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Michael Caw on Data Centers, Education and Healthcare | Candidate Conversations – Episode 106 · The Town Square Podcast

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  [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to the Town Square podcast where local advocates for a better community bring their different perspectives to the messy middle where we have a conversation where aim is unity, not uniformity, you pray Bailey and the Gabriel still, that's right, that's right, so glad, so glad to be here in the studio with you, my friend, autographs later, autographs later.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I know it, I know it's starting with you though, because you didn't even count these celebrity
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, we are in the middle of our candidate conversation series.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And this has been a good one.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Just like our primaries was a good one.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This is a great one.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We have heard so many different differing perspectives and we just hope that you are getting a little bit of edge attainment.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Yes, that's good work.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Ed, you've taken this.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: It's just a little more education than that time.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: But a little bit of both.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: That's right.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And it's where, you know, we want you to vote.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But don't just vote.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Know who you're voting for.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And so today we're joined in the studio by Candidate for Georgia House of Representatives District 114.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And so a lot of you folks are like, I don't know my district, that's fine.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So here it is.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It includes the eastern portion of Newton County, all of Morgan County, and it includes like the social circle area of Walton County.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That's a district 1114.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Currently, that seat is held by Tim Fleming, representing Tim Fleming.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I had to think about it for a second.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But today, we're joined by the councilman from the town of Newburn, which not a lot of people might know that, but the councilman from the town of Newburn,
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Yes, a Michael call.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's a glad to be with you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: So we are glad to have you, my friend.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Listen, if voters are first time hearing your name, first time seeing your face, who is Michael call?
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Who, how would you describe yourself to people who are just starting to get to know you in this realm?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Michael Call me.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, the right start.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That is Michael Call is me.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's we got to begin.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Guys, I hope you enjoyed the podcast.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: That's all we need to know.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Shortest one in our history.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Yes, and be.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm originally from Wichita, Kansas.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: How was born and raised in Wichita, uh, graduate from Wichita, state, uh, university.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Doctors.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, yes, yes because we are shockers because we supposed to shock the world and I've been here in the south for over 40 years I first moved to Chattanooga and then I moved here around about 30 years ago and I loved it
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I fell in love, actually, with Atlanta in 85, watched 22 years old, and I came for a Christian convention.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Youth convention.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I got introduced to traffic because they were, they were redoing the 75, and it took us two and a half hours to get from the airport to the American airport.
• 3:14
  [SPEAKER_03]: I was about 70 and what in 1985, so what 41 years later, we're still in the same boat.
• 3:21
  [SPEAKER_03]: That's what we did.
• 3:22
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's what it is, yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So, and neatly to say, end up renting a car.
• 3:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I was all over Atlanta.
• 3:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: I put over 2000 miles over the only car that we did.
• 3:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: I had it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Needless to say, it wasn't in the Christian conference, like I was supposed to be.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I enjoyed it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I thought it was the greatest thing ever, and I promise myself once I grabbed from college I would come back.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But I'm of a David Crackett kind of guy.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to see the smoke from your chimney.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And my sister lived here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I didn't understand how big Atlanta was.
• 4:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: So that's why I moved the chatter new because I figured I didn't see the smoke from her chimney.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We'll be all right, you know, she's a great sister.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She's one of my favorite sisters, but it's just I didn't want to be right up under her.
• 4:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: Right, you know, I make sense, but I work for George the last job I worked for, um, that are retired from which George Pacific, uh, which all of this, uh, construction that is around you, table and all that kind of stuff.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I used to test why I would, uh, um,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: uh... we had furnaces that we burn up stuff you know we construct whole rooms and stuff uh... but basically mostly wall ceilings under layment uh... outdoor uh... testing also for ruff's uh... of funny thing is this here when i was fifteen i was sitting on a uh... missionary trip to uh... st.k.s.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: British West Indies to help put a roof on a church
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I retire, what, work with Ruth?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Where's Ruth?
• 4:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: There's some years later.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The book ended.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Full circle.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: No.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That sounds like a burning wood everyday as your job.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Like testing stuff.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's like a young man's dream.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Telling you, man.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It was fun to learn the different things.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Also, what we'd have to put into things, so as to make people safe, because one of the things was always trying to make it so that a person can exit at a fist within a certain amount of time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, and that was always the thing, safety, how can we do things better?
• 5:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: They used to do safety doors, and I had this one machine that would slam the door many times to make sure that all the hardware would work, and you know, you get into a rhythm of the moon.
• 5:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: You don't even hear enough for a while?
• 5:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it just goes into the background.
• 5:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I made light of it, but I know that was a very scientific job that you had and a lot of what's about safety.
• 5:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, hey, we appreciate that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You said from Wichita, Kansas, though, and it's close to my, man, let's just bring it.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: That's why I know about the shockers.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I'm from Omaha, Nebraska, and that's just right, not too far out the road, man.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Neighbors.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And I know what Wichita, which taught state back in the day, I think they were in some big sports guys.
• 6:16
  [SPEAKER_03]: So, Kyle's basketball, they were in the Missouri Valley Conference with
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, back in the day, and so we would, there were some times I went to Creighton Games and they were playing against Wichita State.
• 6:26
  [SPEAKER_03]: So I always used to give us, give us headaches.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, Wichita State was always one of those sleeper teams in the NCAA tournament, and so we learned to love and hate them at the same time.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: because they gave y'all his gay prey to the ballgame.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Both of them actually sneak in to the ballgame.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They pretty regularly.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, absolutely.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Great.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Great.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: They're in a big East now and they've kind of become a little bit of a power out there.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: It is.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: It is.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: It is.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: A small world.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Small world indeed.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Glad to have some of the midlers.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And here's the Winston flare.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I love it.
• 7:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: I love it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: What do you think, like if we're sharing this out with 250,000 people in this area right here, what is the thing that makes Michael call Michael call?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you came from the Midwest, I can't you come Midwest, Midwest, Midwest, Midwest, Midwest, Midwest, Midwest, that's right, that's right, that's right, that's right.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Didn't Chattanooga now to, you know, Newburn of all places, like what's prepared you to do this role that you're looking at now?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: is working with people and you had to work with people, you had to work with different people in different ideas.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's not just one set, one mold.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There's multiple ways to do things, but we should have a base for what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: to assist the people, to achieve the goals and wish the people want to achieve, like in education, you know, making sure that our kids are educated and not just for the jobs of today, but for the jobs of tomorrow.
• 7:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: They have to be flexible enough to be able to move from one spot to another spot, it's just like us, being from the Midwest, when the wind blew, we knew how to go on the ground.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And we knew when to come back and look at the ants.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The ants was going into you, you know, because you knew, you know, tornado something was going to come up.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, so his one of those things that the collage of working with different people and and having the ability to go different places and see different things, because like here in the south, I love our food.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We have some great food from the south.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And a lot of that was transferred up to the Midwest.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, but it was one of those things that when you come down here, okay, I thought Creme Corn was great, you know, the golden Creme Corn, when I came down here and they took the white Corn is a car.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, my lord, you know, taking to a different level is one of those things in which.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Working with people and working with structures and working with systems, you learn there's certain things that we need to do and how we need to coalesce around a certain standard.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Everything that I've ever done at the Georgia Pacific, it had a standard.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Same thing in life, there's standards that we have in which we can vary within that standard, but we have something there in which we have a foundation to build upon and continue to
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Now, I'm curious of this, you know, a lot of things that you probably could be doing with your time now.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Why did you decide to run for Georgia House?
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And why do you feel like this was the right time for you to seek public office?
• 9:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, we have some problems, and the people are saying that they don't feel like our electric officials are listening to them.
• 9:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're not being heard.
• 9:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: And a lot of the things that I've seen that is true, you know, if you don't want a data set at some place, you don't want that data set there, you know, or whatever is there.
• 10:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: But it is the right time because it's something in which needs to be done.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, we need to have good people there and that they should be represented in the people.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They should understand that we are all constituents.
• 10:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm a fellow constituent and all it is is I'm just wanting to be that advocate.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: for my fellow constituents and be that representative under the gold dome.
• 10:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: So that was the main reason to make sure that I can go from crying about some protests and to making policy and bringing the people along so that they know what we're doing and how that it affects their life.
• 10:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: How does that work in Newbridge?
• 10:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: Because you're kind of doing it on a smaller scale now and on a Newbridge it's not, he had the horny head festival probably not too long ago.
• 10:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: Right, it's a big thank you.
• 10:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: So what's that like?
• 10:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's just a bigger scale when you, if you were to win this race and go to the dome or is this, it's a bigger scale but it's the same thing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Only thing instead of me representing
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  [SPEAKER_00]: $1,000, you know, that's the 1,700.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Just a few more people.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Do you know all the 700 by the way?
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  [SPEAKER_02]: In New York.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I know cleaning.
• 11:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know what I know.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: When I get out is like, hey, how do you do?
• 11:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One of the other things that I do in Newton is we have the Newborn heritage trust, which takes care of the old school house.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So I've always been a volunteer in that there and what we do there we have Bingo's on Thursday's Saturday.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Thursday's Sunday of every month, I will almost every month and you get to meet people from all the different communities and stuff like that there and then being on the council itself, you see what you have to
• 11:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: take policies like variants and stuff and apply them to the person's situation and we use presidents on how we can do that, you know, but it's one of those things that, yeah, it's just a smidgen more doing up to the goal, don't you know.
• 12:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, you've been all over.
• 12:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure.
• 12:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like you've been canvas.
• 12:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: I heard you're talking to Miss Pam Delancy, who's running for U.S. Congress District 10 and I heard you guys talking about just the canvassing and getting out and talking to everybody.
• 12:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: What are you hearing?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Like, what are you hearing in District 14?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Like, what are some of the concerns?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Like, early when I was talking to you about being in a computer science engineer, okay, back in the 80s, back in the old days, we were trying to mineralize everything and use less energy, less everything.
• 12:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Whereas this right here seemed like they forgot that that playbook is going to be ginormous Right, you know, and you're going to use ginormous amount of resources and the problem with that there is people should be first for those resources, you know, we have to have water.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: No, we need to, and most folks that live, especially on this area here, they're not wanting something that's going to affect the noise.
• 13:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: But where I live it right now, I don't want something that affects the light because
• 13:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: the whole universe, you know, it's one of those things we want to have.
• 13:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, hey, I have, uh, it's a tool to use.
• 13:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: Sure.
• 13:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, but we don't need as many of these sinners, and also they should also be looking at what they're doing to the environment.
• 13:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, are they actually going to be good corporate neighbors?
• 13:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: Are you going to actually be a part of the community like in Newborn?
• 13:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: We have the A, A, A, A, A, A, P, signed company.
• 14:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's one of our people.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We have mechanics that are there.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We have a,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: barbecue on 142.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Right.
• 14:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you know, you have Lucy's.
• 14:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And all these they anchor that that city.
• 14:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Right.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, and then we work together with Mansfield, because you got the Mansfield markets center.
• 14:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, in which we go in bar groceries and we are.
• 14:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, if you guys have not been out there come out to the dream.
• 14:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: I need to do.
• 14:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: I agree.
• 14:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: They have some good ice cream.
• 14:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 14:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: So it's working together.
• 14:38
  [SPEAKER_03]: you know and building from the ground up.
• 14:42
  [SPEAKER_03]: That's good stuff.
• 14:43
  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, I want to ask you this, like what do you feel like are kind of the top three issues that you want to address as a state representative?
• 14:55
  [SPEAKER_03]: And then why would you feel like these issues are the things that are most important for you?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, one we already have, the data centers and making sure that we are environmentally being stewards with those there, the other one would be education making sure that we go through and redo the formula that that we have.
• 15:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I also support the schools, not only by the state itself, but encouraged the citizen trees to support the kids, you know, helped them to read, helped them to explore different mechanisms.
• 15:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: And also helped the children understand that they need to be civil minded about doing stuff in the community themselves and building the community.
• 15:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: The community just didn't get there by itself.
• 15:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Newborn started in 1809 and it was it survived because of people right and the same way with Newton County when it It came about but that's one thing and the third thing but don't get the number three yet I'm gonna frame on the break Okay, we got somebody finally in this seat talking about the QBE formula
• 16:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, we can be half out of five, we can be half out of five.
• 16:09
  [SPEAKER_03]: Go ahead, get some more.
• 16:10
  [SPEAKER_03]: Come on, go ahead.
• 16:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: I just, it's like, um, we have a blue ribbon committee, the state has a blue ribbon committee that are looking at the QBE formula like in earnest this year.
• 16:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So that maybe by January, there may, I don't, I mean, I can wish and wish because this formula was created in 1989 and it hasn't been updated like it was 84.
• 16:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry, yeah, 1981.
• 16:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
• 16:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, absolutely.
• 16:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: To educate a little gay real with the pro, then it is now.
• 16:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm just, I'm just, I'm happy to hear someone who is running for office to say, this is a real need.
• 17:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: Number two, it was number two.
• 17:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
• 17:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: That we really need to look at this.
• 17:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm just saying,
• 17:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think there's a chance.
• 17:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think there's a chance this year that maybe the legislators will take it seriously.
• 17:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
• 17:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe look at it.
• 17:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: And if you're there, no, we've got what to add to this.
• 17:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
• 17:18
  [SPEAKER_03]: You definitely have one person pushing it.
• 17:20
  [SPEAKER_03]: That's true.
• 17:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: Because that's our, that is our now in our future.
• 17:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
• 17:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, a lot of times, one of the things I want what our kids just don't get so stuck on their own the technology, be able to think because you have to be able to think.
• 17:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: have developmental skills, like what you learn in art, what you learn, also in athletics, athletics, teach you strategy.
• 17:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: It teaches you those things there, teamwork and leadership work.
• 17:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then also, I want you to be a scholar, because it's like I'm also part of the, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
• 17:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: Lions club in Oxford and we're testing eyes of the kids.
• 18:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I had a little girl to the day said that she she's going to be playing basketball And another girl said you can get an inch kid now you can get a kiss.
• 18:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: I stopped to write in this a sweet heart You can only make money doing this for a little while But you need to have this and make money for a longer walk right there and they don't understand.
• 18:20
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's it's bad not bad for like it's
• 18:23
  [SPEAKER_03]: It takes me back when I realized how little they understand that.
• 18:27
  [SPEAKER_03]: Like I had a conversation last Monday, Labor Day, fourth month in nephew, he was with us 13 years old.
• 18:34
  [SPEAKER_03]: And he's, you know, he's on a good trajectory.
• 18:36
  [SPEAKER_03]: He could become a pretty good basketball player.
• 18:39
  [SPEAKER_03]: But when I, it was myself and deacon from our church and he's 73.
• 18:45
  [SPEAKER_03]: And when we broke it down to him,
• 18:48
  [SPEAKER_03]: I was like, what do you think is the average career length of an NFL running back?
• 18:56
  [SPEAKER_03]: Because he's like a, if I don't play basketball, I'm going to be a runner back in the NFL.
• 19:01
  [SPEAKER_03]: He was like 12 years.
• 19:03
  [SPEAKER_03]: Ha ha, try five.
• 19:05
  [SPEAKER_03]: Like, and when you retire, you're not even 30 yet.
• 19:09
  [SPEAKER_03]: What are you going to do with the rest of your life?
• 19:11
  [SPEAKER_03]: Right.
• 19:12
  [SPEAKER_03]: he didn't even fathom it.
• 19:14
  [SPEAKER_03]: He thinks he's thinking he's going to play basketball football till he's 70 years old and is like, no man, you still have more than half of your life left even if you have a long career.
• 19:26
  [SPEAKER_03]: And so getting the education that undergirds and being able to, I love what you said, you know, beyond the technology,
• 19:35
  [SPEAKER_03]: do you know how to communicate?
• 19:36
  [SPEAKER_03]: Do you know how to think if the GPS goes down?
• 19:39
  [SPEAKER_03]: Can you find a kid?
• 19:40
  [SPEAKER_03]: Do you know how to read a map?
• 19:42
  [SPEAKER_03]: Can you know how to get hold in the right?
• 19:44
  [SPEAKER_03]: Like that kind of stuff and then I think it kind of, I ain't go like, kind of scares me a little bit because I'm like, man, we're so dependent on this stuff that these young, that this up emerging generation doesn't even know how to communicate anymore.
• 19:57
  [SPEAKER_03]: So that's that's that's that's interesting to me.
• 20:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: So you gave us the first two.
• 20:01
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yep.
• 20:02
  [SPEAKER_03]: They just introduced it.
• 20:03
  [SPEAKER_03]: It stopped you.
• 20:04
  [SPEAKER_03]: I'm sorry.
• 20:04
  [SPEAKER_03]: That's okay.
• 20:05
  [SPEAKER_03]: It was worth it.
• 20:07
  [SPEAKER_03]: It was a good stop.
• 20:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: I like your net QB funding funding for me.
• 20:10
  [SPEAKER_03]: We're going to do it.
• 20:10
  [SPEAKER_03]: You wish it on the boat.
• 20:12
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• 21:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: the number three is we're going to have to expand Medicare because we need affordable healthcare also assessability okay where I may it takes the ambulance a long time to get there and I can just
• 21:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: I can just imagine what it would if you were down at Rocky Plains.
• 21:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 21:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: How long is it going to take the MLS to get some place?
• 21:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: And how long, and if they needed to get it up to Newton County Hospital?
• 21:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: why don't we have something alone the way in which you can stabilize the person then transfer them there.
• 21:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
• 21:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: No, the only other thing is do is to let a helicopter and you know take them across, but that is very crawl cost prohibitists.
• 21:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: Right, you know.
• 21:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: Right.
• 21:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: But have that access and start you know because like one of the things to get me about Georgia.
• 21:59
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• 22:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, how in the world are you going to foster families if you don't have something there to take care of them and then the other thing is Is 65 our counties do not have any Doctors for kids You know pediatricians, you know
• 22:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: Mine is, we should, as a state, take it from the womb to the tomb, you know, have something there, have regional hospitals, in areas, and stuff, because one, that would help in employment, you know, and also we take care of the citizen tree, you know, and I think that would be a good investment because that money is going to come back to us, you know, if you have a healthy citizen tree, you do a whole lot better.
• 22:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: you know, and they can think.
• 23:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: Also, I hope that that includes a middle portion to it.
• 23:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: Because right now I see a lot of people that are being highly stressed and they do not have that capacity.
• 23:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like me and you, we've sent up here discussing something.
• 23:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of folks that do not have that ability.
• 23:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: And as you speak into our young kids, they're not building relationships so they can do that.
• 23:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: Um, or everything's on a screen when they don't have personal interaction is just the screen of what if the Yeah, the Wi-Fi goes out now.
• 23:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: Don't have my talk to.
• 23:31
  [SPEAKER_03]: Uh, I mean, I don't know how to talk to anybody.
• 23:32
  [SPEAKER_03]: There are stories of kids literally who go off the deep end because they don't, they're not, they're not able to get the Wi-Fi.
• 23:41
  [SPEAKER_03]: They get some kind of, you know, punishment or something.
• 23:45
  [SPEAKER_03]: My mom says, I'm the dad says I'm turning a wife off.
• 23:48
  [SPEAKER_03]: And they throwing stuff through windows and things.
• 23:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: But no, I mean, literally, I think they have a story.
• 23:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: I've seen it up of stories and kids.
• 23:55
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's like, just going off because they can't.
• 23:58
  [SPEAKER_03]: They don't do wife on my son.
• 24:00
  [SPEAKER_03]: I told him.
• 24:01
  [SPEAKER_03]: He freaks out every time I tell him about how when I was a kid and I was his age.
• 24:05
  [SPEAKER_03]: And if I wanted to talk to the little girl on the phone.
• 24:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, if I'm 15, I had to call a landline phone.
• 24:11
  [SPEAKER_03]: And I'll let phone number.
• 24:12
  [SPEAKER_03]: First what?
• 24:13
  [SPEAKER_03]: My mom and daddy would answer the word.
• 24:15
  [SPEAKER_03]: And I would say, hello, Mr. Mrs. Jones.
• 24:17
  [SPEAKER_03]: This is Gabriel.
• 24:18
  [SPEAKER_03]: How are you today?
• 24:19
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• 24:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, what is it doing adversely, adversely is it's it's less than community.
• 24:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, because it's like, you know, I'm a piggyback on your story.
• 24:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 24:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: When I was a kid, my parents both were working second shift.
• 24:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's one lady in in the neighborhood, Miss Wilson had one eye.
• 24:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: And it seemed like she could see all twenty-four of them houses all the way to the lady one out.
• 24:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: I was always in the back of my mind.
• 25:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: My mother and father told me I had to be on the porch by the time the city lights come over.
• 25:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I could see myself running down the street and do you guys remember at six millions of men?
• 25:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
• 25:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
• 25:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
• 25:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: Get the background.
• 25:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm here.
• 25:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm seeing her.
• 25:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: Do that dial phone.
• 25:18
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• 25:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: My reading teacher taught my grandfather, my mother, and father, and me, you know, my sixth grade teacher and the principal taught both my mom and dad.
• 25:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
• 25:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I had that kind of, you know, a system that was there.
• 26:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of these kids do not have that, you know.
• 26:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: But the other thing is we just have to keep building community, we had built community,
• 26:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: understanding that it's all about us.
• 26:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: We're going together.
• 26:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
• 26:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: How do you champion that?
• 26:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: I listen to you get to the gold dome and you're like, man, we need stronger families when these stronger schools and you mentioned like systems.
• 26:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: How do you, we, is that something you legislate or is it just something you model?
• 26:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like, what?
• 26:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: How would you do it from a leadership perspective?
• 26:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: Leadership is going to be in the policies.
• 26:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, what kind of policy am I putting out that?
• 26:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: Is it really helping them or is it helping the special interests over here?
• 26:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, okay.
• 26:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, you have to weigh those two things.
• 26:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, is this money that we're putting in to it going to be a good return on the investment?
• 26:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, we have a small,
• 26:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: pool of tax digest, which everybody is pumping from.
• 27:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, where we were from, they had to, oh, there it goes up there.
• 27:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yes.
• 27:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
• 27:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: And that's the same here.
• 27:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, there's going to come a time like the aquifer this out there.
• 27:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, they pumped a lot of water out of the aquifer.
• 27:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's under Kansas.
• 27:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, the brasska was nice.
• 27:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: They got most of theirs, but Kansas is almost going Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas,
• 27:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: But see we have to to understand that what taxes you can only get so much out and you need to be able to have that replenish the Aquifer that I'm talking about was created way back before you know in prehistoric times and it's sealed over So you don't get them much water off in there and it's about life that what our taxes right
• 27:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: Everyone's free to live, but at a recent limit, and we're going to have to figure out something better, you know, and learn how to put policies in place and have a long term.
• 28:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: Look, not just for what's the cycle, you know?
• 28:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we get elected every two years, okay?
• 28:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: So what?
• 28:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: What is the people going to be living for many, many years after you're gone?
• 28:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, long after I'm gone, because it's like I always say the reason why I was able to succeed was what happened with my great grandfather, you know, what he did and the prayers of everyone from that time owned and old lady Wilson, there was one that was just, I'll give him.
• 28:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: All of them helped me become the man that I had become and it helps me to seek out people and to work with people through their problems, because we all have some kind of problems, so yeah, yeah, absolutely no doubt about that.
• 28:52
  [SPEAKER_03]: I want to ask this, we talked about school support, we talked about health care, making it more accessible, all of that.
• 28:59
  [SPEAKER_03]: Let's talk about this.
• 29:00
  [SPEAKER_03]: How would you support local businesses in this area, farmers, working families?
• 29:06
  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, there's a lot of rule space in your area.
• 29:09
  [SPEAKER_03]: What that look like from a support standpoint for you?
• 29:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: I have always advocated buying locally, because when you buy locally, the money goes through the system several times, because it's like one of my merchants said, when you come and buy something from me, you help me pay my mortgage or help me pay for my kids going to school.
• 29:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: all these things are staying local.
• 29:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: When you go on Amazon and buy something, that money's going on.
• 29:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's the reason.
• 29:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: Right on out of there.
• 29:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: It took a, I remember when the first started up, you didn't have no taxes on Amazon.
• 29:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's why Amazon's true.
• 29:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: And all these, all the brick and wooders got all hard to happen in the people start, you know, hey, every state should have their or community.
• 29:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: But it's one of those things.
• 29:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: You make sure that our farmers one, that we make sure they have a market.
• 30:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, and we make sure that food and one of the things I like about our local forests, you can you can trust the food the buckets of eggs from them.
• 30:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm okay with it.
• 30:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: If I get some lettuce from them, I know it's clean just for us.
• 30:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, say which is that just recent outbreak, right?
• 30:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: Don't from the Taco Bell.
• 30:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: God bless them.
• 30:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's those type of things because we have to have, they try to break it up and say, well, it's rural, urban, and it's served for, you know, but really, it's just people.
• 30:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: This personal of here, I'll load the farmers because you know what?
• 30:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: If you didn't know it, I loved it.
• 30:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, sir.
• 30:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: And they got the good one of those two.
• 30:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: I like to have the number one, uh, uh, uh, uh, our coach thing here is a lumber.
• 30:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm.
• 30:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, and that bill's hopes.
• 30:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm.
• 30:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: That was your job.
• 30:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm.
• 30:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, how much job?
• 30:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: I know how long that lumber going to last.
• 30:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to have to put some sticks together.
• 30:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay?
• 31:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: But, um, it's one of those things in which all of these people, the merchant, you know, this sells the product, the farmer that produces the product, the person that is buying the product, you know, if you do not have a consumer,
• 31:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: A customer, you don't have a business.
• 31:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: And that's for the form and it's for the merchant also.
• 31:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: Right.
• 31:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: And also for this person here, you ain't got a job.
• 31:26
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
• 31:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
• 31:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: We all are connected.
• 31:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
• 31:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: And so, mine is that you buy local, you know, you can buy anywhere, whatever, but try to your best to develop things local.
• 31:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: you know, also have a skill that you will like to share with somebody.
• 31:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's good.
• 31:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 31:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, one of the things I've done is I retired.
• 31:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: I learned how to sell.
• 31:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
• 31:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, so I can sew a shirt and not so good as yours, but it's close.
• 31:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, and I hope to learn how to be a shoe collar also because there's not that many shoe collar.
• 31:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: No, it's not.
• 32:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: But a spanger skills are often in talk to people and get with light-minded people and build that community to do those things.
• 32:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, it feels like there's a resurgence in like that artisan type thing.
• 32:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, Lily and Sparrow up on the square in Covington.
• 32:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: They do like an artisan market occasionally and they're actually their whole store is an artisan market.
• 32:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: They have local honey and
• 32:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: People have made hot sauces and all kinds of things they sell in there, but it seems to be a research Like there's a At one point we wanted everything out of a big box, right?
• 32:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know why or wind but some point in my lifetime is like everything came from a big box and then it came from Amazon and do Now it's like people are like now, you know what?
• 32:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: I would really like a nice pair of leather shoes that someone did put together with their hands or a nice leather bag or a You know, whatever it might be but something that you know what you're gonna pay another dollar or two for it
• 32:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: But the quality's going to be great in the dollar stay in that cycle here and they stay in the community.
• 32:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, I like them.
• 32:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: I hope that the artists and market artists and research and keeps happening.
• 33:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'd like to see that.
• 33:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: To fill you in on a little bit of ancient history.
• 33:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: They pushed us toward that during the 70s, the 70s and the 60s, because they built them all.
• 33:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, everybody went to the mall.
• 33:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, the plastic polyester?
• 33:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, all of that?
• 33:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, plastic?
• 33:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: They went to the mall, you just picked up all of that, you know?
• 33:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: And we moved away, because like, when I was a kid, the farmers, we lived inside the
• 33:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, but you know, you had forms inside the city limits and around it.
• 33:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, because it's kind of cost, but positive because you had the aircraft plants on the southwest side, you know, beachboards, that's the legit.
• 33:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: And you know, you see all kind of planes flying around.
• 33:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: And you also had the Air Force Base, you know, then on the west side of town, that's where you flew in.
• 33:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: if you could catch a flight.
• 33:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
• 33:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: But those farmers would come to the neighborhood and they honk and it seemed like every woman, every mother had a worker basket that she ran out the house and bought stuff from that farmer.
• 34:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: Because one of the funny things when I moved to Georgia, I don't know why I thought this, that sweet potatoes came off the back of the truck.
• 34:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: I was in a fetus seat and I saw the foot.
• 34:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, this is way over here.
• 34:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
• 34:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, back in the truck.
• 34:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: But it was a move that they did to us.
• 34:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, that they wanted us to, you know, to,
• 34:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: What they did was, the powers to be, I'm talking about the money powers, decided that they want to commoditize everything.
• 34:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: They commoditize our health care, because the healthcare used to be non-profit.
• 34:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Blue Cross Blue Shield was non-profit.
• 34:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: They tried to do the same thing with education.
• 34:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's why you had all these facilities and stuff that's around here that we don't have anymore, or we have a few.
• 35:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: But everything has been commoditized, including your homes.
• 35:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's why they cost so much.
• 35:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: My parents bought their home for $9,000 in $56.
• 35:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now $9,000 in $9,000.
• 35:16
  [SPEAKER_03]: These in car for that much, and now they're in the car, and it was one of those things.
• 35:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: My mother's one of the ones that got me interested in economics, because
• 35:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: She would write a thousand times in the family Bible.
• 35:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: I would pay this bill, I'd pay this bill.
• 35:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: And that was the $87.56 mortgage on the house.
• 35:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: Wow, you know, but everybody, you know, you only really needed one person working to a 40.
• 35:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: And if you had a real good job, you saw the Brady Bunch.
• 35:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, but most of the money helped you.
• 35:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Most of the money was like the Fred Flintstones, you know, pretty much.
• 35:52
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, pretty much.
• 35:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: So that's all changes for saying that we just didn't change now.
• 35:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: They do not okay Back in the day you could put your furniture up for a loan
• 36:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: I really, you can put your furniture up for it.
• 36:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: That could be your collateral.
• 36:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: I was a collateral.
• 36:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, my dad, they went on a vacation.
• 36:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I had, well, it's pushed my parents because they had never had a honeymoon.
• 36:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: So when I graduated in 81, I was telling pop, you know, I had told them years before I said, Dad, you need to take mom on a cruise.
• 36:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: And he's always in my father.
• 36:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: I was telling him you give it a money.
• 36:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, what are the things I learned?
• 36:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: This is a life skill that you learn from your parents.
• 36:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: I learned that my dad, if I could show my dad, somebody else did it?
• 36:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: he would go do it.
• 36:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
• 36:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I showed him Mr. Fields, Mr. Field had 12 keys, Daniel had five, and I was the youngest.
• 36:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: He took his wife on a crew.
• 36:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: So pop, you know, put the furniture up to go on a crew.
• 36:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's cute.
• 36:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: When I found out later, I was like, Dad, you know, I didn't tell it to him by the time mom said, Mom, that's not a vacation.
• 36:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: Right.
• 36:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's trippin'.
• 37:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's a collateral last night, so for so I can get on a boat.
• 37:07
  [SPEAKER_03]: I love it.
• 37:07
  [SPEAKER_03]: I love it.
• 37:08
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's good stuff.
• 37:08
  [SPEAKER_03]: I love it.
• 37:09
  [SPEAKER_03]: Let me ask you this.
• 37:11
  [SPEAKER_03]: How would you approach working with Republicans and Democrats as they say across the aisle in the legislature?
• 37:22
  [SPEAKER_03]: What would your approach be toward that?
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• 37:30
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• 37:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: Might as first see him as a human being, and seeing that they are representing a set of people.
• 37:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: I would listen to their ideas and see where we could meet in the middle, you know, or try to get them to, you know, come in a little bit closer, you know, because if you is like, in my district, Boston is way up at the top of Morgan County, away.
• 38:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: you go way down to the southern part of the county.
• 38:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's a long distance in order.
• 38:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: The same way here where I live in Newburgh, trying to go down the rock and plain, long ways, but we can meet somewhere in the middle.
• 38:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: How are we going to do this?
• 38:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: And compromise has not a dirty word.
• 38:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: No, we compromise all the time.
• 38:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know daily.
• 38:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: You compromise with that seat there because you trusted that it was going to hold you up.
• 38:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: And you make sure that you just don't plop yourself.
• 38:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's right, you know.
• 38:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: Same with these mics here.
• 38:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: You just don't yell and scream in them.
• 38:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's things that we need to have common sense about.
• 38:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: And common sense with each other.
• 38:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: Have patient with people.
• 38:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, because people, the people, you know, we did not get where we are just overnight.
• 39:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's true.
• 39:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, you have to also have empathy, understanding that you may not have felt that at time as somebody else, right, man, you know, and you have to be half concerned, you know, how is your fellow man doing?
• 39:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I got, you funny thing happened, I was on my way from church, and I saw this girl in a parking lot.
• 39:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: She was on her knees.
• 39:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: I like, oh, did she fall as you can't get up?
• 39:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, the first, like, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that,
• 39:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: own a hot day and she's praying and she may have had some other issues or whatever and so i stopped and i asked her and she said will you pray with me?
• 39:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: i said yeah so i pray with her then another guy came pray with her then the cap kind of please came up
• 39:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: and pray it on us, and pray it on us.
• 40:03
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
• 40:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: What it was, it was two God to come up.
• 40:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: They tried to forget what was going on.
• 40:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: What was going on?
• 40:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was going on right here.
• 40:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: And they are E-Wild on E-Wild.
• 40:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: And so it was like, and she was saying it was so hot.
• 40:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: She was thinking that God was mad with us and blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 40:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: No, the problem was one, you're on asphalt, which pulls in heat.
• 40:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then the other thing that I told us that be careful where you pray it because if she had a bit and went up a little bit farther, there was a screw that was right there and that those don't feel too good in your needs or in your joints especially when they hide.
• 40:38
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's hot and you're already on that.
• 40:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: So it is one of those things that you help people.
• 40:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: You have a concern for folks.
• 40:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: How can we better build our communities each one of us?
• 40:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: And in our families, how can we help one another?
• 40:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, one of the things that was taught to me as a kid, there's five of us.
• 40:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: One of us may do some, but all five was got to be.
• 41:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 41:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 41:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, you know, together, you know, whether it's is the environment, whether it's the economy, whether it's the education, whether it's the jobs, whether it's whatever it's in this community, because I hope not pray a lot of times that we do not have any kind of true devastation from storms because we've been it we've had a couple of ten tornadoes touchdown in that area, you know.
• 41:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: How are we prepared?
• 41:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: We prepared ourselves.
• 41:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, and it can't be a wish or a thought.
• 41:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: It has to be true preparedness.
• 41:36
  [SPEAKER_03]: No, absolutely.
• 41:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: We've heard some other folks come here and say that, like, you know, a pot hole doesn't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, right?
• 41:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: You just need to get the thing fixed.
• 41:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: But when we first met, I think physically met for the first time, because I had heard your name a thousand times, but at least a hundred, 700 times from each constituent.
• 41:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: We first met it was called a this thing called a gathering.
• 42:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: It was a lot of local leaders of city councils in school board and all stuff and we're all in one area.
• 42:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: It was kind of like there wasn't really an agenda.
• 42:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: Right.
• 42:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: But there was a room full of Republican Democrat independent.
• 42:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: Right.
• 42:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's like, hey, let's just talk.
• 42:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: Let's just break bread.
• 42:16
  [SPEAKER_03]: Let's hash out stuff.
• 42:18
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
• 42:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, like, let's just just chill for a minute and talk about things going on in our lives and other things because one day we're going to have to come together.
• 42:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 42:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: And we're gonna have to solve some difficult problems, and it doesn't matter if it's an R or a D or an A after your name is like anything else do I know Michael call right can he call me when he needs something it cannot call him and I need something and
• 42:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: Because one of the things I got out of that, you know, the guy that is overriven, he's from Wichita.
• 42:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: Really?
• 42:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 42:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's from the South side of which I'm from North and he graduated from Wichita State a year after I did.
• 42:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, there you go.
• 42:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: We're bumping around.
• 42:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 42:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 42:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: You don't know how much in common we actually have until you stop and just, you know, talk.
• 43:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: and breaking bread is one of the greatest things.
• 43:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, when they invited me to the gathering, I didn't know what that was.
• 43:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 43:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, first thing, my mind goes a little bit, you know, out there together.
• 43:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not that kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind
• 43:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I'm all right.
• 43:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm all right.
• 43:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's all right.
• 43:36
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's all right.
• 43:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's all right.
• 43:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a beautiful place that beautiful place that we can meet and talk You know, it is one of those things that that we need to do.
• 43:47
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yes, yes, I love it
• 43:49
  [SPEAKER_03]: Well, listen, if people want to find out more information about your campaign, about what you stand for, they want to reach out to you, connect with you some kind of way.
• 44:00
  [SPEAKER_03]: Where did they find you?
• 44:01
  [SPEAKER_03]: How can they make that happen?
• 44:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: You can go online and you can go to call for Georgia.com.
• 44:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: Also, you can email me at same thing.
• 44:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: Call for Georgia at gmail.com.
• 44:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I'm on Facebook.
• 44:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: Call for Georgia.
• 44:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: How you got to do is remember call.
• 44:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: Call for Georgia.
• 44:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, and if you can't remember that, just remember what the crow says.
• 44:30
  [SPEAKER_03]: That's me, that needs a sound bite right there, that needs a sound bite right there.
• 44:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: See ya, I love it.
• 44:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: For F-O-R, George and he spelled out George and he said, all right, C-A-W-F-F-F-O-R, George and he spelled out George and he said, all right, C-A-W-F-F-F-F-O-R, George and he spelled out George and he said, all right, C-A-W-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-
• 44:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, look, man, I know you're busy in Newborn.
• 44:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure you got some horny head fish to get back into the stream.
• 44:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: Just so you can still put a pleasure, man.
• 44:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for taking your time.
• 44:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for inviting me.
• 44:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: And thank you for all that you're doing for this community.
• 45:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: Let them understand what's going on and what was the call it?
• 45:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's our pleasure and we hope that people can glean some good things from these conversations and at least
• 45:22
  [SPEAKER_03]: give themselves the opportunity when they go to the ballot box to have a bit more information about who they're dealing with.
• 45:28
  [SPEAKER_03]: So we appreciate you.
• 45:31
  [SPEAKER_03]: This was great conversation and I feel like I feel like people will appreciate it if they take the time to listen to it.
• 45:38
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah absolutely.
• 45:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: I just want people more than 700 people to go.
• 45:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I know that.
• 45:43
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
• 45:44
  [SPEAKER_03]: He's a nice guy.
• 45:45
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, absolutely.
• 45:47
  [SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely.
• 45:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: But thanks again for being here.
• 45:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: We'll see you around.