1 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:04,880 Speaker 1: It's that time. 2 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:12,639 Speaker 2: Time, time, time, luck and load. The Michael Vari Show 3 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 2: is on the air. 4 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 3: I returned to this chamber tonight to report that America's 5 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:22,840 Speaker 3: momentum is back, our spirit is back, our pride is back, 6 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 3: our confidence is back, and the American dream is surging 7 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:36,880 Speaker 3: bigger and better than ever before. This will be our 8 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:40,839 Speaker 3: greatest era. With God's help, over the next four years, 9 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:44,919 Speaker 3: we are going to lead this nation even higher, and 10 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 3: we are going to forge the freest, most advanced, most dynamic, 11 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 3: and most dominant civilization ever to exist on the face 12 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:58,160 Speaker 3: of this earth. We are going to create the highest 13 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:03,320 Speaker 3: quality of life, the safest and wealthiest, and healthiest and 14 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 3: most vital communities anywhere in the world. We are going 15 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 3: to conquer the vast frontiers of science, and we're going 16 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 3: to lead humanity into space and plant the American flag 17 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:19,679 Speaker 3: on the planet Mars and even far beyond. 18 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 1: Yavi From the governor of California is threatening to redistrict 19 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:55,960 Speaker 1: in California, where Republicans are already woefully underrepresented given their 20 00:01:55,960 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 1: percentage of the state population. This is also true in Illinois, 21 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:06,640 Speaker 1: and not to be outdone, you ready for this, Marra Healy, 22 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 1: the governor of Massachusetts says that Donald Trump and Greg 23 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 1: Abbott have left her with no choice. She must Jerrymander 24 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 1: Massachusetts to get rid of all the Republican congressmen. Massaachusetts 25 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:39,600 Speaker 1: doesn't have any Republican congressman, so she uh, yeah, thank you, Mara. 26 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 1: Next speaker will be Jasmine Crockett, because we need someone 27 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:53,680 Speaker 1: to bring some brain power to this conversation. Someone. So 28 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 1: the Democrats are going to fight this with everything they've got. 29 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 1: They fight much harder than the Republicans always have. Trump 30 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:06,800 Speaker 1: has taught Republicans to at least appear like you're fighting, 31 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 1: because the voters care. Trump will fight. We've been cursed 32 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 1: with a bunch of John Wayne mccornyn's and their big 33 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:19,959 Speaker 1: money donors. And if you want to know who the 34 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 1: big money donors are, go look at who supported Nicki 35 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 1: Haley in the primary. Did you forget that Nicki Haley 36 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:30,240 Speaker 1: ran against Trump even last year, even in twenty twenty four. 37 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 1: She was on the ballot in Texas in twenty twenty four. 38 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 1: And by the way she raised money, she raised money 39 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:40,760 Speaker 1: from Houstonians and Texans. Go look at who they are 40 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 1: and you'll you'll know everything of who's funding all of this, 41 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:49,880 Speaker 1: you'll know who's funding Cornyan and always has. We've always 42 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 1: had a Republican who was the Washington Generals to their 43 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 1: Haarlem globetrotters. We have always had a Republican who was 44 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 1: the Robert the Bruce, not William Wallace, who held the 45 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 1: position and then chose not to do anything with it 46 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:17,760 Speaker 1: by design, by design. So the Democrats hired are funded 47 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 1: Chad Done. You probably don't know who Chad Done, is 48 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:23,280 Speaker 1: no reason you would. He's the general counsel for the 49 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:31,599 Speaker 1: Texas Democrats. And after this redistricting effort, Chad Done, general 50 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: council for the Texas Democrats, went to Galveston County to 51 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 1: challenge their maps. Oh he's going to show them. This 52 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 1: is what is known as the Petaway case. You hear 53 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:48,360 Speaker 1: referenced Chad Done their lawyer, and the Democrats literally fayed 54 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 1: in FOED. They thought they could win a case against 55 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 1: Galveston County's maps, which were drafted by Republicans in office 56 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 1: because compos versus City of Baytown has long permitted coalition 57 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:13,200 Speaker 1: districts that added black and Hispanic voters to be treated 58 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:18,920 Speaker 1: as a single legal coalition under Section two of the 59 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:22,520 Speaker 1: voting Rights Act. In other words, you can stack these 60 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 1: districts based on race. But in this case times are changing. 61 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:34,400 Speaker 1: The Democrats lost the Fifth Circuit on Bank, which means 62 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:37,119 Speaker 1: that all of them together as a group, as a unit, 63 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 1: overturned Campos versus City of Baytown and the law of 64 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:48,920 Speaker 1: the land as it applied on this issue. And now 65 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 1: the Fifth Circuit Law of the Land is that coalition 66 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 1: districts are not allowed. You can't just create a district 67 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 1: so that a black person will be elected. We're not 68 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:08,719 Speaker 1: doing that anymore. During the case, Fifth Circuit Judge Edith 69 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:14,360 Speaker 1: Jones told the Democrats and in legal circles, this line 70 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:17,919 Speaker 1: is making its way around. This was a very powerful line, 71 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 1: she said, a bit understated, but it got through. You 72 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:29,480 Speaker 1: are not so subtly here using race as a proxy 73 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:36,320 Speaker 1: for partisan politics. Or read that again, you are not 74 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 1: so subtly here using race as a proxy for partisan politics. 75 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:49,719 Speaker 1: I know you know what she said, but it's easier 76 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:51,760 Speaker 1: for me because I'm reading it. You're having to hear it. 77 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:56,680 Speaker 1: In other words, you think you're being real smooth. You 78 00:06:56,760 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 1: think we don't catch what you're doing. You aim you 79 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:06,799 Speaker 1: want to represent black people. We know exactly what you're doing. 80 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:13,240 Speaker 1: You're taking areas of black Democrats and creating districts so 81 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:17,880 Speaker 1: that Democrats will be elected. And you're not being so 82 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:22,240 Speaker 1: smooth about it as you think you are. You're saying, well, 83 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:25,000 Speaker 1: we have to help the black people, but what you're 84 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:30,840 Speaker 1: really saying is we have to help the Democrats. This 85 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:41,400 Speaker 1: is a powerful statement and a powerful move. Bravo, is Jones, Bravo. 86 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 1: You are not so subtly here using race as a 87 00:07:49,960 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 1: proxy for partisan politics. You're not being so clever. You're 88 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:05,280 Speaker 1: You're not hiding the fact of what you're doing. I'm 89 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:09,440 Speaker 1: calling it out. When you say black, you mean democrats. 90 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:20,960 Speaker 1: We need to make sure that blacks have more seats Democrats. 91 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:23,080 Speaker 1: Where is the term anal intercourse on your. 92 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:26,680 Speaker 4: Program, Michael Berry, if it's relevant to his story for 93 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:33,480 Speaker 4: journalistic purposes, When there is a hotly contested election, the 94 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:35,560 Speaker 4: day to day business. 95 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:41,840 Speaker 1: Of officeholders in those elections takes on a whole new 96 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:49,120 Speaker 1: level of intensity and public attention, whether it be action 97 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 1: or inaction. This is Cornan's biggest problem is that Cornyn 98 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:56,680 Speaker 1: has been on the outside for so long. Because Cornyn 99 00:08:56,720 --> 00:09:02,240 Speaker 1: went to DC to cut deals and enrich himself and 100 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:07,359 Speaker 1: build power so Cornin doesn't have those relationships in Texas 101 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 1: that he can draw on, and it feels weird for 102 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:16,560 Speaker 1: Cornyn to have an opinion on a Texas issue, So 103 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:22,440 Speaker 1: he's kind of iced out of his own doing. I 104 00:09:22,559 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 1: have heard that the big money guys in DC have 105 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:34,480 Speaker 1: heard on good authority that they want him out. The 106 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:39,320 Speaker 1: polls are ugly. He's losing over twenty percentage point instituent 107 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:46,240 Speaker 1: to Ken Paxon. Because it's a Republican primary, that makes 108 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:50,120 Speaker 1: it more dangerous because it's a smaller group of people 109 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:54,079 Speaker 1: who will vote in a primary. Off handedly, many people 110 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:58,120 Speaker 1: will think, well, you got half the people vote in 111 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 1: a Republican primary, and half the people vote a Democrat primary, 112 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:04,080 Speaker 1: and then they come back in November to make up 113 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 1: one hundred percent. That's not how this works. You've got 114 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:10,560 Speaker 1: a much smaller group of people who will vote in 115 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:14,640 Speaker 1: a Republican primary. Many people will vote in November who 116 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:18,960 Speaker 1: will not vote in a Republican primary. A Republican primary 117 00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:26,320 Speaker 1: voter is more red than a November general election Republican voter. 118 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:31,360 Speaker 1: So your country club guy, your private equity guy, your 119 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:36,040 Speaker 1: guy that travels a lot, your guy that has votes 120 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:42,200 Speaker 1: and planes and went to Dartmouth. He considers himself a Republican. 121 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:46,320 Speaker 1: He's a Bush Republican, a Romney Republican. You want Republicans 122 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:50,280 Speaker 1: because the Democrats will do something crazy. But some of 123 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:54,080 Speaker 1: these Republicans say what Trump and Paxton and those guys. Boy, 124 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:56,440 Speaker 1: they get out there sometimes I mean I can't. Sometimes 125 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:58,600 Speaker 1: I'm embarrassed by some of the stuff they do. That's 126 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:03,680 Speaker 1: this guy, right, He doesn't vote in Republican primaries. This 127 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 1: is the guy who votes for Corning. This is a 128 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:11,079 Speaker 1: guy who likes a Republican who doesn't say anything that 129 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 1: sounds icky. Because this guy, this particular Republican, he associates 130 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:24,240 Speaker 1: with a lot of Democrats. His wife is on social boards, 131 00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:29,800 Speaker 1: the disease Ball, the cancer Ball, the different dishlots of them. 132 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:33,080 Speaker 1: And they go to events at the ri Rose Country 133 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:40,360 Speaker 1: Club and Houston Country Club, and they they are seen 134 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:44,319 Speaker 1: in public a lot at the right restaurants. They've got 135 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:48,960 Speaker 1: their club events, they got their social events. They've got 136 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:55,400 Speaker 1: friends at their favorite restaurants. These people, and and they 137 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 1: go to kind of a what are built as good 138 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 1: government events where they are are a lot of Democrats 139 00:12:01,559 --> 00:12:04,960 Speaker 1: and they really like that. They have friends who are Democrats, 140 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:07,840 Speaker 1: and they'll kid around with their friends who are Democrats 141 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:09,439 Speaker 1: about who's going to win or not, but it's not 142 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:11,920 Speaker 1: they're not that passionate about it. They're not passionate about 143 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:16,319 Speaker 1: it at all. So these sorts of people don't vote 144 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:21,160 Speaker 1: in the spring, and Cornan struggles to get them to vote, 145 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:25,840 Speaker 1: and that's where he's in trouble. And it's hard to 146 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:29,800 Speaker 1: get people to break the pattern that they have demonstrated 147 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:32,600 Speaker 1: over a long period of time. So if Cornan's not 148 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:34,600 Speaker 1: going to get his voters out to vote, and he's 149 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:38,880 Speaker 1: going to lose and Paxton's going to win, the big 150 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:43,040 Speaker 1: money guys don't want Paxton. It's a six year term. 151 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:49,160 Speaker 1: They cannot have Paxton there because Paxton knows who's working 152 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:53,480 Speaker 1: hard against him. He's well aware. So these guys don't 153 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:55,520 Speaker 1: want to lose. They don't want to lose their access 154 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:57,480 Speaker 1: in Texas, and don't want to lose being able to call. 155 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 1: So they're working very hard to replace corn In because 156 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:06,880 Speaker 1: corn is not a young man. He's what is he 157 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:09,960 Speaker 1: Ramon's seventy two, I don't know. I looked it up earlier, 158 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:12,800 Speaker 1: not today, but a while back. He's in his seventies 159 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:17,199 Speaker 1: it's a six year term and you can't change who 160 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 1: he is. He's very stiff. He's not a good retail politician. 161 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,320 Speaker 1: Seventy three. He looks like a politician. He looks like 162 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:33,480 Speaker 1: a senator from years going by. Old white guy ties 163 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:37,319 Speaker 1: his tie properly, gets his shoes shined at the downstairs 164 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:40,599 Speaker 1: in the Capitol every day. Where's the navy suit? He 165 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:44,720 Speaker 1: got his flag lapel. He's supported by the right guys. 166 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:50,440 Speaker 1: He says the right things, God, Country veterans. He pleurs, unhem, 167 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 1: you know, whatever, whatever he needs to spout to show. 168 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:56,319 Speaker 1: You know, he'd like to bring back the pledge in 169 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 1: the schools. Yep. He's got a couple of throwdown things 170 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:02,240 Speaker 1: that they've used since the fifties that, you know. I 171 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:04,319 Speaker 1: like to bring back prayer in school. I'll tell you 172 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:07,200 Speaker 1: all what we y'all can talk about. You know, we 173 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:09,839 Speaker 1: can talk about y'all. You asked a question about deportational 174 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:11,760 Speaker 1: and we'll get that in a minute. We get to deportation, 175 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:13,560 Speaker 1: close the border. The things he doesn't want to do 176 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:16,199 Speaker 1: anything about. Let me tell you something I like. I 177 00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:18,160 Speaker 1: you know, I say it's all the time, I say, 178 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 1: I tell my staff, I told my wife. The other day, 179 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:24,200 Speaker 1: I was speaking to a group down there, down there 180 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:26,960 Speaker 1: and where we're at now, yeah, in that in that community. Yeah, 181 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 1: it was somewhere in your community. And I told him, 182 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 1: I said, you know, we don't able to solve any 183 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:34,160 Speaker 1: these problems till we bring prayer back in school. What 184 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:37,760 Speaker 1: I'm saying, kids played say the pledge of allegiance in school, 185 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:40,680 Speaker 1: Like like like when when when I was in school, 186 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:43,080 Speaker 1: you know, we're not We're not gonna be able to 187 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:45,480 Speaker 1: solve We can talk about all these other issues, but 188 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:52,240 Speaker 1: they're downstream to prayer in school. Pledge of allegiance. You know, 189 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:56,200 Speaker 1: why not start to day with the pledge of allegiance? 190 00:14:56,280 --> 00:14:58,680 Speaker 1: You know, stand up, show some respect. That's how it 191 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:00,160 Speaker 1: was when I was in school. Some of you y'll 192 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:02,960 Speaker 1: probably identify with me, am I right, all right, show 193 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:06,000 Speaker 1: respect for veterans, you know, let's bring that back. You know, 194 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:09,000 Speaker 1: as a kid, you respected, you know, and the police 195 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:11,840 Speaker 1: and and show respect for that too. And uh, and 196 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:14,960 Speaker 1: balance the budget, you know, why can't we balance the 197 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:18,640 Speaker 1: durned budget? You know you balance the budget at your house. 198 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:21,240 Speaker 1: Won't we balance the budget? 199 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:21,840 Speaker 5: You know? 200 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:26,440 Speaker 1: And get people off drugs, you know, and uh, and 201 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:28,280 Speaker 1: driving into left lane. You know, you got a lot 202 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:30,280 Speaker 1: of people driving, and get people, you know, move down 203 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:32,720 Speaker 1: that left lane, get that left lane where you can pass, 204 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:35,080 Speaker 1: and then still wear in the right lane. You know 205 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:38,120 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And uh, and comb your hair. You know, 206 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:40,960 Speaker 1: I think we don't have to get into all these issues. 207 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 1: First we've got people need to comb their hair. You know. 208 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 1: You notice that people they don't comb their hair nowadays, 209 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:49,600 Speaker 1: you know. And and uh, and take pride in your 210 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:52,680 Speaker 1: your appearance, you know, tuck your shirt in. You know, 211 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:56,560 Speaker 1: let's let's go back to the days. That's what I want. 212 00:15:56,600 --> 00:15:58,520 Speaker 1: I want in America. You know, people tuck their shirt in. 213 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:00,760 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, tuck your shirt and pull 214 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:03,960 Speaker 1: your pants up. You know, and and we you know, 215 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:07,480 Speaker 1: that's really what we can talk about. All emissions, you know, deportation, 216 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:09,760 Speaker 1: all stuff people I'm wronging, Let's talk about it. That's 217 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:11,320 Speaker 1: why I want that. You know, I pull your pants, 218 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:12,240 Speaker 1: it'll take your shirt in. 219 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:13,360 Speaker 2: Bring it on. 220 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:15,520 Speaker 1: What would you do with the brain if you had one? 221 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:18,800 Speaker 1: Bring it on? Because there is nothing here? Michael Arry 222 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:36,120 Speaker 1: shows most underrated Cherristmas song. Know, well, there are songs, 223 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:43,880 Speaker 1: there are good songs that don't get much attention. You know, 224 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:46,520 Speaker 1: when you when you measure the delta between how much 225 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 1: attention they get and how good the song is, and 226 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:52,600 Speaker 1: then you got crying, which gets a little attention, but 227 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:57,880 Speaker 1: it's a damn good song. You know. I was never 228 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:01,600 Speaker 1: a big Aerosmith fan, but in the last few years 229 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:07,320 Speaker 1: I have really really grown. I think I grew into them. Yeah, 230 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:12,359 Speaker 1: I think that's fair to say, that's for sure. I 231 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:16,680 Speaker 1: got an email from a sweet lady. I can't understand 232 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:19,399 Speaker 1: why this woman is single, because she would make somebody 233 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:23,640 Speaker 1: such a great wife. You know, certain people would find 234 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:25,719 Speaker 1: that statement offensive. That's the highest company when I can 235 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:30,960 Speaker 1: give anyway. So she emails me sometimes and she wrote, 236 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:35,400 Speaker 1: I missed the Confederate House originally on sam Phillippi and Drexel, 237 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:39,679 Speaker 1: then went to Highland Village and finally at twenty nine 238 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:44,679 Speaker 1: to twenty Wesleyan originally owned by Bill and Betty Edge, 239 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:48,120 Speaker 1: then later owned by Frankie B. Mandola and Joe but Terra. 240 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:53,200 Speaker 1: Butterra my parents spent almost every Friday and Saturday night 241 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:57,080 Speaker 1: there with friends. I knew the telephone number by heart 242 00:17:57,119 --> 00:17:58,800 Speaker 1: as I would call up there wanting to know when 243 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:02,800 Speaker 1: they were coming. Home. John L was a bartender and 244 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:06,560 Speaker 1: everyone knew him. I've heard of John L. And I 245 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:09,040 Speaker 1: didn't go there by the time he was still there. 246 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:11,679 Speaker 1: I spent many a birthday there over the years and 247 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:16,199 Speaker 1: always ordered the saft shell crap. No fact doesn't make you. 248 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 1: It reads the Confederate Club. I mean the Confederate House. 249 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:25,200 Speaker 1: I did. And I'm going to tell you something. It was. 250 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:29,040 Speaker 1: It was a look into sixties seventies Houston. It was 251 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:33,639 Speaker 1: a special man it was, and it was it was 252 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:38,400 Speaker 1: the closest thing to New Orleans in Houston other than Brennan's, 253 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:42,360 Speaker 1: in that the waiters had all been there a long time. 254 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:46,200 Speaker 1: The waiters dressed very nice. It was such a smooth 255 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:50,639 Speaker 1: ease to the place. And the food was so heavy, 256 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:56,119 Speaker 1: so buttery, so savory, so tasty. Oh, and then you 257 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:58,919 Speaker 1: did a nap afterwards. It's just you just have to 258 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:01,560 Speaker 1: have a nap afterwards. So the woman that sent out 259 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:06,160 Speaker 1: to me is Janejiamalva of the Gamalva family here in town. 260 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:10,760 Speaker 1: And the funny thing is, when I started my real 261 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:16,640 Speaker 1: estate company in the late nineties, Janejamalva was a legend 262 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:21,240 Speaker 1: and I never met her, but people would tell me 263 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:24,040 Speaker 1: you know, she'd have the big houses listed. She ran 264 00:19:24,119 --> 00:19:27,280 Speaker 1: with the right circle. Jane gam Malva was everything. So 265 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:29,040 Speaker 1: the first time a few years ago I got an 266 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:32,120 Speaker 1: email from Janejia Maalva, I thought, well, I have arrived. 267 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:35,000 Speaker 1: Janegy of Malva has sent me an email, and now 268 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:42,359 Speaker 1: we've become nothing else. Email Buddies our sponsor Muscle Cars 269 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:48,480 Speaker 1: of Texas. Vinnie, his wife and their crew have renewed again. 270 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:51,240 Speaker 1: They've been with us for one year. They have renewed 271 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:54,280 Speaker 1: their sponsorship of our show, for which we are grateful. 272 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 1: Vinnie does these car shows down in Galveston that are 273 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:01,119 Speaker 1: a big deal. He did the car for the woman 274 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:08,439 Speaker 1: who was burned up in Iraq, and all she wanted 275 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:10,919 Speaker 1: was this particular vehicle, and the guy told her, if 276 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:13,080 Speaker 1: you'll survive, I'll give you mine and we'll have it redone. 277 00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:15,440 Speaker 1: And then the mortgage guy. 278 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:17,720 Speaker 2: Gosh. 279 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:20,320 Speaker 1: I hate when I can't remember things because people take 280 00:20:20,359 --> 00:20:22,919 Speaker 1: it personally. If if their name is the one you 281 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:26,040 Speaker 1: can't remember, they think that's a sign that you don't 282 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 1: have any respect for them. It's not that at all. 283 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:31,760 Speaker 1: It's a frustration that I can't remember things the way 284 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:37,359 Speaker 1: I used to could, and that drives me crazy. In 285 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:40,800 Speaker 1: any case, we go back to the drama unfolding over 286 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 1: the the Democrats and what exactly is going on there. 287 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 1: You've got the Governor going to the Supreme Court, and 288 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:59,199 Speaker 1: now you've got the Attorney General and strange bedfellows, the 289 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:04,439 Speaker 1: Saker of the House, and they've taken their action. The 290 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:07,879 Speaker 1: governor's action would remove gene Wu, who is the leader 291 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:14,760 Speaker 1: of the Democrats, gene Wu and only jene Wu, which 292 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:17,760 Speaker 1: feels a little odd, but I guess you're trying to, 293 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:21,000 Speaker 1: you know, you want to fire a shot across the bow, 294 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:24,760 Speaker 1: maybe take his ear off, not you know, the whole 295 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:29,560 Speaker 1: head of the Democrat machine. It's it's an interesting choice 296 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:33,920 Speaker 1: to go after the leader of the Democrats and only 297 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:37,320 Speaker 1: the leader of the Democrats. I don't know how I 298 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:41,840 Speaker 1: feel about that. Ched Nakanishi made the point, if they've 299 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:46,919 Speaker 1: all shown a quote willful refusal, what the hell was that? 300 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:50,119 Speaker 2: The what? 301 00:21:52,359 --> 00:22:02,160 Speaker 1: Oh? Okay? That was a gong Jews, the same gung y'all. Well, 302 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:04,280 Speaker 1: I was trying to find it on my screen, but 303 00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:06,320 Speaker 1: I had printed it out here, and so between the 304 00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:08,160 Speaker 1: two I was in such deep thought. All I heard 305 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:15,439 Speaker 1: was something in the backshund he was rating outside. So 306 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:20,400 Speaker 1: so the pleading says, House Democrats have shown a willful 307 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:27,560 Speaker 1: refusal to return, so why go after Wu? I mean, 308 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:33,000 Speaker 1: I get it. I mean I understand. Practically speaking, you 309 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:34,920 Speaker 1: don't want to say you're kicking all the Democrats out. 310 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:38,800 Speaker 1: It looks more partisan, and you're claiming in there that 311 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:43,639 Speaker 1: respondent Wu is the is the leader led by Respondent Wu. 312 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 1: But it does seem to me on a purely principal 313 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:51,239 Speaker 1: basis that why Jane Wu. If you're going after if 314 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:54,760 Speaker 1: you're going to expel them from the House, you're going 315 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:58,960 Speaker 1: to take their seat away. They're all leaving. He's not 316 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:02,879 Speaker 1: the only one. I understand, he is the face of 317 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:06,440 Speaker 1: the Democrats. And then I get that. But they they've 318 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:10,239 Speaker 1: all they're all just as gone as he is. I mean, 319 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:13,399 Speaker 1: it's just it. It has a it has a weird, 320 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:20,080 Speaker 1: weird thing to it. There. State Representative Brian Harrison says, 321 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:22,879 Speaker 1: this story's being framed all wrong. Let's see if we 322 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:24,840 Speaker 1: can get this in clip number seventeen. I don't know 323 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:26,040 Speaker 1: how long it is, bus I'll set. 324 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:28,760 Speaker 5: Aside for a second the fact that the weak Republican 325 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:31,040 Speaker 5: leadership in the state of Texas allowed this to happen 326 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:33,280 Speaker 5: the fact that the Republican speaker of the Texas House 327 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:35,840 Speaker 5: dismissed the Democrats so that they could go and break 328 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:37,400 Speaker 5: corm Okay, let's set that aside. 329 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:40,240 Speaker 1: Where are we are, Where we are? I want actions. 330 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:42,359 Speaker 5: So like you said, number one, every week they're gone, 331 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:44,080 Speaker 5: we redraw the maps and we add one. 332 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:45,440 Speaker 1: More Republican congressional seat. 333 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:47,480 Speaker 5: But number two short of that, hit him where it 334 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:51,760 Speaker 5: hurts every Democrat. Reset your seniority. We have Democrats that 335 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:53,800 Speaker 5: have been in the Texas House over fifty years. You said, 336 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:57,000 Speaker 5: see their offices like palatial castles. Okay, around here, let 337 00:23:57,040 --> 00:23:59,120 Speaker 5: me tell you what these politicians. They care about their 338 00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:01,040 Speaker 5: real estate and their square pillage and the drakes in 339 00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:04,360 Speaker 5: those windows. Take their seniority away, drop them to the 340 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:06,120 Speaker 5: bottom of the line. 341 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:19,359 Speaker 2: Michael Berry, tell me about Pallunteer. 342 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:26,440 Speaker 1: A little while back, I didn't know much about them. 343 00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:33,679 Speaker 1: I didn't, But Wall Street Journal reports this morning Pallunteer, 344 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:37,199 Speaker 1: a one time Silicon Valley upstart, has emerged as a 345 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:42,159 Speaker 1: power player in Trump's second term. The company's blind shift 346 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:47,120 Speaker 1: to artificial intelligence has positioned it today as a significant 347 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:51,480 Speaker 1: player in the Trump administration. An integral tool for national 348 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:55,040 Speaker 1: security and the most expensive stock in the S and 349 00:24:55,080 --> 00:25:01,919 Speaker 1: P five hundred. I'm not a tech guy. It's not 350 00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:09,360 Speaker 1: exactly a big revelation. Most people know that people who 351 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 1: love tech love tech. I love sports, I love bourbon, 352 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 1: I love food, I love good conversation with human beings, 353 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:25,840 Speaker 1: other human beings. It is not a thing that excites me, 354 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:31,960 Speaker 1: the possibilities of technology, the intricacies of technology. But I 355 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:37,600 Speaker 1: have come to understand that technology is on a warp speed, 356 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:42,159 Speaker 1: going to affect our lives and already is at levels 357 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:45,040 Speaker 1: we never imagined, and to an extent, I don't think 358 00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:50,200 Speaker 1: we can imagine today. And I do think there will 359 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 1: be a certain amount to varying degrees based on the 360 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:58,639 Speaker 1: person and the role and the action, there will be 361 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:02,600 Speaker 1: a replacement of much of human life as we know it. 362 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:06,399 Speaker 1: I do believe that whether that excites you or scares you, 363 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:10,720 Speaker 1: I think it is inevitable. I think it is a 364 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 1: tidal wave on the way. And I decided that I 365 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:24,159 Speaker 1: needed to learn more about this and understand it. And 366 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:27,639 Speaker 1: I think that what we were entering and have entered 367 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 1: is an era of scale on a basis that we 368 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:39,520 Speaker 1: never imagined. Because for most businesses, if not the greatest. 369 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:46,280 Speaker 1: One of the greatest expenses and impediments is labor. Now 370 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:48,679 Speaker 1: we can say we love people and people are great 371 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:56,240 Speaker 1: and all that. I can tell you if you've ever 372 00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:59,400 Speaker 1: had employees, not every person is great. Many are horrible. 373 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:04,240 Speaker 1: Employees can show up late, they can have excuses, they 374 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:08,680 Speaker 1: can have addictions, they can have vices, they can sexually harass, 375 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:12,920 Speaker 1: they can file lawsuits that are fraudulent, they can insult 376 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:19,040 Speaker 1: your customers, they can steal. These are the realities, and 377 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:21,320 Speaker 1: nobody wants to admit to that, but those are the 378 00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:25,639 Speaker 1: shortcomings of labor. That's not everybody that's going to do that, 379 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:29,119 Speaker 1: but it's some and the guys sitting at the top 380 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:38,040 Speaker 1: who can. We're not at the payoff stage, but we're 381 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:42,640 Speaker 1: increasingly seeing the investment by companies in technology that purely 382 00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:46,800 Speaker 1: and simply replace these human beings to make a burger, 383 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:54,120 Speaker 1: to order, to answer phone calls, to respond on websites 384 00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:59,400 Speaker 1: as a chatbot to basic questions. I hate these experiences. 385 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:02,760 Speaker 1: I liked them at all. I'll take the worst human 386 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:05,960 Speaker 1: being over that any day. But that is where we're heading, 387 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:10,359 Speaker 1: and there is no doubt about it. I saw a 388 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:17,720 Speaker 1: headline the other day that Washington DC had pushed for 389 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:22,520 Speaker 1: a seventeen dollars ninety five cent minimum wage in the 390 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:29,600 Speaker 1: district for all employees, even tipped employees. The amount that 391 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:32,359 Speaker 1: you get paid as a tipped employee by the restaurant 392 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:35,200 Speaker 1: has not changed since I was waiting tables thirty years ago, 393 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:41,239 Speaker 1: and the idea was you're gonna have to pay them 394 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:44,280 Speaker 1: eighteen bucks an hour even if they're getting a tip 395 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:50,680 Speaker 1: on top of that. Well, restaurants started closing. Some restaurants 396 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:53,400 Speaker 1: closed and moved out of the district somewhere else. It's 397 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:57,800 Speaker 1: a pretty traumatic experience because for a restaurant, you've got 398 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:01,120 Speaker 1: your loyal customers, some of whom, especially in the district, 399 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:04,840 Speaker 1: just walked over. They lived right upstairs or next door, 400 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:08,160 Speaker 1: or it was on their way home. Stop in and 401 00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:10,440 Speaker 1: have a couple of drinks, and you've built up a 402 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,360 Speaker 1: loyal customer base. It may only be thirty to fifty 403 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,440 Speaker 1: people you start over. You've got to rebuild that. People 404 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:19,080 Speaker 1: already have their place to which they are loyal. You've 405 00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:21,800 Speaker 1: got to rebuild that whole thing. Closing a restaurant and 406 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:27,000 Speaker 1: reopening elsewhere is no minor matter. Too much Fertita can 407 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:30,800 Speaker 1: do it relatively easily, but even he doesn't want to 408 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,600 Speaker 1: do it. Chris Pappas can do it, but it's a burden. 409 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:38,520 Speaker 1: But when you're one guy, you can't do that lightly. 410 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:47,240 Speaker 1: Policies like that have attacked companies for so long as 411 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:51,800 Speaker 1: it relates to labor. The more restriction, the more regulation, 412 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:55,400 Speaker 1: the more direction you give to companies as to how 413 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 1: much they will pay labor, how long they will work. 414 00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:01,840 Speaker 1: Then all the protections of the craziest person that's filed 415 00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:04,520 Speaker 1: five lawsuits against their last five bosses, by the way, 416 00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:07,760 Speaker 1: which is you get these folks who are serial sewers. 417 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:11,520 Speaker 1: They sue, and then they get their judgment, and then 418 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:13,320 Speaker 1: they go somewhere else to start to work and they 419 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:17,200 Speaker 1: sue there. That should be a material fact in considering 420 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:23,040 Speaker 1: the case. No, what we are doing is driving industry, 421 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:29,880 Speaker 1: driving business away from labor, and I don't think we'll 422 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:32,760 Speaker 1: ever get that back. I think a number of jobs 423 00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:35,360 Speaker 1: that we have today will not exist in three years, 424 00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:39,920 Speaker 1: and within ten years most jobs that we recognize today, 425 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:43,760 Speaker 1: at least in major urban centers where the density makes 426 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:48,040 Speaker 1: sense to invest in the replacement technology. I saw that 427 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:54,240 Speaker 1: a it was like a motel, but it was part 428 00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:56,640 Speaker 1: of a chain, a Marriott or Hilton or one of 429 00:30:56,640 --> 00:31:01,719 Speaker 1: those reward program kind of conglomerates. We're in Florida, and 430 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,800 Speaker 1: the people filmed it. They walked in to check in 431 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:08,600 Speaker 1: and there was a big screen turned sideways, so it 432 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:12,320 Speaker 1: wasn't wide. It was so it wasn't landscape, it was 433 00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:15,600 Speaker 1: what do you call it from a vertical. And he 434 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:18,440 Speaker 1: walked up and it said push the button. You pushed 435 00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:22,040 Speaker 1: a button and some Indian guy in India with a 436 00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:25,280 Speaker 1: headset on says, oh, welcome to the place. And uh, 437 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:27,160 Speaker 1: I know it's not how he said I but you 438 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:31,640 Speaker 1: get the point. And so they had to check in 439 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:35,760 Speaker 1: with the with no human being. Here, here's your code 440 00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:38,600 Speaker 1: to the box, here's your code to get into your room. 441 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:41,760 Speaker 1: Here's your things. Push this button if you if you 442 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,960 Speaker 1: need something. We still have a human being and legal 443 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:47,320 Speaker 1: alien for Mexico who will come and replace your towels. 444 00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:51,080 Speaker 1: But you know, nobody at the front desk anymore. And 445 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:54,360 Speaker 1: that has created an uproar, and it will but that's 446 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:56,960 Speaker 1: where we'll be in five years, that's where we'll be. 447 00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:02,480 Speaker 1: So you would think with that in mind, if you 448 00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:05,640 Speaker 1: were concerned about what are because some people are going 449 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,440 Speaker 1: to companies are going to become much more profitable. The 450 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,800 Speaker 1: stock market is going to continue to rise, and people 451 00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:14,080 Speaker 1: are going to go. How is it The stock market 452 00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:17,320 Speaker 1: is going higher and higher and higher, and my life 453 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:21,920 Speaker 1: is getting worse and worse and worse because laborers at 454 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:25,520 Speaker 1: all levels of labor are going to increasingly not be 455 00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:28,640 Speaker 1: part of the of the profit and loss of companies.