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James Talarico on Trans Athletes, Carmen Turner Indictment · KSEV Mornings with Craig and Wayne

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This guy!
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That guy
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Okay, see the radio
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You want to do it you want to do it do what we're the mob guys D The
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Mad Guy, he's from Jersey originally, I'm from Brooklyn.
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We both came here for freedom and prosperity.
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It's true. And the American way.
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And I've stayed here, I came here when I was 14, I stayed here and I'm obviously
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not 14 anymore. I've been in the journalism world here for 50 years.
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You know that Craig, 50? No. Darn years.
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What got you into it? What made you do this when you were first starting?
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So, I know it's hard to believe this, but I used to do impressions of Jerry
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Lewis. Back when I was young and my voice wasn't hoarse, I did a Jerry Lewis
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impression. And I made people laugh with it, because it was a pretty good
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impression of Jerry Lewis. Most people listening probably go, who's Jerry Lewis,
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which is frightening. I know who he is.
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But nonetheless, the guy that did the telethon for the older folks, they know.
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And so I decided that I should go into
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radio. And I didn't really, and I was talking to
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my advisors at UT, which I already had stopped really going to other than just
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registering, right? I didn't really go to the classes.
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That I should go into journalism.
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And I said, I don't care about journalism.
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I just wanna do my Jerry Lewis imitation.
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Yeah, so that's really this the story of how a legend is born
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Wait, did you drop out of school then to pursue journalism or no?
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I Didn't finish college. Okay, I was there for five and a half years and I was
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clearly not going I was just there.
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I was hanging out. We have that in common as well I the first school that I I
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left and they kind of depending on if you ask me or my mother Either they kicked
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me out or I left but I got an opportunity in radio in South Bend to do stuff with
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ESPN there and Cover Notre Dame and I was going to Holy Cross and I just stopped
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going to my classes I was like, this is better and I sat down with a Advisor just
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like you and they said to me You don't need this very expensive thing that you're
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paying for to pursue what you're pursuing And it seems like you're succeeding at
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19 years old You should just do that.
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And so I listened and for a semester I listened without telling the school And so
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then at the end of that semester, I failed all the class.
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I didn't show up to any finals I when you don't take any of your finals you fail
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all those classes and so then they sent me a letter I've heard that yeah, they
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sent a letter to my mom that was like hey, you're kicked out for a semester I was
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allowed to go back. It was a one semester break.
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I was allowed to go brag But I was a best your break.
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Yeah, I was like, I'm not coming hold it.
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That's what they called it They're like we're gonna have we're gonna put you in
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timeout first semester if you failed everything But we'd like you to come back
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and so my mom and I debate what happened first chicken and the egg Was I already
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failing or was go ahead? Yeah, no, I think you were I was not I was not But I
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would say that both of us sort of exemplify America right yeah,
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you you like you start doing something you love to do and and I still
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love Doing what I do. I amassed a great list of people who hate
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me, which is Really entertaining to me amazing.
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I I get it all the time. I get nasty texts and phone calls and
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I enjoy it. I really do. It makes me happy.
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But I was working, I've been working a lot on weekends.
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And so, you know, but I was looking forward to coming in this morning because I
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wanted to talk about, you know, the election.
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Excuse me. I think this is very loud.
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I thought I thought we were getting a break early there.
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You know what that is? Yes. It's a godfather.
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Yeah, I have the godfather on my phone.
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My wife hates it. I think it's awesome.
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I'm actually going to change that to be my ringtone right now as we continue to
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have this conversation. Yeah, I have the godfather on my phone, so when you call
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me, it rings. Gotcha.
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That's all. Were you setting up the Talarico clip or were you going another
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road? What were you doing? I don't know what road I was going on.
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I will set up the Talarico clip if you want me to.
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Sure, go ahead. So this is a clip sent to me by my friend Mike Carl, who's
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listening to us in lovely scenic, Alabama this morning, which is, you know, great
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place. Um, Montgomery, Alabama, but he sent me this clip of somebody going up to
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Talarico, one of those like meet and greets.
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We take a picture with the candidate.
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She probably paid money to take that picture because they don't take those
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pictures for free. Like sports guys.
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Anyway, she goes up and, and, um, here's what happened.
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Yeah, she seems to know him pretty well too, which is also weird.
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Here we go
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I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you came.
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These are lots.
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I'm so happy you're running and everything you're doing for our country and
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everyone's feeling included. I haven't used these pants, I want to let her know
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that our government hears her, can I count on you to support her, and she's not
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able to participate in it in sports.
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The way I the way I fought for trans kids in legislature is how I will fight for
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the US Senate. My position hasn't changed.
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I still think these should be local decisions sport by sport, athlete by athlete
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and I think I have the most inclusive policy of any candidate who's running.
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I know things are getting clipped and stuff, but my views, my position hasn't
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changed and I'm gonna have your loved ones back.
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Okay, thank you so much. Okay, what's crazy about that is that he says stuff is
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getting clipped and he means of him saying things saying things that Directly
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disagree with what he just said there and he's trying to tell his supporter who
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sounds like someone that definitely is giving him money Or at least he thinks is
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going to give him money That don't worry the things you're seeing that the stuff
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that I'm saying isn't what I believe that person paid money probably a
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significant amount of money so that Talarico would stand there and take a
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picture with her. And be honest with her.
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And that's why he told her, like, because he figured, well, who's paying to come
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in here to, you know, to spy on me.
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There were so many things that were weird about that.
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And one of them was the local
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sport by sport decision. So
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I want us to sort of parse that a little bit.
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So does that mean that it depends on the sport, whether we're going to let men
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play in women's sports? So who's going to make that decision about whether being,
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I mean, are they playing chess?
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Right. Maybe he's talking about the chess club, that it doesn't matter if you're
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trans, but it does in all sports, I think.
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So there is a radical group. The only way that I can talk about this topic and
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the thing that you're asking is there's a radical group of people that try to
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make the argument that there are certain sports where the biological advantages
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of a man are different than other ones.
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And an example for that would be like basketball.
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The biological advantages for a man are pretty significant, like just being
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taller, being able to jump higher than women.
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But they say like, you know, gymnastics, it might actually be more beneficial to
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be a woman to be more limber to be someone who can, you know, maybe throw
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themselves in the air hire, maybe men competing as women in gymnastics will
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inevitably lose. So they're saying that that's allowed, that that would be okay
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in those sports where the transgender person has a significant disadvantage to
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the female body. And there's not a lot of examples in sports where this exists,
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but I was probably going to say, do you have something other than gymnastics?
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Because that's not generally a real masculine sort of sport anyway.
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This would be like Olympic style sports.
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Like when it's, you know, Oh, I know you know what's that thing with a It's not
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shovelboard sure that they called the big one the one on the ice with the broom
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Broom guys
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Curling it's currently we got sorry.
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I'm sorry. Well now if I attended the curly they don't care so it's more what
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they mean by that is like the the ones where you're dancing like the skating but
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it's more about dancing. You're kind of dancing now.
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I know, seriously. We are. Like, this is them.
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This isn't me. This isn't my opinion, the stupidity of this.
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And so you then use that as a way to say and a way to make it sound as though
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you're going to put men in a lot of sports against women, not just the one or two
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where they might have an argument that it might be a disadvantage to be a
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biological dude. But even then, like, what's the point in doing that in all
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honesty and letting someone compete in a sport where they're doomed to fail
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because they're not going to be as limber as a lady and then if they still win
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it's still unfair it still makes you feel like I wouldn't be I guess the best way
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to say this Wayne because the more I've thought about this if I think about it a
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lot no I'm thinking about it right now it's just a right now thing the more I'm
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thinking about it right now to make that clear not like Talarico who goes to
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sleep and I think about this stuff the weirder it would be for me to be like the
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parent of a kid.
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Can I ever tell you about my son's spelling bee?
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I think I did. I don't know. I'll tell you about it on the back end.
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We got a break so it was my tease.
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There we go. Big story about my son and some Indian girls coming up.
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He got a spelling bee coming up in just a bit.
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A lot coming on. It is the Mob Guys on KSEV Radio, The Voice of Texas, more after
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KSEV radio, this is the voice of Tactus.
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We know that anyone that heard that tease hung in through the entire commercial
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break. Oh my God. There was no...
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They were going, kids, come in here.
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Don't you feel those getting ready to talk about his kid?
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There's no way to leave. You teased a story about your son and a spelling bee and
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I can't remember what else you said.
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I don't know how we got from trans kids.
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Focus. I'll do a real quick recap.
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I said that I would be disappointed if I had a kid that seemed to be beating
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people he had a biological advantage against.
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I think that it would disappoint me.
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And I'm surprised more parents of children that dominate a sport because they're
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biologically pre -conditioned to do so don't also feel that way.
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But go ahead. So like some of the elementary school, he was in a spelling bee.
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And I'm not gonna say I was disappointed in him, but I remember that he was
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one of three remaining contestants and the other two girls
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were Indian girls.
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And I turned to my wife and I said, Anthony screwed.
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He's never, he's gonna lose the white guy.
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White guy ain't beaten the two Indian girls, right?
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who are you know beaten every day to make sure they get good grades.
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I'm just kidding. But you know what I mean.
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I get you. And I never, we never, you know, Anthony just gave what he did.
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And and did he lose? Oh, it was the very next question.
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I think I think the word was paprika.
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Paprika? Well, they called it paprika, I think.
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Oh, paprika. And and he's dispelled it.
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Yeah. It was like nine or something.
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Like he doesn't know how to spell paprika who cares, but I know it's bothered him
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all these years.
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I turned him, I really did. I leaned over to my wife and I said he's screwed.
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He's not going to beat the Indian girls.
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What's funny about that is I was a mathlete for a little while.
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Do you know what those are? A what?
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A math athlete. They called it mathlete when you competed in mathematical.
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Well, I didn't hang out with those people.
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Okay. Yeah. Even I remember in like grade school, they used to do like, um, times
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table quizzes for us for some reason.
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And, uh, whenever it got to the end, it'd be me and like the three Asian kids in
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the classroom. You're done. You're doomed.
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Sorry. Yeah, because, you know, I don't know what it is, but there's cultures
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that are very good at math, it seems.
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And they, they all beat me all the time.
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Um, you had another piece of audio that we want to play if we're going to be
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controversial in the show now, which I feel like we are.
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And we both don't care. Actually, that's probably one of the other things that we
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get along on. I kind of like it too when there's people that don't like me for
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reasons that I think make sense Look and you're gonna say something that's wrong.
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Look I have I've offended more people over the years Sure, like I I use this
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opportunity to say I don't care
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It's not intentionally hurtful I know very strong views right about what I want
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my country to be and yeah And I, you know, I, I, I live in a dripping Springs
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in Austin during the weekends and my neighbor, I've gotten troubled by the
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HOA for putting up a Trump flag.
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So when I saw his Trump flag, I said, thank God, because they're in Austin.
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Really? Seriously. It's going to be, it's going to be rare.
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A completely different world. Um, I, we have a caller and then we're going to do
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the audio you sent of the barber, which I think is funny, but we can try to get
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to, uh, Alan first. Alan, what do you want to say?
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Yes, I want to call everybody attention to an
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event that happened last week regarding the Fort Bend County tax
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assessor and collector. Her name is Carmen Turner and she was
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federally indicted for fraud. I
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remember there was a call last week urging us to pay more attention
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to the local races.
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This is the example. She won the 2024 election only by 2000
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votes, and she has a history of lawsuits against her but it would settle
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our court.
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So we have to do better exposing, well,
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analyzing the local race because those are the races that are affecting us
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directly. I appreciate this sentiment.
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Here, hold on, because I feel like Wayne's going to know all about this.
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Fort Bend County is a county that he's involved in often with his other gig.
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And Aaron Reitz, who is the U .S.
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Attorney, was the one that had the press conference, and he's a true believer,
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Aaron Reitz. He's a great choice for US attorney and he's going to he's gonna
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cause some trouble and do some things that haven't been done and But the sad
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thing about Fort Bend County is that if you look at the early numbers The
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Republicans are gonna get swamped in Fort Bend County and there is a really good
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chance Alan that Carmen Turner's gonna win again, right even even with that just
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like with Carla Wyatt There are people that have every every reason to think that
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they can't possibly get reelected and Wayne and I were talking earlier in the
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show About people who just ignore it don't care show up vote D and go home They
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might not even know who Carmen Turner is They just see her name and there it's on
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the right side of the ballot. So they vote for it.
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I which is horrible Can I put in a little plus because I'm relying on
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these people There is a group called the I voter hmm.
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They have if they need your help for the funding, they started
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doing this midterm, they starting to putting more
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information about candidates who's running for local races, but they
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need more funding. I think that's one step that we can
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go forward with that. And I appreciate their help.
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Sure, no problem. me. Sure. We thank you very much for the call, Alan.
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That's iVoterGuide .com. It's grounded in God, rooted in research, and they have
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a whole thing on Texas. They tell you what people's positions are from a
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political position, and also they tell you what people's positions are from a
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religious position. So it also matches or mismatches certain politicians to your
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belief and your faith. Let me just sort of.
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I have a feeling that James Talarico is not on their list.
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People just vote because you never know what's going to happen on election day
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and you just go vote. I still enjoy voting in person, but I did vote early,
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but I voted in Hays County. I voted for Bubba, the guy that's running ...
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I don't know, some guy named Bubba.
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I'll vote for him. I remember once voting for Sam Houston, a guy that ran for
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Texas Attorney General. His real name was Sam Houston, just like the first
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president of Texas. the guy with the statue.
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Yeah. Yeah. And they got a big statue in Huntsville.
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That's very tall. Very tall. Yeah.
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And it's actually, have you been close up to that statue?
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I know. I've only been driving by it.
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It's pretty, you should go. Okay.
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You should pull over. Okay. Take a break.
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All right. Yeah. You go to the bathroom.
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Yeah, sure. I don't think you'd go to the bathroom on the statue.
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Yeah. I don't think I'm supposed to.
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But I forget that attack. I totally lost my train of thought.
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You're talking about Bubba. Yeah.
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So I went into the poll that the ballot that year and I saw
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the guy his name was Sam Houston.
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I said, I'm going to vote for that guy because of his name.
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I have nothing about him. Right.
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Uninformed vote. Uninformed voter right there.
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Yes. Yeah. It didn't take me very long to vote though, because I did not in the
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races. There were some races where they were just Democrats up there.
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Right. Sure. And so I didn't vote as a side of my protest against
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what's happening to the Democratic Party.
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But perhaps the Democratic Party is beginning to reflect more of the changing
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face of America. I don't say that as an endorsement.
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I say that as we need to look around, folks.
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Yeah. Well, you know what's really interesting?
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Because I can admit that my family is pretty conservative.
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Like a lot of my family is very conservative.
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We have my cousin on this show and he's a pretty well -known conservative person.
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And that's a reflection of most of the belief system of the family that raised
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me. And so when I was 18, I remember registering Republican, just voting R down a
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ballot the first time I could vote and just leaving.
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Like I didn't know any of the people.
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I was just like, this is what I'm supposed to do.
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This is what grandma does. This is what my mom does.
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This is what I do. And so I just did it.
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And it took me a few more years to pay attention to things and not just feel good
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about voting for the sake of voting.
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And like thinking, and I remember my grandmother instilled in me at a pretty
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young age that like the abortion thing is all that mattered.
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She's like, you should care about just this one issue, save babies lives and vote
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Republican down the ballot. I'm like, all right, Grandma, I'll do that.
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And it's not until you're in your mid 20s, at least, at least this was for for me
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where you started to even pay attention to something.
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And I think there's a lot of young people now who were one very specific issue
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voters and they believe that voting D is akin to voting for the good guys,
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because whatever that one issue is, they think that the Democrats agree with the
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more than Republicans do. Yeah, I guess my biggest problem with some of the young
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people
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stop bothering me. You usually have that muted.
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I really do. I don't know why. It's fine.
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I just want to show you how popular I am.
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Yeah, that's great. I'm already being called by lawyers for something I said.
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A quick break, a lot more. KSEV radio, voice of Texas.
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The Mob Guys, Wayne D 'Altrifino, who barely knows how to use a computer.
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And Craig Coglianese, we'll be back after this.
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We are the mob guys thrilled to be with you.
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As I always say, and sometimes Wayne laughs at that, although he's here and we
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love that he's here. We were talking about this crazy Muslim thing
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that went viral and it's hilarious.
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Do you want to set this up at all?
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Well, can I just tell you that this is a barber, right, who apparently refuses
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to cut the hair of Muslims? And I'm sorry, not defending that.
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But, but he is, he's hilarious, but he also
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represents, I think, a culture in this country that
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is rightfully, and I don't call it Islamophobia because I think that's a fake
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word. I'm not afraid of Muslims.
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Right? because if we're going to get into a shoot and match, let's go.
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But I do think there is legitimate concern
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that people who are Muslim or
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Islamists are going to try to change our laws and our culture,
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which is not what our founding fathers believed.
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And that's what concerns me but this guy you gotta watch this man this guy listen
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to this guy's funny yeah he is funny because I do think he's making an argument
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about the behaviors of certain individuals and he's couching it in Muslim people
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but I think he is actually trying to make an argument that's more defined than
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that But here we go No, no, no, no
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Because of your attitude you suck I do
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because you got to this country and don't behave yourself you get the hell out of
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here now
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No, he doesn't like her attitude he doesn't touch her by the way I know they
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can't see it so he's just way hands he said get he's get out of here and he's an
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older dude I don't think he's gonna attack her and she's getting a little upset
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by that but yeah he says he doesn't do Muslim haircuts because their attitude
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sucks Look, I think it is going to be the defining issue
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culturally in this country. We talk
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about Dems and Repubs or Common Sense versus Crazy,
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which I think is right. Let me ask you a question.
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Speaking of this,
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what do you think our final message should be?
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And I say, oh, I'm talking about conservatives, Republicans.
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Oh, in the last few weeks before this election?
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It was not in a few weeks, it's only seven days away.
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Okay, yeah. Yeah, I get you're right.
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This last week is what I should have said before the election.
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Yeah. I think the message you came up with when we started the show is a really
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good one, is that, you know, at least we're not crazy.
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No matter what you think about what's going on over the last couple of years.
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Look, I'll tell you something else, and I don't know if I should admit this on
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the air, but I will. I was watching this big Nick Fuentes thing, and I don't like
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Nick Fuentes. I don't, you know, pay attention to him on purpose, but
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occasionally if something goes viral, I watch it at a curiosity.
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I watch him. I watch him. Okay, and he was doing this big giant thing about the
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corruption within the Trump administration and how electing Democrats will
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demonstrate how corrupt it is and out it all because they'll go after them.
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Whether or not that's true, which I don't agree with him, and I think the
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Democrats will manufacture and make stuff up and make it look worse than it is,
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like when they were trying to throw him in jail before, but his message was vote
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Democrats in to fix the Republican Party by forcing the corruption
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out, because allow the Democrats to go investigate it.
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It's a dumb path to a thing that I think a lot of us do want, which is less
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corruption in government overall.
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Not necessarily just Democratic corruption going away.
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I want all corruption to go away.
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I don't want to vote in a Talarico to do it, because he won't do it for any of
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the right reasons, and he'll make stuff up.
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Like when they went after Trump when he wasn't in office before he was reelected,
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they proved how little they care about facts.
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Oh, if the Democrats take over, dude, you're going to have nothing but
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investigation, stop investigations, impeachments.
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Sure. I don't believe those Democrats for a minute when they say, Oh, no, we're
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going to worry about making things more affordable.
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Right. I still haven't heard how they're going to make things more.
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Have you heard that? No. Well, that's what I mean.
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If you think because I think a lot of people out there especially people in the
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middle the people were trying to reach a week Before the you know now the electo
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We should have been reaching them sooner But if those are the people left to
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decide then what you tell them is the flaws of politics exist on both sides But
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at least the right isn't crazy The left is insane and some of the things they say
26:04
are fundamentally just nuts And even that Talarico clip that we played that we
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could play again of him saying no matter what I say over the next Week, I'm gonna
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go ahead and fight to put dudes in women's sports across the board He's gonna do
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that whether or not it's a thing that motivates you to vote But are people really
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are people that dumb? Yes, they don't know I mean
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look I have short -term memory loss, you know for my party days in college Sure.
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But I'm still like remember enough to remember two years ago.
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Right. Six months ago. Six months ago.
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Well, what are we doing?
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And how do they lower the price of something in a store?
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They don't. I just think. They're going to raise our taxes.
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It's going to all be more expensive.
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Nothing's going down. And we did.
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All we did with the Medicaid stuff, not to interrupt, all we did with the
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Medicaid stuff and say, you got to work to get free Medicaid.
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I think the one example that liberals would use is the Mamdami grocery store.
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When you say, how are they going to make food less expensive?
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The government wants to take ownership of the grocery stores, which we know is
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horrible and literal communism.
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Taking away, taking the means of production, taking over industries is bad for
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us. But I think that's the example they'd use is that the government will force a
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lower price by selling it directly to us.
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Is it going to be like a discount or is it going to be totally free food?
27:29
It's the exact same thing with Obamacare.
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To be honest, it's the same band -aid, different version.
27:35
Subsidized something. It's like, well, you'll pay us directly, we'll give it to
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you and it'll be great, and then it'll be horrible and terrible, and a bagel will
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cost $50 on the internet in a very short amount of time.
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It's a great country. This is where we're really...
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I'd like to, in advance, commend all the idiots who think this is the path
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forward. I just I don't even I don't like a lot of the messaging of Republicans
27:59
my closing argument would have been The things we fixed Yeah, right.
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Yeah, give us more time to fix the worst.
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Yeah, we've done all these things I mean the border remember when they were
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saying that Trump had to sign that border bill because if he didn't sign it Yeah
28:17
Like, you know, it was millions of people were going to keep coming in.
28:20
And like within like, I think 12 hours we sealed the border.
28:24
It felt like. Yeah. Right. Well, what's what gives me hope, I guess, is the idea
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that even if people overreact now and put aside in power that shouldn't be in
28:32
power because they haven't proven they deserve it, that two years from now, I
28:36
think we won't get the same thing we got with Biden, which was a revolt against
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the left. Like in 2024, part of the reason that Trump did so well is how
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horribly, horribly, Poorly, you know that side itself performed well in power No
28:50
So I don't think Republicans over the next two years will fumble quite as hard
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and I think that that'll benefit them in 2028 I think there's a chance that we
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have a Republican president again I think Trump do you think Trump talks about
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but so much because he knows That's what's gonna get covered by the media
29:08
and it's I don't know of trolling right because the sad reality is
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95 % of people, maybe more, don't ever hear his speeches except
29:20
for the 22nd where he's talking about Nicki Minaj's ass.
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Well, here's the thing I think is funny is that it was Nicki Minaj because there
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are a lot of people that don't know that she's become a conservative, that don't
29:32
know that she supports that side.
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And I think that if he's trying to reach certain voters, maybe a young male
29:37
voter, maybe a black voter that mentioning Nicki Minaj is a fan of his and having
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that go viral and And also thinking she's got a nice butt is probably not a
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message they're going to disagree with.
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Look, I disagree with sometimes with some things he says in the messaging, but
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he's a marketing guy. Maybe he knows better than me.
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Maybe, you know, and look, I still think that the two big things we're going to
30:04
be looking for, especially in Texas, at least is the Hispanic vote.
30:08
Yeah, sure. Is whether or not the Hispanics who helped Republicans
30:13
get in and were part of that redistricting thing, whether they turn away from
30:19
Trump in large enough numbers to make a difference because they are a sizable
30:23
part of the population. And then I think besides the Hispanic vote, it's going
30:29
to be the black vote. They didn't bring Obama to Michigan for nothing.
30:33
They brought him because he hasn't sold the black vote.
30:39
Well, and that's happening here.
30:40
They say that Talarico is not winning the black vote to the degree that they
30:43
thought he should. Well, if you look at the local boxes, you will see that the
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three biggest traditionally African -American polling locations
30:54
are really low.
30:58
And that's a problem, that he needs that coalition.
31:01
and Talarico needs them to come out in pretty significant numbers.
31:06
I mean, maybe a bunch of blue -haired white people will help him get in without
31:10
it. Oh my God. You go to Austin and it's like, I get the hippies, I
31:16
get the hippie thing, I'm fine with it, whatever, live your life.
31:20
But it is sort of a, you look around and you go, what the hell is happening?
31:25
Plus, I gotta be honest, man, whenever I see blue hair now because of how much
31:28
the right jokes about blue hair specifically, I think it's intentional.
31:32
I do think anybody that's rocking the blue hair is intentionally trying to say,
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I'm a hardcore Democrat at this point.
31:38
They might've claimed that it was just an accident before, but now it seems like
31:42
it's almost the MAGA hat version of the left.
31:45
Yeah, but I also, and this is a personal thing, I don't like piercings.
31:48
I'm not a big fan of tattoos. I don't dislike them.
31:50
To be honest with you. Me neither.
31:51
I think it's weird. And I see people all over the place, they were like, all
31:56
kinds of stuff in their face. Sure.
31:58
And I'm going like what is the world?
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Yeah, I don't mind a little bit of it, but a lot of it is intense I don't
32:05
understand it like they have like metal coming out of both their noses.
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I'm going what are you doing? I don't know.
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Oh, by the way, I'll play this before we take our last break.
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This is the the thing that you mentioned I just want to play it again.
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It's Trump talking about Nicki Minaj's but for anyone that's unaware
32:22
Of course she does like I'm not gonna disagree well when I woke up this morning I
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said I'm gonna go see Colin A's and we're gonna talk about but Mickey Minaj
32:31
specifically here we go. No, just but That is a little bit quiet before he starts
32:35
talking again By the way, I looked at one hell of a beautiful ass before I
32:43
Think that's funny man. I think everything about this morning and everybody is
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laughing They're there laughing.
32:49
Yeah, he is entered. He is entertaining and And like it's the funny thing is
32:55
is the media hates him so much.
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Yes that they will take what obviously was a joke Yeah, you think it's tasteless
33:02
or classless or whatever is whatever sure but but they got somebody coming in
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your office Oh, I just got a Texas trans and
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LGBTQ plus student resource guide
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Okay, why do they send you that?
33:25
What's going on there? Because they heard us talking about it.
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Gotcha. By the way, Nicki Minaj, if you did actually see her, her dress showed
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off part of her body. That might have been the reason Trump mentioned it.
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One more thing about this. I don't know what the source of this is.
33:42
It's entertaining. It says, the organization TENT, which
33:47
apparently stands for Trans Texas Takeover Tour, is
33:53
just launched the Trans Texas Takeover Fall Tour, which
33:59
visits communities all over the place.
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and what's today? Your date today is the 26th.
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26th yes. Dawn you're not gonna be...
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Did we miss it? We missed it dude it was on the 17th.
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Oh no. I'm sure it was well attended but...
34:14
I'm sure it was huge you have big event.
34:16
But it was sent to... Apparently they went on tour back in 2025 and they've been
34:21
touring since they're like a band that's been on tour and I don't know if they've
34:26
been successful at all. Should we end with their music?
34:29
Maybe. The trans -Texas takeover theme song.
34:32
I know I'm not gonna like it, because I know it's gonna be overly woke, but we'll
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talk about that more in just a bit.
34:37
Quick break, one last segment. You can call us.
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I don't give out the phone number a lot, but you can.
34:42
I jump in and be a part of the show.
34:44
The Mob Guys and The Voice of I had a listener send me a message on at radio
34:47
Craig C. You can do that this on Facebook a lot of people choose Facebook I don't
34:51
check it as much as I should but they really like the question of final message
34:55
to voters and their final messages is pretty simple they said if
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you want America to not be America anymore vote for the left what do you think of
35:05
that man I do like I I think it's got to be one of the messages for sure
35:11
I I just I just know and that I I am
35:16
extremely unhappy with what is happening in this country.
35:22
I just really am. And it's one of the reasons why when Betancourt called me,
35:28
Senator Betancourt called me and said, hey, will you come on the show?
35:31
First of all, Craig doesn't know what he's doing.
35:33
Second of all, he needs help. I do, desperately, yes.
35:37
That's true. You're one of the voices out there.
35:40
I said, you know what? But I want to do it.
35:43
And I do it more often than I was going to do it because I'm just so frustrated.
35:49
I just don't understand the way people are thinking.
35:54
I don't understand this growing dependence on the government being your mommy,
36:00
which really bothers me. I think government spending is so out of control.
36:06
I investigate government for a living.
36:09
Democrats always want to raise your taxes.
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Republicans recoil at the idea of raising taxes when they do it.
36:19
Remember George Bush, read my lips, no taxes.
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We don't like raising taxes. We don't want to charge people more.
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We want to give them back their money.
36:27
Yeah, but everybody shapes that as giving rich people more money.
36:31
The way that the left fights the idea of taxes going down is they always say,
36:35
they want to give rich people a tax break.
36:37
Like even if we all get one, they claim that it's just for the people that are
36:40
wealthy and that those people will hoard even more money because of how nice
36:44
Republicans are to them and don't steal the money as government and then misuse
36:48
it. Hey, look, if you want to take the Uber rich, and I'm talking about Uber
36:53
rich, right? People make more than $50 million and you want to like change some
36:57
tax laws to tighten up some of the BS exemptions they do.
37:03
Have a good time. I don't care.
37:04
I mean, I don't think we object to rich people paying
37:10
a lot of taxes because they're rich people, right?
37:16
Elon Musk can spend $350 million on an election.
37:18
I mean, he probably has a couple of extra million to pay more taxes.
37:23
But at the same time, you don't want to stifle growth.
37:27
These people are creating all the jobs.
37:30
I mean people whine about it when my employees worried about something I'm going
37:34
like like This isn't like charity here.
37:38
I'm like yeah work for me. I pay you right to do a job You should not
37:44
want anything bad to happen to me because if I croak or someone shoots me Then
37:49
you don't have a job anymore but honestly You're a really good example of the
37:53
point that you're making actually right now because you start as a investigative
37:57
journalist on TV you become significant enough in that profession to be, you
38:01
know, my wife is now impressed with the amount of people who know your name.
38:07
I know, I know in Houston you are, you're very big.
38:10
We've been in Houston. I used to go to Cozumel.
38:13
I apologize. People would see me there.
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I apologize. I don't mean just in Houston.
38:16
I mean that our experience is that here, like I went to a church event.
38:20
I joined the Knights of Columbus, which I've never been a part of before.
38:24
And I went to a church event the other day.
38:26
Are you the youngest member? I was the youngest person at the thing I was at yeah
38:30
I was I was significantly younger than a lot of the other guys and Knights of
38:32
Columbus I don't know we were walking out of church a couple weeks ago and my
38:35
wife was like you're bored on weekends I want you to go do a thing go be a part
38:39
of Knights of Columbus Yeah, and essentially I just volunteer to like move tables
38:43
I one of the guys was telling me that all that job is is I go to church before
38:47
church and I set up tables That's really what I'm doing And I think some Knights
38:52
of Columbus probably do a lot more and I'm not saying ours doesn't I've only been
38:55
a part of it week. But anyway, my wife was was pleasantly enjoying that anyone
39:01
she mentioned that the co host of my radio show was Wayne Del Tofino to was like,
39:04
Oh, wow, Wayne Del Tofino, like they didn't know who I was.
39:07
Nobody gave a crap about some dude standing next to a move in a table.
39:10
But like, Whoa, Wayne Del Tofino is it.
39:13
And so what I mean by this is you created that success from years of hard work.
39:17
And it's gotten to a point where now you created a business that employs people,
39:21
you're literally an example of why an entrepreneur needs to be someone who
39:25
creates a business here in the United States and then benefits from it.
39:29
The good idea, whatever the thing is, your reputation, it's what allows us to
39:33
inevitably have companies that make people money.
39:36
It's why our country does have a lot of people that live, you know, good lives
39:40
compared to other places. Look, we have to have a country that gives tax breaks
39:43
to people to get married, to have kids, to reward marriage, to reward family.
39:50
That's where we should be our government policy.
39:53
We need to reward people who care about the way our
39:59
country works. And I just, like I
40:05
said, I only get nervous because, and I just don't have a feel for this election.
40:10
I mean, it sounds like it's going to be ugly.
40:12
I know. Seems like it could be.
40:13
I know the three amigos were talking about it looking really ugly in Harris
40:17
County. But yeah. So look, we're going to elect Letitia Plummer as Harris County
40:21
judge. Does anybody know who the hell she is?
40:24
Not much. Does anyone know about her history, her business history,
40:29
this fraud allegations, there were lawsuits and all kinds of stuff?
40:34
Does anyone know that? She was accused of stealing money from patients and stuff.
40:39
She was accused of all kinds of crazy things in the world of her dental practice.
40:43
I don't think anyone's done a critical story on Letitia Plummer.
40:48
I think if you search Letitia Plummer critical stories, you won't find any.
40:54
That's true. I mean, it's an absolute abdication of the media's responsibility
40:59
to cover the campaign of the person who's going to be the chief executive of
41:04
like a multi -billion dollar thing we've got going here.
41:09
And the lack of coverage is people just vote DR.
41:14
Well, she's a day I'm going to vote for her.
41:15
She's a Muslim. I'm going to vote for her.
41:17
She's black. I'm going to vote for her.
41:19
She's green. She's polka dotted.
41:20
Well, it is. It's really the vilification of the other side that has been the
41:24
true thing because I still don't think that Conservatives even though we complain
41:28
and and definitely You know raised warning flags in the world of what communism
41:33
would look like in the United States if it becomes a thing I still don't think we
41:37
vilify the people that vote on the left as much as they vilify us and There there
41:41
are a lot of people who simply do that that way you shake your head.
41:44
Maybe you don't agree I don't know Yeah But a lot of the left believes that the
41:48
voters on the right are horrible people Like I get a bunch of comments on social
41:52
media from the videos I post like someone saying I'm a racist or I'm a sexist and
41:56
it has nothing to do with that stuff.
41:57
They're just assuming it Oh, yeah, look I would call all those things sure and I
42:02
enjoy it I mean, it's why not. Yes, why not?
42:04
I know along the way. I do a story the guy's black.
42:07
Sorry is what it is, right? Yeah, I didn't go find him because he was black.
42:11
I found I I went searching through my directory of public officials when I said
42:15
let's get the black guys Right.
42:19
No. Yeah, you're right. It's an abdication of duty though.
42:21
A lot of media is failing us. All right, that's the whole show I you heard us.
42:25
Yeah, you heard us on air off air Wayne took very few smoke breaks because he was
42:30
you know Dedicated to the show.
42:32
Look I've been ripping my mouse pad because I'm so stressed You gotta go.
42:36
I gotta go. We got to get out of here.
42:37
We're back tomorrow probably normal Although actually I think Wayne is on special
42:41
assignment tomorrow. Yeah, he's not is that yeah, he's not gonna be here.
42:44
I'm probably gonna be here Wednesday.
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That's it for today for the mob guys.
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