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Ryan Patrick

Ryan Patrick

Former United States Attorney for the Southern District of Texas

Oct 9, 2026

45:48
Tell me a little bit about him and a little bit about the podcast and how it came about.
45:52
Well, so this all comes back to radio.
45:55
So back in 1998, I believe it was, when I was doing Mornings with Pat Benton, we would get these little catalogs for potential guests to come on the show.
46:07
And I was thumbing through.
46:08
It's usually people who would write a book or something like that, and they just want to come on and talk about their book.
46:12
Well, I was thumbing through, and I saw a MASH cookbook that was written by this guy, Jeff Maxwell, who played Private Igor Straminsky on MASH.
46:20
And I was like, oh, wow.

20 MINS LATER

65:51
picture of of of him with uh alec burleson alec burleson wow
25:14
Yeah.
25:14
Okay.
25:15
That's an extreme example.
25:16
But where it really adds up over time is $1 million here or was it $50,000 here? Yeah.
25:20
Okay.
25:23
And those are done at whatever rate that doctor wants to put down.
25:28
And the doctor has a thing called typically a letter of protection, which is the doctor will not get paid until the case is resolved.

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32:56
it raises everybody's
6:33
What progress? How bad was it? How bad is it? What progress? What needs to be done?
6:39
Grover, thank you.
6:40
I'm the CEO of Texans for Lawsuit Reform, and we are the largest group like us in the country focused on one state, and it's just on Texas.
6:48
And what Lauren said is right.
6:50
Our biggest issue, what we're seeing now in Texas, is the medical billing fraud.
6:55
It's the exact same thing.
6:56
We had a bill.
9:57
Is this getting worse? Better? Are people getting exposed?

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