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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie show is on the air. Okay, detail that
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needs to be considered. It was not shared with me
by the individual who gave me those high prices. Was
it was parents weekend at Texas Animal So that does
make a difference. Under the headline from the Wall Street Journal,
why Tesla supports eliminating the electric vehicle tax credit? That's right.
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Elon Musk supports eliminating the seventy five hundred dollars EV
tax credit. Men. I have known that once President elect
Trump takes office in January, his administration will move quickly
to end the tax credit of up to seventy five
hundred dollars that made it cheaper for Americans to buy
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electric vehicles, according to several media reports, to make electric
vehicles less competitive with gas powered cars, which is the
Trump administration's goal. The removal of the incentive quote could
derail the trajectory of EV sales in the US. The
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head of insights for Edmunds dot Com, Jessica Caldwell, wrote
in a note last week. But here's the important part.
That trajectory was already on a downward trend due to
the high prices of evs and a lack of charging
infrastructure nationwide. An auto industry trade group, the Alliance for
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Automotive Innovation, called on Congress prior to the election to
keep the tax credits around since they are quote critical
to summit hunting the US as a global leader end
quote in auto production. But that trade group does not
represent Tesla, the biggest EV seller in the United States
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by a long shot. Take it from the CEO, Tesla
wants them to end. Following the initial Reuter's report that
Trump would move to eliminate the credits, Musk posted on
X quote in my view, we should end all government subsidies,
including for those for EV's oil and gas. Why would
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that be? Tesla has a dominant position over EV automakers
in the US, and removing the credit would further entrench
that lead by hammering the competition. In a July earnings call,
Musk said the credit removal would be devastating for Tesla's rivals,
but would only hurt Tesla slightly. Tesla sells its evs
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at a sizeable profit, while competitors like Ford and GM
lose money on every EV they sell, making EV production
less economical. Would dent Tesla's margins, but could force its
legacy automaker Peers to stop churning out ev models entirely.
Even with the tax credit in place, Ford idle production
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of its f one to fifty Lightning electric pickup through
the end of the year looking ahead. Because the tax
credits are included in President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, which
was really just a Green New Deal, Trump can't remove
them without an Act of Congress, but Republicans, who will
control both chambers next year, can get it done without
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Democrat votes through a process known as reconciliation, which is
what Democrats used to pass the Green New Deal in
the first place. That was never meant to be an
Inflation Reduction Act. That was always meant to be a
Green New Deal, and that's exactly what it became. So
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on the issue of the electric vehicle, I never believed
Americans would transition to an electric vehicle and just didn't
see it happening. And I'm more resolute on that point
now with much more data, much more extensive information to
draw on than I was before. That doesn't mean that
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your buddy or my buddy, Chance McLean doesn't have an
electric vehicle. There are plenty of electric vehicles and you
see them out there. The American car makers got into
the electric vehicle business to accommodate congress and congressional dictates,
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so you had you had the forwards and the GMS
and all that. That has been an absolute and utter bust.
And I'll tell you why. Because the people who wanted
EV on the front end were people who wanted a
trendy hip, who car that other people didn't have. EV
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car owners wanted to be people who had a vehicle
that their parents and their neighbors and their colleagues did
not have. That meant Tesla, and then eventually, to a
much lesser extent, it meant Lucid and pole Star and
Rivian and Fisk and all of those businesses will be
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out of business in a couple of years. I think
Rivian makes a beautiful suv. I think Rivian's styling is
the best styling in the business. It's a very very
attractive vehicle. But they can't figure out how to make money.
And if you actually look at the numbers of every
company except for ten Esla in the EV space, they're
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not only losing money overall, they're losing money on every
unit they sell. They cannot produce the unit for what
they sell it to the consumer for, and their prices
are insane. So if they're selling a vehicle for ninety
thousand dollars but it costs them one hundred and fifteen,
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you might think, well, they just need to sell more. No,
they're still not able to get there, so maybe increase
the price. Price is elastic and they have reached the
elasticity the number of people who can afford an electric car,
because you're talking from almost all of them, you're talking
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ninety thousand and up. The number of people who can
afford that is a very small slice of people. And
now you're competing with the range Rover, and I do
think they've cut into the range Rover. You're competing with
the Cadillac Escalade. You're competing with the loaded out suburban,
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which still has a great brand, equity and desirability. You're
you're competing against I think they've probably taken a hit
because of this Mercedes and the BMW's. There just aren't
that many people able to buy a car. And you
know what's a good looking vehicle is that? Is it
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a Is it called a land Rover. It's kind of boxy,
do you know what I'm talking about? But yeah, the Defender.
Chris Shaw's got one of them. That's a good looking vehicle.
Not the little one, the longer one, that's a good
looking I rolled up on a car dealership because I
saw a buddy of mine pulling into it and I
was gonna pull in behind him. I thought, oh, I
basically going to look for a car. There was a
beautiful Defender parked out front, and I pulled up behind
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it and he went in and I walked in and
I walked around the car, absolutely gorgeous vehicle, walked around
the car, walked in and he was shaking hands with
the salesman and they were walking out. I said, he said, hey,
what are you doing here? I said, I saw you
pulling in. I thought I was over on Old Hempstead.
Thought I'd follow you in. I said, I was just
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looking at that Defender out there. Man, thing is gorgeous. Say,
is that's what I'm here to pick up? And he
was that's what he was doing one final test driving
and he was driving it out. So now you're talking
about a slice of the car buyer market that is
already the equivalent of fine dining. Right, you're already way
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up there. Who's the only person making an electric car
that's below fifty thousand dollars Tesla. That's the problem. You've
got to be able to make a lot of these
cars at an affordable price, and those other guys just
can't do it. And Ford and GM, they all need
to quit, Michael Berry show. I hope that I won't
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be that long more? Can they be? I have learned
this time. I hope that I find six dollars and
sixty six cents. I was at the grocery store yesterday.
I saw eighteen large white eggs for six dollars and
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sixty six cents. That's deviled. Ex Ramon AP reports breaking news.
President Joe Biden has for the first time authorized Ukraine
to use US supplied long range missiles for strikes inside Russia.
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According to AP sources, Putin was very clear that if
US long range missiles were used inside Russia, that is
an act of war period, end of story. The Biden
administration knows this, Everyone knows this. Who would authorize this?
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Days before you're leaving the White House. This is the
same guy that wandered off into the Amazon yesterday after
his press conference. If you saw that video, if they'd
let him go, he'd have been lost, and that would
have made commen of the president. They're like, oh, not
that bitch, go get him and there he would huh.
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And you know when they got out there, he had
fallen over. He's got that look like you know, he
falls over all the time. And you walk up. I
have fallen and I can't get up. He's hitting the clapper.
There's no clapper out here, Joe, god lord, we got
secret service and turn lights off. Do you remember those
Clapper commercials? Do you remember? How do you remember how
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serious sincere those that they'd look to be laid in
bed and they go and just like that, you can
turn off the lights. Man, I gotta have it. That
and the I have followed and I can't get up.
Those are the best things going, man, I'm telling you,
those are the best things going. So Biden wanders off,
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and they only brought him back so that Kamala couldn't
be president. When you saw him wander off after saying
I'm only here for a few more days. Biden didn't
authorize Ukraine long range missiles. I'm going to state the
obvious because you already know this. This is the Biden
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administration attempting to provoke an international conflict. These are the
people that the Trump administration is created to defeat. These
are the Chinese and the Bushes. These are the war mongers,
the mccains, the Lindsey Grahams, the Clintons. These are the
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people who love war, the John Kerreyes, the Anthony Blinkings.
Anthony Blincoln over the weekend in Lima, Peru, announcing that
America had funded said supported, meant funded a massive train there. Well,
isn't that great? While Americans suffer, Well, I understand why
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the train was funded, to get the precious metals out
of the ground. Stop funding international items, international causes. Bring
that money back. And here's here's where I differ from
most people. Don't find somewhere else to spend it. Give
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it back to the taxpayer who send it in in
the first place. Yeah, that's what you do. You give
it back to the taxpayer whose money it is in
the first place. All these Department of government official efficiency
doze cuts. We don't need to spend the money elsewhere.
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That's your money. Give it back to you. You want
to stimulate the economy, cut taxes, cut programs, cut education,
and a bunch of the others. And then at the
end of the year, when you look at your tax burden,
you go, oh, h, I was on pace to pay
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whatever you were paying twenty thirty fifty one hundred thousand,
whatever you're paying in income taxes. And now all of
a sudden, Oh, they had been withholding on the basis
of those high taxes. Now the taxes have come down,
I'm getting all this money back. What would you do?
You know, good and will would you do? You go
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out and spend it? Talk about stimulating the economy. Nobody
talks about this, this whole idea that people have been
convinced that somebody over there needs to pay more because
he's got more on what basis. It's not like this
is how we're funding the government. We're not funding our government.
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We're borrowing to pay for the government. That's just saying, Hey,
that guy over there, we should make him give a
bunch of money to the government. We should make him
give money to government officials and their friends, because that's
what you're doing. You're not funding the government. President Trump
announces the nomination of Brendan Carr as FCC chairman. That
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is a good move. Federal Communications Commission is a very
important part of our government. He is currently the senior
Republican on the FCC. Before that, he was the FCC's
general counsel and he is he will do a great job.
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He will do a great job. He was originally an
advisor to Agent Pie if you remember him, who did
a great job at the FCC. FCC is kind of
one of those things that people don't think of very much,
but it has a big impact on my life, I'll
tell you that, and asked such. It has a big
impact on America. So it turns out that the fire
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chief in Maui, who was the incident commander for the
Maui fires, was just picked up over the weekend for
raping a twelve year old child. But it gets worse
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now you remember the police chief in Maoi. Remember the
big Maui fires. That was the big news. The poor
people were allowed to burn and die. The rich properties
were protected by the way. Oprah, I think was one
of those rich properties. Turned out a lot of rich
people have properties in Maui. That whole story about Oprah
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getting a million dollars from the Kamala Harris campaign. That's
not true. If you heard that story, it's not true.
Oprah Winfrey did not get a million dollars from the
Kamala campaign. The details came out. She got two and
a half million. So the police chief who was there,
he was there right after having been the incident commander
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for the Las Vegas shooting cover up. Do you remember
what happened? You remember the investigation into the Las Vegas
shooting and what happened. No, you don't, because they never
told us anything and none of it adds up. So
there's your police chief and then your fire chief. Well,
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he's been picked up for raping a twelve year old
child and it turns out, well, I don't know. I'll
leave that alone for right now. So you got the
police chief who's been there after Las Vegas, and you've
got the fire chief who turns out was raping a
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twelve year old for two and a half years. For
two and a half years. What we know about sex
criminals is there not a one off deal. That wasn't
the first and that wasn't the last. But by the way,
it's why they can't be released. It won't be the last.
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If he's released, you don't rehabilitate those bastards. They're monsters.
Listen to this headliner ramon this from CNN. More than
one in three surgical patients has complications, a study finds,
and many are the result of medical errors. A new
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study suggests that hospitals have not made much progress on
patient safety. I am a big believer in having the
best doctors you can possibly find. But I am also
a big believer in don't get cut on. Do you
know how many people die that are going in for
routine surgery. You know how often it happens because of
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medical error. Don't let people cut on you, except as
a last resort show.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Let you turn things on or off from anywhere in
the room. Just plug in the clapper and the television, lamp, stereo,
almost anything you want to Clap on and off.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Flap on, clap off, clapper, yes, gracious.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Solid sources are reporting that Nancy Pelosi has been quoted
by multiple of her confidants in Congress that she is
apoplectic over what has happened with her relationship with Joe Biden.
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We talked about at the time that she was the
one who smothered Joe Biden. I don't know she did it.
She gave the order, and that what happened was if
you go back in the timeline, remember the June twenty
seventh debate that was hastily called in early June. That
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whole thing didn't add up. And I said at the time,
they're doing this so that there will be a ground
swell from the grassroots of Democrats who will demand you,
guys have got to get Biden out of there and
got to get us a replacement, remember, which was exactly
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what happened. They knew that that would be. They were
sparking that fire to force people to do that, to
play their hand that way. It wouldn't look like a
palace coup. It would look like, well, we like Biden,
but if y'all demand it, you know, we don't want
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to be a threat to democracy. If the people demand it,
then we will give you what you want. So the
idea was there was going to be a replacement, and
I believe it was going to be Gavin Newsom, and
I believe Gavin Newsom would have been a much better
candidate than Kamala. That would have been a very different election.
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Gavin Newsom was who Kamala Harris wanted. Now, there was
a Gretchen Whittmer group, there was a Josh Shapiro group,
but I think Gavin Newsom would have been the best
candidate for them. And people will say, well, Michael, how
can you say that he's governor of California. California is
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all screwed up. Democrats don't think it is. That's just it.
Democrats don't I think California's all screwed up. They're not
ashamed of California. So what Biden did was then, all right,
they're not gonna do that to me, then you're not
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going to pick my successor. So once he was smothered,
he recovered and immediately endorsed Kamala. And if you go back,
if you remember at the time, CNN's anchors were shocked
because they were in on all this. It happened on
a Sunday morning, and the immediate endorsement of Kamala shocked
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everyone and you could see it. This was not going
to plan. And so Kamala Harris is being reported sources
are reporting that they're hearing from Democrats that she trusts,
that she destroyed her friendship with the Biden family, which
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according to her was a deep friendship. They have not
spoken since July apparently, and that this is the reason
that she's filing to run again, which she has filed
to run. I think she's eighty four or eighty five
years old. Well you've seen her good grief looks like
tales from the crypt. But that she regrets the decision
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to smother Biden because, as it turned out, Kamala Harris
was a worst candidate, which should surprise no one. Three
months before that, they were openly discussing whether Kamala should
even be on the ballot. That was an open panel talk.
But what's incredible was how fast the media fell in
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line to tell us Kamala was the greatest, she should
be the president. All along, this was going to be
a historic. First, she's a black woman, unless she needed
to be Asian, and then she's an Asian or Indian woman.
She's so smart, she's so tough, she's so well loved,
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she's great. Literally, nobody had ever said that before. And
we have the audio of the panels on CNN where
they had been talking about I mean a matter of
days before that, seventy eighty days before that, should she
even be on the ticket. But this all goes back
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because see now that Democrats have lost. It's amazing how
this works. When you're fat and greedy, you want it all,
and then when you lose it all, you go maybe
maybe I should have taken a little less and gone
for the wind instead of being so greedy. And now
that I've lost it all, I realize what I've done.
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Where they went wrong and they now know it was
that Biden didn't have a year, and he didn't have
a camp in him, and they had been lying for
so long that they trusted that they could pull off
the line on the American people for one more year.
They needed him to hold it together for one more year.
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And that's they knew he couldn't handle the primary. That's
why they didn't have one. There was your first son,
and that made some people mad within the Democrat ranks,
not enough, certainly not the media. But it made Robert F.
Kennedy junior man. And they spent millions to keep him
off the ballot, and he raised millions to get on
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the ballot, and then you remember when he withdrew, they
spent millions to make sure he had to stay on
the ballot. I thought you didn't want him on the ballot,
Now you won't let him off because they thought that
would hurt Trump. Well, him endorsing Trump and hanging out
with Trump and praising Trump constantly didn't matter. People weren't
going to people that supported him were not now going
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to vote for him when he's begging them, please vote
for Trump. But now we have much handwringing by Nancy
Pelosi who still runs that party, and the Obamas. The
Clintons don't any longer that what they should have done
was had an open primary early this year, which Gavin
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Newsom would have won, and they would have had a
much better candidate than November. By the time we got
to election day, they knew they had fumbled this whole
thing they do. That's not lost on them. And now
they're going back to figure out what all they did wrong. Well,
that there was your biggest problem right there.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Michael Berryshaw.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Miss Sea Bowl all night long.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
That's right for.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Missy mo.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
All.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Speaking of bad dentist. At this point, Houston News station,
somebody in town needs a fake dentist beat reporter. We
have yet enough yet another fake dentist being arrested this
time in spring. This is the fourth fake dentist bust
in a few months. The story from KPRCTV.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
At this spring home, forty three year old brist that
Cansino is accused of violating the State's Dentistry Act doing
dental work without a license. The complaint came from the
Texas State Board of Dental Examiners, police say, and on
Wednesday night, the neighborhood filled with officers from the Major
Offenders Division and she was arrested. Just last month, Houston
police arrested Angelica Vivas, accused of offering to do work
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on an undercover officer and doing a botched root canal
without a license. That victim then had to get help
from a real dentist.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Jel Medijoch told me that they had broken my bone
and left me with the root and all on this
side of my face.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
I don't have sensitivity, it is, it's very painful.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Over the summer, prosecutors charged Jaden, New York with the
same felony. A Rhode Island man followed an Instagram ad
to Houston for what he calls a bungled eight thousand
dollars veneer job. I have open pockets so food is
getting in my teeth, don't meet where they're supposed to meet.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
One of them actually popped ole.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Forty one year old Wanetta Solomon faces similar allegations after
a woman saw a TikTok video advertising a cheap veneer procedure.
Record show Solomon used a fake name and did the
work before the victim ended up with pain, bleeding and
difficulties sleeping, and a tooth even came out.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
So we've got Brissandro Cantino having been arrested on Helica
beavs Jaden miw York, and Wanetta Solomon. Huh, how exactly
does that work? I mean, I still can't get over
the process of that. Like, okay, all right, so you're
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going to show up at my office at uh forty
one twenty eight Cantena Street. Okay, well, I'm I'm looking
up on my phone and that looks like it's in
a neighborhood. Yeah. Yeah, so's to make it kind of
more homey, more intimate. Right, my kids are going to
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be doing their homework on the on the dining room table,
but we'll use the normally I use that room, but
we'll use the living room today. Yeah, And if you
want anything out of the fridge, you know, you just
get that, you know, while I'm in the middle of
my surgery, because you know when I you not like
it's going to be sterile anyway. And do you like dogs,
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because my dog a lot of time, my dogs like
to lick all over you. Why why I'm doing the procedure.
And are you okay with babies? Because I got a
baby and you know, we'll put her in the in
the what's that little thing, the little playpen they put
them in. Yeah, we'll put the baby in the playpen.
But if she gets to if she gets to screaming
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and everything, I might have to nurse for a minute
in the middle of your procedure. But I'll try to
get all that done where I can put her down
while you're here and maybe knock most of it out
while you're here. But when you pull up, just come
straight to the door. Don't knock because I'll be looking
out the window when I see you all just over
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the you just come on into my office, okay, okay, yeah,
all right, yeah that yeah, this this doesn't seem sketch
at all. So forty one twenty eight Cantena, let's see
it's not that house. It's not that house. This looks
like the house. And then what do you do? You
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come like, don't look around, okay, because my neighbors are
real nosy, real nosy. Well why would that be, because
you're selling meth out the back door and bringing dental
patients in the front door. And then you walk in
and do you do? You sit down in a lazy
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boy recliner? Is that is that the dental chair? Okay,
you don't seem to have a hygienist or any staff
or anyth No, no, no, keep it lean. That's how
That's how I was able to offer you such a
good price. Is this how it's done in America? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
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this is how it's done. Yeah. You don't want to
overpay it to go to the dental office with somebody
with some fancy license. You know, you gotta pay for
all that go to dental school, and it's hard to
get into dental school nowadays. But I'm basically I'm kind
of like a notary public of dentists. You know that
every year there's some story or another where some notary
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public from Mexico living in Houston manages to convince some
poor Mexican who's come here illegally to pay them as
a lawyer because they like not Thardio. It's the same,
you know, in their mind. And so they got their
notary puss. They can stamp and date most anything you need.
Legal documents may be a little bit questionable, but you
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got to ask yourself. Who gets duped into going to
a fake dentist? Call me crazy. I run everybody now
and don't give me the Will you go to buddy
that's a private investigator? Yes I do. There are so
many services you can you can buy now for very
little money. I like having a private investigator because he
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knows how to cross reference at and really tell you
what it means. But it's just like, look, you may
not be able to hire Chance McLain to do a
heritage film, which is a which is a beautifully produced
documentary on your loved one so that you have it forever.
But I say, and he will tell anybody. If you
can't afford his price, get your phone now and film
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Grandma and sit down and let her tell you her
whole life story. Then you've got it. It might not
be a beautiful, you know, heritage film, but you've got that,
You've got that recorded forever at There are certain things
that you don't have to have much money. If you
have a little common sense, you can do speaking of
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which I don't know about you, but I had my
whole life on hold for this damn election. I mean,
all these things that I need to get done by
year end, and I just put everything off because I
was so focused on this election. And probably like a
lot of you, I did the show, I went home
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and I fell asleep reading polling that news stories, texting
people around the country in positions where I thought they
could give me any information that I might need for
our show. Well, when you do all that, there's a
lot of things you don't do right. So my wife
had been trying to get me to sit down with
Christine Weaver to do our state plan for months, and
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I said, nope, not till after the election. Kyle, Dean
and Dean and Draper. They my wife had pulled everything
together so that we could review all our insurance, cars,
business home, and I said, nope, not go after the election.
So I put my life on hold. And I bet
a lot of you did too. You weren't going to
do anythingun till after the election. You're going to start
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thinking about catering meals, hosting your Christmas party, and now
you're up against the wall and Christmas presents. And so
I would ask of you, as a favor to our show,
if you want to help us, this is a huge
way you can help us. Send me an email through
the website at Berryshow dot com and tell me what
you need, and I will personally connect you with the owner.
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Whether it's gifts, whether it's where to host your Christmas
party or your for your company, for your family, whether
it's who's to cater it, whether it's you're having some
year in work done. A lot of folks have these
medical plans where you've got to spend it or lose
it in your is it HSA? Is that what that's called.
By the end of the year, we've got a doctor
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for everybody part that I trust