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00:00:00.000 You mentioned $20 an hour, plus a bachelor's.

00:00:03.000 Because there are a lot of jobs out there that are over $20 an hour that don't require a college education.

00:00:06.000 That's true.

00:00:07.000 Does a part of you, and we've heard this from some people today, feel like you were lied to a little bit?

00:00:12.000 I feel very lied to.

00:00:14.000 So I went to med school.

00:00:15.000 I did my master's, my bachelor's, med school a little bit.

00:00:18.000 I switched to tech, so at this point I'm like, why did I go to school?

00:00:22.000 A Financial Times analysis of Gallup data found American Gen Z women are 30 percentage 0.92

00:00:29.000 points more liberal than their male counterparts.

00:00:44.000 I don't care if they write that.

00:00:47.000 I'm sad that I didn't two years ago, but I can't change that.

00:00:51.000 I'm saying right now that this is something that I know is right, and you guys, I need to be on the right side of history, and if he doesn't win, then at least I tried.

00:01:00.000 This is for Harrison Butker.

00:01:02.000 Does life begin at conception or when you get married?

00:01:05.000 And is it both?

00:01:06.000 Is that why they don't actually care about kids?

00:01:08.000 Because between conception and marriage, you're not really a person, and that's why we're defunding our schools and Christian fund limits. 0.97

00:01:15.000 Journalists think that prayers are going to fix gun violence and, you know, the crumbling foster care system.

00:01:20.000 Oh, also, there's like child marriage laws in like a majority of states, including here in Missouri.

00:01:25.000 So, like, is that just you guys wanting the baby to get to their second life really quickly?

00:01:31.000 Is that the goal?

00:01:31.000 TikTok was basically full time for me.

00:01:33.000 I was taking ads by the time I graduated college from like the Biden administration and Planned

00:01:38.000 Parenthood and like dating apps and stuff.

00:01:39.000 So it was like fully financially, you know, sustained.

00:01:42.000 So you were getting the Biden administration was buying ads from you?

00:01:44.000 Yeah, I was doing full on political propaganda.

00:01:47.000 You've heard the old saying, women can't live with them and they always vote Democrat. 1.00

00:01:53.000 In yesterday's installment of Talking With People, I spoke with a wide array of different Americans who span the political spectrum.

00:02:00.000 Many of you were surprised by how these people leaned politically, because it turns out that judging a voter by their immutable characteristics may not be as productive as once thought.

00:02:11.000 Today's a little different, in that we'll be focusing on one specific conversation, though it takes place with three subjects.

00:02:20.000 And I know what you're thinking.

00:02:21.000 At first glance, there's very little chance that someone like me would find common ground with a group of self-manifesting, 20-something-year-old ladies who just came from high tea. 0.99

00:02:33.000 Hold on to your hats, because this may not go exactly how you were expecting.

00:02:38.000 This is Talking With People.

00:02:40.000 Happy birthday!

00:02:40.000 What's your name?

00:02:41.000 Maddy.

00:02:42.000 Nice to meet you, Maddy.

00:02:42.000 Maddy?

00:02:43.000 Janice.

00:02:44.000 Itze.

00:02:44.000 Janice?

00:02:45.000 Itze?

00:02:46.000 Itze, yeah.

00:02:47.000 Itze?

00:02:48.000 Yeah.

00:02:48.000 Am I?

00:02:49.000 Alright, I'm doing my best.

00:02:49.000 Okay.

00:02:51.000 Here, I'm going to get on one so I can get the three of you.

00:02:52.000 Should I be sandwiched in between?

00:02:53.000 I don't know.

00:02:54.000 So, Maddy, Itze, Janice.

00:02:56.000 Janice, okay.

00:02:58.000 I'll remember that because Janice introduced my dad to my mom.

00:03:00.000 She was her life.

00:03:01.000 So is this just your dress up just because it's your birthday?

00:03:04.000 We just came back from the French Room.

00:03:04.000 Yes.

00:03:06.000 We went to Hi-Tea.

00:03:08.000 Hi-Tea?

00:03:09.000 In the French Room.

00:03:10.000 In the Adolfo Hotel.

00:03:12.000 If you look at me, I clearly don't know anything about Hi-Tea.

00:03:15.000 It's just a tea party.

00:03:16.000 Little sandwiches.

00:03:18.000 It's one of those things where they charge you more for smaller portions.

00:03:22.000 Yes!

00:03:23.000 The kind of thing that only women like, and they try to get into. 1.00

00:03:26.000 It's the aesthetic.

00:03:27.000 Yeah!

00:03:27.000 It's like brunch on steroids, where you guys are like, why am I paying $25 for eggs?

00:03:31.000 Exactly!

00:03:32.000 And the women think it's cute. 1.00

00:03:33.000 Alright, so how old are you today?

00:03:35.000 27.

00:03:36.000 Alright, you all around the same age group?

00:03:38.000 29, yeah.

00:03:39.000 26.

00:03:39.000 26?

00:03:39.000 Okay.

00:03:40.000 Alright, so a close cluster there.

00:03:42.000 First question, are you planning on voting in this election coming up?

00:03:45.000 I'm registered to vote.

00:03:45.000 Yes.

00:03:47.000 Yes.

00:03:47.000 Okay.

00:03:48.000 All right, are you paying attention to the election?

00:03:49.000 Is it at the front of your mind?

00:03:50.000 Yeah, I've seen a lot of it on the media, and I just had to write a paper on something pretty controversial.

00:03:57.000 So I've been very passionate about the Dakota Access Pipeline and all the pipelines that are being put underground by a Dallas-based company, Energy Transfer Partners.

00:04:08.000 Basically, the pipeline's already leaking.

00:04:10.000 It's already been built.

00:04:12.000 And it goes under a lot of freshwater sources and it can contaminate water for thousands of Americans.

00:04:18.000 So it's something that I wrote about and I just found out today.

00:04:20.000 I got an A. Yay!

00:04:21.000 So I'm really excited about it.

00:04:23.000 Yeah.

00:04:23.000 Good for you.

00:04:24.000 You did a good job.

00:04:24.000 Good.

00:04:25.000 Now how about yourself?

00:04:27.000 Do you have something that's at the front of your mind as far as this election?

00:04:32.000 Like, what's most pressing?

00:04:33.000 Most people don't, aside from the people who need access to energy.

00:04:37.000 Do you have something that's at the front of your mind as far as this election?

00:04:41.000 What's most pressing?

00:04:42.000 What do you think is at stake?

00:04:45.000 Really, I don't know what's at stake, but I would like to be a homeowner.

00:04:49.000 Okay.

00:04:49.000 Yeah, and I feel like it's not a great time.

00:04:52.000 I don't feel like I have the same opportunities my parents do, so I'm like, oh, I would love to be a homeowner.

00:04:52.000 It's not the best.

00:04:58.000 We've heard that a lot from younger people today, that getting into home ownership is tough.

00:05:01.000 Yeah.

00:05:02.000 What do you think, you say?

00:05:03.000 Um, from what I heard, because I work in the private airline industry, and so for corporate aviation, I heard if a certain party gets elected, they're going to be taxing on corporate jets, and so I would be out of business.

00:05:17.000 Right.

00:05:18.000 So, that's one of my concerns.

00:05:20.000 How much do you want to bet Al Gore and John Kerry still take private jets?

00:05:24.000 It only affects some people.

00:05:24.000 I don't know.

00:05:27.000 So do you work with corporate chartered flights?

00:05:30.000 I'm an independent contractor, so I don't work with a corporation itself, but I know it would affect me and my job opportunities.

00:05:30.000 I do.

00:05:39.000 And how do you feel the economy is as far as job opportunities for people in your age group?

00:05:42.000 It's very difficult.

00:05:43.000 I have a degree in marketing, and it's so hard to even get an entry-level position as a marketer.

00:05:49.000 And they want to offer $20 an hour and require a bachelor's, which is ridiculous.

00:05:49.000 Really?

00:05:53.000 You can't live off of that in Dallas.

00:05:56.000 $20 an hour?

00:05:58.000 $15!

00:05:58.000 I've seen on Indeed, and even $15 for entry-level marketing positions is what they're offering.

00:06:02.000 And even for me, it's hard to get something like that, even though I have experience.

00:06:07.000 So, it's difficult for our generation, and I'm sure it's difficult for everybody in general.

00:06:12.000 Because you also mentioned, this is interesting to me, you mentioned $20 an hour plus a bachelor's.

00:06:17.000 Because there are a lot of jobs out there that are over $20 an hour that don't require a college education.

00:06:21.000 That's true.

00:06:22.000 Does a part of you, and we've heard this from some people today, feel like you were lied to a little bit?

00:06:25.000 Like, get an education?

00:06:26.000 I feel very lied to.

00:06:28.000 So I went to med school.

00:06:29.000 I did my master's, my bachelor's, med school, a little bit.

00:06:32.000 And then I switched to tech.

00:06:34.000 So at this point, I'm like, why did I go to school?

00:06:36.000 Right.

00:06:37.000 Yeah.

00:06:38.000 So I'm like, I didn't... So now I'm like...

00:06:42.000 I mean, maybe if I got a computer science degree, maybe it is worth it.

00:06:46.000 Right.

00:06:47.000 But the cost, like the benefit, I don't know.

00:06:51.000 Yeah.

00:06:52.000 I could have just gone straight into my job, honestly.

00:06:54.000 Yeah.

00:06:54.000 Right.

00:06:55.000 And there's a lot of societal pressure to get a college degree, even though nowadays it honestly doesn't mean much.

00:07:00.000 It's not worth much.

00:07:01.000 Because you have UPS drivers making, what is it, a hundred?

00:07:04.000 A hundred grand a year.

00:07:05.000 A hundred grand a year.

00:07:07.000 You don't need a degree for that kind of job, so why am I putting thousands of dollars into getting a college education?

00:07:12.000 I should just create content!

00:07:15.000 Unfortunately, a lot of young women are just going to OnlyFans now too. 0.98

00:07:18.000 Is that something that you've noticed?

00:07:20.000 You have quite a few friends who do that?

00:07:22.000 I feel like that's become like the easy thing because of the industry being so competitive even from foreign people too.

00:07:29.000 They're coming really educated and they are getting hired because they're willing to work for a little less.

00:07:34.000 So it is very competitive and cutthroat.

00:07:37.000 So you got the message I guess growing up, go to school, get straight A's, probably take out a loan if your parents weren't able to afford it for you, and you get out and you're going, I'm basically starting the same as a guy who's a shift manager at Dunkin Donuts.

00:07:48.000 That's right!

00:07:49.000 That's perfectly correct.

00:07:50.000 The gender gap, too.

00:07:52.000 Since I work remote, I want to apply as like Matthew King instead of Maddie King because I'm like, maybe I get paid more as a man.

00:07:59.000 That's not a thing.

00:08:00.000 I'll go back.

00:08:01.000 As someone who employs 30 people, that's not a thing.

00:08:03.000 If I could get away with it, then I would never hire a guy again.

00:08:05.000 If I could pay women less, yeah. 1.00

00:08:07.000 I think on top of that I feel like diversity is being prioritized over experience because in the aviation industry that's what they're doing and a lot of airlines they're hiring for diversity purposes instead of experience so you're having a lot of these issues with you know they're saying the Boeing manufacturing is terrible quality control so but a lot of it is because of the new cars the new pilots that don't have as much experience but they're hired because of the diversity quotas that they're trying to fulfill.

00:08:35.000 Yeah.

00:08:36.000 And the reason I said it is because I don't want you to buy into another lie that women make 77 cents on the dollar.

00:08:39.000 It's not true.

00:08:40.000 It's not true?

00:08:40.000 Oh, really?

00:08:40.000 No, it's not.

00:08:41.000 It's not true at all.

00:08:42.000 Okay.

00:08:42.000 I'm gonna be like, okay, where's my race?

00:08:44.000 Yeah.

00:08:45.000 You know, but a lot of women do believe that. 1.00

00:08:46.000 Oh, okay. 1.00

00:08:47.000 And at my company, as a matter of fact, the second person in command is a n**** of n****. 1.00

00:08:51.000 We'll probably have to edit out their name. 1.00

00:08:53.000 She's an absolute killer. 1.00

00:08:54.000 Like, she is a bulldog. 1.00

00:08:56.000 And she works with another lady named M*****. 1.00

00:08:56.000 That's awesome. 1.00

00:08:58.000 And it really just comes down to who's right for the position.

00:09:00.000 But the idea that men are going out and hiring men... Like, why would I hire a man if I could pay a woman less? 0.97

00:09:06.000 I could just cut the costs of my business by, you know, 23%.

00:09:10.000 Yes.

00:09:11.000 So don't buy into that.

00:09:12.000 Okay, good.

00:09:12.000 Yeah, I'm happy.

00:09:14.000 So it seems like there's a mixed bag here, because obviously your view on the Dakota pipeline would be something that would be seen as more left.

00:09:20.000 But then obviously you all seem to agree on the idea that maybe the education system has failed you on the promise, and the DEI kind of diversity situation has made it tough to get a job.

00:09:30.000 So with all that being said, who do you think is best, or at this point in time, how do you think it goes?

00:09:37.000 Do you think there's one person who's better than the other to kind of rectify this or provide you with more opportunity?

00:09:42.000 The opportunities that you said maybe your parents had that you feel you didn't?

00:09:47.000 Anyone?

00:09:48.000 I personally don't feel like there is anyone on the top of my head that I see fit more than the other.

00:09:53.000 Do you want a third option?

00:09:55.000 Yeah!

00:09:56.000 I just honestly like we saw what Trump America was like and although the economy was booming like Biden's America has been very hard.

00:10:05.000 I got laid off.

00:10:06.000 I was doing accounting at a construction company And I was making great money and it pushed me back into school because all of these places want you to have a bachelor's and stuff and I was just straight off experience and so right now I'm in the middle of school at almost 30 because the requirements are different but yet like the industry hasn't changed.

00:10:29.000 We were using the same programs that were built years ago so it's It's just completely different and it's not caught up to standard of what we need for today.

00:10:42.000 Well, you just said the economy was booming under Trump.

00:10:44.000 We've seen Biden's America, but no one's more fit than the other.

00:10:46.000 Seems like you're saying that there's a lot of issues with Trump, too.

00:10:50.000 You know, just all the hatred and racism that comes with it, that people associated with Trump and all the protests that

00:11:00.000 happen, the violence.

00:11:02.000 So all of that is what made me feel very sad to see people breaking into Targets, breaking into Walmarts to make like their voices known that they're minorities or they're not getting their voices heard.

00:11:13.000 A lot of that I found very disturbing and I don't want to see that happen again.

00:11:17.000 And forgive me, how is that Trump's doing, people breaking into Target or Walgreens in San Francisco?

00:11:23.000 Well, a lot of it was him persuading people to do something about what they're unhappy about and breaking into the White House and things like that.

00:11:35.000 It just seemed like it fueled people to do something just out of the ordinary.

00:11:40.000 Yeah.

00:11:41.000 But it seems like all these, you're talking about, you know, for example, Black Lives Matter, the Summer of Love, and now you're seeing it with Palestine, you know, on campus, that those were people in opposition to what Trump stands for.

00:11:52.000 It seems like, really, if you were to take that and segment it out and say, okay, these were radical leftists who were committing acts of violence, but then go back to what you said, the economy was booming, I got laid off, It seems like one of those things where maybe it's personality versus results.

00:12:05.000 It was like pros and cons.

00:12:06.000 It was pros and cons, I think, to both.

00:12:08.000 Yeah.

00:12:09.000 But I do think that the economy was better under Trump, for sure.

00:12:12.000 Right.

00:12:13.000 That seems to be an overarching theme today, aside from a few people.

00:12:13.000 Definitely.

00:12:16.000 Yeah.

00:12:16.000 Has a theme been, like, women's rights, like, to their autonomy at all, or not really?

00:12:21.000 It's kind of been like a last year's thing.

00:12:23.000 There have been a few people, kind of last year's thing.

00:12:25.000 What's the A topic right now?

00:12:27.000 Well, most people say it's the economy and immigration.

00:12:29.000 Economy, yep.

00:12:30.000 The economy and immigration seems to be... We're in Texas, yeah. 0.81

00:12:32.000 Yeah.

00:12:33.000 And, uh, what about yourself?

00:12:34.000 Would you say those are kind of the big issues?

00:12:35.000 Because it seems like you're all saying the economy.

00:12:37.000 Yeah, no, I definitely believe, like, the woman's rights, like, that we brought up is definitely one of the huge factors. 0.55

00:12:42.000 I worry that we'll lose, um, like, I know some states have thought about, like, contraceptions and stuff.

00:12:49.000 I'm like, oh.

00:12:50.000 But another thing, too, I do want to know, like the student loan debt, that was something that was brought up by Biden, and that never really happened.

00:12:59.000 False promises by the president.

00:13:00.000 It's a lot of false promises, and it makes us give up hope on Biden.

00:13:04.000 And even then, I wasn't really a huge fan of him.

00:13:06.000 Yeah, me neither.

00:13:08.000 But still, it just makes me not want him in the office again, for sure, not Biden.

00:13:13.000 Well, it seems like student loan is not such a great thing considering that you said the degree is not worth the papers printed on it.

00:13:18.000 No, it's not.

00:13:19.000 It's not.

00:13:20.000 But that's what you're pressured into whenever you're younger.

00:13:22.000 Right out of high school, you know, your family pressures you to get a degree because degree equals, you know, a great job and that's what you have in your head when you're a kid.

00:13:31.000 So, you obviously stick to that but it's not what the reality is.

00:13:31.000 Right.

00:13:36.000 And there were a lot of people who were upset on the other side of the coin with student loans.

00:13:36.000 Right.

00:13:39.000 You know, for example, people who either paid off their loans or people who chose not to go to school because they said, I don't think it's going to, they went to go work in an oil rig.

00:13:47.000 And they're paying taxes saying, I don't really think that my tax dollars should go to forgive a loan for whatever it is, a gender studies degree.

00:13:54.000 And there's, it seems like everything that people say maybe was good under Biden was kind of a promised government program that came from tax dollars.

00:14:01.000 Is that something that you've I definitely don't think our tax dollars are going in the right places.

00:14:06.000 Our education is not the highest.

00:14:08.000 The food in our school system is poison.

00:14:12.000 There is a lot that we're lacking in America that could be improved and focused on, and it's not.

00:14:18.000 A lot of countries are advanced and have better energy systems, food quality, education, and we're not there.

00:14:26.000 What kind of energy systems do you mean?

00:14:28.000 Just more solar and wind power.

00:14:29.000 I mean we both have Teslas and we get to enjoy like not having to pay for gas and not worrying about an outage or pipelines busting or gas prices going up.

00:14:41.000 So there's a lot of clean energy out there and I know that the batteries aren't made in the best way.

00:14:47.000 They're made in the worst way.

00:14:49.000 The worst possible way.

00:14:49.000 Right.

00:14:50.000 But there's new technology that we could be reinforcing to make our country better.

00:14:55.000 Yeah.

00:14:55.000 It's just being ignored and swept under the rug.

00:14:58.000 So you would like to see more solar and wind?

00:15:00.000 Yes, yes, and cleaner food without pesticides, more organic food for the children at the schools and in the market.

00:15:09.000 I feel like the pharmaceutical industry wants us to be sick, wants us to have cancer, wants us to be on medication because it's a billion dollar industry.

00:15:18.000 So, the fact that we could grow our own food and be organic, it's not something that I feel like the country focuses on or wants to push, but would be the best.

00:15:26.000 So, not big fans of the big pharmaceutical industries?

00:15:26.000 Right.

00:15:29.000 No.

00:15:29.000 What about the COVID mRNA vaccine?

00:15:32.000 Oh, no.

00:15:32.000 Definitely not.

00:15:34.000 I'm not vaccinated.

00:15:36.000 Not vaccinated.

00:15:37.000 I've had COVID twice and everybody that had COVID in the office was vaccinated and I got COVID from someone who had their vaccine.

00:15:45.000 It's unfortunate that businesses at the time are pushing for the vaccination.

00:15:49.000 Right.

00:15:50.000 And so I remember, like, going into one of the businesses I was, like, accompanies.

00:15:55.000 They were pushing for the vaccine as, like, there's forcing you to do it.

00:15:58.000 I'm not getting that.

00:15:59.000 I'm not getting that.

00:15:59.000 I did it.

00:16:00.000 I don't care.

00:16:01.000 You did it?

00:16:01.000 Yeah.

00:16:02.000 All right.

00:16:03.000 So you didn't.

00:16:04.000 You did.

00:16:05.000 Another broken promise.

00:16:07.000 You said someone was vaccinated and gave you COVID?

00:16:09.000 Remember, if you get the vaccine, you can't get it, or at the very least you can't transmit it.

00:16:09.000 Yes.

00:16:13.000 That's like, well, you'll transmit it and you can get it, but it won't be as severe.

00:16:16.000 Well, it may be severe, but you won't be in a hospital and a death.

00:16:19.000 Another broken promise.

00:16:20.000 And I hear a lot of issues with the vaccine are coming up, right?

00:16:24.000 Yes, with women and fertility and things like that. 0.68

00:16:27.000 So it makes you wonder if it had anything to do with population control because China's really big on that.

00:16:33.000 Right.

00:16:34.000 But the problem is you mentioned China, but then you mentioned solar and wind.

00:16:38.000 First off, this is one place where I would disagree.

00:16:40.000 There is no country that's made that work.

00:16:42.000 It's non-efficient energy.

00:16:43.000 We just spoke with a man from Germany.

00:16:45.000 They went away from nuclear while France went to nuclear. 0.76

00:16:47.000 Zero carbon emissions.

00:16:49.000 Solar, wind didn't work.

00:16:50.000 It's been a disaster for Germany. 0.85

00:16:52.000 And I don't know if you know where those solar panels come from.

00:16:54.000 Or even talking about electric vehicles, China.

00:16:57.000 China really is in charge of not only the batteries, but they're actually the number one producer now of EVs.

00:17:02.000 And as these regulations come into place to force everyone to go to EVs, you're going to embolden and empower China. 0.95

00:17:07.000 That's true.

00:17:08.000 They don't have the strictest emission standards over there in China.

00:17:10.000 Yes, and I think that we've had a huge reliance on China.

00:17:13.000 I also learned that environmental science, where we have the resources, but the labor cost is cheaper in China.

00:17:19.000 So a lot of the resources that we're getting from China are available in other countries, but because their labor is so cheap, that's why we keep outsourcing to them, which is giving them so much power, which is another thing that I feel like we should get away from.

00:17:34.000 Well, come on, of the two candidates, who do you think is going to be tougher on China?

00:17:37.000 Trump, for sure.

00:17:39.000 I mean, it's practically a catchphrase.

00:17:40.000 So you still don't know how you're going to vote, though? 1.00

00:17:45.000 Because Trump's a dick. 0.99

00:17:46.000 But everything you say, China, vaccine, rollout, all these broken promises. 1.00

00:17:46.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:17:51.000 It's a hard election, for sure, out of all of the ones.

00:17:54.000 I think this is one of the more important ones, especially since we're declining so fast.

00:17:58.000 And I think that our country has been seen as weak since Biden has been in office, which is very concerning.

00:18:05.000 So you're not going to vote for Biden, it sounds like.

00:18:06.000 No.

00:18:07.000 Heck no.

00:18:08.000 But you're reticent to pull that lever.

00:18:10.000 We'll see.

00:18:12.000 We'll see what happens.

00:18:13.000 I think you know how you're going to vote.

00:18:15.000 You just have to keep going.

00:18:16.000 I don't know.

00:18:17.000 It's hard.

00:18:18.000 Yeah.

00:18:19.000 I definitely have to vote for Trump because my job relies on it.

00:18:23.000 But it's unfortunate because I'm not really much into politics, but I know that that's going to really affect my job opportunities, so that's the route I have to go.

00:18:33.000 Were you old enough to vote last election?

00:18:36.000 So who did you vote for last election?

00:18:38.000 I didn't vote.

00:18:38.000 You didn't vote?

00:18:39.000 Did any of you vote?

00:18:40.000 I didn't vote.

00:18:40.000 You didn't vote?

00:18:41.000 Who did you vote for?

00:18:41.000 I voted.

00:18:43.000 I voted for Biden.

00:18:44.000 You voted for Biden.

00:18:45.000 Do you think you'll do that again?

00:18:49.000 Okay.

00:18:50.000 It sounds like, because there's been a lot, a lot of shifting we've noticed today, where a lot of people said, I voted for Biden, I'm not going to do that again.

00:18:55.000 I've heard that a lot today.

00:18:57.000 And it sounds like you didn't, you were, you didn't vote, but.

00:18:59.000 Yeah, no, but I already know, I know who I'm going to vote for this year.

00:19:02.000 It's the same outcome.

00:19:03.000 Why do we have the two same options?

00:19:05.000 And the thing is, so many policies are so old where the Congress is paying themselves all this money and they get to be in there forever.

00:19:13.000 And they're on these old ideas.

00:19:15.000 We need fresh, young, new people in there.

00:19:18.000 Who are making the decisions versus people who are like literally not even showing up to work and getting paid our tax dollars, which people don't focus on, but that is a big thing.

00:19:28.000 Most people in Congress are like 90, 80, like how can they make a fazzable decision on what our lives are now?

00:19:36.000 Right.

00:19:36.000 Because everything's different.

00:19:38.000 I don't think a lot of young people vote.

00:19:40.000 When I ask my friends and they're upset about the outcome of election, I'm like, well, did you vote?

00:19:43.000 And they say no.

00:19:44.000 Every time, yeah.

00:19:45.000 I'm like, oh, well, that's why.

00:19:46.000 I feel like a lot of our generation avoided voting last time because the two options were not good.

00:19:55.000 The best.

00:19:56.000 Yeah, so we didn't want to vote.

00:19:57.000 That's one of my reasons is because I didn't know which one to vote for.

00:20:01.000 They all seemed like they were terrible choices, so I just, I didn't have Would you say a reason maybe that you're voting for Trump this time, and I know you're undecided, and you're undecided, but even considering it, is because of the contrast, where like you said, the economy was booming, like, you lived under a term of Trump, and for any of the negatives, you see the difference economically, and now you have Biden, like, do you think that's something that maybe hasn't happened in your lifetime, where you go, there's a noticeable change?

00:20:28.000 Yeah, I mean we bought our house on that interest rate.

00:20:30.000 It was like 3% and I was making a ton of money and things were good.

00:20:36.000 I was living the life and now I'm not.

00:20:38.000 So that definitely hurts you when you're able to provide a certain life for your family and then it gets taken away because interest rates are higher because, you know, of the interest rates it's like a domino effect on everything.

00:20:51.000 Everybody's livelihood.

00:20:52.000 We're millennials, so people in our generation are stuck with what the boomers did and the generations after us, and their decisions are still overpowering our lives.

00:21:03.000 Right.

00:21:04.000 Yeah, so you feel like maybe you don't have a voice in that as much.

00:21:07.000 Yeah, and also, don't count on that Social Security check when you reach that age.

00:21:16.000 Right, right.

00:21:18.000 They're saying the boomers are going to basically take it all. 1.00

00:21:22.000 There's a good chance that it won't be around, or at least not in its current capacity, so I would advise saving yourself in a different portfolio than relying on Social Security.

00:21:31.000 That's correct, and we did learn that in school recently, that it's projected that we won't get our social security because the boomers. 0.74

00:21:37.000 Yeah.

00:21:38.000 Such a large population, retiring.

00:21:40.000 So the one thing it sounds like that makes you a little bit hesitant is because of what you saw as social unrest under Donald Trump.

00:21:47.000 Yes.

00:21:48.000 I just don't like the hatred and the anger and the lack for care of the environment because, sure, gas and oil are great.

00:21:56.000 We have diesel trucks and a million dirt bikes at home.

00:22:01.000 Our clean water is not something that we can continue to risk.

00:22:06.000 Pipelines can be rerouted to areas that don't run over fresh water.

00:22:11.000 That's the big thing.

00:22:13.000 Why don't you just put the pipeline somewhere else away from our fresh water sources? 0.98

00:22:18.000 So the lack of care for the environment also is what makes me worried.

00:22:23.000 Yeah, take it up with this one.

00:22:25.000 Take it up with your friend because she works in private air travel. 1.00

00:22:28.000 I'll be honest.

00:22:30.000 Sometimes we drop people off in Cabo and we have to fly all the way back and then just to fly back to pick them up.

00:22:35.000 So it's honestly not like environmental.

00:22:37.000 I fly a lot.

00:22:38.000 I go on cruises.

00:22:39.000 I realize that gas and oil are important.

00:22:43.000 But the way that we're doing it can be improved.

00:22:45.000 Yeah.

00:22:46.000 We don't have to run these pipelines near our freshwater sources, and that's my biggest problem.

00:22:51.000 Right.

00:22:51.000 Isn't there a rumor of electric airplanes?

00:22:54.000 I think so.

00:22:54.000 I don't know.

00:22:54.000 Any rumors?

00:22:55.000 Everyone said maybe.

00:22:56.000 They're not really super effective at this point.

00:22:58.000 There are electric drones that can kind of fit two or more like, more like air cats, eventually, like Uber.

00:23:03.000 I think Uber Air is something that they're sort of testing, actually, maybe in Dallas.

00:23:06.000 Yeah.

00:23:07.000 But you can only fit a few people.

00:23:08.000 It doesn't have a very long range.

00:23:09.000 Would it help if we just have a train from like Dallas to Houston to Austin?

00:23:12.000 I don't know if a train's more effective, is it?

00:23:15.000 Than driving.

00:23:17.000 Well, I mean... Well, inconvenient.

00:23:19.000 Yeah, I don't know about that.

00:23:19.000 Because Europe and everywhere has trains but us.

00:23:22.000 Yeah, they do.

00:23:22.000 That costs a lot of money though, too.

00:23:24.000 Yeah, and it's a lot of coal, too.

00:23:26.000 Well, if you get away from pipelines and gas and coal, then there's nothing left except for solar and wind, and now we're back to China.

00:23:32.000 Yeah.

00:23:33.000 I just want more holidays and four-day work weeks.

00:23:36.000 I don't... The rest is like, yeah, whatever.

00:23:38.000 Yeah, well, in that case, vote Biden. 0.55

00:23:40.000 I just want to be happier.

00:23:42.000 And then see if it's another broken promise as far as four-day work weeks, you know?

00:23:45.000 You could probably go to Europe and do pretty well.

00:23:47.000 I know, they say people our age in Europe are ranked way happier than we are.

00:23:51.000 I don't want to say anything that has to do with the food.

00:23:54.000 It has to do with the food because the food controls your hormones and that's one of my big things is eating healthy, eating clean.

00:24:01.000 And it's so hard to do here in the States, especially with a bunch of fast food being so easily accessible.

00:24:06.000 So like you got Chick-fil-A right in the corner, Starbucks, so obviously people... Apparently Lunchables has lead in it or something.

00:24:12.000 Yeah!

00:24:12.000 I don't know about that.

00:24:13.000 I don't want to, I don't want to defame Lunchables at this point.

00:24:16.000 I kind of think you know what you're getting.

00:24:17.000 I don't think that anyone is thinking Lunchables.

00:24:20.000 I'm just saying that's like a minor example of everything's a little bit poisoned here.

00:24:24.000 Like our food labels have bad ingredients that other countries don't have.

00:24:29.000 And makeup products, everything.

00:24:31.000 Yeah, but you have more choice here.

00:24:32.000 Like I will say this, I never ate healthier than when I was dirt poor.

00:24:36.000 When I was dirt poor, I would go to the store, I was living in California, yep, I would get oats, that was cheap, back then eggs were relatively cheap, oats, eggs, milk, I'd get whatever fruit was on sale, tuna, put in a package, and I'd actually buy sometimes baby food, because there's always baby food on sale, and as long as you get past it.

00:24:56.000 That's what I was eating all the time.

00:24:57.000 I really kind of had to pare it down and I realized, oh my gosh, I'm eating really, at this point, this would have been 2008, 2009, on what would be considered pennies a day just by limiting it, you know?

00:25:07.000 I could have easily gone to Taco Bell, but I knew that that wouldn't be good for me.

00:25:11.000 There's a lot of other countries, you know, you're talking about inflation.

00:25:13.000 Groceries are more expensive.

00:25:14.000 Yeah, I feel like eating out to restaurants is equal to grocery prices at the moment.

00:25:18.000 Oh, it's way more!

00:25:19.000 Oh, it's way more.

00:25:20.000 It depends where you go.

00:25:21.000 We probably spent over $400 today at the hotel.

00:25:25.000 Yeah.

00:25:26.000 That's like a week of groceries.

00:25:28.000 Yes.

00:25:29.000 I think we're like really blessed to live here and I'm still really happy.

00:25:33.000 I don't have much to complain about.

00:25:35.000 I know a lot of places are way worse than we are.

00:25:37.000 I'm happy.

00:25:38.000 This is just nitpicking.

00:25:39.000 We're definitely at the highest level of income compared to the majority of the world and I think a lot of us don't realize that.

00:25:48.000 So that was part of some of the things that I learned today at school was just the levels of income and how we really are at the highest level already but we don't realize how privileged we are and how much we really have as far as opportunity goes.

00:26:03.000 Um, in comparison to the majority, like, people who walk to work barefoot and ride their bike, we have cars.

00:26:11.000 Or high tea.

00:26:12.000 Yeah, high tea!

00:26:13.000 That's about, come on, that's about the epitome of white privilege, let's be honest.

00:26:16.000 Even if you believe it's a thing, which I don't, high tea, you're spending more for, let me guess, the little macaroons?

00:26:20.000 Yeah, biscuits and scones.

00:26:25.000 It was pretty filling, surprisingly.

00:26:28.000 I think we're just comparing our life to the boomer generation. 0.57

00:26:32.000 We're just trying to max our potential.

00:26:34.000 Yeah, it would just be nice to not, like, our house, when it was first built, was probably not $350,000, right?

00:26:43.000 But we're stuck paying these astronomical prices just because of, you know, all the change that's been going on with interest rates, population growth, things like that.

00:26:56.000 But you also have to take into account, you talked about the previous generation, right?

00:26:59.000 You could eat bologna on Wonder Bread and get a 1,200-square-foot house, which was the average house back in the day.

00:27:04.000 You could get that for really just a song these days.

00:27:07.000 I'm assuming that's not what you're looking at.

00:27:09.000 They say even, I think, from a year ago to today, or even two years ago, you have to make 80% more income to get, like, the same standard.

00:27:09.000 Yeah.

00:27:16.000 And I'm like, oh, well, shoot, my salaries aren't going up 80%.

00:27:20.000 They're not matching.

00:27:21.000 Yeah.

00:27:21.000 They're not matching to what inflation is.

00:27:23.000 That's two years.

00:27:24.000 One year.

00:27:25.000 So I'm like, well... And some people's apartments cost more than our house.

00:27:25.000 Yeah.

00:27:29.000 Yeah.

00:27:29.000 So that's really bad, too.

00:27:29.000 Yes.

00:27:31.000 There needs to be more regulation on that.

00:27:33.000 Well, the problem is there's a lot of regulation and their business is too big to fail.

00:27:37.000 BlackRock and Vanguard are buying up a lot of homes and turning them into rental units.

00:27:42.000 It's not people buying houses.

00:27:44.000 It is companies that, frankly, don't necessarily have America's best interest at heart.

00:27:47.000 That's true.

00:27:48.000 Are there some laws to ban that?

00:27:52.000 You're not seeing anything severe coming out of the pipeline.

00:27:54.000 Yeah, because they're too big to fail, right?

00:27:56.000 These people are part of the World Economic Forum and of course huge supporters of this administration and they'll receive favorable policies.

00:28:04.000 But I would say there's, I agree with you on a lot of that, it's about $12,000 actually.

00:28:08.000 An American family right now, just as far as groceries and day-to-day items, needs $12,000 more than they were making in 2019 to live the exact same and purchase the same

00:28:17.000 groceries.

00:28:18.000 But the flip side of that is, again, you mentioned even like organic food.

00:28:22.000 That was not an option too. So you also have more options now where you can live far out from the city,

00:28:26.000 get something for really inexpensive. I think expectations, again,

00:28:30.000 some of the broken promises come into play. So it's not all bad.

00:28:34.000 But I would agree with you that there's been a shift and a lot of people here have been saying,

00:28:38.000 you know what, I've seen a contrast and my vote is switching.

00:28:42.000 Yeah.

00:28:43.000 I think definitely Trump's going to overrule Texas for sure.

00:28:47.000 Who are you voting for?

00:28:48.000 If you want to know, I definitely would vote for Trump over Biden.

00:28:50.000 I mean, if those were the only choices and we can't ride on somebody, like Taylor Swift, right?

00:28:56.000 Then it would probably lean more towards Trump.

00:29:00.000 Would you like to be president?

00:29:01.000 No.

00:29:02.000 That's my worst nightmare.

00:29:02.000 God no.

00:29:06.000 I don't want that at all.

00:29:07.000 I've grown up in the era of social media where I'm running for president and they would just play something that I've publicly uploaded and be like, is that not you?

00:29:13.000 They dig deep in your likes and your tweets.

00:29:16.000 Like this is what you did when you were 12.

00:29:18.000 Yeah, they don't even need to dig deep for me.

00:29:20.000 Even Cultural Appropriation Month was just two weeks ago.

00:29:23.000 But no, I definitely wouldn't shy away from it.

00:29:26.000 I'm a big fan of what Trump did for the economy.

00:29:29.000 I held my nose when I voted for him.

00:29:31.000 He was an unknown.

00:29:32.000 I would actually disagree with you since you're asking me on the idea of these protests.

00:29:36.000 I mean, you look at Black Lives Matter, you look at what happened with Antifa, you look at what's happening right now with the pro-Hamas protests.

00:29:43.000 These are not—these, by the way, they're funded by either foreign entities or AstroTurf, and it's designed to make you think exactly what you think.

00:29:50.000 Oh my gosh, if Trump gets in, we'll have to deal with riots.

00:29:52.000 And I don't think that really our democratic republic, our representative republic, should be subject to mob rule.

00:29:58.000 You should never be afraid to vote because Trump didn't call people to commit those wanton acts of violence.

00:30:04.000 I mean, that entire summer, right, when they're burning down cities, Anyone could have been president.

00:30:08.000 But obviously, people, the general population is going to correlate that with Trump's... With the president.

00:30:12.000 Yeah, with the president.

00:30:13.000 I think everybody will blame the president no matter what.

00:30:16.000 But also, we haven't had that kind of hatred and riots since, like, his administration minus the Palestine stuff. 0.75

00:30:24.000 Sure we have, yeah.

00:30:25.000 That one's pretty bad.

00:30:26.000 And we had Black Lives Matter before he was coming in, right?

00:30:28.000 That was a big reason that he won, right?

00:30:30.000 They were burning down cities, so they just acted up again.

00:30:34.000 And I think that if you were to ask yourself who has not called for violence versus Kamala Harris and Joe Biden saying they're not going to stop rioting in the streets, nor should they stop.

00:30:44.000 They need to make their voices heard.

00:30:44.000 That's true.

00:30:45.000 I would disagree that I don't think that you're making anything heard by stealing from the

00:30:48.000 Walgreens and I don't think that has anything to do with Trump. 1.00

00:30:52.000 I think it's just that person's an asshole because there are plenty of people who are 1.00

00:30:55.000 poor in that same neighborhood who have not decided to rob their neighbor. 1.00

00:30:59.000 But that's just my opinion.

00:31:00.000 I think that they do want you to see that and be afraid.

00:31:00.000 That's true.

00:31:03.000 Yes.

00:31:03.000 And go, gosh, like you've said, economy was better for my own self-interest, to not only my jobs, but as far as America's standing.

00:31:09.000 Yeah, but I'm afraid because of this violence.

00:31:12.000 I would ask, if that's kind of the only thing standing in your way, I would ask yourself, well, why is that?

00:31:16.000 Yeah.

00:31:17.000 I would say that's the biggest thing, is the hatred associated with that whole... Do you think he hated anybody, though, Donald Trump?

00:31:17.000 Some people want you afraid.

00:31:23.000 Do you think he hates anybody?

00:31:24.000 I don't think so.

00:31:24.000 I think that he's just a regular person that really wants to make big changes.

00:31:30.000 But people are perceiving it in a different way.

00:31:33.000 Everybody is taking what he's doing in different ways.

00:31:37.000 And not everybody agrees with him.

00:31:40.000 But I do agree with a lot of the things that he says.

00:31:42.000 Like, if you're a girl, you're a girl.

00:31:43.000 If you're a boy, you're a boy.

00:31:45.000 And I might get a lot of hate for that.

00:31:46.000 You will!

00:31:47.000 But that's the truth.

00:31:49.000 You were born that way.

00:31:51.000 Is there an issue if you want to change it later on?

00:31:54.000 Be who you want to be.

00:31:54.000 No.

00:31:55.000 But when you're born, the fact that they don't even want to identify a baby anymore?

00:32:01.000 Like, clearly you're born with a gender, whether you want to believe that's you or not.

00:32:01.000 Yeah.

00:32:07.000 That's one thing that I know Trump's pretty strict about.

00:32:10.000 Yeah, you're gonna have to vote Trump.

00:32:11.000 You have Biden where he said he thought it was evil for parents to not affirm their children's gender transition. 0.99

00:32:16.000 That's ridiculous. 0.99

00:32:17.000 I don't think children have the mental capacity to make that decision. 0.99

00:32:21.000 They're still growing.

00:32:22.000 I mean, you have children here wanting to be astronauts.

00:32:23.000 That's something unrealistic.

00:32:25.000 So how do you think a child could know what their gender is?

00:32:27.000 Yes, I think parents have a big influence on what children do and want to be.

00:32:31.000 Oh yeah. 1.00

00:32:32.000 Also, kids are stupid. 1.00

00:32:34.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:32:35.000 When I was a kid, all I knew was that my parents, this is a true story, my parents, you know, I saw them as roommates.

00:32:39.000 When I was young, my brother and I shared a room.

00:32:41.000 Yeah.

00:32:41.000 And then he was getting his own room.

00:32:43.000 And then I realized, wait, hold on a second, adults are not, you don't get to be roommates with your brother anymore.

00:32:47.000 The only roommates I knew were my parents.

00:32:49.000 So I thought if I grow up, I want to be a woman so I can be roommates with my brother forever.

00:32:53.000 I just thought like I could just be as I thought they were like no no that's not how that works

00:32:53.000 No.

00:32:57.000 We're married and I thought wait when I grow up. I'm gonna have a woman in my house instead of my brother 1.00

00:33:02.000 You can't comprehend it Like playing with like dolls and stuff doesn't mean that

00:33:07.000 they're like a girl. I just I think that's so stupid I was looking up their skirts. 1.00

00:33:11.000 Yeah, so, like, what do you think, like, a kid playing with a doll, you're gonna call him, like, a girl because, just because that's considered a feminine kind of act? 0.97

00:33:19.000 It's very controversial for sure, and I will say my son is seven years old, and he designs Barbie dresses, and he loves to sew and design, and I just encourage him, but does that mean that he wants to be a girl?

00:33:33.000 No.

00:33:34.000 But if I put it in his head that that's girly, then he's gonna believe it.

00:33:38.000 Right.

00:33:39.000 So that's all about the parent molding.

00:33:41.000 They're learning, they're growing, they're taking things in from the environment.

00:33:45.000 And I don't think politics in the schools should get involved with the children at all.

00:33:49.000 It shouldn't be in the schools.

00:33:50.000 So your son designs, he does little Barbie dresses?

00:33:52.000 Yeah, he cuts them up and he makes them out of balloons, aluminum foil, fabric, whatever he can find to create a fashion dress.

00:34:01.000 He makes it and it's really awesome most of the time.

00:34:04.000 As long as you don't tell him he's a girl, you know, that'll come in handy, the fine motor skills, when he has to unhook a bra and he's older.

00:34:09.000 Oh my god.

00:34:10.000 I don't even want to think about that, okay?

00:34:12.000 I was a young parent, so... The alternative could be scarier, is all I'm saying.

00:34:16.000 Oh my god.

00:34:17.000 Either that or he lives at home.

00:34:22.000 I don't think it's either, learn how to unhook a bra or stay at home.

00:34:25.000 But, the point is well received.

00:34:26.000 Alright, I know it's hot out here.

00:34:27.000 I appreciate you all taking the time.

00:34:29.000 Thank you.

00:34:29.000 Nice meeting you.

00:34:31.000 Janice.

00:34:31.000 Maddie.

00:34:32.000 Maddie and then... Itze.

00:34:33.000 Itze.

00:34:34.000 Ah, I was so close.

00:34:35.000 Okay.

00:34:35.000 Thank you so much.

00:34:36.000 Thank you.

00:34:37.000 I'm sorry to make you guys be sweating out here.

00:34:38.000 Get in where it's cool.

00:34:39.000 Not hot yet, cooled off a little.

00:34:41.000 Happy birthday, by the way.

00:34:43.000 Wow, you know, I actually really enjoyed this conversation for a multitude of reasons.

00:34:47.000 Not that.

00:34:48.000 Get your mind out of the gutter.

00:34:49.000 You're better than that.

00:34:51.000 It turns out that you may gain some new perspective as well as provide some for other people out there regardless of the chasm that you think may exist between you both politically.

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