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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Very Show is on the air. I mentioned
earlier that the Robert F.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Kennedy Junior Nomination for Healthy Human Services to Make America
Healthy Again movement passed out of the Senate Finance Committee
along party lines fourteen thirteen, and now it will go
to the full Senate floor. Bill Cassidy, the Louisiana Republican
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and physician who had been on the fence about Kennedy,
cast the deciding vote. If that bastard had voted against RFK,
God help him, because it wouldn't have made it to
the full Senate, so it wouldn't get a full vote.
Trump would have never forgiven him. So for all our
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Louisiana folks, just know that Bill Cassidy had to hold
out like a little bitch so that he could cut
a deal. I'm sure he got something out of it
and probably got his niece hired in a White House,
or maybe he'll get a highway name for himself, because
that's what he did. That's what you do when you're
a turd like that. You hold out for a vote
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that you because you don't want to be taking for granted. Oh, No,
you got to make a big stink. You're going to
fight against Bill Cassidy, and you're supposed to be a physician.
You're supposed to heal people. Of course, that's probably the problem,
isn't it Probably taking money from the pharmaceutical companies and
they're telling you what to do. But the voters back
home or saying Trump wants Kennedy, I want Kennedy. Okay,
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let's go to Rick first. Rick, you're on the Michael
Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Go ahead, Hey, Mike, Yeah, I mean, I don't have
cancer or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
But every day could be my last because.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
I'm an alcoholic.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
And I've been treated. I'm sober for about six months,
but every day's a challenge, and if I'm not monitored,
I could, you know, drink myself to death any day.
So I appreciate every day. I appreciate, you know, all
my family helping me and stuff. But it is a disease,
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and people that don't.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Suffer from it don't understand it.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
You know. I grew up around a lot of alcoholics.
Not my mother or my father, but a lot of alcoholics,
and I know a lot about AA been very close
to it my entire life. And I think what AA
contributed to the world is bigger even than alcoholism. And
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that is a coping technique, a conquering technique of how
to eat an elephant one by at a time. Life
can be so overwhelming an illness, an addiction, financial challenges,
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crippling anxiety or depression. The idea that I don't know
if I can win this war for thirty years, but
I know I can win the next hour. I if
I focus for the next hour. I like to watch
these survival really like to watch that stuff from them,
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and you know, you'll see people that end up having
to cut off their arm because they're out on the
high and they've got to get out of there. They're
going to die, and people that withstand extreme cold or hunger,
and they'll say that I just I had to get
through the next hour. I had to focus on the
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next minute and build that minute to five, and build
that five to an hour. And the idea that I
can manage today and whether that is I'm not going
to drink today. I'm not going to be a sex
addict today. I'm not going to be a porn addict today.
I'm not going to be a gambling addict today. I'm
not going to whatever that addiction temptation challenge is. That's
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how that for people that overeat, for people who can't
seem to hit the gym, for people who are trending
for a marathon. You can apply that to everything you do.
Because problems that are so big will cause us to collapse.
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This is why Washington d C Never solved a problem
because they say the problem was too big to solve. No,
take one piece at a time, and that's how you
get there. Okay, you're only Michael Berry show. Go ahead, sweetheart, good.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
And I apologize for my horse voice, but h this pastball,
I was diagnosed with squamosel carconoma of the lyrics and well,
hold on, k hold on, hold on, hold on, ready.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Hold on. I'm going to have ramone boost you, and
I want you to relax always. I don't want you
to if we can hear you, just find Ramone's going
to turn your volume up and you just talk at
what's comfortable.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Thank you?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
You ready?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Yeah? And your voice sounds great. Yeah, you're talking too
loud that I want you go real soft and take
it real easy.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
Well, As a former elementary school speech pathology. Do you
have to talk loud?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
So I apologize.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Anyway, And I know that you love speech language pathologists.
Speaker 7 (06:09):
I do.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
I do, and so because this can happen to anyone.
That's the main reason why I chose to call in
this morning. But even having a master's degree in speech pathology,
I did not realize that the cutoff date for horseness
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after two weeks. If your horseness does not get better,
you need to go see an ear nose and throat doctor.
I originally went to my family practice people. They did
the you know, put up the look in your throat,
but they didn't They weren't able to go down inside
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of the throat to my vocal cords. So it needs
to be an e n T. And fortunately, because of
my background, I was able to find an NT who
was magnificent at voice disorders and he is the one.
His name is doctor Bracken b r Ac. He's in
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League City, but he does his surgeries at Jenny Seely
Hospital and I can't tell you what wonderful care I
got for my biopsy at Jenny Seely. I know a
lot of people may not think it's a good place
to go, but I was I was overwhelmed.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Yeah, you want to bless it, you want to count
your blessing. He's got an email from James who said, Zar,
I would love to call in, but my larynx was
removed due to cancer. I want to express my appreciation
for your show. Today's been out sandy, and he can't speak,
so might seem frustrated. You know, I got to tell
you I admire Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He for the
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condition he has, and he talks all day long. That's
got to be frustrating. That's got to be frustrated. Yet
and yet he pushes on. Okay, you're amazing. Thank you
for calling seven one three nine one thousand, seven one three,
one thousand. I would love to hear from you. Ramone.
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It's what are you doing? You were counting your blessings?
Did you name them one by one? Did you see
what God has done? Ramone very quietly lost forty panels
without telling anybody, as I've just put that on the
Michael Barrits So Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
It was a good day. I saw my old friend
in the mirror. He looked ten years older than I heard.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
After light conversation, he made a primise to me. He
said all that I can do.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
He's trying, and I can't change aster day and tomorrow.
I am I good wasted, but I'm not dranking today.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Why I'm not.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Drinking and today in the bottle of a bottle.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I know me.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I'm a party with a can in mynd.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
But on my best day, I know.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I'm one drink go away from forgetting everything.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
And I can't.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Change today and to my room, I might get wasted.
Bottom not.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
The drain can today. I do know I'm not drain
can today. Some times of feel like.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I'm riding the pill seven name I'm giving this day.
Speaker 8 (11:17):
But I'm just den at it. We can't depend to
help my success.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
And I can't change my ways.
Speaker 7 (11:40):
And in my row I might just taste it.
Speaker 9 (11:44):
But I'm not.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
Drink can today. I'm not.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Drink can today and I can't grind the.
Speaker 8 (12:03):
Pain and to marble, I'll.
Speaker 7 (12:06):
Have to face it. Bottom.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Kno Frank can to day.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
No, I'm not ran can today.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
That's our friend Kenny Allen from Waller, who is most
famous on our show, at least for the Great Waller
Meth Lab explosion of nineteen ninety six, which that's on.
That's a hard one to top. But this autobiographical tune
right there, it's pretty darn good. Let's go to Dallas,
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just because I like the name Dallas. Dallas. Hey, Michael,
you do.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Well.
Speaker 10 (13:02):
I just called to kind of chime in on your
topic to pick. I'll give you a little little background here.
About roughly six years ago I got diagnosed with colon cancer.
Wound up beating that to three major surgeries to get past,
but it was pretty scary. Then shortly after that I
wound up having to go in for open heart surgery,
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which was even more scary. And then about two and
a half years ago I had a widow maker heart attack,
which that one I thought was gonna get me but didn't.
But it's not so much about looking at the end
as it is looking at your quality of life when
all this stuff happens. Because if you just go home
and sit on your butt on the couch and watch
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TV and do nothing to become a mushroom, you become
a victim, you know, if you still get out there
and do what you want to do, not to access.
I mean, if I want to have a steak, I do.
If I want to have a drink. I do, but
I don't go stupid with it. You're a survivor, and
being a survivor is what it's all about.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Very well said. You had to get where you are
to be able to say that and understand it. Read
you're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir, Yeah,
good morning, Michael.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
I was just calling in just to let everybody, or
not everybody, but.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
I have.
Speaker 11 (14:26):
A stage four a COPD, and.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
I like to tell all my friends one time, because
I don't feel like me and a hooker in church,
but I just like to tell them continuing to smoke,
which I did for many, many many years, not only
might cause cancer, but it can cause this. And there's
really something very special about suffocating slowly.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Every day I hear that, I hear that from people
who suffer from COPD, and I've watched people die with als,
which is also a pretty awful thing to have to
go through. Ramon, did you see this kid that was
hospitalized He ate his math homework? He said his teacher
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told him it was a piece of cake. No, let
me try that again, Ramon, did you see this kid
that was hospitalized He ate his math homework? He said
his teacher told him it was a piece of cake. Albert,
(15:35):
you're old the Michael Berry Show. What do you have?
Speaker 11 (15:37):
Sir Michael, thank you for taking my call. A long
time listener, her first time call her to the show.
I wanted weigh in on the current situation with our
immigration policies that mister Trumps is enforcant that they've been
in place for many years. But me as a immigrant
of this country and now a naturalize that for with
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thirty plus years, I want to spread that the demonstrations,
the rope blockades, people blocking rolls by our raise our
community or Hispanic I should say that it's not us.
It's not what we're representing. Those young kids and young
adults that out there, you know, causing havoc in Hulum.
It's not what the Hispanic community it's about. I'm so
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disappointed in that. I hope that they come to their
wits and census and understand that what the president is
doing now is simply enforcing in a fighting part.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Michael Mary American Side an interview with Brian Johnson. But
Lane produced this album. They went to either the Baha
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Moser did Jamaica. I think it was Bahamas and they
were blown away by how beautiful the American women were
that were on vacation there, and they asked Brian Johnson,
what you know, you must be very proud of this
song because you know it's the first release of the
first song on the album. But it's the first single
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release for this new band. Bond Dies in February, and
by the fall, you're releasing another album, a follow up
to what you just did with an all new lead singer.
By the way I read that, bon Scott said something
ever happens to me go get him with that, and
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apparently his dad and mom, but his dad told the
band you have to carry on. You have to carry on.
We want you to carry on. Maybe because they wanted
more worldly, I don't know. They asked Brian Johnson. I
thought this was telling. They said, well, you have to
be proud. It's your first song. You come you bring
a song into the band and you know this, This
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bands just had their you know, amazing album and you
come in and you even topped that. And he said,
I want to be very clear. I walked in. They
had the song ready, the arrangement, the lyrics, the whole thing.
Anybody could have done. What I did. I just walked
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in a right place, right down. A lot of lead
singers would say that that's that's a pretty cool thing
that he would Andrew in Lubbock, you're up, sir.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Yes.
Speaker 12 (18:40):
The first of all, I thank you for taking my call.
I want to give a shout out to the people
that take care of us when we're sick, the loved
ones and the struggle that that is. I went through
a thing about a year ago. I was out of
town working, started puke and blood, had rot problem and
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was in a thyroid storm and I had a rupture
in my larynx and I had to my wife ended
up having to drive about three hours down bring the
kids down. But watching the fear in them was the
most painful part. And just to shout out for those
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that care for us when we can't.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
In sickness and in health. You know, we laugh about
that line, but you learn a lot about your spouse
when you are sick, When you are grompy as sick
and bedridden and diarrhea and vomiting and bleeding and contagious,
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and that person nurse maids you, well, that's when you learn.
That's when you learn the measure of a man for
ladies and your your bride for men. That's the moment. Well,
I'll tell you what. I know so many people that
have gone through multiple divorces and they've made money and
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lost money, made money, lost money, and they've been through
multiple divorces, and they love to chase girls. It's the
it's their overriding thing. Everything about life is get the
Get the convertible to attract the girls. Get the membership
of the club, to attract the girls, get the plane,
the house, the money, the white teeth, as if she
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cares what you look like at that point. But I
know so many guys fifties, sixties, seventies even, and it's
chasing the girls, chasing the girls, the heart of the girl,
some cases sluttier, the girl that that is, that is
everything to them. And n L lock one down and
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you know, I want you to meet this girl, and
it's it's like they've bought a new rifle or a
new shotgun. Hey, we think it's new, Benelli. It's pretty
nice it look at that. And what they really want
you to do is tell them that this girl is
extraordinarily attractive, because that's so important. And I'll think to myself. Man,
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You know, I don't you don't know what goes on
behind closed doors. But when you have a need, is
that one going to be there for you? Is that
even considered? Is that one going to be good to
your kids when something? When you die? Is that one
going to make sure that your estate is distributed the
way you would have wanted it distributed? Is that when
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when when when you had a long day, is that
when the one that's going to make you a drink,
or is that when the one that's going to make
sure that the bed is comfortable for you tonight? Is
that the one that's gonna take care of your needs
beyond sexual? And I wonder how many guys don't ever
think about that? And I watch it, I watch one
on two eyes, and it makes me kind of sad
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for them, because you know, you see this, you see
this loop that keeps coming back around. And I found one. Michael,
I got her. You got a meet or boy, you
ought to see her? My god, she's got I mean
asked for days and she's she's a workout nut man.
She works out all day. She watches everything she eats,
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and she'd waits. You see her? Oh man, you got
and I'm thinking, okay, all right, beauty is important. We
all we all agree with that. Is there anything else
you can offer about her that might be something that
has you excited other than your friends are going to
be impressed that she's hot. And you see this loop,
it goes goes round and around. So you got to
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see this girl. She's hot. And so you go to
the dinner or you see them out that you gotta
meet this girl and she's all she's dressed to the
nines and she's eating two pieces of lettuce, and you know,
she's got the lips done and the boob's done, and
the makeup's done perfectly or what they call perfectly in
the Kardashian style. And she's had her hairstyle and her
nails are done, and the dress is perfect and she's
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thought it through and she's dressed like she's going out
with her girlfriends because that's when women really dress up.
And boy, she's fussing all over him. And then they
get married and you see them a year later. Hey, house,
so and so, oh god, who knows? Good Lord, she's
with her girlfriends in Cabo this weekend? Is everything going on?
Speaker 10 (23:30):
No?
Speaker 3 (23:31):
You know when we were dating. Man, she was all
over me. She was this, she's got problems. You know,
she's not stable. I don't know if you knew that
she's well. The fact that she has three divorces before
you was kind of something of an indicator. Yeah, well,
I mean she changed. I don't know what happened. She changed.
And you watch these guys go through this, and you go,
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I don't think you're learning your lesson. I don't think
you are valuing what is important in life. And I
think you're putting value on things that are not important.
And you're too old to do this. We're not in
eighth grade anymore. It's no longer a question of who
got the cutest girl at our little school to go
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to homecoming with them, and you know you're gonna buy
her a bigger mom because you might get to kiss her.
I mean, we're adults now. You should be processing on
a level where you're saying, my needs are greater than
a show trophy out at dinner. I'm gonna get ten emails.
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Are you talking about me? No, I'm not talking about you.
I'm talking about the other The Michael Mary.
Speaker 9 (24:42):
Show, like this, everything falls into face, like the flick
of a switch. Well, my mama told me, you know.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
What my therapy is this show talking to you all?
Would you do? Other people in media tell me I
should stop reading the emails because it exhausts too much
of my bandwidth. But the reality is as exhausted as
I get for living up to the commitment that I
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will read every email, and as irritating as some people are,
the one that gets me the most is you know
you say you read every email. Well we'll see. Now, Hey,
my daughter has a steer in the auction. Could you
raise twenty five thousand dollars for it? I read your
email and know I'm not raising twenty five thousand dollars
for you, and know I can't go to anybody's event,
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and know I can't raise more money for more people,
and know I can't do this. And I'm one person.
There's a lot of other people you can ask. But
the reality is communing with so many people where you
are in your life feeds me, nourishes me. I was
talking earlier about therapy and psychiatry for that matter, and
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somebody said, but I thought you recommended a psychiatrist. I do.
We went looking several years ago for a psychiatrist to
be a part of our show. Partly because when I
need an expert, I wanted to have an expert, but
partly because it's one of the things that I get
questions about, depression, autism, bipolarity, ADHD, obsessive disorders, anxiety, all
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of those things. So we needed somebody who had the
expertise under their roof, who could partner with us, who
would want to be a partner for a long time,
because I don't like to psychle people in and out.
I like the partnership to last. So we landed on
a guy named doctor Marshall Lucas his wife runs a practice.
A lot of guy a lot of practices are just
one guy. Well just one guy typically doesn't have the
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bandwidth to be able to break away and answer my
questions or take care of people individual level to the
same extent as somebody that has other doctors that can
spread it to But anyway, I say that because I
really thought it was a pivotal moment when jd Vance
was talking about during the campaign. Jd Vance was talking
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about the fact that we have a serious mental health
crisis in this country. We have a serious mental health
challenge we not use overblown terms. And if you look
at the number of people online who are screeching and
screaming and crying into their phone for the whole world
to see because Trump won, that is a mental health disorder. Now,
I don't say that to taunt them. I will taunt
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I'm not doing that now. I say that because it
is a real, legitimate mental health disorder. The sexual dysphoria.
It's a mental health dysphoria. It's a mental health issue.
It is real, and it can be overwhelming. It's why
there's such a high rate of suicide. I read the
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other day that fifteen percent of the Texas inmate population.
I don't know if this is true, but this is
what I read was self identified as transgender. Well, fifteen
percent of the general population is not identify as transgender.
So one of two things is happening. Number One, men
are getting to prison and saying I don't want to
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get raped by a bunch of other dudes. I'd rather
do the raping. I'm a girl. Send me over there
with the girls, because we know that's happening. We've got
verifiable cases where they claim they're a girl, but then
they're knocking up some woman in the women's prison, and
it's a whole lot easier than women's prison. You seen
Oranges New Black Ramon. I mean, I think you could
handle that, although some of them girls will straight up
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whoop your ass. That's option number one. Option number two
is the mental health issues are leading to a breakdown
in These breakdowns lead acting out in the acting out,
lashing out leads to violent episodes that land people in prison.
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And I think there's a certain amount of that as well.
But I will do a sit down. Robert Reese was
asking me earlier if I would do, if I would
have him on to have to discuss psychiatric issues, real issues.
I'm not talking about somebody wants some attention. I'm talking
about people that have legitimate issues. And if you've ever
known anyone like that, every cop will tell you they've
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got somebody. Every patrol officer will tell you that there's
somebody in their beat who has episodic violence. And that's
when you get officers are trained now to see this coming.
You'll get a guy. A lot of these suicide by
cops are not a guy that is necessarily a violent
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criminal day in and day out. It is somebody Usually
it's a male thirty years old Norman Bates, living with
his mom and he can't function in the world world.
He may or may not have a low wage job.
He could be a stocker at Target just to have
something to do, which he needs to do, and either
he gets off his meds or he has an episode
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triggered by a number of different things that can lead
to him being violent to her. She calls the cops.
The cops show up. They don't know what's happening. He's
waving a gun around. They want to go home to
their families. There. You would be surprised how often that
situation happens. You would be surprised how many people. And
I don't go to Gala's anymore. But my urologist and
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dear friend, Mohit Kara, his son was being honored for
an organization he started called Tennis for Tourette's. And when
you mentioned Tarret's, people giggle and that there's nothing wrong
with that, because you have this idea that Tarret's is.
People like Maloof? Was it Maloof?
Speaker 10 (30:51):
What?
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Was a guy that played basketball players at LSU phenomenally
He changed his name to a Muslim name. But he
would do the sort of barking. You know, you get
people that while they're talking they screamed them something off
to the side. That is only in ten percent of
people with Touret's, I learned. But Touret's can be involuntary
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motor action, it can be a twitch, and it can
be oral or all sorts of things. But there were
people who got up and told their stories of overcoming
or at least coping with terrests. It was an interesting thing.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
You know.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
I talk a lot kind of poking at people who
are therapy addicts. They love to go to therapy, and
I've said that what they need As a friend, I
do not mean to diminish, not because I care anybody's
opinion is hurt, but because I do take seriously what
I tell you I believe, and that is there are
real psychiatric conditions, real they're medical. They're medical in the
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way that a heart attack or cancer is a real
medical issue. And I think a lot of folks don't
understand that. A lot of folks don't understand that there's help.
In the same way that if you weigh five hundred
pounds because you're eating yourself to death. There are medical
approaches to that anyway. So that's something's kind of important
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to me. When JD Vance said that part of the
problem we have with gun violence and domestic abuse in
this country is that we have untreated medical health issues
and that our system is not handling those, well, that
was music to my ears because I believe that to
be true. I think we have a lot of undiagnosed,
untreated people who could lead functional, perhaps productive lives if
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they got some help, in the same way that Ozmpic
can help somebody not be fat anymore. So I'll have
doctor Marshall Lucas, a family psychiatry of the Woodlands on
at some point to talk about some of the things
they do, because it is fascinating. I just want to
make that clear. Did I make that clear?
Speaker 10 (33:04):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Russell went by that Chantilly room. He'sa a dive bar.
He said, it's all locals to hang out. It's pretty cool.
He said, you took me back to a good place there.
Speaker 7 (33:12):
Yah.
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Very Show is on the air. I mentioned
earlier that the Robert F.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Kennedy Junior Nomination for Healthy Human Services to Make America
Healthy Again movement passed out of the Senate Finance Committee
along party lines fourteen thirteen, and now it will go
to the full Senate floor. Bill Cassidy, the Louisiana Republican
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and physician who had been on the fence about Kennedy,
cast the deciding vote. If that bastard had voted against RFK,
God help him, because it wouldn't have made it to
the full Senate, so it wouldn't get a full vote.
Trump would have never forgiven him. So for all our
(01:10):
Louisiana folks, just know that Bill Cassidy had to hold
out like a little bitch so that he could cut
a deal. I'm sure he got something out of it
and probably got his niece hired in a White House,
or maybe he'll get a highway name for himself, because
that's what he did. That's what you do when you're
a turd like that. You hold out for a vote
(01:30):
that you because you don't want to be taking for granted. Oh, No,
you got to make a big stink. You're going to
fight against Bill Cassidy, and you're supposed to be a physician.
You're supposed to heal people. Of course, that's probably the problem,
isn't it Probably taking money from the pharmaceutical companies and
they're telling you what to do. But the voters back
home or saying Trump wants Kennedy, I want Kennedy. Okay,
(01:55):
let's go to Rick first. Rick, you're on the Michael
Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Go ahead, Hey, Mike, Yeah, I mean, I don't have
cancer or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
But every day could be my last because.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
I'm an alcoholic.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
And I've been treated. I'm sober for about six months,
but every day's a challenge, and if I'm not monitored,
I could, you know, drink myself to death any day.
So I appreciate every day. I appreciate, you know, all
my family helping me and stuff. But it is a disease,
(02:34):
and people that don't.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Suffer from it don't understand it.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
You know. I grew up around a lot of alcoholics.
Not my mother or my father, but a lot of alcoholics,
and I know a lot about AA been very close
to it my entire life. And I think what AA
contributed to the world is bigger even than alcoholism. And
(03:08):
that is a coping technique, a conquering technique of how
to eat an elephant one by at a time. Life
can be so overwhelming an illness, an addiction, financial challenges,
(03:32):
crippling anxiety or depression. The idea that I don't know
if I can win this war for thirty years, but
I know I can win the next hour. I if
I focus for the next hour. I like to watch
these survival really like to watch that stuff from them,
(03:52):
and you know, you'll see people that end up having
to cut off their arm because they're out on the
high and they've got to get out of there. They're
going to die, and people that withstand extreme cold or hunger,
and they'll say that I just I had to get
through the next hour. I had to focus on the
(04:14):
next minute and build that minute to five, and build
that five to an hour. And the idea that I
can manage today and whether that is I'm not going
to drink today. I'm not going to be a sex
addict today. I'm not going to be a porn addict today.
I'm not going to be a gambling addict today. I'm
not going to whatever that addiction temptation challenge is. That's
(04:41):
how that for people that overeat, for people who can't
seem to hit the gym, for people who are trending
for a marathon. You can apply that to everything you do.
Because problems that are so big will cause us to collapse.
(05:03):
This is why Washington d C Never solved a problem
because they say the problem was too big to solve. No,
take one piece at a time, and that's how you
get there. Okay, you're only Michael Berry show. Go ahead, sweetheart, good.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
And I apologize for my horse voice, but h this pastball,
I was diagnosed with squamosel carconoma of the lyrics and well,
hold on, k hold on, hold on, hold on, ready.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Hold on. I'm going to have ramone boost you, and
I want you to relax always. I don't want you
to if we can hear you, just find Ramone's going
to turn your volume up and you just talk at
what's comfortable.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Thank you?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
You ready?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Yeah? And your voice sounds great. Yeah, you're talking too
loud that I want you go real soft and take
it real easy.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
Well, As a former elementary school speech pathology. Do you
have to talk loud?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
So I apologize.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Anyway, And I know that you love speech language pathologists.
Speaker 7 (06:09):
I do.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
I do, and so because this can happen to anyone.
That's the main reason why I chose to call in
this morning. But even having a master's degree in speech pathology,
I did not realize that the cutoff date for horseness
(06:32):
after two weeks. If your horseness does not get better,
you need to go see an ear nose and throat doctor.
I originally went to my family practice people. They did
the you know, put up the look in your throat,
but they didn't They weren't able to go down inside
(06:53):
of the throat to my vocal cords. So it needs
to be an e n T. And fortunately, because of
my background, I was able to find an NT who
was magnificent at voice disorders and he is the one.
His name is doctor Bracken b r Ac. He's in
(07:18):
League City, but he does his surgeries at Jenny Seely
Hospital and I can't tell you what wonderful care I
got for my biopsy at Jenny Seely. I know a
lot of people may not think it's a good place
to go, but I was I was overwhelmed.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Yeah, you want to bless it, you want to count
your blessing. He's got an email from James who said, Zar,
I would love to call in, but my larynx was
removed due to cancer. I want to express my appreciation
for your show. Today's been out sandy, and he can't speak,
so might seem frustrated. You know, I got to tell
you I admire Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He for the
(08:06):
condition he has, and he talks all day long. That's
got to be frustrating. That's got to be frustrated. Yet
and yet he pushes on. Okay, you're amazing. Thank you
for calling seven one three nine one thousand, seven one three,
one thousand. I would love to hear from you. Ramone.
(08:29):
It's what are you doing? You were counting your blessings?
Did you name them one by one? Did you see
what God has done? Ramone very quietly lost forty panels
without telling anybody, as I've just put that on the
Michael Barrits So Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
It was a good day. I saw my old friend
in the mirror. He looked ten years older than I heard.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
After light conversation, he made a primise to me. He
said all that I can do.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
He's trying, and I can't change aster day and tomorrow.
I am I good wasted, but I'm not dranking today.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Why I'm not.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Drinking and today in the bottle of a bottle.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I know me.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I'm a party with a can in mynd.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
But on my best day, I know.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I'm one drink go away from forgetting everything.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
And I can't.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Change today and to my room, I might get wasted.
Bottom not.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
The drain can today. I do know I'm not drain
can today. Some times of feel like.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I'm riding the pill seven name I'm giving this day.
Speaker 8 (11:17):
But I'm just den at it. We can't depend to
help my success.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
And I can't change my ways.
Speaker 7 (11:40):
And in my row I might just taste it.
Speaker 9 (11:44):
But I'm not.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
Drink can today. I'm not.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Drink can today and I can't grind the.
Speaker 8 (12:03):
Pain and to marble, I'll.
Speaker 7 (12:06):
Have to face it. Bottom.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Kno Frank can to day.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
No, I'm not ran can today.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
That's our friend Kenny Allen from Waller, who is most
famous on our show, at least for the Great Waller
Meth Lab explosion of nineteen ninety six, which that's on.
That's a hard one to top. But this autobiographical tune
right there, it's pretty darn good. Let's go to Dallas,
(12:54):
just because I like the name Dallas. Dallas. Hey, Michael,
you do.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Well.
Speaker 10 (13:02):
I just called to kind of chime in on your
topic to pick. I'll give you a little little background here.
About roughly six years ago I got diagnosed with colon cancer.
Wound up beating that to three major surgeries to get past,
but it was pretty scary. Then shortly after that I
wound up having to go in for open heart surgery,
(13:24):
which was even more scary. And then about two and
a half years ago I had a widow maker heart attack,
which that one I thought was gonna get me but didn't.
But it's not so much about looking at the end
as it is looking at your quality of life when
all this stuff happens. Because if you just go home
and sit on your butt on the couch and watch
(13:45):
TV and do nothing to become a mushroom, you become
a victim, you know, if you still get out there
and do what you want to do, not to access.
I mean, if I want to have a steak, I do.
If I want to have a drink. I do, but
I don't go stupid with it. You're a survivor, and
being a survivor is what it's all about.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Very well said. You had to get where you are
to be able to say that and understand it. Read
you're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir, Yeah,
good morning, Michael.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
I was just calling in just to let everybody, or
not everybody, but.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
I have.
Speaker 11 (14:26):
A stage four a COPD, and.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
I like to tell all my friends one time, because
I don't feel like me and a hooker in church,
but I just like to tell them continuing to smoke,
which I did for many, many many years, not only
might cause cancer, but it can cause this. And there's
really something very special about suffocating slowly.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Every day I hear that, I hear that from people
who suffer from COPD, and I've watched people die with als,
which is also a pretty awful thing to have to
go through. Ramon, did you see this kid that was
hospitalized He ate his math homework? He said his teacher
(15:14):
told him it was a piece of cake. No, let
me try that again, Ramon, did you see this kid
that was hospitalized He ate his math homework? He said
his teacher told him it was a piece of cake. Albert,
(15:35):
you're old the Michael Berry Show. What do you have?
Speaker 11 (15:37):
Sir Michael, thank you for taking my call. A long
time listener, her first time call her to the show.
I wanted weigh in on the current situation with our
immigration policies that mister Trumps is enforcant that they've been
in place for many years. But me as a immigrant
of this country and now a naturalize that for with
(16:00):
thirty plus years, I want to spread that the demonstrations,
the rope blockades, people blocking rolls by our raise our
community or Hispanic I should say that it's not us.
It's not what we're representing. Those young kids and young
adults that out there, you know, causing havoc in Hulum.
It's not what the Hispanic community it's about. I'm so
(16:25):
disappointed in that. I hope that they come to their
wits and census and understand that what the president is
doing now is simply enforcing in a fighting part.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Michael Mary American Side an interview with Brian Johnson. But
Lane produced this album. They went to either the Baha
(17:00):
Moser did Jamaica. I think it was Bahamas and they
were blown away by how beautiful the American women were
that were on vacation there, and they asked Brian Johnson,
what you know, you must be very proud of this
song because you know it's the first release of the
first song on the album. But it's the first single
(17:20):
release for this new band. Bond Dies in February, and
by the fall, you're releasing another album, a follow up
to what you just did with an all new lead singer.
By the way I read that, bon Scott said something
ever happens to me go get him with that, and
(17:44):
apparently his dad and mom, but his dad told the
band you have to carry on. You have to carry on.
We want you to carry on. Maybe because they wanted
more worldly, I don't know. They asked Brian Johnson. I
thought this was telling. They said, well, you have to
be proud. It's your first song. You come you bring
a song into the band and you know this, This
(18:06):
bands just had their you know, amazing album and you
come in and you even topped that. And he said,
I want to be very clear. I walked in. They
had the song ready, the arrangement, the lyrics, the whole thing.
Anybody could have done. What I did. I just walked
(18:27):
in a right place, right down. A lot of lead
singers would say that that's that's a pretty cool thing
that he would Andrew in Lubbock, you're up, sir.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Yes.
Speaker 12 (18:40):
The first of all, I thank you for taking my call.
I want to give a shout out to the people
that take care of us when we're sick, the loved
ones and the struggle that that is. I went through
a thing about a year ago. I was out of
town working, started puke and blood, had rot problem and
(19:01):
was in a thyroid storm and I had a rupture
in my larynx and I had to my wife ended
up having to drive about three hours down bring the
kids down. But watching the fear in them was the
most painful part. And just to shout out for those
(19:24):
that care for us when we can't.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
In sickness and in health. You know, we laugh about
that line, but you learn a lot about your spouse
when you are sick, When you are grompy as sick
and bedridden and diarrhea and vomiting and bleeding and contagious,
(19:56):
and that person nurse maids you, well, that's when you learn.
That's when you learn the measure of a man for
ladies and your your bride for men. That's the moment. Well,
I'll tell you what. I know so many people that
have gone through multiple divorces and they've made money and
(20:19):
lost money, made money, lost money, and they've been through
multiple divorces, and they love to chase girls. It's the
it's their overriding thing. Everything about life is get the
Get the convertible to attract the girls. Get the membership
of the club, to attract the girls, get the plane,
the house, the money, the white teeth, as if she
(20:40):
cares what you look like at that point. But I
know so many guys fifties, sixties, seventies even, and it's
chasing the girls, chasing the girls, the heart of the girl,
some cases sluttier, the girl that that is, that is
everything to them. And n L lock one down and
(21:02):
you know, I want you to meet this girl, and
it's it's like they've bought a new rifle or a
new shotgun. Hey, we think it's new, Benelli. It's pretty
nice it look at that. And what they really want
you to do is tell them that this girl is
extraordinarily attractive, because that's so important. And I'll think to myself. Man,
(21:23):
You know, I don't you don't know what goes on
behind closed doors. But when you have a need, is
that one going to be there for you? Is that
even considered? Is that one going to be good to
your kids when something? When you die? Is that one
going to make sure that your estate is distributed the
way you would have wanted it distributed? Is that when
(21:46):
when when when you had a long day, is that
when the one that's going to make you a drink,
or is that when the one that's going to make
sure that the bed is comfortable for you tonight? Is
that the one that's gonna take care of your needs
beyond sexual? And I wonder how many guys don't ever
think about that? And I watch it, I watch one
on two eyes, and it makes me kind of sad
(22:06):
for them, because you know, you see this, you see
this loop that keeps coming back around. And I found one. Michael,
I got her. You got a meet or boy, you
ought to see her? My god, she's got I mean
asked for days and she's she's a workout nut man.
She works out all day. She watches everything she eats,
(22:26):
and she'd waits. You see her? Oh man, you got
and I'm thinking, okay, all right, beauty is important. We
all we all agree with that. Is there anything else
you can offer about her that might be something that
has you excited other than your friends are going to
be impressed that she's hot. And you see this loop,
it goes goes round and around. So you got to
(22:48):
see this girl. She's hot. And so you go to
the dinner or you see them out that you gotta
meet this girl and she's all she's dressed to the
nines and she's eating two pieces of lettuce, and you know,
she's got the lips done and the boob's done, and
the makeup's done perfectly or what they call perfectly in
the Kardashian style. And she's had her hairstyle and her
nails are done, and the dress is perfect and she's
(23:10):
thought it through and she's dressed like she's going out
with her girlfriends because that's when women really dress up.
And boy, she's fussing all over him. And then they
get married and you see them a year later. Hey, house,
so and so, oh god, who knows? Good Lord, she's
with her girlfriends in Cabo this weekend? Is everything going on?
Speaker 10 (23:30):
No?
Speaker 3 (23:31):
You know when we were dating. Man, she was all
over me. She was this, she's got problems. You know,
she's not stable. I don't know if you knew that
she's well. The fact that she has three divorces before
you was kind of something of an indicator. Yeah, well,
I mean she changed. I don't know what happened. She changed.
And you watch these guys go through this, and you go,
(23:52):
I don't think you're learning your lesson. I don't think
you are valuing what is important in life. And I
think you're putting value on things that are not important.
And you're too old to do this. We're not in
eighth grade anymore. It's no longer a question of who
got the cutest girl at our little school to go
(24:15):
to homecoming with them, and you know you're gonna buy
her a bigger mom because you might get to kiss her.
I mean, we're adults now. You should be processing on
a level where you're saying, my needs are greater than
a show trophy out at dinner. I'm gonna get ten emails.
(24:35):
Are you talking about me? No, I'm not talking about you.
I'm talking about the other The Michael Mary.
Speaker 9 (24:42):
Show, like this, everything falls into face, like the flick
of a switch. Well, my mama told me, you know.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
What my therapy is this show talking to you all?
Would you do? Other people in media tell me I
should stop reading the emails because it exhausts too much
of my bandwidth. But the reality is as exhausted as
I get for living up to the commitment that I
(25:19):
will read every email, and as irritating as some people are,
the one that gets me the most is you know
you say you read every email. Well we'll see. Now, Hey,
my daughter has a steer in the auction. Could you
raise twenty five thousand dollars for it? I read your
email and know I'm not raising twenty five thousand dollars
for you, and know I can't go to anybody's event,
(25:40):
and know I can't raise more money for more people,
and know I can't do this. And I'm one person.
There's a lot of other people you can ask. But
the reality is communing with so many people where you
are in your life feeds me, nourishes me. I was
talking earlier about therapy and psychiatry for that matter, and
(26:03):
somebody said, but I thought you recommended a psychiatrist. I do.
We went looking several years ago for a psychiatrist to
be a part of our show. Partly because when I
need an expert, I wanted to have an expert, but
partly because it's one of the things that I get
questions about, depression, autism, bipolarity, ADHD, obsessive disorders, anxiety, all
(26:32):
of those things. So we needed somebody who had the
expertise under their roof, who could partner with us, who
would want to be a partner for a long time,
because I don't like to psychle people in and out.
I like the partnership to last. So we landed on
a guy named doctor Marshall Lucas his wife runs a practice.
A lot of guy a lot of practices are just
one guy. Well just one guy typically doesn't have the
(26:55):
bandwidth to be able to break away and answer my
questions or take care of people individual level to the
same extent as somebody that has other doctors that can
spread it to But anyway, I say that because I
really thought it was a pivotal moment when jd Vance
was talking about during the campaign. Jd Vance was talking
(27:16):
about the fact that we have a serious mental health
crisis in this country. We have a serious mental health
challenge we not use overblown terms. And if you look
at the number of people online who are screeching and
screaming and crying into their phone for the whole world
to see because Trump won, that is a mental health disorder. Now,
I don't say that to taunt them. I will taunt
(27:39):
I'm not doing that now. I say that because it
is a real, legitimate mental health disorder. The sexual dysphoria.
It's a mental health dysphoria. It's a mental health issue.
It is real, and it can be overwhelming. It's why
there's such a high rate of suicide. I read the
(28:01):
other day that fifteen percent of the Texas inmate population.
I don't know if this is true, but this is
what I read was self identified as transgender. Well, fifteen
percent of the general population is not identify as transgender.
So one of two things is happening. Number One, men
are getting to prison and saying I don't want to
(28:24):
get raped by a bunch of other dudes. I'd rather
do the raping. I'm a girl. Send me over there
with the girls, because we know that's happening. We've got
verifiable cases where they claim they're a girl, but then
they're knocking up some woman in the women's prison, and
it's a whole lot easier than women's prison. You seen
Oranges New Black Ramon. I mean, I think you could
handle that, although some of them girls will straight up
(28:45):
whoop your ass. That's option number one. Option number two
is the mental health issues are leading to a breakdown
in These breakdowns lead acting out in the acting out,
lashing out leads to violent episodes that land people in prison.
(29:05):
And I think there's a certain amount of that as well.
But I will do a sit down. Robert Reese was
asking me earlier if I would do, if I would
have him on to have to discuss psychiatric issues, real issues.
I'm not talking about somebody wants some attention. I'm talking
about people that have legitimate issues. And if you've ever
known anyone like that, every cop will tell you they've
(29:28):
got somebody. Every patrol officer will tell you that there's
somebody in their beat who has episodic violence. And that's
when you get officers are trained now to see this coming.
You'll get a guy. A lot of these suicide by
cops are not a guy that is necessarily a violent
(29:49):
criminal day in and day out. It is somebody Usually
it's a male thirty years old Norman Bates, living with
his mom and he can't function in the world world.
He may or may not have a low wage job.
He could be a stocker at Target just to have
something to do, which he needs to do, and either
he gets off his meds or he has an episode
(30:12):
triggered by a number of different things that can lead
to him being violent to her. She calls the cops.
The cops show up. They don't know what's happening. He's
waving a gun around. They want to go home to
their families. There. You would be surprised how often that
situation happens. You would be surprised how many people. And
I don't go to Gala's anymore. But my urologist and
(30:34):
dear friend, Mohit Kara, his son was being honored for
an organization he started called Tennis for Tourette's. And when
you mentioned Tarret's, people giggle and that there's nothing wrong
with that, because you have this idea that Tarret's is.
People like Maloof? Was it Maloof?
Speaker 10 (30:51):
What?
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Was a guy that played basketball players at LSU phenomenally
He changed his name to a Muslim name. But he
would do the sort of barking. You know, you get
people that while they're talking they screamed them something off
to the side. That is only in ten percent of
people with Touret's, I learned. But Touret's can be involuntary
(31:12):
motor action, it can be a twitch, and it can
be oral or all sorts of things. But there were
people who got up and told their stories of overcoming
or at least coping with terrests. It was an interesting thing.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
You know.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
I talk a lot kind of poking at people who
are therapy addicts. They love to go to therapy, and
I've said that what they need As a friend, I
do not mean to diminish, not because I care anybody's
opinion is hurt, but because I do take seriously what
I tell you I believe, and that is there are
real psychiatric conditions, real they're medical. They're medical in the
(31:51):
way that a heart attack or cancer is a real
medical issue. And I think a lot of folks don't
understand that. A lot of folks don't understand that there's help.
In the same way that if you weigh five hundred
pounds because you're eating yourself to death. There are medical
approaches to that anyway. So that's something's kind of important
(32:13):
to me. When JD Vance said that part of the
problem we have with gun violence and domestic abuse in
this country is that we have untreated medical health issues
and that our system is not handling those, well, that
was music to my ears because I believe that to
be true. I think we have a lot of undiagnosed,
untreated people who could lead functional, perhaps productive lives if
(32:38):
they got some help, in the same way that Ozmpic
can help somebody not be fat anymore. So I'll have
doctor Marshall Lucas, a family psychiatry of the Woodlands on
at some point to talk about some of the things
they do, because it is fascinating. I just want to
make that clear. Did I make that clear?
Speaker 10 (33:04):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Russell went by that Chantilly room. He'sa a dive bar.
He said, it's all locals to hang out. It's pretty cool.
He said, you took me back to a good place there.
Speaker 7 (33:12):
Yah.
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