AM Show HR 1 | Why People Are Afraid to Charge for What They’re Good At

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is on the air. I'm a big fan of the gig economy. I think that there are a lot of things that people have skills to do that other people would be willing to pay for But they're uncomfortable asking to be paid, sort of awkward. I think there are a lot of people who help other people fix their cars or fix their cars for the rest of the family. That if they could ever get over the barrier and say, the way to do it is, hey, I've started a business and I've been happy to fix your car, but I've decided to make a living at this. So just so you know, I'll be charging. Less than you'd pay somewhere else because I don't have overhead. But I'm, well, where's your shop? You never asked where my shop was when I was fixing your car before. But I'm going to work at people's houses. If I can't do it mobile, then I'm not going to fix it. Well, I mean, I could take it to the professionals. Take it to the professionals then. If people could get comfortable with selling their services. to friends and family, then they could make a living doing what they love to do, devote more time to it. But it's hard to do because a lot of people, and I've witnessed this, a lot of people are very uncomfortable talking about money. They are not comfortable at all. Now, as long as you have an office or a retail location and a sign out front, money is supposed to pass in those locations. But just the delivery of a service and the payment for it, people don't think all that should be free. And a lot of people have the very stupid, and I believe it is stupid, idea that everything should be free all the time. You shouldn't charge for things. I have decided that those people are not worth my time because I want to make money. And if I'm doing something that I think is of value that someone else would pay for, I'm going to charge for it. And that person can choose not to pay for it. I don't know why they don't understand that. But they like to bitch about it. And it usually consists of you being a bad person for charging for something and them not having the money. But they do have money. They just don't want to spend it on that. They want that thing free. I say all that to say this. The gig economy for the right people, especially wives of men, when the wives or stay at home, and have a skill set that is monetizable. You're never going to support the whole family with it. You don't need to. But for vacation money or more, I'm amazed how many people create little side. How many wives? I have seen this. How many wives create little side businesses while raising kids at home? and managed to make it work without it affecting them being a mommy or a wife or the person that keeps the house running and makes dinner. Example. My wife has some friends who play mahjong. I like the mahjong trend for this reason. It's a game that I don't know much about it. So I'm probably going to say something wrong. You don't need to correct me because I don't really care. But.

It's a game that apparently has been around for 8 billion years, and it's gotten popular with white women, and they have gatherings. Well, part of the issue here is women don't know how to get together as women. Guys, easiest is play golf. Hey, you want to join us play golf. I don't really care. Doesn't matter. We're not really there to play golf. Come drink beers and hang out. Okay. Women don't do that. There's some, but not mostly they don't do that. So guys have that. Or you want to spend time with somebody, get to know them, engage them, bringing interesting people together as a group. can create magic. There are endorphins released. That's why people that have a farm or a ranch will invite people out, maybe have somebody play guitar and sit around the campfire and sing. There is something about male fraternity that is important and engaging. It's different than couples hanging out. That's also special. That's fun. But there is guys hanging out. This is a good thing. Fishing trip. There's always a Houston gun club, going to a gun club. Those are the sorts of things, activities that guys are very good at. And you develop friendships through that. And through that, you meet new people who also become your friends. And as an adult, it's a lot harder to make new friends than it was in school. Because. You know, you're married. So you go to work. You come home. You got your wife, your kids, your responsibilities. And most people go to bed at a reasonable time. So you don't have a lot of free time. So you don't get to meet new friends. And you find out that years are going by. And you haven't developed any new friendships. And friendships feed you. You know, new people, interesting people. What do they do for living? How do they end up here? What interesting things have happened to them? All of that is the stuff of life. And you have difficulty developing those new friendships, especially if you don't have a work job, a job that allows you to interact with new people. So what do you do? Well, men are just better at that than women, but women have learned that they need this. And so one of the things that this mahjong gives them the ability to do this. And what I like about mahjong for women is that it is a game, a sport, I guess it's a card game of some sort or some sort of table game. But what I love about it is I know women who play this game. with people that I know, I know women who play this game in their 40s with women in their 80s. And what other activity can you get multiple generations at the same table around a game interacting socially?

Pickleball's pretty good about that, but there is still a physical component such as it is. It's just not intense, but such as it is. With Mahjong, you really can get from what I've seen of people. I've had people say, hey, I met this lady who really loves you. She just thinks a world of you. And this will be somebody in their 40s. And I said, oh, who is it? And miss so-and-so. She's 85. How do you know her? We played mahjong together. Anyway, the point of this whole discussion was, my wife tells me. she's having a group over to the house she's just she has all these friends who play mahjong they've been asking her to play forever and they have hired a woman to teach you newbies because my wife's a newbie to play mahjong this this game i said oh okay um well how the person who teaches you to play mahjong what were they doing yesterday and she said raising kids She was working out of the house, and she's really good at Majan. She was playing all the time. She figured out a lot of people wanted to do, wanted to play Mahjong and didn't know how. So now she is in the gig economy. She is a person who goes to your house. You host a Mahjong group of all newbies, and she comes in and teaches you. Again, I don't think she's getting rich, but to have a little play money on the sign, there's so many things that people can do. It's a brave new world. Interesting times we're living. Oh, I've got to give you my votes. I'm sorry. I'll do that the next segment. Damn it. All right. This is Mark Chestnut. Enjoy the Tsar of Talk Radio.

Just look at the other signature on the letter and go, oh, Sylvia Garcia, yeah, not the right thing to do. And Steve Toth, District 2. Some of you are going to be in District 2 that don't, some of you are going to be in districts that you didn't expect before. So don't be surprised by that. The redistricting moved some people around. District 8, Jessica Hart, Steinman, or Nick Tran. I think Steinman's got the endorsements and the money. Nick Tran's got a lot of folks that I respect who are constitutional conservatives and good guys. I think either one of them would be good, best I can tell. District 9, Alex Mueller. I was a big supporter of Mueller for county judge. Mattress Mack, myself, and Tom Ransy have been big supporters of her for Congress. I can tell you that if the vote went to the grassroots, She's got the mayors of the communities within the district. She's got the city councilman of the communities in the district. She's got law enforcement. The Border Patrol endorsed her. Briscoe Kane has got the big money guys. He's got Greg Abbott's money people because he was one of Greg Abbott's Stooges in Austin. He's the guy who led the impeachment of Ken Paxton. He's, in my opinion, a complete sellout. He declared Colony Ridge to be the American dream. He took money from the Colony Ridge guys. And if you look at the agency that is representing him, they are also the agency that are the lobbyists for the Harris family who developed Colony Ridge. And you will notice there is a very close tie there. You will notice that it is the financial interest. that are behind Briscoe Cain, and I think there is in the mix some really dirty people involved. I think Mueller will do a much better job. I think that Brisco Cain is a complete sellout, and I could say a lot worse, but I'll hold that for now. District 22, Congress, Trevor Nails, District 36, Brian Babin, District 38, John Bunk, Attorney General, Aaron Wrights. I kind of gave Wright short shrift the other day because I said that I didn't know if he could win, but I think he should win. Didn't know how he could do in fundraising. So I reached out and asked for some details and did a little research. Wrights is actually doing better than everyone else in fundraising that is not self-financing. He raised $4 million from nearly 3,000 individual contributors in under seven months since he launched his campaign. He has $3 million on hand. That's not as much as you want in a statewide race, but it's way better than you would have expected considering there's four candidates in that race. Mays Middleton is self-financing. Chip Roy has name ID because he's been up there, but the Trump folks hate Chip Roy. Joan Huffman's got the Texans for lawsuit reform and that group behind her because she's a state senator, and I think there's a lot of people scared to death. And this happens. There's nothing wrong with it. I think there's a lot of people supporting her who are scared to death. If she loses and she goes back, she's got a powerful committee chairmanship in the state Senate that...

They don't care if she wins or loses. They don't want her mad at them as a state senator. And that's part of running as an officeholder that's a state senator. I think they're banking on her being a woman and the only woman in the field. But Aaron Wright has got all the momentum in terms of grassroots support, money that he's raising. He went and worked for Trump. Ken Paxton endorsed him as the candidate to replace him that is the most like him. Chip Roy has been an anti-Trump guy again and again and again and again very openly, very vocally, calling MAGA folks MFers. talking about MAGA people in the worst possible way, seeking the impeachment of Trump in January as Trump was walking out the door in the election that had been stolen from him. I know that Chip Roy doesn't think that anybody's going to remember that, but we are going to remember it. There are consequences to that. So anyway, there's a couple other races that I'll give you my opinion.

This is Tracy Bird, and welcome to the lifestyles of the not so rich and famous, or, as I call it, the Michael Bari Weiss Show. Get to it, Stevie. Get to it, Stevie. break up song. Imagine you don't love me now. Imagine breaking up with your bandmate. Imagine breaking up with your bandmate. You came into Fleetwood Mac. With this person, you share 24-7 music, love. She said, what? You. Listen to the window down. You. You. She said he wanted to have sex seven times a day. I don't know how she arrived at that number. That's a lot of sex. That's a lot of sex. We mean not at first. I don't think she was saying three days in. I think she's going, hey, how about we calm this down a little bit? Do I look like a rabbit? Imagine. You are with this person 24-7. You are. Oh, they're rolling a safe out of the next door neighbors. Please. I wonder where they're going on that? Oh, here it goes, man. Come off the curb. Pop! That's a big safe right there. I know it's the only song credited with all of the band members, but they didn't all equally write it. I don't have time for the story right now. Let me give my endorsements. There's not endorsements. My suggestions. Let's see. Aaron writes for Attorney General. Comp Troller Don Huffines. Commissioner of Agriculture, Nate Sheets, Railroad Commissioner, Bo French, Court of Criminal Appeals, Thomas Smith, and for a separate seat, John Messenger, State Senator Brett Liggin, that's the Montgomery County area, State rep Dennis Goose Geeseman, State Rep, Polly Looper, State Rep, Scott Bowen, Court of Appeals, Place 3, Zach Gibson. Harris County Judge Marty Lankton County Clerk Linda Sanchez, Dirty's sister, Commissioner Precinct 2, Richard Vega, Harris County Republican Party Chairman Don Hooper. Propositions 1 through 10, 4, every one of them. I will have some precinct chairman. That's the lowest level. That's your person in your little, in your neighborhood. But Mary Talley Bowden, obviously, I would endorse because she's done more for health freedom than probably any single person. That's why Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reached out to her and has supported her efforts and a lot of other people. But she's running for a precinct chairman. I think she'd be a good rabble rouser to have in the party hierarchy. The Republican Party process should not be.

A bunch of people gathering around, lathering each other up and telling them how great they are and giving speeches and toasts to each other. It should be contentious. People should argue. In fact, any deliberative body should be a frequent argument. Now, again, this goes back to the nice neighbor. The nice neighbor, the compassionate, kind, polite person is the death of America. This is why Muslims bully Christians in America so much. A 1% Muslim community can take over a Christian community because they're pushier. And the Christians will keep turning the other cheek and being polite and half of them will say, oh, it's not really happening when it is. It's what they do. They just want to keep loving people to death. We're just going to love everybody as they insult us, ruin our schools, steal our money. It doesn't matter. We're just going to keep on loving them and don't not love them because that's mean and rude and awkward. Can't we all just get along? The process of politics and deliberative bodies. If you hear me say something, let it be this. And it will bother some of you. It will make some of you think I'm crazy and maybe you don't agree with me. If you believe that what we want is for everybody to just get along in the political process, then you don't understand the political process. Our forefathers did. That's why we have three branches of government instead of one. That's why our chief executive, the head of the executive office, is not a king. He is a president with limited powers overseeing the bureaucracy, the executive branch. The Congress has certain powers, including the power to remove him. But should the Congress overstep their many powers, including the power to remove him, there is yet another body, a third, the judiciary, the highest body of which is the Supreme Court, that can determine whether or not that was appropriate. And everything else that comes through it. And to get onto that body, you had to have the upper chamber of the legislative body, the law writing body, confirm you after you're nominated by the president. The system is designed with what we learned as checks and balances. Let me tell you something. Checks and balances means coordinated arguments. And there should be coordinated arguments. People constantly, I don't like that they're always bickering. All right. How about this? You live next door to me. I want to put a fence in between us because I don't like looking at your ugly wife walking around in her bikini all day. You don't want a fence there for whatever reason. What are we going to do? Are you going to win? Am I going to win? It's just that simple. How about this? Bob works for the government. He wants to run a road right through your property. You don't want a road through your property because you got four houses on it. Two of them with you and one of your kids. The other two with your other two kids. This property has been in your family for 150 years. This is your dream. This is your heaven. This is your sanctuary. But Bob with the government wants to build a road through there.

So which is it going to be? Are you going to win or is he going to win? Well, you've got enough acreage that for him to go around would cost 15 times as much because now we'd have to go through the river, had to build a bridge, we had to go around there, would have a bunch of curves in it, which is dangerous, or we'd go right over your property. But you don't want to go through your property. So what do we do? Do you just sit quietly and give up your property? No. No, you fight that. And that is the process with fighting it. People email me all the time. And I've just, I've lost interest in arguing with them. People email me all the time that a criminally charged defendant that their lawyer is making statements that the cops are bad and the victim deserved it. And their guy's a really good guy. And Michael, I'm so mad I can't see straight. Their lawyer, that bastard's lawyer is saying that his client is a good guy and the cops didn't do a good job and that the victim halfway deserved it. And Michael, I can't stand it. I think you need to turn the TV off and go watch the Jetsons. And Elroy, because this is how the process works. He's doing his job.

George Jetson. His boy, Alight. Daughter Judy. Jane, his wife. Wouldn't they say his wife, Jane? his wife instead of his wife jane i think because they didn't want to repeat that line i think you're just trying to mix it up but i think it would work better can you rewind about 45 seconds do do the kids i think it would i think it would flow more naturally even if you did the repetition George Jetson His boy Albright Daughter Judy Jane his wife

It's going to slow better. Think about it is, just the audio of that track without the visual, you think, man, in post-production, you should have brought that background down and brought the voices forward. But because you have the visual, you're kind of reading along like subtitles. But when you just hear the audio, you're like, what's his daughter's name? I can't even hear it. That's where the visual would have made a big difference. Oh, I got through everybody. I think it's important to vote for Don Hooper as the Harris County Precinct Chairman, because I think we need change at the Harris County Party. I don't have anything bad to say about the individuals involved there. I think they're nice people. I think they're good people. I think that you have to be careful that you pick your fighter for the game. I think that the days of the nice guy party are over. We need people who are willing to fight. By God, we're up against Rodney Ellis, okay? We're up against Rodney Ellis. And I think having somebody who's a really nice woman who is very polite. is costing us. I think the Harris County Party is not doing battle. The problem is, let me go ahead and piss everybody off. I don't care. Here we go. Republican Party heavy lifting. The actual grassroots is almost all women. Almost all women. George Strait told me this 25 years ago. Strait with a K, like the school, Strait Jesuit. Good school, great school. All the heavy lifting is done. All the organizing, booking the speakers, keeping the finances, all of that. It's all done by women. Men do very, very little of that. And so some of those women who are very active. They go to the women's groups. They go to lots of meetings. Some of them that hang around a long time, they have lots of titles. They're the chair of this and the vice chair of this. And they're in like five different organizations. And who about it criticized? At least they do something. But their politics are often horrible. And this is a problem. Because everybody else is busy doing the rest of their life and not doing anything political. It's like, oh, that's old Joan or Susie or Katie or Wendy. She's Miss Republican. You know, she's always taking her picture with Trump or Cruz or John Cornyn or somebody. She got pictures with everybody. I mean, if you follow her on Facebook or Instagram, she knows everybody and she does. She goes to every gathering. Now, don't ask her about a political, don't ask her about a policy issue. She's pro-life. By God, she knows it. That's fine. She's pro-life and pro-Israel and pro-Christian, and she loves America. And that's kind of her policy position. So you can pretty much do anything you want as long as you fit it into that. We're going to raise taxes and go to war in lots of places for 25 years because we love America. And she'll say, yes, we love America. Yes.

And God help you if you criticize the person who is doing the policy that is that way, because she's also very loyal. And I can respect that. However, subtle nuance is lost on that individual, not because she's a woman, but because that's her mindset. She keeps it pretty simple. She puts a lot of energy, not a lot of thought into it. And so we have a Republican Party that is largely staffed by people like this. And so you start wondering, well, how come our taxes are up? How come we've got the Republican majority in the House and the Senate? We've got every Republican statewide elected official. And we never seem to get anything done that we want done. There's your reason. How come we have the Republican majority of the House and the Senate in D.C. and the White House and the majority on the Supreme Court so they can't overrule our stuff? And yet we never get anything done. There's your reason. I call it the Republican Party of the Bush family, the Romneys. This is your old-fashioned blue blood country club bow tie Republicans. These are Mike Pence Republicans. These are people that don't like those gays. They love to go to war. They're against abortion. They keep it pretty simple. They love America. And they'll occasionally throw out, we should balance the budget and pray in school. But these... The MAGA revolution was actually a punch in the face to this Republican Party by the grassroots. The problem is the grassroots doesn't control the parties. So you will notice that in some cases, the party is controlled by people who supported Nikki Haley. The party is controlled by people who don't like Trump. The party is controlled by people who don't like revolutionaries. They don't like activists. They don't like MAGA. So you've got to make changes. Not to mention, you've got to put a candidate in every judicial race. So when we're out there busting our butt to get people elected, we've got a Republican to defeat the Democrats. We need a fighter, a brawler. That's Don Hooper. Don Hooper's not going to be the guy that comes in to give you a compliment. He's going to be the guy that when he walks in the room, Rodney Ellis is going to go, oh, that MFRA right there, he's ready for a fight. That's what we need as Harris County Republican Party chairman. No more Mr. or Mrs. Knight guy. We need a tough person to come in, push the party, motivate people, fill offices, and do battle with Rodney Ellis, because I'm tired of losing. And we have not had that in a long time. That's what we need.

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