My name is Martin.
It's a family name. My family's lived here since
the 1800's.
A farming place, prune capital of the world.
I never really cared for prunes myself.
It's soil is really good for fruits like plums
and California's still the farming state.
You wouldn't know it from its cities though.
It is as if it were its own country.
One of the biggest economies in the world.
And I thank Howard Jarvis every day.
But real estate is not what this is about.
It's about a woman more than real estate.
I just can't take it anymore.
What do you mean we'll be late to church Marty.
We drive by that sign every Sunday
and I think, damn, why can't I be like him?
Don't be cussing before the house of worship Marty.
I'm sorry, but why can't I be like him?
'Cause you're you. I don't understand. You're my Marty.
So I'm defined by women in my life.
Sometimes I wonder
just who I am, Christy.
'Cause I'm defined by a man. What's wrong with that?
Takes two to make one. You've studied gospel.
We'll be married soon. This is my last chance.
Have you been surfing Satan's internet?
'Cause that's what it is. Lies on lies.
Lies I have to the internet on lies, even at the store.
Okay, well you just stay within it straight
and narrow if you're ever tempted.
That's what Sunday's for.
And the Lord said, let there be light.
It was light.
What shall the prophet a man
if he shall gain the whole world
and lose his own soul?
That's Mark 836.
Good morning. Good morning, good morning fathers and mothers
and brothers and sisters.
I come to you today with a heavy heart
because I listened and I hear talk in this town.
Seems that some are unsettled
about what this town is and who we are.
Seems like some would inspire to become a big city
and have big city values
and have big city acquisitions.
But is that who we really are?
Is that who you want to be?
We have to talk about something.
It's called ambition. We all have it.
I have ambition. You have ambition.
We have aspirations.
Things we want to aspire to, things we can
make of ourselves.
I see this couple over here.
They aspire to be a married couple.
They aspire to have children one day.
They aspire to be worthy
of the community that they live in.
Then we'd all agree, this is good.
It is good.
They'll build their lives, they'll raise their children
and it will be good.
We must discuss another thing that looks just like this.
It feels just like this, but it is not.
It is not. Do you know what it is?
It's the devil.
I do agree with what the pastor said and all,
but if we don't get in
before this flood of people, we'll be trampled into dust.
Our situation is also biblical.
Christy, you wanna be the one who's working at a grocery
store for 30 years.
Do you wanna be the one that cooks, cleans?
And you know, sometimes in order
to keep traditions, we have to suffer Marty.
Just because we have no money doesn't mean we
have to live with no class.
Meanwhile, there's people catering to the rich.
It's trickle down economics. Kristy,
My parents didn't raise me the way yours did.
I didn't grow up hearing Reaganomics
or whatever you just said. I'm a farm
Girl. That's my point.
That's exactly my point.
Christy, we both are farmers where there's no farm left.
Well just remember what the pastor warned us
about in this flood of people.
I'm your arc not money.
I write this forward to explain myself
in our postmodern and American empire.
Its symbols, abbreviations, acronyms, et cetera
are our language for illiterates.
The aims to make the foreigners
of the world not be precluded from technology
if they should not speak English.
I appreciate that. Yet we are
losing literacy in the bargain.
And as Technocracy uses pagan symbols, our grammar needs
to be restored in schools.
Not only for communication sake, not only for the sake
of classic literature, not only for the sake of class
and culture, but for the sake of logic in itself.
For it is grammar keeping us b♪♪♪♪♪♪s.
I know I can do so much better than that.
Hi, where are you going? Do you have work this early?
I'm going to watch a movie get made.
Okay. Be back for breakfast.
I'll,
let me take this.
Excuse me. Thank
You. Alright, thank
you.
I bet you go through this every day, don't you?
Welcome to Real Estate Today.
I'm Valerie White, and here to join me is Dr. Droves.
Thank you Valerie. Thank you very much.
Very nice to be here. Thank
You for coming.
Ladies and gentlemen, my name is David Droves.
So nice to be here
with you today on the Real Estate Today Show.
And thank you again for having
me today.
I wanted to talk to you about, uh, real estate,
bay area real estate in particular.
But let's start at the beginning.
Real estate is, uh, is a very western concept.
Um, you have had western civilization looking for free land
for a very long time.
If we looked at real estate historically, you have, uh,
Germanic tribes
after the fall of Rome in 476
AD looking for free land.
And they pretty much name every country land
where they got free land after the fall of Rome.
So we have Iceland and Greenland and newfound land
and Finland and iron land
and every land, not including Disneyland.
Professor droves. Yeah.
I'm Martin. Marty.
Marty, very nice to meet you. What can I do for you,
Sir? I've enjoyed your
lectures.
Well, thank you very much. I appreciate that.
What, uh, what can I do for you Marty?
I want to do what you do. Real estate. Real estate.
Where do I start?
Well, I mean, to be honest, son,
I think you start with a makeover.
Makeover. I thought that was for women.
You know, in today's mar uh, Marty, right? Yeah.
In today's market, Marty, a male has
to play up his femininity.
I don't understand. What
Do you, what do you in today's market with female buyers,
if you are just Mr.
Cowboy and you don't play up your gentlemanliness,
you might scare off some female female buyers.
Got It? Yeah. So I, I tell you
what, you have to excuse
I have another, you know, show to do.
But if you call this number,
yeah, you call that she's the best.
Sky's the limit. She'll take good care
of you. See you later.
Thank you.
This looks more like a brunch than a breakfast. Marty.
I'm sorry Christy. Traffic spin. Just
Spare me.
Please tell me that it's not a girl.
It's not.
And say the Lord's prayer and let's eat
Our Father Who art in heaven.
You need a spot?
No thanks. I'm fine alone. You sure? Yeah.
Okay.
The Norse Greek Christian mythology is not my concern.
My point is that logos is now in the flesh
from some dimension.
And since then there have been two kinds of things.
The logical and the og, the heaven and the earth.
The man and the woman, the metaphor
and the autonomy, the logos and the pathos.
What one will. Now this controls all the eight parts
of speech in English.
Any language for ideas.
And here we are in California with some
of the most expensive, uh,
real estate prices on the planet Earth.
The question is, should we get involved in real estate?
I recommend it. Obviously it's my profession,
but real estate is a tangible estate.
Uh, whereas some estates are not tangible estates,
uh, real estate as a type of private property,
but also a private property from which I can get tax
deductions where I can try to write off the, uh,
the interest part of my mortgage payment,
which is the majority of my payment.
This is a plus.
They say that the difference between renting
and owning is going to be that down payment,
but in the end, I'm still going to be paying that rent.
So the question is, who's getting the tax write off?
Is it going to be the person who owns the house
or in the case of rental, is it going to be the landlord
who is getting the tax deduction?
When you are paying the landlord's mortgage
as the renter who's getting
the tax deduction?
We want that person to be you.
Now I can say that I can't buy a house.
Most houses want most loans traditionally want 20% down.
If my average house in the Bay area is a million dollars,
how do I find 20%?
I can get out my cell phone
or I could just move the decimal one place over and get 10%
and then double that 10%.
So 10% of a million dollars is gonna be a,
So now I'm at $200,000.
But wait, there are loans with 3% down.
Fact, let's do 1% instead of 10%.
I move the decimal place over once for 10%.
I move it over twice for 1%
because 1% is 10% of 10%.
So I take my million dollars, I move the decimal place over.
Once I move the decimal place over twice, I have 1%.
And then the question becomes, what is 1%
of a million dollars?
It's $10,000.
If I multiply that by three,
I'll have $30,000.
Yes indeed. That's right.
I can buy a million dollar house for $30,000.
That is a Bay area fact. It can be done.
Now, do I want to pay an outrageous mortgage?
There's no question.
That is a family issue to be discussed.
But if I can afford the mortgage, knowing that I'll be able
to write off approximately half, if not more from my taxes.
If I can afford that mortgage, I just need the 30,000 down
to buy the million dollar house.
It can be done.
Dr. It's sky.
I I normally wouldn't call you under these circumstances,
but I'm afraid the need is rather dire.
This sounds so ridiculous, but I think I may have a stalker.
Hello? I'm sorry. Thought I'd leave a message.
I'm looking for Scott.
Yes, this is she. She
That is standard modern English.
Sorry, I didn't think I'd reach someone this late.
I didn't know I reach a girl, either
A woman, but my cell is 247.
I'm Martin Marty. What can I do for you? Martin?
Droves recommended you.
Hmm? Doctor droves. We'll start with a doctor, don't we?
Martin, what is it that you need?
Joe said to call you for a makeover.
A makeover. Hmm. I think I know what to do with that.
Where shall I meet you?
Could we meet at your place?
I come to clients. I don't waste on rent.
I don't know where else to study. That's the problem.
Do you know the cafe on Saratoga?
Oh
One is to stand for
ladies. Sky
Mark And then a seat.
Of course I am no lady.
What's that mean? Well, traditionally I would have
to be a mother, married and a Christian.
It's medieval.
You're a lady to me.
So tell me, Martin, what is it that you need?
I'm not sure to be more than I am.
Alright, how about we get you a
suit before we teach you
standard modern English to mark your class.
You are a fast learner.
Thank you ma'am.
Let's discuss Miss versus ma'am in the 21st century.
I tip 20%. If you want good service here in the future.
I don't mean me, Glen.
Oh, Come along.
What are we doing here?
We have to work our minds and our bodies.
Okay, and where are we going?
I didn't know we were gonna work out.
Well you see, Martin, the parts
of speech are like a workout, proper grammar, proper form.
I'll do my best. I'm sure you will.
All right, let's get after it. Coach,
I see your suit, your haircut, and your shave.
Marty, I did not see you at dinner.
I told you I was seeing my etiquette coach,
The gentleman that stood me up for dinner.
I never said I was a gentleman. We're not married.
And I am. No father.
You still a Christian? Of course.
What kind of question is that?
Sometimes I wonder when something is
so clean on the outside.
It's just as clean on the inside.
Do you want me to say grace? I said it for you.
I
Hello?
Hello there Sky. How are you? I'm doing well yourself?
I'm doing great. Would you like some coffee?
Oh no. Thank you. Let's talk coffee sometime though.
Much of a coffee enthusiast.
Uh, tea. Tea is more proper. Okay.
More of a tea laden
Indeed.
All right, so what are we going to study today?
You writing a book, Scott On grammar? Yes.
I've never met a writer.
It won't be bestselling,
but at least I have an East coast publisher
who still believes in literacy.
They want us all illiterate.
And who's they? That's another conversation.
The logos is the, is
what makes a man dominate the other kingdoms
of life on this planet.
My pastor talks about this stuff in church,
but he talks about the words instead of logos.
Well, words can have holy all unholy power.
You went to Sunday school When I was young? Yes.
You're still young to me.
I what a gentleman.
You see ideas form eight parts of speech between the logical
illogical that's dangerous.
The light among the darkness,
If you will. Martin
announce a person place thing. You've heard that?
I've heard that. But school didn't teach me grammar.
You see, there are ideas. Plato's forms.
When an idea is made real. It is a thing.
The word made flesh by God.
If you must Martin, the closer a thing is to an idea,
the more that it's capitalized as a noun.
That is why persons place as a nouns to
those capitalized nouns are called proper nouns.
Then you're a proper not a common noun.
My you're a cowboy charmer aren't you?
And pronouns are one syllable words for nouns.
The second law of thermodynamics says that all things go
to the lowest state of energy.
And gravity is an example of
That. That sounds like
sloth. We study sin in church.
Oh, that law affects the language as it does the flesh.
Luther said God tests our Christianity with the devil.
Hmm.
Well a verb is an action.
A state of being too.
A state of beings considered an action.
Yes. And linking verbs.
Well, they really are not verbs.
They're called verbs by default.
'Cause slanging exists, but a sky can't look blue.
Nor can it look.
I do not understand.
Don't worry. Now we'll learn illogic after we learn logic.
The rest of the parts of speech are like that.
They have no meaning until association with nouns of verbs,
which standalone in logic
There is more chaff than wheat on Mother Earth.
I would say more followers than leaders. But all right.
The two together are called subject preti.
I've heard of two making one in church before,
but you're losing me though.
What's in adjective?
An adjective. Associates with a noun.
The white boy learned his manners
White in adjective.
Yes. I thought white was a noun.
One's functions more important
Than and adverbs.
They associate with verbs or anything except a noun.
Okay. They usually end with a lee. Suffix.
Prepositions Show nouns, positions you ever
to the frog in the log.
What? Frog went over the log. Went through the log
Beneath beyond.
Yes. Conjunctions.
Conjunction. What's your function?
Hooking up words, phrases, and clauses.
And the big four are all no, but and
but a plural or nor singular.
He and she are there.
Yes. Or he or she is there.
But that sounds funny. Well, the truth can be funny.
What's the eighth part of speech
Words like? Well,
they're interjections. Well
Excuse.
There we go.
I need to go down that yellow brick road.
I'm sorry. Things ran late with tutoring.
Tutoring. Thought it was tv. Yes.
Did you get something to eat?
They ate with me. They what?
Is he a transgender?
No. Why are you playing a pronouns game with me?
What do you mean a pronouns game with you?
It's a he or a she. One or the other.
It is a she What?
It's a girl. I said as long
as it was not a girl.
She is a woman. Not a girl.
Oh my god. Woman girl. It's the same thing. Who cares?
She has a vagina, doesn't she? You know what? Get out.
You can sleep on the couch tonight.
Why are you so insecure?
I said get out because I know women better than you.
Have you paid her
Christmas time, the holidays?
Is this the way they end for me here in this place And
mental hospital they call it.
That's a fancy name. That is.
But I know a better the bug house.
A place where they lock you up and then throw away the key.
And now they've got me too.
Me, Fred Clinton, Fred Clinton, Fred Clinton.
Is that really the name of everything's so mixed up.
These grounds, these buildings. They're all so dark.
Everything's dark. Even the sky.
I'll never get out that George.
He's turned them all against me. Even Betty.
They keep talking about me. Why won't they let me alone?
Which I can guarantee I Dr.
Droves, who has been in the
biz, we make the investment.
It's very difficult to know
that we could have gotten it for less.
But what we must remember in basic capitalism
is not just the invisible hand of self-interest.
As Adam Smith said in the Wealth of Nations in the 1770s.
What we must remember in any contract is
that something is only worth what someone will pay
for it in that moment.
If a person can you believe this is
willing to just say that because you're jealous.
You stand up for him. $90,000. Get your point for my car.
He's one of those Illuminati. F♪♪k it's worth $90,000.
Who doesn't give a s♪♪t about my life? Well you don't give.
A persons only offering me 3000 a CCK about him either.
Bert, because he has all the money.
So we should care about my life. I can take or leave.
Why should the ones with the money care about you?
Bert, you think rich people don't bear crosses two have been
paying for calories.
Are you jealous of a higher class of pain?
But he can laugh at his pain. Laughter is pain.
She's mine. She's mine. She's mine.
In my head. She's mine. In my head.
That only works. If neither of us touch her.
It's neither of us touches neither singular.
That's right. You have been spying on her.
I've had about enough of you
Don't fall for him.
Girl. There are
other past to choose.
Don't fall for him girl.
You have everything to lose.
So make up your mind.
So leave him for what? Life
is so much more.
So show him the door
full for him.
Uh, f♪♪k.
Damn. I didn't think of the holiday.
Well, we can't go back to my place.
Come to mine. What?
Come to mine. I thought
You didn't do that.
May I ask you a personal question?
Yes. How's a woman like you single.
Some people are just married to the game. I guess
I thought you didn't believe in slang.
Well, sometimes Martin slang gets down and dirty.
The English cannot.
May we help you Just go to my apartment.
He doesn't live Here.
You sure? I'm sure we've seen him before.
Said you own this place. I bought you.
And if you need that help buying
or selling, call me.
I'm drove. He's got the money. Does he have the class?
At least you know now that they're two different things.
They're two different words. Right? But what's class?
You know one is not to start a sense with but Right.
You taught me all week. What's class
Free wealth for all to have.
You've read Chasa, right?
Who? Only the first English author
in the English language
Is that class guy. What is class?
Whoever loves to work for virtuous ends,
public and private.
And who most intends to do what? Deeds of gentleness.
He can take him to be the greatest gentleman.
That's beautiful. But I'm worried. Sky
What?
Worried what? You owe me. You already paid me.
That's what this was about. Payment.
Nothing in this world is for free. Martin Quid pro quo.
I'm worried about my engagement.
I'm not worried about Chaucer
and I'm not worried about syntax.
Well I was worried too about my stalker.
But you know what? I was more worried about
that I wasn't me anymore.
I should have said no to you.
At least you were honest. At least you had the
b♪♪♪♪♪♪s to say yes to. Lady Chance
Is everything. Your
resource to exploit
Use is not necessarily abuse.
Martin. And I've left you off better than you were.
I'm a businesswoman.
She won't forgive me.
I thought you said she was a Christian.
She is Sky.
So she's Christian. But she won't forgive you.
She's a person with feelings. Not a thing.
Right? Your terms are clear.
What do you want now?
I don't know. All I know is that we're sinners. Sky.
I will not be ashamed for choices. Martin.
I do not need Saint Augustine to shame me.
Saint Augustine. Oh Christ.
What did they teach you in church?
Old Testament, but not new.
It's my fiance's church.
He's the one who conceived original sin.
But we all want to f♪♪k Martin. It's natural.
And you are the star. I take it.
I'm the sky. Is that even your real name?
I made myself. It's not where I've been.
It's where I'm going. And you were my start today.
And that's all that mattered.
If Christy breaks up with me, are you gonna take me?
I don't know how to be a girlfriend. Marlton.
I'm Sky. You are Marlton. We had transactions.
Transactions. What a cool sky
You are. Should thank you for taking you
home.
You wanted more than just a simple life.
You wanted class, you wanted money.
Two different things to get what you need
and want is an art.
Martin,
If you are such an
artist, help me home.
Come on.
I came here from England with nothing
but a shattered past in the clothes on my back.
And I came to Los Angeles. A city of lost angels.
More like
I met men, but they were boys at best.
And the girls, they weren't my real friends.
God, I dunno why I'm telling you all of this.
Have you ever played monopoly?
I don't get it. Sky.
It's a real estate game.
Even a child can play
Shakespeare said every man is twice a child.
I dated truth. Did you know that?
You did. I learned from
that man child.
I got my 3% down on Baltic
and then I played the field
till I got my park place.
And I gentrified the neighborhood.
Droves taught to lower a market for acquisition.
I own the condo that I live in.
I own the condominium, the whole complex.
I own the gym. The place where I taught you
What If only I could own you.
I gave up. Love to win.
And now I'm left with nothing. It's not enough.
I have no one to share my winnings with.
So now you know why I f♪♪♪♪d you. Un regrettably.
I don't know what to say.
I should take you home. Please. I never had.
She's expecting you.
Hello?
Well, you haven't lost a thing.
What do you mean Life's contract?
Martin, even Jesus had his,
But you can't tell me anything.
Do you know what a non-disclosure agreement is?
What's that? You have a lot
to learn about business and women.
But I hope we can do business again in the future.
You need a man to take care of that stalker.
Like you need a woman to keep you from me.
'Cause I leave men the way men leave Women,
You always find a man to be your tool.
Just like you always find a woman to be your fool.
Isn't that some sick, twisted irony?
This city will make monsters of us all.
But it's not personal.
The only thing that was personal was when you
and I, when we plead together in our room
There always a phone call away.
She Told me everything. Marty,
Can you forgive me?
I Said, can forgive you.
I, I can't forget
Time.
Heal all wounds. This wound is deep. Marty
Marty, pastor, how are you doing?
Good. How are you Christie? Hi. Good to see you.
Good to see you. Please sit. Okay.
What's it all about? Why are you here?
I'll let Christie fill you in.
Why are you being such a coward? You, you told me nothing.
I've been unfaithful. Ah-Huh?
That's not good.
No. How does that make you feel?
Like I've made a mistake. I
Wanting to be with you.
You're getting married. I hear.
Do you know the difference between a promise and a vow?
Do you know a difference between a promise and a vow?
No. A promise is a pretty casual affair.
I promise to stop for eggs and cheese on the way home.
I come home. By golly, I forgot the eggs and cheese.
Will you forgive me? Pick him up next time.
What's a vow?
It's a life sentence. It's death. Do you part?
That's a vow. It means something.
Now, maybe we're just very fortunate right now.
You haven't made such a vow.
You've made some sort of promise and you broke it.
I,
You guys still gonna get married?
I'd like to make this work.
Do you still want to get married, Krista?
I don't know.
Realize marriage is important.
Probably the usual reasons, right? Man.
And wanting to get together to get married.
Try to forge a life together.
But there's one caveat in there, which is very important.
You should never lose sight of,
there is a great likelihood you'll have children.
That's a big responsibility. It's not cavalier.
You don't get to go. I'm sorry that I screwed up my kids.
How do you raise a child by example?
Had he be a husband? By example?
You guys gotta do some work.
First bit of the work is getting over in this.
Being able to move on from this.
Kristy, you ready for marriage?
I thought I was with the right
person
I don't know.
You are gonna have to figure it out. I
Do you have anything to say?
Just sitting there.
Christie, I'm sorry.
I want you to understand that I know what I did was wrong
and I wanna prove it to you that I'm going to be better.
That I'm going to do better going forward
and that this will not happen again.
If you can forgive me,
Okay?
Okay.
Okay. You too.
Let's come back to this later.
Certainly before your wedding day. Okay?
Okay. You can make a ride.
Yes. Okay. Thank you Pastor.
Good luck to you.
Doesn't mean I can forgive you. 489 more times.
I think we should spend more time together.
Would you like to go get something to eat?
We can't afford to eat out. I can cook.
You need a break each week like going to church.
I
The devil knows some things from hell.
Doesn't she
Mean sky?
I don't want to hear her name.
Okay. She sure had class though, didn't she?
I don't know whom you're talking about.
Don't fall for him. Girl.
There are other paths to choose.
Don't fall for him. Girl.
You have everything to lose.
So make up your mind to behind
for what door
is so much more.
So show him the door
and fall for him.
Don't play the food.
You can Stop being for your start.
Don't play the food.
He will only break your heart.
The plans that you've made.
They will be homemade when he changes
the
so be shown
to show him the door
and don't fool for him.
F♪♪k.
There's a thing. It's called ambition.
Ambition's a good thing. It's aspiration.
We aspire. We aspire to be a good person.
We aspire to marry well.
We aspire to have children
who walk in the path of Jesus.
These are good things. These are aspirations.
Aspire to have a family, aspire
to have a legacy.
But there's another thing out there. It looks the same.
Oh, it looks very much the same, but it's not.
You know where it comes from.
Comes From the devil.
He cloaks himself in these things.
Makes it feel like these things. But it's not.
Do you know what the difference is? It's greed.
Greed is not ambition.
Greed is not good. Greed does not build a good person.
It doesn't build. A good community is tainted.
It's evil. How?
How in the world do we tell the difference?
Oh, you are complicate this one.
This is how the trick works. We tell ourselves that story.
We tell ourselves it is a good thing
because it brings value.
It makes me a more valuable person.
It makes me a bigger person
because I got a bigger house.
I got a bigger car. I send my kids to private school.
There are people in this community
who will look towards a person like that
and say, my God, what a pillar.
I wish to be like that.
But now here's the trick.
How can you tell the difference between
one and the other?
When one has ambition?
In order for you to get what you want, you must make it.
It doesn't exist until you make it.
Take our couple right here,
just the boy, the girl, and they're gonna do this thing.
They're gonna make a marriage. They're going to get married.
They're Not gonna join a marriage.
They're gonna make this thing
and they're gonna have to work at this thing.
They're going to have to forge this thing.
Then they'll have kids. They have to make those two.
And then you have to be
responsible for the things they make.
The house that they built. All of it. They have to make it.
Here's the difference. Greed.
You don't make greed.
What happens is, in order for you to get what you want,
when you're greedy, you must take it from somebody else.
You must take it from your, from your friends.
You must take it from your family.
You must take it from a stranger.
If you are taking it, it means you're depriving
that person of having it.
You're doing them harm. And you can write that off.
You get, hey, but you know what?
You're doing yourself harm because now you're off the path.
How would you ever even believe in the slightest way
that you would ever walk on the path to God,
to Jesus when you did that?
Oh, but hey, I'm not guilty of that.
No one caught me at it.
Here it is. It's in you.
God sees in you And he sees what you've done.
It's all up to us, isn't it? It's up to us.
We make ourselves. There are different components.
There are things you can use.
You can use ambition, you can use greed.
But whatever it is, it's what you are made of.
And God knows what that is.
So consider, you must consider
at every term, even the smallest thing.
How is it that I acquire this?
And if the force is greed, you are dancing with the devil.
Make up your own mind. You do what you must do.
But it is on you. On all of you. It's on all of us.
Think about it. Okay?
Let us pray.