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You make this rather snappy,won't you?
I have some very heavythinking to do before 10:00.
Welcome to Get a Ride Texomawith the trio.
Mike, Terry, Trey.
How is everybody?
Our way through a new yearhere we once again getting together
to inform and entertain youand maybe educate you a little bit
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on some things.
But we're going to talk abouta lot of local things around the
area.
We're kind of.
Last time we were kind ofrecapping the year.
We're gonna do that again now we.
Gotta finish up that.
We'll do the second half ofthe year.
Yeah.
Yes.
Yeah.
The second half of 2024.
And boy, there was a lot totalk about.
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That's right.
Sharing is caring.
Don't you feel so good?
Gosh, if only we had Barneythe dinosaur behind us to dance.
Anyway, where that came from.
Flashbacks of my children's childhood.
I just was worried abouthaving flashbacks of Mike have a
Barney dinosaur behind him.
I don't know what's going on.
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Oh, I just gotta make it weird.
Okay.
Anyway, you said it.
Not weird.
You don't make it weird.
Weird.
Okay.
Okay.
Where are we?
Where were we?
Local restaurant.
Oh, yes, our local restaurant.
Focus.
So each show we try to hone inand focus and talk about a locally
owned and usually family ownedrestaurant operation here in the
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Wichita Falls area.
And this week, this, thisepisode, we're talking about Hunan's
Chinese restaurant.
Chinese, yes.
Option, yes.
Chinese buffet.
But they also just have menu items.
You could just, you could goin and order off the menu or get
take, take out there.
Yeah, well, it is, it isreally a pretty good buffet, let
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me tell you.
Oh, man, it is something else.
I don't know how long they'vebeen around.
A long time.
They remodeled.
Yeah.
So they're on Maplewood andthey've had, they've had different
locations, but they've been ontheir Maple at their Maplewood location
for a number of years.
Yes.
They had one out by ShepherdAir Force Base.
For a short while.
It was actually there for about.
That was out there about thereabout six or seven years.
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Yeah.
And it's.
It's changed hands.
It's.
Barbaritas was out there after that.
Now Barbaritas has moved overon the south side of town.
So.
Yeah.
But.
Yeah, who Nan's is on.
On Maplewood, the quarter of Maplewood.
And is it Mallard?
It might be Mallard Maple at4516 Maplewood.
And it doesn't actually give it.
There's a Domino's Pizza.
It's across Maple or whateverthat side street is from.
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And you gotta.
If you're coming fromSouthwest Parkway.
Sorry about that.
It's hard to get to it unlessyou go one step early.
Yeah, you need to go.
Yeah.
If you're coming for.
Yeah.
If you're coming downMaplewood from Midwestern Parkway,
it's easy.
It's right there.
You can turn it there.
But yeah, if you're going downSouthwest Parkway and you're coming
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from Southwest Parkway, don't.
If you see where the Hoonansis, turn on that street before.
Right.
That's just a little loop there.
And then it goes up nearSamurai Samurai Tokyo.
And.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But Nick calls and theirlittle coffee shop, and then boom.
Yep.
So we're trying to give youdirections on how to get there, but
the.
The point is they have good food.
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And it's always.
It's consistent, it's.
It's reliable.
You know what you're getting.
Oh, yeah.
And if you like Chinese food,I think it's a.
It's a real good Chinese food,either buffet or takeout.
And they're.
Their takeout is good, too.
Yeah.
They've got a whole website,but it is just to be picky.
That's Hunan.
We want it.
We.
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We refer to it as Hunan.
Right.
This does a common thing, butit is Hunan.
Okay.
Just no s.
No s.
But hey, but I bet you they'dstill take care of you.
Yeah.
I bet you.
If you wrote a check and put.
Probably.
Yeah.
But they've been around for along time, so go check them out.
And they do.
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I always.
When we have.
I've never ordered online with them.
I've always called and said,hey, you know, can I get this, this,
and this?
Well, when you go to pick itup, it always feels.
It's like, man, you get a lotin here.
You're actually true.
Yeah, you're right.
It was $23, and you'd get likethree sacks of food.
You're like, a lot of ricethere, too.
But a lot of food.
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Yeah, but it's good.
And they're in their.
Their sweet and sour chickenis really good.
Their fried rice is good.
So check them out.
Hunan Chinese restaurant.
I like it.
Kind of a surprise thing onthe, on the political scene here.
Justin Trudeau, Prime Ministerof all Canada, has resigned.
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Yeah, just.
He got, he got pissed that,that Trump was suggesting that they
become the 51st state.
This is what I don't understand.
He's lost a lot of support.
I think that there's.
Yeah, these liberal.
These liberals all over theworld are getting ousted and things
like that.
The ultra liberals, the, thefar leftism.
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That's a better word.
I should not use word liberal.
The leftist leftism.
And true.
And they truly are thefascists, let me tell you.
Look at what they've done withthe lockdowns.
Look at what Trudeau did withthe truckers when the Canadian truckers
went on strike to freezepeople's bank accounts.
Yes.
That's beyond the pale.
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Yeah, it really is.
So he got pushed out.
I think, you know, Trump kindof trolling him a little bit, you
know, about the whole.
We'll make you the 51st state.
You can be the governor of the51st state, you know, whatever.
Kind of.
With the whole.
The other day, the.
We're going to change the Gulfof Mexico to the Gulf of America.
Yeah, he's trolling people.
We're taking over Greenland.
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You know, we're going to invade.
Yeah, yeah.
We're not going to invade anybody.
Now, would we possibly look atacquiring Greenland and buying Greenland?
There's some strategic.
There's.
There's some.
Oh, yeah, actually somestrategic stuff there.
Or going to the Greenlandgovernment and say, we'd like to
buy 500, 5,000 acres orwhatever it is here and put a military
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base here.
That's a possibility.
We already have, apparently.
I think there is a base in Greenland.
I thought.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't know if.
I don't know if.
Is it a naval base or an airforce base?
I think it's an air force base.
They might want to put a navalbase here.
I don't.
I don't know.
Well, I know.
I know there was one there 70years ago or 60 years ago.
And I know this because I havea Zippo cigarette lighter that my
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mom had and it was Tule.
Is that how you say it?
Tule.
T H U L E.
I think.
Yeah, Tule, Greenland.
And it was a gift that wasgiven to some airman or officer or
something.
And it was left at a placewhere my mother was working.
She ended up acquiring it, and she.
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Ended up acquiring it becauseI couldn't find the owner.
It didn't have a name engravedon it.
It just had a kind of a thankyou message on the back of it.
That's what used to be Thule.
Known as Thule.
Yeah, it's, it's the.
Yeah.
Petufic, I guess.
Petufic Space Base, Greenlandis part.
It's so from what I've heard, part.
Of the department of SpaceForce, I guess.
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Yes.
Greenland apparently has somedegree of rare earth metals that
they can mine there that rightnow China controls most of the rare
earth metals supply in the world.
And so that, I think, is wherethe strategic approach to this is.
Well, and also shipping lanes,the shipping lanes are opening up.
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With the polar ice capsmelting a little bit, there's more
shipping lanes that areopening up in those areas.
And so, yeah, you want to besure that China and Russia can't
necessarily control thoseshipping lanes.
So there could be some of that there.
But back to Trudeau.
Yeah.
You know, I've heard rumorsfor years.
Yeah.
And I don't know, but he doeslook very.
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He does look a lot like Fidel Castro.
Like, he could be a FidelCastro's kid.
Okay.
Look at him in the face.
Yeah.
Okay, pull it up.
There's been rumors for yearsthat Trudeau's mother and Fidel Castro
were very, very close.
Oh.
Oh, look at it.
Okay.
With the beard on.
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Yeah.
Okay.
Show Fidel Castro early.
Fidel Castro.
Not FIDEL Castro at 85 years old.
Let me, let me flip over.
I want to show that picture.
Well, hey, hang on, let me.
Okay.
Yeah, here, we'll pull.
Let's see if I can get to the.
There we go.
I'm not, I'm not saying.
And I'm.
All I'm saying is I never.
Paywall thought that, but whenI hit that, I was like, man.
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Well, there's a.
There, you got a picture of itright there.
Yeah.
The bearded.
True.
The bearded one hit four.
Oh, I did.
He's there.
It's not.
Oh, yeah, there it is.
Upper right hand corner.
Yeah.
Or a left hand corner.
Okay, now, now pull up.
FIDEL Castro at 30 years old.
Well, I was actually was gonnado Fidel Castro.
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Maybe that's his death.
But father.
Well, conspiracy.
Yeah, there.
I, I, I don't.
I.
All I'm saying is there issome resemblance there.
That's all I'm saying.
Because at first when I.
And I didn't really, reallysee that until he put.
Got the beard, but once he gotthe beard.
It does, it does.
There is a resemblance there,and it could be completely coincidental,
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but there is a connection.
Look at that.
There.
There's Fidel, I'm telling you.
Okay, well, they're not far.
That is a little creepy.
I had never.
I had never considered that before.
I'm gonna bring.
Let's see.
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Images.
I'll bring up.
Let's see.
Oh, there.
There's a side by side.
Oh, yeah, but that's that.
This guy's got a cigar.
Here.
Here's another one.
Once again, he's 95, too old.
Here we go.
Look at that.
Now that.
Yeah.
So this is Snikey's bad man,Times of India.
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That's a video.
Or.
Oh, and then there's even this.
Oh, a split face.
Oh, will it let you open thatup bigger?
Yeah, there it is.
I'm just telling you.
I'm not.
I don't know that he isobviously Fidel Castro's kid, and
it really doesn't matter oneway or another.
I just think it's interesting.
But.
But there was.
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The thing is, there was aconnection between his mother and
Fidel Castro.
So it's not like, you know, ifsomebody said, oh, he could be Fidel
Castro's K.
That's plausible.
And Fidel Castro and hismother never met.
Well, obviously they can't,you know, Immaculate conception.
Trudeau is not second comingof Jesus Christ.
It wasn't immaculate conception.
But think of himself that way.
I don't know.
But anyhow, anyway, I justthought that was interesting.
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Trudeau has resigned and.
Au revoir, Trudeau.
Yeah, well, yeah, don't worry.
He'll pop up somewhere elseand you.
Might be on the speaking tourand make.
Make millions of dollars,write a book, and that's what I'm
saying, and go.
Yeah.
Start.
Start doing public engagementsand stuff like that.
I just hope that we get moresomebody, more sens.
Canada as their.
As their new prime minister,because Canada is very important.
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I mean, it's our number onetrading partner.
They're.
They're right there.
I mean, Canada is a.
Is a very important partnerwith America, with the United States.
Maple syrup, that's.
What else do you need?
Maple.
Canada.
Maple syrup.
Let's do it.
We have some maple syrup in Texas.
I just don't.
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I just don't know if we haveenough Vermont.
That what's concerns.
Oh, yeah, you go to Vermont.
Rare earth minerals and maple syrup.
There you go.
The the natural resources thatCanada does has.
Canada's a massive place.
Oh, it is.
It's huge.
It's not a.
Now there's not a ton ofpeople there because a lot of it's
uninhabitable.
Right.
But there.
Canada is a massive, massive country.
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It is, it is.
And you know, I don't know,maybe we could have had it at one
time.
Maybe we could have taken themat one time.
I will tell you the War of1812, because I've traveled in Canada
before.
They take.
From a historical standpoint,we don't really talk about the war
of 1812 very much here.
It was very personal to theCanadians and there were the Americans
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kind of took their aggressionout on a lot.
I think, of course, this ismore the Canadian history.
I don't know how true it was,but I think that there was some pretty
bitter attacks of.
By.
Of the Americans to the Canadians.
Yeah.
Because during the War of1812, because we couldn't.
We couldn't sail over toEngland and fight them on their land.
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So we'll kick your guys assthat are.
You're calling us are over here.
We'll kick their ass because they're.
They're on the same continent.
Remember The War of 1812 waswhen the English burned down the
White House.
Yes.
That was a.
That was a significant war.
It's just that we had theRevolutionary War and then we had
the Civil War, and those takeup so much oxygen out of the room.
The War of 1812 almost kind ofbecomes almost like a forgotten war.
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But it was a big deal to thosepeople at that time.
I've never understood why somany Americans have such an obsession
with the royal family of England.
There's almost.
I mean, I know some people,women I've met over the years that
are just.
And a lot of it goes back toCharles and Diana, and it was sort
of almost like a Ken andBarbie kind of thing, you know, But.
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Yeah, but I've neverunderstood why we have such an obsession
with the royal family of England.
It's like we fought a war toget away from them.
Yeah, I think it's a prettysmall percentage, but they're loud.
It's kind of one of those.
Relatively loud.
But yeah, I do think there is some.
And I don't know what the.
What the allure is.
Now.
I will say I did not like theway that the royal family got trashed
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publicly because they're theheads of state from some of the people
that were in their family thatwere just making stuff Up Meghan
Markle, for instance.
Oh, yeah, they didn't, thequeen did not deserve that.
No, no.
Yeah.
Diana.
I don't, I don't, I'm not a, Iwas not a big Diana fan.
I think Diana did some reallygood things in her life.
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But towards the end of herlife when she started cheating on,
publicly on Charles andstarted trashing the royal family,
stuff like that, I didn'tthink that was, I thought, didn't
think, didn't think it was agood look.
Apparently that was a two waystreet with Charles.
Oh, I'm sure it was.
Yeah.
But he, he didn't come out andpublicly trash her.
No.
So anyhow, doesn't matter anyway.
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Okay.
Top stories of 2024, secondhalf of the year.
Let's continue with this June.
We had the CNN debate.
The, the debate.
And oh, how embarrassing that was.
This, this was the world'sexposure and realization of what
the three of us have beensaying for years.
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Yes.
Joe Biden's obvious cognitive decline.
Yes.
And the curtain was pulledback for everybody to see.
And everybody saw it in Juneand the world, the, literally the
world changed.
The political landscape ofAmerica changed that night.
And once that happened, therewas no way to unwind that clock.
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No, absolutely no way tounwind that clock.
It was just, I watched everysecond of that debate that night.
And one third of the way intoit, I said out loud, he's done.
Oh, sure he's done.
This, this is, he's officiallytoasted tonight.
There was a point when Trumplooked over and said, I don't know
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what he just said.
Nobody did.
He was right.
I mean, it was, to me, itwasn't funny.
It was sad.
When you see somebody who's,who is struggling mentally and I
have empathy, I don't thinkit's, haha.
I think it's sad.
And then my sadness turns to alittle bit of anger.
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Why is his family letting himdo that?
Well, if it was your, where ishis family?
If it was your mom or dad orgrandma or grandpa or yours or mine,
we wouldn't put them in asituation publicly to be embarrassed
like that.
We would not put them in whatis essentially a compromising situation.
You wouldn't do it at church.
You damn sure wouldn't do itfor the world to see.
No, but the, it's, it just, Ithink it goes back to the, the, the
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hunger for power that thefamily has, their desire to hold
on to that.
But also the Democratic Party.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
They thought they could pullthis ruse.
Over on the public, theythought they could.
It backfired in grand fashionthat night, and then once it did,
they had no choice but tostart to admit, okay, there's a problem
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here.
And Kamala Harris apparentlybecame the obvious immediate replacement.
That's the next month.
Yeah.
You know, that long?
Yeah, but.
But it was.
It was so.
That was sad.
And like I said, my dis.
My dismay, it wasn't surprising.
I mean, we knew all this.
We knew this was coming.
Yeah.
But my dismay and then my.
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And then my anger towards thatfamily, it's like, why are you treating
your family member, somebodywho supposedly love and care about
and really should protect whenthey're vulnerable this way?
And it's all because, like yousaid, power and money, they're all
sucking off the government teeth.
Joe Biden was the cash cow of that.
He was the only one bringing, really.
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Hunter Biden would be somejunkie loser somewhere that had never
made a nickel, probably, if ithad not been his last name and not
been provided.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
Well, just a story that, youknow, obviously from CNN after it
happened is interesting justto look at that.
You know, they even pointedout, yeah, Biden's age problem just
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got a lot worse.
And Trump pulls some of hispunches with us.
So, yeah, he held back.
He did a little bit.
That was the first time alsothat I saw.
And I was actually, samenight, I said, I appreciate what
Trump did tonight becauseTrump could have gone hard in the
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paint, and he didn't.
And that's the first time I'veever seen Trump pull back.
And I think it was the rightmove for him to pull back.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So.
So anyhow, okay.
All right.
We had the Summer Olympics inParis, which I'll admit, I didn't
watch one minute of.
I watched.
I watched a bunch of it.
I didn't.
I.
That's the opening ceremony.
We were talking about anotherrestaurant earlier, the pizza place
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over in Parker Square.
Oh, yes, Progressive Pizza.
We were sitting at ProgressivePizza having dinner.
It was me, my wife, mydaughter, and my grandchildren.
And we're sitting there havingdinner, and the opening ceremony
is on.
And I'm looking at this andgoing, what exactly am I looking
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at here?
Is this the one with the.
The last supper thing?
Yeah.
I never even.
I never even watched.
I care about the games.
I was like, the ceremonies.
What.
What are you doing?
Yeah.
And.
And that, for me, that wasenough of a turn off right there.
I was like, I don't want.
I don't want to watch any moreof this.
The Thing I like about theOlympics is I like, it's the best
of the best of our mostlyamateur athletes.
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And we did have a localathlete that was there.
That's right, yeah.
Who work very hard to.
Lia Talia Brooks was there whoworked very hard their whole lives
to get to that point.
And they are competing on thegrandest stage of the world and they're
representing the United States.
I got USA all over them.
I love the Olympics for that reason.
The patriotism of theOlympics, that's what I love.
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I don't care about the openingceremony, I don't care about the
closing ceremony.
And I don't watch everything.
I don't, I don't likegymnastics, but I'm going to watch,
I do watch a lot of track and field.
I'll watch fencing.
I watch some of the judo stuff.
I do watch the wrestling.
I watch a lot, watch a little boxing.
So, yeah, I'm an Olympics guy.
Claudia Sheinbaum winsMexico's presidential election in
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a landslide, becoming thefirst female president in the country's
200 year history.
And I'm thinking the sameshine bomb.
Yeah, that's not, that's notusually a Hispanic name.
Not.
Yeah, doesn't, doesn't soundvery Latin to me.
Of course, it's like anything else.
I mean, there's a lot ofdiversity and there actually is a
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lot of diversity in Mexico.
There's, you know, you havelily white people, there's villages
in Mexico with lily white people.
Still, still speak German.
Yeah, yeah.
And things like that.
So there's a lot of diversity.
Mexico is another one.
It's a big country.
Well, we haven't heard a lotabout her recently.
She was pretty, yeah, she waspretty liberal.
She kind of made a splash.
But it seems like a lot ofthat has, has died down.
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So she hasn't really made alot of headlines here, here in the
US but arguably we've had alot of other things going on too.
And so the, the, you know, thenewswire, if she's done anything
outstanding, you know, in thelast, I don't know, six months, she,
she probably hasn't gotten alot of attention over here.
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Yeah, I'm sure she'll see howshe works with Trump when it comes
to things.
We'll see.
We, honestly, what we got todo in Mexico, what, what Mexico needs
and I, and I am all for theUnited States helping on this.
Mexico needs a middle class.
They have, they have somereally rich people and they got a
lot of really poor people.
Yes.
And they don't have much of amiddle class there now.
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It is growing a little bitbecause there are some factories
that are opening up there.
I know in the power sportsbusiness there's a couple of can
am as a factory there.
Polaris is a factory there.
So when we, if we could bringour, a lot of our manufacturing that
is in the Middle East, I'msorry, in China, the orientation
and bring it over to Mexico.
I'm a firm believer in that.
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Grow that Mexican middle class.
It'll help immigration, it'llhelp so many things.
And like for instance, I'vegot a friend who, who worked for
me for a long time and he's asuper good guy and it makes me sad,
it made me very sad that he left.
He would have to leave hisfamily to come to America and work
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at two places, my, my storeand another place.
And he could make more money,much more money than he could working
in Mexico.
And he was a road builder.
His job was to build roads.
You live in America and you'rea road builder.
That's a pretty good job.
You're going to make good money.
But it's because they have nomiddle class.
So whatever geopoliticalthings or whatever military pressures
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we need to do, we need to helpMexico grow their middle class.
It'll be better for everybody.
It'll be better for the NorthAmerican continent because Mexico
is great people for the most part.
There's bad people everywhere.
Sure.
But you have very generallyvery family oriented people, very
hardworking people, very downto earth people.
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Mexico is full of great peopleand full of great culture and they've
got the best damn food in the world.
My opinion.
So if we can help America, weas America can help Mexico grow their
middle class, they would be,they would turn into a great another,
a better strategic part thanthey are than they are now.
Well, a lot of that's going todepend on the government of Mexico
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finally tackling corruptionwithin their own.
Right.
That's the biggest thing.
You're absolutely right.
They're going to have to,you're going to have to tackle.
That's almost why I wonder, Iwonder if we need to, we need to
use some military work.
It's been threatened.
Now we've talked about this,yeah, we've talked about this on
I think on the radio where Idid a little bit of background on
Mexico and, and the terrainitself is such that it's just not
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impossible, but nearlyimpossible, especially with their
economy now may not be able toafford having a police force out
in those rural areas.
That are very difficult to.
And that's where the cartel is.
I would rather commit Americantroops to doing some of that.
Hell, we're committing them to Afghanistan.
And their terrain's not worsethan Afghanistan.
Nope, nope, they're not.
I'm sorry.
I'm for that, if that would help.
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And now it would be the American.
The Mexican government wouldhave to kind of swallow their pride
a little bit on this one.
But if we could convince themthat in the end, we really want to
help you.
We, we want your country to be better.
Yeah.
And I truly believe that.
I think most Americans wantMexico to be better, be a better
country.
Better for the people there.
But we could train.
I mean, it'd take a while, butwe could train their troops.
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And I'd rather that money goto Mexico than to some of the Afghanistan.
Yeah, we did that.
We had.
We had troops in Afghanistan.
A guy that, that Mike and Iwent to high school with died in
the early days of Afghanistanand he was over there training.
Yeah.
Well, and that's why, like Isaid, I'd rather us do that here
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because we're going to see a much.
Plus, we have a lot moredirect supervision over.
Well, it's right there.
Yeah.
And it's.
From a national security standpoint.
What's more important,Something that happens in Afghanistan,
which is important.
I'm not saying it.
Or something happens on your doorstep.
And we've talked about all ofthe, the, the millions and millions
of people that have floodedacross the borders.
If America, if Mexico, ifMexico, the country of Mexico, not
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the people.
The country of Mexico can gettheir crap together and solidify
their borders and have a goodmiddle class here where people don't
want to necessarily come toAmerica to make, to make money because
they can't make money at homeand live with their families.
Right.
Then it'll be better for everybody.
So we'll see how that plays out.
She's got a degree.
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She's got a PhD in engineering.
Energy Engineering.
Wow.
Okay.
So anyway, maybe she's smartenough to make it happen.
July was a very, very busy month.
We had the assassinationattempt on Donald Trump where he,
by a nanosecond of a headturn, missed getting shot in the
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head.
He was shot in the head.
He was shot.
It just didn't penetrate his head.
He got his ear, but your earsare part of your head.
You go back, you watch the video.
If he had not turned his headto the right slightly at the moment
that shot was fired, we wouldnot be talking about President elect
Donald Trump.
It had gone straight in his head.
There's no doubt about it.
No question about that.
And the joke he made was thischart when he was at the Republican
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National.
This chart saved my life.
And I think that that changedthings on so many levels.
Donald Trump solidified hiselection bid.
I think it was a massive partof it.
I think it.
A lot.
And let me tell you something.
You could like Trump.
Not like Trump.
I'm not a big fan of himpersonally on a lot of different
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levels, but when he stood up,that guy just got shot in the head.
Okay.
So if you've never been shotor never been shot at for real and
realized that you were just ananosecond away from dying, you don't
understand what it's likeunless your life is.
Unless you've literally facedsudden, certain death.
Yeah.
And you come through it.
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And for him to go down on theground, then come back up and go
fight, fight, fight.
That guy's got balls.
That is a tough dude.
And we're not talking about ayoung man here.
We're talking about a guywho's 78.
Yeah, yeah.
He.
He wasn't.
Yeah, he wasn't jumping uptrying to.
Trying to get.
Get into a fistfight, but hewas just his adrenaline.
Yeah, you're right.
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That guy is a fighter.
And that was a.
That.
That image of him holding thisfist up with blood going down his
ear, and all these people thatsay it was fake.
You can't fake.
Hollywood can't fake that.
And by the way, is it fake to the.
To the guy who got killedbehind him?
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Because, remember, there werepeople that died, and Ronnie Jackson's
nephew was wounded.
There were people that were wounded.
And there was a man that died.
Two men.
Two.
Is it two people that died?
I think.
I think there was one thatdied and two firefighters.
Two that were wounded.
Yes.
One of them being CongressmanJackson's nephew.
Yeah.
Who were wounded.
I think they both.
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I know his nephew was.
Okay.
I'm pretty sure the otherperson survived it.
And then the fireman who waskilled, he was there with his daughter.
Right.
And he was killed.
And it just, you know, so.
No, it wasn't faked.
It wasn't faked at all.
Not at all.
Biden announced he was goingto abandon his reelection bid in
July after the miserableperformance at the June debate.
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And then almost immediately,it was announced that Kamala Harris
would be named the.
And this is after theconvention, right?
No, the convention was inAugust, and I really assumed that
they would hold back and dropSomebody in, at the, at the convention.
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They parachute somebody in atthe convention, but they didn't.
They went ahead and named her.
Interesting sidebar to this.
Just a couple days beforewe're recording this podcast, Kamala
Harris made history.
The first female formerpresidential candidate to publicly
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announce and affirm her loss.
A joint session of Congresshad to certify the election, and
she, as Vice President of theUnited States, serves as president
of the Senate.
And she had to stand there andbasically say, I lost, he won.
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Well, it's the same as Mike Pence.
Well, Mike Pence wasn'trunning, though.
Yeah, she was actually the candidate.
Yeah, she was actually theDemocratic candidate.
She was the nominee.
Is that the first time yousaid woman, but is it the first time
it's ever happened in history?
I don't know if it's the firsttime it's ever happened in history,
but now she is the firstfemale candidate for president to
announce that it might.
Have never happened in male history.
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I don't know.
May not have.
I don't know.
I haven't looked that deepinto it yet.
But I just know that I thoughtI, that was, I'm like, that's, that's
got to sting.
Well, that's got to staysubject to, to correction.
But my understanding is, I waslistening to a radio show yesterday,
and they said that it wasn'teven that it was.
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What's interesting is, is thatwe've never had, or at least in recent
history, a, an election wherea Republican was, was won, and that
some Democrat didn't come upand protest it, challenge it, and
challenge it.
And this time they were all quiet.
They all, of course, there was a.
I heard a speech.
I forget who the person was,but it was a Democrat that got up
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and said, hey, you know, we,our side didn't challenge anything.
We didn't give you any hassleand whatever.
And then of course, theRepublicans, you know, when they,
we just elected president, youknow, the president, I will tell.
You, there's a, there's acouple of those mouthpieces on Twitter
that have been going hot andheavy about this was a stolen election.
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Trump colluded with Russia andthey stole the election.
I'm like, okay, you, youprosecuted people for saying that
about Biden's win.
Yeah.
And Trump's lost to him in 20.
And now here you are.
Come on, shut up.
There's always going to bethose people.
But you're, But, Terry, Iagree, Terry, you're right for main
actual.
Because usually the candidate,you know, Hillary Clinton is out
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there screaming bloody murder.
Al Gore was out therescreaming bloody murder like that.
So, yeah, see here, August, wehad the largest prisoner swap since
the Cold War.
I don't recall what thenumbers were.
But I think it was about fouror five.
I mean, it wasn't a lot ofpeople, but I think it was four or
five people.
But that doesn't happen.
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Obviously.
We don't do a lot of prisonerswaps anymore.
No, we don't.
We don't.
Ukraine invaded parts ofRussia, a part of Russia accelerating
that conflict, and we're stilldealing with that.
And, oh, by the way, in justthe last couple of weeks, we sent
billions more in aid to Ukraine.
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I want to say there wasanother 18 or 20 billion that went
to the Ukrainians.
We just keep giving them moneyand arms and whatever with no projection
on when this is going to endand how deep into this thing are
we going to get.
We've provided some very heavyweaponry, planes, I think, or some
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aircraft went indirectly toUkraine through another NATO partner.
And then.
And then, of course, the moneyitself, the, the cash flow that's
going into Ukraine.
See, and that's, that's whereI have a problem.
I, I don't believe in sending cash.
Now, I'm not against sellingweapons, but I use the word sell.
Selling weapons.
Ukraine is a rich country.
Oh, very.
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So, by the way.
Okay, Ukraine, that's fine.
We now own this oil field.
Yeah.
Or, or whatever, that's fine.
We'll.
We'll provide you a couple oftanks and some bombs and some missiles
and stuff like that.
But this oil field now belongsto the United States government.
The United States people.
Not the government.
The United States people.
Hurricane Helene hit theSoutheast US in September.
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More than 230 people were killed.
Tens of billions of dollars inproperty damage and a little bit
of chaos.
This was what was so horrificabout this hurricane.
It wasn't just that it hit theplaces that the hurricane usually
hits.
It's when it went inland.
Right.
Yeah.
There was very little damage, actually.
Comparative traditional hurricane.
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It's the flooding.
Yeah.
Think about the rain that it.
Coastlines getting devastatedby the surge and the winds.
But, yeah, the flooding was.
It was historic flooding.
Oh, it was biblicalproportions that had never seen flooding
like that.
Ever.
Yeah, ever.
And then a couple weeks later,the second hurricane.
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Yes.
Yeah.
And I, I.
And it wasn't as bad, Milton.
I think.
Hurricane Milton.
It was in October.
Yep.
Right.
Yeah.
So it was.
Yeah, was so sad seeing thepictures when you have these roads
that are washed out and youhave people that literally couldn't
go help people because theycouldn't get.
They couldn't go throughbecause the roads were gone.
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The bridges and roads were gone.
They weren't just hard topass, they were impossible to pass.
You can't rebuild all thatdestroyed infrastructure in a matter
of weeks or months.
Some of that's going to takeyears to get rebuilt.
First off, you got to dryeverything out.
You got to wait till the water recedes.
You can't go start building aroad when the water's still blowing
through there.
And then you've got hundredsof millions of tons of debris that
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you're going to have to remove.
The landscape is altered.
And so now you've got yearsahead of you of bridge building and
road construction.
You know, some of that's.
Some of that.
A little bit of that is recovered.
But some of that stuff willtake three, four, five years to get
rebuilt.
Crazy.
It's just the way it is.
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Let's see here.
We had also in September, thefirst commercial spacewalk happened.
I just think I look at that askind of the what's coming.
The next evolution where thespace whole spacing gets away from
what's not 100% dominated bythe government and let some commercial
enterprises do it.
And you know, under.
Under the work of a NASA.
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It's almost like to me, NASAis almost like the F should be the
faa, right.
You know, we have governmentcontrol of the airlines to some degree.
The airlines don't work forthe government.
Right.
But they are regulated heavily.
Right, by the government tomake sure things are safe and that
sort of thing, or relativelysafe or whatever it is.
And to me, that, to me iswhere NASA should become similar
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to the faa, maybe with andhave some research, but be a partnership
where we're not spending justall tax money only to shoot a rocket
into space that we're going to destroy.
NASA clearly is not what itwas 50 years ago and I never will
be.
And the innovation, there wasa lot of innovation.
NASA, but they never had the innovation.
They never had the wherewithalor the motivation, I should say,
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to innovate.
Reusing shit, right?
Because it's just taxpayer money.
Boom.
If it's gone, it's gone.
Whereas your Bezos and yourMusks and all those, they have motivation
to reuse stuff because that's$3 million.
We can't afford another 3million bucks.
Well, let's try to use that, right?
We got, I think NASA got soheavily dependent on the shuttle
program, for example, that'sTechnology that they started creating
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in the 60s.
Right.
But I mean, they had the right.
Mindset, obviously brought itto fruition in the 70s.
And we had the first launch,what, at 80, 80 or 81 was the first
shuttle launch, I thinksomething like that.
So it was a 15 year project toget it from development to launch.
But then we depended on theshuttle program for decades.
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And you've got these vehicles.
Yeah, we were not reusing therockets and the solid boosters and
all that, that all fell intothe ocean is gone, but we were reusing
these vehicles and the wearand tear on them, you know, the,
the, the, the lack of safetyin those clearly played a huge role
in the fact that we had notone, but two shuttle crews die trying
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to get back.
Well, one launch and onetrying to get back to Earth.
Yeah.
And I just, I remember we were in.
You and I were in junior high school.
Terry Hit.
We were.
I was in Terry Hit's classroomwatching it happen.
I was, I was in, I was in thegym getting dressed.
Yeah.
And when they, when theannouncement came across, when Mr.
Polk.
We were watching it.
We were watching it livebecause so many people did.
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Because there was.
The first time a civilian.
We had gone into space.
And it was a teacher.
Yes.
And it was a teacher.
So there was millions ofschool kids all over America that
they rolled TVs into theclassroom and they were watching
this happen.
Sat there and watched it live.
And then, and then you got toexplain to these kids what just happened.
But really nobody even knew.
I mean, they kind of knew, butkind of like.
Well, clearly it blew up.
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Yeah, but I mean.
But right there.
Yeah, you say that, but atfirst you're really not 100 sure
because you're going, it'sgoing into outer space.
It's kind of disappearing.
Then you start seeing stufffall and.
But the camera, the, the TVcut away a little bit.
I mean, I don't, I don't knowthat 100 that I comprehended that
that thing just blew up.
Nobody.
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I think most people didn't.
And even they, even thecontrollers that was announcing everything,
obviously a major malfunction,I think is the word.
That's the words they use.
But you don't want to get excited.
I mean, they train for this stuff.
Right.
That's what they do.
But then for us, as we've seenhow many.
Up to that point, we had seenso many, however many it was, and
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they went up and it looked alittle weird and not quite sure in
the immediate moment of it.
Yeah, you're going, like,what's going on now?
In my case, I was, and I wasactive duty, I was in Arkansas and
I was working swing shift andmy buddy of mine came in at lunch
and woke me up because Iworked a night shift.
And so he woke me up and said,hey man, the space shuttle blew up.
And I go, whoa, cnn.
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And watched it.
Well, and then, and then youhad the Columbia disaster in 2002.
That was when we were 2003.
And I remember I was workingat a vet at the multipurpose event
center, went back to thestation and we were, you know, everybody's
on top of this thing.
And I just remember sittingthere watching it on the screen and
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on the tv, going, not again.
Here we go again.
Yeah.
And then of course, that, butyou know, that was reentry and we,
and there were pieces ofdebris scattered across Texas, Louisiana,
I think even Mississippi.
It just, it was bad.
The thing just disintegrated.
But on this though, on thiswhole thing of space travel, even
the current people, we'regoing to have an accident.
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I mean, wishing for it, Idon't want.
But, but just like we don'twant people to get killed in their
car driving it.
There are going to be accidents.
Law of averages.
And so, so it hasn't happened.
Right.
We haven't lost anybody that.
Right.
That I'm aware of when thecommercial, commercial stuff.
Not yet.
So it will happen.
And so I think that that's oneof those discussions that, that we
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forget.
We get all caught up in thewonderfulness of this cool thing
that's going on and forget,look, this is dangerous business.
Well, it's like anything else.
It's like we're better than weused to be.
Right.
We take risk.
And, and those people,everybody that got in those space
shows, while I have empathyfor them, they knew what they were
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going to do.
Right.
It's the same thing as whenyou fly a plane.
Yeah.
Is.
It's not, it's not unusualrisk to fly in an airplane, but you
will never die in a planecrash sitting in your, in your living
room.
No, but you're diagnosed.
What I'm saying is.
So we all take chances in life.
Life is a zero sum game.
You know, it's, you know, weall take chances on our everyday
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life.
You take chances getting intothe car, you take chances getting
out on the road.
There's so many things youtake chances in and you just do the
calculated risk.
Well, you know, it's like,like a meme I saw on Facebook the
Other day, your chances ofbeing killed by a cow are slim, but
never zero.
Yeah, well, shark, you'llnever get bit by a shark in your
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backyard.
No.
So unless you go into theocean, your chances of getting bitten
by a shark are zero.
But once you go into there,once you go into their territory,
oh, sure, that's their backyard.
But, but the thing is though,that risk.
Yeah.
You're probably not, you'renot going to be killed by a rattler
in the ocean.
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That's what I'm saying.
That's what I'm getting at.
You're, you're.
Yeah, that's.
And that's what we have tolook at it.
You're not a victim.
If you, when you hear that.
When I hear shark bite victimand somebody swimming in the ocean,
you're not a victim.
You're you.
You got bitten by a shark.
If a shark bit you in yourbackyard, now you're a victim.
And probably he was justcurious on what that thing is and
wanted to take a taste to seewhat it was.
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Yes.
Do I want that to eat?
Is it edible?
Yeah, let's just take a taste.
Is it edible?
That's all you know.
Does it taste like chicken?
Sharks think that they don't really.
Apparently they don't reallylike humans.
They like seals.
And you look like a seal.
Let's see if you are.
And then that's enough toreally mess up your day.
It really is.
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Yeah.
There was a second attempt onTrump's life.
This also happened in September.
This one, this was the one atMar a Lago, was it not?
Yeah.
There was a guy who basicallycamped out in a sniper.
He created a sniper's nest.
Yeah.
It was camped out in asniper's nest and he was found out
before he could get a shot off.
Yeah, yeah.
So, so there's that.
But it really was.
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There was a guy who was therewith a gun in a position to try to
assassinate the President.
So it really was a realassassination attempt.
It just.
Fortunately he got foiledahead of time.
Campbell Soup Company, 155year old corporation made the announcement
in September of last year thatthey are going to drop soup from
the corporate name.
They're just going to becomethe Campbell's company.
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Well, you know, the Apple didthe same thing years ago.
They were Apple Computer forso long and then they just said,
well, now we're just Apple.
Well, you're making more thancomputers, you know, Apple, iPhone.
I just think this is historicbecause it's 155 years old.
You Know, Apple did that.
But Apple's only been aroundsince the 70s, right?
Oh, sure, yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, which, which I, Iagree with you.
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Same thing.
It's impressive.
But 155 years, that's a longtime to have one name.
And, and I guess Campbell'smakes more than soup.
Oh yeah, they make more soup.
I guess it comes.
A lot of these companies havejust gotten huge.
Yeah.
They're convinced.
Yeah.
And that's, you know, inOctober we had the next hurricane,
the Category 5 HurricaneMilton, which again, destructive,
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horrible, horrible hurricane.
Yeah.
And especially on the heels of the.
One that just one that just happened.
You know, it's not like therewas years in the between.
There was two weeks.
Did we mean to skip that one?
Because I think that was cool.
What's that Israel attack?
Oh, you know, we did skip.
Okay.
Israel.
Israel attacks Hezbollah witha massive pager attack.
At least nine people killed,20, 80 wounded or 2100.
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That made use of technology ina very innovative way.
They, they, that was someJames Bond caliber stuff and logistics.
The actual, just theminiaturization of a, you know, it's
one, these had explosives in them.
Well, and have to have to goback to the source.
You know, they had to havepeople on the inside at the plant,
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at the factory.
They had to involve them toget that all done and get these particular
batch of them to the rightpeople and everything.
I mean, and gosh, in a waythough, if now I'm just looking at
this from an outside viewpointfor a moment.
If Hezbollah did the samething, it would be a terrorist attack.
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It is a terrorist attack to them.
Right?
It is.
And I don't believe Hezbollahsaying Israel.
Created terrorist attacks, butit was very targeted at the actual
people who are performing war.
So that's wherephilosophically it's like, what are
you doing?
If it had just been a.
Because terror attacksgenerally are to just broad population.
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It's so different than us, theUnited States and targeted sniper.
You know, using snipers totarget drones or something.
Nazis during World War II or even.
Now when we do drone strike.
Al Baghdadi and.
Yes.
Or, or bin Laden going in withit with Seal Team Six.
Right.
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Yeah.
This was, this was the samething to me.
This instead of a terror attack.
Right.
It was an act of war, right?
Oh, yeah, it was a, it was a,it was an attack.
It was an act of response.
It was a response obviously towhatever Hezbollah has been doing.
And then they just, but, butyeah, I just, I, I, I just think
the logistics and everything,the Coordination.
Pretty amazing, right?
And reminds me of the attackthat the CIA did on Iran back in
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the day with.
It's called stuxnet.
Nothing got blown up, but theywere able to infiltrate a mining
enrichment program.
Uranium enrichment.
Uranium enrichment.
And what they did is that thecentrifuges they use, they were able
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to modify the software towhere it spun either too fast or
too slow and didn't do theright thing.
Yeah.
So anyway, by the way, do that.
Real quick before we go.
Why.
Why do we.
Why are we have not donestrikes on all the Iranian refineries
and basically, should I shutIran down?
I hate it for their people,but God dang.
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I mean, you know, you're.
In some ways, you're allowingthis to happen in your country.
You need to revolt againstyour own, against your leadership.
If they're this bad, you needto revolt against them.
But I mean, I think that weought to.
We ought to bomb the Iranian.
All the refineries and putthem out of the oil and gas business
for a while.
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Yeah.
Well, back to October, here wementioned Hurricane Milton.
Former President Jimmy Carter,who has since passed away, became
the first US president toreach age 100.
That's pretty cool.
And shortly thereafter, hepassed away.
He'd been battling a braintumor for several years now.
Been in hospice care for atleast a couple years, maybe three,
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I think.
And so he was not in good health.
His wife Rosalind passed awaya couple of years ago.
Anyway, he was the first USpresident to hit 100.
And nothing happened in November.
So nothing big.
Just former President Trumpwins re election by huge margin.
Really, really massive margin.
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It was.
It was a big margin.
It was a big margin not onlyin the electoral College, but also
their popular vote.
Yes, yes.
And.
And the fact that theRepublicans control the House and
the Senate, you know, now thisis put up or shut up time, guys.
It is.
We've said this over and over again.
And.
And you've said it a bunch oftimes, Mike, that what happens is
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Republicans tend they'll getthat ball down the field and they
fumble on the goal line.
Oh, yeah.
And I'm hoping with thereelection of Mike Johnson and with
all of these Trump cat people.
People that Trump is puttingin their Cabinet.
Yeah.
That the Republicans are goingto do the right thing for everybody.
Look, if you're a Democrat, ifthe country runs better, you're going
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to do better.
It doesn't matter what yourpolitical leanings are.
When Joe Biden was electedpresident, I wanted Joe Biden to
see I was desperate for JoeBiden to succeed because I wanted
my business, my family, yourfamilies, your businesses.
I wanted everybody's businessto thrive.
I want our country to survive, thrive.
So I don't care who's thepresident or who's in Congress.
I do care, but I care more about.
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I want them to succeed.
When you see that Joe Bidenwas not succeeding and that the country
was going down the toilet andgoing in the wrong direction, then
I want to change.
Now I'm cheering Donald Trump on.
I've said this a million times.
I'm not a Jew personally.
I'm not a Donald Trump fan.
I'm a fan of his politics, I'ma fan of some of his politics, I'm
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a fan of some of his policies,and I'm a fan of some of his leadership.
And I hope that this willreally be a historical election that
will make America better thanit is now and put it back on the
path to be.
To make America great.
If I could say one thing tothe Republican Party, it's this.
Don't screw it up.
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That's right.
Now, just don't screw this up.
Well, there's still.
There's already a little bitof thing.
You know, they've still gotthe thing going on between the MAGA
Republicans and the, you know,the Rhinos.
There's still.
There's some of that.
But they got to get thosedifferences ironed out and get things
done.
That's right.
Because the Frank, frankly,they have a razor thin margin in
the House.
(49:59):
Yeah.
This isn't like they've got 10or 15 votes to play with.
They don't have a super majority.
Not even close.
Yeah, they have.
They barely have a majority.
Barely.
And then in December, rebelsovertook the Syrian capital of Damascus
and ousted.
I forgot, I just lost his name.
I did, too.
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Al said their leader, who'sbeen there for a long time, who,
who was.
Had had some chemical attackson his own people.
This guy was a bad dude.
Yeah.
Now I don't.
I hope it doesn't create avacuum for somebody worse than him
to come.
We still like we saw in our name.
It's driving me bonkers.
He's gonna look it up here.
Yeah.
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This was by Ukraine.
No, well, no, it was by rebels.
Well.
Oh, okay.
It was.
Who was.
Who was the leader of Assad.
Assad.
Assad.
Yeah.
Fall is below.
Yeah.
By the way, I didn't read it.
I remembered it before.
I saw.
I haven't seen it.
Free Europe Radio.
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And then also in December, theUnited Healthcare CEO was murdered.
It was on video.
He was, I think he was walkinginto or out of a board meeting.
He was assassinated.
He was, it was an assassin.
Was it a board meeting or washe going to jog?
He was, he was headed, he washeaded to work.
I think it was early in the morning.
He was, got out of his car.
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It was, I think he was goingto a meeting or something like that.
Walking into the building.
This truly was anassassination, you know, and in the
end, he's, the guy's dead.
It doesn't matter whether youwant to classify as murder or homicide
or whatever it is, but to me,murder, you could kill somebody and
it not necessarily bepremeditated or any of that sort.
This was a premeditated assassination.
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Yeah.
And the fact is the people.
Look, I'm not a big fan ofthe, of the big health care organizations
in America either.
I think there's a shitload ofcorruption in our health care system
and there's a lot of thingsthat need to be changed in our health
care system.
But to celebrate a guy who'sgot a family, who's got a job, who,
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who basically helps employ aton of people, by the way, whether
you like this guy or not likethis guy, this guy does a lot of
things well.
And nobody's being forced towork for his company.
Nobody's being forced to workfor the companies that provide insurance
through them or.
They buy or use, use their services.
That's right.
And for people to celebratethis guy getting assassinated.
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Pretty sick.
It's.
Yeah, I thought it was.
I thought it was a really poor taste.
Pretty sick indeed.
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