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Early Voting, Cornyn Voters, Taxes vs. Culture War Ads and the France Riots · KSEV Mornings with Craig and Wayne

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  Speaker 1: MUSIC CONTINUES.
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  Speaker 2: On KNTV Radio, I am Craig Colonese. He is Wayne Dolcefino,
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  Speaker 2: and we are thrilled to be with you today, as always,
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  Speaker 2: on the show. Wayne, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Thrilled. I'm just thrilled.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. There you go. Exactly the word I chose.
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  Speaker 2: Did you watch any football over the weekend?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I did. I watched the Texas Longhorns on Saturday
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  Speaker 1: with my grandkids, and they kind of suck.
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  Speaker 2: College football, man, is crazy.
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  Speaker 1: It's a mess. Well, because I think when you do
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  Speaker 1: this portal thing as much as they've done, I think
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  Speaker 1: it just sort of mixes it up. I sort of
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  Speaker 1: miss the old days when you went to a school
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  Speaker 1: and you played for the school just for the joy
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  Speaker 1: of playing for the school and you weren't making hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of thousands of dollars because I'm not really sure why
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  Speaker 1: they need you. And that's where I am. And then
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  Speaker 1: I watched the Texans and I woke up. I was
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  Speaker 1: up anyway, but I watched the game Sunday morning from
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  Speaker 1: Jolly Old. And I thought the Texans looked really good.
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  Speaker 1: I liked seeing Marvin Harrison out there. I think we
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  Speaker 1: actually have, like, a number of guys that can do stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Our defense still is kind of porous. But that was
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  Speaker 1: a great game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I heard Russell talking about C.J. Stroud playing, like,
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  Speaker 2: MVP caliber football.
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  Speaker 1: He looked really good. I mean, when he threw the
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  Speaker 1: interception in the end zone, though, I will admit that
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  Speaker 1: I was the first. I give up quickly. I do.
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  Speaker 1: I do. I turn, my loyalties turn quickly. That's okay.
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  Speaker 1: And I said, oh, here we go again, is what
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  Speaker 1: I said. I remember quoting myself in my head, saying,
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  Speaker 1: here we go again. And as it turned out, we won.
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  Speaker 1: I think if they had not kicked the field goal
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  Speaker 1: and had gone forward and gotten it, then I think
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  Speaker 1: it could have ended very differently. So I don't like
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  Speaker 1: the fact that it's like one play here or there,
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  Speaker 1: but maybe that's just the way it is, right? But
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  Speaker 1: no one's that great. Yeah. that they can't get beat.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we say that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that's true. My New York Giants lost in
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  Speaker 2: the world of the NFL, and Notre Dame lost, which
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  Speaker 2: is the team I usually cheer for in college football.
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  Speaker 2: And college football was just a mess this past weekend.
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  Speaker 2: That was the one thing I'll say is that, like,
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  Speaker 2: what is it, five out of the top eight teams lost,
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  Speaker 2: which is the first time that's ever happened in.
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  Speaker 1: The history of football. Who's number one now?
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  Speaker 2: I think Miami is now the number one, right, Russell? Okay,
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  Speaker 2: Miami's ranked number one. I think BYU's number three after
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  Speaker 2: beating Notre Dame, and I can't remember— Who's number two?
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  Speaker 2: Can you help us with that? Oh, yeah. Ohio State
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  Speaker 2: would come in at number two.
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: Even though they have a loss on their record, it
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  Speaker 2: was a good loss, but still a loss. But they're
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  Speaker 2: number two. BYU can't be thrilled about that. But anyway,
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  Speaker 2: it's just weird. And my wife, who's from Mexico, does
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  Speaker 2: not like American football. She calls it American football because
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  Speaker 2: of where she's from. And she's just not a fan. Really? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: just not a fan of it. She'll watch baseball with me.
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  Speaker 2: She'll watch hockey with me. Anything but American football.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's easy for me because my wife doesn't watch
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  Speaker 1: anything with me.
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  Speaker 2: Fair enough. That's easier.
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  Speaker 1: I came in at one point and asked if I
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  Speaker 1: could turn the game on Saturday in the living room.
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  Speaker 1: And I was told no.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. That happened.
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  Speaker 1: So I just went back outside and watched it. on
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  Speaker 1: the TV outside. So, you know, I'm, I'm fine with that.
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  Speaker 1: And I, you know, is what it is. Right. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No, and I don't mind that. I don't have to
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  Speaker 2: explain the rules of that sport to her. Cause she'd
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  Speaker 2: asked me what the rules are.
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  Speaker 1: If I actually, I also got in trouble as I
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  Speaker 1: want to do. I, I packed up, I got my
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  Speaker 1: suitcase out of the house and I come back to
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  Speaker 1: Houston yesterday. And I, I meant to go out to
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  Speaker 1: my car and get something and go back inside and
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  Speaker 1: just make a final check. And because I have brain farts,
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  Speaker 1: I forgot to go back in the house. So I
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  Speaker 1: left the door wide open. And because my wife, I
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  Speaker 1: think like stalks the ring camera, she, she knew the
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  Speaker 1: door was open. And I, she asked me why I
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  Speaker 1: left the door wide open. Like I did it on purpose. Right.
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  Speaker 1: Cause you know, that's cause that's what I would do. Right.
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  Speaker 1: I said, Sure.
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  Speaker 2: I have a screw swing that's open.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to close the door. I'm just going
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  Speaker 1: to leave it wide open so anyone can come in.
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  Speaker 1: And I pulled the I'm old card, and she didn't
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  Speaker 1: buy that.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And then I went to the MS card because I
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  Speaker 1: have MS. And I said, well, you know, sometimes MS
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  Speaker 1: makes you a little foggy. And she said, there's no excuse.
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  Speaker 1: I said, well, there you go.
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  Speaker 2: 0 for 2.
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  Speaker 1: So I was in trouble.
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  Speaker 2: Were you sure that it was wide open, or were
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  Speaker 2: those the words she chose?
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  Speaker 1: Because I turned around. I was about five minutes down
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  Speaker 1: the road coming toward Houston, and I turned around, and
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  Speaker 1: when I got back, it was wide open.
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  Speaker 2: Because that's the kind of thing my wife would say,
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  Speaker 2: and then I'd get back, and it'd be just a
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  Speaker 2: little bit open.
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  Speaker 1: No, no. This was a legitimate... You dummy, you left
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  Speaker 1: the door open. But it wasn't presented in that sort of. Right.
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  Speaker 1: I know you didn't mean to do it because my
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  Speaker 1: wife actually thinks I actually planned and plotted. When I
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  Speaker 1: saw the door wide open, I said, you know what?
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  Speaker 1: I'm just going to leave it. I'm going to leave
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  Speaker 1: the damn things wide open.
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  Speaker 2: Anybody else can come over. If they want to come over,
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  Speaker 2: come on over. It'll be fine.
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  Speaker 1: Come on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's nice. Well, you're a mob guy. No one's
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  Speaker 2: going to mess with you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know what? Generally, in the mom movies, you
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  Speaker 1: don't kill your wife, but I think it's a plot,
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  Speaker 1: a subplot they should weave in.
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  Speaker 2: I have nothing on that. That's fantastic. A lot of
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  Speaker 2: stuff happened in the world of politics, too, I guess.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. First, people are voting.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, people are going to vote. Now, here in Texas,
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  Speaker 2: early voting will start, I think.
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  Speaker 1: It has started.
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  Speaker 2: Right. I think both you and I are voters for
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  Speaker 2: voting day, though, right? Like, we vote on election day.
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  Speaker 1: I do, although I am weirdly– and I don't like
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  Speaker 1: this because my homestead is in Hayes County, Texas, which
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  Speaker 1: is near Dripping Springs. I have to go vote there.
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  Speaker 1: So I probably will vote early there, although I've been
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  Speaker 1: trying to figure out– it's too late to worry about
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  Speaker 1: it now because I have more important things to do
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  Speaker 1: like talk to you in the mornings– I'd like to
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  Speaker 1: vote in Harris County, and I don't vote in Harris
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  Speaker 1: County now. And I don't have a clue who these
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  Speaker 1: people are in Hayes County. I wouldn't know Bubba from
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  Speaker 1: Dimmitt to Leopard to whoever their names are. I have
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  Speaker 1: no idea. I know I'm not going to vote for
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  Speaker 1: a Democrat. You know what? I was thinking back. I
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  Speaker 1: did vote in Harris County for Kim Ock when she
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  Speaker 1: ran for DA because she was an old friend, like
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  Speaker 1: a– Sure. Professional. We didn't hang out or anything. But,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I say friend, you know, I don't really
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  Speaker 1: have any friends. I mean, you're sort of a friend.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a friend. I consider you a friend.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I don't really have a lot of friends. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I really don't. And so I but anyway, I voted
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  Speaker 1: for her and I was thinking how many Democrats I
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  Speaker 1: voted for in the old days. And I was thinking
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  Speaker 1: yesterday in the car. because that's when I was planning
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  Speaker 1: what I was going to talk about this morning with you.
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  Speaker 1: It was in the car while I was driving between
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  Speaker 1: like LaGrange and Ellinger. And I, and I, and I said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if blue dog Democrats were still around, you
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  Speaker 1: know what a blue dog Democrat is? Yeah. Well, what
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  Speaker 1: is that blue dog? You don't know.
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  Speaker 2: You have no idea.
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  Speaker 1: No, don't look it up.
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  Speaker 2: I do know what a blue dog Democrat is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. People that are like, you have no idea.
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  Speaker 2: 1995, it was founded in response to the 1994 midterm elections,
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  Speaker 2: the Blue Dog Democrat. Choke Blue by the left of
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  Speaker 2: center party.
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  Speaker 1: I've been here 50 years. So you obviously haven't. You've
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  Speaker 1: been here like a minute. So I've been here 50 years.
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  Speaker 1: So Blue Dog Democrat were conservative Democrats. Sure. Which pretty
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  Speaker 1: much ran most of the politics in like in East Texas.
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  Speaker 1: It was blue dog country, right? And so blue dog
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  Speaker 1: Democrats were conservative Democrats. And I could imagine if some
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  Speaker 1: of the Democrats that were running were blue dog Democrats
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  Speaker 1: and not gender confused, you know, connected to terrorist groups
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  Speaker 1: or freaky people with weird thoughts of life, then people
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  Speaker 1: would vote for them. I think that would be a slaughter.
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  Speaker 1: I think of a blue dog Democrat.
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  Speaker 2: I think anybody... I would say this, though, to your point.
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  Speaker 2: I think anybody that truly represented more of the middle
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  Speaker 2: on either side would do much better than the parties
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  Speaker 2: we have right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think that there are a lot of people that
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  Speaker 2: would be attracted to messaging that landed in the middle. Now, granted,
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  Speaker 2: no matter what that messaging is, there are certain core
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  Speaker 2: tenets of the conservative party that I think I would
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  Speaker 2: still want to be a foundation of.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, sure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a foundation of the thing that, you know, a
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  Speaker 2: politician that I was voting for would run for, but...
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  Speaker 2: Beyond those things, I think a lot more middle sounding stances.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, I'll give this to Tallarico when he
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  Speaker 2: talked about oil and gas. in this state, excuse me,
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  Speaker 2: on his CNN town hall, granted, not something he at
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  Speaker 2: all actually believes. I did agree with the thing he said,
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  Speaker 2: that all of the above is the right solution to
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  Speaker 2: that problem. Let's drill as much as possible. Let's try
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  Speaker 2: to get as much green energy as possible. Let's just
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  Speaker 2: do everything. That feels like an in the middle stance
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  Speaker 2: on a specific topic.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, if it was true.
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  Speaker 2: It's not true for him.
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  Speaker 1: The problem with the Tallarico thing is that look, people
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  Speaker 1: do evolve over the course of time. I evolved from
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  Speaker 1: a guy who had a Richard Nixon party in my
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  Speaker 1: dorm in college 50 years ago or 40-something years ago.
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  Speaker 1: I thought, Richard Nixon, I hated him. To a guy
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  Speaker 1: today that I mean, is really conservative. I guess I'm
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  Speaker 1: a neocon because I believe in, you know, in destroying
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  Speaker 1: your enemies, not, you know, not just, not just teasing them.
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  Speaker 2: Right in the middle.
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  Speaker 1: I also just, as I was driving in, I heard
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  Speaker 1: it speaking locally. I heard an Adrian Garcia commercial, Adrian Garcia,
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  Speaker 1: that guy that just raised our taxes, who I think is, uh,
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  Speaker 1: not a good guy, I'm not a fan of Adrian Garcia,
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  Speaker 1: who's saying that he lowered property taxes for seniors. And
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking, did I miss something in the news?
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  Speaker 1: Because I don't, first of all, I'm not even sure commissioners,
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  Speaker 1: county commissioners lower property taxes for seniors. I thought that
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  Speaker 1: was a state thing, but I don't know. And I
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  Speaker 1: was going to research it, but I got here about
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  Speaker 1: four minutes before we started, so I didn't have a chance.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't remember anything. In the mention of the
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  Speaker 1: 41% increase, they said, yeah, except for seniors. And maybe
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  Speaker 1: one of our callers can call in about that. But
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  Speaker 1: Adrian Garcia, look, I think it's a testimony to how
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  Speaker 1: local news has disappeared. Because in the old days, and
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  Speaker 1: I call them the old days, I'm not talking about
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  Speaker 1: like 1910, like, you know, 30 years ago. there would
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  Speaker 1: have been a lot of coverage, continuing coverage about the
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  Speaker 1: politics and the daily, the daily questions about tax increases
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that. And you don't see that anymore.
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  Speaker 1: So you don't really get that much information about these
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  Speaker 1: local races. And I hope people, I hope all our listeners, uh,
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  Speaker 1: get 10 of their friends, find some dead ones, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: find some dead.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, um, uh, Garcia has passed, um, certain
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  Speaker 2: legislation that has helped seniors with taxes since 2020 so
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  Speaker 2: that that is true it doesn't seem like it's terribly
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  Speaker 2: significant though and it's not necessarily a hallmark of who
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  Speaker 2: he is it seems like he's cherry picking one semi-true
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  Speaker 2: stat to try to make a commercial All.
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  Speaker 1: Right, we'll see. Let's pick some cherries after the break.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's pick some cherries. A quick break. A
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  Speaker 2: lot more. This is the mornings, KSEV mornings. He is
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  Speaker 2: Wayne Del Cefino. I am Craig Colonese on The Voice
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  Speaker 2: of Texas. He's Wayne Del Cefino. I am Craig Colonese.
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  Speaker 2: You can watch us on the live stream all over
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  Speaker 2: the place. I think we're on YouTube, Rumble, Facebook, X.
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  Speaker 2: We're on a lot of places.
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  Speaker 1: Is that a dating app, Rumble, or is that Bumble?
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  Speaker 2: Rumble is not a dating app. Bumble is a dating app, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: As I was driving in, I was listening to Fox 26,
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  Speaker 1: and they were talking about some woman who went on
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  Speaker 1: a date, and the guy didn't show up. And she
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  Speaker 1: now is suing– well, not suing. She wants the dating
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  Speaker 1: app to give her her money back because she went
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  Speaker 1: and bought dinner since she was already there. And I
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  Speaker 1: was thinking– Can't people actually meet people like we used
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  Speaker 1: to meet people?
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  Speaker 2: They should be able to. Any buddy of mine that's
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  Speaker 2: single now that complains that dating apps suck, I tell
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  Speaker 2: them just go, like, talk to somebody in public. Just
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  Speaker 2: meet a person. And don't hit on them immediately. Try
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  Speaker 2: to just talk to them. And if that works, then
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  Speaker 2: start flirting and then ask for the number. Like, that's
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  Speaker 2: the game we all use to play.
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  Speaker 1: I go to the grocery store and, like, I like
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  Speaker 1: to go to the grocery store because I like to
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  Speaker 1: look at the women. Yeah. At the grocery store. Right.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean, can't you go to a grocery store?
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  Speaker 1: Can't you go to a Target? I mean, hang out
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  Speaker 1: in like an aisle at Academy and just. See if
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  Speaker 1: you could meet somebody or you could go to a bar.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they have non-alcoholic drinks at bars because people
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  Speaker 1: don't like to drink anymore. What is wrong with these people?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. That's a great question.
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  Speaker 1: Well, because they order their groceries and they want someone
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  Speaker 1: to go pick out their groceries. I would never do that.
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  Speaker 1: I would do that in an emergency. You know, like
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  Speaker 1: if I– one year I dropped the turkey for Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 1: I was bringing it out of the garage and I
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  Speaker 1: literally– I had been like, you know, basting it all night.
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  Speaker 1: It was all in the bag and stuff. And I
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  Speaker 1: carried the heavy thing and I tripped and the turkey
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  Speaker 1: went flying on the driveway. And I could see a
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  Speaker 1: crisis like that. But like, you know, people don't even
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  Speaker 1: do that anymore. They want everything now. They would do
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  Speaker 1: everything online.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they want everybody to do stuff for them. I
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  Speaker 2: have a friend that just started doing Uber Eats because
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  Speaker 2: he's in between jobs right now. which a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people might be, although I heard the job economy is
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  Speaker 2: actually real great. I hear that there's more than enough
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  Speaker 2: available jobs if people are looking. But he started doing
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  Speaker 2: Uber Eats, and he was complaining about, like, going into
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  Speaker 2: stores and shopping for people. And my response back was, yeah, buddy,
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  Speaker 2: but you got a gig. Like, a gig's better than
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  Speaker 2: no gig.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'll tell you, we're always looking for people here.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: But you got to see the resumes, dude.
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  Speaker 2: Are they terrible?
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  Speaker 1: It's like somebody– You ask for a reporter and you
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  Speaker 1: get the resume and they work like for a pizza
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  Speaker 1: place and Target. And they go, I now want to
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  Speaker 1: be a reporter.
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  Speaker 2: But I'd be good at it.
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  Speaker 1: I promise.
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  Speaker 2: It'd be real good.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to diss everyone that works at Target.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure there are some.
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  Speaker 1: Very good people, but that's not what you're looking for.
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  Speaker 2: I would say this, though, about a profession like yours
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  Speaker 2: where you're looking for people that want to shoot videos
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  Speaker 2: and be reporters. If they're good at it, they should
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  Speaker 2: be doing it on their own already and having some
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  Speaker 2: level of mild success. That doesn't mean that they've got
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  Speaker 2: to be as successful as you, but if they're a
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  Speaker 2: pizza guy that wants to not be a pizza guy,
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  Speaker 2: there's no excuse to not start your own channel, try
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  Speaker 2: your own thing, and see if it works before you
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  Speaker 2: try to get a job at Dolce Fino, you know,
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  Speaker 2: with Dolce Fino.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm a real influencer, as you are. Do
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  Speaker 1: you know how many people claim they're influencers? I was
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  Speaker 1: listening to somebody this morning saying, so-and-so is an influencer.
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  Speaker 1: What makes them an influencer? Like five people like their post?
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Does that make you an influencer?
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: It does not. No, it does not. A micro-influencer is
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: a term now, though.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: I don't like... Is it really? What does that mean?
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: That means a tiny following of loyal people who... They
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: actually do it for advertising purposes. You can pay... to
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: have a micro influencer, you know, promote your product much
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: cheaper than anybody else. And the belief is that even
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: if you have a hundred vans, they're loyal. And so
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: they might actually buy stuff.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: We are so screwed, dude.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: And honestly, let's go back to something else. Cause we
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: were talking about during the break, cause you're hearing more
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: of those commercials, um, uh, crapping on some of the,
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: the social societal things that, that we talk about. And,
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: and granted, I care about those. I don't want little boys,
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: biological boys, to be in girls' locker rooms. I don't
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: want that. But I do think that we're at a
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: point now, and I think you agree with this, Wayne,
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: where that's not landing as strong of a message.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: As it usually is. Where's my drum? Where's my drum?
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Beat the drum.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: We need something that lands better. And you were actually
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: even asking me a question off the air that I
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: think is a pretty decent one, and maybe some listeners
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: could call in and try to offer their opinion on it.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Tallarico does have a terrible record voting. I believe that
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: to be true. I've looked into it a little bit,
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: not as much as maybe I should. Yeah, I've looked
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: into it a little bit, though, and seen some specific
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: examples of things that he's voted for, like green energy.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: He's been a champion of green energy and the dismantling
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: of oil and gas in Texas for like eight or
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: nine years now. And certainly the last five or six,
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: he's actually been, and he was the sponsor of one bill,
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: the author of one bill that would have done a
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: whole lot of harm to oil and gas, but... If
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: that's true, which we think it is, why aren't we
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: hearing more of that? Why don't we get more of
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: a litany of James Tallarico voted for this and it
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: was awful?
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I don't even see the oil and gas
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: industry using their supposed big money to tell you what
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: an anti-Texas oil and gas guy he is. Look, I
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: think the cultural stuff And I don't like the word
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: culture war because, I mean, to me, there's only one logical.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: It's not like about culture. It's about like what makes sense.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: You don't like take an eight-year-old and say, you know,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: like my son. I told you this. My son played
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: with Barbies when he was young. Did I ever tell
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: you that? No.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I remember that.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: So my son played with Barbies, little Barbies. So we
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: went to a McDonald's once. I think he was about
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: five or something. And we were going to get one
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: of the toys. And there was like a truck and
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: a little Barbie. And I told the guy, I said, hey,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: my son wants one of the little Barbies. And he goes,
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: but he's a boy. And I said, dude, give him
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: the darn Barbie. What do you care, right? And I
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: just remember it because my son used to like to drink,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: dip them in the margaritas. Can I say that? He did.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: He would take the little Barbie and dip it in
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: our margaritas. And then he would, you know, suck it
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: for the next, you know, 10 minutes. Sure. But, but
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: like my son now is married, has three kids, a
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: fourth on the way.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: He's like, I, I, I didn't.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Really think about that.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Well, what's so much, what's funny about what you said,
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: I had two older sisters growing up. So there were
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: a lot of Barbies in my house and I played
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: with Barbies and I do air quotes. Cause like I
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: fought them with a can or something like I ninja
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: kicked them and then I'd be thrown out of the
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Barbie fight. So I still played with the toy. like
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: a boy. It didn't matter that it was a girl's toy.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: I didn't play with it.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Is that a domestic violence kind of thing?
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I just was annoyed that they'd all
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: play with the Barbies in the house and it was
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: just like fun and nice. And I thought somebody needed
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: to be ninja kicked. So I would ninja kick them
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: and then get, as I said, removed from being allowed
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: to play. But I think that's what matters more. Your
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: kid was dipping the hair into a margarita to suck
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: on it. I don't think that's the same thing as like,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: you know, doing the makeup of a Barbie at five.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I will admit that I did have some moments. during
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: that period when I said, hmm. It wasn't like I
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: was losing sleep over everything. I just said, I sort
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: of wonder, does that mean anything? Should I take some
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: deeper meaning? And at the end of the day, no.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: He just like dipping the Barbie hair into the margarita.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: I do think we overreact to some things.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: I do.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: And I do think some of these conversations... and I
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: think this is the point we're trying to make politically,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: allow for the left to paint a broad brush based
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: on what we're saying. I was watching Charlie Kirk over
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: the weekend. I don't know why it popped up. It's
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: not like I do this on purpose, but there was
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: this debate he did with this hardcore lefty about slavery
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: and about how racist and horrible white people are. And
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Charlie did an incredible job of pointing out that even
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: during that time in the 1800s, there were a lot
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: of white people who did not support, hated, and were abolished,
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: you know, abolition abolitionists excuse me when it came to
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: slavery so even even then there were people that disagreed
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: and the woman's brain couldn't wrap her mind around i
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: can't call all white people racist because of slavery anymore
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: and i think that that's the point i think so
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: very often now in politics someone on either side especially
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: the left tries to find a a simplistic version of
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: a complicated argument to accuse the right of being something
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: horrible sexist, racist, whatever, homophobic.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Islamophobic.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Islamophobic, whatever it is. And they refuse the additional pieces
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: of information. that make it a much more complicated conversation
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: and they just go whatever road they want. And it
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: works at times. It works because you should see. I
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: think I told you this and we'll take a break,
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: but I'll tell you this just real quick. I've been
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: putting clips of ours up on TikTok. I'm just curious
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: what the reaction is on the youngest platform out there.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: And we get an overwhelming amount of comments that make
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: no sense. Like you racists, you sexists. And I'm like, really?
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: But it's interesting to put them out there and interesting
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: to see what people say.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: I've got it all. All the isms. I've got every
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: ism there is.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Well, honestly, it could be a conversation about none of
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: those things. And they just throw it out there once
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: they think you're a conservative. And that works with the left.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: So I think the right needs to fight that better,
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: as I think Wayne does, too. All right, quick break.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: A lot more KSCV Radio, Voice of Texas. KSCV Radio.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: That's the voice of Texas. He's Wayne DelTropino. I am
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Craig Colon. Early voting started today. You can show up
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: and vote places here in Texas. I don't do that.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Wayne DelTropino, I don't think, does that. Although maybe I do.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I may have to this year, but
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: I like to go. I like, you know, it's another
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: chance to meet some women.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, flirt with them in the line. That's
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: where they're trapped. Yeah, that's right. That's funny. But you
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: know what I like most about this is that it
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: seems like it's become a need for conservatives to fight
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: all the early voting on the Democratic side by telling
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: people to do it. Like it used to be just
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: a few years ago that the more common position of
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: I think a Republican was let's vote on Election Day
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: and not all that early. And that's changed because just
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: get out and vote is more important. than when you vote. Um,
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: and you need to fight fire with fire. So people
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: out there who don't think there'll be available on election
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: day to vote, vote right now, go, go vote.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: So could I send a message to the Cornyn people? Sure. Look, I,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: you know, John Cornyn was to me, uh, like whatever, right.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I didn't think he was that great. Didn't think he
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: was that bad. It just sort of was there to
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: be honest with you. Okay. Um, Ken Paxson obviously has
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: his protractors and obviously has his detractors. But I don't
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: understand how independents or Cornyn people, moderate Republicans, call them whatever,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: would actually go vote for Tallarico or stay home knowing
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: that that will result in a Tallarico victory and a
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Democratic senator who and potentially the entire Senate will now
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: be a majority Democratic Senate. Even if you don't even
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: like Trump, I just don't understand why we would go against. Look,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: midterm elections are really our course correctors, right? People voted
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: for Trump because they wanted to crack down on immigration,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: but they don't like the way it's being done. They
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: just don't. Hispanics especially don't like it.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: I think that that's probably true about the Hispanic community.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: So sometimes, but I think that was more about messaging.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: You know, Chris, you know, we're in the military and say,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: we're going to get you.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: I just think it's the way you do it that matters.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Not so much what you say, but what you do.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: But I don't understand. And even if you're against the
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Iran war, and even if you think oil prices are
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: too high, which they are, Why you would, in a
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: million years, stay home and not vote?
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Well, it's interesting because Trump, I think, over the weekend
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: blamed Cornyn. He also blamed Karl Rove as people who
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: are influential here in Texas that are pushing to allow
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Tallarica to win. And they're pushing by not helping Paxton
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: over the hump more, not telling any of their voters
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: that do plan on staying home. Because I agree with you.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: I can't see... someone who actually supported Cornyn and granted,
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: I think he was pretty bad as a, a Senator,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: even before I got here. I just personally think that, um, about,
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: I think the fights that matter most are the ones
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: where you do have to stand tall. And when you
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: don't stand tall in those fights, you're not valuable to me.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: I can get a lot of other conservatives in that
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: position that'll vote on the easy stuff. And he, he
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: liked to vote on the easy stuff. He didn't like
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: to vote with us on the hard stuff. Um, but
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: as I say that, I do think that now is
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: not the time to have pride because And the funny
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: thing is they said the same thing about Jasmine Crockett,
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: didn't they? Didn't they say that she wasn't going to
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: throw enough support behind Tallarico? She was going to affect
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: the black vote. And she hasn't. And the black vote
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: might not come out for Tallarico as strongly as people
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: expected to, which there's polling that seems to back that up.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: That doesn't make sense from a party standpoint. Wouldn't you
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: want your party to win and not just want to
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: pout that you're not the nominee on both sides, but
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: specifically for Cornyn, specifically for anyone that's actually encouraging people
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: to stay at home because- Paxton's personal life is bad.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Paxton's accused of things that he was acquitted of by
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: the Texas Senate.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, look, that's my biggest problem is that the way
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: we have this system set up, we had a primary, right?
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: And Cornyn lost fair and square to Paxton. And for
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: years and years and years, it was the Republican Party
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: and Republican donors in that party and Republican activists who
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: kept John Cornyn in a job as a senator. Yeah.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Doesn't he? Oh, doesn't he owe those people like the
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: sort of, you know, man just stand up like a
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: man say, yes, thank you for the support all these years. And, um,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: You don't win them all, and this time I want
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: you to support Ken Paxton. You can't get over this, like,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: how dare Paxton run against me thing, which is what
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: I think I hear.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: And honestly, I'll say that part of it– and I
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: know it's always been the case. I know politics has
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: always been a blood sport. But as I say that,
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: maybe some of the nastiness of even– The primary season
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: has become a thing that I think it's a point
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: that we're kind of making on the show today is
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: there are some conversations, some topics that are not landing
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: as well with voters as they used to. And maybe
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: that does cause an additional level of of resentment when
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: those parts of the election process are over. that causes
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: people to go stay in their corner. It's not helping
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: the party, and it's not helping Texas. You would think
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: if Cornyn actually cared about Texas, he'd be out there
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: campaigning for Pattinson.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: That's kind of what I mean. He doesn't have to
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: go out there every day and hold his hand up
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: next to him and all that kind of stuff. I'm
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: not asking him to hug and kiss or anything. But
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: it's just sort of like, it's vitally important. If I'm Cornyn,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: just do what Angela Paxson did a commercial saying it's
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: the red team versus the blue team. I'm John Cornyn
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: and say, look, you know, me and Ken are not
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: going to be best friends. I think people would like that.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: It'd be pretty funny.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Right. Yeah.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: We're not going to hang out now, but it's.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Not a close call as to who you vote for.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: If you're a Republican now, and I want everyone who
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: voted for me to get off your rich duff, like, right.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: You can still go to your fancy dinner after. And
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: go out there and vote. Because what we don't want
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: to be labeled as since we became a party where
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: we were a lot of working people were supporting us.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: We don't want to go back to the party where
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: it's like the rich folk and the folks who are
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: successful who are going to bring us down. And that's
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: what I fear a little bit that, that a lot
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: of these Republicans are going to say, yeah, Ken Paxton
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: is not my favorite guy and he doesn't talk the
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: way I talk. And, and, you know, he, he left
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: his wife and blah, blah, blah, or cheated on his
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: wife or whatever. I don't care. But I do worry
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: that there's a lot of people out there, especially women
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: who just think he's, they don't want to vote for him.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: And I just think, So by default, you're going to
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: let the other guy win who you know, no matter
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: what he says, he will vote lock step with every
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: bad Democratic idea.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: He'll be proud of it. He'll be proud of the
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: worst ideas. He would vote for the Green New Deal
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: right now if it's a thing that they could get
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: back off the ground where the cows can't fart. That
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: is something that Tallarico would be as behind as AOC.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: And yet, I don't know. I will say this, though,
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: because it's kind of the question we're asking. Some of
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: the political rhetoric will alienate some of the people that
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: you inevitably need to hold their nose and vote for you.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Would it be better for that rhetoric to be softer
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: and the people that are very hard into a corner,
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: you know, potentially holding their nose and voting because they're
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: not hearing as much about women in men's sports and
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: all that stuff that they care about? Would it be
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: better if some of that rhetoric seemed weaker but still
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: asked the people that are on the far right to
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: vote with you to allow the people in the middle
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: to also be capable of being reached? Would that be
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: better than the approach that seems to be what we
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: do now, which is we're easily going to play to
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: our base and we might lose some people in the middle?
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, look, like I said, I thought the original commercial
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: that Paxton did once he got out of the primary
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: was like, you know, this is Texas. This is not.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: I thought that was a great commercial. Sure. At this point,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: at least to me, I just think this sex, trans stuff,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: it's worn out. I think it's more important to those
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: moderate Republicans, people who are Republicans who don't go to
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: the party convention, moderate people, I think it's more important
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: to tell them, what James Tallarico as a senator will mean.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: He will vote for this. He will do that. To me,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: the people that would be attracted by the trans thing
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: and the men and women's sports thing and sexual mutilation,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: that lady commercial with that mother of five saying he
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: wants to put people in jail. Okay, I think I've
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: got this. I think I understand that. that James Tallarico
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: is weird and says things that are morally reprehensible to me. Yeah. Okay.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: No, I think, I think you've reached that crowd. They're
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: likely to vote. They're likely to vote against Tallarico.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Those aren't the people that I think the trans thing
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: really works as well with.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Is these, is these, Republicans, especially the lazy, the country
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: club Republicans.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: Well, you also have to have kids. To be honest,
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: when you talk about some of the things that younger
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: people who voted for Trump might not be reached with
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: right now to care about that topic, you have to
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: have kids. To care about property taxes, you have to
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: have a house. So there are some conversations that might.
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  Speaker 2: I think the culture war thing won over younger people
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: in 2024 because it felt more important to fight that
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: fight then. And it felt more like you were getting
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: beaten over the head by the ideology of the left culturally.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: I think that that fight sort of won to a degree.
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  Speaker 2: And now you need to pivot. You need to pivot
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  Speaker 2: to something that will reach those same people and push
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: you over the top. Because, yes, Tallarica will probably go
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: after taxes and things in a way that hurts all
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: of us as a U.S. senator. He will make it
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: more expensive to live.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: It's not what he says in some Seattle town hall.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: It's how did he vote in the legislature? To me,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: I'm still waiting. And it's getting late, so I think
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: it's going to happen. But I want to see... what
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: the guy's actually done.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: He voted no on anything that would have protected Texas
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  Speaker 2: from a state income tax, and he voted yes for
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: anything that would create one. So that seems bad. We'll
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: take a break. A lot coming up. KSEV Radio, The
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: Voice of Texas.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: It's The Voice of Texas here on AM700 KSEV. Greg Colanese,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Wayne Dolcefino, Mob Guys, bringing a little Italian-American sensibilities. to
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: conservative radio. There you go. Right? That's our job.
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  Speaker 2: That's our goal. Why don't we talk about Europe? Is
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: that what you're going to talk about, France?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was going to say, nice weekend in Paris.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Would have been a great weekend to go visit with
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  Speaker 1: the kids.
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  Speaker 2: No, terrible. Anybody that doesn't know what's happening there, a
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: lot of crazy protesting and rioting that I think it's
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: claimed to have started in support of teachers, right? Like
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: that's what they say started these street riots and these
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: street protests is, students were getting out to support teachers
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: and wages and typical stuff. And then eventually, a bunch
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: of masked people started lighting stuff on fire. So are
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: they part of the student group that was trying to raise...
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: Of course not. Of course not. There's something else, something
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  Speaker 2: very different, and probably something very motivated by the changes
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  Speaker 2: that have occurred there, just like here, just like anywhere
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  Speaker 2: else in The people who currently live in Israel.
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  Speaker 1: We know that conservatives don't act like that.
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  Speaker 2: No, they don't.
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  Speaker 1: We don't rampage in the street and set police cars
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  Speaker 1: on fire and stuff. So I'm just guessing they were
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: left wing freaks. Right.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Well, not just left wing freaks. I do think a
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: lot of it might be somewhat couched in because it
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: became like an anti-establishment thing. And they are like tax
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: the rich.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: The rich is the rich.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: They're vandalizing thing all over the place. But I do
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: think it might be people that are living there that
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: don't have a right to be there. You know, like
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: we've seen a dynamic, a demographic shift in a lot
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: of places in Europe that have had problems that are
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: new to them that they didn't have before that you
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: see in other countries where people are coming from.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, when I heard on CNN this morning, I turned
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: on CNN this morning, first thing, actually, I leave it
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: on when I sleep so I can wake up to
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: immediate news. And they were saying, They were reminding some
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: commentator that this was not about immigration, which was a
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: CNN way of saying, don't blame the Muslims that are
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: coming over from the Middle East that are changing the
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: culture and demographics of France and England and Germany. And
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: when they said that, I said, hmm. Because I saw
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: a clip of cop cars in Paris going down the
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: middle of the street and everyone was throwing rocks and stuff.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: And I could have swore I heard Allah Akbar. Maybe
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: it was just one Allah Akbar dude in the middle
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: of all these French guys. What's the big name in France?
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: You said Luis?
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: Luis, yeah.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Luis is the most popular name in France. Maybe
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: it was just someone named Luis, right?
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  Speaker 2: But that's, that's usually how it works. There's just one
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: Allah Akbar guy that shows up at stuff. That's usually
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: how it is.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Right. He just comes to every event just by himself.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: Chance Allah Akbar. Look, I, when I see all these
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: young people, I, I, I do think, and it's part
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: of my apparent Islamophobia, I'm told that, uh, whatever that
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: nonsense is, but I, I do think about how many
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: of these people that are wearing those masks are And
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: then I see the looting in the stores, and I
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: think that's always the answer, right? If you're mad that
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: you're not getting enough stuff from your government, just go
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: into a Hermes or a fancy store and steal like
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: a $ 2, 000 purse because that's going to help you eat, right?
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes sense.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: And I see that. We've got to let them commit
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: a little crime because they're angry. Sure.
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  Speaker 2: That's a platform we can all run on. But here's
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: what I always find is funny about that, because it
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: happens here and you hear the right say that these
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: are paid protesters or, you know, a radical people that
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: are trying to create drama that have nothing to do
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: with the peaceful protesters. This is how young people get used.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: This is what the useful idiot is that Rush used
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: to talk about all the time, because young people go
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: out and protest something like I want to get my
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: teachers more money. And then all of a sudden a
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: bunch of masked dudes show up and light stuff on
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: fire and they stay. The young people are like, yeah,
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: this is now– we're all doing this for the same reason.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like the commies and I, we're in sync together.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: But they're not. They don't care about the thing you
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: care about. They care about something very different. Honestly, I
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: think it's what caused a lot of people here in
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: the United States on university campuses to like chant from
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: the river to the sea. They were tricked to believe–
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: that that very specific thing meant freedom to Gaza and
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: not killing all Jews, which is what it actually means.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: And they're dumb enough to go with that because they
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: think that they have someone on team them. It's a shame.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: But we're seeing this in France a lot right now.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: We're seeing a lot of rioting and crazy stuff. And
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: the prime minister there is saying it's obviously the far left.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: And who knows who within the far left it actually is.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: You know, I don't know if we ever could find it,
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: but there's some guy in the polish parliament i forget
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: his name it's you know rajewski or some polish name
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: yeah he does a lot of videos online taught walking
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: in the streets of warsaw at like 145 in the
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: morning and help like quiet and peaceful and there's not
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: like homeless people like throwing up right and there's it's
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: just like a very It looks beautiful.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: And talking about we didn't let anybody in. We don't
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: let anybody in. And because of that, look how safe
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Poland is. I'll have to find the guy's name. But
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: for some reason, I have now become his buddy, or
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: at least the algorithms make. I see a lot of
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: his stuff.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: Once you follow one. Yeah.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: He makes speeches at the assembly meetings. He walks the
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: streets of Warsaw. I see a lot of Polish stuff
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden. And Poland didn't do mass migration,
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: and they seem to be proud of it.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: And it seems to be going well.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: And it seems to work out.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: We do have a call. Mark is on the line.
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: The phone number 281-558-5738. Mark, what do you want to say?
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: Hey, guys, first off, come on. Those protests in France
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: were mostly peaceful. Didn't you watch CNN? You haven't learned anything?
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Come on.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: Are you being serious right now?
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: No. No, he's totally lying.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: Fantastic, man.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Go ahead.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: Continue.
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: So, you know, back to your conversation about campaigning and
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: messaging and so forth, the thing that infuriates me and
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: the thing that I think Paxton's camp needs to do
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: is come out When you see these commercials and they say, oh,
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: my opponent wants to spend public funds or government money,
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: you know, there's no such thing as government money. Every
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: dime that is getting wasted in these local and federal
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: government is taxpayer funds. When I raised my daughter, who's
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: a physicist, by the way, I told her, you never
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: use the term government-funded program because dad's funding it, mom's
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: funding it, your neighbors are funding it. There is no government-funded.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: And Pax needs to come out and just say, guys,
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: you realize this POS is going to be pulling money
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: directly from your pockets. Okay, we're paying more than we
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: should at the gas pump right now. But guess what?
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: The fact is, I'd rather pay a little bit more
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: to be able to drive to work than to take
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: that same.
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: Increase in taxes to fund some stupidity that these liberal
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: Democrat pukes are going to do. By the way, I'm
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: a conservative independent. I'm not a Republican. I have voted
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: for actually conservative-leaning Democrats back in my day, but there
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: are no more blue-dog Democrats. They're all a bunch of freaks,
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: and it's pathetic that that party is... deteriorated to the
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: point that it has sorry i'm a little.
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: Fired up no morning that's a dude great the topic
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: yeah awesome thanks so much for the call mark.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: No and i look i think he's absolutely right i
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: personally am much more persuaded by the this guy is
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: going to raise your taxes and this is why argument
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: because he's voted to do it right argument then then
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: the argument that We know we got to keep men
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: out of women's sports personally.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: And even more so, if you're mad right now that
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: gas prices are high, a war in Iran will end.
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: It will. We both believe it'll actually end very quickly
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: after the election's over, because I think the last thing
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: Iran is holding out for is this process in a
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: hope to get a better deal.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: So is Canada.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: Right. But if if somebody gets the chance to raise
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: our taxes or create, like, say, a state income tax
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: in Texas, that's a much longer pain. than the pain
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: that we're feeling right now because of Iran. That's a
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: pain that's much harder to fight and weed back out.
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: Don't let us get to that place to begin with.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: Stop people that want to take your money and hand
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: it to government nothingness instead of the people that are
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: doing it to fight terrorism.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: So all you lazy people who don't love Paxton, sit
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: at home and watch your taxes go up over... as
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: you well described, some nonsense.
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: Right, yeah. Well, go out there and vote. Voting started today.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: Quick break, a lot more.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: Vote twice.
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: Vote twice. Do it Chicago style. Take a dead relative
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  Speaker 2: with you. KSV Radio, The Voice of Texas.