Trademarking homophobic insults (05-24-2024--Hour3)

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[00:00:29] I have a brilliant idea that I totally stole from somebody else.

[00:00:32] I'm going to trademark a personal insult.

[00:00:36] I didn't even know you could do it, but I'm going to do it.

[00:00:39] I'll tell you what it is in a minute.

[00:00:42] Let me talk to Barbara here.

[00:00:44] She's calling about the topic from the last hour about UCLA's med school.

[00:00:48] Hello, Barbara.

[00:00:49] Welcome to the program.

[00:00:50] How are you?

[00:00:51] Hi, good.

[00:00:52] I just wanted to comment.

[00:00:53] My husband went to Duke Medical School in the 1980s and he noticed before diversity

[00:01:01] was a thing that he graduated with a class of about 100 people.

[00:01:09] And he commented like 40 some years ago, the only students who weren't able to complete

[00:01:15] the four-year medical school were the minorities.

[00:01:21] And he felt like they had been let in just because Duke wanted to do the right thing.

[00:01:26] And then they couldn't pass.

[00:01:30] And they couldn't pass.

[00:01:31] But Duke is a little bit different than any other medical school.

[00:01:37] The first year is academics and the second year and the fourth year are clinical.

[00:01:43] And the third year, all Duke medical students are required to do research.

[00:01:47] So the first year is very, very heavy because they're cramming two years of academics into

[00:01:53] one year.

[00:01:58] He was friends with a few different minorities and he tried to help them get through and

[00:02:07] they just couldn't do it.

[00:02:08] So my husband just felt like it was an injustice to let them in and then they weren't able

[00:02:14] to get through it.

[00:02:16] That is one of the downsides that people don't ever talk about, which is when you admit people

[00:02:20] very easily into a program and then they pay money to go through the program and then they

[00:02:25] can't finish the program, they are now almost worse off for it because they've spent all

[00:02:30] this money and they don't have the degree that they signed up for.

[00:02:34] And now you've put them further behind.

[00:02:37] Barbara, I appreciate the call.

[00:02:38] Thank you very much.

[00:02:39] Have a great weekend.

[00:02:40] And look, anybody who talks about this subject, I understand like this is a controversial subject.

[00:02:46] There are people that have lost their jobs for doing research in any related kind of

[00:02:53] a field like this.

[00:02:54] Literally, professors and stuff and researchers been kicked out when they start going down

[00:03:00] these paths and they're accused of all sorts of things.

[00:03:03] But the data doesn't lie.

[00:03:07] And then this gets to what a lot of the social activists, social justice activists will say

[00:03:11] is, well, that's the quote, institutional racism at play.

[00:03:14] And all the only reason why you're seeing that manifest in the data is because the system

[00:03:21] is rigged, right?

[00:03:25] The wording of the tests doesn't hold my attention or something, right?

[00:03:31] Whatever.

[00:03:32] There are all sorts of excuse.

[00:03:33] But at the end of the day, God, I hate that term and I use it sometimes.

[00:03:36] I hate it.

[00:03:37] But when you cannot identify a major artery in the operating room, you should not be a

[00:03:42] doctor.

[00:03:43] Like there has to be a line, you know, there's got to be a line that says if you don't know

[00:03:49] what you are doing, like if you don't know how to be a doctor, you don't get to be a

[00:03:52] doctor anyway.

[00:03:56] So that was the last hour we were talking about UCLA and the corruption of that med

[00:04:00] school over the last three and a half to four years.

[00:04:06] So the leadership of that was her name, Jennifer Lucero.

[00:04:11] Now me, I feel like a pathway to success is in copyrights.

[00:04:17] I've long believed this.

[00:04:20] That's why I don't own any.

[00:04:23] But I have now been made aware that you can trademark insults.

[00:04:30] Did you know that you could trademark an insult?

[00:04:33] I think it has to.

[00:04:34] Well, I think one of two things, right?

[00:04:38] It either has to get really famous, you know, like where everybody's using it.

[00:04:43] And then if that happens and you came up with it and you didn't trademark it, right, then

[00:04:52] anybody can put it on a shirt or a mug or whatever.

[00:04:55] And then you don't get any royalties out of that deal, right?

[00:04:58] Because that's the other side of this thing.

[00:05:00] It's like how are you going to enforce it?

[00:05:01] So I now having learned that you can do this, I'm going to trademark my own concoction,

[00:05:10] which is homosolese.

[00:05:13] Right?

[00:05:14] Yeah.

[00:05:15] It's more of an audio thing, though, because when you spell it out, I did not maybe invent

[00:05:22] it.

[00:05:23] I know I didn't actually.

[00:05:24] But when you pronounce it the way I pronounce it, I think I may have to change the spelling

[00:05:28] a little bit.

[00:05:30] Maybe instead of like the H-O-L-E-S, holese, maybe do the J, like a little bit of Spanish

[00:05:37] lingo thrown in.

[00:05:38] Right?

[00:05:41] Maybe that.

[00:05:42] So I would not even have had this idea had it not been for Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett.

[00:05:49] So thank you to the Texas Democrat, Jasmine Crockett, for giving me this idea to patent

[00:05:55] homosolese.

[00:05:58] She has apparently, and this is the only reason I know I could do this, is that she went down

[00:06:02] to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and she has copyrighted the phrase, bleach blonde

[00:06:13] bad built butch body.

[00:06:16] Remember, that's what she said against Marjorie Taylor Greene in that fight that they had,

[00:06:22] what was that, last week?

[00:06:24] They went at each other.

[00:06:26] She said, Marjorie Taylor Greene said something about fake eyelashes.

[00:06:31] And then Crockett attacked Greene saying, bleach blonde bad built butch body.

[00:06:39] Okay.

[00:06:40] According to Christopher Tremoglier at the Washington Examiner, it was a not so startling

[00:06:48] revelation of the immaturity of the Congresswoman from Texas, but also a sign of her bigotry

[00:06:53] towards homosexual women.

[00:06:56] After all, the term butch is a societal no-no and it's offensive.

[00:07:02] At least that's what Democrats have been saying for the last two decades, right?

[00:07:07] I was aware of this when I was in college.

[00:07:12] There's even a term called butchphobia.

[00:07:13] Did you know that?

[00:07:14] I did not know that.

[00:07:16] It's to address the stigma that comes with the use of the word.

[00:07:20] That is, I guess, unless you're a female Democrat politician arguing with a Republican

[00:07:26] in Congress, right?

[00:07:27] Then I guess that's totally acceptable to use all of the slurs and all of the insults.

[00:07:32] This is one of those things over the years that I've always been curious about when I

[00:07:36] get into arguments with left-wingers and somewhere along the line they may call me gay or insinuate

[00:07:44] that I like men in that way, you know?

[00:07:48] And I always found that weird.

[00:07:50] Why would that be an insult?

[00:07:51] Coming from you guys, why would you use someone's sexual orientation as an insult?

[00:07:58] Are you saying there's something wrong with that?

[00:08:00] This is weird.

[00:08:01] Crockett's rhetoric, actions, and despicable behavior are just the latest example of the

[00:08:06] true colors of Democrats.

[00:08:07] He says, they don't care about people, they have no genuine interest in marginalized groups,

[00:08:11] all they care about is weaponizing the whining and claims of discrimination by these so-called

[00:08:16] victimized and oppressed groups to amass political influence and power.

[00:08:20] Furthermore, if these groups truly felt the levels of oppression that they claim they do,

[00:08:25] all of them would have taken issue with what Crockett said and demanded she apologize

[00:08:29] or maybe even resign.

[00:08:31] But they have not done that.

[00:08:33] They are manipulative, performative agitators.

[00:08:36] Can't tell, it's like maybe just clouds over the sun or something, just kind of seems like

[00:08:40] it's getting a little dark.

[00:08:41] I did hear it might rain.

[00:08:44] I did hear there may be some thunderstorms.

[00:08:46] We are in the season, right?

[00:08:50] April showers bringing the May flowers and the May flowers bringing...

[00:08:53] Pilgrims.

[00:08:56] Very good!

[00:08:57] John Moore.

[00:08:58] May flowers bringing the pilgrims.

[00:09:02] This is the time of year we get the thunderstorms in the afternoons, so by special request,

[00:09:08] I've been asked to reiterate the PSA for all of you gray car drivers.

[00:09:16] We've got thunderstorms in the forecast and so as a reminder, everybody else, if you don't

[00:09:25] drive a vehicle that is gray, everybody else turn your lights on when it's raining.

[00:09:31] Even when it's getting dark, it's dusk or in the morning, dawn, you want to turn your

[00:09:37] lights on so everybody can see you.

[00:09:39] Now, you gray cars, it's a little bit of a different thing because as I understand it,

[00:09:43] there is a code that the gray car owners live by once they purchase or obtain the gray

[00:09:50] vehicle which is that you don't turn your lights on because your vehicle is so difficult

[00:09:56] to see during rainstorms that you don't want anybody to see your vehicle.

[00:10:01] You keep your lights off.

[00:10:03] This is the best...

[00:10:04] Look, this is all I can figure out because there's no other explanation for why I see

[00:10:08] virtually every gray car during a rainstorm without their lights on.

[00:10:13] So it's got to be a code.

[00:10:14] I think it comes like in a handbook or something in the glove box or I guess nowadays it's

[00:10:19] probably a download.

[00:10:20] Part of our insurance.

[00:10:21] Oh, it's part of the insurance, I'm told.

[00:10:22] There you go.

[00:10:23] It's part of the insurance.

[00:10:27] So if you have...

[00:10:28] So Tommy's got the gray car.

[00:10:29] So if you burn your headlights during rainstorms, do they charge you more in the premiums?

[00:10:35] Actually, they send someone to get you.

[00:10:38] They send somebody to get you.

[00:10:40] Okay.

[00:10:41] So that makes sense why gray car drivers are particularly motivated to camouflage their

[00:10:47] vehicles at dawn, dusk and in the rainstorms.

[00:10:50] That does make sense.

[00:10:51] And the gray car lobby is strong.

[00:10:53] The gray car lobby, I have heard that it is very strong and big and almost invisible during

[00:10:59] rainstorms.

[00:11:00] So yes, that's the PSA.

[00:11:03] Gray car drivers, you know who you are.

[00:11:05] Now maybe you would not like to be in an accident and maybe you want to...

[00:11:10] Maybe you've always been a contrarian.

[00:11:11] You want to go against the grain there.

[00:11:14] Turn your lights on, give it a shot, see what happens, you know?

[00:11:17] Live a little.

[00:11:18] All right.

[00:11:19] Do you know Republican-led states, including North Carolina, are among the most popular

[00:11:25] destinations for relocation for Gen Z and millennials?

[00:11:32] I did not know that.

[00:11:34] I didn't see it coming.

[00:11:35] I did not see that coming.

[00:11:37] This is according to a recent analysis of US Census data.

[00:11:41] With lower than average housing costs and a state budget surplus, the state is among

[00:11:46] the few seeing a net increase of residents, North Carolina.

[00:11:51] For Gen Z migration, the top two destinations, you know what they are?

[00:11:57] Migration, Connecticut and Washington DC.

[00:12:03] Gen Z's moving to Connecticut and DC.

[00:12:10] Number three on the list, North Carolina, followed by Texas.

[00:12:16] And then the remaining states in order are Pennsylvania, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, North

[00:12:22] Dakota and Alabama.

[00:12:25] Gen Z is the generation comprised of those born between the years 1997 and 2013.

[00:12:35] That's Gen Z, 97 through 2013.

[00:12:40] Maria Gattea, who is a real estate writer for Storage Cafe, which did the study.

[00:12:45] I don't know what Storage Cafe is, but it doesn't matter.

[00:12:49] Said North Carolina is one of the country's best states for net migration overall and

[00:12:54] a place that attracts plenty of young people.

[00:12:56] The state's Gen Z population increased by over 11,000 people in 2022.

[00:13:04] Working on an affordable cost of living, numerous opportunities for post-grad education and

[00:13:09] access to a dynamic job market.

[00:13:13] For millennials, those who are born between the years 1981 and 1996.

[00:13:19] Okay, 81 to 96.

[00:13:23] For millennials, Republican led states are even more popular.

[00:13:28] Ten of the top ten are Republican led, ranked in order.

[00:13:33] Texas number one, followed by Georgia, Florida, Connecticut, Washington, North Carolina, Arizona,

[00:13:43] Colorado and Kansas.

[00:13:47] According to the census data, North Carolina saw a net influx of nearly 79,000 people in

[00:13:53] 2022.

[00:13:55] Just one year, 79,000 people.

[00:13:57] About 30 of them were from Virginia or Florida, and almost half of them became homeowners within

[00:14:04] the first year of living here.

[00:14:07] The median home value, it does fluctuate.

[00:14:10] The census reports it to be in North Carolina.

[00:14:13] This is a statewide number.

[00:14:15] Median home value $277,000.

[00:14:19] And that is far below the national average of $319,000.

[00:14:27] You know what it is in California?

[00:14:30] Yeah, it's $713,000.

[00:14:39] I cannot understand why people are leaving the state in droves so much so that they lost

[00:14:43] one of their congressional seats.

[00:14:45] It's a mystery.

[00:14:47] So what is this now?

[00:15:03] You got $2.5 billion from the Mecklenburg County Commission.

[00:15:06] You got, what was it, $4 billion from the city council.

[00:15:09] What's the school district one up to?

[00:15:11] Is that $2 billion, I think?

[00:15:12] Maybe a billion?

[00:15:13] A billion here, a billion there.

[00:15:15] Eventually, it's like real money.

[00:15:17] You're telling me it costs, what, four, two and a half, one, like $12 billion?

[00:15:25] No, I'm kidding.

[00:15:26] No, you're telling me it takes $7 billion for local government to operate here?

[00:15:30] $7 billion?

[00:15:31] There's not even a million people here.

[00:15:35] It's nuts.

[00:15:38] County Manager Dina Di Iorio is calling for a 1.5 cent property tax increase for the fiscal

[00:15:44] year 2025, a 3.2 percent increase which would cost the median homeowner an additional

[00:15:52] $57 per year.

[00:15:55] Well, now, see, that's just like, that's like $5 a month.

[00:16:01] That's the cost of a Chick-fil-A sandwich and a cup of slaw to channel the late Parks

[00:16:09] Helms.

[00:16:12] She said that's necessary to maintain county services amid a revenue shortfall of $20.3

[00:16:17] million.

[00:16:18] She says this is a lean budget.

[00:16:20] I swear, I have covered so many budget cycles.

[00:16:29] The language is always the same.

[00:16:30] It is always the same.

[00:16:34] There's no more fat to cut.

[00:16:36] We're cutting bone now and muscle, right?

[00:16:39] It's always the same.

[00:16:41] It's a lean budget and there are no more cuts to be made.

[00:16:46] That's not true.

[00:16:47] That is a lie.

[00:16:48] There are cuts to be made.

[00:16:49] You just don't want to make them or the commissioners don't want to make them, right?

[00:16:54] There are cuts.

[00:16:55] You could make cuts if you wanted to and you didn't care about the fallout.

[00:16:59] You didn't care about the attacks and the commissioners didn't care about that.

[00:17:02] You could actually, you could probably cut a very large amount of money out of the budget

[00:17:06] if you wanted to, but you don't.

[00:17:10] And that's fine, but don't tell me that there's no more cuts to be made.

[00:17:17] The county isn't the only tax increase on the table for property owners.

[00:17:20] The Charlotte City Council or Charlotte City Manager, rather, Marcus Jones is recommending

[00:17:25] his own one and a half cent property tax increase.

[00:17:29] So if you're inside city limits, you're going to get nailed with a three cent raise.

[00:17:33] So now that's $10 a month for you.

[00:17:36] Well, that's just the cost.

[00:17:38] Well, nowadays, I guess that's the cost of like some jalapeno poppers as a side dish,

[00:17:43] I think, thanks to the inflation, right?

[00:17:46] Just $10 a month and they never tell you.

[00:17:49] They never tell you the total.

[00:17:53] The cumulative.

[00:17:54] It's always just the additional.

[00:17:56] It's oh, it's just 1.5 cents.

[00:17:57] It's just a penny and a half on the tax rate.

[00:17:59] That's nothing.

[00:18:00] But what's the tax rate?

[00:18:04] Well, it's a little bit more than 1.5 cents.

[00:18:06] Yes.

[00:18:09] Um, let's see here.

[00:18:10] Also, yeah.

[00:18:11] Oh, yeah.

[00:18:12] They say it's just an additional dollar a week.

[00:18:15] That's all.

[00:18:16] It's just $1 a week.

[00:18:18] On top of what you're already spending.

[00:18:23] Also in her budget presentation, DiOrio says the county may have to dip into its $601 million

[00:18:29] rainy day fund.

[00:18:30] She recommended the county fully fund Charlotte-Mecklenburg School's latest funding request and give raises

[00:18:35] to county employees.

[00:18:38] By the way, the other day, do you hear this?

[00:18:40] They had the day without daycare.

[00:18:41] Did you hear that the other day?

[00:18:44] They're like, this is where we're going to not go into work.

[00:18:47] Right.

[00:18:48] A day without daycare.

[00:18:49] Why?

[00:18:50] Because these daycares used one time federal COVID money for ongoing operational expenses,

[00:19:00] namely salaries.

[00:19:01] They hired people.

[00:19:02] They used one time COVID money to hire people.

[00:19:06] And now they're like, we don't have any more money.

[00:19:09] Like, well, of course you don't.

[00:19:11] It was a one time grant.

[00:19:13] It wasn't an ongoing subsidy.

[00:19:15] And you went and hired people knowing it was one time.

[00:19:19] And by the way, this is what Democrats did when they were in charge of the state of North

[00:19:24] Carolina in the legislature.

[00:19:26] And they did this for years to the point where they created such a structural deficit that

[00:19:32] the recession hit in 2008, they had to fire and furlough teachers assistants and teachers.

[00:19:41] They had to freeze pay.

[00:19:43] They had to withhold people's tax refunds.

[00:19:46] I paid my taxes, right?

[00:19:48] Had it taken out of my check.

[00:19:52] And then I filed my tax returns and I'm expecting a refund.

[00:19:55] And they withheld it because they needed it to balance their budgets.

[00:19:59] They withheld reimbursements to the cities for sales taxes and such.

[00:20:05] That's how the Democrats built their budgets.

[00:20:08] Right now, Republicans are running billion dollar surpluses at the state level.

[00:20:13] Who do you trust to manage the state budgets?

[00:20:16] Let me get Tom on here real quick.

[00:20:17] Hello, Tom, or Don rather.

[00:20:19] Welcome to the program.

[00:20:20] Hey, Don.

[00:20:21] Hey, enjoy your program.

[00:20:23] Thanks, sir.

[00:20:24] You were talking about raising the property taxes.

[00:20:29] They doubled the value of my property on the last assessment.

[00:20:33] Yeah, the valuation, the reval.

[00:20:36] Yeah.

[00:20:37] And therefore my property taxes double.

[00:20:42] And now they want to raise them again.

[00:20:45] In the past, when they've revalued the property, they've cut back on the tax rate to help kind

[00:20:56] of compensate and soften the blow.

[00:21:00] Now, well, they did that.

[00:21:04] No, yeah, Don, they did do that.

[00:21:06] The problem is the value went up and the value went up a lot because of housing policies,

[00:21:14] the housing crunch, a lot of demand, not enough supply, inflation, all of the interest rates,

[00:21:18] right?

[00:21:19] A lot.

[00:21:20] All of this stuff factored into that.

[00:21:21] And so the yeah, the the the value of the property went up.

[00:21:24] They did.

[00:21:25] They're called revenue neutral, what they call revenue neutral.

[00:21:28] But that revenue neutral, that just means for them.

[00:21:31] That doesn't mean for you.

[00:21:32] Revenue neutral is for the local government that they get the same amount of money.

[00:21:36] And so they reduce the rate.

[00:21:38] But if your property went up in value too high, too much, you're going to be paying

[00:21:43] more dollars even if it's a lower rate.

[00:21:47] Which is exactly what I'm doing.

[00:21:49] Exactly.

[00:21:50] And I think their call screener was, you know, we we are absolute nuts for electing these

[00:21:57] people to office.

[00:21:59] They have they have no value system.

[00:22:01] You know, they love being on the on the I guess they love being able to spend other

[00:22:07] people's money.

[00:22:08] Yes.

[00:22:09] Oh, absolutely.

[00:22:10] And they have no compunction about holding the line.

[00:22:14] Right.

[00:22:15] Yeah.

[00:22:16] No, I totally agree.

[00:22:17] Don, I appreciate the call.

[00:22:18] Yeah, the reval, they did do revenue neutral.

[00:22:20] But yeah, people ended up paying more.

[00:22:21] A lot of homeowners.

[00:22:22] I think a lot of businesses saw the opposite.

[00:22:25] I think if I recall correctly, that's what happened on that.

[00:22:31] What was the other thing here that the.

[00:22:33] Oh, yeah.

[00:22:35] Much of the county shortfall stems from a loss of 12 million dollars the county used

[00:22:39] used to get rather for housing federal inmates.

[00:22:44] Not my fault, McFadden.

[00:22:46] Thank you, Sheriff.

[00:22:48] OK, if you're listening to this podcast, you are obviously paying attention to the world

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[00:23:43] That's that is bare bones are there people.

[00:23:46] A two and a half billion dollar budget from the Mecklenburg County manager to the county

[00:23:50] commissioners to approve includes a property tax increase of one point five cents on the

[00:23:54] tax rate.

[00:23:56] And that is to the bone.

[00:23:57] Nothing left to cut, man.

[00:23:58] Nothing left to cut.

[00:23:59] Oh, hang on a second.

[00:24:00] I found it is this.

[00:24:01] So, yeah, five point four million dollars for the arts.

[00:24:04] Yeah, I'd cut that.

[00:24:07] Oh, no, Pete, it's the arts.

[00:24:10] Mm hmm.

[00:24:11] Yeah, it's the arts.

[00:24:13] There are a lot of rich businesses and business people and philanthropists in the Charlotte

[00:24:18] area.

[00:24:20] If they value the art, and I do use that term loosely, if they value your art, they

[00:24:27] will support you.

[00:24:28] Bob, welcome to the program.

[00:24:31] Bob, how are you?

[00:24:32] Hey, Pete, how are you?

[00:24:33] Hey, I'm good.

[00:24:34] What's going on?

[00:24:35] I just want to talk a little bit about our little county whenever you hear a whole lot

[00:24:41] of talk about our little county and their ridiculous tax methods.

[00:24:48] I live on Lake Norman and my taxes almost as much as my brothers in New York, New York,

[00:24:53] like Long Island, New York, you know?

[00:24:56] I talked to an assessor about it one time.

[00:24:59] They value our house.

[00:25:00] It's so high.

[00:25:01] It made our taxes like, you know, I haven't told him.

[00:25:05] I said, you know, you guys are just pricing all these old people right out of their houses,

[00:25:10] their houses that have been paid for, they're living on a tight budget, they're living

[00:25:13] on Social Security.

[00:25:15] And how can we afford my taxes are $6,000 a year?

[00:25:20] I mean, that's a lot.

[00:25:21] But also, I'm not sure if Iredell County has a very large industrial or manufacturing

[00:25:26] or retail and office sector.

[00:25:30] You know, if they don't have a big base of taxes like that, it all falls on the residents.

[00:25:36] You know, it all falls on residential property.

[00:25:38] And that's the difficulty.

[00:25:40] Now, I know some counties have like what they call it, homesteaders, I think is what

[00:25:45] they call it, where if you are of a certain age or older, then you can get rebates on

[00:25:51] your property taxes.

[00:25:53] So check with the county tax assessor to see if...

[00:25:56] And I don't remember, I'm trying to think back because I am not of that age yet, but

[00:26:01] I don't know if it's a county thing or if it's a state thing.

[00:26:04] Yeah.

[00:26:05] I just know that, like I said, you know, coming to this state 35 years ago from New York and

[00:26:13] just bragging on how nice and easy and comfortable it is to live here, actually around $6,000

[00:26:20] at my age of retirement.

[00:26:21] Yeah.

[00:26:22] Well, see, that's the problem, Bob.

[00:26:24] You're part of the problem, man.

[00:26:25] You bragged about it to everybody up there, and then they all came down.

[00:26:29] And they brought all their little ways with them, too.

[00:26:32] I wonder why that is.

[00:26:33] That's it.

[00:26:35] All right, Bob.

[00:26:36] I appreciate it.

[00:26:37] Have a great weekend, man.

[00:26:38] You too.

[00:26:39] Thank you.

[00:26:40] All right.

[00:26:41] See ya.

[00:26:42] Yeah.

[00:26:43] I mean, that's it.

[00:26:44] It's like, oh my gosh, look at this awesome place.

[00:26:45] It's lower cost of living.

[00:26:46] I got a bigger house.

[00:26:47] I sold my tiny house up in New York, and now I paid cash for like a place three times as

[00:26:51] big and everybody else up there is like, well, I'm going to do that, too.

[00:26:56] Nothing is constant, you know, except change, right?

[00:27:01] And just like cities, they kind of grow and shrink.

[00:27:04] Banks do as well.

[00:27:06] Businesses do.

[00:27:07] It's like a, I look at it like breathing.

[00:27:09] It's like inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale.

[00:27:12] I saw it in the bars and restaurants down in Rock Hill when I was living down there

[00:27:17] and working down there in the bars and restaurants.

[00:27:19] You would see it.

[00:27:20] There was sort of a pattern.

[00:27:21] There was a cycle that occurs.

[00:27:22] And so green shoots and all of that, you know?

[00:27:28] What was the other thing I had?

[00:27:30] Oh, Wisconsin State Capitol grounds.

[00:27:33] Tulips.

[00:27:34] They got a tulip garden out there.

[00:27:36] And apparently they started noticing a different kind of plant growing through.

[00:27:42] And upon further inspection, they discovered, yes, it was cannabis.

[00:27:47] And there were so many of the plants that it was obvious it was intentional.

[00:27:50] Somebody planted a whole bunch of either marijuana or hemp, they don't know, in the

[00:27:55] tulip garden at the Wisconsin State Capitol grounds.

[00:27:58] Before you get any ideas, they already took it all out.

[00:28:01] They've already removed all of the plants.

[00:28:03] OK, so no need for a road trip up to Wisconsin.

[00:28:07] All right.

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