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Day 13,609 - Storm Sewer Disconnects.mp3
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00:00:07 Kevin
Good morning, gang. It's Kevin and we're here with live 22 and we are on a Tuesday morning.
00:00:14 Kevin
It's not not quite a Drake song, but it's a Tuesday and we're just.
00:00:22 Kevin
We're past our motivational Mondays. I hope everybody is sore from beating up all the drug dealers in the neighborhood from yesterday.
00:00:30 Kevin
Oh, ready to.
00:00:31 Kevin
Get back at it today. And then secondly, I want to talk about something that popped up on my news feed yesterday after I got home and it was. So we're gonna go politics this morning.
00:00:44 Kevin
And I'm not discerning one candidate over another in this political race for mayor in our town. But I've noticed a lot of this, and I get one of the talking points, not just the most recent post I saw was from Amy Sherburn, and it was about, you know, catching rain barrels and.
00:01:03 Kevin
You know, you know, to catch the rainfall so it doesn't get, you know, stuck in the INI, which is part of the infiltration of our storm sewers versus our sanitary sewers. So for those of you don't know, sanitary sewers are the ones that we.
00:01:16 Kevin
Guys like it goes to be sanitized to remove your poop and **** and all the other lovely things that you flush down your toilet and the storm sewer is just literally like water that hits the ground and runs on the ground. So as long.
00:01:27 Kevin
As it's.
00:01:28 Kevin
Not contaminated for the most part, because like water that runs on the street like there might be dogs on the street, there might be remnants of dogs on the street. What happens to your fart when you fart?
00:01:36 Kevin
Right. I know a lot of you think about these questions all day long. You're just at work pushing buttons and do whatever and you do and you're like, man, what happens when I fart is just kind of like, hang there like, no, it settles on the road, settles on the road and then the rain water comes and washes it into the river like. And so you're part of the problem. I want to talk to you about your problem where you fart.
00:01:56 Kevin
And you just think it's OK to let the rainwater wash it away? You need to let it settle out and then you need to go and collect your fart dust. I well, I mean, eventually you give it like 50 years, like 100 years. I'm gonna be long dead and there's gonna be a group of like, you know.
00:02:13 Kevin
Idiots going up to the common Council complaining that like, well, they're still allowing people to fart without permits like they need to have permits, cause they're gonna fart into the river. Like, how do they fit in the river? Oh, and then they're gonna go through a diagram and they're gonna show like a little poopy stink. It's gonna like cloud, and it's gonna settle. It's not rain. Just just dust settling.
00:02:22 Kevin
OK.
00:02:32 Kevin
Anyways.
00:02:34 Kevin
I figured I'd take it on a human humorous term, but here's The thing is that it does.
00:02:41 Kevin
Because you could go down a rabbit hole and I can show you I showed. I just showed you how quickly somebody could go down a rabbit hole to prove that, like, well, storm water should be 100% zero biological waste. Like it's ******** cause you stop rabbits from sitting in your yard like like I'm all down for shooting all the rabbits, cause they're good Stew. But.
00:03:00 Kevin
I'm not. I like you're not gonna stop it. You're gonna stop the bird from flying overhead and taking a **** on the grass. And then the grass, the rain washes into the grass, the grass.
00:03:07 Kevin
Washes into the street. The street goes into the storm sewer storm sewer goes in the.
00:03:12 Kevin
But.
00:03:14 Kevin
Here is the slippery slope that comes from this post, right. So they're talking about collecting, you know, like, look at this rain barrel. We had a light rain and it filled 65 gallons off the top of my house. Well, I guess it depends on how long your gutter run is. All these other things that trying to prevent people from people's homes from contributing to the INI, which is that infiltration.
00:03:34 Kevin
Into the storm sewer.
00:03:36 Kevin
And here's part of the problem is that like?
00:03:39 Kevin
First off, like you want to prevent.
00:03:42 Kevin
Storm water from getting into the sanitary sewer.
00:03:46 Kevin
Like, OK well some. So the argument is some houses are connected into the sanitary sewer, right? Like if you go around people's houses and you see these cast iron pipes coming up, they catch their gutter. Most likely they tie into the basement and go into the sanitary sewer because. And there's usually like a like a big cast iron trap along the walls. Most of these old houses they didn't have.
00:04:06 Kevin
Storm sewers. They just had a sanitary sewer.
00:04:09 Kevin
Uh.
00:04:09 Kevin
And your floor drains, which floor drains aren't really a thing you put in anymore. You put in like a crock with a sump pit because the theory is.
00:04:17 Kevin
The theory is that back in the day the theory was like if one of your if your sewer line backs up, it's going back up onto the floor and eventually you're going to want to unclog it and wash it out to the sewer is most likely your gutter is not gonna back up if your gutter backs up, it's clogged. It's going to dump water on the ground outside your house which is, which is no bueno.
00:04:37 Kevin
For a foundation to get down that.
00:04:39 Kevin
Rabbit hole but.
00:04:41 Kevin
It's better than having your basement fill up with sewage, which most likely would be what your basement fill up with, so they want to take it to the sanitary. So I and I'm still behind on that. Well, I still like that logic. It makes more sense to me that your house is going to is going to back up with sewage, then it is storm water and whatever storm water infiltrates your basement, that goes into your sanitary sewer.
00:05:02 Kevin
Through foundation walls, you've got bigger problems to deal with First off. But secondly, who's gonna give a flying **** about a little bit of storm water going into your sanitary the issue these people are having is that when the water comes down off your gutters, you're catching the entire surface area of your.
00:05:16 Kevin
Move.
00:05:17 Kevin
From rainfall gathering it into gutters, sending the gutters down, and sending that into the storm. So what they want you to do, and this is the part that you don't see the common Council talking about. And I don't blame them for talking about this, because this is an issue like 1520 years ago when I moved to Olean, I moved here and they went around and they did smoke tests and they did all these things and people were up in arms. People were up in arms.
00:05:38 Kevin
It's like it's my property. I'll do whatever I want. And they're like, wow, you're gonna poop in the river and well, or you're you're you're flooding the infrastructure and you we have a rule and you have to listen to our rule because no matter how arbitrary our rule is, is as long as we pass it, you have to follow it. Well, what if it violates Constitution? We don't care about the Constitution.
00:05:58 Kevin
That's the attitude they have. They haven't formally said it, but it doesn't matter if they say it or not. If you act in a way that you don't care about somebody else's rights, you don't care about the Constitution.
00:06:08 Kevin
Then you're automatically saying it. You're saying it louder than if you were to say it, and people don't seem to get that. That's that. This is OK, now I'm going into a part where I was yesterday, where something grinds my gears. Right. So this is grinding my gears is a pet peeve of mine. It's our constitutional rights. It's it's not a peeve of mine that they exist. It's a peeve of mine.
00:06:28 Kevin
That people disregard them. They are the law of the land like.
00:06:33 Kevin
And and I'm supposed to defend it tooth and nail, foreign and abroad. That's it. Every single person. If somebody. If some kid on the playground comes along, it takes one of my kids constitution. Right. So it doesn't matter how frivolous.
00:06:46 Kevin
All the constitutional rights from other kids should be taken away by my child. Like Ohh you stole my ball. That's the theft of property. Like I have property rights in this bam. I stabbed on the playground like.
00:06:56 Kevin
It shouldn't come to that. I think that they're they're de escalation should come in place, but no, people don't seem to understand we're willing to send every one of our citizens to war, draft them all. Oh, we got rid of the draft. Ohh, who cares? Well, guess what. When we run out of soldiers, the draft will come back and we'll then we'll eventually be submitting women and children because guess what happens if you have nobody to fight your war.
00:07:17 Kevin
They come here and they just take over your women and children rape and pillage, like that's what happens. So like, eventually you're just throwing everybody you have at it because by the time this is all said and done, you don't exist anymore. So if you don't win the war, you don't exist. But anyway, so that's we're willing to do that even just to defend the most minute of constitutional rights.
00:07:37 Kevin
And so people don't seem to understand that, and it's it is what it is like. And so somebody infringes on your rights like they don't have anymore rights. Like that's it. Like that's they don't they.
00:07:47 Kevin
Get it?
00:07:48 Kevin
Like I have the right to do everything within the Constitution, but if I infringe on your rights now you're negative rights. All these rights that people keep coming up with, the ones that are in the Constitution, if you infringe on them like their free speech rights. If I take away someone's right to freedom of speech.
00:08:04 Kevin
And I'm not like there's no justification in the Constitution to do so or any of those other things like.
00:08:10 Kevin
My punishment should be all my constitutional rights, including the life to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, which means that somebody could stop my breathing because I stopped them from exercising their constitutional rights.
00:08:22 Kevin
That's it. You don't like you no longer have to like to live if you.
00:08:24 Kevin
Gonna take other peoples constitutional rights, that's.
00:08:27 Kevin
It's always been a thing, always been a thing and like everyone's like, oh, no, we can't do that. We can't hurt people's feelings. Like, yeah, no, no. Cause the Constitution doesn't care about people's feelings, cause people's feelings are dumb.
00:08:38 Kevin
Feelings mattered. Emotions mattered when we were primitive creatures living in the woods by instinct alone, and now we have rational, logical thought and emotions still exist, but we need to control them. We need to get rid of them like they they exist. You're not gonna get rid of them without killing the host. That the emotion like part of the, the, that section of the brain where it channels all that stuff through.
00:08:58 Kevin
But you have to control.
00:08:59 Kevin
Because otherwise you're primitive and you're not a regular person. Like people don't seem to get that. They just like, oh, I gotta let my emotions rule, cause emotions are stronger. It's like, no, no, no. Emotions are just primitive.
00:09:10 Kevin
Primitive technology like.
00:09:15 Kevin
I'm going on a rant today anyways.
00:09:18 Kevin
All of this to say so our entire community was up in arms, like literally like they they had gallows Uptown. They were gonna hang the current mayor like it was like you don't have the right to step on somebody's property and tell them what they can and can't do.
00:09:32 Kevin
Like.
00:09:34 Kevin
Damn near like Brown versus the Board of Education. Having like the Little Rock 9 set. Like you know what I mean? Like the like, the National Guard versus the the first airmen. We're going to be, like, duking it out up town because there was such a huge thing about it. I I just. I remember moving here and be like, what am I witnessing?
00:09:53 Kevin
This is just such like it was just the government was out of control and then they got put in their place and then they stopped doing it because it was such a huge issue.
00:10:01 Kevin
And now, and it's like it's something simple, but the problem is that they don't have the right to do it and they say something so arbitrary and then they like, Oh well, this is so arbitrary. Why do you care? It's like, well, because it's my constitutional right. And as soon as you step on it a little bit, you can step on it all the way. You can remove. If I let you take a piece of my pie.
00:10:17 Kevin
You're entitled to the whole thing, and so to prevent that what they've done is they stopped. This, this, this, this code enforcement on this particular issue like ohh well you can't. You can't do this and so.
00:10:32 Kevin
And the Common Council doesn't want to bring it up now, most of them probably have no like.
00:10:37 Kevin
No awareness that this actually happened like this, this ginormous dispute that, like they put it out and a week later they rescinded it because they were about to have a revolt of every single citizen, like school children, just like being truant from school to show up, to argue this. And I might be exaggerating a little bit, but this like, this was such a huge issue I remember like.
00:10:58 Kevin
Every day for like 6 months. This was in the paper and I was like, I was a high school kid going like why I?
00:11:02 Kevin
Have my friends at.
00:11:03 Kevin
School. Ohh, cause they're protesting this like.
00:11:06 Kevin
And it was such just the simple thing. But they're going around smoke, testing things, and then they were, like giving little old ladies $2000 fines because, like, oh, you you didn't disconnect and then they would give them like, an offshoot.
00:11:17 Kevin
And there was a little old lady who lived across the street from us that, like, got one of these. And she was like, well, I'm waiting for my grandson to come to town this summer to help me room. And it's like, you have 15 days to remove it, lady.
00:11:28 Kevin
Like you don't seem to and then they were like they were treating like it was a matter of national security. And it was like 1 little old lady, you know what I mean? It was just. But they like, they got the eventually the fines got wave. But it was like they were throwing $2000 fines.
00:11:40 Kevin
At a little old lady who had trouble getting outside of her house.
00:11:43 Kevin
Like Meals on Wheels was coming to her house and that like.
00:11:46 Kevin
I remember coming over to help her mow her lawn, and I was like, what do they want us to do? And she was like, I I need you to separate this downspout from the thing she's like, no, don't. My grandson will take care of it. Like, I'm not gonna defy A homeowner. This is not my property. Right. So I'd respect your property rights because.
00:12:01 Kevin
That's more important.
00:12:04 Kevin
Then solving some little government issue like oh, there's a street sweeper. Fine. You got like, it's a little government issue. Sorry I'm I'm like I got heated and it's also very, very hot in my studio and for good audio quality. I don't want to have the air conditioner on so.
00:12:22 Kevin
That said, they're how it's gonna layout is they're gonna put out these rain barrels. They're gonna say, well, disconnect your sewer from your gutters. From storm sewer like. OK, so.
00:12:35 Kevin
OK, you do that right and then you put it in a rain barrel. OK, well, now you have to make sure you're constantly monitoring it, right? Like, that's the reason why people switched over to national natural gas on a consistent like a consistent like.
00:12:50 Kevin
Lying into your house that doesn't typically run out so that it can keep feeding all your gas appliances so you don't have to, like go out and like throw wood into your boiler or throw wood into your furnace or throw wood into the fireplace or and then have the stack and split wood and keep supplying.
00:13:03 Kevin
It so you're removing the supply issue, right?
00:13:06 Kevin
Well, here's another thing. Like the the supply issue is not going away with the water. The water comes in, fills the rain barrel. You don't fill up the rain, you don't empty the rain barrel. The rain sloshes on the ground in not like in like 1 consolidated spot and it creates A sinkhole either alongside your house or it rots apart your deck or wherever your rain barrel happens to be or the other.
00:13:26 Kevin
Shoot. The other thing is you can have it kicked out and your goal is to Kick It Out as far away from your house as you can. But these things are not structurally sound. They're just a piece of aluminum that is cast into the shape of a pipe, and you can cut a little notch in the top and make it swing up when you're mowing the lawn. And that's.
00:13:40 Kevin
Pain in the ***. And so like the proper or you can just do nothing and like, have no gutters on your house. And then the water just like trickle. You know, just falls off the drip edge and hits around your foundation, which causes like it saves you money today. But in 20 years from now, when your foundation wall collapses and you have to spend, you know.
00:14:00 Kevin
203040 grand to replace the foundation walls of your house or just let your house go to auction and let somebody else fix it, maybe. And then it has to be torn down by the city with all of our taxpayer dollars, all because they wanted you to put in.
00:14:15 Kevin
Depending on your situation, running a storm sewer connection line.
00:14:21 Kevin
That you would have the same as your sanitary sewer connection line.
00:14:26 Kevin
To run it out to the street, you need a master license plumber. That is our, that is our city code and the issue with the city code in that regard.
00:14:37 Kevin
There's that. There's somewhat of a monopoly amongst master licensed plumbers like I could teach any one of you today like how to connect them to a city, storm sewer or city sanitary. You need to still bring the excavator out and then you need the city to sign off on it or you need the plumbing inspectors sign off on it. And it's such a simple thing with like you have to take all these rigorous tests and you have to.
00:14:56 Kevin
You have to, you know, you have to be. You know, it's it's one of those things. It's a pet. That's another pet peeve of mine that like.
00:15:02 Kevin
You throw me in any field and I'll figure it out. I'm like I'm an enigma. Like I just.
00:15:09 Kevin
People suspect that I'm on the spectrum. I I pick up things very quickly and like you could send.
00:15:13 Kevin
Me to go with.
00:15:16 Kevin
A master plumber and I could figure out 95% of what they do.
00:15:20 Kevin
And the things that I don't figure out aren't gonna kill anybody. They're gonna be a pain in the ****, you know. But it is what it is. But so, like, based on my general knowledge of.
00:15:32 Kevin
Working with master plumbers and looking into the hole and making the connection or making the connection with their supervision like I could show you how to do it as a homeowner.
00:15:41 Kevin
Regardless, the city needs you to have that master plumber there. And so that's why.
00:15:46 Kevin
These storm sewer connections cost just as much as sanitary sewer connections, which can range anywhere from 4:00.
00:15:53 Kevin
To $8000 on average.
00:15:56 Kevin
For you to put one in.
00:15:59 Kevin
There's cheaper options like you can put in bubblers you still have, there's a lot of labels in the collection of all this, and then you still have to collect it all and tie it.
00:16:07 Kevin
Into.
00:16:07 Kevin
Like a manifold just on the outside of your house.
00:16:11 Kevin
There's no sewer gases, so you don't really have to worry about the traps. The old traps are in your basement because they don't want the sewer gases to kind of, you know, vent out around the base of the house where your gutter would stuff into an old cast iron hub.
00:16:24 Kevin
Anyways.
00:16:25 Kevin
You're expecting little old ladies to pay $2000 fines for not doing this, or to pay $8000.
00:16:32 Kevin
To tie in and I've seen people pay upwards of like there was one lady. She paid like $18,000 to have her sewer line redone to replaced from inside her house all the way out to the street with the city connection. And then while they were doing it, they were like, hey, for 20, make it an even 25 and we'll or 26 and we'll run a water line. So it's like, well, the hole is already there.
00:16:53 Kevin
And she paid 2520 five $26,000 to have her water and sewer line replaced, and that's without adding.
00:17:01 Kevin
The storm sewer.
00:17:03 Kevin
So it's like man, I mean see like.
00:17:06 Kevin
And I'm saying that's not the that's not the most average. That's I'm saying 4 to $8000 is probably a reasonable number for just your storm sewer line just based on the fact that it entails almost all the same stuff as a sanitary sewer line. So they're going to produce all these different things. It's going to tell you, you have to do this and going to be some simple city.
00:17:23 Kevin
Code and it's like, yeah, it's a simple city code.
00:17:27 Kevin
But eventually it's going to be you have to disconnect and there's already houses all around our neighborhoods. If you look up at every chimney, you see how much people love to do their masonry work. Well, chimneys are high up. Kevin. Why would they want to climb up there? I get. I get it right. But the part that Peeves me the most is that.
00:17:44 Kevin
That like it the part that piece me the most it's it's just something that peeves me. Is that like nobody takes care of their home like they walk around and they're like they see issues they don't know how to solve them. They don't want to learn to solve them and so then all of a sudden the city passes laws that makes people cause more issues in the future.
00:18:01 Kevin
Like, well, what's the cheapest thing? Well, all you have to do is put a downspout. You know, put a kickoff on your downspout and you know you're $100 in all the downspouts around your house and you know, half a Saturday.
00:18:15 Kevin
Ohh that sounds easy ohh except for the fact that all the water doesn't leave your yards. Now your yard is saturated. Now you have flooding issues in your yard and or that water washes back towards the foundation.
00:18:24 Kevin
Of your home.
00:18:26 Kevin
Concrete brick, stone, mortar. All these things are great and they're pretty and.
00:18:32 Kevin
Obvious the problem is also porous and they absorb water, so concrete cinder blocks overtime will start to, you know, crumble and stuff out of the the erosion of water flowing through it. Oh well. They built my house. They put tar layer up on the outside. Well, yeah, that's great. And then the code requires you to have some sort of a sealant there. The problem is that there is no requirement to reapply a sealant in. The sealant lasts 5 to 10 years.
00:18:54 Kevin
So if you're lucky, you got 10 years out of your tire sealant, you've got to dig down around the foundation of your entire house and reline it. If you're hoping that's going to be a good measure or you can do the common thing, put gutters up on your roof.
00:19:05 Kevin
And then put proper drainage in and drain it out. And if you don't have a new home, which 95% of us in this city do not, you don't have a storm sewer connection. You just have gutters on your house cause somebody decided to add them when they learned about what water does to foundations and then.
00:19:22 Kevin
They, you know, so a lot of people did put these in, which is great. Hey.
00:19:25 Kevin
Good for you. You've already got a head start.
00:19:26 Kevin
Yeah.
00:19:28 Kevin
The rest of us still have to do it.
00:19:30 Kevin
So it's like.
00:19:31 Kevin
I gutters kick away from my house and they hit my sidewalk and I'm sure someone would ***** about the fact that they hit the sidewalk, but the sidewalk is nice because it drains it away and it's concrete and people walk on it. You gotta plow it from snow and so they that's the concrete that's gonna be the most amount of abuse, which is comparatively to a foundation. Wall is easier to replace.
00:19:49 Kevin
Now, in a perfect world.
00:19:51 Kevin
I should be able to go under the sidewalk, but now I need a permit. Now I need a permit. Ohh, because I'm digging outside for any type of plumbing. I need to have a master licensed plumber be on site even if it's just digging up to fix a fix and repair my storm sewer or my sanitary sewer. Even I'm not making the connection in the City Street because I'm outside my house digging down like and these are the little issues that people let go for years.
00:20:12 Kevin
That are now like built into our code and they are little infringements on our constitutional right and it's like.
00:20:20 Kevin
These that like, no, it's my home. I can do whatever I want. Property rights are king like.
00:20:27 Kevin
I have the right to property.
00:20:29 Kevin
And they can suck it. But I what I foresee is that it is going to be a political nightmare.
00:20:37 Kevin
For any of the the Common Council to try to pass something that says or, well, what it's gonna be, is they're gonna go in and they're gonna.
00:20:46 Kevin
And it's one of the guys who doesn't live in Olean that always comes up to the Council meetings to ***** about the storm sewer. Like, oh, it's so easy. You could just pass a law. It's like.
00:20:56 Kevin
Yeah. If they want riots and revolutions like.
00:20:58 Kevin
Oh, huh. There's no there's.
00:21:00 Kevin
No poop in the river.
00:21:01 Kevin
Anymore. It's just blood in the streets cause there's a civil war going on because you just made that simple change like simple change, because people like me aren't gonna stand for it like you come to my house. Like, let's go.
00:21:14 Kevin
Now I kick him away as best I can. I can do the work myself. There's a lot of people in this in our city that can't. They just can't. They can't do it.
00:21:22 Kevin
They're 97 years old. They can't. They can barely get out to go to the grocery store. They can barely get to the door to meet, to meet Meals on Wheels. Their kids have all moved out of town and abandoned them, so they rely on neighbors like me to come take care of them. You know? It's just like, hey, like.
00:21:36 Kevin
There's there's neighbors in my in, like in my neighborhood that like me and my wife will go and take care of anything they need, you know, whatever. And, you know, we've had.
00:21:46 Kevin
It's just one of those things, and it's a shame when they have to go to a nursing home because, like, listen, if there were my parents like, they would be taking care of them and like, there's another fallacy in our society, right. Like your kid, your parents take care of you when you're a baby and then you get older and then you take care of your kids, but then also your parents get older and then you take care of your parents. That is your responsibility.
00:22:05 Kevin
As a as a good member of society with social fabric, and there are people that you know, either they they didn't have kids so they don't have this option and you know, but you got to take care of your community. And we went over this yesterday with the with the bike. You gotta take care of your community and you gotta get rid of the the waste and filth that's in it.
00:22:24 Kevin
The people who sold the kids bike, right? But.
00:22:28 Kevin
I so I I guess to get back to the topic I have.
00:22:33 Kevin
The Common Council is going to try to pass something. I know this is how it's gonna work. It's going to be incremental, but they're gonna be like, well, we need to have people disconnect from the storm sewer and they're gonna send code enforcement around.
00:22:43 Kevin
Who I'm sure they don't want to infringe on people's property rights, but that's the job they have is to do that. That is their their their job is to walk the line on what legally they can and can't do. And the problem is that.
00:22:55 Kevin
They just.
00:22:58 Kevin
It's it's just a headache, but they're gonna come to everybody's house and they be like, oh, are you disconnected from the sanitary sewer? Oh, yeah, yeah. Look. See, I put a plug on that. That hole over there where it goes into the sanitary sewer now just dumps on the ground or I kicked it away and it goes out 20 feet and it still rots my foundation away or I I had to pay $2000 to have a bubbler.
00:23:18 Kevin
Installed Ohh city code doesn't approve Bubblers. Ohh you know what I mean. Like there's a lot of things in the code. Either 2 that don't exist to be able to complement this stuff. So there's just a lot of different things and I just think it's. I think it's hilarious that.
00:23:33 Kevin
That were.
00:23:35 Kevin
That, that there it's gonna end up going down this road and you watch and.
00:23:40 Kevin
Now you you watch people not get reelected to their position and I'm sure I know what some of them would say. Like I don't care. I'm here to do what I need to do and it's like, well, OK.
00:23:50 Kevin
OK, so like.
00:23:53 Kevin
But like you should be a good member of society and not like infringe on other people's rights. Like even if you like. Because sometimes like I get hot under the collar. I don't know if you've noticed, but I'll get hot under the collar and I like.
00:24:07 Kevin
Want to do something?
00:24:10 Kevin
But I don't because it is my responsibility to discern good from evil and infringing on people's rights and not infringing on people's rights. And so like, if I think that this solution may work and I've got, I could stake my life on it. The problem is, if I infringe on somebody's rights, I am staking my life on it because I should expect them to come.
00:24:32 Kevin
And snuff out all my constitutional rights for even just thinking of stepping on there. So, like, that's the so.
00:24:40 Kevin
But.
00:24:41 Kevin
Well, that's my rant for today guys, so keep tuned cause I bet you if you watch council meetings like I do, I'm sure all of you out there are just just avid watchers of the Council meetings.
00:24:52 Kevin
You're gonna watch these council meetings. You're gonna look at it, and you're gonna be like, did they just? Did they just pass the the disconnect from the sanitary sewer ordinance? And now they're sending, you know, hundreds of people around to go and, like, make sure.
00:25:08 Kevin
That.
00:25:10 Kevin
I'm not. I'm not.
00:25:13 Kevin
Like discharging my gutters into the sanitary sewer.
00:25:17 Kevin
And then what's gonna happen is they're gonna check every home, and when they do, they're also gonna. Ohh. This is a great revenue generator cause we can find all these people and it's gonna be bubble blah. It's like, yeah, you think that's great to scare your citizens off? Then they move out of state and then you have more abandoned houses like nobody seems to understand that aspect either. Ohh, look at this. There's a heave in the sidewalk. Look, this is a tripping hazard.
00:25:38 Kevin
Give them a fine or give them ten days to fix.
00:25:40 Kevin
That.
00:25:42 Kevin
Like there's there's there's a lot of, like, there's a lot of stuff that's gonna happen, and people don't seem to these these slippery slopes, man. And then the issue is all the nonsensical people that show up at the at the the Council meetings and push them and they are like.
00:25:59 Kevin
4% of the population believes what they believe.
00:26:03 Kevin
4%.
00:26:04 Kevin
And the problem is these people treat like gospel. It's like if you were to listen to Facebook trolls, that's like half a percent. And if you were to go off of voter rolls, it's zero. It's like negative.
00:26:14 Kevin
There are more people on Facebook.
00:26:16 Kevin
Like that are spouting nonsense ideas.
00:26:20 Kevin
That like for every one voter, there's 1000 people on Facebook.
00:26:25 Kevin
And you got to think like half of them are bots and or like multiple accounts. You got like one person sending have 15 accounts and there are people like that. I know people that have 15 accounts.
00:26:36 Kevin
And it's not even like a full time job for them. It's just like, yeah, you know, ohh. It's just kind of fun. Like, every three times a day, I'll just log in to, like, half of the accounts and just make a random post that supports my opinion. And I'm like, that's just dumb.
00:26:49 Kevin
I could name on like 3 hands people just off top my head. That could do that or that. Do that on the regular and it's like and this is just people just take this as normal. Like if you want to win you just gotta win in numbers. It's like yeah, but it's fake numbers.
00:27:04 Kevin
But that's how. That's how. Like I remember being on the Common Council and we would talk about that, like, listen, stop listening to Facebook. It's just an echo Chamber of people that don't vote like they're not your constituents. You can't take one person off Facebook.
00:27:16 Kevin
Like, oh, well, that's a constituent. Like there are. There's people you can point out. Like, that's constituent. I should listen to them. But like, there's other people that are like this is somebody I went to high school with that moved away 20 years ago. And they're looking back in this like mirror mirror on the wall. Facebook. What's only in doing you know. So alright guys. Well, I LED you down a rabbit hole for almost 30 minutes this morning.
00:27:36 Kevin
And.
00:27:38 Kevin
Hopefully I'm less unhinged tomorrow, but we will see you guys tomorrow on life 22. Don't forget to like, subscribe and beat up them drug dealers. Keep them, keep them in shape, keep them in line, get them, make them get a real job because it is job life.