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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
So Michael Verie show is on the air. We had
our farm and ranch friend and show sponsor. I want
to send me a message during the break. He loves
his gardening and so he sent some photos and he said,
(00:31):
building our above ground raised garden beds, irrigations, complete planting
this week, deer proof vent, deer proof fence being built
this weekend. Also, we'll be offering this to buyers of
my property for sale. Can't believe how many Houston folks
want a garden like this and chickens. Be building some
chicken coops as well. Another added benefit to buying your
country land. From Rick Doak. It's funny because he'll message
(00:58):
me and sometimes I'll call him while I'm driving and
he'll talk about some family that's just moved from the
city out to the country, whether it's Chapel Hill or
Belleville or Dobbin or wherever else, and how happy people
are with, you know, their chickens or just their land
or having a lake or a pond or whatever else
because they've lived this life and did not realize that
(01:19):
this option was available to them. And it's just it's
a whole different thing, and the thing that doesn't get
talked about. No thugs next door, no thugs driving down
the street, no thugs on your way to the grocery store.
It's a glorious thing. Paul, Yes, what did you actually
call about?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I called because I heard online an interesting concept regarding
voting early, and the guy said, don't vote early. Don't
vote early because you give the people who potentially would
cheat information as to how much cheating needs to be done.
So if you vote on the day of election, they
(02:02):
don't have any concept of if they need to, you know,
grab some ballots or grab some dead people and go
vote because they need to beat somebody. And I thought
that was a very interesting take on voting.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
You there, Yeah, No, I'm trying to think about how
best to say this. So, Nadita and I had had
dinner with my friend Russell Lebora last night and he
showed me a video of a recent case. They've had
to put videos. They've had to put cameras in their
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restaurants because that's your only defense when these people claim stuff.
And it's what looks like a single mother and about
six kids, and they're sitting at a table and the
mother is looking around like she's about to she's about
to rob the place, you know, she's bobbing and looking
at the sightlines and the angles to see who can
see her. And then her oldest child, who's probably twelve,
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gets up from the seat at the table, takes a
step back, looks around, and then does a very theatrical,
dramatic fall, as if she just stepped on a banana
pil and gets right back up, and the mom laughs
and we all.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
You know, yucking it up, and then she does it again, okay,
and the other kids are hardly even bothered by it,
but some of them are kind of amusedment.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
This is clearly the discussion at the table, so much
so that I thought she was doing a dance move
for you know, maybe she's in you know, little kids
like that are antsy. You know, I was constantly doing
a wind up and throwing a pitch or throwing a football,
an air football or an air pitch, or or shooting
baskets if you were if you were in a situation
(03:53):
like that, to the point that my parents would say,
sit down because you got nervous energy and you're doing anything.
So this little girl keeps doing what I later realized
is a slip and fall. By the third one, you
realize what she's doing. Whereupon the mother gets up and
the little girl who's learning the slip and fall business
is watching her attent attentively. And the mom gets up
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and she steps out into the aisle and the restaurant
is not very busy, it's an off time. She looks around,
she looks each direction, nobody can see, nobody can see who.
She slips and falls, except she didn't slip and fall.
She faked a slip and fall. And then you see
the manager coming up, and you see the actually the
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first one. You gotta remember which we do this, I
think the first one. She falls but doesn't get anybody's attention.
So then she falls again. Well then you see the
manager come up. Must have been a scream and a hoot.
And by this time she sat down. The manager comes
over and there's no audio in the video, but she's
telling the manager, well, you're flores Maybe she's saying florestle
(05:02):
some reason that she has slipped and she fell, and
the manager is listening, very attending. It's all on the video.
It's so cynical, it is so vile that this is
being done. So Russell said, I thought, there's no way
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this lady's going to try to sue. She didn't see
the cameras because remember she's looking at at ground level
around the camera is from above, shooting down. So they
get the letter from the lawyer, and I'm just going
to assume, and I think accurately, that he hasn't seen
(05:45):
the footage, but I'd like to see. He's probably running
a little mill of you know, people come in and
you sue, and you hope to get a settlement and
you move on. He doesn't want to try a case
like this. It's too much effort. But Russell said, I
can't wait until this guy sees the video of his
case in what it looks like, because if he has
an ounce of shame, he'll say, my apologies, I'm embarrassed,
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But what if they didn't have a camera. Now it's
your word against theirs, and truthfully, how many people would
believe the restaurant when this single mother with her children.
I'm not asking for much as my back is. I
can't work anymore. You know, it worked for three years.
I was getting ready to go back to work to
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support these children. I was gonna support these children, and
now I can't, and I'm left on food stamps and
welfare and I'm gonna need some money. It's crazy. And
a lot of these insurance companies, now not Russell's, but
a lot of these insurance companies will pay rather than
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And then you put a mark, you talk. You get
a restaurant own her talking honestly, who trusts you and
likes you and is willing to share things that other
people may judge them for, and they will tell you
that it is. It sours you on the business, it
sours you on the condition of humanity. And now you
(07:17):
wonder why was the RCC membership only? Why why I
gotta join? You don't rather than not? Anybody who asks?
I so hate to do business with people like that.
That is why the RCC was and probably would be
again membership only, because I want to keep people out
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who cause problems. If you're a complainer, you know, but
you know, Ringo's unfortunately has opened to everybody. So you
got to deal with fools like that to the keeper
the storm. And it's going to be interesting to see
what happens today in the Democrat primary, because the Democrat
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Party has changed so very much, and that has been
accelerated since two thousand and eight the rise of the
Obama Coalition, which was black voters who vote first and
if possible, always for blacks, and white progressives and the
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white progressives. The white progressives are happy to be in
business with the Jasmine Crocketts because it's sort of a
self flagellation. It's kind of a cuck move that they
want to be hated and despised, which they do themselves.
(08:56):
They had a presidential candidate in Mary Anne Williamson, who,
if you'll recall, ran for president twice. In twenty twenty,
we talked about the fact that she was having by
the way, she was actually winning some votes. She had
an event at a church that had whites and blacks,
and she announced that we were going to do an
(09:18):
apology to blacks. This actually happened.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Listen to this as I speak, I'm going to ask
the white Americans in the room to please repeat after me,
on behalf of myself, and on behalf of my country
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to you and all African Americans, from the beginning of
our nation's history, in honor of your ancestors, and on
behalf of your children.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Please hear this from my heart. I apologize, Please forgive us.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
With this prayer, I acknowledge the depth of the evils
that have been perpetrated against black people in America, from
slavery to lynchings, to white supremacist laws, to the denial
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of voting rights, to all the ways, both large and small,
all of them evil, all of them wrong, for all
the oppression, and all of the injustices. I apologize, Please
(10:57):
forgive us.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I guess they feel good after that. I don't know.
So in twenty twenty, twenty eighteen, Lena Hidalgo has swept
into office. There's a big blue wave. It's very organized.
It was digital online, so it was high tech what
I would call an air war and low tech what
I would call a ground war, with lots of door
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knocking and getting people to the polls. And in Harris County,
Lena Hidalgo was swept into office. And what's interesting about
this is that Hidalgo was up for reelection in twenty
twenty two and we beat her. Alex Meeler beat her,
but they didn't send ballots on election day because our
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people love to sandbag and not wait till the end,
and they'll tell me. That's because if I wait till
the end, Michael, they don't know how many votes to cheat.
So if I vote right before the end, they don't.
They don't put enough cheap votes in there. Okay, So
our people waited in the West side, which Mieler would
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have won well over ninety percent of ended up dozens
of thousands of votes short. So when the people called
in and said, hey, we don't have any ballots out here,
we got we got miles of people in line. Cliff Tatum,
the election administrator, who had been brought here by Rodney
from DC for this very moment and this very purpose,
(12:24):
said we'll get you some ballots out there. And they
kept promising to get ballots out there, and they didn't,
and so the people couldn't vote if they didn't have ballots.
So Lena wins the election. There's other fraud, verifiable fraud,
and nobody would stand up and say anything about it.
Meeler did, but nobody else would. So we begged Greg
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Abbott to have his Secretary of State Jane Nelson, do something,
and you know what, they did nothing. If Meeler had
been the county judge today, we wouldn't have to worry
about fraud in this election, and she would have been
the county judge, but abit didn't want to help anybody else.
(13:09):
So imagine my surprise when a few months ago Greg
Abbott jumps up and says, we're going to put our
efforts into Harris County at voter an election integrity. Wait what, Oh,
that's right. You're on the ballot in a close race
or what could potentially be a close race, especially come November.
(13:29):
Oh so now you care? Got it? So Rodney started
this black girl magic thing. It's been talked about by
NPR and it's become there's a whole movement behind it.
There's a cachine something that's and the idea is it's
supposedly a TikTok theme, and that is black girls have
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a strength and a wisdom that nobody realizes in black
girl magic. So there has been this push by Rodney
to get black women on the bench. And he owns
the Harris County Civil and Civil Court especially bench, and
since twenty twenty he has had six campaigns where he
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targeted not Republicans, white Democrats. He is six of six
with black women. Some of these black women have never
practiced law, before and he gets them elected, because how
would the public know? And the way he does it
is that he has started pushing voter turnout legal or illegal,
(14:36):
I don't know. I haven't checked. He started pushing voter
turnout and just pulling the votes out of communities where
he knows he can win. He's got a slate. There's
the sorrows, support the whole thing. They targeted five white
Democrats this election cycle. This is him targeting White's Democrats.
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So the taller Rico crocket. This weekend, I was making
a list of things about people that if I learned
that one fact, I know, it's probably a good person,
because everybody I've known that fits into that is a
good person, right. And one of them was the husband
(15:23):
and wife cut each other's hair. It's a country thing, ormo.
And so I was thinking about all the things in
my life that if I have known someone who I
just know that one thing I know, that's a solid
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good person. And most of them are country things stuff
I grew up with. But people who can their own preserves,
that's never going to be a bad person, that's always
going to be a good person, always going to be
a good person, wrote the whole thing, and I posted
it to Facebook and I did something wrong and it
didn't post it. I was bummed out. Another one that
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was Ham Radio operators. It's kind of a very Bob's
Troop thing, right. You get these real nerdy technical guys
that may or may not have an engineering degree, mostly don't.
They might have been. They might have done mechanical drawings
or design for an oil company or a c NC
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shop or whatever. People that reload their own shells, that's
always a big one. People that do their own stuff
around the house, like Paul. You don't see people arrested
who for committing terrible crimes who keep their own garden.
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It's just it's a whole different personality type value system
the whole thing. By the way, I got an email
from Bobby Crump and he said that, he said, I
know Paul. He lives in our neighborhood. He I can't
find an email. I must have deleted it.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
He is the neighborhood garden club president. They've got a
neighborhood garden club. I mean, you think about you've got
boys in the hood, you know, gang bangers, awful monstrous people,
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and then you've got the quote unquote neighborhood garden club
out in Dobbin. It's two different worlds, right, And so
somebody that moves out of the gang banging boys in
the hood, loud music, illegal aliens, welfare queens, slip and falls,
and moves into that Dobbin garden club community. I mean,
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just if you could, if you could take the BLA
bood pressure readings a week apart, what a difference it is.
And then there are people that move from a crowded
urban environment, so it's all they've ever known and all
they know that there is to know where You've got
noise pollution, which I think is horrible for your for
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your your yourtret, your stress, and your blood pressure. So
you've got noise, everything is louder. There's honking and cars
and revving and machinery and everything else music and it's
all very loud, and it it sometimes you could your
your brain can learn to push it to the back,
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but your your brain is still having to process that,
and it's horrible for you. It's terrible. I think it
creates a level of confusion. I'm not exactly. I'm not
certain that that isn't a contributed to Parkincers Parkings, I
mean to Alzheimer's, but another subject another day. So you
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got that, and then that person, and that's all that
person's ever known. And then maybe their spouse is from
the country and they move out to the country, and
all of a sudden, it's like an addict. You know,
they need their fix. They're used to being so overstimulated
that what they perceive as boring, they perceive they're not
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alive because you're not in constant defense mode. And that
defense mode is a release of adrenaline, and that adrenaline
is constant because your body is in fight or flight
mode constantly, because there are continuous what is a perception
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of threats, whether you realize it or not. Traffic, congestion, crowds, noise,
all of these things tell your brain, which just that
brain is the same brain we've had for thousands of years,
tells your brain that to be on the lookout, and
so it becomes second nature. It's habitual as a behavior
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such that you don't even realize that you're doing it,
but you're never able to truly relax. And this is
why these people love to go on a vacation to
a Mexican beach or the mountains or some very slow,
very quiet place, and they think that it's the place
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that's special. It's not. It's getting out of the over
stimulated mode and world that you live in with so
much traffic, noise, traffic, noise, congestion, people, congestion and all
of that. And some people when they move out to
I've had people tell me they don't know if they
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can stay out there because it's boring, there's not enough
to do. And it's not their fault. They have grown,
whether they realize it or not. They've grown addicted to
all the things that are so bad for you that
they wanted to get away from. But it's sort of
like people that seek out abusive relationships. You see these cases.
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It's usually women, but I've seen men that do it too,
that like to fight. There's a comedian named Taylor Tomlinson
and she's done four Netflix specials, and in about number
two or number three, she talks about how she was
toxic in relationships because she would get bored. She didn't
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know how to communicate with a boyfriend, so she would
just fight, and she would create situations that would cause
a fight, so there would be a fight and one
of them she gave was and this is always dangerous
when women come up with the stuff, because there's nothing
good to come. And she says, Babe, they're watching a
movie or whatever they do the either worsemen. Babe, this
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is her talking. If you found out we were cousins,
would you leave me? Well, now he can't win, and
so he decides the best answer is yes, because then
at least you won't think he's creepy. And so she
decides that that's the wrong answer, and she creates a fight,
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and she goes through how this whole thing escalates, and
you find out that there are people like this who
they cray. It sounds crazy, but they crave conflict and
discomfort and unpleasantness. And that's why the economists have such
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a better use of how we make decisions. They have
such better vocabulary because rather than saying that someone likes this,
the economists will say they derive you till and when
you you understand someone derives utility, you begin to understand
sadism or masochism, or sell other self defeating behaviors, self
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cutting adrenaline junkies that are risking their lives. And then
you begin to understand that it's it may not always
seem like it's what makes you happy, but it's what
gives you utility, it's what you seek out. It's it's
where you choose to spend your time, whether you realize
it or not. And that's why these people who are
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always in toxic relationships, not just their boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife, whatever,
they have toxic relationships with everybody. You start to notice
they're the common denominator. That's actually whether they realize or
that's what they want, that's where they're happy. It's the
Michael Barry shows. The band, they only released one album.
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This was This was their hit. The album is called Albazaar.
The song is Albazar and they have just it was
a bliph on the map. I think it's such a
cool song. But the name of the band is uh OMC,
which stood for Otara Millionaires Club. And that was the
joke because it was meant to be like they had
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like redneck country club, you know, they have a club
for millionaires because they were poor Kiwi's from New Zealand,
and so it was meant to be like, look at us,
we're very exclusive. But that was that was the joke. Anyway, Well,
I'll get to that in a minute. It being election
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day and all, it's always good to remember the importance
of the way our system works. And I am I'm
such a deep Pollyanna believer of self governance that I
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if you knew my true views about it, you would
think that they're almost childlike. And maybe they are. And
I understand they sound naive or Pollyanna or downright silly,
but I am a deep believer. And maybe that's because
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I'm a student of human history. And most of human
history is for ninety nine percent of the population. It's
actually greater than that is privation and misery, suffering and
sickness and penury. And so you've got the overlay of
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capitalism with a self determinative political sism. Now I can
already anticipate what someone is going to say, since rig
with a rig trust me, I can go visit my
dad as soon as we're off, I can hear that.
I know. I know what you're thinking, and it is
an It's an imperfect system. There is no doubt you won't.
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You're not smarter than me or more worldly for saying that.
I don't think it's imperfect. I've spent more time around
politics than most people. I am well aware of how
imperfect it is. But that's the beauty of the next election.
That's what I love about it. Hope springs eternal. It's funny.
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I was at a end of life celebration a week
or two ago and Jim Crane was there, and as
we're walking out, people were obviously everyone missed the person
who was there, but it was something to have something
positive to talk about. People hope that the newness, the
freshness of how fitting in spring. We got a new
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ball club, we got a new team. So even if
you were a Pittsburgh Pirates fan during those worst years,
you could at least hope that maybe this year would
be better. There's something about that, the rebirth of the earth,
and you see it around you, the flowers beginning to
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come up and the birds chirping, and the sun coming out.
I'm not a big sun guy, but I understand for
most people that's psychologically a big deal. It's this thing.
You have a new opportunity. And I know it might
sound silly, and it might sound like something you wouldn't
expect me to hear me say, but understand my position.
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I love our process. I love it. I believe in it,
and anyone who doesn't can't show me a better system,
unless you want to say a benevolent dictatorship. People love
to say that because they think it's cute, go living one.
But I genuinely, on the deepest, nerdiest level, am thrilled
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and excited that every single human being gets a vote
in our process. Oh but there's cheating mine. Okay, if
it's an imperfect process, but the fact that we can
point out the imperfections means that we started with something beautiful.
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If you're starving, you don't complain about whether the bread
is buttered or not. You're thrilled to get something to eat.
The point at which we can quibble over this, and
that is the point at which something is working. We
have to protect that, We have to ensure that, and
that's not self fulfilling. In most of the world, that's
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not happening. You know, you look at it on for
a moment and you think how much the people there,
I think, more than anything else, they want to be
from out from under the yoke of oppressive Islamic governance.
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We can use the word radical because we don't want
to offend the people who are just who are just
not Pakistani, just Muslim. But if you look at a
country like Pakistan, which would never be called radical Islam,
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people don't choose to live there if they have the
option to live here, unless they're older and they feel
more comfortable besides the sounds, the smell that or the food,
the ease of movement, the not being in a different land.
But people don't retire in places like that for a reason.
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It's unpleasant, it's oppressive, it is tenuous, shall we say.
But I just wanted to say this might sound odd
to hear coming from me. This is a beautiful day
and a beautiful thing that we get to choose. And
I don't push people to vote, especially not in the primary.
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If you're not sure who you want to vote for,
stay home. I'm okay with that. I don't believe that
everybody needs to vote. You end up with people voting
and they're looking at the names and they don't know
who these people are. Why do we want that? Why
is that a good thing? In November, we can say
show up vote Republican and they will or they won't.
But why do you you want somebody voting for Corning
because that's the only name they recognize.
It's that time time time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
So Michael Verie show is on the air. We had
our farm and ranch friend and show sponsor. I want
to send me a message during the break. He loves
his gardening and so he sent some photos and he said,
(00:31):
building our above ground raised garden beds, irrigations, complete planting
this week, deer proof vent, deer proof fence being built
this weekend. Also, we'll be offering this to buyers of
my property for sale. Can't believe how many Houston folks
want a garden like this and chickens. Be building some
chicken coops as well. Another added benefit to buying your
country land. From Rick Doak. It's funny because he'll message
(00:58):
me and sometimes I'll call him while I'm driving and
he'll talk about some family that's just moved from the
city out to the country, whether it's Chapel Hill or
Belleville or Dobbin or wherever else, and how happy people
are with, you know, their chickens or just their land
or having a lake or a pond or whatever else
because they've lived this life and did not realize that
(01:19):
this option was available to them. And it's just it's
a whole different thing, and the thing that doesn't get
talked about. No thugs next door, no thugs driving down
the street, no thugs on your way to the grocery store.
It's a glorious thing. Paul, Yes, what did you actually
call about?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I called because I heard online an interesting concept regarding
voting early, and the guy said, don't vote early. Don't
vote early because you give the people who potentially would
cheat information as to how much cheating needs to be done.
So if you vote on the day of election, they
(02:02):
don't have any concept of if they need to, you know,
grab some ballots or grab some dead people and go
vote because they need to beat somebody. And I thought
that was a very interesting take on voting.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
You there, Yeah, No, I'm trying to think about how
best to say this. So, Nadita and I had had
dinner with my friend Russell Lebora last night and he
showed me a video of a recent case. They've had
to put videos. They've had to put cameras in their
(02:39):
restaurants because that's your only defense when these people claim stuff.
And it's what looks like a single mother and about
six kids, and they're sitting at a table and the
mother is looking around like she's about to she's about
to rob the place, you know, she's bobbing and looking
at the sightlines and the angles to see who can
see her. And then her oldest child, who's probably twelve,
(03:03):
gets up from the seat at the table, takes a
step back, looks around, and then does a very theatrical,
dramatic fall, as if she just stepped on a banana
pil and gets right back up, and the mom laughs
and we all.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
You know, yucking it up, and then she does it again, okay,
and the other kids are hardly even bothered by it,
but some of them are kind of amusedment.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
This is clearly the discussion at the table, so much
so that I thought she was doing a dance move
for you know, maybe she's in you know, little kids
like that are antsy. You know, I was constantly doing
a wind up and throwing a pitch or throwing a football,
an air football or an air pitch, or or shooting
baskets if you were if you were in a situation
(03:53):
like that, to the point that my parents would say,
sit down because you got nervous energy and you're doing anything.
So this little girl keeps doing what I later realized
is a slip and fall. By the third one, you
realize what she's doing. Whereupon the mother gets up and
the little girl who's learning the slip and fall business
is watching her attent attentively. And the mom gets up
(04:17):
and she steps out into the aisle and the restaurant
is not very busy, it's an off time. She looks around,
she looks each direction, nobody can see, nobody can see who.
She slips and falls, except she didn't slip and fall.
She faked a slip and fall. And then you see
the manager coming up, and you see the actually the
(04:39):
first one. You gotta remember which we do this, I
think the first one. She falls but doesn't get anybody's attention.
So then she falls again. Well then you see the
manager come up. Must have been a scream and a hoot.
And by this time she sat down. The manager comes
over and there's no audio in the video, but she's
telling the manager, well, you're flores Maybe she's saying florestle
(05:02):
some reason that she has slipped and she fell, and
the manager is listening, very attending. It's all on the video.
It's so cynical, it is so vile that this is
being done. So Russell said, I thought, there's no way
(05:24):
this lady's going to try to sue. She didn't see
the cameras because remember she's looking at at ground level
around the camera is from above, shooting down. So they
get the letter from the lawyer, and I'm just going
to assume, and I think accurately, that he hasn't seen
(05:45):
the footage, but I'd like to see. He's probably running
a little mill of you know, people come in and
you sue, and you hope to get a settlement and
you move on. He doesn't want to try a case
like this. It's too much effort. But Russell said, I
can't wait until this guy sees the video of his
case in what it looks like, because if he has
an ounce of shame, he'll say, my apologies, I'm embarrassed,
(06:10):
But what if they didn't have a camera. Now it's
your word against theirs, and truthfully, how many people would
believe the restaurant when this single mother with her children.
I'm not asking for much as my back is. I
can't work anymore. You know, it worked for three years.
I was getting ready to go back to work to
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support these children. I was gonna support these children, and
now I can't, and I'm left on food stamps and
welfare and I'm gonna need some money. It's crazy. And
a lot of these insurance companies, now not Russell's, but
a lot of these insurance companies will pay rather than
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And then you put a mark, you talk. You get
a restaurant own her talking honestly, who trusts you and
likes you and is willing to share things that other
people may judge them for, and they will tell you
that it is. It sours you on the business, it
sours you on the condition of humanity. And now you
(07:17):
wonder why was the RCC membership only? Why why I
gotta join? You don't rather than not? Anybody who asks?
I so hate to do business with people like that.
That is why the RCC was and probably would be
again membership only, because I want to keep people out
(07:40):
who cause problems. If you're a complainer, you know, but
you know, Ringo's unfortunately has opened to everybody. So you
got to deal with fools like that to the keeper
the storm. And it's going to be interesting to see
what happens today in the Democrat primary, because the Democrat
(08:05):
Party has changed so very much, and that has been
accelerated since two thousand and eight the rise of the
Obama Coalition, which was black voters who vote first and
if possible, always for blacks, and white progressives and the
(08:30):
white progressives. The white progressives are happy to be in
business with the Jasmine Crocketts because it's sort of a
self flagellation. It's kind of a cuck move that they
want to be hated and despised, which they do themselves.
(08:56):
They had a presidential candidate in Mary Anne Williamson, who,
if you'll recall, ran for president twice. In twenty twenty,
we talked about the fact that she was having by
the way, she was actually winning some votes. She had
an event at a church that had whites and blacks,
and she announced that we were going to do an
(09:18):
apology to blacks. This actually happened.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Listen to this as I speak, I'm going to ask
the white Americans in the room to please repeat after me,
on behalf of myself, and on behalf of my country
(09:43):
to you and all African Americans, from the beginning of
our nation's history, in honor of your ancestors, and on
behalf of your children.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Please hear this from my heart. I apologize, Please forgive us.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
With this prayer, I acknowledge the depth of the evils
that have been perpetrated against black people in America, from
slavery to lynchings, to white supremacist laws, to the denial
(10:35):
of voting rights, to all the ways, both large and small,
all of them evil, all of them wrong, for all
the oppression, and all of the injustices. I apologize, Please
(10:57):
forgive us.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I guess they feel good after that. I don't know.
So in twenty twenty, twenty eighteen, Lena Hidalgo has swept
into office. There's a big blue wave. It's very organized.
It was digital online, so it was high tech what
I would call an air war and low tech what
I would call a ground war, with lots of door
(11:22):
knocking and getting people to the polls. And in Harris County,
Lena Hidalgo was swept into office. And what's interesting about
this is that Hidalgo was up for reelection in twenty
twenty two and we beat her. Alex Meeler beat her,
but they didn't send ballots on election day because our
(11:44):
people love to sandbag and not wait till the end,
and they'll tell me. That's because if I wait till
the end, Michael, they don't know how many votes to cheat.
So if I vote right before the end, they don't.
They don't put enough cheap votes in there. Okay, So
our people waited in the West side, which Mieler would
(12:04):
have won well over ninety percent of ended up dozens
of thousands of votes short. So when the people called
in and said, hey, we don't have any ballots out here,
we got we got miles of people in line. Cliff Tatum,
the election administrator, who had been brought here by Rodney
from DC for this very moment and this very purpose,
(12:24):
said we'll get you some ballots out there. And they
kept promising to get ballots out there, and they didn't,
and so the people couldn't vote if they didn't have ballots.
So Lena wins the election. There's other fraud, verifiable fraud,
and nobody would stand up and say anything about it.
Meeler did, but nobody else would. So we begged Greg
(12:46):
Abbott to have his Secretary of State Jane Nelson, do something,
and you know what, they did nothing. If Meeler had
been the county judge today, we wouldn't have to worry
about fraud in this election, and she would have been
the county judge, but abit didn't want to help anybody else.
(13:09):
So imagine my surprise when a few months ago Greg
Abbott jumps up and says, we're going to put our
efforts into Harris County at voter an election integrity. Wait what, Oh,
that's right. You're on the ballot in a close race
or what could potentially be a close race, especially come November.
(13:29):
Oh so now you care? Got it? So Rodney started
this black girl magic thing. It's been talked about by
NPR and it's become there's a whole movement behind it.
There's a cachine something that's and the idea is it's
supposedly a TikTok theme, and that is black girls have
(13:50):
a strength and a wisdom that nobody realizes in black
girl magic. So there has been this push by Rodney
to get black women on the bench. And he owns
the Harris County Civil and Civil Court especially bench, and
since twenty twenty he has had six campaigns where he
(14:11):
targeted not Republicans, white Democrats. He is six of six
with black women. Some of these black women have never
practiced law, before and he gets them elected, because how
would the public know? And the way he does it
is that he has started pushing voter turnout legal or illegal,
(14:36):
I don't know. I haven't checked. He started pushing voter
turnout and just pulling the votes out of communities where
he knows he can win. He's got a slate. There's
the sorrows, support the whole thing. They targeted five white
Democrats this election cycle. This is him targeting White's Democrats.
(14:59):
So the taller Rico crocket. This weekend, I was making
a list of things about people that if I learned
that one fact, I know, it's probably a good person,
because everybody I've known that fits into that is a
good person, right. And one of them was the husband
(15:23):
and wife cut each other's hair. It's a country thing, ormo.
And so I was thinking about all the things in
my life that if I have known someone who I
just know that one thing I know, that's a solid
(15:44):
good person. And most of them are country things stuff
I grew up with. But people who can their own preserves,
that's never going to be a bad person, that's always
going to be a good person, always going to be
a good person, wrote the whole thing, and I posted
it to Facebook and I did something wrong and it
didn't post it. I was bummed out. Another one that
(16:05):
was Ham Radio operators. It's kind of a very Bob's
Troop thing, right. You get these real nerdy technical guys
that may or may not have an engineering degree, mostly don't.
They might have been. They might have done mechanical drawings
or design for an oil company or a c NC
(16:28):
shop or whatever. People that reload their own shells, that's
always a big one. People that do their own stuff
around the house, like Paul. You don't see people arrested
who for committing terrible crimes who keep their own garden.
(16:53):
It's just it's a whole different personality type value system
the whole thing. By the way, I got an email
from Bobby Crump and he said that, he said, I
know Paul. He lives in our neighborhood. He I can't
find an email. I must have deleted it.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
He is the neighborhood garden club president. They've got a
neighborhood garden club. I mean, you think about you've got
boys in the hood, you know, gang bangers, awful monstrous people,
(17:31):
and then you've got the quote unquote neighborhood garden club
out in Dobbin. It's two different worlds, right, And so
somebody that moves out of the gang banging boys in
the hood, loud music, illegal aliens, welfare queens, slip and falls,
and moves into that Dobbin garden club community. I mean,
(17:57):
just if you could, if you could take the BLA
bood pressure readings a week apart, what a difference it is.
And then there are people that move from a crowded
urban environment, so it's all they've ever known and all
they know that there is to know where You've got
noise pollution, which I think is horrible for your for
(18:19):
your your yourtret, your stress, and your blood pressure. So
you've got noise, everything is louder. There's honking and cars
and revving and machinery and everything else music and it's
all very loud, and it it sometimes you could your
your brain can learn to push it to the back,
(18:41):
but your your brain is still having to process that,
and it's horrible for you. It's terrible. I think it
creates a level of confusion. I'm not exactly. I'm not
certain that that isn't a contributed to Parkincers Parkings, I
mean to Alzheimer's, but another subject another day. So you
(19:01):
got that, and then that person, and that's all that
person's ever known. And then maybe their spouse is from
the country and they move out to the country, and
all of a sudden, it's like an addict. You know,
they need their fix. They're used to being so overstimulated
that what they perceive as boring, they perceive they're not
(19:26):
alive because you're not in constant defense mode. And that
defense mode is a release of adrenaline, and that adrenaline
is constant because your body is in fight or flight
mode constantly, because there are continuous what is a perception
(19:49):
of threats, whether you realize it or not. Traffic, congestion, crowds, noise,
all of these things tell your brain, which just that
brain is the same brain we've had for thousands of years,
tells your brain that to be on the lookout, and
so it becomes second nature. It's habitual as a behavior
(20:12):
such that you don't even realize that you're doing it,
but you're never able to truly relax. And this is
why these people love to go on a vacation to
a Mexican beach or the mountains or some very slow,
very quiet place, and they think that it's the place
(20:37):
that's special. It's not. It's getting out of the over
stimulated mode and world that you live in with so
much traffic, noise, traffic, noise, congestion, people, congestion and all
of that. And some people when they move out to
I've had people tell me they don't know if they
(20:57):
can stay out there because it's boring, there's not enough
to do. And it's not their fault. They have grown,
whether they realize it or not. They've grown addicted to
all the things that are so bad for you that
they wanted to get away from. But it's sort of
like people that seek out abusive relationships. You see these cases.
(21:22):
It's usually women, but I've seen men that do it too,
that like to fight. There's a comedian named Taylor Tomlinson
and she's done four Netflix specials, and in about number
two or number three, she talks about how she was
toxic in relationships because she would get bored. She didn't
(21:42):
know how to communicate with a boyfriend, so she would
just fight, and she would create situations that would cause
a fight, so there would be a fight and one
of them she gave was and this is always dangerous
when women come up with the stuff, because there's nothing
good to come. And she says, Babe, they're watching a
movie or whatever they do the either worsemen. Babe, this
(22:03):
is her talking. If you found out we were cousins,
would you leave me? Well, now he can't win, and
so he decides the best answer is yes, because then
at least you won't think he's creepy. And so she
decides that that's the wrong answer, and she creates a fight,
(22:24):
and she goes through how this whole thing escalates, and
you find out that there are people like this who
they cray. It sounds crazy, but they crave conflict and
discomfort and unpleasantness. And that's why the economists have such
(22:47):
a better use of how we make decisions. They have
such better vocabulary because rather than saying that someone likes this,
the economists will say they derive you till and when
you you understand someone derives utility, you begin to understand
sadism or masochism, or sell other self defeating behaviors, self
(23:12):
cutting adrenaline junkies that are risking their lives. And then
you begin to understand that it's it may not always
seem like it's what makes you happy, but it's what
gives you utility, it's what you seek out. It's it's
where you choose to spend your time, whether you realize
it or not. And that's why these people who are
(23:33):
always in toxic relationships, not just their boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife, whatever,
they have toxic relationships with everybody. You start to notice
they're the common denominator. That's actually whether they realize or
that's what they want, that's where they're happy. It's the
Michael Barry shows. The band, they only released one album.
(23:55):
This was This was their hit. The album is called Albazaar.
The song is Albazar and they have just it was
a bliph on the map. I think it's such a
cool song. But the name of the band is uh OMC,
which stood for Otara Millionaires Club. And that was the
joke because it was meant to be like they had
(24:18):
like redneck country club, you know, they have a club
for millionaires because they were poor Kiwi's from New Zealand,
and so it was meant to be like, look at us,
we're very exclusive. But that was that was the joke. Anyway, Well,
I'll get to that in a minute. It being election
(24:42):
day and all, it's always good to remember the importance
of the way our system works. And I am I'm
such a deep Pollyanna believer of self governance that I
(25:09):
if you knew my true views about it, you would
think that they're almost childlike. And maybe they are. And
I understand they sound naive or Pollyanna or downright silly,
but I am a deep believer. And maybe that's because
(25:32):
I'm a student of human history. And most of human
history is for ninety nine percent of the population. It's
actually greater than that is privation and misery, suffering and
sickness and penury. And so you've got the overlay of
(25:55):
capitalism with a self determinative political sism. Now I can
already anticipate what someone is going to say, since rig
with a rig trust me, I can go visit my
dad as soon as we're off, I can hear that.
I know. I know what you're thinking, and it is
an It's an imperfect system. There is no doubt you won't.
(26:20):
You're not smarter than me or more worldly for saying that.
I don't think it's imperfect. I've spent more time around
politics than most people. I am well aware of how
imperfect it is. But that's the beauty of the next election.
That's what I love about it. Hope springs eternal. It's funny.
(26:42):
I was at a end of life celebration a week
or two ago and Jim Crane was there, and as
we're walking out, people were obviously everyone missed the person
who was there, but it was something to have something
positive to talk about. People hope that the newness, the
freshness of how fitting in spring. We got a new
(27:03):
ball club, we got a new team. So even if
you were a Pittsburgh Pirates fan during those worst years,
you could at least hope that maybe this year would
be better. There's something about that, the rebirth of the earth,
and you see it around you, the flowers beginning to
(27:23):
come up and the birds chirping, and the sun coming out.
I'm not a big sun guy, but I understand for
most people that's psychologically a big deal. It's this thing.
You have a new opportunity. And I know it might
sound silly, and it might sound like something you wouldn't
expect me to hear me say, but understand my position.
(27:46):
I love our process. I love it. I believe in it,
and anyone who doesn't can't show me a better system,
unless you want to say a benevolent dictatorship. People love
to say that because they think it's cute, go living one.
But I genuinely, on the deepest, nerdiest level, am thrilled
(28:11):
and excited that every single human being gets a vote
in our process. Oh but there's cheating mine. Okay, if
it's an imperfect process, but the fact that we can
point out the imperfections means that we started with something beautiful.
(28:35):
If you're starving, you don't complain about whether the bread
is buttered or not. You're thrilled to get something to eat.
The point at which we can quibble over this, and
that is the point at which something is working. We
have to protect that, We have to ensure that, and
that's not self fulfilling. In most of the world, that's
(28:58):
not happening. You know, you look at it on for
a moment and you think how much the people there,
I think, more than anything else, they want to be
from out from under the yoke of oppressive Islamic governance.
(29:19):
We can use the word radical because we don't want
to offend the people who are just who are just
not Pakistani, just Muslim. But if you look at a
country like Pakistan, which would never be called radical Islam,
(29:41):
people don't choose to live there if they have the
option to live here, unless they're older and they feel
more comfortable besides the sounds, the smell that or the food,
the ease of movement, the not being in a different land.
But people don't retire in places like that for a reason.
(30:02):
It's unpleasant, it's oppressive, it is tenuous, shall we say.
But I just wanted to say this might sound odd
to hear coming from me. This is a beautiful day
and a beautiful thing that we get to choose. And
I don't push people to vote, especially not in the primary.
(30:25):
If you're not sure who you want to vote for,
stay home. I'm okay with that. I don't believe that
everybody needs to vote. You end up with people voting
and they're looking at the names and they don't know
who these people are. Why do we want that? Why
is that a good thing? In November, we can say
show up vote Republican and they will or they won't.
But why do you you want somebody voting for Corning
because that's the only name they recognize.
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