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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
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You.
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Michael Verry's show is on the air.
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It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I can feel a good one coming on. It's the
Michael Berry Show.
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Any attempt to restrict drinking and driving deer is viewed
by some that is downright undemocratic.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Two six packs. Shatner not a Nancise tell you.
Speaker 5 (00:34):
That Alan Musk has described himself on multiple occasions in
a manner that if you know anything about this, you
would have noted yourself. It's just his willingness to embrace
it and discuss it openly, is his social awkwardness, and
that he is somewhere, as we say, on the spectrum.
This spectrum of it would include autism or a form
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of autism, and it goes out to Asperger's And if
you know anything about that, I think there are a
number of people to varying degrees who walk among us
who can seem emotionally disconnected, or can seem almost dead inside,
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or can seem to not understand when they say something
why it's bothersome to other people.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
And it could be.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Something that is offensive, or it could be a lack
of empathy and I think that this is endemic to
the human condition.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
We're all different.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Some of us run faster, and some of us can
lift more, and some of us can climb better, and
some of us can process certain types of problems better
than others.
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Some of us have a facility for language. Some of us.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
We have varying degrees of energy levels. And some of
that is we're born with it, and some of it's
what we eat in nature versus nurture. But Elon has
a very analytical mind, and yet he also has in
that analytical mind an incredible ability to communicate, which is
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not typical of people who have a brain processor like
he does. His CPU sitting up above his shoulders is
on a different scale. The fact that he has created
the companies he had, He didn't found Test that already existed,
but he took it to the next level. And with SpaceX,
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either one of those alone would be a mammoth accomplishment.
His ability to buy tests, to buy Twitter and quickly
understand the coding challenges and fire all those people and
figure it out and keep it running, and now it's
profitable again, despite the ad industry trying to break him.
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His political calculations for a guy who had no real
political experience. Oh, by the way, did I mention the
boring company and that they're boring underground and doing some
pretty amazing things. And I didn't happen to mention what
would have been for most people a full time job.
His neuralink, which is attempting and he claims is going
to be able to go from you think it to
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it happens without any steps in between, on a level
that we've never seen before. And I say all that
to say, now, let's have Elon be.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
An.
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Elon's fallible like everyone else. He puts his pants on
one leg at a time, I presume. But his ability
to describe what has gone wrong in this country is
incredible for a guy who did not study debate, or
who did not study constitutional systems political science, and doesn't
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have the years of experience that someone who has studied
that would have. And I don't know that they could
have explained this social phenomena the way he has. This
is him describing the unelected fourth branch of government, and
that is unconstitutional.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
That's the constitutional crisis at a high level.
Speaker 7 (04:21):
If you say, what is the goal of dose or
and I think a significant part of the presidency is
to restore democracy. Let's may say it seems like, well,
I'll be in a democracy. Well, if you don't have
a feedback.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
With EPX, you would have to if you sorry, until
your gravitas can be difficult sometimes, So if there's not
a good.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Feedback loop from the people to the government, and.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
If you have rule of the bureaucrat, if the bureaucracy
is in charge, and what meaning does democracy actually have
If the people cannot vote and have there will be
decided by their elected representatives in the form of the
President and the Senate in the House, then we don't
live in a democracy.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
We live in a bureaucracy.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
So it's incredibly important that we close that feedback we
fix that feedback group, and that the public, the public's
elected representatives, the President of the House and the Senate,
decide what happens as opposed to a large unelected bureaucracy.
This is not that aren't some good There are good
people who are in the federal bureaucracy. But you can't
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have an autonomous federal bureaucracy. You have to have one
that is responsive to the people. That's the whole point
of a democracy.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
And so.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
And if you if you looked at this, if you
asked the look the Pounders today and said, what do
you think of the way things have turned out? Or
we have this unelected, fourth unconstitutional branch of government, which
is the bureaucracy, which has in a lot of ways
currently more power than any elected representative. And this is
there's not something that people want, and it's not it
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does not match the will of people. So it's just
something we've got and we've got to fix. And they've
also going to address the deficit. So we've got a
putullion dollar deficit. And if this, if we don't do
something about this deficit, the country is going bankrupt. I mean,
it's it's really astounding that the the interest payments alone
on the national debt exceed the defense department budget, which
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is shocking because we've got a lot, we spend a
lot of money on defense, and if that just keeps going,
we're essentially going to bankrupt the country. So what I'm
really going to say is like it's not optional for
us to reduce the federal expenses.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
It's essential.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
It's essential for America to remain solvent as a country.
And it's essential for America to have the resources necessary
to provide things to its citizens and not simply be so.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
I was saying vast amounts.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Of Dad that it's not a very charismatic speaker necessarily.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
He's also, as he said, Gravitasi's heart.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
He's standing next to President Trump in the White House,
in the old room, in the Oval Office. There's a
lot of history there, and that's not lost on him.
But I really feel this is a golden era in
America where it's like spring out of the cold, seemingly
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dead ground, out of this earth is blossoming our new Republic.
And it just feels right. It just feels good, and
I know you feel it. I have people who come
up to me and say to me or email me,
and they tell me, I wake.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Up in the morning and I can't wait to see
the news.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
What exciting new thing is happening that we never believed
could happen. Will it be Will it be an America
hostage who's released from Russia. Will it be a department
that was wasteful that's been exposed and shut down. Will
it be dollars return to the taxpayers?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
What will it be? Today?
Speaker 5 (08:11):
These are good good times and it's I'm just glad
to be here to get to enjoy it. From Duck
King of Ding and this other guy, Michael Barry.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
These are the kind of guy you like to smacking
an ass.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Thing is that AI has allowed Elon's doge team to do.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
And it's it's a tool, right, It's an instrument. They
just know how to use it well, is.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
To go into these clunky computer systems in our government
and with the proper code they send this spider I
think it's called through the system and they pick out
things that are basically cancers. So here he is talking
about the fact that social security checks are going out
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to people who are, for instance, one hundred and fifty
years old. Well, of course there's nobody alive that's one
hundred and fifty, So that means that social Security checks
are being sent to someone who's cashing them and not alive.
So who is the person who's cashing them. You've got
multiple there's no d duplication, so you've got the same
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social Security number being used multiple times. And he's pointing out,
we don't know how much fraud there is in there,
but just a d duplication or the fact that duplication
is allowed, and we can spot how many times there are.
AI is exposing the amount of waste in just one
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little piece of all of this, folks. We shouldn't be
running a deficit in this country. We shouldn't have a
multi trillion dollar debt, and we shouldn't even be running
a deficit per year, which is just crazy.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
This is absolutely insane. Anyway, here he is saying it.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
If money is spent badly, if your tax pay out
dollars are not spent in a sensible approval manner, then
that's not okay. Your tax dollars need to be spent wisely.
A lot of the things that matter to the people. I
mean these things like it's just common sense. It's not
it's not Corconian or radical. I think it's it's really
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just saying, let's look at each of the expenditures and say,
is this actually the best interesting to the people, and
if it is, it's proved. If not, we should think
about it. So, you know, there's crazy things like just
cross re examination of social Security. And we've got people
in there at one hundred and fifty years old.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Now do you know anyone there's one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
I don't, okay, they should be on the Guinness Book,
the World records. They're messing out, so you know that's
the case, where like I think they're probably dead.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
It's my guess, or they should be very famous, one
of the two.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
And then that a whole bunch of sociecurity payments with
is no identified identifying information.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Why is there no identifying information?
Speaker 7 (11:09):
Obviously we want to make we want to make sure
that people who deserve to receive social security, do you
receive it and then receive it quickly and accurately.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
I have referred several times this week to its springtime
in America. It's like the cold, harsh earth is yielding
its bounty of a new season flowers, color, beauty, life, hope, optimism.
Mark Fogel was an American school teacher who in twenty
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twenty one with a trace amount of marijuana which had
been prescribed to him by a doctor or chronic pain.
And he had diplomatic community as a teacher, but when
Biden came in, that immunity was stripped away. And this
was Putin's way of telling America that Biden is jacking
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with me, and I'm going to jack with you. And
this is the reason that now Putin has released Vogel
because Trump is president. And by the way, they're trying
to say, it's a criticism of Trump that he has
great relations with Vladimir Putin. Shouldn't we want our leader
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to have great relations with Vladimir Putin? Have you ever
watched two neighbors get into a spat, try to drag
you into it, and they're getting into a spat over
the dumbest things, and you go, do you over lost?
How much time and energy you're wasting? That's what we
were doing. That's what we were doing. And Trump has
brought that none. Trump is a deal maker. You know,
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we can each go our separate ways. And you've got
more potatoes than you need, and you're tired of eating potatoes,
and I've got more corn than I need eat and
I'm tired of eating corn. And we can go our
separate ways because we argued over exactly how much corn
would be traded for potatoes, or we can figure.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
It out and get it done.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
And now I got potatoes to put with my corn,
and you got corn to put with your potatoes. And
now we got a deal. And everybody's happy, right. No, Ramon,
there's no meat in this analogy. There's no meat in
this analogy. Please stay focused. No, and there's no bread. No,
you got you got potatoes and you got corn. That's
that's the transaction. It's a very simple transaction. We got
to keep it simple for the sake of the analogy.
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Here is Mark Fogel, and I want you to hear
who he says, the hero and all this is this
is what we should demand of our leaders. We should
demand every leader be Trump. Trump's not a religion, He's
a human. The problem is our baseline was so low,
our expectation was so low that Trump looks like a god.
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We should demand more Trumps. We should accept nothing less
than Trump's. This should be our anyway. Here's Mark Fogel,
Thank you, Donald Trump.
Speaker 8 (14:04):
I want you to know that I am not a
hero in this at all. And President Trump, this is
a hero. These men that came from the diplomatic service
are heroes. The senators and representatives of past legislation in
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my honor to get me home are the heroes. I
am in awe of what they all did. My family
has been a force. I think my ninety five year
old mother is probably the most dynamic ninety five year
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old on earth right now. And I am so indebted
to so many people. I think I remember a Churchill
quote that he said when the ref was fighting to
lift off it.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
He said that.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
Never have so many owed so much to so few.
And I put myself, fortunately and unfortunately into that category,
and I said, never has won owed so much to
so many that this super organism of people that came
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to my support.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
And the love that I was given.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
Sustain me for three and a half years in a
prison that had me in hospitals for more than.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
One hundred days.
Speaker 8 (15:44):
I was given more than four hundred injections in that time,
and knowing I had the support of my fellow Pennsylvanians,
my family, my friends, it was so overwhelming that it
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brought me to my knees and it brought me to tears.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
But it was it was my.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Energy, it was my.
Speaker 8 (16:20):
Being that that kept me going that whole time. And
I will forever be indebted President Trump to Steve over there.
What a dynamic man this guy is.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
It's Morning in America.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Listen to the Michael Berry Show podcast if you dare, but.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
This morning I was talking about.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
You know, women love to tell men that they need
to emote more and talk more, and listen more and
pay attention to the silly little drama between the girl
who are arguing over who's going to host the party
at the end of the little league season, and they
want their husband to care after he drove an hour
and a half to work this morning so that the
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kid could be in a good school district and not
have to be in an inner city school district, and
an hour and a half home, and his job is
tough and he's exhausted, and she wants him to get
home and be another one of her girlfriends where she
can talk.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
And he'll say, well, get me some rose girl and
we'll just chat away.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Well, that's not who he is, and that's not what
you married, and frankly, you'd be bored of him if
he was. So stop telling your man what he needs
to be and love him for who and what he is,
and be grateful for the things that he does and
doesn't say, be grateful for the actions he takes.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
You know that goes two ways. He's trying, he's trying.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
To dress up and you know, be a little more expressive,
But how about you be grateful for the man he is,
the things he fixes, the things he does for you,
the protection he provides. It's one of my favorite lists.
Or husband's the CEO of a big company in Houston,
and she said, send me a message after the show
this morning. She said, when you were talking about wives
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noticing how our husbands love us and the actions they take.
I turned to him and said, honey, I see how
you love me every day. I was met with silence
for about a minute. Then he looked at me and said,
I'm waiting for the butt. She said, cyh. It truly
was a complete sentence. Isn't that funny? We talked about
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Elon Musk and how Doze was used to quickly identify waste, fraud,
and abuse. So I wanted to share a portion of
Vice President Vance's speech on AI while in Friends. During
his speech, he made it very clear that Trump administration
will ensure that America will lead.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
The field in this endeavor Number one.
Speaker 9 (18:55):
This administration will ensure that American AI technology continues to
be the gold standard worldwide, and we are the partner
of choice for others foreign.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Countries and certainly businesses as they expand their own use
of AI.
Speaker 9 (19:10):
Number two, we believe that excessive regulation of the AI
sector could kill a transformative industry just as it's taking off,
and will make every effort to encourage pro growth AI policies.
And I like to see that deregulatory slaver making its
way into a lot of the conversations this conference. Number three,
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we feel very strongly that AI must remain free from
ideological bias and that America AI will not be co
opted into a tool for authoritarian censorship.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
And finally, number four, the.
Speaker 9 (19:46):
Trump administration will maintain a pro worker growth path for
AI so it can be a potent tool for job
creation in the United States. And I appreciate Prime Minister
Modi's point. AI I really believe will facilitate and make
people more productive. It is not going to replace human beings.
It will never replace human beings. And I think too
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many of the leaders in the AI industry when they
talk about this fear of replacing workers, I think they
really miss the point.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
AI we believe is going to.
Speaker 9 (20:16):
Make us more productive, more prosperous, and more free. The
United States of America is the leader in AI, and
our administration plans to.
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Keep it that way.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
The US possesses.
Speaker 9 (20:28):
All components across the full AI stack, including advanced semiconductor design,
frontier algorithms, and of course, transformational applications. Now, the computing
power this stack requires is integral to advancing AI technology.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
The safeguard America's advantage.
Speaker 9 (20:47):
The Trump administration will ensure that the most powerful AI
systems are built in the US with American designed and
manufactured chips. Now, just because we're the leader doesn't mean
we want to or need to go to alone, of course,
and let me be emphatic about this point. America wants
to partner with all of you, and we want to
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embark on the AI revolution before us with the spirit
of openness and collaboration. But to create that kind of trust,
we need international regulatory regimes that fosters the creation of
AI technology rather than strangles it. And we need our
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European friends in particular to look to this new frontier
with optimism rather than trepidation. Now, the development of cutting
edge AI in the US is no accident. By preserving
an open regulatory environment, we've encouraged American innovators to experiment
and to make unparalleled R and D investments of these
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seven hundred billion dollars, give or take, that's estimated to
be spent on AI in twenty twenty eight, over half
of it will likely be invested in the United States
of America. Now, this hadmitistration will not be the one
to snuff out the startups and the grad students producing
some of the most groundbreaking applications of artificial intelligence.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Instead, our laws.
Speaker 9 (22:11):
Will keep big tech, little tech, and all other developers
on a level playing field. Now, the President's recent executive
order on AI, we're developing an AI action plan that
avoids an overly precautionaire area regulatory regime while ensuring that
all Americans benefit from the technology and its transformative potential.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Now, we invite your countries to.
Speaker 9 (22:34):
Work with US and to follow that model if it
makes sense for your nations. However, the Trump administration is
troubled by reports that some foreign governments are considering tightening
the screws on US tech companies with international footprints.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Now America cannot and will not.
Speaker 9 (22:53):
Accept that, and we think it's a terrible mistake, not
just for the United States of America, but for your
own countries. The US innovators of all sizes already know
what it's like to deal with onerous international rules.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Many of our.
Speaker 9 (23:06):
Most productive tech companies are forced to deal with the
EUS Digital Services Act and the massive regulations it created
about taking down content and policing so called misinformation. And
of course we want to ensure the Internet is a
safe place.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
But it is one thing to prevent.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
A predator from praying on a child on the Internet,
and it is something quite different to prevent a grown
man or woman from accessing an opinion that the government
thinks is misinformation. Meanwhile, for smaller firms, navigating the GDPR
means paying endless legal compliance costs or otherwise risking massive fines.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Now, for some easiest way to avoid the.
Speaker 9 (23:47):
Dilemma has been to simply block EU users in the
first place. Is this really the future that we want, ladies.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
And gentlemen, I think the answer for all of us
should be known.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
That's a far crowd from Kamala Harris, the former Vice president,
on the same subject.
Speaker 10 (24:01):
First part of this issue that should be articulated is
AI is kind of a fancy things for.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Swell's two letters.
Speaker 10 (24:08):
It means artificial intelligence, but ultimately what it is is
it's about machine learning and so the machine is taught,
and part of the issue here is what information is
going into the machine that will then determine and we
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can predict then if we think about what information is
going in, what then will be produced in terms.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Of I'll bet you we've got ten pounds sweet little
ladies of seventy or more that would make a pound
case that.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
You could eat cold and enjoy.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Michael Errshoe.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Over the course of three days last week, a senior
at the University of Massachusetts UMass it's called named Noah Lee,
won ten thousand dollars, then lost ten thousand dollars, and
then something else happened. So what happened was what happened
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was this student, you know, at the at the games,
they'll have you know, if you if you make a layup,
then a free throw, then a three pointer, and then
a halftime shot, you know, you'll win all this money.
So what happens is whoever is hosting that event buys
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an insurance policy that says, if in fact that happens,
you pay for it. So that way they you know,
let's say it's the insurance policy is ten dollars per game.
The insurance company has an actuarial table says, what is
it likelihood a general member of the public would be
able to do all these things under these rules and
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restrictions and difficulties. And then it becomes a financial instrument.
You pay to manage the risk. They assume the risk
in exchange for the money they make by putting your
premium to investment. That's the same thing as life insurance
and everything else. When you buy a life insurance policy,
you're saying, I'm going to pay this betting that I'm
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going to die very soon, and they say we'll take
your payment betting that you're not going to die for
a long time. And then you're both in a pitched
battle for who's going to win. And in this odd setup,
you win by dying quickly, at least in terms of
you get over on the insurance company. Because if you
only pay in a couple hundred dollars in a premium
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and you get a two hundred and fifty thousand dollars payout,
you or at least your family wins. And that's how
this thing works out right. You can think of it
as gambling if you like. So this is the CBS
Boston story where he hits the shot, but the insurance
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company said, well, your foot was.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Kind of on the line. Oh man, how awful do
you have to be? But here's the story.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
That half court shot.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
When I put it out, I knew it kind of
had a chance, never expected to go in.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
The crowd inside the Mullen Center erupted Wednesday when that
half court shot.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Did go in.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Noah Lee a UMAs Ammer Senior from Whalan was as
stunned as everyone else after being randomly picked for a
series shootout for ten grand during the women's.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Halftime and I was told to take one dribble.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
That's when the clock would start.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
I would have to hit a layup, a free throw,
a three pointer, and a half court shot all within
theirty seconds.
Speaker 11 (28:00):
There's no way it's going to go in. And then
it kind of looked good and then it went in.
I just was like struck. People kept coming up to
him as they were like walking up like that was incredible.
That was incredible.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
But Noah's victory lap was cut short by a block
from the promo company. His foot was on the line,
forcing a turnover of the big prize.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
I was getting text from people were like, oh my god,
that's incredible, like congrats, and then now them all texting
me like, oh my gosh, like that sucks.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
I'm really sorry you.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Mass Athletics came back with a consolation prize, a four
person suite for a men's game, court side seats to
cheer the women, food, and a swag bag, but it's
no ten grand, which Noah had planned to put towards
school loans and fun.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Are you going to be practicing your half court shots now?
Speaker 3 (28:51):
In case?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
They're like, okay to.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Case, maybe in case.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
So what happened was a third party company called Odds
On Promotions was hired to put this on. It's the
same thing as hiring somebody to come and sing it
at halftime. So these are part of the entertainment package
of a basketball game, and so the University of Massachusetts,
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the host of the event they pay odds On Promotions
and odds On Promotions as part of putting this thing on,
would be responsible for paying and Odds On Promotions.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Then gets an insurance policy.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
Probably doesn't cost very much because the numbers will show
that out of ten thousand times of doing this, nobody's
ever won, so the.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Policy's probably pretty cheap.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
Now, odds on promotion says, So it was up to
them to award the ten thousand dollars, and they said, no,
we're not doing it. After you know, this thing is broadcast.
It went viral, great moment, and then they said no,
we have to check with our insurance company to make
sure they'll pay out on it. So they're blaming the
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insurance company. I don't know if that's true or not.
An insurance company they say said, no, we're not paying it.
All right, So University of Massachusetts recognized a very, very
great opportunity, and this is where you've got to be
smart with how you manage your public image. The school said, quote,
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after the contest, we informed Noah we would share the
footage with our insurance partner as the next step. After
their review of the four camera angles we provided, they
determined the half court shot was disqualified as it was
not taken behind the half court line. On Friday, the
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school's athletic director said, quote, for all those wondering, we're
working on getting ten thousand dollars to Noah. If we
can't get to a good result via the insurance company,
we will pay him directly. You know, if you go
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to I've mced I don't do it anymore because it
takes too much time.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Away from my family. But I used to.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
Every year in Baton Rouge. I would m see an
event called the Louisiana Pediatric Cardiology Associates or Cardiology Association.
I would m see their event and there would be
and part of that was that we'd do an auction
and then raise a lot of money for these children
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in Baton Rouge with heart problems. And the guy that
got me involved Michael Hudson. His daughter was born with
a hole in her heart, Charlie, and so he had
a heart pun intended for this organization.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
And I grew to as well over the years.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
And one of the things I noticed in doing this
is that there were people there who had a public
image Planets attorneys.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Vaton Rouge has a lot of Plants attorneys.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
And they would they would spend an insane amount of
money on buying a puppy for their wife, or a
trip that they didn't need, or any number of other things.
And you begin to understand that part of the reason
to do that is ego, because there's other Planets attorneys
in the room, and another reason to do that is
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people notice your name and they think fondly, Oh, you
know he's given he's buying that auction item. But in
so doing he's actually contributing for children with pediatric heart conditions.
And that's a good thing. With ten thousand dollars at play,
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If the University of Massachusetts took a hickey on that
and chose to let the kid get screwed over, the
negative energy directed toward them would be far in excess
of ten thousand dollars. You can find ten thousand dollars somewhere,
and the right thing to do would have been immediately
just set forward and say we're gonna fight with the
insurance company because they're supposed to pay him, and that's the.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Right thing to do. But if they don't, let it
be known.
Speaker 5 (33:11):
That UMass unlike the insurance company, recognizes the spirit of
the game was upheld. He hit the shot, and no
one should have his money. Just do the right thing.
You don't have to make up excuses.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Till the story has a happy gentlemen to help us,
has us little good kill any thank you, and good night,
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
You.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Michael Verry's show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I can feel a good one coming on. It's the
Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Any attempt to restrict drinking and driving deer is viewed
by some that is downright undemocratic.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Two six packs. Shatner not a Nancise tell you.
Speaker 5 (00:34):
That Alan Musk has described himself on multiple occasions in
a manner that if you know anything about this, you
would have noted yourself. It's just his willingness to embrace
it and discuss it openly, is his social awkwardness, and
that he is somewhere, as we say, on the spectrum.
This spectrum of it would include autism or a form
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of autism, and it goes out to Asperger's And if
you know anything about that, I think there are a
number of people to varying degrees who walk among us
who can seem emotionally disconnected, or can seem almost dead inside,
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or can seem to not understand when they say something
why it's bothersome to other people.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
And it could be.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Something that is offensive, or it could be a lack
of empathy and I think that this is endemic to
the human condition.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
We're all different.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Some of us run faster, and some of us can
lift more, and some of us can climb better, and
some of us can process certain types of problems better
than others.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Some of us have a facility for language. Some of us.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
We have varying degrees of energy levels. And some of
that is we're born with it, and some of it's
what we eat in nature versus nurture. But Elon has
a very analytical mind, and yet he also has in
that analytical mind an incredible ability to communicate, which is
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not typical of people who have a brain processor like
he does. His CPU sitting up above his shoulders is
on a different scale. The fact that he has created
the companies he had, He didn't found Test that already existed,
but he took it to the next level. And with SpaceX,
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either one of those alone would be a mammoth accomplishment.
His ability to buy tests, to buy Twitter and quickly
understand the coding challenges and fire all those people and
figure it out and keep it running, and now it's
profitable again, despite the ad industry trying to break him.
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His political calculations for a guy who had no real
political experience. Oh, by the way, did I mention the
boring company and that they're boring underground and doing some
pretty amazing things. And I didn't happen to mention what
would have been for most people a full time job.
His neuralink, which is attempting and he claims is going
to be able to go from you think it to
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it happens without any steps in between, on a level
that we've never seen before. And I say all that
to say, now, let's have Elon be.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
An.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Elon's fallible like everyone else. He puts his pants on
one leg at a time, I presume. But his ability
to describe what has gone wrong in this country is
incredible for a guy who did not study debate, or
who did not study constitutional systems political science, and doesn't
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have the years of experience that someone who has studied
that would have. And I don't know that they could
have explained this social phenomena the way he has. This
is him describing the unelected fourth branch of government, and
that is unconstitutional.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
That's the constitutional crisis at a high level.
Speaker 7 (04:21):
If you say, what is the goal of dose or
and I think a significant part of the presidency is
to restore democracy. Let's may say it seems like, well,
I'll be in a democracy. Well, if you don't have
a feedback.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
With EPX, you would have to if you sorry, until
your gravitas can be difficult sometimes, So if there's not
a good.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Feedback loop from the people to the government, and.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
If you have rule of the bureaucrat, if the bureaucracy
is in charge, and what meaning does democracy actually have
If the people cannot vote and have there will be
decided by their elected representatives in the form of the
President and the Senate in the House, then we don't
live in a democracy.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
We live in a bureaucracy.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
So it's incredibly important that we close that feedback we
fix that feedback group, and that the public, the public's
elected representatives, the President of the House and the Senate,
decide what happens as opposed to a large unelected bureaucracy.
This is not that aren't some good There are good
people who are in the federal bureaucracy. But you can't
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have an autonomous federal bureaucracy. You have to have one
that is responsive to the people. That's the whole point
of a democracy.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
And so.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
And if you if you looked at this, if you
asked the look the Pounders today and said, what do
you think of the way things have turned out? Or
we have this unelected, fourth unconstitutional branch of government, which
is the bureaucracy, which has in a lot of ways
currently more power than any elected representative. And this is
there's not something that people want, and it's not it
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does not match the will of people. So it's just
something we've got and we've got to fix. And they've
also going to address the deficit. So we've got a
putullion dollar deficit. And if this, if we don't do
something about this deficit, the country is going bankrupt. I mean,
it's it's really astounding that the the interest payments alone
on the national debt exceed the defense department budget, which
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is shocking because we've got a lot, we spend a
lot of money on defense, and if that just keeps going,
we're essentially going to bankrupt the country. So what I'm
really going to say is like it's not optional for
us to reduce the federal expenses.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
It's essential.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
It's essential for America to remain solvent as a country.
And it's essential for America to have the resources necessary
to provide things to its citizens and not simply be so.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
I was saying vast amounts.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Of Dad that it's not a very charismatic speaker necessarily.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
He's also, as he said, Gravitasi's heart.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
He's standing next to President Trump in the White House,
in the old room, in the Oval Office. There's a
lot of history there, and that's not lost on him.
But I really feel this is a golden era in
America where it's like spring out of the cold, seemingly
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dead ground, out of this earth is blossoming our new Republic.
And it just feels right. It just feels good, and
I know you feel it. I have people who come
up to me and say to me or email me,
and they tell me, I wake.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Up in the morning and I can't wait to see
the news.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
What exciting new thing is happening that we never believed
could happen. Will it be Will it be an America
hostage who's released from Russia. Will it be a department
that was wasteful that's been exposed and shut down. Will
it be dollars return to the taxpayers?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
What will it be? Today?
Speaker 5 (08:11):
These are good good times and it's I'm just glad
to be here to get to enjoy it. From Duck
King of Ding and this other guy, Michael Barry.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
These are the kind of guy you like to smacking
an ass.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Thing is that AI has allowed Elon's doge team to do.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
And it's it's a tool, right, It's an instrument. They
just know how to use it well, is.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
To go into these clunky computer systems in our government
and with the proper code they send this spider I
think it's called through the system and they pick out
things that are basically cancers. So here he is talking
about the fact that social security checks are going out
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to people who are, for instance, one hundred and fifty
years old. Well, of course there's nobody alive that's one
hundred and fifty, So that means that social Security checks
are being sent to someone who's cashing them and not alive.
So who is the person who's cashing them. You've got
multiple there's no d duplication, so you've got the same
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social Security number being used multiple times. And he's pointing out,
we don't know how much fraud there is in there,
but just a d duplication or the fact that duplication
is allowed, and we can spot how many times there are.
AI is exposing the amount of waste in just one
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little piece of all of this, folks. We shouldn't be
running a deficit in this country. We shouldn't have a
multi trillion dollar debt, and we shouldn't even be running
a deficit per year, which is just crazy.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
This is absolutely insane. Anyway, here he is saying it.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
If money is spent badly, if your tax pay out
dollars are not spent in a sensible approval manner, then
that's not okay. Your tax dollars need to be spent wisely.
A lot of the things that matter to the people. I
mean these things like it's just common sense. It's not
it's not Corconian or radical. I think it's it's really
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just saying, let's look at each of the expenditures and say,
is this actually the best interesting to the people, and
if it is, it's proved. If not, we should think
about it. So, you know, there's crazy things like just
cross re examination of social Security. And we've got people
in there at one hundred and fifty years old.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Now do you know anyone there's one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
I don't, okay, they should be on the Guinness Book,
the World records. They're messing out, so you know that's
the case, where like I think they're probably dead.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
It's my guess, or they should be very famous, one
of the two.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
And then that a whole bunch of sociecurity payments with
is no identified identifying information.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Why is there no identifying information?
Speaker 7 (11:09):
Obviously we want to make we want to make sure
that people who deserve to receive social security, do you
receive it and then receive it quickly and accurately.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
I have referred several times this week to its springtime
in America. It's like the cold, harsh earth is yielding
its bounty of a new season flowers, color, beauty, life, hope, optimism.
Mark Fogel was an American school teacher who in twenty
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twenty one with a trace amount of marijuana which had
been prescribed to him by a doctor or chronic pain.
And he had diplomatic community as a teacher, but when
Biden came in, that immunity was stripped away. And this
was Putin's way of telling America that Biden is jacking
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with me, and I'm going to jack with you. And
this is the reason that now Putin has released Vogel
because Trump is president. And by the way, they're trying
to say, it's a criticism of Trump that he has
great relations with Vladimir Putin. Shouldn't we want our leader
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to have great relations with Vladimir Putin? Have you ever
watched two neighbors get into a spat, try to drag
you into it, and they're getting into a spat over
the dumbest things, and you go, do you over lost?
How much time and energy you're wasting? That's what we
were doing. That's what we were doing. And Trump has
brought that none. Trump is a deal maker. You know,
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we can each go our separate ways. And you've got
more potatoes than you need, and you're tired of eating potatoes,
and I've got more corn than I need eat and
I'm tired of eating corn. And we can go our
separate ways because we argued over exactly how much corn
would be traded for potatoes, or we can figure.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
It out and get it done.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
And now I got potatoes to put with my corn,
and you got corn to put with your potatoes. And
now we got a deal. And everybody's happy, right. No, Ramon,
there's no meat in this analogy. There's no meat in
this analogy. Please stay focused. No, and there's no bread. No,
you got you got potatoes and you got corn. That's
that's the transaction. It's a very simple transaction. We got
to keep it simple for the sake of the analogy.
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Here is Mark Fogel, and I want you to hear
who he says, the hero and all this is this
is what we should demand of our leaders. We should
demand every leader be Trump. Trump's not a religion, He's
a human. The problem is our baseline was so low,
our expectation was so low that Trump looks like a god.
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We should demand more Trumps. We should accept nothing less
than Trump's. This should be our anyway. Here's Mark Fogel,
Thank you, Donald Trump.
Speaker 8 (14:04):
I want you to know that I am not a
hero in this at all. And President Trump, this is
a hero. These men that came from the diplomatic service
are heroes. The senators and representatives of past legislation in
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my honor to get me home are the heroes. I
am in awe of what they all did. My family
has been a force. I think my ninety five year
old mother is probably the most dynamic ninety five year
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old on earth right now. And I am so indebted
to so many people. I think I remember a Churchill
quote that he said when the ref was fighting to
lift off it.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
He said that.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
Never have so many owed so much to so few.
And I put myself, fortunately and unfortunately into that category,
and I said, never has won owed so much to
so many that this super organism of people that came
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to my support.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
And the love that I was given.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
Sustain me for three and a half years in a
prison that had me in hospitals for more than.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
One hundred days.
Speaker 8 (15:44):
I was given more than four hundred injections in that time,
and knowing I had the support of my fellow Pennsylvanians,
my family, my friends, it was so overwhelming that it
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brought me to my knees and it brought me to tears.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
But it was it was my.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Energy, it was my.
Speaker 8 (16:20):
Being that that kept me going that whole time. And
I will forever be indebted President Trump to Steve over there.
What a dynamic man this guy is.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
It's Morning in America.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Listen to the Michael Berry Show podcast if you dare, but.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
This morning I was talking about.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
You know, women love to tell men that they need
to emote more and talk more, and listen more and
pay attention to the silly little drama between the girl
who are arguing over who's going to host the party
at the end of the little league season, and they
want their husband to care after he drove an hour
and a half to work this morning so that the
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kid could be in a good school district and not
have to be in an inner city school district, and
an hour and a half home, and his job is
tough and he's exhausted, and she wants him to get
home and be another one of her girlfriends where she
can talk.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
And he'll say, well, get me some rose girl and
we'll just chat away.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Well, that's not who he is, and that's not what
you married, and frankly, you'd be bored of him if
he was. So stop telling your man what he needs
to be and love him for who and what he is,
and be grateful for the things that he does and
doesn't say, be grateful for the actions he takes.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
You know that goes two ways. He's trying, he's trying.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
To dress up and you know, be a little more expressive,
But how about you be grateful for the man he is,
the things he fixes, the things he does for you,
the protection he provides. It's one of my favorite lists.
Or husband's the CEO of a big company in Houston,
and she said, send me a message after the show
this morning. She said, when you were talking about wives
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noticing how our husbands love us and the actions they take.
I turned to him and said, honey, I see how
you love me every day. I was met with silence
for about a minute. Then he looked at me and said,
I'm waiting for the butt. She said, cyh. It truly
was a complete sentence. Isn't that funny? We talked about
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Elon Musk and how Doze was used to quickly identify waste, fraud,
and abuse. So I wanted to share a portion of
Vice President Vance's speech on AI while in Friends. During
his speech, he made it very clear that Trump administration
will ensure that America will lead.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
The field in this endeavor Number one.
Speaker 9 (18:55):
This administration will ensure that American AI technology continues to
be the gold standard worldwide, and we are the partner
of choice for others foreign.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Countries and certainly businesses as they expand their own use
of AI.
Speaker 9 (19:10):
Number two, we believe that excessive regulation of the AI
sector could kill a transformative industry just as it's taking off,
and will make every effort to encourage pro growth AI policies.
And I like to see that deregulatory slaver making its
way into a lot of the conversations this conference. Number three,
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we feel very strongly that AI must remain free from
ideological bias and that America AI will not be co
opted into a tool for authoritarian censorship.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
And finally, number four, the.
Speaker 9 (19:46):
Trump administration will maintain a pro worker growth path for
AI so it can be a potent tool for job
creation in the United States. And I appreciate Prime Minister
Modi's point. AI I really believe will facilitate and make
people more productive. It is not going to replace human beings.
It will never replace human beings. And I think too
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many of the leaders in the AI industry when they
talk about this fear of replacing workers, I think they
really miss the point.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
AI we believe is going to.
Speaker 9 (20:16):
Make us more productive, more prosperous, and more free. The
United States of America is the leader in AI, and
our administration plans to.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Keep it that way.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
The US possesses.
Speaker 9 (20:28):
All components across the full AI stack, including advanced semiconductor design,
frontier algorithms, and of course, transformational applications. Now, the computing
power this stack requires is integral to advancing AI technology.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
The safeguard America's advantage.
Speaker 9 (20:47):
The Trump administration will ensure that the most powerful AI
systems are built in the US with American designed and
manufactured chips. Now, just because we're the leader doesn't mean
we want to or need to go to alone, of course,
and let me be emphatic about this point. America wants
to partner with all of you, and we want to
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embark on the AI revolution before us with the spirit
of openness and collaboration. But to create that kind of trust,
we need international regulatory regimes that fosters the creation of
AI technology rather than strangles it. And we need our
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European friends in particular to look to this new frontier
with optimism rather than trepidation. Now, the development of cutting
edge AI in the US is no accident. By preserving
an open regulatory environment, we've encouraged American innovators to experiment
and to make unparalleled R and D investments of these
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seven hundred billion dollars, give or take, that's estimated to
be spent on AI in twenty twenty eight, over half
of it will likely be invested in the United States
of America. Now, this hadmitistration will not be the one
to snuff out the startups and the grad students producing
some of the most groundbreaking applications of artificial intelligence.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Instead, our laws.
Speaker 9 (22:11):
Will keep big tech, little tech, and all other developers
on a level playing field. Now, the President's recent executive
order on AI, we're developing an AI action plan that
avoids an overly precautionaire area regulatory regime while ensuring that
all Americans benefit from the technology and its transformative potential.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Now, we invite your countries to.
Speaker 9 (22:34):
Work with US and to follow that model if it
makes sense for your nations. However, the Trump administration is
troubled by reports that some foreign governments are considering tightening
the screws on US tech companies with international footprints.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Now America cannot and will not.
Speaker 9 (22:53):
Accept that, and we think it's a terrible mistake, not
just for the United States of America, but for your
own countries. The US innovators of all sizes already know
what it's like to deal with onerous international rules.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Many of our.
Speaker 9 (23:06):
Most productive tech companies are forced to deal with the
EUS Digital Services Act and the massive regulations it created
about taking down content and policing so called misinformation. And
of course we want to ensure the Internet is a
safe place.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
But it is one thing to prevent.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
A predator from praying on a child on the Internet,
and it is something quite different to prevent a grown
man or woman from accessing an opinion that the government
thinks is misinformation. Meanwhile, for smaller firms, navigating the GDPR
means paying endless legal compliance costs or otherwise risking massive fines.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Now, for some easiest way to avoid the.
Speaker 9 (23:47):
Dilemma has been to simply block EU users in the
first place. Is this really the future that we want, ladies.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
And gentlemen, I think the answer for all of us
should be known.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
That's a far crowd from Kamala Harris, the former Vice president,
on the same subject.
Speaker 10 (24:01):
First part of this issue that should be articulated is
AI is kind of a fancy things for.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Swell's two letters.
Speaker 10 (24:08):
It means artificial intelligence, but ultimately what it is is
it's about machine learning and so the machine is taught,
and part of the issue here is what information is
going into the machine that will then determine and we
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can predict then if we think about what information is
going in, what then will be produced in terms.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Of I'll bet you we've got ten pounds sweet little
ladies of seventy or more that would make a pound
case that.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
You could eat cold and enjoy.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Michael Errshoe.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Over the course of three days last week, a senior
at the University of Massachusetts UMass it's called named Noah Lee,
won ten thousand dollars, then lost ten thousand dollars, and
then something else happened. So what happened was what happened
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was this student, you know, at the at the games,
they'll have you know, if you if you make a layup,
then a free throw, then a three pointer, and then
a halftime shot, you know, you'll win all this money.
So what happens is whoever is hosting that event buys
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an insurance policy that says, if in fact that happens,
you pay for it. So that way they you know,
let's say it's the insurance policy is ten dollars per game.
The insurance company has an actuarial table says, what is
it likelihood a general member of the public would be
able to do all these things under these rules and
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restrictions and difficulties. And then it becomes a financial instrument.
You pay to manage the risk. They assume the risk
in exchange for the money they make by putting your
premium to investment. That's the same thing as life insurance
and everything else. When you buy a life insurance policy,
you're saying, I'm going to pay this betting that I'm
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going to die very soon, and they say we'll take
your payment betting that you're not going to die for
a long time. And then you're both in a pitched
battle for who's going to win. And in this odd setup,
you win by dying quickly, at least in terms of
you get over on the insurance company. Because if you
only pay in a couple hundred dollars in a premium
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and you get a two hundred and fifty thousand dollars payout,
you or at least your family wins. And that's how
this thing works out right. You can think of it
as gambling if you like. So this is the CBS
Boston story where he hits the shot, but the insurance
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company said, well, your foot was.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Kind of on the line. Oh man, how awful do
you have to be? But here's the story.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
That half court shot.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
When I put it out, I knew it kind of
had a chance, never expected to go in.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
The crowd inside the Mullen Center erupted Wednesday when that
half court shot.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Did go in.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Noah Lee a UMAs Ammer Senior from Whalan was as
stunned as everyone else after being randomly picked for a
series shootout for ten grand during the women's.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Halftime and I was told to take one dribble.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
That's when the clock would start.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
I would have to hit a layup, a free throw,
a three pointer, and a half court shot all within
theirty seconds.
Speaker 11 (28:00):
There's no way it's going to go in. And then
it kind of looked good and then it went in.
I just was like struck. People kept coming up to
him as they were like walking up like that was incredible.
That was incredible.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
But Noah's victory lap was cut short by a block
from the promo company. His foot was on the line,
forcing a turnover of the big prize.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
I was getting text from people were like, oh my god,
that's incredible, like congrats, and then now them all texting
me like, oh my gosh, like that sucks.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
I'm really sorry you.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Mass Athletics came back with a consolation prize, a four
person suite for a men's game, court side seats to
cheer the women, food, and a swag bag, but it's
no ten grand, which Noah had planned to put towards
school loans and fun.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Are you going to be practicing your half court shots now?
Speaker 3 (28:51):
In case?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
They're like, okay to.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Case, maybe in case.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
So what happened was a third party company called Odds
On Promotions was hired to put this on. It's the
same thing as hiring somebody to come and sing it
at halftime. So these are part of the entertainment package
of a basketball game, and so the University of Massachusetts,
(29:19):
the host of the event they pay odds On Promotions
and odds On Promotions as part of putting this thing on,
would be responsible for paying and Odds On Promotions.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Then gets an insurance policy.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
Probably doesn't cost very much because the numbers will show
that out of ten thousand times of doing this, nobody's
ever won, so the.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Policy's probably pretty cheap.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
Now, odds on promotion says, So it was up to
them to award the ten thousand dollars, and they said, no,
we're not doing it. After you know, this thing is broadcast.
It went viral, great moment, and then they said no,
we have to check with our insurance company to make
sure they'll pay out on it. So they're blaming the
(30:04):
insurance company. I don't know if that's true or not.
An insurance company they say said, no, we're not paying it.
All right, So University of Massachusetts recognized a very, very
great opportunity, and this is where you've got to be
smart with how you manage your public image. The school said, quote,
(30:27):
after the contest, we informed Noah we would share the
footage with our insurance partner as the next step. After
their review of the four camera angles we provided, they
determined the half court shot was disqualified as it was
not taken behind the half court line. On Friday, the
(30:48):
school's athletic director said, quote, for all those wondering, we're
working on getting ten thousand dollars to Noah. If we
can't get to a good result via the insurance company,
we will pay him directly. You know, if you go
(31:09):
to I've mced I don't do it anymore because it
takes too much time.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Away from my family. But I used to.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
Every year in Baton Rouge. I would m see an
event called the Louisiana Pediatric Cardiology Associates or Cardiology Association.
I would m see their event and there would be
and part of that was that we'd do an auction
and then raise a lot of money for these children
(31:37):
in Baton Rouge with heart problems. And the guy that
got me involved Michael Hudson. His daughter was born with
a hole in her heart, Charlie, and so he had
a heart pun intended for this organization.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
And I grew to as well over the years.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
And one of the things I noticed in doing this
is that there were people there who had a public
image Planets attorneys.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Vaton Rouge has a lot of Plants attorneys.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
And they would they would spend an insane amount of
money on buying a puppy for their wife, or a
trip that they didn't need, or any number of other things.
And you begin to understand that part of the reason
to do that is ego, because there's other Planets attorneys
in the room, and another reason to do that is
(32:24):
people notice your name and they think fondly, Oh, you
know he's given he's buying that auction item. But in
so doing he's actually contributing for children with pediatric heart conditions.
And that's a good thing. With ten thousand dollars at play,
(32:45):
If the University of Massachusetts took a hickey on that
and chose to let the kid get screwed over, the
negative energy directed toward them would be far in excess
of ten thousand dollars. You can find ten thousand dollars somewhere,
and the right thing to do would have been immediately
just set forward and say we're gonna fight with the
insurance company because they're supposed to pay him, and that's the.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Right thing to do. But if they don't, let it
be known.
Speaker 5 (33:11):
That UMass unlike the insurance company, recognizes the spirit of
the game was upheld. He hit the shot, and no
one should have his money. Just do the right thing.
You don't have to make up excuses.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Till the story has a happy gentlemen to help us,
has us little good kill any thank you, and good night,
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