place.
I'm Galveston all the way up to Katie Jackson, all around.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
Houston for whom.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
For myself, I own my business. I own a business.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Okay. So how many employees do you have.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
A little over eighty?
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Did you start the business?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Depending on the yes, sir, Yes, sir, me and my
wife did?
Speaker 1 (30:43):
How long ago?
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Uh? Old one?
Speaker 1 (30:49):
What? Oh? Oh?
Speaker 3 (30:50):
One?
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Okay? So you have contracts to maintain buildings and you
handle from janitorial to repair.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
A c.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Change. Yeah, preventive maintenance, change light bulbs, filters. I mean
you can customize it to whatever you want. You know
what I mean, like, we'll do We'll do anything.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
What do you do day by day? Are you the
primary client contact? Are you doing the business development? You
only have so many hours a day. What do you
personally spend your day doing.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
I'm on my way to winning to change light bulbs
at a bank right now. But I'll do whatever.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
I do it all.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
I mean, I wear all the hats. I have a
couple of people that work underneath me. I guess you
can call a management that kind of manage crews and
manage jobs. But I answer the phone when my customers call.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
How do you build a building? How do you price
that by square footage? By mechanicals?
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Yeah, well, well not always square footage, because if it's
down on the port, you know, a sulfur doc or
something that's industrial, it's definitely going to be more. It's
more about time time spent on the property, more about
labor hours.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Really, and how many labor hours are built into the
contract before you then build marginal hours above that.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Uh, well, we give them a proposal of what it's
going to cost them, so they don't really know. I
just go in and look at it and talk to
them and find out what their needs are. And I
go home and figured it out.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
What were you doing before one?
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Let's see, I was working for a labor company in Houston.
Uh was selling labor like two commercial contractors.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
How did you learn? Do you have a background in
in the mechanical systems and the contracting and and engineering
and all that or do you just learn it on
the on the fly?
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Nah? Just a jack of all trades master and I Michael,
I bet you're.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
A master of a lot of things. That that is. Uh.
You know, guys like you I admire because I don't
have any technical proficiency at anything. I mean, I can
about change the bull, but I might smash it because
I hold it too tight, screw it up. I'm serious.
I admire people who can fix problems, solutions finders. My
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dad didn't go to college, but he was a maintenance
worker at DuPont and if something went down, he had
to fix it, so around the house we never had
repair men come to our house. He figured out how
to fix it. Did he screw some stuff up? Yeah,
and then he had to figure out how to fix that.
But I admire that. I really do, and I admire
your entrepreneurial spirit. That's not an easy thing to do.
You're selling yourself short
It's that time.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Time time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
The Michael Verie Show is on the air. At least
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be a patient of your own hold.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I will get to.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
This is why I read emails. Sometimes people drive me
crazy and I realize I need to leave that off
the air. It doesn't make good show count when I
get mad at things I get. I'm working on it.
Trust me, I know it's annoying. I'm working on it.
I should take the good and leave the bad. I've
not done a good job of that lately, and I'll
tell you why. It's not an excuse, it's an explanation.
(01:16):
Our show, you may have noticed, has been very, very serious,
and I don't like doing serious shows five hours a day.
It exhausts me mentally and emotionally. Hannity can do it
all day, every day, and it's his dispositions. I'm not criticizing.
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Sean has been nothing but nice to me. But Hannity
can do that show all day every day. He can
do three hours of radio and then march over to
the TV studio and do it again. I can't. It'll
make me crazy. And I'm not joking when I say
I would blow my brains out. I know I would,
I'd go crazy, and it's why I resisted it from
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the very beginning. That is a lot of talk shows
and talk show hosts, and that's how they that's not me.
I am very very aware of my limitations and my
personal needs mental health wise, to stay positive in order
to be the full person I need to be, and
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that means being a husband and a father and coddling Ramone. Chad.
If everybody was Chad, life would be great. The whole
world was Chad Nakanishi, life would be great. Like literally
never people say you never talk about Chad. Yeah, because
Chad doesn't cause me problems. Ramone and now his sidekick,
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our creative director, Jim Mudd, who by the way, is
working on the show from the grounds of Graceland. He
is in Memphis, I'm sorry, not Graceland. He's at Johnny
cash Is home. This afternoon sent me a picture of
the Highwayman yesterday and it was a poster that they
had signed and wanted to know if he wanted me
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to buy it and get reimbursed when he came back
and I said, absolutely how much was it ten thousand?
Absolutely not. I'll make my own and forge their signatures.
But back to the point, hang with me cars. This
is why I read mamails because we have seventy five
show sponsors, and this is the kind of stuff I
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get every day. This is from JD. Pettigo, he owns
Velocity Business Products. Good mornings are. I know you're on
the air, so I didn't text you didn't want to
bother you. You can read this when you get off
the air. I have about forty really nice and really
expensive round cafeteria tables, with a couple of them being
Ada because we do have some guys in wheelchairs at
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Camp Hope. I had to eat these from a big
job about a year ago, and I need to move
them out to bring in new furniture. I contacted my
church they didn't need them, and listening to you, I thought,
of course you would want them for Camp Hope. I'm
not sure how they all eat together, group sessions or individually,
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but I would be happy to deliver them myself. I
just I get emotional thinking about that's my pick me up,
that's my drug, that's my that's my joy is that
every day I get something like this. I had a
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guy email me yesterday and he said they do a
shooting competition in a group he's in, and he said
they raised eleven thousand dollars for Camp Hope last year.
Eleven thousand dollars. I'll bet you there are. I don't
want to exaggerate. There are probably two hundred and fifty
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events benefiting Camp Hope every year, each one individually organically,
they pop up. If they hand over one thousand dollars,
that's a win. Eleven thousand dollars, that's incredible. I'll find
that email. It's in the pile somewhere. That's incredible. But anyway,
so VELOCITYBP dot com they're the They provide all your
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furniture stuff, all your office supplies. Jenitory supplies all of it.
He's an aggie local guy joined the show about four
months ago. Wonderful, wonderful guy. But it's just that stuff
every day. Mac Hey, Michael, I got some mattresses I
need to move out. Could Camp Hope you yet? You
don't even need to Yes, Yes, Camp Hope could use
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them every day. I remember our suit drive now long ago.
Our suit drive was ten years and I get people,
I don't know if it's ten years, and I'm off
on all my numbers today, so it might not be ten.
This a long time ago. We ended up with over
seven thousand full suits, not to mention shoes, and he
will still email me. And I got one this weekend.
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Ley said, my husband passed away and he has some
really nice, expensive suits, some of which have never been born.
And I said, unfortunately, we ran out of space a
long time ago. But how sweet of you to do that.
I wish we could accept them, book, but we can't wheelchairs.
We can't accept wheelchairs because we don't need anymore. But
the point is just the kindness and generosity that I see.
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Ramon tells a story that he heard Tony Robbins tell
and there was a group of people in a room
to which to whom he's speaking, and he said, I
want you to look around the room, and I want
you to count how many items you see that have
read in them in some way or another. All right, now,
(06:56):
close your eyes, and I want you to tell me
all the things you saw that have brown in them.
And nobody could name anything, because when you're focused on
the red, you don't notice the brown. When you're focused
on the good, when you choose to wake up and
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do something for other people, who are not as lucky,
not as healthy, not as young, not as rich, not
as and we're all rich one way or another. We
are all rich. Then you see the good and you
don't see the brown. You don't have to be in
a bad mood all day to vote for Trump. You
don't have to be in a bad mood all day
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to be focused on fixing the woes of this country.
You don't have to be in a bad mood all
day to avoid being called naive or sheep. You can
be extremely positive. You can smile all day long. In fact,
it might do some good, might win over some more people.
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All Right, I did not get to the calls this segment.
Please be patient. I will get to you. I have
a favor to ask, just straight up favor. I'm just
be honest with me. We have a new show sponsor.
It's a national show sponsor. They started in Houston. It
came from our national office. It was a big deal
that they chose to start in Houston. And I want
to blow the doors out for them. I don't want
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anybody to buy anything you don't already need. It's called
Acorn stairlifts, and what it is is it's exactly what
it is, and you know, you might chuckle if you're
a young person, but we're all going to get there.
My parents are there. They're in a one story home though,
and it is the largest I believe it's the largest
stairlift company. The owners came to me directly. If you
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know somebody that needs mobility and dignity that's older, maybe
it's your parent, email me directly. The first person that
has one of these installed Ramon will come out during
the installation. Okay, I'll come with you the first one,
just because I want to show these guys I appreciate
them splay. Email me directly and I'll connection.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
With make Macaberry's show.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
All right, let's head to your call, Jackson. You're on
the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, Jackson, Sir, Sir, can
you hear me? Yeah? Hold on second, do you spell
your name like Mississippi or Reggie.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
For purposes of this conversation is yes, it's j A
C K S O N.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Okay, all right, ramone spelled at J A X O N.
And I didn't know. Now I can't think about anything
but that, but anyway, iPods go ahead, sir?
Speaker 4 (09:44):
That okay?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (09:47):
I want to touch on the cabal in Aris County
and City of Houston. Do you know who the insurance
who insures every UH employee at Houston, Houston City and
Aris County?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
I do not a flat.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Kelsey Seabot did not know that. Okay, yeah, they even
have their own Medicare plan now, so when the people
retire from you know, Harris County or City of Houston,
But why do you get them on their healthchair system.
It's just take a look at the money. Follow the money, bickle.
They're breaking the ground all over the city. When I
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got five years ago, there might have been a half
dozen of those big three story clinics. Now there's probably
twenty five, and they're building more every day.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
When people tell me, go do my own tell me
what I'm supposed to know, finish the loop for me.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Well, just like you said, the money, there's a lot
of money in that, and you always touching on like
the airport things and stuff like that. I'm just saying
to get one of your investigative reporter buddies to look
into it, because I bet you there's a lot of
money going back to Rodney and his career. I'm sure
of it.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I mean, okay, I don't doubt, and I'm very skeptical
and cynical about these sorts of things, and I think
there's a lot of money changing hands that would shock
people when it comes to these big contracts with the county.
I just I think we lose credibility if we say, well,
Kelsey Seabowl is building new clinics, therefore and they are
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the PPO, or whatever the relationship with the city in
county is. I have spent a lot of time in
the last ten years studying the issue of public policy
or policy as it relates to the provision of healthcare,
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and I think that there is a big role for
a Kelsey Seabold in that process. I'm not saying the
personalities involved. I'm not endorsing every one of their decisions
or initiatives. I'm saying that type of health care facility
there is a big place for that, and I believe
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in that. Now, I will tell you my research and
in my experience, in my conversations, which is a lot,
and that's I guess I'm trying to build credibility artificially.
That's dumb. I'll just tell you what I think. I
think we need more. Next level MD. I think that
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that is a they're a former show sponsor, but before
they were a show sponsor, I was a patient and
I am a big, big, big believer in what they do.
They're not a show sponsor now, so full disclosure. But
what they do is they're these you know, you see
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these emergency care clinics and urgent care clinics and they're
they're popping up everywhere. That's for when your kid gets
sick or has an injury on the base ball field
and you rush there because you don't want to go
to the emergency room anymore. But what ends up happening
that the next level MD model is you got all
this equipment, you got X rays and you know, all
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this stuff, and a nurse, probably a nurse practitioner, which
ninety five percent of the time that's all you need,
and maybe there's a doctor there I don't know, twenty
four hours a day, but you've got a sunk cost.
You got to be sitting there waiting. So it's just
like the bakery that sells common bond does this next
(13:34):
day half off at five o'clock on cupcakes and bagels
or whatever. It's a spoilage problem airlines have this problem.
You want to get maximum dollar for every seat, but
a seat their most expensive seat to the airline is
the one for which you get nothing. That's a problem.
So all most, no, a lot of companies are battling
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the spoilage problem inventory management, especially for things that go bad.
That's why there's a daily special at the restaurant. It's
not because the chef fell in love with this particular fish.
It's because they got to move that fish today. That
doesn't mean don't order it, it's just that's what they're
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trying to do. They've got a revolving door, and you've
got to move that stuff. And the same is true
for anything that goes bad, from milk to bread to bakeries,
all of those things. Automobiles. What are we at now,
August twenty seventh. Any dealership sitting on a twenty twenty
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four needs to move them to make room for the
twenty twenty fives. Not that they don't have space on
their lot for that, but they don't want to. They
don't want to drag down the price of the twenty
twenty five model because they I'm still sitting on a
twenty twenty four, which you're thinking you should give me
a better deal on that. Get those out of there.
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If you want this vehicle, you got to buy this one.
And that's really true when they do a model change,
because now I remember when the Tahoe changed. I've driven
a Tahoe for twenty five years, three of them, not
the same one. I would drive the same one. But anyway,
what ends up happening is I remember when they went
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from the big Tahoe, which I liked, at big clunker,
big tank, and they went to the more streamlined, and
then from there they went to a more streamlined that
looks like a sprinter van. It's taller and narrower. And
that was because a lot of women were buying them
as people movers, soccer and volleyball, kid delivery mechanisms, so
(15:50):
the moms needed a narrower vehicle. But anyway, I got distracted. Heather,
you're on the Michael Berry Show. Welcome sweetheart, Thank you
taking you off.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
A speaker was waiting for you to finish talking not
about the Harvey.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
But I'm sorry you were cutting out. I mean, can
you start that over?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
I said, I'm calling. We were calling about the hurricane.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
That's what we were yes.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Yeah, I was like, okay, well hospitals. I got all
confused too. But my Katrina experience, I was recently divorced.
I had two girls with me. One was four and
one was in sixth grade. She was twelve. We of
course no, I was actually born in Long Island, but
originally Long Island, New York.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Okay, yeah, well you know this. But there is a
parallel from the Brooklyn accent to the New Orleans accent,
and they've linguists have traced it from that. That was
a very common port transfer. That's why you can put
somebody from Brooklyn somebody from New yor work together and
hear some of the same sounds in the way they're pronounced.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Hold on a second, hill, I don't know what's happening
to her, Heather.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Are you in danger?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Sorry? My phone's no, not at all. I had a
bluetooth on while I was waiting for you, so I
was putting it away so I wouldn't lose it.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
And I don't normally like Long Island accents, but yours
is adorable.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Well, thank you, I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
All right. So you you came here recently divorced, You
had a four year old and how.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Old a twelve year old I was. I was living
in New Orleans for a while. I went to Tulane,
so I graduated from college and stayed because I liked it.
And then thank you about my accent.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
By the way.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Okay, yeah, now yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
And good, I'm sorry. Okay, So so we evacuated.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
When I get so interested in accents in people's history
and how we arrived at this day and the things
we've been through and all that, so it sometimes can
be bad radio. If you were a cross from me
and we were filming this, I would would be able
to know when we're interrupting the other one. So my apologies.
I'm I'm gonna come back, and I'm gonna introduce you,
and I'm gonna give you two minutes and you tell
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your story and I'll turn off my microphone. I think
that would be better. Hold on the Border is Secure
The Michael Verry Show.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Border is secure.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
The only reason the border is not secure is Donald Trumper,
who is my Republican friends writes that caller is not right,
but about the county insurance. Kelsey Sea Bowl is a
vendor you can select, but you're not forced to select them.
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You can select any in network doctor or clinic. I
retired from the county and I still have my county insurance,
which just switched this year from SIGNA to no. Look,
I think it's very good to be skeptical. I think
it's very good to be looking for. We know that
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there is massive corruption at the county. We see it
in the elections. Well, they're not corrupt and cheating in
the elections for no reason. They're cheating in the elections
to hold the positions where they can enrich themselves. And
they are enriching themselves. If you look at how many
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billion dollars are now flowing through the county, that's another
four hundred and fifty million they're about to hit you for.
And they've got the Democrats. They kicked Cagel off and
put Leslie Brioni's on, and they they rig the election
to win the county judge seat. And they're pulling it off.
I mean, it's happening before our very eyes, and everyone
is standing back on they're not really doing this. I
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can't believe they're doing it. And they're going, yeah, I'm
real sorry that you're upset. Have all the right, that's
just indignation you want, We're still going to win it.
But anyway, you can't just assume that because Kelsey Sea
Bowl clinics are popping up that somehow that is corruption,
because it's not. I think Kelsey Seabolt has a good model.
I used to do their executive assessment executive I forget
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what it was. I'd go once a year and what
was the doctor's named, Brian Rnari, I think, great guy.
I would go once a year and you would they
would do all your male tests or your prostate they'd
take they do a whole blood panel and they make
a binder out of it. And I do this through
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Low T Center now and I do it more often,
but at the time, this is what I was doing
fifteen twenty years ago. And you would have the same
doctor and he would pull your chart out and they'd
take all your blood numbers and then you would review them.
We look at everyone. You know, here's here's this number,
and this number and this number and this number. And
it was I thought it was a good way to
do an annual checkup. I try to use January to
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do that, and I did that for years over there.
But anyway, the next level MD I think is a
great model because you've got these emergency centers that already
have a doctor, a nurse and all the equipment. And
so what they did they went to companies because a
lot of companies don't provide health insurance, and so they
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kind of self insure. And it's not very much, I
don't know, sixty sixty bucks an employee something like that
not a great cost for a company in the grand
scheme of things. And so what you do is you
get that policy which gets you all your tests and
all the stuff you can go in and do, so
the employee never has to pay extra for it. And
then you buy a catastrophic plan. And so this is
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what I tell everybody to do. Buy catastrophic insurance at
a minimum that means everything. I think it's at fifteen
thousand and up and everything else. Pay cash because if
you walk in and pay cash, should get a discount everywhere,
if you're willing to do it, if you're not ashamed
to say, is there a cash discount? Because doctor's office,
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the bane of doctor's existence is dealing with insurance companies.
They will give you pennies on the dollar to pay cash.
And so pay cash for everything all the way. People
don't want to pay for a doctor's visit, but they
don't understand you're paying through the premiums. You pay every month,
and if you're healthy, you make good decisions and you
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stay healthy, which most people under sixty are going to do.
You shouldn't have hardly any health care expenses. Which, by
the way, doctor Mary Tally Boden, who came on our
show to talk about sinus issues, how quaint to look
back sinus and sleep issues before COVID. Then COVID hit
and she became nationally famous for her work speaking out
(22:50):
against all the lockdowns and the COVID vaccine, and she
continued to treat patients, including using ivermectin, which had won
a Nobel Prize for the founder of it. Throughout all
of that. She is a show sponsor. I wouldn't let
her be a show sponsor for years because she was
already so busy from COVID, and I said, when you
add another doctor to your practice, because you're a mommy first,
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and I don't want you overwhelmed, because you're going to
be overwhelmed by our listeners. And so she emailed, I
don't know a couple months back and said, I've added
another doctor, and I think you were right. It's a
good judgment. She wasn't happy with me at the time,
and she said, I got doctor Lou. She's fantastic. It's
amazing story and anyway, and I said, well, let's give
her a few months to get caught up and integrated
(23:35):
into your practice. And now that's what she's doing. So
if anybody needs a great doctor that is an advocate
for you the patient, email me and I'll connect you
directly with them, or just go to breathemd dot org.
But I am happy to have her as a show sponsor.
If you can't tell, we don't accept advertising on the
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Michael Berry Show. We partner with people who are going
to take care of you to give you the best
experience we possibly can do. They get it right one
hundred percent of the time. No, neither do I. Neither
do you. But they make every effort to fix it
if they fail, and they give you a lot better
care than you're going to get whatever the service is
(24:18):
anywhere else. And that part is true. All right, let's
go to Kim. Kim, You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Go ahead, sweetie. Oh, we have to go back to Heather. Okay, Heather,
what happened with Heather? Oh? Man, I completely forgot.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I do this all the time, Heather. I absolutely blew it.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
That's all right, I'm here.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
All right, you got one minute and I'll come back
out of the break. You gotta remind me of stuff.
You just sit there and look at me and let
me make a fool of myself, all right, go ahead, hello, yeah,
go ahead?
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Okay. Yeah. Well, we evacuated from Araby, Louisiana to Birmingham,
and I had two daughters, two dogs, one of my daughters.
We lost the house and Araby never went back, lost
the whole community because nobody went back to Araby for
the longest time. But now they're building houses. Went to Birmingham.
That was our first stay, and I remember the first
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night we were there. You're gonna hate me for this,
Please don't, though, But I remember we were all sitting
it was like an embassy suite, and we're all sitting
in the lobby eating and watching the news about what
was going on with the hurricane. And then Houston came
on and said, we're going to open the people from
New Orleans with open arms and half of the people.
Half of us said, Oh, they're gonna be sorry. And
(25:42):
the people that wasn't some New Orleans just couldn't understand
what we were talking about. Yes, you didn't remember. And
the girls all get pretty at closing time.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
When you're listening to the Michael Berry.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Show documentary on William on Netflix or Prime.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
I never know, just check them both. That's out right now.
And I appreciate the fact that they didn't focus on
his awful politics at all, and that made it. That
made it wonderful. I thought it was very, very well done.
It just came out seven one three nine nine, nine
one thousand. Did we go to kim Seven years ago today,
(26:28):
we were in the throes of Harvey. It's hard to
say on this day because it lasted for multiple days.
Depends on where you are. I had friends out in
the Energy corridor. They were having hurricane survivor parties out
on the driveway. Nobody was going to work, and they're
(26:48):
all sitting out taking photos, posting them on Facebook, and
you know, relieved, and they're sitting out in their lawn
chairs and drinking their rosees or froze or bourbons or beers,
and you know, having a little block party, and they
they missed Harvey, they didn't have the flooding that some
(27:09):
of their friends, and they're all telling stories and so relieved,
and then they release the levee the reservoir and that
really upset people. It's understandable there are things that should
have been done differently to increase capacity. There are things
(27:32):
that could have been done that would have affected how
much they had to release. But there does come a
point where it's bursting at the seams, and is it
bursting or busting? Is it bursting bursting and busting and
further and farther or the two. I know the answer.
Don't please don't email me. I'll have every English mavin
(27:55):
out there will be sending me the but anyway, but
at some point you do have to I get the
science behind it. I've talked to a lot of people
that aren't involved and aren't protecting their own defense, and
they tell me, yes, there comes a point like that
in Harris County, that was the case where you had
to release the levee or you could collapse the entire
(28:18):
system and then we're all in trouble. So those people
that weren't hit in the first band the first round
of it later or hit in it seemingly by choice.
There was a there was a story in New Orleans.
I think it was nineteen twenty seven. I'm pretty sure
it was nineteen twenties, and the parish that New Orleans
(28:42):
sits in was spared the big flood because I think
it was Sam Bernard. I think it was Bernard Parish.
I may get this wrong, but what they did is
they decided to release the levee upstream and basically bypass
New Orleans, which, if you're king, that's what you would do.
(29:05):
But if you're a local resident, you don't appreciate that
you were chosen as the ones to take the beating
so that New Orleans, with its commerce and culture and
great architecture, could be spared. You don't appreciate that one bit.
But it kind of reminded me of that whole story.
Ben Gentle, Ben, you're on Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Go ahead, Yes, yes, sir, Yes, sir? How are you?
Speaker 3 (29:31):
It was?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
I guess a little bit after the storm, when the
you know, the storm had blown through, I grabbed my
john boat and headed up forty five and started pulling
people out of Dickinson off of roofs and getting them
to high ground. And it was there was a bunch
of good old boys doing the same thing. And you know,
there wasn't really a plan in place, but it seemed
(29:54):
that everybody just worked together in a really cool, cool
thing to be experience and be a part of you know.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
And where you from?
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Ben, I guess I think it was two. I'm from Galveston, Texas.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Where do you oh? Okay, so not one of the
other Galveston's.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Oh no, sir, not the other one.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
What do you do? Form just kidding you, Ben, what
do you do for a living?
Speaker 2 (30:17):
I'm a building maintenance contractor where I'm all over the place.
I'm Galveston all the way up to Katie Jackson, all around.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
Houston for whom.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
For myself, I own my business. I own a business.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Okay. So how many employees do you have.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
A little over eighty?
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Did you start the business?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Depending on the yes, sir, Yes, sir, me and my
wife did?
Speaker 1 (30:43):
How long ago?
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Uh? Old one?
Speaker 1 (30:49):
What? Oh? Oh?
Speaker 3 (30:50):
One?
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Okay? So you have contracts to maintain buildings and you
handle from janitorial to repair.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
A c.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Change. Yeah, preventive maintenance, change light bulbs, filters. I mean
you can customize it to whatever you want. You know
what I mean, like, we'll do We'll do anything.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
What do you do day by day? Are you the
primary client contact? Are you doing the business development? You
only have so many hours a day. What do you
personally spend your day doing.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
I'm on my way to winning to change light bulbs
at a bank right now. But I'll do whatever.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
I do it all.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
I mean, I wear all the hats. I have a
couple of people that work underneath me. I guess you
can call a management that kind of manage crews and
manage jobs. But I answer the phone when my customers call.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
How do you build a building? How do you price
that by square footage? By mechanicals?
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Yeah, well, well not always square footage, because if it's
down on the port, you know, a sulfur doc or
something that's industrial, it's definitely going to be more. It's
more about time time spent on the property, more about
labor hours.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Really, and how many labor hours are built into the
contract before you then build marginal hours above that.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Uh, well, we give them a proposal of what it's
going to cost them, so they don't really know. I
just go in and look at it and talk to
them and find out what their needs are. And I
go home and figured it out.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
What were you doing before one?
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Let's see, I was working for a labor company in Houston.
Uh was selling labor like two commercial contractors.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
How did you learn? Do you have a background in
in the mechanical systems and the contracting and and engineering
and all that or do you just learn it on
the on the fly?
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Nah? Just a jack of all trades master and I Michael,
I bet you're.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
A master of a lot of things. That that is. Uh.
You know, guys like you I admire because I don't
have any technical proficiency at anything. I mean, I can
about change the bull, but I might smash it because
I hold it too tight, screw it up. I'm serious.
I admire people who can fix problems, solutions finders. My
(33:17):
dad didn't go to college, but he was a maintenance
worker at DuPont and if something went down, he had
to fix it, so around the house we never had
repair men come to our house. He figured out how
to fix it. Did he screw some stuff up? Yeah,
and then he had to figure out how to fix that.
But I admire that. I really do, and I admire
your entrepreneurial spirit. That's not an easy thing to do.
You're selling yourself short
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