Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
Speaker 1: AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. Just talked about the numbers for
Speaker 1: tourism in La County that have gone down significantly since
Speaker 1: the beginning of the year.
Speaker 2: Hey, Gary, why are you talking about tourism numbers going down?
Speaker 2: Can you see all those people with their tents from
Speaker 2: all over the country coming here to set up shop
Speaker 2: and live in our streets. Well, they're not gonna sider
Speaker 2: tourists when they stay.
Speaker 3: I guess so you might be right.
Speaker 1: Lieutenant Lieutenant Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry is holding a news
Speaker 1: conference about what's going on in New Orleans. Of course,
Speaker 1: you may have seen the story of the presid inmates
Speaker 1: that escape through a hole, sorry, through a hole behind
Speaker 1: the wall, behind the toilet.
Speaker 4: Arnie. Of the progressive promises that have been made to
Speaker 4: this city is clear. New Orleans handed the jail keys
Speaker 4: to those who vowed to keep criminals out of jail,
Speaker 4: and sadly, today we show that it worked. I hope
Speaker 4: that everyone understands that the video of those prisoners escaping
Speaker 4: epitomizes a progressive criminal justice system.
Speaker 1: There were ten that escaped over the weekend. They have
Speaker 1: captured three of them, still on the lookout for seven
Speaker 1: and pretty crazy video where you can see them just
Speaker 1: making their way through the hole in the wall and
Speaker 1: then out a loading dock there at the at the
Speaker 1: prison and then into the night.
Speaker 3: It's time for swamp watch. I'm a politician, which means
Speaker 3: I'm a cheat and a liar, and when I'm not
Speaker 3: kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops.
Speaker 5: Here we got the real problem is that our leaders
Speaker 5: are done.
Speaker 3: The other side never quits.
Speaker 4: So what I'm not going anywhere.
Speaker 3: So now you drain the swat, I can imagine what
Speaker 3: can be and be unburdened by what has been. You know,
Speaker 3: Americans have always been going. They're not stupid.
Speaker 1: Political plunder is when a politician actually tells the.
Speaker 3: Truth whether people voted for you. With massp watch, they're
Speaker 3: all countering.
Speaker 1: Well, the big deal today politically is that President Trump
Speaker 1: says that Russia and Ukraine are going to start ceasefire
Speaker 1: negotiations immediately this morning. At a very early morning news
Speaker 1: conference from the White House, Caroline Levitt was previewing these
Speaker 1: phone calls.
Speaker 6: The President has.
Speaker 7: Made it clear his goal is to see a ceasefire
Speaker 7: and to see this conflict come to an end, and
Speaker 7: he's grown weary and frustrated with both sides of the conflict.
Speaker 7: The President and his team have put an enormous amount
Speaker 7: of effort in solving this very complicated war that again
Speaker 7: began because of the last administration's weakness.
Speaker 1: Steve Witkoff, of course, is the Special Envoy, talked about
Speaker 1: the call as well.
Speaker 8: We have to get to a ceasefire. That's the President's position,
Speaker 8: and we all agree with that position, and most importantly,
Speaker 8: we have to get to a final peace deal. He's
Speaker 8: got to get on the phone with President Putin and
Speaker 8: that is going to clear up some of the logjam
Speaker 8: and get us to the place that we need to
Speaker 8: get to. And I think it's going to be a
Speaker 8: very successful call.
Speaker 1: So it was about a two hour phone call. According
Speaker 1: to the White House, was a push to get Russia
Speaker 1: to end this war in Ukraine. Trump and Putin described
Speaker 1: the call as frank and useful. Not immediately clear what
Speaker 1: this is going to mean, although President Trump did suggest
Speaker 1: that there would be immediate ceasefire talks. The President Trump
Speaker 1: that has took to truth, social said the call went
Speaker 1: very well. He said, quote, Russia and Ukraine will immediately
Speaker 1: start negotiations toward a ceasefire and more importantly, an end
Speaker 1: to the war. He said the conditions for that will
Speaker 1: be negotiated between the two parties, as it can only
Speaker 1: be because they know details of a negotiation that nobody else.
Speaker 3: Would be aware of.
Speaker 1: The Kremlin came out with its version of this with
Speaker 1: its statement and said a ceasefire with Ukraine is possible,
Speaker 1: but noted that Russia and Ukraine must find compromises that
Speaker 1: suit both sides. None of this is clear, despite the
Speaker 1: fact that there was an attempt at some preliminary negotiations
Speaker 1: back on Friday. Of course, the ceasefire talks themselves fell
Speaker 1: through last week because it was presented with demands. The
Speaker 1: Ukrainians said they were presented with demands from the Russian
Speaker 1: delegation that were simply unacceptable. And then the largest drone
Speaker 1: attack that we saw in the entire three years of
Speaker 1: this whole deal was launched by Russia, something like two
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy three drones. The expectation is that there
Speaker 1: was the details of a prisoner swap worked out on
Speaker 1: Friday the first one, one of the ones that they
Speaker 1: have worked out in these face to face talks, but
Speaker 1: it's not enough for a full ceasefire. Former President Biden
Speaker 1: has commented publicly for the first time since it was
Speaker 1: announced that he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of
Speaker 1: prostate cancer. He wrote on X Today, cancer touches us all.
Speaker 1: Like so many of you, Jill and I have learned
Speaker 1: that we are strongest in the broken places. Thank you
Speaker 1: for lifting us up with love and support. The President's
Speaker 1: team came out yesterday former President's team and said that
Speaker 1: he was seen for a new finding of a prostate
Speaker 1: nodule after experiencing increasing urinary symptoms, and on Friday they
Speaker 1: told him he was diagnosed with prostate cancer characterized by
Speaker 1: a Gleason score of nine with metastasis to the bone.
Speaker 3: It had spread to the bone.
Speaker 1: The statement from again the former President's office said, while
Speaker 1: this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the
Speaker 1: cancer appears to be hormone sensitive, which does allow for
Speaker 1: effective management. The President and his family are reviewing treatment
Speaker 1: options with his physicians. One of the pre eminent oncologists
Speaker 1: in the entire world, doctor Zeke Emmanuel, said that this
Speaker 1: has probably been in him, and he's an eighty two
Speaker 1: year old guy. Almost every guy is going to have
Speaker 1: prostate cancer at some point if you live long enough.
Speaker 1: It's just not going to be the thing most often
Speaker 1: that kills you. Zeke Emmanuel said that this has probably
Speaker 1: been there for a while.
Speaker 5: Would it be fair to say it's likely to have
Speaker 5: had this for at least several years?
Speaker 3: Oh more than several years. You don't get prostacution.
Speaker 5: Again, I just want to sell you, so this is
Speaker 5: not speculation. If you have prostate cancer that has spread
Speaker 5: to the bone, then he's most certainly you were saying,
Speaker 5: had it when he was president of the United States.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, he did not develop it in the last
Speaker 9: one hundred two hundred days.
Speaker 3: He had it while he was president. He probably had
Speaker 3: it at the start of his presidency in twenty one.
Speaker 2: Yes that, I don't think there's any disagreement about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The last physical that Biden had would have been February
Speaker 1: of twenty four and whether or not an exam was
Speaker 1: actually done or a blood test to look for PSA
Speaker 1: numbers is not clear yet. It's also not necessarily a
Speaker 1: go to test for somebody who's that age. Because the
Speaker 1: assumption from doctors a lot is that if you're eighty
Speaker 1: and you have prostate cancer or they newly discover prostate cancer,
Speaker 1: prostate cancer often moves slow enough that it's not going
Speaker 1: to be the thing that kills you. You live with it. It's
Speaker 1: something else that gets you. So that was if again
Speaker 1: I don't know whether they did the test or not
Speaker 1: and just kept it secret, but if they didn't do
Speaker 1: a prostate exam in February of twenty four, that could
Speaker 1: have been the reason, at least according to a couple
Speaker 1: of the different doctors that we've heard from. So tomorrow,
Speaker 1: not today. Tomorrow, we're going to do a lot of
Speaker 1: the discussion of Okay, when what's the timing of this
Speaker 1: the release on the same day the diagnosis the same
Speaker 1: day as Robert Hurk tapes come out. Tomorrow, of course
Speaker 1: that book comes out from Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson
Speaker 1: about what people knew and when they knew it, about
Speaker 1: his cognitive decline and who kept its secret, all of that.
Speaker 1: So tomorrow we'll talk about that stuff. It's not I
Speaker 1: don't think it's appropriate today to talk about it. A
Speaker 1: very unusual advocate for psychedelic drug therapy. A Republican lawmaker
Speaker 1: in the House of Representatives. We'll talk about Morgan Latrelle
Speaker 1: and what he wants to push in terms of getting
Speaker 1: PTSD therapy out there.
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Speaker 9: AM six forty.
Speaker 1: Morgan Latrelle had never smoked anything. He never tried drugs
Speaker 1: in his life. So this guy, former Navy seal, had
Speaker 1: to ask a nurse for guidance on how to inhale ibogain.
Speaker 3: I think that's how you say it.
Speaker 1: This psychedelic drug that's part of a final step of
Speaker 1: an intense three day experimental therapy. He had gone to
Speaker 1: Mexico in twenty eighteen to take ibogain, which is illegal
Speaker 1: here in the United States but is gaining a reputation
Speaker 1: as being a potential treatment for PTSD. Inhaling a separate
Speaker 1: drug called DMT was the final step in this process.
Speaker 1: Now here's what's interesting about Morgan Latrelle. Not the fact
Speaker 1: that he suffered PTSD that's pretty common, and not the
Speaker 1: fact that he has turned to psychedelics to deal with
Speaker 1: PTSD that's actually becoming more common. It's that this guy
Speaker 1: is now in his second term in Congress and trying
Speaker 1: to use that platform as a way to open doors
Speaker 1: for other military vets and others who have suffered from
Speaker 1: PTSD to use psychedelics in their treatment. He explains this
Speaker 1: this is He said his journey was a last resort
Speaker 1: for people who feel trapped within their own minds. And
Speaker 1: he said that this would have been the religious equivalent,
Speaker 1: would be an exorcism. Yeah, he threw up a lot,
Speaker 1: he said, after repeated vomiting, he lay on a small
Speaker 1: mattress at an indoor facility along with other Prince participants.
Speaker 1: His eyes were closed. There were a flurry of colors, numbers,
Speaker 1: and then math equations that were appearing in his head.
Speaker 1: And he said it was liking it was a movie screen,
Speaker 1: but it's a movie screen of my life. And he
Speaker 1: said he saw flashes from his past, but that those
Speaker 1: flashes helped him get a new perspective on some of
Speaker 1: the life experiences that he had, the painful life experiences,
Speaker 1: and that helped him reborn and he says it helped
Speaker 1: save his marriage. So now Congressman Morgan Latrelle out of
Speaker 1: Texas is in a position where he didn't expect to be.
Speaker 1: He wants to see his party specifically more open towards
Speaker 1: what he says could be life saving treatments that are
Speaker 1: currently illegal in the United States. He's among a growing
Speaker 1: group of lawmakers Republican lawmakers, many of them veteran Republican lawmakers,
Speaker 1: who are making the case for drugs that they say
Speaker 1: can help address issues like PTSD and depression and substance
Speaker 1: abuse that can be rampant among people who are still
Speaker 1: suffering suffering from their experiences in their life in the military,
Speaker 1: he said.
Speaker 3: In an interview, he said.
Speaker 1: I had the inability to let the previous part of
Speaker 1: my life go and to understand that my current life
Speaker 1: is what's most important, and he argued that the path
Speaker 1: forward needs to be medically based. Proponents want to see
Speaker 1: a whole lot more research and funding in this. I
Speaker 1: don't know how you wouldn't. I'm not a fan of psychedelics,
Speaker 1: but I also don't take aspirin when I don't need to.
Speaker 1: I'm not the one who is going to be deciding
Speaker 1: this kind of a thing, And if you are dealing
Speaker 1: with PTSD, how would you not want to use what
Speaker 1: has worked in some people, or at least give it
Speaker 1: a shot. If science supports their claims. Some of these
Speaker 1: members of Congress say they hope that the administration is
Speaker 1: going to back their push to allow use of these
Speaker 1: drugs in medically controlled environments. It's not a free for all,
Speaker 1: it's a medically controlled environment. And they said that they
Speaker 1: hope that these drugs can become part of structured treatments
Speaker 1: with the ultimate goal of curbing the suicide.
Speaker 3: Epidemic that has racked the veteran community.
Speaker 1: And you're talking drugs like IBA, gain, psilocybin, mushrooms, of course, MDMA, MOLLI.
Speaker 1: There are there are some trials for psychedelics that happened
Speaker 1: in various corners of the private sector of the government.
Speaker 1: There are a handful of them in Veterans' affairs as
Speaker 1: well as the Pentagon. But the FDA last year rejected
Speaker 1: an md MDMA drug. They said they were uncertain about
Speaker 1: the data, in a major setback at the time for
Speaker 1: veterans groups. Doctor Joseph Ross, professor of medicine at Yale,
Speaker 1: says he started a plenty of stories of psychedelics having
Speaker 1: a dramatically positive impact on people's lives, but said, you
Speaker 1: got to do this slowly, You got to do it
Speaker 1: carefully that trials so far have left a tremendous amount
Speaker 1: of uncertainty before we're going to push the regulator to
Speaker 1: approve it, the regular being the FDA, or have the
Speaker 1: VA pay for it and expose a large number of
Speaker 1: people to potential harms. Or sometimes the medicine just doesn't work.
Speaker 1: Sometimes these therapies don't have the positive impact that you're
Speaker 1: looking for. And blind double blind studies can be difficult
Speaker 1: where not only the doctor doesn't know what drug you're getting,
Speaker 1: but you don't know what drug you're getting because participants
Speaker 1: and the researchers could tell if they're receiving the drug
Speaker 1: rather than a placebo, because the immediate mental effects and
Speaker 1: physical effects of these drugs in many cases, and there
Speaker 1: is also a fear that if you make these things
Speaker 1: available too much, too broadly to publicly, it could be
Speaker 1: adding to the problems of recreational psychedelic use, unsafe use,
Speaker 1: improper use, and that's going to set everything back. But again,
Speaker 1: the ultimate goal being to cut down on the number
Speaker 1: of suicides that we have seen in the veteran community
Speaker 1: over the last several years, which continue to rise. In
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, a report from the VA in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two. There were six thy four hundred and seven
Speaker 1: veterans in suicide deaths in twenty twenty two, and the
Speaker 1: rate for veteran suicides is about double that of non veterans.
Speaker 3: According to that report.
Speaker 1: So if this is if this gets any sort of
Speaker 1: any sort of momentum, I think you have to credit
Speaker 1: Morgan Latrelle, who himself has gone through it and is
Speaker 1: now a member of Congress. The latest on that New
Speaker 1: Orleans prison escape when we come back, and we'll hear
Speaker 1: from Jeff Landry, the governor of Louisiana, with his fun
Speaker 1: little accent, where he's going after these guys.
Speaker 9: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 9: AM six forty.
Speaker 10: Hey, Gary, I listen to you all the time, Miss Shannon.
Speaker 10: This morning, I just have one comment for all these
Speaker 10: people who are calling to complain about how you treated
Speaker 10: President Biden, they should be pointing the finger at the
Speaker 10: people who covered up his illnesses. You did not cause
Speaker 10: his illness. His illness was there, they said, he was
Speaker 10: perfectly healthy. Thanks for your time.
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Hey Gary, why are you talking about tourism numbers going down.
Speaker 2: Can you see all those people with their tents from
Speaker 2: all over the country coming here to set up shop
Speaker 2: and live in our streets.
Speaker 3: Good point.
Speaker 2: Well, they're not gonnaider tourists when they stay. I guess
Speaker 2: so you might be right.
Speaker 6: Okayyar juck clod, What do you mean you're not a
Speaker 6: fan of psychedelics? Number one? Have you ever taken psychedelics?
Speaker 6: Have you ever taken my troop? Do you know anybody
Speaker 6: personally who has taken psychedelics and if you will talk
Speaker 6: to them about their experiod? Do you know anybody at
Speaker 6: always takes psychedelics and have you talked about their experiod?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 6: Some say you're not a fan if you haven't done
Speaker 6: any of that.
Speaker 3: Excellent point. I am.
Speaker 1: I have not taken psychedelics. I have not, so I
Speaker 1: guess I still could be a fan. But I have
Speaker 1: talked to plenty of people who have taken psychedelics. The
Speaker 1: majority of them did not have good experiences with them.
Speaker 1: Some of them love it, some of them thought it
Speaker 1: was fantastic. Some of them to this day continue their
Speaker 1: their adventures. I suppose, but that's.
Speaker 3: Not me, all right.
Speaker 1: A man hunt is on for the inmates to escape
Speaker 1: from that New Orleans jail by getting out of a
Speaker 1: crawling I should say, through a hole behind a toilet.
Speaker 1: It is now in its fourth day that search. The
Speaker 1: seven of the ten men are still at large. The
Speaker 1: agency LA Sorry, Louisiana State Police, it's I don't I
Speaker 1: always get the abbreviation and.
Speaker 3: Want to say LA.
Speaker 1: Louisiana State Police confirmed in an emailed statement that the
Speaker 1: seven of the ten are still out there. Colonel Robert
Speaker 1: Hodges for the LA State Police again Louisiana State Police
Speaker 1: said they're looking not only for the seven guys, but
Speaker 1: whoever helped you.
Speaker 11: Are helping and assisting these fugitives allowing them to remain
Speaker 11: uncaptured and not brought to justice. They will be consequences
Speaker 11: and there may be charges for.
Speaker 3: You, Okay.
Speaker 1: So one of the things that's happening is the Governor
Speaker 1: of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, is pointing squarely at the DA's office,
Speaker 1: because the DA in Orleans Parish, a guy named Jason Williams,
Speaker 1: is considered to be one of the more progressive das
Speaker 1: in the country, and Jeff Landry yesterday said this may
Speaker 1: lay at the feet of those progressive policies.
Speaker 4: Arnie of the progressive promises that have been made to
Speaker 4: this city is clear New Orleans handed the jail keys
Speaker 4: to those who vowed to keep criminals out of jail,
Speaker 4: and sadly, today we show that it worked. I hope
Speaker 4: that everyone understands that the video of those prisoners escaping
Speaker 4: epitomizes a progressive criminal justice system.
Speaker 1: Now that point that he's making about the progressive prosecutor
Speaker 1: there in Orleans Parish, it's a guy named Jason Williams,
Speaker 1: and Jason Williams is holding a news conference right now
Speaker 1: and pushing back against that. It's on right now, and
Speaker 1: one of the issues that he is saying, Jason Williams
Speaker 1: is why in the world would he want these criminals
Speaker 1: out on the streets. These guys age a range in
Speaker 1: age from nineteen to forty two, a variety of charges,
Speaker 1: everything for aggravated assault, domestic abuse, battery, murder. He said
Speaker 1: he is at risk, Jason Williams the DA and that
Speaker 1: some of the families of his prosecutors are at risk
Speaker 1: because of the concern that these guys may target the
Speaker 1: people that put them behind bars in the first place.
Speaker 12: So Rob I am personally afraid, not just for myself,
Speaker 12: but for my lawyers who tried the case against the
Speaker 12: individual twice. We were asking for a life sentence of
Speaker 12: this man, and he is now at large. Two of
Speaker 12: the lawyers who I tried that case with, who successfully
Speaker 12: went forward able to get a conviction on that case,
Speaker 12: these lawyers got to town this weekend with their families
Speaker 12: out of fear of retribution and retaliation. So you know,
Speaker 12: I am, I've been very clear and take what my
Speaker 12: office did immediately upon finding out from the press about
Speaker 12: this jail break, because that's how we found out, we
Speaker 12: immediately begin working Alzelmore, God of the Chief of our
Speaker 12: victim waitness began calling victims and witnesses to let them
Speaker 12: know that the defendants in these cases, in their cases
Speaker 12: were out and.
Speaker 1: At large, that this is going to be the beginning.
Speaker 1: It seems like of a lot of finger pointing back
Speaker 1: and forth. The governor blames the DA. The DA just
Speaker 1: made a snide comment about I guess the Sheriff's department
Speaker 1: because they weren't notified via the sheriff. They were notified
Speaker 1: via the media that these guys had gotten out over
Speaker 1: the weekend. And now the Orleans Parish Sheriff, Susan Hudson
Speaker 1: said they were able to get out of the Orleans
Speaker 1: Justice Center because of defective locks that she has been
Speaker 1: asking for for some time to get the money to
Speaker 1: replace some of the aging infrastructure there at the Orleans
Speaker 1: Justice Center. She said Friday, there would be no way
Speaker 1: for them to escape the facility without help from the outside.
Speaker 1: If you remember, they were discovered missing during a routine
Speaker 1: head count conducted at about eight thirty on Friday at
Speaker 1: the Orleans Parish Jail. Believed to have escaped sometime just
Speaker 1: after midnight at about twelve twenty three, they were able
Speaker 1: to yank the sliding jail cell door off the track.
Speaker 1: At one in the morning, they exited the jail after
Speaker 1: they breached a wall behind a toilet. Photos provided by
Speaker 1: the already showed what they said where the clean cuts
Speaker 1: to the metal bars behind the toilet inside the jail cells.
Speaker 1: The toilet itself is just one of those one size
Speaker 1: fits all, do all your business in one holer kind
Speaker 1: of thing, but the wall behind it has what looked
Speaker 1: like rebar in it, and they were able to cut
Speaker 1: one of the rebars to make a hole big enough
Speaker 1: for each of these ten guys to get out again.
Speaker 1: They've captured three of them, but they're still looking for
Speaker 1: seven others. All right, let's make money together, shall we.
Speaker 1: It's not exciting, but the stealthy wealthy have a way
Speaker 1: to make money. And again it's not exciting, but it
Speaker 1: may be the safest way for you to build some
Speaker 1: more money for retirement or next egg or vacation or
Speaker 1: whatever have you.
Speaker 3: We'll talk about that we come back.
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Speaker 1: There is a very specific American dream for a lot
Speaker 1: of people, whether you come to the country or you
Speaker 1: were born here. The dream is to start a business
Speaker 1: or somehow get your hands on that American capitalism and
Speaker 1: just drill it directly into your veins. There is a
Speaker 1: story out of the Wall Street Journal about studies that
Speaker 1: were done in internal revenue service information data and how
Speaker 1: it is that some people are able to make their
Speaker 1: money very stealthily. Stealthy wealthy is the way that's described.
Speaker 1: A Princeton University economist studies the group with the University
Speaker 1: of Chicago guy, and they are looking at the lower
Speaker 1: profile path.
Speaker 3: To a lot of money. It's not often as glamorous.
Speaker 1: It's not often the companies that you think of when
Speaker 1: you think of somebody getting rich quick or getting rich
Speaker 1: and getting general wealth.
Speaker 3: It's a smaller niche business.
Speaker 1: That can be very, very lucrative, and they actually profile
Speaker 1: a handful of people who see a market that is
Speaker 1: not being serviced and then service the living hell out
Speaker 1: of that market. Derek Olsen is a guy who always
Speaker 1: wanted to run his own business, and again not a
Speaker 1: sexy business, but his company is National Flooring Equipment.
Speaker 3: And what he realized was if I make.
Speaker 1: The machines that rip up flooring, I can make a
Speaker 1: lot of money. His example of kind of how he
Speaker 1: thought of this business was he realized that in elementary schools,
Speaker 1: the carpets get trashed. Kids are disgusting, kids are animals,
Speaker 1: and just about every year, every other year, a lot
Speaker 1: of these elementary schools need new carpeting, they need new flooring.
Speaker 1: So he has a company that it comes up with
Speaker 1: machines that rip up flooring quickly so they can lay
Speaker 1: down the carpeting before the school starts.
Speaker 3: He has made.
Speaker 1: All kinds of money as a result of this, about
Speaker 1: fifty million dollars in revenue over the course of last year.
Speaker 3: It's just him. He owns the company. That's it.
Speaker 1: There is another one, David McNeil. This one you've probably
Speaker 1: seen before. David McNeil founded weather Tech. You know, the
Speaker 1: floor mats for your car. He realized on a trip
Speaker 1: to Scotland in the late eighties that the car he
Speaker 1: was riding in had floor mats. They were thicker than
Speaker 1: he'd ever seen. They had a little border that prevented
Speaker 1: water and mud from running off under the carpet, and
Speaker 1: he was superior they He said, they were superior to
Speaker 1: anything he had seen in the United States. But I mean,
Speaker 1: this is a guy from the Upper Midwest where he
Speaker 1: realizes that he could have a market for this in
Speaker 1: the United States. So he calls the manufacturer in England.
Speaker 1: He works out a deal to get a twenty foot
Speaker 1: shipping container of the mats that they sold to sell
Speaker 1: here in the United States. At the end of the
Speaker 1: first year, he said he made forty thousand dollars in profit.
Speaker 1: The end of the second year that was up to
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty thousand in profit. Third year, four
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars in profit. And now weather Tech brings
Speaker 1: in eight one hundred million dollars in revenue each year.
Speaker 1: It's that simple. Again, it's not the it's not the
Speaker 1: very high profile companies that you see. It's not the
Speaker 1: Steve Jobs and Wosniak and Apple, it's not Bill Gates
Speaker 1: and Microsoft. But it is a market. There are markets
Speaker 1: for these things out there, and it's these creative people
Speaker 1: who come up with it and end up well ensconced
Speaker 1: in that top one percent of earners. By the way,
Speaker 1: that's not I would have said that top five percent
Speaker 1: was around five or ten million dollars. The annual income
Speaker 1: puts that puts you in the top one percent would
Speaker 1: be about five hundred and fifty thousand dollars without capital gains.
Speaker 3: That's it's not as high as I thought it was
Speaker 3: going to be.
Speaker 1: All right, up next all of our trending stories. We
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