Alan Graham

We need Jamie Elvis art on screen somehow.

And we've outlawed all that.

that entrepreneurial spirit of people, that quest of people to go out and be purposeful.

And instead, the only remaining bastion of entrepreneurialism remaining in the United States for poor people is the First Amendment free speech right to stand on a street corner and beg.

And you can't go to any country in the world, Joe,

And not be accosted by somebody that is selling you something.

Right.

You could be sitting in the middle of Rome.

Come on, baby.

There it is, baby.

That's Elvis crying.

That's serious Elvis.

Velvet Elvis.

Yeah.

And you'd be in the plaza in Rome somewhere drinking your $10 cappuccino, and a rainstorm like today comes on, and there's 100 people out there with umbrellas and ponchos selling them.

And you're buying them.

The rainstorm goes away, and the bottles of water and the artwork and the whirly gig things come back out.

What happened to that piece of who we are?

One of my great friends, a guy, he's dead now, John Brommel, used to sell, you know,

Stuff like the skulls and the longhorns and stuffed animals and stuff and rugs and cow skins and cow skulls from a van on a street corner and built a multimillion-dollar-a-year business that was here in Austin where you could go buy all kinds of stuff like that because he could do it on a street corner.