Scott Johnson interviews Timothy Mabry Candidate for Texas Lieutenant Governor with Peter Mingils

0:00Welcome to Building Fortunes Radio. Make sure you check us out at BuildingFortunesRadio.com. Along with Kisk, our keep it simple circle marketing partners, we are here to help our UMungus AM and UMungus FM radio customers build their businesses and make the world a better place. At Building Fortunes Radio, we know how much your business means to you and the people important to you. So join us to make the world a better place. Spread the word, tell a friend, and go make a difference in your world. Now onto our show with your host, Peter Mingles. Take it away, Peter. Hello, everyone. Peter Mingles here. You are listening to us on a Saturday night. What is it? It is the 31st of January, 2026. One month is already in the books of 2026. It went so fast and for those people who are listening in, we do this radio show every Saturday night at 8.30 p.m. Eastern 730 on the central side.

1:00And this is actually Scott Johnson's radio show on the Building Fortunes Radio Network. And Scott and I have been doing this specific radio show for over a decade. It started off as a conference or series of radio shows that I did with a couple of people that were anti the home-based business model MLM. And I'm going to kind of keep my introduction relatively short because we have a special guest today. But Scott called me after a series of the radio shows that I had done. He says, you know, there's something a lot of people are missing. And he explained that it was the tools game associated with it. We decided to do some radio shows about that. And we do these radio shows, like I said, for over 10 years on Saturday nights. We'll post them up on buildingfortunesradio.com. But Scott's going to give you his own domain name as well. Many times we talk about things related to home-based businesses, both the positive and the negative. Sometimes we do the radio shows with guests.

2:01And sometimes we do them by ourselves. And many times they are related to that home-based business arena. But today is going to be an exception because Scott has an interesting guest and I'll let him do the introduction. But you're going to want to listen in. I'm sure you're going to learn a lot as we talk about the position that this gentleman is running for. And how this stuff works. So get a pen and paper ready. Or if you wanted to jot down some notes and we'll be able to forward those to this individual as well. But Scott Johnson, I want to say thank you so much for all the great things you do, including bringing on this very special guest. Hey, Peter. Yeah. Thanks. And we do have a great guest tonight. And I'm really looking forward to it. As you know, I live in Texas. And we're having an election next year. Or I guess it's actually this year now. I keep thinking about 2025 and 2026. And so he's running for Lieutenant Governor. And his name is Timothy Maybury. And I'm going to just completely negate our usual multi-level marketing intro here

3:07because I want to save time for him to spend as much time as he can talking about himself and his campaign and all that sort of thing. But in case people don't know, I'm a lifelong Republican. I'm conservative. And I think he is likewise. I know he's Republican. And from what I can tell, he's pretty conservative type guy. But we'll get to know him here in just a minute. But I wanted to, first of all, I'm aware that he is a Navy veteran as I'm I. And I wanted to thank him for the service he did to our country and to our citizens. And also he was in the fire service as a fired officer in the civilian life. And I have had an opportunity to hang around those kinds of people in my working life. I was a consultant and also managed two-way radio systems.

4:07And so I was able to, you know, cross paths with various, you know, firefighters and, you know, the tenants and chiefs and all kinds of different fire and law enforcement people over the years. And I have a lot of respect for those people as well because I know. I know some of the things they have to put up with. I can't say I know exactly because I've never done that particular occupation. But I know what they're up against and it's a lot. And I have a lot of respect for that too. And I think now he's got his own business. And I'll let him talk about that because Timothy, one of the things we like to ask people on this show. And of course our main focus is going to be on the political campaign. But also to promote whatever you have going on, you know, as long as it's legal, moral, ethical. You know, we try to promote people in their interests and their business, you know, whatever their thing is. And I'll let you do as much of that as you want as well as focus on the campaign.

5:07But I wanted to just, you know, again, thank Timothy for being here. For taking the invitation to talk on this podcast and talk about his campaign and his platform. And, you know, just to give people a little bit of background if you're not from Texas. We have a position here called Lieutenant Governor. It's a very strong position. And the person that is in that position now has been there for a while. And Timothy is running up against an incumbent, which in any political environment is difficult. Right? Whether it's Republican or Democrat to run up against an incumbent is a very difficult thing to do. You know, I mean, it's not difficult to run. It's difficult to win. But he's doing it. And my hat's off to anyone that, you know, with the right motivations runs for political office because, you know, you can't check from every single side. You can imagine trying to, you know, promote what you believe in.

6:10So Timothy, I just want to welcome this show and give folks a little bit of your background. You know, where you're from, what you've done, you know, to this point in life to prepare you for. You know, running for Lieutenant Governor for the state of Texas and a little bit about, you know, what that position is, like we chatted about briefly before the show. But again, welcome and go right ahead and give us a little bit of your background for the listeners. Well, I'd like to thank you all for the opportunity for me to come on this show and to be able to pour in to educate some of the listeners and what's going on here in Texas. I want to give that thank you all. Well, thanks and yeah, just give a little bit of, you know, where you're from and what you've done in life. I think that would help people to know where you're coming from, you know, so to speak. Well, do. So my background is I grew up in San, on the northwest side of San Antonio.

7:11And from the young age, I want to say about three years old, I was involved in scouting. My brother's two years older. And so my earliest memories are attending with, uh, Cub Scouts with my brother. And then eventually getting this getting myself and then ultimately becoming an Eagle Scout. So from a very young age, I've gotten to be around like paramilitary structures, learn morals and ethics. Like you get ingrained that in the fiber of your being throughout scouting. And then while I was in high school, I was in band. And then they did a year. I get the last, my senior year, they happened to have a fire program to start up. So I was involved in that program. I started volunteering while an actual fire department while I was in high school. And then out of high school, I want anyone want to give them the fire department.

8:12So I looked around the branches and said, you know what? I want to join the Navy. My grandfather was a World War II Navy vet. And I really want to see the world. So I joined the World's Greatest Navy. And after I was, after I left, I ended up going back into the fire service full of time. I was still volunteering while I was in the academy. So I'm a service first kind of person. That's just my background. I have a heart to serve. And I never ask, what's the conversation going to be like? It's always, okay, there's a mission. People are hurting. There's something that's going on. How can I step up and be a difference maker? And that does go back into scouting.

9:12So that's where a lot of my back onto my viewpoint comes from. Is the scouting in the military and the fire department, because that is the latest foundation of public service. And I've gotten to see people in all sorts of walks of life. I met something that I believe most of our elected officials have lost. Majority of them are public, let's say they're public disturbance, not public service. They always have their hands out. They want something. It's typically taking from us the people. And that's one of the things that we can't keep on doing. And that's something that I bring to the table. It's like, look, I understand what it's like to live paycheck to paycheck, to go to school. And it makes it's not easy. I also notice like to be deployed into another country or away from your family. There's something difficult. And that's where I believe most of our elected officials have forgotten,

10:17because they've never been there. And why there's such a risk between the elite, I call it the elite class versus everybody else. Because that silver spoon mentality of where out of touch don't understand the daily struggle. Yeah, absolutely. And just real quick, what did your grandfather do in the Navy during World War II? So he was a cook. But then whenever they went into general quarters, like being attacked, he was an anti-aircraft gunner. He told those stories of several ships that he was on, like getting attacked and getting shot down or getting sunk. So his ships were sunk. Two of them were. Wow. And he was a tell about it. Yes. He survived both.

11:17The last ones. They were a life raft for almost two weeks, I want to say. And when they were found, they were severely dehydrated. So he had to be a naval hospital. I want to say for several months just to recover. That's how severe the dehydration of sunburns were. But he served and that was my dad's data. My grandfather on my dad's side, he was an air force. But I just looked at it like, which branch has firefighting? And I can get travel in and also have different types of skills. And I looked at the air force. The air force said, we have firefighting. But he had to put a list of, I think, of seven jobs at the time.

12:17And of those seven jobs, one will come available when you go to maps. And that's the job you're stuck with. And that's it. So I was like, nope, I'm not rolling that nice. And then I looked at the Marine Corps. I went to the Marine Corps recruiter. And he said, yep, we have firefighters. But you're a Marine first, first and foremost. So if our base comes under attack, you're grabbing your rifle and you're on the front lines, buddy. I was like, okay, I'll keep that in mind. And they talked to the Navy. They were like, all right, I get to be on board a ship. I get three hots in the cot. I get to go and see the world like a different perspective and not in the sand village. Because I went in 2011. So we were still having a global war on terror happening. So I just kind of looked at it in those senses and said, I'll go Navy.

13:19Right, right. Yeah, my dad happened to have been in the World War II right at the very end. He was, you know, he never saw any action. I think he graduated high school in 1944. And by the time he went through all of his training, he was a radio man. You know, and got out into the fleet, the Pacific. It was over. But if we hadn't dropped the bombs, he probably would have been part of the invasion of Japan because he was on a LST, which is called landing ship transport, something like that. Anyway, they carried, you know, boats and Marines and stuff like that. And he would have been in the thick of it if we hadn't dropped the bombs. And my wife's grandfather was actually a World War II navigator got shot down over Belgium and was in the underground for six months before he was captured by the Nazis. And, you know, put into POW camp and, you know, survive that.

14:23So it's interesting, you know, how our paths have crossed in the, in the distant past, you know, generations ago. And also, you know, more recently, I was, you know, also in the Navy, as we talked about before the show. And really enjoyed the experience. So, so great. It's just a, you know, great recap for you to give people an idea where you're coming from. Because I think it's really important for people to understand, you know, your background and, you know, your foundation as it were. So talk to us a little bit like we did before the show about the job of the Lieutenant Governor, you know, what the responsibilities are, what the authority is, what the pay is. And how that fits into the Texas Constitution, you know, as far as, you know, all of those things and how it's positioned. Because it's pretty different from any other state that I know of.

15:26But go ahead and just give people an idea of the Texas Lieutenant Governor. Yeah, so the Texas Lieutenant Governor is by far the most powerful Lieutenant Governor and the United States. And the big reason for that is because of the rules and responsibilities. In every other state, the Lieutenant Governor is like the vice president of that state to where they break the ties in the Senate. They don't really push the legislation. They don't set the agenda. There's just, very much a tiebreaker. But here in Texas, the Lieutenant Governor is president of the Senate. He sets the calendars. He sets the committee members and the committee chair. They also set their own priorities. The Lieutenant Governor has a set of priorities. The Governor has one and then the GOP or whatever parties in charge of that state has their priorities.

16:27The Lieutenant Governor can override that and say, no, this is what I want. This is what I want and this is what I'm pushing. And because they can do that and they can control the calendars well, that makes it really his show in the Senate. So while we're in session, the Lieutenant Governor is by far more powerful. And then they also are in charge of the legislative audit committee and the budgeting. And the pay of it is $7,200 a year and like New York, for example. The Lieutenant Governor in New York in 2022 made $220,000 a year. But it's Texas. The Lieutenant Governor makes $7,200 a year. $7,200. That's not a lot. And that's mainly designed for compensation for travel and hotel and food while you're away.

17:28Yeah. And the only thing that the Governor has is veto power, right? The Governor still has to approve or veto any bill that's sent to him. Of course, it can be overridden if there's enough people in the Senate and the House of Representatives is like at the national level. But like you say, you know, the Lieutenant Governor in Texas really sets the agenda. And an example of that, an interesting example of that that occurred this past year in 2025, was the whole issue of the THC and how the Governor, Greg Abbott, basically vetoed a bill that was sent to him. And can you go into that a little bit as far as what happened because there was a real disagreement between the Lieutenant Governor and the Governor. And it was a really interesting conflict because they're both Republicans.

18:30And until the Governor vetoed the bill, nobody really knew that he had a different opinion from the Lieutenant Governor. At least I didn't know that. Can you go into that a little bit because that was a kind of an important decision this past year. Well, yeah, that was a major, extremely hot topic and a landmine for the Lieutenant Governor because for people who aren't from Texas and listening, SB3 or Senate Bill 3 is what we're talking about. And that was the total hemp ban that was being pushed by the Lieutenant Governor. It was going to make hemp illegal again. Like, hey, if you have, you can't sell any form of hemp product that is consumable, whether it be for recreation or medicinal outside of a pharmacy or the Texas Compassion use program. So he was trying to completely ban it and wipe out the industry that the State gave access to and gave birth to in 2018.

19:352018, that's when the Farm Bill went through the 2019 and that legislative session. That is when the hemp, the hemp industry in Texas started to grow. And it's grown to about $8 billion in industry and had over 50,000 jobs and 8,000 businesses. So it's grown rapidly in a short time to where the State of Texas is getting hundreds of millions annually in taxes from this program. But the Lieutenant Governor decided that wasn't going to happen anymore and he wanted to completely ban it. And then I started to call it shockwave because once it started to become more legal under the Delta 9s and the THCA, if it's just different forms of it that can be synthesized through heat.

20:48So depending on how long you do the heat for and like the temperature and the duration, it could change it to on the Delta THCA, THCP. There's a lot of different varieties and even CBD. So it's the heat and duration content at a time of that that actually affects the concentration and what form it is. But Lieutenant Governor said, no, we're going to completely kill this industry. And a big reason we believe for that was because he took a lot of bit of money from an alcohol lobby and there are ties into family, I believe, when it comes to the THCA program. There's a lot of people that weren't happy. So when that bill was being pushed forward, veterans and advocates of mental health will come forward and say, hey, right now the THCA program, the Texas Compassionate Youth Program is failing, it's struggling, it's overcharging people and it's a racket.

21:59And it's not doing the job that needs to do. And that if you completely outlaw this again and push the THCA, you're going to cause a lot of people to flounder. Like some of the medications are treatment that people are getting. It can be almost the exact same package, same concentration, but just one must be one of these smoke shops versus the TCA. And which you can get for about 30 to $50 out of the only smoke shops. And when the TCA, the distributors, which is there's only two pharmacies in Texas that distributed it, it was $200 to $300 for the same thing. There is that type of markup. So people bring that to the attention and say, we don't like what's going on here. So when the Lieutenant Governor forced SB3 to pass the Senate and then strong armed to the House to push that legislation through,

23:06Governor Abbott looked at it and said, okay, I'm getting way too much pushback because the Georgia Republicans want to be legalized or at least kept the same way. And one regulation and then that's where there was the first veto because Governor Abbott took that into consideration and vetoed it. He called for regulation of the industry. So during the first special session, Lieutenant Governor Patrick and Senator Charles Perry introduced the bill, SB5, and SB5 during the special session was not just a complete prohibition ban, but also criminalization. He was now set to say, no, I'm not going to listen to the governor, we want a regulation. I'm with full criminalization of 10% of the state and the throw them in jail and then to find them too.

24:10So there was a one to punch and that's where Governor Abbott had an issue. It took into the second special session because it didn't get through the second time in special session because they couldn't strong arm the house like they did during the main session. So SB5 failed. Second special session came up. Patrick again was Charles Perry introduced that complete ban and criminalization, not a bill with SB5. Sorry, SB5 and SB6. So he introduced those up and then Governor Abbott and Speaker Burrows had to have a conversation with them behind closed doors and an essence was like, hey, quit this. This is never going to go through the session. Leave it alone.

25:12And during that, the Lieutenant Governor said, if you don't like what I'm doing, vote me out of office. All that culmination and going against the governor, the governor was doing that caused a major rift and the people of Texas saw that. And where do we stand now? Is it pretty much the way it was before the session started? Because Governor Abbott, after that conversation with Dan Patrick, our current Lieutenant Governor, he put out an executive order calling for DSHS and TABC to put regulations in place or to expand the regulation process. So basically keep a close eye on things. Is that basically what that executive order did?

26:17It did, yes, because that's what the governor was wanting to have happen anyways in legislation. But what we're finding is happening right now because because it's the topic that was extremely hot and pissed off a lot of people on both sides of the aisle. I'm following it. So the Lieutenant Governor is influencing the Department of State Health Services, DSHS. Because they're setting a license and regulatory fee of 13,000% higher than what it currently, what is. So right now in Texas, if you're a distributor or manufacturer, your license is 250 a year. Now, if you're a retail shop, it's 200. But DSHS was proposing a fee hike of for the distributor and manufacturer license to go up to 25,000.

27:25So from $250 a year to 25,000 and then the shop locations from 200 to 20,000 a year. And that's absurd. So that's the direction they're going or is that in place right now? Well, that's, there's hearings that are going on. They're going to be rendering their verdict of what they think here soon, what they're going to do. But hearing a couple of weeks ago, that was what was proposed. And as I was talking to people there, DSHS is being strongly influenced by the Lutheran governor. So the lieutenant governor is still working behind the scenes to kill the industry through over regulation and finance and fees. Because the alcohol industry, they're, they're licensing for make the manufacturing plants is, I want to say it was about $5,000 and every new to every three years.

28:36And then what do you, what do you think about the recent Trump administration as far as, you know, there's a new policy now that I think goes into effect in April, where, and this is the first time that at the federal level, where, you know, marijuana THC is being legalized. Now it's kind of a narrow category where, you know, it has to be, you know, somebody that has like cancer. I think it's also available to, you know, particularly military PTSD type people and those kinds of things. Do you see that having any impact in Texas since, you know, Texas is basically an anti marijuana state. I mean, as opposed to places like, you know, Colorado and Oregon and so forth. But what do you see that that influence from the federal level in Texas as far as loosening up because I'm with you, I think that, you know, particularly veterans that have PTSD are put on all kinds of hallucinating drugs and it just, you know, it just messes them up.

29:50It's not good for them. And yet a lot of people find relief from the THC consumption. And that seems to be the direction that the federal level is going. Do you see any movement at the Texas state level in that direction? Because another big benefit, I know that that Trump said and I agree with this part is that it's going to allow us to do a lot more research into, you know, marijuana THC. You know, you know, related elements there and get a better idea of, you know, what are the benefits, what are the risks and those kinds of things. But what's your impression or has there been any discussion at all that you're aware of how that new federal policy might impact Texas? Well, people in the industry are highly concerned with what's going on federally because the de-scheduling is a good thing.

30:52That is something that's good because it can open up more research. And then the other, let's have a problem though, is that in order to reopen the government, unless it was Mitch McConnell, not in a piece of legislation at the last minute because he viewed that, and during the 2018 Farm Bill, a reference earlier, they put in to expand hemp agriculture. Well, it was in that Farm Bill that allowed hemp throughout the states to be certainly used and what pushed Texas to allow it in. Because the federal government said, hey, this is now allowed as well. So it created that gap. Well, Mr. McConnell didn't like that very much. And the last minute, as a deal to reopen the government, they threw a total THC ban again.

32:00So where now federally across the board, again, it is illegal. So it's causing not just the industries here in Texas, but the definition, the panic. Because individual states can still have their own rulings. They yes, we want this yes, we don't. But now that they go into federal, I'd think across the board, not to these loopholes or systems, it creates a big issue. And I look at it as a deeper perspective of what's really going on. And Marijuana, most people don't realize that we have what's called an endocannabinoid system. It's the receptors that our body has it produced in breast milk, but also in cannabis. It's in the oil, it's hard for now. It's a cannabinatal or cannabinoid.

33:05So we have receptors from this plant that our body uses and can use to keep us calm to reset pain. And it's been used since ancient times. And the plant entirely can be entirely can be used. Because you can use the stocks for the fixed fiber that has in it. So you can make rope, buildings, or wood. You can plant the concrete to make it stronger and to not crack as easily. You can make paper. And as you can replace plastic, you can create biofuel or biodieselot of it. There's a lot of things that we can do with this plant and we've been using it since the time of time. There's documented use of this plant back in ancient China. And in the original Hebrew text from the Bible, it actually, there was a recipe of healing and it included this plant.

34:09It had different names to it, but it's the same plant. So it's been demonized and criminalized at the federal level. Now they're saying again, oh well. We're going to do schedule it for research purposes, but it's also illegal. It's very weird of what's happening. Yeah, it's very confined to certain certain conditions. It's not just open to anybody. It's it's more for like I mentioned, you know, people have cancer that need to have pain relief. People with PTSD, you know, things of that nature and for research, which I think is a good thing that we just don't know enough about the short and long term effects. Hey, Scott, there's a couple of things that this might be something that Timothy might use as well. We did a radio show on our Kiss my Health radio show with a gentleman who in Canada ran something called Manitoba Harvest.

35:14And it was very interesting. There was this like a lot of people, they throw hemp, cannabis, DVD, THC, marijuana, pod into the same thing. And it's not. Hemp is totally different. And this guy in Manitoba, I think it was in the 1990s, there were five million pounds of hemp seeds that this guy wound up creating an industry for. And they did clinical trials on the, you know, the nature of it for everything from clothing to rope to all kinds of stuff that you put in you or on you. And hemp itself is like a miracle project or miracle product rather. So where people get messed up is when they start combining it with that can add a bit oil like you would reference. I think there's like 120 of them in different pop plants and the way the pot has been growing now and this stuff you're finding in the gas stations and that's the biggest challenge. A lot of that stuff in the gas stations aren't even real. It's synthetically made. So that's what created this huge kerfuffle if you will of challenges associated with this industry.

36:23But hemp is a safe product. A lot of stuff with CBD, miracle products. You know, it's the THC element and the degree of THC elements in pot now. I'm going to, I'm going to use that term pot with this stuff to get you high that are these real challenges. And unfortunately, politicians aren't scientists and lobbyists are bigger at influencing government officials. And they're trying to figure all this stuff out. So Timothy, I'll send you the radio show and some of the information about what this one gentleman did. It might help you with the education that people need to make the right decision on this because what they're doing is they're disrupting potentially positive economies or they might be taken with the one false swoop. You know, a lot of things that are going to hurt a lot of people. So it's like one of those things that I don't think politicians most of the times have the science background to be able to figure out.

37:26Oh, they don't. Well, I mean, if you listen to unfortunately the worst thing they ever did is put cameras in political meetings because then we can just identify how crazy or stupid they are, not all of them. But I'm going to come back to your situation specifically because this is a lot more about you. So what is it about you that would want to be that lieutenant governor? And why would you have picked that because you're not a high paying position. And it'll probably consume a lot of the things that you do in your life. And it could, you might lose, you know, because it may not always be easy to win. I'm not going to suggest that there's ever ever any people mess around with elections, but there have been some allegations of election issues out there where maybe you don't even have a chance because of whatever there might be the political powers.

38:27But why are you throwing your life into this ring? Oh, that's a question I get quite often. And I have a very not so common answer. So this is not something that I wanted to do. This is something that I'm called to do. And it's a big difference. Because most of our officials who run want to do something. They want something out of it specifically. They get a perk. And January 7th of last year at a church I was, we just started going to, I get called out in front of everybody. So I hadn't had that conversation with the pastor is why I'm not very many. And I get called out in front of the entire church and was called to be a shepherd of his people the time was now. Then that day I saw that night. I was a fast and two days into the fast I go to bed at nine o'clock in the evening. So that was Tuesday, January 9th, 2025.

39:38And an hour later I am woken up from a vision that I had. I was in this massive factory. But where I couldn't even see the end of it. It was a glowing figure that was touching my shoulder and showing me things to come. As I wake up my spirit recognized that like, okay, that was just Jesus that you just we just had an encounter with. Then I get a download and it's a feeling that I can't even explain. I just how it felt. But I gave the download and it was a specific and from instructions and information for a friend of mine. Then that was out in the lieutenant governor and then to tell my friend a name to show the authority coming from God. There was a pause and after that little pause, then that the last word came of have I finally shown you enough my sons for you to trust me. I was like, okay, God, that hurt first off.

40:41And second, that's pretty, pretty unique, specific. So I tell my wife not to close again. God's a closer in sales. That he is like, he knows like, okay, out. So I tell my wife what happened the next morning. She's like, okay, and you call your friend. I called him the very next day. So I waited almost two days to call him because I'm like, I never had anything like that happen before. So I call him up, tell him a message, tell him the name to show the authority that comes from God and he said, okay. That's correct. There is someone who is doing that, like pushing me in this direction. So he sent me the name and the link to this individual. I was like, okay, I still don't get it.

41:42He's like, because that individual helped President Trump get elected, that their company was one of the driving forces of how Trump got elected. I was like, oh, damn. He's like, yeah. He's like, so I am being cast right now. And that name you gave was the person who brought me up for that assignment. And I'd been a few days later. I get shown more about this man's life and into the detail, tell him again, and he said, Tim, no offense to you. But whatever frequency you're on, you're on the right one because you know information that I'm having with other people and I'm having with God. So you're pulling into the right source. So then I turned around and said, God, if you really want me to run for Lieutenant Governor, then you're going to have to make a way. You're going to have to direct my steps because I like, first off, what the heck is the Lieutenant Governor?

42:53I knew we had one, but I didn't fully understand the roles, the position, and what it did. So that's not something that was ever on my radar. I knew if I get into politics at some point in time, my life. I was looking at doing a briefing, cheering God's like, not yet. That's all I want you to do. So that's not something that I want to do is something that I'm called. And when you answer a calling, that's a different type of mentality because you know when God calls you, it's for a very specific reason. And the calls are not easy. The tasks are not simple. When he calls you by name for an outrageous task, you're going up against something. You're going to go into a fight. You're going to be a David and Goliath, and you had to fully trust him. So I recognize that.

43:56And it's why I'm continuing on, but the overall answer is I'm called to do this. So I'm not in my own personal game. It's actually a sentence at $7,200 a year. That's nothing. But that doesn't even paint a mortgage for the year. But Texas is in trouble. And the path that we're currently going on and going to, if we keep this up, we're not going to have the text that we know and love. And that's one thing that God's showing me, because every step of the way I keep questioning God truly, because I trust him. I'm like, okay, are you sure God? Are you sure you want this to happen? Unless you will be done. You're going to guide my steps. This is something for you. But he's been showing me what's happening behind the closed doors.

44:56And what I've been showing is when my opponent was first called to run, he was warned not to sell his soul here on Earth. For a short term game. And I've been shown that it's a solid David situation to where Saul was the ruler. But Saul did something. In the Bible, we know what Saul did. But Saul's heart posture changed as you went against God. And this is the message that God is showing me and bringing forth multiple people who have got the state to have said this. Like, this Arizona governor has fallen out of favor with God. And he is rising up somebody else to take his place. So at least get him back on track or through plays him.

45:56So you are in a true David and Goliath situation right now. And I'm going up against the machine. I'm going up with someone who has almost $40 million cash on hand for their campaign. So you have a full giant. And then you have me, like a little David with a couple of sticks, couple of stone, the fling shots, like, all right. We're going to take our shot, but we're running enough here. Interesting, very interesting. Yeah, that's a fascinating story that really is. So what I also wanted to do is sort of go to your Facebook page. You have a series of bullet points, and I just wanted to cover each one of those, you know, briefly. The first one is hold true to the Texas and U.S. Constitution. What kind of things do you see that need correcting?

47:01Well, one of the big ones is we've seen freedom of speech getting censored that happened during COVID and under the Biden regime. But the Biden regime pushed and pressured tech companies like Google and Facebook. And at that time, even X, to censor conservatives to censor the truth of what was actually happening. So we have first amendment violations, and then we have recommend it. We have to have wanting to... That happened to me personally. I got banned from several social platforms, so I hear you. It really was frustrating to have a different opinion and then be banned. It's hard to believe it's America, but that's, you know, what happened. Incredible. Go on, you said second amendment also.

48:01Yeah, the second amendment. We have... There's been red flag laws that have happened to people, and then you have others who are wanting more and more legislation about gun control. It's not a gun issue, because a gun won't just randomly shoot you. It won't go off. I'm going to take a target. It's not a gun. It's the people behind the gun. It's a scapegoat, and it's a play. So when I say it's a play, if you look at how to take over a country, first thing I do is influence the people. Once you influence the people and take the government and take the big companies and have them on the easier control, you start stripping away their rights, and guns are big rights, because guns and weaponry helps protect against tyranny. And we see what's happening in other countries that they don't know how to have guns. They're being invaded, they're being forced, and it's not the solution, because people who are going to commit murder or commit heinous acts are going to do it no matter what.

49:10It shows what weapon they have available. So we need to have more of an emphasis on mental health, and working on the programming of people, and pushing against the government programs and manipulations in those ways. But those are just part of the two, and the other thing is that we're not supposed to sell out for foreign influence. We have a lot of elected officials, and even people in guard government, going over to different countries and getting funding, or we're funding their social programs so they can get whitewash back into funds for us, or elected officials, not the way it should be done. So when I say holding through the Constitution, it's unfortunate laws that we have on the books, being tougher on criminals, and making your decision as an elected official, hey, is this constitutional, or is it not?

50:15And we have a lot of people trying to push ideologies that go against our Constitution, like taking away the guns, taking away our freedoms. Like, no, you can't censor that. Right now, a low-level district court judge can cancel out an executive order from the president. That's an overreach. That should be a Supreme Court issue. Not to freaking one of the little low-level appeal courts. We have a government system that's in weaponized against the people, against the Constitution. So any official who is doing that needs to be held for either treason, sedition, or failure to do their job. Yep, yep, good, all good points. The next one is abolishment of property taxes.

51:17And I think I read somewhere that you're in favor of a consumption tax to replace it would be, I think, in the neighborhood of 7%, can you expand on that? Yes. So ultimately, the full abolishment of property taxes is the full goal, where it's going to be multiple steps, and in multiple years, they fully get it done. But if we fully get the property taxes, we can get rid of property tax and 60 plus other taxes and replace it with one straight consumption tax. Because right now, we have over 60 different taxes that we're getting hit with, either as individuals or small business owners. This would wipe out those taxes and put it to one straight 6%, which, sorry, 7%, which will streamline everything. That's only going to work if we go through the budget, because spending on programs that aren't been a bit official.

52:25And then the other way is to get a better deal on our spending. We are getting way over charts on multiple contracts and bids, and there's a lot of waste-fodden abuse in the systems. So by one reducing our spending, reevaluating our deals, and then putting a 7% consumption tax, we can get rid of all property taxes across the board. But the first year, the push will be to make the residential home set exemption a full exemption. So that'd be the first part of it in conjunction of cutting the spending and then evaluating the contracts. Right. Right. Yeah, I think people, because what I would be in favor of, not just for Texas, but even at the local and federal level, is to have visibility of all of your taxes. In other words, right now everything is buried in the price.

53:28And if the tax had to be a separate item, like you're paying for this, for this regulation, you're paying. When we go to the gas pump, we pay taxes, but it's just part of the gas price. To me, if all of those taxes were broken out separately, then people would be aware of them, and then people would complain about them, and then there would be changes. It's just so hidden right now. All these taxes, they're just buried it as part of the price of something, and I agree with you. Now, I had an idea from the standpoint that I would be concerned about the lower income people and their ability to pay a consumption tax. For them, would they be putting more money out on the consumption tax versus what they're paying for property tax and other taxes?

54:28I don't know all the numbers, so it's hard for me to have a real opinion on this, but I would be concerned about that, and I've tried to get into conversations with people over the past several months, because this has been a big talking point in Texas over the past year. I can never get into a conversation with them, but let me float this idea past you for a low income person. They would have a credit card where the first, and I'll just make up a number here, $5,000, $10,000 of their purchases in a given year, they could produce their card, and they would be exempt from paying the consumption tax. So, if you're paying for a low income tax on that purchase up until that level, and that way you wouldn't be hurting the lower income people with a consumption tax. Does that make sense?

55:32And I think where people are, is a big misconception, is there are exemptions on the consumption tax that would happen. So, you wouldn't be taxed on food, and you also wouldn't be taxed on vehicle purchases, home, and land and homes. So, major purchases like that, it doesn't include it. And part of that reason is because, well, you shouldn't be taxing actual food. So, on the basic necessity that you need, it's not taxed, but again, we get taxed every damn place. Like, we get, we're over taxed. So, it's not just property tax, but it would just streamline and reduce the number that we have and make a little more transparent. Because I agree with you. It needs to be more transparent of how much we're paying a taxes every single year, between federal, date, local.

56:37Fortunately, we don't have an income tax here in Texas, like California and other states do. So, that's also because we have property tax. But, if they were limits to, I guess, now we can look into, as additional exemptions for the lower income. And the whole idea of the consumption tax is that, one, you're owning your own property again, you're not listening from the government. But then, the more you spend, the more you're going to end up having to pay. Which is a different solution. Because I know a lot of the left, they want the rich to pay their fair share. Well, if you're purchasing a lot of different extra vacations or different goods that are not a basic necessity, then you're going to pay a much higher tax, have a higher tax bill.

57:40And I would put that exemption to the question at the beginning, to residential first. I guess you're a full homestead. But if you're a business and you're, that's your, that's your business. Is it, these homes, like, still rent them? No. But if it's owned by an LLC, like, then it shouldn't be exempt. Unless it's a small business account of a home base or, like, an actual good store or facility like that. But there needs to be limits on what happens and not to do that as much corporate welfare. Because that's why I see if, talking in trouble, we see completely abolished across the board, especially in the beginning, that's going to assist everybody in the country in the state. But it's not protecting the small people as much.

58:43Right. Yeah. And now I have to point out every state in the union currently has a property tax. Although, like you say, Texas has some of the higher property taxes to sort of counterbalance the lack of, of an income tax. Because, you know, the state and locals are going to get their money. We know that. We know that they spend more money than they need to, probably. And they need to, you know, tighten their belts a little bit. But, you know, it's one of those things that I think you're on the right track as far as it's going to be a multi-year thing. You know, you can't just do it in one fell swoop. But those are my sort of major concerns is, is, you know, making sure that the low income people are not going to come out as net losers with the consumption tax. And also, I think you addressed this at least partially. The other main concern I have is, you know, if we have a large consumption tax, then, you know, people can go to a neighboring state for those major purchases and save some money.

59:52And fortunately, none of the states that border Texas have really large cities on the border. You have to go into those other states, you know, which makes it a little bit more inconvenient. But I would still be concerned about that too, as far as, you know, how do we protect Texas businesses and not incent people to go across state lines to save money on major purchases? Do you have any ideas along those lines? Well, you're always going to have that element that do that anyways. It's just like if you buy a brand new car, you want to buy it in California, not in Texas. It's time with most states. If you buy a brand new vehicle, you don't want to buy it in California. But one, now many people know that, two, majority would just still purchase here. You're looking at a few case instances, especially in the interior. People run along the border, they might.

1:00:52But majority would still be doing it here during a little maybe a little bit, but it's going to be negligible to do that. Yeah, I mean, if you look at like Oregon and Washington, I can't remember which one it is, but one of them doesn't have any sales tax. And I'm sure, you know, people from the other state across the border to buy stuff to save the sales tax cost. But I think you're on the right track. I think it would be rather negligible and sort of worth the downside to have a consumption tax versus a property tax. But that seems to be the right direction from some of my understanding as well. I would just still be concerned again about the low income people. Make sure we don't because they're low income. So if you hurt them a little bit, you've actually hurt them a lot and we have to be careful.

1:01:52You know, when we do that, that we don't unfairly penalize them because they're the ones that can least afford it by definition. That's something that I would just be concerned about. I don't know how much you've looked at that issue as far as the lower income people. That's why I sort of had that idea of a quote unquote credit card. They could they could exempt themselves up to a certain dollar limit annually. And the nice thing about that is they would not tend to pass that around or cheap. You know, they would they would want to keep that to themselves so they can get the benefit that that's where I see the value of that as opposed to, you know, like the cards that they get for food and stuff where they buy all kinds of crazy stuff and, you know, not not the right kinds of food. This way, you know, they're going to they're going to try to follow the rules because it's in their own best interest. That's that's what I like about that idea. But anyway, I don't know if you want to expand on that. I'll go on to the next one.

1:02:59I think we're going to not just give me a couple of ideas on that can be integrated to different social programs that already exist. Like you said, ebt snap those types of programs, you're already have to qualify based on the income. So if you have those ebt cards or you have something for that could be a essential thing. You just have to work on a software that have integrate into businesses that they can then put into play. I can keep track of it because that's that's one of the issues. Unless you do it as a state of refund, but then I can be another tricky part to do. Right. Yep. Okay. So the next bullet is disaster preparedness and remediation. What kind of specific things are you thinking about there? Well, we'll technically get tailored off with a major natural disaster at least once a year. Whether it be a fire, hurricane, flood, tornado, and really not yet earthquake, but it could still happen.

1:04:07So we get hit with something big every single year. But yet every time that we do our luck to the officials play the blame game. Oh, it's always the local accounting judge. It's always somebody else to stop them. We watch how slow the state responds and it's very chaotic. So I ended up in Leander that got devastated out of two houses, which was an area we call a ground zero for Leander. Six people passed away with one survivor out of two houses. It was pretty devastating. I showed up there. They got hit early morning of July 5th. So I showed up. I think it was Monday, the 7th or 8th. And the state and didn't really even know how they how bad it really was.

1:05:08So the magnitude. And I got to see we're not we're not repaired. We're we have a lot of individual groups that are coming together, but they're not working well. So one of the things that I'm in the process is coming along side to create is a foundation. It's called a Texas incident management enterprise or time. What we're doing is we're bringing these organizations together. Like I'm all these volunteer umbrellas say, all right. You're now going to work underneath our umbrella so that we can coordinate with the local and state and just all these efforts. Because in the disaster, the state doesn't don't thing, but the state is extremely slow. It's cumbersome. It's like a large military. It takes forever to get orders to mobilize and to be effective when the civilians for the guerrillas.

1:06:08We just show up and force them to help. So that's where one Texas needs to work better with a select few organizations that can have the capability of being the state's arm to the disasters. That's on the other on the civilian side because when the state comes in, they will shut operations down from volunteers because they don't like it or they don't understand it. So there's a lot of misconceptions and friction that happen. And it's a streamlined process as a decision making. And sometimes in these places, the right person can do a job cheaper and faster than what the state has on contract right now. So they'd be one of those expeditions or expedite situations to where, hey, during an athlete's after, we can do an expedited process of vetting a company and they're not already in the system.

1:07:19All right, do get this job cleaned up, but out of their place. I got to witness during the floods companies coming in for cleanup and that they were paid $500 a day to do the job, but there was a company above them who got the contract that they were getting $1,500 a day. So the main company was getting $1,500 actually was $1,500 an hour for a piece of equipment. And then they were paying a subcontractor 500. And so they were pocketing $1,000 an hour. That's insane. No. That's amazing. That sounds like MLM, Deeter. Yeah, it is. It's truly, it's a multi-level type of marketing for government contracting. So we're being charged two to three times the amount on the low end of what we should be happening. And that's a huge problem.

1:08:20So we're not getting the good deals and it takes forever. So the fact that we're pregnant is to work better with local organizations and have a set of volunteers and just get ready because it's always the same dance song and dance. We weren't ready. We didn't know what to do. We didn't, oh my gosh, frickin' out. So we have to get better on that side, but also stop playing the damn blame game to the local officials. It's not always their fault. Some of that comes down to the state. Yep, absolutely, absolutely. Yeah, I mean, those are really good ideas. When I was in the Navy, I'm sure he's the same thing in the fire protection part of the business. There's a lot of pre-planning that goes on. You know, a lot of exercises, a lot of practicing and all that kind of thing. And I think that's what's lacking in general in government is that that coordination and practice and exercising just doesn't get done.

1:09:28And then when something happens, everyone's running around with a hair on fire out of control and not really managing what's going on. And that's something that, you know, I came to appreciate both in the Navy as well as the civilian nuclear power industries is that we did a lot of that. In fact, I was a emergency preparedness supervisor for a few years. And, you know, we practiced for, you know, major accidents. We practiced both internally at the plant as well as with the two counties that were within the zone of influence. We'll call it of a nuclear accident if it ever occurred. And then we would, you know, get to know the judges, the county judges, do exercises and training with them. And that's something that really just doesn't happen in government in general. And I'm totally in favor of that kind of a thing. The next one is pro hemp agriculture. I think we covered that one.

1:10:31The next one is securing critical infrastructure. So you're talking things like power and water and so forth. Go ahead and expand on that. Your ideas in that area. So in Texas, we have a major power problem that we rely a lot on. Solar, wind and the other types of renewables, which renewables their scam. Like, when you look at it on paper and just how it all looks, it sounds good. Like, oh, I'm sitting in the environment. It's a natural and renewable resource. Yeah, it is. But the problem with it is it's not a good solution for a long term because the wind, it reliant on constant wind solar. It's you had to have the sun out. So if it's not windy and it's not a cloud, it's not a sunny day, we're not generating power. And we're very power hungry in Texas and the United States.

1:11:32So the most efficient and this order is nuclear gas and cold. Those are the three most efficient types of production when it comes to power generation. And we need to ramp it up, but everyone's too afraid or it's too costly. But a big part of those costs is federal regulation, even state regulation. So in China, to build a brand new nuclear reactor costs about $20 billion to build it. To make sure it's safe, operational. But here in the United States, it's between 60 and 80 billion. We're looking at a three to four times increase in cost because of the regulations like the EPA and the federal government. So it's just a safe, just as good. But it's all the government mandates and crap that we have on it right now that drive up the cost.

1:12:32And we have plans right now for a next generation of reactor. But nobody wants to take the first step in to do it and to build it because it's going to cost so much. And they're afraid of the cost and the blowback. But they know that it can be way more efficient. Not only can it take the current, like the current course and bring it down to a further level, is the one that they've already buried. They can dig those out and use it to put even further. So they're a lot more efficient. They can produce a lot more power. So if we bring on multiple nuclear power plants very rapidly on the next generation, we can solve the power grid. The other part of the power is in a lot of our electrical components like our power grid. It's, it's manufacturing in China. And we do have spyware that we found in our power grid here in Texas.

1:13:32That comes directly from China and those products. So we need to make it to be where it's America made. And to ensure that we can't have foreign influence with our power grid. Secondly, our transportation. 35 is always under construction. And it's insane. No matter where you go and say to Texas, we have a traffic problem. And that's because tech dot at this point is about 50 years behind on the roads. Our road system can't handle what we have today. We have the state of Texas that said the battle in population in the next 20 years. 30 years for a double population. And our current highways are about 50 years antiquated. We have to do a massive jump in order to meet that demand. But also a dead demand of water power and a highway comes the water.

1:14:37We have water crisis. But the big problem is is we're not. It's not a lack of rainfall because across the state, we get enough rainfall to suffice. But it gets concentrated. My curvil. curvil. Canyon Lake. We got. We got all of our rain for the pretty much all of our rain for the year. And we're going to couple of days. So we got our rainfall within two, three days. That's the same. So we're not good at capturing and keeping the water. And that happened in one area. So the DFW this year, and these Texas, they were flooding. A lot of water, the lakes and reservoirs were filled up and the rivers were overcapacity. And we didn't retain it. It went down to the Gulf. And it just went away. Which leads to a bigger problem.

1:15:39But if we're able to take the water from these floods. And we're able to capture it and redirect it to other parts of the state. We can solve the water crisis throughout Texas. And that's about having to drill. And that's without having to do decolonization. We can do this in Texas. And actually, we enter and we took that type of program. And put it throughout the nation. We can solve the flooding in the disasters. All in on the drought. So about the United States. But it's very forward thinking. Interesting. Yeah, that's a really interesting idea. I hadn't really heard that before. As far as, you know, all that extra water that we get. Then we get the droughts. But it would be nice to be able to capture that water before it gets into the Gulf. And put it somewhere so that it can be used during the drought times.

1:16:41I think that's really an interesting idea. The last one. It's not the last topic that you're familiar with as you have demonstrated. But the last bullet point is rebuilding the Texas Military Department. What are your thoughts there? So did you know that Texas has this Texas State Guard? Not the National Guard, but a State Guard? I was not aware of that. So we have a State Guard, which is completely separate from the National Guard. Because the National Guard can be nationalized. And it falls under the Department of the Army. And their allegiance is technically to our governor. But it's also to the president. The State Guard, the allegiance is directly to the governor. Because in essence, it's a Texas militia organized militia. And that under the Texas Constitution, our governor can enact our State Guard, our Texas Military.

1:17:46And we can go strike another nation. Even the state, we can go and do interventions on behalf of Texas. As long as it's to save Texas lives in our interest. So whenever we had the border issue a few years ago, and this is what I criticized Greg out on. People are trying to say that Greg out there with a great job of the border. He dropped the fricking ball. Because in this Texas Constitution, we can go and attack a foreign nation. So protect Texas. So when you had the cartels coming over here and causing this reckless and all this garbage, we didn't need to wait for federal approval. We don't need to go up to Congress or the president and say, hey, we're having the sudden our border, the cartels are coming in and they're telling Texans. Can we go in there and kill them? Like we're asking permission. We don't need to do that. We can go and do that ourselves.

1:18:47We have a strong military department, our own army, Air Force, Navy. We can go and do a damn strike. We don't need anyone to assist us. We don't need to make a call to the president. We are enacting our right to Texas. How big is that force right now? Right now it's a couple of thousand people, but it's joke. They're not even issued weapons. The Texas State Guard is a laughing stock. Interesting. Yeah, I hadn't even heard of them. I know that we sent a lot of, you know, the Texas Department of Public Safety people down towards the border, but I never heard of the Texas State Guard. That's something I'll do some more research on. That's really fascinating. So did that come from the fact that Texas used to be its own country? Or was that something that came about after Texas joined the United States?

1:19:56It's because they're our own country. That's why because we had our own military department, right? It just got lumped in. And when we joined them, I guess after the Civil War, that was one of the things that we had as the National Guard. We still retain a state guard for Texas stuff. And we saw how the Texas Military Department, so we had the ability to do so, but we're just not using it. So that's where I want to see the state guard well trained. Because right now they're able to train, or they should be able to train with the National Guard, but they don't. We should be able to carry, they should be able to be issued in carry weapons to defend. They're not. The only way that Texas State Guard will give any weaponry during a situation is if the National Guard gives it to them.

1:21:00Interesting. That's really a fascinating topic. And I hear what you're saying. I mean, if it's part of the Texas Constitution, we ought to be able to do it. And we ought to do it. You know, it shouldn't just be words on paper. It should be something that we can stand up as needed. So, fascinating topic. It might be on them. What? Well, my big thing with that is, look how Texas was. In 1836, we set up against the Mexican, the Mexican government, Santa Ana. We set up against them. Yes, we lost brave men at the Alamo, but it ultimately caused detections to rally together, but defeat Santa Ana. So, we have that type of history and mentality. We have the aggressiveness to where if something goes wrong, we should be able to solve it. And my viewpoint is, Texas Military Department needs to be strong enough

1:22:03to where we can go and do our own elite operations. And if the federal government oversteps, we can correct them. That's just my mentality. Because right now, no other state is gutsy enough. I won't say ballsy enough. The standard of the federal government is something where it goes scruely. Everyone says it's Texas, but right now, our military department isn't. We're going to poke and pray that the freaking military doesn't turn on us immediately. If something does go scruely, I pray it doesn't. But in that worst-case scenario, if our federal government does something completely against us, we're screwed. We're going to have to play the game move. Are we going to be okay? Are they going to come in and take over? Or are we going to be able to seize the systems and infrastructure from the federal government, which would be extremely hard to do?

1:23:03So I want to make it to where Texas is the true hold on the line. I believe that's part of it is thinking like we're our own country. Because we chose to be a part of the United States. We chose to do that. And because we chose to, means we have options. And we had that mentality of, look, we want to be here. We don't have to be here. You need us more than we need you at this point. So I want to make it to where, if the federal government says F around, what are you going to find out? Yeah. And I would think that would be particularly useful when the federal government doesn't do their job. Like the last Biden administration didn't do the job along the border. And they weren't doing the, even the interior enforcement of the illegal alien invasion. The Texas could just stand up and say, don't worry about it. We'll take care of it. You know, I think that would be a great service to the state when the federal government

1:24:08falls down on their responsibilities to be able to just kind of take over and say, okay, you guys don't want to do your thing. Then we'll do it because it's our state and we're allowed to protect it. And I agree with you, too, that Abbott was really late to the game. You know, he was a lot of talk and no action for a very long time. And he seemed to be following DeSantis and Florida quite frequently. You know, I would have preferred him to be out in front more often. But he seemed to be like a me too guy to run DeSantis and Florida. You know, where Peter is located. And that's kind of disappointing, you know, to be following another state when you should be strong. You know, you shouldn't be following another state. Nothing against Florida at all. They need to stand up like they have been as well. I would just prefer Texas be the leader, particularly since we're on the border. I mean, Florida can be invaded through the water, no doubt.

1:25:11But, you know, the massive flow of humans and drugs and everything that comes across land is so much greater than the water. You know, it's not even close. So really good. Those are all the points I was kind of scrolling down your Facebook page, Timothy. And I found a topic that's near and dear to my heart that you posted just a few hours ago. And that's the new Islamic complex. I think it's on the north end of Austin. Is that the one that I'm thinking about that they're looking at building? Yes, it is. Yes. So that's, I'm somewhat familiar with that as well. Now, I also lived in Plano. You know, just north of Dallas for, I guess it was 24 years before we moved down here into central Texas. A few years ago. And I recall being a member of a church and an Islamic building was built real near us.

1:26:20And we went over there and visited them. And they gifted us. Corans, which I read and became very concerned. And I appreciate the fact that they gave me the Quran because I knew it wasn't propaganda. It came from them. And so when I'm reading the words in this book, it's really threatening to anyone who's not a Muslim. I mean, I don't know if you ever read the Quran yourself. I read it from cover to cover. It is a very threatening type of a religion if you want to call it a religion because it's really a religion and a political movement. And it's hard to separate the two because they're joined the hip. There's no way you can, in my mind, separate the Muslim religion from Sharia law because they're dovetailed together. And I was very concerned about this. When it happened, I guess it was 15 to 20 years ago.

1:27:21I remember getting into discussions in my Sunday school class. I said, I don't, I just don't trust these people, especially after I read the Quran. You know, because part of the Quran is, is they believe that they can lie to a non-Muslim. And that's perfectly okay because it's in line with their belief system. And once you cross that little boundary there, you really can't trust anything. And I'm really concerned. I'm kind of a little bit more satisfied that we're going to be voting on banning Sharia law in Texas here. I think it's March 3rd, along with some other things that are on the voting agenda. But if you can expand on that too. In fact, we had a guest on the show a few months ago, Peter, if you remember, who had similar concerns, especially the one that they're building.

1:28:23What was the name of that? Epic is the name of the thing. They renamed it the Meadows, I think recently. But it's in North Collins County. And they were really setting up a insular community, which really would have cordoned them off from the rest of society, which is what they want. Of course, and they're starting to get some pushback. But what do you know about that whole thing? You know, at the Texas level, maybe at the Austin level, with this new thing, or anything that's going on in San Antonio. What's your knowledge and view of all that that's going on? Well, that is a very hot topic right now. And there's a lot of information and misinformation that's really going around with it. Now, my big issue is a lot of these facilities that are going up like Epic, and the one that's in Austin, is who is being funded by?

1:29:24Is being funded by organizations that have direct ties to Hamas, or other terrorist type organizations. And we know what their agenda is. We know what they're saying. There was an Islamic leader back in September. He said that we have conquered Minnesota after they have won a New York in a member. They say we have conquered New York. Texas is next. They want to take over and colonize and to make Texas the mecca of the West. This is what's been said out loud. I have no problem with other religions. Because if you're a Buddhist, Hindu, Islam, Scientology, whatever, they don't agree with you. But as long as you abide by our laws and don't force your culture onto how we are, that's fine, whatever. But when in your doctrine and your leaders are saying, you want to take down Texas.

1:30:27You want to take down America. You want to put your real law. You want to put your laws in your ways above all-own. That's invasion. That's a problem. And that's something that we can't stand for. That's why in that post, I said specifically, if they are funded by a terrorist type of organization, or those from a foreign country, that shouldn't be done. Because that means direct foreign influence, fear, and Texas, here in America, which is allowing for an invasion. That can't be done. At the same time, though, you can't just say everyone's bad. I've been hearing people say, oh, all the Muslims are bad. All the Jews are bad. All Christians are bad. So, not everybody is bad. There are extremists in every group that happens to be more in Islam. About 20 to 40% of all Muslims are what's deemed as extremists.

1:31:30They had thought that ideology that's in the Quran to push and invade. This is what they say. And if you look at the radical Islam, because you've had Islam in countries in the Middle East, like Persia specifically, if you look at the ancient clothing of Persia, and even Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, before the radical Islam took over, look how they dressed. It was extremely colorful. It was vibrant. Now it's dreary. Black. It's stripped of women's individual rights away. And it's dull. And almost every one of those countries who are the radical side, it's disastrous. It's not good. So, that's the problem. You're looking at the radical that's trying to take over. And they're trying to do that throughout the world. And that's something that we can't let happen.

1:32:33So, by limiting, it's saying, look, if it's by the care organization, or the Care Foundation, other organizations that are linked to Hamas, that should be a hell mill. Now, it goes to anybody. I don't think you should have a foreign country or investment made direct policies in America. No foreign entity should own or be able to own America land, including foreign governments or companies. So, you know, I know the Attorney General, Texas Attorney General, is looking into particularly the epic project and probably other things as well. And on a positive note, the governor has declared care. And is it Muslim Brotherhood to be, we call them terrorist organizations? Is that the two?

1:33:33I know it's care. And is it Muslim Brotherhood has also been declared to be terrorist organizations by the state of Texas? Yes, they were both still declared terrorist organizations. And that's who has flown the often development. So, that's a good first step. I mean, that's not the end point, but that's a good first step. In my mind, first you have to recognize the problem, then decide how to deal with it. But, you know, one of the things we talked about on a previous show when we had the guests come on with these concerns. And he lived right up in the area of epic. And he could actually see what was happening and how he was treated and so forth. And he brought a very good perspective to the show. But my main concern would be, let's say you've got a bunch of, you know, good, friendly, peaceful Muslims that the problem is when they, when the radicals infiltrate, they intimidate them and they make them cower and take over.

1:34:42And they threaten them to say, you know, you better maybe yourselves. And so, you know, they're like an unwitting co-conspirator, let's say, you know, not that they're in on it, but they're intimidated by it. And then that's my concern is that their actual book, their actual Bible, the Quran, is what promotes this. And I just don't see how you can separate those things. And how, you know, you get a new mom, for example, that comes in, that's radical and all of a sudden, they change everything. And that's the real insidiousness, if that's a word that I see, you know, with the Muslims that it's just, it's just too prone to that kind of a takeover that you don't see in other religions. You know, we don't see that in Christianity or in Buddhism or, you know, any of the other major religions, people wouldn't stand for that.

1:35:42But because it's in the Quran, in writing, it's hard for me to separate those things. So, that's, you know, kind of my input on that whole thing. Peter, I think we're near the end of our time here. I don't know if you had any questions or comments for Timothy, but I think we, we probably need to wrap it up. I wanted to thank Timothy for coming on. I really appreciate you, you know, taking up the offer and, you know, if you want to come back some time and continue these discussions or get some other topics, you're more than welcome to do that. Peter, I'll hand it back to you and let you add anything that you'd like to and, and then like I do with most of our guests, let Timothy, you know, kind of give some closing statements. And comments. Go right ahead, Peter. Sure. I'll go quick and what we'll do is we'll make sure that Timothy Maibri, M-A-B-R-Y, is going to be on the title for this radio show.

1:36:42So, if you're on building fortunesradio.com, you'll be able to go look for this one specifically and certainly share it and listen to it again and all those other things. Can just a little bit of a, like the boring details. When is the, when is the election? What date? So, the election date is Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026. So, we are a little over four weeks away from the election. Remember down to the wire. And if you have a website or anything else that people might be able to read up a little bit more about you or whatever, I'll make sure Scott sends you my email. So, we'll include that in the show notes over here. And we certainly wish you success in what you're doing and success on what you're working on. And if you want to come back before, maybe we could even do a special one if there's anything else in like the last minute that you want to do. And I want to say thanks for all the great things that you're doing in the process and the awareness that you're bringing. And of course, we wish you luck in the election.

1:37:44So, I don't know, I think that's it Scott. There's a ton of things that I could, and we can talk to him about and hopefully when he wins, we'll be able to continue the conversations and give him some positive input. Because we know a lot of people in a lot of different places, many of them in Texas. Yeah, Scott, I'll let you finish it up. Yeah, Timothy, just go ahead and give us some parting thoughts and then we'll close out the show. Well, thank y'all for the opportunity to come in and talk to the listeners. One of the big things I'll say is we had to get at them both. Unfortunately, most people, we don't show up. The last primaries, we were like 1.5 million Texans voted in their public and primary. We have 17 million registered voters. We have 17 million and a small fraction is what's deciding it.

1:38:45So, on the primary, get out and vote. This is how incumbents stay in. It's very small numbers. They don't want you to turn out. So, what we need to do is you need to start grabbing 5-10 people and say, hey, get in my vehicle. We're going to go and vote today. Get them out. Push the changes because our government is stalling. And we need new people to come in to save this nation because unfortunately, we are at the point to where the status quo is going to ruin this country. So, if you're sick and tired of the complaining, one, get out and vote. Two, find the candidate. Join their campaign. Donate a couple of bucks to them because that's how we're going to help get the new people in and remove control in the corruption that is embedded deep in. And if y'all want to learn more about me, you can go to Timothy for the number four, tx.com. Perfect. We'll make sure that's in the show notes. Scott, thanks for being here. Scott, if you want to just give out your website while people listening in.

1:39:53Yeah. Again, you know, this show is multilevel marketing centric. So, that's what my website is based on. But we love to have guests on off topics as well. But if you go to facebook.com slash stop the amway tool scam. That's all one word stop the amway tool scam. You'll find a ton of information there as far as what's going on with amway and other MLM companies as well as some solutions. But I just wanted to thank Timothy number one for running and number two for coming on this show and best of luck. And I'd be delighted to have you on again, you know, either before and or after the election because this has been a great discussion. I like to say I was Charlie Kirk before Charlie Kirk was Charlie Kirk. I've always believed in open discussion. I always believed in, you know, talking to people of the same and different opinions. I'm not close to having a discussion with anybody.

1:40:56I think that's what makes this country stronger is when you have that kind of back and forth and someone has a different perspective. Great. You know, I may not agree with it. I may agree with it. It doesn't matter. We get a lot more ideas on the table, productive ideas by talking to each other versus going into our corners and just rotating in our own little circle there. So anyway, Timothy, thank you. Thank you, Peter. And we'll see you again next Saturday. Perfect. Thanks, everyone. Thank you, Timothy. You've been listening to Building Fortunes Radio on BuildingFortunesRadio.com. Thanks for listening. Building Fortunes Radio is part of the UMungus AM and UMungus FM Radio Network. Be sure to check out the BuildingFortunesRadio.com website to listen to your favorite shows. You can also hear us on UMungus Radio and wherever you find your favorite podcasts. It's been our privilege to have you listen in. A Building Fortunes Radio, we wish you the success you deserve and are willing to work for.