1 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:11,000 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The 2 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:13,600 Speaker 1: Michael Verie Show is on the air. 3 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 2: The US is the first time in the history of 4 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:22,440 Speaker 2: the world where a government was organized with a constitution 5 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:27,120 Speaker 2: laying out the rules that the individual was supreme and dominant. 6 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:30,720 Speaker 2: And that is what led to the US becoming the 7 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 2: greatest country ever because it unleashed people to be the 8 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:36,880 Speaker 2: best they could be, unlike it had ever happened. That's 9 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:38,159 Speaker 2: American exceptionalism. 10 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:42,159 Speaker 3: Our resolve is unbroken and our purpose is unchanged to 11 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:46,839 Speaker 3: delivery government that serves the American people better than ever before. 12 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:50,000 Speaker 3: To win with every single facet. We're going to win 13 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 3: so much. You may even get tired. 14 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 1: Of winning and you say. 15 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:56,720 Speaker 3: Please, please, it's too much winning. 16 00:00:56,960 --> 00:00:58,360 Speaker 1: We can't take it anymore. 17 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 3: Mister President, it's too much, and I'll say, no, it 18 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:02,160 Speaker 3: is it. 19 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:05,120 Speaker 1: We have to keep winning. We have to win more. 20 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:06,559 Speaker 1: We're gonna win more. 21 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:08,200 Speaker 3: We're gonna win so much. 22 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 4: It is a tall, croud city build on rocks stronger 23 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 4: than oceans, wind swept, god blissed and teeming with people 24 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 4: of all kinds, living in harmony and peace. A city 25 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:23,400 Speaker 4: with ports that hung with commerce and creativity. 26 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,760 Speaker 1: And if there had to be city walls. The walls 27 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 1: had doors. 28 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:30,120 Speaker 4: And the doors were open to anyone with the will 29 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 4: and the heart to get there. That's how I saw 30 00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:35,040 Speaker 4: it and see it still. 31 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 3: And we will restore and renovate our nations once great cities, 32 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:41,520 Speaker 3: making them safe, clean, and beautiful again. 33 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 1: And that includes our nation's capital. 34 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 3: Under my plan, income as will skyrocket, inflation will vanish completely, 35 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 3: jobs will come roaring back, and the middle class will 36 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 3: prosper like never ever before. 37 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:57,360 Speaker 1: And we're going to do it very rapidly. 38 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 3: I will bring back the American dream. Your expectations are 39 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:08,360 Speaker 3: not big enough, not big enough. It is time to 40 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 3: start expecting and demanding the best leadership in the world. 41 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:16,160 Speaker 3: Leadership that is bold, dynamic, relentless, and fearless. 42 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:18,880 Speaker 1: We can do that. We are Americans. 43 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:23,520 Speaker 3: Ambition is our heritage, Greatness is our birthright. I am 44 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:27,920 Speaker 3: asking you to be excited about the future of our country. 45 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,920 Speaker 1: Be excited, Be excited. One of the biggest events in 46 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:34,680 Speaker 1: America every year is a super Bowl. It has it 47 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:42,360 Speaker 1: had achieved, attained a status as perhaps the moment that 48 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 1: brought more Americans together than any other single event that 49 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:51,800 Speaker 1: happens every single year. Thanksgiving is a time when we 50 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 1: rally within our immediate family. Christmas, it's a very personal 51 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:03,600 Speaker 1: family moment. New Year's that may go to a gathering, 52 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:08,079 Speaker 1: But the Super Bowl, we all gathered around the television 53 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:11,519 Speaker 1: set to watch. Even if our team wasn't playing, it 54 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 1: didn't matter. This was it. This was a pinnacle of sports. Basketball, baseball. 55 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 1: Nobody had this moment like this. It also counts it. 56 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:27,240 Speaker 1: Neither basketball, no our baseball has a single game. You know, 57 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 1: a game seven is not the same as this one 58 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 1: game in football. And maybe this is just because I'm 59 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 1: in the South and football is king, But the NFL 60 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 1: Football Super Bowl was it. And a number of our 61 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 1: listeners did not watch the Super Bowl halftime event with 62 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:51,320 Speaker 1: Bad Bunny. I didn't know who bad Bunny was. I 63 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 1: still don't, and I don't have the energy to go 64 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 1: and learn. And that's not some flex on my parts. 65 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm just honest when I don't know 66 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 1: what things are and I don't have an interest in 67 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 1: going to learn about it. But I think that the 68 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 1: controversy was part of the event. I think the controversy 69 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:17,719 Speaker 1: was I think it was intended to generate. There is 70 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:24,520 Speaker 1: a certain clickbait notion to a lot of content in 71 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:30,720 Speaker 1: the Internet age. But I was just imagining. You know, 72 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 1: you're more plugged in than your neighbors and the generation 73 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 1: above you because you're a talk radio listener. You're already 74 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:42,960 Speaker 1: a person who has a pretty good idea of what's 75 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:45,160 Speaker 1: really going on in the country and where a lot 76 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 1: of the power sources are. And you got a lot 77 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 1: of people that really aren't paying that close attention to things. 78 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:56,240 Speaker 1: But I just imagine Herbert and Gertrude, sweet little old couple. 79 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:01,599 Speaker 1: They're eighty years old, and they're sitting around talking about 80 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:05,440 Speaker 1: the grandkids. And she says, there, you're going to watch 81 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:08,840 Speaker 1: the game tonight, And he says, well, I guess what 82 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 1: time is it? And she calls her daughter because she 83 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:14,599 Speaker 1: don't want to look it up, and her daughter asked 84 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:17,160 Speaker 1: her husband and look it up, and I know, but 85 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 1: your dad wants to know what time in the game is. 86 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:24,599 Speaker 1: And so they sit down to watch the game. And 87 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:28,960 Speaker 1: you know, maybe he played high school football sixty two 88 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: years ago, and their kids played ball. They went to 89 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:37,120 Speaker 1: football practice over the years. They really liked those cowboys 90 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 1: back in the day. They still remember Roger Stabuck and 91 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:44,599 Speaker 1: Troy Aikman was old Roger Starbuck, but he played for 92 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:51,120 Speaker 1: them cowboys. Tom Landry's a decent, honorable man, And so 93 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:54,839 Speaker 1: they tune it on, they tune it in, and we 94 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:57,720 Speaker 1: all have our opinions about the halftime show, and we're 95 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 1: going to talk about that. But can you can you imagine? 96 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 1: Can you just imagine you were an older couple. You 97 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:08,920 Speaker 1: have nobody, nobody has warned you what's gonna happen at 98 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 1: halftime and you're huddled around the television for this national moment, 99 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:15,720 Speaker 1: you know, you barely hear, and you got it all 100 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 1: blasted up, and Gertrude has made her spinach step and 101 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 1: they're sitting around and then here comes bad Bunny in Spanish. 102 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 5: Honey, the halftime shuts about to begin, And I heard 103 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:33,480 Speaker 5: they're gonna have the Easter Bunny on Grand Ted. 104 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:37,479 Speaker 1: You're gonna love it. Get through my prost. You put chunk. 105 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:42,279 Speaker 6: Put chunking all yo. You don't know what in the 106 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:46,279 Speaker 6: Julio of Gracious is going on? Did I sit on 107 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:50,240 Speaker 6: that darn remote again? It sounds like the Telemodo channel. 108 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 1: All them pretty girl? What is he saying? 109 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 5: He's done a lot of pointing me, But I don't 110 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:58,040 Speaker 5: understand it to be one of them interactive bigs. Give 111 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:05,280 Speaker 5: in my phone don't seem to be working, means I 112 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:10,080 Speaker 5: got harder. I think it's making it even more. 113 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:15,200 Speaker 6: Spinney back on Matlock. 114 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 1: I feel like I got a decent butt. You know, 115 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:28,120 Speaker 1: I had to be ashamed of my butt. It's not 116 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:31,960 Speaker 1: sagging or anything like that. Michael Barry, it's not great, 117 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I couldn't be a button model, 118 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 1: but it's not bad though. Well, I have to warn 119 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:41,280 Speaker 1: y'all in advance this might turn sideways. I see that 120 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:44,840 Speaker 1: Amalia has been kind enough to hold and she happens 121 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:46,600 Speaker 1: to be Puerto Rican. She's come on some of our 122 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:49,600 Speaker 1: listener trips and I happen to adore her. She's married 123 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:53,240 Speaker 1: to a fella who looks just like Santa Claus. In fact, 124 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:55,880 Speaker 1: he plays Santy Claus. So I hope she's not going 125 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:58,320 Speaker 1: to scold me on this whole bad money conversation. But 126 00:07:58,400 --> 00:07:59,360 Speaker 1: let's see how this goes. 127 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 7: Amalia, Oh my goodness, Michael Berry. Actually, hi, Michael Berry. 128 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:13,360 Speaker 7: I'm actually Cuban. My husband is Putura. So I wanted 129 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 7: to give you the perspective from an immigrant for last 130 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:20,840 Speaker 7: night I'm not a bad Bunny fan, but he has 131 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 7: done a lot for the island that brought back a 132 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 7: lot of a lot of pride in the island. And 133 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 7: I think the whole Super Bowl thing was division for Americans. 134 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:39,920 Speaker 7: But I think it's going to bounce back and hopefully 135 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:44,320 Speaker 7: a lot of these Americans that are very there's so 136 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:47,920 Speaker 7: much apathy, and not your listeners, but there is so 137 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:54,800 Speaker 7: much apathy, and I think they have taken their themselves 138 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 7: for granted, the United States for granted. They might wake 139 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,400 Speaker 7: up and I think it might be a positive thing. 140 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:02,200 Speaker 1: You know. 141 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:07,040 Speaker 7: That's my take on the on the Super Bowl. They're 142 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:11,959 Speaker 7: trying to divide, but I think it's going to come back. 143 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:14,320 Speaker 7: I'm still not going to be a bad Gunny fan, 144 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:19,720 Speaker 7: but maybe it'll it'll enrage some enough to show more 145 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 7: pride themselves. 146 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 3: Yeah. 147 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:24,920 Speaker 1: You know, I said on the morning show today and 148 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:28,439 Speaker 1: almost cut and pasted it because I don't know that 149 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:30,199 Speaker 1: I can say it again quite like this one of 150 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:32,360 Speaker 1: those things you say once and then you've done it. 151 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:36,600 Speaker 1: But every country around the world you're of Cuban descent, 152 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:41,760 Speaker 1: you know, Cubans have have their dishes, their culture, their 153 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:45,679 Speaker 1: their clothing item, their flag, there. I call it an 154 00:09:45,679 --> 00:09:49,520 Speaker 1: inch wide and a mile deep. Every Cuban has things, 155 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:53,440 Speaker 1: you know Wan Dona Meta and Jose Martis and and 156 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:58,440 Speaker 1: their memories and their culture, and every Cuban shares these 157 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:05,040 Speaker 1: few things. This this you know particular dish and you 158 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:09,920 Speaker 1: know Platinus and this particular rum, the ron Rico or whatever, 159 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:12,840 Speaker 1: and it's like every Cuban shares that thing. It's not 160 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:17,080 Speaker 1: one hundred things. It's not diversity. It is shared. And 161 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 1: there's something about a shared experience that cannot be diverse, 162 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:27,679 Speaker 1: otherwise everybody can't share it. And Americans lack those things 163 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:31,680 Speaker 1: that unify that we share, forget unified that we share. 164 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:35,720 Speaker 1: And the problem for me is that the Super Bowl 165 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:40,200 Speaker 1: was that moment where blacks and whites and Hispanics and 166 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:45,000 Speaker 1: immigrants and Native Americans of you know, three or four 167 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:51,240 Speaker 1: generations and everyone came together for a uniquely American moment, 168 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 1: probably more so than anything else because the presidential elections 169 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:57,679 Speaker 1: every four years, and it just felt like that, or 170 00:10:57,840 --> 00:11:01,680 Speaker 1: feels like the NFL didn't realize, you know, the NFL 171 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:05,319 Speaker 1: was bigger than football. And I think that that's what 172 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 1: they're going to realize. They have lost. And it started 173 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:11,520 Speaker 1: with the kneeling. It started with the Kaepernick nonsense, it 174 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 1: started with the different national anthems and or different anthems, 175 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:18,360 Speaker 1: and I think they have missed out on something that 176 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:22,320 Speaker 1: was special, and that was that they were larger than 177 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:26,840 Speaker 1: the game itself, so that you know, over half the 178 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 1: people watching the Super Bowl wouldn't know how you would 179 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:35,320 Speaker 1: how a ref would do an offsides penalty, or you know, 180 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:38,320 Speaker 1: they wouldn't understand the rules of intentional grounding and they 181 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:40,640 Speaker 1: wouldn't need to. It was a cultural event that we 182 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:43,600 Speaker 1: all shared and I don't feel like that's what that was. 183 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:45,880 Speaker 1: And you said it was divisive. I think that's that's 184 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:46,520 Speaker 1: fair to say. 185 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:50,719 Speaker 7: I agree one hundred percent with what you said one 186 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:55,199 Speaker 7: hundred percent. Do you remember years ago Rush Limbo said 187 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 7: that the NFL was probably not going to be around, 188 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:02,760 Speaker 7: you know, that it was not going to be around, 189 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:06,440 Speaker 7: and I think we're seeing what now because people are 190 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:12,840 Speaker 7: just getting so tired of it. It's just it's sad. 191 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 7: It's sad. But I think with that aside, I think 192 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:21,920 Speaker 7: we as Americans because I became an American in nineteen 193 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:25,320 Speaker 7: eighty seven at the age of twenty six, and I 194 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:31,719 Speaker 7: denounced the Italians, the Italian citizenship and my Cuban citizenship 195 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:36,920 Speaker 7: to become an American, and we were raised. You are 196 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:40,680 Speaker 7: Americans and this is the best thing that has happened 197 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 7: to you. So we were raised. You will always vote, 198 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:47,640 Speaker 7: and I have voted since I voted for Rossboro the 199 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:50,680 Speaker 7: first time. That my mother still wants to kill me. 200 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:55,160 Speaker 7: But it doesn't matter what election it is. I go vote, 201 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:58,000 Speaker 7: and I teach my children and I'm what I'm saying 202 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:02,280 Speaker 7: about American apathy is that it kind of trickles down 203 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:05,960 Speaker 7: to that. I have friends that I mean have never voted, 204 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:10,640 Speaker 7: and that's where it starts. Let's keep our American values, 205 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:14,880 Speaker 7: you know, starting at the very bottom all the way 206 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:17,640 Speaker 7: up to the top. And I think that's where it's 207 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:22,360 Speaker 7: getting diluted. And it's so frustrating to see, you know, 208 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:25,679 Speaker 7: people that were born in this country that kind of 209 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:26,960 Speaker 7: take it for granted. 210 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:31,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's fair to say, Amalia. And the 211 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 1: thing about it is so that on the Morning Show, 212 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:36,960 Speaker 1: and you were listening on the Morning Show today, I 213 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:40,439 Speaker 1: was talking about some of the great Italian families that 214 00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:44,120 Speaker 1: have been stalwarts of the Houston restaurant scene, particularly the 215 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:46,520 Speaker 1: Mandola is kind of the core of all that. And 216 00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:49,360 Speaker 1: from that you get the Carabas, the Johnny Carabas, and 217 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:54,640 Speaker 1: you get the Butterras, and you get the Patronellas. And 218 00:13:55,400 --> 00:14:00,480 Speaker 1: so there were these great Italian families that that that 219 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:07,479 Speaker 1: retained their Italian roots and their pride in their Italian ancestry. 220 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:11,040 Speaker 1: And and then you get you know, you get folks 221 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:14,000 Speaker 1: that they're families from Mexico and they still hold on 222 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:18,760 Speaker 1: to those traditions from Mexico. You know, the moms still 223 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:21,040 Speaker 1: throw their chunk les at the kids when when they 224 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:23,520 Speaker 1: were when they're misbehaving, you know, just just to keep 225 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 1: up the tradition sort of thing. And they still have 226 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:29,640 Speaker 1: kensanetas multiple generations in athough that usually dies off. The 227 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:36,880 Speaker 1: point is you have this this uniquely American experience. The 228 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:40,560 Speaker 1: English are this way as well now and it's it's 229 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:46,320 Speaker 1: not ethnic, it's not a national in the way that 230 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:49,440 Speaker 1: you know Cubans or Puerto Ricans are. It encompasses a 231 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:52,520 Speaker 1: wide range of people and in order to get a 232 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 1: shared experience across that platform, it's hard to do. And 233 00:14:57,680 --> 00:15:01,360 Speaker 1: this was that moment, and it wasn't religious in nature, 234 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:04,920 Speaker 1: wasn't And then to have that moment where you basically say, hey, 235 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:07,280 Speaker 1: we're over here and we are Latinos and you will 236 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 1: recognize us, and we are Latinos and we are from 237 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:12,800 Speaker 1: all these different countries. Look, I think a lot of 238 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:14,920 Speaker 1: people felt left out from that, and a lot of 239 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:16,960 Speaker 1: people felt it was kind of a punch in the face. 240 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:20,600 Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, the NFL could 241 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 1: be the National Foreigners League, but that's not who's going 242 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 1: to buy their tickets. And you know, you see this 243 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:28,120 Speaker 1: a lot. You see this a lot is the guy 244 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:31,600 Speaker 1: who goes, who goes looking for something new and loses 245 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:35,120 Speaker 1: his wife and kids in the mix. And maybe, just 246 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:37,080 Speaker 1: maybe that's what's going to happen in the NFL. And 247 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 1: you know what, it's perfectly legitimate if that's how you feel, 248 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:43,680 Speaker 1: your opinions are as legitimate as anybody else's. 249 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:49,200 Speaker 8: Welcome to the playbook where football is King. I'm your host, 250 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:51,720 Speaker 8: Bloom Boom Benson, and today we check in with a 251 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:54,880 Speaker 8: local football fan, brand new to the game who has 252 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:57,840 Speaker 8: strong feelings about special teams. 253 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:00,239 Speaker 1: Color Fiona, You're on the air. 254 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:02,560 Speaker 9: Go watch football for the first time last night and 255 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:03,440 Speaker 9: have one question. 256 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:05,600 Speaker 10: Where are the handicap. 257 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 9: People, the blind players mentally challenged heroes. I heard special teams, 258 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:12,440 Speaker 9: so I figured inclusive squad. 259 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:15,760 Speaker 8: Well, in football, special teams are units that come on 260 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:18,760 Speaker 8: the field during ponce, kickoffs, field goals, and extra points. 261 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:23,320 Speaker 8: They're just football positions, not the inclusive rosters. 262 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:25,200 Speaker 10: Special should mean something. 263 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:29,520 Speaker 9: If you say special teams, I expect wheelchairs zooming down 264 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:33,520 Speaker 9: the field like bumper cars, blind kick returners running down 265 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 9: the field with a cane and a dog. 266 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:36,560 Speaker 10: That's special. 267 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:40,720 Speaker 8: Uh, well, special just refers to the specific situations in 268 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:43,400 Speaker 8: the game, like the kicking unit and the players in 269 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:44,200 Speaker 8: volved offense. 270 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:46,320 Speaker 10: But this is downright football discrimination. 271 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:49,520 Speaker 9: I was ready to root, like really root for the 272 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:53,360 Speaker 9: mentally challenged team manager to get put in for one play. 273 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 9: I had a box of tissues and xenax ready for 274 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:58,200 Speaker 9: when the other team let him score. 275 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:02,400 Speaker 8: Most teams special teams include kickers, punters, long snappers, blockers, returners, 276 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:06,119 Speaker 8: athletic roles that impact field position and scoring. 277 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:10,960 Speaker 9: So hold on, there's special teams because they do special plays, 278 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:12,919 Speaker 9: not because they're special people. 279 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:14,200 Speaker 10: That's just sad. 280 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:15,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, football is weird like that. 281 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:18,479 Speaker 8: When we come back, we'll talk to a man who 282 00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:21,680 Speaker 8: says quarterback is racist, and it's just a code word 283 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:22,880 Speaker 8: for Indian givens. 284 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:28,199 Speaker 1: I'm surprised the NFL Players Union doesn't step in and 285 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:32,639 Speaker 1: prevent Super Bowls from being played in California. If I 286 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 1: told you that the state of California has a confiscatory 287 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:44,359 Speaker 1: tax rate, as in confiscating, as in taking what is yours? 288 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 1: And I were to tell you that Sam Darnold was 289 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:53,080 Speaker 1: set to receive one hundred and eighty eight thousand dollars 290 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:56,520 Speaker 1: for the Super Bowl he won it all, It's just 291 00:17:56,560 --> 00:18:00,080 Speaker 1: a pretty big deal, right, What would be the the 292 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:03,360 Speaker 1: most you would imagine the state of California would take 293 00:18:03,359 --> 00:18:07,560 Speaker 1: from him? He doesn't live in that state, he is 294 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:09,359 Speaker 1: from there. Originally, I think he grew up in the 295 00:18:09,359 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 1: Bay Area, but he flew in to California to play 296 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:19,440 Speaker 1: a game. He didn't have any decision as to the 297 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:22,240 Speaker 1: choice of locale, so it wasn't like he could relocate it. 298 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:28,080 Speaker 1: He just threw passes, red defenses, brought his team to victory, 299 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:30,879 Speaker 1: brought his team to victory to get him there, and 300 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:35,280 Speaker 1: then obviously won the game. If I told you he 301 00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:37,640 Speaker 1: drew one hundred and eighty eight thousand dollars check from 302 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:41,920 Speaker 1: the NFL, what do you think would be fair for 303 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:44,800 Speaker 1: the state of California to take of what he earned. 304 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:51,360 Speaker 1: What if I told you one hundred and sixty six thousand, 305 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:55,320 Speaker 1: six hundred and fifty. It is known as their jock 306 00:18:55,640 --> 00:19:01,840 Speaker 1: tax for athletes who don't live in that state, California, 307 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:06,840 Speaker 1: but play games there. It's based on the number of 308 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:11,520 Speaker 1: work days called duty days, that they spend in California. 309 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:16,120 Speaker 1: So for Super Bowl, for the Super Bowl last night, 310 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:21,440 Speaker 1: super Bowl sixty, that added up to eight duty days. 311 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:28,560 Speaker 1: Because California has the highest top marginal income tax rate 312 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:32,920 Speaker 1: in the country, about fourteen point six percent, players can 313 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:37,080 Speaker 1: in this case end up with a big tax bill 314 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:40,480 Speaker 1: that includes the state's thirteen point three percent income tax 315 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:45,040 Speaker 1: plus a one point three percent disability insurance tax, which 316 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:51,000 Speaker 1: applies to all wages starting back in twenty twenty four. 317 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:59,160 Speaker 1: And you wonder why businesses are moving these decisions, these policies, 318 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:04,240 Speaker 1: They really matter. You know, I don't know your situation, 319 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:09,080 Speaker 1: but let's say you're firmly ensconced. Let's say you own 320 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:11,320 Speaker 1: a business, or let's take your home. Everybody has a 321 00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:16,560 Speaker 1: home of some sort or another. And I were to say, hey, 322 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:19,600 Speaker 1: State's going to come in and take an extra ten 323 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:22,000 Speaker 1: percent of your income every year, you go, oh, we 324 00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:25,720 Speaker 1: got a problem at twenty thirty, forty fifty. At some 325 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:29,560 Speaker 1: percentage point you would say I'm not going to live 326 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:31,480 Speaker 1: here and moving to another state where they won't do that, 327 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:39,679 Speaker 1: and that number would would vary by person, so you 328 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 1: wouldn't immediately jump because it's disruptive. I don't change cell 329 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:49,480 Speaker 1: phone carriers because it's a hassle. I mean, I don't 330 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:53,880 Speaker 1: know about you. To change anything in my life at 331 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:57,679 Speaker 1: this point in my life is a headache because it 332 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:00,679 Speaker 1: means I have to spend time on something that I 333 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 1: don't want to anyone to fool with. You know when 334 00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:09,360 Speaker 1: Rush was complaining about Nike and Colin Kaepernick, he had 335 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:12,679 Speaker 1: the Ditto cam. And there's a certain percentage of people 336 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:17,399 Speaker 1: who are super fans of somebody, but as part of 337 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:20,200 Speaker 1: their super fandom, they nitpick and it used to drive 338 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:24,440 Speaker 1: Rush crazy. And I remember they were just nitpicking him 339 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:27,320 Speaker 1: to death because he was wearing a Nike Polo shirt 340 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:30,880 Speaker 1: every day and they were on his last nerve one day, 341 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:36,240 Speaker 1: just nip. They can't stop. They're such fans. I'm your 342 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:38,480 Speaker 1: biggest fan. Now I'm going to get in your ear 343 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:41,560 Speaker 1: like a Mosquito. That's and that's what they were doing 344 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:44,480 Speaker 1: that day. And he said, listen, let me explain something. 345 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:49,399 Speaker 1: I've told you this before. I owned about fifty Nike 346 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:54,160 Speaker 1: Polo shirts. They fit right, they're the right material, They're 347 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:57,760 Speaker 1: in the same spot in my dressing room, my closet. 348 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:00,320 Speaker 1: I wake up, I can get dressed in the dark 349 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:02,360 Speaker 1: if I want, I put that shirt on. I come 350 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:05,639 Speaker 1: to work. I don't think about it. I don't consider it. 351 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:08,760 Speaker 1: I don't match it with anything else. It's comfortable, I 352 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:11,679 Speaker 1: do the show. I don't want to have to replace it. 353 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:13,639 Speaker 1: I'm not my new ones, but I don't want to 354 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:18,560 Speaker 1: have to replace it. There's a book called Habits. It's 355 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:23,400 Speaker 1: a really good book about how we develop habits. Our 356 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:28,280 Speaker 1: brain goes back to developing habits because we're built to 357 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:34,120 Speaker 1: avoid first security or safety and security long before comfort. 358 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:38,560 Speaker 1: We're built to avoid being killed by a mountain lion 359 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:43,560 Speaker 1: or something in the wild. So our brain develops these habits. 360 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:46,840 Speaker 1: It develops a comfort to the rut, to the routine, 361 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:54,240 Speaker 1: and to the consistency for companies and individuals to leave California. 362 00:22:54,520 --> 00:23:00,439 Speaker 1: Companies who've invested in California to uproot their businesses and 363 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:03,800 Speaker 1: move them. Joe Rogan did it, and he loved California 364 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:07,320 Speaker 1: went and by the way, the weather is much better 365 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:13,159 Speaker 1: in California. It's pleasant, it's hot in Texas. If you 366 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:15,959 Speaker 1: look at the number of businesses in people who were 367 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:18,919 Speaker 1: perfectly successful. These aren't people who lost their These are 368 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:23,320 Speaker 1: businesses in people who uprooted from some of the most 369 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:31,040 Speaker 1: beautiful weather beaches mountains in the world to move to Texas, 370 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:35,680 Speaker 1: which is not because life is better here due to policies, 371 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:44,400 Speaker 1: not geography. That is such a ringing slap down of liberalism. 372 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:49,240 Speaker 1: Anybody who thinks liberalism and redistribution is such a great idea, 373 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:52,679 Speaker 1: Look at what it's done to California. Look at this 374 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:57,359 Speaker 1: particular case in what it's done to California, Rush moving 375 00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:03,080 Speaker 1: out of New York, which he loved, to Florida. That 376 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:04,840 Speaker 1: was a bit of a bellweather at the time. But 377 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:09,280 Speaker 1: you don't how many other people do that, And yet 378 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:13,640 Speaker 1: they're still selling it. There's still selling socialism to people 379 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:18,960 Speaker 1: who don't know any better. It never goes away. I 380 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:21,040 Speaker 1: don't want to be a part of this nonsense, all right, 381 00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:26,680 Speaker 1: thank you. I served on Houston City Council from two 382 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:31,000 Speaker 1: thousand and two to two thousand and eight. 383 00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:29,840 Speaker 7: And. 384 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:36,080 Speaker 1: One of the big issues that I would hear from 385 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:40,640 Speaker 1: constituents I was citywide, so anything in the city of Houston, 386 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:44,919 Speaker 1: those were my constituents. We had districts and there were 387 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,720 Speaker 1: nine of them at the time, and then five of 388 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:53,520 Speaker 1: us that were at large, and I would hear from 389 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:56,199 Speaker 1: a number of black constituents. And when I would go 390 00:24:56,240 --> 00:25:00,440 Speaker 1: to neighborhood associations, if I went to a neighborhood asociation 391 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:05,000 Speaker 1: in a predominantly or almost exclusively black neighborhood, one of 392 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:10,760 Speaker 1: the things that they did not like was the gentrification 393 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:15,960 Speaker 1: of their neighborhood. So you would have these neighborhoods who 394 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:23,880 Speaker 1: were either officially or unofficially but truthfully historic, and they 395 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:29,800 Speaker 1: were neighborhoods that had developed in the forties, fifties, sixties 396 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:34,720 Speaker 1: when blacks did not in some cases were not able 397 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:37,320 Speaker 1: to move into white neighborhoods. In another case, it just 398 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:41,240 Speaker 1: didn't feel comfortable. And so you would have working class, 399 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:47,520 Speaker 1: in middle class black neighborhoods that people took a lot 400 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:51,640 Speaker 1: of pride in their home. They were all owner occupied, 401 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:56,840 Speaker 1: no rentals, They were having children and raising children, and 402 00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:02,159 Speaker 1: Blacks in those days did not have the diversity of 403 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:07,920 Speaker 1: occupational options that they do today. So you had a 404 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:11,800 Speaker 1: lot of guys that were military or retired military, law enforcement, 405 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:15,439 Speaker 1: or government work, because that's what was largely available to 406 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:18,840 Speaker 1: blacks at that time, either de facto or dare don't know, 407 00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:24,000 Speaker 1: but you will notice that tendency post office was a 408 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,600 Speaker 1: good job. Faculty member or teacher was a good job. 409 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:31,000 Speaker 1: You work your way up to principal, police and law enforcement. 410 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:36,640 Speaker 1: Those were good jobs. So those neighborhoods, in many cases 411 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:44,120 Speaker 1: very modest houses. In many cases, those neighborhoods turned and 412 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:48,840 Speaker 1: because they were close into the urban core which now 413 00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:55,040 Speaker 1: was having turnover what generally happens to neighborhoods, and some 414 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:57,320 Speaker 1: of these neighborhoods were older neighborhoods than that where you'd 415 00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,920 Speaker 1: have a little old lady and she big mama, she'd 416 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:04,679 Speaker 1: be called, and two or three generations behind her. She 417 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:06,720 Speaker 1: raised the kids, made sure they went to school. There's 418 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,719 Speaker 1: no man in the house. The girls and the boys. 419 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:12,480 Speaker 1: She taught the manners, and she whooped their little butts. 420 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:16,520 Speaker 1: She provided their meals, She was there for them. This 421 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:19,280 Speaker 1: woman is rock solid, and it might be what they 422 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,840 Speaker 1: call shotgun shack, and that style means you could shoot 423 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:24,560 Speaker 1: a shotgun through it and you hit everybody inside it 424 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:26,280 Speaker 1: because they were narrow. You see these in the Ninth 425 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,679 Speaker 1: Ward or the Wards of New Orleans, and it's how 426 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:34,240 Speaker 1: you stacked a lot of houses on a block, very 427 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:39,080 Speaker 1: narrow houses, not a lot not wide. So you'd walk 428 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:42,560 Speaker 1: into the living room in a narrow, narrow little hallway 429 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,760 Speaker 1: down the way because you wanted to save that room 430 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:48,560 Speaker 1: for bedrooms and for the rooms that people lived in, 431 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:51,680 Speaker 1: and there'd be a little porch on the front. Well. 432 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:56,800 Speaker 1: Those neighborhoods became a neighborhood where blacks felt very comfortable. 433 00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:00,679 Speaker 1: And while a lot of blacks worn to get out 434 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,000 Speaker 1: and move to the white neighborhood, a lot of blacks 435 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:07,200 Speaker 1: felt comfortable in a black neighborhood with all blacks, even 436 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:10,719 Speaker 1: if there was crime there, there was a sense that 437 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,600 Speaker 1: this is our neighborhood. And there's a church on the 438 00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:17,959 Speaker 1: corner that we've all been going to, and brother Hezekiah 439 00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:20,359 Speaker 1: has been the pastor there, and his daddy before him, 440 00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:23,359 Speaker 1: and his daddy before him, And there's a black owned 441 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:28,160 Speaker 1: convenience store on the corner, and sure it's Asian on now, 442 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:31,359 Speaker 1: but it's our convenience store, and there's a black owned 443 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:34,640 Speaker 1: dry cleaners, and there's a black owned soul food restaurant, 444 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:39,600 Speaker 1: and so there was a comfort to this. And it 445 00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:44,640 Speaker 1: wasn't until this started changing that people realized that there 446 00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:48,480 Speaker 1: was comfort in this might not have been fancy. And 447 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:51,880 Speaker 1: so what happened is these builders would come in Perry 448 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:53,680 Speaker 1: Holmes at the time was a big one, and they 449 00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:57,280 Speaker 1: would buy these lots. In the first few you bought, 450 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:02,120 Speaker 1: you could get real cheap. Mamma died and her kids 451 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:03,720 Speaker 1: needed the money and they weren't about to live there. 452 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:07,160 Speaker 1: They'd moved on, So you start buying up these or 453 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:12,560 Speaker 1: builders would start buying up these these lots and they 454 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:14,880 Speaker 1: get them real cheap at the beginning, and then people go, oh, 455 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,280 Speaker 1: it's a holdout kind of deal. Oh wait a second, 456 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,240 Speaker 1: we can get more because they want to. They want to. 457 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:23,360 Speaker 1: They want to tie up this entire block to make 458 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,440 Speaker 1: it make make sense and increase the value of the 459 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:28,840 Speaker 1: houses they're going to build or town homes. They put 460 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:30,720 Speaker 1: three townhomes on what used to be a single family 461 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:33,800 Speaker 1: hot lot. And what would happen as a result of 462 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:39,160 Speaker 1: that is they would want regulations. They didn't want these 463 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:43,320 Speaker 1: builders coming in because these builders were first round. First 464 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:45,600 Speaker 1: wave of people who were going to buy these houses 465 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:50,160 Speaker 1: were gay couples, and the second round where what we 466 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:53,920 Speaker 1: call dinks, double income, no kids because the schools are bad, 467 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:59,240 Speaker 1: the schools are unsafe, low quality, no parental involvement, minority 468 00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:03,760 Speaker 1: inner city school with bad results. So these young professional 469 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:06,560 Speaker 1: couples didn't want to raise their kids there, but they 470 00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:09,680 Speaker 1: were years away from having kids. They're five minutes from 471 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:13,800 Speaker 1: downtown where they work as lawyers and professionals. And so 472 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:16,960 Speaker 1: these folks would come to me and they'd say, we 473 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,200 Speaker 1: got to keep these builders out. They're gentrifying our neighborhood. 474 00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:25,840 Speaker 1: They're changing our neighborhood. Let's think about this. Nobody said 475 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:30,160 Speaker 1: to black people at the time, how dare you say 476 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 1: we don't want people who don't like us to come 477 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:36,360 Speaker 1: into our neighborhood. Blacks can be and are just as 478 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:40,440 Speaker 1: racist as any white person. They're just as clannished, they're 479 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:43,600 Speaker 1: just as tribal. And I've never met a group that 480 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:54,959 Speaker 1: wasn't black, White, Asian, Arab, jew Middle Eastern. But that 481 00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:58,800 Speaker 1: was a valid concern. Everyone fell because they didn't want 482 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:01,760 Speaker 1: the neighborhood to change. So the builders needed to make 483 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:05,120 Speaker 1: some donations to the causes right in order to build 484 00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:09,240 Speaker 1: to build in there. But the really legitimate point there 485 00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:13,400 Speaker 1: is there is a comfort to your tribe. There's a 486 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:18,560 Speaker 1: comfort to things you've known, and that's valid and that's legitimate. 487 00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:25,080 Speaker 1: That's not racist. So when people say, I've been watching 488 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:27,680 Speaker 1: Super Bowl for years, I watched Bart Starr in the 489 00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:31,760 Speaker 1: Ice Bowl, I watched Joe Montana bring his team back. 490 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:35,600 Speaker 1: I watched this and now it's not just the halftime show. 491 00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:39,680 Speaker 1: Now it is clear that the National Foreigners League is 492 00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:42,920 Speaker 1: trying to recruit new satellite markets to expand their product, 493 00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:48,640 Speaker 1: and they have left behind Middle America. Middle America didn't 494 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:52,680 Speaker 1: feel like they were part of that broadcast. And that's 495 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:58,800 Speaker 1: the moment where they come to be validated for their existence. 496 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,440 Speaker 1: So you don't have to like the fact that people 497 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:06,240 Speaker 1: feel turned off. You don't have to you don't have 498 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:10,280 Speaker 1: to agree. Don't call them racists, don't claim they're scared 499 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:14,640 Speaker 1: of people not like them. Don't tell them, oh, I 500 00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:17,720 Speaker 1: learned Spanish, you should understand, Oh you should travel. Look, 501 00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:21,560 Speaker 1: their view is, hey, I don't watch the World Cup 502 00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:25,240 Speaker 1: because I don't like soccer and I don't speak Spanish, 503 00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:27,640 Speaker 1: and that's a sport for other people in other countries. 504 00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:31,040 Speaker 1: You go into other countries and do what was done 505 00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:33,760 Speaker 1: last night and see the pushback you get. You go 506 00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:37,280 Speaker 1: into Panama or Coaster Rick, or Honduras or Guatemala, these 507 00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:41,040 Speaker 1: countries where soccer is the national obsession and go, hey, 508 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:44,440 Speaker 1: this year, for the not your team playing, we're gonna 509 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:47,400 Speaker 1: have a We're gonna have a hoot Nanny and Hodown. 510 00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:51,280 Speaker 1: We're gonna have some Hillbillies play Thunderstruck, Struck on the 511 00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:54,720 Speaker 1: on the spoons and the banjo, and it'll be good 512 00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:58,080 Speaker 1: because we're trying to get Americans in Kentucky to really 513 00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:03,000 Speaker 1: enjoy Hondura and soccer. Don't complain or you're a bad person. 514 00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:07,400 Speaker 1: Stop telling people they can't have legitimate, authentic feelings that 515 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:10,480 Speaker 1: every other group can have. People feel like they're trying 516 00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:13,560 Speaker 1: to be replaced, and it makes them, it pisces them off.