AM Show HR 1 - Oh Happy Day!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Speaking of my brother's funeral. He had died of only fifty.
For it's complete shock to us, the COVID shot killed him,
I'm sure of it. He was at home, he was
feeding his beloved dog. His wife was on her way
home and she would discover him there at the edge

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of the door, coming in from the garage. He loved
this goofy dog the way we love our dogs. Boy,
did he love this dog. And he was pouring out
food for him when he collapsed right there. So I
didn't get to say goodbye officially. But you know, I

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have lived my life for a number of years where
I say what I need to say to the people
I need to say it to. So something happens to
me on the fly. They don't doubt I've said what
I needed to say, just long before you know that
last moment, You know, you wait till last moment, you
find out that the game gets cut short for a

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lightning strike, and then you don't get to close out
the way you hope to. At his funeral, I made
the statement as I opened it was a beautiful day outside,
and I said, it's a beautiful day. The sky has
opened up, the sun is shining, the weather is beautiful.

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It was in late January. It is a truly beautiful
day outside and inside, because we remember a truly beautiful spirit,
a good person who wore a uniform to help people,
and he did. He spent his entire life helping other people,
my parents, me, people, other cops, which is why so

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many loved him and reached out to me and people
who he went out on calls to help. And I
feel that way now. I feel that Charlie Kirk, in
a sense gave his life. I feel that this was

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a wake up call to a lot of people as
to how brief life is, as to how great the
threats were, as to how meaningful our work should be.
If you're raising kids, I'm not suggesting you run out
and give a speech on a campus in Utah, but
I'm saying raise those kids up with the mindset that

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Charlie did what he did. And if you're working in
a plant and people are asking you questions, take a
moment to answer them about your faith, about this country,
about what you believe. And if you're wasting a bunch
of time on Facebook because people going, hey, hope you're happy,
You're Trump's evil. He's got red hair, and you're spending

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all your time, very in a self indulgent fashion, just
arguing back at them and coming up with funny men
tames of how you can share. That's not helping anybody
use the time you got here productively make hay of it,
so that if you die today heart attack, stroke, car wreck,

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who knows assassin's bullet, you got a body of work
that's left behind that you made a difference in this world.
And that's all I'm going to say about Charlie Kirk's assassination.
I told you on Friday for Friday Evening Show, it
was all we were going to talk about. And I
told you it was all we were going to talk

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about yesterday, and I told you that today I had
some other things planned and that's what we're going to
talk about. And so that's what we're going to do.
And you may not like it, and you don't have
to hang around here. The program directors don't want me
to say that, but I cannot sit in misery forever,
and I'm not going to No, you're not going home.
And I told you this menopause conversation was important, and

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that will start at nine o'clock today, and yes we're
still going to have it. Yes, life is going to
go on as it should. He just said that happens
to Michael Berry showmember sometime to tell. I will give
you the subject matter, and you tell me how that
doctor is known. Okay. A doctor of the heart cardiologist

(04:27):
is correct. A doctor of skin epidemiologist is incorrect. You
were thinking of the epidermal. Try that again. The I
don't know if it's Greek or Latin word meaning skin
is derma. Dermatologists don't ding it. Now I know the

(04:48):
correct answer. A doctor of let's say, joints and bones.
That's not doctor. Feel good, I'll give you it is
the word meaning straight orthopedic. I will give you that.
I will give you that. I'm being nice to I'm
being gracious today. A doctor of all things brain craniologist

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is incorrect. Again, go to the root word meaning. The
good thing about science and medicine is most of these.
Go to the Greek, Greek or Latin root words. What
does it mean to relate to the brain or to
thought processes? The central what system relates to that nervous system?

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So it is a neurologist. No, I am not giving
you credit for that one. A doctor who deals with
children is a pediatrician, correct. A doctor of the eyes
ophthalmologist is good. An optometrist handles your vision and setting

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you for glasses, and ophthalmologists with the medical issues and
surgeries and the light of the all important eyes. A
doctor of your mouth and your teeth that is a dentist.
I will give you that little tougher. Doctor of your kidneys,

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nephrologist is very good. I didn't expect you to get down.
A doctor of surgery that is a surgeon crush your gut.
A doctor of cancer you should know this. Living in Houston,
the cancer capital, the cancer oncologist is correct. A doctor

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of the mind and mental conditions shrink is a no.
A shrink is a huh. Psychiatrist Yeah. A psychologist cannot
write you a prescription for the good stuff. Doctor of
the liver, doctor of the liver h E. P A

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is your root. Hepatologist hepatologist, A doctor of women and
lady girl parts gynecologist. It is you, weirdo. A doctor
of the stomach gastroenterologist is correct. I did not think

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you would get that, all right. This one is one
that Mary Taly Boden calls herself a doctor of your
ears e NT is technically correct, that's ear nose and throat.
But this is an ologist of some sort. What would
that be? Remember, she refers to herself as an oto laryngologist,

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and a doctor of animals, a veterinarian, and finally a
doctor who deals with the lungs. Pull monologist is correct.
My dad is going to the same pullmologists who treated

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my mom here in Houston's name is Tim Conley, great doctor,
great bedside manner. He came highly recommended from the doctors
I trust. But it's interesting to me because my dad
had never seen him. And my dad, having worked at
a chemical plant with asbestos, had advanced asbestosis, although we've

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been able to treat that pretty well through steroids and
breathing treatments over the years, but he had never seen
this doctor. And when we'd bring my mom over to
see the promonologist doctor Conley, by the time he saw
her she was pretty far advanced. So my cardiologist Stan

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Duckman and my pullmonologist Conley, we're seeing her, but we
were on the backside at that point because her condition
had advanced rather rapidly or overall health had deteriorated. She
had a condition of ALS, and basically we were trying
to treat it as some sort of we don't know

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if it was a back problem. We don't know if
it was a lung problem, but it was basically, as
you know, ALS is a decline in the musculature and
the function of your systems. It's a horrible, horrible, horrible
way to go. And so nothing would perform the way
it was supposed to and they couldn't figure out why.
So there was testing on. But last week we took

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my dad to doctor Conley now that I've moved him
to Houston, and we needed to get a baseline on
his lung condition. And when I called doctor Conley to
go see him, he said what's wrong with him? And
I said, right now, nothing? And he said, okay, what
am I seeing for? I said, I'd like to get
a baseline because he had a doctor in Beaumont. I'd

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like to see where he is so that if we
since we're in a decline, we got something to work against.
And he said, Michael, nobody does that. I wish everybody
would do that. And so there is my plea to you.
I'm not lecturing you on health matters. Lord knows I
could take better care of myself, but I've gotten a
lot better. I do read a lot, and I will
tell you this. There are certain health conditions that are

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likely to be a problem if you live long enough,
and the earlier you can get a baseline in your
body on your blood pressure, your A one C, your lungs,
your heartbeat, These sorts of things are very important. Your testosterone,

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These sorts of things are very important to understand where
you are at thirty, so that if at forty six
you notice, you know what it feels like, I'm having
this problem. If they test you and they go, well,
this is lower than it should be, you don't know
if it's always been low, or you don't know if
it used to be at perfectly normal function and now

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it has degraded to this point. Because the trend lines
are everything. The earlier you can get in and get
your report, hold on to it because you might move,
you might change doctors, your doctor might die, your doctor
might retire. Go in and get all of those Go
into to my memorial hearing, folks, if you want a
doctor for all of those things, Whether I have a
doctor Tim Conley, the lung doctor that I recommend, is

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not a show sponsor. Stan Duckman, my cardiologist, not a
show sponsor, but Jim Munts my general mo with Kara.
I'm a eurologists. I am believers in these guys. But
go in and get your numbers checked and hold on
to that so that later you got something to compare
against to see if you have declined or not. You

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can't get that time back. It's like before and after
picture Southern Pride Fried to Michael Berry show following me
AI situation with increasing interest. One of the things that
comes up out of all of it is how much
energy it demands. AI. I have a friend named Brian

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mcmcken who is in the warehouse business. Well he's in
the real estate business, and one of his big clients
is data centers. And the reason is because the new
big thing is data. So I think of it sort

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of like there was a time where people rode horses,
and if you were a person of means, you would
have a buggy and you'd have your buggy behind the
horse because is more comfortable to sit on cushion. See,
And that's the way things were until the moment there
was the automobile, and there were actually some early versions

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of electric automobiles, but they were not very efficient or
effective for that matter, because again battery technology has always
been the challenge. But then there was the gas powered automobile,
and like that it took off. So now all of
a sudden you had to have stations where you could
get the energy to fuel this means of transportation. So

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all of a sudden, the gas station industry explodes overnight
and everything that went with servicing the personal means of
transportation because a horse was pretty inefficient compared to the automobile,
and by that time you had forms of mass transit
train being the most efficient. But when you got the automobile,

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it changed everything. The value of oil all of a
sudden for so much more than just heating your home
for traveling about. Throughout history, the ability to travel about
has been very, very important. So back to the issue
of AI. You know, I remember around two thousand, the

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turn of the millennium, we had this big tech bubble,
and things aren't called a bubble until they burst, and
then you go back and go, oh, that was a
tech bubble. People thought that having a website was going
to be everything. And so you had these these little
millennial millionaires who were getting insane amounts of money because

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they created a website or later an app. And so
had you had kids in coffee shops, sitting in coffee
shops banging away on their keyboard that they put in
a backpack and walk down there and drinking coffee all
day and then beer all night. And they were flipping
these companies to private equity. And some of them made it,

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and most of them didn't. That's all right. That still
goes on today in different ways. But the rise of AI,
this is on a scale we never imagined. You want
to know how big this is going to be, Let
me give you an example. So Mark Zuckerberg at Meta,

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which may he made his fortune off of Facebook, he
has dedicated I think it's seventy billion dollars. I'll find
it's in the middle of this story. He has dedicated
seventy billion with a B dollars to AI. Well, everybody

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is in that in that at that level is investing
in AI. Meta lost a series of folks that went
to work for Elon Musk in order to get them
to stay or in some cases he was trying to

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recruit them. Compared to Musk, he offered them, you ready
for this two hundred and fifty million dollars each with
a one hundred million dollar signing bonus, direct access to Zuckerberg.
That's very important for people that do what they do.

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They don't want to be stuck in some back office,
some back cubicle when they have a brilliant idea. They
want to be able to come in and go, hey,
I need this to be able to make this happen,
and supposedly unlimited resources, and yet they left anyway. They
turned down one hundred million dollars and in a signing

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bonus and two hundred and fifty million dollars for each
of the workers, for each for a person. They didn't
go to Google, they didn't go to open aie. They
joined a startup with twelve hundred employees, a startup that
at this point has been unwilling to match the offers

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that Zuckerberg was making. But as the as the case
study shows, this startup elon Musk's empire, which he calls XAI,
offers them the opportunity to do so much more, and

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he has a better track record. Well, here's the data
point meta or Facebook is spending seventy billion dollars on
AI this year alone. They had acquired one startup for
fourteen point three billion dollars from a guy named Alexander Wang,
So they are throwing funny money at things. Despite all this,

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Elon Musk stole eighteen of Zuckerberg's best engineers. Zuckerberg lost
his mind offer him two hundred fifty million dollars. One
hundred million dollars right now. We've never seen anything like
this in any industry ever before. I mean, I guess

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you could say the NFL for top players, AI programmers,
AI innovators. And by the way, we're not talking about
we're talking about young people. We're talking about the kind
of people that Trump I mean that Elon brought into Dosee.

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I had people say I'd lost my mind when I
was talking about the people Elon brought in to people
like big balls, people like some of those. Let me
tell you something, I don't know where to find those people.
Trump doesn't know where to find those people. You don't
know where to find those people. The government doesn't know

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where to find those people. Those people have snot hanging
out of their nose. They live in places you don't know.
They live online, they're gamers, they're weird, but they got
this little quirky skill set. And you don't take out
an ad On indeed or monster and find them. They

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gravitate to their god, King Elon Musk, and he brought
them into the government. He brought them into the government
so they could run their little spiders through the system
using terms that only they could figure out. All right,
what if you're getting welfare payments but you're an illegal

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alien you have no identification. How do we do that?
And it runs through all the systems, harvests all the
data and says, here's the addresses of the payments. Would
you like me to shut those payments off? Yes, you
don't have the man power in government employees lazily showing

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up late, leaving early and taking a long lunch to
go through and dig out that data. Hey, I could
do it in an hour. I don't know that in
a very short period of time. It's like lawyers. It's
not all bad. And this isn't an Elon Musk worship session. Damn.
I'm glad he's honest.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
And you listen to the Michael Berry Show.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
Good not I I saw a stat bade me think,
I've never seen Raiders of Lost Art? Have you Lost Art? Sorry?
What was the theme song to that movie? You remember?
Listen to this one you find it. Raiders of the

(21:07):
Lost Art came out in nineteen guess what year? Nineteen
eighty one is good, but it was set in what year?
Forty is very close? It was set in thirty six, right,
so it was set forty five years earlier. If they

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remade it, not in nineteen eighty one as it was before,
but in twenty twenty five, with the same gap as
it had forty five years, it would be set in
nineteen eighty one. Well, that'll be true in a couple

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of months. Isn't that crazy? In nineteen eighty one, we
thought nineteen thirty six was centuries ago, and now think
about this, Think about how long ago forty five years
was in the Grands game, It's crazy, you know. I

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read a quote from Thomas Jefferson in seventeen eighty seven.
He's a big fan of raisers. I did not know that. Oh, okay,
he wasn't in it, right. He said, I think our
governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as

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they are chiefly agricultural, and this will be as long
as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America.
When they get piled upon one another in large cities,
as in Europe, they will become corrupt, as in Europe.

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And I got to thinking about that. When I think
about trustworthy, honorable people, they are, by and large country folk.
City folk hate country folk, and they talk about them

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as if they're stupid. But you know what's interesting about that?
You ask somebody from the city who you ask them, Hey,
a farmer's not going to bring you your food. You've
got to do that on your own. They wouldn't know

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where to begin. How do you get milk from a cow?
How do you make cheese out of it? Where do
you get the eggs for your morning fancy omelet? Where
do you get the coffee that you pay so much for?

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Where do you get all these fish that you pay
so dearly for? You know, I think Mike Rose dirty jobs.
I think that is a ground breaking moment in modern
American life because he paid tribute to the guy that

(24:29):
never got any credit. If you were to say, we're
going to decide there is x amount of as the
kids say, flowers to give out. We're going to give
people their flowers. We're going to give praise to people
based on behaviors undertaken that we want as a society

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to reward. Guess where we would give the flowers. Mothers
for giving birth, that's hard work man, mothers for taking
care of children, teaching children, disciplining children, Fathers who are

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actively involved in the lives of their children. People who
take care of the little old lady next door, people
who volunteered at the school, in the league, in the neighborhood.
We would we would we would reward those people. Police

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officers who go above and beyond, firefighters who go above
and beyond, teachers who go above and beyond, service members
who make a sacrifice. All of these people, we would
brag on them. Right, Coaches who make a difference in
the lives of young people, teachers, mentors, deacons at the church.

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These would be celebrated and esteemed positions in society, and
we would openly compliment them and praise them. Now, is
that what we do? No, because you get more of
what you reward. You see, that thing which you extol

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the virtues of you will get more of. And things
that you neglect and ignore, will be neglected and ignored
by young people. So when half your television shows are
women who've had every inch of their body cut up,

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plastered on put here in an attempt to look like
Kim Kardashian, and that is who your biggest influencers are
going to be, how does that come to be the case?
Who's being influenced by these people that ought to tell
you everything you need to know? We had that audio
of Jasmine Crockett a little while back on do you

(27:14):
have that handy? See if you can find that. She
tried out her newest accent and she's talking about Republicans,
and everyone focuses on Jasmine Crockett, But just pause for
a second. She didn't do that. She didn't go to

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the Kennedy Center and roll that out. She didn't go
to your Sunday church service and roll that out. She
didn't go the book club and roll that out. She
tried that on an audience. She assumed to be stupid
enough to feel comforted by this street gutter language she

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was speaking, and a parent they bought into it. That
says more about them than her. She's just ambitious and
I'm no fan of hers.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
Maybe because these people they are crazy because they always
talking about how Christian they is. Yeah, I don't know
how many of them on that side are getting divorced
because they getting caught up sleeping with their coworker staffers
and turns all the things. Yeah, you ain't gotta believe me.
Just go google. You'll find some of it. I'm telling you.
And the wives is being messy and petty. They putting
it into divorce. I'm like, WHOA, that's gotta be true,

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because your lawyer would know that they gonna lose it.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
Nobody called her out there? What was she doing? What
exactly what you ever heard? You ever heard her talk
going back to twenty nineteen. That's not her natural cadence,
that's not her natural patchois her natural her natural means
of communication. She learned this, she assumed this. That tells

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you everything you need to know about this woman. But
more importantly, it tells you everything you need to know
about the kind of people who vote