Trump Rally Shooting and Hurricane Beryl Prep

Hello! Well, whether you're DIY or looking to hire, we're here to help you find the best information and options for you and your home. My name is Kevin Hackett, and here with me is Craig Williams.

Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to Homeowner's Show. We're so glad that you could join us. Live episode here in the studio. How you doing, Kev?

You know what, I think I'm okay.

Think you're okay?

I think I'm okay. It's been a week. It's been a week, and isn't it Monday?

It is Monday.

Tomorrow is Tuesday, which is the day this episode will come out. But if you're watching live— oh, the bumpity bump. It's been a while since we've had that.

Hello, old friend.

That's right. If you're listening to this live, it's already been a week and it's Monday. Yeah.

Yeah.

You know. So how are you?

I'm good, man. We got a cool episode for you guys. We're going to be talking some politics with the whole Trump rally assassination attempt, which I think that's like a word that's been banned, but I don't even know.

We'll get into that.

We'll get into that. Yeah.

Okay.

So we're going to be talking about that. We're also going to be talking about some hurricane prep that Kev and I did to get ready for Beryl, which apparently there's some confusion over the name.

There was confusion. There is no longer—

No longer any confusion.

It is not Burl, which is what I thought it was. Shocker that I would think something wrong.

We learned a thing or two about naming hurricanes.

Yes, we did. Well, yeah. And let's just put it out there real quick. I mean, if you don't know, it's the first one's male, the second one's female, the next one's male, the next one's female. And so that's the way they do it.

To all of you that hate your daughters, here's a great name for you.

Yes, that's right. And apparently, according to the National Hurricane Center, it is Beryl.

Beryl.

Yeah. Bear like the paint, they said, and with a rill on the end.

And rill.

Dumbest description ever.

Yeah. If, if this is your name out there, please, like, send, send us a note. We'd love to get to meet you. Yeah.

Yes. We'll let you come on the show and defend yourself.

Bless your heart.

Bless your heart.

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Yes, they did.

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That's right.

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I can't tell you the number of social media posts that I saw. I was like, how are you solar people and out there, and like every single one of them was like, we're doing fine, we're good. Yeah, we got, we got the solar power panels, we got the battery house generator powered up. Not only that, like in the midst of the storm and everything, uh, CEO over there, Josh, went out and bought like a— I don't know, it was like a trailer full of portable generators.

Yep. And he was the one that I use.

Oh, is the one you use?

One I have in my house. Yeah.

And he was, he was selling them, and some people were like, well, you know, how dare you like try and price gouge. He was not price gouging anybody. I know the cost of those things.

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Yeah.

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It's been awful.

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That's right.

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All right, man.

What a crazy couple of weeks.

Yeah. And, and it's, it's one of those things where when, when it comes to hurricanes, people in Houston know that they're coming at some point. But I, I think we forget because, I mean, the last one that we really had to deal with was Harvey.

Right.

That was 2017. So it's been 7 years. And, you know, first of all, there are a lot of people that move into the area since that time. People have been coming from California, like, in droves. And I, I just think that people generally think, oh, it'll be fine. We can ride it out for a little bit. Right. Let me tell you what, Hurricane Harvey was a completely different storm.

Right.

Than this, because Hurricane Harvey came in, sat over the, the city of Houston and, and the, you know, this kind of Southeast area for about 4 days.

Mm-hmm.

And it just dumped rain, almost 60 inches of rain.

Yeah.

Over those, that amount of time.

There was a whirlpool at the end of my property.

Yes.

I mean, it was nuts.

Yes. It was crazy. And so this storm is— I've heard a lot of people liken it to Ike.

I think it's a fair comparison.

Yeah. And so basically this thing, pun intended, barreled in here and it just came through and it just kept moving, went all the way through. But you got 80 to 100 mile an hour winds coming through, just ripped trees out of the ground, splintered things like crazy. I mean, whole—

I've never seen so many downed trees.

Yeah. I mean, they're everywhere.

I think, I think this is like a compounded thing that we have. So we had like the winter storm that kind of weakened a lot of trees.

It did.

And they probably recovered, but then we had the massive drought last year.

I was gonna say the drought was what made things really bad.

Really bad. And I think, I think, you know, I think some of those roots kind of, you know, came back up.

They did. And then we had crazy amounts of rain at the beginning of the summer.

Softened all the dirt up.

Softened all of it.

And when the wind came, it just knocked everything over.

Knocked it over.

There was— we had one in our neighborhood. The tree fell on the power line and ripped it out of a house.

Oh my goodness.

And so we had a power line underneath the tree. Yeah. And then there was another one where the tree— and that was on a loop, so it was okay. People could still get to their properties. But there was another one that fell across the road and it landed on top of a gas line.

Oh man.

And so, but like, we, we got out there and got half of it cut off and it was on the side of the road that wasn't the gas line. And as soon as we got that out, I mean, we got out of the way because right about that time the fire department showed up because we called them and said, hey, gas, gas. And we didn't know if it had been punctured or what, but we just knew we, you know, some people were trapped.

Sure.

And so we just, we moved quick to try and get the tree out of there.

Yeah, it was just one of those, one of those storms that, you know, the aftermath caused such widespread power outage, right? And a lot of destruction. A lot of people who have trees on their house, they have trees blocking their house, they have trees through a window. Um, lots of those types of things happen. But, you know, again, the, the biggest concern that people have, like you said, was not having power.

Right.

And what one of the nice things about the end of a hurricane is the first day-ish afterwards tends to be kind of cool.

Yeah.

You know, the temperature's mild.

It was like at night, it was like in the mid-60s. It was low 70s the next morning. It felt like a good— but then it heated up.

Of course. And then, and then like 2 days later had like a massive heat wave really with excessive heat warnings all over the place.

Yep.

And so, you know, people without power, people without the way to get power, and we still have people today. We're a week to the day away from the storm. Right. People still— many, many millions of people still without power.

I, I think, I think right now we're somewhere between 400,000 and 500,000.

Okay.

So that are without right now.

Okay. So I'm a little bit off there.

No. No. I mean, like, like, it's still— a day ago, you were probably not wrong.

And so, you know, you— and, and, you know, people are pointing their, their fingers at one company in, in general. But here, here, here's the thing. And I'm not, I'm not giving a pass to anybody. Mhmm. But what I am gonna say is certain, certain companies service certain areas. And if you're in a certain area where it was worse than another area and you had power stations that were taken out, then you had lines that are not just down, but they're broken.

Right.

And now you gotta get new supply in, new materials in, then you gotta get enough people to put it in. And they have to start at the station, then go to the lines, and then go to people's houses. Like, there, there's a There's a process for how that happens. And so I know a lot of people are really upset. They're going, hey, how they— how dare they put us in a situation where we have no power? And, again, I'm not giving anybody a pass. What I am saying is I really don't think these companies are going, well, let's just screw these people. Let's just make sure they don't get power for a little while.

You know what I mean? I, I don't know all the details on, on how that works. I, I mean, like, I know the, the company you're talking about, CenterPoint.

It is.

I mean, people dog on it. I mean, it's like, it's not hard to find. People dog on it all the time. And we, we, I mean, like, we can't really speak to it because you and I aren't Central Point customers.

We don't have it. Never have.

And we're Mid-South people.

That's right.

And, you know, like, even, even for us, man, like, we, we've been at this property close to 10 years now. This is the first time we've been without power for multiple, multiple days.

Yeah. Which we didn't have that problem. We were outta power for 18 hours.

Right.

We, we were fortunate as far as that goes. But I, I think that there were a lot of Mid-South customers that had less, you know, I'd say less More time without power. But again, I, I think that there is some somewhere along the line where ERCOT and some of these other, you know, down the line where, where we're going, man, our grid has to get fixed. Something has to get fixed. Now, the downed power lines, I don't know what to do about that. I mean, you know, you got trees falling on the lines, breaking them, you know, busting up power stations, all this kind of stuff. Those are massive problems.

Right.

And, and unless you have a scenario where you've got, um, underground electrical lines running, which a lot of The Woodlands actually does have, yes, then you're, you're going to deal with power lines. It just is what it is.

Well, even, even though a lot of The Woodlands is, uh, buried, they still had a lot of people without power for multiple days.

They did.

Um, so it doesn't— it—

you—

I mean, like, you can't put everything completely underground.

No.

But a lot of people are saying, like, look, if we could put most of it underground, we could have avoided a lot of this.

A lot of it.

And what a lot of people are pointing out is, and rightfully so, is like, look, we are getting no say as to how we spend our tax dollars. And so we're sending gobs of money to support wars and all this kind of stuff. Could we take a portion of that and just fix our grid.

Right.

And I don't think that they— I don't think they're being ridiculous.

No, I don't either.

You know, and, and it's, it's not that I— there's not causes that are worthy of supporting and, you know, like, we need to, you know, support our allies and all this kind of stuff. But, you know, at, at some point, we— and here's the thing. At, at, I think both parties need to just, you know, fess up and be like, look, if you're not happy with the way that your tax dollars are being spent, Vote somebody else in.

True.

I mean, true.

It's just— you have— we do have a little power.

We have a— yeah.

We do.

So, I mean, you know, and look at— look at the person who represents you and look at their record as to how they voted to spend your money. That's right. And if you're not happy with that, vote for the other person.

Yeah.

Or—

or vote at all.

Or just— just vote.

I mean, that'd be helpful. There's so many people that just don't vote.

Yeah.

And—

I mean, do—

do you do know that, like, if you work for a business, they have to let you off to go vote. Oh, you do know that, right? Like, if you don't listen to me, they have to let you off to go vote.

I know that, but like, every year it's like, vote— voting should be a national holiday.

And it's like, no, it doesn't need to be. They can't—

they have to let you off.

They have to. Yeah, they have to let you off. And it's going to take you all the, you know, 20 minutes to go do it or whatever.

The polls are typically open after business hours.

Yes, they are.

So—

or before business hours.

Before business hours.

That's right.

So anyway, there's a way to remedy this.

There is.

Um, you know, I, I don't know that burying them is like the, you know—

I mean, can you imagine the, the amount of infrastructure problems that would cause to try to bury all of the lines that we have around here?

I don't know that it would. I mean, like, it— because you could probably do it simultaneously.

Maybe.

Keep the lines in the air while you bury the, the new ones.

I'm just thinking like all of the places that you gotta bury, like, just Massive amounts of digging.

Well, I mean, but like, we, we have companies like— we, we interviewed the CEO of Tachus.

Yeah.

Those guys have been burying lines everywhere in Montgomery County.

They're doing it.

And they're the fastest growing internet provider around, and they're killing it.

It's a good point.

So, I mean, like, there, there are people out there that understand how to do this and how to keep people happy in the process. Um, and I'm not saying that data lines are the same as power lines. I know that they're different.

Sure.

But I mean, burying something is burying something to a certain degree.

Yep.

So like, we, we could figure it out.

Yep. There's a lot of actual tunneling that happens more than burying, if you really wanna look at it that way.

Sure.

Yeah.

Um, and, and you know, the infrastructure might already be there.

It might be.

For all we know.

I don't know. Um, well, I, I know this, like, there for— so we have Mid-South. You, you mentioned that earlier. So when we, uh, put my mother-in-law's home in, our, uh, transformer, which is above ground, mm-hmm, would not carry an entire load for her circuit. So they put in a new transformer on our property that would actually be able to hold hers and ours if we really wanted to change, and it was buried. So I, I think if nothing else, like, anytime you got to go in and fix something, just fix it by changing it.

Yeah.

You know, there, there may be—

And when you do, do it the best way possible.

That's right. There may be an alternative way to do that, but I think we should kind of talk a little bit about, like, did— what did you do? And then how did your family, or how does your— how does your home kind of survive the whole thing? And I'll talk about mine too. Yeah.

I mean, what I definitely wanna talk about in this episode is some of the things that you and I did.

Right.

And, like, things that we learned.

Sure.

So we, we had generators.

Yep. Multiple?

By the time it was over, yeah.

Okay.

So I, I had mine.

Okay.

Um, and my father-in-law went and got another one.

Okay.

Um, 2 days in.

Where did— okay, first of all, what did you have and where did he find one and what did he get?

Oh, he had a friend that had one. Oh, it was, it was a Ryobi.

Okay.

I mean, it was pretty standard.

Okay.

Just a cool little generator. Sure. Mine is a Briggs Stratton, and I think we figured out the other day it's about 18 years old.

Oh, wow.

It is a beast.

Well, Briggs Stratton is one of the best motors ever, ever built for small engines.

And it's, I think it's like 8,500 watts. Okay. I mean, So we— so back up a little bit. Uh, Friday before the hurricane hit, uh, we had put 300 pounds of beef in the deep freeze from a cow that we had raised and split with my dad.

Okay.

Um, and so when I saw that hurricane coming, I was like, I was like, look, I don't care about much, but that's a lot of money sitting in that deep freeze.

Yeah, it is.

That's a lot of money. I was like, I don't care what happens, I'm not losing that. And so I, I was, I was honestly more prepared because of the cow than anything. So we, I mean, we had probably 20, 30 gallons of gasoline.

Okay. Uh, did you have those in like regular— Yeah, just red cans.

Yeah, just regular red cans.

So you had a bunch, you had probably what, 6 of those then?

Uh, yeah.

Okay.

Um, and We— but like, I, I'm fortunate. I have a really big shop.

Yeah.

I can, I can store a lot of stuff.

Sure.

A lot of people don't have that.

Yep.

That ability.

Yep.

Um, so, so we had the ATVs all gassed up. We had the four-wheeler gassed up. I mean, we had everything gassed up before, before anything hit.

Right.

So in that regard, we were, we were plenty prepared.

Okay.

We had plenty of food because the deep freeze was full. And plenty of water. We'd stocked up on water. And so like all the normal hurricane things were done.

Okay.

We had plenty of extension cords. I mean, we basically ran the generator during the day and turned it off at night.

Okay.

And just because I didn't want to have to like get up in the middle of the night and pour more gas in. Yeah. Or just mess— I didn't want anything to happen to it while I couldn't be around.

Sure.

One of the other things that we did, so our house is, because it's 3 stories, the second and third story got really hot during the day. Oh, I'm sure it did. Not only because like it was just Texas and hot.

Yeah.

But like our kitchen's on the second floor. And so anytime we cooked food, it just heated up.

Right.

Everything.

But you have a gas stove, right?

Yes.

So that you can still cook on that. Is your oven gas or is it—

Our oven is gas, but you have to have electricity to run it.

Okay.

Okay. So, but that's— I don't care.

Yeah, right.

So I mean, we also have like all of our grills and propane cookers. I mean, we could cook food.

Sure, no problem.

Um, and, and our water heater is gas as well.

Okay.

And that ran the whole time.

Yeah.

So we were able to take, you know, hot showers if we wanted to.

Yeah.

Um, but what I was gonna say is to— at night, uh, I brought the swamp cooler.

Oh, nice.

In the house.

Okay.

And that, that dropped the temp 20, 25 degrees. Oh, I bet. Because one, because we were running the fridges during the day, we could make ice.

Oh yeah.

And so I would empty the ice makers into the swamp cooler.

Nice.

And so it was running ice water through that thing and it cooled off everything. It did. I mean, it wasn't as good as like air conditioning by any stretch, but like it made it comfortable.

Right.

So we were able to sleep and that made things—

Were you running that off the Ryobi generator? Or were you running that off your main generator?

We were running that off the main generator.

Okay, because I was thinking you said you shut that off.

We did.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, so, but like, we would, we would keep it running all day long.

Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And, and so it kept that downstairs nice. So once the sun went down—

And your downstairs tends to stay cool because of there being 2 stories above it.

Yes, yeah, well, and like just tons of tree shade and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, um, the—

and, and you've also got, uh, what, a an 8-foot porch all the way around your house that also keeps the sun from coming in the windows. Yeah.

So we have lots of— yeah, there's many things that help keep it very efficient downstairs.

Right.

So, but there were several things that I was super happy to have access to.

Okay.

One is this little beauty right here. It's a Ryobi inverter. And, uh, I think you were telling me before the show you'd never seen—

I'd never seen it.

So we bought these, uh, for our business to go in our guys' trucks because we use Ryobi products out in the field all the time, right? There's guys out there laughing at me. I don't care. Like, it's, it's a good product.

Yeah.

Um, good warranty.

Yeah.

But it is, it is a 120-volt AC plug when you have a battery in it. Now I will tell you this, it doesn't last for long.

Sure.

But like, if you need— like, we used it one night just to run a fan upstairs.

Okay.

While we were cooking, because we didn't have electricity up there.

Right.

But it really helped, and it was nice just to have that option.

Right.

You could use it to plug a lamp in. I mean, like, all sorts of things.

Yeah.

I mean, anything that's 120, you can plug it into here.

Sure.

Now, it ran that— it ran the battery down pretty quick. Pretty quick. I will say this.

What kind of amp-hour battery did you have on it?

4 amp.

A 4 amp. Okay.

Yeah. Um, and because the smaller ones are 2.

They're 2. Yeah.

Um, I will say this, that was another thing that I did is I, I think I have like 15 Ryobi batteries.

They were all charged. They were all charged. Yeah.

Ready to go.

Yeah.

Because, well, one, like, um, when, uh, the day after the storm we needed to cut limbs.

Oh yeah.

And, and so we've got that reciprocating saw.

Right.

And that's great for cutting little limbs and getting stuff out of the way.

It is.

And then I was running the chainsaw, which again, that's another thing.

Yep.

I, I think, I think, you know, it, at least for us, I mean, like, people, people that live in neighborhoods that have trees are now realizing like, hey, maybe I should have had a chainsaw.

Right.

Because they really needed one when one fell on their house or, you know.

And I will say that's one of the things that, you know, here on this show, we advocate for electric tools.

Sure.

And, you know, I've said often, if I, you know, if I get a chainsaw, I'm probably gonna go buy the, the EGO chainsaw. Which, you know, in a situation like this, you go, man, don't know if that's the best choice.

Right. Yeah, I, I was gonna say, I don't know that I would have wanted an electric one in this, in this instance, because like—

I agree.

Once that battery goes down, you're sunk. I mean—

You can't charge it back up.

Well, I mean, you could plug it into your generator.

Oh, you could.

But it's probably going to take like 2 hours to recharge. Right.

Um, unless you have plenty of batteries for that.

Yeah, unless you have plenty. Oh yeah, if you're, you know, you could be prepared that way. Um, but we had plenty of gasoline to run that thing, right? Um, and, uh, I mean, we, we cut up some logs.

I bet.

Real— I mean, because we had, we had 2 or 3 trees.

Okay.

Um, one— none fell, but we had like one split like really big.

Oh, really?

Um, that was a big mess.

Oh, I bet.

I'm still cleaning that up in the front pasture.

Yeah.

Um, one was just a dead tree that like after the storm it hadn't fallen, and I was like, nuts to this, I'm not having this fall on somebody, right? I'm just gonna cut it down. Yeah, so I felled a tree.

Nice.

The other thing I was super happy to have was this bad boy. Oh yeah, which this is to date still our best performing video on YouTube. Awesome. The Nova, by the way. Thank you guys. Um, dude, this is still my favorite flashlight.

That's awesome.

Um, for those of you that don't know, it's solar rechargeable. This thing can recharge. It's got a USB port right there. It's USB, um, it's not C, mini. Yeah, no, it's like the one with like the curve.

Yeah, it's a mini USB. Is that mini?

And then regular USB. Or micro, sorry. Micro USB.

That's what I meant.

And then regular USB like 3.0 or whatever that is. It'll recharge my iPad like 3 times.

Really?

Yeah.

Dang.

The battery in this thing is awesome.

'Cause yeah, that's pretty impressive.

Yeah, so I mean, so it's got that and then obviously it's got the light.

And the lighter.

And the plasma lighter. And then also tungsten break glass. And then like, I didn't realize this, but like the lens, if in a pinch you can take that bad boy off and you can start a fire. Oh, with that? Sure.

Yeah, I've burned lots of ants that way. Yeah.

So super cool. And I typically carry this thing with me everywhere I go.

Sure.

You never know. Yeah. So, but I actually had a, I had a buddy, his name's Dave Shannon. He runs the men's ministry at our church. I'm actually wearing his shirt tonight.

Okay.

And stuff. So he puts together hunts and all kinds of stuff, but I'm in a Bible study with him and all the guys in that group. He put together a survival canister and it's got all kinds of stuff. I can't even list all the stuff in it, but it's like a little can like this big.

Okay.

It's got like water purification, fishing supplies. I mean, just medical supplies, like everything that you would want in an emergency to put in your backpack. And if you got to head out the door, it would be like a part of your bug-out kit.

Wow.

Nice. But like, and I was going through it and I was like, so many people need to— that's the thing is when we start talking about like hurricane prep is people go to, what do I need To thrive, right? You know, and so like that typically goes to well, I need the whole home generator so to have my air conditioning, so I can have my television, so I can have my internet, so I can ba ba ba ba ba ba ba.

Right.

And where my brain goes, and you and I were talking a little bit about a little bit about this before the show. My my brain's kind of weird, like because I go to the worst case scenario.

Right.

I'm like, what do I need to literally survive?

It's a good question.

Like what would I have to have on my person? Like I lose everything, what would I have to have on my person to survive?

Yeah.

And that's a much different question.

It is.

Than, like, how do I, like, maintain the property so that I don't get uncomfortable? No.

Absolutely.

And I think there's a lot of people— I was talking to a guy this morning. Like, he— his power just, just came on this morning.

You know?

And when you get into, like, day 3, day 4 of no power, no internet, no All that kind of stuff?

Yep.

Like, those are the questions you begin to ask yourself. Like, should I have thought about this? Should I have considered that?

Right.

Why didn't I prepare and have something in place so that my family is without— not without water, right? So that my family isn't without food, so that my family, you know, you know, isn't cooking themselves alive in our home, right? Thankfully, the roads weren't shut down. People could get— we had people come stay with us that had been without power for several days.

Sure.

Thankfully, theirs came back on.

Yeah.

But these are actual questions that people need to ask, and it's not expensive to do a little bit of prep.

No, it's really not.

At some point, I'll have to bring the canister in here and just kind of go through it with everybody. But I bet you you know, he spent less than $20 on each of us putting that thing together. But like, it's stuff that could actually be beneficial. Really, really helpful.

Yeah.

You know, and like, there's, there's also like fun things. Like we bought my son—

you heard of LifeStraw? Oh yeah.

Super cool.

Yeah, that's super cool.

And like, he loves taking it out in the woods.

Some random places.

Yes. He's like, what can I drink out of? Yeah.

Anything pretty much.

Yeah.

Like puddle of standing water, go for it, buddy.

Get you some, Bubba.

Yeah.

And, and it works.

It does work.

So it does work. Yeah, like it's— and like he's, he started to put together like a backpack of like stuff that he wants, you know, when we go out in the woods.

Yeah.

Stuff that he's gonna need, that he's always got the LifeStraw.

That's awesome. So gotta love that.

Oh yeah.

Well, our, our situation was a little bit different. Um, first of all, I, I left.

Yeah, you, uh, kind of a draft dodger.

Yeah, I, uh, well, I had a business trip, and so, so I, I left, um, and took my kids with me where I was going. Uh, my, my parents lived not too far from that, so they came and picked them up, and they stayed with them for the week. Um, we, we knew the hurricane was coming, but not, you know, that we had planned that trip for my kids months and months in advance, right? You know, same thing with my trip. It was planned months and months in advance.

So, right. You're not a soothsayer.

Yeah.

Lucky.

Lucky. But my wife was here and my mother-in-law. Now, my mother-in-law's house is all electric. And so, you know, if she— if we lose power, she's, she's pretty much resigned to— if she, you know, she would have to have a generator to run things off electricity. We've also looked at it and gone, okay, we've got it. So we do have a portable generator.

Mm-hmm.

But it is a big generator. It's a 13,000-watt generator, and it runs on 3 different fuel types. One of the reasons we got the portable one instead of go with a whole home, like, standalone generator is because I wanted to be able to run my camper off of it too. If I ever wanted to take my camper boondocking somewhere, I wanted to be able to do that with a generator. Um, it's a really big, really heavy generator.

Right.

Um, the thing I was a little— at the time I bought the largest tri-fuel that was on the market. Um, now that same company, it's Duramax, that same company has come out with a 15,000-watt generator, and I'm like, oh, that sounds awesome. But nevertheless, here, here's the problem with our house. If we don't have power, we don't have water.

Right, because you have a well.

Because we have a well. So we have to have power in order to generate water. Um, and so, you know, I— but before the storm came, uh, I went ahead and got the generator out, got it hooked up before. One of the things that we did as soon as we moved in because of that problem is we got the generator and we also put in— we already had natural gas at the house, but we put in a line, a 1-inch line Uh, it was pretty, pretty long run, cost quite a bit. Uh, shout out to Burke Electric for, um, uh, plumbing, plumbing, sorry, for getting our gas going. And, um, they, they came out, ran a great, great system for us. And so I got it all

hooked up, ready to go, even turned on the generator, you know, made sure that everything was running, that it was easy, you know, easy startup for them and everything. Dude, that generator is so nice. It's got like a remote start on it.

Nice.

Like It's, it's pretty, pretty sweet. But so, well, so the hurricane came and sure enough, uh, lost power about 8 o'clock on Monday morning. And, uh, so my wife was like, I'm gonna let the rain quit. So sometime around noon, 1 o'clock, uh, she went out and got the generator started. And we've got an interlock system, uh, manual interlock, which means Uh, on our main circuit breaker, you turn the main panel, the main breaker off, slide up this little plate, and then turn on a 50-amp breaker.

Right.

That 50-amp breaker will run anything else in that entire panel because it's hooked up to the main nodes. So she did all of that and, um, you know, got, got everything turned back on, but we couldn't get any of our large— she couldn't get any of our large circuits on. So anything over a 30 amp, she couldn't get to come on. So our water wouldn't come on. The, yeah, I, the, like the oven or the, or the dryer, which we're not gonna probably use those anyway. We do have a gas stove. We've also got a gas water heater. But like our air conditioner wouldn't come on either, which all our, our generator will power all of that.

Right.

We're not gonna try to run the AC and the dryer at the same time.

Sure.

But we can run the AC and the well at the same time, uh, because the well's gonna turn on, do its thing, and turn off. It's not gonna, you know—

Figure out why she couldn't do it?

Uh, well, no, not at the time. I mean, we, we— what, what was crazy is everything else in the house was working. So all the fans, all the lights, all the outlets, all that kind of stuff. But one of the things we, we knew going in was that our circuit panel labels were mostly right, but not all right.

Okay.

So her and her mom went through and like tested every circuit. So now we know what everything is, which is really, really great.

Yeah.

What better time to do that?

Sure.

Um, but never, never could get the bigger circuits to come on. I was like, look, turn everything off, turn the generator off, turn it back on, like just kind of go through the whole sequence again. Um, never could really get it to work. Um, there was one fail point that I'll, I'll come back to. So then power came back on only about 18 hours later, which is great. Like 1 o'clock in the morning the next morning, it came back on. And, but the next morning, every— so everything was on except our water. We, we didn't have any water. And so, they're like, look, we, we checked the breaker. We did this, we did that. And I was like, well, there's nothing that, that was never on.

So there's nothing that could have happened. Something's just not working right. I said, just call the well company and, and just see what they can do. They're probably slammed. So she called and sure enough, they're slammed. Um, but they just happened to be in our neighborhood. So they got there at like 11 o'clock that morning.

Oh, wow.

And just found out that the 30-amp breaker that powers our, our shop and our well and all that kind of stuff, um, we, we had power to the, to the shop. The well just wouldn't come on. Well, the, you know, those, those 30-amp breakers, they've got 2 poles on them, right?

Right.

Both of them had not engaged. So the breaker just needs replaced.

Oh.

It's, it's not— here's one thing to know. Breakers don't get weak.

Right.

That, that's not a thing. So, so if you think, oh, I've just got a weak breaker, that's not a thing. It may be broken, but it's not weak. So it either works or it doesn't. That's why it's called a breaker.

Right.

So, but the guy came over and he goes, look, for some reason, only one side of the, the pole was closing whenever you flip it.

Mm-hmm.

And, and so he flipped it off, flipped it back on. Every— it came back on. And he was like, if I were you, I would just replace the breaker. It's probably just a, you know, the breaker is not engaging the way it needs to every time. So, um, so anyway, I get home on Saturday from my trip and I was like, okay, well, I'm gonna test the generator because something's weird. It showed that it's got a digital readout on it. Something's, something's weird because it's showing it'll produce 240, but it's not sending 240. I guess something's weird because I couldn't get those circuits to come on. So I called my brother-in-law because I had an electrical question.

He's the electrician. And he's like, he's like, are you about to work on it right now? And I go, yeah. And he goes, I'll be there in 20 minutes. And I'm like, you live 7 hours away. What are you doing? He was like, oh, I'm, we're headed to Galveston. We're going on a cruise. I was like, I didn't even, I didn't even know. So, so 20 minutes later, he shows at my house and he's way smarter than I am with electrical stuff. So he gets my multimeter and starts checking everything. Everything checks out.

Uh-huh.

Everything's working. The, the generator's, uh, producing what it should. The cord is fine. Um, everything on the breaker panel is fine. And he said most likely whenever she flipped that 50-amp breaker, it didn't close. That, that something for some reason didn't close. That's the one thing that she didn't turn back off and turn back on was that 50-amp breaker. And here's something just to know. The little— so, so when you see those big breakers, there's a little bar in between the 2, um, switches. That doesn't do anything. It's still 2 switches that have to engage.

Right.

Right? That little bar just kind of visually shows they're both on.

Right.

So I think that's what happened whenever she, she used that bar. She probably got the bottom of it as she— her thumb is, you know, flipping it, and the top one didn't— just didn't engage all the way. So we were getting 120, but we weren't getting 240.

Which is why everything else—

Which is why everything else wasn't working as soon as—

Makes sense.

Yeah. So we turned it, we turned everything back on and, you know, turned the generator on and then put that 50 amp on. And when we tested it, the air conditioner popped on. So it worked. So all that to say, we, we were actually fine. We didn't have water through that time. But we had pool water. So we were— she was flushing the toilet with pool water. But I think, I think all that to say, uh, you know, natural gas is nice because it can run indefinitely as long as there's not a gas issue.

Right.

If there is, you should probably have some gasoline for backup just in case. Uh, we, we had all our cars gassed up. Um, we were, we were prepared if we needed to, we could go stay in the camper. You know, we could turn the air conditioner on that and we had the generator. We didn't put gasoline in it. We were prepared as far as that goes. But, um, you know, we were very fortunate. We didn't have any trees down. Um, we had some limbs down, but, you know, one of the things that we've done is we've done— we've spent some money and trimmed our trees up really, really well. We've taken out dead trees or almost dead trees, and we've done a lot of tree work in our, in our

yard. That doesn't mean everything, but we were, we were good.

Yeah.

And then, you know, we had a lot of limbs down, but by the time I got home, they had cleaned up all the limbs. They had mowed. The only thing left for me to do when I got home was test the weird circuits and blow off the driveway. Beyond that, everything was already done. They were rock stars.

Nice.

So yeah. Um, but you know, they were kidless. They were.

Amazing what you can get done. That's exactly right.

But here's the deal. Let's just mention this for a minute. An interlock system, you can do for less than $500.

Right.

And a generator, depending on what you get, um, I mean, even if you go with, with something the size that you have, you may not be able to run your AC on with that, but you can—

You turn everything else on.

Turn everything else, literally everything else other than your AC, right? And, and maybe like if you've got an electric dryer or an oven that runs off 30 amp, you probably don't want to run those.

We have a gas dryer.

Yeah, so, so that doesn't matter as far as that goes. But like, you can run everything else and you're probably gonna set yourself back somewhere around $1,500.

For the generator?

Yeah, maybe less.

Yeah, probably the most of them are going for about $1,000 right now.

So, so you can go get one that'll do pretty much everything in your house plus an interlock system, maybe for $1,500 to get it installed.

Yeah.

And that's running on gas, it's not running on natural gas. I mean, you've got a whole different scenario if you're trying to run on natural gas. I'll just tell you the numbers. I mean, that when we bought our generator, it was $2,500. That very same generator selling current, it just was on sale for $2,000. So you might be able to find it on sale. And then the gas line was about $1,000 and the interlock system was about $500.

Right.

So if you, you know, $3,000—

Is that the plug and everything?

The plug and the interlock system, the cord. I mean, that's really everything you need. You can get done for $2,500 to $3,000, right? If you're doing natural gas. If you're just doing regular gasoline, $1,500.

Yeah.

Now, now I know that's a lot of money, but when the alternative is being without power for a week, maybe 2, you kind of got to start doing math and going, what, where, where am I willing to spend my money and where, how am I going to prep this out? So anyway, uh, you know, that being said, uh, our, our hearts truly go out to a lot of people that are still without power and trying to, trying to deal with trees that are down and insurance issues, all those sorts of things.

Real quick, because I saw one of these online, because I know the Duramax is a good one. Westinghouse has a tri-fuel 1250 or 12,500, and it's basically $1,200.

Yeah.

It's $1,199.

I'll tell you, mine has a lot of bells and whistles on it.

Sure.

A lot of bells and whistles, like the remote start. It's got—

This one, that one.

has it as well. Got all kinds of craziness on it.

But I mean, you bought yours a year ago?

Uh, no, 2 years ago.

2 years ago?

Yeah.

So I mean, I would imagine prices on these have probably come down a little bit.

Well, because—

But I don't know that— I don't know that Westinghouse is a better brand than Duramax.

I don't— it's not a— it's not a better brand. The Duramax has performed really, really well through this storm. A lot of people I've seen performed really, really well. The 15,000— what?

Yeah.

Is a hefty beast.

Sure.

So, um, they've even got a 17,000-watt, uh, generator, Duramax does, but it's a dual fuel.

Not just propane and gas.

Not just propane, it'll do propane and gas. I mean, so yeah, you know, kind of pick, pick your fuel as far as that goes. Yeah, and some people don't have natural gas, so it may not even be an option.

I'm surprised at how many neighborhoods don't.

Oh, I know. Well, I know we, we thought that we wouldn't whenever we started looking for land. We got We kind of got lucky. Yeah, we got lucky.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm—

I always look because sometimes you have these brands, and I don't know, I don't know much about Westinghouse. I just remember seeing this one as a tri-fuel. Um, yeah, I'm always curious as to what— who makes the motor.

Yeah, this one I can't see. This one I think is specifically made by Duramax. It's their own proprietary motor.

Um, but it looks like this one is too.

I'm telling you, dude, it It has been, it has been a beast.

If I could find a tri-fuel with a, with a Honda motor—

Oh well, yeah.

Take my money.

Yeah, I will tell you, um, a lot of people had trouble with Generacs that I saw. Um, people that had Kohlers had zero issues. And then obviously people with, um, with, uh, there were people out there that had Cummins engines going. Was like, okay, well, if you're starting to get into the diesel Oh, that's the diesel.

That's crazy. Those are stuff—

those are incredibly impressive.

You start talking about like 6 digits to get one of those installed.

Very, very pricey.

But I mean, like, reliable.

Yeah.

Power everything.

That's right.

Um, yeah, my parents have a Generac. They've had some issues with it. Yeah. Um, but most— here's, here's the big argument for the Generac, and I'll— dirty little secret— some Generacs have Kohler motors in them. They do. Uh, but anyway, they— so like the argument for the, the Generac systems is like it'll come on when you're not there, right? So the problem is when it doesn't.

Yeah.

So like during the winter storm, my, my parents, it didn't come on.

Yeah.

They had to go out and manually start it.

Yeah, that actually happened with, with someone at my church. Theirs didn't— theirs came on for about 20 minutes and went off and still not working. And, and, and again, the, the one of the things that's really nice about mine, I can go out there and start it up just a couple times a year. I'm good to go.

Well, I, I mean, I, I tell, because I think my wife's gonna let me put in, I don't know if it'll be an interlock system or a, what's the other one?

Well, there's the inter— there's an interlock system that's, that had, like, that is like mine that goes in the entire box. Or there's a separate box that you can put in.

That's the one I'm talking about.

That just runs like maybe 10 circuits in between. you choose the 10 and those are the only ones that can work, right? And, and there's pros and cons to both. I personally, I didn't want to limit myself, right? So I put it the one that will do the entire thing, right?

And I'm trying to— I just can't remember the name of the other one.

I can't either, man. I, I don't either.

Anyway, um, oh, transfer switch.

A transfer switch, that's it.

Uh, yeah, what were we talking about?

Well, the, the, the fact that, you know, there's, there's 2 different options and You're talking about your wife maybe letting you put one in?

Yeah, no, I'm, I'm always going to be in the, uh, portable generator camp, mostly because, like, it's— because it's not just for my house.

No.

I can take it anywhere.

That's exactly right.

Um, and it has multiple uses.

Yes, it does.

Um, and like, when you, when you put one of those Generacs, I mean, like, it's, it's—

that's where it is. Yeah. And, and you're spending, you know, you know, upwards of $13,000 to $15,000 potentially on some of those and can't do anything other than—

Closer to $20,000 on some of them.

Yeah, and it depends on the size of your house and depends on what all you're running, but at the end of the day, it, it can only do that.

Yep.

And that's why I went with the portable.

There's no utility other than that.

That's exactly right. And I, and I just— anytime I can have multi-use, uh, that's what I want.

Oh yeah, you know, you can take it to the deer camp, you can, you know, plug it into your, you know, RV if you got one, right? I mean, lend it out to someone that doesn't have power.

Right.

So, which is what we ended up doing with ours.

Sure.

So, you know.

There you go.

Yeah. Anyway, what about all this other hooey, man?

Oh my goodness.

That's why I wore my hat.

It's a good hat, man. It's a good hat.

It's 2 weeks of nothing but hooey, man.

I'll tell you what, like, first of all, we live in a crazy world.

Yes.

I mean, I don't remember in my lifetime And, and I know that this happened at a rally during Reagan's time.

It wasn't a rally.

It was— that wasn't a rally?

No. It was just him walking to the— to his car. Yeah.

That's what it was. So, but so it was different.

It was a little different.

A little different. But it did happen. It did happen. But, again, that was in my lifetime, but, like, barely. I didn't— I mean, I was young.

Right.

Super young. I was, you know, maybe 5 when that happened. But, but, you know, we have a situation where a, a man, and I don't care how you feel about him.

Mhmm.

A man's out there, you know, advocating for his presidency again. And we've got issues.

People took— somebody took a shot at him.

So, yeah.

Hit him.

And, and hit him. And had he been turning his head in another direction, he'd be dead. He'd be completely dead.

Yeah.

So I actually saw an interview with a, with a doctor who was on the scene. He's an OB-GYN, but he's a doctor who was on the scene and right next to the guy that actually got shot by that— the guy that was killed.

And he got shot in the head.

He got shot in the head. And he— the, the person interviewing was like, you know, what kind of assistance were you able to render? And he was like, there was no assistance. Like, he was dead. Yeah, he was completely dead.

I think I saw that one where he was talking about there was, there was brain matter.

Yeah.

Like splattered.

Right. And, and so, like, you know, and his family was there and, you know, just talking about the fact that they She said, have you been to one of these before? And he's like, no, I've never been able to go. I've always kind of wanted to go, and this one I was able to get off for and decide to go. And, you know, I, I was actually sitting there thinking, man, if something bad were to happen, this seems awfully open.

Yeah.

Like, this, this area seems awfully open, and if something bad were to happen, like, what would they do about it? And he said something bad did happen.

Yeah.

And, um, you know, just, just kind of talking through that whole, that whole scenario, it's like I don't know, man. We're, we're, we're in a place— there's all kinds of rumors out there about even the Secret Service and, and, you know, the guy that actually took the shot. And there's rumors out there about them that haven't been substantiated yet, but some crazy stuff.

Well, I mean, the things that have been substantiated is that there's a, there's a, there's somebody out there that did a, uh, that synced up a bunch of videos that people took while at the rally.

Yeah.

And you can— and they, they were able to sync it up because they could sync it up with the audio from the speech that he was giving. And from the moment— because people in the audience saw the shooter, right? And like, here's the thing, man, is like, if, if just normal civilians on the ground were aware, like, their attention should have been to the guy speaking and giving the speech because that's what they're there to hear, right? But like, it's so obvious that they see the shooter up on the roof and now they're yelling out. You can hear them in the video like, hey, there's a guy up there. Hey, he has a gun.

gun. Right.

And they're, they're like announcing this, they're telling this, they're telling it to authorities. And then you're hearing reports afterwards that guys were saying like, yeah, we saw that guy.

Yeah.

And he looked really suspicious.

Right.

And, and all these, all these things. So they, they lined up those videos and it, from the moment that people started announcing, hey, at least yelling out that we know of, hey, there's a guy up on that roof with a gun, that they're, they're shouting this out and telling it. from that moment to when he gets shot is just over 2 minutes. It's like 2 minutes and 1 second.

That is a long time.

Yeah.

2 minutes? And you're telling me that they didn't have the ability to take care of something within 2 minutes?

Well, and you can also kind of see that like they knew where he was because how quickly they shot him.

Right. Oh.

Once he opened fire.

It was immediate almost.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And so like, there's a, there's just a lot of people going like, why, why was this not stopped before he was able to take a shot?

Yep. Well, and, and, and also asking the question of like, what— I mean, of all the places that were on the perimeter of things that they were checking, I mean, that thing was what, 500 or 600 yards away?

No, it was only 120. Okay, that's even It's even worse, right?

I was— oh, maybe I'm thinking feet. I was thinking it was— maybe I heard feet, 500 to 600 feet. Yeah. How is that not something within the perimeter that you have checked, double-checked, and quarantined, you know, to make sure that it's completely safe at that point? It makes no sense. There's so many things that you look at and go, we should have done better. And, and I don't care. Again, I don't care if it, if it was Trump or if it was Biden or if it's somebody else who's rallying. This should never have happened.

No.

We should have been able to avoid this. And, and I'll tell you, one of the things that really bothers me is afterwards. Did you read some of the headlines?

Oh, yeah.

So, okay. So—

Secret Service escorts Trump after falling.

Yeah. After falling. He falls at a rally. Here, here's another one that says Trump, Trump escorted away after loud noises.

Yeah.

At the rally.

Is that the CNN one?

Yeah. Both of those. Well, that one was actually the Washington Post. The first one was CNN. The USA Today said Trump removed from stage by Secret Service after loud noises startles the former president.

Yep.

And, and, you know, here's another one. NBC News, Secret Service rushes Trump off stage after popping noises were heard. popping. Okay. Probably the one that, that bothered me the most. The one that bothered me the most was the Sunday Denver Post. Did you see this one? Gunman dies in attack.

What?

That is, that is the title of their front page article of Trump. He's got his hand up in the air, right?

Yeah.

The title is Gunman dies in attack.

Oh my gosh.

And I'm like, really? This is the— and now again, here, here, here's the thing that I, that I wanna say. For, for us to expect the liberal media to make non-liberal statements is a little, is a little bit crazy.

But— I don't know that that's a liberal statement as much as it is a, an attempt to mislead.

Well, that, and I, I think, I feel like for the conservative person that this happened to, it's a misleading statement by the liberal media. That's my point. Now, that being said, it is what it is, but it is misleading. And if after it happened, I, I didn't— I wasn't watching whenever it happened.

Right.

And so I went searching and, and I'm, and I'm like, oh, it's just, you know, he, he fell. Oh, he heard loud noises. And then, and I'm like, Wait a minute. No, no, there was a gunshot. He actually got hit. This is an assassination attempt.

Yeah.

And we're not— and we're not— we're not talking about it like that.

Yeah.

Which is crazy to me. Yeah, crazy.

It's— dude, like that whole— okay, I looked it up. It was 430 feet.

Oh gosh. So yeah, some— the numbers I was thinking were feet.

It's like around 120 yards.

It's— it's way too close. Right, for you not to have secured that area.

Yeah, it's crazy close.

It is.

I mean, like, I, I heard, I heard some guys on, on one of the shows I listened to talking about— I was like, my daughter could take that shot, right?

120 yards, that, that's— people take those shots at deer all the time.

All the time.

All the time. Yes, absolutely.

So it's not that far. Yeah. So, and, and like, here's the thing, man, is Um, it's been a very revealing couple of days. Like, there are absolute bags of human garbage out there that are talking about how they're really upset that the shooter missed. And I know that bothers me. And also, like, uh, guys like, uh, Destiny— are you familiar with that guy? Like, out there saying, like, I'm not gonna feel bad for somebody that got shot that was there cheering on a tyrant. And I'm like, that— you're human garbage, right? You're absolute trash.

Yeah.

Like, I'm done. I'm done with you as a person. Like, I'm sorry. That's, that's just reprehensible to say. And I mean, like, that's, that's somebody's dad.

Yes.

Somebody's brother, somebody's son.

That's right.

I don't care. I don't care what his political affiliation doesn't matter. You don't celebrate somebody's untimely death.

Right. And murder. Oh, it's murder.

Absolutely. And, and, and so, like, it's been very revealing. Are you familiar with the account Libs of TikTok? No.

It—

she's on— it's actually a gal that runs the account, and she basically just goes around exposing people who say and do horrendous things via the internet. Okay. And she has been systematically combing X for people who have been saying things like this and then posting their tweet or their— I don't know what they're calling it now.

I don't either.

Posting their post.

Yeah.

And then tagging their employer. Oh, and being like, what you going to do? Because most of these, most of the people that she's been finding work for public institutions like schools, universities, hospitals, things like that.

This is the type of person you have working for you, right?

Yeah. What are you going to do about it?

Yeah.

Um, and a lot of these people have been dismissed.

Oh, wow.

And good.

Yeah.

Um, I mean, like, it's, it's, it's crazy. But one, it's one thing to think that. It's another thing to write it down and then post it for the world to see.

Yep. Which, what's interesting is I, I've seen a lot of people reposting. I've not seen one that was reposted by the same person.

What do you mean?

I mean, like, I've seen multiple people repost a statement very similar to, like, hey, if you— okay. The one that I've seen more than anything, a similar post to this. If you think that what happened at the Trump rally is good.

Oh, you talking about unfriend me type?

Unfriend me.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah. I've seen that.

I've seen— But I've seen dozens of people repost that statement, all of them from different people that originated it.

Yes.

Which means there's just, there's just hundreds of people out there, maybe thousands, right, posting this. Now, I have a lot of feelings about, you know, if you have a— if you think differently than me, then unfriend me. I have a— I don't really feel that way. However, If I think the point is different than that, I think the point is if you think taking a human life is okay and you're proud of it, yeah, then I'm— you and I are not.

Or if you're upset that a human life didn't get taken.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Then, then you and I think so differently.

We have, we have fundamental differences on our philosophies, right?

then, then I— you and I don't need to be Facebook friends.

Right.

It's not that I don't care about who you are. Maybe—

Yeah. We don't need to be on the same continent, honestly.

Right. Definitely don't need to be Facebook friends. I get the, I get the sentiment at least. So it's just the, again, going back to what I said earlier—

Which I, I, I'm with you. I'm not typically like that about political things, but I also don't think that this is a political thing. I don't either. This is a human thing.

This, this is a human thing. So completely different scenario. While it is based in political nature, it's like I said earlier, right? I don't care if it's Trump or Biden or somebody else. You take someone's life. I don't see how you can celebrate that.

No, I would never, ever. And I have a hard time being because I'm not politically to the left, I have a hard time being frustrated with Biden at all.

Right.

Because, I mean, for the very reason that a lot of people are not happy with him right now.

Sure.

Um, which, here's the thing, man, is I, I was, I was thinking, like, before the incident with, uh, Trump in Pennsylvania happened, I was like, man, Biden really screwed the pooch at that, at that debate.

He sure did.

And I was like, I don't think it could get much worse than it is right now. Because, like, after the debate, Like, a lot of the media turned on him. A lot of his party have turned on him and said, like, hey, you need to, you need to step away. You need to step down. I was like, man, it can't get much worse for Biden. And then this happens and I'm like, it's worse. It's worse.

It's worse.

It's worse for him.

Yeah. As if it hadn't gotten bad enough for him.

Yeah.

Especially like even before that debate, you had the whole indictment stuff. that people were rallying around. Sure. And then you had, then you had the debate, and now you have this. People are, people are coming out of the woodworks. Yeah, right now.

Yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's an interesting one, man. And like, the— my, my, my big issue with this, this shooting, and because I think, I think we're going to learn a lot about the shooter in the weeks to come. Yeah. My, my problem is, now that this has happened, is who is going to take responsibility for the words that they've used to describe him? Because you can't tell me that you, you can continuously go around in public and deem somebody a threat to democracy, which is what they've been calling him for months.

Yeah.

a threat to democracy and then calling him the next Hitler. Like the— like, that's like, that's one of like the, the ultimate ethic questions, right? Is if you could go back in time and murder Hitler, would you do it before he had done anything, any of those evil things? Would you do it? I mean, and there's a lot of people who hear that question and without even giving it a second thought will go, yeah, I'd go back and murder him in a second. And, and so these, these are questions that people ask themselves all the time. And so when you call a person in public over a microphone, over media, you call him Hitler, you call him a threat to democracy.

Yep.

You say it long enough, loud enough, people are eventually going to believe it. And people that— there is enough people out there that when— even though there's a lot of people that believe things and don't do anything about their beliefs, there's lots of people that believe things and will do something about their beliefs.

Yep.

I don't know that that was his belief, the person that did the shooting.

It's hard to know.

Um, I think we're gonna learn a lot.

Yep.

And I'd be surprised if that's not the case.

I would too. I mean, the dude's 20.

Yeah.

He's 20 years old.

Right.

So to, to get to a point where you are politically active enough at the age 20, it, it, it's— I don't know. I got a lot of questions.

I, I just, I just wanna know if, if any of those politicians who— and media personalities that have been saying and parroting those things. And also, by the way, were the same people who were saying and parroting that because of Trump's language, January 6th happened. And I don't, I don't know that I disagree with her.

Sure.

But that because of his language, those things happened.

Sure.

But they've, they've been willing to, you know, persecute him.

Of course.

And say that he's ultimately responsible for everything that happened that day.

Right.

Okay. So now are you responsible for everything that happened at this rally? Yeah. Like, because we have to operate on the same standard.

The question has to be asked. If one is true, the other has to at least be questioned.

So like, if so, then I need all of you to fess up.

Right.