1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:08,160 Speaker 1: The media spent the entire Trump presidency lying about foreign interference. 2 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 1: To start with, they spied on President Trump when he 3 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:20,240 Speaker 1: was candidate Trump. They spied on him in Trump Tower. Remember, 4 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:26,440 Speaker 1: they claimed that one of his outside advisors was potentially 5 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:33,879 Speaker 1: spying for the Russians, and they used that to get 6 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:37,959 Speaker 1: a fake warrant, AFIZA warrant. They used this false information 7 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:41,480 Speaker 1: to spy on the president. You know, there's a case 8 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:44,720 Speaker 1: in Houston. Guy named Gerald Goins. He was a longtime 9 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:48,960 Speaker 1: HPD officer, old black guy, been on the force for 10 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 1: a long time, and he has now been convicted as 11 00:00:55,480 --> 00:01:02,840 Speaker 1: a recently of filing a fake affidavit to get a 12 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:09,919 Speaker 1: warrant to knock down the door of a supposed drug trafficker. Well, 13 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 1: it turns out that he knew or should have known, 14 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:16,399 Speaker 1: that the woman who gave him the information was giving 15 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 1: him fake information, and so officers kicked in the door. 16 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 1: The homeowner blasts away at the officers and the officer 17 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:32,160 Speaker 1: hitting them. Officers return fire and kill the folks inside. 18 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:36,960 Speaker 1: It's a pretty nasty deal. Goins has been convicted under 19 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 1: the felony murder doctrine, which is if a murder occurs 20 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 1: reasonably related to the felony that you caused your charge 21 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:51,920 Speaker 1: with murder. You don't need malice a forethought, you don't 22 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 1: need the intention to have committed a murder. So Goins 23 00:01:57,080 --> 00:02:02,440 Speaker 1: has been convicted of murder for the crime of filing 24 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 1: a false affidavit to a judge to get a warrant. 25 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 1: That just happened in the case of the government and Trump, 26 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:15,560 Speaker 1: we now know they filed a false affidavit on a 27 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:23,400 Speaker 1: warrant to get Trump. Listen, there are some bad people 28 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 1: that have infiltrated our organizations. A Houston FBI agent has 29 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:36,920 Speaker 1: now pled guilty to stealing silver during a raid on 30 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 1: a January sixth defendant. FBI agent Nicholas Anthony Williams in 31 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 1: the Houston office admitted last week to four thefts, four 32 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 1: separate thefts while serving search warrants. One of those was 33 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 1: during a July thirteenth, twenty twenty three, raid on the 34 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 1: home of a man named Alexand. Alexander Fann was a 35 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:06,480 Speaker 1: member of Asians for Trump. He went in the Capitol 36 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:13,600 Speaker 1: on January sixth. Investigators say that the FBI agent in 37 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 1: Houston went into fans home to serve a warrant and 38 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:21,520 Speaker 1: stole two thousand, seven hundred and twenty nine dollars in 39 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:26,920 Speaker 1: cash and some silver bars, which he later tried to sell. 40 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 1: He also December sixteenth of twenty twenty stole twelve hundred 41 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 1: dollars during a raid on another residence. From a raid 42 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 1: on March fifteenth, twenty twenty two, he stole foury one 43 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 1: hundred and forty five dollars, and on January twelve, twenty 44 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 1: twenty three, he stole fifteen hundred and seventy four dollars. 45 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:54,720 Speaker 1: The theft from Fan is the last one he admitted to, 46 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: according to court documents, and appears to have led to 47 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:05,040 Speaker 1: his downfall. He also admitted to using his FBI issued 48 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 1: credit card to buy three cell phones, which he then pawned. 49 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 1: He spent eight hundred ninety nine dollars and ninety seven 50 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:17,680 Speaker 1: cents in taxpayers money and collected just one hundred five 51 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:18,920 Speaker 1: dollars from the pawnshop. 52 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:21,480 Speaker 2: How very perfect. 53 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:27,320 Speaker 1: Your government spending nine hundred dollars of your money and 54 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 1: then selling it to a pawnshop for one hundred five dollars. 55 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 1: So you're out nine hundred dollars and he benefits one 56 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:37,360 Speaker 1: hundred dollars. 57 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:39,719 Speaker 2: Wow. 58 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 1: He also said he lied to the FBI about his 59 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 1: credit card purchases by claiming they were legitimate expenses related 60 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:50,680 Speaker 1: to cases he was working on. In his plea, he 61 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:53,160 Speaker 1: said he spent some of the money he stole on 62 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 1: guns and firearm accessories. His sentencing is scheduled for January thirteen. 63 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 1: He has already agreed to repay the money to the 64 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:06,480 Speaker 1: four people he stole from and to repay the FBI 65 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:10,040 Speaker 1: for the phones. He started working for the FBI as 66 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 1: an agent in the Houston office in twenty nineteen. He 67 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 1: served on the Criminal Violent Gang Squad in the counter 68 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 1: Terrorism Squad. The Washington Post points out the theft from 69 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 1: a January sixth defendant is a black eye for the 70 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 1: Justice Department, which has faced criticism from Republicans for what 71 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 1: they see as an over zealous pursuit of participants in 72 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 1: the demonstration. Treatment of January sixth defendants has been disproportionately 73 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:42,039 Speaker 1: harder than any major civil disturbances, such as the months 74 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:44,599 Speaker 1: of rioting at the federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, in 75 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:49,359 Speaker 1: the summer of twenty twenty. In court documents, fans lawyer 76 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:52,760 Speaker 1: said he noticed money and the silver bars missing after 77 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:57,960 Speaker 1: the FBI searched his residence and he filed a formal complaint. 78 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:04,279 Speaker 1: The people who walked into the capital to protest, they 79 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:07,919 Speaker 1: ended up some of them serving time in prison. 80 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:08,960 Speaker 2: Some of them are still in prison. 81 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:13,440 Speaker 1: Now we find out that while their homes were being raided, 82 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:18,400 Speaker 1: at least one FBI agent stole their money. It's sickening, 83 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:27,400 Speaker 1: it's disgusting, It really is grotesque. While we're on the subject, 84 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:32,560 Speaker 1: the media told us about foreign interference, those Russians, those Ruskies. 85 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 1: We got Hillary Clinton saying those Russians, those dead gum Russians, 86 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:37,360 Speaker 1: they're going to do something. 87 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:39,719 Speaker 2: You know where the real. 88 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:46,640 Speaker 1: Foreign interference is the Irani government, the Iranians. We know 89 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 1: that there was a fellow coming through Houston in June. 90 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 2: And he was paid. 91 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 1: It was Pakistani and he was paid by the Iranis 92 00:06:56,520 --> 00:07:01,200 Speaker 1: to arrange the assassination of Donald Trump. That it was 93 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 1: a one day news story and nobody's talked about it. 94 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:05,680 Speaker 1: Since this is separate and aside from the guy that 95 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:07,440 Speaker 1: was at the golf course and the other guy who 96 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 1: shot him, we know that the Iranis hacked into his 97 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 1: computer systems and stole all this information, which they've then 98 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 1: been leaking. They've been doxing, which is where you give 99 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:24,840 Speaker 1: out people's personal information. They've been doxing JD. 100 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:28,600 Speaker 2: Vance and others. We know. 101 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 1: That up to five hit teams have been operating independently, 102 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 1: and that two to three of those are funded and 103 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:45,720 Speaker 1: trained by the Iranis. So there is real foreign interference 104 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:52,360 Speaker 1: in this election. It's the Iranis, and they're doing it 105 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:56,440 Speaker 1: with the intent of helping the Kamala Harris campaign, which 106 00:07:56,440 --> 00:07:58,480 Speaker 1: is where they gave that information. All of this is 107 00:07:58,520 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 1: reported on. 108 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 2: All of this is. 109 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 1: Facts, which just goes back to what Rush always said. 110 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 1: Whatever they're accusing you of is what they are doing. 111 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:13,640 Speaker 1: Whatever they are accusing you of is what they are doing. 112 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 1: Never forget that. If you want to know what they're 113 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 1: up to racism, if you ever want to know what 114 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:24,960 Speaker 1: they're up to foreign interference in our election, just look 115 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 1: at what they're doing, or sorry, look at what they're 116 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 1: accusing you of doing. 117 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 3: Under my leadership, we will regain energy independence, massive energy dominance. 118 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 3: Dobinant Stobbinance stabbin And all. 119 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:44,920 Speaker 1: Right, So I got a story to tell and you 120 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 1: all have to hang in with me on this. So 121 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 1: the setup is the story. So a week and a 122 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 1: day before my mom passed. She summoned me to the hospital. 123 00:08:55,840 --> 00:09:01,720 Speaker 1: I had her in Houston at the hospital and a 124 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 1: wonderful pulminologist by the name of Tim Connolly was providing 125 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:11,040 Speaker 1: her care, and my cardiologist, Stan Duckman was providing her 126 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:15,520 Speaker 1: cardiocre and she had a very painful procedure done to 127 00:09:15,559 --> 00:09:20,360 Speaker 1: figure out what was going on. We had tried everything. 128 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:24,400 Speaker 1: There was a mild infection in her lungs, but we 129 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:26,240 Speaker 1: had tried it, and she'd been in now the hospital 130 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:28,960 Speaker 1: on her oxygen level would go down and it would 131 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 1: go down too dangerous levels and she'd have to go 132 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:34,680 Speaker 1: to the urgent care clinic and Orange, and then we'd 133 00:09:34,679 --> 00:09:38,120 Speaker 1: had to put her in Beaumont, and finally it got 134 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:40,520 Speaker 1: bad enough we brought her back to Houston where we'd 135 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 1: been off and on, and they were given her great care, 136 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:45,720 Speaker 1: and it turned out she had ALS. It's actually a 137 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 1: version of ALS, but it's the same. It's a district 138 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:53,280 Speaker 1: it's a neuro muscular condition where the lungs don't inflate, 139 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:56,000 Speaker 1: and it just got worse and worse and worse, and 140 00:09:56,040 --> 00:10:01,319 Speaker 1: these tests were extremely painful. In fact, doctor Connolly, her prominologists, 141 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 1: told me that. 142 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:04,839 Speaker 2: Your mom's a very tough lady. 143 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 1: We had to stick her twice and even one time. 144 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:10,760 Speaker 1: Most people can't take very I said, let me tas something. 145 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:14,199 Speaker 1: She's maybe the toughest person I've ever met. And I'm 146 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:15,960 Speaker 1: friends with Marcus theatrel that's saying something. 147 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:16,840 Speaker 2: She is. 148 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:20,400 Speaker 1: The only other person that's in her realm of toughness 149 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:24,720 Speaker 1: is my wife. She's a tough, tough lady. She always 150 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:30,240 Speaker 1: has been admire that. So anyway, so she summoned me 151 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:34,600 Speaker 1: and my wife that night and we get there nine 152 00:10:34,679 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 1: thirty ten o'clock and we stay for several hours, and 153 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 1: she's ready, she's done, she wants to go home. I said, okay, 154 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:44,240 Speaker 1: I'll get hospice. And you know, she's at peace, very 155 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:48,040 Speaker 1: much at peace. And we had a great conversation and 156 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:49,679 Speaker 1: you can probably figure out I'm not a person that 157 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:52,880 Speaker 1: leaves a lot unsaid, And so I said, I had 158 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:54,760 Speaker 1: already said everything I needed to say, because we'd had 159 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:57,280 Speaker 1: so many emergency room visits. I didn't want to regret 160 00:10:57,320 --> 00:10:58,960 Speaker 1: for the rest of my life not saying what I 161 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:03,559 Speaker 1: needed to say. So anyway, she turns to my wife. 162 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:06,680 Speaker 1: We're in the we're planning her funeral. She's telling me 163 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:08,760 Speaker 1: exactly what she wants at her funeral. She's telling me 164 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:11,600 Speaker 1: who she wants there and how small she wants it 165 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:13,040 Speaker 1: to be. It can't be public. She doesn't want it 166 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:14,319 Speaker 1: put in the papers. She didn't want any of that. 167 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:17,800 Speaker 1: She didn't want any of that. And at one point 168 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:20,360 Speaker 1: I said, I wasn't sure if she was talking about 169 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:22,840 Speaker 1: when we went home to Orange the next day. I 170 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:24,560 Speaker 1: was going to have hospice waiting there, which we did. 171 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:28,239 Speaker 1: So I've been blazing back and forth from Houston to Orange, 172 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:30,720 Speaker 1: meeting hospice and Milan day and come back and that 173 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:32,720 Speaker 1: takes a lot out of me. So I've been tired, 174 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:35,000 Speaker 1: which is okay. You do these things for your parents. 175 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:38,319 Speaker 1: They did a lot for you. So at one point 176 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:42,719 Speaker 1: she's talking about the funeral, but I'm not sure if 177 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:44,720 Speaker 1: she's talking about what she wants done at the house 178 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:47,000 Speaker 1: when we get back, or at the funeral or And 179 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:49,080 Speaker 1: I said, are you are you going to be there? 180 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:51,520 Speaker 1: And she does this kind of flick of her wrists. 181 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:54,800 Speaker 1: She said, no, just y'all, I'm gonna peel off. And 182 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:57,319 Speaker 1: it was just just very charming the way she said it. 183 00:11:57,360 --> 00:11:57,839 Speaker 2: I loved it. 184 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 1: So in the middle of all this, she turns to 185 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:04,280 Speaker 1: my wife with a chuckle. My mom had a great 186 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:08,760 Speaker 1: sense of humor, and she says, will you do the 187 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:12,800 Speaker 1: interview with doctor Rutletch's son. And she was kind of 188 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:16,680 Speaker 1: mumbling because she didn't have she wasn't she was losing 189 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:19,000 Speaker 1: a lot of her ability to speak and to move 190 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:21,559 Speaker 1: and all that. And I didn't understand what she said, 191 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:25,040 Speaker 1: and my wife did. She just fell out laughing. So 192 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 1: the story was my doctor growing up. The doctor who 193 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:35,360 Speaker 1: delivered me was a guy named Raleigh Allan. And doctor 194 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:39,480 Speaker 1: Allen married the nurse who was my nurse, the nurse 195 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:44,559 Speaker 1: who delivered me as a baby, and they get married 196 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 1: and they moved to Clear Lake. And one day while 197 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:52,720 Speaker 1: I'm selling suits in college for Leopold Price and Raleigh, 198 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:56,920 Speaker 1: here comes in doctor Allen and Barbara his nurse now wife. 199 00:12:57,400 --> 00:12:59,880 Speaker 1: And I hadn't seen doctor Allen. This would have been 200 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:04,120 Speaker 1: and I haven't seen doctor Allen in fifteen years since 201 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:06,360 Speaker 1: I was a little big kid. Well, doctor Rutledge was 202 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:08,880 Speaker 1: the junior doctor. And what used to happen in small 203 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:12,880 Speaker 1: towns is the established doctor. As they hit maybe their 204 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:15,880 Speaker 1: forties or fifties, they would bring in a younger doctor 205 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:19,760 Speaker 1: as kind of an apprentice, just like the plumbing firms 206 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:22,800 Speaker 1: electrical firms, and eventually that younger doctor would buy out 207 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:24,520 Speaker 1: the practice and the older guy would move on. Well 208 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:27,520 Speaker 1: that's what happened here. So doctor Rutlis became my doctor, 209 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:30,800 Speaker 1: and that was a good thing because doctor Allen was 210 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 1: the old fashion you're gonna stick. You're getting a needle right, 211 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:37,400 Speaker 1: A pill would take longer, you're gonna and I hated needles. 212 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:41,120 Speaker 1: But doctor Rutlidge was much more patient focused, you know, 213 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 1: patient centered, sensitive to my pain threshold, and I hate needles. 214 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:47,199 Speaker 2: So anyway, I love doctor Rutlich. 215 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:50,160 Speaker 1: And he's been my parents' doctor for all these years, 216 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 1: you know, almost fifty years later, still their doctor. So 217 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:58,480 Speaker 1: my mom had gone to see doctor Rutlidge, I don't know, 218 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:03,200 Speaker 1: a year ago, and she calls and says, Michael, I 219 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:06,480 Speaker 1: got somebody needs you to interview. And I said, thanks, Mom, 220 00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:08,640 Speaker 1: but I don't. I'll run the show myself, but I 221 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:12,480 Speaker 1: appreciate it. No, no, it's doctor Rutli's son. And I said, 222 00:14:12,559 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 1: I love doctor Rutlets. Well I thought so, yeah, but 223 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:17,480 Speaker 1: I don't need to. I don't need to interview his son. 224 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:21,400 Speaker 1: She says, really, interesting. I said, all right, I'm game here, 225 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:24,480 Speaker 1: my mom, what is it he does? I don't really know. 226 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 1: I said, what doesn't sound that interesting? 227 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:31,400 Speaker 3: And she said, well, something about the skim stuff off the. 228 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:36,720 Speaker 1: Water when the oil companies, you know, spill oil on 229 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:37,280 Speaker 1: the water. 230 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:40,240 Speaker 3: And I guarantee you you're going to find it fascinating. 231 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:47,280 Speaker 1: So I said whatever, And I never got the interview done, 232 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:49,520 Speaker 1: and she kept needling me about it, and it became 233 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:52,880 Speaker 1: this kind of thing between us, and so I told 234 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:55,400 Speaker 1: her on her deathbed, I said, you know what, Mom, 235 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 1: I should have done that interview before. And it turns 236 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:01,640 Speaker 1: out I should have not just to show more respect 237 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 1: to my mother, which I obviously did not, but because 238 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:08,600 Speaker 1: it turns out what these people do is really interesting. 239 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:11,680 Speaker 1: And I am proud that this guy is the son 240 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:15,520 Speaker 1: of my doctor. So with all that, I look up 241 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:19,240 Speaker 1: their business, which the name is horrible b A L 242 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:23,480 Speaker 1: A E n A. Blena. I think it's Blena Inc. 243 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:25,760 Speaker 1: I NC dot com. Now nobody's gonna be able to 244 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:29,120 Speaker 1: find it online. Our guest is Brad Rutledge. 245 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:31,240 Speaker 4: Who came up Pleasure in an honor with this name. 246 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:33,760 Speaker 3: Well, the name is. 247 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 4: Actually taken from the Baileen Well and the baileyen well 248 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 4: can travel through the water and it holds onto the 249 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 4: plankton while getting rid of all the water that's taken in, 250 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:45,000 Speaker 4: so it can travel swiftly. It doesn't push a headwave, 251 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 4: and the biomemicry actually represents the way our technology is designed, 252 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:52,360 Speaker 4: so we're similar to vacuum bhead well. 253 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:57,120 Speaker 3: That's why it was named in seventeen fifty eight by Linnaeus, 254 00:15:57,160 --> 00:15:59,680 Speaker 3: who at the time considered all of the right wells 255 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 3: and the bowhead as a single species. 256 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:08,240 Speaker 1: Historically, both the family Balayanadae and genus Boleana were known 257 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:11,720 Speaker 1: by the common name right wales. However, Blena are now 258 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:19,400 Speaker 1: known as bowhead whales. That's very interesting. I'm just really 259 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:26,160 Speaker 1: as well. Uh wow, and compasses spit ten species known 260 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:28,240 Speaker 1: from fines and very interesting. 261 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:33,600 Speaker 2: Okay, B A L A E N A. How did 262 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:36,360 Speaker 2: y'all manage to trademark that term? If it's the name 263 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:39,440 Speaker 2: of a well. 264 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:42,600 Speaker 4: That's a great great uh great question. So uh, the 265 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:45,480 Speaker 4: baalen is the filtration in the well and the family 266 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:48,080 Speaker 4: of welles. Uh. To be honest with you, I don't 267 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:51,480 Speaker 4: know much more than that. But the balance and name 268 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:55,200 Speaker 4: represents how we hold onto the oil while the water. 269 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:57,680 Speaker 4: We let the clean water discharge as fast as we 270 00:16:57,720 --> 00:17:01,360 Speaker 4: take it in, so we decreased the amount of capacity 271 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:05,920 Speaker 4: on board. That's storage that's needed for the excess water. 272 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,080 Speaker 4: And that's really where the beauty of technology comes in. 273 00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 4: We use physics and we hold on to the oil 274 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:13,600 Speaker 4: while the clean water is discharged as quick as we 275 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:16,240 Speaker 4: take it in. Now, let me tell you this, there's 276 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:19,639 Speaker 4: a lot of skeptical people, and rightfully so, because they 277 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:21,439 Speaker 4: want to make sure that water is really clean when 278 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:25,199 Speaker 4: it leaves. And there's a group in one place in 279 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:28,080 Speaker 4: the US that's run on a Navy base that's run 280 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:31,200 Speaker 4: by OMSET, which is a division of Bessie Bureau Safety Environmental, 281 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:34,639 Speaker 4: and they give you a score. And one thing we 282 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:36,840 Speaker 4: did at every single test was take the clean water 283 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:38,880 Speaker 4: discharge and test it. And it came back at three 284 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:43,360 Speaker 4: and a half parts per million, and the IMO regulates 285 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:45,359 Speaker 4: it has to be less than fifteen parts per million, 286 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:49,880 Speaker 4: So we were about four times greater with less contamination 287 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:51,800 Speaker 4: than the actual water that we were taking in. 288 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:55,680 Speaker 2: Hold on just a second. We're talking to Brad Rutledge. 289 00:17:56,160 --> 00:18:01,920 Speaker 2: It's Blaana b A l A E in a inc. 290 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:04,679 Speaker 4: Dot Com I looked at him, and they looked at me, 291 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:05,960 Speaker 4: you know, and I just looked at her and I 292 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:07,920 Speaker 4: just get your stuff and get it out that Michael 293 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:10,680 Speaker 4: Berry's and got a newspaper. 294 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:10,879 Speaker 2: And I wrote it up. 295 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:12,200 Speaker 4: I slapped him on the nose. 296 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:17,760 Speaker 1: I said, all right, so I'm paying off my bet 297 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:20,639 Speaker 1: to my mom that I promised I would do. And 298 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:23,720 Speaker 1: in the meantime, as usual, admitting that I was wrong 299 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:26,960 Speaker 1: and I should have taken her advice, because if nothing else, 300 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:29,760 Speaker 1: she's my mother and that's what you should do. But 301 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:32,719 Speaker 1: I am also I'm not an environmentalist. I told you 302 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:36,199 Speaker 1: this one hundred times before. But I hate waste and 303 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:40,399 Speaker 1: I love the concept of I love the concept of 304 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:44,120 Speaker 1: cleaning up filthy things. I love the concept of solving 305 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:47,919 Speaker 1: the problems and renewing this precious earth that we live on. 306 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:50,280 Speaker 1: I love the earth. I love the species. I love 307 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:52,199 Speaker 1: the trees and the clean water and all of that. 308 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:55,520 Speaker 1: What I don't love is people trying to ruin my 309 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:57,840 Speaker 1: life in order to control my life and control the 310 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:01,360 Speaker 1: money supply supposedly in defense of it, because they're all liars. 311 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:06,520 Speaker 1: The company is called blanainc dot com b A L 312 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:09,560 Speaker 1: A E N A I n c dot com. It's 313 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:13,960 Speaker 1: named after a well. So why are you needing to 314 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:18,520 Speaker 1: clean the waters? It says the Blaina induced flow skimming system. 315 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:23,600 Speaker 1: And you compare it to traditional oil spill recovery methods, 316 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 1: how much oil is being spilled. 317 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:29,719 Speaker 4: There's a lot of small spills on a daily you know, 318 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:32,240 Speaker 4: I would say a daily basis, and a lot of 319 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:34,360 Speaker 4: things you don't hear about. One in our local community 320 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:37,120 Speaker 4: in Orangefield, Texas, about a mile and a half from 321 00:19:37,119 --> 00:19:40,560 Speaker 4: our shop. Happened about four months ago and didn't really 322 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:42,399 Speaker 4: make much of the news cycle there. It was supposed 323 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:44,240 Speaker 4: to be a twenty barrel spill and we ended up 324 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:47,959 Speaker 4: recovering seventy one barrels. We were invited by a good 325 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,640 Speaker 4: friend of mine that owns Phoenix Environmental Services, Nelson Pheck 326 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 4: Gatter and Jeremy Yamon, who were gracious enough to want 327 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:57,200 Speaker 4: to promote new technology in our industry. And so they said, hey, 328 00:19:57,240 --> 00:19:59,240 Speaker 4: you guys are right down the street, y'all bring y'all 329 00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:02,359 Speaker 4: technology out here, and let's test this puppy. And we 330 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:05,479 Speaker 4: got we got to work and it was really fast 331 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:09,080 Speaker 4: and really you know, clean, and uh, I think even 332 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:12,320 Speaker 4: the Texas General Land Office that regulates the oil spills. 333 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:15,080 Speaker 4: Was fascinated that this technology existed in their backyard, just 334 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 4: four guys from you know, hometown of Orange, Texas. And 335 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:21,120 Speaker 4: we have a big dream and we've been all over 336 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:24,199 Speaker 4: the world with this where patented in six countries and uh, 337 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:26,159 Speaker 4: you know, just wanting to get the word out that, 338 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:29,359 Speaker 4: like you, we care about our community. And regulation typically 339 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:31,520 Speaker 4: is a bad word. And if people do the right thing, 340 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:34,359 Speaker 4: you don't need regulation. People generally want to do the 341 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:36,320 Speaker 4: right thing. But it's about money. So we're able to 342 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:39,639 Speaker 4: come up with a cost effective solution and uh and 343 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:42,280 Speaker 4: meet a lot of different criteria needs. And not only 344 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:45,720 Speaker 4: do we just collect oil, anything that's floating and buoyant. 345 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:49,000 Speaker 4: And if you look up plastic pellets, nordles is the 346 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:51,359 Speaker 4: is the term. There's two hundred and fifty thousand tons 347 00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:54,280 Speaker 4: that are spilled in the river's notions every year. The 348 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:57,040 Speaker 4: most recent is a big event in Sri Lanka and 349 00:20:57,080 --> 00:20:59,440 Speaker 4: that these plastic pellets get to the mangroves and these 350 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:02,040 Speaker 4: fish eat them and they just get contaminated with these 351 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:05,439 Speaker 4: plastic pellets. It actually happened in Corpus Christi, Texas, and 352 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:08,880 Speaker 4: the fishermen were catching red fish, which I love to do, 353 00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:10,800 Speaker 4: and they were cutting them open and find all these 354 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:14,520 Speaker 4: plastic pellets in there. And you know, our solution actually 355 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:18,399 Speaker 4: takes care of collecting things like that and a numerous. 356 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:23,920 Speaker 1: Works and compare that to kind of traditional oil spill recovery. 357 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:26,320 Speaker 1: And I'm not an expert, but talk to me like 358 00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:30,840 Speaker 1: I'm in sixth grade. No no acronyms, no no jargon. 359 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:36,919 Speaker 4: Okay, we have high capacity pumps in our system that 360 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:40,320 Speaker 4: we draw the water to us. As the water comes in, 361 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:43,480 Speaker 4: it has oil floating on top. We do something really 362 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:46,040 Speaker 4: creative and we just don't disturb that top layer of oil. 363 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:48,320 Speaker 4: And that's the secret. As it comes in, we use 364 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:51,840 Speaker 4: physics by placing our pumps in different places and the 365 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:53,919 Speaker 4: flow of the water and the oil goes straight to 366 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:56,520 Speaker 4: the top, and as it comes in, we regulate and 367 00:21:56,560 --> 00:21:58,960 Speaker 4: monitor that level and we pump the oil back in 368 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:02,760 Speaker 4: the same same way that it was delivered to us, 369 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:05,800 Speaker 4: so we do not emulsify the product. By sharing it 370 00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:07,760 Speaker 4: and putting it through pumps, you get it back in 371 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:11,720 Speaker 4: the same same state that it was in as we collected. 372 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:13,600 Speaker 4: And that's really the beauty behind it. And so we 373 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:16,480 Speaker 4: have a ninety eight to ninety nine percent oil to 374 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:18,520 Speaker 4: water ratio on recovered. 375 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:24,719 Speaker 1: Product, and nobody had ever done this before. 376 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 4: That's exactly what my partner of the founding partner, Russell Covington, 377 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:33,560 Speaker 4: his father said the exact same thing. They're third third 378 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:35,679 Speaker 4: generation ship bolters. I don't know if you remember Levingston 379 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:39,200 Speaker 4: Shipyard in North Texas, but that's his legacy and friend 380 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:41,720 Speaker 4: of mine, and so I rented equipment my entire career, 381 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:43,840 Speaker 4: and he was a friend and a customer. And he 382 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:47,400 Speaker 4: had this tabletop model with peanut oil that he dyed 383 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:49,480 Speaker 4: purple and he poured it in this tank. And he 384 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:51,600 Speaker 4: had a replica that he built and sized it to 385 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:53,320 Speaker 4: a remote control tug boat. And he had this thing 386 00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:55,639 Speaker 4: going around this tank and I'd walk in his obviously 387 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:58,119 Speaker 4: he said look at this, and it cleimed the entire 388 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:00,479 Speaker 4: tank and it was incredible, and I just couldn't help 389 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:02,879 Speaker 4: a fell in love with it. And fast forward a 390 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:06,439 Speaker 4: few years later, he was looking for some partners and 391 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:08,760 Speaker 4: raising some money to do this matress and I'm in. 392 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:11,159 Speaker 4: I don't care what it takes, I'm in. I just 393 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:14,720 Speaker 4: believed in it. He's got something really neat, and from 394 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:16,960 Speaker 4: there we were able to build our first prototype vessel 395 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,840 Speaker 4: and start the testing. And it hasn't come without its 396 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:23,720 Speaker 4: fair share of up and downs, like anything, but we're 397 00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:26,600 Speaker 4: blessed that we've actually been able to perfect the science 398 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:28,640 Speaker 4: and get it to work, and it works really well. 399 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:32,640 Speaker 4: So now the cool thing is that it's a scalable process. 400 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:34,919 Speaker 4: We took it from a boat and we developed a 401 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:39,320 Speaker 4: small skimmer. Now we met a group in Amsterdam at 402 00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:42,439 Speaker 4: one of the international shows. They're out of California, and 403 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:45,000 Speaker 4: they have a sensor that ties into this skimmer. So 404 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:46,920 Speaker 4: you put the skimmer in the middle of an outfall 405 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:50,960 Speaker 4: and an industrial facility, and it's actually called detection by collection. 406 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,800 Speaker 4: We got a trademark and so when this device goes 407 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:57,119 Speaker 4: off and it reads that there's contamination in the water, 408 00:23:57,480 --> 00:23:59,720 Speaker 4: it kicks our unit on automatically and sends you a 409 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:01,560 Speaker 4: text and says, hey, you need to go to outfall 410 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:04,800 Speaker 4: three or wherever you might have a sensitive area. And 411 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:08,960 Speaker 4: in the meantime, we've already began collecting that product. 412 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:12,160 Speaker 2: What is your background? 413 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:18,159 Speaker 4: So I grew up actually just trying to do anything 414 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:20,280 Speaker 4: to make ends meet, and in two thousand and five 415 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:23,639 Speaker 4: I fell in love with renting industrial machinery, and so 416 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,159 Speaker 4: that's what I did for about fifteen years, and I 417 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:29,440 Speaker 4: had an opportunity to exit that venture at that time, 418 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:31,960 Speaker 4: and I'm now back in the business with company called 419 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,480 Speaker 4: gear up Rents. But that's what I do on a 420 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:38,800 Speaker 4: daily basis, and during my time after I exited, I 421 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:41,160 Speaker 4: was able to spend a little time with my friend 422 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 4: Russell and really help take this venture to the next level. 423 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:49,359 Speaker 1: You are I've interviewed hundreds of people over the years. 424 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:53,600 Speaker 1: You are one of the best three at explaining your 425 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:59,320 Speaker 1: company as as a concept and as a problem solution, 426 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:05,359 Speaker 1: with the perfect blend of not being too salesy or 427 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,879 Speaker 1: hoky or that sort of stuff which I find off putting, 428 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:13,920 Speaker 1: but at the same time a confident understanding of what 429 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:16,600 Speaker 1: you do and why it's important without being you know, 430 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:19,639 Speaker 1: passion is good, but it can be too much, you know, 431 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:22,000 Speaker 1: because for what somebody does, it may not you know, 432 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:24,680 Speaker 1: I'm probably never going to need to hire you. But 433 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:28,520 Speaker 1: for me from a distance listening to the story, I 434 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:31,919 Speaker 1: could see where this would be an important thing to 435 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,760 Speaker 1: do and I can get that. So for me to 436 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:38,119 Speaker 1: be able to get it and you'd be interesting on 437 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:40,640 Speaker 1: air content that is a very rare thing. 438 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:43,640 Speaker 2: Hold on just a second. We're talking to Brad Rutledge. 439 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:45,680 Speaker 2: It's blena ek. 440 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:49,119 Speaker 1: He says, baileyan, but I'm the e's not before the 441 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:49,639 Speaker 1: a ramost. 442 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:51,600 Speaker 2: I can't say Bailey. I can't do it b A 443 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 2: l A E N A I NC dot com. 444 00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:58,320 Speaker 1: This is the Michael Berry Show. 445 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:08,439 Speaker 2: Locked and loaded, like didn't loaded. We're talking to Brad Rutledge. 446 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:11,640 Speaker 1: I am paying off a debt to my now late 447 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:15,040 Speaker 1: mother that I promised her a week before she passed 448 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:16,920 Speaker 1: I would do, and I'm glad I did. I'm a 449 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:21,520 Speaker 1: little embarrassed that I didn't do it sooner, but it's 450 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:23,560 Speaker 1: not the first time that I didn't do what my 451 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:26,960 Speaker 1: mother asked me to do, and it's not going to 452 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,520 Speaker 1: be the last time that I regret not taking her 453 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 1: advice on something. 454 00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:36,080 Speaker 2: She was in. Doctor Rutledge my childhood doctor. All the way. 455 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,000 Speaker 1: We didn't have pediatricians in Orange. You just went to 456 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:38,520 Speaker 1: the doctor. 457 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,920 Speaker 2: You didn't You didn't have doctors for kids and adults. 458 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:43,680 Speaker 2: And he was just your doctor. 459 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:48,160 Speaker 1: And he took care of my mother till her dying days. Wonderful, 460 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:53,400 Speaker 1: wonderful man and a great human being, by the way, 461 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:57,119 Speaker 1: and by the way. I didn't know this because I 462 00:26:57,119 --> 00:27:00,880 Speaker 1: didn't know his politics growing up. But a few years 463 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:07,480 Speaker 1: ago I find out that doctor Rutlish during the COVID scamdemic, 464 00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:10,399 Speaker 1: is one of the guys that's pushing back against the 465 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:12,439 Speaker 1: medical establishment because he's an independent doctor. He can do 466 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:14,800 Speaker 1: what he wants to do, and he's calling out all 467 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:18,080 Speaker 1: the big pharma and all that, and he is he 468 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,679 Speaker 1: is one of our kind of guys. And you know, 469 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:22,120 Speaker 1: I don't know what he's up to. I hadn't seen 470 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:24,280 Speaker 1: him in you know, since I was I'm fifty three. 471 00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:27,680 Speaker 1: I left Orange nineteen eighty nine. It was very comforting 472 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:30,120 Speaker 1: for me to see that man of great faith and 473 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:33,520 Speaker 1: great conviction and his boy's doing well, and I'm happy 474 00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:35,960 Speaker 1: to see this. The company is called Blena Inc. B 475 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:41,120 Speaker 1: A L A E N A I n C balenainc 476 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:46,439 Speaker 1: dot com. So who would be the companies or municipalities 477 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:49,440 Speaker 1: or entity I guess the coast guard man. 478 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:51,600 Speaker 2: Who would be the people that would call and. 479 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:55,480 Speaker 1: Hire y'all to use this this skimming technology that gets the. 480 00:27:57,560 --> 00:27:58,600 Speaker 2: Sludge out of the water. 481 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:05,280 Speaker 4: It's a really unique industry. We've been well received by 482 00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:08,360 Speaker 4: most of the folks we work faster, and you know, 483 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:12,000 Speaker 4: we think more efficient. But that's not great news to 484 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:13,520 Speaker 4: some of the guys that are in the industry to 485 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:15,240 Speaker 4: you know, milk it and make a lot of money. 486 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:19,120 Speaker 4: But I would say the majority of the folks are 487 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:21,800 Speaker 4: just really embracing us and helping us take it to 488 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:24,800 Speaker 4: the next level and supportive. There's an industry called Spill 489 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,480 Speaker 4: Control Associations of America. We've been a part of them 490 00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:30,760 Speaker 4: and the UK Ireland Spill Association, and both of those 491 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:34,119 Speaker 4: two groups have really helped us formulate some great relationships. 492 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:39,520 Speaker 4: So we've executed some agreements with a Republic Services believe 493 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:42,440 Speaker 4: it or not, the trash company that owns now the 494 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,680 Speaker 4: one of the largest for profit spill response companies called NRC. 495 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:49,360 Speaker 4: They've actually purchased one of our units. And we've also 496 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:53,160 Speaker 4: been to Canada with planes Pipeline and we're leasing a 497 00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:55,640 Speaker 4: unit to those folks up there for long term and 498 00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:59,000 Speaker 4: looking to put some more into circulation in that market 499 00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:04,160 Speaker 4: in Canada. And along with Republic, we partner with them 500 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,640 Speaker 4: and we take care of the Navy out of Corpus 501 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:09,800 Speaker 4: Christy some of their needs on a long term basis. 502 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:13,080 Speaker 4: So we've had some mild success and looking to build 503 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:15,479 Speaker 4: on that in the industrial market. We're currently working with 504 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:20,040 Speaker 4: Exxon and Valero locally to get our product into the 505 00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:23,880 Speaker 4: industrial facilities and just really well received if we've been blessed. 506 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:25,840 Speaker 4: We're looking at building a sixty foot boat for a 507 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:29,560 Speaker 4: group called Clean Golf Associates out of New Orleans, and 508 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:33,360 Speaker 4: they're a conglomerate that they have board members from all 509 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:35,720 Speaker 4: the major oil and gas companies, and so we're looking 510 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:37,840 Speaker 4: at building a big sixty foot boat for those guys 511 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:42,400 Speaker 4: next year. We've completed design and engineering and looking forward 512 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:43,960 Speaker 4: to that project. We think that's really going to be 513 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,640 Speaker 4: a kickoff to something special. As the guys there everybody 514 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:50,440 Speaker 4: kind of networks all over the world, especially in the 515 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:53,480 Speaker 4: six countries. We have patents with those guys, and so 516 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:57,080 Speaker 4: the fact that I don't want to take you down 517 00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:00,600 Speaker 4: a rabbit trail, but there's low sulfur fuels a mandate 518 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:04,080 Speaker 4: by the IMO internationally, so these ships have to have 519 00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:08,720 Speaker 4: this low surf diesel fuel and what happens is when 520 00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:11,440 Speaker 4: they spill it, it doesn't stick together, so the current 521 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:14,120 Speaker 4: equipment can't really recover it. So in Norway there's a 522 00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:16,400 Speaker 4: project going on. We're not a part of it, but 523 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:20,920 Speaker 4: to find solutions to this. And we have the solution. 524 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:23,880 Speaker 4: We're at the International show and we got to display that, 525 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,720 Speaker 4: and so we're hoping that somebody hears this and says, wow, 526 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:29,320 Speaker 4: those guys have a solution for low sulfur fuels. And 527 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:32,120 Speaker 4: you know, I don't know who's listening, but our hope 528 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,720 Speaker 4: is that somebody out there, you know, here's something they 529 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:37,400 Speaker 4: like and wants to reach out and help us take 530 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:38,480 Speaker 4: that to the next level. 531 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:40,640 Speaker 2: So we have Brad. I will tell you we have 532 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:42,160 Speaker 2: a lot of folks. 533 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:48,240 Speaker 1: In the Marine and Chemical company, but marine industry, a 534 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:49,800 Speaker 1: lot of folks that work at the port, a lot 535 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:53,360 Speaker 1: of folks that transport things and that make things, whether 536 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:57,640 Speaker 1: it be chemical process or the light who listen. So 537 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,240 Speaker 1: I would not be surprised by that. And I will 538 00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:03,240 Speaker 1: say to anyone who just tuned in or heard something, 539 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:05,720 Speaker 1: I will make the same offer I say all the time. 540 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:10,040 Speaker 1: I love to connect people. Malcolm Gladwell has chapters about 541 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:13,720 Speaker 1: this in the book The Tipping Point. I am a 542 00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:16,880 Speaker 1: person who derives great joy by people emailing and saying 543 00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:20,040 Speaker 1: I need to install a roof, who should I use? 544 00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:21,840 Speaker 1: Or I need a buy jewelry? Who should I use. 545 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:24,120 Speaker 1: And if someone wants to connect you and they can't 546 00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:28,800 Speaker 1: remember how to the bowhead whale that y'all are named 547 00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:34,480 Speaker 1: after that was identified by Linnaeus in the late eighteenth century, 548 00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:37,200 Speaker 1: they can always email me through the website Michael Berryshow 549 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,520 Speaker 1: dot com and just describe what it is and I'll 550 00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:41,640 Speaker 1: connect you directly. And I do that all day long. 551 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:44,920 Speaker 1: I enjoy connecting people with what they do. 552 00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:46,840 Speaker 3: Brad. 553 00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:47,280 Speaker 4: This is. 554 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:55,200 Speaker 1: This is fascinating stuff, and it's exciting to see entrepreneurism alive. 555 00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:58,560 Speaker 1: And well, I think that is as interesting to me 556 00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:02,040 Speaker 1: as anything you know. For what y'all are doing. People 557 00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:08,920 Speaker 1: don't realize how efficient American carmaking has become in terms 558 00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:14,160 Speaker 1: of emissions. And I don't mean government mandates. The American 559 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:17,400 Speaker 1: car maker is creating a cleaner car than they ever 560 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:22,680 Speaker 1: have before, and they they have improved processes and decreased 561 00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,960 Speaker 1: waste and all those sorts of things. Our chemical plants 562 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:30,880 Speaker 1: have decreased the amount of air pollution year over year 563 00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:33,840 Speaker 1: because they're part of the community too. And if you 564 00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:36,280 Speaker 1: look at what's going on in China and India, that's 565 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:40,320 Speaker 1: smokestacks at the top twenty five polluting cities. I think 566 00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:43,360 Speaker 1: twenty four of them are either in India or China. 567 00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:46,000 Speaker 1: The group's claiming that they're for green energy, and they're not. 568 00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:47,920 Speaker 2: I love this idea. 569 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:51,600 Speaker 1: I love that it's innovative, and I love the fact 570 00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:55,360 Speaker 1: that it's solving a problem. And I'm more than a 571 00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:58,120 Speaker 1: little bit proud that it's out of Orange, Texas. And 572 00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:03,360 Speaker 1: I wish you the absolute and utter best of luck 573 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:06,520 Speaker 1: in making this happen. I think this is just fantastic, Brad, 574 00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:07,960 Speaker 1: absolutely fantastic man. 575 00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:10,640 Speaker 4: Thank you very much. How do you as a side note? 576 00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:12,400 Speaker 4: As a side note, I want I wanted you to 577 00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:16,240 Speaker 4: know that your mother taught me in Mother's day Out? 578 00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:17,240 Speaker 3: Are you serious? 579 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:19,440 Speaker 4: For first of that is she sure did. 580 00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:22,400 Speaker 2: Wow, that's amazing. 581 00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:23,680 Speaker 4: How small the world is yet? 582 00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:24,440 Speaker 2: How old were you? 583 00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:28,239 Speaker 4: I was probably about three or four years old at 584 00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:30,800 Speaker 4: that time at first Baptist Church, so I'm still. 585 00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:34,440 Speaker 1: Remember she would go down and do Mother's day out 586 00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:38,520 Speaker 1: in the summer, I think as much as anything else 587 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,480 Speaker 1: because the kids were gone and she was lonely. But 588 00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:46,480 Speaker 1: she loved kids. I mean that was her favorite thing 589 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:51,040 Speaker 1: was kids. Loved little kids. Brad, Thank you, brother, I 590 00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:53,040 Speaker 1: appreciate you, and good luck. 591 00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:53,160 Speaker 2: To you. 592 00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:56,960 Speaker 1: Hopefully I'll forward you some some new customers and your business. 593 00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:58,520 Speaker 2: Will really I'll forget us. 594 00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:00,640 Speaker 1: I'd like to tell you very much on the first 595 00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:02,640 Speaker 1: flight of your of your private. 596 00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:06,240 Speaker 4: Jet, I appreciate it. I'll tell you what I will 597 00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:07,920 Speaker 4: invite you out. I don't know if you ever get 598 00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,799 Speaker 4: down this way, but your producer has my son number, 599 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:12,359 Speaker 4: and love to get you on the boat and show 600 00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:13,880 Speaker 4: you first hand kind of what we would work on. It 601 00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:14,719 Speaker 4: really is pretty neat. 602 00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:16,400 Speaker 2: That would be a blast. I'd look forward to. 603 00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:16,960 Speaker 4: Thank you.