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Ken Paxton vs. James Talarico and Texas GOP infighting · KSEV Mornings with Craig and Wayne

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Hey!
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There we go.
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We are the Mob Guys on KSEV Radio.
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My name is Craig Coglianese. He is Wayne Dolcefino.
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I am full of Antonio's flying pizza from yesterday, which was a great it's great
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spot And you ordered like all of the appetizers.
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I think oh my gosh Just I don't know what it is.
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I go to a restaurant Well, you know, I don't often eat lunch because when I eat
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lunch, I fall asleep Yeah after lunch, right so I and that's not a good look
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probably so I I but I ordered like everything.
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First of all, I love Clams Aragonata.
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Right? I could eat those things all day and I ordered pizza and pasta and
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salad. Meatballs and salad. Meatballs.
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Some Muts. Yeah, it's great. Muts.
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You like when I said that? Yeah, I did.
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I like some Muts. I did and the mozzarella was very good for anyone that doesn't
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know what that was. Antonio's flying pizza is great, man.
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The only complaint I have, and I do have a complaint, is I didn't see any pizzas
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fly and I feel like maybe the flying people were not working.
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I don't know. Yeah, no, I think you back.
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So Craig and I and his lovely wife Boito, when yeah, we went
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to dinner last night. It was our first social outing, I guess.
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It was right as a show. Yes. Yeah, it's it's the last but no, but it was fun one
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time. No, But we went to Antonio's Flying Pizza, which is over on
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Hillcroft, just south of Westheimer, little plug for Antonio's.
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So I told you this, and I'm going to share it with our millions of listeners this
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morning, that Antonio had the pizzeria
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by my house in Brooklyn when I was a baby.
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He's 85 now. I've known him for 60 some odd years.
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And when we moved to Texas in 1968,
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Antonio moved the same year to Texas.
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We were like the first wave of New Yorkers.
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I was part of the early wave. I was a pioneer to Texas.
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And Texas really didn't become a cultural mecca until my family moved here.
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But but but my dad in the 70s used to go to
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Antonio's flying pizza all the time and they my dad and Antonio would sit there
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in jibber jabber in Italian and I've been going there ever since And
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so I so so I had to take you to that place It was nice of Antonio to
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follow you it was nice could like when we moved when I was a kid and we moved
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from Jersey to Indiana, nobody came.
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Nobody came. There was no New York that came with us, which was very sad.
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I've been to Indiana, so I understand that there's not a whole lot of people that
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are living there. No, there were not a whole lot of people there.
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But Antonio's Flying Pizza is incredible.
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The food was great, everything was great.
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It's just a joke that I'm making that I wish the pizza flew a little bit more.
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Yeah, but back then, they used to throw the pizza dough across the
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room. That's hilarious. Like literally across the room.
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They'd be like a guy standing by a table and they'd throw it all the way from the
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pizza oven to him like 15, 20 feet.
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And it was part of the floor. It was part of the show.
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But the neighborhoods have changed a lot.
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Obviously, I've been here since dirt.
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So I've been here a while. But the neighborhoods change, right?
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that they go through evolutions, right?
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And it's just, it's an interesting, but I had a good time.
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Then I came home in that stupid baseball game.
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It got both of us last night, which is kind of funny, because you were texting me
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to like 10 o 'clock with some topics, which is pretty normal.
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But the baseball game kept going, and I couldn't turn it off.
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You couldn't turn it off. I'm amazed with how it ended, by the way, because the
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Rays definitely seemed like they were not going to win.
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They definitely seemed like their offense was giving up.
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And then what was it like five straight hits without an out in the 11th 12th
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inning To go ahead and force one extra game and then they play tonight and who
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knows what happens So does that does that really change the ultimate outcome for
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you? How many people are watching the world series?
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I this is the first game I watch that up It wouldn't normally but as people know
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by now because of all the constant Yankee hats I am a Yankee fan and I remember
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the Red Sox coming all the way back from a 3 -0 to defeat the Yankees in 2004.
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So it's not impossible. It's just incredibly unlikely.
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The game tonight is in Tampa Bay.
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Yes. Right. So they could win tonight and make it at least look like, you know, I
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like I said, I haven't really watched right.
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And I was thinking Milwaukee, Tampa Bay, I don't, you know, they're down only 6 %
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ratings wise from last year, 11 .5 million people are watching on average, each
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world series. I'm kind of surprised, right?
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I guess that's sort of the myth of major markets, right?
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That if two, like no offense to Milwaukee, you know, but I don't really care.
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But, you know, who wants to be in Milwaukee?
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Well, it does say that just a couple years ago, 15 million people watched when it
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was the Dodgers and the Blue Jays, because you had one of the major market teams
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in there. So you know, I don't know.
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But yeah, we'll see what happens with it.
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Well, last year was Dodgers Blue Jays.
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So we'll see. Okay, I had a little politics this morning.
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Sure. Because, you know, it's no one's really talking about politics.
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But before I even get there, you were talking last night, as you always do in
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every conversation we have, about robots.
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I did bring up robots. Yeah, I don't even know what to tell you.
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But weirdly, I was scrolling through videos last
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night. First of all, it is incredibly ugly out there.
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The things people are saying to each other.
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Yeah, it is not good. And they're posting about each other.
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Yeah, they're saying. Just represents an animus that I just don't think
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is healthy for either party. And I'm going to be interested in that.
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Do you think it's new? Do you think this level of it is new?
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Or do you think it's always existed?
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No, I think it's always existed because if you look back and look at some of
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these races Because in the 1800s, people were shooting each other, the name of
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them were calling each other. I don't mean 1800, man.
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Let's do 1900s on. OK, well, I wasn't here in the early 1900s.
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I know. I know you were. So it's hard for me to evaluate.
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But it just seems. So let's forget when duels existed, and people were getting
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beat inside the White House chambers or whatever they were.
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Well, yeah, but when you read old newspaper articles, they were calling each
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other names, Dan. But it just, I don't know, it just strikes me as
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so angry in a
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way that leads to violence angry, right?
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And I've been doing lots of stories in Corpus Christi and there was like a,
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one guy was in another guy's face with a camera, a volunteer, and the volunteer
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hit his phone. I mean that became a big deal in Corpus Christi because it's like
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we can't intimidate people Right, you can't you can't attack people at a polling
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place. Look, I I may disagree But not me I do disagree with someone who votes
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for Democrats, right? But but at the same time I just it just
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seems so Angry. Yeah, I know the other way to say no it does It seems
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like the kind of thing and I was making a joke about this yesterday there's
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another Monty Python clip that I really liked that I didn't play yet.
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I did play the one about the woman where the guy's pretending he's a woman and
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the other guy's like you can't have a baby.
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But there's another one out there that says the only way to enjoy yourself
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politically is be on the far extreme and then hate everybody that's not you.
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And there's a lot of people that seem to do that and the funny part of the joke
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is you excuse the anger by pretending the people that you're mad at deserve it.
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And then it allows you to take out your anger on whatever else is going on in
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your life on this thing. Like I really do think there are people out there who
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you didn't get the raise you wanted at your job or you know Maybe your girlfriend
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cheated on you like something happened in your life that made you mad and instead
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of being mad at the thing That's hurting you you go scream about the political
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party That's opposite you and you're like now my anger is coming out and it's
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coming out to something that I think Deserves it and a lot of other people will
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echo it our Tiktok page which we do have one at Radio Craig C is still the
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handle of it but it's KSEV mornings with Craig Wayne.
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Why is it called that? Why is it called Wayne and the other guy?
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All of my social media handles were at Radio Craig C, and I made it before you
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and I became a show. And then I repurposed it to us, and it's only got like 20
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videos of us on it. One of them now has 6 ,000 views.
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Which is crazy because, yeah, it's crazy because the profile is like 50
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followers, but it's the one with the Talarico serendipitous audio where the woman
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like captured him saying something about how he's getting clipped and don't
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believe it. I'm going to do what I've been saying all along.
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And to your point, a tremendous amount of the comments are just angry.
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And I think you also said that you have comments on your Facebook page that you
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might want to read. Yeah, so I we had posted something where where I think I was
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Criticizing CNN because you know they were talking about Nicki Minaj's but and
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and is that really the closing argument?
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And I yeah, I you you share one of your robots Because apparently I gave you
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editorial access to my page You don't know what I was thinking but you know some
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guy goes I didn't know you were a Trump supporter And I said I'm a conservative
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Republican in my personal life, but I will investigate Republicans I voted for
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all Republicans because Democrats raised taxes spend money on stupid crap and
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teach people to be dependent on the government Trump is not on the ballot and I
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like America. Yeah, right. That seems good and then
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Somebody said pretty nasty things to me.
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And they also said nasty things about Trump, of course.
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Is that hour and a half, because I mentioned that he mentioned Nicki Minaj for
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like 30 seconds, and he spoke for an hour and a half.
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Someone wrote in that hour and a half did Trump talk about releasing the Epstein
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files. And then some guy named Bob Millard, if that's his real name, and I have
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no reason to doubt that it is. there was a time when exposed fraud, now he
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endorses fraud. Tables have turned.
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And so I am coming out today in support of fraud.
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I think I'm staking out a position that I believe as much fraud as humanly
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possible should occur to America.
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To be honest, it's good for your business.
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The more fraud, the more you then get the uncover.
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So you could actually support fraud because it keeps you working.
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You know what? I didn't think about it that way.
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Yeah, no, that's ridiculous. It's crazy the way that people behave.
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And it is also funny. I'll say this more after the break.
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When someone thinks you're on the same team as them politically, and then they
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find out you're not, and this can be in just your everyday life or maybe in
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Wayne's case, somebody on his social media page, they get so much angrier when
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they discover like, wait a minute, I thought you were one of us and you're one of
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that other side. And they've known you for years.
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They've liked you for years. Nothing about you changed.
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They just suddenly found out you're politically different in how you think yeah,
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they hate you and somebody else said I was in a cult.
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Yeah. Well, I mean I'm in a cult.
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Yeah, that's not so bad this cult is Alright, we'll take a break a lot more
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coming up. It's Craig and Wayne KSEV mornings the mob guys on the voice of Texas
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a SUV radio. This is the voice of Texas He is Wayne Dolcefino.
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I am Craig Coglianese as we call ourselves the mob guys, which I enjoy a lot.
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And I was explaining yesterday partially as a reflection on who the actual
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mobsters are, which is politics, the politicians, but also because we're both
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from the East Coast and we're Italian, or originally.
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And we're stereotyping. And a lot of other stuff.
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I wanted to read through some of the comments on one of the TikToks that we have
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up right now on social media at Radio Craig C, which we'll probably try to
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change. I don't know how to actually change the handle, but it's Craig and Wayne,
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KSEV mornings, for the actual name of the thing.
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A lot of these comments are crazy.
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So here's one of the ones I thought was most interesting.
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A lot of people who hate Paxton, who love Talarico, they somehow
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find our videos. I don't think they follow our, I don't know what goes on here,
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but this guy goes, at least Talarico didn't cheat on his wife and let a kid
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bleeper get off with one day in jail and no sex offender list or get impeached by
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his own party.
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The reason I want to say something about this is it sounds unhinged and there's a
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lot of these comments where people are just saying crazy unhinged stuff and angry
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stuff and and cursing and yelling and the funny thing about it is this these
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people go home and think they're nice.
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They think they're like the kind nice party that votes for the people that do
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good things and and help each other and all that crap all that Kumbaya stuff,
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they say, and then they go on social media and violently attack, whether it's
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rhetoric or actual physical violence, the people they disagree with.
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To me, you can see which party is more radical, just by the way that they
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communicate. Yeah. And I mentioned the cult thing, like somebody accused me of
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being in the Trump cult. And look, I'm a pragmatic voter, I think.
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But I overlook, or I choose to overlook, stuff
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that Trump does that I don't like.
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Sure. Because at the end of the day, there are two choices, right?
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And they're wildly different directions for our country.
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And I get to the fork in the road, I know which way to go.
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It's not like I have to think about it, right?
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you say, well, maybe Tallahassee goes, you know, not that bad.
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If you look at voting records, and the things people say, you know, look,
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you could tell me now, you believe in two sexes, but when you believed in six
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before,
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just a couple of years ago, sure, I know you and I have a complete different
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cultural view of the world. And
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it's important, I mean, and people will say, well, you know, I've criticized the
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trans ads because I mean, I think it seems like that's what we got.
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We got trans, we got terrorists.
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But I understand because I feel very
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strongly about, look, I don't know the name of the biggest
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drag show person. Me neither. Somebody asked me just like stop me in the street
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and say, hey Wayne, you know how you doing?
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And said, you know, hey, who's your favorite drag queen?
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I would say, I don't have a clue.
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Right. Right. I've been to a drag show one story, Mardi Gras and Galveston.
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I've also been to one drag show in my life, WGN Radio, Made us go.
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Yeah. But even if I had been to four, right, I, it's, you know, as adults,
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I think people should be able to pretty much do what the hell they want.
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Sure. just me. But it's the kid thing and it's the sort of
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normalization of it that I have a problem with it.
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It's a very sliver of the population who likes to wear, what was the
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Monty Python thing? I like to wear women's clothing.
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I want to wear women's clothing because I am a woman.
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I want to wear women's clothing and hang around in bars or something like that.
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And then the guy also says he wants to have children.
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Yeah, exactly. So to me, it's a very
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clear distinction. And there are things that Ken
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Paxton has done that I disapprove of.
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But again, to me, the people that stay home in
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any election now, the people who stay home are just abdicating
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their responsibility. Yeah, I just believe that I believe Republicans.
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I'm told her like normally up about 400 ,000 Sure at this point down a hundred
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thousand right now. I heard last night.
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I mean that is scary And there is a real
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chance that Governor Abbott Would be in trouble if that's true, right?
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You hear you see those ads with Gina.
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He knows. Yeah, she's like, you know Like, I don't know, I'm just happy, I'm
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against income taxes, I don't believe that.
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I don't believe these people are against higher taxes, but if you think about it
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and then I'll shut up, it's, look at Harris County, that we literally,
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people are literally going to elect people who have doubled their budget in the
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last eight years, who have raised taxes 41%, and they're going to all win.
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Yeah, I know. And honestly, I was talking even more about Karla Wai yesterday,
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who's also probably going to win.
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I hope people vote for Mark Coward.
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I really hope they do, but I don't think they're going to, to the degree
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necessary to actually get him elected.
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And she's DUI after DUI person.
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But I do want to go back to something else you said about like holding your nose
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and voting for someone. I have long believed that if I'm to judge the
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personal character of the people I want to send to Washington, there's nobody I
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can send. Most of the people who run have something that they've done, some part
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of their life that I probably won't approve of.
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Honestly, if you look, like, this is the more Christian or Catholic way to
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describe it, I can't throw stones if I have a glass house.
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There's a lot of people in this life.
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Your neighbor has probably done something that if you find out about them, you
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might not like them as much. I know.
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I know. Whatever it is.
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I know. What's funny about that is like in politics, they go find that stuff.
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So the difference between me and Ken Paxton is anything he's ever done that's
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even remotely close to perceived as horrible has probably been heavily researched
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and put out there into the world.
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And so I usually dismiss a decent amount of that stuff if I think it's not
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relevant at all to doing the job of being a politician.
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And I care much more about what you do in the role you have in
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politics. And Talarico has continued to represent things I don't believe in.
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So when I choose who to vote for, I vote for the person who, as you said, does
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what I want, but also represents the things that I believe, at least in the job
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he's doing. Does he represent them in his own life?
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Maybe not, probably not. In this case with Paxton, there's a few no's that I can
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think of there. But that to me has always been a silly bar for politicians.
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Now, granted, there's exceptions.
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I'm not going to vote for somebody who is at one time like murdering someone
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else. I think if that comes out, you're like, all right, that's probably not
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good. And there's things like it where you say to yourself, all right, in this
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situation, I might decide this is too far.
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And I'll say one last thing about Paxton too, and then I'll also shut up.
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The thing about the guy who only tried to spend one day in jail, everyone
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misunderstands and purposefully misuses that story because the victim did not
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want to testify again. And when Ken Paxton is bringing a case about sexual
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assault and the victim says, I don't want to go back in a courtroom and retestify
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to what happened to me, you don't have the same case you had when she testified
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the first time. So if she has to come back in, if she has to talk about something
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and she doesn't want to do it, you have a very different challenge in how you
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hold someone responsible. That is not Paxton's fault.
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And to be honest, I'm actually kind of glad that no one tried to pressure her to
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go into a courtroom she didn't want to be in again.
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Hey, look, if Paxton goes down, it's going to be Republicans fault that I'll
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explain on the other side. Okay, there you go.
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That's great. Wayne Dolcefino will tell us all how it's our fault if Paxton
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loses in the Senate race, which feels more and more like it's possible.
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Hopefully not likely, but possible.
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Quick break a lot more KSEV mornings the mob guys on the voice of Texas KSEV
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radio The voice of Texas. He is Wayne Dolcefino.
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I am Craig Coglianese. He will tell us why Ken Paxton losing in the
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Senate race will be our fault will be conservatives fault if it happens But first
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we'll go to a phone call Wayne if you want and then you can tell us why it's all
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why we're to blame George and Tom Ball.
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What do you want to say about the election?
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Hey, thank you. I think it's a very good point that you brought up earlier when
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you were talking about the transgender issues and
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things like this, which highlights the following.
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The family court judge race is one of the most critical races that you can have
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in Harris County. And the reason why is because it has so much broad impact on
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society. For example, children suddenly deciding with their chief teacher's input
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that they want to become the opposite gender or one of the other
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four that James Callerena claims to say.
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Well done. And that can be very
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influential. You know, just a whole invasion of
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The propaganda but left this problem.
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I don't want to say leftist because I am one but the Hold I want you to better
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define that you've said that more than what what do you mean?
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You are one give me give me more.
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No, I first of all, I've been a government employee my In my entire life and so I
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wasn't sure most of my education as a youth was in in
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came from socialist organizations,
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community action things. And honestly, I've never been educated
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and I'll shoot you an email on where I went to after school program.
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To be honest, George, you don't sound crazy.
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You and I might disagree, but you don't sound insane.
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So I don't, I don't consider one of the crazy leftists.
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is not judged.
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I've actually got documents that say I am crazy.
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Fair enough. But what I'm going to, but what I will say to you is I had a chat
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with a Rose Cardenas who's the Republican candidate for a
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judgeship for a 280 family court.
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I sent you her contact information.
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I encouraged her to call KSEV and that's pretty much all they can do To
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try to get her message out because sure, you know, a lot of the judge races are
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very low budget Races. Yes, and they don't take advantage of the airwaves
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like they should but anyway I just wanted to say that no the family court races
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is so critical It's probably more critical than the Harris County
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judge positions because yeah I can afford to pay a couple you know I'm not that I
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can afford I don't prefer to pay more property taxes but I definitely don't
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prefer a child being taken from the parent and getting mutilated.
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Yeah sure. I just wanted to point that out.
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Rose Cardenas. Rose Cardenas. Yeah,
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Judge District 280. Okay cool. In Harris County.
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Yeah that's the protractor word.
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Okay, thank you very much. Thank you very much, George.
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That's the protective order court, which is being abused both by illegals,
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making allegations against their husbands so that they can get a special visa to
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stay in the country. You can go in there and I, as a parent, could say the
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other parent did something and they issue like these protective orders, like
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these lifetime bans keeping you away from your kids just because your spouse and
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maybe legitimately said something but sometimes not.
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I could use those false allegations.
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We do a lot of work on family stuff here at Dolce -Fino Media and
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he's absolutely right. These people get to the bottoms of the ballots with all
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the judges, races and all these other jobs and they say like, you know, who
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cares, right? I don't even know these people.
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And they don't, but they should.
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And I think one of the mistakes of the parties, the Republican Party,
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I don't know much about how the Democratic Party works, but that there's not a
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lot of money spent. You know, we're talking about all this outside, you know, all
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this money, Elon Musk money, whatever, left wing money from California.
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But the races that really make a difference come from the ground up.
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Sure. They do. And it's a few votes probably that actually wins those races, like
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you and George are saying that some of those races are so close and so little
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that it's a little bit to get maybe we'll try to talk to Rose in the next couple
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days if we have her contact information.
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Sure. By the way I talked to Mays last night we were texting back and forth Mays
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Middleton and he's gonna try to squeeze in a phone call to us I gave him the
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number but he was talking about how great it was to be out and I think it was
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Lubbock with Trump I think Trump was in Lubbock I'm not exactly sure.
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I think so yeah. And just how great it was to see all these cars lining the road
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and all these people out, it sort of makes you feel good because you see what's
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happening in the big cities, like Houston and Dallas and San Antonio.
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You sometimes say, where are all the people that think like me?
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Yeah. Right? And then you get to see them out.
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I live in the Heights and I have an American flag hanging outside my place.
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and you know, but you see a whole bunch of places that there are rainbow flags
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instead. I mean, I'm not to whatever, but not to disparage anyone, but I, that's
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the, oh, when I see that I say, well, gay people must live there.
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I don't, I don't really know. That's not.
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I don't even think that's true, by the way.
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I think that a lot of people who throw those flags out now are just Democrats
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that want to, I think, start a fight that they think they're going to make that I
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don't care about. I also don't care.
27:39
You were telling us that if Republicans or if Ken Paxton loses, it's Republicans
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fault. Yeah, I think the impeachment.
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I got this whole move by what I call center, left of center
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Republicans to go after Ken Paxton in the impeachment when
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they did not, in my view, have the goods, right?
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But you could surmise and suspect all day long, and I'm not defending Kim
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Paxton in that regard. I'm just saying it was the splintering of the Republican
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Party. It led to all kinds of fights over, you know, whether we have closed
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primaries or open primaries. It's led to all kinds of internal schisms within the
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Republican Party. It's why you had the Paxton -Cornyn thing, I think, in the
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first place. It's sort of a you now see the former House Speaker Dade Phelan
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who was you know The speaker then going on CNN now is like a commentator,
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right? Because he says nasty things about Ken Paxton Sure, it's gonna be the
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Republican infighting that I've always thought was not a smart play
28:51
And they then when there was a house speaker race last time between Burroughs and
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cook There was anyone that voted for Burrows was a traitor even though there
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were reasons that people wanted boroughs not cook It just it's a Republican
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Civil War in this state that will be the cause of our defeat Yeah, I
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think you're onto something very very important and actually whenever I've looked
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into the impeachment itself I always come back with the same question because I
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wasn't living in Texas at the time that it first started why did they choose to
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move when they did? From what I understand, they had some whistleblowers that had
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come forward after reporting something to the FBI, and they had what looked like
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an improper relationship with a donor and maybe some things that were being done,
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but they didn't really have prevent it.
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Honestly, when the whole thing plays out in the Senate and he gets acquitted,
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most people, rational people who watch that, and you can go back and see it, they
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come away with the same understanding, like, yeah, he doesn't seem guilty of
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anything, or at least you're not proving he's guilty of anything.
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I think it's more that to me right that you know is some it was some of the
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conduct Suspect I think a fair observer would say yeah,
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but but again it was Republicans Who really allowed the impeachment
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to happen. Sure. And look, we all hear stories about politicians,
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right? We know the ones that are, you know, squeaky clean and like, I like like
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Mayes Middleton. I don't think there's a crooked bone in his body.
30:23
He seems like a squeaky clean guy.
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He's just a squeaky clean guy. And then you got a guy like Ken Paxton, right?
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Who doesn't seem like a squeaky clean guy.
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Who made some judgments that I would have made, right?
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especially if I was in public office.
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But, but, but I want the guy who's going to vote with me.
30:41
Yeah. I think it's even more than that.
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And I don't mean to compare you to Ken Paxton, but I'll do it for a second.
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You are someone from afar that someone could judge if they chose to.
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Like there's enough things out there that have been said about you or or people
30:56
who've come after you that in some way there's there's a little bit of blood on
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the canvas. The same is true for Paxton, but he's one of those people who was
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fighting the thing that not many people fight, kind of like Trump.
31:07
And so even if some of the things about Ken Paxton wind up being accurate and
31:12
aren't just manufactured to attack him, part of the reason people go so hard at
31:16
these individuals and people like Ken or people like President Trump is that
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they're actually fighting the system for real.
31:23
And I think, again, to go back to an example of you, one of the reasons that
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people have come after you that you've been thrown in jail and stuff, or whatever
31:29
has happened, I think I've been arrested at least a few times.
31:32
Most of it completely crap. It's because people are trying to hurt you, because
31:36
you're hurting the system that they want to succeed and you actually, I don't
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know if I should do this. I'll just do a real quick version because it's not my
31:44
story. It's yours. You told my wife last night about something that's going on,
31:47
where the whole way that some company is going to make a bunch of money is to
31:52
call you off. Like Wayne has to stop.
31:56
And if things happen and people wind up getting like payments on lawsuits and
32:00
whatnot. And I kind of find that impressive and amazing that like you alone are
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this force that people are so terrified of.
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And I think Ken Paxton is cut from a similar cloth.
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Yeah, no, look, I think he's been a very aggressive attorney general in some
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areas, right? I have criticized him.
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I believe their open records division is like lost, right?
32:24
I don't believe there's enough consumer fraud investigations because I think a
32:29
lot of people are ripped off. We need an attorney general that fights
32:35
aggressively for consumers. We use like a Marvin Zindler as an attorney general.
32:40
That'd be nice. We just do. But having said that, he's done a lot of
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really good things as attorney general.
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And I say I don't need personally to judge
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someone's, you know, worst moments, right?
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I don't. I want someone who politically is in
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line with me. And that was my biggest problem with James Talarico,
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Beto O 'Rourke. I mean, you know, it'd be one thing if these were like
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conservative blue dog, East Texas, Sure old Democrats right running for governor.
33:20
Yeah, you could say well, you know, we've had the same guy for a long time Let's
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do something else. I you could live with that But that's not what this is.
33:29
These are people with fundamentally different visions And I think the
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fact that we're even talking about it is like if this is Texas Yeah, I know we
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really gonna elect a senator. That's like doesn't like oil and gas
33:44
Really? Well, to your point, like a John Whitmire is more of the typical type of
33:50
Democrat that seems to at least, and I've been surprised at this living here in
33:54
Houston now for a little while, a lot of Republicans don't hate the guy.
33:57
A lot of Republicans are like, ah, he's okay.
33:59
He's fine. He's what we get. Republicans have to elect him.
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I know. So they usually say some version of he's the best we can do in a place
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like Houston. We're not going to get a real Republican elected, so why don't we
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get a John Whitmire? And that's not at all what Talarico is.
34:12
that's not at all what Beto O 'Rourke was, they're far leftists.
34:16
And they pretend for a few weeks that they're not, and then they go right back to
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being insane leftists when they get into office.
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So yeah, you're right. As far as Texas is concerned, it makes no sense.
34:27
You can't hate one party so much that you elect someone who so doesn't represent
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you. I don't get it. All right.
34:34
We got to take another break. We'll come back in a little bit.
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It's KSEV mornings, the Mob Guys on The Voice of Texas.
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Yeah, I don't think he does, but he probably knows a guy.
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There we go. The devil horns baby.
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The devil horns. The long horns.
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Let's go to Alan who called in about Cam Paxton.
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Alan, what do you want to say? Yes, good morning.
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I want to say something about Cam Paxton.
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I think I compare him to what President Trump went through, the
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impeachment, especially with the Rhino
37:27
in Texas.
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If you go again to Green, people will come after you.
37:37
Yes. The question is, do you have the courage to do it when you know that they're
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going to come after you? So I voted for Ken.
37:48
His political vision is aligned with mine and with what
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President Trump want to do. We are on the curves of a booming economy
38:00
if the system that the Trump cabinet want to do, which is
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bringing back the American, the American economy.
38:10
Yeah, the American manufacturing.
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Yes,
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which is in line with what they call Hamilton economy.
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Many of his cabinet have mentioned so repeatedly about that, and most
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people just don't listen. Sure.
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No, I appreciate it, Alan. And I want to say something in response to something
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you said a second ago, because it is courage.
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And it's not courage to just step out and then get that first blow that people
38:41
get, the first punch. I think the real courage is after you've been punched a lot
38:46
and in some cases maybe taking some bruises to keep going and People like Ken
38:51
Paxton did keep going they they took bruises.
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They took hits There's blood on the canvas as we were talking about before and
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then you keep doing it That shows the people that were punching you that it
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doesn't matter how many times you punch you get back up It's the Rocky Balboa a
39:05
version of a way of winning a fight that I do admire from a lot of people Yes, he
39:11
was the only one who sued the federal government in the 2020 election
39:17
where the six states have a goal against their own election rule, you
39:22
know, during the COVID. He was the only one.
39:27
And that's take courage. It does.
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Yeah, absolutely. Thank you so much for the call.
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And we really do appreciate it.
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What do you want to say in response to that?
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I mean, he's absolutely correct.
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And that's why I say that it's not a close call for me.
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Right? It's not even a remotely close call for me.
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I do think, and I have said this to you, that I think Ken Paxton made a mistake
39:53
by not addressing these things.
39:56
I mean, you can't change the reality that it's sort of like, you know, 20 people
40:01
are in a room and 19 people are talking about the same person.
40:04
And the person just like doesn't respond The reality is it is an issue.
40:10
And I think you have to, at least my recommendation to political people when they
40:15
hire us is to say you've got to sometimes deal with this.
40:20
Yeah. Early. And then you can say, well, I haven't asked that question a hundred
40:25
times. The answer is still the same.
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I was innocent then, I'm innocent now, whatever.
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But the failure of the campaign,
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if it fails, is in part messaging.
40:39
And how they brought him out to the public.
40:43
Sure. Yeah. And unwillingness to attack some of the issues that he was being
40:48
shot at from afar. Like, you needed to own your response to that stuff, and he
40:54
never did. We've got to take a break.
40:55
After the break, we'll play Mike Waltz audio.
40:57
Mike Waltz is the US ambassador to the United Nations and he absolutely was not
41:03
having it when a Cuban diplomat tried to go a certain road with him.
41:06
So we'll get to that and a bunch more on the next hour of the Mob Guys KSEV
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radio, Voice of Texas.