Powering Progress or Changing Our Communities? The Truth About Data Centers, Solar & Wind Farms

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What's going on everybody?
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Welcome back to the next move podcast.
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I'm Matthew Dick, your host, along with Jennifer Bruns, the other host.
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I don't know.
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I don't know.
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That was new.
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I'm two Red Bulls deep right now.
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That's what it is.
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And it's raining and it's a little bit more.
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And it's raining.
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And I feel trapped.
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And our next topic, like, it's super uncomfortable.
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It's it's uh we we just don't feel like we're qualified to talk about it.
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We just don't.
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I don't.
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Yeah, I mean and we had a special guest, but she ran away.
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She did.
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She she ran to her office.
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She ran into her office.
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Um maybe next time.
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Maybe next time.
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But so today we're gonna talk about data centers, solar farms, windmill farms, and we're gonna talk about solar panels in general.
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We might as well at this point.
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Yeah, fuck it.
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Throw it in there.
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I mean, if we're gonna if we're gonna burn fucking bridges and piss people off, let's do it.
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Everybody's gonna hate us to make everybody.
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I mean, so in reality, it uh Adam gave us a nice cool little hook here.
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He's such a great guy, Adam.
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Yeah, yeah, for an AI.
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If you don't know Adam, you should well, you can never meet Adam, but yeah.
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So he said, if someone offered to build a billion-dollar project in your community, would you say yes?
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Or would your answer change if it was next door to your home?
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Man, that's such an open-ended question, though.
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It really is.
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There's so many questions I have to that question.
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I mean, I might be excited, but I might not be.
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It just depends.
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I think about uh it depends on what it is and where I'm living.
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Like if I bought a house on some land in the country and like a forever home, right?
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Like my forever home.
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Yeah, and it has like the beautiful like rolling hills like you find out in East Bell County with a pond.
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Yeah.
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I don't know why.
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We need to do like pond versus tank one time.
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Yeah.
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I call it a tank.
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What you call it a pond?
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Um I'm from Oklahoma, remember?
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Yeah, you're from Oklahoma.
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I am not from Oklahoma.
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So, I mean And then all of a sudden, like two years later, your neighbor sells his hundred acres and they put a solar farm in.
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Like, and then all of a sudden instead of hills, you got solar farm or solar panels for days.
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And then you're going, crap, what am I gonna do?
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Do I need a call or do I stay here?
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What do I do?
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Yeah, I mean, there's the the growth is great.
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We talked about that before.
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We're appreciative of all the growth, but there are questions because we we are concerned about water.
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Water, electricity, electricity, the the effects of having all of these, all of this electricity and all these things running in the in the vicinity of these homes.
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There's there's a lot of legitimate concerns that people have and are voicing uh right now, especially here in central Texas, Bell County, especially, is yeah, it's a hot topic.
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You see the yards and the signs, no data centers.
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The yeah, the data centers.
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And and it's one of those things where because of where we're located in relation to Fort Worth, Dallas, Houston, Austin, Austin, we're we're becoming kind of like the technology corridor right through here.
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Yeah.
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Um, whether we like it or not, we are.
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Uh, because we have what for sure one data center that's done.
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What did they say?
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There's like eight of them or something.
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Eight of them total that are going to be completed.
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Yeah.
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Is that the right number?
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I think so.
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It's seven or eight, I think.
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Solar farms out the ass spread out.
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I mean, if you go east to L County out that direction, you will see solar farm after solar farm after solar farm.
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I mean, they're literally everywhere out there.
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Quite literally, on paper in pictures, client loved the house.
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Was like, this is gonna be the house.
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We showed up to the house, loved the backyard, loved the inside, walked out the front door, and it's just miles and miles of solar farms.
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And that that killed that house for them.
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So I I think I depending on the buyer, I mean, I I don't I don't foresee that.
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Yeah, I mean, it's it's one of those things where and we've said this a thousand times, we don't care about the politics of it.
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Yeah, we're just strictly talking real estate side of things, and I have some clients who live very close to where all of that is happening in the world.
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In Rogers, yeah, Hydenhammer, Rogers area.
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Um, and she she's actually my hair person too.
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So your hair lady?
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Your hair did later.
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And so when I was getting my hair done, we were talking about it, and she's like, I feel like it's becoming an industrial complex out there.
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Yeah, it all of it is gonna become industrial, and my house is literally sitting in the middle of it.
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Yeah, and they have a gorgeous custom built home on 10 acres.
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The the question that I always saw my house myself asking is like, how much is that stuff gonna impact the the housing prices?
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Like, yeah, on paper, yeah, the comps say it's worth 500,000, but is it gonna sell for that?
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Yeah, and I mean the flip side of that is these people who are selling their property to these companies, they're really winning because they're making substantial money.
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In a lot of cases, they're not even selling it to them, they're leasing it, they're doing like a 30-year lease.
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Yeah, there are some that are leasing it, and and so it's it's beneficial for some, yeah, and that aspect, but what are you giving up?
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You know, and that's what people are trying to bring up now is like what what's the sacrifice of having all this growth and having all this technology?
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Yeah, you know, you're sacrificing the natural resources, yeah.
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Because then they're available and then if we flip the script over to the data centers, like um and water is a big topic on the on the data centers.
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That's from that's what I've heard the most is about the water.
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The water, the water, the water.
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I knew I think we've read the same article where uh the meta data center, how many over acres that was built on, like they stopped about a quarter of the way through and redesigned the entire thing.
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So it was a closed loop system to where, yeah, they sucked up X amount of gallons of water.
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It's a lot of water.
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I mean, yeah, like thousands, hundreds of thousands of gallons.
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Yeah, it's a lot.
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But that that kind of I mean, I think that's what they should be doing because I I I don't know if there's a treatment for the water to where it can go back to drinking water, or if it can just it has to be put back in the ground to be naturally refined.
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Yeah, I think that's been the biggest issue that people have had is like, yeah, not only are you gonna suck up all this water off the bat, you're gonna have to continue to use water and not replenish, you can't replenish the natural resource, right?
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You can't make water.
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I mean, thank God we're getting some rain right now, but um, but yeah, the closed loop system has been talked about on several of the data center articles that I've read.
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So different ones coming in.
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It was uh the metacampus represents roughly 800 million in investments, which is a lot.
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800 million dollars for one data center.
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Data center.
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Yeah.
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It's a uh 700-acre campus.
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That's crazy for around I think it's 300 megawatts of capacity.
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I don't know what any of that means, Matt.
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Power.
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That's how much problem.
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I know, but is that a lot as 300 megawatts?
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Is that like I guess so.
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If you know the answer to that, please let us know in the comments.
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Yeah, like I said, we don't know the science, we don't know the politics.
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We're just talking about how this affects the real estate.
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And I and it's naturally, just like we're talking about it, it's naturally gonna be a conversation that we have to have with buyers and sellers.
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Yeah.
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Um, especially in that new spell crime area.
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And then I mean, if they if they're doing I know the commissioner court, the past couple of months have been like jam-packed because they they started with city council, yeah, right.
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They completely blew those dudes up.
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Yeah, and it got crazy.
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Yeah, there were even, I think, some threats online to some of the council members, which is I mean, that's not that's not what we're trying to do here, and that's not Bell County, that's not what this county has been known for.
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We're a friendly, community-based place, and so when things like that start happening, it it does create some divide in our community.
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Um, and yeah, it got crazy for a minute with the city council, but now that didn't work.
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And I believe what they've done is now they're going to the county commissioners to try to limit it.
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To try to limit it and get some things done.
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And then a gov the governor just did some things too, but whatever, I'm not gonna get the political side of things, but there are there are things being done across the board at all levels of government.
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My I think we're both on the same page is like how are these things gonna impact our property values?
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Yeah.
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Uh in those areas for our sellers and our buyers.
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Yeah.
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Uh, what's that look like for us as people in central Texas for water?
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Right.
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Like, especially if there's a huge strain on the power grid, like ultimately, like if one of these I mean, what happens if one of those data centers blow up and God forbid?
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Yeah.
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Or burns down, or could could it could it crash our our grid in this area?
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I mean, I I mean I'm just not a tech person, like I barely can use technology as it is, but from my understanding, it doesn't seem like, and please correct me if I'm wrong because I'm okay with being wrong, but it doesn't seem like there are I well I'm not about real estate contracts, but I am about this kind of stuff.
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Um don't ask my husband who if I disagree.
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But um my understanding is that there's not a lot of employees that work at these places, yeah.
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They they build them.
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It yeah, it's like um one of the figures I saw was like it takes like 10,000 people to build it, but then hunt only a couple hundred to maintain and work.
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And that is jobs, yeah.
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It is jobs, whether we like the number of jobs or not, but it's still jobs.
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The one article I read was it's not even like local jobs because most of the companies have their own contractors and workers they bring in for so they're traveling, yeah, they're just bouncing from spot to spot, so it's not permanent jobs, maybe.
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Yeah, we don't know, we don't know, but that that's what one one article said.
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I just want to put this disclaimer can I have a disclaimer really quick?
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Yeah, I didn't want to do this.
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I did want to do this, but I didn't want to do this.
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I think we were both kind of in the in the same boat on it.
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We know how much of a hot topic it is, especially here.
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So that's the reason we're talking about it.
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But we we don't have the answers.
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We don't know.
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No, we don't know all of that.
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We have no idea.
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We're basing our information off of what we found in news articles between Google, Facebook, Instagram, Adam.
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Adam wrote this for us.
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We love Adam.
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We do love Adam.
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Um and I think a lot of the problem that people are having with them too, from what I've read, is that you know, these big companies are getting these huge tax abatements for coming in.
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Yeah.
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Meanwhile, the rest of us are struggling to pay our property taxes, you know.
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So I I think that that's a big role in it too, aside from the resources.
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I I think uh I I do think that's where they did mess up though, on the tax abatement.
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Because if it's if it's if they're if they're not using local workers to build them.
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Right.
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And I think that's the argument.
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This is not local.
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Yeah, they're not they're not using local workers, they're not hiring local to manage or run the data centers, then why are they getting these tax breaks?
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Yeah.
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But then again, maybe we just didn't have the the the workforce, the educated workforce to run.
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I don't know.
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I don't know.
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It's there's there's a lot there.
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Well, and Temple is known for industrial yeah, you know, we've got a lot of distribution here because it is so centrally located.
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Yep.
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We've got hospitals, yep, you know, major teaching hospital, plus the VA hospital, plus the VA, which is another teaching hospital.
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Another teaching hospital.
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We've got a couple of universities here, four-year universities.
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We have a junior college, temple college, you know.
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So we have all of these things, but we're not technic, I mean, we're not technology driven here.
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That's not our vibe, that's not our lane in Bell County.
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So there's just a lot of unknowns with this that people are afraid, afraid of, and rightfully so.
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And I think that that's been what they've been trying to voice a lot is just answer these questions for us.
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Tell us how this is gonna work, tell us the benefit, tell us why it's good.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Um, according to Adam, so the the way I structured this was I did Bell County, I did Texas, I did the United States, and I did the world.
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Yeah.
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Um so for Texas Before we jump to Texas though, how how can people how can people learn what that's gonna do to their property value?
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Like how can they figure that out?
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I don't know.
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I have no idea.
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I mean, I mean they can come to us and we can tell them what it looks like right now, but as far as like in the future, there's no way for us to know.
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We're never gonna be able to give them a clear picture of what that's gonna look like.
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I don't think so.
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I don't know.
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I I don't know how we could.
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Yeah.
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Um I think it will definitely affect them.
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I just don't know to what degree.
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I I think I think the ideal person to be living amongst the cellar uh the solar farms is gonna be your doomsday prepper that knows how to break into the solar farm and run a cable from the solar farm to his house.
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That's who I think is gonna live next to the solar farms.
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The MacGyver of Doomsdayers.
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Yeah.
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Because the second the grid fails, he's like, I got all the power right over here.
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What's the problem?
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Exactly.
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You know, I never thought about that.
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Matt, that is the silver lining for somebody out there.
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It's funny because I was doing a walkthrough on Sunday, and uh the way the house is situated, like you don't see the solar farm across the street.
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Okay, and because they have a whole bunch of trees in the front yard, and I was sitting in the driveway and they were talking about like what they were gonna do to get the horses in and out from the back of the property.
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And I was like, man, I wonder how hard it would be to like hack into that to power your house.
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And a quick Google search later, it's really not that hard.
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Well, there you go.
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For all you people who don't want them, Matt just gave you a reason to want them.
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I mean, yeah, yeah.
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Data centers for me is a completely different thing because I start I start teetering on that.
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Was it the Terminator movie?
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Yeah.
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I start me and Harry were pretty similarly like uh mindset on that one because it I yeah, Skynet's a thing.
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I wouldn't say I'm scared, but I'm definitely don't see I I respect him.
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I respect the enemy I don't see.
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I mean, it uh yeah.
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Well, and that's an interesting point because we use AI and our we're talking about Adams.
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Yeah, Adam Adams are chatbot today to get this stuff.
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Yeah, I mean, we need the tech, we definitely need the technology in our our industry, yeah, and other industries too, but I yeah, I mean that's a good point.
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How do you have it without the necessary infrastructure to have it?
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Yeah, because if it's not gonna happen here, and I and I know why it's happening here, because we're so close to Austin, our our property is cheaper here than it is there, but it's still accessible to down there.
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It's not hard to figure out why they pay about county, it's really not.
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Yeah, but at the same time, it's how do you balance, and we've talked about this before, what's good for a few or good for everybody.
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How do you balance that?
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Yeah.
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Um, and that's the tough job that the elected officials have to make.
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Yeah, you know, and it is unfortunately gonna make somebody mad at some point.
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I agree.
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I agree.
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Um let's talk about Texas.
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Let's no, let's go back to Bell County.
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Oh, okay.
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We're not moving.
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Because remember, we added solar panels.
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Yeah.
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Uh I figure Bell County would be the spot where we talk about solar panels.
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Yeah.
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So how do you feel about solar panels, Matt?
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You had them.
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I had them.
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How do you feel about them?
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I feel that before you answer, let me ask you this.
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Do you think it would have mattered if you would have bought them from a local company?
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You think it would have Did you buy them from a local company?
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Or did you buy them from like somebody that was like door to door?
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I have no idea.
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Oh, okay.
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No, go ahead and show it.
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I have no clue.
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I'll ask my question.
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I mean, I think they're great.
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Yeah.
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I think they're great.
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I think they can be.
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Um, but the person buying them and putting them on their house needs to really, really think about it because in our market, they don't really add too much value to your house unless you have like two or three Tesla batteries and and um you pretty much have an off-grid situation set up.
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If if you don't have that, they don't have value.
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Uh they just make your bill cheaper.
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That's it.
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And then you go to sell to sell your house, and all of a sudden, instead of turning out$90,000 to$100,000 in profit, you're only turning out like$20 or$30 because you're still paying off your solar panels.
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Yeah, and and that's an interesting thing to talk about too, because that's a lien on your property.
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Yeah, that's something that has to be paid at closing to ensure the buyer has clear title to the property.
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And if you got a solar panel lien or any kind of lien other than your mortgage, we need to know that up front so we can help figure out how a way around it.
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Keep going.
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I have a myth.
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Oh, okay.
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Um, that's a that's a great point.
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That's a yeah.
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I I have very strong feelings about solar panels.
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I agree with you on the Tesla thing, though.
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I think that if you go the distance and set up the panels and the system the correct way, I think it can bring very substantial savings to your bill, and I think it does add value.
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I agree with you on that.
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Yeah.
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Not a ton of value, but not but not nothing.
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Not what they're thinking now.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Um but the Tesla batteries are pretty cool.
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They are.
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Uh the power wall thing.
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And they have, I just learned this, they have like a 25-year workmanship warranty on them or something like that, something crazy.
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Uh a lot of the um components except for the panels, like the converter, and a lot of things on them have stupid, like 20, 30 year warranties on them.
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That's crazy, especially with the amount of rain and all the things that we have here.
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You would think that they wouldn't warranty things like that.
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It's crazy.
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Yeah, it is.
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Who am I sending this to?
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Jacob Needing just texted me.
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Oh, the good side guy.
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He gets a shout-out every podcast.
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It really does.
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He asked me for Jacob Sutter's number.
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Jacob needs Jacob.
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Um, I'm gonna send him a picture of us.
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You could send him your Diet Coke video.
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Oh, I do.
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I do need to send him our Diet Coke video.
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Um he uh what was I gonna say?
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Oh, myth.
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Solar panel myth.
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If they tell you that the solar panel loan can be um, what's the word I'm looking for?
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Assumed?
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Assumed.
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They can only be assumed if the buyer's DTI is correct and 90% of the time FHA and VA, you can't.
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Right.
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Yeah, and also if I'm the buyer's agent, I don't want my buyer taking on another debt.
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Exactly.
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That's not we didn't it it makes no sense.
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No, we didn't agree to that.
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And and so yeah, I I do think that in certain scenarios, solar panels make a lot of sense.
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I have one listing where they bought a system, they have a huge house, they bought the system with the Tesla Power Wall, so that it would substantially help their bill in this 4,000 plus square foot home with the pool, with the outdoor kitchen, like with all the things.
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Um and it does.
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It saves them like 60 to 65% on their bill, which is crazy.
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Yeah, but they're not all set up that way.
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Some people just buy the bare minimum, have them up, hoping it saves them a little bit on their electric bill, and sometimes it does, and sometimes it doesn't.
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I I will say in the Austin market, having solar panels adds a lot a little bit more to the property value than up here.
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Yeah.
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Because they got all that green stuff down there, all the hippies.
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The flower children.
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I really do.
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I feel like I would have been a hippie.
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I thought you were.
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Eric calls me a gypsy all the time.
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I'm like, I don't even know what that means.
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It's like, uh I I piss Anna off all the time.
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She'll be like, guess what?
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And then I'll just say some random ass shit.
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And she'll be like, how did you know?
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I'm like, I used my gypsy powers.
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See, there is something to that.
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Yeah.
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Um, but yeah, solar, I don't know.
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I have a lot of respect for, we were just talking about John and Abby O'Brien.
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I have a lot of respect for them and Rome Roofing, and they do solar panels.
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Yeah.
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And for me, if I'm going to somebody like that, I trust that they're gonna tell me if it's a good idea for me or not.
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Now, if they're coming door to door, I I don't know.
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You know, I don't know.
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So I think it was what day was the soccer game and everybody randomly came to my house.
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Look, I have another big cup.
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Oh, yeah.
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E B and Yeah, this was a vacation coat, uh cup from a few years ago.
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Oh, nice.
00:23:00.640 --> 00:23:02.960
Yeah, you know, when you go to a resort, you gotta take your own cup.
00:23:03.279 --> 00:23:04.240
Exactly.
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Um it was Saturday.
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It was Saturday.
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I was sitting on the couch in my Ranger panties.
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I was doing work on my laptop while I was watching anime.
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And uh like your dream life.
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Living my dream life.
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And um somebody came into the door, and it was two ladies, and they were doing solar panels, and I was like, it's like you came to the wrong house.
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Yeah.
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I was like, let's put let's have a conversation.
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I'll tell you how I feel.
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I'll listen to you, and then I'll tell you.
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They were getting it started off great, and then they were getting a little heated on my apprehension of not willing to sign up for solar panels.
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And I was like, but hey, you guys are doing a great job as salespeople.
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Appreciate your hustle.
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Appreciate your hustle.
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I what here are two books I want you to read.
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It's gonna really help you.
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The last part of the story is where he tells them about exp and gets them to sign on.
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You're not far off.
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You're not far off.
00:24:05.279 --> 00:24:11.519
So I said I said, anything I want you to look up go for no, listen to it, read it.
00:24:11.599 --> 00:24:15.759
Yeah, and then anything, um, Zigziggler.
00:24:16.160 --> 00:24:19.359
And they're like, the one girl was like, Well, I don't read books.
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And I was like, Listen to it.
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I was like, listen to it, Audible.
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Millennial, listen to it.
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And so I made her like right there on the porch, open her Audible app and fucking.
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Oh my god, they're never coming back to your house.
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Go for no.
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I was like, you guys are doing a great job.
00:24:32.799 --> 00:24:40.160
We're just I'm never doing solar panels again unless I do the Tesla shingles and like three power banks and you know Doomsday.
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Doomsday.
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I was like, I was like, where are you guys going next?
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And they're like, Oh, we we gotta go back up to Jackrabbit.
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I was like, cool.
00:24:47.440 --> 00:24:49.279
I was like, he walk over here with me to my truck.
00:24:49.440 --> 00:24:57.119
I handed them both a business card and I was like, hey, if you guys are ever thinking about making sales like permanent and you want to get into real estate, give me a call.
00:24:57.440 --> 00:25:01.920
They are marking you off of the list, like no one's I'm probably on some list.
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Don't come to this house.
00:25:03.279 --> 00:25:05.119
You should be on several lists.
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But I get it, yeah.
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I mean, why not take the opportunity?
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Who knows?
00:25:10.640 --> 00:25:10.799
Yeah.
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If they're good at sales, they're good at sales.
00:25:12.240 --> 00:25:12.960
They're good at sales.
00:25:13.279 --> 00:25:15.200
We can teach them the contract, yeah.
00:25:15.440 --> 00:25:18.160
Yeah, exactly.
00:25:18.480 --> 00:25:19.279
So, yeah.
00:25:19.599 --> 00:25:23.680
Well, I I've had them come to my house too, and I just say thanks, no thanks.
00:25:24.079 --> 00:25:24.640
Yeah.
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I mean, I I'm just not doing it.
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I I let them give their pitch.
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Do you?
00:25:28.720 --> 00:25:28.960
Yeah.
00:25:29.039 --> 00:25:31.759
Um I'll tell them what they messed up on.
00:25:32.240 --> 00:25:32.799
Mmm.
00:25:33.680 --> 00:25:34.799
That's a good avenue.
00:25:34.960 --> 00:25:35.200
Yeah.
00:25:35.440 --> 00:25:38.720
Just like, let me help you with your your salesmanship.
00:25:38.960 --> 00:25:40.480
I don't remember where I saw that.
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It was a couple years ago, and I kind of adopted it.
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It was um honestly, I think it was real.
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I either saw on TikTok or Instagram.
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And uh the guy was like, Give me your pitch.
00:25:52.000 --> 00:26:06.240
You got 30 seconds, and he timed him and wrote some notes down while he was giving it, and then afterwards, like turned around at his desk and pulled a couple books off the shelf and gave them to him and said, Hey, read these and come back and I'll think about it.
00:26:06.960 --> 00:26:07.599
Interesting.
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Do they come back?
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I don't know.
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Oh, we didn't check up on part two.
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No, didn't care that much.
00:26:14.079 --> 00:26:14.799
But I was like, why not?
00:26:14.880 --> 00:26:15.119
Why not?
00:26:15.359 --> 00:26:16.960
Yeah, no, I mean that's a great, yeah.
00:26:17.119 --> 00:26:19.599
I mean because door-to-door sales suck.
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I've never done that, thank God.
00:26:21.359 --> 00:26:23.039
I've never had to I I would fail.
00:26:23.200 --> 00:26:24.319
Yeah, I'm not good at that.
00:26:24.480 --> 00:26:26.559
God, if I would have had go for no back then, dude.
00:26:26.799 --> 00:26:27.440
You'd have killed it.
00:26:27.519 --> 00:26:28.640
You wouldn't have even done real estate.
00:26:28.799 --> 00:26:30.400
Yeah, I would still be doing door to door sales.
00:26:30.640 --> 00:26:31.279
Yeah, yeah.
00:26:31.519 --> 00:26:35.519
You'd be a boss somewhere, just like living your best life, telling people where to go.
00:26:35.839 --> 00:26:36.160
Exactly.
00:26:36.319 --> 00:26:36.880
Yeah.
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But here we are.
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Here we are.
00:26:38.880 --> 00:26:39.839
Because you couldn't do it anymore.
00:26:39.920 --> 00:26:40.880
Yeah, I couldn't do it anymore.
00:26:41.119 --> 00:26:42.079
It's too hot.
00:26:42.720 --> 00:26:46.079
They frowned upon having multiple beers with lunch at the time.
00:26:46.400 --> 00:26:48.160
Oh, that's unfortunate.
00:26:48.400 --> 00:26:52.079
I mean, that would truly be the only way I could probably get through Door Good World Cells.
00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:52.880
I could not.
00:26:53.119 --> 00:27:06.720
There was this um, because I did I did a lot of work out in Gatesville, and um I always had a plan, I'd be out there by 9:30, pounding pavement, and then at 11:30, they had this like uh small town like pizzeria.
00:27:06.960 --> 00:27:29.279
So I'd either go get a sandwich or a pizza, and then I'd go pound pavement for a couple more hours and until like the crew at the VFW in Gatesville showed up, and then I'd go have a couple beers, play some pool or darts or bullshit, and then and then I would sober up a little bit, and then about five, I'd go hit pavement for about another two hours and then drive home.
00:27:30.240 --> 00:27:31.200
What a live.
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What a live.
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And I was like, what the fuck do you do all day?
00:27:34.960 --> 00:27:37.200
And I told her she's like, What?
00:27:37.359 --> 00:27:38.480
How was that a job?
00:27:39.039 --> 00:27:40.000
Exactly.
00:27:40.640 --> 00:27:54.960
And I and at that time I was I would I I was doing summer school for college or the summer semester for college, so I was doing like math and I had a um speech class, and what else was I doing?
00:27:55.119 --> 00:27:57.599
I think it was like intro to guitar or some shit.
00:27:57.920 --> 00:28:06.079
An elective, an elective, and I found out real quick I'm not good at guitar, so I dropped that within like the first two days of being in the class.
00:28:06.400 --> 00:28:23.359
A lot of a lot of just winning kids in there, and then um I did the math class, and I'm really good at math, but man, college algebra not because of not being math, not being in like an academic setting for math for over two almost two decades.
00:28:23.599 --> 00:28:28.079
I could have been in all the academic settings, and I still would not have done well at college algebra.
00:28:28.160 --> 00:28:28.799
It's just hard.
00:28:28.960 --> 00:28:29.440
I hate it.
00:28:29.680 --> 00:28:30.319
I hate math.
00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:34.400
Luckily, the teacher over at Temple College was just was just awesome.
00:28:34.559 --> 00:28:42.559
She sat me down uh after class every day with for about five, ten minutes, just making sure I understood and going through stuff with me if I had questions.
00:28:42.799 --> 00:28:43.440
Well, that's awesome.
00:28:43.599 --> 00:28:47.599
And then my speech my speech teacher, man, he was he was great.
00:28:47.759 --> 00:28:57.119
There was uh I didn't have any veterans in my math class or in the guitar class, but then in my speech class, there was like six of us, and we all sat in the back.
00:28:57.839 --> 00:29:00.160
And and it was it was just a good time.
00:29:00.400 --> 00:29:01.599
Yeah, yeah, good people.
00:29:01.920 --> 00:29:06.400
If I could have that class for all the classes I would have taken, I would have probably stuck with college.
00:29:07.599 --> 00:29:09.200
Too many whiny kid.
00:29:09.519 --> 00:29:09.839
God.
00:29:10.799 --> 00:29:13.200
God, we are so off topic right now.
00:29:13.359 --> 00:29:14.079
Yeah, we are.
00:29:14.319 --> 00:29:18.319
So anyway, solar panels, just do your due diligence.
00:29:18.640 --> 00:29:19.920
Yeah, that's the moral story.
00:29:20.160 --> 00:29:22.880
And I I like I said, I'm always about going local.
00:29:23.039 --> 00:29:27.519
So I think you know, don't buy from the people that are just here for a day and gone tomorrow.
00:29:27.680 --> 00:29:28.319
Yeah.
00:29:28.880 --> 00:29:33.119
Um and I would just trust people here to tell you the truth.
00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:34.799
Yeah, not to just make the sale.
00:29:34.880 --> 00:29:35.519
Yeah.
00:29:35.920 --> 00:29:36.480
Yeah.
00:29:36.799 --> 00:29:40.960
And then um and then know the product on solar panels.
00:29:41.119 --> 00:29:42.799
Yeah, do your research big big time.
00:29:43.039 --> 00:29:45.039
Yeah, because ask questions.
00:29:45.279 --> 00:29:47.599
I have a client over here in Sage Meadow.
00:29:48.319 --> 00:30:17.599
We still can't sell his house because he's in the process of suing the uh the solar panel company because he thought he was getting like the high-end solar panels, but then during the um tornado, they had to replace the roof and they pulled all the solar panels down, and he was going through he he was looking at the solar panels because he was sitting in his garage waiting for him to come reinstall and realized that like he had like the like low-level solar panels and was like, What the hell?
00:30:17.680 --> 00:30:19.920
Why am I paying all this money for this?
00:30:20.160 --> 00:30:22.240
And it is a lot of money in some cases.
00:30:22.400 --> 00:30:25.359
I mean, thousands and tens of thousands of dollars in some cases.
00:30:25.599 --> 00:30:30.880
He uh he called the the solar panel company, come to find out they went out of business.
00:30:31.119 --> 00:30:42.000
Shocker, yeah, went out of business, and so he's like in the midst of fighting somebody just uh they're sitting in his backyard now because of it.
00:30:42.559 --> 00:30:44.559
That's yeah, so yeah.
00:30:44.960 --> 00:30:46.000
And that that's happened a lot.
00:30:46.079 --> 00:30:47.599
I had a seller with the same situation.
00:30:47.680 --> 00:30:55.359
We had to get the roof redone and they had to take them off and we put them in the backyard, and it was gonna cost six grand to put them back up on top of the cost of the roof.
00:30:55.920 --> 00:30:59.440
And he's like, if the buyers don't want these, I'm not putting them back up there.
00:30:59.599 --> 00:31:01.440
Yeah, and so he didn't.
00:31:01.920 --> 00:31:06.480
But he tried to call the solar panel company to let them know that he was moving them from that house.
00:31:06.799 --> 00:31:10.559
He was gonna take them to his house now, and they're gone.
00:31:11.039 --> 00:31:12.079
They're gone.
00:31:12.319 --> 00:31:14.079
But he still has to make a payment.
00:31:16.240 --> 00:31:17.680
It's it's just crazy.
00:31:17.839 --> 00:31:21.519
Yeah, crazy, crazy, crazy.
00:31:21.599 --> 00:31:22.240
So stay local.
00:31:22.319 --> 00:31:23.839
That's another good example of the reason to say.
00:31:24.160 --> 00:31:24.640
Yeah, stay local.
00:31:24.720 --> 00:31:25.680
Room roofing does them.
00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:28.240
Yeah, and John O'Brien's a good dude, military buddy.
00:31:28.960 --> 00:31:35.440
They're they're fantastic people, and I just don't think that anybody on their team would tell you something wrong just to make us out.
00:31:35.839 --> 00:31:47.200
We're we're pretty heavily uh relationship-based uh industry, absolutely, and if it wasn't for the fact that I'd already had relationships built with other like roofing contractors, I would use them.
00:31:47.519 --> 00:31:49.200
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
00:31:49.440 --> 00:31:53.680
Yeah, so let's talk about Texas as a whole.
00:31:54.000 --> 00:31:58.720
Yeah, well, so there's Andrea now.
00:31:58.880 --> 00:32:00.640
Yeah, listen for the doorbell.
00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:01.759
Dingo.
00:32:02.480 --> 00:32:03.599
There it is.
00:32:05.599 --> 00:32:10.559
So Texas is quickly becoming a huge techno.
00:32:11.039 --> 00:32:12.960
I mean, it is the technology hub.
00:32:13.279 --> 00:32:14.160
Yeah, it is now.
00:32:14.319 --> 00:32:16.480
I mean, Austin is booming.
00:32:16.880 --> 00:32:17.839
Tech crazy.
00:32:18.079 --> 00:32:18.400
Yeah.
00:32:19.200 --> 00:32:21.759
Um it's you know why, right?
00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:22.640
Tell me.
00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:25.440
Because uh California sucks.
00:32:29.839 --> 00:32:32.640
Is that like the edited version?
00:32:32.880 --> 00:32:33.279
Yeah.
00:32:33.599 --> 00:32:33.920
Okay.
00:32:34.319 --> 00:32:34.960
Yeah, yeah.
00:32:35.200 --> 00:32:35.519
Okay.
00:32:35.920 --> 00:32:37.519
We don't get into politics on here.
00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:38.559
No, we do not.
00:32:38.720 --> 00:32:39.519
We stay neutral.
00:32:39.599 --> 00:32:40.880
So California sucks.
00:32:40.960 --> 00:32:41.680
That's the reason why.
00:32:41.920 --> 00:32:44.160
Respectfully, yeah, respectfully.
00:32:46.480 --> 00:32:49.680
But Austin has quickly become the tech hub.
00:32:50.079 --> 00:32:51.920
We got what, Tesla down there, we got Dell.
00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:55.119
Oh my gosh, there's so much.
00:32:58.640 --> 00:32:59.119
Yeah.
00:32:59.359 --> 00:33:04.640
If you drive in that downtown area, you see tech on every building.
00:33:05.039 --> 00:33:07.599
Some kind of tech business on every building, I feel like.
00:33:08.720 --> 00:33:09.279
Big stuff.
00:33:09.599 --> 00:33:10.240
Big stuff.
00:33:10.559 --> 00:33:15.359
So not just in Austin, Texas in general, because it is we do have land still.
00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:26.079
We do have um resources, so it's clear why people would want to come here to do these types of things and build these kinds of things.
00:33:26.400 --> 00:33:29.839
But we we like having those things too.
00:33:29.920 --> 00:33:33.279
We were like, wait a minute, don't bring all that stuff into Texas.
00:33:33.440 --> 00:33:37.119
Yeah, we like having our open space, we like having water.
00:33:38.240 --> 00:33:51.680
It's uh compare so 2013 to now for me, um I-35 from like Austin to here, even up towards Dallas, like it's it's still super sparse.
00:33:52.319 --> 00:33:56.160
But compared over the past 13 years, yeah, like it's been plugged in.
00:33:56.240 --> 00:34:01.279
Like Gerald, like I didn't even know Gerald was a thing until a couple years ago, and then all of a sudden, boom, it's there.
00:34:01.519 --> 00:34:01.920
Boom.
00:34:02.079 --> 00:34:02.480
Yeah.
00:34:02.799 --> 00:34:03.119
Yeah.
00:34:03.359 --> 00:34:12.800
And it, I mean, we said this in another episode, but the commute time, yeah, you know, is basically the same as if you're in other parts of Austin trying to get to Austin.
00:34:12.880 --> 00:34:18.000
So I mean, it makes sense to have it here on this on I-35 for sure.
00:34:18.320 --> 00:34:26.639
But not only is it the data centers and the solar panels and the solar farms, it's also wind farms.
00:34:26.800 --> 00:34:27.119
Yeah.
00:34:27.280 --> 00:34:29.440
Because where I'm from, you go up there.
00:34:29.760 --> 00:34:30.639
Oklahoma.
00:34:30.880 --> 00:34:33.440
It's not Oklahoma.
00:34:34.639 --> 00:34:36.320
It's uh it's not Oklahoma.
00:34:36.880 --> 00:34:38.159
Not from Oklahoma.
00:34:38.320 --> 00:34:38.639
No.
00:34:38.880 --> 00:34:45.039
Um, but yeah, you start the the more northern you go, more north you go, you start seeing.
00:34:45.280 --> 00:34:45.519
Yeah.
00:34:45.679 --> 00:34:47.519
I would say uh was it Hubbard?
00:34:47.920 --> 00:34:49.280
Hubbard or Hubert?
00:34:49.519 --> 00:34:50.639
I don't know how you say it.
00:34:50.880 --> 00:34:52.719
Anyway, they got a bunch out there.
00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:53.199
Really?
00:34:53.360 --> 00:34:53.599
Yeah.
00:34:53.760 --> 00:34:54.239
Yeah.
00:34:54.480 --> 00:35:09.760
I had uh some gentlemen out of Dallas that were moving down to be closer to their family, and one of the properties we were looking at, like it would if it wasn't for the like 15 windmill farm or windmills that we would see, like it would they would have a beautiful view.
00:35:09.840 --> 00:35:14.559
They would have had a beautiful view, but they were like, nah, that's just wasn't for them.
00:35:14.800 --> 00:35:15.920
And it started with a few.
00:35:16.079 --> 00:35:16.559
Yep.
00:35:17.039 --> 00:35:22.559
When I would go back, I would be like, Oh, that's what those look like, you know, and they're massive.
00:35:22.719 --> 00:35:33.440
I mean, the those women, those are not just regular farm windmills, those are massive, and you see the blades being transported on the highway.
00:35:33.760 --> 00:35:38.159
Yeah, oh my god, they're humongous.
00:35:38.400 --> 00:35:40.000
It's insane, yeah.
00:35:40.159 --> 00:35:50.960
But they say like every turn, every full turn, every full rotation of that windmill is creating money for somebody and electricity for someone.
00:35:51.199 --> 00:36:02.960
So it's yeah, every turn is like cha-ching, cha-ching, and up there where the wind blows, you know, 30 miles an hour on a every every day, basically.
00:36:03.360 --> 00:36:05.760
I think it was uh is it brownwood?
00:36:06.079 --> 00:36:07.679
Brownwood's about Abilene, yeah.
00:36:07.920 --> 00:36:14.639
No, no, maybe I'm thinking Brownwood is where um ginger.
00:36:16.639 --> 00:36:17.920
Let me pull it up on my map.
00:36:18.239 --> 00:36:19.039
I know ginger.
00:36:19.360 --> 00:36:20.239
Our friend ginger.
00:36:20.480 --> 00:36:21.519
Our friend ginger.
00:36:23.679 --> 00:36:24.639
Where's it at?
00:36:25.920 --> 00:36:27.280
Is it brownwood?
00:36:27.679 --> 00:36:31.599
That's definitely in the wrong area direction I'm trying to go.
00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:33.519
Are you talking like by Lubbock?
00:36:33.679 --> 00:36:34.880
Are you talking by Abilene?
00:36:35.119 --> 00:36:40.239
Are you talking about it?
00:36:41.679 --> 00:36:42.880
It is brown wood.
00:36:43.039 --> 00:36:43.199
Yeah.
00:36:43.440 --> 00:36:44.320
I lied to you.
00:36:44.400 --> 00:36:45.039
Yeah.
00:36:45.519 --> 00:36:46.079
Yeah.
00:36:46.480 --> 00:36:48.719
They uh I was up there a couple years ago.
00:36:48.800 --> 00:36:55.840
It was right when I became a realtor and I had to go up there for two weeks to train some folks to go to Iraq or Afghanistan or Kuwait or something.
00:36:56.079 --> 00:36:59.519
And they they were getting a lot of windmills.
00:36:59.679 --> 00:37:13.840
And I remember seeing um the farmers having signs driving out there and driving around town, like windmill farms or windmills are destroying our cattle farms or ranches or whatever.
00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:15.599
So it's kind of crazy.
00:37:15.840 --> 00:37:22.639
It's a there's a different point of view every part of the state that you go to about each one of these topics, yeah.
00:37:22.880 --> 00:37:27.280
Um, and but the overall impact is for the entire state.
00:37:27.440 --> 00:37:28.079
Yeah.
00:37:29.920 --> 00:37:37.920
Um, and we all love to use those GPTs.
00:37:38.239 --> 00:37:39.519
We love to use those.
00:37:39.599 --> 00:37:41.920
We love to have the automation, yeah.
00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:43.199
The AI, everything.
00:37:43.599 --> 00:37:49.199
And to have that, I mean, we gotta yeah, you can't have one without the other.
00:37:49.519 --> 00:37:56.800
And it and it's either it's gonna happen here, or it's gonna happen somewhere else in Texas, or it's gonna happen somewhere else in the United States.
00:37:57.199 --> 00:37:58.880
Uh, why not have it here?
00:37:59.119 --> 00:38:00.639
Is my thought.
00:38:01.199 --> 00:38:01.840
Yeah.
00:38:02.159 --> 00:38:02.639
I don't know.
00:38:02.800 --> 00:38:07.119
But then at the same time, it's like, well, then we have the strain on the power grid, and then we have the strain on the water.
00:38:07.519 --> 00:38:08.639
We already have those strains.
00:38:08.960 --> 00:38:09.280
Yeah.
00:38:09.440 --> 00:38:09.760
Yeah.
00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:11.599
So I I do understand.
00:38:11.679 --> 00:38:19.760
And I if I lived out there where you see the most of this happen, most of these things happening, man, I would just be heartbroken.
00:38:19.840 --> 00:38:20.239
I think.
00:38:20.480 --> 00:38:24.639
I'm just pissed off because they always drain Lake Belton to feed Lake Travis.
00:38:24.800 --> 00:38:26.639
So that's another topic.
00:38:26.880 --> 00:38:27.039
Yeah.
00:38:28.719 --> 00:38:29.360
Yeah.
00:38:32.159 --> 00:38:39.920
Um, but I mean, we I mean, so here's here's some interesting data.
00:38:40.079 --> 00:38:46.239
We rank among the nation's leader in data center data center development.
00:38:46.960 --> 00:38:49.280
Again, because we have this we have the space.
00:38:49.440 --> 00:38:51.679
We have the space, and it's affordable.
00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:56.559
And I mean, if you talk to those one people, we have they're just a red amount of corrupt politicians.
00:38:56.800 --> 00:38:57.440
Yeah.
00:38:58.719 --> 00:38:59.920
We won't say names.
00:39:00.159 --> 00:39:03.440
There's there's so many there's so much drama on Facebook right now.
00:39:03.519 --> 00:39:08.800
There's so many different groups with so much drama right now about all of this stuff.
00:39:09.039 --> 00:39:09.760
Yeah, yeah.
00:39:09.920 --> 00:39:16.559
It's it's we're it's crazy that we're a big enough area to have these kinds of places coming in.
00:39:16.639 --> 00:39:16.960
Yeah.
00:39:17.119 --> 00:39:22.559
But we're still a small enough area where we know the people and we know things about the people.
00:39:22.800 --> 00:39:27.199
And so then it's all this, well, you pick this side and I pick this side and all this drama.
00:39:27.360 --> 00:39:29.519
Oh my gosh, so much Facebook drama.
00:39:29.760 --> 00:39:35.360
And then Texas as a whole, we're the largest producer of wind wind energy.
00:39:36.079 --> 00:39:38.800
I think my hometown is probably the biggest.
00:39:39.199 --> 00:39:39.840
Yeah.
00:39:40.719 --> 00:39:44.159
Um it never stops blowing there ever.
00:39:44.719 --> 00:39:48.800
We're one of the top states for installed solar capacity.
00:39:49.039 --> 00:39:50.000
What does that mean?
00:39:50.239 --> 00:39:51.920
I'm guessing the solar farms.
00:39:52.159 --> 00:39:52.480
Okay.
00:39:53.039 --> 00:39:55.280
And again, because we have the space.
00:39:56.159 --> 00:39:58.000
So, and here's the crazy part.
00:39:58.320 --> 00:40:02.719
It says that data centers directly employ tens of thousands of people.
00:40:03.760 --> 00:40:05.760
But aren't they employed online?
00:40:06.480 --> 00:40:07.679
Temporary jobs.
00:40:07.920 --> 00:40:08.559
For building.
00:40:08.719 --> 00:40:09.280
For building.
00:40:09.440 --> 00:40:09.760
Right.
00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:11.199
Because I I agree.
00:40:11.280 --> 00:40:16.320
I think I've heard that the people that do work at the data centers are working remotely.
00:40:16.559 --> 00:40:16.880
Yeah.
00:40:17.119 --> 00:40:27.119
So they're not necessarily I mean, they might live here, but they probably in reality, they're probably sitting in a cubicle in India or or Thailand or the Philippines.
00:40:27.440 --> 00:40:27.519
Yeah.
00:40:28.960 --> 00:40:32.639
But I do have one friend who her sister works for Meta.
00:40:32.960 --> 00:40:33.280
Okay.
00:40:33.599 --> 00:40:44.559
And um and they're here, but she's like, she doesn't know where she's gonna go next because they're almost done with what they're doing for for Meta um here.
00:40:44.719 --> 00:40:47.280
So that's kind of a crazy part too.
00:40:47.360 --> 00:40:49.920
They come and go, you know, from our community.
00:40:50.239 --> 00:40:50.880
Yeah.
00:40:54.800 --> 00:40:57.760
Now here's a question that hopefully somebody can answer.
00:40:58.000 --> 00:40:59.280
Because a lot of the solar farms.
00:40:59.840 --> 00:41:00.559
I have no idea.
00:41:00.800 --> 00:41:02.480
Not you, maybe somebody out there.
00:41:02.719 --> 00:41:03.199
Okay, good.
00:41:03.360 --> 00:41:06.480
Is like, what happens when these solar farm leases run out?
00:41:06.639 --> 00:41:07.119
Yeah.
00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:17.920
Like, I'm I'm hoping that the the property owners in the lease says that they have to put the land back to way it was before I don't think it can be.
00:41:18.079 --> 00:41:18.239
Yeah.
00:41:18.480 --> 00:41:33.440
From the from what I've heard, it will never the land can never be used again for what it was initially used for because of all of the effects of the that's what I I I don't know if that's true.
00:41:33.760 --> 00:41:36.320
So hopefully we can maybe one of you guys out there have the answer for that.
00:41:36.639 --> 00:41:37.280
Maybe that's a myth.
00:41:37.519 --> 00:41:41.280
But I have heard that it does mess up the soil.
00:41:42.239 --> 00:41:42.559
Okay.
00:41:42.880 --> 00:41:45.840
And I don't know how, but I have heard that.
00:41:46.079 --> 00:41:46.719
Yeah.
00:41:47.280 --> 00:41:49.599
So that is a that is something to consider.
00:41:49.840 --> 00:41:50.159
Yeah.
00:41:50.480 --> 00:41:51.039
You know.
00:41:51.280 --> 00:41:57.519
But I also see this side of it, and I was thinking about this not long ago when we were talking about doing this episode.
00:41:58.079 --> 00:42:22.480
You know, if you and I, if if our families had a big tract of or big section of land somewhere, let's say, that they had for hundreds of years, it's been in our family forever, but we have no intention of farming or ranching, and the part of our family that did is no longer with us.
00:42:24.159 --> 00:42:25.440
What are you gonna do with it?
00:42:25.840 --> 00:42:26.079
Yeah.
00:42:29.280 --> 00:42:34.079
We have people who thank God we still have people who are farmers and ranchers, yeah.
00:42:34.400 --> 00:42:40.320
Who are young and are coming up and are growing into that and being taught by the generations before them.
00:42:40.639 --> 00:42:48.159
But you don't see many people unless their family is in that type of work and have been for a long time.
00:42:48.559 --> 00:42:52.000
You don't see people being like, I'm gonna be a rancher, I'm gonna be a farmer.
00:42:52.239 --> 00:42:53.039
They they don't know.
00:42:53.199 --> 00:42:57.199
There's no it's tough to go to school to learn how to become a successful rancher or farmer.
00:42:57.280 --> 00:43:00.159
That's something you've got to learn how to do from experience.
00:43:00.239 --> 00:43:08.000
And so people that are no longer gonna use this land as their family used it in the past, they're gonna sell it anyway.
00:43:08.239 --> 00:43:09.679
Either sell it or release it out.
00:43:09.920 --> 00:43:13.840
Yeah, so for them, it's a no-brainer.
00:43:14.320 --> 00:43:20.000
Keep the property in your still got it, yeah, in some cases, yeah, and you're making money off of it.
00:43:20.159 --> 00:43:21.440
Yep, it's a no-brainer.
00:43:21.519 --> 00:43:27.039
So I see that pull of it too, because a lot of people have property here that don't live here.
00:43:27.280 --> 00:43:27.679
Yeah.
00:43:27.840 --> 00:43:31.519
Or it's their family's land and they live in Ohio or something.
00:43:31.599 --> 00:43:31.920
Who knows?
00:43:32.239 --> 00:43:33.679
Um I mean, why not?
00:43:33.920 --> 00:43:46.079
I mean, I I can see with the benefit of it because it it if you're just using if it's a ranch, yeah, like what is the actual impact on your cattle if you put up windmill farms or a windmill?
00:43:46.400 --> 00:43:47.039
I don't know.
00:43:47.199 --> 00:43:51.599
I don't know the answer to that because I don't know I I don't know what resources they require.
00:43:52.000 --> 00:43:56.079
But if you have but if you have that supplemental in income coming in.
00:43:56.639 --> 00:43:57.519
Yeah, yeah.
00:43:57.679 --> 00:44:05.920
I I definitely see both sides of the fence and it is It is one of those things, like we said, where it's is it just bad for a few or is it bad for all of us?
00:44:06.079 --> 00:44:06.400
Yeah.
00:44:06.719 --> 00:44:09.519
Um, and there's so many different perspectives.
00:44:09.840 --> 00:44:20.960
Now, the the doomsday prepper side of me says not so much the data centers, but the solar farms, the windmill farms, and the solar panels.
00:44:21.360 --> 00:44:27.760
Yeah, they're bad now, but if something catastrophic happens, then our our power grid's gonna have power.
00:44:27.920 --> 00:44:29.280
So our hospitals are soon.
00:44:29.599 --> 00:44:30.400
Like SnowVid.
00:44:30.639 --> 00:44:30.960
Yeah.
00:44:31.199 --> 00:44:32.960
I mean, we we lived through that.
00:44:33.119 --> 00:44:33.679
Yeah.
00:44:33.920 --> 00:44:36.880
Uh what was that, two weeks without power for some people?
00:44:37.199 --> 00:44:38.000
I never lost power.
00:44:38.159 --> 00:44:39.119
I didn't lose power either.
00:44:39.280 --> 00:44:39.440
Yeah.
00:44:39.679 --> 00:44:40.480
But there was a lot of people.
00:44:40.719 --> 00:44:41.280
But a lot of people did.
00:44:41.360 --> 00:44:49.119
Yeah, like uh Anna's cousin was staying down at a friend's house in Austin with her husband, watching the house for like two weeks.
00:44:49.360 --> 00:44:56.719
Or they were only supposed to be down there for six days, and then day two of them being down there, it hit and they were stuck down there for two weeks.
00:44:57.039 --> 00:45:04.159
They didn't have power, they didn't have water, and they quickly ran out of food, fresh food, and they were literally eating.
00:45:04.400 --> 00:45:13.440
I think she said that they had uh they were rationing like all the pantry staples and they had two cases of water they found in the literal doomsday, yeah.
00:45:13.679 --> 00:45:18.559
Yeah, I mean you even if you could get to the store, they didn't have food either.
00:45:18.800 --> 00:45:20.239
They didn't have power and they didn't have food.
00:45:20.320 --> 00:45:24.480
Yep, it was and we were completely shut off from the world for at least a week.
00:45:24.639 --> 00:45:30.960
So, I mean, the the doomsday prepper side of me sees the benefit of both being able to power the grid.
00:45:31.199 --> 00:45:32.559
Yeah, yeah.
00:45:32.800 --> 00:45:45.360
Um I do too, but I I still I do worry still about the water because we already through real estate stuff, we know how critical the levels of water are here.
00:45:45.599 --> 00:45:45.920
Yeah.
00:45:46.159 --> 00:45:50.880
Um, and so it it is concerning, but I I do see both sides of the fence.
00:45:51.119 --> 00:45:52.719
Is it gonna impact me today?
00:45:52.880 --> 00:45:53.519
Probably not.
00:45:54.639 --> 00:45:59.119
But will it impact our kids and our grandkids or great grandkids?
00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:00.159
More than likely.
00:46:00.880 --> 00:46:03.840
And we're no we're we won't know until it does.
00:46:04.079 --> 00:46:06.480
I know, and that's the hard part about it.
00:46:06.960 --> 00:46:14.159
But I I do understand the people that live out there and their concerns, and especially out in East Bell County.
00:46:14.400 --> 00:46:21.280
I do understand those concerns, but I I do think you can't you can't have one without the other.
00:46:21.440 --> 00:46:21.760
Yeah.
00:46:22.320 --> 00:46:23.840
So do you want to grow?
00:46:24.000 --> 00:46:25.599
Do you want our schools to get better?
00:46:25.760 --> 00:46:29.199
Do you want things in our community to be better?
00:46:29.440 --> 00:46:34.000
And you do you want the modern conveniences that you have now, or do you not?
00:46:34.159 --> 00:46:36.559
And if you don't, then okay, that that's fine.
00:46:36.880 --> 00:46:40.880
But for the grand population, most people want that.
00:46:41.039 --> 00:46:41.679
Yeah.
00:46:42.239 --> 00:46:43.840
It's a tough, it's a tough call.
00:46:44.000 --> 00:46:48.239
I would not want to be on either one of those, yeah, those decision-making panels.
00:46:48.800 --> 00:46:50.960
I'm just glad I don't, I don't have to be on them.
00:46:51.119 --> 00:46:52.000
I'm not gonna lie.
00:46:52.320 --> 00:46:56.079
Yeah, I mean, it's yeah, that's a big responsibility.
00:46:56.400 --> 00:47:00.960
So, I mean, as we move on to the United States, yeah.
00:47:01.199 --> 00:47:03.599
I mean, there's just so much stuff.
00:47:04.000 --> 00:47:12.159
I mean, we're in the midst of the AI revolution, and so we need the data centers.
00:47:12.480 --> 00:47:14.639
Yeah, because I like to watch my Netflix.
00:47:14.800 --> 00:47:15.440
Yeah.
00:47:15.840 --> 00:47:16.400
Yeah, yeah.
00:47:16.719 --> 00:47:19.119
I mean, I gotta watch Love Island, you know, when it was still on.
00:47:19.199 --> 00:47:20.400
Did you watch Love Island this season?
00:47:20.639 --> 00:47:22.079
I have no idea what that is.
00:47:22.400 --> 00:47:24.079
Okay, that's that's unfortunate.
00:47:24.239 --> 00:47:26.079
Yeah, it's over now.
00:47:26.320 --> 00:47:36.639
I I can't tell it on the podcast, but if you remind me about Netflix when we're off the podcast, I'll tell you something that's terrifying that about Netflix that you're gonna be like, fuck you, Matt.
00:47:36.880 --> 00:47:38.880
Is it like Netflix and chill kind of stuff?
00:47:39.119 --> 00:47:42.960
No, okay, just making sure.
00:47:43.280 --> 00:47:46.079
Okay, well, now I'm terrified, but I still like it.
00:47:46.400 --> 00:47:50.719
And don't lie and say you're not on Facebook scrolling.
00:47:51.119 --> 00:47:52.960
That is processed in the data center.
00:47:53.199 --> 00:47:56.400
Yeah, I mean, I'm on reels on Instagram and and TikTok.
00:47:56.480 --> 00:47:57.280
I'm very rarely.
00:47:57.760 --> 00:48:03.360
We're literally sitting here making this to put out on those places, on those platforms, yeah.
00:48:03.440 --> 00:48:08.320
And so if you're watching this, you're using a data center, yeah, whether you like it or not.
00:48:08.800 --> 00:48:11.519
Uh podcasts, data center, yeah.
00:48:11.840 --> 00:48:13.920
Yes, it has to be processed somewhere.
00:48:14.079 --> 00:48:17.360
So I that's yeah, can't have one without the other.
00:48:17.599 --> 00:48:19.840
It's um, yeah, you're absolutely right.
00:48:20.079 --> 00:48:20.559
What do they call it?
00:48:20.719 --> 00:48:23.519
Necessary evil, necessary evil, yeah.
00:48:23.760 --> 00:48:26.719
Yeah, it's all uh oh, here comes Andre again.
00:48:26.880 --> 00:48:27.440
Mark Zuckerberg.
00:48:27.599 --> 00:48:29.280
She really wants to be on this podcast.
00:48:29.840 --> 00:48:31.599
We can go hook milk right now.
00:48:32.000 --> 00:48:34.079
You want me to go hook up another mic?
00:48:34.559 --> 00:48:34.880
No.
00:48:36.559 --> 00:48:39.119
I I don't know how I feel about that.
00:48:42.079 --> 00:48:45.039
I have so much to edit on this.
00:48:46.320 --> 00:48:47.679
He's stunned, Andrea.
00:48:47.760 --> 00:48:49.199
He can't even talk.
00:48:50.880 --> 00:48:58.960
And so the the the one thing I probably need to wrap my head around more is like who's paying for all of this infrastructure.
00:48:59.119 --> 00:49:04.079
Like, I know we're getting the shit taxed out of us on everything for it.
00:49:05.280 --> 00:49:11.199
But I mean, at what point and like how much is too much?
00:49:11.519 --> 00:49:12.159
Yeah.
00:49:12.639 --> 00:49:17.519
You know, I mean, I know that everybody's on Facebook at this point.
00:49:17.679 --> 00:49:20.320
Everybody has Netflix probably at this point.
00:49:20.719 --> 00:49:28.239
But how how much of taking over this land and using these resources is too much?
00:49:28.639 --> 00:49:30.719
Did um what do you think, Andrea?
00:49:31.920 --> 00:49:37.760
Did you um expansion?
00:49:38.400 --> 00:49:39.519
How much is too much?
00:49:39.760 --> 00:49:41.119
How much is too much?
00:49:42.079 --> 00:49:51.199
And it it goes back to that, like if we don't do it here or in the state of Texas or the United States, it's gonna go somewhere else overseas.
00:49:51.440 --> 00:49:56.960
And then it's that's just gonna add compound more money on top of everything.
00:49:57.280 --> 00:50:03.599
Yeah, but I you know, we're Americans are a little greedy.
00:50:03.920 --> 00:50:05.280
We're spoiled ass brats.
00:50:05.519 --> 00:50:07.039
Yeah, we're entitled a little bit.
00:50:07.280 --> 00:50:09.119
And and I don't mean that ugly.
00:50:09.199 --> 00:50:10.719
I love my country and you do too.
00:50:10.880 --> 00:50:11.920
I you know, whatever.
00:50:12.079 --> 00:50:16.320
But I can be honest about it and say we're entitled and we're we're greedy.
00:50:16.480 --> 00:50:16.800
Yeah.
00:50:17.280 --> 00:50:20.079
And when we want something, we want it right now.
00:50:20.320 --> 00:50:25.039
Yeah, yeah, especially going to those like third world countries, and it's like, yeah, oh, cool.
00:50:25.119 --> 00:50:31.119
I'm sleeping on a sleeping in a rock hut on a dirt floor.
00:50:31.440 --> 00:50:32.159
Dirt floor.
00:50:32.800 --> 00:50:36.000
And the power line is an extension cord.
00:50:36.159 --> 00:50:36.480
Yep.
00:50:36.800 --> 00:50:37.599
Sweet.
00:50:37.920 --> 00:50:41.599
And no one is sitting around pissed off because they don't have Wi-Fi.
00:50:41.760 --> 00:50:43.360
No, like they're they figure it out.
00:50:43.519 --> 00:50:44.480
They figure it out, yeah.
00:50:44.639 --> 00:50:54.880
I mean, I watched an old dude fix a tractor in Afghanistan literally with like a coat hanger and some pantyhose and what looked to be like some form of duct tape.
00:50:55.039 --> 00:50:56.320
So good for him.
00:50:56.480 --> 00:50:56.960
Yeah.
00:50:57.199 --> 00:51:00.320
I mean bring that guy, he can figure all this out.
00:51:00.559 --> 00:51:03.679
Yeah, so I mean, it's we are, we're spoiled little brats.
00:51:03.920 --> 00:51:08.000
We are, we really are, and I I mean, we want instant gratification.
00:51:08.079 --> 00:51:12.480
Yep, we want access to anything and everything we can think of.
00:51:13.119 --> 00:51:13.920
Right now.
00:51:14.400 --> 00:51:23.519
Now that's a we we say this this is completely a little bit off topic and with the instant gratification wanting and stuff now.
00:51:23.599 --> 00:51:30.400
Like, every time we go to a restaurant and Thomas is with us, we'd be like, Thomas, what do you want?
00:51:30.639 --> 00:51:37.360
I'd be like, chicken fingers or cheeseburger or pizza, and then we'll order it from the the waitress.
00:51:37.760 --> 00:51:44.960
If that food's not there in 60 seconds, he's like, food, eat, food, and just keeps repeating it for 10 minutes.
00:51:45.039 --> 00:51:46.719
It's like it'll be here when it gets here, bud.
00:51:46.960 --> 00:51:49.679
Yeah, and then it finally gets there and he just like picks out his food.
00:51:49.760 --> 00:51:52.559
I'm like, he's so well because he was hungry then.
00:51:52.719 --> 00:51:53.360
You got hungry now.
00:51:53.679 --> 00:51:56.079
Yeah, he's filled up on water and spray it.
00:51:56.320 --> 00:52:00.559
I'm like, uh the free chips and queso.
00:52:00.800 --> 00:52:02.000
Oh, yeah.
00:52:02.239 --> 00:52:03.840
I haven't had any since I've been back.
00:52:03.920 --> 00:52:05.519
I need to go have some queso.
00:52:05.840 --> 00:52:11.360
Um, but yeah, that's yeah, how much is too much, and at what point are we gonna chill out?
00:52:11.599 --> 00:52:12.079
Yeah.
00:52:12.320 --> 00:52:16.480
I mean, it's um I don't think we ever will.
00:52:16.800 --> 00:52:19.280
I don't we're too we're too far past it now.
00:52:19.360 --> 00:52:20.320
We're too used to it now.
00:52:20.559 --> 00:52:30.239
I blame it on the communists back in the 80s and the 70s because the cold all the entire cold war, I think um the government got uh that's this is completely off topic.
00:52:30.400 --> 00:52:32.559
But yeah, we're competing against other nations.
00:52:32.639 --> 00:52:35.199
We're we've kind of slowly moved into the world aspect of it.
00:52:35.280 --> 00:52:43.840
Yeah, like we got China, we got Russia, uh UAE, uh Britain, I think is just slowly dying.
00:52:44.079 --> 00:52:46.960
Um that's just my personal opinion.
00:52:48.079 --> 00:52:49.519
And then yeah.
00:52:51.840 --> 00:52:58.480
Anyway, but they're all investing heavily into uh to all this stuff as well.
00:52:58.800 --> 00:53:03.199
So as as all of this increases, then the electrical grids have to increase.
00:53:03.360 --> 00:53:03.760
Yeah.
00:53:04.079 --> 00:53:08.800
And every other piece of the infrastructure has to increase too.
00:53:09.199 --> 00:53:10.480
Who's paying for it?
00:53:11.360 --> 00:53:13.679
We are, yeah, we all are, yeah.
00:53:14.079 --> 00:53:28.960
Um, and unfortunately, in a lot of the scenarios, and that's what a lot of this um dysfunction is about in Bell County right now, the these people that are bringing these types of industries in are getting the benefit tax-wise.
00:53:29.199 --> 00:53:31.280
And so, yes, that is a little bit of a slap in the face.
00:53:31.840 --> 00:53:32.639
It does feel like that.
00:53:32.880 --> 00:53:33.280
It really does.
00:53:33.599 --> 00:53:35.039
I can understand how people would feel that way.
00:53:36.000 --> 00:53:38.639
100% because we are picking up the tap.
00:53:39.199 --> 00:53:39.920
We are picking up the tap.
00:53:40.239 --> 00:53:50.800
But we are also benefiting from the the use in some ways because we're watching Netflix and we're looking at Facebook and we're scrolling TikTok and all the places.
00:53:50.960 --> 00:53:52.960
So I it I don't know.
00:53:53.280 --> 00:53:53.519
Exactly.
00:53:53.840 --> 00:53:54.079
I don't know.
00:53:54.159 --> 00:53:55.199
I don't know what side to be on.
00:53:56.800 --> 00:54:00.079
I'm on the side of profit proper private property rights all the time, every time.
00:54:00.400 --> 00:54:02.079
Doomsday proper side, that's where I'm at.
00:54:02.239 --> 00:54:05.920
Yeah, well, maybe we just all become that.
00:54:06.320 --> 00:54:09.440
I'm going to your house, by the way, when that happens because You should.
00:54:09.920 --> 00:54:11.519
I I could never survive.
00:54:12.000 --> 00:54:13.599
Eric could totally survive.
00:54:13.760 --> 00:54:13.920
Yeah.
00:54:14.079 --> 00:54:15.119
He totally could.
00:54:15.360 --> 00:54:16.480
Me not so much.
00:54:16.719 --> 00:54:21.840
I that's I think that's the only reason why, one of the only reasons why Anna stays married to me.
00:54:22.000 --> 00:54:23.199
Yeah, I mean that that makes sense.
00:54:23.280 --> 00:54:23.360
Yeah.
00:54:23.599 --> 00:54:28.880
She's like, we were when we left the other house and we moved everything over.
00:54:29.039 --> 00:54:32.159
I have there's there was like four tough boxes.
00:54:32.400 --> 00:54:35.519
Because we cleaned the dungeon out, and I got rid of a whole bunch of like old military.
00:54:35.920 --> 00:54:36.960
Old literal dungeon.
00:54:37.119 --> 00:54:40.639
Yeah, not like a not like a sex cabades dungeon.
00:54:40.800 --> 00:54:42.159
Not like Cody's dungeon.
00:54:43.039 --> 00:54:43.679
Yeah.
00:54:45.119 --> 00:54:48.719
Or the dungeon that's been talked about on Facebook here at least recently.
00:54:48.960 --> 00:54:57.039
Um, but I got rid of a whole bunch of like military gear, and she I whittled it down to like two tough boxes, and she knew the two top boxes.
00:54:57.199 --> 00:54:58.079
You went from four to two.
00:54:58.239 --> 00:55:00.159
No, I went from like ten to two.
00:55:00.559 --> 00:55:01.440
Oh, that's a lot.
00:55:01.599 --> 00:55:08.800
But I had these other four, and she was like, she opened it up and started digging through them, and then she came and found me and was like, Come with me.
00:55:09.039 --> 00:55:10.239
She was like, What is this?
00:55:10.400 --> 00:55:14.960
I was like, Well, this is powdered butter, so you just have to add water to it.
00:55:15.039 --> 00:55:23.440
This is powdered milk, this is powdered eggs, this is uh a hash brown substitute, this is like six different types of water purifiers.
00:55:23.840 --> 00:55:28.239
Uh here's like recharging like solar battery stuff, all these things.
00:55:28.320 --> 00:55:30.000
She's like, What do we need these for?
00:55:30.239 --> 00:55:30.800
I don't know.
00:55:30.960 --> 00:55:31.760
I don't know yet.
00:55:32.159 --> 00:55:39.679
We got them, we got them, and so when the tornado hit and she came home in the power, we we lost power, I think, for like eight hours, maybe a day.
00:55:39.920 --> 00:55:40.239
Really?
00:55:40.400 --> 00:55:42.079
Yeah, we lost it for a week.
00:55:42.400 --> 00:55:46.639
And um, so that night she's like, Where are the flashlights?
00:55:46.880 --> 00:56:00.639
So I went out to the tough box number two, opened it up, and pulled out all the flashlights, and they were they're the windy like um ones you can charge yourself and handed one to her and Lucas and was like, Here you go, here's your flashlight.
00:56:00.880 --> 00:56:02.320
You came in really handy.
00:56:02.880 --> 00:56:06.960
Yeah, my grandma would say you're as handy as a pocket on a shirt.
00:56:07.119 --> 00:56:08.639
Yeah, that's what you are.
00:56:08.880 --> 00:56:09.519
Yeah.
00:56:10.079 --> 00:56:13.360
She's like, but what about water if we need to like flush the toilet or something?
00:56:13.440 --> 00:56:15.519
I was like, it's what the five-gallon bucket's for.
00:56:15.599 --> 00:56:19.679
We can just go down to the lake and bring up some water and put it in the the toilet bowl.
00:56:19.840 --> 00:56:23.679
And she's like, Okay, well, what if we need drinking water?
00:56:23.760 --> 00:56:26.639
I was like, it's what the water purifiers are for.
00:56:27.840 --> 00:56:31.440
That is just yeah, good for her.
00:56:31.920 --> 00:56:34.480
Um that is planning for your future right there.
00:56:34.639 --> 00:56:34.960
Yeah.
00:56:35.360 --> 00:56:37.920
Like, how good are you in an emergency situation?
00:56:38.239 --> 00:56:38.719
Pretty good.
00:56:38.880 --> 00:56:40.239
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
00:56:40.320 --> 00:56:41.360
I'll have to come to your house.
00:56:41.599 --> 00:56:42.239
Yeah.
00:56:43.039 --> 00:56:46.000
We we won't survive if I'm in charge.
00:56:47.280 --> 00:57:04.239
Um, so they're saying, just so you know, they're saying that this is the biggest, it's so the data centers and all of the AI stuff is the biggest infrastructure build-out since the interstates were built.
00:57:04.559 --> 00:57:06.559
And that was like post-World War II.
00:57:06.880 --> 00:57:08.159
Isn't that crazy?
00:57:08.320 --> 00:57:10.480
Do you know where the interstate concept comes from?
00:57:10.719 --> 00:57:11.119
Tell me.
00:57:11.360 --> 00:57:12.239
The Nazis.
00:57:13.199 --> 00:57:14.000
Dead serious.
00:57:14.320 --> 00:57:14.880
Interesting.
00:57:15.119 --> 00:57:15.760
Yeah.
00:57:16.400 --> 00:57:22.320
And the the reason why the interstate's built the way it is is not for civilians.
00:57:23.360 --> 00:57:25.199
It's built for the military.
00:57:26.480 --> 00:57:27.360
That makes sense.
00:57:27.599 --> 00:57:28.000
Yep.
00:57:28.400 --> 00:57:29.360
That makes sense.
00:57:29.599 --> 00:57:29.920
Yep.
00:57:30.079 --> 00:57:36.239
They're built for the mil is they're built to withstand tanks and Bradleys and all the big heavy equipment riding on down on them.
00:57:36.639 --> 00:57:39.039
So the military has an easy, easy access.
00:57:39.280 --> 00:57:42.800
I think it was Eisenhower or somebody stole it from the Nazis from World War II.
00:57:43.119 --> 00:57:47.440
Because once they hit Germany, like they noticed like they weren't tearing out the roads.
00:57:47.599 --> 00:57:51.440
The roads were big enough for convoys and military personnel to travel down.
00:57:52.000 --> 00:57:52.400
Interesting.
00:57:52.639 --> 00:57:53.039
Yeah.
00:57:54.320 --> 00:57:54.960
Look at you.
00:57:56.159 --> 00:57:58.000
And then we did the same thing in North Korea.
00:57:58.079 --> 00:57:59.440
Or not uh in South Korea.
00:57:59.599 --> 00:58:02.079
That's what South Korea's road systems were built like too.
00:58:02.880 --> 00:58:09.599
Except for they have like bombs in their underpasses so that way they can drop them and slow the advancement of North Korea.
00:58:11.599 --> 00:58:12.000
Yeah.
00:58:12.480 --> 00:58:15.199
Pill boxes littering that entire country.
00:58:15.840 --> 00:58:16.719
That's terrifying.
00:58:16.960 --> 00:58:21.199
There's a spot in Seoul that you can see the DMZ.
00:58:22.239 --> 00:58:22.639
Yeah.
00:58:22.719 --> 00:58:24.239
There's a huge tower.
00:58:25.199 --> 00:58:25.679
Yeah.
00:58:26.000 --> 00:58:28.159
I don't know if you're supposed to be telling that story.
00:58:28.960 --> 00:58:29.920
It's common knowledge.
00:58:30.079 --> 00:58:30.159
Oh.
00:58:31.679 --> 00:58:32.559
Not completely common.
00:58:33.039 --> 00:58:34.559
I think you can Google it.
00:58:35.119 --> 00:58:36.960
I think you can do it.
00:58:37.920 --> 00:58:41.440
Uh but yeah, that was crazy.
00:58:41.599 --> 00:58:45.039
That it's it's the biggest thing since the interstates.
00:58:45.360 --> 00:58:45.519
Yeah.
00:58:45.840 --> 00:58:46.400
That's wild.
00:58:46.719 --> 00:58:47.599
It's crazy.
00:58:47.760 --> 00:58:49.519
Um, I didn't know that.
00:58:50.800 --> 00:58:51.679
80 years later.
00:58:52.000 --> 00:58:52.480
80?
00:58:52.559 --> 00:58:53.360
What is that?
00:58:53.679 --> 00:58:56.559
50, 20, 76?
00:58:57.519 --> 00:58:58.639
Yeah, that's wild.
00:58:58.880 --> 00:59:00.159
Yeah, maybe 80.
00:59:00.400 --> 00:59:01.360
Probably close to 80.
00:59:02.000 --> 00:59:04.480
So that's insane.
00:59:04.719 --> 00:59:05.440
Insane.
00:59:06.159 --> 00:59:07.920
So it says pros and cons.
00:59:08.639 --> 00:59:10.159
I feel like we've hit all of those.
00:59:10.800 --> 00:59:11.440
Yeah.
00:59:13.199 --> 00:59:15.039
We didn't do any calls to action.
00:59:16.079 --> 00:59:18.480
Let's move right on to the next move.
00:59:18.880 --> 00:59:20.000
Let's do it.
00:59:20.320 --> 00:59:20.960
What?
00:59:23.440 --> 00:59:30.719
Um what was your call or your next move last week?
00:59:31.039 --> 00:59:32.719
It was systems.
00:59:33.039 --> 00:59:34.719
I was gonna work on some systems.
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My own infrastructure.
00:59:36.639 --> 00:59:37.760
Your own infrastructure?
00:59:38.000 --> 00:59:38.320
Yeah.
00:59:38.880 --> 00:59:39.519
Yeah.
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I I think that my next move is just gonna be really diving into all of this information.
00:59:46.480 --> 00:59:52.400
I mean, I know the basics, I know the the things I read online and in the newspapers and stuff.
00:59:52.480 --> 00:59:55.679
I I know that stuff, but I really need to understand it for me.
00:59:55.840 --> 00:59:56.239
Yeah.
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And how it affects my family.
00:59:58.400 --> 00:59:58.800
Yeah.
00:59:58.960 --> 01:00:01.599
You know, um, as well as my clients.
01:00:01.679 --> 01:00:06.159
So I'm gonna do a better job of understanding what all this means, real estate-wise.
01:00:06.480 --> 01:00:06.800
Okay.
01:00:07.599 --> 01:00:12.079
Um probably should have done that before we did this episode, but you know, probably should have.
01:00:12.239 --> 01:00:13.039
Here we here we are.
01:00:13.280 --> 01:00:15.119
We've only been talking about it for a month and a half.
01:00:15.280 --> 01:00:16.320
I was scared, Matt.
01:00:16.400 --> 01:00:17.360
I didn't want to do it.
01:00:17.440 --> 01:00:19.119
I'm terrified to do this episode.
01:00:19.199 --> 01:00:20.000
I'm not qualified.
01:00:20.239 --> 01:00:21.440
I'm not qualified either.
01:00:21.679 --> 01:00:23.920
I think and I agree with you.
01:00:24.000 --> 01:00:25.679
I really need to know more.
01:00:26.000 --> 01:00:38.800
Um, because the other side of me is wondering like, could this been um could could our city councilmen and people been paid off to make this happen?
01:00:39.039 --> 01:00:40.239
I mean, some say yes.
01:00:40.400 --> 01:00:45.760
Yeah, and I I don't I don't think that that's necessarily what's happened, but I don't know.
01:00:45.840 --> 01:00:47.599
Yeah, I I really don't know.
01:00:47.920 --> 01:00:50.880
But I am also gonna look at it and not pick a side.
01:00:51.119 --> 01:00:51.440
Yeah.
01:00:51.679 --> 01:00:53.599
I'm just gonna learn about it.
01:00:53.840 --> 01:00:58.159
Learn about it and not necessarily have go postal if we need to.
01:00:59.360 --> 01:00:59.920
I'm not gonna do that.
01:01:00.239 --> 01:01:00.880
Do you know what that means?
01:01:01.280 --> 01:01:01.840
Go postal?
01:01:01.920 --> 01:01:02.079
Yeah.
01:01:02.239 --> 01:01:02.559
Yeah, I know.
01:01:02.880 --> 01:01:03.519
Okay, okay.
01:01:03.840 --> 01:01:06.239
I said that to somebody the other day and they're like, what are you talking about?
01:01:06.559 --> 01:01:07.440
Were they like 25?
01:01:07.599 --> 01:01:08.960
No, they were like in their 30s.
01:01:09.920 --> 01:01:11.440
I think they had a sheltered life.
01:01:13.280 --> 01:01:15.679
Yeah, I mean, I think my sister would know what that means.
01:01:16.000 --> 01:01:17.039
She's 30.
01:01:17.360 --> 01:01:19.840
I think it's just a yeah, maybe they just didn't know.
01:01:20.000 --> 01:01:20.320
Yeah.
01:01:22.639 --> 01:01:26.559
I'm gonna do my next move this week is gonna be more personal driven.
01:01:26.719 --> 01:01:28.800
I think I'm personal driven.
01:01:29.360 --> 01:01:39.280
I think I'm gonna do I'm gonna carve out at least two days where I'm just gonna take the boys and do something for like three or four hours.
01:01:39.599 --> 01:01:41.119
Good for you, Matt.
01:01:41.280 --> 01:01:44.079
Yeah, I think that is the perfect next move for you.
01:01:44.400 --> 01:01:45.199
You never do that.
01:01:45.519 --> 01:01:46.480
I really don't.
01:01:46.719 --> 01:01:47.440
You really don't.
01:01:47.599 --> 01:01:50.800
Thank God you didn't pick today because it would have been ruined with the rain.
01:01:50.960 --> 01:01:51.519
Yeah, I know.
01:01:52.480 --> 01:01:54.719
Well, he was supposed to come with me originally.
01:01:54.880 --> 01:01:56.079
Yeah, yeah.
01:01:56.320 --> 01:02:01.679
Well, I think that's a great you need to take a minute, take a step back because you work non-stop.
01:02:02.000 --> 01:02:02.639
Yeah.
01:02:02.960 --> 01:02:04.639
If it's not this, it's that.
01:02:04.880 --> 01:02:06.239
If it's not that, it's really still.
01:02:06.800 --> 01:02:08.960
I'm doing, I'm working so I can go back to Mexico.
01:02:09.039 --> 01:02:09.599
That's all I'm doing.
01:02:09.840 --> 01:02:10.559
That's what you're doing.
01:02:10.800 --> 01:02:13.119
I, you know, I think we've had this conversation.
01:02:13.199 --> 01:02:21.519
My goal in the next five years is to have it to where YouTube is paying us to do this.
01:02:22.079 --> 01:02:24.559
The podcast thing's paying us to do this.
01:02:24.880 --> 01:02:34.000
Uh, YouTube's paying me on my other channel, and with referrals, I only want to do 12 deals a year and still just make a shit ton of money.
01:02:34.320 --> 01:02:34.800
Yeah.
01:02:35.599 --> 01:02:36.239
Off of content.
01:02:36.639 --> 01:02:37.119
Let's drink.
01:02:37.519 --> 01:02:38.639
Be an Instagram model.
01:02:39.440 --> 01:02:40.159
Clearly.
01:02:40.320 --> 01:02:40.719
Yeah.
01:02:40.960 --> 01:02:41.519
What is that?
01:02:41.679 --> 01:02:43.519
And it tells me all the time that's what I do.
01:02:43.599 --> 01:02:46.159
I create thirst traps for single MILFs.
01:02:52.079 --> 01:02:54.000
Yeah, it was probably the Diet Coke video.
01:02:54.239 --> 01:02:56.639
It was pretty the Diet Coke video last night.
01:02:58.320 --> 01:02:59.840
That's hilarious.
01:03:01.440 --> 01:03:08.800
So what she's referring to is that I've been getting a lot of messages about the Diet Coke video we did with Jake at kneading.
01:03:08.960 --> 01:03:09.280
Uh-huh.
01:03:09.440 --> 01:03:13.280
And so I did a comparison of Ken Diet Coke versus McDonald's Diet Coke.
01:03:13.599 --> 01:03:14.639
Can we stop calling it a comparison?
01:03:14.719 --> 01:03:15.119
Because it wasn't.
01:03:15.599 --> 01:03:16.239
There is no comparison.
01:03:16.559 --> 01:03:17.519
There is no comparison.
01:03:17.760 --> 01:03:19.039
And you're a believer now.
01:03:19.199 --> 01:03:20.079
I'm a believer.
01:03:20.239 --> 01:03:22.000
Still wouldn't choose it over Dr.
01:03:22.079 --> 01:03:24.400
Pepper, but yeah, if that was a choice and Dr.
01:03:24.480 --> 01:03:26.800
Pepper wasn't, I'd I'd still choose Coke.
01:03:27.039 --> 01:03:32.400
Now, you should do one on Coke Zero from Chick-fil-A.
01:03:32.719 --> 01:03:33.119
Uh-huh.
01:03:33.519 --> 01:03:39.440
Oh Coke Zero from Chick-fil-A and McDonald's Diet Coke.
01:03:40.000 --> 01:03:40.639
Ooh.
01:03:40.960 --> 01:03:42.639
I'm telling, I'm telling you.
01:03:42.800 --> 01:03:44.880
No, no Diet Coke at Chick-fil-A.
01:03:45.119 --> 01:03:45.840
Coke Zero.
01:03:46.079 --> 01:03:46.880
Coke Zero?
01:03:47.440 --> 01:03:49.119
Is it better than Yeah?
01:03:49.199 --> 01:03:50.960
It's in a styrofoam cup.
01:03:51.199 --> 01:03:51.440
Okay.
01:03:51.679 --> 01:03:54.000
Everything is better in a styrofoam cup.
01:03:56.880 --> 01:03:58.800
But never, Matthew.
01:03:59.039 --> 01:04:02.000
Never out of the can and never out of the bottle.
01:04:02.239 --> 01:04:02.559
Okay.
01:04:03.039 --> 01:04:04.320
That'll be the next one I do.
01:04:04.559 --> 01:04:06.320
That's for Doomsdayers only.
01:04:06.559 --> 01:04:13.199
I'll do the uh I'll do the uh Coke Zero from Chick-fil-A and the Diet Coke from McDonald's.
01:04:13.360 --> 01:04:14.400
I'm telling you, it's gonna be hard.
01:04:14.480 --> 01:04:15.840
It's gonna be hard to make a decision.
01:04:16.079 --> 01:04:16.400
Okay.
01:04:16.880 --> 01:04:18.079
It's that good.
01:04:19.280 --> 01:04:21.440
It's not superior to the McDonald's Diet Coke.
01:04:21.599 --> 01:04:21.920
What was that?
01:04:22.000 --> 01:04:22.320
But it's good.
01:04:22.639 --> 01:04:29.840
Brandon Fraser movie where the dad was there like lived in a bunker and the dad was uh he would heat up the Dr.
01:04:30.000 --> 01:04:30.639
Pepper.
01:04:31.920 --> 01:04:33.039
I don't know.
01:04:33.280 --> 01:04:35.599
I don't remember what the name of that movie was.
01:04:35.840 --> 01:04:37.199
I don't remember that movie.
01:04:37.360 --> 01:04:39.840
Oh if you know the name of that movie he heated up the Dr.
01:04:39.920 --> 01:04:40.320
Pepper?
01:04:40.480 --> 01:04:43.119
Yeah, in like a saucepan and then drank it.
01:04:43.440 --> 01:04:43.920
Why?
01:04:44.079 --> 01:04:45.760
I just I don't know.
01:04:46.000 --> 01:04:47.599
He was like you and like ice.
01:04:47.920 --> 01:04:51.920
It was what was the name of that movie?
01:04:52.159 --> 01:04:52.800
That is weird.
01:04:52.880 --> 01:04:54.400
I don't know if anybody would do that.
01:04:54.719 --> 01:04:57.920
So it was like in the 50s or 60s at the beginning of the movie.
01:04:58.719 --> 01:05:27.840
And it was the this the story's based in like LA or something, and then like it was in the height of the Cold War, and at the beginning, like a plane like sparks out the the um the pilot ejects, and and the family goes down into their like doomsday bunker, and so they uh the plane hits and they thought the world had gone to nothing.
01:05:28.000 --> 01:05:32.880
So they were down there for like 20 or 30 years with their kid, and then they've never seen this movie.
01:05:33.119 --> 01:05:42.639
They started running out of supplies, and then Brandon Fraser gets tapped by the the parents to go up and resupply everything only to find out that it's completely wrong.
01:05:42.800 --> 01:05:58.400
It was all like well the the the bar or whatever that was built on top of their um their old house is like abandoned now with just a bunch of like meth heads in it and stuff, and it's it's just crazy.
01:05:58.639 --> 01:05:59.840
And it sounds like a map movie.
01:06:00.239 --> 01:06:01.679
Yeah, it's old too.
01:06:01.760 --> 01:06:03.679
It's like early 2000s.
01:06:04.719 --> 01:06:06.639
If you know the name of the movie, put it in the comments.
01:06:06.880 --> 01:06:08.320
Yeah, I have no idea.
01:06:08.719 --> 01:06:12.159
Um, so we got our the next my next move.
01:06:12.400 --> 01:06:13.119
Mine too.
01:06:13.280 --> 01:06:15.039
Um we're both gonna learn more.
01:06:15.280 --> 01:06:16.480
We're gonna both learn more.
01:06:19.039 --> 01:06:23.599
Let's go with myth versus reality.
01:06:23.840 --> 01:06:24.400
Ooh.
01:06:25.360 --> 01:06:28.000
Data centers don't create jobs.
01:06:28.239 --> 01:06:29.199
But we said they do.
01:06:29.440 --> 01:06:34.480
They do, they're just temporary, they're just temporary, they may not be local, yeah.
01:06:34.880 --> 01:06:37.360
But they do create jobs, create jobs.
01:06:37.519 --> 01:06:37.840
Okay.
01:06:39.119 --> 01:06:43.440
Um solar farms ruin property values.
01:06:43.679 --> 01:06:44.239
I don't know.
01:06:44.400 --> 01:06:45.039
We don't know.
01:06:45.280 --> 01:06:47.360
I mean, I I would love to tell you you have to know.
01:06:47.440 --> 01:06:48.159
I don't I don't know.
01:06:48.320 --> 01:06:49.280
Uh I have no idea.
01:06:49.519 --> 01:06:50.400
No one knows.
01:06:50.559 --> 01:06:50.880
Yeah.
01:06:51.119 --> 01:06:51.840
Truthfully.
01:06:52.079 --> 01:06:57.119
No one knows unless they've experienced a sale that had to do with that.
01:06:58.079 --> 01:07:01.440
So if you've experienced that, let us know in the comments what you we want to hear from you.
01:07:01.519 --> 01:07:02.159
We want to know.
01:07:02.320 --> 01:07:04.159
Yeah, whether you're in Bell County or not.
01:07:04.320 --> 01:07:05.039
We want to know.
01:07:05.360 --> 01:07:05.920
Texas.
01:07:06.079 --> 01:07:09.760
I mean, if you just happen to be in Oklahoma, whatever.
01:07:10.719 --> 01:07:12.320
I've heard Oklahoma's nice.
01:07:12.400 --> 01:07:13.119
I've never been there.
01:07:13.360 --> 01:07:14.880
I've driven through it.
01:07:16.159 --> 01:07:22.400
But I mean, by the time you leave here and get to Oklahoma, it's dark, no matter what time you leave during the day.
01:07:22.639 --> 01:07:27.360
Well, I mean, and I understand why you say I'm from Oklahoma because it's the same when I go home.
01:07:28.320 --> 01:07:32.719
However, it is still on the right side of the Red River.
01:07:33.519 --> 01:07:37.679
And you know, my mom is our number one fan, so she's probably, yeah.
01:07:38.239 --> 01:07:39.360
Isn't she from Oklahoma?
01:07:39.519 --> 01:07:39.920
Oh, yeah.
01:07:40.079 --> 01:07:43.679
She tells me all the time how I'm half oaky.
01:07:46.159 --> 01:07:47.920
It makes it even better.
01:07:48.559 --> 01:07:54.159
Uh, wind turbines and solar farms will replace oil and gas overnight.
01:07:55.519 --> 01:08:03.360
I so Adam says Texas operates in all of the above energy strategy.
01:08:03.599 --> 01:08:16.800
Oil, natural gas, wind, solar batteries, and other energy sources are all expected to play roles in meeting growing demand, especially with AI and data center electricity consumption.
01:08:17.039 --> 01:08:24.800
So they're gonna pull in what that tells me is they're just gonna we're throwing everything at it to help it work.
01:08:25.279 --> 01:08:25.920
Yeah.
01:08:26.560 --> 01:08:32.960
I don't I don't think wind and solar will ever replace oil and gas.
01:08:33.439 --> 01:08:39.439
We Texas, I I know there's a lot of there's a lot of controversy in the oil industry too.
01:08:39.600 --> 01:08:39.920
Yeah.
01:08:40.079 --> 01:08:44.319
But especially in Texas, but I it's never fully gone away.
01:08:44.560 --> 01:08:45.039
Yeah.
01:08:45.279 --> 01:08:47.119
And we have booms for sure.
01:08:47.600 --> 01:08:49.199
If we're looking at Texas, I yeah.
01:08:49.439 --> 01:08:52.319
If we're looking at the world, it will never go away.
01:08:52.800 --> 01:08:53.760
Everything runs on it.
01:08:54.000 --> 01:09:00.960
I mean it it drives the economy of a lot of major, huge, big uh countries.
01:09:01.279 --> 01:09:09.199
There's a um which is yeah, so we we have a lot of oil deposits in the United States that we haven't tapped into that I'm aware of.
01:09:09.600 --> 01:09:14.720
And we use the UAE's oil a lot, which affects our gas prices, but I don't know.
01:09:15.039 --> 01:09:20.000
That's the reason our stupid prices are four dollars, three, four dollars.
01:09:20.399 --> 01:09:20.960
Yeah.
01:09:21.199 --> 01:09:23.039
Which is the highest I've ever seen it.
01:09:23.359 --> 01:09:24.000
Me too.
01:09:24.239 --> 01:09:24.880
Yeah, yeah.
01:09:24.960 --> 01:09:25.760
I thought about that the other day.
01:09:26.000 --> 01:09:33.119
I remember going to Iraq in 05, and I remember I thought the gas was like a dollar when I left, and when I came back, it was almost two.
01:09:33.760 --> 01:09:34.560
Oh five?
01:09:34.800 --> 01:09:35.520
I think so.
01:09:35.840 --> 01:09:36.720
I don't remember that.
01:09:37.840 --> 01:09:39.359
I could be mistaken.
01:09:41.439 --> 01:09:42.399
It doesn't matter.
01:09:42.800 --> 01:09:46.560
It never really I have to have gas, right?
01:09:46.800 --> 01:09:47.600
Like I have to go.
01:09:47.680 --> 01:09:48.880
I have to this is my job.
01:09:49.039 --> 01:09:50.319
I have to have a way to get around.
01:09:50.640 --> 01:09:54.800
So it's just always been adapt and make it work.
01:09:54.960 --> 01:09:57.439
Yeah, um, because I have to have it.
01:09:57.520 --> 01:10:00.479
It's not something I can just say, no, I'm not gonna spend money on that.
01:10:00.560 --> 01:10:01.439
I have to have it.
01:10:02.560 --> 01:10:06.720
But watching Eric fill up his diesel truck is disgusting.
01:10:06.880 --> 01:10:08.720
Because this is what, probably 40 gallons?
01:10:08.960 --> 01:10:10.159
It's painful, Matt.
01:10:10.239 --> 01:10:12.159
It's over$200 to fill up his truck.
01:10:12.399 --> 01:10:13.439
It's insane.
01:10:14.239 --> 01:10:15.199
Jesus.
01:10:15.439 --> 01:10:17.840
Yeah, we're just not gonna go anywhere in that thing.
01:10:18.079 --> 01:10:20.319
No, drive the Lincoln around.
01:10:20.479 --> 01:10:21.760
Drive the Lincoln around.
01:10:22.159 --> 01:10:23.840
Lincoln gets great gas mileage.
01:10:24.159 --> 01:10:30.960
If you're thinking about buying or selling and you are anywhere, give us a call.
01:10:31.279 --> 01:10:35.279
Or go to our websites or text us or email us.
01:10:35.520 --> 01:10:36.960
There's so many ways to get a hold of that.
01:10:37.119 --> 01:10:38.319
It's all down in the description.
01:10:38.560 --> 01:10:38.960
Yeah.
01:10:39.199 --> 01:10:46.880
And hey, if you hate your brokerage because A, they're toxic, B, you don't want to pay desk fees anymore.
01:10:47.119 --> 01:10:49.520
Or C you don't have any help.
01:10:49.760 --> 01:10:53.680
Or D, you don't like the culture, reach out to us as well.
01:10:53.760 --> 01:10:55.600
We'd love to talk to you about EXP.
01:10:56.319 --> 01:11:00.640
And uh what we may or may not be a fit, but yeah, call us.
01:11:00.720 --> 01:11:01.119
Let's talk.
01:11:01.279 --> 01:11:03.039
Well, at least we can have that conversation.
01:11:03.119 --> 01:11:05.840
Yeah, it may not be a fit now, maybe in a couple years it might.
01:11:06.159 --> 01:11:06.880
You never know.
01:11:07.439 --> 01:11:14.640
Um and next time we're gonna do a round table with a whole bunch of realtors talking about the market and all the fun things.
01:11:15.119 --> 01:11:16.399
That's gonna be a fun one.
01:11:16.560 --> 01:11:16.800
Yeah.
01:11:17.039 --> 01:11:22.479
You're gonna kind of get the inside scoop on on the way we talk off camera.
01:11:24.000 --> 01:11:24.399
Yeah.
01:11:24.640 --> 01:11:27.359
So we'll see you next time on the next move.
01:11:27.840 --> 01:11:28.800
Podcast.
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