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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time time time time.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Lucking load.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
So Michael Very Show.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Is on the air, looking into mac week. Gotta feed
in bed. I don't plan to shave, and it's you've
the thing. But I just gotta say I'm.
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Doing all right.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Will come miss, I'm eating ready tune, that's true.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
It's either drink nor.
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Drug and noo, I'm just turning all right.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
It's a great tad, don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
It sounds still shining in a close my eyes.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
It's hot times in the neighborhood, good By.
Speaker 6 (01:06):
We're not a breaking news story, but I will tell
this one because I think it's interesting. Apple within the
last two hours announcing that they plan to hire twenty
thousand American workers in a five hundred billion dollar investment
following Trump's meeting with CEO Tim Cook. That will come,
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I assure you, at the expense of China, because that's
where those jobs.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Are located today.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
It is yet another move of someone trying to get
in Donald Trump's good graces.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Meanwhile, leaders of.
Speaker 6 (01:59):
Canada, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
arriving in Kiev, Ukraine to urge Vladimir Zelensky to continue
the war and refuse efforts by the Trump administration to
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end the war, to which I say, fine, fight on,
just fight, fight, fight, Just keep your little war going,
and you start paying for it, period, full stop. Zelensky
over the weekend in a speech announcing that the five
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hundred billion dollars he has received was not alone, that
was a grant and he has no intention of Ukraine
ever paying it back, also admitting again at over one
hundred billion dollars that is claimed to have been sent
there never arrived. So he's throwing Biden, Kamala, Lindsey Graham,
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all of them under the bus.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Where is the money?
Speaker 6 (03:11):
If Trump can find where that money is alone, that
would be a massive, massive success, because something's going on right.
That money went somewhere, and one hundred billion dollars could
make a lot of people very very happy. We told
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you last week about State Senator Joan Huffman, a Republican
from the Houston area, her bill Sjr. Five, which would
amend the state constitution so judges can deny bail to
individuals charged with violent offenses.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Imagine that right.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
The bill passed the Senate last week twenty eight to two.
But Harris County District Attorney Shawn Tier and the ACO
you have made very clear they are pro criminal and
they will oppose this bill.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Damn it.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
If somebody kills somebody, we want to make sure we
can put them rap back out on the street.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
They've got how else are they going to go out
and kill the witnesses?
Speaker 7 (04:12):
Right The story from KTBS TV Today in Austin. In
a twenty eight to two vote, the Texas Senate passing
Senate Joint Resolution five, the bill calling for changes to
the Texas Constitution in order to legally give judges the
right to deny bail to suspects charged with serious crimes.
Speaker 8 (04:32):
It would expand the potential denial of bail to include
persons accused of committing a sexual offense punishable as a
felony of the first degree, So that's a sexual assault
where a weapon was involved or where serious bodily injury occurred,
of committing a violent offense is defined by the Constitution,
or of committing continuous trafficking of persons.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
State Senator Johan Hoffman of Houston authored the bill and
says it will help to save innocent lives.
Speaker 8 (05:00):
There has been at least one hundred and sixty two
homicide cases filed in Harris County, Texas for defendants released
on one or more bonds at the time of a
new murder events.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
The bill is.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Also getting bipartisan support from Texas lawmakers.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
This is not a Republican bill, it's not a democratic bill.
It's a common sense bill. We must protect victims of crime.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
And even law enforcement. Hoffman says that she's received support
from some district attorneys from across the state. Harris County
Sheriff Ed Gonzales praising the bill on x saying people
charged with violent crimes who pose its threat to the
community should be in jail, no matter how much money
they have.
Speaker 9 (05:44):
If seventy percent of our jail population in Texas is
presumptively innocent awaiting trial, most of those detained are nonviolent
unlikely to re offend.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Nick Hudson with the ACLU of Texas says the bill
unfairly targets those who may be innocent.
Speaker 9 (06:01):
The toll on the personally also burdens communities and taxpayers,
and it is disproportionately black and brown people who paid a.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Price in Texas.
Speaker 10 (06:11):
If a judge does deny bail to a suspect. Under
that bill, the judge would be required to provide a
written explanation behind that decision. That bill now heads to
the Texas House, where the future is uncertain. That's because
two previous versions of the same bill failed there. If
the bill does pass in the House and is signed
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by Governor Greg Abbot, voters would decide on the issue
in November's election.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
It's crazy that we're even having to debate this. These
are things you talk about steps backward. It's crazy that
we're even having to debate this. Sadly, for all the
good that's being done by the Trump administration, we don't
have that kind of leadership out of our governor.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
You just don't. People keep saying we need a DOT
for Harris County. Send in the rangers.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
If Greg Abbott announced, But you will notice he doesn't
that there is fraud and corruption in Harris County. And
by the way, there's plenty of proof that there is.
You've got a Sevester Turner's chief of staff at the
City of Houston currently in prison. You have the marketing
director for taking a bribe. You have the marketing director
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for the Housing Department currently in prison for taking a bribe.
You've got the water department director going to prison, you
have the assistant, her assistant going to prison. They'll start
their sentences within a couple of months. You've got plenty
of proof that there is fraud and corruption in Houston
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Harris County. Have you ever heard Greg Abbott even once
bring it up. No, he doesn't want that fight. He
has left the greater Houston area without any leadership at all.
Trump would have marched in here said I'm putting the
rangers on this and we're sending people to prison. But
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greg Abbott absolutely, By the way, Greg Abbitt thought he
was going to run for president in twenty twenty four.
All right, I wish I could tell you how I
know and what all I know, but trust me on this.
Greg Abbott thought he would be in the White House
right now. He thought that as of two years ago.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
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synthetic human health. And do that stay right looking? I mean,
do it mess up on your head or do it
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Speaker 1 (09:11):
And anything?
Speaker 11 (09:15):
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hate to go to a weig, stronger wig, but look
like I'm gonna have to.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
I come see.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Do y'all give a discount for ignorance?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
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Speaker 6 (09:36):
So, we've been hearing sob stories in the news us
AI d laying off a bunch of employees over the weekend.
We've been hearing sob stories about government employees losing their jobs.
And what's interesting is the media tells these stories as if, oh,
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my goodness, it's the.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
End of the world.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
They're losing their jobs.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
What will we do without these government employees?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
How will they carry on?
Speaker 6 (10:12):
This is dust bowl twenties, grapes of wrath and Oklahoma
kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
How tragic they are losing their jobs? What will they do?
Some of them have children, How will they eat? How
will they buy eggs?
Speaker 12 (10:34):
Well?
Speaker 6 (10:35):
Where was the sad music for the people who lost
their jobs because they refused to take the clot shot.
Where was the sad music for all of them? Far
more of them lost their jobs, serving in our military,
serving in our hospitals. There were nurses who had gone
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into the hospital before we even really knew what COVID
wast but we were being told it was the Spanish
flu of nineteen eighteen. And yet they continued for no
extra pay. But if they wouldn't take the clock shot
because they knew better than other people, anything called operation
warp speed as a medical treatment, it's not a good
idea for you to jump into. Have you heard a solidamide?
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Nobody cried for them, did they? We didn't get the
sad stories of their layoffs. When Hillary Clinton, running for
president in twenty sixteen, said she was going to get them.
She was going to close down the coal mines and
the coal management have to find some other job.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Did we hear any tears for them?
Speaker 6 (11:39):
We heard from the New York Times of the Washington
Post learned the code get with it, you're out of touch. Well,
here's the story locally from Kho to Khou about an
IRS employee who was laid off and along with six
thousand others, and what will we do.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
What will we do if we're laying off ir rest employees?
They're so essential and nothing there, Nope, nothing there.
Speaker 13 (12:13):
As he waits for an official termination letter to arrive
at his front door, Jason Charles shared the toll the
last forty eight hours has taken on him.
Speaker 14 (12:20):
I can't believe this is happening, and it happened so fast.
Like I said, I was just in training. I was
just in training.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I waited four months to go to training just to
be fired.
Speaker 13 (12:31):
He's one of six thousand plus federal employees who work
for the Internal Revenue Service fire this week as part
of mass layoffs happening under the Trump administration. The majority
of those workers, like Charles, were probationary workers employee for
less than a year. Charles told us more than two
dozen employees were laid off from his office here off Guessner.
He says it took over a year to get his
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dream job as a tax exempt officer dealing with nonprofit
organizations and compliance. I want to serve the people, and
despite recent news, held out hope his job would be spared.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
How are you feeling?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
And I'm confused, sad, angry, lost?
Speaker 13 (13:14):
When did you get the official notice or was there
an official notice?
Speaker 14 (13:18):
We never got official notice. I got word from managers
that had to be in office yesterday, and we waited
there all day until maybe twelve one o'clock. And then
it was kind of like a firing range. They lined
us up, took our equipment and sent it home.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
His pride and passion taken away.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Excited, they lined us up like a firing squad.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
You lost your job as an IRS harassment agent and rewind,
his passion taken away?
Speaker 4 (13:57):
What will he do?
Speaker 15 (14:00):
All I've ever wanted to do was harass people over
their taxes, call them in and cause them to sweat.
All I ever wanted to do was cause people heart
attacks and strokes and high anxiety and high blood.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Pressure over their taxes. Where's this penny? Where's that one?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Now? What'll I do?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Where will I have a.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Chance that I can harass people with the power of
the Internal Revenue Service behind me?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
They're taken away by mus All I ever wanted to
be was a IRS agent? What else can I do
that would give me such joy?
Speaker 14 (14:36):
Managers that had to be in office yesterday, and we
waited there all day until maybe twelve one o'clock then
it was arranged.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
We waited there all day, like maybe twelve or one o'clock.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Brouh.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I don't think you know what all day means. I
really don't go back.
Speaker 14 (15:01):
I got word from managers that had to be in
office yesterday, and we waited there all day until maybe
twelve one o'clock. And then it was kind of like
a firing range. They mind us up to their equipment.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
They remind us up like a firing range.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
They did.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
This is cruel and unusual. I mean lined them up
and told them to leave. That's never happened to corporate employees,
has it.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Elon told folks, you will reply to me by Monday
with five things you did last week.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
If you don't reply, you're laid off. I'd like to
hear from you, no joking. Once you did that was
useful last week, and you do every week. Seven three, nine, nine,
one thousand.
Speaker 10 (15:50):
The King of Jeans and this other guy, Michael Barry.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Some people say a man is made out of mud.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
A bone, man's made out of muscle and blood, muscling,
blood and skin and bones.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
A mine that's a week and a back that's stung,
you know, sixteen.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Tons body again another day.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
The five hundred billion dollar Apple investment is to include
hiring twenty thousand dollars twenty thousand American workers, doubling their
research and development fund to ten billion dollars, a new
Detroit manufacturing academy, and a new Houston.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
AI server factory. You know, if companies like Apple.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
Bring research and development manufacturing back to American soil, you
would see a massive, massive economic boom. Kevin Wrights is
are I work for United Rentals, one of the largest
companies in the US. Well, I think Chance Mott works
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for United, doesn't he?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I think he does.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
We use Salesforce like it or not. I love what
I do, and I love what I make per year,
but he doesn't tell us what it is. And they
asked me to do it, and I interned, and I
do so. Oh, they asked me to do it, and
in turn, I do so. He must have done voice
to text. I'm required to make fifty entries five zero
into Salesforce per week. I could only be so lucky
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if I were asked to input five things I did
last week.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
It's not that hard people.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
If you don't know, Salesforce is a software program that
folks use for tracking leads and business relationships and the like,
and so you put in an account or a potential
lead when you're going to meet with someone so that
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other reps don't do it. Unfortunate thing is that people
squat on that. So people just go through the phone
book and put a bunch of names of companies in there,
and then the other sales rep goes in there, and
it's already quote unquote taken.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
But the point is it's one of the ways that
sales managers.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
Measure who's out pounding the streets to try to meet
people and bring in accounts. Paul writes, zar, isn't it
typical of the radical left that during COVID government employees
were so ready to stay home and collect their checks.
It was small business owners and blue collar American workers
who were demanding to be considered essential just so they
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could continue working and providing for their families. Now that
those is uncovering all the ways government employees who are
getting acts or screaming they are essential and claiming the
government will collapse without them. Just an observation. Raw Hide, Oh,
he signs off. The name was Rawhide instead the Paul
what do refer to his section? I don't know, but
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you know, isn't it interesting during COVID how hard the
government was working to keep the rest of us from
going about our business. You had to be called essential,
as if they were in charge of determining who was essential.
Remember that we had to act like it was the
post apocalypse. Only the grocery store could be essential. Otherwise
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you had to stay inside till they decided. As if
the craziest part of all that has never happened before,
as if the virus, if everybody just stayed home, the
virus was just going to die.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
It was going to look around like I'm going out today.
I got a big dale. Nobody's going.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
I guess I'll just stay here and die. It was
the dumbest thing ever. And by the way, some of
you dumbasses brought into it. I have friends who bought
into it. I will relentlessly, mercilessly remind them of that
they were angry.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
I wouldn't take the clock shot angry.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
New study coming out on Monday of last week from
Yale Yell Medical showing the long term effects it suppresses
your immune system. It creates a modern day AIDS. You
don't die of AIDS you die of a cold, basic
common cold. Well that's what the shot, the mRNA shot
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does to people. Well, let's talk about what you've done
last week, doctor Rodriguez.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
What do you got putting doctor in your name?
Speaker 16 (20:38):
Doctor rod works just fine?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Okay, doctor doctor rod What did you do last week?
Speaker 16 (20:45):
Took care of patience? Man?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
What's that?
Speaker 16 (20:47):
People take care of people?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
What kind of doctor are you?
Speaker 16 (20:52):
Kinley Medicine?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
I mean patients do you see in a week?
Speaker 16 (20:58):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (20:59):
Man?
Speaker 4 (20:59):
At least at least twenty in the day, So works
out to you know, we're one hundred hundred and twenty
depending on where you land.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Are you doing a six day week?
Speaker 16 (21:13):
Occasionally it's a twenty four hour job.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Man.
Speaker 16 (21:16):
It never really stops to get calls on the weekends
and different things.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Where are you located, I'm the real Grand Valley. And
is this a government clinic? Private clinic?
Speaker 16 (21:28):
It's a nonprofit type of clinic.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (21:32):
Are you compensated per patient or are you on a
flat payment? No, it's flat And what is the number
one thing people are coming into your clinic for these days?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Well, that's a.
Speaker 16 (21:49):
Really good question. I think it's been a lot of
things that have been left unaddressed.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
We're kind of catching up with things that have been
left unaddressed from all that.
Speaker 16 (21:56):
Stuff you just talked about, like, well, people aren't.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
Coming in, people weren't getting screamed, people weren't getting their labs,
and then there's a shortage of you know, clinicians and nurses,
and it's just it's a work man to catch up
essentially with years of you know, a couple of years
of not taking care of people.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
You know, it's interesting you said, I've had a number
of doctors tell me that what happened was people's will
call it maintenance for lack of a better.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Word, during COVID just was suppressed or.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
Denied, and so you had a lot of things that
that you had almost like crimping the water hose and
all of a sudden you open and it spews out.
You had a lot of things. Once once society came
back out for the spring from the cold, barren earth
of COVID, once people started coming back to the doctors,
all these things were being noticed. So there was a
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huge spike, and a part of that spike was they
weren't going for their regular routine visits. They weren't there
were a lot of heart attacks that went undiagnosed, and
it sounds like you're you're seeing that same thing.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Well, I remember working through it, and it was it
was something else to see, you know, live in action,
being in the hospital taking care of people. And now
you know, I'm seeing the other side of it, which
is in the clinic work, and you know, you're trying
to catch up with all the things that have been
left in addressed, and it is it is. It's going
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to be a couple more years, or at least maybe
a generation. I don't know until we catch up again.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
If we do.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
That's horrible.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
It's it feels like this particular cold and flu season
was worse than in past years, maybe just because I
got an upper respiratory in about November and I'm just
now getting rid of it. Was this year worse than usual?
Or is it just kind of one of those selective
bias because I experienced.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
It, you know what I didn't.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
I know that the flu has been a little bit
more intense this year in terms of the people who
have gotten it, the symptomology, but it hasn't been you know,
I haven't seen the crazy amount.
Speaker 16 (24:02):
Of spikes that we have in the past. Do you
get anyways down down here?
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Do you get the flu? Did I get it?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Do you? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Because you're exposed to it obviously.
Speaker 16 (24:16):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Doctors by no means are we immune. That was one
of the first doctors to get it down here, the
whole COVID thing, back when it was like early spring
break time twenty twenty. So yeah, you can always get
all sorts of stuff.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Or where are you, McAllen.
Speaker 16 (24:34):
No Kobe Brownsville?
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Oh okay, are you from that area?
Speaker 16 (24:39):
Yeah, born and raised down by the border.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Is that what you always wanted to do?
Speaker 16 (24:45):
No, that's a crazy story in and of itself too.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
I got time.
Speaker 16 (24:52):
Well, I just.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Wanted to be I was just a regular kid working
living in a small town. Wanted to be with My
dad was a welder.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
And are you listening on Kenny.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
U k k oh?
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Well what a second? Okay, hold on just a moment.
I want to hear your story.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Hold on Southern Pride.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Southern Pride with Michael Berry show.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
Elon asked every federal employee you spawned by today with
five things you accomplished last week.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
He's done this wherever he's been, you know.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Interestingly, he fired almost the entirety of the Twitter workforce.
When he took over Twitter, Remember he came walking in
with the kitchen sink, which was the symbolism, and they said,
always fired all these people. Twitter is going to go down.
Twitter didn't go down. It's gonna be glitchy, it's gonna
have bugs, it's not going to operate well. Didn't happen because,
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as it turned out, very few people at Twitter had
anything to do with the real operations of the site,
which is a portal. The thing that people were doing
was going through and silencing the voices of the left,
of anyone who opposed the left, so you could make
those people go away and the site would actually operate better.
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People came back to Twitter who'd been kicked off or
who'd been driven away. The site was better without them.
And our government is the same way. When our government
is thriving, the private sector is dying, and vice versa.
Calvin Coolidge, I believe it was shut down the government
for six months and the economy boomed. So I'm asking you,
what did you do five things you did last week?
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Measuring things is important. Can't manage what you can't measure.
Having identifiable goals, I have at points in my life
set a goal on this save X amount to buy this.
I'm going to pay off this debt by this date.
When I have a date to do that, I don't
waste money because I go, oh, every penny has to
go toward paying off that. When you have a focus,
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when you have a goal, it's amazing. You have that
singularity of purpose which makes you so much better. That's
why sports teams, you know, you set goals.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
We're going to do this. Everybody's working toward that goal.
Doctor Rodriguez works.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
Today clinic in Brownsville, and he was talking about twenty
patients a day, over one hundred patients a week.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
You said, your father was a welder.
Speaker 16 (27:29):
You're just work irrigation district and your mom.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
They must be very proud of you.
Speaker 16 (27:41):
I would pray. So they tell me.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
When you arrive at the clinic in the morning, do
they give you a list of people who have an
appointment that day or are their walk ins?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Do you have a sense of what's going to happen
that day.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
So you have your listen aardy populated, you know it's
already populated, usually three months in advantage of a plant
to confirm them that the week before, but then there's
thing to walk in and requests to come in all
sorts of all sorts of different ways.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
What percentage of your patients speak Spanish only? About fifty
fifty to fifty.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
Yeah, do y'all treat with regard without regard to immigration status?
Somebody shows up? Is it a public tennic that everybody
gets in.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Yeah, we just we just we just ask them for
identification like it's required and uh, you know, identification proof
from the normal process.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
What is the most rewarding part of what you do?
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Trying to work walk with folks through some some really
hard things. Yeah, because it's not always a kally. Medicine
is a It can be really intense. Sometimes it can
be really chilled, depending on what kind of clinic you
work in. This population is h really high needs.
Speaker 12 (29:01):
So there's a lot of things.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Going on, typically in the background or sometimes in the
foreground in terms of diagnosis. Just walking with them through
and helping them to see that you that there's a
way through, that there's you know, pass forward when things
seem like there's nothing.
Speaker 16 (29:17):
That's probably the most important part.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
What percentage of your patients are obese?
Speaker 16 (29:26):
About so many times.
Speaker 6 (29:27):
Do you talk to them about that or do you
figure it's a learned behavior? At this point, it's it's habitual.
I can't it's cultural. I can't change it.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
At a lot of it ties into the copal abidity
and different different things that are already going on.
Speaker 16 (29:42):
So it it's part of the conversation. Are you married, Yes?
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Kids?
Speaker 16 (29:52):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (29:54):
How old are your kids?
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Uh?
Speaker 16 (29:57):
We got we got the ranges from two to you
love it?
Speaker 6 (30:01):
Do you talk to the older kids about health and
medical and diet and exercise and strength and those sorts
of things.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Yeah, really talk about life, talk about stain active. They
have their sports and different things they enjoy. Thanks, you're
supporting to.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Do that both.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
The majority of what we do otherwise it's pretty pretty
regular home cooked foods, you know, trying to balance it
out some freak tier.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Then are you beat when you leave at the end
of the day.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Be like ready go home and go to sleep, probably
God ready, rock and roll with the kids and enjoy
the res of the eating.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
Good for you, fantastic. I think that's public service. I
appreciate you doing that. Reese, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
What five things did you do last week?
Speaker 16 (30:54):
We've got some.
Speaker 12 (30:55):
Properties under contracts. We fell out of contracts on a
property and we built a lot of construction a small business.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
What do you do construction?
Speaker 12 (31:05):
Land development company, land development and general contractor?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Where are y'all development.
Speaker 12 (31:13):
Right now? I just left our property in Magnolia. We've
been Peorn Concrete since five a m. So we do utilities,
we build buildings. We actually tie up properties, get investors
and and build them from the ground up.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
And what is your specific role in that?
Speaker 12 (31:35):
I'm the owner?
Speaker 1 (31:36):
What's your company?
Speaker 12 (31:36):
Asteer about? Trade from A and M Meremount interests?
Speaker 1 (31:40):
How do you spell it?
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Funny story?
Speaker 12 (31:42):
Am I R? A? M?
Speaker 16 (31:43):
I at?
Speaker 12 (31:45):
And so it was a it was a It was
a castle that I went to when I was young,
and then was also a project that I worked on
in College station. It was a Don Adams project and
College Station when I was going to school there.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
So I don't know I was operating in the first serience,
but I know the name.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (32:04):
Interesting, So give me the the the investor package in
a minute or less. What that looks like right now?
Speaker 12 (32:14):
The investor package. Typically, what we do is build a suit.
So we find the tenant first and we put the
investors together and then we get the least signed before
we close on the land.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
What kind of what kind of lessons are you? Is
this data centers? Is this retails?
Speaker 12 (32:33):
This is actually addictareous staycas daycares is weird. Yes, sir,
I'd do more than just staycares, but I'm all right.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
So you go out and find the location based on
where you think the daycare would be. You tie it up,
you put it under contract, and then you go looking
for the daycare that would want that property.
Speaker 12 (32:54):
Now, I have a daycare that likes locations, and I
go fund them a property. We tie it up, they
signed a lease, and then we built the whole thing,
and then we get this certificate of vacumency and then
we own it.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Oh, you own it and lease it back to that
and we sell it on.
Speaker 12 (33:08):
The investment market. Yeah, then we sell them on the
investment market.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
I love that business so much. I could talk to you.
I won't, but I could talk to you for the
next few hours about it. I uh please, I wish
I had more time. I would love to do that
It's that time time time time.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Lucking load.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
So Michael Very Show.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Is on the air, looking into mac week. Gotta feed
in bed. I don't plan to shave, and it's you've
the thing. But I just gotta say I'm.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Doing all right.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Will come miss, I'm eating ready tune, that's true.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
It's either drink nor.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Drug and noo, I'm just turning all right.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
It's a great tad, don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
It sounds still shining in a close my eyes.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
It's hot times in the neighborhood, good By.
Speaker 6 (01:06):
We're not a breaking news story, but I will tell
this one because I think it's interesting. Apple within the
last two hours announcing that they plan to hire twenty
thousand American workers in a five hundred billion dollar investment
following Trump's meeting with CEO Tim Cook. That will come,
(01:34):
I assure you, at the expense of China, because that's
where those jobs.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Are located today.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
It is yet another move of someone trying to get
in Donald Trump's good graces.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Meanwhile, leaders of.
Speaker 6 (01:59):
Canada, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
arriving in Kiev, Ukraine to urge Vladimir Zelensky to continue
the war and refuse efforts by the Trump administration to
(02:21):
end the war, to which I say, fine, fight on,
just fight, fight, fight, Just keep your little war going,
and you start paying for it, period, full stop. Zelensky
over the weekend in a speech announcing that the five
(02:41):
hundred billion dollars he has received was not alone, that
was a grant and he has no intention of Ukraine
ever paying it back, also admitting again at over one
hundred billion dollars that is claimed to have been sent
there never arrived. So he's throwing Biden, Kamala, Lindsey Graham,
(03:07):
all of them under the bus.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Where is the money?
Speaker 6 (03:11):
If Trump can find where that money is alone, that
would be a massive, massive success, because something's going on right.
That money went somewhere, and one hundred billion dollars could
make a lot of people very very happy. We told
(03:32):
you last week about State Senator Joan Huffman, a Republican
from the Houston area, her bill Sjr. Five, which would
amend the state constitution so judges can deny bail to
individuals charged with violent offenses.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Imagine that right.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
The bill passed the Senate last week twenty eight to two.
But Harris County District Attorney Shawn Tier and the ACO
you have made very clear they are pro criminal and
they will oppose this bill.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Damn it.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
If somebody kills somebody, we want to make sure we
can put them rap back out on the street.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
They've got how else are they going to go out
and kill the witnesses?
Speaker 7 (04:12):
Right The story from KTBS TV Today in Austin. In
a twenty eight to two vote, the Texas Senate passing
Senate Joint Resolution five, the bill calling for changes to
the Texas Constitution in order to legally give judges the
right to deny bail to suspects charged with serious crimes.
Speaker 8 (04:32):
It would expand the potential denial of bail to include
persons accused of committing a sexual offense punishable as a
felony of the first degree, So that's a sexual assault
where a weapon was involved or where serious bodily injury occurred,
of committing a violent offense is defined by the Constitution,
or of committing continuous trafficking of persons.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
State Senator Johan Hoffman of Houston authored the bill and
says it will help to save innocent lives.
Speaker 8 (05:00):
There has been at least one hundred and sixty two
homicide cases filed in Harris County, Texas for defendants released
on one or more bonds at the time of a
new murder events.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
The bill is.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Also getting bipartisan support from Texas lawmakers.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
This is not a Republican bill, it's not a democratic bill.
It's a common sense bill. We must protect victims of crime.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
And even law enforcement. Hoffman says that she's received support
from some district attorneys from across the state. Harris County
Sheriff Ed Gonzales praising the bill on x saying people
charged with violent crimes who pose its threat to the
community should be in jail, no matter how much money
they have.
Speaker 9 (05:44):
If seventy percent of our jail population in Texas is
presumptively innocent awaiting trial, most of those detained are nonviolent
unlikely to re offend.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Nick Hudson with the ACLU of Texas says the bill
unfairly targets those who may be innocent.
Speaker 9 (06:01):
The toll on the personally also burdens communities and taxpayers,
and it is disproportionately black and brown people who paid a.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Price in Texas.
Speaker 10 (06:11):
If a judge does deny bail to a suspect. Under
that bill, the judge would be required to provide a
written explanation behind that decision. That bill now heads to
the Texas House, where the future is uncertain. That's because
two previous versions of the same bill failed there. If
the bill does pass in the House and is signed
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by Governor Greg Abbot, voters would decide on the issue
in November's election.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
It's crazy that we're even having to debate this. These
are things you talk about steps backward. It's crazy that
we're even having to debate this. Sadly, for all the
good that's being done by the Trump administration, we don't
have that kind of leadership out of our governor.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
You just don't. People keep saying we need a DOT
for Harris County. Send in the rangers.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
If Greg Abbott announced, But you will notice he doesn't
that there is fraud and corruption in Harris County. And
by the way, there's plenty of proof that there is.
You've got a Sevester Turner's chief of staff at the
City of Houston currently in prison. You have the marketing
director for taking a bribe. You have the marketing director
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for the Housing Department currently in prison for taking a bribe.
You've got the water department director going to prison, you
have the assistant, her assistant going to prison. They'll start
their sentences within a couple of months. You've got plenty
of proof that there is fraud and corruption in Houston
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Harris County. Have you ever heard Greg Abbott even once
bring it up. No, he doesn't want that fight. He
has left the greater Houston area without any leadership at all.
Trump would have marched in here said I'm putting the
rangers on this and we're sending people to prison. But
(08:10):
greg Abbott absolutely, By the way, Greg Abbitt thought he
was going to run for president in twenty twenty four.
All right, I wish I could tell you how I
know and what all I know, but trust me on this.
Greg Abbott thought he would be in the White House
right now. He thought that as of two years ago.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Bizar of talk radio The Michael Berry Show, how retains Hello,
how you during Honey?
Speaker 11 (08:44):
I'm calling to ask you about the wigs you got
down there? Do you make any wigs out of the
two point two pound polyester? Five of it is humidity
and fireproof. What kind of wig y'all have down there
that's on sale. Honey, it's a humidity wig. Oh he
(09:05):
synthetic human health. And do that stay right looking? I mean,
do it mess up on your head or do it
shank up when it rained?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
And anything?
Speaker 11 (09:15):
Well, you know, my hair is just so raggedy. I
hate to go to a weig, stronger wig, but look
like I'm gonna have to.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
I come see.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Do y'all give a discount for ignorance?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Okay, good, thank you dolling my honey.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
So, we've been hearing sob stories in the news us
AI d laying off a bunch of employees over the weekend.
We've been hearing sob stories about government employees losing their jobs.
And what's interesting is the media tells these stories as if, oh,
(09:57):
my goodness, it's the.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
End of the world.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
They're losing their jobs.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
What will we do without these government employees?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
How will they carry on?
Speaker 6 (10:12):
This is dust bowl twenties, grapes of wrath and Oklahoma
kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
How tragic they are losing their jobs? What will they do?
Some of them have children, How will they eat? How
will they buy eggs?
Speaker 12 (10:34):
Well?
Speaker 6 (10:35):
Where was the sad music for the people who lost
their jobs because they refused to take the clot shot.
Where was the sad music for all of them? Far
more of them lost their jobs, serving in our military,
serving in our hospitals. There were nurses who had gone
(10:57):
into the hospital before we even really knew what COVID
wast but we were being told it was the Spanish
flu of nineteen eighteen. And yet they continued for no
extra pay. But if they wouldn't take the clock shot
because they knew better than other people, anything called operation
warp speed as a medical treatment, it's not a good
idea for you to jump into. Have you heard a solidamide?
(11:19):
Nobody cried for them, did they? We didn't get the
sad stories of their layoffs. When Hillary Clinton, running for
president in twenty sixteen, said she was going to get them.
She was going to close down the coal mines and
the coal management have to find some other job.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Did we hear any tears for them?
Speaker 6 (11:39):
We heard from the New York Times of the Washington
Post learned the code get with it, you're out of touch. Well,
here's the story locally from Kho to Khou about an
IRS employee who was laid off and along with six
thousand others, and what will we do.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
What will we do if we're laying off ir rest employees?
They're so essential and nothing there, Nope, nothing there.
Speaker 13 (12:13):
As he waits for an official termination letter to arrive
at his front door, Jason Charles shared the toll the
last forty eight hours has taken on him.
Speaker 14 (12:20):
I can't believe this is happening, and it happened so fast.
Like I said, I was just in training. I was
just in training.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I waited four months to go to training just to
be fired.
Speaker 13 (12:31):
He's one of six thousand plus federal employees who work
for the Internal Revenue Service fire this week as part
of mass layoffs happening under the Trump administration. The majority
of those workers, like Charles, were probationary workers employee for
less than a year. Charles told us more than two
dozen employees were laid off from his office here off Guessner.
He says it took over a year to get his
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dream job as a tax exempt officer dealing with nonprofit
organizations and compliance. I want to serve the people, and
despite recent news, held out hope his job would be spared.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
How are you feeling?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
And I'm confused, sad, angry, lost?
Speaker 13 (13:14):
When did you get the official notice or was there
an official notice?
Speaker 14 (13:18):
We never got official notice. I got word from managers
that had to be in office yesterday, and we waited
there all day until maybe twelve one o'clock. And then
it was kind of like a firing range. They lined
us up, took our equipment and sent it home.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
His pride and passion taken away.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Excited, they lined us up like a firing squad.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
You lost your job as an IRS harassment agent and rewind,
his passion taken away?
Speaker 4 (13:57):
What will he do?
Speaker 15 (14:00):
All I've ever wanted to do was harass people over
their taxes, call them in and cause them to sweat.
All I ever wanted to do was cause people heart
attacks and strokes and high anxiety and high blood.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Pressure over their taxes. Where's this penny? Where's that one?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Now? What'll I do?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Where will I have a.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Chance that I can harass people with the power of
the Internal Revenue Service behind me?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
They're taken away by mus All I ever wanted to
be was a IRS agent? What else can I do
that would give me such joy?
Speaker 14 (14:36):
Managers that had to be in office yesterday, and we
waited there all day until maybe twelve one o'clock then
it was arranged.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
We waited there all day, like maybe twelve or one o'clock.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Brouh.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I don't think you know what all day means. I
really don't go back.
Speaker 14 (15:01):
I got word from managers that had to be in
office yesterday, and we waited there all day until maybe
twelve one o'clock. And then it was kind of like
a firing range. They mind us up to their equipment.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
They remind us up like a firing range.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
They did.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
This is cruel and unusual. I mean lined them up
and told them to leave. That's never happened to corporate employees,
has it.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Elon told folks, you will reply to me by Monday
with five things you did last week.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
If you don't reply, you're laid off. I'd like to
hear from you, no joking. Once you did that was
useful last week, and you do every week. Seven three, nine, nine,
one thousand.
Speaker 10 (15:50):
The King of Jeans and this other guy, Michael Barry.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Some people say a man is made out of mud.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
A bone, man's made out of muscle and blood, muscling,
blood and skin and bones.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
A mine that's a week and a back that's stung,
you know, sixteen.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Tons body again another day.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
The five hundred billion dollar Apple investment is to include
hiring twenty thousand dollars twenty thousand American workers, doubling their
research and development fund to ten billion dollars, a new
Detroit manufacturing academy, and a new Houston.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
AI server factory. You know, if companies like Apple.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
Bring research and development manufacturing back to American soil, you
would see a massive, massive economic boom. Kevin Wrights is
are I work for United Rentals, one of the largest
companies in the US. Well, I think Chance Mott works
(17:14):
for United, doesn't he?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I think he does.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
We use Salesforce like it or not. I love what
I do, and I love what I make per year,
but he doesn't tell us what it is. And they
asked me to do it, and I interned, and I
do so. Oh, they asked me to do it, and
in turn, I do so. He must have done voice
to text. I'm required to make fifty entries five zero
into Salesforce per week. I could only be so lucky
(17:41):
if I were asked to input five things I did
last week.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
It's not that hard people.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
If you don't know, Salesforce is a software program that
folks use for tracking leads and business relationships and the like,
and so you put in an account or a potential
lead when you're going to meet with someone so that
(18:09):
other reps don't do it. Unfortunate thing is that people
squat on that. So people just go through the phone
book and put a bunch of names of companies in there,
and then the other sales rep goes in there, and
it's already quote unquote taken.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
But the point is it's one of the ways that
sales managers.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
Measure who's out pounding the streets to try to meet
people and bring in accounts. Paul writes, zar, isn't it
typical of the radical left that during COVID government employees
were so ready to stay home and collect their checks.
It was small business owners and blue collar American workers
who were demanding to be considered essential just so they
(18:48):
could continue working and providing for their families. Now that
those is uncovering all the ways government employees who are
getting acts or screaming they are essential and claiming the
government will collapse without them. Just an observation. Raw Hide, Oh,
he signs off. The name was Rawhide instead the Paul
what do refer to his section? I don't know, but
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you know, isn't it interesting during COVID how hard the
government was working to keep the rest of us from
going about our business. You had to be called essential,
as if they were in charge of determining who was essential.
Remember that we had to act like it was the
post apocalypse. Only the grocery store could be essential. Otherwise
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you had to stay inside till they decided. As if
the craziest part of all that has never happened before,
as if the virus, if everybody just stayed home, the
virus was just going to die.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
It was going to look around like I'm going out today.
I got a big dale. Nobody's going.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
I guess I'll just stay here and die. It was
the dumbest thing ever. And by the way, some of
you dumbasses brought into it. I have friends who bought
into it. I will relentlessly, mercilessly remind them of that
they were angry.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
I wouldn't take the clock shot angry.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
New study coming out on Monday of last week from
Yale Yell Medical showing the long term effects it suppresses
your immune system. It creates a modern day AIDS. You
don't die of AIDS you die of a cold, basic
common cold. Well that's what the shot, the mRNA shot
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does to people. Well, let's talk about what you've done
last week, doctor Rodriguez.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
What do you got putting doctor in your name?
Speaker 16 (20:38):
Doctor rod works just fine?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Okay, doctor doctor rod What did you do last week?
Speaker 16 (20:45):
Took care of patience? Man?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
What's that?
Speaker 16 (20:47):
People take care of people?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
What kind of doctor are you?
Speaker 16 (20:52):
Kinley Medicine?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
I mean patients do you see in a week?
Speaker 16 (20:58):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (20:59):
Man?
Speaker 4 (20:59):
At least at least twenty in the day, So works
out to you know, we're one hundred hundred and twenty
depending on where you land.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Are you doing a six day week?
Speaker 16 (21:13):
Occasionally it's a twenty four hour job.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Man.
Speaker 16 (21:16):
It never really stops to get calls on the weekends
and different things.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Where are you located, I'm the real Grand Valley. And
is this a government clinic? Private clinic?
Speaker 16 (21:28):
It's a nonprofit type of clinic.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (21:32):
Are you compensated per patient or are you on a
flat payment? No, it's flat And what is the number
one thing people are coming into your clinic for these days?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Well, that's a.
Speaker 16 (21:49):
Really good question. I think it's been a lot of
things that have been left unaddressed.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
We're kind of catching up with things that have been
left unaddressed from all that.
Speaker 16 (21:56):
Stuff you just talked about, like, well, people aren't.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
Coming in, people weren't getting screamed, people weren't getting their labs,
and then there's a shortage of you know, clinicians and nurses,
and it's just it's a work man to catch up
essentially with years of you know, a couple of years
of not taking care of people.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
You know, it's interesting you said, I've had a number
of doctors tell me that what happened was people's will
call it maintenance for lack of a better.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Word, during COVID just was suppressed or.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
Denied, and so you had a lot of things that
that you had almost like crimping the water hose and
all of a sudden you open and it spews out.
You had a lot of things. Once once society came
back out for the spring from the cold, barren earth
of COVID, once people started coming back to the doctors,
all these things were being noticed. So there was a
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huge spike, and a part of that spike was they
weren't going for their regular routine visits. They weren't there
were a lot of heart attacks that went undiagnosed, and
it sounds like you're you're seeing that same thing.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Well, I remember working through it, and it was it
was something else to see, you know, live in action,
being in the hospital taking care of people. And now
you know, I'm seeing the other side of it, which
is in the clinic work, and you know, you're trying
to catch up with all the things that have been
left in addressed, and it is it is. It's going
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to be a couple more years, or at least maybe
a generation. I don't know until we catch up again.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
If we do.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
That's horrible.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
It's it feels like this particular cold and flu season
was worse than in past years, maybe just because I
got an upper respiratory in about November and I'm just
now getting rid of it. Was this year worse than usual?
Or is it just kind of one of those selective
bias because I experienced.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
It, you know what I didn't.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
I know that the flu has been a little bit
more intense this year in terms of the people who
have gotten it, the symptomology, but it hasn't been you know,
I haven't seen the crazy amount.
Speaker 16 (24:02):
Of spikes that we have in the past. Do you
get anyways down down here?
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Do you get the flu? Did I get it?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Do you? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Because you're exposed to it obviously.
Speaker 16 (24:16):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Doctors by no means are we immune. That was one
of the first doctors to get it down here, the
whole COVID thing, back when it was like early spring
break time twenty twenty. So yeah, you can always get
all sorts of stuff.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Or where are you, McAllen.
Speaker 16 (24:34):
No Kobe Brownsville?
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Oh okay, are you from that area?
Speaker 16 (24:39):
Yeah, born and raised down by the border.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Is that what you always wanted to do?
Speaker 16 (24:45):
No, that's a crazy story in and of itself too.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
I got time.
Speaker 16 (24:52):
Well, I just.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Wanted to be I was just a regular kid working
living in a small town. Wanted to be with My
dad was a welder.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
And are you listening on Kenny.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
U k k oh?
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Well what a second? Okay, hold on just a moment.
I want to hear your story.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Hold on Southern Pride.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Southern Pride with Michael Berry show.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
Elon asked every federal employee you spawned by today with
five things you accomplished last week.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
He's done this wherever he's been, you know.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Interestingly, he fired almost the entirety of the Twitter workforce.
When he took over Twitter, Remember he came walking in
with the kitchen sink, which was the symbolism, and they said,
always fired all these people. Twitter is going to go down.
Twitter didn't go down. It's gonna be glitchy, it's gonna
have bugs, it's not going to operate well. Didn't happen because,
(25:54):
as it turned out, very few people at Twitter had
anything to do with the real operations of the site,
which is a portal. The thing that people were doing
was going through and silencing the voices of the left,
of anyone who opposed the left, so you could make
those people go away and the site would actually operate better.
(26:15):
People came back to Twitter who'd been kicked off or
who'd been driven away. The site was better without them.
And our government is the same way. When our government
is thriving, the private sector is dying, and vice versa.
Calvin Coolidge, I believe it was shut down the government
for six months and the economy boomed. So I'm asking you,
what did you do five things you did last week?
(26:38):
Measuring things is important. Can't manage what you can't measure.
Having identifiable goals, I have at points in my life
set a goal on this save X amount to buy this.
I'm going to pay off this debt by this date.
When I have a date to do that, I don't
waste money because I go, oh, every penny has to
go toward paying off that. When you have a focus,
(27:01):
when you have a goal, it's amazing. You have that
singularity of purpose which makes you so much better. That's
why sports teams, you know, you set goals.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
We're going to do this. Everybody's working toward that goal.
Doctor Rodriguez works.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
Today clinic in Brownsville, and he was talking about twenty
patients a day, over one hundred patients a week.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
You said, your father was a welder.
Speaker 16 (27:29):
You're just work irrigation district and your mom.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
They must be very proud of you.
Speaker 16 (27:41):
I would pray. So they tell me.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
When you arrive at the clinic in the morning, do
they give you a list of people who have an
appointment that day or are their walk ins?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Do you have a sense of what's going to happen
that day.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
So you have your listen aardy populated, you know it's
already populated, usually three months in advantage of a plant
to confirm them that the week before, but then there's
thing to walk in and requests to come in all
sorts of all sorts of different ways.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
What percentage of your patients speak Spanish only? About fifty
fifty to fifty.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
Yeah, do y'all treat with regard without regard to immigration status?
Somebody shows up? Is it a public tennic that everybody
gets in.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Yeah, we just we just we just ask them for
identification like it's required and uh, you know, identification proof
from the normal process.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
What is the most rewarding part of what you do?
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Trying to work walk with folks through some some really
hard things. Yeah, because it's not always a kally. Medicine
is a It can be really intense. Sometimes it can
be really chilled, depending on what kind of clinic you
work in. This population is h really high needs.
Speaker 12 (29:01):
So there's a lot of things.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Going on, typically in the background or sometimes in the
foreground in terms of diagnosis. Just walking with them through
and helping them to see that you that there's a
way through, that there's you know, pass forward when things
seem like there's nothing.
Speaker 16 (29:17):
That's probably the most important part.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
What percentage of your patients are obese?
Speaker 16 (29:26):
About so many times.
Speaker 6 (29:27):
Do you talk to them about that or do you
figure it's a learned behavior? At this point, it's it's habitual.
I can't it's cultural. I can't change it.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
At a lot of it ties into the copal abidity
and different different things that are already going on.
Speaker 16 (29:42):
So it it's part of the conversation. Are you married, Yes?
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Kids?
Speaker 16 (29:52):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (29:54):
How old are your kids?
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Uh?
Speaker 16 (29:57):
We got we got the ranges from two to you
love it?
Speaker 6 (30:01):
Do you talk to the older kids about health and
medical and diet and exercise and strength and those sorts
of things.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Yeah, really talk about life, talk about stain active. They
have their sports and different things they enjoy. Thanks, you're
supporting to.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Do that both.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
The majority of what we do otherwise it's pretty pretty
regular home cooked foods, you know, trying to balance it
out some freak tier.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Then are you beat when you leave at the end
of the day.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Be like ready go home and go to sleep, probably
God ready, rock and roll with the kids and enjoy
the res of the eating.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
Good for you, fantastic. I think that's public service. I
appreciate you doing that. Reese, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
What five things did you do last week?
Speaker 16 (30:54):
We've got some.
Speaker 12 (30:55):
Properties under contracts. We fell out of contracts on a
property and we built a lot of construction a small business.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
What do you do construction?
Speaker 12 (31:05):
Land development company, land development and general contractor?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Where are y'all development.
Speaker 12 (31:13):
Right now? I just left our property in Magnolia. We've
been Peorn Concrete since five a m. So we do utilities,
we build buildings. We actually tie up properties, get investors
and and build them from the ground up.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
And what is your specific role in that?
Speaker 12 (31:35):
I'm the owner?
Speaker 1 (31:36):
What's your company?
Speaker 12 (31:36):
Asteer about? Trade from A and M Meremount interests?
Speaker 1 (31:40):
How do you spell it?
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Funny story?
Speaker 12 (31:42):
Am I R? A? M?
Speaker 16 (31:43):
I at?
Speaker 12 (31:45):
And so it was a it was a It was
a castle that I went to when I was young,
and then was also a project that I worked on
in College station. It was a Don Adams project and
College Station when I was going to school there.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
So I don't know I was operating in the first serience,
but I know the name.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (32:04):
Interesting, So give me the the the investor package in
a minute or less. What that looks like right now?
Speaker 12 (32:14):
The investor package. Typically, what we do is build a suit.
So we find the tenant first and we put the
investors together and then we get the least signed before
we close on the land.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
What kind of what kind of lessons are you? Is
this data centers? Is this retails?
Speaker 12 (32:33):
This is actually addictareous staycas daycares is weird. Yes, sir,
I'd do more than just staycares, but I'm all right.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
So you go out and find the location based on
where you think the daycare would be. You tie it up,
you put it under contract, and then you go looking
for the daycare that would want that property.
Speaker 12 (32:54):
Now, I have a daycare that likes locations, and I
go fund them a property. We tie it up, they
signed a lease, and then we built the whole thing,
and then we get this certificate of vacumency and then
we own it.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Oh, you own it and lease it back to that
and we sell it on.
Speaker 12 (33:08):
The investment market. Yeah, then we sell them on the
investment market.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
I love that business so much. I could talk to you.
I won't, but I could talk to you for the
next few hours about it. I uh please, I wish
I had more time. I would love to do that
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