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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Time, luck and load.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
So Michael Very Show.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Is on the air.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
This town needs an enema. The following feature has been
rated R. It is intended for mature audiences.

Speaker 4 (00:21):
Have you ever been with a girl's art? That's it?
More get in their last deeper.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
I can put my whole fist in my mouth or see.

Speaker 5 (00:28):
You know what you look like to me?

Speaker 1 (00:29):
But you have good bag and your cheap shoes. You
look like a load. Don't put that even on me, Richie, Bobby,
don't put that on up a heart in your general direction.
That's famous stuff. Oh, celebrities use that, radio announcers and everything.
I'll say that bars just like a tattoo, gets under

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your skin.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
What we're dealing with here is a complete lack of
respect for the laws.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yesterday afternoon I was visiting allergist doctor Colosso and he
said a number of you, after our conversation called and
made appointments to go see him. And we're talking about
a number of things. We have had very high winds
of late, as you know, and we have had the

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combination of high winds, which is just a delivery mechanism
for pollen and lack of rain, He said either one
of those. If we could get some rain and the
winds would die down, it would help a lot in
shortening the pollen season, which has inflamed so many of us.

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I take a Zyrtech now every day. My wife can't
take a zyrtech because it makes her sleepy, and she
takes it in the morning. I take it in the morning.
Doesn't bother me. She also says it makes her angry,
and I explain, I think I'm the one that makes
you angry. But that sweet of you to blame it
on the zertech because she's a very happy person. But

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she said she finds herself being a little grumpier with
me and the boys if she's on zyrtech. I honestly
didn't notice it. I would tell you if I did,
because it would be very out of character for her.
But that's what she says. So she switched over to Allegra.
Doctor Colosso believes that Zertech is more effective, but Allegra

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does not have the the downer effect. You know, some
people just don't process zyrtech very well. But he did
tell me that a number of you reached out to
him afterwards. I knew about a bunch of them, because
most people email me directly through the website Michael Berryshow
dot com, and then I send them the link to

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how to get in touch, which we do all day long.
I do that for regarding show sponsors and all sorts
of things. But we were talking about something about the
practice of medicine and he went out independent from a
big practice, and we were talking about the pros and
cons of that. And you will notice that these doctors

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will they're on their own. The ones that are on
their own, which is fewer and fewer, because even they
will associate, they have privileges with a major system memoryal
Herman Methodist, Texas Children's. You see these, and the reason
is because they have to negotiate the insurance payments. And

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if you're independent, do you realize you could have a
strip center with an allergist or any other kind of
doctor on one end of the strip center and the
same of medicine being practiced by a doctor at the
other end of the strip center, and the same insurance
company would pay those two doctors different amounts of money

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for the same exact procedure. And we were just talking
about how we're talking about how insurance now is driving
medicine to such an extent, and it gets worse every day.
For instance, he had a patient who was a listener
who came down from Willis and doctor Colosso it's called

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advanced asthma and allergy. But if you email me, I'll
send it to you. And he's near the med center,
but out out of the med center, he's at Wesleyan
or Stella Link it's the same, and bel Air or
Hlcom it's the same. He's right at that little corner
right there, one block in on Gramercy. So the guy

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comes in, or he's going to come in, and he
wants to get tested for allergies and see what he's
allergic to, because he knows he has a problem. He's
always stopped up. And ETNA, as an insurance has a
policy that you can't be tested for allergies on the
first visit to the doctor. We won't pay for that.

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And so he Doctor Colosso told the guy, look, you're
going to have to make two trips. It's not my fault.
Etna's your insurance. And ETNA requires that you have to
come and see me, and then I have to suggest
that you need allergy tests. So you have to come
back again. Fellow was upset for good reason. It's not

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my faultise. Otherwise, you have to pay cash for your
allergy test and whatever it is, four hundred dollars. And
so the guy said, no, I'll do the two trips.
I do appreciate you explaining it to me. And so
my theory is that what ETNA has figured out is
that if you have to come twice to get the
test instead of getting in the first time, a lot

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of people just won't come twice, so ETNA won't have
to pay for it. And then you realize that the
people making your medical decisions effectively are the insurance company,
and the insurance company is not in the business of
keeping you healthy. The insurance company is in the business

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of paying as little as possible. Because you've already paid
for your medical you've already paid for your insurance. Now
you are in a battle, you and your insurance between
how much of what you gave them they're going to
get back. But since the battle is battled with the doctor,

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primarily you don't realize the games they're playing, So that
drives the doctor to have to play the game with
the insurance company. So now the doctor has to say, well,
they won't pay for us to do this, this, and this,
so we're just not going to do those procedures because
we can't afford to we'd go bankrupt. So you've got

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insurance companies making your medical decisions. And this is why
you've got a number of these concierge practices. I know
a guy, doctor Will Davis, who is in a concierge practice.
I don't know his detail, but I know what this
business looks like because I ask people a lot of questions.
So what you're seeing now is people will pay a

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membership of four thousand dollars membership and the doctor will
take on six hundred patients. So you've got two point
four million dollars that covers your nurses, your facility, your
equipment which is expensive, and your base salary. And then
there is a small fee. And a lot of these
concierge doctors now are making house calls. They've put themselves

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in a position where they own a small business. It's
like my Ace Hardware Texas dot com guys. They're thirty
three stores that are part of Ace Hardware Texas dot Com.
And every one of these guys, you know would probably
be Bob's Hardware or Tom's Hardware. But in order to

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be able to compete against the big box stores, but
the illegals outfront we used to they have to join
and it's worked out well so that they can afford
the products and all that, so it works. ACE Hardware
Texas dot Com. That's what these guys are doing as
part of these concierge practices. I actually liked that idea
the Michael Berry Show. I will be Willie Tony, Joe,

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Jamie Johnson, Leon Russell. Maybe can you imagine a vibe
in that room. Sandy Peterson, our research director, writes, I
have moved to a concierge primary care doctor myself. I

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find that it works better for me because I like
to discuss alternative ways to treat and or cure, not
just medicate. You know, we're at an interesting time where
people are reading and learning and the democratization of information

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that scares people. A lot of people don't like freedom
of information because bad information can get out there. So
we have to have the good people who will be
in charge of regulating the information so that the serfs,
the serfs and the fiefdom that the peasants. We don't

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want them getting all the information because some of it
won't be good information and they'll believe it. So we
have to have experts. We have to have gatekeepers. We
have to have hospital systems and experts and public officials
and CNN who will tell us what is and isn't
tru what works and what doesn't. And you know, there'll
be a fee for all that you understand. And there'll

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be good drugs that won't be allowed on the market
that could help people, but if we're not getting paid
from them, we'll call them the devil's let us. And
then there will be bad drugs that can kill people,
and we'll call them life saving. And we'll get advertising dollars,
and we'll get scholarships, and we'll get fellowships, and we'll

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get salaries paid and nice speaking engagements around the world,
and it'll all work. We'll feel good about ourselves because
we're the good guys and those self medicators are the
bad guys. There is a trend today where people are
taking more control of their own health, mental and physical,

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for themselves as to what they eat, how they extraize.
Most of my life, I believe that if you wanted
to lose weight. You go out and start jogging January first,
you'd see every fatty out there. Get you out there,
just starting to jog. There we go, because you're going
to lose weight. Well, then you find out later and

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it wasn't a bad thing, it wasn't evil. You find
out later that has nothing to do with losing weight.
In fact, many studies have shown it doesn't help at all,
zero effect. Nobody told you that what you ought to
be doing is strength training, particularly for your core. Nobody
told you all those things. Nobody told me all those things,

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and in large part they weren't known the weight room.
The gym was for meatheads who were recently divorced to
go looking at themselves in the mirror and see that
their biceps were growing and grunt and hopefully some cute
girl would be there before her shift as a stripper
and they could hook up. That's what gems were for.

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And then people started learning, Oh, there are things I
can do for myself. There are things I can do
to treat this condition, these rashes, this incontinence, this stomach pains,
lack of sleep. There are things I can do to
change my diet that can affect all those things there.

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My diet can affect, you know, hair loss in some cases,
or skin rashes, or it might be contact dermatitis. I've
got dust mites, or I'm coming in contact with this.
Maybe I could I could change how much pollen I'm
affected by, or with a simple rents, get that irritant,
that antigen out of my nose where it's causing all

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these problems. Maybe I don't have to always have puffy
eyes and be stopped up and talk like the muffin man.
Maybe I don't have to live like that, And maybe
I don't have to take a pill to do it.
And maybe I don't have to take a pill to
get rid of the acid reflux. Maybe it depends on
when I eat, what I eat, and how I sleep.
Who knew? Who knew that there are things that don't

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cost any money or cost very little that could treat
conditions that we have not all the time. But who
knew that many things that we have taken for granted.
As friend of mine had a severe medical episode, doctors

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found out he was pre diabetic, really probably close to
being diabetic but not yet insulin dependent. Put a CGM
continuous glucose monitor on him, got his glucose down to
one hundred consistently, whereas it was four hundred when he
went to the hospital, and all of a sudden his
vision improved. Wait a second, you mean diabetics go blind

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because of the high blood The sugars causes blindness, and
he would pre diabetic with very high sugar rates. He
brought the sugar level down to a very healthy rate,
and all of a sudden his vision improved dramatically overnight.
It didn't cost any money, I mean a continuous glucose

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monitor did, but whatever, not very much. He didn't have
to have a surgery, He didn't have to have any
of the dramatic things that people spend all his money on.
It was a change of diet in sugar regulation. And
guess what. It turns out some of the things we
thought were loaded with sugar aren't. And it turns out

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that some things that we thought were good for us
are loaded with sugar. It's all information, and you got
to want it. You got to read it on your own.
But it should be transparent, should be available. And guess what,
some of us should get to choose to make bad
decisions too. Government shouldn't prevent that. Either there should be
this wonderful marketplace where there's all the products in the world.

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We can choose to be healthy or not motivated, or
not up all night or.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
Not bizarre of talk radio The Michael Berry Show.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
If you don't have plans this evening twenty nine to twenty,
roadhouse friend Kelly Burmaster has our dear buddy Cory Morrow tonight,
and I know they have a few tickets left. It's
a fun place to watch a show. If it wasn't
in Harris County, I would probably reopen the RCC there.

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I like what they've done with it. I've debated whether
it needs a roof or not, because it's nice that
it's open air. But you know, when it rains, you
got a real you know, this Journey concert at the
Astrodome the other day. I'm just going to start calling
the Astrodome again because you know what I mean, right,

(15:53):
you do that too. I mean, I don't nrg. I
don't care how much money they paid. You can't make
me say your name. You know that's my niece is
in the marketing department at Dyke in which I guess
they're going to call the ice box. So the juice
box is going to be the icebox, and I just
it's gonna take me a while to say dike in

(16:13):
Field it is. You know. Part of what they're banking
on when you when you sign these deals is that
we will agree to call it by the name that
they've paid. But I didn't get paid on that deal,
did you. I'm not doing endorsements for somebody didn't pay me, right,
So I'll just huh. So I'm going to call it
the original name of the field before anybody paid for it,

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the proper legitimate name in ron Field, right, Yeah, Astrodome,
the home of the Astros. Oh well, it's not that anymore,
is it the home of Astro Turf? There we go? Yeah,
with all the stuff on the wall. Unless Kalam Wickner
personally says, Michael, could you knock it off and call

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it inn RG. We need the money we just paid
Darryl Stingley ninety million dollars eighty nine million of it.
I cannot wait to ask him, Hey man, how does
that conversation go? The agent says, we'll accept nothing less
than ninety million guaranteed. Can't do it all right? Last

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and final, what's the best you can do. We can
guarantee eighty nine million in incentives. You can get to
eighty nine, but not ninety. Can't do it, just can't.
We have looked in the couches, we have pulled the pennies,
we've busted the piggy bangs, We've looked in the socks,

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We've looked in bet I got in my escalade and
got up under there, and then we can't get to ninety. Now,
if he plays well, maybe we can find some incentives
in there. But anyway, Cory Morrow will be at twenty
nine to twenty Roadhouse tonight and they say Tomball it's

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off twenty nine to twenty. I guess that is technically
Tomball in between two ninety and two forty nine. It's
always a good show, and I'm going to do my
best to get out there. We'll see. I don't know.
I've told him I I will try. I have one
thing I have to work through, and that is how
tired I am when we when we get through with
our second show, and that is the honest as a

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god's honest truth. Some some Friday nights, I'm war slap
out and I took my allergy shots yesterday and we
did the escalated, the expedited. I guess they call it shot.
And so it's a lot of allergy, it's a lot
of antigens, a lot of juice in my body. But

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I already feel better with what we what we've we've
worked through. All right, let's get to some of these calls.
My apologies. Let's go to Todd. Todd, you're old, Michael
berry Shaw.

Speaker 6 (18:51):
Go ahead, Hey, Michael, this is I'm a libertarian, and
this is why I listen to you.

Speaker 7 (18:58):
I really do. I think you bring harmon sense to
a lot of issues. I'm about your age, maybe a
couple of years older. I grew up in California. I
smoked marijuana for a long time during the nineties and
I haven't in a long long time. But I have
an uncle who had neuropathy that it was the only

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cure and it was the only thing that took away
the pain and then just didn't completely turn him into
a vegetable. And I had a son who had issues
with it going through high school, and we dealt with that.
But and I'm telling you, kids buy it off snapchat
and fentanyl brings a whole other issue into this. And
when you legalize stuff. And I'm not saying legalize it

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so kids can buy it, but if it's.

Speaker 6 (19:43):
A twenty one or twenty one stupid, but eighteen, which
should be the drinking age as well. I think it's
safe and I think it's effective, you know, listening to Joe.

Speaker 7 (19:54):
I have my son listened to Joe Rogan and.

Speaker 8 (19:55):
How he talks about it's not good for kids in
the brain development and it worked. It's it's just something
now I can't believe it.

Speaker 7 (20:06):
I can't get behind Dan Patrick for these reasons. Change
the stupid Sunday lass. That's another thing online gambling.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
I mean, what are we doing.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
There's a lot to unpack there. To start with, you
made an interesting point about kids and kids. This is
where we lose conservative women on this issue. A friend
of mine who is probably more knowledgeable about marijuana than
any person, book anything else I have ever read, and

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the reason is he had a family member with epilepsy,
severe epilepsy. They documented on one occasion over two hundred
seizures in one days, went on for six years. Have
you ever seen an epileptic seizure? You will never forget

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it for the rest of your life. It is one
of those things that, especially in a child, is one
of those things that shakes you to your core. You're
certain they're dying. You are positive they're dying, and then
it stops, and then they're okay, and then you live

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in constant fear of it happening again because it comes
without any warning. There's no amber alert, there's no siren,
there's no tornado horn. It just hits and at any
moment it could be the last. And he took his

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daughter everywhere in the world he could to get or treated.
Six years this went on. The damage, her teeth were broken,
I mean, it was oh tragic. And there was a
doctor who said, I can't I cannot treat you for
this in your state as a Texas resident, but if

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you took up rust. So my friend took up residence
in that state so that he and his wife and
his other daughters and sons, and it brought relief. And
he studied my little girl. She was like twelve fourteen
at the time and now she is she's not had
a seizure in years, so you know, these are complicated issues.

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But he says, look, he's for marijuana legalization, but he says,
you have to be very careful because they're The one
downside to marijuana is that it does have a detrimental
effect to the development of the brain of a teenager

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his daughter. They didn't do THCHC. The THHC is what
has what created it. They did cannabinoids, which does not
which studies have not found to have a detrimental effect
on the brain development of young people. But sixteen year
old smoking joints is a bad thing. It is bad
for their development. Twenty five year old wants to do it.

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Go knock yourself out. You're not doing yourself any harm.
The smoking is not great for your lungs because it's
a pretty thick it's a pretty thick smoke. But a
sixteen year old wants to do gummies, terrible, twenty five
year old wants to do gummies. Just don't get out
and operate a motor vehicle, because driving while baked is

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a bad idea. But I'd rather you do that than drink.

Speaker 6 (23:42):
It's ramon the King of ding It and this other guy,
Michael Barry.

Speaker 4 (23:50):
To get done.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
I have monopolized the time this week, so I'm going
to cut in early and I'm going to give each
caller one minute. My apologies, probably bad idea, but all right,
So I'm gonna ask you to get right to it,
and at one minute, we're just gonna cut you off.
So we'll start with Harriet and go all the way
down the line. Harriet, you're on the Michael Berry Show.

Speaker 9 (24:09):
Go ahead, dear, Uh yes, sir, I propose a challenge.
I can speak a sentence to you in English that
you cannot write down. Yeah, we do that.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
Yeah, go ahead.

Speaker 9 (24:22):
Okay, you get a pencil.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
I won't need to.

Speaker 9 (24:25):
There are three There are three two's in the English language.

Speaker 3 (24:33):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
Yeah, okay, So what do we do now?

Speaker 9 (24:41):
Well, most people are taken by surprise because they don't
think there's a sentence that can't be written down. At
some point, I got it from an astrophysicist I used
to know.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
I'm not I'm not sure. I'm not sure where to process.
I think I might be missing the point. It sounds
like an interesting puzzle and might launch an interesting conversation,
but I'm afraid i'm not getting it. I mean, I
get the preposition to the number two and as well,

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but I'm not sure beyond that. Tom, you're on the
Michael Berry Show.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
Go ahead, sir, Yeah, Hey, I was wondering about a
signage Conan from Louisiana. Number one, they never saw that
murder for the girl, and it's still there since nineteen
eighty six because the father wants to find out who

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killed her. Number two, I love the sign Orange, you
glad you're in Texas? And number three, what happened to
the pearl sign in Beaumont.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
I'll take them in reverse order. So I tried to
buy that Pearl sign. I tracked down the owner, We
got to a price, and I think they were going
to sell it to me for ten thousand dollars. They
wanted to sign preserved, but I hired a sign company
here in Houston, or I engaged a sign company to

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give me a bid, and they went over. They went
up and looked at it, and they said, look, we
don't believe that the sign is going to survive the
move from here to Houston to put at the RCC,
because that's what I wanted to put it up up there.
We believe we're going to have to rebuild a goodly
portion of it because when you when you take it off,

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some of that stuff is some of it's just gonna crumble,
it's just going to disintegrate. And so it was going
to be about fifty thousand dollars, So it was gonna
be ten for the sign and fifty to move it.
And they said, we still can't guarantee you. We'll just
have to There'll be parts of the sign that'll just
be new parts and will be rebuilt, and I decided
I ended up deciding that it probably wasn't worth it.

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The second one, yeah, I love that sign. And the
third one I have debated over the years having that
father come on the show, if somebody knows him, having
him come on the show he says his daughter was murdered.
I think it's the guy her husband or boyfriend at
the time. The father set up a sting and caught

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him defacing her tombstone. If you are defacing the tombstone
of your ex and you have been accused of murdering her,
I can't imagine what you would do that would make
it seem more like you did it than that right there.
So yeah, I think that would be an interesting interview.
If somebody can connect me with him, email me, reach

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out to him, get his number, email me his number
and tell me he's ready to talk. We'll put him
on the air. I would be happy to do that.
Good call, Lisa, You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead,
shoe heart.

Speaker 3 (27:43):
Morton.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
Michael, you know, I'm glad you brought up brought up
about Dan Patrick because I think he has better hills
to die on. I watched our local hospital. Actually they're
responsible for my dad's deaths because of neglect, And I say,
I think there's a lot more things he could look
into than THHC. I've never done drugs. I've never been

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interested in drugs, but I do know that it's helped
a lot of people, and I think it helps a
lot more people than the actual pharmaceuticals. So it makes
me wonder how many insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies are
actually in Dan Patrick's pocket.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
I don't know. I will tell you this, I have
been extraordinarily impressed and spread. I have expressed this on
the air, and we talk off air, half talked many times.
I think he's done a wonderful job. I think he's
the most powerful political force in the state of Texas

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by far. He is the de facto governor. He has
the Senate operating very very efficiently. I served with Carolavarado
as a city councilman. She's the head of the Democrats
in the Senate, and I get she gets along with
Dan Patrick extraordinarily well, and they get things done. The

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Senate actually gets things done. I hope people change course.
And I say that not as somebody who is trying
to tear him down, but as somebody who's trying to
offer good advice and share my opinions on the air.
It's not like we can't get through this, not like
this will be the only but I think this is
a massive waste of political capital for something that a

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is not going to get passed, and b if it does,
it will hurt us with our core. This is going
to end up being a very unsuccessful legislative session. The
House has bogged everything down. The Senate can't do it
without them. The Governor's only the governor's only concern only
concern is the school vouchers. And I'm not sure it

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will pass, and if it does, I'm not sure that
we will have anybody happy with what comes out of it,
And so we squander an opportunity. It'll be two more
years in another full election cycle before we have an opportunity,
and we got real problems in this state that we're
not solving, and it frustrates me. It frustrates me that

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you're squandering the effort of good people like you that
help win elections and that this is what it's going to.
Edgar and Maria, you're.

Speaker 5 (30:24):
Up, Go ahead, Yes, good morning, mister Barry. This is Maria.
My husband is your biggest fan and his difference to
you every day, So I'm probably new at this. So,
mister Barry, my question is most I would like to
know whether your thoughts regarding this this Muslim city that

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is like about four hundred five hundred acres north of Dallas.
I think it's in McKinney. This seems to be a
much bigger problem than anything else right in our backyard.
I thought that Governor Abbott had banned the sharaylo in Texas,
but this is something that I've been reading more and

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more about it, and it's really concerning. What do you
think about?

Speaker 1 (31:12):
Well, for sure, what about it is concerning you specifically?

Speaker 5 (31:17):
Well, they are pretty much building a city that seems
to be like a migration hub for Islamics Muslims. They
are talking about you know, building thousands of homes, their
own schools, their own grocery stores. I mean, it's a
whole city by itself ruled by Sharilo, so that there is.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
I'm sorry, I don't else we up against the break.
We will discuss this next week. There is a desire
to build nations within this nation, to build something more
than senses of community, and I think we have to
be very very what we're doing. You're talking about replacing
your legal code, you're talking about you're talking about an

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embedded problem that once it takes root, you will never
be able to go. But let's be clear, this is
already happening in other ways with other groups, and we
didn't stop it before it got too far away from us.
In the United States is twenty years behind Europe, and
look at the effect they've seen from this