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Day 13,504(1) - School Board Update 1.mp3
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Good morning, gang. Kevin here. Life 22 is a beautiful Tuesday morning.
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Oh man, it's just.
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It's great to be.
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Alive it is. It truly is so.
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We have today's life theme coming up hopefully later today and for the for the month of April. And so we'll collect your thoughts on how you made out with last month's.
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And reveal to you what this month is.
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And then let's see here. So we got some exciting updates coming up in local politics, man, when just when you didn't think things could get more exciting, they do right? Like that's why this is my football season. This is this is where you pun it.
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So.
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As most of you know, if you follow the channel I'm in the process of putting a deal together.
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And that deal is going to involve a new section of the channel where we get into real estate investing.
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And so that's that's kind of exciting that's coming up. And I was, you know, taking care of some of that that you know the beginning stages paperwork of of the deal for a big package and I.
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You.
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Driving home last night, smoking a nice celebratory cigar which I don't get too many of those, so it's nice to it's nice to rifle one of those down and man, man nicotine hits you when you don't like when you don't do it that often. But anyways I'm driving home and.
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I get a call and it was, you know, hey, have you seen Facebook today? Like kind of why there's a lot of **** on Facebook.
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Well, apparently and so here's an exciting update to the school board race. So originally, Ohh start y'all at the beginning. Right there was.
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There was 1 opening.
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There was 1 opening.
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And there was 1 opening in the school board race and.
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Because one term was up right, so.
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And that was that was Kelly Keller, and she was choosing not to run again, which is fine. It's a lot of work. And she put in a five year stint and from what I gather, she's been to like everything. Like she goes above and beyond, and I know.
00:02:55 Kevin
I know Kelly and her husband Matt, and they're just, they're great people and just pillars of the community. So you know, when when, when people say Kelly goes to everything, she probably went to everything. It was like, well, here's a sports banquet and we we always encourage people to. And so she'd go, I'm sure. And I'm sure that she would stay for the whole time, right. Not just like, make an appearance and leave. And so like, I can see how that can be cumbersome.
00:03:17 Kevin
In your schedule, especially you know when you're just going everywhere all the time and it's like, man, I'm putting in 20 hours a week for a free voluntary gig, right, like.
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But you know, I mean, there's there's a lot of people in our community they don't even put 20 hours a week into their own kids. Right. So that's like.
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It's uh.
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It's intense, but anyway, so she.
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She stepped down and then there was a rumor that another one was gonna well, she didn't step down yet. She her term ends.
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Which I believe it's June 1st or May 30th or something like that. Or May 31st it falls in that. So whatever their terms restart.
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And the elections happen, and whatever the commencement date is right then, then her term would fall off and and and the new whoever won that race would take over. So. But there was rumored that another one was going to step down and then like out of left field another one did. And so.
00:04:24 Kevin
Now there's three open seats. So essentially what you do is they they have all that. There's five school board members.
00:04:33 Kevin
Is there five? No, no. There are 9. It's every year. There is one race.
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It's. Let's see here. If there's a five year term, so let's say year 1.
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There's two up.
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You're 2. There's two up. You're 3. There's two up. Yeah, there's a nine spots. So. So for the first four years, there are two spots open. And on the 5th year, there's only one spot. This gives you your.
00:04:59 Kevin
Uneven number, but everybody's in an in even rotation. You're not completely upending a board and putting 9 new people on every year or half and half. It's literally like one to two members every year.
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Are coming on or off or re elected or what have you.
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So.
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There's three openings, So what will happen with like Kelly's term? It'll be a full five year term. It'll be the longest term on the ballot, right? But for the other two that step down depending on where their term fell in that five year stint like if they had two years left, then whoever would be the next lowest vote getter.
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In this race, would essentially take the.
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You know the next highest remainder of term, right? So the board in the mean time can pick like a replacement until the next election. If there's time and other times like the elections coming right up, I don't think they're going to fill the spots that quickly, they might, they may they may pick interims but that's you know.
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That's here nor there.
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So you go through and you pick.
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They go through and they'll pick the.
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Interim they can pick interim people and then those people would go. And so now let's say you have 6 people running.
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And you know the don't go top three vote getters. So the most the highest vote getter will take the longest term, which would be the full term of Kelly Kellers. And then whoever the next out of the other two. If one person had two years, the other person at three years left the next vote getter and then all the way down, and then everybody. And once those seats are filled, everybody else, sorry, try again next time.
00:06:38 Kevin
Because I've been shuffled in that boat, so I understand how it works and so.
00:06:44 Kevin
Hats being thrown in the ring, right. I get a phone call. A guy I used to work with at the city was going to do it and I was like, yeah, man, you'd you'd be good. I guess his work schedule changed so that his name got dropped. He didn't even pull petitions. It was one of those. He was going to do it. He was. I think he made a Facebook page. He came down.
00:07:04 Kevin
Just cause he wasn't doing it. His work schedule changed. He's like I I don't have time for it. He's like, so I'm out of the district now. Most of the time with traveling for work or whatever. And I was like, OK well.
00:07:16 Kevin
That's one less person in the race, but I hear that there's. So there is.
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De Blasio's running.
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He's gonna yell at me cause it's it's Jason Ryan de Blasi.
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But I always guess for last name right? So uh.
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There's Tim Sherlock. He just threw his name in the ring because initially it was.
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It was de Blasi and then Tracy Lynn Hosein. She's a former candidate who ran for Ward 2 Alderman.
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And then there was and then Tim. Sherlock came out as running, and then about that time is when the third person dropped out. Right. So, you know, you just had Kelly's seat, and then you had, you know, two, maybe three people running. And then you had Tim throwing in after one seat opened and then another seat opened and.
00:08:09 Kevin
And now as a so as of today, you had really like 3, maybe four people running for school board.
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And then there was a release on Facebook yesterday and the release on Facebook is from.
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It is young Malik and Kalbi.
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For only in school boards. So they're running on a triple ticket and then it doesn't mean anything. It just means they collaborated to come together to run a campaign. It doesn't change the rules like you one vote for them. You would have to cast each individual vote. So you still have to vote for all three.
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People there is no, you know what I mean? Like they've done this in the past with with, like county legislative races and stuff. So they just kind of group you in a ticket and hope that the whole group will rise up together.
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And in this case, I would surmise.
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That the first person's name on the list is going to.
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Is is gonna is gonna carry the team. Not not because it's any more work. It's just because of name recognition. So the first one on young Malik and Kelby is is Kathy Young. She's she was our state senator for she was a county legislator. She was. Yeah. She was the Minority Leader.
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Of of for for the Republicans in the state of New York, I mean, that's.
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It's a big it's a big feather, right, like, and so she.
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I believe from what I've gathered, she's since retired from the Department of Agriculture after she stepped down as senator, she became, went and taught AG at Cornell or something, and now she's. I'm assuming she's retired and.
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I mean.
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And now she's running for school board. So that alone a lot of people love Kathy, so that alone will be.
00:10:01 Kevin
Well, would I mean, I mean you could, you could throw, you could throw like the Crump brothers on, you know, on a ticket with Kathy and they probably get the school board just because of name recognition so.
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Good on Kathy for running good on these girls for hopping on. You want to win school board like team up with Kathy that's that's probably how it's going to go down. But also I'm super excited about this because this means that.
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We're gonna have, like, political legend Kathy Young on the show, cause everybody's getting interviewed for school board race, so this will be exciting, folks. Emails will be drafted and and invitations will be sent.
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And then the next one is Aubrey Malik.
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Now I know the Malik last name. I went to school the couple Maliks. There's. I believe there's two different families of Malik, so I'm not sure. I don't know. Aubrey. And then.
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Alex kalby. I know Tony. He's the insurance guy.
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And.
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Feel like I went to school with the with the Kelby as well anyways.
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Yeah. So that, that race is coming up May 20th. I'm sure they got their petitions within hours.
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So they they have a Facebook page up here.
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Let's work together to create only in school district that prioritizes safety, supports teachers, and provides every student with the opportunity to succeed.
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Pretty, pretty generic.
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It's.
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I don't know where we don't prioritize safety. I mean, I guess I could critique this, but anyways, nonetheless, that's a pretty big release that Kathy youngster owner had in the ring for school board. So and then that said we got a special visitor at our house yesterday while I wasn't home.
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Hmm.
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As I said I was out. I was out working on.
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Starting a deal.
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And.
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The.
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The gentleman who came to our door was looking for signatures for his petition and.
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My wife knew him, so she signed this thing. She he's a registered Republican. He's running for ward four. Wow. Like at a left field. We got a ward for Alderman candidate in the Republican side, which spices up the race. I don't know how much it spices up the race.
00:12:34 Kevin
He's not a newcomer. He's a newcomer to and this is where people get confused too, because they also say like.
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You got to keep politics in the school district separate. It's like, no.
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No, because that's not. That's not how the world works, right? The people that say that you have to keep it separate are the ones not keeping it separate. It's like, oh, yeah, you need to. You need to stop. If if you're, you know.
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It's not about Republican or Democrat, and it's like whoever's saying that usually is like full blown one side or the other and then like.
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Running for school board and then.
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You're like.
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My values don't don't make anything on my judgments. It's like. Well, then, why are they your values like and that who you are at your core like it just it drives me a little bit nuts and then people like well, but it's not about politics. It's like it's always about politics. Because here's the thing.
00:13:26 Kevin
Politics are downstream from culture, so if your politics are different, it's because you have.
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Different beliefs and ideology that dictate your culture and your culture is then what dictates your politics because it's like.
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Like just anything else, right, like you start.
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You. You. I don't know if you have like an animal cell or a plant cell. Right. Like they just they they grow up to be different things. Right. And then it's like you're measuring politics has nothing to do with the end result. It's like, no, I'm pretty sure it's like it's derived from the same base. So yeah, you know, it comes from each one comes from a different.
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Different school of thought, so one would surmise that it would have a great effect, right? So like, yeah, sure. The politics can change a little bit.
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But at its core, where its roots are.
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It's.
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Role.
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It still plays a large role in.
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Design affect everything down the road all the way to the end. The result?
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Now the results can be can slightly vary, but it's one of those I so.
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So anyways, yeah, the school board people say it's not political, but so the the newcomer for Alderman is.
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Alan Jason Peters, who was on the school board. And so it's it is.
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So he's not a newcomer to.
00:14:59 Kevin
He's not a newcomer to politics, I would say, because the school board is political, like I said, and but he is a newcomer to the city government politics, if that makes sense. But.
00:15:12 Kevin
Like like our conversation with Vernon went.
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Me and him, we're talking about this. We see eye to eye on this, you know, hey.
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Competitions, good competitions, healthy.
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With the.
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And it and it just gets to it goes to show you, you know, just things that you deal with in, in, in, in life, man it's if you have.
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If you have.
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Good.
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If you.
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Just if just in anything, whether it's government, if it's the free market, like if you don't have competition, you stifle development because you're not forcing other people. The incentive structure is not there to force other people to grow.
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And to innovate and to invest in research and development, to let themselves stand out amongst their competition, to keep prices low in competitive. So you don't have, you don't have all these different things right because you don't have competition, right? And so you get that kind of same stagnation when you don't have.
00:16:19 Kevin
Adversaries in politics. It is a very they're akin subject.
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And it's it's good stuff. It's good, it's very healthy. So it's healthy. You see this, the the cure for the cure for.
00:16:36 Kevin
What is the cure for?
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Well, what if all your free speech, there's bad speech? Well, the cure to bad speech is more free speech. You just keep throwing free speech and stuff, and people are like, well, the misinformation. It's like it doesn't matter if you just keep piling on free speech essentially, like just the weight of all the free speech that you have there, crushes and decimates all the all the false information.
00:16:59 Kevin
The theory, but then when you start stifling it, what you when you start stifling free speech and taking restricting it? It's that like holding back.
00:17:07 Kevin
Free speech. What ends up happening is all you're left with is like garbage information, garbage, speech and it's like.
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That's why you don't stifle it. You just keep pumping it on because it naturally kills it, kills off the dead. Bad speech.
00:17:26 Kevin
Just like a terrarium, little ecosystem, free speech is an amazing thing as well, so free markets, free speech, let's go, baby. And with that said guys, those are our two announcements today. So you still have the original three that are running, but now you have a trio running in competition.
00:17:46 Kevin
I would love to see a debate. I would love to host. I'm, you know, petitions just got passed out. So we got to see who the crop where, you know, the petitions just got. I think they're still rolling in for the school board, but.
00:18:05 Kevin
The city.
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For the school board so that one. But that race comes and goes real quick because they'll have all that buttoned up before June, right. May 20th is the election. So by like June 1st or something along those lines, maybe it's June 20th. I can't remember. No, I think it's short after there. So like within the first six months of the year, like you're pulling petitions after the first right around the first quarter.
00:18:29 Kevin
And before the end, before the end of the first quarter, you are you've already got your election all summed up where in the in the city government political realm you are pulling petitions like Valentine's Day?
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Like.
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Beginning of May or beginning of March and you have to have men like beginning of April, end of March and then?
00:18:53 Kevin
You go to see who's on a primary for the party and then.
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Now you're just like waiting, writing it out, hoping you don't have any bad press. You try to get some kissing baby photos from June until November, and that's just a big gap and pretty much you have the entire year of a political campaign.
00:19:17 Kevin
So.
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Obviously the debates for since it's a mayoral year, a debate would be fantastic.
00:19:25 Kevin
For school board, it's going to be tough, but I would love to hear these candidates just on a stage debating we've we've talked about it for the mayoral race, for maybe possibly some of the Alderman races, but mainly the mayoral race is a big one. But if you, I mean.
00:19:42 Kevin
Man, if you had the space, that would be, it would be an exciting an exciting thing. And I I think that there would be a numerous amount of local places to host a debate and I think it would be.
00:19:54 Kevin
I think it'd be fun. I think it would be exciting for for citizens to see what your candidates all about, and I'm all about transparency. So you you really need to sometimes people are very well spoken on paper when they have time to prepare and that's fine. But you also have to have many tools in your toolbox.
00:20:14 Kevin
You have to be prepared to think on your feet. Think quickly, have an idea, be able to disarm something even if you don't have the idea right this moment.
00:20:24 Kevin
At least if you can deescalate a situation and come back to it later. Maybe it's something you know and and also it lets people see your honesty like I never really thought about that topic and then you can shoot from the cuff, give people your initial instinct because they want to see that because you're going to.
00:20:43 Kevin
As a mayor, as an Alderman, you're going to see these shooting from the hip type things because you can't tell what legislation is going to be thrown at you. Like sometimes you're aware and other times you're just it's thrown at you and you have no idea like you're just like.
00:20:58 Kevin
I didn't know we were going to be addressing this law. I have. Let me let me collect my thoughts on this and then you have time to go back. But a lot of times people want to see when you're shooting from the hip. You just like we talked about with the plant animal cell, right. Like they they have they start have different bases, different root bulbs and they're.
00:21:16 Kevin
Coming up and I guess maybe the animal cell is not the best to think about it, but maybe different species of plant, right? They're they're similar, they look alike, but they have root bases that are in different locations on the spectrum. They're they're they're some are deeper than others, you know, like you could go with the metaphor all day long, but so anyways.
00:21:36 Kevin
But where you're rooted where your beliefs are, a lot of times where your ideas come from, because like, that's your foundation, right? So you're going to, you're going to have a clearly different shooting from the hip perspective and a lot of times like.
00:21:52 Kevin
Where you're shooting from the hip from is also the same place that your ideas are coming from, so your like. Eventually your idea is going to your thoughts on the matter are going to evolve in that.
00:22:04 Kevin
Same projection, right?
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You're not going to, you know.
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Your overall idea will might become a Tulip if you're coming from a Tulip.
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Root base like that's.
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You're not gonna come up here and be like, ohh almost a Tulip. Daffodil. Like that doesn't happen. It doesn't happen. So I'm.
00:22:26 Kevin
In in the world of ideas, it may right, like somebody might introduce some different idea to you.
00:22:33 Kevin
Some outside force, right? That can alter what your result end result is, but you know, unless it's some epiphany, some great epiphany. Right. That's like, wow, that's that. No, I didn't think about it that way. Well, that that changes everything. And then you completely revamp the idea, which is fine. It's fine. It's not like you're.
00:22:53 Kevin
You know, casting aside your belief system, you're just.
00:22:56 Kevin
Adjusting it with new information, you're adjusting your idea with new information, but anyway, so to to to go back to debates, debates are really great because they're going to show transparency. You're going to get inside the minds of how these people are thinking, and there's no truer way than to not let somebody kind of ferment on a topic and just let them shoot from the hip because then you're going to see where their instincts are coming from. You can kind of see, like, almost like a direct little.
00:23:18 Kevin
Window into their belief systems. Sometimes, depending on the questions. Depending on all this stuff. But it just opens the door for more transparency and that's what we always need more of both on the school board City Council.
00:23:32 Kevin
The the city government, just in general everywhere, needs more transparency. So, and that's what the channel is all about, baby. So.
00:23:41 Kevin
All right, guys. Well, that was a that was a.
00:23:44 Kevin
Longer than yesterday, but it was a good podcast. We'll catch you guys tomorrow on life 2 or we'll catch you later.
00:23:51 Kevin
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