Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that shape our world.

I'm Lurie Daniel Favors, author, activist, attorney, and the host of the Lurie Daniel Favors show on Sirius XM's Urban View, Channel 126. If you like what you're about to hear, go ahead and give us five stars and then tell everybody that you know. And if you don't like it, just, child, keep it to yourself and pray our strength. Okay, thank you so much. Also, don't forget to check out my YouTube page, Lurie Daniel Favor's Media, where you should subscribe, like, and share because then you'll get notified when I post videos from my show, which I do just about every single day and when I go live with my YouTube audience. So I have this medical procedure coming up. It's fine. It's nothing major. It's more of a

preventative thing just because when you reach a certain age, you got to do preventative things.

And I was telling my team that I had not even thought about this medical procedure in the months

that it's been since I initially scheduled it, mainly because, one, I don't often have medical

procedures, thank God. knock on wood and pray for

health. But two, I just, I made the appointment at my last visit and I sort of set it and forget it. And, or I guess I should say I sat it and forgot it past tense, but whatever, it doesn't matter. The point is, I set this appointment in my calendar and I moved on with my life. And then over the end of last week, I noticed that I had two voicemails.

And I noticed the two voicemails because I'm one of those people whose phone is always on silent. And frankly, if you call me, it might be a couple days before I even realized that you called me. Sorry, it's just how I operate. But I realized that I'd gotten these two voicemails and they seemed legitimate because, you know, you know you have that thing on your app on

your phone where technically you have a voicemail but depending on which version of the app you're

using it might also provide you a text interpretation of what was said in the voicemail to the best

of series ability i guess whatever whatever device you're using and from the text message that was

generated from the voicemail i could see okay this is a legitimate voicemail. I should pay attention to these messages. And I'm listening to the messages, because even though I had the text interpretation of it, sometimes I find that that's not the most reliable version of the message. I'm listening to the message. And because the phone's in my ear, I can't also follow along with the text. And I'm realizing that I'm starting to get nervous.

As I'm listening to the message, it sounds very automated.

And it's like, this is so-and-so from the so-and-so-and-so-insurance company.

And we are calling about your procedures scheduled for a blah, blah, blah, date.

And then it felt like almost an AI voice, although I have no way of knowing if it was an AI voice or not. I mean, it was voicemail. It sounded somewhat robotic, but I mean, you know, whatever. But the AI voice disorder joining on and on and on and finally you get to the substantive part of the voicemail. And I'm realizing that my heart rate is starting to beat a little faster. Because as they're talking about it, I'm realizing that this is an insurance company call about this procedure that frankly I had forgotten about, even though it is on my calendar and I had made provisions to make sure that I can get there and keep my appointment.

But as they're talking, I'm realizing that I am about to be told a decision that was being made on my behalf, a decision as to whether or not I was going to actually have

this procedure covered by my insurance company. Now, I got good insurance. Despite the fact that I have

a lot of trolls on my YouTube page who seem to think the only thing I do is sit behind a microphone,

I have like an actual whole ass job, like a real job. And I have good insurance, insurance

that frankly I am very happy to have and frankly would be willing to stay at said job because we need the insurance.

It's that good.

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