1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,120 Speaker 1: Trean Harris is our guest. He is the developer of 2 00:00:02,200 --> 00:00:07,480 Speaker 1: Colony Ridge. One of the great shortcomings of live radio, 3 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:11,160 Speaker 1: especially we've been at this for two hours, is that 4 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: we don't fact check people in real time. That's for 5 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:16,799 Speaker 1: you to do on your own credibility and all those things. 6 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:20,200 Speaker 1: My credibility, as well as every guest, is up to 7 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:22,800 Speaker 1: the audience. I don't tell you how to think. That's 8 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:25,440 Speaker 1: not my job. Many of you are upset that I 9 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:31,040 Speaker 1: have done an insufficient job of assaulting the guest. That's 10 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:34,000 Speaker 1: an insult to your intelligence. You can figure, you can 11 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:36,279 Speaker 1: come to your own conclusion. And that's the way I 12 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:38,600 Speaker 1: look at this particular thing when I do an interview. 13 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:42,080 Speaker 1: Otherwise I would give my opinion trait you had said earlier. 14 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:47,199 Speaker 1: And I found it surprising that Cleveland ISD was sixty 15 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:53,040 Speaker 1: percent Hispanic before y'all started this. Somebody sent me the 16 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 1: TAPS demographic update, and in two thousand and twelve it 17 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:02,200 Speaker 1: was forty four percent. Does that surprise you? 18 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:05,560 Speaker 2: It's so good, It does surprise me. That's not what 19 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 2: I was. That's not the demographic that I was, that 20 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:13,200 Speaker 2: I understood, And so that may be true, and maybe 21 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:16,119 Speaker 2: the demographic information that I was that I received was wrong, 22 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 2: but that's not in line with what I was told Trey. 23 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 1: One of the things, and what I've tried to do 24 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:24,280 Speaker 1: is bundle questions into categories. One of the things that 25 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 1: has come up a lot, and you have you have 26 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 1: viewed this as an opportunity to put things to rest. 27 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 1: One of the things that has come up a lot 28 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 1: is this sort of insider dealing that people are looking 29 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:37,199 Speaker 1: the other way. We talked earlier about the sheriff Bobby 30 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 1: Raider and his thoughts and and why a sheriff would 31 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:42,320 Speaker 1: say the crime is bad because they want to get 32 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 1: more a higher budget to hire more more deputies, so 33 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 1: they have a conflict of interest or an incentive you whatever, 34 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 1: somebody might think. One of the things that has come 35 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 1: up a lot from people who are involved in different 36 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 1: areas is the involvement of Louis Bergman, the county engineer 37 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:03,560 Speaker 1: who has has approved this, an accounty engineer who provided 38 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 1: an affidavit in your lawsuit and basically made this seem 39 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 1: like the greatest development ever. I mean, this is a 40 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:13,520 Speaker 1: bringing endorsement that that he does. And the point has 41 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:17,080 Speaker 1: been made that he also owns a surveying company, he 42 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 1: and members of his family, and that they're doing the 43 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 1: surveying out there, so that he has a conflict of interest. 44 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:24,080 Speaker 1: What would you say to that? 45 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:30,640 Speaker 2: Well, so, Lewis Bergman is a really his daughter is 46 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:34,079 Speaker 2: the DA and his son in law is the constable 47 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:40,520 Speaker 2: over the area of mild developments. Great family, great people. 48 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:44,640 Speaker 2: Lewis is a really good guy. When the county was 49 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:49,239 Speaker 2: trying to get him to illegally deny my plats, he 50 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 2: was like, hey, man, he's doing everything right. All of 51 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 2: his plats are, he's abiden by the law. I can't 52 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 2: I can't illegally deny his plat. I mean, the county 53 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 2: was hostile with him for not illegally denying my plats. 54 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 2: And he didn't like what I was doing. But he said, look, 55 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:11,639 Speaker 2: trace falling all the laws. He's doing everything by the book. 56 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:15,520 Speaker 2: I can't. I can't deny his plats for when he 57 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:20,680 Speaker 2: complies with all of our county and state and state 58 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:25,480 Speaker 2: and county regulations, I can't deny that. And so the 59 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:29,520 Speaker 2: county was actually it was almost comical, but the county 60 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:32,120 Speaker 2: was upset with him for not his unwillingness to break 61 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 2: the law to deny our platz and so yeah, no, 62 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:39,800 Speaker 2: I think Lewis is a wonderful guy. Like I said, 63 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 2: his daughter's the DA, his son in law is the Constable. 64 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 2: Great family, great people, have nothing but good things to 65 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 2: say about them. 66 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 1: But you could see where people if you had a 67 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 1: suspicion that Trey Harris is coming in and running a 68 00:03:54,400 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 1: questionable business for questionable customers, using questionable financing, you could 69 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 1: see where somebody would add to the suspicion that, and 70 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 1: his daughter is the DA who may choose not to prosecute, 71 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 1: and his son in law, her husband is the Constable. 72 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 1: And this guy Bergmann is doing surveying and he's a 73 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:17,800 Speaker 1: county engineer. You could see where to an outsider or 74 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 1: a person who's concerned about what you're doing, you could 75 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 1: see a reasonable suspicion there. 76 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:27,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, But the truth is he did absolutely he does 77 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:32,039 Speaker 2: have a very reputable surveying company an engineering company. But 78 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 2: I never used his surveying company or his engineering company 79 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 2: for any of the work in my neighborhood. So the 80 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:41,160 Speaker 2: idea that he's doing all the survey and that's a 81 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:45,039 Speaker 2: conflict of interest, that would in fact be absolutely a 82 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 2: conflict of interest. But the truth is he wouldn't do 83 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:51,440 Speaker 2: my work, and I wouldn't hire him to do my 84 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:53,279 Speaker 2: work because of that conflict. 85 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 1: You have hired Chuck Rice and Natalie Scott to lobby 86 00:04:57,640 --> 00:05:00,320 Speaker 1: for you and the state legislature and state go government. 87 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:04,240 Speaker 1: What are the issues prior to this special session? What 88 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 1: are the issues, What are the bills that you look at, 89 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 1: What are the TCEEQ or administrative oversight? What are the 90 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:12,679 Speaker 1: things they represent you on with the state. 91 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 2: I don't think there's anything specific that we just we 92 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:23,280 Speaker 2: employed them to basically keep us abreast of any upcoming 93 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:27,839 Speaker 2: legislation that may impact our business or be effect because 94 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:30,800 Speaker 2: you know, we're a developer, we're a lender. There's a 95 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 2: lot of regulation through the state that impacts my business 96 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 2: in a number of different ways and alters the way 97 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:42,159 Speaker 2: we do business. And so we just need need people 98 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:44,039 Speaker 2: at the state level to say, hey, Trey, this is 99 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 2: coming down the pie, you know something, just to keep 100 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:48,240 Speaker 2: us abreast of what's going on. 101 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:51,280 Speaker 1: Well, obviously y'all have been added to the call of 102 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 1: the special session. I've never seen anything done like this. 103 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 1: Governor Abbott, who you've given almost a million and a 104 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:01,200 Speaker 1: half in campaign contributions, did this almost in response to 105 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:04,839 Speaker 1: tamp down this this growing, you know, pr nightmare, he felt. 106 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:08,480 Speaker 1: What do you expect to come out of that special session? 107 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:10,799 Speaker 1: Have you been invited to come and address the session? 108 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 2: Have you been well? I've been asked, No, I've been 109 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:19,320 Speaker 2: asked by some of the state lawmakers to if I 110 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:21,680 Speaker 2: would be willing to come and answer questions, and I 111 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:24,039 Speaker 2: said absolutely, I'd be more than happy to come. Just 112 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:27,000 Speaker 2: let me know when and where, and I'll be there. 113 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:31,599 Speaker 2: And so I have not heard dates and times, but 114 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:35,279 Speaker 2: I'm sure they're coming either daring session or after session 115 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 2: that I'll be. I'll have the opportunity to get in 116 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:42,559 Speaker 2: from the state and answer questions for those guys. 117 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 1: Have you heard what the call on Colony Ridge addresses? 118 00:06:48,279 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 1: Is this simply an investigation? My understanding is that it 119 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:56,240 Speaker 1: ends up in Bettencourt's committee. I forget what committee he chairs, 120 00:06:56,560 --> 00:06:59,200 Speaker 1: but my understanding is that it ends up in his committee. 121 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 1: I have not spoken to him about what that charge 122 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:05,000 Speaker 1: would look like. But it's your expectation that this is 123 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:05,920 Speaker 1: an ongoing thing. 124 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I think so. I have not been I've 125 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:20,560 Speaker 2: not been privileged to know when or when exactly they're 126 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:23,600 Speaker 2: going to want to have asked questions for me. Like 127 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 2: I said, we did invite all the state legislatures, the 128 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 2: congressman and the senators for Texas out to the neighborhood 129 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 2: and we took them on a tour. We had probably 130 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 2: twenty representatives show up twenty twenty five somewhere in that 131 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 2: neighborhood back to showed up and went on tour with us, 132 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:44,280 Speaker 2: and we drove them to the community and showed them 133 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 2: what was going on and what we do and want 134 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:49,000 Speaker 2: to do it, and why it's good for Texas and 135 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:50,880 Speaker 2: if you will hold me, it's a good deal. 136 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 1: If you will hold of me, it will be the 137 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:52,880 Speaker 1: last one. 138 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:53,560 Speaker 3: Remember me. 139 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 1: Remember Scott. 140 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:56,840 Speaker 4: Mount of. 141 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:04,400 Speaker 1: Trey Harris is our guest. He is the developer of 142 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 1: Colony Ridge in Liberty County, Trey. What have I not 143 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:14,920 Speaker 1: asked you? That is a misperception, pushes a hot button, 144 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 1: annoys you. Is unfair that you would like to address. 145 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 2: Oh man, that's a tough one. I've been getting beat 146 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 2: up my whole life, so a lot of what some 147 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:32,920 Speaker 2: people would view as an encumbrance to me, it's just 148 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:36,120 Speaker 2: a challenge. You know, It's a life, is what it is. 149 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 2: And you get curveballs on a regular I get curve 150 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:41,320 Speaker 2: balls on a regular basis, and so I just learned 151 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:42,439 Speaker 2: to learn to get the caveball. 152 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:45,920 Speaker 1: So we started the conversation about whether the people who 153 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:49,640 Speaker 1: purchased these home sites from you are illegal, whether y'all 154 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:52,960 Speaker 1: check that, what forms of identification you have, those sorts 155 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 1: of things, and I think there's a great frustration because 156 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 1: people feel like they're constantly needing to prove that their citizens. 157 00:08:57,280 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 1: And if you've been to a real estate closing, there's 158 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:02,559 Speaker 1: all this background that's done on the buyer. But as 159 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 1: you noted, and you are correct in this, most of 160 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:07,360 Speaker 1: the hassle of a real estate closing is not the 161 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:10,160 Speaker 1: government per se. It's the bank, and before they will 162 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:12,560 Speaker 1: loan to you, they're the ones asking you all that question, 163 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:15,480 Speaker 1: and in this case, your owner financing, so you only 164 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:19,199 Speaker 1: need to ask or have to ask what you want 165 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 1: to ask. But we started talking about illegal aliens, and 166 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 1: I don't know what that percentage, just you don't know 167 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:26,640 Speaker 1: what that percentage is. But the perception is it's a 168 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:30,599 Speaker 1: lot of illegal aliens. Whether that's illegal, immoral, problematic, annoying, 169 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:35,920 Speaker 1: whatever that reason may may be. But it doesn't seem 170 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:37,640 Speaker 1: that that's a big issue for you, for better or 171 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:40,880 Speaker 1: for worse. But it seems to me that with our 172 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:44,599 Speaker 1: border wide open as it is, if that continues, and 173 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:48,520 Speaker 1: it appears to that we're going to see a massive exploit. 174 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:50,600 Speaker 1: You are the most explosive growth in the country right 175 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:53,440 Speaker 1: now as a development, because when people get here, they're 176 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 1: trying to find a place, whether they're hiding or whether 177 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 1: they just want respite. They do have jobs, they do 178 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 1: have money, they do have backers, and these things are 179 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:08,079 Speaker 1: going to explode. Do you have intentions beyond colony Ridge? 180 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:13,120 Speaker 2: You know? For me, I think, like I mentioned before, 181 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:17,640 Speaker 2: almost all of our customers ninety plus percent have a 182 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:22,160 Speaker 2: Harris County address. So to me, I don't think that 183 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:24,480 Speaker 2: the people that are rushing across the border right now 184 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:29,560 Speaker 2: are really my clientele. I think my clientele is for 185 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 2: the most part, families that have been in Texas for 186 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:39,560 Speaker 2: several generations or at least for a substantial amount of 187 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 2: time that they their legal status is such that it's 188 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:47,760 Speaker 2: most of our customers are citizens, I would say, and 189 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:50,640 Speaker 2: I said, and I would say that a large percentage 190 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:52,839 Speaker 2: of our customers are not citizens, at least have their 191 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:58,040 Speaker 2: paperwork in order that their status here is legal. Are 192 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:01,520 Speaker 2: there any illegal aliens in my neighborhood? I would say 193 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:04,480 Speaker 2: for sure, I would guess that, yeah, there are. But 194 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:08,160 Speaker 2: I would also come back with that just about any 195 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:11,160 Speaker 2: neighborhood in the hous scenario you go to, there's going 196 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:14,880 Speaker 2: to be someone there that's not that their status is 197 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 2: not legal in the US. And so am I any 198 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 2: different than the other neighborhood? 199 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:20,480 Speaker 5: Yeah? 200 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:24,800 Speaker 2: Do I have a higher percentage of Latinos than the woodlands? Probably? 201 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:30,719 Speaker 2: And so do I have a higher percentage of illegals 202 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:34,000 Speaker 2: that I mean, sorry, of Latinos that may or may 203 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:39,280 Speaker 2: not be legal. Probably, but it's significant. I would say, probably, 204 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:43,080 Speaker 2: not much different than any other neighborhood in the U scenario. 205 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:47,720 Speaker 1: Are you surprised there is so much criticism? When you 206 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:51,400 Speaker 1: started this project, you saw whether someone loves you or 207 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:54,200 Speaker 1: hates you, and I only hear from people who hate you, 208 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 1: and there are a lot of I'm assuming you know 209 00:11:56,960 --> 00:12:02,600 Speaker 1: that this is clearly a very, very profitable business model. 210 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:04,959 Speaker 1: I was told you'll do about five hundred million in 211 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:09,360 Speaker 1: land sales annually at twelve percent interests. That's thrown off 212 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:12,160 Speaker 1: sixty million a year, and you've got some sunk costs. 213 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:14,840 Speaker 1: You didn't pay five hundred million for it, but it's 214 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:18,360 Speaker 1: a highly profitable business and there are plenty of people 215 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:21,400 Speaker 1: who are looking for a way to see I don't 216 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:23,680 Speaker 1: know what you're getting on your money, but it's pretty good. 217 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:27,360 Speaker 1: And my guest is it's probably upwards of thirty percent 218 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:29,360 Speaker 1: or more. But not a lot of models out there 219 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:31,640 Speaker 1: doing this. This is a growth model, whether people like 220 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:33,760 Speaker 1: it or not. There are people coming here who are 221 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 1: frozen out of the traditional finance process, who may be 222 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:38,920 Speaker 1: here legally or first generation, or they may be legal, 223 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:41,240 Speaker 1: who are going to be looking for housing. This is 224 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:44,440 Speaker 1: going to continue, and it's going to continue unabated, and 225 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:46,280 Speaker 1: I think if people see your numbers, they're going to 226 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:47,880 Speaker 1: throw money at you. There's going to be a lot 227 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:50,199 Speaker 1: more of this, agreed. I thought you might have more 228 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:51,400 Speaker 1: to say there Tree. 229 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:57,880 Speaker 2: Oh so no, I think there's Texas is one of 230 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:01,360 Speaker 2: the best has one of the best economies in the world. 231 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:05,560 Speaker 2: So the idea that people are coming to Texas is 232 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:10,120 Speaker 2: a reality for their own benefit because of the climate 233 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:15,680 Speaker 2: and the lack of restrictions and the ability to perform 234 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:23,320 Speaker 2: business and to have business that is less restricted than 235 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:26,319 Speaker 2: a lot of the other States and certainly less restricted 236 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:28,640 Speaker 2: than a lot of the other countries in the world. 237 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 2: We live in uh, Texas is a great place to 238 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:34,959 Speaker 2: do business, it's a great place to live. The laws 239 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:37,520 Speaker 2: in Texas are some of the best in the world 240 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:41,880 Speaker 2: in my opinion, and so the fact that people are 241 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:45,520 Speaker 2: rushing to Texas to try to better their lives is 242 00:13:45,559 --> 00:13:47,800 Speaker 2: not a surprise and shouldn't be a surprise to anybody. 243 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:51,079 Speaker 1: Trey Harris with Colony Ridge is our guests. One of 244 00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:53,240 Speaker 1: the things that people come in and which doesn't make 245 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:57,320 Speaker 1: this illegal necessarily, just a little atypical, was that there 246 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 1: aren't there isn't any retail within the development of restaurants, 247 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:03,520 Speaker 1: no strip centers, none of that. That food trucks come 248 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:06,080 Speaker 1: in at night and it's a fiesta, there's a party, 249 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 1: there's music, and then the food trucks head on out. 250 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:14,720 Speaker 1: But my understanding is you have an intention of developing retail. 251 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:18,440 Speaker 1: Maybe maybe it's platted already. Is that true? Is that yours? 252 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:21,480 Speaker 1: Or do you sell that off to How does that work? 253 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:22,800 Speaker 1: Is that is that the case? 254 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:26,440 Speaker 2: No, so not at all. I mean we have been 255 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:33,359 Speaker 2: courting retailers since day one. Our model is so unique. 256 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:36,400 Speaker 2: We're a unicorn, and so there's a lot of you 257 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 2: go to ATV and say hey, we want you to 258 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:40,840 Speaker 2: come out here and build a grocery store. They go, 259 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:43,560 Speaker 2: you know, how many people you have out there? And 260 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 2: then they drive around and look, and it's just it's 261 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:52,760 Speaker 2: so unique and our growth rate is so unprecedented that 262 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:56,400 Speaker 2: retailers they look at what's going on out there and 263 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:58,560 Speaker 2: they just can't be These don't believe it. They think 264 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:00,560 Speaker 2: when you say, hey, we've got a hundred two hundred 265 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:03,560 Speaker 2: families a month moving in and you tell them that, 266 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:05,880 Speaker 2: they just shake their head and they think you're they 267 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:08,600 Speaker 2: think you're lying, uh, that you don't get it. 268 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:09,280 Speaker 3: Uh. 269 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:11,520 Speaker 2: And they could go to the county and pull how 270 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:14,320 Speaker 2: many people apply for building permis this month and it 271 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 2: would be two hundred, but they don't. Our growth is 272 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:22,480 Speaker 2: so unprecedented that, uh, it's hard to get people that 273 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:27,000 Speaker 2: are in the business of development to believe how fast 274 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 2: we're really growing. And and so that makes it a 275 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:35,240 Speaker 2: little difficult for some of the retailers to to come 276 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:38,200 Speaker 2: out there and look and go, dang, this is really happening. 277 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:43,760 Speaker 2: And so when they go back to their constituents, say hey, 278 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:45,920 Speaker 2: this is a great place bening for the store here. 279 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:52,120 Speaker 2: There's a crazy amount of growth. Uh it's so it's 280 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:57,600 Speaker 2: almost unbelievable for for uh someone that's not dealing with it. 281 00:15:57,640 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 1: Every other know, the numbers are crazy. 282 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:00,600 Speaker 2: Break. 283 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:04,040 Speaker 1: Thank you for being our guest. You literally did not fail. 284 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:06,960 Speaker 1: Maybe people not like your answer, but you didn't declare 285 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 1: anything off limits. Your lawyers would have probably preferred that 286 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:11,280 Speaker 1: you did. I appreciate you. 287 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:11,840 Speaker 3: Taking the time. 288 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:17,120 Speaker 1: I appreciate you answering our question. Democrats were crying that 289 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:23,080 Speaker 1: President Trump needs Congress in order to make cuts to spending. Well, 290 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 1: that's odd. The patron saint the current Democrat party, Barack Obama, 291 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:31,520 Speaker 1: said he didn't need Congress to cut waste. Remember, all 292 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:33,480 Speaker 1: he needed was his pen and a phone. 293 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:36,880 Speaker 6: One of the commitments that I made the American people 294 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:40,480 Speaker 6: was that we would do a better job here in 295 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:44,600 Speaker 6: Washington in rooting out wasteful spending. We don't need to 296 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 6: wait for Congress in order to do something about wasteful 297 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:53,160 Speaker 6: spending that's out there. Cutting waste, making government more efficient 298 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:54,920 Speaker 6: is something that leaders in. 299 00:16:54,920 --> 00:16:56,040 Speaker 3: Both parties have worked on. 300 00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:58,360 Speaker 6: We haven't seen as much action out of Congress as 301 00:16:58,440 --> 00:16:58,800 Speaker 6: we'd like. 302 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:05,639 Speaker 1: You know, the the federal government is being put on 303 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:14,639 Speaker 1: display for how sloppy it is and for all the 304 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:19,840 Speaker 1: money that's been stolen. They're running on outdated equipment. They 305 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 1: are operating on absolutely outdated equipment. Bill Clinton talking about 306 00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:29,680 Speaker 1: this thirty two years ago, and much of this equipment 307 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:31,600 Speaker 1: hasn't been updated since then. 308 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:35,040 Speaker 4: First thing we have to do, and I mean the 309 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:38,600 Speaker 4: first is to cut in essential government spending. I've been 310 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:45,560 Speaker 4: president four weeks, and I've been president four weeks, and 311 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 4: I've found things that I wouldn't believed. The White House 312 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:52,800 Speaker 4: when I became president was running on Jimmy Carter's telephone 313 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:59,000 Speaker 4: system and Linda Johnson's switchboard, and this true, and highways 314 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:04,240 Speaker 4: that is high to technology error with a procurement system 315 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:06,080 Speaker 4: that would have broken Einstein's brain. 316 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:12,120 Speaker 1: So Elon goes in, and now that they're pushing these 317 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:17,439 Speaker 1: federal workers out, what they find is they can't handle 318 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:22,360 Speaker 1: the paperwork in our federal government. They can't. They simply 319 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:25,800 Speaker 1: don't they they're doing this. You won't believe this. This 320 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:31,840 Speaker 1: sounds like this sounds like Soviet Russian outdated sad cars 321 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:35,320 Speaker 1: from the thirties kind of deal. Elon says that only 322 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:39,160 Speaker 1: ten thousand federal workers can retire in any given month. 323 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:42,280 Speaker 1: You want to know why. 324 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:44,040 Speaker 7: The most number of people that could retire possibly in 325 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:45,479 Speaker 7: a month is ten thousand. 326 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:48,000 Speaker 3: We're like, whoa, why is it? Why is that? 327 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:53,800 Speaker 7: Well, because all their time at paperwork is manual on paper. 328 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:56,560 Speaker 7: It's manually calculated, been written down on a piece of paper. 329 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:59,200 Speaker 3: Then that goes down to mind and like, what do 330 00:18:59,240 --> 00:18:59,960 Speaker 3: you mean of mine? 331 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:03,640 Speaker 7: Like, yeah, there's a limestone mine where we store all 332 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:05,360 Speaker 7: the retirement paperwork. 333 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:07,920 Speaker 3: Look and you look at picture of a picture of 334 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:08,200 Speaker 3: this mine. 335 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:11,120 Speaker 7: We'll post some pictures afterwards, and this is this mine 336 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:13,119 Speaker 7: looks like something out of the fifties because it was 337 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:16,480 Speaker 7: started in nineteen fifty five, so it looks like it's 338 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:20,280 Speaker 7: like a time warp. And then the speed, then the 339 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:22,600 Speaker 7: limiting factor is the speed at which the mine, the 340 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:26,080 Speaker 7: shaft elevator can move, determines how many people can retire 341 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:30,320 Speaker 7: from the federal from the federal government, and the elevator 342 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:30,720 Speaker 7: breaks down. 343 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:32,760 Speaker 3: And then I said sometimes, and then you can't. Nobody 344 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:36,119 Speaker 3: can retire. It doesn't that sound crazy? 345 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:40,840 Speaker 1: It takes months to retire from the federal government because 346 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 1: the documents in printed form are in a limestone quarry. 347 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:54,639 Speaker 1: That's not a joke, but we gotta laugh. You gotta laugh. 348 00:19:55,200 --> 00:20:00,120 Speaker 1: If you don't laugh, you go crazy. 349 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:08,520 Speaker 3: I'm at working at State, so long I can do 350 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:09,760 Speaker 3: no wrong. 351 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:16,040 Speaker 8: My job is once a month I go to a meet, 352 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:22,480 Speaker 8: but luckily it's on zoon. 353 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:26,359 Speaker 1: And I can sit in my living. 354 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:35,040 Speaker 8: Room without webbing pass twenty six years of work behind me. 355 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:42,920 Speaker 8: Now it's time that I'm retiring, and my paperwork's. 356 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:46,400 Speaker 3: Gonna go deep in upcave. 357 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:54,160 Speaker 8: In a limestone quarry, put it out. 358 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:55,440 Speaker 3: And going deep. 359 00:20:55,200 --> 00:21:03,800 Speaker 8: In a cavern were now one thos. It's a lifestyle quarry. 360 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:10,159 Speaker 3: Five people. I don't even know. 361 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:24,920 Speaker 8: It'll be discovered by. 362 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:31,800 Speaker 1: Releasing illegal alien child rapists to own the Republicans, Boy, 363 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:36,160 Speaker 1: you've really fallen far at that point. Ice in Boston 364 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:41,000 Speaker 1: has been forced to arrest a Guatemalan illegal alien charged 365 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:48,200 Speaker 1: with multiple counts of raping children after officials in Essex County, Massachusetts, 366 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:53,960 Speaker 1: ignored their detainer requests and released the illegal alien on 367 00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:59,520 Speaker 1: bail after he was arrested. The story from Fox News 368 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:02,720 Speaker 1: is Bill Illusion, who has done such a great job 369 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:06,360 Speaker 1: on illegal immigration issues for years. 370 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:08,520 Speaker 9: It's hard to believe there are any jurisdictions out there 371 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 9: that wouldn't cooperate with ICE when it comes to illegal 372 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:15,800 Speaker 9: aliens charged with forcibly raping children, But in Massachusetts it's 373 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:18,359 Speaker 9: just routine. Take a look at this case. ICE Boston 374 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:21,920 Speaker 9: just announcing they arrested this Guatemala illegal alien charged in 375 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:25,400 Speaker 9: Massachusetts with three counts of aggravated child rape and three 376 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:28,560 Speaker 9: counts of forcible rape of a child. So the question 377 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 9: is why was he on the streets right well, I 378 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:33,879 Speaker 9: says their detainer request on him was ignored by the 379 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:36,920 Speaker 9: Essex County Superior Court due to sanctuary policy. 380 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:38,720 Speaker 3: The locals released. 381 00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:41,760 Speaker 9: Him into the community on bail without any notice to ICE. 382 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:44,439 Speaker 9: In a statement, the director of ICE Boston says, in 383 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:47,399 Speaker 9: part quote, Jose Fernando Perez has been charged with some 384 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:50,320 Speaker 9: horrific crimes against the minor in our commonwealth. He is 385 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:52,840 Speaker 9: exactly the type of alien we are targeting with our 386 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:56,280 Speaker 9: worst first policy. He posts a significant danger to the 387 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:59,119 Speaker 9: children of Massachusetts and we will not tolerate such a 388 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:02,480 Speaker 9: threat to our community. ICE Boston also announcing the arrest 389 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:06,399 Speaker 9: of this Turkish illegal alien charged in Massachusetts with assaultant 390 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:11,439 Speaker 9: battery against an intellectually disabled person and witness intimidation. But 391 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:15,000 Speaker 9: I says their detainer on him was also ignored by 392 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,439 Speaker 9: the sanctuary city of Somerville. He had also been released 393 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:20,760 Speaker 9: into the public elsewhere around the US. 394 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:23,679 Speaker 3: I Seattle arrested this Salvadoran. 395 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:26,720 Speaker 9: Illegal alien wanted in his home country for aggravated homicide. 396 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:31,080 Speaker 9: Here in Los Angeles, ICE arrested this Guatemalan illegal alien 397 00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:34,439 Speaker 9: charged with sexual assault and rape with a gun. And 398 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:38,159 Speaker 9: in Colorado, the DEA announced their top ten arrests of 399 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:41,840 Speaker 9: illegal immigrants in recent days, including several affiliated with Trendy 400 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:46,720 Speaker 9: Aragua and others with egregious crimes like kidnapping, child sexual assault, 401 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:49,480 Speaker 9: and fentanyl trafficking and Dana. I was talking to a 402 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:52,400 Speaker 9: law enforcement source in Massachusetts about the child rape case 403 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:54,439 Speaker 9: that I referenced, and I asked, like, there's got to 404 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:56,520 Speaker 9: be some sort of a catch here, right, forget about 405 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:59,520 Speaker 9: cooperating with ICE. How does somebody charge with so many 406 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:03,520 Speaker 9: counts aggravated forcible child rape even get released on bail 407 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:06,120 Speaker 9: in the first place. The response I got was, quote, 408 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:08,560 Speaker 9: welcome to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 409 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:16,200 Speaker 1: Breaking CBS special report. CBS is Margaret Brennan is reporting 410 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:21,879 Speaker 1: that weabinized free speech is responsible for the Hindenburg crash. 411 00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:27,879 Speaker 1: Imagine hating Trump so much that you're willing to put 412 00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:31,199 Speaker 1: a child rapist, illegal alien back out on the streets 413 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:34,719 Speaker 1: to rape more children because otherwise it might health Trump. 414 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:37,080 Speaker 5: We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf 415 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:38,560 Speaker 5: of Mexico. 416 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:41,280 Speaker 2: To the Gulf of Mit Michael Berry, which has a 417 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:41,960 Speaker 2: beautiful way. 418 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:50,360 Speaker 1: Earlier in the week on the Evening Show, I played 419 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,280 Speaker 1: on the twenty first, on the day that rushed past. 420 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:58,439 Speaker 1: We played, by the way, anytime I say I, I 421 00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:01,760 Speaker 1: mean we, because we are truly a group effort here. 422 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:07,080 Speaker 1: Something may have been suggested, and occasionally I use the 423 00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:11,320 Speaker 1: word I when I mean we. I don't ever want 424 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:12,320 Speaker 1: there to be any doubt of that. 425 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:12,719 Speaker 5: It is. 426 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,680 Speaker 1: It might be called the Michael Berry Show, but it's 427 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:20,600 Speaker 1: really a team that's working together on every aspect of 428 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:24,920 Speaker 1: what we do. It is inextricable. The whole is greater 429 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,240 Speaker 1: than the sum of the parts. To be very clear, 430 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:29,679 Speaker 1: And if it ever seems I have forgotten that or 431 00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:32,840 Speaker 1: I'm not expressing that properly, let it be known I 432 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:40,399 Speaker 1: never ever forget that. I played We played a clip 433 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:51,199 Speaker 1: of the Rush Limbaugh talking about American exceptionalism, and it 434 00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:54,359 Speaker 1: really going back and listening to that. You know, we 435 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:57,840 Speaker 1: were listening to audio as a group to prepare for 436 00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:01,920 Speaker 1: the four year anniversary of his paste. And of course 437 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:06,800 Speaker 1: there's Catherine announcing his death, and there's there's you know, 438 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:10,159 Speaker 1: him talking about Kamala Harris as Willie Brown's mattress. He 439 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:15,360 Speaker 1: knew about her in a way that people didn't. And 440 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:19,320 Speaker 1: there was a clip of him saying that that the 441 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:22,160 Speaker 1: Democrats never tell you what they're going to do before 442 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:27,679 Speaker 1: an election because their ideas would never pass. And we 443 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:33,679 Speaker 1: played for you the President Trump awarding Rush Limbaugh the 444 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:38,359 Speaker 1: country's highest civilian honor, which no other Republican would have 445 00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:42,080 Speaker 1: done that. Bush wouldn't have dared do that because Rush 446 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:46,440 Speaker 1: is dirty. He can't be in the salons of Georgetown. 447 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:51,080 Speaker 1: He doesn't he's too crude. He talks to the common people. 448 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:55,800 Speaker 1: It was a stroke of genius and brilliance and as 449 00:26:55,800 --> 00:27:01,480 Speaker 1: it should be, righteousness by Donald Trump. But I just 450 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:07,680 Speaker 1: wanted to air something that is sort of what explains 451 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:12,840 Speaker 1: what make America great again means, and that is to 452 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:18,160 Speaker 1: dare to be great, to bear, to dare to lead 453 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:23,080 Speaker 1: the world, to dare to say to the world we're 454 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:26,399 Speaker 1: doing it right. Do it more like us instead of 455 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:32,720 Speaker 1: the Obama apology tour to dare to embrace what made 456 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:39,199 Speaker 1: us great, which is American exceptionalism. And here is Russe Limbau, 457 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:42,440 Speaker 1: in my opinion, at his finest, laying that out. This 458 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:45,520 Speaker 1: is what Maga means. 459 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:50,639 Speaker 5: What American exceptionalism is not. It is not that we 460 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:56,119 Speaker 5: are better people. It is not that we are superior people. 461 00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:00,560 Speaker 5: It is not that we are smarter people. It is 462 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:04,960 Speaker 5: not that God loves us and hates everybody else. It 463 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:10,760 Speaker 5: is not that God prefers us. It is not that 464 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:17,720 Speaker 5: God doesn't prefer anybody else. American exceptionalism has nothing to 465 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:24,600 Speaker 5: do with anything but freedom and liberty. Here is what 466 00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:32,439 Speaker 5: American exceptionalism is. By the way, this is one of 467 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:37,840 Speaker 5: the fundamental reasons why I got so excited when presented 468 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,720 Speaker 5: with the idea of writing a book about the truth 469 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:45,760 Speaker 5: of American history in stages and various elements for young people. 470 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:52,520 Speaker 5: My book Rush Revere in the Brave Pilgrims is all 471 00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:55,560 Speaker 5: about the exceptionalism of those people. 472 00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:57,560 Speaker 10: So what is it? 473 00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 5: Well, if you know the history of the world, read 474 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:08,000 Speaker 5: your Bible, read whatever historical account of humanity you hold dear, 475 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:13,320 Speaker 5: and what you'll read around is human tyranny. You'll read 476 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:20,479 Speaker 5: of bondage, you'll read of slavery. The vast majority of 477 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:26,040 Speaker 5: the people, the vast majority of the human beings who 478 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:30,040 Speaker 5: have lived and breathed and walked this planet, have lived 479 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:34,880 Speaker 5: under the tyranny of despots. The vast majority, it isn't 480 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:42,080 Speaker 5: even close. The vast majority of the people of this 481 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:49,240 Speaker 5: world since the beginning of time have never known the 482 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 5: kind of liberty and freedom that's taken for granted every 483 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:58,760 Speaker 5: day in this country. Most people have lived in abject 484 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:05,400 Speaker 5: fear of their leaders. Most people have lived in abject 485 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:13,479 Speaker 5: fear of whoever held power over them. Most people in 486 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:19,160 Speaker 5: the world have not had plentiful axes, access to food. 487 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:19,640 Speaker 3: And clean water. 488 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:25,160 Speaker 5: It was a major daily undertaking for most people to 489 00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:29,920 Speaker 5: come up with just those two basic things. Just surviving 490 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:36,040 Speaker 5: was the primary occupation of most people in the world. 491 00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:45,719 Speaker 5: The history of the world is dictatorship, tyranny, whatever you 492 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:53,240 Speaker 5: want to call it, subjugation of populations. And then along 493 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:57,880 Speaker 5: came the United States of America. Pilgrims are the first 494 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:03,040 Speaker 5: to come here seeking freedom from all of that. They 495 00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:08,280 Speaker 5: were oppressed because of their religion. They were told they 496 00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:12,960 Speaker 5: had to believe in the King and his God, whatever 497 00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:21,480 Speaker 5: it was, or they would be imprisoned. They led an 498 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:25,080 Speaker 5: exodus from Europe to this country of people of the 499 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:33,280 Speaker 5: same mindset. They simply wanted to escape the tyranny of 500 00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:38,440 Speaker 5: their ordinary lives. This country was founded for the first 501 00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:43,440 Speaker 5: time in human history, a government and country was founded 502 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:53,160 Speaker 5: on the belief that leaders serve the population. This country 503 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:54,760 Speaker 5: the first in history. 504 00:31:54,800 --> 00:32:01,480 Speaker 10: And this is the exception ex cept except the exception 505 00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:05,040 Speaker 10: to the rule is what American exceptionalism is. 506 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:11,320 Speaker 5: And because of this liberty and freedom that our country exists, 507 00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:15,120 Speaker 5: because the founders recognized it comes from God. It's part 508 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,600 Speaker 5: of the natural yearning of the human spirit. It is 509 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,400 Speaker 5: not granted by a government. It's not granted by Putin, 510 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:23,520 Speaker 5: It's not granted by Obama or any other human being. 511 00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:27,200 Speaker 5: We are created with the natural yearning to be free, 512 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,920 Speaker 5: and it is other men and leaders throughout human history 513 00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:34,840 Speaker 5: who have suppressed that and imprisoned people for seeking it. 514 00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:38,440 Speaker 5: The US is the first time in the history of 515 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:42,520 Speaker 5: the world where a government was organized with a constitution 516 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:47,480 Speaker 5: laying out the rules that the individual was supreme dominant, 517 00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:51,240 Speaker 5: and that is what led to the US becoming the 518 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:54,800 Speaker 5: greatest country ever. Because It unleashed people to be the 519 00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:57,760 Speaker 5: best they could be, unlike it had ever happened. That's 520 00:32:57,800 --> 00:32:59,080 Speaker 5: American exceptionalism. 521 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:03,880 Speaker 4: Headies and gentlemen, eldess nights left for Jilding, Thank you, 522 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:05,160 Speaker 4: and goodnight.