1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So 2 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: Michael Verie Show is on the air. 3 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 2: I mean when I will now read to you how 4 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 2: much protein there is in average foods that you eat 5 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 2: per one hundred grams. 6 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:41,160 Speaker 1: Are you ready? 7 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:45,319 Speaker 2: It will start with bananas one point one. These will 8 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:52,360 Speaker 2: be increasing, avocados two grams, potatoes two point five, rice 9 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 2: two point seven. That's higher protein than I would have 10 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 2: expected for rice. By the way, I've been wearing. A 11 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 2: continuous glucose monitor does as well. And the thing that 12 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:06,080 Speaker 2: most surprised me, I have very good blood sugar. I 13 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 2: didn't know what my blood sugar would be sort of 14 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 2: all the time, and then when I eat, and my 15 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 2: blood sugar stays pretty low because I fast. So if 16 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:17,240 Speaker 2: you're not putting anything in your body, your blood shair 17 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:21,679 Speaker 2: continues to drop so much so that it's caused me 18 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:24,479 Speaker 2: a problem. I'm in between meters. I have to switch 19 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:29,480 Speaker 2: because this one, when you go below seventy, starts screaming 20 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 2: at you because it thinks you're going to die. And 21 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 2: because healthy people typically don't buy a continuous glucose monitor, 22 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 2: although I think that's changing. I think a lot of 23 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:41,960 Speaker 2: people want to know what they're what different things. 24 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 1: Do to their body. 25 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:45,319 Speaker 2: But the thing that shocked me and my wife for 26 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:50,960 Speaker 2: her body was how much my glascemic number shot up 27 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 2: with rice. It turns out much more so than with 28 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:59,360 Speaker 2: typical what you would consider what you would assume would 29 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:02,280 Speaker 2: be items that would cause your blood sugar to increase. 30 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 2: Rice two point seven, broccoli two point eight, very high 31 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:11,840 Speaker 2: in protein, spinach two point nine, green peas five point three, 32 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 2: milk six point six, wheat bread eight point eight. That 33 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:22,320 Speaker 2: one chokray lentols nine. You would have expected that, salmon 34 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:27,919 Speaker 2: nine point seven. Greek yogurt ten. Greek yogurt is one 35 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:30,680 Speaker 2: of those things. Ramon, you start reading about there are 36 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:35,119 Speaker 2: a lot of good properties to Greek yogurt. Soybeans thirteen, 37 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 2: eggs thirteen you knew they were high in that. Walnuts fifteen. 38 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:44,239 Speaker 2: Now this is per one hundred grams. So in order 39 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 2: to get more protein out of your wal walnuts than 40 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:49,920 Speaker 2: your eggs, you're gonna have to eat. 41 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 1: A lot of walnuts. 42 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:55,400 Speaker 2: But you know, pound for pound it's more protein. Cashew's 43 00:02:55,480 --> 00:03:01,519 Speaker 2: fifteen point three chicken thigh sixteen point three, shrimp sixteen 44 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:06,800 Speaker 2: point seven. That one surprised me. Oats sixteen point eight. 45 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 2: You know you think of eating eggs as high in protein. 46 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 2: We're now above eggs in protein and beginning to be 47 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 2: significantly so in items that I would have never imagined. 48 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 2: This was the one that shocked me tofu seventeen grams, 49 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:26,240 Speaker 2: poke chops seventeen point five grams, sunflower seeds twenty one grams. 50 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 2: Did not see that coming. Pistachio nuts twenty one point three. 51 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:33,520 Speaker 2: But nobody actually eats sunflower seeds. You just chew on 52 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 2: them and spit, right, that's what you're supposed to do. 53 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 2: Almonds twenty two grams, black beans twenty two grams, cannellini 54 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 2: beans twenty two gram Nobody eats said twunut twenty three grams, 55 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 2: mung beans or moon beans twenty four mutton twenty five grams, 56 00:03:55,080 --> 00:04:02,120 Speaker 2: peanut butter twenty five grams, peanut twenty six beef thirty 57 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:09,680 Speaker 2: one grams, and pumpkin seeds thirty two grams of protein 58 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 2: for every one hundred grams you eat. Pumpkin seeds was 59 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 2: the highest on the entire list. I would have never 60 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:23,279 Speaker 2: imagined that I would just you could not have convinced 61 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:27,279 Speaker 2: me that that was the case. KPRC TV's Amy Davis' 62 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:34,359 Speaker 2: latest investigation says Houston has the worst power outages in 63 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:35,760 Speaker 2: the nation. 64 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:37,560 Speaker 1: Surprise. 65 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:41,279 Speaker 3: The story from KPRC to me, from the hum of 66 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 3: an air conditioner Incline to a country road in Chambers 67 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 3: County and way out west to Tyler Steers Home. 68 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 4: In Fort Bend. 69 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:52,279 Speaker 2: It seems like there's a problem that everybody knows about 70 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 2: that nobody can explain. 71 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:56,040 Speaker 4: Why all of these communities have something in common. 72 00:04:56,279 --> 00:04:58,160 Speaker 5: Something's got to give on the power. 73 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 4: Power outages in all up to eighteen times more often 74 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:04,760 Speaker 4: than the rest of the country, and nearly seven times 75 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:07,279 Speaker 4: the outages than the rest of the Greater Houston area. 76 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:09,360 Speaker 4: It goes to off, and it comes on and go tovn, 77 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 4: it comes down. 78 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 2: Every time it happens, we hear the air compressor hum 79 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 2: and we're worried about, you know, what that could be doing. 80 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 1: To the house alone. 81 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:19,359 Speaker 4: Each of these customers complaints would seem isolated. But we 82 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 4: put the August outage data for Houston into an interactive map, 83 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 4: and what we see is that they each live in 84 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 4: outage hotspots. See the areas in red. These are zones 85 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:33,240 Speaker 4: that average more than four outages in just one month. 86 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:36,440 Speaker 4: More than seven outages for people in seven seven four 87 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 4: zero six and the Pecan Grove and Harvest Green subdivisions 88 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:42,800 Speaker 4: of Fort ben County. Seven in seven seven zero one 89 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 4: four near Walters and Spears Road in North Harris County. 90 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 6: Something that should be done about it. 91 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 4: More than six outages in seven seven zero three two 92 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 4: near JFK and Alden Bender and seven seven five two 93 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:58,280 Speaker 4: three in Chambers County. The areas with the most outages 94 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:01,799 Speaker 4: are spread out all over the Houston area, and in August, 95 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 4: the outages we saw were mostly momentary, lasting minutes, sometimes 96 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:07,360 Speaker 4: just seconds long. 97 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:10,640 Speaker 2: Cameras they go off, TV goes off. 98 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:13,480 Speaker 4: But even if the outages are only one second each, 99 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:15,720 Speaker 4: energy experts say that's not normal. 100 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 2: Even short power outages are disruptive. 101 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:21,359 Speaker 4: Bob Marshall is the CEO of Whisker Labs, the company 102 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:24,599 Speaker 4: that provided the data for this story. The company sells 103 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:28,640 Speaker 4: and installs small plugin teing sensors and homes and businesses 104 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:31,600 Speaker 4: across the country. They allow the company to see real 105 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 4: time data on power outages in just about every city 106 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 4: in the nation. 107 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 7: And what we see is that the frequency of power 108 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:41,599 Speaker 7: outages in Houston is just regularly higher than what we 109 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:42,760 Speaker 7: see across the country. 110 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 4: Whisker Labs is only tracking the outage doesn't know why 111 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:49,280 Speaker 4: they're so much higher here. For that, we took the 112 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 4: data to Center Point. 113 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:53,720 Speaker 2: They telling you, guys, anything not yet I didn't think, so. 114 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:57,440 Speaker 4: We asked for an on camera interview. Centerpoint send an email. 115 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 4: It reads, comparing Houston to cities like Boston, in Seattle 116 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:03,520 Speaker 4: or those in desert climates like Phoenix. Is often in 117 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:07,440 Speaker 4: apples to oranges comparison, citing Gulf Coast weather patterns and 118 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:11,280 Speaker 4: vegetation density as unique to our area. When we asked 119 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:15,080 Speaker 4: why the five areas specifically had so many outages, a 120 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:18,160 Speaker 4: representative wrote, outages can happen for many reasons. 121 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 7: The systems are sophisticated enough today that they know exactly 122 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 7: what the problem is, and so I really reject those 123 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 7: answers to say, maybe it's this. Maybe it's that we 124 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 7: need to be able to pinpoint where the outages are 125 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:35,080 Speaker 7: and we can do that and then find out why. 126 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:38,360 Speaker 4: Texas Senator Lewis Cole Courst serves on the Business and 127 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:41,920 Speaker 4: Commerce Committee in Austin. She represents the Fort Bend area 128 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:44,280 Speaker 4: that had the highest number of outages in August. 129 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:49,400 Speaker 7: There's something major wrong in that area, and I, for one, 130 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:51,440 Speaker 7: as their lawmaker, are going to be looking into this 131 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:52,800 Speaker 7: and demanding answers. 132 00:07:54,880 --> 00:08:02,360 Speaker 2: I wouldn't hold my breath. We shouldn't need a crisis 133 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 2: in order to have effective systems and government and companies 134 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:12,320 Speaker 2: and delivery of services. But that's what happens, isn't it. 135 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:16,360 Speaker 2: New Orleans had a flooding problem waiting to happen with 136 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:19,480 Speaker 2: the bowl that it was and the broken levee long 137 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:23,160 Speaker 2: before Katrina. Katrina just exposed how bad it had been 138 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:25,520 Speaker 2: and for how long. This is the same story. 139 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 1: This is a long term problem. It was allowed to fester. 140 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:50,319 Speaker 6: Data and night taking knee home. 141 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:57,440 Speaker 4: You say you want to stay, I say I want. 142 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:00,400 Speaker 2: It always surprises people when they find out who wrote 143 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:03,720 Speaker 2: this song. I know, you know that's right, the Boss 144 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 2: who Springsteen. He wrote it and recorded it in seventy seven, 145 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:13,719 Speaker 2: but the big hit was the following year for the 146 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:19,480 Speaker 2: Pointer Sisters. I'll admit it. I like the music of 147 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:24,000 Speaker 2: that era. I like disco. I never didn't like disco. 148 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:26,160 Speaker 1: I know that you're not supposed to like disco, and 149 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:28,920 Speaker 1: disco's gay. It is gay. 150 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:34,720 Speaker 2: Disco's gay and black and club music. It's all of 151 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:40,079 Speaker 2: those three things wound into one. It's also very appealing 152 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:43,760 Speaker 2: to me, and I don't know that I chose that consciously. 153 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:48,200 Speaker 2: When disco really got big seventy six, seventy seven, but 154 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 2: really seventy eight seventy nine, I was eight or nine 155 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:56,120 Speaker 2: years old. I was just really beginning to appreciate music, 156 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 2: and I loved my classic country. But I also heard 157 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:04,839 Speaker 2: on the radio what were then the top forty hits 158 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:08,920 Speaker 2: were disco songs, and I thought it was It was 159 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 2: very catchy, very smooth, and for whatever reason, it was 160 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 2: pleasant to my ear. I listened to more music today 161 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:27,000 Speaker 2: that is pre ninety than I do post, definitely post 162 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 2: twenty ten. By far, I listened to what I like. 163 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:34,320 Speaker 2: People get upset at me because they'll said, hey, you 164 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:39,400 Speaker 2: heard his new song I'm Morgan Wallen. No thanks, no, no, 165 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:42,480 Speaker 2: you got to hear this, and I don't. Actually I don't. 166 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 1: That's just it. I don't. 167 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:46,360 Speaker 2: I don't have to listen to new songs. I don't 168 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:50,319 Speaker 2: want to listen to new songs. I'm hard headed and 169 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:53,959 Speaker 2: I'm going to I'm going to continue to be hard 170 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:55,680 Speaker 2: headed because I'm going to listen to what I enjoy. 171 00:10:56,320 --> 00:11:01,160 Speaker 2: How about that, Cliff, can you hear me this time? 172 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 1: I can't. Where were you? Where did you go? What happened? 173 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:05,280 Speaker 1: Are you all right? Well? 174 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:10,079 Speaker 6: No, I'm fine. I'm driving and I got a headset 175 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 6: and for some reason then it went on mute or 176 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:12,679 Speaker 6: something like that. 177 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:15,679 Speaker 5: So sorry, all. 178 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:17,320 Speaker 1: Right, what's your drunk story, Cliff? 179 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:20,079 Speaker 6: I haven't got a drunk story for you. Forty years ago, 180 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 6: I was young and bought me a new full wheel 181 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 6: drive truck. At one point during that first week, I 182 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:28,160 Speaker 6: went out with my buddy and we all drank a 183 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:30,640 Speaker 6: little bit. Now we wasn't doing but we had been drinking. 184 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:34,599 Speaker 6: Now when I left, I was headed home out in 185 00:11:34,679 --> 00:11:38,600 Speaker 6: the country and i'm and it was raining, and I 186 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:40,680 Speaker 6: see this car over in the ditch and these three 187 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:44,400 Speaker 6: guys trying to push it out. Another guy down on 188 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:46,600 Speaker 6: the opposite side of the car with a flash light. 189 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:50,559 Speaker 6: So me, being me having a full little drive, I 190 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:52,280 Speaker 6: pull up next to you and say, hey, y'all want 191 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:56,480 Speaker 6: me to pull? Yeah, you need to help. By that time, 192 00:11:56,520 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 6: the guy with the flash light come around the car 193 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:01,800 Speaker 6: and he's got one of them two foot long maglight 194 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:03,920 Speaker 6: and he puts it up on his shoulder. The shine 195 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:06,240 Speaker 6: of at me just like any police officer would do 196 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:09,840 Speaker 6: anyways that he says, no, we're fine, you go on ahead. 197 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:14,240 Speaker 6: Well then that's when I realized they weren't pushing that 198 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:20,400 Speaker 6: car out. They were getting arrested. So I left real quick. 199 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:22,719 Speaker 6: Instead of going on, I went to my parents' house. 200 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:25,040 Speaker 6: I parked in the barn and slept there all night 201 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:26,719 Speaker 6: because I was scared to go home. Forged it come 202 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:27,160 Speaker 6: get me. 203 00:12:29,679 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 1: All right. 204 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:35,360 Speaker 2: Cliff described that story to Ramon as the funniest story. 205 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:40,240 Speaker 2: You won't believe it. I think he's got arch Manning's 206 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:42,240 Speaker 2: PR team behind him. 207 00:12:42,559 --> 00:12:44,080 Speaker 1: Joel, you're up, go ahead. 208 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:49,120 Speaker 5: Yeah, I just wanted to comment about your power company story. 209 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:53,000 Speaker 5: I guess it was mainly about Center Point, but there's 210 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:58,320 Speaker 5: a lot of reasons that we have adages. After I 211 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:00,760 Speaker 5: retired from the City of Texas City, I went to 212 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 5: work for our local power company, which was Texas New 213 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 5: Mexico down in Galveston County, and they also had a 214 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:12,680 Speaker 5: big footprint in Brazoria County and that's office I worked 215 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 5: out of in Angleton. But I have pictures of me 216 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:22,440 Speaker 5: back in the sixties when I was a kid there 217 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:26,840 Speaker 5: where you can't find a tree in the background. You 218 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:31,559 Speaker 5: absolutely can. You know, look and there's no trees anywhere. 219 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 5: And now I look around Galveston, Fort Ben Bssoria County, 220 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:42,160 Speaker 5: and it's just we're just covered with trees. And you know, 221 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 5: I don't think the infrastructure was ever or hasn't been 222 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 5: able to keep up with, you know, the growth of 223 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:55,720 Speaker 5: the cities and everything else. Now a good bit of 224 00:13:55,760 --> 00:14:03,920 Speaker 5: that is is their own damn fault. But you know, 225 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:07,600 Speaker 5: the power poles that they set back in the you know, 226 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:11,600 Speaker 5: sixties and seventies, they're not near tall enough and people 227 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:15,440 Speaker 5: planted trees everywhere all around them. I live in an 228 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:19,600 Speaker 5: area nown in Fort Ben County that in about three 229 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 5: and a half square miles there's thirty two houses, and 230 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 5: all up and down the roads in there, there's trees 231 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:34,080 Speaker 5: right along the power lines. And I belong to the 232 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:38,200 Speaker 5: Centerpoint Text Alerts that whenever I get an outage, you know, 233 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:41,760 Speaker 5: I get a text alert from them, and sometimes they'll call. 234 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:47,640 Speaker 5: But you know, invariably, if there's a outage, it was 235 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:51,440 Speaker 5: because of a tree branch that went across the power line. 236 00:14:55,880 --> 00:15:00,520 Speaker 2: I agree with you on that. I also agree there 237 00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:08,400 Speaker 2: is a duty on the individual homeowner to keep trees 238 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:13,080 Speaker 2: trimmed back. Homeowners don't believe that they have that duty. 239 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 2: I've had this conversation one hundred times. They believe it 240 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 2: is the duty of the power company to come and 241 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:24,640 Speaker 2: trim the trees on the homeowner's property that extend above 242 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 2: the power line. When the tree came later to the game, 243 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:36,160 Speaker 2: and that is just an attempt to transfer wealth from 244 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:39,480 Speaker 2: the company to the individual. In this case, transferred duty 245 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:44,480 Speaker 2: from the individual to the company, and then there is 246 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:48,920 Speaker 2: frustration when the tree falls or when a limb falls 247 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:51,440 Speaker 2: and the power is out. There's no doubt of that. 248 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:54,640 Speaker 2: In fact, I've seen corridors where you drive along and 249 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:56,800 Speaker 2: say how long until the power is out in that area. 250 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:00,640 Speaker 2: I think that, much like illegal immigrat, this is a 251 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:06,840 Speaker 2: multifaceted problem with many many sources at its root. I 252 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:10,880 Speaker 2: also think that Centerpoint made incredible wealth over a long 253 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:12,840 Speaker 2: period of time, and I'm not opposed to them making 254 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:15,800 Speaker 2: a profit even with governmental protection, but they did not 255 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:19,160 Speaker 2: reinvest in infrastructure, and I do think that is why 256 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:22,160 Speaker 2: there's a lot of deferred maintenance on all this trimming. 257 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:24,840 Speaker 1: Create around for a man life. This is a fellow 258 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:27,080 Speaker 1: named Dave Finley on. 259 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 2: My Way kind of a singer songwriter might be a mechanic. 260 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:38,800 Speaker 1: He might work in dispatch for. 261 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:46,080 Speaker 2: A eighteen wheeler company. Just kind of a big, fat 262 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 2: white dude. We're in a ball cap all the time 263 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:56,360 Speaker 2: with a skill, and the skill is singing. I love 264 00:16:56,440 --> 00:16:58,640 Speaker 2: covers outside the original. 265 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:00,680 Speaker 1: Genre. 266 00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:05,200 Speaker 2: Do you see that Joe Rogan had Lionel Ritchie on recently? Yeah, 267 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:10,240 Speaker 2: something Michael Jackson. You know it would not be enough 268 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:13,159 Speaker 2: to fulfill me, but a certain part of me is 269 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:17,359 Speaker 2: jealous of the Tucker Carlson. Joe Rogan, you know, do 270 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:18,560 Speaker 2: one interview. 271 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:18,920 Speaker 1: Per day. 272 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 2: And then call it today and you've got a hype 273 00:17:22,840 --> 00:17:25,680 Speaker 2: machine behind you that that's you know, pushing it out 274 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:30,840 Speaker 2: all day, so you only prep for that interview. And 275 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:33,920 Speaker 2: I think there's a huge market for it. There's there's 276 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:36,399 Speaker 2: nobody doing it quite as I mean, there's nobody in 277 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:38,800 Speaker 2: the realm of what Rogan's doing in terms of numbers. 278 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:41,359 Speaker 2: And he certainly doesn't mail it in. I mean that 279 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:41,919 Speaker 2: guy will. 280 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 1: Sit there and talk. You can tell at the end 281 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 1: of the interviews people are like, can I please be done? 282 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:48,160 Speaker 1: I'm wore out. 283 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:50,280 Speaker 2: Because you know you're on your best behavior, right, you know, 284 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:53,280 Speaker 2: the whole world is Washington's got a big audience and 285 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:59,679 Speaker 2: Tuckers are tighter interviews. By the way, this week, I 286 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:02,399 Speaker 2: don't get to watch anything else. I watch reviews of 287 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:04,760 Speaker 2: things and clips of things, but a number of folks 288 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:07,920 Speaker 2: sent it to me. Steve Toath was on Tucker this 289 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:11,840 Speaker 2: week talking about his race with Dan Crenshaw, and Tucker 290 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:15,000 Speaker 2: shares my view of Dan Crenshaw that he got to Washington, 291 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:17,359 Speaker 2: d C. And sold us out, and that he's a 292 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:24,080 Speaker 2: very very dark figure, very dark figure more than just 293 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:28,920 Speaker 2: he's not voting the right way. And Tucker feels, as 294 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:34,320 Speaker 2: I do, that he needs to be defeated. He is, well, 295 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:38,040 Speaker 2: I'll leave it there. So he had an in depth 296 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:40,359 Speaker 2: interview with Steve Toath, and I think Toad did. 297 00:18:40,359 --> 00:18:41,000 Speaker 1: Very very well. 298 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:45,480 Speaker 2: I would encourage you to watch that. John Bank, who 299 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:50,919 Speaker 2: was the third candidate in that race, who I don't know, 300 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:54,320 Speaker 2: but I know his father in law, Willie Langston. We 301 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 2: used to be in Sunday School together at Second Baptist 302 00:18:57,040 --> 00:19:00,360 Speaker 2: twenty five years ago. His father in law was one 303 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:04,840 Speaker 2: of the Houstonians who was very big behind Ted Cruz early. 304 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:10,479 Speaker 2: WILLI was extremely involved in that twenty twelve election. I 305 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:15,560 Speaker 2: was involved on the promotion and messaging side. WILLI was 306 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:17,119 Speaker 2: involved on the money side. 307 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:18,840 Speaker 1: And for those. 308 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:22,680 Speaker 2: Of you who remember a powerhouse, small but powerhouse firm 309 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 2: in the area called Avalon Advisors, Willie was one of 310 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:31,160 Speaker 2: the guys there. Every one of the small group there 311 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:33,639 Speaker 2: was an all star in their own right, and Willie 312 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:36,120 Speaker 2: certainly one of them. He was also a big force 313 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:40,040 Speaker 2: behind Second Baptist. Anyway, he had reached out and asked 314 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:42,639 Speaker 2: if I would support his son in law in the 315 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:46,520 Speaker 2: race against Dan Crinshaw. And the guy's name is John 316 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:49,480 Speaker 2: bunk Bo nc K. He'd never run for office before, 317 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:51,320 Speaker 2: and I don't know how old is I would guess 318 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:58,359 Speaker 2: he's probably forty years old, young family. I think he's 319 00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:01,359 Speaker 2: some sort of professional, maybe nance, maybe private equity. 320 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:03,640 Speaker 1: I don't know. But I had told him at the. 321 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:07,480 Speaker 2: Time, I'm not going to invest emotionally in that race 322 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:13,960 Speaker 2: for now because it's early, and I think Toath has 323 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:20,679 Speaker 2: the lion's share of Challenger Upstart support because he's represented 324 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:24,080 Speaker 2: that area. He's been very consistent. He's a constitutional conservative, 325 00:20:24,119 --> 00:20:27,400 Speaker 2: he's a Tea party guy. He's a guy that has 326 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:29,840 Speaker 2: been there for the base and been right on the 327 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 2: issues and worked very hard he's not pretentious, he's not 328 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:38,720 Speaker 2: somebody trying to lord over other people. He's the opposite 329 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:41,200 Speaker 2: of Dan Crenshaw, and in that district, I think he's 330 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:44,200 Speaker 2: going to win. So it has been my position on 331 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:47,520 Speaker 2: most of these races, unless it's a very high profile race, 332 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:51,119 Speaker 2: not to bring candidates on this early. And this is 333 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:56,480 Speaker 2: a great example why John Bonk has now moved from 334 00:20:56,520 --> 00:21:00,000 Speaker 2: the second congressional district race, which is challenging Dan Crenshaw, 335 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:06,600 Speaker 2: over to the thirty eighth Congressional district race, which is 336 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:10,520 Speaker 2: the seat that Wesley Hunt will be abandoning. And again 337 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:13,800 Speaker 2: because number of questions, Wesley Hunt doesn't have to leave 338 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:18,120 Speaker 2: his congressional seat because he's running for office. He doesn't 339 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:20,879 Speaker 2: have to leave his congressional seat. He just won't be 340 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 2: on the ballot for reelection in March. That's how that works. 341 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:27,840 Speaker 1: A number of other people have. 342 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:32,520 Speaker 2: Asked, you know, is there more at play in Wesley 343 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:37,119 Speaker 2: Hunt's entrance into the race, And the answer is I 344 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:41,240 Speaker 2: don't know, but I don't think so. And the logic 345 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:43,240 Speaker 2: of the argument, this is what I've heard from a 346 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:46,920 Speaker 2: lot of folks who either know him or are involved 347 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:49,560 Speaker 2: in the process and don't know him, and they're trying 348 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:53,439 Speaker 2: to look for the angle. There's a big thing among 349 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:57,000 Speaker 2: people who are kind of the political chattering class. These 350 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:01,960 Speaker 2: are people who who know politicians, maybe even have them, 351 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:06,439 Speaker 2: have a texting relationship, and like to think they know 352 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:09,800 Speaker 2: more than they do because they had lunch with somebody, 353 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 2: or they were an event where that person was, and 354 00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:16,440 Speaker 2: so they like to offer political analysis. And their political 355 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:20,200 Speaker 2: analysis consists of pulling together the gossip they hear from 356 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:24,359 Speaker 2: everybody they hear it from and kind of bundling that 357 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:31,480 Speaker 2: up and or number two, looking for every angle possible, 358 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:34,720 Speaker 2: giving voice to it and trying to seem smart. But 359 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:37,919 Speaker 2: usually there's no there there there's no fire with smoke. 360 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:41,960 Speaker 2: But what I'm hearing a lot of and I will 361 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,920 Speaker 2: repeat this as a thing I am hearing a lot 362 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:48,680 Speaker 2: of some of you are dunderheads. And don't understand that 363 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:51,840 Speaker 2: I am not saying I believe this to be the case. 364 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:55,280 Speaker 2: I'm telling you what I am hearing people say. That 365 00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:57,760 Speaker 2: doesn't mean it's true. That means they're saying it for 366 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:00,760 Speaker 2: whatever reason. Some people are paid to spread rumors. Some 367 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:03,600 Speaker 2: people are just making stuff up. Some people are telling 368 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:06,840 Speaker 2: the truth. When I put it out there, it is 369 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:10,320 Speaker 2: to give you another data point to consider. It does 370 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:12,720 Speaker 2: not mean that I am endorsing it. So don't email me. 371 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:14,800 Speaker 2: I know that you think this. No, if I thought that, 372 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:17,479 Speaker 2: i'd say that. Have I ever held back? I've been 373 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:19,480 Speaker 2: talking about blacks for the last two hours. Do I 374 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:21,760 Speaker 2: seem like I'm afraid to say my opinion to you? 375 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:24,280 Speaker 1: Anyway? 376 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:24,760 Speaker 7: Ramona? 377 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:29,480 Speaker 2: So as I was saying, So, the argument goes that 378 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:33,160 Speaker 2: Trump is going to endorse Wesley Hunt and Corning's going 379 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:36,359 Speaker 2: to step out, and that Wesley Hunt wouldn't have gotten 380 00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:43,919 Speaker 2: into the race unless that was the case, because Wesley's 381 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:47,560 Speaker 2: not an idiot. He wouldn't get into the race unless 382 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:52,920 Speaker 2: Corny steps down and he gets Trump's endorsement. He's too 383 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:57,040 Speaker 2: smart to do that. He loses his congressional seat that 384 00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:01,679 Speaker 2: he just got, that was created for him. There's no 385 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:05,000 Speaker 2: way he gives up his congressional seat if he's not 386 00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:12,639 Speaker 2: practically guaranteed the Senate seat. Well, I will address that. 387 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:18,560 Speaker 2: Hang tight, what are you doing? Aren't we up on 388 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:19,000 Speaker 2: a break? 389 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:19,640 Speaker 7: Well? 390 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 1: What are you doing? Oh? You have a You're determining 391 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:29,680 Speaker 1: will go to break? You have that authority since when 392 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:33,800 Speaker 1: I don't even know how you do it. It's hard timed. 393 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:35,840 Speaker 1: How do you do you have to override the system 394 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:38,640 Speaker 1: to screw it up? That's crazy. 395 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:46,640 Speaker 2: That dude just should stick to just writing songs and 396 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:55,440 Speaker 2: I'll try to sing, all right. So here is the 397 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:59,680 Speaker 2: question that I'm getting a lot of, and I would 398 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:03,040 Speaker 2: do my best to address it. So the theory goes 399 00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:08,640 Speaker 2: like this. Wesley Hunt just got elected three years ago. 400 00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:12,960 Speaker 2: He ran five years ago, barely lost to Lizzie Fletcher. 401 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:17,120 Speaker 2: Hell of a good race, came out of nowhere, had 402 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:23,280 Speaker 2: a lot of support. Here is a young veteran, beautiful family, 403 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:31,760 Speaker 2: young kids, smart guy, Houston kid, whence Saint John's played football, 404 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,000 Speaker 2: had all sorts of records as a running back. There 405 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:38,960 Speaker 2: by all accounts, good football player, good looking guy, presents 406 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:43,760 Speaker 2: himself well, happens to be black, happens to be Republican. 407 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:50,200 Speaker 2: That should not be the lead point, but it cannot 408 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:56,000 Speaker 2: be overlooked because a number of people are excited. Should 409 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,800 Speaker 2: they be, should they not be, That's up to them 410 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:03,080 Speaker 2: and your judgment. But if I'm telling you what things are, 411 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:06,480 Speaker 2: that's not a judgment on what things are. It is 412 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:10,320 Speaker 2: what I see, and I see a lot of big 413 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:13,719 Speaker 2: money guys, a lot of the big money donor class 414 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:20,960 Speaker 2: like the idea of a black Republican male because it 415 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:26,439 Speaker 2: is very rare and you cannot deny that money is 416 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:28,800 Speaker 2: going to flow in a situation like that. 417 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:29,880 Speaker 1: Now. 418 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:32,639 Speaker 2: I've had a number of friends who say, yeah, but 419 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:36,040 Speaker 2: you wait till they get to East Texas, where you're from. 420 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:40,000 Speaker 2: They're not going to like a black guy, and certainly 421 00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:44,640 Speaker 2: not a black guy and a white woman. I don't 422 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:47,560 Speaker 2: believe that's going to matter to people. I really don't. 423 00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:51,000 Speaker 2: I don't think that's going to be the primary decision making. 424 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:54,760 Speaker 2: I think people say that because they have a seed 425 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:57,000 Speaker 2: in their own heart and they love to say that 426 00:26:57,080 --> 00:27:00,200 Speaker 2: my people are all racists, but you know they're so good, 427 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:03,760 Speaker 2: to which I reply, I think he got over seventy 428 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:12,760 Speaker 2: percent of the vote in North Houston suburban community. Why 429 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:14,639 Speaker 2: aren't those people bothered that he was black? 430 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:15,959 Speaker 1: They weren't. 431 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:19,920 Speaker 2: For every guy that's bothered that he doesn't want a 432 00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:22,600 Speaker 2: black Republican and I don't believe that happens. I really don't, 433 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:27,560 Speaker 2: But let's assume it does for everyone that that's true. 434 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:30,080 Speaker 2: There's a black Republican who votes for him because he's 435 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:33,200 Speaker 2: also black, or there's a white Republican who votes for 436 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:34,960 Speaker 2: him because they liked the idea of voting for black 437 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:38,440 Speaker 2: I don't think that changes the dynamics of a race 438 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:41,600 Speaker 2: or against. I don't think that's going to be the 439 00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:45,879 Speaker 2: factor that's going to matter. And I don't appreciate that 440 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:50,720 Speaker 2: people say it is interestingly those have been people who 441 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:54,560 Speaker 2: are for Wesley Hunt. Not that Wesley has or would 442 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,160 Speaker 2: ever say that, but these are people who a lot 443 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:00,399 Speaker 2: of people if you don't like their candidate, they like 444 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:04,040 Speaker 2: to now bring up kind of Democrat issues. I had 445 00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:06,760 Speaker 2: friends who were for Kamala, went on friends acquaintances who 446 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:09,440 Speaker 2: were from Kamala and they told me that I didn't 447 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:11,159 Speaker 2: like the fact. They didn't say that I didn't like 448 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:13,560 Speaker 2: because she was because she was black. They said, I 449 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:16,360 Speaker 2: don't like because she was a woman. No, I don't 450 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:18,359 Speaker 2: like her because she's an idiot. She just happens to 451 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:22,160 Speaker 2: be a woman. So here is the question I get, 452 00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:24,679 Speaker 2: and I'll do my best to answer as I believe 453 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:29,200 Speaker 2: it to be. People say Trump has to be endorsing 454 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:31,640 Speaker 2: Wesley Hunt. I don't believe he will endorse in this race. 455 00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:36,520 Speaker 2: I don't he likes Paxton, he likes Hunt. I don't 456 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:39,720 Speaker 2: believe he'll endorse. Now, if he does endorse, I'll say 457 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:43,320 Speaker 2: I didn't think he would endorse. Certainly. I don't think 458 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:47,400 Speaker 2: he'll endorse early because of the alienation of Corn and 459 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:52,960 Speaker 2: the problems that causes him with the Senate. But let's 460 00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:54,880 Speaker 2: say he stays out of the race all the way 461 00:28:55,080 --> 00:29:01,160 Speaker 2: or till the very end. The question becomes, does Wesley 462 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:06,080 Speaker 2: have Corn's endorsement? I don't believe he does. A lot 463 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:09,400 Speaker 2: of people believe that he wouldn't have entered without it. 464 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:13,080 Speaker 2: He has not told me. He knows that Paxton and 465 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:17,360 Speaker 2: I go back, and both Paxton and Hunt Wesley have 466 00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:19,880 Speaker 2: kind of given me the respect of I'm not going 467 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:22,320 Speaker 2: to ask you to take a side, and that's where 468 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:25,560 Speaker 2: we've sort of left it. And they probably both because 469 00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:28,880 Speaker 2: politicians are paranoid, I was to They probably both think 470 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,040 Speaker 2: that I'm supporting the other one, and I'd rather just 471 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:33,479 Speaker 2: keep it that way so that I can comment on 472 00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:36,640 Speaker 2: the race without having a dog in the hunt. But 473 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:40,000 Speaker 2: I do want to beat Cornying, that's for sure. So 474 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:43,080 Speaker 2: with that in mind, the question I keep getting is 475 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:45,760 Speaker 2: just Trump endorse Wesley. I don't think he does, but 476 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,480 Speaker 2: we'll see that something may change that he does, but 477 00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:52,880 Speaker 2: I don't believe. So the second question is why would 478 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:56,560 Speaker 2: you run for a Senate seat when you have a 479 00:29:56,600 --> 00:30:00,959 Speaker 2: safe house seat. This is going to come off as 480 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,840 Speaker 2: a criticism of Wesley, and that is not the intention. 481 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:09,360 Speaker 2: This is a reality that you have to understand. Remember, 482 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,760 Speaker 2: when you're on a jury for a serial killer, you 483 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:14,640 Speaker 2: can't say, well, I wouldn't have done that, so I 484 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:19,600 Speaker 2: don't think he did it. Everybody's motivation is different Trump's motivation. 485 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:22,160 Speaker 2: When you say to yourself, if I was Trump, I'd 486 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:24,080 Speaker 2: take my money and go lay on the beach, You're 487 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:27,720 Speaker 2: not Trump. He's different from you, and you have to respect. 488 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:30,920 Speaker 2: You have to acknowledge that people are different and are 489 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:35,120 Speaker 2: driven by different things. I think some people, I know 490 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:39,560 Speaker 2: some people get to Congress and you know, you start 491 00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:41,560 Speaker 2: with the idea, I'm going to DC and be part 492 00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:43,200 Speaker 2: of the capitol. I'm going to change the laws. We're 493 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:46,840 Speaker 2: going to change the country. You get there and even 494 00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:49,760 Speaker 2: though your party is in the majority, which his is, 495 00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:54,200 Speaker 2: you are one out of four hundred thirty five, and 496 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:57,680 Speaker 2: you're in the bad the bottom thirty five of the 497 00:30:57,720 --> 00:30:58,840 Speaker 2: four hundred and thirty five. 498 00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:00,959 Speaker 1: It is all seniority. 499 00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:04,800 Speaker 2: So now it's really just like you have an interesting resume, 500 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:07,520 Speaker 2: which is like having a good PR agent. So you 501 00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:10,080 Speaker 2: can go on Bill Maher, you can go on to 502 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:11,480 Speaker 2: radio interviews and you do that. 503 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:12,400 Speaker 1: You do that all the time. 504 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:16,920 Speaker 2: Congressman fill in the blank is our guest, and you 505 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,280 Speaker 2: can get on radio shows, you can get on TV shows, 506 00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:21,240 Speaker 2: you know, if you're good enough. And he's got a 507 00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:23,640 Speaker 2: great story. He's got a great military story. He is 508 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:28,560 Speaker 2: a black Republican, so he's high energy. So that happens. 509 00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:33,120 Speaker 2: But at some point, pretty early on, it happens that 510 00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:36,560 Speaker 2: you get there and realize, wait a second, I'm flying 511 00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:38,959 Speaker 2: back and forth from where I live, where my family is. 512 00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:41,000 Speaker 2: I got to be back. They want me in the 513 00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:44,040 Speaker 2: district constantly. A lot of the time i'm up here. 514 00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:47,280 Speaker 2: It's just BS work. It's just constant BS. And the 515 00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:50,080 Speaker 2: only thing you actually do that's any power is you 516 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:51,120 Speaker 2: go cast a vote. 517 00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:52,240 Speaker 1: You can't be. 518 00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:54,800 Speaker 2: Wrong on that vote. You got to be where Trump 519 00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:56,840 Speaker 2: is or the people back home are gonna hate you. 520 00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:59,640 Speaker 2: So you're not even really using your brain. You're just 521 00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:02,600 Speaker 2: showing up at a lot of events. So why do 522 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:04,680 Speaker 2: you give up a congressional seat to run for the 523 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:07,040 Speaker 2: Senate because the Senate's where the powers at. It's where 524 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:09,240 Speaker 2: all the power's at. Unless you're the Speaker of the House, 525 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:12,440 Speaker 2: there's no power to be in a congressman. So, as 526 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:14,240 Speaker 2: I have said, if you run and. 527 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,080 Speaker 1: Lose, you still win. 528 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:19,320 Speaker 2: For most people. If you run and win, you win. 529 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,080 Speaker 2: We know that if you run and lose, most people 530 00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:22,680 Speaker 2: like why would you run and lose, then you will. 531 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,120 Speaker 2: You won't have your congressional seat because a lot of 532 00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:27,880 Speaker 2: people with high ambitions get there and realize I'm not 533 00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:30,480 Speaker 2: a swamp creature. I can't hang around here long enough 534 00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:33,640 Speaker 2: to rise up in the ranks. Morgan Latrell is stepping down. 535 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:35,720 Speaker 2: He would have been reelected for as long as he 536 00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:38,640 Speaker 2: wanted to serve. I've seen this happen a lot, where 537 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:40,880 Speaker 2: a guy gets there. The only reason Crenshaw stays there 538 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:42,920 Speaker 2: is it looks like he's run a financial firm or something. 539 00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:46,200 Speaker 2: He's inside, or he's doing some trading or whatever. So 540 00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:49,480 Speaker 2: that is the answer to that. There is no glory 541 00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:52,280 Speaker 2: to being a congressman. Very few people want to go 542 00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:53,280 Speaker 2: there and stay there.