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Uglier Cities · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question for American mamas. Do your mama's
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  Speaker 1: why are American cities not pretty anymore?
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's ask our American mamas.
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  Speaker 1: And joining us now are American mama's Terry Edeville and
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  Speaker 1: Kimberly Burlison. Well, I don't know if I fully agree
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  Speaker 1: with the premise there. I still think there are some
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  Speaker 1: some very pretty sections of cities. I can't say that
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  Speaker 1: like a whole cities. I'm like, oh, that's gorgeous. But
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  Speaker 1: there's some cities where they're still very beautiful inside it.
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  Speaker 1: There's some new buildings that are getting built that are still,
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  Speaker 1: you know, gorge I think if you look at Austin, Texas,
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  Speaker 1: the downtown and Austin is absolutely amazing. It's beautiful. There
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  Speaker 1: are parts of New York you see, you know, new
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  Speaker 1: new buildings, and that's that's great. There's parts of New
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  Speaker 1: York You're like, well that smells awful. But I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's is it? Is it that cities aren't just pretty easy?
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  Speaker 3: Some of those are like around the World War two era,
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  Speaker 3: you know when they really they had craftsmanship, you know,
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  Speaker 3: where they did special things that made the architecture the architecture,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they made things special. And the art that
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  Speaker 3: was during that time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what's what's the other one?
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  Speaker 1: Art Deco and then the art New Veau.
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  Speaker 3: Basically, yeah, I feel like because of our architecture, there
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  Speaker 3: are some pretty parts, like you said, but I feel
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  Speaker 3: like so many Americans love to travel because they love
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  Speaker 3: to go to other countries because it's just so much
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  Speaker 3: of it. There's so much history, but there's so much
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  Speaker 3: beautiful architecture, and that these people continue to recreate what
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  Speaker 3: they want it to look like. Or if it's a
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  Speaker 3: different business. In America, we build something quick fast, a box,
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  Speaker 3: and then the longevity is twenty thirty years and it's gone.
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  Speaker 3: So it's all about the cost of it, what's needed
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  Speaker 3: at that very moment. So there's nothing put in it
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  Speaker 3: that makes it special.
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  Speaker 1: So basically, if we're just building stuff, that's that's notice.
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  Speaker 1: Boxes just boxes like you know data centers these days
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  Speaker 1: and warehouses. Yes, and then eventually we're gonna either let
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  Speaker 1: those rust or we're gonna tear them down and build
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  Speaker 1: another box.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's kind of like I mean, truthfully, that happens
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  Speaker 4: with churches. You know, back in the early nineteen hundreds,
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  Speaker 4: the churches were built to last forever and ever, and
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  Speaker 4: they were gorgeous, gorgeous and inside and outside, right, and
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  Speaker 4: so a lot of them have just become modernized, and
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  Speaker 4: so the new churches aren't as beautiful. I wonder if
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  Speaker 4: there is a correlation with regard to politics, like are
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  Speaker 4: these red cities blue cities? Which ones are seem to
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  Speaker 4: care about that? And also the ones that you know,
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  Speaker 4: I'm thinking about California right now because that Spencer Pratt
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  Speaker 4: is running for mayor over there.
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  Speaker 1: In Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, and you've got the beautiful parts that are
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  Speaker 4: gated that a lot of the elites. But in the
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  Speaker 4: city it's terrible.
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  Speaker 1: And that's one of the things that I do think
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  Speaker 1: of is that it depends really upon how the city
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  Speaker 1: is interested in taking care of itself. Yes that if
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  Speaker 1: the government isn't insisting that we have the trash picked up,
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  Speaker 1: that we have the lights on, that we've trimmed the grass,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if you if you're if you're allowing that
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  Speaker 1: median to grow up into weeds and stuff and now
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  Speaker 1: it's just overgrown, it has the effect of making the
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  Speaker 1: entire city look awful. Same thing actually, ironically, with power lines,
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  Speaker 1: it's a very simple thing. True. But if you've just
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  Speaker 1: got a street where it's just got power lines going
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  Speaker 1: across and across and across, all of a sudden, something
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  Speaker 1: that could have looked like a nice area, it looks
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  Speaker 1: like a ghetto. It looks just awful just because of
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  Speaker 1: the power line.
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  Speaker 3: Right, And sadly, it's in lower income areas that you
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  Speaker 3: see that, because like if you go to Colorado, Wyoming,
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  Speaker 3: where there are certain restrictions, like you if you want
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  Speaker 3: to do a power line or if you want to
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  Speaker 3: do a phone one of those cell it has to
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  Speaker 3: look like a tree. They build it to look like
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  Speaker 3: a fake tree, so it blends in with the beauty
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  Speaker 3: all around there. To me, it's an economic thing. It's
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  Speaker 3: all about where the money is versus where's not. Fort Worth,
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  Speaker 3: for instance, when we first moved in eighty five to Texas,
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  Speaker 3: fort Worth was not a place that you visited. It
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  Speaker 3: was just kind of old homelessness. There's nothing going on.
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  Speaker 1: And even the buildings downtown square Square towers.
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  Speaker 3: A family, a Bass family from Fort Worth came in
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  Speaker 3: and they decided to pour money into the infrastructure of
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  Speaker 3: that area. Right, it is booming beautiful and it's quaet
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  Speaker 3: but they've brought so much entertainment down there. They broughtivals,
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  Speaker 3: so there's so much revenue. Now people are moving in
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  Speaker 3: the high rises. The old buildings that were abandoned are
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  Speaker 3: now penthouses. You know they're beautiful, right, and then the Drover,
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  Speaker 3: a company which from California, came in. If you go
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  Speaker 3: to the stockyards, it's now booming. When I remember being
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  Speaker 3: sad thinking it's going to die because nobody would go
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  Speaker 3: and now it's just blowing up. So to me, put
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  Speaker 3: your money in those places that aren't pretty. Make them
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  Speaker 3: pretty and people will. If you build it, people will
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  Speaker 3: come well.
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  Speaker 4: And if you vote in the leadership that will allow that.
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  Speaker 4: You need the leadership, and then you need those people
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  Speaker 4: that care, like the drivers, like the basses, and or
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  Speaker 4: churches like First Methodists did a lot around the downtown
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  Speaker 4: area in Streeport, Louisiana for a lot of those homes
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  Speaker 4: in the Allendale area. So you have to have a
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  Speaker 4: group that cares enough is willing to pour money into it.
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  Speaker 1: This is where it becomes a self defeating idea for
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  Speaker 1: the left to say, hey, let's tax the rich. You're
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  Speaker 1: talking about Fort Worth, which is in Texas where they
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  Speaker 1: don't have a billionaire's tax, and the basses have billions
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  Speaker 1: of dollars and they're able to do it. Whereas if
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  Speaker 1: you go to a place where you're saying we're going
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  Speaker 1: to tax the rich, well, now they don't have the
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  Speaker 1: money to do the beautification projects that they that private
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  Speaker 1: money could.
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  Speaker 4: Have done, right, And I think a lot of the
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  Speaker 4: billionaires are moving to the right side of the isle
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  Speaker 4: because of that. I mean, you sent us an article
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  Speaker 4: about the billionaire who is dating a conservative.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah from Google, he's dating a maga person, and it's
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  Speaker 1: like that's actually making or sense. If you like to
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  Speaker 1: and thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you,