0:00

You mentioned $20 an hour plus of bachelors. Because there

0:02

are a lot of jobs out there that are over

0:04

$20 an hour that don't require college education. That's true.

0:06

Does a part of you, and we've heard this from

0:08

some people today, feel like you were lied to a

0:10

little bit? Like, get an education? I feel very

0:13

lied to. I, so I went to med school.

0:15

I did my master's, my bachelor's, med school a

0:17

little bit. And this, I switched to tech. So

0:19

at this point, I'm like, why did I go

0:21

to school? Right. The

0:23

Financial Times analysis of Gallup data

0:26

found American Gen Z women are

0:28

30 percentage points more liberal than

0:30

their male counterparts. You broke me

0:33

out. A lot of times you had to not

0:35

have done the same thing. So why did you

0:37

go? God, take it. I'm

0:40

here. Everything just from a security standpoint,

0:42

Baylor Swift comes out against Trump. I

0:44

don't care if they write that. I'm

0:47

sad that I didn't two years ago, but I can't

0:49

change that. I'm

0:51

saying right now that this whole thing that I know

0:53

is right, and you guys, I

0:56

need to be on the right side of history. And if he

0:58

doesn't win, then at least I tried. This

1:00

is for Harrison Butker. Does life begin at

1:03

conception or when you get married? And is

1:05

it both? Is that why like, they don't

1:07

actually care about kids? Cause between conception and

1:09

marriage, you're not like really a person. And

1:11

that's why we're like, you know, defunding our

1:14

schools and Christian fundamentalists think that prayers are

1:16

going to fix gun violence and, you know,

1:18

the crumbling foster care system. Oh, also there's

1:20

like child marriage laws in like a majority

1:22

of states, including here in Missouri. So like,

1:25

is that just you guys wanting the baby

1:27

to get to their second life really quickly?

1:30

Is that the goal? TikTok was basically full-time

1:32

for me. Like I was taking ads by

1:34

the time I graduated college from like the

1:36

Biden administration and Planned Parenthood and like dating

1:38

apps and stuff. So it was like fully

1:40

financially, you know, sustaining me. So you were getting

1:42

the Biden administration was buying ads from you? Yeah,

1:45

I was doing full on political propaganda. You've

1:47

heard the old saying, women can't

1:49

live with them and they always

1:51

vote Democrat. In yesterday's installment of

1:53

Talking with People, I spoke with a wide

1:56

array of different Americans who spanned

1:58

the political spectrum. Many

2:00

of you were surprised by how these people

2:03

leaned politically, because it turns

2:05

out that judging a voter by their

2:07

immutable characteristics may not be as productive

2:10

as one's thought. Today's a little

2:12

different in that we'll

2:14

be focusing on one specific conversation.

2:16

Though it takes place with three

2:19

subjects. And I know what

2:21

you're thinking. At first glance, there's very

2:23

little chance that someone like

2:25

me would find common ground

2:27

with a group of self-manifesting

2:29

20-something-year-old ladies who just

2:31

came from high tea. Hold

2:34

on to your abs because this may not go

2:36

exactly how you were expecting. This is

2:39

talking. Happy birthday. What's your name?

2:41

Maddie. Maddie, nice to meet you, Maddie.

2:43

I'm Janet. Janet? Yes.

2:45

Okay. Beep beep.

2:48

Beep beep. Yeah, same. Am

2:50

I, okay. Alright, I'm doing my best. Should

2:53

I be sandwiched in between? I don't know.

2:55

So Maddie, you say? Janet. Okay.

2:57

I'll remember that because Janet's introduced the ad to my mom.

3:00

She was her life. So this is your dress up because

3:02

you're pregnant? High teas. In

3:05

the front room? In the adult hotel? It's

3:07

just a tea party. Little sandwiches. Oh,

3:09

and one of those where they charge

3:12

you more for smaller portions. Yes!

3:23

The kind of thing that only women like and they

3:25

do. It's the aesthetic. Yeah. Yeah.

3:28

It's like brunch on steroids. Yeah. For

3:30

guys like, why am I paying $25 for A? Exactly. And

3:32

the women think it's cute. Alright, so how old are you today? Alright,

3:36

you all run the same age group? Yeah, I'm 26. Okay.

3:40

Alright, so close, close through there. First

3:42

question, are you planning on voting in this

3:44

election committee? Yes. I'm registered

3:46

to vote. Okay. Yes. Alright,

3:49

are you paying attention to the election at the front of your mind? Yeah,

3:51

I've seen a lot of it on the

3:53

media and I just had to write a

3:55

paper on something that's pretty controversial, so I've

3:58

been very passionate about the deco- to

4:00

access pipelines and all the pipelines that are

4:02

being put underground by a

4:04

Dallas-based company, Energy Transfer Partners.

4:07

Basically, the pipelines are already

4:09

leaking, it's already been built,

4:12

and it goes under a lot of

4:14

freshwater sources and it can contaminate water

4:16

for thousands of Americans. So

4:18

it's something that I wrote about and I just found out today I

4:20

got an A. I'm really excited

4:22

about it. Good for you. Yeah. Good job.

4:24

How about yourself? What's

4:27

the question? I'm sorry, I said, I can tell you all

4:29

this morning, I'm sorry, you know about pipelines and stuff, so

4:31

I'll be like, I don't know about pipelines. Most

4:35

people don't, it's not from the people who react

4:37

to Energy. Do you have something in the front

4:39

of your mind as far as this election? Like,

4:41

what's most pressing? Like, what do you think

4:43

of it? Really? I

4:45

don't know what to think, but I

4:47

would like to be a homeowner. Okay.

4:49

Yeah. And I feel like it's not a

4:51

great time. Not the best. I don't feel like

4:53

I have the same opportunities my parents do. So

4:55

I'm like, Oh, I would love to

4:57

be a homeowner. We've heard that a lot

4:59

from younger people today. That's getting into

5:02

homeownership. What do you think? Um, well,

5:04

I heard because I work in the

5:06

private airline industry and so for corporate

5:08

aviation, I heard if a certain

5:10

party gets elected, they're

5:12

going to be taxing on corporate checks.

5:14

And so I would be out of business.

5:17

Right. So that's one of my concerns. How

5:19

much you want to bet Al Gore and

5:21

John Kerry still take private checks? I

5:24

don't know. I probably. Yeah. So do

5:26

you work with like a corporate like

5:28

charter? I do.

5:30

I'm an independent contractor. So I don't work

5:33

with the corporation itself, but I know it

5:35

would affect me. Yeah. And my job opportunities.

5:37

Okay. And how do you feel, Luke, as

5:39

far as job opportunities for people in your

5:41

age? It's very difficult. I have

5:44

a degree in marketing and it's so hard

5:46

to even get an entry level position as

5:48

a partner. Really? And they want to own

5:50

the $20 an hour and require a bachelor's,

5:52

which is ridiculous. You can't live off of

5:54

that in Dallas. $1 an

5:56

hour? 15. I've seen that. I'm on

5:58

a date and even. 15th-century level,

6:00

my village is a little bit awkward

6:02

and even for me it's hard to

6:04

get something like that even though I

6:07

have experience. So it's difficult for our

6:09

generation and our industries to look for

6:11

everything in general. You also mentioned Swiss

6:13

Edition, you mentioned $20 an hour plus

6:15

a master's because there

6:17

are a lot of jobs out there that are over $20 an hour

6:19

that don't require college education. I do. There's a part

6:21

of you, and we've heard this from some people

6:24

today, I feel like you were lied to a

6:26

little bit. I feel very lied to. I didn't

6:28

find wings from med school. I did my master's,

6:30

my bachelor's, med school a little bit. I

6:33

switched to tech, so at this point I'm

6:35

like, why did I go to school? Right. Yeah.

6:38

So I'm like, I didn't get a doctor. Yeah. So

6:41

now I'm like, I mean, maybe

6:43

if I got a computer science degree, maybe

6:45

it is worth it. But

6:47

the cost, like

6:50

the benefit, I don't know. I

6:52

could have just gone straight into my job, honestly. And

6:55

there's a lot of societal pressure to

6:57

get college degree, even though nowadays it

6:59

honestly doesn't need much. Because you have

7:02

UPS drivers making, what is it, $100,000?

7:06

No, you don't need a degree for that

7:08

kind of job. So why am I putting

7:10

thousands of dollars into getting college education? It's

7:13

just great content. Yeah. Yeah.

7:15

That's why a lot of young women are just going to Onlyfans. Yeah,

7:18

that's true. Yeah. You noticed, do

7:20

you have a lot of different friends who do that? I

7:22

feel like that's become like the easy thing because

7:25

of the industry being so competitive, even

7:27

from foreign people too. They're becoming really

7:30

educated. And they are getting hired because they're

7:32

willing to work for a little less. So

7:35

it is very competitive. So

7:37

you got the message, I guess, growing up. Go to school,

7:39

get three days. Probably check out alone if your parents

7:41

weren't able to afford it for you. Yeah. And you

7:43

get out and you're going, ah, I'm

7:45

basically starting the same as the guy who's a

7:48

shift manager at Dunkin Donuts. That's right. That's perfectly

7:50

correct. I'm going to go to the gender

7:52

gap too. Since I work remote, I want to apply

7:54

as like Matthew King instead of Maddie King. So

7:56

I'm like, maybe I'll get paid more as a man. I'll

8:00

go back. I don't know if

8:02

I can get away with it, then I would

8:04

never hire a guy again. I probably could pay

8:06

women less. Oh, good. I didn't have the

8:08

that. I feel like diversity is being

8:10

prioritized over experiences in the aviation industry.

8:13

That's what they're doing in a lot

8:15

of airlines. They're hiring for diversity purposes

8:17

instead of experience. So you're having a

8:19

lot of these issues with, you know,

8:21

they're saying the Boeing manufacturing is terrible

8:23

quality control. But

8:25

a lot of it is because of the

8:27

new hires, the new pilots that don't

8:30

have as much experience, but they're hired

8:32

because of the diversity quotas that they're

8:34

trying to fulfill. Yeah. And

8:36

the reason I said it's because I don't want you to buy into

8:38

another lie that wouldn't make 75 cents on the dollar. It's not true.

8:40

It's not true at all. Okay. I'm

8:42

going to be like, okay, where's my race? Yeah.

8:45

You know what? A lot of women do

8:47

believe that. And at my company, as my faculty, second

8:49

person command and name, we'll probably have to write it

8:52

up her name. She's an absolute killer.

8:54

Like she is a bulldog. That's awesome. And

8:57

she works with another lady named and it really just comes

8:59

down to who's right for the position. But

9:01

the idea that that men are going out and hiring men, like

9:03

why would I hire men if I could pay a

9:06

woman less? I could just cut the cost if I

9:08

did this by, you know, 23%. So don't, don't lie

9:10

to that. Okay. Good. So

9:14

it seems like there's a mixed bag here because

9:16

obviously your view on the Dakota pipeline would be

9:18

something that would be seen as more left. But

9:20

then obviously you all seem to agree on the

9:23

idea that maybe the education system has failed you

9:25

on the promise and the DEI kind of diversity

9:27

situation has made it more tough to get a

9:29

job. So with all that being said, what do

9:32

you think is, at this point then, how do you think

9:35

it goes? Do you think there's

9:38

one person who's better than the other to kind

9:40

of rectify this or provide you with more opportunity?

9:42

The opportunity that you said maybe your parents had.

9:44

Have you feel needed? Yeah.

9:48

I personally don't feel like there is anyone on

9:50

the top of my head that I see fit

9:52

more than the other. Do you want a third

9:55

option? Yeah. I just

9:57

honestly like, we saw what Trump and

9:59

Man And although the

10:01

economy was booming, like Biden's America

10:03

has been very hard. I

10:06

got laid off. I was doing accounting

10:08

at a construction company and

10:10

I was making great money and it

10:12

pushed me back into school because all of

10:14

these reasons why you have a bachelor's and stuff

10:16

and I was just straight off

10:18

experienced. And so right now I'm

10:21

in the middle of school at almost 30 because

10:23

the requirements are different but

10:25

yet like the

10:27

industry hasn't changed. We were using

10:30

the same programs that

10:32

were built years ago. So

10:35

it's completely different and

10:37

it's not caught up in the standard of what

10:40

we need for today. Well, you

10:42

just said the economy is running under Trump between

10:44

Biden's America but no one's more fit than the

10:46

other. It seems like you're saying that but there's a

10:48

fair bit. There was a lot of issues with

10:50

Trump too. You know, just

10:52

all the hatred and racism that comes

10:55

with it and that people associated with

10:57

Trump and all

10:59

the protests happened, the violence.

11:02

So all of that made me

11:04

feel very good to see people breaking into

11:06

targets, breaking into Walmart to make like

11:09

their voices known that they're minorities or they're

11:11

not getting their voices heard. A

11:13

lot of that I found very disturbing and I don't

11:15

want to see that happen again. And

11:17

forgive me, how is that

11:20

Trump's doing people breaking into target or Walgreens in

11:22

San Francisco? Well, a

11:25

lot of it was him persuading people

11:27

to do something about what they're unhappy

11:29

about and breaking into the White House

11:31

and things like that. It

11:34

just seemed like it fueled people

11:36

to do something just out

11:39

of the ordinary. Yeah. But

11:42

it seems like all these programs, you're talking about for example Black Lives

11:44

Matter in the summer of love and now

11:46

you're singing with Palestine on campus. And

11:48

that those were people in opposition

11:50

to what Trump stands for. Really

11:53

if you were to take that and sign that, then

11:55

I'd say okay. We have a radical leftist who is

11:57

committing acts of violence. that

12:00

the economy was booming, I got laid off. It

12:03

seems like women were thinking. Maybe it's personality versus women. It

12:05

was like, really, really fun. It was gross and cons, I

12:07

think, to both. Yeah. But I

12:09

do think that the economy was better under Trump.

12:11

For sure. Definitely. That seems

12:14

to be an overarching theme today, as that's

12:16

been the reason. Has the theme been, like, women's

12:18

rights? Like, to their autonomy at

12:20

all, or not really? I've been thinking about that

12:22

last year's thing. There's been a few people, I

12:24

can't help. Last year? I know, I'm jumping in.

12:26

What's the end topic right now? I just want

12:29

to say it's the economy and immigration. The economy

12:31

and immigration seems to be... We're in Texas. Yeah.

12:34

And what about yourself? Would you say those are kind of the big issues? It seems

12:36

like you're all saying the economy... Yeah. No, I definitely believe

12:38

the woman's mouth, like, that we finally brought

12:40

up is definitely one of the things that

12:42

we've had to... I worry that we'll be...

12:45

Like, I know some states have thought

12:47

about, like, contraception, and that's not

12:49

my goal. But I know that thing too, I do want

12:51

to know, like,

12:53

the student loans at... That was something that was

12:55

brought up by Biden, and that

12:58

never really happened. So... There's

13:00

a lot of thought promises that it makes sense to

13:02

give up hope on Biden, and even then, I wasn't

13:04

really a huge fan of him. Yeah, neither. But

13:08

still, it just makes me not want

13:10

him in the office again, for sure, not

13:12

Biden. Well, it seems like student loans, not such

13:14

a great thing, considering that you said the degree is not worth

13:16

the paper to bring about. No, it's not. And

13:19

that puts your pressure in you whenever you're younger,

13:22

right out of high school, you know, your family pressure. Because

13:26

degree equals, you know, a great

13:28

job, and that's what you have in your

13:30

present or your kid. Right. So, you

13:32

obviously fix it up, but it's not what the reality

13:34

is. Right. And there were a lot of people who

13:37

were upset on the other side of the clock, the

13:39

student loans, you know. For example, people who either paid

13:41

off their loans, or people who chose not to go

13:43

to school because they... I don't think it's going to... They

13:45

went to go work in an oil rig. And they're paying taxes, saying,

13:48

I don't really think that my tax dollars should go to

13:50

forgive a loan for whatever it is, a gender

13:52

studies degree. Right. And

13:54

there's...it seems like everything that seats me today maybe

13:56

was good under Biden. I kind of a promise to

13:58

the government problem that... I definitely

14:01

don't think our tax dollars

14:03

are going in the right

14:05

places. Our education is not

14:07

the highest. So food in

14:09

our school system is poison.

14:12

There is a lot that we're lacking

14:14

in America that could be improved and

14:16

focused on and it's not. A lot

14:18

of countries are advanced and have better

14:20

energy systems, food quality,

14:23

education, and we're not

14:25

there. What kind of energy systems do you

14:27

need? We have more solar and wind power.

14:29

We both have Tesla's and we get to

14:32

enjoy not having to pay

14:34

for gas and not worrying about

14:36

an outage or pipeline spusting or

14:39

gas prices going up. So

14:41

there's a lot of clean energy out there and I

14:43

know that the batteries aren't made in

14:45

the best way. They're

14:47

made in the worst way. The worst

14:49

possible way. But there's new technology

14:52

that we could be reinforcing to make our

14:54

country better. It's just being ignored

14:56

and swept under the rug. So

14:58

you would like to see more solar and wind? Yes.

15:02

It's been cleaner food without pesticides,

15:04

more organic food for the children

15:06

of the school and the market.

15:10

I feel like the pharmaceutical industry wants us to be

15:12

sick, wants us to have cancer, wants us to be

15:14

on medication because of some billion

15:17

dollar industry. So the

15:19

fact that we could grow our own food and

15:21

be organic, it's not something that I think

15:24

the country focuses on or wants to push, but would be the best. Right.

15:27

So not because of the big pharmaceutical industry. No.

15:30

What about the COVID mRNA vaccine? No.

15:33

No? Definitely not. No. I'm

15:35

not that we have. I'm not

15:37

vaccinated. I've had COVID twice and everybody

15:39

that had COVID in the office was

15:41

vaccinated and I got COVID from someone

15:43

who had their vaccine. The

15:46

proportionate therapists at the time are pushing

15:48

for the vaccination. Right. I

15:51

remember going into one of the businesses,

15:53

the companies, they were pushing for the

15:55

vaccine and I'm like, I'm not going

15:57

to do it. I

16:00

don't care. You did? Yeah.

16:03

So you didn't, you did, another broken

16:05

promise? You said someone was vaccinated and

16:07

gave you COVID? Yes. Remember,

16:10

if you get the vaccine, you can't get it. Or at the

16:12

very least you can't transmit it. Yeah. Well, you'll transmit it and

16:14

you can get it, but it won't be a severe, like, well,

16:16

maybe severe, but you won't be in a hospital and a death.

16:19

Another broken problem. Another broken problem. I hear

16:21

a lot of, like, issues with the vaccine

16:23

are coming up, right, with women and fertility

16:25

and things like that. So it makes you

16:28

wonder if it has anything to do with

16:30

population control because one is really big on

16:32

that. Right. But the

16:34

problem is you mentioned China, but then you mentioned

16:36

solar and wind, where, first off,

16:39

I would, this is one place where I would disagree. There is

16:41

no country that's made that work. It's not efficient energy. We

16:43

just spoke with a man from Germany, right? They went away

16:45

from nuclear while France went to nuclear,

16:47

zero carbon emissions. Solar, wind, didn't

16:50

work. It's been a disaster for Germany. And I don't

16:52

know if you know where those solar panels come from,

16:54

or even talking about electric power.

16:56

China. China really is in

16:58

charge of not only the batteries, but they're actually the number

17:00

one producer now of EVs. And as these regulations come into

17:03

play to force everyone to go to EVs, you're going to

17:05

embolden and empower China, where I don't know

17:07

if they don't have the strictest emission standards.

17:11

Yeah, and I think we had a huge reliance on China.

17:13

I also learned that environmental science, where we

17:15

have the resources, the labor cost

17:17

is cheaper in China. So a

17:20

lot of the resources that we're getting from China are available

17:22

in other countries because their labor is

17:24

so cheap. That's why we keep out for a week

17:26

to them, which is giving them so much power, which

17:30

is another thing that I feel like

17:32

we should get away from. Hello,

17:35

come on, if you're a candidate, anything's going to be tougher on TV. For

17:37

sure. I mean, it's about to be a

17:39

catchphrase. Yeah, for sure. So

17:42

you still don't know how you're going to vote, though? Not yet. Because

17:45

Trump did it. Yeah. But everything you say,

17:47

China, the vaccine, the rollout, all these broken

17:49

promises. And it's a hard election, for sure.

17:53

we're declining so fast. seen

18:00

as weak since Biden has been in office, which

18:03

is very concerning. So you're

18:05

not going to vote for Biden it sounds like? No,

18:07

heck no. But you're reticent to pull

18:09

that lever. Wow, we'll

18:11

see. We'll see what happens. I

18:13

think you know how you're going to vote. You just have to

18:15

keep the F.G.I. on it. It's hard.

18:18

It's hard. How about your show?

18:20

I definitely have to vote for Trump because my job

18:22

relies on him. Right. But it's

18:24

unfortunate because I'm not really as much of a

18:27

politics when I know that I've been a leader

18:29

in my job opportunities and I

18:31

have to surround myself. Were

18:33

you old enough to vote last election? No. So

18:36

who did you vote for last election? I didn't

18:38

vote. You didn't vote? Any of

18:40

you voted? I voted. Yeah. Who

18:43

did you vote for? I voted for Biden. You voted

18:45

for Biden. Okay. Do you think you'll

18:47

do that again? I'm not sure. Okay.

18:50

It sounds like because there's been a lot of shifting we've noticed today

18:52

where a lot of people said, I voted for Biden. I'm not

18:54

going to do that again. I got a lot today.

18:57

You didn't vote. Yeah. No, but I already know.

18:59

I know who I'm going to vote for this

19:01

year. I believe it's the same outcome.

19:03

Why do we have to do the

19:05

same election? So many policies are

19:07

so old where Congress is paying themselves

19:09

all this money and they get

19:12

to be in there forever and they're on these old

19:14

ideas. We need fresh, young, new people

19:16

in there who are making the decisions

19:18

versus people who are like literally not

19:20

even showing up to work and getting

19:23

paid. Our tax dollars, which people don't

19:25

focus on, but that is a big

19:27

thing. Those people in Congress are like

19:29

90, 80. How

19:32

can they make a fasible decision on what

19:34

our lives are now because everything's different? I

19:37

don't think a lot of young people vote.

19:39

When I asked my friends and they're upset

19:41

about the outcome of the election, I'm like, well, did you

19:43

vote? And they say no. Every time. Yeah. I'm

19:46

like, oh, well, that's why. I feel like a

19:48

lot of our generation voted voting

19:50

last time because the two options were

19:53

not good. So

19:55

we didn't want to vote. That's one

19:57

of my reasons. vote

20:00

for it. It all seems like they

20:02

were terrible choices. So

20:04

I didn't have... Would

20:07

you say a reason maybe that you're voting for Trump

20:10

this time? I know you're undecided,

20:12

but you're excited. But even considering

20:14

it, is because of the contrast, or like you

20:17

said, the economy was booming, you lived under a

20:19

term of Trump. And for any of the negatives,

20:21

you see the difference economically. Now you

20:23

have Biden. Do you think that's something that maybe hasn't

20:25

happened in your lifetime where you go, there's a noticeable

20:27

change? Yeah, I mean, we bought our

20:29

house on that interest rate, it was like 3%. And

20:32

I was making a ton of money. Things

20:35

were good. I was living the life,

20:37

and now I'm not. So that definitely

20:39

hurts you when you're able to

20:41

provide a social life for your family, and then it

20:43

gets taken away because interest rates are higher.

20:46

Because, you know, of the

20:48

interest rates, it's like a domino effect on

20:50

everything, everybody's livelihood.

20:52

We're millennials, so people

20:54

in our generation are stuck with

20:57

what the boomers say, and

20:59

the generations after us, and their decisions

21:01

are still overpowering our lives. Right.

21:04

Yeah, so you think that you don't have a voice in

21:06

that much? Right. Yeah, and also,

21:08

don't count on that social security check when

21:11

you reach that age. Right. They're saying the

21:13

boomers are gonna be... They're gonna run out

21:15

like 10 years. They're trying to raise the retirement

21:17

age for us, and they're saying the boomers are

21:19

gonna basically take it off. There's

21:22

a good chance that it won't be around, or at least

21:24

not in its current capacity. Right. So I would advise saving

21:27

yourself in a different portfolio than relying

21:29

on social security. I would expect that

21:32

we did learn that in school recently, that

21:34

it's projected that we won't get our social

21:36

security because of boomers. Yeah. Such

21:38

a large population, retiring. So

21:40

the one thing it sounds like that makes you a

21:42

little bit hesitant is because of what

21:45

you saw social unrest under the election. Yes.

21:48

I just don't like the hatred

21:50

and the anger and the lack

21:52

for care of the environment because... Sure.

21:55

Gas and oil are great. We have diesel trucks

21:57

and a million dirt bikes. But,

22:02

hard-wing water is not something

22:04

that we can continue to risk. Pipeline

22:06

could be rerouted to areas that

22:09

still run over fresh water, and

22:11

that's the big thing. Why don't you

22:13

just put the pipeline somewhere else, away

22:16

from our fresh water sources? The

22:18

lack of care for the environment is

22:21

also what makes me worried. Yeah,

22:23

take it up with the, this one, take it up with

22:25

your friend, because she works in private air travel. I'll

22:28

be honest, it's not, sometimes we drop people out in

22:30

Kabul, and we have to fly all the way

22:32

back, and then just fly back to pick them

22:34

up. So it's not, you know, honestly not like,

22:37

environmental. And I fly a lot, I go

22:39

on creases, I realize that gas

22:41

and oil are important, but the

22:43

way that we're doing it can be improved. We

22:46

don't have to run these pipelines near our

22:48

fresh water sources, and that's my biggest problem.

22:51

Isn't there a rumor of electric

22:53

airplanes? Any rumors? They're

22:55

not really super effective at this point. They're

22:57

electric drones that can kind of fit to

22:59

more like air cats, eventually

23:02

like Uber, or something that's sort of next

23:04

to maybe Dallas. But you can only fit

23:06

a few people within a very long range.

23:08

How can we just have a train from

23:11

like Dallas to Houston, to Austin? I

23:13

don't know if a train's more effective than driving.

23:17

Well, I mean... Well, inconvenient. Yeah, I don't know about

23:19

that. Because Europe and everywhere has trains with us. Yeah,

23:22

they do. That costs a lot of money though, too.

23:24

Yeah, and it's a lot of coal, too. Well,

23:26

if you get away from pipelines and gas and coal,

23:28

then there's nothing left except for solar and wind, and

23:30

now we're back to China. Yeah. I

23:33

just want more holidays and four-day

23:35

work weeks. I don't... forever, just

23:37

like, whatever. Yeah, well, in

23:39

that case, go buy them, and then see if

23:42

it's another broken promise as far as four-day work

23:44

weeks. You could probably go to Europe and do

23:46

pretty well. I know. They say people

23:48

our age in Europe are ranked way happier

23:51

than we are. I don't know. I don't

23:53

think it has to do with the mood. It has to do

23:55

with the mood. Who controls your hormones?

23:58

That's one of my big things. eating

24:00

almonds, it's so hard to do here in

24:02

the States, especially with the lunch or fast food,

24:04

so people are acceptable. So like you

24:06

got Chick-fil-A right in the corner, Starbuzz, so

24:08

obviously people, Lunchables have lead in it

24:11

or something. Yeah! I don't know about

24:13

that. I don't want to defame Lunchables

24:15

at this point. I

24:17

don't think that anyone is thinking Lunchables. I'm

24:20

just saying that's like a minor example

24:22

of everything's a little bit poisoned here.

24:24

Or like our food labels have bad

24:27

ingredients that other countries don't have.

24:29

And makeup products, everything. Yeah, that's

24:31

true. Yeah, but you have more choice here. Like I will say

24:33

this, I never ate healthier than when I was dirt poor.

24:36

When I was dirt poor, I would go to the store

24:38

and I was living in California. Yep. I would,

24:40

yeah, I'd get oats. That was cheap. Back

24:43

then, eggs were relatively cheap. Oats, eggs,

24:45

milk. I'd get whatever fruit was on

24:47

sale. Tuna, a foot in the package.

24:49

And I'd actually buy sometimes baby food because there's always

24:51

baby food on sale and as long as you get

24:53

packed it. Apple, soft. That's what I was eating all

24:56

the time. I really kind of had to pare it

24:58

down and I realized, oh

25:00

my gosh, I'm eating really at this point. This would have been 2000, actually

25:03

that was 2009. And those would be

25:05

considered pennies a day just by limiting, you know. I could

25:07

have easily gone to Taco Bell, but I knew that

25:09

that wouldn't be good for me. A

25:11

lot of other countries, you're talking about inflation, groceries are more

25:13

expensive. I feel like eating out

25:15

the restaurants is equal to grocery prices at

25:18

the moment. Oh, it's way more. Oh,

25:20

it's way more. Depends where you go. We probably spent

25:22

over $400 today at the hotel. Yeah.

25:27

That's like a week of groceries. I

25:29

think we're really blessed to live here and I'm still

25:31

really happy. I don't have much

25:33

to complain about. I know a lot of places are way

25:36

worse than we are. Yeah, I'm happy. I'm

25:38

happy. It's just nitpaging. It's definitely

25:40

at the highest level of income

25:42

compared to the majority of the world.

25:44

And I think a lot of us don't realize

25:46

that. That'd be great. So that was part of

25:48

some of the things that I learned today at

25:51

school was just the levels of income

25:54

and how we really are at the

25:56

highest level already. But we don't realize

25:58

how privileged we are. and how

26:00

much we really have as far as opportunity goes

26:03

in comparison to the majority. Like, people

26:06

who walk towards Barefoot and ride

26:08

their bike, well, we have cars. Or

26:11

high-p. High-p! That's about, come on,

26:13

that's about the epitome of white privilege, let's be

26:15

honest. Even if you believe it's a thing

26:17

which I don't, high-p, you're spending more for, let

26:20

me get the little macaroons. Yes, oh yeah. Biscuits

26:23

and... I don't even know where

26:25

we go. And, yeah, it was

26:27

pretty filling surprisingly. I

26:29

think we're just comparing our life to... What

26:32

do you mean by that? Our generation. Our potential.

26:34

Yeah, yeah. Would it just be nice

26:36

to not, like, our house, when

26:39

it was first built, was probably not $350,000, right?

26:43

But we're stuck paying these

26:45

astronomical prices just

26:47

because of, you know,

26:50

all the change has been

26:52

going on with interest rates, population

26:54

growth, things like that. On

26:57

top of the second, you can get $350,000 for your consideration,

26:59

right? You could eat bologna under a rat and

27:01

get $1,200 per house, and use

27:03

the average house, but today you can get there for...

27:05

It really is the song these days. Yeah. I'm

27:08

assuming that's not what you're looking at. Yeah, I think even I

27:10

think from a year ago, today

27:12

or even two years ago, you have to make 80% more income to

27:15

get, like, the same standard. And I'm like,

27:17

oh, well, shoot, my salaries aren't going up

27:20

80%. Yeah. It's

27:22

not matching to one year. Inflation is there.

27:24

One year, yeah. And

27:26

some people's apartments cost more than our

27:28

house. Yeah. So that's really bad, too.

27:30

There needs to be more regulation on

27:32

that. Well, the death of the promise, there's a lot

27:35

of regulation in their business. It's too big to fail.

27:37

Black Rock and Vanguard are buying up a lot

27:40

of all the treatments, rent-a-lien, and it's

27:42

not people buying houses. It

27:44

is companies that, frankly, don't necessarily have America's best interest in

27:47

the heart. That's true. Buying up, bringing a class of emergency.

27:49

Is there some live spend on coming? You're

27:52

not saying anything severe coming out of that. Maybe the Airbnb. Yeah,

27:55

because they're too big to fail, right? These people are part

27:57

of the World Economic Forum and they're huge

27:59

supporters of this business. and they'll receive

28:01

favorable policies. I

28:04

would say there's, I agree with you on a lot of this,

28:06

about $12,000 actually. An American

28:08

family right now, just as far as groceries and day-to-day items,

28:10

needs $12,000 more than they were making in

28:15

2019 to live the exact same and

28:17

purchase the same groceries. But the

28:19

flip side of that is, again, you mentioned even organic

28:21

food. That was not an option, too, so you also

28:23

need more options now. You could live more options than

28:25

you did, get something from really

28:27

inexpensive. I think expectations against

28:29

some of the broken promises come into place.

28:32

It's not all bad. Yeah, it's all bad.

28:35

But I would agree with you that there's been a shift, and a lot

28:37

of people here have been saying, you know

28:39

what, I've seen a contrast, and my vote is switching. Yeah.

28:42

I think definitely Trump's going to

28:44

overrule Texas, for sure. Yeah.

28:48

Who are you voting for? I definitely would vote for

28:50

Trump over Biden. I mean, if those were

28:52

the only choices, and we can't all move

28:54

somebody. Which would be nice. Right? Then

28:57

it would probably lean more towards Trump. Would you

28:59

like to be president? No. God no. No,

29:02

you don't want to be president. That's my worst nightmare.

29:04

He was talking about skeleton. I don't want

29:06

that. It's just like everything. I've grown

29:08

up in the era of social media where I'm running

29:10

for president, and they would just play something that I

29:12

publicly uploaded. Like, is that not you? They deep deep

29:14

in your life, in your tweets. Like,

29:16

this is what you did when you were 12. Yeah, they don't even

29:18

need to take deep for me. It's like, you could call for

29:20

a probation month just two weeks ago. Yeah. But

29:23

no, I wouldn't even shy away from it.

29:26

You know, big fan of what Trump did for the economy.

29:28

I held my nose when I voted for him. He

29:31

was an unknown. I would

29:33

actually disagree with you since you're asking me on

29:35

the idea of these protests. When you look at

29:37

Black Lives Matter, you look at what happened with

29:39

ANSAFA. You look at what's happening right now with

29:41

the Pro-Hamas protests. These are not from...

29:44

By the way, they're funded by either foreign entities or

29:46

AstroTurf. And it's designed to make you think exactly what

29:48

you think. Oh my gosh, if Trump gets in, we'll

29:50

have to deal with riots. And

29:53

I don't think that really our Democratic Republic...

29:55

Our representative republic should be subject

29:57

to... We should never be afraid to

29:59

vote because... Trump didn't call people

30:01

looking at those one night and

30:04

night. I mean that entire summer, they're

30:06

burning down kitties. But obviously

30:08

people, the general population is

30:10

going to correlate that with Trump. Yeah, with the

30:13

president. I think everybody will blame the president no

30:15

matter what. But also we haven't

30:17

had that kind of hatred and riot since

30:20

like his administration minus

30:22

the Palestinian stuff. Sure

30:25

we have, yeah. That looks pretty bad. We had Black

30:27

Lives Matter before he was coming in. That was a

30:29

big reason that he won. They were burning down kitties.

30:32

So you just hack it up again. And I think that if

30:34

you were to ask yourself who

30:36

has not called for violence versus

30:39

Kamala Harris Joe Biden saying they're

30:41

not going to stop rioting in the streets nor should

30:43

they stop. They need to make their voices heard. I

30:45

would disagree that I don't think you're making anything hurt

30:47

by stealing from the Walgreens. And I don't

30:50

think that has anything to do with Trump. I

30:52

think it's just that person's going to ask for it.

30:54

Because there are plenty of people who are poor in

30:56

that same neighborhood who have not decided to rob their

30:58

neighbors. Right. Right. That's just my opinion. I

31:00

think that they do want you to see that

31:03

and be afraid. And go gosh like you've said,

31:05

the economy was better for my own self interest

31:07

to not only my jobs but as far as

31:09

America's standing. Yeah, but I'm afraid because of this

31:11

violence I would ask, if that's kind of

31:13

the only thing standing in your way I would ask yourself well

31:16

why is that? Yeah. Something you want to be afraid of. I

31:18

would say that's the biggest thing is the hatred associated

31:20

with that whole. Do you think he hated anybody at

31:23

all? I think

31:25

that he's just a regular person that really wants

31:27

to make big changes. But people are perceiving

31:29

it in a different

31:31

way. Everybody is taking what he's doing in different ways.

31:36

And not everybody agrees with him. But I

31:38

do agree with a lot of the things that he says. Like if

31:40

you're a girl you're a girl, you're a boy, you're a boy. And

31:42

I might get a lot of hate for that. You

31:44

will. But that's the truth. You're

31:48

born that way. Is there an issue if you want to change

31:50

it later on? No. Be who you

31:52

want to be. But when you're

31:54

born the fact that they don't even

31:57

want identity. why

32:00

it may be anymore. Like clearly

32:03

you're born with a gender, whether you want to

32:05

believe that you are not. That's

32:08

one thing that I know Trump is pretty strict about.

32:10

Yeah, you're going to have to go Trump. He had

32:12

a line where he said he thought it was evil

32:14

for parents to not affirm their children's gender transition. That's

32:16

ridiculous. I don't think children have

32:18

the mental capacity to make that

32:20

decision. They're still growing at the moment. You think

32:22

children here want to be after-nose? That's something unrealistic. So how

32:25

do you think a child should know what they're doing?

32:27

Yes, I think his parents have a big intent on

32:30

what children do. Also,

32:32

kids are stupid. When

32:35

I was a kid, all I knew was that my parents,

32:37

this is a true story, my parents, I saw them as roommates. When I

32:39

was young, my brother and I shared a room. And

32:41

then he was getting his own room. And then I

32:43

realized, wait a second, adults are not, you don't get to

32:45

be roommates with your brother anymore. The only roommates in the

32:47

room were my parents. So I thought if

32:50

I grow up, I want to be a woman so

32:52

I can be roommates with my brother forever. I just

32:54

thought like I could just be like, no, no, that's

32:56

not how that works. And

32:58

I thought, wait, when I grow up, I'm gonna have a

33:00

woman in my house instead of my brother. You can't comprehend

33:02

it at the career core. Right. And I think

33:04

kids playing with like dogs, you said that you

33:06

mean that they're like a girl. I

33:09

think that's a good question. Yeah.

33:12

So like, what do you think like, if you're

33:14

playing with a dog, you're gonna call out

33:16

like a girl because just because it's considered

33:19

a feminine kind of... Very fun at work,

33:21

for sure. And I will say my son

33:23

is seven years old and he designs party

33:25

dresses. And he

33:27

loves to sew and design. And

33:29

I just encourage him, does that

33:31

mean that he wants to be a girl

33:33

now? But if I put it in his head that that's

33:36

early, then he's gonna believe it. So

33:39

that's all about the parent molding. They're

33:41

learning, they're growing, they're taking things in

33:43

from the environment. And I don't think

33:45

politics in the pool should get involved

33:48

with the children at all. It shouldn't

33:50

be in the pool. So your son designs

33:52

like art? Yeah, the rest is, yeah. Like

33:54

he picks them up and he makes them

33:56

out of balloons. Aluminum foil, fabric, whatever he

33:58

can find to create. A

34:01

fashion dress, he makes it and it's really

34:03

awesome all the time. As long as you

34:05

don't tell him he's a girl, you know, that'll come in handy.

34:07

Even if he's on motor skills, when he has to unhook a

34:09

bra and he's older. Oh my god, I don't even want to

34:11

think about that, okay? I was the impariest. The

34:13

alternative is, the alternative could be scarier,

34:15

is all I'm saying. Oh my god.

34:18

You're either done or you lived at home. I

34:22

don't think it's either or not unhook a bra or stay at home.

34:25

But the point is well received. Alright, I

34:27

know it's hot out here. I appreciate you

34:29

all taking the time. Nice meeting you. Mattie

34:31

and then... Mattie and then... Ethan. Ethan.

34:34

Ah, that was so close. Thank you so much. I'm

34:37

sorry to make you guys be sweaty out here. Get in where

34:39

it's cool. No, I didn't cool off

34:41

a little. Happy birthday by the way. Wow,

34:43

you know I actually really enjoyed this

34:45

conversation for multiple reasons. Not

34:48

that. Get your mind out of the gutter. You're

34:50

better than that. It turns out that

34:52

you may gain some new perspective as

34:55

well as provide some for other people out

34:57

there regardless of the chasm that you think

35:00

may exist between you both politically. There

35:02

really is a lot of good that can come

35:05

from just getting out there and

35:07

talking with people.