1:28:43 It disturbs me when people do that. It's very bothersome that people keep calling us a democracy because we're not, we are a democratic... The left always says that, we're all a democracy, democracy, democracy but now the republic is a huge difference. Yes. And it's not just minor difference is a huge difference! Would you explain it for a moment? Yeah, democracy is where everybody has an equal vote and everything is voted on. And the drawbacks to a democracy are that you can have tyranny of the majority so you have 51% people all want everyone to walk around naked and by law you have to if you don't want too bad. I'm all for this democracy thing! This sounds great
1:29:26 Well, they could also require you to wear lead weights. You know? And you're nuts! Would you like it then?! Once a week maybe? We don't have that we have a representative democracy in the form of a republic and the Republicans divides up powers and waters them down to an extreme so you don't have this tyranny issue that keeps cropping up with democracies, and monarchies for that matter. So it really exists somewhere in between. And the great thing about it is, to me—and I keep saying this to people who've never worked in government they don't realize how important it is—I think if you have a do-nothing
1:30:10 Congress or do-nothing president or a do nothing agency, that's the best thing you can have. Because you actually don't want them doing anything if the idea is to encourage do nothingism and because you get into trouble When you start to do stuff, I'm always reminded of the... Well, I have plenty of stories about it. I remember the time when I was an inspector at the Trailmobile facility. I think I've told this story. No! Trailmobile? What is a trail mobile? Trail mobiles they make trailers And they were, this was in the early days of the cargo container. I would have remembered if you knew about trailers! This is a new story... New Screed! So i am an inspector, im a line inspector and i have a certain responsibility to a certain part of the line not the final inspector there's another guy further on but i inspect these things as they come through
1:31:04 Most of the time I spent with this one guy that was on the, he was actually in a different line than I worked on but he was an riveter and he was a great tale teller. He was a guy that would tell jokes, had little magic tricks...I just loved this guy because he's funny! Is he dead? And so I would spend time over there yakking with him and the foreman over there was just obnoxious jerk comes over and he also is, he was the foreman of the workers on the line I was inspecting but he was the foreman this particular guy. And he says...and he chews us out for wasting time! He says, we shouldn't be over here. He wasn't my supervisor so you couldn't really do much and did just kind of chew at his guy but he basically kicked me out of the area
1:31:56 Wow. And so I said to myself, and this happens in government work a lot...I know for a fact because i've worked at it So go back to my line and there was an anomaly on the trailers that were going through They were made out of fiberglass and they were done for Pacific something lines P-O, Pacific and Orient and they were all fiberglass and the roofs of the fiberglass always sagged The roof sagged and... And so you could reject every each and every one of them. And then there was all these other little things, and one of the things we had this piece of red tape and put red tape all over the thing where it needed fixing if you were inspecting it. This guy's stuff would come through from his line, and I would just read taped a hell out of it. It wasn't like these were not flawless. These are legitimate complaints. So I would spend all my time red-tape. So this thing looked like it was a ball of
1:32:56 There's so much to do on these things. And that's because I was doing my job to an extreme, the guy this foreman guy eventually came cause it was slowing down production and he was getting blamed. So he comes over and begs me to stop. He knows what I'm doing. He, any apologize for kicking me away from that other character like chat with him? Yeah, he wasn't a hat in hand Thank you for a lesson in all children's futures. Yes, you should always know if you have the power use it and so I backed off enough so these damn things could get done and that was that and that's the way it worked. Curiously, I learned two things on that job. The other one is we're telling stories until this one too
1:33:47 I had this, these P&O trailers had this sagging roof problem. And it was... I hate a sagging roof! It was like off by a half inch and the roof, the spec. So I luckily had caught this early and I sent a note in about this that said it takes too much work to get these things to spec and it did. It took forever to get these things to spec they had their...it was a long story how it happened but you could do it but it would take an hour And so I wrote this memo in there's a memo about what should be done because like you know I can't reject every one of them and I went in and the memo never was responded to About two months later...
1:34:28 Yeah, two months later the final inspector finally got wind of these roofs that were sagging and I got called to the carpet for why aren't you just doing something about these roofs? They're sagging. And I said, I sent a memo in two months earlier about this and nobody said anything right they looked into it The memo was sent in cover your ass memo learned early I was good to go. Excellent, yeah hey good story this was new to me. Trailmobile right? So back to democracy which we are not... We are a republic and that is yes the distribution of the power in a proper way for our situation certainly and this comes up
1:35:16 in regards to, you got it the electoral college. Let me ask you about this... You say and I think you're absolutely right about this that we have to if we're gonna fix climate we have to fix our democracy first now when you won slash lost the election You got 500,000 more votes. Now listen very carefully what's happening here. And the guy who took over Hillary got 3 million more votes this trend is not going in the right direction now This thing where we get the most votes and they get to be president That's a pattern now and it's not going in the right direction how do that? Now this is really interesting The way I view this and this and I'm thinking this whole thing is all scripted at this point