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Speaker 1 (00:10):
When I say that medicare, there are really two responses,
one of which probably affects who you are maybe three.
One is don't really know what that is and don't
really care. Another one is that's a big governmental expenditure.
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I don't know what all it covers, but I know
that in the conversation of the budget, that's a big one.
In number three, that's my everything. My history with medicare
was I when my brother passed, he would go over
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to my parents' house every single day and check on
him very much, the sheep dog mentality, you know, protect
care for counsel. And so without him there, I hired
an assistant for them to be there with them. And
it's what a difference it's made. Her mother and my
mother were very close friends, so she loves my mother
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like her own mother, and her mother passed away, so
it couldn't be any better. Now they can't drive. She
drives them to their medical appointments, which are constant. As
you could imagine. She sits with them in the hospital.
My mom was in the hospital last night, she had
a fall, and just these things happen, right, and she's there.
I can't be there, So it has really been a
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big help, so I said, so, my mom said, well,
you take over our finances. She was handling them herself
before that, so I was able to put everything online.
So yeah, I can do it from a distance. And
a buddy of mine from law school, Michael Kat, has
a successful law practice there and he helps me out
just great, great guy, and he helps me out as
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not really so much their attorney, although he does their
legal documents, not that they need many, but just kind
of helping them through making sure, you know, things are
being done right. And I did not realize how much
medicare becomes your life because you can't imagine. You either
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know what I'm talking about or you don't. But for
those of you who don't, you cannot imagine how much
time you're going to spend with medical professionals going to
the doctor's office, getting MRIs cat scans, blood draws, all
of these things done people home health. I mean, it
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goes all the way from your basic preventative and annuals
and all those sorts of things, all the way to
hot fists until the day you die and you just
kind of transition, you know, you come into this world
with medical professionals around you. For most people, unless you're
born at home and we go out of this world,
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especially if we age.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
It's just the nature of it.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
It's not sad. People will say it's sad. No, it's
the full life cycle. I'm just glad to have my parents.
Every day I have them. So Medicare becomes the funding
source for all of that. And what Medicare will and
will not do has everything to do with the quality
and type of care you can possibly get. So I
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heard about this company called Senior Health Services dot Com
and it's a guy named Justin White, and Justin White
is kind of the rain man of Medicare. He knows
everything Medicare inside out and that's all he does all day,
every day. No, he doesn't watch Judge Waltner ramon. Let
me focus on my analogy. It's the best not to
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come up with. He might watch Judge Watner Watner at four,
Watner at four. But he has become my trusted resource
on Medicare. And I said to him in time, I said,
I don't know if we could make this work financially,
but I'd love for you to be a show sponsor
because I'd love to be able to talk about you
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all day, every day, and we were able to make
it work financially. And it has been something that it's
not every single day, but several times a week someone
will email in and say, who's your Medicare guy? And
I can take that email, forward it to Justin or
copy Justin and say this is him right here. You
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guys take it from there, and that is a huge resource.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I told you you should have your doctors before you
need them. You should have an attorney you trust before
you need him. You should have a CPA helping your
business these sorts of things.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Sure, there's lots of Charlatan's.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Sure people don't want to pay anybody to do anything,
But I'm telling you finding people who are experts in
their field rather than you trying to figure it out yourself.
Many times, you're pennywise pound foolish if you try to
navigate a system that you don't know rather than bring
in a professional. Justin White Senior Health Services dot Com.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Justin.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
We keep hearing about all these changes coming to Medicare.
Before we get into those changes, why are all these
changes happening?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Hey? Well, first off, good morning, what an incredible intro man,
I really appreciate that. I love that. That's the first
time I've been called the rain man of Medicare. So
we're going to drive slow on the Medicare driveway today exactly.
So we're going to go in. So the Inflation Reduction
Act is what's driving all this and what a service
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that you're providing giving people a heads up by things
like that to let there's going to be a lot
of folks blindsided by what's coming. The Inflation Reduction Act
is a lot of people know, was signed into law
by Biden back in twenty two. The tie breaking vote
was cast by Harris, and it essentially there's a lot
of stuff in that legislation. I'm going to talk about
all of it obviously, but it essentially rewrites Medicare Part D,
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which is the part that handles the prescription drugs, which
is you know, is so high on everybody's priority list
because that's what people use to control symptoms and conditions
and things like that, and everybody knows that that's a
soft spot for a lot of folks. And it rewrites
that plan. Makes some of it good, and there's a
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lot of good things that are there, but it essentially
changes the way it's funded, and that's where the problem is,
and that's what I want to make sure everybody kind
of knows what's potentially coming so that they can plan
and they know where the where they can get the
information about their particular plan and then be able to
reach out to somebody if they need help beyond that. So,
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do you want me to go in kind of to
where the changes are coming from and go.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
A minute and half. Hill, I'll interrupt you when I
need to, and we'll get to in the next one.
Keep going.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
You got it, buddy, Okay. So in prescription medications, it's
basically being rewritten. Like I said, it was signed in
twenty two and twenty three. We saw some changes, some
smaller changes that were talked about last fall and they
went into effect in twenty four. So some of your
listeners that have got the prescription drug plans for the
meds up, they saw some adjustments there. There were a
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few changes that went through in Medicare advantage plans, but
all but mentally they were smaller. This year, you're going
to see introduced a lot larger changes that are going
into effect in twenty twenty five January, and they're going
to sound good. There's some good stuff. The maximount of
pocket is being dropped from eight thousand this year all
the way down to two thousand, so one fourth of
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what it is this year. And the coverage gap, the
ridiculous donut hole that's been there from the beginning, that's
been eliminated completely, thank Heaven. And then they've actually also
mandated that the payment plan to smooth everybody's drug payments
across through the year. That's been mandated as well. And
I don't know why they didn't do that years ago,
because that just makes all the sense in the world
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to keep people from going in and seeing this roller
coaster of prices up and down. I mentioned that too.
They go, well, Justin, that sounds really really good, and
it does. The problem is is where the funding is
coming from.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Hold right there has made Justin White is our guest
Senior Health Services dot Com.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
All Things medicare coming up. This is the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Justin White is the owner of Senior Health Services dot Com,
which is where I send people who need help navigating
the very complicated world of medicare, which is very important
if you're sixty five and up. Justin, I think you
were in the middle of an answer, I'll let you
finish that and we'll move to the next one.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Absolutely, absolutely, so just a quick summary Part D of Medicare,
the prescription parts being rewritten by the Inflation Reduction Act,
and the changes are coming through the way they're funding it.
So this year, to make this as simple as possible,
the maximunt of pocket for drugs and Part D is
eight thousand dollars and when somebody reaches that threshold, and
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not many people do because that's a lot of money.
But when they reach that threshold, Medicare covers eighty percent
of the remaining costs and the insurance companies the Part
D plans have to cover twenty percent and the beneficiary
pays nothing. In January of twenty five, the mandate has
come and lowered the eight thousand down to two so
four times faster. But Medicare has also taken their responsibility
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from eighty percent to twenty percent when they hit so
a lot more people are going to hit that two
tho thousand dollars threshold, and then Medicare is going from
eighty to twenty. The pharmaceutical companies are bringing in what
I think amounts to a coupon for twenty percent and
then the drug companies are going to have to cover
the rest. So they're seeing their liability increase on the
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medicines that are going to come a lot faster because
of that lower threshold, and they're jumping from twenty percent
to sixty And at the time this was put through,
there was no additional money or very little it was
appropriated to help with the extra expenses. And that's what's
going to cause this storm of sorts to arrive, this
fault that people are going to start getting notified about
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in their mailboxes this month.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
So what does that look like?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
That's essentially what's going on. So yep, Well, when the
carriers are looking they have any business owner knows that
if you have a giant line item that's tripled all
of a sudden, literally within a couple of months, there's
got to be they've got to go in and find money.
If there's not money provided, they've got to go find it.
So it could mean that people are going to go
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and they're going to get their annual notices have changed
this year, and they're going to see copays and co
insurances be adjusted upward. There could be a maximum amount
of pockets raised upward. There could be premiums or deductibles
added where there weren't ones before, and it could hit
any of the plans that have prescription drug covers in them.
So whether it's a standalone plan with supplements or a
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Medicare advantage plan that includes prescription drugs, they have to
literally go back into the plan benefits and find money
that they can shift over into the drug portion so
that they can cover their increased liability in the medication.
And so that's so it could be I mean, it
could be anything we're seeing. I'm not at liberty because
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we're not allowed to talk about this stuff until the
first of October by federal law. But we're seeing the
changes and they're not insignificant. In many cases, some plans
are going to be affected by you know, more than others.
But people need to really really watch for that notice
for their specific plan, uh and take a look at
it so they know how it's going to affect them
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and they can reach out and for help if they need.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
It, and what can be done if there is a
problem or if they want to push back on this
if if well, what can be done, what what measures
are there.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Well, the first thing that everybody needs to do, and
this is going to be different for a lot. There's
a document called the Annual Notice of Change that is
mandated by federal law that all the insurance companies must
send out to their you know, to their clients with
a prescription drug plan or a medicare advantage, showing them
telling them how their plan is going to change for
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the coming year. And those things are going to start
showing up. They usually show up in September and normally
towards the latter part of September. So I would just
prebody watch for that. Open every single piece of mail
from your carrier this this September, in this fall, and
open that thing up, and when you get the one
that says annual Notice of change, look at that thing
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and then you'll be able to determine because they'll show
your specific information there. And then if you have a problem,
if you're looking at it goes, oh my gosh, what's
happened to my plan? I need to look at this.
If you have an agent that you love and trust,
call them and say you please come over here and
review this thing for me. Or if you don't have
somebody you can call an organization like US Senior Hill Services.
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That's all we do, and we do it for free,
just to help people navigate what's going on. But the
changes are significant, we're already seeing them, and in some plans,
they're very significant. And the main thing the first thing
they can do is just protect themselves with knowledge.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
People are going to ask. So it's better to explain that.
When you say we do it for free, you mean
our listener who calls you is not the person who
compensates you.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Correct. Correct.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
We do not charge any sort of a consultation fee.
There are folks that will do that.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
We do not.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
You know, if we get paid anything, it's basically we
get paid by the carriers and oftentimes the carriers get
that from the federal government. So we are a resource
free of charge to anybody that has or needs you know,
has questions or needs help.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
How will folks know.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
How and whether their plan, their Medicare plan, will change
Medicare for better or worse. It's it's what they're comfortable with,
it's what they've been using.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Who's going to be affected the most?
Speaker 1 (14:32):
And how will folks know if they're going to be
affected and to what extent.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Well, that annual notice of change is going to tell
the tale. When they get that, they can open it
up and look at it. And the problem is most people,
you know, when that thing comes in, it just looks
like another piece of junk mail. So a lot of
people throw it away and they don't look at it.
And only ten percent of people usually shop each year
for medicare. That's how it is. People sit tight. That's
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why so many people are going to wake up and go, oh,
my gosh, what just happened to my plan? So we're
expecting as high as seventy percent this year are going
to be shopping. They may go in and try it
and go, oh, you know why am I paying so
much more now? Et cetera. But if they can look
at that thing, they will know how their plan is
going to change. And if there's something on there that
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they don't understand, they need to call someone. Because these
these changes like this have not happened in recent memory,
and for most people, they've never happened. You know, this
funding change, it's almost like being in a way, it's
like being invited to dinner and the person who invites
you orders five hundred dollars worth of food and says,
you eat up and you enjoy all this, It's going
to be so wonderful. And then they flip one hundred
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dollars on the table and go to the bathroom and
don't come back. That's kind of the way that the
whole thing feels. And it's going to be a real
tough thing. The carriers have been trying to figure out
where they can find money to shift to the drug part,
and so anybody with drugs included in their plan are
going to be affected in some way, and again some
more than others. But it's something they've just got to
look at that and then call if they have questions.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
All right, I got a minute and a half left.
I wanted to get to the you and I've talked
about the demonstration program by email.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Can you explain that.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Yes, sir, absolutely so. This all the companies had to
put in their bids in June because of this Inflation
Reduction Act changes. And I think these are my words,
but I think when those bids came in in June,
the people at Medicare looked at those and goes, oh
my gosh, this is not good. And so they created
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a demonstration program which is basically a test program to
funnel money into something. And that's what this is. It
is bringing billions and billions in to help and this
is in their own words, it says to offset the
or blunt the effect of the rate increases that are
coming through because of this legislation. So it's almost like
in a way that they're kind of bailing it out
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before it's even in effect. And that was something that
came out Literally I didn't even know about it until
late July, and so this is something that's going on
right now, and it's just showing how concerned they are
with what's going to be happening potentially inside these plans
and programs. But it is money if that's being filtered through.
But it's one of those things that it's kind of
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came along kind of late, and not everybody's going to
be able to opt into it, and it's just bringing
in money to help make the plan not degrade as much.
And I don't know a bit. I mean, timing's questionable,
I'm sure, but that's what it is. It's just coming
in and saying, yeah, this has went a little further
than we thought, so we need to do something to
blunt it the way, this is.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
The cost of the Inflation Reduction Act. That folks, they
took money from Medicare and put it into their pet
programs and they're hoping you won't notice that until after
the election. Justin White Senior Health Services dot Com. Thank you, sir.
I send a lot of listeners folks who email me.
And by the way, not just for him. If you
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hear me talk about somebody, whether they're a show sponsor
or I just tell you there's somebody that I trust,
and you email me through the website. If I have
their personal email in a relationship, I will forward you
directly to them to make sure you're taking care of it.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
I like lack Aberri.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Show, despite recent bombings in Lebanon, despite a train being down,
a plane being down in Asia, despite many other major
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world news stories, the biggest international story. His celebration of
life event would have three hundred million viewers across the country.
The biggest story on this day in two thousand and
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six was the death of the crocodile hunter Steve Irwin, who,
at only forty four years old, died when pierced in
the chest by a short tail stingray barb while filming
in the Great Barrier Reef with Philippe Cousteau junior, son
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of course of Jacques Cousta. The stinger penetrated the thoracic wall,
causing massive trauma.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
He did not die immediately, it was quite painful.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
He was at bat Reef near Port Douglas, Queensland, taking
part in the production of the documentary Center series Ocean's Deadliest.
It's believed to be the only fatality from a stingray
captured on video. He and his wife had a production company.
They were filming for the production company, but the weather
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and conditions were such that they could not film at
that exact moment. So to make the most of the day,
he had started his daughter with her own show, which
was a television which was a children's television program about
the joys of nature. And they saw a stingray resting
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in shallow water. I say resting, I think that's the
term they used. I watched a documentary about this last night.
A stingray who was for whatever reason, in very very
shallow water, and stingrays are not known to attack. So
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he went up to the stingray to take some footage
of it. And if they don't like what you're doing,
apparently they will swim away, very fast swimmers, and for
whatever reason, because he had done this many times before,
the stingray hits him with a barb in puncturing his
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lung and piercing his heart, which was just shocking. In fact,
they said that since nineteen forty there had only been
five documented cases in Australia of a person being killed
by a stingray, and around the world only twenty. It
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just doesn't happen that you die from a stingray attack,
and he was in great pain and would eventually succumb.
The documentary was about his Australia Zoo, which his parents
had founded and he grew up in. You know, the problem,
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like with anyone else, is he shouldn't go too deep
into politics because he'll start saying things like a four
year old.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Time any maybe we shack down on other companies.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
He said some really stupid, unrealistic things about.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Industry and energy.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
But I love his passion for the natural world, and
I think that's a very healthy thing to be encouraged
and promoted, not only among the use youth. I think
it's a healthy thing to be encouraged and promoted among
all of us because I don't think people get enough
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fresh air. I think the wonders of connectedness on social
media have become a crutch for many people, and it
comes at the expense of fresh air and the wind
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blowing through the trees in a beautiful, gentle breeze, in
the sounds of nature. Now, I don't mean them, damn cicadas.
I could kill those cicadas like nobody's business. Crockett has
a bullfrog that shows up once a year. I don't
know if it's a mating season or he thinks it's funny,
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or he loves the advent.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Of the football season. I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
There's a bullfrog that comes up to Crockett's window every year,
and several years ago, Crockett would complain about this bullfrog,
and I thought, kid, you are so spoiled. That's all
you got to worry about. Is a bullfrog, anything anything
of it. And I, obviously I didn't do anything about
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it and't go gig it. So a few days later,
there was a light out on our security system and
I went out to test and I told my wife,
just see film going out there. So I can see
what it looks like and how much of this little
area it has a spotlight, so if somebody was in
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that area, we do something about it. I walk out there,
and I'm outside the Crockett's window and I'm walking along.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
And all was like wow.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I mean, I swear I had walked up on a
Democrat getting ready to break into my house. I jumped
out of my skin. How in the world did this
little thing make all that noise? And I mean, I
guess the point was. My wife has a theory. She
loves we go hiking to hear the woods come alive,
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because in her mind, they're all saying, hey, they're coming, Hey, guys,
they're coming over here. Y'all, y'all look out, they're coming
over here, which I always thought was kind of a
cute way to look at it, and it is. And
so he really doesn't have a lot of defense mechanisms.
I don't know if they can peel on you or not,
because that's all frogs have ever done to me. But
his mechanism was, Hey, I can't really do anything, but
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I'm gonna let you know I'm here and maybe you'll
go away like a snake that can't really a non
venomous snake.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
And boy, did it ever work. I went marching up to.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Crockett's room and I said, Crockett, you're right, we're gonna
do something about the bullfrog.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
And he said, oh, don't worry about it. I figured
out how to do the white noise on my sound machine,
so I just do that now and it doesn't bother me.
I said, okay, my moffucker. The border is closed, the
border is secure. The Michael Berry Show border is secure.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
The only reason the border is not secure is Donald
Trump is my Republican trans.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
I'm a scatman. Chuck Berry was a scatman. A bunch
of pause.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
He said that they could so was John Matchapel part.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Of the other.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
That's a chick cat.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Do you see that scene Bult the Scatman where the girl.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Was trying to explain.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
That he would have her sit in a hammock, lay
in a hammock, he cut the hole out in the
hammock for the poop shoot, and he would lay under
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the hole with her on the poop shoot. And she
said he got so angry because she was constipated.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
I'm just kidding, you know, I get it.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
You know, maybe everybody would have some little fetish if
they ever explored it. You just don't end up out
there right, especially pre internet. But I got a wonder
for mom, and don't even send me hate email over there.
I have to wonder what's going through your mind where
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you say, you know, I love chocolate pudding. Okay, it's brown?
Has that consistency? I mean, maybe I like call like,
what how does it happen the first time?
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Seriously, Hey, I'm rich and you're poor down here in
Belize and here's I want to try something. So just
a little bit, just a tip, like, how does that?
How does that conversation go? Who did oh? Ramone said?
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Premiere Radio Network.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Just released a press release saying, I'm just curious what
is going through your mind at that moment.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
When you start that?
Speaker 1 (28:10):
And then I guess, I mean he did it with
many women according to the documentary, So I guess at
some point he goes that is good, that's going to
go find some more. Does he ease into that conversation
like does he see a girl and go boy about
her poop taste?
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Good?
Speaker 1 (28:29):
I mean, seriously, Ramon, you have to wonder. Okay, you
can't just go grows, you can't. This is Democrat social justice,
and this is the collapse of society. A twelve year
old boy in Maryland is accused of breaking into a
car dealership. No, not just one, of breaking into two
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car dealerships, Oh not just too, of breaking into three,
no four, actually five car dealerships. In some of the
break ins, he steals cars. They catch him, but due
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to state juvenile justice laws recently passed in Maryland, he
can't even be charged.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
So officers detain him and they drive him back home.
Speaker 6 (29:31):
A twelve year old boy breaking into a car dealership.
Watches he opens the window at Pristine Auto in Rockville
early Tuesday, then climbs in headfirst. You can see him
wandering around the dealership for about fifteen minutes, searching various
drawers and desks. He opens the fridge looking for a snack,
and he goes outside and can be seen searching the
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dealership's vehicles. Police forces tell News four it's not the
first time he's done this. These are the five Montgomery,
CA dealerships the boy is accused of targeting this month,
including BMW and Audi in Rockville. In some break ins,
he managed to steal cars, but in each case police
couldn't hold him due to his age. Under a Maryland
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juvenile justice reform law passed two years ago, kids under
age thirteen can't be.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Charged with property crimes.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
Employees here at Christine Otto tell me that same boy.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Came back here again two.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
Days later to try to break in, this time while
workers were still in the office. The workers called police,
and officers caught the boy down the street. News four
is blurring his face here because he's a minor. Sources
familiar with the investigation tell News four police have had
to drop the boy off at his home in DC
after catching him.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
So you know what happens to that kid? Bad things happen,
hands up, debt or in prison, maybe both. Do you
remember the story that by the way, that story credit
was NBC four out of Washington, d C. The story
of Latarian Milton, and we laughed about it. W pbf's
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Ted White talked to Latarian Milton about grabbing his grandmother's
keys and crashing her car.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
Latarian Milton is not your typical seven year old. Few
his age have ever driven an suv up and down
several busy streets. It all started at his mother's townhouse.
Latarian says he took the car keys and hopped into
his grandmother's dodge DURINGO.
Speaker 5 (31:37):
When I came through the back door, I looked on
the counter, my keys were going.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
I took my grandma car because I got mad at
my mom. And then I saw him to have my
friend come in, and he smoked his cigarettes.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
He started the vehicle and put it into gear.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
I yanked the I yanked, I yanked the.
Speaker 7 (31:53):
Thing, and off they went, two seven year olds alone
on the road. Latarian drove several miles through Lake Park
and Palm Beach Gardens.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
We got the one called he told you about of
a driver in the vehicle who looked too short to
be able to see the stereo.
Speaker 7 (32:05):
Along the way, he ran over two mailboxes, hit two
parked cars in a Costco parking lot, and struck two
moving cars near Walmart.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
I want to do because it's fun, funny do bad
things and drives into a car.
Speaker 7 (32:17):
So did you know that you could perhaps kill somebody?
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Yes, but I wanted to do horresh stuff for my friend.
Speaker 7 (32:21):
It all ended on investment. Laying in consumer drive. That's
where Latarian hit the curb, insideswiped the sign. The suv
took most of the beating, snapping off one of his
axles and wheels a grandmother's rage.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
I want to whip his behind. That's what I want
to do right now. If I thought they wouldn't take
me to jail, I'd whip his behind right now.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
He wanted to do what I.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
Wanted to do, horrash stuff for my friend.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Well, how did it turn out for Latarian? He's twenty three.
He spent his life, most of it in prison. Now
he assaulted his grandmother two weeks after he stole her.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
Car to do horrash stuff for my friend.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
He carjacked a lift driver.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
I wanted to do horors stuff for my friend.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
He's been arrested for beating up women.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
I wanted to do hooor stuff for my frienth.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Been arrested for resisting arrestments stuff for my faint. Those
are just the crimes we knew about. Is not every Democrat,
though
Speaker 4 (33:15):
I wanted to do hooor stuff for my friend,
When I say that medicare, there are really two responses,
one of which probably affects who you are maybe three.
One is don't really know what that is and don't
really care. Another one is that's a big governmental expenditure.
(00:35):
I don't know what all it covers, but I know
that in the conversation of the budget, that's a big one.
In number three, that's my everything. My history with medicare
was I when my brother passed, he would go over
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to my parents' house every single day and check on
him very much, the sheep dog mentality, you know, protect
care for counsel. And so without him there, I hired
an assistant for them to be there with them. And
it's what a difference it's made. Her mother and my
mother were very close friends, so she loves my mother
(01:19):
like her own mother, and her mother passed away, so
it couldn't be any better. Now they can't drive. She
drives them to their medical appointments, which are constant. As
you could imagine. She sits with them in the hospital.
My mom was in the hospital last night, she had
a fall, and just these things happen, right, and she's there.
I can't be there, So it has really been a
(01:40):
big help, so I said, so, my mom said, well,
you take over our finances. She was handling them herself
before that, so I was able to put everything online.
So yeah, I can do it from a distance. And
a buddy of mine from law school, Michael Kat, has
a successful law practice there and he helps me out
just great, great guy, and he helps me out as
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not really so much their attorney, although he does their
legal documents, not that they need many, but just kind
of helping them through making sure, you know, things are
being done right. And I did not realize how much
medicare becomes your life because you can't imagine. You either
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know what I'm talking about or you don't. But for
those of you who don't, you cannot imagine how much
time you're going to spend with medical professionals going to
the doctor's office, getting MRIs cat scans, blood draws, all
of these things done people home health. I mean, it
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goes all the way from your basic preventative and annuals
and all those sorts of things, all the way to
hot fists until the day you die and you just
kind of transition, you know, you come into this world
with medical professionals around you. For most people, unless you're
born at home and we go out of this world,
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especially if we age.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
It's just the nature of it.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
It's not sad. People will say it's sad. No, it's
the full life cycle. I'm just glad to have my parents.
Every day I have them. So Medicare becomes the funding
source for all of that. And what Medicare will and
will not do has everything to do with the quality
and type of care you can possibly get. So I
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heard about this company called Senior Health Services dot Com
and it's a guy named Justin White, and Justin White
is kind of the rain man of Medicare. He knows
everything Medicare inside out and that's all he does all day,
every day. No, he doesn't watch Judge Waltner ramon. Let
me focus on my analogy. It's the best not to
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come up with. He might watch Judge Watner Watner at four,
Watner at four. But he has become my trusted resource
on Medicare. And I said to him in time, I said,
I don't know if we could make this work financially,
but I'd love for you to be a show sponsor
because I'd love to be able to talk about you
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all day, every day, and we were able to make
it work financially. And it has been something that it's
not every single day, but several times a week someone
will email in and say, who's your Medicare guy? And
I can take that email, forward it to Justin or
copy Justin and say this is him right here. You
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guys take it from there, and that is a huge resource.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I told you you should have your doctors before you
need them. You should have an attorney you trust before
you need him. You should have a CPA helping your
business these sorts of things.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Sure, there's lots of Charlatan's.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Sure people don't want to pay anybody to do anything,
But I'm telling you finding people who are experts in
their field rather than you trying to figure it out yourself.
Many times, you're pennywise pound foolish if you try to
navigate a system that you don't know rather than bring
in a professional. Justin White Senior Health Services dot Com.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Justin.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
We keep hearing about all these changes coming to Medicare.
Before we get into those changes, why are all these
changes happening?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Hey? Well, first off, good morning, what an incredible intro man,
I really appreciate that. I love that. That's the first
time I've been called the rain man of Medicare. So
we're going to drive slow on the Medicare driveway today exactly.
So we're going to go in. So the Inflation Reduction
Act is what's driving all this and what a service
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that you're providing giving people a heads up by things
like that to let there's going to be a lot
of folks blindsided by what's coming. The Inflation Reduction Act
is a lot of people know, was signed into law
by Biden back in twenty two. The tie breaking vote
was cast by Harris, and it essentially there's a lot
of stuff in that legislation. I'm going to talk about
all of it obviously, but it essentially rewrites Medicare Part D,
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which is the part that handles the prescription drugs, which
is you know, is so high on everybody's priority list
because that's what people use to control symptoms and conditions
and things like that, and everybody knows that that's a
soft spot for a lot of folks. And it rewrites
that plan. Makes some of it good, and there's a
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lot of good things that are there, but it essentially
changes the way it's funded, and that's where the problem is,
and that's what I want to make sure everybody kind
of knows what's potentially coming so that they can plan
and they know where the where they can get the
information about their particular plan and then be able to
reach out to somebody if they need help beyond that. So,
(07:02):
do you want me to go in kind of to
where the changes are coming from and go.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
A minute and half. Hill, I'll interrupt you when I
need to, and we'll get to in the next one.
Keep going.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
You got it, buddy, Okay. So in prescription medications, it's
basically being rewritten. Like I said, it was signed in
twenty two and twenty three. We saw some changes, some
smaller changes that were talked about last fall and they
went into effect in twenty four. So some of your
listeners that have got the prescription drug plans for the
meds up, they saw some adjustments there. There were a
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few changes that went through in Medicare advantage plans, but
all but mentally they were smaller. This year, you're going
to see introduced a lot larger changes that are going
into effect in twenty twenty five January, and they're going
to sound good. There's some good stuff. The maximount of
pocket is being dropped from eight thousand this year all
the way down to two thousand, so one fourth of
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what it is this year. And the coverage gap, the
ridiculous donut hole that's been there from the beginning, that's
been eliminated completely, thank Heaven. And then they've actually also
mandated that the payment plan to smooth everybody's drug payments
across through the year. That's been mandated as well. And
I don't know why they didn't do that years ago,
because that just makes all the sense in the world
(08:16):
to keep people from going in and seeing this roller
coaster of prices up and down. I mentioned that too.
They go, well, Justin, that sounds really really good, and
it does. The problem is is where the funding is
coming from.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Hold right there has made Justin White is our guest
Senior Health Services dot Com.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
All Things medicare coming up. This is the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Justin White is the owner of Senior Health Services dot Com,
which is where I send people who need help navigating
the very complicated world of medicare, which is very important
if you're sixty five and up. Justin, I think you
were in the middle of an answer, I'll let you
finish that and we'll move to the next one.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Absolutely, absolutely, so just a quick summary Part D of Medicare,
the prescription parts being rewritten by the Inflation Reduction Act,
and the changes are coming through the way they're funding it.
So this year, to make this as simple as possible,
the maximunt of pocket for drugs and Part D is
eight thousand dollars and when somebody reaches that threshold, and
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not many people do because that's a lot of money.
But when they reach that threshold, Medicare covers eighty percent
of the remaining costs and the insurance companies the Part
D plans have to cover twenty percent and the beneficiary
pays nothing. In January of twenty five, the mandate has
come and lowered the eight thousand down to two so
four times faster. But Medicare has also taken their responsibility
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from eighty percent to twenty percent when they hit so
a lot more people are going to hit that two
tho thousand dollars threshold, and then Medicare is going from
eighty to twenty. The pharmaceutical companies are bringing in what
I think amounts to a coupon for twenty percent and
then the drug companies are going to have to cover
the rest. So they're seeing their liability increase on the
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medicines that are going to come a lot faster because
of that lower threshold, and they're jumping from twenty percent
to sixty And at the time this was put through,
there was no additional money or very little it was
appropriated to help with the extra expenses. And that's what's
going to cause this storm of sorts to arrive, this
fault that people are going to start getting notified about
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in their mailboxes this month.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
So what does that look like?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
That's essentially what's going on. So yep, Well, when the
carriers are looking they have any business owner knows that
if you have a giant line item that's tripled all
of a sudden, literally within a couple of months, there's
got to be they've got to go in and find money.
If there's not money provided, they've got to go find it.
So it could mean that people are going to go
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and they're going to get their annual notices have changed
this year, and they're going to see copays and co
insurances be adjusted upward. There could be a maximum amount
of pockets raised upward. There could be premiums or deductibles
added where there weren't ones before, and it could hit
any of the plans that have prescription drug covers in them.
So whether it's a standalone plan with supplements or a
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Medicare advantage plan that includes prescription drugs, they have to
literally go back into the plan benefits and find money
that they can shift over into the drug portion so
that they can cover their increased liability in the medication.
And so that's so it could be I mean, it
could be anything we're seeing. I'm not at liberty because
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we're not allowed to talk about this stuff until the
first of October by federal law. But we're seeing the
changes and they're not insignificant. In many cases, some plans
are going to be affected by you know, more than others.
But people need to really really watch for that notice
for their specific plan, uh and take a look at
it so they know how it's going to affect them
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and they can reach out and for help if they need.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
It, and what can be done if there is a
problem or if they want to push back on this
if if well, what can be done, what what measures
are there.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Well, the first thing that everybody needs to do, and
this is going to be different for a lot. There's
a document called the Annual Notice of Change that is
mandated by federal law that all the insurance companies must
send out to their you know, to their clients with
a prescription drug plan or a medicare advantage, showing them
telling them how their plan is going to change for
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the coming year. And those things are going to start
showing up. They usually show up in September and normally
towards the latter part of September. So I would just
prebody watch for that. Open every single piece of mail
from your carrier this this September, in this fall, and
open that thing up, and when you get the one
that says annual Notice of change, look at that thing
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and then you'll be able to determine because they'll show
your specific information there. And then if you have a problem,
if you're looking at it goes, oh my gosh, what's
happened to my plan? I need to look at this.
If you have an agent that you love and trust,
call them and say you please come over here and
review this thing for me. Or if you don't have
somebody you can call an organization like US Senior Hill Services.
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That's all we do, and we do it for free,
just to help people navigate what's going on. But the
changes are significant, we're already seeing them, and in some plans,
they're very significant. And the main thing the first thing
they can do is just protect themselves with knowledge.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
People are going to ask. So it's better to explain that.
When you say we do it for free, you mean
our listener who calls you is not the person who
compensates you.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Correct. Correct.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
We do not charge any sort of a consultation fee.
There are folks that will do that.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
We do not.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
You know, if we get paid anything, it's basically we
get paid by the carriers and oftentimes the carriers get
that from the federal government. So we are a resource
free of charge to anybody that has or needs you know,
has questions or needs help.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
How will folks know.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
How and whether their plan, their Medicare plan, will change
Medicare for better or worse. It's it's what they're comfortable with,
it's what they've been using.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Who's going to be affected the most?
Speaker 1 (14:32):
And how will folks know if they're going to be
affected and to what extent.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Well, that annual notice of change is going to tell
the tale. When they get that, they can open it
up and look at it. And the problem is most people,
you know, when that thing comes in, it just looks
like another piece of junk mail. So a lot of
people throw it away and they don't look at it.
And only ten percent of people usually shop each year
for medicare. That's how it is. People sit tight. That's
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why so many people are going to wake up and go, oh,
my gosh, what just happened to my plan? So we're
expecting as high as seventy percent this year are going
to be shopping. They may go in and try it
and go, oh, you know why am I paying so
much more now? Et cetera. But if they can look
at that thing, they will know how their plan is
going to change. And if there's something on there that
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they don't understand, they need to call someone. Because these
these changes like this have not happened in recent memory,
and for most people, they've never happened. You know, this
funding change, it's almost like being in a way, it's
like being invited to dinner and the person who invites
you orders five hundred dollars worth of food and says,
you eat up and you enjoy all this, It's going
to be so wonderful. And then they flip one hundred
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dollars on the table and go to the bathroom and
don't come back. That's kind of the way that the
whole thing feels. And it's going to be a real
tough thing. The carriers have been trying to figure out
where they can find money to shift to the drug part,
and so anybody with drugs included in their plan are
going to be affected in some way, and again some
more than others. But it's something they've just got to
look at that and then call if they have questions.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
All right, I got a minute and a half left.
I wanted to get to the you and I've talked
about the demonstration program by email.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Can you explain that.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Yes, sir, absolutely so. This all the companies had to
put in their bids in June because of this Inflation
Reduction Act changes. And I think these are my words,
but I think when those bids came in in June,
the people at Medicare looked at those and goes, oh
my gosh, this is not good. And so they created
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a demonstration program which is basically a test program to
funnel money into something. And that's what this is. It
is bringing billions and billions in to help and this
is in their own words, it says to offset the
or blunt the effect of the rate increases that are
coming through because of this legislation. So it's almost like
in a way that they're kind of bailing it out
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before it's even in effect. And that was something that
came out Literally I didn't even know about it until
late July, and so this is something that's going on
right now, and it's just showing how concerned they are
with what's going to be happening potentially inside these plans
and programs. But it is money if that's being filtered through.
But it's one of those things that it's kind of
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came along kind of late, and not everybody's going to
be able to opt into it, and it's just bringing
in money to help make the plan not degrade as much.
And I don't know a bit. I mean, timing's questionable,
I'm sure, but that's what it is. It's just coming
in and saying, yeah, this has went a little further
than we thought, so we need to do something to
blunt it the way, this is.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
The cost of the Inflation Reduction Act. That folks, they
took money from Medicare and put it into their pet
programs and they're hoping you won't notice that until after
the election. Justin White Senior Health Services dot Com. Thank you, sir.
I send a lot of listeners folks who email me.
And by the way, not just for him. If you
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hear me talk about somebody, whether they're a show sponsor
or I just tell you there's somebody that I trust,
and you email me through the website. If I have
their personal email in a relationship, I will forward you
directly to them to make sure you're taking care of it.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
I like lack Aberri.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Show, despite recent bombings in Lebanon, despite a train being down,
a plane being down in Asia, despite many other major
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world news stories, the biggest international story. His celebration of
life event would have three hundred million viewers across the country.
The biggest story on this day in two thousand and
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six was the death of the crocodile hunter Steve Irwin, who,
at only forty four years old, died when pierced in
the chest by a short tail stingray barb while filming
in the Great Barrier Reef with Philippe Cousteau junior, son
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of course of Jacques Cousta. The stinger penetrated the thoracic wall,
causing massive trauma.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
He did not die immediately, it was quite painful.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
He was at bat Reef near Port Douglas, Queensland, taking
part in the production of the documentary Center series Ocean's Deadliest.
It's believed to be the only fatality from a stingray
captured on video. He and his wife had a production company.
They were filming for the production company, but the weather
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and conditions were such that they could not film at
that exact moment. So to make the most of the day,
he had started his daughter with her own show, which
was a television which was a children's television program about
the joys of nature. And they saw a stingray resting
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in shallow water. I say resting, I think that's the
term they used. I watched a documentary about this last night.
A stingray who was for whatever reason, in very very
shallow water, and stingrays are not known to attack. So
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he went up to the stingray to take some footage
of it. And if they don't like what you're doing,
apparently they will swim away, very fast swimmers, and for
whatever reason, because he had done this many times before,
the stingray hits him with a barb in puncturing his
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lung and piercing his heart, which was just shocking. In fact,
they said that since nineteen forty there had only been
five documented cases in Australia of a person being killed
by a stingray, and around the world only twenty. It
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just doesn't happen that you die from a stingray attack,
and he was in great pain and would eventually succumb.
The documentary was about his Australia Zoo, which his parents
had founded and he grew up in. You know, the problem,
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like with anyone else, is he shouldn't go too deep
into politics because he'll start saying things like a four
year old.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Time any maybe we shack down on other companies.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
He said some really stupid, unrealistic things about.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Industry and energy.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
But I love his passion for the natural world, and
I think that's a very healthy thing to be encouraged
and promoted, not only among the use youth. I think
it's a healthy thing to be encouraged and promoted among
all of us because I don't think people get enough
(22:38):
fresh air. I think the wonders of connectedness on social
media have become a crutch for many people, and it
comes at the expense of fresh air and the wind
(22:58):
blowing through the trees in a beautiful, gentle breeze, in
the sounds of nature. Now, I don't mean them, damn cicadas.
I could kill those cicadas like nobody's business. Crockett has
a bullfrog that shows up once a year. I don't
know if it's a mating season or he thinks it's funny,
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or he loves the advent.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Of the football season. I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
There's a bullfrog that comes up to Crockett's window every year,
and several years ago, Crockett would complain about this bullfrog,
and I thought, kid, you are so spoiled. That's all
you got to worry about. Is a bullfrog, anything anything
of it. And I, obviously I didn't do anything about
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it and't go gig it. So a few days later,
there was a light out on our security system and
I went out to test and I told my wife,
just see film going out there. So I can see
what it looks like and how much of this little
area it has a spotlight, so if somebody was in
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that area, we do something about it. I walk out there,
and I'm outside the Crockett's window and I'm walking along.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
And all was like wow.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I mean, I swear I had walked up on a
Democrat getting ready to break into my house. I jumped
out of my skin. How in the world did this
little thing make all that noise? And I mean, I
guess the point was. My wife has a theory. She
loves we go hiking to hear the woods come alive,
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because in her mind, they're all saying, hey, they're coming, Hey, guys,
they're coming over here. Y'all, y'all look out, they're coming
over here, which I always thought was kind of a
cute way to look at it, and it is. And
so he really doesn't have a lot of defense mechanisms.
I don't know if they can peel on you or not,
because that's all frogs have ever done to me. But
his mechanism was, Hey, I can't really do anything, but
(25:02):
I'm gonna let you know I'm here and maybe you'll
go away like a snake that can't really a non
venomous snake.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
And boy, did it ever work. I went marching up to.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Crockett's room and I said, Crockett, you're right, we're gonna
do something about the bullfrog.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
And he said, oh, don't worry about it. I figured
out how to do the white noise on my sound machine,
so I just do that now and it doesn't bother me.
I said, okay, my moffucker. The border is closed, the
border is secure. The Michael Berry Show border is secure.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
The only reason the border is not secure is Donald
Trump is my Republican trans.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
I'm a scatman. Chuck Berry was a scatman. A bunch
of pause.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
He said that they could so was John Matchapel part.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Of the other.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
That's a chick cat.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Do you see that scene Bult the Scatman where the girl.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Was trying to explain.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
That he would have her sit in a hammock, lay
in a hammock, he cut the hole out in the
hammock for the poop shoot, and he would lay under
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the hole with her on the poop shoot. And she
said he got so angry because she was constipated.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
I'm just kidding, you know, I get it.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
You know, maybe everybody would have some little fetish if
they ever explored it. You just don't end up out
there right, especially pre internet. But I got a wonder
for mom, and don't even send me hate email over there.
I have to wonder what's going through your mind where
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you say, you know, I love chocolate pudding. Okay, it's brown?
Has that consistency? I mean, maybe I like call like,
what how does it happen the first time?
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Seriously, Hey, I'm rich and you're poor down here in
Belize and here's I want to try something. So just
a little bit, just a tip, like, how does that?
How does that conversation go? Who did oh? Ramone said?
(27:56):
Premiere Radio Network.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Just released a press release saying, I'm just curious what
is going through your mind at that moment.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
When you start that?
Speaker 1 (28:10):
And then I guess, I mean he did it with
many women according to the documentary, So I guess at
some point he goes that is good, that's going to
go find some more. Does he ease into that conversation
like does he see a girl and go boy about
her poop taste?
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Good?
Speaker 1 (28:29):
I mean, seriously, Ramon, you have to wonder. Okay, you
can't just go grows, you can't. This is Democrat social justice,
and this is the collapse of society. A twelve year
old boy in Maryland is accused of breaking into a
car dealership. No, not just one, of breaking into two
(28:52):
car dealerships, Oh not just too, of breaking into three,
no four, actually five car dealerships. In some of the
break ins, he steals cars. They catch him, but due
(29:13):
to state juvenile justice laws recently passed in Maryland, he
can't even be charged.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
So officers detain him and they drive him back home.
Speaker 6 (29:31):
A twelve year old boy breaking into a car dealership.
Watches he opens the window at Pristine Auto in Rockville
early Tuesday, then climbs in headfirst. You can see him
wandering around the dealership for about fifteen minutes, searching various
drawers and desks. He opens the fridge looking for a snack,
and he goes outside and can be seen searching the
(29:52):
dealership's vehicles. Police forces tell News four it's not the
first time he's done this. These are the five Montgomery,
CA dealerships the boy is accused of targeting this month,
including BMW and Audi in Rockville. In some break ins,
he managed to steal cars, but in each case police
couldn't hold him due to his age. Under a Maryland
(30:13):
juvenile justice reform law passed two years ago, kids under
age thirteen can't be.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Charged with property crimes.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
Employees here at Christine Otto tell me that same boy.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Came back here again two.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
Days later to try to break in, this time while
workers were still in the office. The workers called police,
and officers caught the boy down the street. News four
is blurring his face here because he's a minor. Sources
familiar with the investigation tell News four police have had
to drop the boy off at his home in DC
after catching him.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
So you know what happens to that kid? Bad things happen,
hands up, debt or in prison, maybe both. Do you
remember the story that by the way, that story credit
was NBC four out of Washington, d C. The story
of Latarian Milton, and we laughed about it. W pbf's
(31:16):
Ted White talked to Latarian Milton about grabbing his grandmother's
keys and crashing her car.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
Latarian Milton is not your typical seven year old. Few
his age have ever driven an suv up and down
several busy streets. It all started at his mother's townhouse.
Latarian says he took the car keys and hopped into
his grandmother's dodge DURINGO.
Speaker 5 (31:37):
When I came through the back door, I looked on
the counter, my keys were going.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
I took my grandma car because I got mad at
my mom. And then I saw him to have my
friend come in, and he smoked his cigarettes.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
He started the vehicle and put it into gear.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
I yanked the I yanked, I yanked the.
Speaker 7 (31:53):
Thing, and off they went, two seven year olds alone
on the road. Latarian drove several miles through Lake Park
and Palm Beach Gardens.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
We got the one called he told you about of
a driver in the vehicle who looked too short to
be able to see the stereo.
Speaker 7 (32:05):
Along the way, he ran over two mailboxes, hit two
parked cars in a Costco parking lot, and struck two
moving cars near Walmart.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
I want to do because it's fun, funny do bad
things and drives into a car.
Speaker 7 (32:17):
So did you know that you could perhaps kill somebody?
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Yes, but I wanted to do horresh stuff for my friend.
Speaker 7 (32:21):
It all ended on investment. Laying in consumer drive. That's
where Latarian hit the curb, insideswiped the sign. The suv
took most of the beating, snapping off one of his
axles and wheels a grandmother's rage.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
I want to whip his behind. That's what I want
to do right now. If I thought they wouldn't take
me to jail, I'd whip his behind right now.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
He wanted to do what I.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
Wanted to do, horrash stuff for my friend.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Well, how did it turn out for Latarian? He's twenty three.
He spent his life, most of it in prison. Now
he assaulted his grandmother two weeks after he stole her.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
Car to do horrash stuff for my friend.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
He carjacked a lift driver.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
I wanted to do horors stuff for my friend.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
He's been arrested for beating up women.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
I wanted to do hooor stuff for my frienth.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Been arrested for resisting arrestments stuff for my faint. Those
are just the crimes we knew about. Is not every Democrat,
though
Speaker 4 (33:15):
I wanted to do hooor stuff for my friend,
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