February 15, 2025 • 33 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Michael Arry's show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I can feel a good one coming on.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
It's the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (00:24):
Any attempt to restrict drinking and driving here is viewed
by some as downright undemocratics.
Speaker 6 (00:30):
Two six packs shinnered not a nanci it pu tell.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
That one must 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. And it could be
something that is offensive, or it could be a lack
of empathy. And I think that this is endemic to
the human condition. We're all different. Some of us run faster,
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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 2 (01:51):
Some of us have a facility for language.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Some of us.
Speaker 4 (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.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
His ability to buy Tests, to.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
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. His political calculations for a guy
who had no real political experience. Oh, by the way,
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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 it happens without any steps in between,
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on a level that we've never seen before. And I
say all that to say, now, let's have Elon be
And 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,
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or who did not study constitutional systems political science, and
doesn't 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 2 (04:18):
That's the constitutional crisis at.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
A high level.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
If you say, what is the goal of dose or
And I think a significant part of the presidency is
to restore.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Democracy.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Lets may say it seems like, well, are we in
a democracy, Well, if you don't have a feedback with EPX,
we would have to if you, sorry until you gravitas
can be difficult sometimes. So if there's not a good
feedback loop from the people to the government, and if
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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 they will be decided
by their elected representatives in the form of the President
and the Senate in the House, then we.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Don't live in a democracy. We live in a bureaucracy.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
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 to say that there aren't some good
There are good people who are in the federal bureaucracy.
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But you can't have an autonomous federal bureaucracy. You have
to have one that is responsive to the people. That's
the whole point of a democracy and so and if
if you looked at this, if you look the powders
today and said, what do you think of the way
things have turned out? Or we have this unelected, fourth
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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 does not match the will of people.
So it's just something we've got to we've got to fix.
And they've also going to address the deficit. So we've
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got a futullion 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 is shocking because we've got a lot of we
spend a lot of money on defense, and if that
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just keeps going, we're essentially going to bankrupt the country.
So what I 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 1 (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.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
And not simply be so. I was saying vast amounts
of dad that.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
It's not a very charismatic speaker necessarily. He's also, as
he said, Gravitasi's heart. He's standing next to President Trump
in the White House, in the Oval 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. They
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out of the cold, seemingly 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
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wake up in the morning and I can't wait to
see the news. 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.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Will it be dollars return to the taxpayers?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
What will it be?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Today?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
These are good, good times and it's I'm just glad
to be here to get to enjoy it from.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
A duck king of Ding and this other guy, Michael Barry.
These are the kind of guy you like to smacking ass.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
The thing is that AI has allowed Elon's doge team
to do and it's it's a tool, right, It's an instrument.
They just know how to use it well, is to
go into these clunky computer systems in our government and
with the proper code they send this spider I think
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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 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,
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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 social Security
number being used multiple times. And he's pointing out we
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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.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Spot how many times there are.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
AI is exposing the amount of waste in just one
little piece of all of this.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Folks.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
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 2 (09:59):
This is absolutely insane. Anyway, here he is saying it.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
If money is spent badly, if your tax payer dollars
are not spent in a sensible approval manner, then that's
not okay. Your tax dollars need to be spent wisely,
not the things that matter to the people. I mean
these things like it's just common sense. It's not it's
not Cryconian or or radical. I think it's it's really
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just saying this, look at each of the expenditures and
say is this actually in the best interest of the people,
And if it is, it's proved, but if it's not,
we should think about it. So, you know, there's crazy
things like just crossory examination of social Security.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
And we've got people in there at one hundred and
fifty years old. Now do you know anyone there's one
hundred and fifty.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
I don't, okay, they should be on the Guinness Bok
the world records. They're messing out, so you know that's
the case, where like I think they're probably dead it's
my guess, or they should be very famous, one of
the two. And then that a whole bunch of soci
security payments with is no identified identifying information.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Well why is there no identifying information?
Speaker 1 (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 to receive it quickly and accurately.
Speaker 4 (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 Fogel
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.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
We can each go our separate ways.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
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 it out and get it done. And
now I got potatoes to put with my corn, and
you got corn to put with your potatoes.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
And now we got a deal.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
And everybody's happy, right. No, Ramon, there's no meat in
this analogy. There's no meat in this analogy. Please stay focused.
It's 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. Here is Mark Fogel,
and I want you to hear who he says, the
hero in all this is. This is what we should
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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. We should demand more Trumps.
We should accept nothing less than Trump's. This should be
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our anyway. Here's Mark Fogel, Thank you, Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
I want you to know that I am not a
hero in this at all. And President Trump is a hero.
Speaker 8 (14:13):
These men that came from the diplomatic service are heroes.
The senators and representatives of past legislation in my honor
to get me home are the heroes. I am in
awe of what they all did. My family has been
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a force. I think my ninety five year old mother
is probably the most dynamic ninety five year old on
earth right now. And I am so indebted to so
many people. I think I remember a Churchill quote that
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he said when the RAF was fighting to lift off it.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
He said that never have so many owed so much
to so few.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
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
to my support.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
And the love that I was given.
Speaker 9 (15:35):
Sustained me for three and a half years.
Speaker 8 (15:38):
In prison, that had me in hospitals for more than
one hundred days. 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
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so overwhelming that it brought me to my knees and
it brought me to tears.
Speaker 7 (16:13):
But it was.
Speaker 9 (16:16):
It was my energy, it was my being that kept
me going that whole time.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
And I will forever be indebted President Trump.
Speaker 8 (16:32):
To Steve over there, what a dynamic man as gay is.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
It's morning in America.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Listen to the Michael Berry Show podcast if you dare, But.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
This morning I was talking about.
Speaker 4 (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 and he'll say, well, get me some rose
girl and we'll just chat away. Well, that's not who
he is, and that's not what you married, and frankly,
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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 2 (17:44):
You know, that goes two ways. He's trying, he's.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Trying 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.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
It's one of my favorite lists.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
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
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,
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I'm waiting for the butt. She said, cyh. It truly
was a complete sentence.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Isn't that funny?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
We talked about 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 France. During his speech, he made it
very clear that Trump administration will ensure that America will lead.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
The field in this endeavor Number one, 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 countries and certainly businesses.
Speaker 9 (19:07):
As they expand their own use of AI.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
Number two, we believe that excessive regulation of the AI
sector could kill a transformative industry just.
Speaker 9 (19:18):
As it's taking off, and will make every.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
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, we feel
very strongly that AI must remain free from ideological bias
and that America AI will not be co opted into
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a tool for authoritarian censorship. And finally, number four, the
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.
Speaker 9 (19:54):
And I appreciate Prime Minister Modi's point.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
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 many of
the leaders in the AI industry when they talk about
this fear of replacing workers, I think they really miss
the point. AI we believe is going to make us
more productive, more prosperous, and more free. The United States
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of America is the leader in AI, and our administration plans.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
To keep it that way.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
The US possesses 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 9 (20:44):
The safeguard America's advantage.
Speaker 6 (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 where the leader doesn't mean
we want to or need to go to alone, of course,
and let me be emphatic about this point.
Speaker 9 (21:04):
America wants to partner with all of you, and.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
We want to 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 European friends in particular to look
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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 seven hundred billion dollars, give or take,
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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.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Now, this has fustration.
Speaker 9 (22:00):
Will not be the one to snuff out.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
The startups and the grad students producing some of the
most groundbreaking applications of artificial intelligence.
Speaker 9 (22:09):
Instead, our laws will keep big.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
Tech, little tech, and all other developers.
Speaker 9 (22:16):
On a level playing field.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
Now, the President's recent executive order on AI, we're developing
an AI action plan that avoids an overly precautionary area
regulatory regime while ensuring that all Americans benefit from the
technology and it's transformative potential. Now, we invite your countries
to work with US and to follow that model if
it makes sense for your nations. However, the Trump administration
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is troubled by reports that some foreign governments are considering
tightening the screws on US tech companies with international footprints.
Now America cannot and will not 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
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deal with onerous international rules. Many of our 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.
Speaker 9 (23:17):
And of course we want to ensure the Internet is
a safe place.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
But it is one thing to prevent 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. Now, for some
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easiest way to avoid the dilemma has been to simply
block EU users in the first place. Is this really
the future that we want, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 9 (23:54):
I think the answer for all of us should be known.
Speaker 4 (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 Swell's two letters.
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
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going into the machine that will then determine and we
can predict then if we think about what machine, what
information is going in, what then will be produced in terms.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Of I'll bet you we've got ten thousands sweet little ladies.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Of seventy or more that would make a pound case
that you could eat cold and enjoy.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Michael Veryshue.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Over the course of three days last week, a senior
at the University of Massachusetts UMass.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
It's called.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Named Noah Lee, won ten thousand dollars, then lost ten
thousand dollars, and then something else happened.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
So what happened was what happened was.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
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.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
And then a halftime shot, you know, you win all
this money. So what happens is.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Whoever is hosting that event buys 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
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member of the public would be able to do all
these things under these rules and restrictions and difficulties.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
And then it becomes a financial instrument. You pay to
manage the risk.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
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 going to die very soon, and
they say we'll take your payment betting that you're not
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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 and you get you know,
a two hundred and fifty thousand dollars payout, you or
at least your family wins.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
And that's how this thing works out right. You can
think of it as gambling if you like.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
So this is the CBS Boston story where he hits
the shot, but the insurance company said, well, your foot.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Was 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 7 (27:24):
When I put it out, I knew it kind of
had a chance, never expected to go in.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
The crowd inside the Mullen Center erupted Wednesday when that
half court shot.
Speaker 9 (27:36):
Did go in.
Speaker 11 (27:38):
Noah Lee a UMAs Ammer senior from Whalen was as
stunned as everyone else after being randomly picked for a
series shootout for ten grand during the women's halftime and I.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Was told to take one dribble.
Speaker 9 (27:53):
That's when the clock would start.
Speaker 7 (27:54):
I would have to hit a layup, a free throw,
a three pointer, and a half court shot all within
thirty seconds.
Speaker 12 (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.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
That was incredible.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
But Noah's victory lop was cut short by a block
from the promo company. His foot was on the line,
forcing a turnover of the big prize.
Speaker 7 (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 3 (28:31):
I'm really sorry you.
Speaker 5 (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.
Speaker 11 (28:43):
But it's no ten grand, which Noah had planned to.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
Put towards school loans and fund Are.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
You going to be practicing your half court shots now?
Speaker 3 (28:51):
In case? They're like okay to case, maybe in case. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (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 University of Massachusetts, the
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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 2 (29:30):
Then gets an insurance policy.
Speaker 4 (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 policy's probably pretty cheap now, Odds
On Promotion says, So it was up to them to
award the ten thousand dollars and they said, no, we're
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not doing it.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
After you know, this thing is broadcast, it went.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
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 insurance company.
I don't know if that's true or not. An the
insurance company they say said no, we're not paying it.
All right, So University of Massachusetts recognized a very, very
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great opportunity, and this is where you've got to be
smart with how you manage your public image. The school said,
quote 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,
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they determined the half court shot was disqualified as it
was not taken behind the half court line. On Friday,
the 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,
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we will pay him directly.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
You know if you go to I've mceed.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
I don't do it anymore because it takes too much
time away from my family, But I used to. 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
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part of that was that we do an auction and
then raise a lot of money for these children in
Baton Rouge with heart problems.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
And the guy that got me involved, Michael Hudson.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
His daughter was born with a hole in her heart, Charlie,
and so he had a heart pun intended for this organization.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
And I grew to as well over the years.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
And one of the things I noticed in doing this
is that there were people there who had a public
image Planet's attorneys. Vaton Rouge has a lot of Planets attorneys,
and they would they would spend an insane amount of
money on buying a puppy for their wife, or a
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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
people notice your name and they think fondly, oh, you
know he's given he's buying that auction item. But in
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so doing he's actually contributing for children with pediatric heart conditions.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
And that's a good thing.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
With ten thousand dollars at play, 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
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they're supposed to pay.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Him, and that's the right thing to do.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
But if they don't, let it be known that UMass
unlike the insurance company, recognizes the spirit of the game
was upheld.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
He hit the shot, and no one should have his money.
Just do the right thing.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
You don't have to make up excuses until the story
has a happy end.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
The gentlemen held us has us, Let good kill me,
thank you, and good night.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Michael Arry's show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I can feel a good one coming on.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
It's the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (00:24):
Any attempt to restrict drinking and driving here is viewed
by some as downright undemocratics.
Speaker 6 (00:30):
Two six packs shinnered not a nanci it pu tell.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
That one must 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. And it could be
something that is offensive, or it could be a lack
of empathy. And I think that this is endemic to
the human condition. We're all different. Some of us run faster,
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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 2 (01:51):
Some of us have a facility for language.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Some of us.
Speaker 4 (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.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
His ability to buy Tests, to.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
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. His political calculations for a guy
who had no real political experience. Oh, by the way,
(03:10):
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 it happens without any steps in between,
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on a level that we've never seen before. And I
say all that to say, now, let's have Elon be
And 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,
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or who did not study constitutional systems political science, and
doesn't 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 2 (04:18):
That's the constitutional crisis at.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
A high level.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
If you say, what is the goal of dose or
And I think a significant part of the presidency is
to restore.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Democracy.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Lets may say it seems like, well, are we in
a democracy, Well, if you don't have a feedback with EPX,
we would have to if you, sorry until you gravitas
can be difficult sometimes. So if there's not a good
feedback loop from the people to the government, and if
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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 they will be decided
by their elected representatives in the form of the President
and the Senate in the House, then we.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Don't live in a democracy. We live in a bureaucracy.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
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 to say that there aren't some good
There are good people who are in the federal bureaucracy.
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But you can't have an autonomous federal bureaucracy. You have
to have one that is responsive to the people. That's
the whole point of a democracy and so and if
if you looked at this, if you look the powders
today and said, what do you think of the way
things have turned out? Or we have this unelected, fourth
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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 does not match the will of people.
So it's just something we've got to we've got to fix.
And they've also going to address the deficit. So we've
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got a futullion 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 is shocking because we've got a lot of we
spend a lot of money on defense, and if that
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just keeps going, we're essentially going to bankrupt the country.
So what I 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 1 (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.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
And not simply be so. I was saying vast amounts
of dad that.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
It's not a very charismatic speaker necessarily. He's also, as
he said, Gravitasi's heart. He's standing next to President Trump
in the White House, in the Oval 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. They
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out of the cold, seemingly 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
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wake up in the morning and I can't wait to
see the news. 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.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Will it be dollars return to the taxpayers?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
What will it be?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Today?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
These are good, good times and it's I'm just glad
to be here to get to enjoy it from.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
A duck king of Ding and this other guy, Michael Barry.
These are the kind of guy you like to smacking ass.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
The thing is that AI has allowed Elon's doge team
to do and it's it's a tool, right, It's an instrument.
They just know how to use it well, is to
go into these clunky computer systems in our government and
with the proper code they send this spider I think
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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 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,
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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 social Security
number being used multiple times. And he's pointing out we
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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.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Spot how many times there are.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
AI is exposing the amount of waste in just one
little piece of all of this.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Folks.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
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 2 (09:59):
This is absolutely insane. Anyway, here he is saying it.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
If money is spent badly, if your tax payer dollars
are not spent in a sensible approval manner, then that's
not okay. Your tax dollars need to be spent wisely,
not the things that matter to the people. I mean
these things like it's just common sense. It's not it's
not Cryconian or or radical. I think it's it's really
(10:24):
just saying this, look at each of the expenditures and
say is this actually in the best interest of the people,
And if it is, it's proved, but if it's not,
we should think about it. So, you know, there's crazy
things like just crossory examination of social Security.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
And we've got people in there at one hundred and
fifty years old. Now do you know anyone there's one
hundred and fifty.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
I don't, okay, they should be on the Guinness Bok
the world records. They're messing out, so you know that's
the case, where like I think they're probably dead it's
my guess, or they should be very famous, one of
the two. And then that a whole bunch of soci
security payments with is no identified identifying information.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Well why is there no identifying information?
Speaker 1 (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 to receive it quickly and accurately.
Speaker 4 (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 Fogel
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.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
We can each go our separate ways.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
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 it out and get it done. And
now I got potatoes to put with my corn, and
you got corn to put with your potatoes.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
And now we got a deal.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
And everybody's happy, right. No, Ramon, there's no meat in
this analogy. There's no meat in this analogy. Please stay focused.
It's 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. Here is Mark Fogel,
and I want you to hear who he says, the
hero in all this is. This is what we should
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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. We should demand more Trumps.
We should accept nothing less than Trump's. This should be
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our anyway. Here's Mark Fogel, Thank you, Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
I want you to know that I am not a
hero in this at all. And President Trump is a hero.
Speaker 8 (14:13):
These men that came from the diplomatic service are heroes.
The senators and representatives of past legislation in my honor
to get me home are the heroes. I am in
awe of what they all did. My family has been
(14:39):
a force. I think my ninety five year old mother
is probably the most dynamic ninety five year old on
earth right now. And I am so indebted to so
many people. I think I remember a Churchill quote that
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he said when the RAF was fighting to lift off it.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
He said that never have so many owed so much
to so few.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
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
to my support.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
And the love that I was given.
Speaker 9 (15:35):
Sustained me for three and a half years.
Speaker 8 (15:38):
In prison, that had me in hospitals for more than
one hundred days. 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
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so overwhelming that it brought me to my knees and
it brought me to tears.
Speaker 7 (16:13):
But it was.
Speaker 9 (16:16):
It was my energy, it was my being that kept
me going that whole time.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
And I will forever be indebted President Trump.
Speaker 8 (16:32):
To Steve over there, what a dynamic man as gay is.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
It's morning in America.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Listen to the Michael Berry Show podcast if you dare, But.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
This morning I was talking about.
Speaker 4 (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 and he'll say, well, get me some rose
girl and we'll just chat away. Well, that's not who
he is, and that's not what you married, and frankly,
(17:31):
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 2 (17:44):
You know, that goes two ways. He's trying, he's.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Trying 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.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
It's one of my favorite lists.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
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
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,
(18:22):
I'm waiting for the butt. She said, cyh. It truly
was a complete sentence.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Isn't that funny?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
We talked about 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 France. During his speech, he made it
very clear that Trump administration will ensure that America will lead.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
The field in this endeavor Number one, 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 countries and certainly businesses.
Speaker 9 (19:07):
As they expand their own use of AI.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
Number two, we believe that excessive regulation of the AI
sector could kill a transformative industry just.
Speaker 9 (19:18):
As it's taking off, and will make every.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
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, we feel
very strongly that AI must remain free from ideological bias
and that America AI will not be co opted into
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a tool for authoritarian censorship. And finally, number four, the
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.
Speaker 9 (19:54):
And I appreciate Prime Minister Modi's point.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
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 many of
the leaders in the AI industry when they talk about
this fear of replacing workers, I think they really miss
the point. AI we believe is going to make us
more productive, more prosperous, and more free. The United States
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of America is the leader in AI, and our administration plans.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
To keep it that way.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
The US possesses 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 9 (20:44):
The safeguard America's advantage.
Speaker 6 (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 where the leader doesn't mean
we want to or need to go to alone, of course,
and let me be emphatic about this point.
Speaker 9 (21:04):
America wants to partner with all of you, and.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
We want to 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 European friends in particular to look
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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 seven hundred billion dollars, give or take,
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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.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Now, this has fustration.
Speaker 9 (22:00):
Will not be the one to snuff out.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
The startups and the grad students producing some of the
most groundbreaking applications of artificial intelligence.
Speaker 9 (22:09):
Instead, our laws will keep big.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
Tech, little tech, and all other developers.
Speaker 9 (22:16):
On a level playing field.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
Now, the President's recent executive order on AI, we're developing
an AI action plan that avoids an overly precautionary area
regulatory regime while ensuring that all Americans benefit from the
technology and it's transformative potential. Now, we invite your countries
to work with US and to follow that model if
it makes sense for your nations. However, the Trump administration
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is troubled by reports that some foreign governments are considering
tightening the screws on US tech companies with international footprints.
Now America cannot and will not 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
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deal with onerous international rules. Many of our 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.
Speaker 9 (23:17):
And of course we want to ensure the Internet is
a safe place.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
But it is one thing to prevent 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. Now, for some
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easiest way to avoid the dilemma has been to simply
block EU users in the first place. Is this really
the future that we want, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 9 (23:54):
I think the answer for all of us should be known.
Speaker 4 (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 Swell's two letters.
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
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going into the machine that will then determine and we
can predict then if we think about what machine, what
information is going in, what then will be produced in terms.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Of I'll bet you we've got ten thousands sweet little ladies.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Of seventy or more that would make a pound case
that you could eat cold and enjoy.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Michael Veryshue.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Over the course of three days last week, a senior
at the University of Massachusetts UMass.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
It's called.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Named Noah Lee, won ten thousand dollars, then lost ten
thousand dollars, and then something else happened.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
So what happened was what happened was.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
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.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
And then a halftime shot, you know, you win all
this money. So what happens is.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Whoever is hosting that event buys 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
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member of the public would be able to do all
these things under these rules and restrictions and difficulties.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
And then it becomes a financial instrument. You pay to
manage the risk.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
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 going to die very soon, and
they say we'll take your payment betting that you're not
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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 and you get you know,
a two hundred and fifty thousand dollars payout, you or
at least your family wins.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
And that's how this thing works out right. You can
think of it as gambling if you like.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
So this is the CBS Boston story where he hits
the shot, but the insurance company said, well, your foot.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Was 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 7 (27:24):
When I put it out, I knew it kind of
had a chance, never expected to go in.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
The crowd inside the Mullen Center erupted Wednesday when that
half court shot.
Speaker 9 (27:36):
Did go in.
Speaker 11 (27:38):
Noah Lee a UMAs Ammer senior from Whalen was as
stunned as everyone else after being randomly picked for a
series shootout for ten grand during the women's halftime and I.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Was told to take one dribble.
Speaker 9 (27:53):
That's when the clock would start.
Speaker 7 (27:54):
I would have to hit a layup, a free throw,
a three pointer, and a half court shot all within
thirty seconds.
Speaker 12 (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.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
That was incredible.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
But Noah's victory lop was cut short by a block
from the promo company. His foot was on the line,
forcing a turnover of the big prize.
Speaker 7 (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 3 (28:31):
I'm really sorry you.
Speaker 5 (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.
Speaker 11 (28:43):
But it's no ten grand, which Noah had planned to.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
Put towards school loans and fund Are.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
You going to be practicing your half court shots now?
Speaker 3 (28:51):
In case? They're like okay to case, maybe in case. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (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 University of Massachusetts, the
(29:19):
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 2 (29:30):
Then gets an insurance policy.
Speaker 4 (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 policy's probably pretty cheap now, Odds
On Promotion says, So it was up to them to
award the ten thousand dollars and they said, no, we're
(29:51):
not doing it.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
After you know, this thing is broadcast, it went.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
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 insurance company.
I don't know if that's true or not. An the
insurance company they say said no, we're not paying it.
All right, So University of Massachusetts recognized a very, very
(30:18):
great opportunity, and this is where you've got to be
smart with how you manage your public image. The school said,
quote 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,
(30:38):
they determined the half court shot was disqualified as it
was not taken behind the half court line. On Friday,
the 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,
(31:02):
we will pay him directly.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
You know if you go to I've mceed.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
I don't do it anymore because it takes too much
time away from my family, But I used to. 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
(31:33):
part of that was that we do an auction and
then raise a lot of money for these children in
Baton Rouge with heart problems.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
And the guy that got me involved, Michael Hudson.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
His daughter was born with a hole in her heart, Charlie,
and so he had a heart pun intended for this organization.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
And I grew to as well over the years.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
And one of the things I noticed in doing this
is that there were people there who had a public
image Planet's attorneys. Vaton Rouge has a lot of Planets attorneys,
and they would they would spend an insane amount of
money on buying a puppy for their wife, or a
(32:11):
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
people notice your name and they think fondly, oh, you
know he's given he's buying that auction item. But in
(32:32):
so doing he's actually contributing for children with pediatric heart conditions.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
And that's a good thing.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
With ten thousand dollars at play, 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
(33:05):
they're supposed to pay.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Him, and that's the right thing to do.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
But if they don't, let it be known that UMass
unlike the insurance company, recognizes the spirit of the game
was upheld.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
He hit the shot, and no one should have his money.
Just do the right thing.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
You don't have to make up excuses until the story
has a happy end.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
The gentlemen held us has us, Let good kill me,
thank you, and good night.
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