1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,480 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,239 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,640 go to thepeteclendershow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,719 smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:34,280 your support. Alrighty, So the Texas House Democrats who stood 10 00:00:34,359 --> 00:00:39,000 up for the democracy by running away, they are now 11 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:44,520 apparently returning to surrender. But I'd rarely be there declaring 12 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:50,560 victory in their surrendering. There's so much brave, so much brave. 13 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:54,200 Texas House Democrats have reportedly confirmed that they do intend 14 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:57,240 to return to the state after fleeing in an attempt 15 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:01,719 to halt legislative proceedings, which include did GOP attempts to 16 00:01:01,799 --> 00:01:06,280 redraw congressional districts in the state. Multiple sources confirmed to 17 00:01:06,599 --> 00:01:12,599 ABC thirteen Houston that the absent House Democrats will return 18 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:16,359 after feeling like they accomplished their mission of killing the 19 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:20,920 special legislative session called by Republicans to pass redistricting legislation 20 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:27,120 because that special session expires next Tuesday, So I'm not 21 00:01:27,159 --> 00:01:32,879 really sure why why you're returning before next Tuesday. That's 22 00:01:32,879 --> 00:01:35,760 when the special session ends. Oh and by the way, 23 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:39,159 they weren't able to I think, do some of the stuff, 24 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:41,280 like because they fled, they weren't able to have a quorum, 25 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:44,879 so they couldn't take any votes, which means that some 26 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:50,159 of the disaster relief and recovery funding for the Texas 27 00:01:50,159 --> 00:01:52,319 floods from a couple of weeks ago that killed all 28 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:57,000 those girls at the camp. Yeah, they didn't get that 29 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:01,319 done either, So good job on that, Democrats. But no, no, no, 30 00:02:01,359 --> 00:02:05,920 I get it, I get it. Your your party power 31 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:12,479 is more important than the than the disaster relief. But 32 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:16,319 Governor Abbott has already said that he's going to be 33 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:21,879 calling for another special session, so when one ends, he's 34 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:23,919 going to call another one into sessions. So he's going 35 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:28,439 to keep doing this and he like he'll do a third, 36 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:30,680 he'll do a fourth, He'll keep calling them back in. 37 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:35,479 So you're going to have to stay away, I guess 38 00:02:35,479 --> 00:02:38,240 for the rest of your lives. I guess that. Yeah. 39 00:02:39,159 --> 00:02:42,680 Also I saw that. I think it's the Attorney General 40 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:47,599 Ken Paxton that uh, he's looking to open an in 41 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:55,039 criminal a criminal investigation into Beto aka Francis Robert O'Rourke. 42 00:02:56,039 --> 00:02:58,240 Remember the clip Let's do It hang on, I might 43 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:02,680 still have it. Well. O'Rourke is running around fundraising for 44 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:08,919 these fleeing Democrats. And what Paxton has said is that 45 00:03:09,159 --> 00:03:15,120 this could violate bribery law because you are paying the 46 00:03:15,199 --> 00:03:18,560 lawmakers to take an action or not take an action 47 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:24,520 in order to affect a legislative outcome. And so if 48 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:28,759 you're paying them to leave, that could be considered under 49 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:32,520 the law to be a bribe. And so he said 50 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:34,680 he's going to open a criminal investigation into them for that. 51 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:37,280 I mean, I don't know if it'll go anywhere. It's 52 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:43,439 a novel interpretation that Heretofore only Democrats seemed skilled enough 53 00:03:43,439 --> 00:03:46,759 to do. But now apparently some Republicans are learning the game. 54 00:03:47,039 --> 00:03:48,919 I told you guys on the left that you're not 55 00:03:48,919 --> 00:03:52,759 going to like it when everybody starts playing by your rules. 56 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:56,479 So we shall see, we shall see if the Democrats return. 57 00:04:00,879 --> 00:04:08,280 Socialists hypocrites they all are. That's that's the deal with 58 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:11,360 with Marxism is that it is a it's a religion, 59 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:14,919 it's an ideology, and it's based in envy, and that 60 00:04:15,039 --> 00:04:19,439 makes you very very very prone. If not it automatically 61 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:23,560 makes you a hypocrite on any number of things. And 62 00:04:23,759 --> 00:04:28,040 Zoron Mamdani, the mayoral candidate up in New York, is 63 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:31,199 a really really good example of this. You know, he 64 00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:35,000 talks about Second Amendment repeal, he talks about getting all 65 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:37,279 the guns and all of that. Yet when he went 66 00:04:37,959 --> 00:04:42,279 to his wedding celebration in Uganda, where one of his 67 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:49,680 parents is from, the place was protected by armed guards 68 00:04:50,439 --> 00:04:55,560 with with machine guns and such. So there's that. There 69 00:04:55,639 --> 00:04:57,199 was also the fact that he was there for that 70 00:04:57,199 --> 00:05:03,360 wedding celebration and it was like at some compound, and 71 00:05:03,639 --> 00:05:07,920 like a very swanky compound at that very very ritzy, 72 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:12,519 very wealthy family. So I mean that's the Yes, that's 73 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:18,279 the Marxist class. And then there's this. The New York 74 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:24,040 City mayoral candidate is a silver spoon socialist shamelessly living 75 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:30,680 in a dirt cheap rent stabilized apartment and his neighbors 76 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:33,399 are saying, dude, you need to move out. This is 77 00:05:33,399 --> 00:05:36,839 the story in the New York Post. Mamdanie is thirty 78 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:39,639 three years old. He rakes in one hundred and forty 79 00:05:39,639 --> 00:05:43,040 two thousand dollars a year because he is a state assemblyman, 80 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:46,120 which always makes me wonder, well, then why didn't you 81 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:48,720 get all the stuff that you want to see done? 82 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:50,839 You would add a better shot at doing this up 83 00:05:50,879 --> 00:05:53,439 in the state capital rather than being the mayor of 84 00:05:53,439 --> 00:05:56,360 New York City. But whatever, So he makes one hundred 85 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:59,560 and forty two k. His wealthy family includes his filmmaker 86 00:05:59,639 --> 00:06:04,360 mom and his professor dad. And he's been living in 87 00:06:04,399 --> 00:06:10,360 a one bedroom apartment in Astoria and that apartment costs 88 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:14,720 twenty three hundred dollars a month. One bedroom apartment twenty 89 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:19,480 three hundred a month. And the reason that that is 90 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:24,000 so cheap, which I know here, like twenty three hundred 91 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:25,160 dollars a month, I can tell you it gets you 92 00:06:25,199 --> 00:06:31,600 more than one bedroom in Charlotte usually okay, because it's 93 00:06:31,639 --> 00:06:36,639 rent controlled and he makes too much money for him 94 00:06:36,639 --> 00:06:37,920 to be But this is the pole, This is the 95 00:06:37,959 --> 00:06:41,759 whole problem with the with the rent control system, is 96 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:45,319 that you get into these places and then you like 97 00:06:45,439 --> 00:06:50,879 basically just have this string of essentially subleasing, and so 98 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:55,879 it ties back to somebody, some prior resident who then 99 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:58,879 just like transfers the lease to somebody else, and they 100 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:03,720 just keep doing that. Mayor Eric Adams accused Mam Donnie 101 00:07:03,759 --> 00:07:07,600 of exploiting a system. Here's the key designed to serve 102 00:07:07,959 --> 00:07:12,800 the most vulnerable. See that's the problem. Mamdanni making one 103 00:07:12,879 --> 00:07:15,000 hundred and forty two k living in a twenty three 104 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:19,639 hundred dollars rent control like apartment. Okay, that doesn't look good. 105 00:07:20,279 --> 00:07:24,439 But the fact that he's taking that apartment from somebody 106 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:29,480 who actually could use it because they're poor, they need 107 00:07:29,519 --> 00:07:32,319 an apartment. They can't get into this rent control department 108 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:35,720 because he's taking one of the slots that he shouldn't 109 00:07:35,839 --> 00:07:42,000 be in. I know, it's as shocking to me as 110 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:45,000 it is to you that a Marxist would think that 111 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:48,160 the rules of Marxism don't apply to him. But here 112 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:51,279 we are. I'm again just as shocked as you are. 113 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:55,519 Eric Adams said, this is not public service, this is 114 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:58,759 self service. It is outrageous that a man who presents 115 00:07:58,839 --> 00:08:01,560 himself as the as a champion of the poor would 116 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:05,399 occupy an apartment intended for public housing while thousands of 117 00:08:05,439 --> 00:08:10,480 New Yorkers sleep in shelters or on the streets, Which 118 00:08:10,519 --> 00:08:13,839 isn't really a, that's okay, you're the mayor, dude, Like 119 00:08:14,519 --> 00:08:17,439 that seems like a problem that you could have addressed. 120 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:19,240 So I don't know if Eric Adams is the best 121 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:23,360 person to be making this argument. The Uganda born Mamdani 122 00:08:23,439 --> 00:08:26,279 comes from a wealthy family, and his six figure salary 123 00:08:26,319 --> 00:08:29,480 is on top of the additional income that his illustrator wife, 124 00:08:29,759 --> 00:08:34,879 Rama Duwaji, brings h to the home that he has 125 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:40,919 lived in for at least four years. 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So they're probably clearing somewhere in the 158 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:36,720 neighborhood of what two hundred k I'm going to guess 159 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:42,360 Como said somewhere somewhere last night in New York City, 160 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:45,360 a single mother and her children slept at a homeless 161 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:49,879 shelter because of you, Assemblyman Zoron Mamdani. You are occupying 162 00:10:49,919 --> 00:10:55,639 her rent control department. That tweet went viral twenty eight 163 00:10:55,799 --> 00:11:00,279 million views. You grew up rich and married an even 164 00:11:00,399 --> 00:11:04,200 wealthier woman. You've had weddings on three continents. You own 165 00:11:04,279 --> 00:11:11,000 property in lgtb Qia plus murderous Uganda. Well that's interesting. 166 00:11:13,759 --> 00:11:15,919 He still owns property in Uganda and they are not 167 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:20,679 down with the LGBTQ plus two IA stuff. Yeah. Mamdani, 168 00:11:20,799 --> 00:11:24,879 thirty three and his wife twenty seven, eloped in February 169 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:28,919 at the city Clerk's office. As all good Marxists do 170 00:11:29,759 --> 00:11:32,600 you know, they just we don't need all of the 171 00:11:32,639 --> 00:11:38,080 trappings of religion and the pageantry. I mean, at least 172 00:11:38,279 --> 00:11:40,679 here in America. I'm gonna go home and do all 173 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:47,840 of that. Yeah, But then they went off for a 174 00:11:47,879 --> 00:11:53,159 small but lavish engagement and wedding celebration in Dubai. And 175 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:57,320 then they capped off their nuptials in a blockbuster three 176 00:11:57,399 --> 00:12:02,519 day affair at his family's ritzy seclude Ugandan compound, complete 177 00:12:02,519 --> 00:12:06,360 with masked security guards and a cell phone jamming system, 178 00:12:07,879 --> 00:12:11,159 which Como pointed out as well. He said, today, I 179 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:13,919 am calling on you to move out immediately and give 180 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:17,440 your affordable housing back to an unhoused family who needs it. 181 00:12:17,759 --> 00:12:21,879 Leaders must show moral clarity, time to move out. I 182 00:12:21,919 --> 00:12:24,440 got to tell you, I've been covering politics a long time. 183 00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:27,279 I've never heard somebody say to their opponent that they 184 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:30,200 need to move out of their house. I've heard people 185 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:32,360 say you need to live in the district, but I've 186 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:34,440 never heard somebody say that house you're in now, you 187 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:38,159 need to move out of it. Republican mayoral candidate Curtis 188 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:42,200 Sliwa told The Post quote, only in New York do 189 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:45,080 we have two nepo babies. Do you know what a 190 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:51,720 nepo baby is? Nepotism nepotism baby, right, so a child 191 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:55,600 of privilege and like get you got where you are 192 00:12:55,919 --> 00:12:58,159 because of who your parents were. You're a Nepo baby. 193 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:02,399 Hollywood is full of them. Politics as well, which Russia 194 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:05,679 used to say, politics is Hollywood for ugly people. So 195 00:13:05,919 --> 00:13:11,320 it does track. So the Republican candidate Curtis Slewa, who 196 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:14,039 was the founder of the Guardian Angels, this was the 197 00:13:14,399 --> 00:13:19,399 you know, unarmed citizen militia kind of group that walked 198 00:13:19,399 --> 00:13:22,639 around with the Red Berets and they would, you know, 199 00:13:22,679 --> 00:13:25,799 try to prevent crime, report crime, that sort of thing. 200 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:28,879 They were a crime fighting force that developed back I 201 00:13:28,879 --> 00:13:33,399 want to say maybe in the seventies and eighties. I remember, 202 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:35,559 like that's when you know New York was a slum 203 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:41,159 hoole and it was before Giuliani got in. So that's 204 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:43,799 Curtis Slewa. He says, only in New York do we 205 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:48,320 have two Nepo babies, Andrew Cuomo and Zoron Mamdani arguing 206 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:51,399 over an apartment while the city falls apart because of 207 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:56,480 both of them, Which is a fantastic message and it's true. 208 00:13:56,600 --> 00:13:59,879 But he's still not going to win. That's the unfortunate thing. 209 00:14:00,039 --> 00:14:04,600 People are in the general election. People are probably going 210 00:14:04,639 --> 00:14:10,480 to vote for the Marxist Mamdanie had previously claimed he 211 00:14:10,519 --> 00:14:13,639 intended to leave his cheap digs. He said he was 212 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:16,039 going to leive. He told the New York Editorial Board 213 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:20,000 in February that he found the listing on Street Easy 214 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:23,320 years ago when he was only making forty seven thousand 215 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:29,159 dollars a year as a foreclosure prevention housing counselor. He 216 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:31,799 claimed that at that time he had no idea that 217 00:14:31,879 --> 00:14:34,960 it was a rent stabilized unit, which I think is 218 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:38,279 a little far fetched, because I believe you have to 219 00:14:38,279 --> 00:14:41,759 sign some sort of paperwork that tells you that the 220 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:45,120 average price of rent for a one bedroom in Astoria, 221 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:49,519 Queens is closer to three thousand dollars according to apartment adviser, 222 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:53,360 meaning he's saving somewhere north of eight grand a year 223 00:14:54,039 --> 00:15:01,879 more than his constituents. Due owns four acres of land 224 00:15:01,919 --> 00:15:04,279 in Uganda that's worth between one hundred and fifty and 225 00:15:04,279 --> 00:15:09,039 two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. His campaign brushed off 226 00:15:09,039 --> 00:15:14,679 any criticism, claiming Cuomo is merely trying to distract voters. 227 00:15:15,399 --> 00:15:18,159 This is always what people say when they cannot address 228 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:22,600 the merits of a particular scandal, or they can't respond 229 00:15:22,679 --> 00:15:24,840 to it. Right, it's Oh, you're just trying to distract 230 00:15:24,879 --> 00:15:29,120 with this. I'm not going to give into this distraction. This, 231 00:15:29,159 --> 00:15:31,200 to me, is the dumbest way to handle this stuff. 232 00:15:31,279 --> 00:15:36,600 You're better off like, just address it straightforward, straight up, 233 00:15:36,759 --> 00:15:40,120 Just address it, and then anytime after that you do 234 00:15:40,159 --> 00:15:43,720 a news conference, you address it, answer every question, and 235 00:15:43,799 --> 00:15:46,720 then you never have to talk about it again, because 236 00:15:46,759 --> 00:15:48,600 then anytime anybody else brings it up, you say, I've 237 00:15:48,639 --> 00:15:52,639 already addressed this. So here's what the campaign said. Andrew 238 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:56,559 Cuomo isn't just working with Donald Trump, He's becoming him, 239 00:15:57,080 --> 00:16:01,879 ranting two reporters, firing off unhinged social media posts, lodging 240 00:16:01,919 --> 00:16:06,279 personal attacks, all to avoid talking about the corruption, sexual harassment, 241 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:08,919 and abuse of power that drove him from office. The 242 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:13,279 only thing missing is a red hat. Really, like, so 243 00:16:13,399 --> 00:16:20,879 Cuomo's maga, Really it's Cuomo's spokesperson responded, The truth hurts, 244 00:16:21,039 --> 00:16:24,120 and the truth is Mamdani is gaming a system meant 245 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:28,080 to help those with way less privilege. I understand his 246 00:16:28,159 --> 00:16:31,840 diehard supporters don't know how to deal with his mask slipping, 247 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,639 and that is true. That is always the truth in 248 00:16:34,679 --> 00:16:39,759 any of these Marxist, communist, socialist regimes like the true Believers, 249 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:43,759 like they drink the kool aid for a reason. All right, 250 00:16:43,799 --> 00:16:45,639 if you're listening to this show, you know I try 251 00:16:45,639 --> 00:16:47,399 to keep up with all sorts of current events, and 252 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:49,519 I know you do too, And you've probably heard me 253 00:16:49,559 --> 00:16:53,759 say get your news from multiple sources. Why Well, because 254 00:16:53,799 --> 00:16:56,480 it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've 255 00:16:56,519 --> 00:16:59,799 been so impressed with ground News. It's an app, and 256 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:02,960 it's a website, and it combines news from around the 257 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:05,680 world in one place, so you can compare coverage and 258 00:17:05,759 --> 00:17:09,599 verify information. You can check it out at check dot ground, 259 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:12,920 dot news slash pete. I put the link in the 260 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:16,200 podcast description too. I started using ground News a few 261 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:18,920 months ago and more recently chose to work with them 262 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:21,720 as an affiliate because it lets me see clearly how 263 00:17:21,839 --> 00:17:25,240 stories get covered and by whom. The blind spot feature 264 00:17:25,319 --> 00:17:29,160 shows you which stories get ignored. Of the millennium in 265 00:17:29,279 --> 00:17:33,200 large part because of distortionary regulations of the mortgage industry. 266 00:17:33,279 --> 00:17:36,480 If policymakers want to make home ownership affordable, they need 267 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:40,759 to clear away the obstacles to home construction and mortgage lending. 268 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:44,559 All right, I'll get mac on real quick. Hello, mac 269 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:45,359 Welcome to the show. 270 00:17:46,319 --> 00:17:49,640 Speaker 2: Hey Pete, I just kind of want to chime in. 271 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:52,480 We were talking about this today and you know, I 272 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:55,240 was around, Well, I've been at the same job to 273 00:17:55,319 --> 00:17:58,759 build this cloud business for thirty years. And you know, 274 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:02,000 up until COVID, you could buy a house, a starter 275 00:18:02,079 --> 00:18:05,079 home house for ninety t one hundred dollars a square 276 00:18:05,119 --> 00:18:09,519 foot all day long. And after COVID that costs went 277 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:12,519 to about two hundred dollars a square foot. Now they 278 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:16,000 basically in five years the housing costs have doubled. 279 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:19,759 Speaker 1: Oh, I have no doubt about that. Yeah, I have 280 00:18:19,799 --> 00:18:23,079 no doubt that. Yeah. I mean, and why did COVID 281 00:18:23,119 --> 00:18:23,440 do that? 282 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:27,799 Speaker 2: Well, because, like I said, commodity, if you look at 283 00:18:27,799 --> 00:18:29,880 what goes into a house, which you know, a half 284 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:33,359 inch OSD, which is a huge part of the house, 285 00:18:34,039 --> 00:18:36,839 it went from a selling at nine ten dollars a 286 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:39,240 sheet to sixty dollars a sheet, right, but. 287 00:18:39,519 --> 00:18:41,480 Speaker 1: Right why it was supply chain disruption. 288 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:46,079 Speaker 2: It was a supply chain disruption. But however, everything else 289 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:49,680 OSD is still down back down to normal levels eleven 290 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:53,799 dollars a sheet. Douds are back down, the spruces back down, 291 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:58,920 pines back down. You know, granted, windows and doors they've 292 00:18:59,039 --> 00:19:02,640 kind of maintained, engineered with products have gon back down, 293 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:06,599 but the selling cults of the house has not gone down, 294 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:10,599 and it will not go down until people put bind right. 295 00:19:10,519 --> 00:19:13,359 Speaker 1: Which has happened. I mean that is happening. People are 296 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:15,599 they're waiting longer to buy and they can't afford them, 297 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:17,680 so I mean that part of that is starting to happen. Mac. 298 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:19,519 I do appreciate the call, buddy, Thanks for the insight. 299 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:22,599 You know, stories are powerful. They help us make sense 300 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:26,079 of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the 301 00:19:26,079 --> 00:19:29,200 people of our past while transcending generations. 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Erin, but I don't 322 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:48,000 know if that's a good nickname for a window installer. 323 00:20:49,799 --> 00:20:54,839 I don't know. Maybe yes, I'd like Erin the window 324 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:57,960 Killer to come put in new windows for me. Oh, 325 00:20:57,960 --> 00:20:59,880 but you take out the old ones. Okay, so that 326 00:21:00,039 --> 00:21:03,559 makes sense then, okay, never mind. Anyway, Airon installs windows 327 00:21:03,599 --> 00:21:07,400 and doors fixed glass. Deal with issues from builders and installers. 328 00:21:07,799 --> 00:21:10,400 I get what you mean about being better built, but 329 00:21:10,519 --> 00:21:12,960 they throw them up the houses. They throw up houses 330 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,480 so fast that there's a lot of issues. I work 331 00:21:15,519 --> 00:21:18,680 around York Tiga Kay and Charlotte, so on and so forth. 332 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:21,200 It just depends if you have the right people that 333 00:21:21,279 --> 00:21:24,079 really care. And then being a homeowner getting a house 334 00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:26,759 built or buying a home that is true. That is apps. 335 00:21:26,759 --> 00:21:28,279 I'll tell you a story in a second about that. That 336 00:21:28,279 --> 00:21:31,680 is absolutely true. You have to be there on site, 337 00:21:31,839 --> 00:21:34,759 you have to do your due diligence research, know everything 338 00:21:34,799 --> 00:21:36,799 the ins and out, so that you're not getting somebody 339 00:21:36,839 --> 00:21:40,680 throwing you up a cardboard house. So I have had 340 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:44,440 two homes built for me in my life. They weren't 341 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:46,799 custom jobs. They were part of, you know, a neighborhood. 342 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:51,480 And they call it in the industry build to suit, right, 343 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:55,240 So you get to pick out the carpets, like here's 344 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:57,920 the baseline, you know, and this is the standard, and 345 00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:01,160 it's you know, it's always the low grade possible because 346 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:03,960 they want to upsell you on like everything. And so 347 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,240 then you pick out the you know, an up sell 348 00:22:06,319 --> 00:22:10,000 on the cabinet tree and the door handles and the 349 00:22:10,039 --> 00:22:13,319 pulls for the drawers and you know, the tiles and backsplash, 350 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:16,519 all of it right. Like one of them was, hey, 351 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:19,559 it comes with a sink. And the sink is like 352 00:22:19,799 --> 00:22:23,960 you know, some nineteen forties era stainless steel three inch 353 00:22:24,039 --> 00:22:27,039 deep sink, and I'm like well I don't want that sink, 354 00:22:27,079 --> 00:22:30,039 but I can replace a sink. So're like, yeah, but 355 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:33,720 this sink only has like two holes drilled or whatever 356 00:22:34,079 --> 00:22:35,559 or and I'm like, well I don't want that, Like, 357 00:22:35,599 --> 00:22:37,000 well you can get those other sink. And they wanted 358 00:22:37,039 --> 00:22:39,599 to charge me like one thousand dollars for the sink. 359 00:22:39,599 --> 00:22:41,400 I'm like, well, that's ridiculous. I don't need to spend 360 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:44,359 that much money on a sink. And like yeah, but 361 00:22:45,079 --> 00:22:47,759 then you won't get the extra hole that you're gonna need. 362 00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:52,000 And so they basically forced my hand. You know. Anyway, 363 00:22:52,559 --> 00:22:54,440 we had that house. This was up in Ashville and 364 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:56,720 they were building it, and Christy and I would drive 365 00:22:56,759 --> 00:23:00,200 down to that house because we lived in Ashville. Every 366 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:04,079 weekend we drove to the house and we took pictures 367 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:08,000 from the very beginning. And so every weekend I had 368 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:13,559 photos of h VAC going in, plumbing going in, electrical 369 00:23:13,599 --> 00:23:17,400 going in. I took pictures of everything. And the first 370 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:21,839 night we moved in, sorry the first morning because like 371 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:23,759 all the electrical kept tripping and that was a whole 372 00:23:23,799 --> 00:23:27,359 separate thing. That was just bad circuit breakers. But we 373 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:30,440 got those replaced. But the next morning Christy tries to 374 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:34,960 take a shower and the shower isn't getting hot, but 375 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:38,680 we had hot water in our kitchen sink. That's odd. 376 00:23:39,519 --> 00:23:43,039 So call the company that you call the builder. They 377 00:23:43,079 --> 00:23:46,440 send out their sub and they're like, yeah, Well, the 378 00:23:46,519 --> 00:23:51,440 builder fired us as the plumbing subcontractor for all of 379 00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:54,160 these homes, gave the job to a buddy of his 380 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:58,200 from his church. Well, that guy could not keep up 381 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:01,799 with the schedule, so he was falling behind, so he 382 00:24:01,839 --> 00:24:03,720 brought in some people to try to make it up. 383 00:24:03,839 --> 00:24:06,839 Couldn't make it up, and so the builder fired his 384 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:09,880 friend and brought back in the original sub to finish 385 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:12,400 it out. And he's like, but we didn't do this house, 386 00:24:12,599 --> 00:24:15,119 so I don't know what the plumbing looks like inside 387 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:19,400 the wall. And I said, I do, and I can 388 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:23,000 show you. And I pulled up my photos. I showed 389 00:24:23,039 --> 00:24:26,200 him all of the plumbing and he was like, they 390 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:31,079 did a straight connection from the street to half of 391 00:24:31,079 --> 00:24:35,759 the house, so it wasn't running through the water heater system. 392 00:24:36,279 --> 00:24:38,440 It was just running right from the right from the 393 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:42,920 street right to the shower and the bathroom sinks and toilet, 394 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,799 So yes, you have to do so well, we moved 395 00:24:46,839 --> 00:24:49,839 back to Charlotte, same thing. We had a house that was, 396 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:51,799 you know, part of a neighborhood. We didn't get to 397 00:24:51,799 --> 00:24:54,440 pick the finishes because COVID blew up all the supply 398 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,400 chains and stuff, so we just got whatever they had 399 00:24:57,519 --> 00:25:01,319 in their warehouse. Apparently there's local arms were like seven 400 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,519 years old or something because they started beeping the first 401 00:25:03,519 --> 00:25:06,039 week we moved in. But that's a different story point 402 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,440 is if you're getting something built like that, yeah you 403 00:25:08,519 --> 00:25:11,400 gotta take all the pictures as it's getting built. You 404 00:25:11,519 --> 00:25:15,319 gotta be on site, and yeah you got to inspect everything. 405 00:25:16,559 --> 00:25:18,880 All right. That'll do it for this episode. Thank you 406 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:20,920 so much for listening. I could not do the show 407 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:23,480 without your support and the support of the businesses that 408 00:25:23,559 --> 00:25:26,640 advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support 409 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:28,359 them too and tell them you heard it here. 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