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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, time luck and look, Michael
Verry Show is on the air. It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoking.
I can feel a good one coming on.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It's the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
What's crazy times. We live in Happy Friday, by the time.
By the way, Happy Friday drive home. For those of
you who are making your drive home, it's an honor
to get to ride along with you. There were a
number of things that happened this week that I did
not get to and I would now like to get
to before the week is over.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
It's it's everything doesn't need to be diagnosed.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
But I suppose there's a certain amount of OCD that
likes everything to be completed, nothing to be wasted. And
so I'm going to, Uh, I'm going to get to
this because I have more content than I'm going to
have ants to get to. And there are some things
that I don't want you to miss. Number one, the
state of Minnesota has come to national attention. And the
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more you pick at this thing, the nastier it gets.
The state of Minnesota, it's not lost on me. Is
home to Keith Ellison and Timmy Waltz and ilhan Omar
and no.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Not Pens anymore.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
He doesn't live there and not Kirby Puckett. There are
bad things going on there, and there are allegedly millions,
if not billions, with a b of dollars funding all
this nonsense. Multiple whistleblowers in Minnesota tell state lawmakers that
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they believe the total amount of Somali related fraud is
not just one billion, not double that at two, not
double that at.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
But double that at eight.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
They believe the total amount of Smali related fraud is
closer to eight billion dollars. Even if they've exaggerated and
it's only five, that's an insane amount of fraud. You
could buy a lot of people's loyalty for that.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Function is with The story investigators are finding in Minnesota
is growing by the day. Kelly Leffler, who leads the
Small Business Administration, says in the two days her agency
has been investigating the state, they've uncovered at least a
million dollars in PPP fraud just two days in. Several
of the whistleblowers in Minnesota have also told lawmakers they
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believe the total amount of fraud could total up to
more than eight billion dollars. Governor Tim Wallas, who is
up for reelection, is under fire for all of this
happening under his watch, but he says they have paused
these programs, They've brought in out outside auditors to get
an idea of how far reaching this fraud was. They're
taking steps to keep it from happening again. And he's
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defending his management of the state while also taking shots
at Republicans and the President.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
And in spite of the headwinds, we're up against Minnesota
ranks economically, economic growth, happiness, a number of people ensured,
education levels near the very top. So I'll tell you what,
I have no interest in having this state look like
Oklahoma or Mississippi. And if folks are going to commit
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crimes here thinking because our generous spirit and our programs
that we have is going to give them some kind
of cover, they are sadly mistaken.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Minnesota is also now home to the single largest pandemic
fraud scheme in the country, and Republicans argue that Walls
and other Democrats opened the door to this.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
How about Tim Waltz saying if people believe that, I'm
if they believe that because because we're that's such nice
people that you can come here and you can get
away with things. Oh, I'm here to tell you you
got another thing coming. But there you're not gonna do it.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Hair, We're gonna really, We're gonna really well, not really
do anything, but we're gonna really You know, you need
to know that if you come hit crime in Minnesota
that Timmy wats is here.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
You know, Timmy Watas is not going to tolerate.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I'm I'm sad.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Trump said that he does not want to see another Somalia.
He was talking about the mess he inherited in this
country and people who contribute, people who are givers, people
who are doers, and people who are takers.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
I want to see people that contribute. I don't want
to see some Malia. I don't want to see a
woman that you know, marries a brother to get in
and it becomes a congressman does nothing but complain. Well,
she does this, complain, complain plane, and yet her country
is a mess. You know, it's one of the worst
in the world. Let her go back fix up her
own country. So now Somalia. Yeah, and I was right
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about it. You know, I started complaining about Somalia long
before the scandal. The horrible, the horrible things they're doing
to Minnesota. It's incredible they have any company governor there too.
The Democrats are running some bad ships.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
And I will remind you the whole George Floyd debacle.
Saint George Floyd, the fentanyl freak happened in Minnesota. George
Floyd was from Houston, Texas. He went to prison in Texas.
He put a shotgun in the belly of a woman
he was wearing a uniform, making look like a utility worker,
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a pregnant woman. No less, invited his friends over and
they raided everything she had.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
He went to prison. He was The cops knew him.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I've had HPD officers, Houston Police Department officers tell me
in Houston, he's.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
A big guy.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
He was a tall guy and big frame, so he
was easy to spot. He was bigger than other people,
and they knew every one of his street names. They
knew where he worked, where he worked, by which I
mean committed his crimes, and so he had to finally flee.
He had to go somewhere else to begin conducting his crimes,
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and Minneapolis was a place that he had some connections.
So he got up there and I'll remind you was
in the commission of yet another felony, which is why
the cops were called in the first place. Minnesota, Minneapolis
in particular, is a hotbed for criminal activity because they're
so soft on crime. These cultures that were such, you know,
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wind swept Bucolic villages of Nordic German backgrounds are now
being overwhelmed by these very aggressive cultures coming into these places,
and the white liberals who are willing to have the
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police stand down from this invasion. This is the crime
you're seeing. This is the fraud you're seeing. This is
the displacement you're seeing. This is why white liberals are
so dangerous, because they will stand by while your wife
is raped, your children are diddled, your home is taken,
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and tell you you're a bad person for having a
problem with it. That's not a joke, that's not provocative,
that's not shock jock. That's true. We're watching that happen
all over the country. We're watching democrats. We're watching cities collapse,
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American cities, the last great hope for humanity.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
You don't know, Tony, don't you you'll bring me my way.
It's Michael Ferris.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Earlier in the week, he played you some clips from
an interview that President Trump did with Politico Dasha Burns.
I realized I didn't get to something related to the
Supreme Court that's going to matter long after President Trump
is gone. And these are very very important matters, and
that is who serves on the Supreme Court, because when
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Democrats have control of the Supreme Court, they will have
no checks on their madness. That's the last break we have,
the last opportunity. So she asked Trump if he wished
the older justices, and specifically the conservative justices Clarence Thomas
or Samuel Alito, would retire so he could appoint their replacements.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
And here's what he said.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
Do you want to see one of the justices on
the Supreme Court retire so you can put in one
more before the end of your term? Well, the Democrats
want to flood the court.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
It's Thomas is seventy seven, Samuel Alito a seventy five.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Do you want one more on there?
Speaker 7 (09:13):
Well, I hope they stay because I think that's fantastic. Okay,
both of those met are fantastic. Before I let you go,
I want to ask I will say this. The Democrats
want to pack the court. They want to have twenty
one justices. That would be a terrible thing for this country.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I'd rather the Democrats retire and let him replace the
Democrats with better judges. But you don't want to Ruth
Bader Ginsburg problem where she held on too long and
then she passes and her replacement falls to Trump. That
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would be a problem, he told Dosha. Burns aid, President
Trump that Obamacare was up for one purpose, to help
insurance companies become rich. And whether that was the intention
or not, we can argue over whether it was. That
is the effect that it had.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
Obamacare was set up for insurance companies to become rich.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Okay, that was why they In.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
My opinion, I think the Democrats did it for that reason.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Do you know that insurance.
Speaker 7 (10:24):
Company stocks have gone up sixteen, seventeen, eighteen hundred percent
over a short period of time. They've been paid trillions,
not billions, trillions of dollars. And what I'm saying is
very simple.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I don't want to pay them anything.
Speaker 7 (10:37):
No money for the insurance company, sorry fellas, I know
them all. No money for the insurance companies.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I want to.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Pay the money directly to the people and let the
people get their own health care.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
But you know in fighting me in that the Democrats.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
So what he's saying is true, and the reason is
it's the only thing I can think of America where
there is payment for a service and there is no
understanding of what the cost is going to be before
the service is rendered.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
You also have.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
The complicating factor that in many cases, this is a
life or death treatment, although the number of treatments that
are truly life or death is overstated. But when you
go into the emergency room, for instance, and they wheel
you in you've been shot by a Democrat drive by
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shooting or jugging or carjacking or whatever that is, and
your wife rolls you up to the emergency room or
they take you in an ambulance, you don't negotiate that transaction.
So you don't have an opportunity to say, you know what,
leave me here to bleed out. I didn't realize y'all
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were going to charge me all this money. And a
lot of people would say, well, nobody cares what the
cost is. You want your life saved. That's true, So
what if they charge you a million dollars? Well they're
not going to do that, all right, what are they
going to do? Do you know, should there be a limit,
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should there be a cost imposed? And if so, by
whom should we buy some sort of insurance ahead of
time to cover for this. It's an odd transaction because
it's not a transaction that has full disclosure prior to
decision making. In some cases, you can have life saving
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care delivered without even consenting to it. You fall and
hit your head, you're knocked out.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
They show up.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
You take a shot, you're bleeding out, you're unconscious, they
show up. These are things that by and large, we
were able to work through in a system of fairness,
in a system that worked. You can go back and
look at political discussions. There was not the problem with
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health care that you hear about today, and that's not
all Obamacare, but it's largely Obamacare, but it actually precedes Obamacare.
What happened was private equity guys that just wanted to
make profit recognized inefficiencies in the delivery of health care
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and how it was, how it was monetized. You had doctors.
Most American medical practice at that time, especially outside the
big cities, most American healthcare was being delivered by an
individual doctor who ran his own practice, and doctors are
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notoriously bad businessman. And so you'd have a doctor and
he's an egomania and he thinks he knows everything about everything,
and he had to hire and compensate staff. He had
facilities to manage, and.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
They had billing. Oh, billing was tough. Billing was difficult.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
So you had these business groups, you managed care business
groups MBAs, pure business guys who looked at this like
the delivery of any other service. And they said, there
are a great deal of inefficiencies, and the doctors are
not very good at this. So what we could do
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is we could go in and buy a doctor's practice
from him, and he could become our employee, and we
could pay him more than he's making already. We'll pay
him up front. It's an investment, right, We'll pay him
up front well bias practice, and then we'll pay him
a salary. And the reason he'll be willing to do
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that is we say to him, you don't have to
worry about any of this anymore. Your nurses, your secretary,
none of those people work for you anymore.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
You'll be just like them. You'll be an employee.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
So that's what happened, and so all of a sudden,
prices started rising, doctors were discontented. There was a huge change. Now,
all of a sudden, when you went to the doctor,
your doctor who used to spend ten minutes with you
listening to you tell the symptoms, now we're seeing seventy
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patients today.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
They couldn't do that well.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
That created an environment where people were ready for a change.
They didn't know what Obamacare was going to bring, but
they thought it would be better.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
It hasn't been.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
I know this is a little more serious than we
normally get on Friday drive home, but if something he's
been bothering me for a while. Healthcare is a major
part of life in any country, quality of health care services.
Most of the time, when you hear politicians talk about
health care, they're not actually talking about healthcare. They're talking
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about health insurance. If we were talking about healthcare and
we were making improvements to healthcare, that would be a
good thing. I'm fifty five years old. In the course
of my lifetime, what I have witnessed, and of course
I moved from a small town to a big city.
There are a lot of changes to go with that.
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But I have witnessed the practice of medicine changing dramatically
and in every way worse. That's not entirely true. That's
not entirely true. I have watched the financial side get
far worse. I have watched doctor I was raised in Orange,
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I had doctor named Raleigh Allen, and then after that
Marty Rutledge. Loved both of those doctors and still talk
to Marty Rutledge to this day. Doctor Rutliche he took
care of my parents till I moved my dad to use.
Love that guy, old fashion practice. But sometimes these doctors,
the old fashioned doctors, will still do this, have to
break the rules with the insurance company to get you
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the diabetic pump you need to get you the equipment
funded that you need. So then what happened was the
relationship between the patient and the doctor is no longer
a direct relationship. There is an overlord a day who's
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ex machina, as the theater would would call it. There
is a puppeteer up at the top and he controls
all of this. And so you pay your insurance premiums
Blue Shield United, whoever that is, and then you go
to the doctor's office.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
And when you get to the doctor's office.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
You've got more people dealing with the billing side of
it than actually treating you in most practices. So you
get there, you go, you tell him you have a problem. Well,
he's under a commitment to the hospital system, which is
what most of them do now, at least in big cities,
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of how many patients he has to see per day.
So he just has a moment because that's the way
the practice has been set up, not by him.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
He's just an employee.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
And so he writes you a script and if you
need it, sends you to a specialist, and then his
staff builds the insurance company and hopes and praise they'll
pay him. And if they choose not to, too bad,
So sad for him. Well, as the insurance companies say
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we won't pay for this procedure, doctors stop doing it.
That doesn't mean that you the patient don't need it,
but it means that the doctor won't perform it because
they're not working for free. So this is how the
insurance companies actually control the delivery of health care services,
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because that which they won't pay for will not be performed.
Everybody's had this problem in many cases through no fault
of the doctor they come in with a sincere desire
to heal the patient, and they say, you need this
procedure performed based on my diagnosis that you have this problem.
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And so they begin to perform that procedure, but the
insurance will determine we're not going to pay for that.
So now the doctor looks bad to you. You're angry.
He's trying to get you to pay. Now you've been healed,
you've moved on and pay for yesterday's problems. He's trying
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to get paid. The insurance won't pay him. So now
you've created a conflict between the doctor and the patient,
which does not engender trust or affection or great relations.
It has absolutely devastated healthcare.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
As we know it.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
But as always happens, the marketplace finds alternatives, creative people.
So now you have these concierge practices and with these
and they're expensive, you pay the doctor up front. I
know concierge doctors who see about five patients a day.
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So you pay the doctor depending on what it could
be two thousand and three thousand, could be ten thousand,
depending on.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Who the doctor is.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
And you pay the doctor upfront, and then you pay
a per time you visit. We did this for my
father when I brought him to Houston, and I found
a concierge doctor who will do a family practice and
is a diabetes specialist. She's an endogronologist, so she deals
with menopause for women and diabetes for men and women,
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but anything related to the indocrine. She will go and
visit him in the old folks home. She will sit
on the floor next to him, take off his shoes
and look at his feet because diabetics you have to
be very careful with their feet. They'll lose toes because
they don't get blood there. She will show up and
watch a World Series game with him. She brings her
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boyfriend and they sit and talk about things, and my
dad loves it. He feels like a king. His doctor
comes his office. So there was the payment up front,
and then there is the hourly fee of any services
she delivers. But she comes to the house. Crockett needed
a physical for school before he could go on a
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field trip. She came to the house and performed the
physical at our house in our living room, and she
does that for other patients. That's what these concierge doctors.
Each one of them has a different rule. That's going
back to the way medicine used to be when I
was growing up, actually before I was growing up, because
my doctors didn't make house calls. So what we're seeing
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is that in many fields we're not moving forward into
the future. We're moving backward into a better world because
the supposed advancements at the time are actual setbacks, both
for the doctor and for the patient. The level of
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discontent for doctors who see seventy or more doctors patients
per day is through the roof. That is not a
rewarding way to live your life. That is not a
rewarding way to practice medicine, That is not a rewarding
way to engage with your patients.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
It's a frustration for them because.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
They don't get time to invest in a proper diagnosis
and a proper understanding of what's going on with that patient.
Everything becomes a number and the NBA folks, they don't
care about quality of care. They care about making money.
And there's nothing wrong with that. But somewhere along the way,
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the making money component became far more important than quality
delivery of services, and the alternative has never been available.
If there was a quality alternative there was. You know,
if conciergras were popping up everywhere, then the big practices,
the hospital practices, the volume practices, the money based systems
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would have to change the way they do business. You
also have the hospital systems who are claiming to be
a charity when they're not charitable at all. They're doing
this for tax purposes. You've got the big federal grants
coming in and that's driving the research. Of course, we
want to do research. We want to cure cancer and
diabetes and all these sorts of things. But where the
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dollars go directs the attention, and so you've got situations
where you've got medicine not being practiced to heal patients,
but instead just like the university campus, where you've got
the best and brightest being pulled out of the application
of healthcare delivery and instead in research because that's where
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the dollars are.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I feel like I got a decent butts. You know,
I had to be ashamed of my butt. It's not
sagging or anything like that. Michael Barriers. It's not great,
you know. I mean, I couldn't be a button model.
But it's not a bad. But as we approach the.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Weekend a reminder that I do read every email, can't
respond to everyone, and I love to hear from you.
In the opening line, just tell me where you're from. Hey,
this is Boute from Patterson, Louisiana, and I'm making some
gumbo and listening to your show. And you know something
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you like about the show, something you don't. That's up
to you, and I will do my best to respond.
I tend to respond in lower case because it takes
time to do uppercase, but I do my best to
respond as many as possible. I can't get to all
of them, but I do read them on I do
really enjoy hearing from you. I enjoy hearing what you
do for a living. You know, people think they're not interesting.
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I bad groceries, drive a truck, I run a crew.
I'm retired. I garden, I run a gardening center, whatever
that is. I find that stuff to be interesting. You'd
be surprised. And I do love to hear from you.
And it's over the weekend. I catch up on anything
I hadn't read, and I get a real kick out
of that. Our website's Michael Berryshow dot com. And you
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can send me an email through it comes directly to me.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
And it's one of my great joys.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
You can also follow me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. We
have not done the TikTok thing. Lots of folks ask
us if we will. Maybe one day I'd somebody else
have to run it for me. But in any case,
Ramon I always say, we are not a breaking news
type program, but this story is huge and it is
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breaking news. Apparently, the folks at pay and Tone, you
know the ones that you go in, and they came up.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
With the color scheme.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
They own the rights to the names of all the
colors in the world. They have announced the color of
the year for twenty twenty six. Apparently. I don't know
if you're up on the annual reveal, but Pantone has
been announcing a color of the upcoming year since nineteen
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ninety nine, first year we've known so for twenty twenties.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Get ready, the color of the year is.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Oh white, It's white, specifically something called cloud Dancer. Well,
the word on the street is there are some folks
who aren't very happy about this. Why am I not
surprised by this?
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Okay, First of all, Panatone or whatever you call how
you gonna.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Say the color of the year is white. You got
one of them.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Identity crisis says Okay, I looked up on that Google
and Pantone or whatever supposedly mean everything.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Yeah, everything but black. And hear another thing that the
Google tell me.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
The name of the white color you chose was called
cloud dance.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Now that's funny.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Everybody know white people can't do two things, and that's
jumping dance. So y'all go buy them Sydney Swimmy white people,
baby Mama jeans and go do your chicken dance and
enjoy being white.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
High.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
I got no time there. I see it.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
I will it to blead color.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
I want them.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
To to blad.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Twenty six color of the Year is cloud Dancer. A
shade of white will be the defining color of the
next year. Get those stain removing pins ready, and then
the styles desk rights Pantone, the self styled color experts
have been predicting a color of the year since nineteen
ninety nine. They're pick for what everyone will be wearing, wanting, eating,
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and otherwise consuming in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Not their pick, it's their dictate.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
They're the ones that make this cloud Dancer officially pantone
eleven dash forty two oh one. Either way, it's a
pretty fancy name for white or a symbol of calming
influence in a frenetic society, as well as a blank
canvas on which we can all start again.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Have they gotten it right?
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Reporters for the Styles Desk sat down to debate. Let
us know what you think in the comments, Vanessa Friedman said,
quote the announcement heralding Cloud Dancer as next year's color
features a woman all in white looking dreamily into a
cloud filled sky. Serenity is clearly the vibe, but given
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the recent political discourse, when I hear white less salubrious
associations also leaped to my mind, ones that I doubt
Pantone took into consideration. But that could be twisted to
pretty uncomfortable ends. I'll bet Vanessa Friedman finds herself twisted
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into uncomfortable places quite often, you know what with racism,
Jim Crow, slavery and all. Callie Holterman responds, it's certainly
a conspicuous choice following a year in which DEI programs
have been dismantled and the party in power has been
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debating how.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Friendly to be with a white nationalist.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
That may not be what Pantone means by peace, unity
and cohesiveness, but I have to imagine it will come
up for some viewers. Alex Vodkoul ads in terms of meaning,
I wonder if there are some clues in its title
Cloud Dancer.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
What's going on there.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Sounds like a nineteen eighties one hit wonder track. Jacob
Gallagher ads, he's from the Style Desk two presumably political
implications aside. I do understand why a blank slate might
be the right pick for this moment. Culture right now
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is pretty darn stagnanty. Thing feels like a rehash of
a rehash, or a piece of media getting squeezed till
there's no juice left. Stranger Things Season five, looking at you,
exclamation mark. We're in this moment where we're waiting, where
we're awaiting the next turn of the dial that.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Moves culture forward. Hence blank slate.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
I could have read that in my best Paul Lindy
voice if I'd known where it was going to end up.
Then Miss Friedman is back. She's got white guilt, maybe
white Jewish guilt. There are so many associations with white
the white dove of peace, the baptismal gown, the wedding dress,
the white T shirt. In some Asian countries, mourning as
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in crying, not early day. White is a color replete
with meanings, so not really that blank at all.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Oh my goodness, this is just too much.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
I mean, this is a deep dive existent consideration of
Pantone picking white as the color of the year. Only
the New York Times style desk could bring us this quality. Meanwhile,
I got an email from Clinton Ives, who writes zar
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kid brag moment. My youngest son, Max Ives, came home
from Vegas yesterday. He competed in the Junior World Finals
saddle Bronc Championship.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
From on what place you think he won.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
In the Junior World Finals saddle Brock Bronc Championship.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Azerbaijanis are good, but.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
He won the whole damn thing, the whole shooting match.
If you were to line up every kid thirteen years
old in the you and your world final saddle Bronc Championship,
and you was to line them from here to the moon,
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with the moon being first and here being last, here be.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
On the moon.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
First place, the whole deal, Not some kid from Idaho.
Not some kid from Waller or Belleville.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Nope, well I don't know where he lives.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
He lists morning good on you, max I's congratulations, buddy boy,
It's that time, time, time, time luck and look, Michael
Verry Show is on the air. It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoking.
I can feel a good one coming on.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It's the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
What's crazy times. We live in Happy Friday, by the time.
By the way, Happy Friday drive home. For those of
you who are making your drive home, it's an honor
to get to ride along with you. There were a
number of things that happened this week that I did
not get to and I would now like to get
to before the week is over.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
It's it's everything doesn't need to be diagnosed.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
But I suppose there's a certain amount of OCD that
likes everything to be completed, nothing to be wasted. And
so I'm going to, Uh, I'm going to get to
this because I have more content than I'm going to
have ants to get to. And there are some things
that I don't want you to miss. Number one, the
state of Minnesota has come to national attention. And the
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more you pick at this thing, the nastier it gets.
The state of Minnesota, it's not lost on me. Is
home to Keith Ellison and Timmy Waltz and ilhan Omar
and no.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Not Pens anymore.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
He doesn't live there and not Kirby Puckett. There are
bad things going on there, and there are allegedly millions,
if not billions, with a b of dollars funding all
this nonsense. Multiple whistleblowers in Minnesota tell state lawmakers that
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they believe the total amount of Somali related fraud is
not just one billion, not double that at two, not
double that at.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
But double that at eight.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
They believe the total amount of Smali related fraud is
closer to eight billion dollars. Even if they've exaggerated and
it's only five, that's an insane amount of fraud. You
could buy a lot of people's loyalty for that.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Function is with The story investigators are finding in Minnesota
is growing by the day. Kelly Leffler, who leads the
Small Business Administration, says in the two days her agency
has been investigating the state, they've uncovered at least a
million dollars in PPP fraud just two days in. Several
of the whistleblowers in Minnesota have also told lawmakers they
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believe the total amount of fraud could total up to
more than eight billion dollars. Governor Tim Wallas, who is
up for reelection, is under fire for all of this
happening under his watch, but he says they have paused
these programs, They've brought in out outside auditors to get
an idea of how far reaching this fraud was. They're
taking steps to keep it from happening again. And he's
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defending his management of the state while also taking shots
at Republicans and the President.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
And in spite of the headwinds, we're up against Minnesota
ranks economically, economic growth, happiness, a number of people ensured,
education levels near the very top. So I'll tell you what,
I have no interest in having this state look like
Oklahoma or Mississippi. And if folks are going to commit
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crimes here thinking because our generous spirit and our programs
that we have is going to give them some kind
of cover, they are sadly mistaken.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Minnesota is also now home to the single largest pandemic
fraud scheme in the country, and Republicans argue that Walls
and other Democrats opened the door to this.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
How about Tim Waltz saying if people believe that, I'm
if they believe that because because we're that's such nice
people that you can come here and you can get
away with things. Oh, I'm here to tell you you
got another thing coming. But there you're not gonna do it.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Hair, We're gonna really, We're gonna really well, not really
do anything, but we're gonna really You know, you need
to know that if you come hit crime in Minnesota
that Timmy wats is here.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
You know, Timmy Watas is not going to tolerate.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I'm I'm sad.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Trump said that he does not want to see another Somalia.
He was talking about the mess he inherited in this
country and people who contribute, people who are givers, people
who are doers, and people who are takers.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
I want to see people that contribute. I don't want
to see some Malia. I don't want to see a
woman that you know, marries a brother to get in
and it becomes a congressman does nothing but complain. Well,
she does this, complain, complain plane, and yet her country
is a mess. You know, it's one of the worst
in the world. Let her go back fix up her
own country. So now Somalia. Yeah, and I was right
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about it. You know, I started complaining about Somalia long
before the scandal. The horrible, the horrible things they're doing
to Minnesota. It's incredible they have any company governor there too.
The Democrats are running some bad ships.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
And I will remind you the whole George Floyd debacle.
Saint George Floyd, the fentanyl freak happened in Minnesota. George
Floyd was from Houston, Texas. He went to prison in Texas.
He put a shotgun in the belly of a woman
he was wearing a uniform, making look like a utility worker,
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a pregnant woman. No less, invited his friends over and
they raided everything she had.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
He went to prison. He was The cops knew him.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I've had HPD officers, Houston Police Department officers tell me
in Houston, he's.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
A big guy.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
He was a tall guy and big frame, so he
was easy to spot. He was bigger than other people,
and they knew every one of his street names. They
knew where he worked, where he worked, by which I
mean committed his crimes, and so he had to finally flee.
He had to go somewhere else to begin conducting his crimes,
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and Minneapolis was a place that he had some connections.
So he got up there and I'll remind you was
in the commission of yet another felony, which is why
the cops were called in the first place. Minnesota, Minneapolis
in particular, is a hotbed for criminal activity because they're
so soft on crime. These cultures that were such, you know,
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wind swept Bucolic villages of Nordic German backgrounds are now
being overwhelmed by these very aggressive cultures coming into these places,
and the white liberals who are willing to have the
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police stand down from this invasion. This is the crime
you're seeing. This is the fraud you're seeing. This is
the displacement you're seeing. This is why white liberals are
so dangerous, because they will stand by while your wife
is raped, your children are diddled, your home is taken,
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and tell you you're a bad person for having a
problem with it. That's not a joke, that's not provocative,
that's not shock jock. That's true. We're watching that happen
all over the country. We're watching democrats. We're watching cities collapse,
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American cities, the last great hope for humanity.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
You don't know, Tony, don't you you'll bring me my way.
It's Michael Ferris.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Earlier in the week, he played you some clips from
an interview that President Trump did with Politico Dasha Burns.
I realized I didn't get to something related to the
Supreme Court that's going to matter long after President Trump
is gone. And these are very very important matters, and
that is who serves on the Supreme Court, because when
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Democrats have control of the Supreme Court, they will have
no checks on their madness. That's the last break we have,
the last opportunity. So she asked Trump if he wished
the older justices, and specifically the conservative justices Clarence Thomas
or Samuel Alito, would retire so he could appoint their replacements.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
And here's what he said.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
Do you want to see one of the justices on
the Supreme Court retire so you can put in one
more before the end of your term? Well, the Democrats
want to flood the court.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
It's Thomas is seventy seven, Samuel Alito a seventy five.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Do you want one more on there?
Speaker 7 (09:13):
Well, I hope they stay because I think that's fantastic. Okay,
both of those met are fantastic. Before I let you go,
I want to ask I will say this. The Democrats
want to pack the court. They want to have twenty
one justices. That would be a terrible thing for this country.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I'd rather the Democrats retire and let him replace the
Democrats with better judges. But you don't want to Ruth
Bader Ginsburg problem where she held on too long and
then she passes and her replacement falls to Trump. That
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would be a problem, he told Dosha. Burns aid, President
Trump that Obamacare was up for one purpose, to help
insurance companies become rich. And whether that was the intention
or not, we can argue over whether it was. That
is the effect that it had.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
Obamacare was set up for insurance companies to become rich.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Okay, that was why they In.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
My opinion, I think the Democrats did it for that reason.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Do you know that insurance.
Speaker 7 (10:24):
Company stocks have gone up sixteen, seventeen, eighteen hundred percent
over a short period of time. They've been paid trillions,
not billions, trillions of dollars. And what I'm saying is
very simple.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I don't want to pay them anything.
Speaker 7 (10:37):
No money for the insurance company, sorry fellas, I know
them all. No money for the insurance companies.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I want to.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Pay the money directly to the people and let the
people get their own health care.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
But you know in fighting me in that the Democrats.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
So what he's saying is true, and the reason is
it's the only thing I can think of America where
there is payment for a service and there is no
understanding of what the cost is going to be before
the service is rendered.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
You also have.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
The complicating factor that in many cases, this is a
life or death treatment, although the number of treatments that
are truly life or death is overstated. But when you
go into the emergency room, for instance, and they wheel
you in you've been shot by a Democrat drive by
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shooting or jugging or carjacking or whatever that is, and
your wife rolls you up to the emergency room or
they take you in an ambulance, you don't negotiate that transaction.
So you don't have an opportunity to say, you know what,
leave me here to bleed out. I didn't realize y'all
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were going to charge me all this money. And a
lot of people would say, well, nobody cares what the
cost is. You want your life saved. That's true, So
what if they charge you a million dollars? Well they're
not going to do that, all right, what are they
going to do? Do you know, should there be a limit,
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should there be a cost imposed? And if so, by
whom should we buy some sort of insurance ahead of
time to cover for this. It's an odd transaction because
it's not a transaction that has full disclosure prior to
decision making. In some cases, you can have life saving
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care delivered without even consenting to it. You fall and
hit your head, you're knocked out.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
They show up.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
You take a shot, you're bleeding out, you're unconscious, they
show up. These are things that by and large, we
were able to work through in a system of fairness,
in a system that worked. You can go back and
look at political discussions. There was not the problem with
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health care that you hear about today, and that's not
all Obamacare, but it's largely Obamacare, but it actually precedes Obamacare.
What happened was private equity guys that just wanted to
make profit recognized inefficiencies in the delivery of health care
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and how it was, how it was monetized. You had doctors.
Most American medical practice at that time, especially outside the
big cities, most American healthcare was being delivered by an
individual doctor who ran his own practice, and doctors are
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notoriously bad businessman. And so you'd have a doctor and
he's an egomania and he thinks he knows everything about everything,
and he had to hire and compensate staff. He had
facilities to manage, and.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
They had billing. Oh, billing was tough. Billing was difficult.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
So you had these business groups, you managed care business
groups MBAs, pure business guys who looked at this like
the delivery of any other service. And they said, there
are a great deal of inefficiencies, and the doctors are
not very good at this. So what we could do
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is we could go in and buy a doctor's practice
from him, and he could become our employee, and we
could pay him more than he's making already. We'll pay
him up front. It's an investment, right, We'll pay him
up front well bias practice, and then we'll pay him
a salary. And the reason he'll be willing to do
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that is we say to him, you don't have to
worry about any of this anymore. Your nurses, your secretary,
none of those people work for you anymore.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
You'll be just like them. You'll be an employee.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
So that's what happened, and so all of a sudden,
prices started rising, doctors were discontented. There was a huge change. Now,
all of a sudden, when you went to the doctor,
your doctor who used to spend ten minutes with you
listening to you tell the symptoms, now we're seeing seventy
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patients today.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
They couldn't do that well.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
That created an environment where people were ready for a change.
They didn't know what Obamacare was going to bring, but
they thought it would be better.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
It hasn't been.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
I know this is a little more serious than we
normally get on Friday drive home, but if something he's
been bothering me for a while. Healthcare is a major
part of life in any country, quality of health care services.
Most of the time, when you hear politicians talk about
health care, they're not actually talking about healthcare. They're talking
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about health insurance. If we were talking about healthcare and
we were making improvements to healthcare, that would be a
good thing. I'm fifty five years old. In the course
of my lifetime, what I have witnessed, and of course
I moved from a small town to a big city.
There are a lot of changes to go with that.
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But I have witnessed the practice of medicine changing dramatically
and in every way worse. That's not entirely true. That's
not entirely true. I have watched the financial side get
far worse. I have watched doctor I was raised in Orange,
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I had doctor named Raleigh Allen, and then after that
Marty Rutledge. Loved both of those doctors and still talk
to Marty Rutledge to this day. Doctor Rutliche he took
care of my parents till I moved my dad to use.
Love that guy, old fashion practice. But sometimes these doctors,
the old fashioned doctors, will still do this, have to
break the rules with the insurance company to get you
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the diabetic pump you need to get you the equipment
funded that you need. So then what happened was the
relationship between the patient and the doctor is no longer
a direct relationship. There is an overlord a day who's
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ex machina, as the theater would would call it. There
is a puppeteer up at the top and he controls
all of this. And so you pay your insurance premiums
Blue Shield United, whoever that is, and then you go
to the doctor's office.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
And when you get to the doctor's office.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
You've got more people dealing with the billing side of
it than actually treating you in most practices. So you
get there, you go, you tell him you have a problem. Well,
he's under a commitment to the hospital system, which is
what most of them do now, at least in big cities,
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of how many patients he has to see per day.
So he just has a moment because that's the way
the practice has been set up, not by him.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
He's just an employee.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
And so he writes you a script and if you
need it, sends you to a specialist, and then his
staff builds the insurance company and hopes and praise they'll
pay him. And if they choose not to, too bad,
So sad for him. Well, as the insurance companies say
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we won't pay for this procedure, doctors stop doing it.
That doesn't mean that you the patient don't need it,
but it means that the doctor won't perform it because
they're not working for free. So this is how the
insurance companies actually control the delivery of health care services,
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because that which they won't pay for will not be performed.
Everybody's had this problem in many cases through no fault
of the doctor they come in with a sincere desire
to heal the patient, and they say, you need this
procedure performed based on my diagnosis that you have this problem.
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And so they begin to perform that procedure, but the
insurance will determine we're not going to pay for that.
So now the doctor looks bad to you. You're angry.
He's trying to get you to pay. Now you've been healed,
you've moved on and pay for yesterday's problems. He's trying
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to get paid. The insurance won't pay him. So now
you've created a conflict between the doctor and the patient,
which does not engender trust or affection or great relations.
It has absolutely devastated healthcare.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
As we know it.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
But as always happens, the marketplace finds alternatives, creative people.
So now you have these concierge practices and with these
and they're expensive, you pay the doctor up front. I
know concierge doctors who see about five patients a day.
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So you pay the doctor depending on what it could
be two thousand and three thousand, could be ten thousand,
depending on.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Who the doctor is.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
And you pay the doctor upfront, and then you pay
a per time you visit. We did this for my
father when I brought him to Houston, and I found
a concierge doctor who will do a family practice and
is a diabetes specialist. She's an endogronologist, so she deals
with menopause for women and diabetes for men and women,
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but anything related to the indocrine. She will go and
visit him in the old folks home. She will sit
on the floor next to him, take off his shoes
and look at his feet because diabetics you have to
be very careful with their feet. They'll lose toes because
they don't get blood there. She will show up and
watch a World Series game with him. She brings her
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boyfriend and they sit and talk about things, and my
dad loves it. He feels like a king. His doctor
comes his office. So there was the payment up front,
and then there is the hourly fee of any services
she delivers. But she comes to the house. Crockett needed
a physical for school before he could go on a
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field trip. She came to the house and performed the
physical at our house in our living room, and she
does that for other patients. That's what these concierge doctors.
Each one of them has a different rule. That's going
back to the way medicine used to be when I
was growing up, actually before I was growing up, because
my doctors didn't make house calls. So what we're seeing
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is that in many fields we're not moving forward into
the future. We're moving backward into a better world because
the supposed advancements at the time are actual setbacks, both
for the doctor and for the patient. The level of
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discontent for doctors who see seventy or more doctors patients
per day is through the roof. That is not a
rewarding way to live your life. That is not a
rewarding way to practice medicine, That is not a rewarding
way to engage with your patients.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
It's a frustration for them because.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
They don't get time to invest in a proper diagnosis
and a proper understanding of what's going on with that patient.
Everything becomes a number and the NBA folks, they don't
care about quality of care. They care about making money.
And there's nothing wrong with that. But somewhere along the way,
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the making money component became far more important than quality
delivery of services, and the alternative has never been available.
If there was a quality alternative there was. You know,
if conciergras were popping up everywhere, then the big practices,
the hospital practices, the volume practices, the money based systems
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would have to change the way they do business. You
also have the hospital systems who are claiming to be
a charity when they're not charitable at all. They're doing
this for tax purposes. You've got the big federal grants
coming in and that's driving the research. Of course, we
want to do research. We want to cure cancer and
diabetes and all these sorts of things. But where the
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dollars go directs the attention, and so you've got situations
where you've got medicine not being practiced to heal patients,
but instead just like the university campus, where you've got
the best and brightest being pulled out of the application
of healthcare delivery and instead in research because that's where
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the dollars are.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I feel like I got a decent butts. You know,
I had to be ashamed of my butt. It's not
sagging or anything like that. Michael Barriers. It's not great,
you know. I mean, I couldn't be a button model.
But it's not a bad. But as we approach the.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Weekend a reminder that I do read every email, can't
respond to everyone, and I love to hear from you.
In the opening line, just tell me where you're from. Hey,
this is Boute from Patterson, Louisiana, and I'm making some
gumbo and listening to your show. And you know something
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you like about the show, something you don't. That's up
to you, and I will do my best to respond.
I tend to respond in lower case because it takes
time to do uppercase, but I do my best to
respond as many as possible. I can't get to all
of them, but I do read them on I do
really enjoy hearing from you. I enjoy hearing what you
do for a living. You know, people think they're not interesting.
(25:35):
I bad groceries, drive a truck, I run a crew.
I'm retired. I garden, I run a gardening center, whatever
that is. I find that stuff to be interesting. You'd
be surprised. And I do love to hear from you.
And it's over the weekend. I catch up on anything
I hadn't read, and I get a real kick out
of that. Our website's Michael Berryshow dot com. And you
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can send me an email through it comes directly to me.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
And it's one of my great joys.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
You can also follow me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. We
have not done the TikTok thing. Lots of folks ask
us if we will. Maybe one day I'd somebody else
have to run it for me. But in any case,
Ramon I always say, we are not a breaking news
type program, but this story is huge and it is
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breaking news. Apparently, the folks at pay and Tone, you
know the ones that you go in, and they came up.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
With the color scheme.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
They own the rights to the names of all the
colors in the world. They have announced the color of
the year for twenty twenty six. Apparently. I don't know
if you're up on the annual reveal, but Pantone has
been announcing a color of the upcoming year since nineteen
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ninety nine, first year we've known so for twenty twenties.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Get ready, the color of the year is.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Oh white, It's white, specifically something called cloud Dancer. Well,
the word on the street is there are some folks
who aren't very happy about this. Why am I not
surprised by this?
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Okay, First of all, Panatone or whatever you call how
you gonna.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Say the color of the year is white. You got
one of them.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Identity crisis says Okay, I looked up on that Google
and Pantone or whatever supposedly mean everything.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Yeah, everything but black. And hear another thing that the
Google tell me.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
The name of the white color you chose was called
cloud dance.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Now that's funny.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Everybody know white people can't do two things, and that's
jumping dance. So y'all go buy them Sydney Swimmy white people,
baby Mama jeans and go do your chicken dance and
enjoy being white.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
High.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
I got no time there. I see it.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
I will it to blead color.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
I want them.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
To to blad.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Twenty six color of the Year is cloud Dancer. A
shade of white will be the defining color of the
next year. Get those stain removing pins ready, and then
the styles desk rights Pantone, the self styled color experts
have been predicting a color of the year since nineteen
ninety nine. They're pick for what everyone will be wearing, wanting, eating,
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and otherwise consuming in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Not their pick, it's their dictate.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
They're the ones that make this cloud Dancer officially pantone
eleven dash forty two oh one. Either way, it's a
pretty fancy name for white or a symbol of calming
influence in a frenetic society, as well as a blank
canvas on which we can all start again.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Have they gotten it right?
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Reporters for the Styles Desk sat down to debate. Let
us know what you think in the comments, Vanessa Friedman said,
quote the announcement heralding Cloud Dancer as next year's color
features a woman all in white looking dreamily into a
cloud filled sky. Serenity is clearly the vibe, but given
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the recent political discourse, when I hear white less salubrious
associations also leaped to my mind, ones that I doubt
Pantone took into consideration. But that could be twisted to
pretty uncomfortable ends. I'll bet Vanessa Friedman finds herself twisted
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into uncomfortable places quite often, you know what with racism,
Jim Crow, slavery and all. Callie Holterman responds, it's certainly
a conspicuous choice following a year in which DEI programs
have been dismantled and the party in power has been
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debating how.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Friendly to be with a white nationalist.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
That may not be what Pantone means by peace, unity
and cohesiveness, but I have to imagine it will come
up for some viewers. Alex Vodkoul ads in terms of meaning,
I wonder if there are some clues in its title
Cloud Dancer.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
What's going on there.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Sounds like a nineteen eighties one hit wonder track. Jacob
Gallagher ads, he's from the Style Desk two presumably political
implications aside. I do understand why a blank slate might
be the right pick for this moment. Culture right now
(30:57):
is pretty darn stagnanty. Thing feels like a rehash of
a rehash, or a piece of media getting squeezed till
there's no juice left. Stranger Things Season five, looking at you,
exclamation mark. We're in this moment where we're waiting, where
we're awaiting the next turn of the dial that.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Moves culture forward. Hence blank slate.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
I could have read that in my best Paul Lindy
voice if I'd known where it was going to end up.
Then Miss Friedman is back. She's got white guilt, maybe
white Jewish guilt. There are so many associations with white
the white dove of peace, the baptismal gown, the wedding dress,
the white T shirt. In some Asian countries, mourning as
(31:44):
in crying, not early day. White is a color replete
with meanings, so not really that blank at all.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Oh my goodness, this is just too much.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
I mean, this is a deep dive existent consideration of
Pantone picking white as the color of the year. Only
the New York Times style desk could bring us this quality. Meanwhile,
I got an email from Clinton Ives, who writes zar
(32:17):
kid brag moment. My youngest son, Max Ives, came home
from Vegas yesterday. He competed in the Junior World Finals
saddle Bronc Championship.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
From on what place you think he won.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
In the Junior World Finals saddle Brock Bronc Championship.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Azerbaijanis are good, but.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
He won the whole damn thing, the whole shooting match.
If you were to line up every kid thirteen years
old in the you and your world final saddle Bronc Championship,
and you was to line them from here to the moon,
(33:07):
with the moon being first and here being last, here be.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
On the moon.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
First place, the whole deal, Not some kid from Idaho.
Not some kid from Waller or Belleville.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Nope, well I don't know where he lives.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
He lists morning good on you, max I's congratulations, buddy boy,
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