1 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:11,719 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So 2 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 1: Michael Varry Show is on the air. I grew up 3 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:34,320 Speaker 1: two hours southeast of Houston. 4 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:38,560 Speaker 2: Those of you in Louisiana, you will recognize the name 5 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:44,440 Speaker 2: Orange Texas. It's I've always said, it's more southwest Louisiana 6 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 2: than southwest Southeast Texas. It's more southwest Louisiana than it 7 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:55,280 Speaker 2: is Southeast Texas. If you drive I ten from California 8 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:58,800 Speaker 2: to Florida or back, it will take you through the 9 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 2: easternmost little town on the way out of Texas into Louisiana, 10 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:08,320 Speaker 2: or in reverse on the border. And that is Orange, 11 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:11,560 Speaker 2: known for chemical plants, which my dad worked at as 12 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:16,680 Speaker 2: a maintenance work. So we didn't have any professional sports 13 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:20,720 Speaker 2: teams close by. We rooted for the Houston teams. My 14 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 2: parents rooted for the Cowboys, as many people do. I 15 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:26,959 Speaker 2: hated the Cowboys, I think partly to be a contrarian, 16 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:32,160 Speaker 2: and yeah, probably mostly to be a contrarian. I followed 17 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:36,760 Speaker 2: the Houston Oilers of Dan Pasterini, Bum Phillips, Earl Campbell, 18 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:42,120 Speaker 2: Elvin Bethay fame, and I followed the Houston Astros, and 19 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:47,760 Speaker 2: I followed the Houston Rockets and although we didn't get 20 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 2: the Rockets on local television, so we had some lean years, 21 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 2: Houston didn't. I was a sports fanatic. Un mean, probably 22 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 2: some of you as adults are still this way. But 23 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 2: I worked washing cars and cutting grass so I could 24 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:06,720 Speaker 2: buy a Sporting news subscription because I wanted to get 25 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 2: all the box scores. I kept score at area league 26 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 2: games when our teams weren't playing. I lived for the 27 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 2: score book. I lived for what's called keeping score keeping, 28 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 2: the book of what happened. 29 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:24,120 Speaker 1: You get paid by the local leagues to do that. 30 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:26,800 Speaker 2: I lived for sports, and I wanted my teams to 31 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 2: be good, and unfortunately, we had some good teams and 32 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:31,720 Speaker 2: a lot of bad teams. 33 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 1: The Oilers gave us a lot of glory. 34 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:40,320 Speaker 2: But I recall when the Rockets won the national championship. 35 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:43,800 Speaker 2: It was the first national championship to be won in Houston. 36 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:47,560 Speaker 2: The Bulls had won three in a row. Then we 37 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 2: sweep Orlando Magic. First year that Michael Jordan is out. 38 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:55,799 Speaker 2: We sweep through Orlando Magic when they have Shack and 39 00:02:55,919 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 2: Anthony Penny Hardaway. And then the next year, I'm sorry, 40 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:03,639 Speaker 2: we sweeped the Magic. Next year, first year we won 41 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 2: a national championship. We beat a very very good New 42 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 2: York Next team, a very very good New York Knicks 43 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 2: team in seven games, but nobody saw it because that 44 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 2: was the oj OJ on the Run with Al Cowlling's video, 45 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 2: and they cut away from our beloved Rockets, which was 46 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 2: very sad. 47 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:22,960 Speaker 1: It felt good to. 48 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 2: Have a winner. It felt good to be a winner. 49 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:26,520 Speaker 2: And I was in law school and I refer to 50 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 2: that as my lost decade because I didn't listen to 51 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 2: music or watch TV like I did before. 52 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:33,400 Speaker 1: But I loved those Rockets. 53 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 2: And then we didn't win an Astros championship until twenty seventeen, 54 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 2: and they've been on a tear since then. It felt good. 55 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 2: And we had some really really good teams with the Oilers, 56 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 2: especially in the late seventies under Dan Pasterini and of 57 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 2: course bom Phillips or Ocampbell, and we got very very 58 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 2: close to getting to the super Bowl and winning it all, 59 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 2: but we didn't. And I say all that to say this, 60 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 2: we rooted for some real doll in politics, John McCain 61 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 2: in two thousand and eight. Let's be honest, nobody thought 62 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 2: John McCain should be president. He was just hopefully a 63 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:11,800 Speaker 2: little better than Barack Obama, and somewhere along the way, 64 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 2: in the most ultimate cuckhole move, it kind of felt 65 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 2: like John McCain thought, you know what, Barack Obama ought 66 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 2: to be president. And then in twenty twelve, it almost 67 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:27,359 Speaker 2: seemed like Mitt Romney felt bad about running against the 68 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:30,240 Speaker 2: black guy and he didn't want to be perceived as 69 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:33,120 Speaker 2: a race system. He feared being called a racist more 70 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 2: than he wanted to be president and stop the Obama agenda. 71 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:41,239 Speaker 2: And you know what happened. And then Trump came along. 72 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaker 2: I wasn't for Trump. I don't deny that. I was 73 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:46,440 Speaker 2: for Ted Cruz. I introduced him in Iowa the night 74 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:49,400 Speaker 2: he won Iowa, and he did. I introduced him at 75 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 2: the fairgrounds there to a packed house and national TV audience, 76 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 2: and it was pretty heady time the Cruise campaign won Iowa. 77 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:03,040 Speaker 2: They claimed in the news the next morning that Ben 78 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:06,719 Speaker 2: Carson had won Iowa, and Trump, as the master that 79 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:10,920 Speaker 2: he is, claimed that Cruz had had somehow cheated and 80 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:14,200 Speaker 2: Carson had won. And none of that was true when 81 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 2: the dust settled a week later, although New Hampshire already happened. 82 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:20,279 Speaker 2: Cruse had won Iowa and that was that. But it 83 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:22,520 Speaker 2: didn't matter. He didn't get the bump he needed, and 84 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:24,599 Speaker 2: we'd moved on to New Hampshire and Trump was strong 85 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:29,719 Speaker 2: in New Hampshire and I didn't like Trump. I didn't 86 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:33,080 Speaker 2: believe that Trump would be the president he came to be. 87 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:35,359 Speaker 2: And I care more about the country than Trump or 88 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:37,920 Speaker 2: anybody else. I just want you to understand that. And 89 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 2: our listeners at that time, we weren't nationally syndicated, but 90 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 2: we had a lot of affiliates. They were mad at me, 91 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:51,840 Speaker 2: and understandably so in time, Trump did govern as he 92 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 2: does today. He was willing to take on the establishment, 93 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 2: and I said, that's all I asked, That's wonderful. He's 94 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 2: the best president my lifetime, there's no doubt in my mind. 95 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 2: And I have supported his actions not because I worshiped Trump, 96 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 2: but because I love this country and he is the 97 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:13,120 Speaker 2: guy doing what is necessary to fix this country. Oddly enough, 98 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 2: there are people who were big supporters of him at 99 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:18,159 Speaker 2: the beginning and they abandoned him. And I don't understand that, 100 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:21,159 Speaker 2: because he's been a better president than we could have 101 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:23,919 Speaker 2: ever hoped he would be, and he's done everything he 102 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 2: promised he would do. But when you've rooted for dogs, 103 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:32,520 Speaker 2: when you've had losers for teams so long and you 104 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 2: rooted for him, and now you've finally got somebody worthy 105 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:40,279 Speaker 2: of rooting for. I use the sports analogy because for 106 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 2: many people, I think that rings true. You know, it's 107 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:48,240 Speaker 2: a good feeling. It's a nice feeling to go to 108 00:06:48,279 --> 00:06:51,479 Speaker 2: the stadium believing your team is probably going to win. 109 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:55,400 Speaker 2: It's a nice feeling to end the season with a 110 00:06:55,520 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 2: championship or in the championship. It's a good feeling to 111 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 2: know that we've got an all star cast of folks 112 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 2: running this country. And you have to understand, if you're 113 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 2: a Rockets fan, the Knicks fans aren't going to root 114 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 2: for you. If you're a Longhorn fan, the Aggie fans 115 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 2: aren't going to root for you. If you roll tied, 116 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:20,120 Speaker 2: the War Eagle is not going to root for you. 117 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:23,200 Speaker 2: That's just the way it goes. So you have to 118 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:25,200 Speaker 2: understand that there are people out there that are going 119 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:28,920 Speaker 2: to root against your team, which even if your team 120 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:31,240 Speaker 2: is doing what's best for this country, they're going to 121 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 2: root against this team as a matter of course because 122 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 2: their team's not winning. But just know this, We've got 123 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 2: the right team on the field and everything they do. 124 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:48,800 Speaker 2: Everything they do is hurting their brand. You know, they're 125 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:52,200 Speaker 2: they're making fools of themselves going down to El Salvador, 126 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 2: making absolute fools of themselves with this whole El Salvador 127 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:02,320 Speaker 2: MS thirteen thing. They're making fools of themselves in the schools. 128 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 2: People don't want boys in the girls' bathrooms. People don't 129 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:10,240 Speaker 2: want boys on the sporting field with girls. People don't 130 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 2: want illegal aliens in this country. People don't want murderers 131 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 2: released back out on the streets. I'm not saying that 132 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:21,600 Speaker 2: hoping to convince people. People already hold these values and democrats, 133 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:23,400 Speaker 2: it just gets weirder. 134 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,520 Speaker 1: By the day, and I'm glad for it. Keep going. 135 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:29,400 Speaker 1: You're making bad trades. You're horrible. I whow. 136 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:35,200 Speaker 2: You remember the crying Indian commercial from the seventies. It 137 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:39,640 Speaker 2: started with an Indian feather NOTO Dot, paddling his canoe 138 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:42,960 Speaker 2: up a creek. Turned out he was Italian. I think, 139 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:47,480 Speaker 2: not an Indian, but hey, the Indians got it so bad. 140 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 2: He don't even get to play himself. When he gets out, 141 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:56,000 Speaker 2: he sees trash on the shore. Then someone throws trash 142 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:59,440 Speaker 2: out of their car window and he sheds a single 143 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 2: tear remember that commercial. 144 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:05,560 Speaker 3: Some people have a deep, combiding respect for the natural 145 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 3: beauty that was once this country, and some people don't. 146 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:20,840 Speaker 1: People starting pollution. People kind of stopped right for pollution. 147 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:25,080 Speaker 3: Booklet Bucks, seventeen seventy one Radio City Station, New. 148 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,080 Speaker 1: York, Send us some money. 149 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:31,679 Speaker 2: The Indian in the commercial was Iron Eyes Cody, or 150 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:36,680 Speaker 2: so we were told. He was born Espeta Oscar de Courti. 151 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:41,319 Speaker 2: He was an American actor of Italian descent who portrayed 152 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:46,559 Speaker 2: Native Americans in Hollywood films, including the role of Chief 153 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:50,079 Speaker 2: ironized in Bob Hope's The Pale Face in nineteen forty eight. 154 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:54,040 Speaker 2: Lived in Hollywood, and he began to insist even in 155 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:57,360 Speaker 2: his private life that he was Native American, over time, 156 00:09:57,440 --> 00:09:59,640 Speaker 2: claiming membership in several different tribes. 157 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:01,040 Speaker 1: He would forget what he'd said. 158 00:10:01,679 --> 00:10:04,200 Speaker 2: Nineteen ninety six, his half sister said that he was 159 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:08,439 Speaker 2: of Italian ancestry, but he denied it. After his death 160 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:11,960 Speaker 2: it was revealed that he was of Sicilian parentage and 161 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:14,040 Speaker 2: not Native American at all. I mean, he could have 162 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:18,719 Speaker 2: been in The Godfather movies. It's not only entertainers who 163 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 2: do this. The Left loves to pretend they are a 164 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:24,360 Speaker 2: member of a minority group. They love it, they get. 165 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:26,440 Speaker 1: Off on it. It's their mother's milk. 166 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:29,360 Speaker 4: Remember, so, centered, why did you list yourself as an 167 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 4: American Union on this Texas bar application? 168 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:39,120 Speaker 5: So this was about thirty years ago. And I am 169 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:44,200 Speaker 5: not a tribal citizen. Tribes and only tribes determined citizenship. 170 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 5: When I was growing up in Oklahoma, I learned about 171 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:52,880 Speaker 5: my family the same way most people do. My brothers 172 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:55,480 Speaker 5: and I learned from our mom and our dad, and 173 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:59,119 Speaker 5: our brothers and our sisters, and those were our family stories. 174 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:05,000 Speaker 5: But that said, there really is an important distinction of 175 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:09,360 Speaker 5: tribal citizenship. I am not a member of the tribe, 176 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 5: and I have apologized for not being more sensitive to 177 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:18,079 Speaker 5: that distinction. It's an important distinction. 178 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 4: The President has made the case that you have used 179 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:23,560 Speaker 4: this part of your background to get ahead. Are you 180 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:26,160 Speaker 4: saying that this is something you fundamentally believed about yourself, 181 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:27,119 Speaker 4: or how do you respond. 182 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:27,599 Speaker 1: To that criticism. 183 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:31,040 Speaker 4: This was a knowing attempt to get ahead by using 184 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:32,760 Speaker 4: that claim of ancestry. 185 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:37,479 Speaker 5: So that is a claim that has been fully investigated, 186 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:43,280 Speaker 5: and it has now been shown completely that nothing about 187 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 5: my background ever had anything to do with any job 188 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:51,839 Speaker 5: I got in any place. It's been fully documented and 189 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:56,240 Speaker 5: there's no evidence of any kind other than it had 190 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:58,240 Speaker 5: nothing to do my backgrounds. 191 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:02,199 Speaker 6: Were documents or any more forms like this out there 192 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:04,679 Speaker 6: that you have listed yourself as they could come out. 193 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:12,120 Speaker 5: But this is who I grew up believing with my brothers. 194 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:17,720 Speaker 5: This is our family's story, and it's all consistent from 195 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:22,320 Speaker 5: that point in time. But as I say, it's important enough. 196 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:26,000 Speaker 5: I'm not a tribal citizen and I should have been 197 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:31,000 Speaker 5: more just more mindful of the distinction with tribal citizenship 198 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:35,360 Speaker 5: and tribal sovereignty. And that is why I apologize to 199 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:39,440 Speaker 5: Chief Baker and why I've made a very public apology. 200 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:45,880 Speaker 2: Forget the tribes. She's not an engine at all. Remember 201 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:49,559 Speaker 2: the former NAACP leader Rachel dolas All. She wasn't black, 202 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:52,320 Speaker 2: she was white as all get out, but she identified 203 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:52,800 Speaker 2: as black. 204 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:55,959 Speaker 7: So what I say to them is, you know, I 205 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:58,320 Speaker 7: don't I don't give to what you guys think. 206 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:02,320 Speaker 1: You know, like you're at your far done and out 207 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:03,360 Speaker 1: of my life. 208 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:06,200 Speaker 8: The president of the NAACP, who we think is a 209 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:08,960 Speaker 8: black woman who says she's the victim of hate crimes, 210 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:12,640 Speaker 8: might not be black. That seems like a misrepresentation. 211 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 1: I can understand that. 212 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:18,680 Speaker 7: I mean, like I said, it's more important for me 213 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:21,880 Speaker 7: to clarify that with the black community and with my 214 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 7: executive board than it really is to explain it to 215 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:30,120 Speaker 7: a community that I quite frankly don't think, you know, 216 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:34,040 Speaker 7: really understands the definitions of race and ethnicity. 217 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:37,200 Speaker 8: Do you think anyone within the Spokane n DOUBLEACP is 218 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:38,760 Speaker 8: unclear about your identity? 219 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:43,160 Speaker 1: I'm not sure. 220 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:45,720 Speaker 8: Would you identify yourself as an African American? 221 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:50,079 Speaker 7: I actually don't like the term African American. I prefer black, 222 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 7: and I would say that if you know, if I 223 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:58,440 Speaker 7: was asked, I would definitely say that, yes, I do 224 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:00,320 Speaker 7: consider myself to be black. 225 00:14:02,679 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 2: So the reason I bring this up today, there's nothing 226 00:14:07,559 --> 00:14:12,880 Speaker 2: in the news necessarily that this is relevant to. But 227 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:17,199 Speaker 2: I've been noodling on this idea of the mental health 228 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:23,200 Speaker 2: problems of the left and the attempt to change reality, 229 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:30,960 Speaker 2: the inability to live in reality, the pathological nature of 230 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:35,600 Speaker 2: their mindset cannot be reasoned with. This is what leads 231 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:40,080 Speaker 2: you to believe that this past weekend there was an 232 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:45,080 Speaker 2: argument that yes, a man can get pregnant. Well, they're 233 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 2: talking about women who call themselves men but still have 234 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:52,160 Speaker 2: a vagina and fallopian tubes. Okay, well, if you have 235 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:56,440 Speaker 2: a vagina and you're not a man, you can take 236 00:14:56,480 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 2: some testosterone and grow a beard. I think it's gross, 237 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:02,040 Speaker 2: but whatever. You can cut your boobs off, which they do, 238 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:04,920 Speaker 2: and you can do what else they do, which is 239 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:10,040 Speaker 2: undergo a horribly painful disfiguring surgery where they take a 240 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:12,320 Speaker 2: lump of fat and muscle. 241 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:14,680 Speaker 1: From your thigh, leaving you with a massive. 242 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:17,400 Speaker 2: Gash, and they hang a sausage from your but it 243 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 2: doesn't work. So I mean, I guess it's that important 244 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:24,040 Speaker 2: that you have a bulge in your underwear. Put a sop, 245 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:30,280 Speaker 2: good grief what Ramon does. But this is the mental health. 246 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:32,960 Speaker 2: There's more to the story. I'm going No, this is 247 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:35,080 Speaker 2: these people don't live in reality. 248 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:42,160 Speaker 9: There's more to like on Facebook, like the Michael Berry Show. 249 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:46,240 Speaker 1: So I've been sitting on. 250 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:50,400 Speaker 2: This story and meaning to get to it and giving 251 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:57,640 Speaker 2: consideration to the various ways in which the Left have 252 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:03,920 Speaker 2: lost their minds. We can have honest disagreements. We can 253 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:06,920 Speaker 2: disagree about the role of the government in the life 254 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 2: of the citizen. 255 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:10,160 Speaker 1: We can disagree over. 256 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:16,480 Speaker 2: Should taxpayers pay for stadiums in a city to keep 257 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:21,480 Speaker 2: or recruit or tract a professional sports team there. We 258 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:26,160 Speaker 2: can debate whether that's the taxpayer's role or should be 259 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:29,200 Speaker 2: left to the owner, And if the owner won't do it, 260 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:32,880 Speaker 2: we can debate whether that will cost the city more 261 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:35,760 Speaker 2: money than just building the stadium in the first place. 262 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:39,160 Speaker 2: We can have those conversations, and they're good conversations to have. 263 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:44,080 Speaker 2: We can debate corporal punishment. We can debate homeschooling versus 264 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:48,000 Speaker 2: public schools, how much tax is appropriate, and at what 265 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:53,120 Speaker 2: point it stifles entrepreneurism and growth and development. All these 266 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 2: are I don't claim that because we disagree politically the 267 00:16:57,800 --> 00:16:58,960 Speaker 2: other person is an idiot. 268 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:01,720 Speaker 1: I think that's a weak position to take. But what 269 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:02,280 Speaker 1: we have. 270 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:09,760 Speaker 2: Now are people who are crazy, just crazy. Singer songwriter 271 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:14,600 Speaker 2: Buffy Saint Marie became a liberal icon in the sixties 272 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:20,359 Speaker 2: and to this day still is because she claimed she 273 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:27,440 Speaker 2: was Indigenous. But now the Canadian government has stripped her 274 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:32,840 Speaker 2: of this prestigious honor that she received back in twenty 275 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:37,080 Speaker 2: twenty three from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Sorry received, but 276 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:42,280 Speaker 2: the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation uncovered that the Oscar winning singer 277 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:45,520 Speaker 2: who co wrote up Where We Belong for officer and 278 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:50,440 Speaker 2: a Gentleman. There's out she's white and in the seventies 279 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:56,920 Speaker 2: she appeared on Sesame Street claiming that she was indigenous. 280 00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:00,120 Speaker 1: Global News with the story. 281 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:04,840 Speaker 10: In twenty twenty one, Governor General Mary Simon presented Buffy 282 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:07,720 Speaker 10: Saint Marie with a commemorative stamp to. 283 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:09,160 Speaker 1: Me gletch everybody. 284 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:12,679 Speaker 10: Four years later, Simon is the one taking one of 285 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:15,760 Speaker 10: her awards away. At first, it was you know, elation 286 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:18,040 Speaker 10: because you know, like we have been, you know, trying 287 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:19,439 Speaker 10: to set history straight. 288 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:22,760 Speaker 1: But it was also really a very very sad event. 289 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:25,359 Speaker 9: The notice was posted online. 290 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:28,199 Speaker 10: The appointment of Buffy Saint Marie to the Order of 291 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:32,320 Speaker 10: Canada was terminated by ordinance signed by the Governor General 292 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 10: on January third, twenty twenty five. No official reason was given, 293 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:45,240 Speaker 10: but her removal follows a CBC investigation casting doubt on 294 00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:47,360 Speaker 10: her claims of Indigenous roots. 295 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:50,520 Speaker 3: I'm just coming down from visiting my Folks and Cream 296 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:52,000 Speaker 3: Reservation in Canada. 297 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:55,879 Speaker 10: Saint Marie did not respond to Global News request for comment, 298 00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:59,520 Speaker 10: but has previously denied she misrepresented herself. 299 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:03,280 Speaker 5: I'm an artist and activist, a mom. 300 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:06,720 Speaker 11: A survivor and a proud member of the Native community 301 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:08,520 Speaker 11: with deep roots in Canada. 302 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:12,240 Speaker 10: An order of Canada termination is rare. It's only happened 303 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:13,840 Speaker 10: nine times in history. 304 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:19,280 Speaker 11: The public is finally accepting the seriousness of the allegations 305 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:22,399 Speaker 11: against her and that self indigenization is an actual problem. 306 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:25,320 Speaker 11: I think of my great grandmother for blooded Cree woman 307 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:26,200 Speaker 11: Lucy Brenneyes. 308 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 10: Randy Bossno resigned as Employment Minister after shifting claims about 309 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:35,800 Speaker 10: his heritage. Canada's Auditor General is also set to examine 310 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 10: Ottawa's multi billion dollar Indigenous procurement program after a Global 311 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:43,800 Speaker 10: News investigation revealed concerns of abuse. 312 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:47,600 Speaker 11: People have gained a lot financially and in terms of 313 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:51,639 Speaker 11: social capital by playing Indian and how do you possibly 314 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:54,920 Speaker 11: repay that niversal souls? 315 00:19:55,440 --> 00:20:01,280 Speaker 10: Saint Marie has received honorary doctorates people Juno's, even in 316 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:04,520 Speaker 10: auscar Now the question is whether she'll get to keep 317 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:07,480 Speaker 10: those after losing Canada's highest honor. 318 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:15,400 Speaker 2: It's important to understand why this happens. These people get 319 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:21,000 Speaker 2: so caught up in the narrative of the victim they 320 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:24,600 Speaker 2: fall in love with the victim. This is this is 321 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:28,560 Speaker 2: like women who become pen pals with prison inmates. If 322 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:32,359 Speaker 2: you notice, it's always a fat white woman who falls 323 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:35,879 Speaker 2: in love with a black murderer in prison, and she 324 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:39,480 Speaker 2: writes letters to him and eventually maybe gets a conjugal 325 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:41,520 Speaker 2: visit and that's you know, the thing that turns her 326 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:45,600 Speaker 2: on and he don't mind. But there is this this 327 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:55,000 Speaker 2: lionization of the victim. White liberal women love to find 328 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:57,520 Speaker 2: a victim and tell everybody else that y'all aren't paying 329 00:20:57,560 --> 00:20:59,840 Speaker 2: enough attention to the victim. That's what they do, and 330 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:03,879 Speaker 2: they they fall in love with that victim to such 331 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:10,960 Speaker 2: an extent that they start wanting that which they've created 332 00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:14,440 Speaker 2: for that victim, which is pity and all of that 333 00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:15,159 Speaker 2: sort of stuff. 334 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:22,240 Speaker 1: And so in time they sort of they sort. 335 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:30,040 Speaker 2: Of imagine that they are that victim, and they then 336 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:37,080 Speaker 2: become that victim. There's a Netflix movie out now about 337 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:40,320 Speaker 2: a woman who's a She claimed to have brain cancer 338 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:45,359 Speaker 2: and you know, she was eating her way to during 339 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:49,879 Speaker 2: the brain cancer and it's it's just nuts. I'll remind 340 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:52,840 Speaker 2: you that Beto O'Rourke who ran for president and governor 341 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:56,400 Speaker 2: of Texas and then senator from governor, his dad named 342 00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 2: in Beato. He's not his fanic his dad named in Beato, 343 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:02,360 Speaker 2: except by the time you're this age, the state will 344 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:07,400 Speaker 2: be his fanning. This happens so often that we had 345 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:09,359 Speaker 2: to make something funny out of it. 346 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:10,960 Speaker 1: How else do we deal with this? 347 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:17,199 Speaker 6: Hi, welcome to the official DNC Halloween Store. Can I 348 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:17,639 Speaker 6: help you? 349 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:18,240 Speaker 1: Yeah? 350 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:21,119 Speaker 12: I'm looking for a costume for my office Halloween party, 351 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:22,640 Speaker 12: something really topical. 352 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:24,240 Speaker 1: Ooh, how about this one? 353 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:24,880 Speaker 3: Oh? 354 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:27,080 Speaker 9: What's that Native American costume? 355 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:27,600 Speaker 13: No? 356 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:31,639 Speaker 6: This is Elizabeth Warren. It's very popular with feminists. And 357 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:32,679 Speaker 6: do you want to try it on? 358 00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:33,639 Speaker 7: Nah? 359 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:34,439 Speaker 1: What else do you have? 360 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:37,200 Speaker 6: Well, if you'd like to try something a bit racier, 361 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:39,560 Speaker 6: you might like this one. It comes with a fake 362 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:41,680 Speaker 6: cornrow wig and black face makeup. 363 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:44,920 Speaker 12: What's that a rosta costume? I don't want to offend 364 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:47,240 Speaker 12: people by putting on black face. No, it's not a 365 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:51,920 Speaker 12: roster costume. This is Rachel Dolisol. She's a civil rights icon. 366 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:55,800 Speaker 12: I want to wear a fun costume. Say, why does 367 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:57,640 Speaker 12: this sombrero come with a skateboard? 368 00:22:57,800 --> 00:22:58,000 Speaker 9: Oh? 369 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:00,000 Speaker 1: No, that's the Beato Roar costume. 370 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:01,959 Speaker 6: But for that to work, you need to douse yourself 371 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:03,680 Speaker 6: with water so you look real sweaty. 372 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:07,040 Speaker 9: H I want a costume that'll still be relevant next year. 373 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:10,160 Speaker 6: Well, then definitely don't get the Beto O War costume. 374 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:12,360 Speaker 6: How about this one? It's real scary. 375 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:15,520 Speaker 9: What is this skeletor the crypt keeper? 376 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:19,760 Speaker 6: No, but close, this is Diane Feinstein. This costume will 377 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:22,720 Speaker 6: never go out of style. She's not going anywhere. 378 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:23,600 Speaker 9: I'll take it. 379 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,680 Speaker 3: When the grindin doors creak and the toombs songs, quake, 380 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 3: books count or a swing and a wake, happy haunts, 381 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 3: material lies and begin to vote Lize Brennan, ghosts come 382 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 3: out to social life. 383 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:44,880 Speaker 1: Now, don't close your. 384 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:50,080 Speaker 3: Eyes and don't try to hide. 385 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:53,040 Speaker 9: It's very shall. 386 00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:59,040 Speaker 2: I generally state an opinion on the matter, and I 387 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:02,440 Speaker 2: guess I have one here two, but it's a little 388 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:08,399 Speaker 2: more nuanced. And that is so the state of Texas. 389 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:12,680 Speaker 2: We have a Republican House, Republican senator, republican governor. Every 390 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:17,200 Speaker 2: elected official statewide is Republican. But the House is actually 391 00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:21,000 Speaker 2: run by the Democrats because they all pitch together and 392 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:23,080 Speaker 2: just pick off a few Republicans and that gives them 393 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:25,959 Speaker 2: a majority. So they have a person who calls themselves 394 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:29,400 Speaker 2: a Republican, but he's actually doing the bidding of the Democrats. 395 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:35,000 Speaker 2: A it's a procedural, it's procedural mastery. It makes me angry, 396 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:37,240 Speaker 2: but I have to admire what they do, how good 397 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:39,960 Speaker 2: they are at what they do. Our side is not 398 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:45,840 Speaker 2: good at what we do. But the State Senate in 399 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:51,639 Speaker 2: Texas is wanting to set aside two point five or sorry, 400 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:56,800 Speaker 2: five hundred million dollars a year every two years, or sorry, 401 00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:00,200 Speaker 2: five hundred million dollars every two years until twenty thirty five. 402 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:04,160 Speaker 1: For a movie fund. 403 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:08,760 Speaker 2: And there would be there's the Texas Film Office, which 404 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:12,720 Speaker 2: is in the Governor's office, would issue grants to film 405 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:15,160 Speaker 2: productions that spend at least two hundred and fifty thousand 406 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:20,440 Speaker 2: dollars in Texas, and it would reduce the Texas residency 407 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:25,320 Speaker 2: requirements that are necessary to obtain grants to thirty five 408 00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:29,120 Speaker 2: percent for the next two years, increasing it over time 409 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:33,400 Speaker 2: until you reach fifty percent in twenty thirty one. Under 410 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:37,480 Speaker 2: current Texas law, film productions are only eligible for grants 411 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:41,440 Speaker 2: if fifty five percent of their crew base, including actors 412 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:46,080 Speaker 2: and extras, are Texas residents. The bill passed with a 413 00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:48,800 Speaker 2: twenty three to eight vote, and now it goes to 414 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:53,160 Speaker 2: the House and I expect it'll pass there too. And 415 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:59,720 Speaker 2: there is a coalition of stars. Dennis Quaid is one 416 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:05,320 Speaker 2: of Matthew McConaughey, and people are enamored, including people in 417 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:10,639 Speaker 2: public life, are enamored of actors. So they do things 418 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:14,000 Speaker 2: like this because they want to hang out with those actors, 419 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:15,000 Speaker 2: not because. 420 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:16,480 Speaker 1: They give a damn they don't. 421 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 2: One thing I've learned about people is most people don't 422 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:23,600 Speaker 2: know who any of the athletes or actors are. They 423 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:24,960 Speaker 2: just want to hang out with them so they can 424 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:26,560 Speaker 2: take a picture and show their kid, and their kid 425 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:28,840 Speaker 2: will think they're cool. See look who my friends are. 426 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:36,000 Speaker 2: So my question is your thoughts on in this case 427 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,960 Speaker 2: it's Texas. Louisiana has done it. That's why so many 428 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:43,480 Speaker 2: films have been made in New Orleans over the years. 429 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:48,719 Speaker 2: None of this would be possible if California's bad policies 430 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:51,919 Speaker 2: didn't drive Hollywood out of that state. 431 00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:54,920 Speaker 1: Does it matter? It? Does? 432 00:26:55,760 --> 00:27:00,840 Speaker 2: It does because films bring with them something, something that 433 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:07,240 Speaker 2: is hard, something intangible. Films bring with them a cool factor. 434 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:11,040 Speaker 2: They also bring dollars. If you look at the top 435 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:15,640 Speaker 2: breed of dog that's purchased every year, it is typically 436 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,399 Speaker 2: a dog that's in some sort of a movie, whether 437 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:24,320 Speaker 2: that's Paris Hilton and her Chihuahua or Lassie or you 438 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:27,320 Speaker 2: name it. Although I don't know what Kujo did for 439 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:29,680 Speaker 2: dog sales. I don't know if that helped or her. 440 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:31,960 Speaker 2: I don't like Stephen King, but that was. 441 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:33,280 Speaker 1: A good movie. 442 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:38,639 Speaker 2: Movies are art powerful, very powerful. When people see a 443 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:41,920 Speaker 2: movie star, they don't see a human being. They see 444 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:46,159 Speaker 2: a role that person played and how important it was 445 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:53,360 Speaker 2: to them. Billy Bob Thornton has a band and he 446 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:57,000 Speaker 2: played my club which we closed during COVID, which was 447 00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:59,720 Speaker 2: called we started as Redneck Country Club and then it 448 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:05,680 Speaker 2: became Republic Country Club RCC, and he played there and 449 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:09,000 Speaker 2: he told his band how much he loved the place, 450 00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:12,000 Speaker 2: and that got back to me and several people did that. 451 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,359 Speaker 2: I mean Larry the cable guy wears an RCC shirt 452 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:15,000 Speaker 2: on stage. 453 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:19,680 Speaker 1: He loved the place so much. Anyway, So Billy Bob. 454 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:22,760 Speaker 2: Thornton's band was playing a show in Galveston a couple 455 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:25,960 Speaker 2: of weeks ago, and one of the band members recognized 456 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:27,560 Speaker 2: me and they brought me back to say hello to him, 457 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:32,399 Speaker 2: and we got to talking and I posted a picture 458 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,840 Speaker 2: of the two of us, and it was amazing to 459 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:41,120 Speaker 2: me that people's comments were not about Billy, about Thornton. 460 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:46,440 Speaker 2: The comments were about either Carl and sling Blade or 461 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:49,600 Speaker 2: his character in Landman, which is the current one, or Goliath. 462 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,160 Speaker 2: And I think people suspend reality and see these people. 463 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:56,040 Speaker 2: So I guess the question is, you know, I think 464 00:28:56,720 --> 00:29:01,080 Speaker 2: the taxpayers got into trouble once owners started pinning one 465 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:03,560 Speaker 2: town against the next. How you better build me a 466 00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:06,760 Speaker 2: stadium or I'm going to leave, And so people would panic, 467 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,000 Speaker 2: and so the taxpayers would build a stadium, which is 468 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,080 Speaker 2: so crazy, right, don't build a We don't pay to 469 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:15,280 Speaker 2: build a restaurant for a restaurant tour, so he doesn't 470 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:17,760 Speaker 2: move his restaurant somewhere else. But we do that for stadiums. 471 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:19,520 Speaker 2: And I think a lot of people want to do 472 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:22,320 Speaker 2: it because they're big fans of sports teams. So anyway, 473 00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:25,000 Speaker 2: here's the story I would like to hear from you. 474 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:28,600 Speaker 2: Buy email on the thought would you want your what 475 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:30,720 Speaker 2: state do you live in, and would you want your 476 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:34,800 Speaker 2: state to spend significant money to bring movies to your state? 477 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:38,360 Speaker 2: Is that important to you? The story is k x 478 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:39,640 Speaker 2: A n TV. 479 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:43,120 Speaker 13: The movie business is not a cheap endeavor. Cost to 480 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:47,120 Speaker 13: hire a crew and cast, renting equipment and building sets. 481 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:51,479 Speaker 14: How do you decrease the cost of production in A 482 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:54,560 Speaker 14: big component of that is incentives. 483 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:57,560 Speaker 13: Dallas Morgan is the executive producer of Castor Studios, based 484 00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:00,880 Speaker 13: in Dripping Springs, Texas. It works under a rio of projects, 485 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:04,920 Speaker 13: more recently kids and family friendly content. It's benefited from 486 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,959 Speaker 13: the state's film incentive program in the past, and Morgan 487 00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:10,600 Speaker 13: knows a new push at the state capitol would mean 488 00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:13,040 Speaker 13: more films being made in Texas. 489 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:17,000 Speaker 14: Or dollars being spent in the state towards film and 490 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:18,040 Speaker 14: television projects. 491 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:20,680 Speaker 13: A new bill by Senator Joan Huffman could cover up 492 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:23,920 Speaker 13: to thirty one percent of the costs associated with making 493 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:25,200 Speaker 13: a project in Texas. 494 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:26,880 Speaker 1: The program is not new, but. 495 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:30,400 Speaker 13: This legislation would increase the program's funding to five hundred 496 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:33,680 Speaker 13: million dollars every two years. The bill passed the Senate 497 00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:38,120 Speaker 13: with bipartisan support. One concern is Senator Sarah Eckhart supports 498 00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:41,280 Speaker 13: the bill but is not a fan of some subjective language. 499 00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:44,360 Speaker 13: It gives the Governor's office the discretion to deny and 500 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:47,280 Speaker 13: even revoke a grant at any point the movie is 501 00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:50,440 Speaker 13: being made, and it codifies current rules used by the 502 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:54,080 Speaker 13: office projecting films that portray Texas in a negative light 503 00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:56,360 Speaker 13: or don't represent family values. 504 00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:59,120 Speaker 11: I don't think the promotion of family values would ever 505 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:02,880 Speaker 11: be in the propagame into category, but that's again my opinion. 506 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:07,920 Speaker 5: Of course, his family values would always be the question 507 00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:08,680 Speaker 5: we're going to. 508 00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:11,640 Speaker 13: Agrees the subjective aspect of the program can make it 509 00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:14,920 Speaker 13: hard to financially plan a film, but understands it may 510 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:17,480 Speaker 13: not become law without those provisions. 511 00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:20,000 Speaker 14: If that's what it takes, it may not be a 512 00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 14: terrible thing. 513 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:22,000 Speaker 1: So I would like to hear from you. 514 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:25,200 Speaker 2: I read every email. Just make a reference in the 515 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:32,280 Speaker 2: subject line to film commission budget. Would you want your 516 00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:35,200 Speaker 2: state and tell me what your state is to spend 517 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:40,840 Speaker 2: money to bring movies to your state. The fiscally conservative 518 00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:45,400 Speaker 2: side of me says, no, movies are no different than 519 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:46,080 Speaker 2: anything else. 520 00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:48,160 Speaker 1: They can do it on their own. 521 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:52,360 Speaker 2: The problem is, and we all know this, that other 522 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:55,840 Speaker 2: states are going to do it. And how important do 523 00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:57,680 Speaker 2: you think it is to a state to have movies 524 00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:58,120 Speaker 2: made there? 525 00:31:59,040 --> 00:31:59,280 Speaker 1: You know? 526 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:03,440 Speaker 2: Uh, let's say you have a restaurant, Well, let's Win's Low, Arizona. 527 00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:07,960 Speaker 1: They've got the museum there. Uh and when when it when. 528 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:11,200 Speaker 2: That fell apart? It says standing on the corner. The 529 00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:15,280 Speaker 2: Eagles auctioned off guitars to pay for that little thing 530 00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:17,800 Speaker 2: to be the Jackson Brown song that they started that 531 00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,280 Speaker 2: you know, Glenn fry And launches the Eagles. 532 00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:22,400 Speaker 1: I don't know. I think it's an interest. I'd be 533 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:23,360 Speaker 1: curious to know what you think. 534 00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:27,360 Speaker 12: M