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Reactions to Prime Time Presidential Speech AND Veteran Voices with Blake Jones · KSEV Mornings with Craig and Wayne

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  Speaker 1: Where should I begin? Can we talk about this?
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  Speaker 2: Say?
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  Speaker 3: What are you trying to do?
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  Speaker 4: Beyond the usual controversial talking over there?
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  Speaker 3: Preparing my den you spectacle.
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  Speaker 5: Jesus, oh God, no dot talking to Heck.
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  Speaker 1: This station is now the ultimate power in the universe.
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  Speaker 5: Your host a good.
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  Speaker 1: Man, Craig.
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  Speaker 5: That's right, It is the Craig Collins Show.
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  Speaker 4: K S c V KGBC the voice of I keep
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  Speaker 4: doing that, man, because it's just in my brain and
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  Speaker 4: I gotta stop. I don't think the k other thing
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  Speaker 4: doesn't matter. K S EV the voice is the voice
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  Speaker 4: of Texas, thrilled to be with you. So much stuff
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  Speaker 4: out there to talk about. I haven't even been here
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  Speaker 4: that long. It's weird that it's stuck in my brain
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  Speaker 4: and not everybody else is. Everybody's doing a great job
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  Speaker 4: of forgetting some things. There's a lot of stuff out
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  Speaker 4: there for us to discuss. I think, by and large,
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  Speaker 4: the most important thing is what the President said last night.
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  Speaker 4: I think there's a lot of people that already dismiss it.
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  Speaker 4: My favorite of all the people saying that all the
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  Speaker 4: things he said were complete crap is left leaning media.
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  Speaker 4: There's so many examples, both written and video versions, and
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  Speaker 4: people who ignored obviously didn't air the comments at all
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  Speaker 4: made by the president.
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  Speaker 5: It's so good.
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  Speaker 4: But my favorite one was probably The Guardian and the
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  Speaker 4: way that they summed it up, or the New York Times,
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  Speaker 4: the failing of New York Times, because consistently they said
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  Speaker 4: that everything that President Trump said was a lie, that
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  Speaker 4: all of the information he gave you about the amount
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  Speaker 4: of stolen data that China did, as far as voters
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  Speaker 4: here in the United States goes, that's normal. Everybody can
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  Speaker 4: have that. China maybe shouldn't have it, but it's not
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  Speaker 4: a big deal. And then my favorite thing is they
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  Speaker 4: identified the one document that was put out there that
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  Speaker 4: was made available to the public, and they said, this
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  Speaker 4: document proves that Russia tried to help President Trump in
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  Speaker 4: the twenty twenty election. And here's what's the twenty sixteen election.
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  Speaker 4: Here's what's really amusing to me about that. It's the
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  Speaker 4: exact same claim that's being made all of these you know,
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  Speaker 4: declassified documents are demonstrating the ways that several different other
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  Speaker 4: countries meddle in our elections, all the ways they do it.
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  Speaker 4: And so what's amazing is their obsession mainstream media with
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  Speaker 4: Russia specifically and anything that benefited Trump. So you remember,
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  Speaker 4: and I remember how constant of a narrative that was
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  Speaker 4: that you know, Russia essentially stole the election.
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  Speaker 5: From Hillary Clinton.
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  Speaker 4: Not just in the world of Democrats, this was in
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  Speaker 4: the world of all of the people who said this
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  Speaker 4: sort of stuff on television. And President Trump did a
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  Speaker 4: giant speech last night, used the same I think like
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  Speaker 4: level of information necessary to go with his narrative that
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  Speaker 4: they went with with theirs, and they've dismissed it out
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  Speaker 4: of hand immediately, they said, how dare you so I
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  Speaker 4: kind of think this is my opinion that well, a
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  Speaker 4: whole bunch of what President Trump shared out there yesterday
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  Speaker 4: was incredibly important in the role of man. There are
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  Speaker 4: a lot of bad actors trying to mess with our
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  Speaker 4: election in all kinds of ways. However they're succeeding at
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  Speaker 4: doing it. The fact that our voting machines can be hacked,
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  Speaker 4: I think the data said, you'd have to be pretty
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  Speaker 4: close to them, but they're not exactly invulnerable. They're not
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  Speaker 4: exactly immune to any kind of hacking. The amount of
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  Speaker 4: information China would have on the voters of the United States,
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  Speaker 4: who they are, how they vote, like, some of that
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  Speaker 4: stuff kind of surprising. But the most interesting thing to me,
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  Speaker 4: and this is the four D chess version, is that
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  Speaker 4: I think the media has to accept the idea that
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  Speaker 4: they made everything up about Russia Russia Russia for years
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  Speaker 4: or everything Trump said last night is categorically true and
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  Speaker 4: matters and is important to protecting our elections.
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  Speaker 5: It can't be no across the board.
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  Speaker 4: And I saw that a lot of people are trying
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  Speaker 4: to say no, just across the board on that subject,
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  Speaker 4: on that topic, that they don't want anything that Trump
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  Speaker 4: claimed wasn't true, that they all said was true about
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  Speaker 4: Russia to not also be relevant to China or anybody else.
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  Speaker 4: And then as far as illegal immigrants that are voting
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  Speaker 4: on our election roles, and I think there's only one
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  Speaker 4: declassified document that talks about this. The projection is that
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  Speaker 4: it's at least two hundred and fifty thousand people across
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  Speaker 4: four or five states that are easily on these rolls.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't go into further detail, probably because to do
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  Speaker 4: that you have to start saying who the people are.
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  Speaker 4: But it's incredibly significant. And the thing that I thought
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  Speaker 4: was amazing about mainstream media talking about that topic is
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  Speaker 4: how they just breezed right through it. They're like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: and somebody somewhere claimed the thing is true. The Department
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  Speaker 4: of Homeland Security, who cares about them? They don't matter,
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  Speaker 4: None of these people matter. It's just it's amazing. I'll
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  Speaker 4: tell you, I watched the whole thing, and I thought
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  Speaker 4: to myself during all the speech, of all the moments,
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  Speaker 4: that people were going to attack and say, like, this
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  Speaker 4: isn't true, that's not true. The President kept saying that
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  Speaker 4: there were documents that will be released that backed up
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  Speaker 4: all the things he said. So the odd thing about
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  Speaker 4: watching a speech from a president, whether you believe what
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  Speaker 4: that president says or not, whether you voted for that
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  Speaker 4: president or not, is when they tell you these things
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  Speaker 4: and then they tell you the receipts of what they're
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  Speaker 4: saying are available later, like in the moment, you have
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  Speaker 4: to digest it. But I will say that it's smart
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  Speaker 4: to not decide whether or not the things that are
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  Speaker 4: being said in that moment.
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  Speaker 5: Are true, Like, I don't know if this is true.
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  Speaker 4: And then you go look at the documents and it
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  Speaker 4: was just amazing to watch mainstream media completely obliterate their
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  Speaker 4: criteria that they used for so long in so many
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  Speaker 4: ways to go after Trump. It's just same old, same old,
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  Speaker 4: in my opinion, as far as the way that a
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  Speaker 4: majority of this topic went, or a majority of this
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  Speaker 4: discussion is going. And so you know, there are people
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  Speaker 4: that believe the president Trump plays forty e chess. There
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  Speaker 4: are people who believe that he doesn't, that he's a
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  Speaker 4: bumbling moron who gets lucky some of the time. Of course,
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  Speaker 4: whatever side of the political aisle you're on probably heavily
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  Speaker 4: dictates how you feel about that topic and who you
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  Speaker 4: believe who you don't believe. But to me, this was genius.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm not saying that to be overly praising the President.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just saying that because I wonder if this is
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  Speaker 4: something they delayed on purpose, not because of data, but
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  Speaker 4: because it's closer to the midterm elections.
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  Speaker 5: We're in July.
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  Speaker 4: Now, you could have waited a little more, I guess,
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  Speaker 4: But maybe this will have an impact on the elections themselves.
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  Speaker 4: But it's essentially demonstrating that media is incredibly biased at
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  Speaker 4: the very least with the way in which they're immediately
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  Speaker 4: dismissing and the fact that so many of them didn't
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  Speaker 4: even er it like that was hilarious coming in watching
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  Speaker 4: that yesterday and the discussion about it and how dangerous
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  Speaker 4: it is. And we had a nice conversation with Brian Noonan,
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  Speaker 4: who will absolutely be back next week. He is my
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  Speaker 4: version of Eric Andell, a buddy of mine that I've
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  Speaker 4: worked with for years in a bunch of different radio
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  Speaker 4: places who thinks none of the things I think about politics,
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  Speaker 4: And at times in my own brain, I'm like, how
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  Speaker 4: could you possibly think that?
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  Speaker 5: Dude?
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  Speaker 4: I like you, I think you're smart. That's insane the
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  Speaker 4: thing I heard, and he thinks the same thing about me.
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  Speaker 4: So he'll be back on. But he was trying to
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  Speaker 4: say yesterday, and I thought about this as I was
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  Speaker 4: watching the speech last night, that it's okay to censor
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  Speaker 4: the lies because Trump is a terrible person who lies
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  Speaker 4: about everything, but it's okay to not care about the
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  Speaker 4: lies if it's Democrats who are doing it, which is
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  Speaker 4: just also insane. Like the thing, I don't know, the
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  Speaker 4: thing I kept thinking, and I was thinking about playing clips.
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  Speaker 4: There's so many clips you could play of everything the
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  Speaker 4: President said. But here's the problem with playing clips. You
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  Speaker 4: actually have homework that's assigned to you when you play those.
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  Speaker 4: And what I mean by that is you got to
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  Speaker 4: go look at the documents that he's referring to. You
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  Speaker 4: got to read a lot of people don't like doing
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  Speaker 4: the homework. So I feel like the homework part has
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  Speaker 4: disqualified many, many, many people, and I'll say maybe many
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  Speaker 4: again from even having a valuable opinion on this discussion
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  Speaker 4: in this topic, because no matter what you think, I'll
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  Speaker 4: say this last thing and then we'll probably move on.
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  Speaker 4: No matter what you think about the man, if homework
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  Speaker 4: is provided and you don't do the homework, you don't
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  Speaker 4: have an informed opinion. You just have to accept that
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  Speaker 4: that you're neglecting something. It doesn't mean that you go
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  Speaker 4: look at the documents and you come to the same conclusion.
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  Speaker 4: You can think whatever you want after you do the homework.
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  Speaker 4: You can do I mean, this is a weird world
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  Speaker 4: we live in twenty twenty six. I was going to
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  Speaker 4: say you can only do math one way, but it
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  Speaker 4: feels like people can do math twenty five ways now,
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  Speaker 4: So go ahead, do the look at all the information,
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  Speaker 4: decide what you think is true or not true about it,
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  Speaker 4: and then at least we can have a conversation where
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  Speaker 4: both of us know what the starting point is, because
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  Speaker 4: so very often that is also very.
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  Speaker 5: Much not the case.
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  Speaker 4: But I don't know, to me the most valuable takeaway
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  Speaker 4: of the entire thing, and I'll probably be talking about
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  Speaker 4: it when I fill in on the nationally syndicated The
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  Speaker 4: Data Show starting on Monday, and then I'm doing that
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  Speaker 4: show for a lot of days, which can be very cool,
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  Speaker 4: seven straight shows in for Data, but I'll probably be
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  Speaker 4: talking a lot about what I think is incredible about
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  Speaker 4: just further demonstrating the dynamic of we care about this here,
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  Speaker 4: we don't care about it so much over there. All right,
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  Speaker 4: we are already going to take a break. We're going
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  Speaker 4: to come back from the break, and we're going to
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  Speaker 4: do a little bit more discussion about some other things
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  Speaker 4: in the world of mainstream news. Anyone that's not listened before.
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  Speaker 4: On Friday, we take two earlier breaks in the show
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  Speaker 4: so we can do a completely uninterrupted half an hour
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  Speaker 4: that I call the Veteran Voices.
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  Speaker 5: We bring a veteran on.
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  Speaker 4: We're trying to get veterans just in Houston, and I
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  Speaker 4: thought of a unique way to do that and it
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  Speaker 4: The veteran will be talking today is All So, a
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  Speaker 4: hour discussion with me and a vet So for that
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  Speaker 4: reason we take some earlier breaks. We got all the
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  Speaker 4: commercials out of the way now. So this is Craig
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  Speaker 4: Collins on the Craig Collins Show KSV seven hundred am,
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  Speaker 4: The Voice of Texas.
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  Speaker 5: This is the Craig.
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  Speaker 4: Collins Show KSVU, the Voice of Texas. Thrilled to be
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  Speaker 4: with you. So much stuff out there to talk about.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to immediately jump to our caller. We got
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  Speaker 4: Bart calling in from Spring. He wants to talk about
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  Speaker 4: a viral video of a woman that slapped the heck
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  Speaker 4: out of a Trump supporter, a teenager.
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  Speaker 5: Bart, what do you want to say?
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  Speaker 3: Hey, you ever been to Ocean City, New Jersey.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I have. I'm born and raised in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: I have.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, you two, I assume.
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm from upstate New York. But I was just
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  Speaker 3: wonder if you any fourteen year old girls.
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  Speaker 4: I've never not even when I was a little kid
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  Speaker 4: growing up in New Jersey, so I would have been
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  Speaker 4: younger than that.
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  Speaker 5: No, I never out the fourteen year old.
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  Speaker 3: Girl and she's here illegally. She overstated the visa two years. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: the attitude that we don't have to obey the laws,
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  Speaker 3: it just blows my mind. Their mentality.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it is surreal in that case, and the fact
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  Speaker 4: that the lady also just lapped the craput of a
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  Speaker 4: teenager because he was wearing or the person was wearing
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  Speaker 4: like Trump stuff, right, there was something like.
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  Speaker 3: That a Trump Trump on her pants.
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  Speaker 5: And Okay, yeah, it's crazy.
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  Speaker 4: That person's probably going to get deported though, So that
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  Speaker 4: was a I hope it was worth it in the
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  Speaker 4: sense of you beat up one person and then you
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  Speaker 4: went very viral.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they sentator that Delaney Detention Center that they're all
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  Speaker 3: protests and staying there on a hunger strike.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like great. I wish they'd followed through the charges
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  Speaker 3: on her, not just the porter.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, I get it, that makes sense. Is that the
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  Speaker 4: only thing you want to talk about part or anything else?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I didn't know if you'd seen you. Who Summerly is?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I do know who Summerly is.
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  Speaker 3: She's a rep from Philadelphia. She was talking about this
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  Speaker 3: recent Supreme Court ruling about Biden's DEI should saying that
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  Speaker 3: we should not count the MCAT scores for what goes
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  Speaker 3: into medical school to become doctors. We should look more
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  Speaker 3: of what race they are. And I'm like, it's.
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  Speaker 4: Like we're in Yes, I can actually play that audio
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  Speaker 4: if you want me to do.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's interesting.
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  Speaker 4: Barton Spring is one of a couple of callers. I
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  Speaker 4: think Jimmy X is another one. You bring up topics
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  Speaker 4: and I'm like, I have I have an audio clip.
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  Speaker 4: So this is sort of a bart and Spring audio
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  Speaker 4: clip being played. Let's go ahead and play.
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  Speaker 2: Having all white male doctors is just as bad for
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  Speaker 2: the medical profession as having all white male congressmen is
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  Speaker 2: to our government. We just say I have a black doctor,
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  Speaker 2: and I sought my black doctor out. In fact, black
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  Speaker 2: doctors are in high demand because black patients know that
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  Speaker 2: culturally competent care can be the difference between care and cure,
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  Speaker 2: or life and death.
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  Speaker 4: I already get to stop it there, Bart. What I
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  Speaker 4: find so hilarious about this is I just want a doctor.
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  Speaker 5: Who's good at stuff. I don't care what they look like.
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  Speaker 5: I just want them to be.
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  Speaker 3: Good or their culturally competent care.
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm not. I'm not worried about it at all.
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  Speaker 4: I thought all care was the same, so it's like, right, yeah, no,
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  Speaker 4: I thought it was hilarious. I'll tell you this. I'm
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  Speaker 4: married to a Mexican woman and occasionally she wants a
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  Speaker 4: doctor that can speak Spanish. But she doesn't care what
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  Speaker 4: the doctor looks like, and she speaks fluent English. She's
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  Speaker 4: just like, I don't know, it's a medical thing. If
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  Speaker 4: I go somewhere, And the funniest thing to me, Bart,
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  Speaker 4: is a bunch of times we'll get the whitest dude
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  Speaker 4: doctor you've ever.
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  Speaker 5: Seen in your life, fluent in Spanish.
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  Speaker 4: He'll just break it in and I'm like, and it
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  Speaker 4: makes me look like a jerk, by the way, that
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  Speaker 4: I don't speak that good of Spanish and that this
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  Speaker 4: guy does, And he's talking to my wife and I'm like,
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  Speaker 4: thanks for making me feel terrible, doctor, this is great.
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  Speaker 5: But yes, all the.
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  Speaker 3: Time when Charlie Kirk, when he'd go on these campuses.
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  Speaker 3: I remember one of the classic videos, he's debating this
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  Speaker 3: kid because he said he wanted to make sure the
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  Speaker 3: airlines pops pilots were competent, care what race they were, Yes,
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  Speaker 3: And they got really mad at him. Yes, and I said,
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  Speaker 3: called him a racist for want incompetent pilots.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you know what's amazing about that?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember that Charlie Kirk had said that if
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  Speaker 4: he saw a black pilot walk onto a plane, he
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  Speaker 4: would be concerned. And in that statement I just made
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  Speaker 4: if you don't know any of the context of what
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  Speaker 4: he said before or after that statement, there is an
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  Speaker 4: opportunity to accuse someone of saying something racist. And they
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  Speaker 4: took it just like they take it every time that
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  Speaker 4: they clipped the shortest little sentence from President Trump and
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  Speaker 4: pretend that it's this or that. But the truth is
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  Speaker 4: Charlie Kirk was debating a student talking about DEI itself
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  Speaker 4: and saying, because DEI asks for people to be hired
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  Speaker 4: based on their race and not based on their skill set.
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  Speaker 4: The thought of DEI would inspire Charlie Kirk to wonder
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  Speaker 4: if someone was qualified if they walked onto a plane
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  Speaker 4: and looked a certain way. If DEI did not exist,
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  Speaker 4: it would not be a thought that would go through
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  Speaker 4: his mind. It's not because he's a racist or he
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  Speaker 4: thinks black people can't be pilots. It's very, very simplistically
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  Speaker 4: because DEI is begging us to hire people that are
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  Speaker 4: less qualified than others based solely on race. Just like
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  Speaker 4: this woman that you had me play the audio is
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  Speaker 4: talking about with a doctor. She's picking a doctor because
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  Speaker 4: of what they look like. That is idiotic. I don't
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  Speaker 4: care what my doctor looks like. I want them to
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  Speaker 4: be good at medicine.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, go ahead, especially if they're going to make up
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  Speaker 3: a Supreme Court justice.
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  Speaker 4: Right, sure, whatever it is, whatever the role. And actually,
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  Speaker 4: you know what, I've said that a lot. It's funny
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  Speaker 4: you say that, And I gotta take a break in
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  Speaker 4: a little bit. And then we got to bring on
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  Speaker 4: our very cool veteran stand up comedian guest who's going
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  Speaker 4: to be jumping on. But what's funny is if they
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  Speaker 4: hadn't told me, and if Biden hadn't said I'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: find a black woman to put on the Supreme Court,
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: it would have been less likely that you question the
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: qualification of someone when he inevitably finds a black woman.
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: The biggest thing I've said to the left all the
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: time is stop saying the part out loud that you
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: want political points for, and then we don't have to
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: debate it the same way. But they always want the
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: political points, so they always say it.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: So yeah, let's go have a good.
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: Break, all right, Thank you very much, Barton Spring, You're awesome.
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: Thanks for calling it again as always and queuing up
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: some audio which now you and Jimmy X are guys
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: that for some reason continue to be capable of referencing
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: audio that I have. Sorry, we're going to take another break.
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: After the break, we are going to do a half
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: an hour uninterrupted. We're calling it, as I do very often,
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: the Veteran Voices segment. So I'm thrilled to do it
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: and actually really happy with who we got for this
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: week because it's a very different sort of chat.
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: Blake Jones is the guy's name. He is a stand
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: up comedian in Houston.
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: He's also a marine veteran so we will talk about
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: the Marines, we'll talk about doing stand up here, we'll
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: do all kinds of stuff, and I'll also probably admit
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: how I found him and how we're going to get
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: a bunch of veterans that live in Houston on this
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: show over the next few weeks. So we'll take a break.
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: We'll come back in about three minutes. This is the
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: Voice of Texas KSV seven hundred. This is the Craig
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: Collins Show KSCV, the Voice of Texas. Thrilled to be
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: with you. Just messing with some things technology wise, so
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: we can see both of us because I have a
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: comedian in studio with me. How are you doing there?
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: Oh wait, make sure that your mike is that you
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: got to hit that red button in front of you.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: There we go. Are we live?
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: Yes, we are.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: I appreciate it, Greig, Thanks for having me in.
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: Thanks you are. Your name is Blake Jones. How long
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: have you been a comedian?
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: I've been in Houston about three years now doing comedy
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: a total of twelve. I took a few years off
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: we'll call it seven eight total, did a sabbatical fur bits. Yeah,
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: So how long were you in the military. I just
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: I did like four and a half. I extended for
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: a bit, but I four years four to eight. I
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: was in the Marine Corps station war in San Diego.
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: Okay, you weren't deployed, Tony.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: I got station orders right out of school, so I
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: got bas ops orders. Yeah, so work like the bottom
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: side of air drive control called flight ops.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: So the first thing I want to do, and this
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: is probably the only time I'm going to do it,
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: Let's call it one off, and I apologize for taking
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: a couple of minutes of your time to do it.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: I want to talk about how I found you as
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: a guest for the show. I went to a Facebook
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: page for veterans in Houston, and I assume you like
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: that page. I assume a lot of people want okay,
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: and it's got like eighteen thousand people, and by and large,
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: I think everybody in there is a VET. And I
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: just put up a message. I'm like, hey, I'm a
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: radio host. I'm trying to connect to veterans. Anybody want
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: to come on. I got crushed with notifications of people
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: that want.
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: To be on the show.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: I love that, not even just the ones that were commenting,
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: but like, I got a bunch of emails too.
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: I think that's something unique to.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: Veterans, and I kind of wanted you to talk about
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: that to begin with, because you reached out to me
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: very quickly. You're like, Hey, I'm a comedian, I'm in town.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: What do you think And I'm like, dude, that'd be awesome.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: It's a different avenue for a discussion. But also just
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: the willingness for vets to come on and a lot
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: of people don't really know where the direction of the
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: conversation is going to go, but you guys want to
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: do it, So what is that part of your makeup?
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: The veteran community is the most supportive community I've ever
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: been a part of. Like you put anything, like you'll
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: see people asking for help with with anything, business starting,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm laid on rent whatever, and everybody jumps
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: just it's just it's it's one of those things you
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: can do. You know. Everybody wants to complain about the
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: VA and oh, there's no help, but the veteran community
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: takes care of its own like like no other. It's
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: one of the beautiful things to see.
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: It's great.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: One of the people that I interviewed when I was
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: doing this segment in a different state at a different
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: radio station is a CBE and he said, there's some
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: special Facebook for CBS from the Navy, and they'll all
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: just do that. And like you just said, he said,
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: he broke down in some state he didn't live in,
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: and he went to the Facebook pages, like, Hey, my
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: car broke down. Three CBS showed up and they helped
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: to fix his car.
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: Like it's just crazy.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Even when I when I first started comedy, it was
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: the same thing. I went to move to California, I
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: lost the job and meet like something fell through and
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: I just put on there. I was like, hey, I'm
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: a veteran and blah blah blah looking for work. I
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: had three job offers within six hours. Like it's it's
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: just one of those things. It's so supportive and it's
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: so cool.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: Okay, So if you you don't mind, part of what
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: I like to do in these segments is just try
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: to figure out why people were inspired to join the
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: military and why you specifically chose the branch that you chose.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: So how old were you when you joined the Marines.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: I went right out of high school eighteen eighteen, so
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: why I'm old nine to eleven? Had just happened right
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: the year before we were I remember the day I
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: signed was the day the shak and all was taken
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: off on online or on the news. Back then it
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: wasn't even online. Yeah, but just you know, I grew
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: up in the Midwest. It was a very rare in Indiana,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: southern Indiana, so you know, coming from a military family.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: My dad's generation, those guys didn't really go but Grandpa's
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: that everybody else had been been in some form of
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: the military. Nobody had joined the Marine Corps since Vietnam.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: My uncle Ronnie had joined the Marine since it was
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: that one. Oh you can't do it as too. Yeah.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: I was like, okay, yeah, oh I can't do it.
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah, fine.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: It was honestly it was fate. I was. We were
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: moving back to Indiana so I could graduate. We were
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: living in Phoenix at the time, and I was I
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: didn't do the English homework, but the class wasn't transferring back,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: so I was sure, you get in the hall, you're
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: not doing a Marine walks by. Staff Startin White was
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: a recruiter and my grandpa father was also staff Startan White,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: but he was in the Air Force. And I'm like,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: this is this is just meant to be at that point.
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's awesome, dude.
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: And so if you had other family members that weren't Marines,
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: did they crap on you for picking the Marines?
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: Is that a thing that happened?
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: No, Honestly, the only one my stepdad's father, he was
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: he was army, and he was the only one, like you,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: sure you want to do it, but like, yeah, no,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: most of them.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: So the way the reason I ask you is that
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: my late grandfather was army and all three of his
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: sons wound up going Marines, all of my.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: Uncles, and he hated it. He would crap all.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: The time, crapping them, and they'd crapping him back. I've
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: heard more crayon jokes, which I think you understand. Okay,
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: of course, Flavor, apparently every veteran out there who understands
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: that joke. I heard more crayon jokes than I ever understood,
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: as like a four year old kid, and I'd be walking.
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: Around like does my uncle eat crayons? I think he does.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: But anyway, so you joined the military, you get stationed
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: where you get stationed. I've asked this to other veterans
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: that joined around when you did that didn't wind up
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: getting deployed to action. Were you at all disappointed?
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, it's one of those things I didn't realize
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: you could get depression from time.
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it took me years to get to get comfortable.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Especially joining the Marine Corps at that time you assume
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: going yeah, and it's you miss out on it right,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Like it was. I felt like I was missing something.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: I felt like the mission wasn't complete for for a
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: long long time. And wow, you know, just talking with
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: other veterans and that that's again where the supportive group
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: comes in there. No, man, you're a marine, you know
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: and all that. But it was like, no, it messed
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: me up for years of not getting to well.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: And one of the things that I found very interesting,
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: I've talked to a lot of vets that didn't serve
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: and even vets well didn't serve in that capacity, I
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: should say, because everybody serves but didn't serve in that
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: capacity where you were asked to go fight, and a
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: lot of them have the same reaction you do. And
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: I find that many of them wind up being very
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: active in the veteran community. This is almost your way
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: to extend your service and I wonder if for you,
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: because I found that a lot of vets have an
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: outlet specifically where they're doing that. Is that the reason
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: for comedy is comedy military specific or do you leave
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: that at the door? How do you do that?
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: No, I definitely talk about especially in Texas. Sure when
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: I was doing stand up in San Francisco, didn't matter
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: as the veteran thing. But no, I think it's it's
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: a way to instantly ingratiate your yourself with people, right,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: to get them on your side. And honestly, like a
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: lot of what I do is I'm not a storytelling comic,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: but I am telling my story through jokes a lot
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: of a lot of everything that happened. Obviously it's embellished,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: we're taking taking it and turning it up to eleven,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: but a lot of it is real life based, so
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: you know you have to include the military.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: Are there are there military stories that come up as Joe, oh, yeah,
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: you do you have.
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: I'm not trying to make you do your I know.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: I am not a peach comp No, I know.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: And I was also gonna say I hate when during
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: an interview like I'm just trying to set you up
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: to do your stand up in the studio.
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: That's not the intention.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: But I'm curious if you could try to clean up
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: a story that you use somehow and.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Why no hmmm, so obviously, well.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: Actually, yeah, let me ask you it this way before
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: you do it. When you're in the Marines. Is part
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: of you thinking I'm gonna be a comedian at some point.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I had no idea it was even a thing you
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: could do. Okay, okay, it was. It was one of
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: those like they did the first UFC fight on base.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: They did it at Miramar, where I was stationed. So
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: I got to go and we met Joe Rogan at
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: the time. He uh you know. I ended up getting
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: on his website and found out I watched his third
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: podcast live because I was I was just connected that way. Sure,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: and they started talking about open mics. I was like, wait,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: people can just try comedy. I had no idea. I
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: grew up in the middle of like nine towns, went
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: to my high school. I graduated ninety people in the
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: middle of nowhere. I thought stand up was just famous
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: people talking. I thought they let them.
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: I was like, oh, that's the clan I can do.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And I was like, wait, you can just
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: try that. I was like, oh, I'm in, I'm in.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: I'd gotten out of the military, I moved home. I
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: was programming robots in a factory, just writing jokes at night,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: like I'm gonna move to San Francisco and I'll want
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: to tell jokes.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: So yeah, well, and I was also wondering, obviously, the
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: way you're trained in the military, your brain has been
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: rewired to accept certain situations as like, oh, yeah, I
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: could do that. This is a weird way to ask.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: But is that something that helps with comedy early on, because,
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: like I know, it's mentally somewhat brutal for a lot
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: of people to figure out how to approach it. I
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: feel like you've done something much more mentally difficult already.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's that I always had a performance side based
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: to me, you know, growing up in choir and doing
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: the plays and stuff. You do it whatever, you know.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: I was always one of the stars. But I think
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: it gets you just comfortable in who you are. And
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: I think that's the hardest part to learn as a
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: comedian is beating yourself on stage. Right. They say, they
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: always say it takes you ten years to find your
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: voice or however, they want to say it. I feel
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: like Vets have an easier time with that because we're
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: comfortable in our skin. I'm not going up there faking
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: who I am. I'm going to tell you what I
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: think and how it feel as well.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: In the Marines, you can ask I can ask you this,
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: and you can tell me how accurate is because I've've
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: heard all different kinds of answers to this. Part of
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: the Marines is like, they're supposed to tear you down
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: to build you back up. And so if that were
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: to happen to someone, I feel like the person you
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: come back out of that as built up is you.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: OK. And boot Camp's is the funniest place in the
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: world anyway. Oh yeah, it's Look it's terrible while you're there,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: but there's a lot of laughter we had. It's one
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: of those things you always look back at like, oh,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: I wish i could do it again, But then you
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: also have nightmares of I'm getting drug back on base
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: or shaving my beard.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like, you know what I think is interesting.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: I've been around a lot of vets who either serve
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: together or didn't serve together, but all seem to have
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: a similar understanding of something and the jokes that they
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: tell each other. I wonder where you're at in the
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: line of vets, not on a stage joking with other veterans,
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: and then whatever you're actually saying on stage. I imagine,
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: whatever your version of blue is, it's still bluer.
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: In the world you can go into.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: I can go there. Okay, it's it's it's not what
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: I do. Like, I'm not the comedian that's doing the
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: we got to talk about the dead baby joke? How far? No,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: it's like, be real, but just be yourself, you know
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: what I mean? Like, it's just talk about real life.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Like that's the thing. Every comedian, I feel like fails
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: at this. They don't talk about their real life, what's
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: really happening, what they really know. And that's what allows
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: you to pivot and work in between things because your
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: act is always evolving, you're always changing, right, and just
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: talk about that.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: Has there been any cool interactions you've had with vets
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: after a show?
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Oh? Almost every show almost because one of the you know,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: I talk about one of the things that anytime you
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: tell people you're a VET, they always have the queste,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: now did you you know?
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, I don't know why.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know, DoD do you wise count? You know
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: what I mean? But after you know, telling that on
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: stage and then everybody comes up to you after and
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: a lot of it's, oh, yeah, my grandpa was in
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: the Navy, and and then it's like, don't worry, brother,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: I got your six. It's a lot of those guys
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: after show.
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: Those guys are kind of awesome.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: But no. Veterans are super thankful. They love having somebody
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: that you know, from from their walk of life that's
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: doing something that they admire they want to do. Yeah,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: I have a lot of vets. I run an open
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: mic every Thursday at the Mood Room here in Houston, Okay,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: And so a lot of vets come to me to
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: try for their first time and do stuff like that.
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: Where's the room.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: It's at seven eleven Milby. It's in the Iron Works Building.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Nice.
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: You have a show tonight?
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Did you I do? Yeah? I run the Dirty Show
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: every Friday night at Secret Group at midnight. Yeah.
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: Where is the Secret Group?
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: It is on Polk It's right U youto.
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: It's called the Dirty Show, The Dirty Show?
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: What makes it the I gotta I have to ask
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: I feel.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Like, yeah, it's it's just it's no holds barred comics.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: It's like, hey, walking, you're gonna hear everything we tell
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: comics when they come to do it. Don't just be
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: you Like, it doesn't have to be dirty, you don't
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: have to to go harder. But like all so there's
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: no restrictions. It's not a seven PM show with kids
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: in it, right, you know what I mean? Like you
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: can go off and you're gonna you.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: Know, it's what's funny you say about that. So I've
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: worked at a lot of other radio stations in it.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: Some you have these consultants who will like tell you
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: what to do. And I remember a consultant being like, hey,
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: sometimes like shock, things are great in my world, in
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: your world, but don't do them. To do them Like,
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: people can see through that immediately. If you're up there
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: and you're saying something that you'd never say in a
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: way you'd never say it, it's not going to land
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: the same as if.
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: It's actually a part of who you are.
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: So I imagine that's what you're saying, is that a
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: lot of people should just find a way to deliver
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: whatever the things are that they're talking about. How much
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: of your show do you think is about your experience
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: as a VET?
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: A very little. I mean it, it was a four
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: year period of my life, so like a lot of it. Yeah,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: there are things that I feel like it set me
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: up for the rest of life though, so it is
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: intrinsically part of every other bit of who I've I've
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: become since then. Sure, But as far as telling like veterans,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: like if I'm doing a ten minute set, let's say,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: which I'll probably I'll probably do fifteen to night. Out
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: of that fifteen, maybe three to four minutes of it
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: is veteran based. But I feel like every story I
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: have also ties back to just who I am as
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: a person, which the military made me.
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, thirty percent of the show, though, if you're doing
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: four to fifteen minutes, you're getting pretty close to what
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: is the rest of the show about. Tell me what
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: else you do?
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: It's sex?
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: Okay we are on live radio?
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I gotcha? Is that is that the appropriate term?
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: Or you could say, like you know women that you
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: found Yeah, well they're fine, Yeah exactly, ladies the fair
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: or sex? Can you give me any sort of pieces
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: of what you talk about or preview something.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say, Like one thing I talk about
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: is it's a story with my buddy we called him
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: text Craig d you Hannam. He passed away back in
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: twenty ten, one of my best friends of life, and
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: I tell a story about him having to check me
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: for sexually transmitted disease the military. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: know this was the thing. Yeah.
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he had to do a medical check of you correct, yes.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Uh and and I go through that story and it
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: is one of it's one of the funniest days of
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: my life. Uh yeah. It was just, you know, a
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: way to honor him as well. There you go.
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: That's that's amazing. Why did that have to happen? Was
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: he a medical guy or no?
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: No, no, I just trusted him. I was like, if
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: anybody will know, it'll be tech. He was. He was
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: one of the smart ones. He was He was a
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: giant Texas redneck from out in Fredericksburg and he was
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: just he was one of the smartest, kindest people I
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: knew U. And he was one of the I t
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: guys honestly, but those people, I would say, and I
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: trust him. He was my best friend. I was like,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: if anybody will know, it'll be him.
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: Did the result go well, yeah, yeah, we're good.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: We're good.
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: Just about that part. That's you know, it's amazing about
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: that too. So I'll say something and it's a different
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: art form. It's not comedy, but I've known a lot
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: of guys who got into like painting, or they got
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: into something else, and you see the catharsis in what
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: they do and how they represent the things that they
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: went through. And a lot of what I've found is actually,
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: in some way it's connected to some person they served
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: with who's no longer here. And they're no longer here
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: for a variety of reasons. Either it's someone that you
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: went to combat with who died in action, or in
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: a lot of cases, unfortunately, there are people who passed
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: away back at home and several of them I've talked
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: about it before. I think it's twenty two veterans a day,
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: and that number changes all the time commit suicide. And
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: so one thing I've found that's really amazing, and you
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: just said it a second ago, is these ways to
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: honor people, these ways to have them live through something
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: not just a story, but something that concretely exists. In
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: your case, it's probably the video of the stand up
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: thing you've done.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And it's it's you know, we're all an
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: amalgamation of everybody we've met through our lives. Sure, finding
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: a way to tell their stories, especially if they're no
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: longer here to tell them too. And yeah, that that
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: honoring your brothers man. It's it's I think everybody needs
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: some sort of outlet. I found mine in comedy. And
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: you mentioned, you know, painting and drawing, whatever, whatever it is,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: go out there and chase that too. Like, give give
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: that creative side of whoever you are, whether it be woodworking, whatever,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: give it enough attention, right, I think it can help
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: you through everything is building something and creating something.
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: Now, amen, I think that's true too.
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: One of the things I've I've heard, and I'd love
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: for you to tell me a little bit about this
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: is the veterans who for whatever reason just wind up
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: kind of spending a lot of time alone.
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: And they spend a lot of time alone.
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: In a way where maybe they're they're letting some things
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: go around them in their life. And how bad of
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: a whole that is to get in And it seems
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: like one of the things that maybe comedy provides you
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: is this opportunity to go be somewhere and to be
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: doing something around people in general. But I've heard from
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: a lot of vets that, and especially the veterans who
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: are trying to help other veterans. You need to find
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: a way to disrupt that learned pattern. And actually I'll
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: ask it to you this way. I'm sorry it's a
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: long question, but I'll ask it to you this way
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: because I've had a veteran say it exactly like this.
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: You're trained to live this life like in the military.
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: They teach you how to do something that then is
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: directly harming you once you leave the military in your
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: back in civilian life, because it's a mentality that you
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: have to break of all the ways you can survive
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: on your own and be alone, etc.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Right, Look, comedy, it's a solo game. Yeah, you're up
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: there alone. You've got to be comfortable. It's being alone
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: and a lot of it's it's sitting with your notebook
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: and going through the thoughts and getting into those dark places.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: It's not fun sometimes. Right, it looks great up there,
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: it looks like you're just talking. It looks like all this,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: But but breaking that training like look, yeah, and I
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: think it just men in general aren't comfortable asking for
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: help or aren't comfortable being like, hey, this is what's
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: going on. And I think stand Up forced me to
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: be like, hey, this is what's happening in my life.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: And getting it out on stage is a little bit
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: easier because it's it's an act, right, But a lot
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: of a lot of it's based in reality. So how
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: do you break it? Sometimes you just got to man up.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Sometimes that's the only answer, is to man up and
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: do the hard thing.
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: Sure, well, you know it's interesting too, because you said
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: that you're sitting with a notebook and you're writing what
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: eventually will be jokes that entertain people, make them laugh,
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: and that can spiral into a darker place. Is there
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: a benefit to training your brain to find the humor
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: in this? Like you you're writing a story like how
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: is this funny? And then maybe you find it?
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean there's humor in everything. I I've laughed
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: harder at funerals than I've laughed anywhere else. I think, Right,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: And you have to you just have to. Sure, you know,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: we can all sit and wallow, but what's that going
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: to get you? You know, go go find the fun
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: find find the sure, find the funny in anything you know. Yeah,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: and it's there.
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: So why Texas? What made you pick here?
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: I actually I used a VA benefit to get down here.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: I didn't. Yeah, became a cloud engineer. So there was
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: this program it may still be running, it may lost fundy.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: It was called vet Tech and they would send you
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: to coding boot camps. And I got a job offer
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: down here.
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: So you still have a day job.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, longer full time comedian for the last year.
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: How's that been going.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: It's it's not glamorous yet, but it's it's the most fun.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: I'm so thankful. It's you know, I'm getting a lot
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: of great opportunities. I run the Roast Battle League here
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: now as well.
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: So well not because you've now mentioned like seven things,
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: let's go through that.
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: What are all the things that you do? So let's
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: promote everything.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, Dirty Show is the main show every Friday
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: night at Secret Group. I'm one of the paid regulars there.
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: Cool.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: I also run the local Roast Battle League. That's a
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: monthly show where we if you know what comedy roast are,
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: it's but it's in battle form. We get comedians from
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Houston to battle comedians from Austin or Dallas or you
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: know where is that at that. I am looking for
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: a new location currently. I believe there's a new comedy
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: club open up. Mike Ryan, I'm going to pitch you
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: right now. I want this at the Pink Flamingo Comedy Club,
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: which will be open here in August. Mike's amazing comedian
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: and he's cool. He's opening in his own club comedy
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: and Houston is exploding right now. We got two new clubs,
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: possibly a third coming within the next month.
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: So okay, So Dirty Show, Roast, Battle, mood Room, mood Room,
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: and the mood Room is also tonight or no.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Mood Room is every Thursday eight and that's an open mic.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Anybody can come to that. Try its veterans. Please reach
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: out to me on social media, tell me you want
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: to come through. We'll get you up there, get you
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: to try it. It doesn't matter what.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: It is you're them. Okay, have you watched somebody really bomb?
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: I imagine I've really bombed.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: I've gotten a chair thrown at me on stage. That's
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: why it was a one night stand show, talking about
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: you know one night stands with people, and a woman
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: just did not she did not like herself, Like I'm
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: still friends with this lady today, but she got She was.
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: Very up because a part of me was thinking that
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: that was the lady. Yeah, stand lady, she had a
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: chair all of a sudden, that's awesome.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: But yeah, people people bomb all like a lot of people.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: They they refuse to understand what a real bomb is.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: A real bomb isn't a bad set in an open mind,
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: nobody's there to hear it. It's not about a bomb.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: There's four hundred people in the audience and you got nothing,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean.
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: Actually, my favorite I don't know, who are some of
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: your idols in the world of comedy.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: Oh idols? Paterse O'Neil. It will always be number one.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: If he had lived, I think he would have been
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: the greatest comic to ever touch a stage. We were
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: really ripped from something there. Chappelle.
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: Obviously, I was wondering if Sapelle was gonna come up
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: because I I remember joking one of his recent specials
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: where he joked about bombing. Dave Chappelle joked about bombing
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: and he said something where the audience was bowing him
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: and getting mad and they were yelling refund and he's like,
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: I'm keeping your money. It's a very funny bit. But
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: to see that makes you think that, man, anybody can
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: try it. Because if Dave Chappelle could still go out
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: there and not win a crowd over, even if that's
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: one of one hundred, and even if I think he
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: made several jokes about not being sober when he was
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: trying to make jokes, it makes you think differently. And
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: so I was going to ask you for an open
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: mic night with people who might bomb. Does someone show
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: you that they might be a more successful comedian by
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: not letting that ruin their attempt?
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Of course? Yeah, because stage presidence is always going to
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: be key, right, like not all crowds are going to
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: be your crowds. You know, once once you get successful,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: like a Chappelle, more people are coming to see you specifically,
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: it's a lot easier. But when when you're you know,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: I do better outside the loop. For example, right inside
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: the loop it gets more more woke, more liberal. Sure
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: you get out to a stage in conro, it's it's
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: a lot easier for the conservative mind to How.
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: Much do you shape your comedy based on what you
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: think the audience. Like if you walk into a room
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: and you see a bunch of cowboy hats or something,
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: is there something you adjust?
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: No, I'm mean no, I'm mean like, I don't I'm
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: not going to let anybody tell me who to be
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: not at this point, you know what I mean. It's like, no,
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: you're either gonna like me or you're not sure.
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: So let's give out any social media anything that people
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: can follow you on.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: It's super simple. I'm at comedy Blake everywhere, and then
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: if you would follow my podcast, I do a weekly
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: podcast with other two other local comedians, Ben Daniel and
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: Will Loadan, two of my best friends at Unseasoned Pod.
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: At Unseasoned Pod, that's cool. What's that about?
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: It's just us covering everything. Yeah, it's you know, we
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: talk a lot of baseball. We're all huge baseball, so
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: all these perfect games getting pulled and sure, but mainly
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: just comedy. Whatever's whatever's you know in the zeitgeist.
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: So you said Indiana is it Cubs? Oh yeah, that's terrible.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Wait.
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: While I was born in Jersey and then I lived
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: in South Bend for a while. Okay, in my life
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: South Bend Indiana. Actually, even my first job in radio ESPN,
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: I was covering like notre name and stuff, and they
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: even asked me like, hey, do you want to go
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: out and do some Cubs.
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: I'm like, I do not want.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: To do that at all.
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: And I even worked at w GEN Radio in Chicago
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: for a while. Oh we had the Cubs and it
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: was so were you emotional when they finally won the
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: World Series?
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: I cried so hard. I was managing the dispensary in
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: San Francisco, just watching as I'm in the in the
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: club working and just all the TV. I cried like
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: a baby.
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: What I kind of love about that is you probably
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: were alone. There probably were not a lot of other
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: people hitting getting emotionally hit.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: It was San Francisco. They were winning every every even year.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: It was it was San Francisco is not it's.
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: They're just watching this one dude weep And I'm like, okay,
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: what's funny about that. I have completely different experience. I
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: was producing a show at w GEN Radio. They had
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: just given up the rights to the Cubs the year before,
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: so we didn't have them, which to me was hilarious.
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: And my boss comes to me and goes Hey, we're
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: going to do a postgame show like we had the
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: game because they had been so long tied together. I
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: was like, that seems illegal and bad, and he's like,
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: we're just gonna do it. And so I sat in
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: a room the night they won with three fifty somethings
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: just all weeping and I had to talk into the
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: microphone because none of them could speak, and I'm like, dude,
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: it can't hit you this hard. But I grew up
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: Yankee fans.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: And I mean I was a kid watching Harry carry
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: on w Jewey g In all summer long, the Sammy
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: Sosa Maguire home run as a kid in Indiana. Oh,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: bro there was nothing better. It broke me. And I
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: grew up in a family of all Cardinals fans, so
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: having that I was the one standout except for you know,
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: married in family.
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I see, I see that. You went to the
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: Marines and no one else in your family was a Marine.
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: You choose the Cubs when everybody else is a Cardinal fan.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: To go against.
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's something else, all right. So we only have
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: about four or five minutes left. One more time promote
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: where you'll be.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: Tonight tonight at Secret group Midnight Dirty Show, Dirty Show? Cool? Everybody?
• 42:49
  Speaker 5: How much your tickets?
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: I think they're ten dollars ten dollars of door, five
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: dollars online, I believe.
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: Okay, do you want to give away a set of
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: tickets or no?
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: Of course, two.
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: Tickets to the third caller that calls into the radio
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: station right now. We don't need to throw you on
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: the air, but Lucas can answer the phone calls. If
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: you want two eight one five five eight, five seven
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: three eight two eight one five five eight, five seven
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: three eight, just give Lucas your name and number is
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: that's all you need, okay, cool?
• 43:12
  Speaker 5: And then the third person who calls in.
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: Will get two tickets left at the door at the
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: secret room for the Dirty Show.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just send me the name and we'll be good. Cool.
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: That's hilarious to me that we just gave out tickets
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: to the Dirty Show and KCV radio.
• 43:24
  Speaker 5: That'd be great.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And if you want to uh, as soon as
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: I'll send you a message, we'll do some tickets for
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: the next ros battle as well, as soon as I
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: get it scheduled and whatnot, and you can just run.
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: I'll give them out some other time then on the air,
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: but this is for the Dirty Show. And so the
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: last thing I want to ask you, and I know
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: we kind of touching it before, and then I'll leave
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: it open in about a minute or two at the
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: end for you to say anything else you want about
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: military or military experience. You said that you're now solely
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: a comedian. When did you take that jump and what like?
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  Speaker 4: Is it a point where you said, I'm doing enough,
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  Speaker 4: I know that this is good or was it a
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  Speaker 4: I need to dedicate myself this whole heartedly, Because I
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: think that's really interesting when people choose, like for me
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: doing radio, you choose to dedicate yourself to what a
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: lot of people tell you is a very difficult profession,
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  Speaker 4: Like a lot of your family will probably be like, well,
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  Speaker 4: don't do that, and then you choose to do it
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  Speaker 4: full time.
• 44:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah, just talk a little bit about that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So it happened my contract expired. It wasn't as
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: much of a choice. It was I've got to get
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: another job. This contracts expiring. The next week. I got
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: on kill Tony. Wow. So I go on there, and
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: you know, everybody thinks that's you're gonna blow up overnight.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: It's not. It's not that. Obviously I'd work for for
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: years as a comedian trying this. You know, I was
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: seven years deep total at that point whatever it was,
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: and I just I bet on myself. I was like,
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: you know what, I'll figure it out along the way.
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  Speaker 1: I've got enough. I'll live off savings for the next year.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: I'm coming up on a year in August. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was like, I just I'm going to go full in.
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  Speaker 1: I know this is what I want out of life. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it takes to make it work, I'm gonna make
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: it work and we'll go from there. It was so
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  Speaker 1: not by choice, but I think I needed pushed into that.
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  Speaker 1: Into that anyway, kill Tony.
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  Speaker 5: That's like a thing. I know a couple of comedians,
• 45:09
  Speaker 5: you've done it. That's the thing. You like, sign up there,
• 45:11
  Speaker 5: You wait a long time and you Mike, get on.
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  Speaker 5: How that went?
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  Speaker 1: I think I went seven weeks in a row and
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: finally got pulled seventh or eight eighth week.
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: What's that? What's the rush of that?
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: Like? I forgot every joke I'd ever written. I'm backstage.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: You know, you get pulled your you're at the bar
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: next door. They they call your name, they walk you
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: over and they set you up right behind stage, gave
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: me a water bottle and I remember I'm shaking it
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: just I spilled the water all over my shirt. Lucky
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: I was are in black. You could not see it.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: And I instantly go on stage and forget everything I've
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: ever written, and it was I just did my opener
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: because it was.
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: Like, I can't think you have so little time.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's what you know, running it and being
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: out every night does is I got to go off
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: that that second nature and.
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  Speaker 5: That's awesomes go.
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: We are almost at a time like twenty seconds. Is
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: there anything you can say about veterans or two veterans
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  Speaker 4: with very little time.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: Keep supporting each other. Please come see me if you
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: need anything, find me on social media.
• 46:11
  Speaker 5: Reach out there you go one more time your social
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  Speaker 5: media at Comedy Blake, everywhere, at Comedy Blake all over
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  Speaker 5: the place.
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  Speaker 4: Really pleasure to meet you, man well man, thank you,
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: thank you much, thank you for reaching out and answering
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: the social media page and doing this. I got to
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: see all three of these shows. At some point, I
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: think I'll go and we'll get you the info for
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: the third caller that calls in two eight one five,
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  Speaker 4: five eight, five seven three eight. I don't know if
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  Speaker 4: we've given that out yet two eight one five five eight,
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  Speaker 4: five seven three eight Free tickets to a comedy.
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  Speaker 1: Show, Hey, Hey, like Tomball Houston Voy