October 3, 2024 • 34 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The media spent the entire Trump presidency lying about foreign interference.
To start with, they spied on President Trump when he
was candidate Trump. They spied on him in Trump Tower. Remember,
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they claimed that one of his outside advisors was potentially
spying for the Russians, and they used that to get
a fake warrant, AFIZA warrant. They used this false information
to spy on the president. You know, there's a case
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in Houston. Guy named Gerald Goins. He was a longtime
HPD officer, old black guy, been on the force for
a long time, and he has now been convicted as
a recently of filing a fake affidavit to get a
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warrant to knock down the door of a supposed drug trafficker. Well,
it turns out that he knew or should have known,
that the woman who gave him the information was giving
him fake information, and so officers kicked in the door.
The homeowner blasts away at the officers and the officer
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hitting them. Officers return fire and kill the folks inside.
It's a pretty nasty deal. Goins has been convicted under
the felony murder doctrine, which is if a murder occurs
reasonably related to the felony that you caused your charge
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with murder. You don't need malice a forethought, you don't
need the intention to have committed a murder. So Goins
has been convicted of murder for the crime of filing
a false affidavit to a judge to get a warrant.
That just happened in the case of the government and Trump,
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we now know they filed a false affidavit on a
warrant to get Trump. Listen, there are some bad people
that have infiltrated our organizations. A Houston FBI agent has
now pled guilty to stealing silver during a raid on
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a January sixth defendant. FBI agent Nicholas Anthony Williams in
the Houston office admitted last week to four thefts, four
separate thefts while serving search warrants. One of those was
during a July thirteenth, twenty twenty three, raid on the
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home of a man named Alexand. Alexander Fann was a
member of Asians for Trump. He went in the Capitol
on January sixth. Investigators say that the FBI agent in
Houston went into fans home to serve a warrant and
stole two thousand, seven hundred and twenty nine dollars in
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cash and some silver bars, which he later tried to sell.
He also December sixteenth of twenty twenty stole twelve hundred
dollars during a raid on another residence. From a raid
on March fifteenth, twenty twenty two, he stole foury one
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hundred and forty five dollars, and on January twelve, twenty
twenty three, he stole fifteen hundred and seventy four dollars.
The theft from Fan is the last one he admitted to,
according to court documents, and appears to have led to
his downfall. He also admitted to using his FBI issued
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credit card to buy three cell phones, which he then pawned.
He spent eight hundred ninety nine dollars and ninety seven
cents in taxpayers money and collected just one hundred five
dollars from the pawnshop.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
How very perfect.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Your government spending nine hundred dollars of your money and
then selling it to a pawnshop for one hundred five dollars.
So you're out nine hundred dollars and he benefits one
hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
He also said he lied to the FBI about his
credit card purchases by claiming they were legitimate expenses related
to cases he was working on. In his plea, he
said he spent some of the money he stole on
guns and firearm accessories. His sentencing is scheduled for January thirteen.
He has already agreed to repay the money to the
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four people he stole from and to repay the FBI
for the phones. He started working for the FBI as
an agent in the Houston office in twenty nineteen. He
served on the Criminal Violent Gang Squad in the counter
Terrorism Squad. The Washington Post points out the theft from
a January sixth defendant is a black eye for the
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Justice Department, which has faced criticism from Republicans for what
they see as an over zealous pursuit of participants in
the demonstration. Treatment of January sixth defendants has been disproportionately
harder than any major civil disturbances, such as the months
of rioting at the federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, in
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the summer of twenty twenty. In court documents, fans lawyer
said he noticed money and the silver bars missing after
the FBI searched his residence and he filed a formal complaint.
The people who walked into the capital to protest, they
ended up some of them serving time in prison.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Some of them are still in prison.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Now we find out that while their homes were being raided,
at least one FBI agent stole their money. It's sickening,
it's disgusting, It really is grotesque. While we're on the subject,
the media told us about foreign interference, those Russians, those Ruskies.
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We got Hillary Clinton saying those Russians, those dead gum Russians,
they're going to do something.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
You know where the real.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Foreign interference is the Irani government, the Iranians. We know
that there was a fellow coming through Houston in June.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
And he was paid.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
It was Pakistani and he was paid by the Iranis
to arrange the assassination of Donald Trump. That it was
a one day news story and nobody's talked about it.
Since this is separate and aside from the guy that
was at the golf course and the other guy who
shot him, we know that the Iranis hacked into his
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computer systems and stole all this information, which they've then
been leaking. They've been doxing, which is where you give
out people's personal information. They've been doxing JD.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Vance and others. We know.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
That up to five hit teams have been operating independently,
and that two to three of those are funded and
trained by the Iranis. So there is real foreign interference
in this election. It's the Iranis, and they're doing it
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with the intent of helping the Kamala Harris campaign, which
is where they gave that information. All of this is
reported on.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
All of this is.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Facts, which just goes back to what Rush always said.
Whatever they're accusing you of is what they are doing.
Whatever they are accusing you of is what they are doing.
Never forget that. If you want to know what they're
up to racism, if you ever want to know what
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they're up to foreign interference in our election, just look
at what they're doing, or sorry, look at what they're
accusing you of doing.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Under my leadership, we will regain energy independence, massive energy dominance.
Dobinant Stobbinance stabbin And all.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Right, So I got a story to tell and you
all have to hang in with me on this. So
the setup is the story. So a week and a
day before my mom passed. She summoned me to the hospital.
I had her in Houston at the hospital and a
wonderful pulminologist by the name of Tim Connolly was providing
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her care, and my cardiologist, Stan Duckman was providing her
cardiocre and she had a very painful procedure done to
figure out what was going on. We had tried everything.
There was a mild infection in her lungs, but we
had tried it, and she'd been in now the hospital
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on her oxygen level would go down and it would
go down too dangerous levels and she'd have to go
to the urgent care clinic and Orange, and then we'd
had to put her in Beaumont, and finally it got
bad enough we brought her back to Houston where we'd
been off and on, and they were given her great care,
and it turned out she had ALS. It's actually a
version of ALS, but it's the same. It's a district
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it's a neuro muscular condition where the lungs don't inflate,
and it just got worse and worse and worse, and
these tests were extremely painful. In fact, doctor Connolly, her prominologists,
told me that.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Your mom's a very tough lady.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
We had to stick her twice and even one time.
Most people can't take very I said, let me tas something.
She's maybe the toughest person I've ever met. And I'm
friends with Marcus theatrel that's saying something.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
She is.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
The only other person that's in her realm of toughness
is my wife. She's a tough, tough lady. She always
has been admire that. So anyway, so she summoned me
and my wife that night and we get there nine
thirty ten o'clock and we stay for several hours, and
she's ready, she's done, she wants to go home. I said, okay,
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I'll get hospice. And you know, she's at peace, very
much at peace. And we had a great conversation and
you can probably figure out I'm not a person that
leaves a lot unsaid, And so I said, I had
already said everything I needed to say, because we'd had
so many emergency room visits. I didn't want to regret
for the rest of my life not saying what I
needed to say. So anyway, she turns to my wife.
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We're in the we're planning her funeral. She's telling me
exactly what she wants at her funeral. She's telling me
who she wants there and how small she wants it
to be. It can't be public. She doesn't want it
put in the papers. She didn't want any of that.
She didn't want any of that. And at one point
I said, I wasn't sure if she was talking about
when we went home to Orange the next day. I
was going to have hospice waiting there, which we did.
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So I've been blazing back and forth from Houston to Orange,
meeting hospice and Milan day and come back and that
takes a lot out of me. So I've been tired,
which is okay. You do these things for your parents.
They did a lot for you. So at one point
she's talking about the funeral, but I'm not sure if
she's talking about what she wants done at the house
when we get back, or at the funeral or And
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I said, are you are you going to be there?
And she does this kind of flick of her wrists.
She said, no, just y'all, I'm gonna peel off. And
it was just just very charming the way she said it.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I loved it.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
So in the middle of all this, she turns to
my wife with a chuckle. My mom had a great
sense of humor, and she says, will you do the
interview with doctor Rutletch's son. And she was kind of
mumbling because she didn't have she wasn't she was losing
a lot of her ability to speak and to move
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and all that. And I didn't understand what she said,
and my wife did. She just fell out laughing. So
the story was my doctor growing up. The doctor who
delivered me was a guy named Raleigh Allan. And doctor
Allen married the nurse who was my nurse, the nurse
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who delivered me as a baby, and they get married
and they moved to Clear Lake. And one day while
I'm selling suits in college for Leopold Price and Raleigh,
here comes in doctor Allen and Barbara his nurse now wife.
And I hadn't seen doctor Allen. This would have been
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and I haven't seen doctor Allen in fifteen years since
I was a little big kid. Well, doctor Rutledge was
the junior doctor. And what used to happen in small
towns is the established doctor. As they hit maybe their
forties or fifties, they would bring in a younger doctor
as kind of an apprentice, just like the plumbing firms
electrical firms, and eventually that younger doctor would buy out
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the practice and the older guy would move on. Well
that's what happened here. So doctor Rutlis became my doctor,
and that was a good thing because doctor Allen was
the old fashion you're gonna stick. You're getting a needle right,
A pill would take longer, you're gonna and I hated needles.
But doctor Rutlidge was much more patient focused, you know,
patient centered, sensitive to my pain threshold, and I hate needles.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
So anyway, I love doctor Rutlich.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
And he's been my parents' doctor for all these years,
you know, almost fifty years later, still their doctor. So
my mom had gone to see doctor Rutlidge, I don't know,
a year ago, and she calls and says, Michael, I
got somebody needs you to interview. And I said, thanks, Mom,
but I don't. I'll run the show myself, but I
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appreciate it. No, no, it's doctor Rutli's son. And I said,
I love doctor Rutlets. Well I thought so, yeah, but
I don't need to. I don't need to interview his son.
She says, really, interesting. I said, all right, I'm game here,
my mom, what is it he does? I don't really know.
I said, what doesn't sound that interesting?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
And she said, well, something about the skim stuff off the.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Water when the oil companies, you know, spill oil on
the water.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
And I guarantee you you're going to find it fascinating.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
So I said whatever, And I never got the interview done,
and she kept needling me about it, and it became
this kind of thing between us, and so I told
her on her deathbed, I said, you know what, Mom,
I should have done that interview before. And it turns
out I should have not just to show more respect
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to my mother, which I obviously did not, but because
it turns out what these people do is really interesting.
And I am proud that this guy is the son
of my doctor. So with all that, I look up
their business, which the name is horrible b A L
A E n A. Blena. I think it's Blena Inc.
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I NC dot com. Now nobody's gonna be able to
find it online. Our guest is Brad Rutledge.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Who came up Pleasure in an honor with this name.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Well, the name is.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Actually taken from the Baileen Well and the baileyen well
can travel through the water and it holds onto the
plankton while getting rid of all the water that's taken in,
so it can travel swiftly. It doesn't push a headwave,
and the biomemicry actually represents the way our technology is designed,
so we're similar to vacuum bhead well.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
That's why it was named in seventeen fifty eight by Linnaeus,
who at the time considered all of the right wells
and the bowhead as a single species.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Historically, both the family Balayanadae and genus Boleana were known
by the common name right wales. However, Blena are now
known as bowhead whales. That's very interesting. I'm just really
as well. Uh wow, and compasses spit ten species known
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from fines and very interesting.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Okay, B A L A E N A. How did
y'all manage to trademark that term? If it's the name
of a well.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
That's a great great uh great question. So uh, the
baalen is the filtration in the well and the family
of welles. Uh. To be honest with you, I don't
know much more than that. But the balance and name
represents how we hold onto the oil while the water.
We let the clean water discharge as fast as we
take it in, so we decreased the amount of capacity
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on board. That's storage that's needed for the excess water.
And that's really where the beauty of technology comes in.
We use physics and we hold on to the oil
while the clean water is discharged as quick as we
take it in. Now, let me tell you this, there's
a lot of skeptical people, and rightfully so, because they
want to make sure that water is really clean when
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it leaves. And there's a group in one place in
the US that's run on a Navy base that's run
by OMSET, which is a division of Bessie Bureau Safety Environmental,
and they give you a score. And one thing we
did at every single test was take the clean water
discharge and test it. And it came back at three
and a half parts per million, and the IMO regulates
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it has to be less than fifteen parts per million,
So we were about four times greater with less contamination
than the actual water that we were taking in.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Hold on just a second. We're talking to Brad Rutledge.
It's Blaana b A l A E in a inc.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Dot Com I looked at him, and they looked at me,
you know, and I just looked at her and I
just get your stuff and get it out that Michael
Berry's and got a newspaper.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
And I wrote it up.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
I slapped him on the nose.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
I said, all right, so I'm paying off my bet
to my mom that I promised I would do. And
in the meantime, as usual, admitting that I was wrong
and I should have taken her advice, because if nothing else,
she's my mother and that's what you should do. But
I am also I'm not an environmentalist. I told you
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this one hundred times before. But I hate waste and
I love the concept of I love the concept of
cleaning up filthy things. I love the concept of solving
the problems and renewing this precious earth that we live on.
I love the earth. I love the species. I love
the trees and the clean water and all of that.
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What I don't love is people trying to ruin my
life in order to control my life and control the
money supply supposedly in defense of it, because they're all liars.
The company is called blanainc dot com b A L
A E N A I n c dot com. It's
named after a well. So why are you needing to
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clean the waters? It says the Blaina induced flow skimming system.
And you compare it to traditional oil spill recovery methods,
how much oil is being spilled.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
There's a lot of small spills on a daily you know,
I would say a daily basis, and a lot of
things you don't hear about. One in our local community
in Orangefield, Texas, about a mile and a half from
our shop. Happened about four months ago and didn't really
make much of the news cycle there. It was supposed
to be a twenty barrel spill and we ended up
recovering seventy one barrels. We were invited by a good
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friend of mine that owns Phoenix Environmental Services, Nelson Pheck
Gatter and Jeremy Yamon, who were gracious enough to want
to promote new technology in our industry. And so they said, hey,
you guys are right down the street, y'all bring y'all
technology out here, and let's test this puppy. And we
got we got to work and it was really fast
and really you know, clean, and uh, I think even
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the Texas General Land Office that regulates the oil spills.
Was fascinated that this technology existed in their backyard, just
four guys from you know, hometown of Orange, Texas. And
we have a big dream and we've been all over
the world with this where patented in six countries and uh,
you know, just wanting to get the word out that,
like you, we care about our community. And regulation typically
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is a bad word. And if people do the right thing,
you don't need regulation. People generally want to do the
right thing. But it's about money. So we're able to
come up with a cost effective solution and uh and
meet a lot of different criteria needs. And not only
do we just collect oil, anything that's floating and buoyant.
And if you look up plastic pellets, nordles is the
is the term. There's two hundred and fifty thousand tons
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that are spilled in the river's notions every year. The
most recent is a big event in Sri Lanka and
that these plastic pellets get to the mangroves and these
fish eat them and they just get contaminated with these
plastic pellets. It actually happened in Corpus Christi, Texas, and
the fishermen were catching red fish, which I love to do,
and they were cutting them open and find all these
plastic pellets in there. And you know, our solution actually
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takes care of collecting things like that and a numerous.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Works and compare that to kind of traditional oil spill recovery.
And I'm not an expert, but talk to me like
I'm in sixth grade. No no acronyms, no no jargon.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Okay, we have high capacity pumps in our system that
we draw the water to us. As the water comes in,
it has oil floating on top. We do something really
creative and we just don't disturb that top layer of oil.
And that's the secret. As it comes in, we use
physics by placing our pumps in different places and the
flow of the water and the oil goes straight to
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the top, and as it comes in, we regulate and
monitor that level and we pump the oil back in
the same same way that it was delivered to us,
so we do not emulsify the product. By sharing it
and putting it through pumps, you get it back in
the same same state that it was in as we collected.
And that's really the beauty behind it. And so we
have a ninety eight to ninety nine percent oil to
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water ratio on recovered.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Product, and nobody had ever done this before.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
That's exactly what my partner of the founding partner, Russell Covington,
his father said the exact same thing. They're third third
generation ship bolters. I don't know if you remember Levingston
Shipyard in North Texas, but that's his legacy and friend
of mine, and so I rented equipment my entire career,
and he was a friend and a customer. And he
had this tabletop model with peanut oil that he dyed
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purple and he poured it in this tank. And he
had a replica that he built and sized it to
a remote control tug boat. And he had this thing
going around this tank and I'd walk in his obviously
he said look at this, and it cleimed the entire
tank and it was incredible, and I just couldn't help
a fell in love with it. And fast forward a
few years later, he was looking for some partners and
raising some money to do this matress and I'm in.
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I don't care what it takes, I'm in. I just
believed in it. He's got something really neat, and from
there we were able to build our first prototype vessel
and start the testing. And it hasn't come without its
fair share of up and downs, like anything, but we're
blessed that we've actually been able to perfect the science
and get it to work, and it works really well.
So now the cool thing is that it's a scalable process.
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We took it from a boat and we developed a
small skimmer. Now we met a group in Amsterdam at
one of the international shows. They're out of California, and
they have a sensor that ties into this skimmer. So
you put the skimmer in the middle of an outfall
and an industrial facility, and it's actually called detection by collection.
We got a trademark and so when this device goes
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off and it reads that there's contamination in the water,
it kicks our unit on automatically and sends you a
text and says, hey, you need to go to outfall
three or wherever you might have a sensitive area. And
in the meantime, we've already began collecting that product.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
What is your background?
Speaker 4 (24:14):
So I grew up actually just trying to do anything
to make ends meet, and in two thousand and five
I fell in love with renting industrial machinery, and so
that's what I did for about fifteen years, and I
had an opportunity to exit that venture at that time,
and I'm now back in the business with company called
gear up Rents. But that's what I do on a
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daily basis, and during my time after I exited, I
was able to spend a little time with my friend
Russell and really help take this venture to the next level.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
You are I've interviewed hundreds of people over the years.
You are one of the best three at explaining your
company as as a concept and as a problem solution,
with the perfect blend of not being too salesy or
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hoky or that sort of stuff which I find off putting,
but at the same time a confident understanding of what
you do and why it's important without being you know,
passion is good, but it can be too much, you know,
because for what somebody does, it may not you know,
I'm probably never going to need to hire you. But
for me from a distance listening to the story, I
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could see where this would be an important thing to
do and I can get that. So for me to
be able to get it and you'd be interesting on
air content that is a very rare thing.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Hold on just a second. We're talking to Brad Rutledge.
It's blena ek.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
He says, baileyan, but I'm the e's not before the
a ramost.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
I can't say Bailey. I can't do it b A
l A E N A I NC dot com.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
This is the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Locked and loaded, like didn't loaded. We're talking to Brad Rutledge.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I am paying off a debt to my now late
mother that I promised her a week before she passed
I would do, and I'm glad I did. I'm a
little embarrassed that I didn't do it sooner, but it's
not the first time that I didn't do what my
mother asked me to do, and it's not going to
be the last time that I regret not taking her
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advice on something.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
She was in. Doctor Rutledge my childhood doctor. All the way.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
We didn't have pediatricians in Orange. You just went to
the doctor.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
You didn't You didn't have doctors for kids and adults.
And he was just your doctor.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
And he took care of my mother till her dying days. Wonderful,
wonderful man and a great human being, by the way,
and by the way. I didn't know this because I
didn't know his politics growing up. But a few years
ago I find out that doctor Rutlish during the COVID scamdemic,
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is one of the guys that's pushing back against the
medical establishment because he's an independent doctor. He can do
what he wants to do, and he's calling out all
the big pharma and all that, and he is he
is one of our kind of guys. And you know,
I don't know what he's up to. I hadn't seen
him in you know, since I was I'm fifty three.
I left Orange nineteen eighty nine. It was very comforting
for me to see that man of great faith and
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great conviction and his boy's doing well, and I'm happy
to see this. The company is called Blena Inc. B
A L A E N A I n C balenainc
dot com. So who would be the companies or municipalities
or entity I guess the coast guard man.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Who would be the people that would call and.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Hire y'all to use this this skimming technology that gets the.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Sludge out of the water.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
It's a really unique industry. We've been well received by
most of the folks we work faster, and you know,
we think more efficient. But that's not great news to
some of the guys that are in the industry to
you know, milk it and make a lot of money.
But I would say the majority of the folks are
just really embracing us and helping us take it to
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the next level and supportive. There's an industry called Spill
Control Associations of America. We've been a part of them
and the UK Ireland Spill Association, and both of those
two groups have really helped us formulate some great relationships.
So we've executed some agreements with a Republic Services believe
it or not, the trash company that owns now the
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one of the largest for profit spill response companies called NRC.
They've actually purchased one of our units. And we've also
been to Canada with planes Pipeline and we're leasing a
unit to those folks up there for long term and
looking to put some more into circulation in that market
in Canada. And along with Republic, we partner with them
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and we take care of the Navy out of Corpus
Christy some of their needs on a long term basis.
So we've had some mild success and looking to build
on that in the industrial market. We're currently working with
Exxon and Valero locally to get our product into the
industrial facilities and just really well received if we've been blessed.
We're looking at building a sixty foot boat for a
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group called Clean Golf Associates out of New Orleans, and
they're a conglomerate that they have board members from all
the major oil and gas companies, and so we're looking
at building a big sixty foot boat for those guys
next year. We've completed design and engineering and looking forward
to that project. We think that's really going to be
a kickoff to something special. As the guys there everybody
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kind of networks all over the world, especially in the
six countries. We have patents with those guys, and so
the fact that I don't want to take you down
a rabbit trail, but there's low sulfur fuels a mandate
by the IMO internationally, so these ships have to have
this low surf diesel fuel and what happens is when
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they spill it, it doesn't stick together, so the current
equipment can't really recover it. So in Norway there's a
project going on. We're not a part of it, but
to find solutions to this. And we have the solution.
We're at the International show and we got to display that,
and so we're hoping that somebody hears this and says, wow,
those guys have a solution for low sulfur fuels. And
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you know, I don't know who's listening, but our hope
is that somebody out there, you know, here's something they
like and wants to reach out and help us take
that to the next level.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
So we have Brad. I will tell you we have
a lot of folks.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
In the Marine and Chemical company, but marine industry, a
lot of folks that work at the port, a lot
of folks that transport things and that make things, whether
it be chemical process or the light who listen. So
I would not be surprised by that. And I will
say to anyone who just tuned in or heard something,
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I will make the same offer I say all the time.
I love to connect people. Malcolm Gladwell has chapters about
this in the book The Tipping Point. I am a
person who derives great joy by people emailing and saying
I need to install a roof, who should I use?
Or I need a buy jewelry? Who should I use.
And if someone wants to connect you and they can't
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remember how to the bowhead whale that y'all are named
after that was identified by Linnaeus in the late eighteenth century,
they can always email me through the website Michael Berryshow
dot com and just describe what it is and I'll
connect you directly. And I do that all day long.
I enjoy connecting people with what they do.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Brad.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
This is.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
This is fascinating stuff, and it's exciting to see entrepreneurism alive.
And well, I think that is as interesting to me
as anything you know. For what y'all are doing. People
don't realize how efficient American carmaking has become in terms
of emissions. And I don't mean government mandates. The American
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car maker is creating a cleaner car than they ever
have before, and they they have improved processes and decreased
waste and all those sorts of things. Our chemical plants
have decreased the amount of air pollution year over year
because they're part of the community too. And if you
look at what's going on in China and India, that's
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smokestacks at the top twenty five polluting cities. I think
twenty four of them are either in India or China.
The group's claiming that they're for green energy, and they're not.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
I love this idea.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
I love that it's innovative, and I love the fact
that it's solving a problem. And I'm more than a
little bit proud that it's out of Orange, Texas. And
I wish you the absolute and utter best of luck
in making this happen. I think this is just fantastic, Brad,
absolutely fantastic man.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
Thank you very much. How do you as a side note?
As a side note, I want I wanted you to
know that your mother taught me in Mother's day Out?
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Are you serious?
Speaker 4 (33:17):
For first of that is she sure did.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Wow, that's amazing.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
How small the world is yet?
Speaker 2 (33:23):
How old were you?
Speaker 4 (33:25):
I was probably about three or four years old at
that time at first Baptist Church, so I'm still.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Remember she would go down and do Mother's day out
in the summer, I think as much as anything else
because the kids were gone and she was lonely. But
she loved kids. I mean that was her favorite thing
was kids. Loved little kids. Brad, Thank you, brother, I
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appreciate you, and good luck.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
To you.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Hopefully I'll forward you some some new customers and your business.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Will really I'll forget us.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
I'd like to tell you very much on the first
flight of your of your private.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Jet, I appreciate it. I'll tell you what I will
invite you out. I don't know if you ever get
down this way, but your producer has my son number,
and love to get you on the boat and show
you first hand kind of what we would work on. It
really is pretty neat.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
That would be a blast. I'd look forward to.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
Thank you.
The media spent the entire Trump presidency lying about foreign interference.
To start with, they spied on President Trump when he
was candidate Trump. They spied on him in Trump Tower. Remember,
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they claimed that one of his outside advisors was potentially
spying for the Russians, and they used that to get
a fake warrant, AFIZA warrant. They used this false information
to spy on the president. You know, there's a case
(00:41):
in Houston. Guy named Gerald Goins. He was a longtime
HPD officer, old black guy, been on the force for
a long time, and he has now been convicted as
a recently of filing a fake affidavit to get a
(01:02):
warrant to knock down the door of a supposed drug trafficker. Well,
it turns out that he knew or should have known,
that the woman who gave him the information was giving
him fake information, and so officers kicked in the door.
The homeowner blasts away at the officers and the officer
(01:28):
hitting them. Officers return fire and kill the folks inside.
It's a pretty nasty deal. Goins has been convicted under
the felony murder doctrine, which is if a murder occurs
reasonably related to the felony that you caused your charge
(01:48):
with murder. You don't need malice a forethought, you don't
need the intention to have committed a murder. So Goins
has been convicted of murder for the crime of filing
a false affidavit to a judge to get a warrant.
That just happened in the case of the government and Trump,
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we now know they filed a false affidavit on a
warrant to get Trump. Listen, there are some bad people
that have infiltrated our organizations. A Houston FBI agent has
now pled guilty to stealing silver during a raid on
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a January sixth defendant. FBI agent Nicholas Anthony Williams in
the Houston office admitted last week to four thefts, four
separate thefts while serving search warrants. One of those was
during a July thirteenth, twenty twenty three, raid on the
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home of a man named Alexand. Alexander Fann was a
member of Asians for Trump. He went in the Capitol
on January sixth. Investigators say that the FBI agent in
Houston went into fans home to serve a warrant and
stole two thousand, seven hundred and twenty nine dollars in
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cash and some silver bars, which he later tried to sell.
He also December sixteenth of twenty twenty stole twelve hundred
dollars during a raid on another residence. From a raid
on March fifteenth, twenty twenty two, he stole foury one
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hundred and forty five dollars, and on January twelve, twenty
twenty three, he stole fifteen hundred and seventy four dollars.
The theft from Fan is the last one he admitted to,
according to court documents, and appears to have led to
his downfall. He also admitted to using his FBI issued
(04:05):
credit card to buy three cell phones, which he then pawned.
He spent eight hundred ninety nine dollars and ninety seven
cents in taxpayers money and collected just one hundred five
dollars from the pawnshop.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
How very perfect.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Your government spending nine hundred dollars of your money and
then selling it to a pawnshop for one hundred five dollars.
So you're out nine hundred dollars and he benefits one
hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
He also said he lied to the FBI about his
credit card purchases by claiming they were legitimate expenses related
to cases he was working on. In his plea, he
said he spent some of the money he stole on
guns and firearm accessories. His sentencing is scheduled for January thirteen.
He has already agreed to repay the money to the
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four people he stole from and to repay the FBI
for the phones. He started working for the FBI as
an agent in the Houston office in twenty nineteen. He
served on the Criminal Violent Gang Squad in the counter
Terrorism Squad. The Washington Post points out the theft from
a January sixth defendant is a black eye for the
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Justice Department, which has faced criticism from Republicans for what
they see as an over zealous pursuit of participants in
the demonstration. Treatment of January sixth defendants has been disproportionately
harder than any major civil disturbances, such as the months
of rioting at the federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, in
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the summer of twenty twenty. In court documents, fans lawyer
said he noticed money and the silver bars missing after
the FBI searched his residence and he filed a formal complaint.
The people who walked into the capital to protest, they
ended up some of them serving time in prison.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Some of them are still in prison.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Now we find out that while their homes were being raided,
at least one FBI agent stole their money. It's sickening,
it's disgusting, It really is grotesque. While we're on the subject,
the media told us about foreign interference, those Russians, those Ruskies.
(06:32):
We got Hillary Clinton saying those Russians, those dead gum Russians,
they're going to do something.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
You know where the real.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Foreign interference is the Irani government, the Iranians. We know
that there was a fellow coming through Houston in June.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
And he was paid.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
It was Pakistani and he was paid by the Iranis
to arrange the assassination of Donald Trump. That it was
a one day news story and nobody's talked about it.
Since this is separate and aside from the guy that
was at the golf course and the other guy who
shot him, we know that the Iranis hacked into his
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computer systems and stole all this information, which they've then
been leaking. They've been doxing, which is where you give
out people's personal information. They've been doxing JD.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Vance and others. We know.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
That up to five hit teams have been operating independently,
and that two to three of those are funded and
trained by the Iranis. So there is real foreign interference
in this election. It's the Iranis, and they're doing it
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with the intent of helping the Kamala Harris campaign, which
is where they gave that information. All of this is
reported on.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
All of this is.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Facts, which just goes back to what Rush always said.
Whatever they're accusing you of is what they are doing.
Whatever they are accusing you of is what they are doing.
Never forget that. If you want to know what they're
up to racism, if you ever want to know what
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they're up to foreign interference in our election, just look
at what they're doing, or sorry, look at what they're
accusing you of doing.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Under my leadership, we will regain energy independence, massive energy dominance.
Dobinant Stobbinance stabbin And all.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Right, So I got a story to tell and you
all have to hang in with me on this. So
the setup is the story. So a week and a
day before my mom passed. She summoned me to the hospital.
I had her in Houston at the hospital and a
wonderful pulminologist by the name of Tim Connolly was providing
(09:05):
her care, and my cardiologist, Stan Duckman was providing her
cardiocre and she had a very painful procedure done to
figure out what was going on. We had tried everything.
There was a mild infection in her lungs, but we
had tried it, and she'd been in now the hospital
(09:26):
on her oxygen level would go down and it would
go down too dangerous levels and she'd have to go
to the urgent care clinic and Orange, and then we'd
had to put her in Beaumont, and finally it got
bad enough we brought her back to Houston where we'd
been off and on, and they were given her great care,
and it turned out she had ALS. It's actually a
version of ALS, but it's the same. It's a district
(09:48):
it's a neuro muscular condition where the lungs don't inflate,
and it just got worse and worse and worse, and
these tests were extremely painful. In fact, doctor Connolly, her prominologists,
told me that.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Your mom's a very tough lady.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
We had to stick her twice and even one time.
Most people can't take very I said, let me tas something.
She's maybe the toughest person I've ever met. And I'm
friends with Marcus theatrel that's saying something.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
She is.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
The only other person that's in her realm of toughness
is my wife. She's a tough, tough lady. She always
has been admire that. So anyway, so she summoned me
and my wife that night and we get there nine
thirty ten o'clock and we stay for several hours, and
she's ready, she's done, she wants to go home. I said, okay,
(10:41):
I'll get hospice. And you know, she's at peace, very
much at peace. And we had a great conversation and
you can probably figure out I'm not a person that
leaves a lot unsaid, And so I said, I had
already said everything I needed to say, because we'd had
so many emergency room visits. I didn't want to regret
for the rest of my life not saying what I
needed to say. So anyway, she turns to my wife.
(11:04):
We're in the we're planning her funeral. She's telling me
exactly what she wants at her funeral. She's telling me
who she wants there and how small she wants it
to be. It can't be public. She doesn't want it
put in the papers. She didn't want any of that.
She didn't want any of that. And at one point
I said, I wasn't sure if she was talking about
when we went home to Orange the next day. I
was going to have hospice waiting there, which we did.
(11:24):
So I've been blazing back and forth from Houston to Orange,
meeting hospice and Milan day and come back and that
takes a lot out of me. So I've been tired,
which is okay. You do these things for your parents.
They did a lot for you. So at one point
she's talking about the funeral, but I'm not sure if
she's talking about what she wants done at the house
when we get back, or at the funeral or And
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I said, are you are you going to be there?
And she does this kind of flick of her wrists.
She said, no, just y'all, I'm gonna peel off. And
it was just just very charming the way she said it.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I loved it.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
So in the middle of all this, she turns to
my wife with a chuckle. My mom had a great
sense of humor, and she says, will you do the
interview with doctor Rutletch's son. And she was kind of
mumbling because she didn't have she wasn't she was losing
a lot of her ability to speak and to move
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and all that. And I didn't understand what she said,
and my wife did. She just fell out laughing. So
the story was my doctor growing up. The doctor who
delivered me was a guy named Raleigh Allan. And doctor
Allen married the nurse who was my nurse, the nurse
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who delivered me as a baby, and they get married
and they moved to Clear Lake. And one day while
I'm selling suits in college for Leopold Price and Raleigh,
here comes in doctor Allen and Barbara his nurse now wife.
And I hadn't seen doctor Allen. This would have been
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and I haven't seen doctor Allen in fifteen years since
I was a little big kid. Well, doctor Rutledge was
the junior doctor. And what used to happen in small
towns is the established doctor. As they hit maybe their
forties or fifties, they would bring in a younger doctor
as kind of an apprentice, just like the plumbing firms
electrical firms, and eventually that younger doctor would buy out
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the practice and the older guy would move on. Well
that's what happened here. So doctor Rutlis became my doctor,
and that was a good thing because doctor Allen was
the old fashion you're gonna stick. You're getting a needle right,
A pill would take longer, you're gonna and I hated needles.
But doctor Rutlidge was much more patient focused, you know,
patient centered, sensitive to my pain threshold, and I hate needles.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
So anyway, I love doctor Rutlich.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
And he's been my parents' doctor for all these years,
you know, almost fifty years later, still their doctor. So
my mom had gone to see doctor Rutlidge, I don't know,
a year ago, and she calls and says, Michael, I
got somebody needs you to interview. And I said, thanks, Mom,
but I don't. I'll run the show myself, but I
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appreciate it. No, no, it's doctor Rutli's son. And I said,
I love doctor Rutlets. Well I thought so, yeah, but
I don't need to. I don't need to interview his son.
She says, really, interesting. I said, all right, I'm game here,
my mom, what is it he does? I don't really know.
I said, what doesn't sound that interesting?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
And she said, well, something about the skim stuff off the.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Water when the oil companies, you know, spill oil on
the water.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
And I guarantee you you're going to find it fascinating.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
So I said whatever, And I never got the interview done,
and she kept needling me about it, and it became
this kind of thing between us, and so I told
her on her deathbed, I said, you know what, Mom,
I should have done that interview before. And it turns
out I should have not just to show more respect
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to my mother, which I obviously did not, but because
it turns out what these people do is really interesting.
And I am proud that this guy is the son
of my doctor. So with all that, I look up
their business, which the name is horrible b A L
A E n A. Blena. I think it's Blena Inc.
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I NC dot com. Now nobody's gonna be able to
find it online. Our guest is Brad Rutledge.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Who came up Pleasure in an honor with this name.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Well, the name is.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Actually taken from the Baileen Well and the baileyen well
can travel through the water and it holds onto the
plankton while getting rid of all the water that's taken in,
so it can travel swiftly. It doesn't push a headwave,
and the biomemicry actually represents the way our technology is designed,
so we're similar to vacuum bhead well.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
That's why it was named in seventeen fifty eight by Linnaeus,
who at the time considered all of the right wells
and the bowhead as a single species.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Historically, both the family Balayanadae and genus Boleana were known
by the common name right wales. However, Blena are now
known as bowhead whales. That's very interesting. I'm just really
as well. Uh wow, and compasses spit ten species known
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from fines and very interesting.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Okay, B A L A E N A. How did
y'all manage to trademark that term? If it's the name
of a well.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
That's a great great uh great question. So uh, the
baalen is the filtration in the well and the family
of welles. Uh. To be honest with you, I don't
know much more than that. But the balance and name
represents how we hold onto the oil while the water.
We let the clean water discharge as fast as we
take it in, so we decreased the amount of capacity
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on board. That's storage that's needed for the excess water.
And that's really where the beauty of technology comes in.
We use physics and we hold on to the oil
while the clean water is discharged as quick as we
take it in. Now, let me tell you this, there's
a lot of skeptical people, and rightfully so, because they
want to make sure that water is really clean when
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it leaves. And there's a group in one place in
the US that's run on a Navy base that's run
by OMSET, which is a division of Bessie Bureau Safety Environmental,
and they give you a score. And one thing we
did at every single test was take the clean water
discharge and test it. And it came back at three
and a half parts per million, and the IMO regulates
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it has to be less than fifteen parts per million,
So we were about four times greater with less contamination
than the actual water that we were taking in.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Hold on just a second. We're talking to Brad Rutledge.
It's Blaana b A l A E in a inc.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Dot Com I looked at him, and they looked at me,
you know, and I just looked at her and I
just get your stuff and get it out that Michael
Berry's and got a newspaper.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
And I wrote it up.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
I slapped him on the nose.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
I said, all right, so I'm paying off my bet
to my mom that I promised I would do. And
in the meantime, as usual, admitting that I was wrong
and I should have taken her advice, because if nothing else,
she's my mother and that's what you should do. But
I am also I'm not an environmentalist. I told you
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this one hundred times before. But I hate waste and
I love the concept of I love the concept of
cleaning up filthy things. I love the concept of solving
the problems and renewing this precious earth that we live on.
I love the earth. I love the species. I love
the trees and the clean water and all of that.
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What I don't love is people trying to ruin my
life in order to control my life and control the
money supply supposedly in defense of it, because they're all liars.
The company is called blanainc dot com b A L
A E N A I n c dot com. It's
named after a well. So why are you needing to
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clean the waters? It says the Blaina induced flow skimming system.
And you compare it to traditional oil spill recovery methods,
how much oil is being spilled.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
There's a lot of small spills on a daily you know,
I would say a daily basis, and a lot of
things you don't hear about. One in our local community
in Orangefield, Texas, about a mile and a half from
our shop. Happened about four months ago and didn't really
make much of the news cycle there. It was supposed
to be a twenty barrel spill and we ended up
recovering seventy one barrels. We were invited by a good
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friend of mine that owns Phoenix Environmental Services, Nelson Pheck
Gatter and Jeremy Yamon, who were gracious enough to want
to promote new technology in our industry. And so they said, hey,
you guys are right down the street, y'all bring y'all
technology out here, and let's test this puppy. And we
got we got to work and it was really fast
and really you know, clean, and uh, I think even
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the Texas General Land Office that regulates the oil spills.
Was fascinated that this technology existed in their backyard, just
four guys from you know, hometown of Orange, Texas. And
we have a big dream and we've been all over
the world with this where patented in six countries and uh,
you know, just wanting to get the word out that,
like you, we care about our community. And regulation typically
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is a bad word. And if people do the right thing,
you don't need regulation. People generally want to do the
right thing. But it's about money. So we're able to
come up with a cost effective solution and uh and
meet a lot of different criteria needs. And not only
do we just collect oil, anything that's floating and buoyant.
And if you look up plastic pellets, nordles is the
is the term. There's two hundred and fifty thousand tons
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that are spilled in the river's notions every year. The
most recent is a big event in Sri Lanka and
that these plastic pellets get to the mangroves and these
fish eat them and they just get contaminated with these
plastic pellets. It actually happened in Corpus Christi, Texas, and
the fishermen were catching red fish, which I love to do,
and they were cutting them open and find all these
plastic pellets in there. And you know, our solution actually
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takes care of collecting things like that and a numerous.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Works and compare that to kind of traditional oil spill recovery.
And I'm not an expert, but talk to me like
I'm in sixth grade. No no acronyms, no no jargon.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Okay, we have high capacity pumps in our system that
we draw the water to us. As the water comes in,
it has oil floating on top. We do something really
creative and we just don't disturb that top layer of oil.
And that's the secret. As it comes in, we use
physics by placing our pumps in different places and the
flow of the water and the oil goes straight to
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the top, and as it comes in, we regulate and
monitor that level and we pump the oil back in
the same same way that it was delivered to us,
so we do not emulsify the product. By sharing it
and putting it through pumps, you get it back in
the same same state that it was in as we collected.
And that's really the beauty behind it. And so we
have a ninety eight to ninety nine percent oil to
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water ratio on recovered.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Product, and nobody had ever done this before.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
That's exactly what my partner of the founding partner, Russell Covington,
his father said the exact same thing. They're third third
generation ship bolters. I don't know if you remember Levingston
Shipyard in North Texas, but that's his legacy and friend
of mine, and so I rented equipment my entire career,
and he was a friend and a customer. And he
had this tabletop model with peanut oil that he dyed
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purple and he poured it in this tank. And he
had a replica that he built and sized it to
a remote control tug boat. And he had this thing
going around this tank and I'd walk in his obviously
he said look at this, and it cleimed the entire
tank and it was incredible, and I just couldn't help
a fell in love with it. And fast forward a
few years later, he was looking for some partners and
raising some money to do this matress and I'm in.
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I don't care what it takes, I'm in. I just
believed in it. He's got something really neat, and from
there we were able to build our first prototype vessel
and start the testing. And it hasn't come without its
fair share of up and downs, like anything, but we're
blessed that we've actually been able to perfect the science
and get it to work, and it works really well.
So now the cool thing is that it's a scalable process.
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We took it from a boat and we developed a
small skimmer. Now we met a group in Amsterdam at
one of the international shows. They're out of California, and
they have a sensor that ties into this skimmer. So
you put the skimmer in the middle of an outfall
and an industrial facility, and it's actually called detection by collection.
We got a trademark and so when this device goes
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off and it reads that there's contamination in the water,
it kicks our unit on automatically and sends you a
text and says, hey, you need to go to outfall
three or wherever you might have a sensitive area. And
in the meantime, we've already began collecting that product.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
What is your background?
Speaker 4 (24:14):
So I grew up actually just trying to do anything
to make ends meet, and in two thousand and five
I fell in love with renting industrial machinery, and so
that's what I did for about fifteen years, and I
had an opportunity to exit that venture at that time,
and I'm now back in the business with company called
gear up Rents. But that's what I do on a
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daily basis, and during my time after I exited, I
was able to spend a little time with my friend
Russell and really help take this venture to the next level.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
You are I've interviewed hundreds of people over the years.
You are one of the best three at explaining your
company as as a concept and as a problem solution,
with the perfect blend of not being too salesy or
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hoky or that sort of stuff which I find off putting,
but at the same time a confident understanding of what
you do and why it's important without being you know,
passion is good, but it can be too much, you know,
because for what somebody does, it may not you know,
I'm probably never going to need to hire you. But
for me from a distance listening to the story, I
(25:28):
could see where this would be an important thing to
do and I can get that. So for me to
be able to get it and you'd be interesting on
air content that is a very rare thing.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Hold on just a second. We're talking to Brad Rutledge.
It's blena ek.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
He says, baileyan, but I'm the e's not before the
a ramost.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
I can't say Bailey. I can't do it b A
l A E N A I NC dot com.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
This is the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Locked and loaded, like didn't loaded. We're talking to Brad Rutledge.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I am paying off a debt to my now late
mother that I promised her a week before she passed
I would do, and I'm glad I did. I'm a
little embarrassed that I didn't do it sooner, but it's
not the first time that I didn't do what my
mother asked me to do, and it's not going to
be the last time that I regret not taking her
(26:30):
advice on something.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
She was in. Doctor Rutledge my childhood doctor. All the way.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
We didn't have pediatricians in Orange. You just went to
the doctor.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
You didn't You didn't have doctors for kids and adults.
And he was just your doctor.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
And he took care of my mother till her dying days. Wonderful,
wonderful man and a great human being, by the way,
and by the way. I didn't know this because I
didn't know his politics growing up. But a few years
ago I find out that doctor Rutlish during the COVID scamdemic,
(27:08):
is one of the guys that's pushing back against the
medical establishment because he's an independent doctor. He can do
what he wants to do, and he's calling out all
the big pharma and all that, and he is he
is one of our kind of guys. And you know,
I don't know what he's up to. I hadn't seen
him in you know, since I was I'm fifty three.
I left Orange nineteen eighty nine. It was very comforting
for me to see that man of great faith and
(27:30):
great conviction and his boy's doing well, and I'm happy
to see this. The company is called Blena Inc. B
A L A E N A I n C balenainc
dot com. So who would be the companies or municipalities
or entity I guess the coast guard man.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Who would be the people that would call and.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Hire y'all to use this this skimming technology that gets the.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Sludge out of the water.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
It's a really unique industry. We've been well received by
most of the folks we work faster, and you know,
we think more efficient. But that's not great news to
some of the guys that are in the industry to
you know, milk it and make a lot of money.
But I would say the majority of the folks are
just really embracing us and helping us take it to
(28:21):
the next level and supportive. There's an industry called Spill
Control Associations of America. We've been a part of them
and the UK Ireland Spill Association, and both of those
two groups have really helped us formulate some great relationships.
So we've executed some agreements with a Republic Services believe
it or not, the trash company that owns now the
(28:42):
one of the largest for profit spill response companies called NRC.
They've actually purchased one of our units. And we've also
been to Canada with planes Pipeline and we're leasing a
unit to those folks up there for long term and
looking to put some more into circulation in that market
in Canada. And along with Republic, we partner with them
(29:04):
and we take care of the Navy out of Corpus
Christy some of their needs on a long term basis.
So we've had some mild success and looking to build
on that in the industrial market. We're currently working with
Exxon and Valero locally to get our product into the
industrial facilities and just really well received if we've been blessed.
We're looking at building a sixty foot boat for a
(29:25):
group called Clean Golf Associates out of New Orleans, and
they're a conglomerate that they have board members from all
the major oil and gas companies, and so we're looking
at building a big sixty foot boat for those guys
next year. We've completed design and engineering and looking forward
to that project. We think that's really going to be
a kickoff to something special. As the guys there everybody
(29:47):
kind of networks all over the world, especially in the
six countries. We have patents with those guys, and so
the fact that I don't want to take you down
a rabbit trail, but there's low sulfur fuels a mandate
by the IMO internationally, so these ships have to have
this low surf diesel fuel and what happens is when
(30:08):
they spill it, it doesn't stick together, so the current
equipment can't really recover it. So in Norway there's a
project going on. We're not a part of it, but
to find solutions to this. And we have the solution.
We're at the International show and we got to display that,
and so we're hoping that somebody hears this and says, wow,
those guys have a solution for low sulfur fuels. And
(30:29):
you know, I don't know who's listening, but our hope
is that somebody out there, you know, here's something they
like and wants to reach out and help us take
that to the next level.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
So we have Brad. I will tell you we have
a lot of folks.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
In the Marine and Chemical company, but marine industry, a
lot of folks that work at the port, a lot
of folks that transport things and that make things, whether
it be chemical process or the light who listen. So
I would not be surprised by that. And I will
say to anyone who just tuned in or heard something,
(31:03):
I will make the same offer I say all the time.
I love to connect people. Malcolm Gladwell has chapters about
this in the book The Tipping Point. I am a
person who derives great joy by people emailing and saying
I need to install a roof, who should I use?
Or I need a buy jewelry? Who should I use.
And if someone wants to connect you and they can't
(31:24):
remember how to the bowhead whale that y'all are named
after that was identified by Linnaeus in the late eighteenth century,
they can always email me through the website Michael Berryshow
dot com and just describe what it is and I'll
connect you directly. And I do that all day long.
I enjoy connecting people with what they do.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Brad.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
This is.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
This is fascinating stuff, and it's exciting to see entrepreneurism alive.
And well, I think that is as interesting to me
as anything you know. For what y'all are doing. People
don't realize how efficient American carmaking has become in terms
of emissions. And I don't mean government mandates. The American
(32:14):
car maker is creating a cleaner car than they ever
have before, and they they have improved processes and decreased
waste and all those sorts of things. Our chemical plants
have decreased the amount of air pollution year over year
because they're part of the community too. And if you
look at what's going on in China and India, that's
(32:36):
smokestacks at the top twenty five polluting cities. I think
twenty four of them are either in India or China.
The group's claiming that they're for green energy, and they're not.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
I love this idea.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
I love that it's innovative, and I love the fact
that it's solving a problem. And I'm more than a
little bit proud that it's out of Orange, Texas. And
I wish you the absolute and utter best of luck
in making this happen. I think this is just fantastic, Brad,
absolutely fantastic man.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
Thank you very much. How do you as a side note?
As a side note, I want I wanted you to
know that your mother taught me in Mother's day Out?
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Are you serious?
Speaker 4 (33:17):
For first of that is she sure did.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Wow, that's amazing.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
How small the world is yet?
Speaker 2 (33:23):
How old were you?
Speaker 4 (33:25):
I was probably about three or four years old at
that time at first Baptist Church, so I'm still.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Remember she would go down and do Mother's day out
in the summer, I think as much as anything else
because the kids were gone and she was lonely. But
she loved kids. I mean that was her favorite thing
was kids. Loved little kids. Brad, Thank you, brother, I
(33:51):
appreciate you, and good luck.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
To you.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Hopefully I'll forward you some some new customers and your business.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Will really I'll forget us.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
I'd like to tell you very much on the first
flight of your of your private.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Jet, I appreciate it. I'll tell you what I will
invite you out. I don't know if you ever get
down this way, but your producer has my son number,
and love to get you on the boat and show
you first hand kind of what we would work on. It
really is pretty neat.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
That would be a blast. I'd look forward to.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
Thank you.
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