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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's that time.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Time time, time, Luck and load. The Michael Verie Show
is on the air. This Mark is our guest.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
We're going to talk about how to reach him, how
to learn more about his positions. And by the way, folks,
I've always said, in twenty years of doing this, I
have always said, I am never going to tell you
or try to tell you. I wouldn't be so immodestous
to believe that I could tell you anything that you'd
do anyway. But I'm never going to tell you what
to think. I'm only going to ask that you think.
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And if you're getting your opinion by the same people
who told you to take the COVID shot, the same
people who told you that Joe Biden was perfectly lucid.
Are the same people that told you that Kamala Harris
was sober? Or the same people who we can go
on and on. I play this game forever.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
If that's the.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Case, at least at least seeks some alternate positions. Because
you said something when I said, you said that you're
not a climate change denier, that you consider yourself lukewarm,
I'm going to make a statement I don't know you,
and it is intended to be a touch provocative, But
that doesn't mean I don't believe it. I think that
a lot of people I won't speak for you, even
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who've studied the science. It's sort of like why people
are agnostic instead of atheistic.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I think that a lot of.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
People don't want to say it's all bunk, it's all
a hoax, because then they will be marginalized even if
they believe that. Is that a fair thing to say?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Yeah, I think it's an accurate characteristic of it. There's
a well organized effort we're in the scientific community to
sensor people who cast out on their religion, their orthodoxy.
And while I firmly am not of the opinion that
it's all a hoax, I think a lot of the
policies and well, I wouldn't even say a hoax would
be an accurate description. I would call it more so
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a scam. That's a more that's more of an accurate
attitude to describe this entire thing. Now, I wouldn't say
that the science isn't necessarily a scam, because there's a
legitimate basis to it, and I firmly in an agreement
with that point and off the record, but a lot
of the policies, these green energy policies could very well,
I would very much agree, be characterized as a scam
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because they're not going to make our standard living better.
But as far as the scientific side of things go,
we need even questioned just a little bit of their narrative.
With a lot of these scientists, these high priests of
climate science, it's the Church of chromatology, as Secretary of
Chris Wright Like Energy Secretary of Chris Like described it
on CNN to Caplin Collins last week. Again, this goes
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back to what we were talking about before. When we
decided to put Congress in charge of allocating and apportioning
money to scientists to study this issue. We put policy
goals as the UH desire, policy goals as really what's
in charge of determining new scientific results. And so we
have a whole army of science that's at universities and
in the government who their careers depend on getting that
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funding and if their research comes up empty on there
being a quote unquote climate crisis, well, their livelihoods the
right stake. And people like me who have no stakes
in this game because I'm not in a university and
I'm not lying not any longer because i just graduated
with my Bachelors of Science degree in atmospheric science, but
because I'm not a government employee, because I'm not an academic,
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I have those stakes, financial stakes in this game. And
people like me, other meteriologists like me that are out
there speaking truth about this and being honest about it,
we put their careers on the line, other careers on
the line, and it makes them angry because we are
spilling the beans and upsets them because that could you know,
they could lose their funding if if a new administration,
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the current administration needs a lot of this stuff to
be focused.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I think that's fair.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I'm just always disturbed when there are subjects about which
we're not supposed to talk or question the narrative. I'm
always uncomfortable when there needs to be a universality of agreement.
I don't think there's universality of agreement or complete consensus
as to color the color of the sky, much less
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the best birth control, whether the Pfizer shot worked, whether
global warming is a hope. And it's this idea that
if you so much as ask about it, it's a
Salem witch trial. You know, you need to be buried
at the state. And I find that to be like
an ad hominem attack. When someone is debating you, it's
a sign of great weakness and unsteady ground that they're on.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Absolutely, it's about I'm thinking, Sam, I mean, I cannot
be question is not science. It's propaganda. And that's the
words of Aaron Aaron Rodgers. And I think that anybody
should be able to question anything. And that's that's the value.
That's the value, the beauty of the First Amendment, which
guarantees the right to freedom of speech in this country.
And and that's an important aspect of science. Science is
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not science is never in the history of human civilization.
Science is never advanced by experts. And I use that
term lightly. Of course. Science is never advanced by people
throwing their hands up in the air and agreeing with
each other. Science always advances when somebody comes forth with
new information that challenges the status quo, and people like uh,
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you know, Galileo and people other people to hick. The
guy that proposed I don't know his name, but the
guy that pros the idea of washing your hands to
prevent material affections and stuff like that, he was She
was shown by the community for decades and he ended
up being right, So science.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Always and he reduced he reduced surgery about like ninety
nine percent.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
It was such a simple thing.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Yeah, absolutely, yeah. And when you when you redd when
you cannot question that, and that becomes that becomes a problem.
And there's been an organ effort, especially within the climate
community and then obviously not my realm of knowledge, but
the medical community. We saw this with COVID. There were
very striking parallels between the censorship that went on during
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the pandemic and the censorship that is going that had
been going off with climate for decades. And there's a
big political agenda behind a lot of this. It's about
control and power and the scientists who are perpetuating these ideologies,
their careers, their their their money, their salaries, their their research,
all of it depends on government funding and it's and
and they they're part of this system. Whether or not
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they uh want, whether or not they actually want to
be a part of it or not for that purpose,
is definitely a debate to be had. There's probably a
lot of people in there who really want to be
honest about it, but if they were to speak out, uh,
their careers are over, and so we've created this conversation.
Revn having on the conversation, we've created a dialogue that's toxic,
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and it's been very detrimental to the progress of science,
and it pretty much a violation of, you know, our
fundamental freedoms we have in this country that we cherish.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I think the thing that bothers me most most, Chris
Marts is our guest. I think the thing that bothers
me most is is not just that journalists who should
be fact seekers truth tellers to the extent that they
can find it, which means after investigation. It's not just
that they try to marginalize and in some cases destroy
the careers of people who simply raise questions.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
It's that people do it in the name.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Of science that I find downright blasphemous, because while I'm
not a scientist, purely and simply, the scientific method and
the means by which we advance civilization means questioning everything.
And you know that there were there were great scientists
who were burned at the stake, or those who had
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to change their opinion at the last moment.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
To avoid it. Galileo among them, Newton among them.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Descartes and and and that's that level of courage, bravery
and willingness to challenge is how society advances to where
we are today. Our guest is Chris Marts. Hopefully he'll
stay with us for one more second thing.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
You you, Michael Barry, you are to ring the King's English.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Chris Marts is our guest. M A R t Z.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I found him on Twitter. It's not it's not all bad.
Social media is not all bad. I follow people who
pop up in my threads saying something interesting. I go
figure out, who is this person? What else have they written?
Is it consistent? Who's paying their bills? Who are they,
you know, trying to cozy up to? And I was
very very interested in what this fellow had to say.
(08:50):
I want to get into who you are in just
a moment. But you had a tweet it was actually uh.
It says, then why does the co two level increase
year after year? I know why, But none of you
wants to address the elephant in the room because you're
too afraid to criticize the CCP.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
This is a discussion that should be.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Had more often, and isn't I would love for you
to speak to that.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Yeah, so that goes This is actually all I posted
this morning on Twitter or ex or whatever you want
to call it. And when we talk about carbon dioxide,
now let's just hypothetically, And again it's not what I
This is not what I think. This is just simply
we're just going to play Devil's advocate here for those
for their listening. If carbon dioxide, you know, obviously, and
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I agree, it's a greenhouse gas, all us being equal
calls is warming when you put in an atmosphere. But if
it's really this, if it really is a detrimental to
the state of human welfare, if it's going to cause
the planet to overheat rapidly to the point it's going
to threaten human civilization. If if we are to believe
that CO two is underpinning this allegic climate crisis, then
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we need to look at where the largest source of
the emissions are coming from. And most western countries, the
United States included, have been reducing their carbon dioxide emissions
steadily over the last thirty years, but places of countries
like China and India have increased theirs, and it goes
up exponentially each year, and a lot of people will
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claim oh, well, China, you know, they're building more solar
power than the rest of the world, but they're also
building more coal fire power plants. That doesn't matter how many.
And they bought more than the rest of the will
combined on the on the cold power power plant front,
so it doesn't matter how much solar they add to
the grid. And they also built a lot of fler
that they then ship to their countries for They've built
a lot of solar panels over there, But until the
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coal plants come offline, then the CO two level emissions
there are not going to is not going to are
not going to fall, They're going to keep going up.
But a lot of climate activists really really like to
give China a free pass in India, free pass because
they are quote unquote the world's factory. They manufacture a
lot of our goods. Now, the United States has increased production,
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actually our GDPs increase significantly since two thousand and five,
so we're still a really big manufacturer, but we still
import a lot of goods from China, and a lot
of countries in the United States to an extent, have
actually exploited a lot of their manufacturing to China and
it's helped make manufacturing elsewhere non competitive. It's part of
their political agenda to see control over industry, and this
is coming primarily from obviously the left. They want to
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control You can control energy, you can control industry, you
can control people. Se if you drive it out of
the United States, it allows them to control people here
more and more willingly, more more forcially rather and so
this is there's a striking parallel between people that support
the climate crisis narratives and people who have a more
left wing political ideology, and so they look at it
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for these political lenses, and so they don't want to
criticize the CCP or they really maybe want to even
cozy up to them because they don't want to They
don't want to take they don't want to talk about
producing emissions in China, which is really driving up the
certain carbon dioxide concentration now because other countries have decarbonized.
And so their refusal to actually criticize China just goes
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to say that their entire movement really the bottom line here,
that it's political, it's not based in scientific fact.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Well, and I would argue.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
My wife's from India and she grew up there, went
to college there, and her family were all in the
Indian military, and I've spent a lot of time talking
and they were very high up in the Indian military
about relations with China and how sophisticated China is and
how they can be both insidious in the things they
will do and a long term effect and you know,
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the kind of dynastic control they have allows them to
take the long view because they don't have an election
coming up. But I see a lot of external influence,
particularly coming from China, on American NGOs and activists and
universities and grants and politicians. And the argument is always
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that America is burning the earth up, America's polluting the earth. Statistically,
that's not true. But not only that, I think there
is a motive behind this, and I think it is
terribly sinister, and that to me, is far more disturbing
than the lie they're telling.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Yes, I would agree with I would agree with that wholeheartedly.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
It affects science and that should never be the case.
You know, you mentioned medicine earlier, and I wouldn't want
it to be the case that if I'm having a
heart attack, they didn't give me the treatment that would
save my life if some external country was paying to
prevent that treatment because they wanted to dominate that treatment.
Energy is at the core of everything we do. You
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can look at how the Germans bogged down in Russia
and because they ran out of gas in their tanks,
and how that affected the bullets and the luftwaft and
the soldiers and the training and the tanks. I mean,
energy is at the very core of our national security.
So this strikes me to be an issue far bigger
than perhaps we're giving it the attention that it deserves.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Well, absolutely, I mean everything, as you said, everything we
do requires energy. And if you can control energy, if
you can have a monopoly on that, then you can
control people who can control their behaviors, you can control
you know, everything that they can they can can you
control their consumption And this is what this is largely
what a lot of the climate cult movement is about.
And a lot of the you know has been there's
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a lot of influence from the Chinese government on on
that around the world, not just the United States, but
there are in Europe and then elsewhere, and the people,
the people at universities really have this ideology and it
just seems to originate uh in academia, that that the
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United States is to blame for all the world's problems
that we have. And yet you know, in case of
in the case of the environment, you look at the
actual data on that most of the plastic pollution comes
from Asia, and you know most of it again, most
of the emissions CO two And now I don't think
CO two is a pollute and the top necessary for
life on Earth through the means of photosynthesis, but a
lot of that you know, if you if you want,
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if you want to claim with the pollutant, then you
know they look commit further than than China, and a
lot of there are a lot of people this is
another interesting point when it comes to the you see
two emissions, a lot of people on the left will
add it well built, we'll we'll slay in the United States.
And they say, well, yeah, China has higher emissions in total,
but the United States has more emissions per capita. And
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I say it's amidst more per person. And that's true
because a lot of China's are industrial based. But the
atmosphere for about climate, well, the Earth's atmosphere or the temperature,
which is a function of radiation balance. That doesn't care
about per capita, which you know, who admits the most
per person. That cared about which country or who's emitting
the most in total, and that's going to be of
course to China, if per capita emissions actually matter to
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these people were screaming up Bahrain and Palal and Kuwait
because they emit by far more emissions per capita than
the United States. But they don't scream their heads off
at them because in reality the countries are very small,
but they have higher per capital. But the UN I
think it doesn't admit even you guys think really gets
into the top fifteen emissions per capital. Actually Australia and Canada,
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which are highly industrialized economies, more per capital of the
United States. So they just want to dunk on the
United States. They hate the West and they want to
bring down our civilization and they want to control energy.
They want to make manufacturing and capitally when they want
to make manufacturing United States and non competitive so that
they can control people.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
That very finister is the ungarnished truth.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Chris Marts, You're awesome, thank you for making time for us.
I hope we can have you back again and again
and again. You're fantastic.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Absolutely thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Listen to the Michael Berry Show podcast if you dare.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Kimily Pool is a history teacher who posts on social
media as two Pool for school. She posted this video
where she called income the inco They call them indigenous people,
but they weren't the first people here either. There were
people here before them. She called their child sacrifices. They
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took children and sacrificed them to the quote unquote gods.
She called those sacrifices kind and voluntary. This is part
of the rewriting of history that white people are bad
and non white people are all good, even when they're
killing children supposedly as an offering to God. And you
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white people, y'all just don't understand how these people are really,
really nice while they're doing this.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
I will die on this all.
Speaker 7 (17:40):
I'm specifically talking about the Indi here.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
We're not talking about the Shika.
Speaker 7 (17:43):
That's a whole separate type of sacrifice. If we're just
looking at to want to ensue you, the Ketchua people,
the Incan Empire, they practice sacrifices like most other civilizations
throughout history did in times of crisis. So famine, natural disasters.
But the unique thing about the ketchua is that when
you're looking at like the Inco civilization, you essentially have
the elites and then you have everyone else. Sacrifices were
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volunteers from the elite class because they believed that the
elites were closer to the gods and could therefore appease
them better. Also, in terms of sacrifice, they were kind
about it. Hear me out, because unlike the mashika, when
you're like ripping out a still beating heart out of
someone's chest, the Inca would intentionally use coca leaves and
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would use chicha and would drug up the sacrifice and
then leave them on a mountain, a cold chili mountain,
to be exposed to the elements, which, if you're good,
a volunteer sacrifice where you're heavily drugged before you die. Also,
I mean, I can equate human sacrifice throughout history to
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so many things. And I think the fact that a
lot of people are commenting, oh, what the sacrifice is
again indicative of the fact that you have received a
quite white education, because you are knowing them for the
bad things that they have done, and not all of
the wonders that they accomplished.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
So I hope that.
Speaker 7 (19:14):
This maybe helps you understand a different part my most
favorite civilization.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
Of all time, the INCA.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
This has nothing to do with politics, and I know
most of you like us to mostly stick to politics.
But Jayleno, I always thought Jay Leno was a nice guy.
I didn't think he was a great host, but he
was a nice guy, decent fellow, and I like his
love of cars. He was on Club Random with Bill Maher,
who's a goof, when he told a story about an
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encounter with a member of the mafia at one of
his shows. He then went on to tell how the
mafia once had a hit out on Johnny Carson. I
don't know if this is true or not, but Ramon
loves Johnny Carson and I found this story and I
thought it was interesting and just give it a little,
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just give it some thought.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
For no good reason.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
I remember years ago, I was a catcher rizing star
and I was on stage and this guy, a mob guy,
comes up to me. Afterwards, he goes, hey, you're funny kid.
Funny kid, but he takes one hundred dollars he puts
in my pocket. Really, really, you're funny Katie. But I said, oh,
thank I said, look, I don't mean any disrespect, but
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you know, give it to the church.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Or or something.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
I said, no, I'm okay, but thank you. I don't
want you to I'm not being I appreciate. I'm okay,
he says. I mean, no, you're a smart kid. You
don't take money from people like me. That's smart. And
nobody ever bothered me again. Nobody ever bothered me again.
I saw the mob kick the crap out of comics
left and right. What yeah, really, Well one person we
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know who was on stage.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Was he Italian?
Speaker 4 (21:00):
No?
Speaker 6 (21:01):
No?
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Yes, yes he was, yeah, yeah, he was an Italian name.
Speaker 8 (21:04):
Yes, anyway, and just beats the crap at him because
he was being a wise ass on stage, you know,
the to them.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Yeah, that kind of suff not good. You know that
happened to Carson. You know Carson got beat him.
Speaker 8 (21:21):
Well, Carson went to Gilli's one night with Bushkin, a lawyer, Yeah,
and have drinks out and they start hitting on these
two girls kind of rudely. Turns out their mob oh
moles girlfriends. So they threatened they put a hit out
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on Carson. So Carson stops the tie show for the week.
He just goes, he leaves because this is real. And
then at the time they had remember Joey Colombo, the
guy he had that that whole Italian Civil rights saing Gordon.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Of course, well they had the Italians. He had the
Italian Saint.
Speaker 8 (22:08):
John VC Parade, which was sponsored by the Five Families.
So nobody in New York would cover it. So Joey
Colombo went to NBC and said, if you cover the
Italian parade, will pull a hit on Carson. And they did.
They ordered never I certainly did not. You gotta get out.
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You know, he's smoking too much stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
You got to get out. And some of the real
people are doing I bring people in here and then
they tell me, yeah, yeah, but yeah, that's that's true.
And that was and that was for real.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
There's a comedian named Jannie Pappas, same last name as
a friend of mine, Jimmy Pappas. He is the mayor
in Houston of a real fancy hamlet of homes. Rich
people live there and is called Hedwig. Was called Headwig
Point Crossing Valley, I think is the name of his
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little town that he's the mayor but he has the
same last name as comedian Yannis Pappas, who has a
funny bit which I wanted to share with you about
the difference between liberals and conservatives.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
It's a Republican word property.
Speaker 9 (23:25):
Liberals got different words like rent, that's a big one, rent, landward.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
They measure things in square footage.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Republicans got acres.
Speaker 9 (23:39):
And property, and they want everything off, away, away.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
That's the difference between liberals and conservatives.
Speaker 9 (23:47):
Conservatives want things away less, get it away, government, get away,
get away from the house, away away migrants.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
Put them in a catapult, shoot.
Speaker 9 (23:57):
Him right over the wall. Them away from my property,
stay away from a property. The liberals want everything in
more more government. We should all work for the government.
My house should be a government building. We should all
be government employees. It's never enough government. Migrants come live
in my house. I'll hide you in the basement and
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give you papers.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Whatever you need.
Speaker 9 (24:22):
Criminal robbing me on the street. But how has society
failed you? That's the bigger question. The Republicans are like,
don't tread on me. Liberals are like, tread on me,
tread all over my want you to treay to tread.
Speaker 10 (24:39):
On my, tread on my house and tread on I
try tread all over me, trading and keep treading on me. Michael,
do I have a story for you.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
My brother in law murdered too Native Americans.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
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Speaker 4 (25:23):
Yep.
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Speaker 6 (25:26):
Help you today?
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I can't reboot my computer because it don't turn on.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
That's too bad.
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full of rattlesnakes.
Speaker 6 (25:46):
Let me ask you something.
Speaker 11 (25:47):
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Well yes I do, Yep, I knew it. You're PC
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Can I help you?
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Do you expect me to believe you? Her name is Sunny?
Speaker 6 (26:20):
Do you think I'm stupid?
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you're a demmy, but you're a man as sharp as
a bowl full of mashed potatoes.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
Hello, sir, sir?
Speaker 10 (26:39):
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Speaker 4 (26:39):
Sir? Hello?
Speaker 6 (26:41):
You not said they're not a town.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Have you ever wondered why so many Indians own hotels?
There's a site, there's a commentator called Social Media Money
that tells the story of how the Patel family, I
know lots of Patel's, has come to own seventy nine
percent of the motels in America. Now, this is not
a knock on Indians, not even a knock on immigrants
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come here legally, this is a sort of statement as
to what happens when you work hard and invest. Now,
I don't like the fact, even though my wife is Indian,
that Disney replaced American workers with Indians. I don't like
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the replacement of American workers with people who come to
this country on special new visas for the sole purpose
of working less, sorry, working for less and for longer
hours to save money for that corporation. That is the
replacement theory. In practice, I do think there has to
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be immigration reform, even as it relates to H one
B visas and the like, but it is also the
case that we need to encourage entrepreneurism, thrift and sacrifice
in this country. I'm not where Vivek and Elon were
on this belief that we need to send more visas
to India because they come here and work harder.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
No, there are plenty of hard working Americans.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
But I think that when you see whether it's the
ishmails which is an offshoot of Islam, or the Hindus,
the Patels from Gudrat or Punjabi's for that matter, the Sikhs,
these communities who encourage entrepreneurism with micro loans and mentoring
have seen massive success. Ramon.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
What was a woman's name, Tippy Heedron, who.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Got her nails done in California by she brought her
nail her nails lady to visit the refugees who had
come from Vietnam to California. She went to the refugee
camp and the Vietnamese women saw her getting her nails
done because she flew private and had her own nail person,
and they wanted to learn to do nails. So Tippy
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Hedron paid to have her nail lady teaches Vietnamese women
how to do nails, and fifty years later, the Vietnamese
dominate the nail business because they bought shops. Sometimes they
lived in the back. They made sacrifice. The whole family
worked there, and they invested in it, and then they
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funded other people and they built these sort of incubators
of entrepreneurism and it's a glorious thing. Anyway, here is
a story of how the Gudrathi people, they're from the
state of Gudrath. Bombay is not in Gudrath. I don't
say Mumbai. I still say Bombay. Bombay is not in Gudrath.
But the Gudrathis left their state and went to Bombay.
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So you'll hear a person who is from Bombay or
if they say Mumbai now whatever, but they'll refer to
themselves as Gudrati and that means they're from the state
of Gudrath. Gudrathis are known by Indian immigrants somewhat pejoratively
as good Jews, and they are compared to Jews in
this country and that they are very financially successful. They're
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very entrepreneurial. There are other communities like this and other
terms that different communities will have for each other, but
one cannot deny the success they have enjoyed in this country.
Speaker 12 (30:23):
Seventy percent of the motels in the country are under
Patel ownership.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
What happened was a small number.
Speaker 12 (30:29):
Of Patels came into the United States in the early
seventy the refugees. They realized that if we buy a
really small motel ten twelve fourteen room motel, the family
can live in one or two rooms and the family
can do all the work.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
It's a job in a house together.
Speaker 12 (30:45):
Yeah, So basically cleaning front desks, laundry, and because they
had no costs they were able to charge ninety rates
that were lower than all the neighboring motels. So what
would happen is the Patel owned motel would be running
a hundred percent occupancy. The other motels couldn't match that
rate because they didn't lose money. And as their nephew
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came of age, they would help them out to buy
his own motel, and then the nephew would get at going,
and then the next one, the next one. You run
this for fifty years and they've actually gone up market now.
So a lot of the Hilton's Marriot's Westerns, if you
really look, you'll find it's under hotel ownership. And then
they went into seven level.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Judy Burr is an elderly lady living in Los Angeles.
I saw a video of Judy. She's in her eighties
and she has been asking the city of Los Angeles
to fix the dangerous sidewalk out in front of her
home since she was seventy seven years old years ago.
The city won't do it, and she could fall and
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hurt herself. This is a great example. It might seem silly,
right in the grand scheme of things, It's not war
in Ukraine or bombing Iran or protest. But this is
a great example of government gone wrong, because when you're
spending all your time on global warming and cutting little
boys waners off, you don't function and provide the core
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services you are expected to provide, police, fire, water, trash
pickup roads is a great example. This is ABC seven
in Los Angeles, but there are literally millions of these
stories across the country. The failure to function of government,
the failure to provide their core services that they should
be provided Christmas present.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
It would be a.
Speaker 6 (32:32):
Christmas present in this fixed well.
Speaker 13 (32:34):
Getting this sidewalk fixed in front of her home has
been eighty five year old Judy bars wishless for eight years.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
Now, and neither Santa nor the city have delivered.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
I don't want to fall, so I say, you know,
let's go this way where there's no holes.
Speaker 6 (32:52):
Judy steves like she's pretty independent and pretty spunky.
Speaker 11 (32:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
I worried, are you that she will try to walk
down there?
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Very big.
Speaker 13 (32:59):
Interior designer Holly Westoff was hired by Judy eight years ago.
Speaker 6 (33:03):
Hollywood's concerned these cracks could really hurt her client.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
It's not safe for anybody, but it's especially a hazard
for someone like Judy.
Speaker 13 (33:11):
So eight years ago, Holly filed the complaint with three
one one to get this all fixed. All the way
back on June twenty seventh of twenty seventeen, Holly got
this email from the city saying her request has been
found eligible and our wait time is approximately six months
to initiate sidewalk repair.
Speaker 6 (33:28):
And then six months goes by and we heard nothing.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
And then you know, cut to COVID happens, and then
that's the excuse for why it isn't fixed.
Speaker 6 (33:38):
But eight years it's nuts
Speaker 1 (33:41):
As nice for thank you and good night.