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and texas he was jogging in iowa. jogging in new hampshire. he was jogging all the time for the better for the media. you know. and then he went to a gym in concord and did lifts did weight lifts and said, let me see ronald reagan do that, you know, that type of stuff and that really, really, really that was a and i understand why it was a burn to mrs. reagan saddle so he picked bush because he was out of at the convention they tried the co-presidency with gerald ford that, you know, it worked for about 8 hours and then it fell apart. right. it was just you know, it was nonsense, really. you know, jim baker later, he said he says if they been elected, would you call ford mr. president, mr. vice president, be mr. vice president. mr. president. so fell apart and reagan was out of options. jack kemp was too young. the one option i wish he'd thought of. i wish he thought it was to go back to a 76 choice. the schweiker really, really good man senator from pennsylvania. and he dramatically when he was reagan's running mate in 76, he was he a moderat
and texas he was jogging in iowa. jogging in new hampshire. he was jogging all the time for the better for the media. you know. and then he went to a gym in concord and did lifts did weight lifts and said, let me see ronald reagan do that, you know, that type of stuff and that really, really, really that was a and i understand why it was a burn to mrs. reagan saddle so he picked bush because he was out of at the convention they tried the co-presidency with gerald ford that, you know, it worked...
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wreckage and they put on a plane, cargo plane, to the eighth air force headquarters in in fort worth, texas where someone else at it and says, idiots, this is a weather balloon. and and in about three and a half hours, the military puts a second statement saying, you know, our apologies. it's not a flying saucer it's a weather balloon. and the roswell story comes and goes in about 3 hours and is basically for 30 years and really reemerges all in the wake of watergate in the late 1970s. and, you know, one of the things that really surprised me in working on this book was, is joel said, my previous was a history of watergate. and this book, in some ways ends being a weird sequel to a book on watergate because the second half of the book ends up being a lot about the rise of ufo conspiracy theories and collapse of faith and trust and truth in government institutions. and so the ufo conspiracies become, really the first government can spirits these to rise in wake of watergate the committee the pike committee vietnam, the pentagon papers in the seventies and eighties. and really establish the c
wreckage and they put on a plane, cargo plane, to the eighth air force headquarters in in fort worth, texas where someone else at it and says, idiots, this is a weather balloon. and and in about three and a half hours, the military puts a second statement saying, you know, our apologies. it's not a flying saucer it's a weather balloon. and the roswell story comes and goes in about 3 hours and is basically for 30 years and really reemerges all in the wake of watergate in the late 1970s. and, you...
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angela stroud, a sociologist who went down to texas and interviewed like 100 gun owners and she say, are you here? and you're going everywhere. and they'd be like, well, i could pull up to a bodega and mr. saggy pants gag gangbanger might pull up to my car and if he's packin, i want to be packin. and she'd say, well, did that ever happen? it didn't happen. one time they actually there was not even a bodega where they live. and so so a lot of this. yeah. and so part of this is about the, the kind of fear of speculate in which guns become like, oh my god, i'm unprotected at this moment, which some people is a very real threat i mean, i'm doing a project on guns in israel right now. i'm trying to stop spread of handguns in israel, which is another insane problem. but like there are all these stories, people who didn't have a gun when they need it. and those become like really important real life death stories, but idea of speculative threat. but the problem and is a very short answer to a very complicated and we have we have divided did this whole divide of illegal and legal guns and cr
angela stroud, a sociologist who went down to texas and interviewed like 100 gun owners and she say, are you here? and you're going everywhere. and they'd be like, well, i could pull up to a bodega and mr. saggy pants gag gangbanger might pull up to my car and if he's packin, i want to be packin. and she'd say, well, did that ever happen? it didn't happen. one time they actually there was not even a bodega where they live. and so so a lot of this. yeah. and so part of this is about the, the...
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you're seeing a little bit this particularly down in texas in a little bit in arizona. you know, will the democrats really risk with our current border are they going to send federal troops down to texas and say we're going to start arresting? and i knew michael was going to say, yes of arresting people who are just trying to enforce the federal laws that they won't enforce. i think they may try. but i think if we're smart, we can make the optics of that so bad that becomes toxic even for the democrats. so that's that short term, create facts on the ground. what do we do? the long conceptually? well, first, i think we have to puncture the nation of immigrants myth that's literally its origins in a democrat campaign in 1960. if you read my chapter in the book i kind of go all into sort of the history of american immigration, which is not what most people think it is. so you can see some of my other talks on youtube. we also need to have a candid look at what worked and what didn't work under trump, under trump deportations increased. the border was certainly more secure.
you're seeing a little bit this particularly down in texas in a little bit in arizona. you know, will the democrats really risk with our current border are they going to send federal troops down to texas and say we're going to start arresting? and i knew michael was going to say, yes of arresting people who are just trying to enforce the federal laws that they won't enforce. i think they may try. but i think if we're smart, we can make the optics of that so bad that becomes toxic even for the...
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but then, you know, university of austin, this new fledgling university in texas, they approached me. so i have an affiliation there. you know, my i got this i was approached by substack to move my my writing my newsletter to their platform and that's been paying the bills and you know so we'll see i but as far as an academic job goes i'm still unimpressed with the legacy institutions of i'm back right here. you have the scribe the concept of luxury beliefs as impose costs upon the lower classes in exchange for societal social to the upper classes. but it increasingly seems like with some things like transgenderism, for instance, the upper classes are, you know, very to have that done to their kids as well, that these things are not just things where, you know, they're expressing support for them, but not actually practicing them. how do you think that how does that alter your view of luxury beliefs? well, so the transgender kids. well, so so generally good luxury beliefs they can inflict costs on the upper classes but the the price is lower. they are in a better position to withstand
but then, you know, university of austin, this new fledgling university in texas, they approached me. so i have an affiliation there. you know, my i got this i was approached by substack to move my my writing my newsletter to their platform and that's been paying the bills and you know so we'll see i but as far as an academic job goes i'm still unimpressed with the legacy institutions of i'm back right here. you have the scribe the concept of luxury beliefs as impose costs upon the lower...
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if you in texas or california, you're very familiar issues with the electricity grid. these are, you know, broadband internet, for example, you know, isn't in rural areas in a in large parts of this country. so there are lots of problems in all these sectors, too. and i think part of that story is a question of public policy choices. and we can solve some of those problems if think about making different choices as as policymakers it does. me that there are you know, in some ways businesses that are essential to other businesses and tend, as you said, towards concentration or monopoly. why don't we take one last question and i'm going to have got a faculty meeting about this gentleman in the front to see so much, to talk. i have two quick questions. so, one, my first questions that do you have a one question, if you don't mind? okay. so the current problem with iran does true. do you think it has something more than the iranian trade? so so the monopoly of the airline industry in this country is also due to the absence of a high speed railway network. and we don't have
if you in texas or california, you're very familiar issues with the electricity grid. these are, you know, broadband internet, for example, you know, isn't in rural areas in a in large parts of this country. so there are lots of problems in all these sectors, too. and i think part of that story is a question of public policy choices. and we can solve some of those problems if think about making different choices as as policymakers it does. me that there are you know, in some ways businesses...
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but then, you know, university of austin, this new fledgling university in texas, they approached me. so i have an affiliation there. you know, my i got this i was approached by substack to move my my writing my newsletter to their platform and that's been paying the bills and you know so we'll see i but as far as an academic job goes i'm still unimpressed with the legacy institutions of i'm back right here. you have the scribe the concept of luxury beliefs as impose costs upon the lower classes in exchange for societal social to the upper classes. but it increasingly seems like with some things like transgenderism, for instance, the upper classes are, you know, very to have that done to their kids as well, that these things are not just things where, you know, they're expressing support for them, but not actually practicing them. how do you think that how does that alter your view of luxury beliefs? well, so the transgender kids. well, so so generally good luxury beliefs they can inflict costs on the upper classes but the the price is lower. they are in a better position to withstand
but then, you know, university of austin, this new fledgling university in texas, they approached me. so i have an affiliation there. you know, my i got this i was approached by substack to move my my writing my newsletter to their platform and that's been paying the bills and you know so we'll see i but as far as an academic job goes i'm still unimpressed with the legacy institutions of i'm back right here. you have the scribe the concept of luxury beliefs as impose costs upon the lower...
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port arthur, texas. galveston, texas i could go on and on and on and the queries were all very similar. dear senator, they began, and then each letter outlined complaints about illegal gambling, prostitution and intimidation, sometimes violent intimidation by a small group of racketeers and their employees. but the men and women who wrote these letters also linked those activities to the things i mentioned earlier, to political corruption, to labor racketeering, or to just meddling in local whatever the local business was, and to colbert and security concerns. one person in muscle shoals wrote a letter to key favors, saying that he was certain that communal arts were running the mob in muscle shoals. another person, this person called himself or herself an american, wrote this this rather odd and paranoid sounding note to the committee, saying that that communism was the brother of the black market. another man wrote a letter to keep our calling racketeers parasites and saying that he thought they were a
port arthur, texas. galveston, texas i could go on and on and on and the queries were all very similar. dear senator, they began, and then each letter outlined complaints about illegal gambling, prostitution and intimidation, sometimes violent intimidation by a small group of racketeers and their employees. but the men and women who wrote these letters also linked those activities to the things i mentioned earlier, to political corruption, to labor racketeering, or to just meddling in local...
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and the stewardess woke me up and says, we're in texas. and i went, i'm going to california. and i went back to sleep. well, we got california and i went down to pick up my duffel bag and i waited for the baggage come through. and i was not many duffel bags and i thought there was more than then. i never did find a duffel bag. so i went to the baggage claim. i said, hey, you know, where's my bag? and he says, and let me see your ticket. and he looked at ticket. he says, your bags probably in san francisco. you're in los angelus. that's supposed to change your plane to dallas. and i didn't make that. so i ended up going to oakland. when we got to oakland, one of the guys in my flight class with jim willingham and his father, he lived in right outside of california. and jim, mr. willingham worked for caterpillar and he'd given everybody a business card and told us in when we got there to call, calling. so after i checked in, i called him up and he told me to meet him at a bar. where? down there. there was three or four guys from my flight class. there and mr. willingham showed
and the stewardess woke me up and says, we're in texas. and i went, i'm going to california. and i went back to sleep. well, we got california and i went down to pick up my duffel bag and i waited for the baggage come through. and i was not many duffel bags and i thought there was more than then. i never did find a duffel bag. so i went to the baggage claim. i said, hey, you know, where's my bag? and he says, and let me see your ticket. and he looked at ticket. he says, your bags probably in...
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if i'm if i'm an enslaved person in texas, canada is a of a distance to try and reach. so the movement is towards mexico. once mexico abolishes slavery. so that, i think, is the way to look at the equation. once wherever you have free soil, people will go towards it. no. is there a magic here? you? yeah, but i think your recording you have to be the only one motivated someone someone. territory. can i characterize? not in mixed company. i shouldn't shouldn't. there was money to be made. the people to slave catchers who turned up in boston. looking for william and allen. craft one worked with william in a carpenter shop so he knew him and therefore you could identify him. and the second one was hired by the slave catchers because he had a reputation for doing that sort of thing. so there's to be made in and the money was significant enough that it warranted doing this. the slave the slave holders on the hand after 1850 would were guaranteed the cost. the cost of returning the fugitive would be covered by the government. yeah. so if you look at the bills, the bills of ret
if i'm if i'm an enslaved person in texas, canada is a of a distance to try and reach. so the movement is towards mexico. once mexico abolishes slavery. so that, i think, is the way to look at the equation. once wherever you have free soil, people will go towards it. no. is there a magic here? you? yeah, but i think your recording you have to be the only one motivated someone someone. territory. can i characterize? not in mixed company. i shouldn't shouldn't. there was money to be made. the...
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senator yarborough of texas wanted to do it a different way. there's a huge view. that was the reason kennedy down there to begin with, try to mend some fences again so that you could win texas in the general election. and so jerry bruno planned the trip he get the motorcade the way he wanted. he didn't get them to the right venue where he wanted. instead, governor connally got way, which proved tragic. another kind of wrench in this was that texas christian university was supposed to give an honorary degree that day, or perhaps the day before. but at the last minute they realized, oh, we don't give honorary degrees to catholics, according to jerry bruno. and so again, like, had they just given the honorary degree, had they taken the different route, had they not gone to the trademark all of these ways? and so jerry bruno, just very profoundly shares how he tried like to do all these different things. and i mean, who could have said what that history would have been like? maybe lee harvey oswald have been in a different place, who knows? but the fact they went righ
senator yarborough of texas wanted to do it a different way. there's a huge view. that was the reason kennedy down there to begin with, try to mend some fences again so that you could win texas in the general election. and so jerry bruno planned the trip he get the motorcade the way he wanted. he didn't get them to the right venue where he wanted. instead, governor connally got way, which proved tragic. another kind of wrench in this was that texas christian university was supposed to give an...
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port arthur, texas. galveston, texas i could go on and on and on and the queries were all very similar. dear senator, they began, and then each letter outlined complaints about illegal gambling, prostitution and intimidation, sometimes violent intimidation by a small group of racketeers and their employees. but the men and women who wrote these letters also linked those activities to the things i mentioned earlier, to political corruption, to labor racketeering, or to just meddling in local whatever the local business was, and to colbert and security concerns. one person in muscle shoals wrote a letter to key favors, saying that he was certain that communal arts were running the mob in muscle shoals. another person, this person called himself or herself an american, wrote this this rather odd and paranoid sounding note to the committee, saying that that communism was the brother of the black market. another man wrote a letter to keep our calling racketeers parasites and saying that he thought they were a
port arthur, texas. galveston, texas i could go on and on and on and the queries were all very similar. dear senator, they began, and then each letter outlined complaints about illegal gambling, prostitution and intimidation, sometimes violent intimidation by a small group of racketeers and their employees. but the men and women who wrote these letters also linked those activities to the things i mentioned earlier, to political corruption, to labor racketeering, or to just meddling in local...
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yeah, but 40 years ago in fort worth, texas was a group who started buying pawnshop shops. and i said, a banker, why are you investing this is that it gives us we are allowed to charge 20% a month. i said that's legal. he said absolutely legal. and later on they i mean, they made millions public soon, but why why isn't the bank doing this they say it's not in our charter or because people don't have collateral and credit. say, hang on a second. okay so they didn't that same group started all your cargo is loaning money against cars to the who the banks would not give credit to. they went public for billions. so what is it about banks? they see this profit here. they still don't go after well. i think the first part of your story is more accurate that is, if you look at pawnshops and day lenders and so forth they charge these enormous fees and enormous interest rates. a number of them are financed in the background by some of these big banks they're not the the big banks are to get some of the profits of the share of the profit here without getting the bad publicity. and so
yeah, but 40 years ago in fort worth, texas was a group who started buying pawnshop shops. and i said, a banker, why are you investing this is that it gives us we are allowed to charge 20% a month. i said that's legal. he said absolutely legal. and later on they i mean, they made millions public soon, but why why isn't the bank doing this they say it's not in our charter or because people don't have collateral and credit. say, hang on a second. okay so they didn't that same group started all...
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participated in an architect of the first online debit card system for food stamps for the state of texas. we do a lot of work in the gaming industry. lots of transactions and lots of data, that is where i do a lot of my work. investigating fraud is something i've always enjoyed doing and i think it is important to do. we look at foodstamp fraud and medicare fraud. host: who did you talk to from the trump campaign and who did you not talk to? guest: the simple answer to that is almost all of my communications were with alex cannon. as we set up the framework for how i was going to do this work, he told me that he was going to keep my identity and my company's identity closely held. he didn't want the white house to know who is doing the work because he wanted us to be unbiased, and he wanted us to be shielded from political pressure. he wanted us to be shielded from people insisting on a certain set of results because that is not what works for a successful court case. from anyone in the campaign, it was him. host:host: where did that communication go from alex? who did you talk to? guest
participated in an architect of the first online debit card system for food stamps for the state of texas. we do a lot of work in the gaming industry. lots of transactions and lots of data, that is where i do a lot of my work. investigating fraud is something i've always enjoyed doing and i think it is important to do. we look at foodstamp fraud and medicare fraud. host: who did you talk to from the trump campaign and who did you not talk to? guest: the simple answer to that is almost all of my...
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you can look at texas and other places. my home state of colorado is proving that transitioning to cleaner forms of energy, does not mean that you have to compromise unreliability. colorado has been moving quickly in the direction of renewable energy. one of these utilities has received approval, to look at the new network, connecting with these resources. this is from 2040. they are looking at the existing transitions. all of the new wind, energy, and solar powers created. states like colorado, are transitioning to a reliable, cleaner energy sources. i know the two things that are conjoined. all of you folks sitting here today, their massive response ability. a lot is being asked of you. a lot is expected of you. i want to thank you in advance for everything you are doing. i'm confident, giving the continual investments of these federal actions. we have the needs of the american people. we can all work together to have a smooth transition to cleaner energy. this does not sacrifice reliability. >> and trying to recognize th
you can look at texas and other places. my home state of colorado is proving that transitioning to cleaner forms of energy, does not mean that you have to compromise unreliability. colorado has been moving quickly in the direction of renewable energy. one of these utilities has received approval, to look at the new network, connecting with these resources. this is from 2040. they are looking at the existing transitions. all of the new wind, energy, and solar powers created. states like...
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market is so wacko so supply constraint and people are moving from northeast down into florida and texas so it's very difficult to disentangle i would expect this will have an impact on price. and on the commercial side it's built into our forecast, yes. so far it's very difficult to tease out. [inaudible] looks large swaths of america? works states are stepping in or people are self-insuring big commercials are saying is going to cost me $500,000 for some purpose complex. for five and the thousand dollars i can replace the entire roof so i'm just not going to do it. were seeing a lot more self-insurance. which, by the way it may mean more onus on government to step in. if you look at natural disasters in the last 50 years and you look at property damage and compare it to insurance plus government support it's almost one-for-one. so those place have less insurance get more government support. that took a lot of time, you were very attentive and i strive to be 51% right anyway thank you very much, thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations]
market is so wacko so supply constraint and people are moving from northeast down into florida and texas so it's very difficult to disentangle i would expect this will have an impact on price. and on the commercial side it's built into our forecast, yes. so far it's very difficult to tease out. [inaudible] looks large swaths of america? works states are stepping in or people are self-insuring big commercials are saying is going to cost me $500,000 for some purpose complex. for five and the...