1 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:11,119 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So 2 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:26,640 Speaker 1: Michael Verie show is on the air. I receive from email. 3 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 1: I get these on occasion. Similar sentiment. This particular woman 4 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 1: named Rose writes, I'm a Jewish woman and I respect 5 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 1: Christian values. But I am curious why candidates often say 6 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 1: Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior in their speeches. 7 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 1: It is exclusive of Jews who want to vote conservative. 8 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:54,640 Speaker 1: It's pretty insensitive, and then four exclamation marks. What do 9 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:58,160 Speaker 1: you think? Can you please address this on your radio program? 10 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 1: You won't like my ane, sir, but I'll accommodate. I'm 11 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:08,559 Speaker 1: a Jewish woman and respect Christian values. Typically, when people 12 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:14,200 Speaker 1: make a statement at the beginning of an opinion that 13 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:20,120 Speaker 1: they're laying out, whatever they're saying is not particularly true 14 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:22,480 Speaker 1: or not as true as they believe it to be. 15 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:27,200 Speaker 1: I think she is a Jewish woman and I respect 16 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 1: Christian values. Guess that means Guess the question would be, 17 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 1: what does that mean? Do you respect them? But we'll 18 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 1: come back to that. But I am curious. I don't 19 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:46,279 Speaker 1: think you're curious. I think curious is a softened tone. 20 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 1: I am offended by, is what you mean. But I 21 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 1: am curious about why candidates often say quote Jesus Christ 22 00:01:56,480 --> 00:02:02,000 Speaker 1: is our Lord and Savior quote in their speeches. If 23 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: you're curious, you would ask what does that mean? As 24 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:11,040 Speaker 1: a Christian, Michael, why do they say this? Is this 25 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:16,600 Speaker 1: inviting us all? Is this testifying? Are they evangelizing? Is 26 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:21,880 Speaker 1: this something y'all do amongst yourselves? It is exclusive of 27 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:31,520 Speaker 1: Jews who want to vote conservative. So if you proclaim 28 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:36,840 Speaker 1: your faith according to this is how Rose feels. If 29 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:40,560 Speaker 1: you are proclaiming your faith and it's not her faith, 30 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 1: then she doesn't want to vote the way you vote. 31 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:55,000 Speaker 1: It is exclusive of Jews. Come back to that. She 32 00:02:55,120 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 1: follows it up. It's pretty insensitive for exclamations. He's bothered, 33 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:04,320 Speaker 1: nothing wrong with being bothered. This annoys her, This upsets her. 34 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:12,959 Speaker 1: She feels excluded. Come back to that. What do you think? 35 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 1: Can you please address this on your show? Thank you, Rose. 36 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 1: Here's what I think. So I looked up the population 37 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 1: of Jews in Houston. It's about zero point seven percent 38 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 1: or three quarters of one percent if you and then 39 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:37,760 Speaker 1: Dallas is just over one percent. But for the state, 40 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:41,800 Speaker 1: because rural areas tend to be less Jewish than urban areas, 41 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:45,160 Speaker 1: for the state is somewhere between point six and point seven, 42 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 1: so a little over one half of one percent, so 43 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 1: about one out of every two hundred people. Now, let's 44 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: use an example. If a person says, as a veteran, 45 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 1: I'm going to serve the do non veterans feel offended? 46 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 1: Wait a minute, I didn't go to war. Why would 47 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 1: he say that? What about me? How about women who 48 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:18,840 Speaker 1: are very want to do this? As a woman. I 49 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:22,600 Speaker 1: told Alex Either a couple of days ago. I said, Alex, 50 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:29,880 Speaker 1: I see your campaign materials. This is before Trump endorsed her. 51 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:33,680 Speaker 1: I see you talking a lot about your time in 52 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 1: the military, which is good. I think it. There's a 53 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 1: toughness to what she did. She was a bomb technician. 54 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 1: If you've seen the hurt Locker, she was the person 55 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:52,120 Speaker 1: who put on the the suit and went and disabled bombs. 56 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:55,880 Speaker 1: Not for the week of heart. Right, pretty bold. Shows 57 00:04:56,320 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 1: boldness of character, if not recklessness, but it shows a 58 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:08,040 Speaker 1: certain courage. Right. She talks about that she has talked 59 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 1: about in the last campaign, having gone to law school 60 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:15,320 Speaker 1: and having an MBA and having worked in new oil 61 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 1: and gas business as an executive, all things that I think, 62 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 1: particularly because she's a woman, would surprise people. She's a 63 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:27,280 Speaker 1: tough lady. There's no way anybody who knows her, no, 64 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:30,280 Speaker 1: she's tough. This is this is not a girly girl. 65 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:32,840 Speaker 1: This is not a hanging out having rose with the 66 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:34,800 Speaker 1: ladies in the middle of the afternoon talking about the 67 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:40,960 Speaker 1: command of boy in Cabo this past weekend. She's a tough, 68 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 1: tough cookie. But I said, you know, there is a 69 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 1: side to you. And my wife, who's not a girly 70 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 1: girl either, has made this comment. You're also a wife, 71 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:59,720 Speaker 1: and you're a mommy. Being a mommy is sacred to me. 72 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 1: We talk a lot about fatherless homes, but being a mother. 73 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:11,080 Speaker 1: The challenge is she will send me a review of 74 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 1: how the day went on the campaign late at night, 75 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:17,600 Speaker 1: and I will sometimes ask, how are the kids doing, 76 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 1: how's your husband doing, how's your health mental and physical? 77 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:27,720 Speaker 1: And sometimes when I ask how the kids are doing 78 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 1: or how her husband's doing, she'll say, well, he had 79 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:35,560 Speaker 1: some it was tough with the kids today and so 80 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:37,200 Speaker 1: he had called and I had to get on the phone. 81 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:40,360 Speaker 1: And these are the real challenges that real people go through, 82 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:46,159 Speaker 1: not just candidates and officeholders, small business owners, active duty 83 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:49,240 Speaker 1: military where he's in Japan, and she's here trying to 84 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:51,160 Speaker 1: get to the babies to go to sleep, or the 85 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:52,840 Speaker 1: kids go to sleep, or maybe their seven year old 86 00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 1: boys starting to act out and we're gonna call daddy, 87 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:56,680 Speaker 1: and so daddy gets on the phone, choose his ass 88 00:06:56,760 --> 00:06:59,800 Speaker 1: and that buys them a little time. Right. This is 89 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:05,760 Speaker 1: so I made the point you should talk a little 90 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 1: bit about being a mommy. I think that matters to people, 91 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:12,320 Speaker 1: matters to me. I don't want a Congress made up 92 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 1: of a bunch of dudes, just dudes, a bunch of 93 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 1: lawyers that are dudes that all want to be president. 94 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 1: You should have some preachers. You should have some former 95 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:27,200 Speaker 1: football players. You should have some former teachers, some stay 96 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:31,280 Speaker 1: at home. You should have a slightly broader talk about diversity. 97 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 1: They can all be white, or black, or Hispanic, whatever else. 98 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 1: But when someone says they feel excluded by my faith 99 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 1: or any other that's a choice you're making. And if 100 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 1: you say, I'm not sure I'm going to vote Republican 101 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 1: because of your faith, have you ever listened to what 102 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:53,679 Speaker 1: the Democrats say. I find it interesting how people expect 103 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:56,320 Speaker 1: things out of Republicans they don't expect out of Democrats. 104 00:07:56,480 --> 00:08:02,119 Speaker 1: You're Jewish, you're not Christian, That's okay. Not Polina had allgo. 105 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:05,280 Speaker 1: Was swept into office in twenty eighteen with the Blue Wave, 106 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:11,360 Speaker 1: well funded, well organized, Harris County residents, Harris County government 107 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:15,040 Speaker 1: insiders will come and said, what just happened? Edmittt was 108 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:18,160 Speaker 1: doing a pretty good job. I bet Edimittt was never 109 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:21,400 Speaker 1: at a Republican gathering you were at. He was not 110 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 1: particularly partisan. Edimittt had been a state rep many years before, 111 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 1: and he had gone from that to being a transportation consultant. 112 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:39,079 Speaker 1: Ed Emmett is not a particularly partisan or ideological person. 113 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:44,440 Speaker 1: He's kind of a good government, big government my opinion, 114 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 1: but a good government guy. He can be very very arrogant, 115 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:52,480 Speaker 1: and I told him this, I've said this on the air. 116 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:55,280 Speaker 1: I'm not saying anything I've said before. He can be 117 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:59,679 Speaker 1: very arrogant in the way that a person who studies 118 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:03,360 Speaker 1: on and learns about things more than most people can be. 119 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 1: There is a sense that you don't know what I 120 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:10,120 Speaker 1: know about what I know. This is the This is 121 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:14,280 Speaker 1: not the Dunning uh was it Dunning Creaker effect where 122 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 1: people think they know more than they do. 123 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 2: This is. 124 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:24,640 Speaker 1: It's a function of you know, Sometimes administrators at school 125 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 1: can be very dismissive of parents who come to the 126 00:09:30,679 --> 00:09:33,680 Speaker 1: school to complain about discipline that's been administered to their child, 127 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 1: and the administrator has the non plussed, disdainful tone that 128 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:44,120 Speaker 1: I know this business, you don't. I do this all day, 129 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:50,280 Speaker 1: you don't. Not always the best approach, but Edimmett was 130 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:54,600 Speaker 1: primarily a good government guap. Things should work, they should 131 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:57,199 Speaker 1: work well. Here's the county. Government should not need to 132 00:09:57,240 --> 00:09:59,560 Speaker 1: be in the news. We should pick up the trash, 133 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:02,199 Speaker 1: we should provide for the drainage, should make sure the 134 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 1: Sheriff's department and the constables have the money they need 135 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:08,439 Speaker 1: to do what they do. He has more of a 136 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:13,240 Speaker 1: kind of a big project mindset and echos does to 137 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:16,319 Speaker 1: be clear than I do. So we just disagree on that, 138 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:19,760 Speaker 1: and I don't take that personally, but most people would agree. 139 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 1: The county was doing well under at Emmittt and all 140 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 1: of a sudden, Lena Hudoggo gets elected and nobody knows. 141 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 1: I'm getting calls and emails who's Lena Hudggo from Democrats 142 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:32,240 Speaker 1: and I would say, she's your candidate, Why are you 143 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 1: asking me? I have no idea who she is. I 144 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:36,040 Speaker 1: don't know who. I didn't know she was running. I'm 145 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:38,760 Speaker 1: blown away. I spoke to edim at that day and 146 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:40,640 Speaker 1: we were both sort of fibergasts, And how did this happen? 147 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:46,320 Speaker 1: So Lena Headogg is now put in there. Rodney's behind 148 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 1: all this. They get this old white guy who'd originally 149 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:49,719 Speaker 1: filed to pull out. I think he went to work 150 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:53,679 Speaker 1: in the office so he got paid. And so now 151 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 1: Rodney's little puppet is running the county, which means Rodney's 152 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:01,720 Speaker 1: running the county. And so Rodney set up a lot 153 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:04,679 Speaker 1: of nice articles and all she had to do, all 154 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:07,760 Speaker 1: she had to do was was be like the you know, 155 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:11,520 Speaker 1: the inheritor of the kingdom. She did the interviews, she 156 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:14,880 Speaker 1: gave the little uh, you know, the platitudes of well 157 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:21,480 Speaker 1: as a Latina who's an immigrant, who speaks Spanish, who 158 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:24,920 Speaker 1: is a girl in what's always been an old white 159 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:32,199 Speaker 1: man county. It's really nice seeing change, seeing people invested 160 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:38,040 Speaker 1: in equitable solutions to intractable problems, just all the same 161 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:44,000 Speaker 1: old crap you hear, and fast forward twenty twenty two, 162 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:47,520 Speaker 1: blooms off the rows, Alex Meter runs, wins, but they 163 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:50,040 Speaker 1: don't send the ballots out so Republicans can't vote last day, 164 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:53,000 Speaker 1: which is why you don't wait till the end, and 165 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 1: she's worn out her welcome by then, and Democrats start 166 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 1: realizing we're going to lose this power. Sence, there's a 167 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:02,960 Speaker 1: lot of money at the county, a lot of money 168 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:04,599 Speaker 1: that goes to engineering firms, a lot of money that 169 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:07,240 Speaker 1: goes to causes. There are more people than you would 170 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:10,520 Speaker 1: imagine who are political consultants who live off the city 171 00:12:10,559 --> 00:12:15,520 Speaker 1: in the county. They have contracts to count people for 172 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:20,000 Speaker 1: the census. They have contracts to do public outreach to 173 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:23,720 Speaker 1: cripple people and retarded people and black people and poor people, 174 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:27,560 Speaker 1: and you don't know that that's how they pay their bills. 175 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:31,080 Speaker 1: I remember when I first got to city council, there 176 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:33,599 Speaker 1: were so many people that came around and I didn't know. 177 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:37,880 Speaker 1: They were charming, and their claim to fame was they 178 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:40,679 Speaker 1: had once worked for this mayor or once worked for 179 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:44,480 Speaker 1: this person. And you would kind of keep an eye 180 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:47,000 Speaker 1: on them and wonder how do they pay their bills 181 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:52,120 Speaker 1: because they didn't have a day job. But they were 182 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:54,920 Speaker 1: always at the party, they were always at the events. 183 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:57,680 Speaker 1: They'd show up at city council for no good reason. 184 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:01,120 Speaker 1: Just sit through a meeting. I wonder why that they're 185 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:04,559 Speaker 1: getting paid out of campaigns, out of government. So this 186 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:06,080 Speaker 1: is a big This is a bit and there are 187 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:08,160 Speaker 1: a lot of those people, but they're kind of a 188 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:10,679 Speaker 1: fact tot them. You know, they're the one you there, 189 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:12,960 Speaker 1: your boy Friday. They're the one that goes and picks 190 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 1: stuff up and drops things off and does this and 191 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:17,400 Speaker 1: does this. They make themselves useful to politicians and they 192 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:21,120 Speaker 1: keep a steady income coming. Well Lena. It was clear 193 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:22,800 Speaker 1: that Lena wasn't going to be able to hold onto this, 194 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:27,040 Speaker 1: so Anicee Porker was put up to run. And originally 195 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:29,319 Speaker 1: Rodney was going to fight back because this was a 196 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:32,319 Speaker 1: challenge to him. And then Rodney decided, no, no, no, 197 00:13:32,559 --> 00:13:34,560 Speaker 1: I'm going to make right with her, and so they 198 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:36,920 Speaker 1: had kind of a pow wow and a Dayton. They're 199 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 1: going to fight. A niece is very head strong. I 200 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:41,920 Speaker 1: know her very well. We sat next to each other 201 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:45,880 Speaker 1: on city council. She's very headstrong and she's not going 202 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:48,200 Speaker 1: she will tell Rodney whatever he needs to hear right 203 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 1: now to get elected. But once she's in office, he's 204 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:52,880 Speaker 1: not going to be telling her what to do. They'll 205 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:55,079 Speaker 1: cut some deals, but by and large she's going to 206 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:56,679 Speaker 1: push back. It's going to be like Kim oug was 207 00:13:56,720 --> 00:14:00,559 Speaker 1: with him, I mean very similar. So as forward, and 208 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:03,920 Speaker 1: so it became the case that Lena was having meltdowns, 209 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:06,959 Speaker 1: constantly breakdown meltdowns. She went to the looney bin. She 210 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:09,920 Speaker 1: couldn't make decisions, and it was expected that she had 211 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:12,040 Speaker 1: to make decisions and Rodney had to be careful how 212 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:15,120 Speaker 1: he made decisions for her because it was getting awkward. Remember, 213 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:16,960 Speaker 1: she was out. It was like al Hague when Nixon 214 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:19,840 Speaker 1: went I'm in charge. When she was at the looney bin. 215 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 1: They didn't tell anybody. So she'd been out for two 216 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:25,600 Speaker 1: months and Rodney said, yes, she's getting the help she 217 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:30,440 Speaker 1: so desperately needs. And that's brave. Okay, it's brave because 218 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:32,080 Speaker 1: that's what you're supposed to say, right, It's brave to 219 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:35,200 Speaker 1: get the help you need. So she's being brave, so brave, 220 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:38,400 Speaker 1: getting the help she needs and Rodney's in charge. Well 221 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:41,320 Speaker 1: who decided Rodney was in charge. He's not the county judge. 222 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 1: So he created a county administrator. We've had two of 223 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:51,200 Speaker 1: them within the last couple of years, and they make 224 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:54,400 Speaker 1: a fortune. The last room made four hundred and eighteen 225 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:57,560 Speaker 1: thousand dollars a year. Wait, what for a whole new 226 00:14:57,600 --> 00:15:01,360 Speaker 1: department you've created that Rodney runs. Well, now we have 227 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:06,360 Speaker 1: a new county administrator and you'll never gets to Rodney 228 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:06,920 Speaker 1: put in there. 229 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:10,160 Speaker 2: Exclusively produced by Hawaiian Chad Makanishi. 230 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:17,120 Speaker 1: Aloha bro Ha a Michael Barry show. Oh Yes, the 231 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:26,600 Speaker 1: money Man Kenny Duncan Junior Whom's us coins is a huge, huge, 232 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:51,960 Speaker 1: huge Eddie Money fan. Oh turned up so Eddie Money 233 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:55,320 Speaker 1: would become available. Count of thing. You can't see it 234 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 1: too often. We did it about every two years. It 235 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:02,080 Speaker 1: was twenty five thousand, and I would always worry that's 236 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 1: a lot to raise tickets off of because we weren't 237 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:09,360 Speaker 1: set up like the House of Blues or traditional concert venues. 238 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 1: Main Street Crossing has got a real good deal. The 239 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:14,960 Speaker 1: way they work there is that he really works it. 240 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:19,000 Speaker 1: But where you sell the tickets, you've got an audience 241 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:22,119 Speaker 1: of people who buy tickets, and you manage that emailness 242 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:24,400 Speaker 1: and you've got a program for them. You got to 243 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:27,960 Speaker 1: book artists based on what they'll buy, and then you 244 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:30,000 Speaker 1: got to promote the show, and you got to hope 245 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:32,680 Speaker 1: that the artists themselves, promotes the show, and you sell 246 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:34,760 Speaker 1: out your tickets, and that's that. We weren't really built 247 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:39,400 Speaker 1: on that. We were really hanging out where people like 248 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:44,720 Speaker 1: minded people kind of place, and we had concerts. So 249 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 1: I would book people that I knew their music and 250 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:51,120 Speaker 1: I liked their music and hoped that you liked their 251 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:55,400 Speaker 1: music too. It almost without fail, we were able to 252 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 1: make that, to make that work. But we were not 253 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:01,120 Speaker 1: a traditional music venue driven by the music or the venue. 254 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:04,399 Speaker 1: It was the people inside. And that's always I've always 255 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:06,399 Speaker 1: understood that that you got to know who and what 256 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 1: you are and what you're not and anyway, so I 257 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:13,560 Speaker 1: would always worry about selling tickets or the money man. 258 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:16,560 Speaker 1: And I would call Kenny Duncan Junior at US Coins 259 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 1: and say, hey, I got a chance to get Eddie money. 260 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:21,680 Speaker 1: And he'd say the money man, and I'd say, yes, 261 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:24,880 Speaker 1: the money man, how much? And I'd say ten grand, 262 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:27,919 Speaker 1: And so we would sponsor it as Eddie money presented 263 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:31,719 Speaker 1: by US Coins and he would put up the ten 264 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:34,640 Speaker 1: So then it would reduce the pressure to hit twenty 265 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:38,679 Speaker 1: five thousand ticket sales. Now I could price this thing. 266 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:41,760 Speaker 1: We only had to sell fifteen thousand tickets, which I 267 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:44,600 Speaker 1: didn't worry about doing, and it just changed the whole 268 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:49,159 Speaker 1: economics on the deal. He would get an area up front, 269 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:51,359 Speaker 1: all his you know, his own area. He'd get all 270 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:53,600 Speaker 1: the naming so on the show, every time I'd mentioned 271 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:56,280 Speaker 1: that Eddie money was coming up, get us coins worked 272 00:17:56,280 --> 00:17:58,840 Speaker 1: in there, and it worked anyway. I just always thinking 273 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:01,399 Speaker 1: of Kim Duncan Junior when I, uh, when I think 274 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:02,840 Speaker 1: of the money man, Why are you on the phone? 275 00:18:03,840 --> 00:18:05,119 Speaker 1: What people call? 276 00:18:05,359 --> 00:18:05,479 Speaker 2: Oh? 277 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:08,119 Speaker 1: You talked to him? Did you tell me? Charlotte cu 278 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 1: Liocker voted? What you say? How you're doing this? 279 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:15,520 Speaker 3: Shirley cue lick I Aim went to the Orange Public 280 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:18,520 Speaker 3: Library this Mornia, and I signed up to vote for 281 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:21,840 Speaker 3: this people's and uh, the woman asked me three times? 282 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:25,200 Speaker 3: Is you sure you picked the right cadegirl? I said yes, ma'am, 283 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:26,359 Speaker 3: I is a Republican. 284 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:27,199 Speaker 1: She said, okay. 285 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:31,800 Speaker 3: Then I snuck out the paperwork that Mica Berry print 286 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:33,399 Speaker 3: out for who to vote for. 287 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:37,240 Speaker 1: Because I don't know these men's or women's I don't 288 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:38,119 Speaker 1: study all that. 289 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:41,440 Speaker 3: I got too much going on over here to deal 290 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:45,160 Speaker 3: with figuring out what the difference is between Westlake Corning 291 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:48,960 Speaker 3: and John Abbott Hunts Paixton. 292 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:48,840 Speaker 2: And all that. 293 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:53,800 Speaker 1: I ain't got time for that, honey. I got prescriptions 294 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:54,879 Speaker 1: waiting at Walwings. 295 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:58,080 Speaker 3: It needs to get picked up. I'm still trying to 296 00:18:58,119 --> 00:19:01,600 Speaker 3: find a correct savings card anyway, Maca Bell, I want 297 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:03,840 Speaker 3: you to know I have voted like you asked me to. 298 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:05,040 Speaker 1: Praise the Lord. 299 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:08,800 Speaker 3: Thank you Jesus for democracy of the United States. 300 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:18,600 Speaker 1: Hey, all right, there was a suicide on the University 301 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:23,000 Speaker 1: of Texas campus yesterday and my wife and I were 302 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:29,600 Speaker 1: talking about it late end of the night. Because I 303 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:34,840 Speaker 1: have been around suicide, and I'm not saying I'm an expert, 304 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:38,159 Speaker 1: but I feel like I have a better understanding of 305 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:41,520 Speaker 1: this process than maybe some people do, because I've devoted 306 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:44,320 Speaker 1: a fair amount of my life to studying it. And 307 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:45,919 Speaker 1: one of the things that never comes out is how 308 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:48,119 Speaker 1: much pain the person who takes your own life is in. 309 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:53,280 Speaker 1: I hear people say it's a cowardly thing to do. 310 00:19:56,119 --> 00:19:58,680 Speaker 1: That's the stupidest thing you can ever say. It's not 311 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:04,080 Speaker 1: a cowardly thing to do at all. It's an understandably 312 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:09,080 Speaker 1: painful thing to do. And you have to have been 313 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:15,160 Speaker 1: suffering so bad that you believed irrationally that ending your 314 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:18,520 Speaker 1: own life would somehow improve the situation, and it does 315 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:23,119 Speaker 1: for you, but then you transfer all that pain to 316 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:26,360 Speaker 1: the other people, and now are the people. And if 317 00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:30,440 Speaker 1: you've ever lost someone to suicide, it's one of the 318 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:35,960 Speaker 1: most difficult deaths to grieve. If your friend is killed 319 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:41,119 Speaker 1: in a auto accident, you don't feel guilt over it. 320 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:44,440 Speaker 1: Now you're wailing Jennings. You may say, ah, I shouldn't 321 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:49,040 Speaker 1: have said I hope the plane crashes. If you're a parent, 322 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:51,080 Speaker 1: you'll say, oh, I shouldn't let him go to school there. 323 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:52,879 Speaker 1: If he'd gone to school over here, he wouldn't have 324 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,600 Speaker 1: fallen in with that crowd. Or I shouldn't let her 325 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:57,000 Speaker 1: go out with that guy. She hadn't gone out with 326 00:20:57,080 --> 00:20:59,600 Speaker 1: that guy he you know, she wouldn't have been in 327 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:01,399 Speaker 1: that place at that time. And we're always going to 328 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:05,680 Speaker 1: have some level of guilt. But with suicide, you question 329 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:11,760 Speaker 1: every decision you've ever made. And it's a very slow 330 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:16,359 Speaker 1: heel if ever, because you always think, why didn't I 331 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 1: see the signs? Why didn't I recognize the signs that 332 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:25,440 Speaker 1: were there that I didn't understand as the signs. It's tough, 333 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:30,080 Speaker 1: but we were going through in the lives of our 334 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:34,120 Speaker 1: children and Michael T's twenty and my wife pointed out 335 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:39,960 Speaker 1: that there have been four kids within one hundred feet 336 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:41,760 Speaker 1: of him at some point in his life, at some 337 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:43,680 Speaker 1: point where he was at that time, take their own life. 338 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:52,520 Speaker 1: It's a lot. It's a lot. You know, what little 339 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:55,399 Speaker 1: work we do, we mostly just promote a great mission 340 00:21:55,560 --> 00:22:01,760 Speaker 1: for Camp Hope revolves around PTA and suicide. The reason 341 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:05,480 Speaker 1: you know of PTSD is the suicide aspect of it. 342 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:07,879 Speaker 1: You know, the numbers of how many people take their 343 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:11,920 Speaker 1: lives every day. It's crazy, it's crazy how high that 344 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:15,479 Speaker 1: number is. What you don't hear which wouldn't make as 345 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:18,119 Speaker 1: much of a headline or isn't as easy a you know, 346 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:21,960 Speaker 1: a throwdown statement is the pain and suffering that people 347 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:25,400 Speaker 1: go through that don't commit suicide, or before they commit suicide, 348 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:28,280 Speaker 1: which is what leads to so much suicide to make 349 00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:32,080 Speaker 1: the pain stop. And it's not just the emotional trauma, 350 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:37,680 Speaker 1: the TBI, the physical pain. It is that you had 351 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:40,320 Speaker 1: hopes for your life as to what you were going 352 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:43,120 Speaker 1: to do. You were going to be Donald Trump, although 353 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:45,520 Speaker 1: that's real estate or politics. You were going to be 354 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:47,399 Speaker 1: Lei Hkoca, whoever it was you were going to be. 355 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:50,280 Speaker 1: You were going to pastor the biggest church you were 356 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:53,680 Speaker 1: going to do, and now you've got two phony convictions 357 00:22:54,400 --> 00:23:00,240 Speaker 1: driving drunk, drug use and all that. So anyway, anything 358 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:02,280 Speaker 1: to say, I don't have anything useful to add to that. 359 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:09,000 Speaker 1: It's just on my heart. So Michael Arry Show continues 360 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:20,159 Speaker 1: a number of emails asking what to do because there 361 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:26,800 Speaker 1: are so many conflicting messages. Again, anytime you find yourself 362 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:33,320 Speaker 1: in a frenzied position, whatever is causing that panic in 363 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:39,280 Speaker 1: your life, turn it off and step back from it. 364 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:44,120 Speaker 1: I got some Look at all these messages I'm getting, 365 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:48,320 Speaker 1: all this mail I'm getting, Michael, look at this. Look 366 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:51,040 Speaker 1: at I'm show your here. I got fourteen pieces of mail. 367 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:59,480 Speaker 1: The smart thing for me to do would be to say, yes, 368 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:05,679 Speaker 1: that is ridiculous, those swamp rat bastards mailing you all 369 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,840 Speaker 1: this crap and the hell you're having to go through 370 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:15,680 Speaker 1: because of it. But I don't feel that way. Nobody 371 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:19,520 Speaker 1: likes getting a bunch of junk mail. But if we're honest, 372 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:24,040 Speaker 1: you get junk mail every day. You get stupid junk 373 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:29,080 Speaker 1: mail every day, some gutter company, roofing company, flooring company. 374 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:33,480 Speaker 1: You get a magazine you didn't sign up for, it's 375 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:36,640 Speaker 1: glossy from your neighborhood. It's got some profile somewady from 376 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:39,000 Speaker 1: your neighborhood. It's got a bunch of ads in it. 377 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:42,720 Speaker 1: You get a bunch of stupid stuff in the mail 378 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:47,520 Speaker 1: every day. Sign up for your title's going to be stolen. 379 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:49,800 Speaker 1: Your car's going to be stolen. You need to register this. 380 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,480 Speaker 1: You need to protect your identity. You know every bit 381 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:56,440 Speaker 1: of it. People are talking to you every day. Every 382 00:24:56,480 --> 00:25:00,800 Speaker 1: time we go to break somebody wants you buy something. 383 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:06,480 Speaker 1: That's that's the business right. Every day you open your mailbox, 384 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:11,400 Speaker 1: you're going to get all that junk. Your overall mail 385 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:15,440 Speaker 1: may not have increased that much marginally, it's just that 386 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:19,920 Speaker 1: it's political stuff. Well, it's so negative, don't read it. 387 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:23,440 Speaker 1: I don't know what to do. I know who to choose. 388 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:26,800 Speaker 1: You ever served on a jury. You might have some 389 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:30,440 Speaker 1: guy up for murder, and you got the prosecution telling 390 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:34,320 Speaker 1: you he did it, he murdered somebody. You got the 391 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:37,639 Speaker 1: defense telling you you're gonna send this guy to a cage, 392 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:41,160 Speaker 1: innocent for the rest of his life. And they both 393 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:44,040 Speaker 1: make very good points, and they both have experts to 394 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:47,440 Speaker 1: prove their points. And now you have to make this 395 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:54,320 Speaker 1: tough decision, what to do? We make decisions. Truth is, 396 00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:59,560 Speaker 1: most people have a lot of trouble making decisions. Most 397 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:03,800 Speaker 1: people really, really really have difficulty making decisions. It's why 398 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:07,040 Speaker 1: leadership is difficult. Because leaders have to make decisions. Most 399 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:10,119 Speaker 1: people don't make decisions. A lot of people sit up 400 00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:12,200 Speaker 1: in the stands and criticize the call that the coach 401 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:15,560 Speaker 1: made on third and one, but they've never had to 402 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:19,080 Speaker 1: make a call ever. And the way that goes is 403 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:22,880 Speaker 1: on third and one, if the coach does a fake 404 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:29,480 Speaker 1: half back dive, calls a fake half back dive, quarterback 405 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:33,000 Speaker 1: pops up, tight end has released, throws a little seven 406 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:39,359 Speaker 1: yarder that goes for fifty yards. Brilliant. Yay, my team, 407 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:43,280 Speaker 1: Your team sucks. My team's great. Good call, coach. If 408 00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:46,280 Speaker 1: the same play the tight end babble the ball and 409 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:48,480 Speaker 1: didn't catch it, coach is an idiot. It's still the 410 00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:55,000 Speaker 1: same call. Coach is an absolute idiot. Making decisions is tough. 411 00:26:55,640 --> 00:27:07,000 Speaker 1: Self governance is difficult, but somehow we do it. Oh, honestly, 412 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:11,600 Speaker 1: we're made of sterner stuff. Imagine telling your grandpa who 413 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:16,640 Speaker 1: landed at Omaha in Normandy. Imagine telling bum Phillips after 414 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:21,000 Speaker 1: he came back from Japan washing people murdered as a 415 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:25,080 Speaker 1: marine that you're really, really, really upset. I understand the 416 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:28,159 Speaker 1: difficulties of how tough the Japanese were to fight. I 417 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:29,920 Speaker 1: get it, But you know what I was doing while 418 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:32,600 Speaker 1: you were gone. One day, I had eight pieces of 419 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:36,640 Speaker 1: mail for one race. Uh you think you had it, Rolph. 420 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:41,440 Speaker 1: Let's take a breath. This will be over in two weeks. 421 00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:47,400 Speaker 1: Let's take a breath and relax. It's political season. We're 422 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:50,920 Speaker 1: being asked to make decisions for those of you moms 423 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:54,600 Speaker 1: and to a lesser extent, dads and brides. How stressed 424 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:57,239 Speaker 1: out you were before the wedding? You had to make 425 00:27:57,280 --> 00:28:01,960 Speaker 1: decisions that particular flower you want it's not in stop 426 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:05,400 Speaker 1: and it's last minute. Oh my god, we've chosen Pete 427 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:07,240 Speaker 1: and all they have is yellow. What are we gonna do? 428 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:13,200 Speaker 1: The dress didn't come in the caterer's late. All of 429 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:15,760 Speaker 1: this came at you and you're not used to having 430 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:19,159 Speaker 1: to make decisions, and you had to make decisions, right. 431 00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:22,840 Speaker 1: That's what this is about. This is what self governance 432 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:29,320 Speaker 1: looks like. We're going to make these decisions because we 433 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:32,360 Speaker 1: are the decision makers. Do you want this decision left 434 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,359 Speaker 1: to someone else because they don't have your best interests. 435 00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:39,040 Speaker 1: Your vote is only one vote. You're not individually going 436 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:45,320 Speaker 1: to choose anything. Your vote almost doesn't matter, except that 437 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,240 Speaker 1: every little drop in the ocean accounts for the ocean. 438 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:51,520 Speaker 1: So you are going to vote, and it's going to 439 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:54,040 Speaker 1: be imperfect, and you're going to vote for some people 440 00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:56,800 Speaker 1: that are going to disappoint you, and you're going to 441 00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,600 Speaker 1: not vote for somebody who would have done a good job, 442 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:02,120 Speaker 1: and you're gonna let it feel bad about that, and 443 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:06,760 Speaker 1: that's the process. It is imperfect. Well, they just need 444 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:10,160 Speaker 1: to stop with the TV commercials. Why because every TV 445 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:12,720 Speaker 1: commercial reminds you that you have to make a decision, 446 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:16,920 Speaker 1: and we don't want to make that decision. You're reminding 447 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:18,720 Speaker 1: me that I have to choose whether you're a lying 448 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:21,000 Speaker 1: or telling the truth. Because maybe that guy really is 449 00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:23,960 Speaker 1: has comeback and I needed to know that because I 450 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:25,440 Speaker 1: didn't know it unless you told me. I don't want 451 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:28,680 Speaker 1: to find out later. Or maybe he's an upstanding guy 452 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,400 Speaker 1: and you're saying he's a comeback, and maybe you really 453 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:34,240 Speaker 1: really love Trump and you've been a big supporter of 454 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:38,720 Speaker 1: Trump and I need to know that, Or maybe you're 455 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:42,400 Speaker 1: John Corn or Dan Crenshaw who's worked against Trump, and 456 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:46,600 Speaker 1: I need to know that hard to know you got 457 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,560 Speaker 1: to feel for the guy who's a decent guy, Steve Toad, 458 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:51,920 Speaker 1: for instance. That Crenshaw's just calling the worst names. I mean, 459 00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 1: it's awful. 460 00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,280 Speaker 2: My name is Steve McCracken, and I'm running for your 461 00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:01,640 Speaker 2: local senate st Now, I'm a simple man, and I 462 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:04,720 Speaker 2: grew up on this farm, raised by my grandparents. I 463 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:08,000 Speaker 2: never knew my parents, but my grandparents raised me like 464 00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:11,760 Speaker 2: I was there. Oh, Steve McCracken comes from a broken family. Now, 465 00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:14,760 Speaker 2: the Second Amendment, that is something I cherish. Why my 466 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:17,920 Speaker 2: Grandpapy gave me my first twenty two rifle told me 467 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,200 Speaker 2: to help him get rid of those pesky squirrels that 468 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:23,960 Speaker 2: were eating on his domate. Steve McCracken murdered innocent squirrels 469 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,360 Speaker 2: for pure pleasure. Now, I walked that dirt road right 470 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,720 Speaker 2: over there every day to school. In in sixth grade, 471 00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:34,520 Speaker 2: I met that pretty Sally bought cha. Steve McCracken prayed 472 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:37,520 Speaker 2: on innocent children at a young age. Oh, Sally won 473 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:40,160 Speaker 2: my heart, and when we were nineteen, I proposed to 474 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:43,040 Speaker 2: her right over there in that field. What Steve McCracken 475 00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:45,320 Speaker 2: is in telling is that while proposing to Sally, his 476 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,640 Speaker 2: knee crushed a group of blue bodies, murdering the Texas 477 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:52,320 Speaker 2: State Flower. Now we didn't have much money, so that 478 00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:55,760 Speaker 2: summer I worked three jobs, made just enough to build 479 00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:56,600 Speaker 2: us a chapel. 480 00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:58,000 Speaker 1: Did you see right over. 481 00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:01,720 Speaker 2: There Steve McCracken is really is radical, with no respect 482 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 2: for separation of church and state, building a church on 483 00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:08,200 Speaker 2: his own land. By the grace of God, we had 484 00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:11,320 Speaker 2: two beautiful children, turned our little chapel into a church 485 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:14,640 Speaker 2: with a growing congregation of two hundred praising the Lord 486 00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:18,400 Speaker 2: every Sunday. Steve McCracken is the leader of a cult. 487 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,440 Speaker 2: My name is Steve McCracken, and I prove this message. 488 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:25,680 Speaker 1: Of course he does. Steve McCracken the ultimate narcissist.