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[00:00:22] Speaker B: Welcome, welcome, welcome. I am going to be kind of going in three different directions today, only because I, there was a couple of topics I purposely set my mind on, and then something else happened. And hopefully, I hope that I come across as tinfoil. Like, I actually, I'm hoping that I do because I'm hoping that it encourages others to become tinfoil like myself. I'm probably gonna fail, but I'm gonna try. I'm gonna try my hardest here.
So let me get the first step out of the way here.
There's been a lot of incidents, you know, with candidate Trump now and motorcade incidents and plane incidents. JD Vance, plane incidents. Now, Tim Walls, motorcade, gets in an accident. Now, to be fair, he gets in an accident in one of the cities that has, you know, one of the worst rates for, uh, car accidents. So consider him a lucky cat if he was in the motorcade at the time, because I ran the numbers on this, comparatively, you know, I've. I've driven in multiple places. I don't drive as much as I used to, but I've driven multiple places. I've driven in Florida, all over. All over. And arguably, Florida is a very dangerous place to drive. It just is mostly the freeway. Not the city streets, but the freeway.
[00:01:44] Speaker C: They don't care.
[00:01:45] Speaker B: They do not care. California can be, but it's not as bad now. I haven't been there in a while, but it's not as bad. Nevada, eh, there are spots where it's, you know, Oregon.
Oregon's not too bad on the freeway, but then city streets, it's like, what, you know, Washington state.
[00:02:07] Speaker C: Washington state.
[00:02:08] Speaker B: You wouldn't expect it to be because of the, you know, it's green and it's wide open. No, I think I told the story about the grandma, and it was, this is a two lane, right? So it's a two lane, and she.
[00:02:20] Speaker C: Takes this off ramp, and then she.
[00:02:22] Speaker B: Stops, and then she backs down the off ramp because apparently it was the wrong exit.
[00:02:28] Speaker C: I've only ever seen that twice in.
[00:02:30] Speaker B: My life here in, when I was in Washington state and then in Oregon, I think I saw one person do it out in Cleveland area. Oregon. I don't understand that. I really don't.
I'm sorry. Because it's like the most dangerous thing you can do is to back down, you know, roll backwards in a freeway situation.
[00:02:53] Speaker C: I was told that that's a common.
[00:02:54] Speaker B: Thing somewhere in the south, so maybe that's what it is. I don't know. North Dakota is pretty darn safe. Didn't have any issues there. Utah was so safe because there was nobody out there. That rhymes. Idaho didn't have any problems except for that one.
I stopped at a gas station and I was trying to. I can't remember the order of operations.
I think I was trying to use a debit card. Pretty sure that's what it is.
And it was like, the guy was like, I'm trying to remember the exact order of operations, but I think the guy was like, yeah, no debit cards here. Deep, deep or something like that. He. It was, it was a bizarre response that I didn't expect at the time where he just didn't, he didn't accept that particular type of payment. And I had to give cash. I think that's what the order was, which I've never heard this before, but whatever.
Colorado didn't have any major issues. The worst part of Colorado was the train didn't have any problems there. Connecticut didn't have any problems.
Minneapolis didn't have any problems. And then, so then I get to, let's say, states like Wisconsin, Iowa. Iowa wasn't too bad.
Wisconsin. So Wisconsin's weird because it's like there's two. There's two sides of the story.
[00:04:15] Speaker C: There's the side close to Minneapolis, which.
[00:04:18] Speaker B: I was familiar with. And it's pretty laid back, low key, no issues.
[00:04:21] Speaker C: Then there's the coast, you know, like Green Bay Area.
[00:04:25] Speaker B: And I went to, I had a client out there, Associated bank, I don't mind telling. Associated bank was a client at one time in the past. So I was out there on travel. I flew in to the, uh, what is Austin Strawberry, I believe it is. Airport rented a car, drove, and it feels like a slum out there.
But what stood out was how weird people, it was almost like nobody was.
[00:04:51] Speaker C: Taught how to drive. It was the weirdest thing because like.
[00:04:54] Speaker B: In Florida, you can tell they were.
[00:04:55] Speaker C: Taught how to drive.
[00:04:56] Speaker B: They just don't care about the rules. Signals. It's different there.
[00:05:00] Speaker C: It's like people weren't taught how to drive.
[00:05:02] Speaker B: You know, nobody's using signals. Nobody's respecting the stop signs. Nobody expecting to stop lights fully. Like, you'll see people just start rolling.
[00:05:10] Speaker C: Forward when the lights still red because.
[00:05:12] Speaker B: They are anticipating it going. But you're not supposed to really do.
[00:05:14] Speaker C: That because of the crosswalks, that kind.
[00:05:16] Speaker B: Of stuff, where they were not taught, it felt like they were not taught how to handle these situations. So I would learn later because I had gone Green Bay, I had gone down through, like, Chicago. Chicago is bad. That whole coastal stretch is just. It doesn't make any sense because Washington state, which is coastal, the part that I'm talking about, it has, like, smatterings of weird, bad drivers. But again, they're just disregarding the rules.
[00:05:51] Speaker C: Like, I knew grandma. She knew the rules.
[00:05:53] Speaker B: She just disregarded them.
But the coast over here, it's like none of them are taught.
[00:06:00] Speaker C: And so the.
[00:06:01] Speaker B: I was running numbers.
Statistically, the probability of getting into a car accident is significantly higher the closer you are to some sort of a coast. I don't understand that. I really, I don't. But it correlates to what my experience was, because in all the situations where.
[00:06:19] Speaker C: I was close to a coast, that's Washington state for sure.
[00:06:22] Speaker B: That's Florida for sure. And then this stretch that goes pretty much from curves, from, let's say, Dayton. I'll say Dayton, Cleveland. So between those and then curving through Chicago, you know, Illinois, for those that don't know, curves up through the coastal side of Wisconsin, it does seem to correlate to. And then the brief period that I was in New York, it does seem.
[00:06:53] Speaker C: To correlate that when you're closer to the water, for whatever reason, people lose all, all carouses.
[00:06:59] Speaker B: So I'm saying that walls is lucky to have gotten out of there with his faculties intact. And whether or not Donald Trump said a horrible city, I don't think matters. But because I don't know. I don't. I'm saying that I don't know that it.
[00:07:11] Speaker C: Because this happened in Milwaukee.
[00:07:13] Speaker B: I don't think it's the city. I think it's just for whatever reason.
[00:07:17] Speaker C: Near a coast, all bets are off.
[00:07:19] Speaker B: And so if you do still drive.
[00:07:22] Speaker C: And maybe you live near, or you're close to, or you're headed to a.
[00:07:25] Speaker B: Coastal something, perhaps something to keep in mind for safety reasons.
And fortunately, he's okay. You don't want somebody to get injured or anything.
[00:07:35] Speaker C: But I do see a weird statistical.
[00:07:38] Speaker B: You know, oddness to the fact that.
[00:07:40] Speaker C: Everybody in this race, minus Kamala Harris.
[00:07:43] Speaker B: Has now been in some sort of a, you know, incident that they should not have been. And I would hope, see, if I'm at, if I'm advising any of the candidate sides, I'm telling them, this is.
[00:07:54] Speaker C: Why your campaign should be. You use this, right?
[00:07:57] Speaker B: This is free promotional.
[00:07:59] Speaker C: Talk about the lack of safety. Talk about the incidents increasing. Talk about, like what JD Vance is in, mechanical errors and Trump's and mechanical errors.
[00:08:08] Speaker B: Talk about, you know what, Boeing's out of control. We're going to fix that. Talk about this because everybody knows it.
[00:08:14] Speaker C: We've seen the planes, we saw the door blow off, the whatever.
[00:08:17] Speaker B: So talk about this with, on the Democrat side, okay, you've got a situation that should not have happened. Motorcade incidents have happened.
[00:08:27] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:08:27] Speaker B: I believe Barack Obama had one, if I'm recalling correctly.
[00:08:31] Speaker C: I believe he had one.
[00:08:33] Speaker B: It's happened, but walls should not have happened.
[00:08:37] Speaker C: If you, if you look at the.
[00:08:38] Speaker B: News on what happened in the situation, it shouldn't have happened. And the truth is, chances are somebody was trying to hard brake because they're trying to avoid an incident and then they caused one. Well, that's, you're taught not to do that. But sometimes it happens. So I'm not blaming the drivers or any of this. I'm saying use it.
[00:08:55] Speaker C: Talk about it. Talk about road safety.
[00:08:57] Speaker B: Don't, and this is the temptation.
[00:09:00] Speaker C: Don't talk about what we need to.
[00:09:01] Speaker B: Get rid of roads and go to bikes. That's not the answer. The answer is there needs to be more safety on the roads by way of technology.
[00:09:09] Speaker C: This is where technology can help you.
[00:09:12] Speaker B: If it's implemented properly and actually used like it's supposed to be done.
[00:09:16] Speaker C: And education to some degree plays a part because it feels like, as I.
[00:09:19] Speaker B: Said, some of them either were not taught or they just ignored the lessons to get past it. Well, the last barrier of being able.
[00:09:28] Speaker C: To get that license should be the.
[00:09:29] Speaker B: Behind the wheel testing.
[00:09:31] Speaker C: So if they pass the behind the wheel testing and then they get out.
[00:09:34] Speaker B: There and they're doing whatever, what's the.
[00:09:36] Speaker C: Span of time from when they should.
[00:09:38] Speaker B: Have passed that test? If we're talking, okay, they just got.
[00:09:41] Speaker C: Their license and they're doing this kind of stuff.
[00:09:43] Speaker B: Okay, that means there's no way they could have either the behind the wheels test is faulty. It's possible. Maybe it's an inside job. Maybe the person who's doing the screening is giving them a pass on stuff.
[00:09:54] Speaker C: That they knew happened. You can use technology to avert that. You can use technology to detect, and.
[00:10:00] Speaker B: I'm talking prior to them getting a license, detect these kind of instances where they're likely going to be a dangerous driver. It's as simple as a camera, if you think about it. I'm only talking about prior to them getting the license.
[00:10:12] Speaker C: Right. So you're looking, are they actually looking.
[00:10:14] Speaker B: Left and right before they do a thing?
[00:10:16] Speaker C: Are they actually full stopping?
[00:10:17] Speaker B: Are they actually using the signals and then let the technology test them and score them, not a human, where that.
[00:10:24] Speaker C: Human might cheat on their behalf? I'm not saying that's happening.
[00:10:28] Speaker B: I'm saying, how can it be that.
[00:10:29] Speaker C: There are these situations where it seems.
[00:10:31] Speaker B: Like people disregard what you should have.
[00:10:34] Speaker C: Been taught and that's the last vestige.
[00:10:37] Speaker B: Of safety, and they're still getting out.
[00:10:39] Speaker C: And they're still causing this situation.
[00:10:41] Speaker B: Some of them I saw, like, it was a girl and her kid had some injury or something, so. But the point is she, her license.
[00:10:51] Speaker C: Was expired for who knows how long. Well, how come you didn't get it.
[00:10:54] Speaker B: Renewed is question number one. And so she drives and she causes a major incident and somebody else dies because she was trying to rush to get to the hospital for her.
[00:11:02] Speaker C: Kidde, why aren't you rushing to get to the frickin DMV to get your license renewed?
[00:11:06] Speaker B: They would have issued you a temporary one and then rushed to get your kid. Would it have averted the incident?
[00:11:12] Speaker C: I don't know. I know sometimes they'll subject you to.
[00:11:17] Speaker B: Some sort of a test if they.
[00:11:18] Speaker C: See that something's out of whack, like.
[00:11:20] Speaker B: Say, your license expire for extended period. That required to go through the test again.
[00:11:24] Speaker C: Why didn't that happen?
[00:11:25] Speaker B: I don't know. I'm saying there's, there are ways to.
[00:11:28] Speaker C: Help get ahead of what we're seeing.
[00:11:31] Speaker B: Why it's coastal isn't. I don't think we can explain that.
[00:11:35] Speaker C: Perhaps just a laid back mentality, but.
[00:11:37] Speaker B: I don't think that's it either. I don't know. I'm saying that we could do more.
[00:11:40] Speaker C: And the candidate side should be using.
[00:11:42] Speaker B: This as an opportunity to pitch and sell safety overall, because that's a concern.
[00:11:47] Speaker C: That's one of these bottom concerns that's.
[00:11:49] Speaker B: Not being promoted like I think it should be.
[00:11:52] Speaker C: The economy still matters.
[00:11:53] Speaker B: It's my priority one, for sure. And I have a saying, and this is my saying, you know what? I'm not even going to share it here yet. I thought about getting a sign and.
[00:12:02] Speaker C: Putting it out in the yard, but.
[00:12:03] Speaker B: I thought my neighbors might be, might.
[00:12:05] Speaker C: Consider me a nutcase.
[00:12:06] Speaker B: You know what? I'll just tell you. I thought about doing the sign.
[00:12:09] Speaker C: Well, one neighbor, I shouldn't say neighbors.
[00:12:11] Speaker B: One neighbor might think I'm a nutcase. But here's the thing.
It doesn't matter who I vote for. It matters who you vote for. It's my saying, I'm owning that. I'm on record. It's on, you know, so you can.
[00:12:22] Speaker C: Tell somebody steals it.
[00:12:23] Speaker B: But the point is, it doesn't matter who I, I vote for, right? It matters who you vote for.
[00:12:29] Speaker C: Think about what that's saying.
[00:12:30] Speaker B: It's saying that why does, why does everybody care what somebody else is voting.
[00:12:36] Speaker C: For or who somebody else is voting for? You shouldn't. You should care what you're voting for.
[00:12:40] Speaker B: And I've always said, vote with your.
[00:12:43] Speaker C: Principles, don't vote with your heart.
[00:12:45] Speaker B: What's the policy that's supported? And it may be that it's in contradict what you were taught as a kid and what was the instilled in you as the only way to vote.
[00:12:54] Speaker C: And I did a coverage online years.
[00:12:56] Speaker B: Ago where I said, you know, don't vote with your heart because you're going.
[00:13:00] Speaker C: To run into these situations where we.
[00:13:02] Speaker B: Have the same leadership that doesn't fix these issues.
Sometimes you have to do disruptive change.
[00:13:07] Speaker C: I'm dealing with this with my endeavor right now.
[00:13:09] Speaker B: We're trying to hire a person that.
[00:13:11] Speaker C: Would ultimately support me.
[00:13:12] Speaker B: In terms of the analysis pieces, I can do the analysis, but it helps to have somebody else offload some of this. I. We found a person. I think the person has raw potential.
[00:13:23] Speaker C: She's raw, she's young. She makes some mistakes.
[00:13:26] Speaker B: She's not at that level that they're hoping for.
[00:13:29] Speaker C: They don't understand.
[00:13:31] Speaker B: It's a very expensive ask. Trying to get that person is very expensive.
[00:13:36] Speaker C: So you can't expect somebody to roll.
[00:13:38] Speaker B: Up in the door with the straight skills like myself. But at a rate that's arguably, you know, I think it's half of what I do, or it's even lower than.
[00:13:47] Speaker C: Half the what I know.
[00:13:47] Speaker B: They're not going to do it if you, if you're at the high level, they're not going to accept that pay.
[00:13:53] Speaker C: They don't understand, and it's not their fault.
[00:13:56] Speaker B: There's other factors, but they don't understand.
[00:13:59] Speaker C: You've got to compete at the nationwide level. A lot of companies compete at the regional level.
[00:14:04] Speaker B: Okay, well, in the state, this is what everybody else is offering, so we'll just go with the median of that.
[00:14:08] Speaker C: No, you. No, no, no.
[00:14:09] Speaker B: You have to compete nationwide. That means you got to compete with the Bostons of the world who charge 250 grandd for stuff. You got to compete at that level. That means your stuff's got to go up if you want those people, because they know they're, they got the skills.
The reason I accept it's because at the end of the day, I was.
[00:14:28] Speaker C: Already reasonably close to my rate.
[00:14:29] Speaker B: It wasn't what I wanted, but I knew I could prove to them I was worth it. And then we bumped it. Now I'm way over it, but I'm not full time. I don't work for them. I work with them.
[00:14:39] Speaker C: This would be a full time with.
[00:14:40] Speaker B: Them, and I'm trying to help them understand.
[00:14:43] Speaker C: I'm sorry.
[00:14:43] Speaker B: Your methodology for getting people is jacked up, and that's why it's been hard for you to get and retain good people, because you're not paying enough for this.
[00:14:51] Speaker C: That's the truth.
[00:14:52] Speaker B: I wouldn't work full time for you because you're not even coming close to what my rate would be if I were full time. So I would never accept such a request. I'll work for you as a contractor because it's giving me what I deserve to get paid. So this person we find again, she's got raw potential. She makes some mistakes.
[00:15:09] Speaker C: She's just never been taught.
[00:15:11] Speaker B: She's never had a mentor. Mentorship is something that's been lacking in.
[00:15:15] Speaker C: Many of these companies.
[00:15:15] Speaker B: It's not just this one.
[00:15:17] Speaker C: They don't understand that sometimes you need to mentor somebody up to a thing.
[00:15:21] Speaker B: This used to be the way it was. You would pair them with somebody who's.
[00:15:24] Speaker C: Going, who has the same energy to.
[00:15:26] Speaker B: Bring them up to a level, especially when they just have small things to refine.
[00:15:30] Speaker C: And here, to be fair, they lack people that have the same energy that.
[00:15:35] Speaker B: I do and know and confidence and know that they can help somebody get.
[00:15:39] Speaker C: To that level because somebody helped me.
[00:15:41] Speaker B: I know what it is now. I know what mistakes I made.
[00:15:43] Speaker C: I know what I had to learn.
[00:15:45] Speaker B: I know what she is.
[00:15:47] Speaker C: The only simple thing she's got.
[00:15:48] Speaker B: And there's simple things. She's got the knowledge.
[00:15:51] Speaker C: She has the potential there. She clearly has done stuff.
[00:15:55] Speaker B: It's just that these are things that you have to refine in a workplace scenario, which we, the other piece we.
[00:16:02] Speaker C: Have to all recognize.
[00:16:04] Speaker B: The younger generations, they're in a social media world. They're in a technology world. There might be fresh out of school, and they're. They're talkative. They're. They want to make friends and everything. And the harsh reality is that when.
[00:16:19] Speaker C: You get in the work, when you're in.
[00:16:20] Speaker B: When you walk in that door, virtual.
[00:16:22] Speaker C: Or physical, when you walk in that.
[00:16:24] Speaker B: Door to the office, you got to switch it off.
[00:16:27] Speaker C: Switch it off. It doesn't mean you don't try to be friendly. It doesn't mean you don't try to be cordial.
[00:16:31] Speaker B: It doesn't mean that you don't put yourself in a situation where you are.
[00:16:35] Speaker C: One of the team.
[00:16:37] Speaker B: I'm saying that your mannerisms, your personality, your demeanor, your. The way you speak, the way you carry yourself has to be completely different than what you would do in your home. That's one of the hardest lessons that I think people encounter when they start.
[00:16:53] Speaker C: Working and they're young in the career. And the one thing that's holding her.
[00:16:56] Speaker B: Back is she's jumped from job to job, and that's a negative against her. Now, the fact is, women are more.
[00:17:03] Speaker C: Likely to be job hoppers.
[00:17:05] Speaker B: Well, now you have to look at.
[00:17:06] Speaker C: What'S the reasoning behind it.
[00:17:08] Speaker B: You can't ask, but you have to think about the possible reasons why that is. Maybe they just, they were having kids, maybe they were going back to college. Maybe they were having physical ailments.
[00:17:17] Speaker C: Maybe they were taking care of somebody.
[00:17:18] Speaker B: There's also the reasons why somebody might have been doing it.
[00:17:22] Speaker C: So I don't hold that against them.
[00:17:24] Speaker B: But I do reinforce, this is the.
[00:17:26] Speaker C: Expectations of the role. And think of it this way, for.
[00:17:29] Speaker B: Me, I'm telling, think of it this way. You hire that person, if they're going to move on, they're going to move on. It doesn't.
[00:17:35] Speaker C: It's not our fault.
[00:17:37] Speaker B: At the end of the day, our.
[00:17:38] Speaker C: Job is to make it appealing enough.
[00:17:40] Speaker B: That they don't want to leave.
[00:17:41] Speaker C: That's our job.
[00:17:42] Speaker B: We own that responsibility. I can't get them to understand how simple that is because they're saying, no, we should get this superstar coming in here, and they should be able to hit the ground running within two weeks. It's like, no, that's not reality. I didn't do that because there was lack of documentation. Nobody was mentoring me. Nobody was assisting me, and I was getting bad directions left and right. My earlier episodes, I was ranting about it. It's not reality.
[00:18:08] Speaker C: Everything is new when you're coming in. It's a new relationship. You've got to get used to them.
[00:18:13] Speaker B: They've got to use to us.
[00:18:14] Speaker C: We don't have documentation.
[00:18:16] Speaker B: We still don't have sufficient documentation.
[00:18:18] Speaker C: Their job is to help us create it. Well, that means they got to learn.
[00:18:21] Speaker B: The stuff, and they got to learn all the different players, and they got.
[00:18:25] Speaker C: A tiptoe around politics, and they got.
[00:18:26] Speaker B: To understand your expectations as a manager.
[00:18:29] Speaker C: And all this documentation that I think is stupid.
[00:18:32] Speaker B: You're going to settle them that they have to do, and they have to balance time management and do timesheets and other nonsense.
[00:18:38] Speaker C: You don't understand how challenging that actually is.
[00:18:41] Speaker B: You think it's simple because you're in a bubble. But the truth is, anybody who's new.
[00:18:45] Speaker C: It takes an acclimation period.
[00:18:47] Speaker B: And usually that acclimation period is a minimum, 90 days minimum. And that's assuming the person's got the energy and the desire to just stick with it and deal with it, even though it sucks. Not everybody does. Some people are like, screw it, I'm not going to do this.
[00:19:01] Speaker C: There are newer hires.
[00:19:03] Speaker B: We have three folks that were newer. They work in a different area.
[00:19:07] Speaker C: Each one of them have called out.
[00:19:08] Speaker B: Concerns about the lack of mentoring, the lack of documentation. Everything's kind of willy nilly and up in the air. Yeah, everybody has the same complaints.
[00:19:15] Speaker C: So when do you start?
[00:19:16] Speaker B: I'm telling the company, when do you start changing the game and take it.
[00:19:20] Speaker C: A different direction and do it differently?
[00:19:21] Speaker B: And then the response is, well, we don't have people that are willing to mentor.
[00:19:25] Speaker C: Yes, you do.
[00:19:26] Speaker B: You're not making them do it, but that's, that should be their job. Like, this should be part of your job.
[00:19:32] Speaker C: You are required to mentor people on the team. You are required to help them succeed.
[00:19:37] Speaker B: If you don't help them succeed, it dings against you because it's like, it's so simple, right?
So I, I took it on.
[00:19:46] Speaker C: I said, look, if you give, if.
[00:19:47] Speaker B: You let me work with her, I guarantee you, I guarantee you this is how confident, based on the conversation, I guarantee you eventually she will surpass me, because that's.
[00:19:58] Speaker C: She has that raw potential to do it.
[00:20:00] Speaker B: She's never been taught things, how it works in the work and how you just express yourself and how you answer questions and how you guide meetings and how you manage time and how you.
[00:20:10] Speaker C: Get to the point.
[00:20:11] Speaker B: She's never been refined. You don't have to do it all.
[00:20:14] Speaker C: The time, just when you're in the meeting, although I do think it would help you outside.
[00:20:19] Speaker B: But learning how to guardrail your response, getting to the point, specific messaging doesn't.
[00:20:25] Speaker C: Mean you stop talking.
[00:20:26] Speaker B: And I can clearly tell she's extroverted, no problem.
[00:20:29] Speaker C: It doesn't mean you discourage extroversion. It simply means you put guardrails around it.
[00:20:34] Speaker B: Sometimes an answer is too much.
[00:20:36] Speaker C: Sometimes the message is too much. Sometimes you don't need to explain.
[00:20:39] Speaker B: Sometimes you don't need a story.
Read the person you're talking to to understand whether you need to go a little bit further. Don't advance.
[00:20:47] Speaker C: Offer it. Just read the room and understand.
[00:20:49] Speaker B: If they, it looks like they're going to need a little bit more out.
[00:20:51] Speaker C: Of you, then go ahead and offer it.
[00:20:53] Speaker B: You know, no problem. That's easy to train. They don't understand that they, they would rather have somebody that's a technical robot that can go down bullets and, you know, explain something out of a book. That's the people that they favor. And then those people get in and.
[00:21:08] Speaker C: Then they complain that those people can't run a meeting themselves. Well, of course, the people side is the hardest to get.
[00:21:15] Speaker B: So it's, it's a gem. If you can find it, you can cultivate it. The technical can always be taught. Anybody can learn the technical. Anybody can learn the technical, but you cannot teach the people side. You can refine it, you can't teach it. So this is my story of what I'm, what I'm contending with and the reason why I've made decisions, strategic decisions, like, let me pull back a little bit on the podcasts, all of them. Let me just kind of refine messaging, refine, schedule and refine these things and then deal with the home off the side until I get to a point.
[00:21:52] Speaker C: That I am satisfied with all of it.
[00:21:54] Speaker B: And that may never come, by the way, but until I get to a.
[00:21:57] Speaker C: Point of my own satisfaction, let me.
[00:21:59] Speaker B: Just pull this back, refine it, shore it up, because I've got to get, I've got to help them understand this is the way that this works. This is the way it's supposed to work. I know you haven't done it before, so either you trust me or you don't.
[00:22:12] Speaker C: If you don't, that's fine.
[00:22:14] Speaker B: But until you do, you're going to keep banging your head against the wall and just hit that hard truth on it. Right. So the reason I told that second story piggyback straight off the first is because when I'm looking at all the candidates now, presidential candidates, Kamala Harris's main.
[00:22:33] Speaker C: Complaint against her is she doesn't know how to present, she doesn't know how to talk, she doesn't know how to.
[00:22:38] Speaker B: Explain, she doesn't know how to justify. She sounds good. Saying nothing is the way we used to express it. She sounds good saying nothing. She says nothing.
[00:22:47] Speaker C: Megyn Kelly put together a montage of her basically saying the exact same lines.
[00:22:51] Speaker B: And every single thing, and she just does little tweaks, but it's the same exact words.
[00:22:55] Speaker C: There are some people, that's what you do.
[00:22:56] Speaker B: Donald Trump, he has a billions and billions and dollars line, but every single speech is just enough difference to where he comes across like a whatever. There are people that don't like him doing interviews and that kind of stuff because he tends to go on personal attacks. Those people are not, they're beyond salvation because they're still focused on how they feel about the guy and not the policies. Because if you focus on the policies, Kamala Harris has had nothing to say. Tim Walls comes from a state, Minneapolis, Minnesota. He comes from a state where they.
[00:23:31] Speaker C: Sent tanks down the street shooting at people sitting on the porch because he.
[00:23:35] Speaker B: Put a curfew in place during the pandemic. So we already know what his approach is to these. You know, he's government, right. Government control lockdown. That's fine if you're okay with that.
[00:23:45] Speaker C: If you want to live under fear. So we knew from messaging those two.
[00:23:50] Speaker B: How they are going to try to handle stuff.
[00:23:52] Speaker C: It's obvious they're, they're unfortunately transparent about.
[00:23:54] Speaker B: How they would handle things. Kamala Harris, as if I were advising, and the sad truth is I don't think she can get away with it. If I were advising, I would never put her up on any sort of meeting stage, any sort of debate stage, anything where she's speaking, because all she can do is fall back to the women argument, abortion argument, black argument. That's all she can really do to.
[00:24:16] Speaker C: Get cheers from the crowd.
[00:24:17] Speaker B: Her policies don't make any sense because.
[00:24:20] Speaker C: She'S in office now.
[00:24:21] Speaker B: There are things she could be doing that she's not doing and nobody's challenging in my mind sufficiently.
[00:24:27] Speaker C: You're in office now.
[00:24:28] Speaker B: Why don't you do these things now? You could do it now. Why are we talking about what you.
[00:24:32] Speaker C: Would do as president?
[00:24:33] Speaker B: What's stopping you?
[00:24:34] Speaker C: Who's stopping you? Why don't you do it now? And she doesn't have a viable answer.
[00:24:38] Speaker B: Because she's never been taught to how to express those in a way that's going to strengthen her case.
[00:24:45] Speaker C: So I'm, I'm telling the whole story.
[00:24:47] Speaker B: Of how this, all keys in both sides, both sides struggle with how to message in a way that helps people focus because unfortunately, people don't understand how.
[00:25:00] Speaker C: To prioritize the right things in evaluating.
[00:25:03] Speaker B: Someone in the workplace. Again, they don't know how to evaluate somebody that has this type of potential and they're only focused on their mechanical list of technology stuff. And then they complain when the person doesn't have the other side. What's going to, I think, happen if.
[00:25:20] Speaker C: People end up voting for Kamala Harris.
[00:25:21] Speaker B: You'Re going to get up in there and it's going to be screwed up and then we're going to hear people complaining again.
So I'm using my platform to emphasize.
[00:25:29] Speaker C: Why it's critical that if you look.
[00:25:31] Speaker B: At somebody that's got raw potential to get us what we want, it just means you got to refine some of this stuff.
[00:25:37] Speaker C: And there are opportunities to do that.
[00:25:39] Speaker B: In the presidential situation.
[00:25:41] Speaker C: If you notice the pattern of Donald Trump, he goes wherever the voters tell him to go. He will. He will shift gears. He's not hit like Obama.
[00:25:49] Speaker B: No. This is the way it's got to be. And he doesn't care about the voice of the people. Donald Trump has.
[00:25:53] Speaker C: He just did it.
[00:25:54] Speaker B: He just said for the Florida, I'm going to vote no on that. I think it's good.
[00:25:58] Speaker C: After he had supported it, he goes with the winds of the voters.
[00:26:01] Speaker B: That's what you should want in a.
[00:26:03] Speaker C: Candidate is somebody who's willing to learn.
[00:26:05] Speaker B: And adjust according to what his people say.
That's what we lack. That's what we are missing. That's what everybody doesn't understand. You go with who is in support of your base. I support you because you are my base. There's only one side that's like that.
[00:26:21] Speaker C: Kamala is not like that.
[00:26:22] Speaker B: Tim Walls is not like that.
[00:26:23] Speaker C: They want to dictate down.
[00:26:25] Speaker B: This is what we're going to do and you're going to like it to appeal to the subset of loud vocals, like a Tunberg.
Donald Trump's one that'll say a bunch of stuff because it sounds good.
[00:26:36] Speaker C: And then he hears the voice of.
[00:26:38] Speaker B: The people squawking a bit and then he'll shift.
People are like, well, why are you flipping? Because he listens to the voice of his voters. That's what we should want. We should want somebody who's going to go where the voice of the voters go, not somebody who's going to dictate. We've already had dictate. We had dictate under Obama. We had dictate under Joe Biden. Perhaps now you need somebody who will listen and actually say, this is somebody that's probably going to steer us in the better direction. They just need to be refined in the right direction. If we don't choose that person, we have only ourselves to blame. And that's, that's unfortunate. And Sadeena, who.
