1 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:09,160 Speaker 1: It's that time time time, time, luck and load. 2 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:21,120 Speaker 2: So Michael Verie show is on the air. We had 3 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 2: our farm and ranch friend and show sponsor. I want 4 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 2: to send me a message during the break. He loves 5 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:31,880 Speaker 2: his gardening and so he sent some photos and he said, 6 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:35,159 Speaker 2: building our above ground raised garden beds, irrigations, complete planting 7 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:39,120 Speaker 2: this week, deer proof vent, deer proof fence being built 8 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:42,120 Speaker 2: this weekend. Also, we'll be offering this to buyers of 9 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 2: my property for sale. Can't believe how many Houston folks 10 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 2: want a garden like this and chickens. Be building some 11 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:51,400 Speaker 2: chicken coops as well. Another added benefit to buying your 12 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:58,600 Speaker 2: country land. From Rick Doak. It's funny because he'll message 13 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:00,480 Speaker 2: me and sometimes I'll call him while I'm driving and 14 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:03,240 Speaker 2: he'll talk about some family that's just moved from the 15 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:05,399 Speaker 2: city out to the country, whether it's Chapel Hill or 16 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 2: Belleville or Dobbin or wherever else, and how happy people 17 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:13,680 Speaker 2: are with, you know, their chickens or just their land 18 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 2: or having a lake or a pond or whatever else 19 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:19,360 Speaker 2: because they've lived this life and did not realize that 20 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 2: this option was available to them. And it's just it's 21 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 2: a whole different thing, and the thing that doesn't get 22 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:30,119 Speaker 2: talked about. No thugs next door, no thugs driving down 23 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:34,160 Speaker 2: the street, no thugs on your way to the grocery store. 24 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:38,840 Speaker 2: It's a glorious thing. Paul, Yes, what did you actually 25 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:39,679 Speaker 2: call about? 26 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:44,039 Speaker 1: I called because I heard online an interesting concept regarding 27 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 1: voting early, and the guy said, don't vote early. Don't 28 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 1: vote early because you give the people who potentially would 29 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 1: cheat information as to how much cheating needs to be done. 30 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 1: So if you vote on the day of election, they 31 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:05,880 Speaker 1: don't have any concept of if they need to, you know, 32 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 1: grab some ballots or grab some dead people and go 33 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 1: vote because they need to beat somebody. And I thought 34 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 1: that was a very interesting take on voting. 35 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 2: You there, Yeah, No, I'm trying to think about how 36 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 2: best to say this. So, Nadita and I had had 37 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 2: dinner with my friend Russell Lebora last night and he 38 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:37,160 Speaker 2: showed me a video of a recent case. They've had 39 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:39,080 Speaker 2: to put videos. They've had to put cameras in their 40 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 2: restaurants because that's your only defense when these people claim stuff. 41 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 2: And it's what looks like a single mother and about 42 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:49,360 Speaker 2: six kids, and they're sitting at a table and the 43 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:52,520 Speaker 2: mother is looking around like she's about to she's about 44 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:54,680 Speaker 2: to rob the place, you know, she's bobbing and looking 45 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:56,799 Speaker 2: at the sightlines and the angles to see who can 46 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:02,600 Speaker 2: see her. And then her oldest child, who's probably twelve, 47 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 2: gets up from the seat at the table, takes a 48 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 2: step back, looks around, and then does a very theatrical, 49 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:16,080 Speaker 2: dramatic fall, as if she just stepped on a banana 50 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:20,079 Speaker 2: pil and gets right back up, and the mom laughs 51 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 2: and we all. 52 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:27,880 Speaker 3: You know, yucking it up, and then she does it again, okay, 53 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 3: and the other kids are hardly even bothered by it, 54 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 3: but some of them are kind of amusedment. 55 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 2: This is clearly the discussion at the table, so much 56 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 2: so that I thought she was doing a dance move 57 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 2: for you know, maybe she's in you know, little kids 58 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 2: like that are antsy. You know, I was constantly doing 59 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 2: a wind up and throwing a pitch or throwing a football, 60 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 2: an air football or an air pitch, or or shooting 61 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 2: baskets if you were if you were in a situation 62 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 2: like that, to the point that my parents would say, 63 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 2: sit down because you got nervous energy and you're doing anything. 64 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 2: So this little girl keeps doing what I later realized 65 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 2: is a slip and fall. By the third one, you 66 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 2: realize what she's doing. Whereupon the mother gets up and 67 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 2: the little girl who's learning the slip and fall business 68 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:16,720 Speaker 2: is watching her attent attentively. And the mom gets up 69 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:19,839 Speaker 2: and she steps out into the aisle and the restaurant 70 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 2: is not very busy, it's an off time. She looks around, 71 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:27,159 Speaker 2: she looks each direction, nobody can see, nobody can see who. 72 00:04:28,279 --> 00:04:31,479 Speaker 2: She slips and falls, except she didn't slip and fall. 73 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:36,240 Speaker 2: She faked a slip and fall. And then you see 74 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:39,120 Speaker 2: the manager coming up, and you see the actually the 75 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:41,480 Speaker 2: first one. You gotta remember which we do this, I 76 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 2: think the first one. She falls but doesn't get anybody's attention. 77 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 2: So then she falls again. Well then you see the 78 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:50,719 Speaker 2: manager come up. Must have been a scream and a hoot. 79 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 2: And by this time she sat down. The manager comes 80 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:58,119 Speaker 2: over and there's no audio in the video, but she's 81 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 2: telling the manager, well, you're flores Maybe she's saying florestle 82 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 2: some reason that she has slipped and she fell, and 83 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 2: the manager is listening, very attending. It's all on the video. 84 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:16,120 Speaker 2: It's so cynical, it is so vile that this is 85 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 2: being done. So Russell said, I thought, there's no way 86 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:27,920 Speaker 2: this lady's going to try to sue. She didn't see 87 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:32,039 Speaker 2: the cameras because remember she's looking at at ground level 88 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:37,040 Speaker 2: around the camera is from above, shooting down. So they 89 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 2: get the letter from the lawyer, and I'm just going 90 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:45,719 Speaker 2: to assume, and I think accurately, that he hasn't seen 91 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:49,279 Speaker 2: the footage, but I'd like to see. He's probably running 92 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 2: a little mill of you know, people come in and 93 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:53,720 Speaker 2: you sue, and you hope to get a settlement and 94 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:55,360 Speaker 2: you move on. He doesn't want to try a case 95 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 2: like this. It's too much effort. But Russell said, I 96 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 2: can't wait until this guy sees the video of his 97 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:04,680 Speaker 2: case in what it looks like, because if he has 98 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 2: an ounce of shame, he'll say, my apologies, I'm embarrassed, 99 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 2: But what if they didn't have a camera. Now it's 100 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 2: your word against theirs, and truthfully, how many people would 101 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:22,040 Speaker 2: believe the restaurant when this single mother with her children. 102 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 2: I'm not asking for much as my back is. I 103 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:28,640 Speaker 2: can't work anymore. You know, it worked for three years. 104 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:32,440 Speaker 2: I was getting ready to go back to work to 105 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 2: support these children. I was gonna support these children, and 106 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:40,320 Speaker 2: now I can't, and I'm left on food stamps and 107 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:48,520 Speaker 2: welfare and I'm gonna need some money. It's crazy. And 108 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:51,200 Speaker 2: a lot of these insurance companies, now not Russell's, but 109 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:54,600 Speaker 2: a lot of these insurance companies will pay rather than 110 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 2: And then you put a mark, you talk. You get 111 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 2: a restaurant own her talking honestly, who trusts you and 112 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:04,800 Speaker 2: likes you and is willing to share things that other 113 00:07:04,839 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 2: people may judge them for, and they will tell you 114 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:12,320 Speaker 2: that it is. It sours you on the business, it 115 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 2: sours you on the condition of humanity. And now you 116 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 2: wonder why was the RCC membership only? Why why I 117 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:27,120 Speaker 2: gotta join? You don't rather than not? Anybody who asks? 118 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:33,800 Speaker 2: I so hate to do business with people like that. 119 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 2: That is why the RCC was and probably would be 120 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:40,280 Speaker 2: again membership only, because I want to keep people out 121 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 2: who cause problems. If you're a complainer, you know, but 122 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 2: you know, Ringo's unfortunately has opened to everybody. So you 123 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:49,880 Speaker 2: got to deal with fools like that to the keeper 124 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:56,960 Speaker 2: the storm. And it's going to be interesting to see 125 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 2: what happens today in the Democrat primary, because the Democrat 126 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:11,040 Speaker 2: Party has changed so very much, and that has been 127 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 2: accelerated since two thousand and eight the rise of the 128 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:24,120 Speaker 2: Obama Coalition, which was black voters who vote first and 129 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:30,680 Speaker 2: if possible, always for blacks, and white progressives and the 130 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:38,320 Speaker 2: white progressives. The white progressives are happy to be in 131 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:42,760 Speaker 2: business with the Jasmine Crocketts because it's sort of a 132 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 2: self flagellation. It's kind of a cuck move that they 133 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 2: want to be hated and despised, which they do themselves. 134 00:08:56,600 --> 00:09:00,360 Speaker 2: They had a presidential candidate in Mary Anne Williamson, who, 135 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:05,199 Speaker 2: if you'll recall, ran for president twice. In twenty twenty, 136 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:08,000 Speaker 2: we talked about the fact that she was having by 137 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:12,559 Speaker 2: the way, she was actually winning some votes. She had 138 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 2: an event at a church that had whites and blacks, 139 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:18,800 Speaker 2: and she announced that we were going to do an 140 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:22,560 Speaker 2: apology to blacks. This actually happened. 141 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:26,920 Speaker 4: Listen to this as I speak, I'm going to ask 142 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:31,080 Speaker 4: the white Americans in the room to please repeat after me, 143 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:42,360 Speaker 4: on behalf of myself, and on behalf of my country 144 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:49,480 Speaker 4: to you and all African Americans, from the beginning of 145 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:56,080 Speaker 4: our nation's history, in honor of your ancestors, and on 146 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:57,520 Speaker 4: behalf of your children. 147 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:09,839 Speaker 2: Please hear this from my heart. I apologize, Please forgive us. 148 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:17,160 Speaker 4: With this prayer, I acknowledge the depth of the evils 149 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 4: that have been perpetrated against black people in America, from 150 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:35,319 Speaker 4: slavery to lynchings, to white supremacist laws, to the denial 151 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:43,839 Speaker 4: of voting rights, to all the ways, both large and small, 152 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:49,679 Speaker 4: all of them evil, all of them wrong, for all 153 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:57,680 Speaker 4: the oppression, and all of the injustices. I apologize, Please 154 00:10:57,679 --> 00:10:58,280 Speaker 4: forgive us. 155 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:04,319 Speaker 2: I guess they feel good after that. I don't know. 156 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 2: So in twenty twenty, twenty eighteen, Lena Hidalgo has swept 157 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:12,560 Speaker 2: into office. There's a big blue wave. It's very organized. 158 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:16,560 Speaker 2: It was digital online, so it was high tech what 159 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:20,280 Speaker 2: I would call an air war and low tech what 160 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:22,840 Speaker 2: I would call a ground war, with lots of door 161 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:26,800 Speaker 2: knocking and getting people to the polls. And in Harris County, 162 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:33,360 Speaker 2: Lena Hidalgo was swept into office. And what's interesting about 163 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:36,839 Speaker 2: this is that Hidalgo was up for reelection in twenty 164 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:40,720 Speaker 2: twenty two and we beat her. Alex Meeler beat her, 165 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:44,040 Speaker 2: but they didn't send ballots on election day because our 166 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:46,520 Speaker 2: people love to sandbag and not wait till the end, 167 00:11:47,080 --> 00:11:49,800 Speaker 2: and they'll tell me. That's because if I wait till 168 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:52,920 Speaker 2: the end, Michael, they don't know how many votes to cheat. 169 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:56,240 Speaker 2: So if I vote right before the end, they don't. 170 00:11:56,400 --> 00:12:00,360 Speaker 2: They don't put enough cheap votes in there. Okay, So 171 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:04,520 Speaker 2: our people waited in the West side, which Mieler would 172 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:07,720 Speaker 2: have won well over ninety percent of ended up dozens 173 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 2: of thousands of votes short. So when the people called 174 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:12,840 Speaker 2: in and said, hey, we don't have any ballots out here, 175 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:17,760 Speaker 2: we got we got miles of people in line. Cliff Tatum, 176 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 2: the election administrator, who had been brought here by Rodney 177 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:24,040 Speaker 2: from DC for this very moment and this very purpose, 178 00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:26,960 Speaker 2: said we'll get you some ballots out there. And they 179 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:29,200 Speaker 2: kept promising to get ballots out there, and they didn't, 180 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:32,600 Speaker 2: and so the people couldn't vote if they didn't have ballots. 181 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:38,840 Speaker 2: So Lena wins the election. There's other fraud, verifiable fraud, 182 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 2: and nobody would stand up and say anything about it. 183 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:46,480 Speaker 2: Meeler did, but nobody else would. So we begged Greg 184 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:51,720 Speaker 2: Abbott to have his Secretary of State Jane Nelson, do something, 185 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:57,439 Speaker 2: and you know what, they did nothing. If Meeler had 186 00:12:57,480 --> 00:13:01,200 Speaker 2: been the county judge today, we wouldn't have to worry 187 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:05,200 Speaker 2: about fraud in this election, and she would have been 188 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:08,559 Speaker 2: the county judge, but abit didn't want to help anybody else. 189 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:11,880 Speaker 2: So imagine my surprise when a few months ago Greg 190 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:14,360 Speaker 2: Abbott jumps up and says, we're going to put our 191 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:22,880 Speaker 2: efforts into Harris County at voter an election integrity. Wait what, Oh, 192 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:26,040 Speaker 2: that's right. You're on the ballot in a close race 193 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:29,160 Speaker 2: or what could potentially be a close race, especially come November. 194 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:34,960 Speaker 2: Oh so now you care? Got it? So Rodney started 195 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:37,120 Speaker 2: this black girl magic thing. It's been talked about by 196 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:40,400 Speaker 2: NPR and it's become there's a whole movement behind it. 197 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:46,160 Speaker 2: There's a cachine something that's and the idea is it's 198 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:50,360 Speaker 2: supposedly a TikTok theme, and that is black girls have 199 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:54,400 Speaker 2: a strength and a wisdom that nobody realizes in black 200 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:57,480 Speaker 2: girl magic. So there has been this push by Rodney 201 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:02,079 Speaker 2: to get black women on the bench. And he owns 202 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:07,600 Speaker 2: the Harris County Civil and Civil Court especially bench, and 203 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:11,480 Speaker 2: since twenty twenty he has had six campaigns where he 204 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:17,920 Speaker 2: targeted not Republicans, white Democrats. He is six of six 205 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:23,640 Speaker 2: with black women. Some of these black women have never 206 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:26,720 Speaker 2: practiced law, before and he gets them elected, because how 207 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:30,720 Speaker 2: would the public know? And the way he does it 208 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:36,080 Speaker 2: is that he has started pushing voter turnout legal or illegal, 209 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:39,720 Speaker 2: I don't know. I haven't checked. He started pushing voter 210 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:44,960 Speaker 2: turnout and just pulling the votes out of communities where 211 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:48,040 Speaker 2: he knows he can win. He's got a slate. There's 212 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:52,440 Speaker 2: the sorrows, support the whole thing. They targeted five white 213 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:58,560 Speaker 2: Democrats this election cycle. This is him targeting White's Democrats. 214 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:05,120 Speaker 2: So the taller Rico crocket. This weekend, I was making 215 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 2: a list of things about people that if I learned 216 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,760 Speaker 2: that one fact, I know, it's probably a good person, 217 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:17,120 Speaker 2: because everybody I've known that fits into that is a 218 00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 2: good person, right. And one of them was the husband 219 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 2: and wife cut each other's hair. It's a country thing, ormo. 220 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 2: And so I was thinking about all the things in 221 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:39,320 Speaker 2: my life that if I have known someone who I 222 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:43,760 Speaker 2: just know that one thing I know, that's a solid 223 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:46,800 Speaker 2: good person. And most of them are country things stuff 224 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:51,480 Speaker 2: I grew up with. But people who can their own preserves, 225 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:54,880 Speaker 2: that's never going to be a bad person, that's always 226 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:57,640 Speaker 2: going to be a good person, always going to be 227 00:15:57,640 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 2: a good person, wrote the whole thing, and I posted 228 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:02,880 Speaker 2: it to Facebook and I did something wrong and it 229 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:05,600 Speaker 2: didn't post it. I was bummed out. Another one that 230 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 2: was Ham Radio operators. It's kind of a very Bob's 231 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:14,760 Speaker 2: Troop thing, right. You get these real nerdy technical guys 232 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:17,640 Speaker 2: that may or may not have an engineering degree, mostly don't. 233 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 2: They might have been. They might have done mechanical drawings 234 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:28,640 Speaker 2: or design for an oil company or a c NC 235 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:37,480 Speaker 2: shop or whatever. People that reload their own shells, that's 236 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:40,000 Speaker 2: always a big one. People that do their own stuff 237 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:44,960 Speaker 2: around the house, like Paul. You don't see people arrested 238 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:52,600 Speaker 2: who for committing terrible crimes who keep their own garden. 239 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:56,640 Speaker 2: It's just it's a whole different personality type value system 240 00:16:56,800 --> 00:16:59,160 Speaker 2: the whole thing. By the way, I got an email 241 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:04,000 Speaker 2: from Bobby Crump and he said that, he said, I 242 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:08,480 Speaker 2: know Paul. He lives in our neighborhood. He I can't 243 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:10,240 Speaker 2: find an email. I must have deleted it. 244 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:10,800 Speaker 3: Uh. 245 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:16,399 Speaker 2: He is the neighborhood garden club president. They've got a 246 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:24,080 Speaker 2: neighborhood garden club. I mean, you think about you've got 247 00:17:24,359 --> 00:17:30,760 Speaker 2: boys in the hood, you know, gang bangers, awful monstrous people, 248 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:36,240 Speaker 2: and then you've got the quote unquote neighborhood garden club 249 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:41,520 Speaker 2: out in Dobbin. It's two different worlds, right, And so 250 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:45,760 Speaker 2: somebody that moves out of the gang banging boys in 251 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:49,959 Speaker 2: the hood, loud music, illegal aliens, welfare queens, slip and falls, 252 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:57,560 Speaker 2: and moves into that Dobbin garden club community. I mean, 253 00:17:57,760 --> 00:17:59,880 Speaker 2: just if you could, if you could take the BLA 254 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:04,800 Speaker 2: bood pressure readings a week apart, what a difference it is. 255 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:08,960 Speaker 2: And then there are people that move from a crowded 256 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:11,840 Speaker 2: urban environment, so it's all they've ever known and all 257 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:15,400 Speaker 2: they know that there is to know where You've got 258 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:19,040 Speaker 2: noise pollution, which I think is horrible for your for 259 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:23,159 Speaker 2: your your yourtret, your stress, and your blood pressure. So 260 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:28,400 Speaker 2: you've got noise, everything is louder. There's honking and cars 261 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:35,040 Speaker 2: and revving and machinery and everything else music and it's 262 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:38,000 Speaker 2: all very loud, and it it sometimes you could your 263 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:40,399 Speaker 2: your brain can learn to push it to the back, 264 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:43,359 Speaker 2: but your your brain is still having to process that, 265 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:47,119 Speaker 2: and it's horrible for you. It's terrible. I think it 266 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:51,439 Speaker 2: creates a level of confusion. I'm not exactly. I'm not 267 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:54,720 Speaker 2: certain that that isn't a contributed to Parkincers Parkings, I 268 00:18:54,760 --> 00:19:01,159 Speaker 2: mean to Alzheimer's, but another subject another day. So you 269 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:04,359 Speaker 2: got that, and then that person, and that's all that 270 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:08,040 Speaker 2: person's ever known. And then maybe their spouse is from 271 00:19:08,119 --> 00:19:11,439 Speaker 2: the country and they move out to the country, and 272 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:14,639 Speaker 2: all of a sudden, it's like an addict. You know, 273 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:18,679 Speaker 2: they need their fix. They're used to being so overstimulated 274 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:26,600 Speaker 2: that what they perceive as boring, they perceive they're not 275 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:32,160 Speaker 2: alive because you're not in constant defense mode. And that 276 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:38,000 Speaker 2: defense mode is a release of adrenaline, and that adrenaline 277 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:41,600 Speaker 2: is constant because your body is in fight or flight 278 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:48,960 Speaker 2: mode constantly, because there are continuous what is a perception 279 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 2: of threats, whether you realize it or not. Traffic, congestion, crowds, noise, 280 00:19:57,560 --> 00:20:00,399 Speaker 2: all of these things tell your brain, which just that 281 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:03,240 Speaker 2: brain is the same brain we've had for thousands of years, 282 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:08,159 Speaker 2: tells your brain that to be on the lookout, and 283 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:12,800 Speaker 2: so it becomes second nature. It's habitual as a behavior 284 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:15,679 Speaker 2: such that you don't even realize that you're doing it, 285 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:20,760 Speaker 2: but you're never able to truly relax. And this is 286 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:25,000 Speaker 2: why these people love to go on a vacation to 287 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:32,119 Speaker 2: a Mexican beach or the mountains or some very slow, 288 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:37,040 Speaker 2: very quiet place, and they think that it's the place 289 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:40,440 Speaker 2: that's special. It's not. It's getting out of the over 290 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:45,320 Speaker 2: stimulated mode and world that you live in with so 291 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:51,959 Speaker 2: much traffic, noise, traffic, noise, congestion, people, congestion and all 292 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:56,000 Speaker 2: of that. And some people when they move out to 293 00:20:56,359 --> 00:20:57,760 Speaker 2: I've had people tell me they don't know if they 294 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:02,560 Speaker 2: can stay out there because it's boring, there's not enough 295 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:06,480 Speaker 2: to do. And it's not their fault. They have grown, 296 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:10,439 Speaker 2: whether they realize it or not. They've grown addicted to 297 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:13,040 Speaker 2: all the things that are so bad for you that 298 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:15,840 Speaker 2: they wanted to get away from. But it's sort of 299 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:21,440 Speaker 2: like people that seek out abusive relationships. You see these cases. 300 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:24,200 Speaker 2: It's usually women, but I've seen men that do it too, 301 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:29,159 Speaker 2: that like to fight. There's a comedian named Taylor Tomlinson 302 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 2: and she's done four Netflix specials, and in about number 303 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:37,199 Speaker 2: two or number three, she talks about how she was 304 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:42,560 Speaker 2: toxic in relationships because she would get bored. She didn't 305 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:45,480 Speaker 2: know how to communicate with a boyfriend, so she would 306 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:49,920 Speaker 2: just fight, and she would create situations that would cause 307 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:52,560 Speaker 2: a fight, so there would be a fight and one 308 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 2: of them she gave was and this is always dangerous 309 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:57,080 Speaker 2: when women come up with the stuff, because there's nothing 310 00:21:57,119 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 2: good to come. And she says, Babe, they're watching a 311 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:03,000 Speaker 2: movie or whatever they do the either worsemen. Babe, this 312 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:07,480 Speaker 2: is her talking. If you found out we were cousins, 313 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:12,639 Speaker 2: would you leave me? Well, now he can't win, and 314 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:15,960 Speaker 2: so he decides the best answer is yes, because then 315 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:20,720 Speaker 2: at least you won't think he's creepy. And so she 316 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:24,880 Speaker 2: decides that that's the wrong answer, and she creates a fight, 317 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:27,879 Speaker 2: and she goes through how this whole thing escalates, and 318 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:32,840 Speaker 2: you find out that there are people like this who 319 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:42,160 Speaker 2: they cray. It sounds crazy, but they crave conflict and 320 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:47,440 Speaker 2: discomfort and unpleasantness. And that's why the economists have such 321 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:50,320 Speaker 2: a better use of how we make decisions. They have 322 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:56,280 Speaker 2: such better vocabulary because rather than saying that someone likes this, 323 00:22:56,920 --> 00:23:01,800 Speaker 2: the economists will say they derive you till and when 324 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:05,520 Speaker 2: you you understand someone derives utility, you begin to understand 325 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:12,680 Speaker 2: sadism or masochism, or sell other self defeating behaviors, self 326 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:18,119 Speaker 2: cutting adrenaline junkies that are risking their lives. And then 327 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:20,359 Speaker 2: you begin to understand that it's it may not always 328 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,639 Speaker 2: seem like it's what makes you happy, but it's what 329 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:27,600 Speaker 2: gives you utility, it's what you seek out. It's it's 330 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:30,399 Speaker 2: where you choose to spend your time, whether you realize 331 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:33,040 Speaker 2: it or not. And that's why these people who are 332 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:37,959 Speaker 2: always in toxic relationships, not just their boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife, whatever, 333 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:41,280 Speaker 2: they have toxic relationships with everybody. You start to notice 334 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:44,440 Speaker 2: they're the common denominator. That's actually whether they realize or 335 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:48,200 Speaker 2: that's what they want, that's where they're happy. It's the 336 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:55,320 Speaker 2: Michael Barry shows. The band, they only released one album. 337 00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:58,200 Speaker 2: This was This was their hit. The album is called Albazaar. 338 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:00,960 Speaker 2: The song is Albazar and they have just it was 339 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:02,399 Speaker 2: a bliph on the map. I think it's such a 340 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:08,480 Speaker 2: cool song. But the name of the band is uh OMC, 341 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:12,720 Speaker 2: which stood for Otara Millionaires Club. And that was the 342 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:18,080 Speaker 2: joke because it was meant to be like they had 343 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:21,680 Speaker 2: like redneck country club, you know, they have a club 344 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:26,359 Speaker 2: for millionaires because they were poor Kiwi's from New Zealand, 345 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:28,119 Speaker 2: and so it was meant to be like, look at us, 346 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:37,560 Speaker 2: we're very exclusive. But that was that was the joke. Anyway, Well, 347 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:42,640 Speaker 2: I'll get to that in a minute. It being election 348 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:50,560 Speaker 2: day and all, it's always good to remember the importance 349 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:59,960 Speaker 2: of the way our system works. And I am I'm 350 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:09,679 Speaker 2: such a deep Pollyanna believer of self governance that I 351 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:13,400 Speaker 2: if you knew my true views about it, you would 352 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:20,639 Speaker 2: think that they're almost childlike. And maybe they are. And 353 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:26,280 Speaker 2: I understand they sound naive or Pollyanna or downright silly, 354 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:31,960 Speaker 2: but I am a deep believer. And maybe that's because 355 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:36,920 Speaker 2: I'm a student of human history. And most of human 356 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:40,480 Speaker 2: history is for ninety nine percent of the population. It's 357 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:46,200 Speaker 2: actually greater than that is privation and misery, suffering and 358 00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:54,960 Speaker 2: sickness and penury. And so you've got the overlay of 359 00:25:55,040 --> 00:26:01,720 Speaker 2: capitalism with a self determinative political sism. Now I can 360 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:06,760 Speaker 2: already anticipate what someone is going to say, since rig 361 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,159 Speaker 2: with a rig trust me, I can go visit my 362 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:11,560 Speaker 2: dad as soon as we're off, I can hear that. 363 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:14,760 Speaker 2: I know. I know what you're thinking, and it is 364 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:19,919 Speaker 2: an It's an imperfect system. There is no doubt you won't. 365 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:24,160 Speaker 2: You're not smarter than me or more worldly for saying that. 366 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:27,520 Speaker 2: I don't think it's imperfect. I've spent more time around 367 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:30,720 Speaker 2: politics than most people. I am well aware of how 368 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:35,240 Speaker 2: imperfect it is. But that's the beauty of the next election. 369 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:41,840 Speaker 2: That's what I love about it. Hope springs eternal. It's funny. 370 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:46,920 Speaker 2: I was at a end of life celebration a week 371 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:51,080 Speaker 2: or two ago and Jim Crane was there, and as 372 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:54,440 Speaker 2: we're walking out, people were obviously everyone missed the person 373 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:56,040 Speaker 2: who was there, but it was something to have something 374 00:26:56,040 --> 00:27:00,199 Speaker 2: positive to talk about. People hope that the newness, the 375 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 2: freshness of how fitting in spring. We got a new 376 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:06,640 Speaker 2: ball club, we got a new team. So even if 377 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:09,600 Speaker 2: you were a Pittsburgh Pirates fan during those worst years, 378 00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:13,200 Speaker 2: you could at least hope that maybe this year would 379 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:20,200 Speaker 2: be better. There's something about that, the rebirth of the earth, 380 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:23,560 Speaker 2: and you see it around you, the flowers beginning to 381 00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:28,280 Speaker 2: come up and the birds chirping, and the sun coming out. 382 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:29,879 Speaker 2: I'm not a big sun guy, but I understand for 383 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:34,080 Speaker 2: most people that's psychologically a big deal. It's this thing. 384 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:38,800 Speaker 2: You have a new opportunity. And I know it might 385 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 2: sound silly, and it might sound like something you wouldn't 386 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:45,080 Speaker 2: expect me to hear me say, but understand my position. 387 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:50,040 Speaker 2: I love our process. I love it. I believe in it, 388 00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:55,280 Speaker 2: and anyone who doesn't can't show me a better system, 389 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:58,040 Speaker 2: unless you want to say a benevolent dictatorship. People love 390 00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:00,280 Speaker 2: to say that because they think it's cute, go living one. 391 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:11,840 Speaker 2: But I genuinely, on the deepest, nerdiest level, am thrilled 392 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:17,919 Speaker 2: and excited that every single human being gets a vote 393 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:22,560 Speaker 2: in our process. Oh but there's cheating mine. Okay, if 394 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:29,639 Speaker 2: it's an imperfect process, but the fact that we can 395 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:33,119 Speaker 2: point out the imperfections means that we started with something beautiful. 396 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:40,040 Speaker 2: If you're starving, you don't complain about whether the bread 397 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:45,000 Speaker 2: is buttered or not. You're thrilled to get something to eat. 398 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,200 Speaker 2: The point at which we can quibble over this, and 399 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:53,000 Speaker 2: that is the point at which something is working. We 400 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:55,120 Speaker 2: have to protect that, We have to ensure that, and 401 00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:58,640 Speaker 2: that's not self fulfilling. In most of the world, that's 402 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:03,000 Speaker 2: not happening. You know, you look at it on for 403 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:07,000 Speaker 2: a moment and you think how much the people there, 404 00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:10,080 Speaker 2: I think, more than anything else, they want to be 405 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:18,680 Speaker 2: from out from under the yoke of oppressive Islamic governance. 406 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:24,040 Speaker 2: We can use the word radical because we don't want 407 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:29,320 Speaker 2: to offend the people who are just who are just 408 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:33,400 Speaker 2: not Pakistani, just Muslim. But if you look at a 409 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:39,800 Speaker 2: country like Pakistan, which would never be called radical Islam, 410 00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:44,760 Speaker 2: people don't choose to live there if they have the 411 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:48,560 Speaker 2: option to live here, unless they're older and they feel 412 00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:53,520 Speaker 2: more comfortable besides the sounds, the smell that or the food, 413 00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:57,480 Speaker 2: the ease of movement, the not being in a different land. 414 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:01,880 Speaker 2: But people don't retire in places like that for a reason. 415 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:10,320 Speaker 2: It's unpleasant, it's oppressive, it is tenuous, shall we say. 416 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:14,000 Speaker 2: But I just wanted to say this might sound odd 417 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:17,200 Speaker 2: to hear coming from me. This is a beautiful day 418 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:20,760 Speaker 2: and a beautiful thing that we get to choose. And 419 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:25,040 Speaker 2: I don't push people to vote, especially not in the primary. 420 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:27,000 Speaker 2: If you're not sure who you want to vote for, 421 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,600 Speaker 2: stay home. I'm okay with that. I don't believe that 422 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:33,000 Speaker 2: everybody needs to vote. You end up with people voting 423 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:34,320 Speaker 2: and they're looking at the names and they don't know 424 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:36,520 Speaker 2: who these people are. Why do we want that? Why 425 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,479 Speaker 2: is that a good thing? In November, we can say 426 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:41,400 Speaker 2: show up vote Republican and they will or they won't. 427 00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:44,280 Speaker 2: But why do you you want somebody voting for Corning 428 00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:45,840 Speaker 2: because that's the only name they recognize.