Seminole

It is literally ruining Halloween for both the kids and the adults.

My town in Seminole, Oklahoma, was smart enough this year to hold it on October 27th, because everybody made a big stink about it last year.

Please do the same and we can bring back traditional Halloween, because it is just really sad that people say, "It's too scary to let your kids roam the neighborhoods these days." That's wrong.

That's false propaganda.

Set them up for success.

Let them have little ounces of things that they do on their own, okay? It's, it's sad.

There was so many old people that were posting on, like, the Seminole County Neighborhood Watch, like, different Face groups last year, going, "I- is trick-or-treating still on? Like, we didn't have a single kid come out," or, "We only had one kid come out.

We bought buckets of full-size candy bars or we bought all this candy and we've had two kids pass our house." What's g- like, why? Why, why rob your kids of that childhood and that, those core memories? I know in the big cities Halloween is still popping, okay? It's still way down.

And the impulse to create Citizen University, it evolved organically out of some other work that, uh, that I did.

But that impulse fundamentally was I had had these kinds of experiences and knew so much about how things work in our country, about how power works certainly in DC, about how democracy is supposed to work, about the gaps between our high ideals in democracy, our creed, and the actual deeds that play out, whether in DC or in Seminole, Oklahoma, or in Tacoma, Washington, or wherever it might be.

And I felt like I needed, you know, not to hoard that knowledge and keep it to myself, but actually find ways to circulate it, and that was the genesis of Citizen University, and that's been the kind of impetus behind all the books that I've written, including this, this new one I've written called Live Like a Citizen, which is not a, "Oh, here's how to navigate DC." It is actually essentially the, the inverse of that, a reminder that we, especially in this time right now, this age of Trump, over-nationalize everything.

And while it's true that, you know, he does present many a danger and a threat to the, some of the foundations of constitutional democracy, the fact of the matter is that while presidents can break many things from the top down, they cannot actually repair them.

And if you know what kind of business me and my wife own, you know that we have hogs that could completely destroy any kind of evidence of a body.

We also live on the Seminole Indian Reservation.

My wife is actually Chickasaw.

I'm white as a newborn baby lamb.

Hey, dumbass.

Yes, I'm most likely talking to you.

Don't get tricked by AI and look like a complete idiot because that happened to a dude here in Seminole that wanted to talk shit about me.

He was upset.

I told you, Ellen.

[laughs] Well, it's April 1992 in Seminole, Oklahoma, and we see a hot guy.

Sorry, I'm just telling you the facts.

He is hot.

Someone keeps telling me that [laughs] they keep hearing dumb bitches.

Shut up! Don't call yourself a dumb bitch, you dumb bitch.

[laughs] And now we meet the undersheriff of Seminole County.

What's an undersheriff? 'Cause I'm not gonna tell you where my mind went.