Interesting to see a vid of him actually interacting in the real world.
The way he carries himself, I half expected to see a "KICK ME" sign taped to the back of his sport coat.
Well, it might have helped if he'd come in prepared, had a spiel, made his case - however nonsensical and weak it might be.
I mean - the councilmembers said he's been persistently after them for YEARS about this. So he finally - FINALLY - gets his shot. And it's mom's spaghettios (not even spaghetti): he sent ahead a godawful 1980s presentation with no data, plan or support, which he didn't even go through or reference in the meeting. His opener was about how his original pitch was already OBE because the building "fell through," so here's a new idea I just had, followed immediately by almost derisively referencing his "business partner" who "didn't show up.". I know it's Russ, but his lack of even the attempt to try to seem like a professional or someone who can...
do anything is still astounding. How does he not, by this time,
for the thing he wants most in the world, have a perfect, 8000x-practiced, short, medium and long set of pitches, a wealth of special data about the place he's trying to
corrupt infiltrate develop, some plausible hook that might at least be entertaining?
All he did was play "aw, shucks, hey, just wonderin', haven't really done anything about it or raised money or anything, but just curious whether you'd like to change your long-established rules that you like and no one wants to change, for, like, no reason? I'm just puttin' it out there, you know, just in case.". He didn't even talk about the miners (

)!
Then he tucked tail and fled out of there.
Meanwhile, 30 seconds later and back in the soft bosom of his
keyboard iPhone, he's screaming at clerks and flinging legal threats in all directions.