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Faith Fest: Brooke Slusser's Mom, Gen Z Conservatives and the State Board of Education · KSEV Mornings with Craig and Wayne

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  Speaker 1: And now, the mob guys creak for your music. And
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  Speaker 1: when dolce fina are, che si viva.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a mob guy.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Craig Colonnades.
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  Speaker 4: I'm also a mob guy on KSV Radio. I like
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  Speaker 4: that you put headphones on one of our guests who's
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  Speaker 4: coming up in a few minutes.
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  Speaker 2: I was trying so he could hear.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so he could hear the mob music that we have.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I wanted to show him that it's like an anthem.
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  Speaker 2: It's not really music. It's an anthem.
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  Speaker 3: It's an anthem for the show.
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  Speaker 2: It's like the Star Spangled Banner for us.
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  Speaker 3: My wife said that I was.
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  Speaker 5: Insulting the Italians by linking us to the mob because
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  Speaker 5: that's a stereotype.
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  Speaker 2: Who cares?
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  Speaker 5: You can stereotype me any way you want.
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  Speaker 2: I could care less.
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  Speaker 4: Plus, the reason we call ourselves that is we're both
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  Speaker 4: from the East Coast and we're getting things done.
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  Speaker 3: And sometimes you've got to do certain things to get
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  Speaker 3: some things done.
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  Speaker 2: It's called culture, folks. Get over it.
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  Speaker 4: Someone else who is getting things done is Kim Sussler.
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  Speaker 4: She is on the show with us now. She is
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  Speaker 4: the mother of Brooke, a volleyball player, and she can
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  Speaker 4: probably tell this story better than I can. who wound
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  Speaker 4: up in the same lawsuit as Riley Gaines over trans
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  Speaker 4: athletes and the ridiculousness of actual biological women competing against
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  Speaker 4: men in all kinds of sport.
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  Speaker 3: Kim, welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you. Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 4: Thrilled to have you on. Tell us what happened first
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  Speaker 4: for anyone that isn't familiar with the story.
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  Speaker 6: So Brooke was initially at the University of Alabama on
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  Speaker 6: a volleyball scholarship, and her coach got fired. Long story short,
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  Speaker 6: that coach pushed everybody out. She kind of waited too
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  Speaker 6: long to get into the portal to really get the
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  Speaker 6: school she really wanted because she loved Alabama, wanted to stay.
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  Speaker 6: Ended up at San Jose State University. Didn't have a
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  Speaker 6: lot of choices by the time she decided to get.
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  Speaker 7: In the portal.
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  Speaker 6: Ended up there, and we didn't realize until after she
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  Speaker 6: was there, moved in, in the same apartment with a
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  Speaker 6: player that was on the team that ended up being
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  Speaker 6: a man.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there you go. Look, I got to tell you something.
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  Speaker 5: I tell my colleagues here that, you know, politically, I
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  Speaker 5: don't like all the trans commercials because I think it's
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  Speaker 5: a little too much. But because it's so obviously wrong
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  Speaker 5: for me for women to have to compete against men
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  Speaker 5: in sports, I'll be honest with you, I don't understand
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  Speaker 5: why moms like you have to even deal with this.
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  Speaker 2: This is ridiculous.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it really is. And, you know, I tell people
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  Speaker 6: all the time, It's, I'm not a natural speaker. It's
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  Speaker 6: not really in my forte. I think speech one-on-one in
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  Speaker 6: college was like the hardest.
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  Speaker 2: Thing I've ever done in my life.
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  Speaker 6: But like you said, because it is such an easy
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  Speaker 6: thing to talk about and it is so very black
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  Speaker 6: and white, you know, people try to turn this into
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  Speaker 6: something that it's not, you know, they try to turn
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  Speaker 6: it into your transphobic or your racist, which that has
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  Speaker 6: nothing to do with it. I don't know where that
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  Speaker 6: comes from.
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  Speaker 3: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 6: You know, all of the things, and I try to
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  Speaker 6: tell people, it's really very simple. It's very basic. It's just,
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  Speaker 6: we don't want a man on a women's team taking
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  Speaker 6: a women's scholarship and in the locker rooms and living
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  Speaker 6: with my daughter.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's so funny.
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  Speaker 4: We laugh at that on our side because we don't
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  Speaker 4: understand how this is a discussion. But I want to
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  Speaker 4: ask you something that I've tried to shape as a
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  Speaker 4: way for people to understand this who aren't involved in it.
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  Speaker 4: The first time that your daughter exits an event that
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  Speaker 4: she loses to a biological man, what do you as
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  Speaker 4: a mother say to someone who is so good– at
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  Speaker 4: her sport that she's playing it at a collegiate level.
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  Speaker 4: There's very few humans that get to the level that
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  Speaker 4: Brooke gets to in general athletically, and then you go
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  Speaker 4: out there, you put everything you can to be the
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  Speaker 4: best version of yourself, and you can't win for an
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  Speaker 4: unfair reason.
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  Speaker 3: What do you say?
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  Speaker 6: Well, Brooke never had to compete against him because she
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  Speaker 6: was on the same team with him. But I will
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  Speaker 6: tell you she did call me after she found out
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  Speaker 6: that Blair was a man They had gone back to school.
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  Speaker 6: They had done their preseason testing. Brooke loves working out.
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  Speaker 6: She wants to be a trainer. She's training right now.
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  Speaker 6: She calls me one day, so excited, Mom, I killed
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  Speaker 6: it in my athletic testing.
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  Speaker 2: I won.
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  Speaker 6: And then she paused and she said, except for Blair,
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  Speaker 6: of course. Yeah, so Blair literally blew everybody out of
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  Speaker 6: the water. Brayden is his actual name. And, um, it,
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  Speaker 6: it broke my heart. It literally broke my heart. I was,
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  Speaker 6: it's actually making me kind of tear up a little bit.
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  Speaker 6: Like my voice is shaking thinking about it because she
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  Speaker 6: worked so hard for so many years to be beaten
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  Speaker 6: by a man.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah and as you said like um as a parent
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  Speaker 4: you probably want to protect her in that moment and
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  Speaker 4: it's crazy that we're in a place in society where
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  Speaker 4: there are people pushing for more of this and i
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  Speaker 4: guess you're i didn't mean to say it the way
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  Speaker 4: that i did a second ago she's competing even for
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  Speaker 4: a place on a team with a biological man in
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  Speaker 4: some way so at some point these athletes are losing
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  Speaker 4: spots or losing events to people that it's unfair biologically
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  Speaker 4: do you get frustrated when there are people that tell
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  Speaker 4: you that people like Blair or whatever his name is
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  Speaker 4: are supposed to be competing more in these sports with
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  Speaker 4: biological women?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I get very frustrated. I've never had sleeping issues
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  Speaker 6: in my life, and when Brooke was going through this,
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  Speaker 6: I wasn't sleeping. I wasn't eating. I was worried for
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  Speaker 6: her safety. There was so much backlash, of course, because
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  Speaker 6: it's in California, so you have so many more people
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  Speaker 6: than you would here in Texas.
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  Speaker 7: You were just there.
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  Speaker 6: That would even support it to the point that Brooke said,
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  Speaker 6: up to the point that we finally got on a
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  Speaker 6: video call with ICONS, the Independent Council on Women's Sports,
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  Speaker 6: who is backing and funding the lawsuits. She actually said
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  Speaker 6: to Bill, the lawyer, she was like, I felt like
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  Speaker 6: I was going crazy because I was one of the
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  Speaker 6: few at her school, because it is such a very
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  Speaker 6: liberal school, you know, that believed the way that she believed.
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  Speaker 6: But she also believed that she wanted to stay. We
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  Speaker 6: tried to talk her into coming home. But she's like, Mom,
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  Speaker 6: I step off the team and there's no voice. You know,
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  Speaker 6: she really is a strong kid, and she really wanted
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  Speaker 6: to be that voice. And, yeah, so, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I got to tell you, as a dad, you know,
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  Speaker 5: like whatever, if my daughter went to a school and
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  Speaker 5: no one told me in advance, hey, we should mention
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  Speaker 5: that Sally's actually like Frank If they didn't tell me
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  Speaker 5: in advance and I found out, I would go and
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  Speaker 5: kick someone's butt.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 4: Again, the intimacy of being in some of those shared
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  Speaker 4: spaces together is something that you don't even know how
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  Speaker 4: to protect them against either.
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  Speaker 6: Then come to find out, before we found out that
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  Speaker 6: he was a man, Brooke, we were told by the
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  Speaker 6: assistant coach, which I don't know if you guys know
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  Speaker 6: the whole story, but Melissa was the only one on
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  Speaker 6: the team that was really kind of Brooke and standing
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  Speaker 6: up for Brooke and she ended up getting fired she
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  Speaker 6: actually told us that Blair was requesting Brooke as a
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  Speaker 6: roommate on road trips because Brooke kept telling us because
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  Speaker 6: she was in Alabama she played on the top level
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  Speaker 6: club her whole entire life she said I don't know
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  Speaker 6: what's going on here but I always end up with
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  Speaker 6: Blair because what they usually do in college volleyball at
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  Speaker 6: least my other daughter played college volleyball too They put
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  Speaker 6: the girls with different people so they can get to
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  Speaker 6: know each other.
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  Speaker 8: You know, people they.
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  Speaker 6: May not necessarily know very well. So they can all
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  Speaker 6: kind of get to know each other. Well, she kept
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  Speaker 6: getting with Blair. She kept getting with Blair. Well, come
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  Speaker 6: to find out, Melissa said Blair was requesting Brooke.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 6: And there's just so much to it. It's kind of insane.
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  Speaker 9: Well, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: No, I can't even fathom the idea that then it's
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  Speaker 4: that close to her where there's so many different reasons
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  Speaker 4: for her to be as upset as she is or
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  Speaker 4: as uncomfortable as she is And there are people that
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  Speaker 4: are attacking her for standing up.
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  Speaker 3: I just don't get any of this anymore. It's sort
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  Speaker 3: of being amazed.
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  Speaker 4: I will say one other thing to you, Kim, and
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  Speaker 4: then I think we've got to let you go because
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  Speaker 4: we have another guest that we're going to get on to.
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  Speaker 4: You've done a remarkable job of raising a young woman
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  Speaker 4: to be the person that stands up in that moment.
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  Speaker 4: And not many people, I think, are able to instill
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  Speaker 4: those kind of values in the kids that are growing
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  Speaker 4: up today. And I imagine that it must be frustrating
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  Speaker 4: for you and her. You're both doing the right thing.
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  Speaker 4: And there's a lot of people out there looking at
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  Speaker 4: you as if you're not.
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  Speaker 9: Right.
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  Speaker 6: And it is very frustrating. But I always go back
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  Speaker 6: ultimately to our faith, to my faith. And, again, it's
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  Speaker 6: very black and white in God's eyes. It's very right
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  Speaker 6: and wrong in God's eyes. And it's really just standing
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  Speaker 6: up for biblical truth in our.
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  Speaker 3: Opinion, you know, for our family.
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  Speaker 6: And in general. And so it does make it a
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  Speaker 6: little easier when you do have those frustrating moments. And
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  Speaker 6: you have those how can this be happening moments. And
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  Speaker 6: you feel like everybody else is hoodwinked and your eyes
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  Speaker 6: are wide open. So, you know, I just have to
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  Speaker 6: lean on our faith.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: No.
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  Speaker 4: Well, and faith teaches us that the hardest things are
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  Speaker 4: probably the most rewarding things, too.
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  Speaker 3: Anything else?
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  Speaker 2: No. I was going to say, God bless you. I
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  Speaker 2: just don't. This is one for me.
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  Speaker 5: This is one of those things that I don't even
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  Speaker 5: get why we're having a war over something that is
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  Speaker 5: just so obviously like, It is what it is.
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  Speaker 2: I don't understand it.
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  Speaker 4: And I would say that I really praise you for
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  Speaker 4: being willing to be out there, too. You said at
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  Speaker 4: the start of this that you're not really much of
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  Speaker 4: a public speaker. We need voices like yours.
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  Speaker 2: But you did good.
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  Speaker 6: You did great.
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  Speaker 2: She did better than you. In fact, you're gone. Do
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  Speaker 2: you have an Italian last name?
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  Speaker 3: He wants you to co-host the show. But I was
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  Speaker 3: going to say that we need voices like yours.
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  Speaker 4: We need voices like your daughter's to humanize this discussion
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  Speaker 4: on the side that disagrees with the crazies.
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  Speaker 3: So thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much. I got to tell you something.
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  Speaker 2: We live in a world where, like— Yes. All right.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see you soon, Kim.
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  Speaker 1: Bye, Kim.
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  Speaker 10: Bye.
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  Speaker 7: See you later.
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  Speaker 5: We live in a world now where the liberals— are
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  Speaker 5: supporting the countries where gay people would be killed almost instantly.
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  Speaker 2: And they're going, yeah, where were those guys? What is
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  Speaker 2: wrong with these people?
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  Speaker 11: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: We want to bring in one more guest. He's a
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  Speaker 4: younger person, too. And actually, he's the exact opposite.
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  Speaker 2: Like me.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he's young, like Wayne Del Trofino. But he's the
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  Speaker 3: exact opposite, intellectually or logically. Wait, Russell, we can't take
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  Speaker 3: the break yet. We've got one more guest we've got
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  Speaker 3: to get to.
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  Speaker 4: So we've got to stop that music for now because
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  Speaker 4: we want to get to our other guest in the studio.
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  Speaker 3: Sir, introduce yourself. Oh, that's very loud. But tell us
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  Speaker 3: a little bit more about you. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 7: Well, hello, my friends.
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  Speaker 12: My name is Benjamin Schrader. I'm the chairman and president
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  Speaker 12: of the Austin Young Republicans. And I have to say,
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  Speaker 12: myself as a man, I would never play in women's sports.
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  Speaker 7: So it's kind of crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I would. They'd still kick my butt. But that's
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  Speaker 2: another story.
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  Speaker 13: Same here, actually.
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  Speaker 7: And I know I'm northern Italian. So I don't know
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  Speaker 7: if I'm allowed to hear.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, look, another mob guy.
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  Speaker 7: You know, you know, but hopefully.
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  Speaker 5: But talk to me in Austin right now. What's the
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  Speaker 5: state of Young Republicans?
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  Speaker 7: It's actually quite strong.
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  Speaker 12: We are the second largest Young Republican club in the country.
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  Speaker 12: We have 725 members, a couple thousand auxiliaries. We're the
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  Speaker 12: largest Young Republican club in Texas. We put on a
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  Speaker 12: ton of summits, a ton of events. In the next
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  Speaker 12: three days, we literally have an event every single day.
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  Speaker 2: What do you attribute that to?
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  Speaker 12: They long for community. People long for community. They long
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  Speaker 12: for friends. I mean, I originally joined to find a wife.
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  Speaker 13: I met her.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, I met my one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we heard about you. We heard about him.
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  Speaker 7: Originally why I joined. There you go. But no, they
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  Speaker 7: long for community.
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  Speaker 12: They long for friends, for the ability to contribute to
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  Speaker 12: the movement and for opportunity.
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  Speaker 7: And we do our absolute best.
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  Speaker 4: What do you think when you hear of a mother
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  Speaker 4: like him dealing with some of the younger people that
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  Speaker 4: think so differently than you do?
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  Speaker 3: What do you think as someone who represents a Gen Z?
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  Speaker 6: It is an.
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  Speaker 7: Immense tragedy, and it is utter madness. The left will
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  Speaker 7: ask us not to believe reality. It is crazy.
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  Speaker 12: But we can just say it is insane that we
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  Speaker 12: are even arguing about it, and we must do everything,
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  Speaker 12: absolutely everything, to stop that and to stop this madness.
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  Speaker 4: Well, what's the challenge for you as a person that's
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  Speaker 4: probably talking to a lot of young people who think
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  Speaker 4: that Kim and Brooke are mean, or Kim and Brooke
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  Speaker 4: are something else?
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  Speaker 7: I have to say, when it comes to Gen Z,
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  Speaker 7: I have a lot of hope. I really have a
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  Speaker 7: lot of hope.
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  Speaker 12: I mean, we are looking at the most conservative, most
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  Speaker 12: religious generation in 100 years. I often joke when speaking
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  Speaker 12: to groups of boomers that boomers in Gen Z, we
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  Speaker 12: can agree that the millennials are the lost generation.
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  Speaker 7: And, you know, it's the truth.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I'm a millennial, so it's fine. I can
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  Speaker 3: represent the– that's okay. I can represent the generation okay.
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  Speaker 7: There are a lot of good ones there.
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  Speaker 3: I'm really excited about.
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  Speaker 4: You saying that, though, to be entirely honest, that there's
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  Speaker 4: a lot of hope because my nephew, who was falling
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  Speaker 4: in your generation, 20-year-old guy, he would make fun of
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  Speaker 4: a lot of the wokest, craziest things that become such
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  Speaker 4: a part of the hallmark of the messaging on that side.
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  Speaker 4: And so what do you think are some other challenges
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  Speaker 4: that you might face with the generation to maybe get
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  Speaker 4: them out and vote? Because I will say this, Gen
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  Speaker 4: Z's willingness to vote for Trump is one of the
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  Speaker 4: biggest reasons he won all the swing states. So your
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  Speaker 4: group needs to be mobilized to actually make their opinion heard.
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  Speaker 10: Amen.
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  Speaker 7: It is important that people do not lose heart or
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  Speaker 7: lose hope.
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  Speaker 12: Sometimes people call it the black pill, where people say, boy,
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  Speaker 12: it seems hopeless.
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  Speaker 7: It seems like everything's lost. Let's just throw in the towel.
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  Speaker 12: And that's never an option because there is literally nowhere
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  Speaker 12: to flee to.
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  Speaker 7: There is nowhere. This is all we got.
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  Speaker 12: We got one last shot, and we got to use
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  Speaker 12: all the ammo that we got.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think it is a challenge to get Gen
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  Speaker 4: Z out to the actual voting booths?
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  Speaker 12: It is definitely something that we dedicate time and resources to.
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  Speaker 7: A challenge, sometimes it can be. But if there are
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  Speaker 7: candidates that are willing to empower.
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  Speaker 6: And give hope to young people.
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  Speaker 4: You hear a politician in him, right? Like as he's talking. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: you hear it. No, I already hear it, dude. I'm
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  Speaker 4: already hearing it.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah. Yeah, because I'm like, it's really hard, right?
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  Speaker 3: And you're like, no, it's not. It's a challenge I'm
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  Speaker 3: ready for.
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  Speaker 2: It's doable.
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  Speaker 7: It's doable.
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  Speaker 14: Great. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: It's doable, and the reality is if we don't do it,
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  Speaker 5: and we don't do it now, and we don't hold
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  Speaker 5: the line, as they say, it's going to slip away.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: And they have to be stopped in nonviolent ways. The
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  Speaker 7: truth of our message is strong enough to do that.
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: Well, and you mentioned Hasan Piker, and a lot of
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: conversations on the left right now involve him. And it's
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: crazy to watch people like Abdul Al-Said campaign with him
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: and then all of a sudden call him the Twitch
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: streamer out of California when he's asked questions about it.
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: Like the proximity to him and then distance from him
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: are so confusing and odd. Is that one of the
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: best ways, though, to break through with some of that
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: attempt to brainwash people in younger generations?
• 15:47
  Speaker 12: He is speaking at the University of Texas at Austin
• 15:50
  Speaker 12: on the 30th, and we have a massive protest at
• 15:52
  Speaker 12: him where we're going.
• 15:53
  Speaker 7: To have about 300 young Republicans, college Republicans. Nice!
• 15:56
  Speaker 12: And this is something that, when I heard about it,
• 15:58
  Speaker 12: I immediately hopped on the phone with the college Republican president,
• 16:01
  Speaker 12: and I said, hey guys, we've got to start organizing.
• 16:03
  Speaker 12: And so, and we have not pushed for.
• 16:06
  Speaker 7: The cancellation of that speech. We've said, We can go
• 16:08
  Speaker 7: and talk and let him say his crazy stuff.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: Apparently, he shocks his dog on the stream.
• 16:14
  Speaker 7: Like, he has a shotgun.
• 16:15
  Speaker 14: Why?
• 16:15
  Speaker 7: Because he's a terrible character.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: Because he's a freak show.
• 16:19
  Speaker 7: Who does that? So I just learned that last night.
• 16:22
  Speaker 13: Wow.
• 16:23
  Speaker 12: And so that has been the talking point where I'm like, hey,
• 16:26
  Speaker 12: let's go protest this guy that shocks his dog.
• 16:28
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 16:29
  Speaker 12: So that's going to be great. That'll be on the 30th.
• 16:31
  Speaker 12: And we'll meet at the Washington statue, march over, and
• 16:35
  Speaker 12: very peaceful.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, amen.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: Are you going to wear masks? Oh, no, no, no.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: We don't wear masks.
• 16:45
  Speaker 7: Oh, no, we're loud and proud. We'll show our faces.
• 16:47
  Speaker 7: We'll sing patriotic songs. And no, we're the good guys.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: We don't need masks.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: That's right. We're the good guys who don't need masks.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: All the left-wing freaks that wear masks.
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: Well, we really appreciate a few minutes of your time.
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: Thank you for jumping in. I know I got another
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: guest that we're going to. But one more time, Benjamin Schrader,
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: tell us a little bit about... how people can get
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: involved in your organization.
• 17:04
  Speaker 7: Well, we would love to have you involved.
• 17:06
  Speaker 12: ATXYoungRepublicans.com. You can see the tons of events that we
• 17:09
  Speaker 12: have coming up. Of course, we're members of the Texas
• 17:12
  Speaker 12: Young Republican Federation. So wherever you are in the state
• 17:15
  Speaker 12: and wherever you are in the nation, we're under YRNF,
• 17:17
  Speaker 12: the Young Republican National Federation. There is a way to
• 17:20
  Speaker 12: join us and to get involved.
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: And we'd love to have you.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: You just gave me a whole bunch of hope for
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: like all of Gen Z. Oh, you should be hopeful. Yeah,
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: there's two people I've met.
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: You're one of two that makes me think that things
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: are going to go well.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: We're not going to take a break. We're just going
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: to keep barreling through. But thank you, man.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: We have yet another guest sitting by. Linda Ruff is
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: jumping into Studio 2 now.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: Linda, welcome to the show.
• 17:41
  Speaker 15: Hey, thank you.
• 17:42
  Speaker 16: And I'm going to follow up with I have a
• 17:45
  Speaker 16: lot of hope for the younger generation. We're seeing these
• 17:49
  Speaker 16: people that are saying, hey, the millennials didn't.
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: Get it right.
• 17:52
  Speaker 15: We want to get it right.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Now we suck.
• 17:54
  Speaker 15: Family and life and conservative American values.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: My generation sucks. He just put that out there and
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: everybody put that. It's fine.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Mine didn't. The boomers were fine.
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: My father, Pasquale Giovanni Dolcefino, heard that some college girl
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: lived with.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Someone and found out that they were a guy, that
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: volleyball thing.
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: Pasquale would be down with the stick.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: The mob guys would show up and do some things. Linda,
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: tell us what you'll be talking about at FaithFest.
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 18:28
  Speaker 16: Well, I'm the CEO of the John Paul II Life
• 18:31
  Speaker 16: Center and Vitae Clinic in Austin, Texas. We are kind
• 18:36
  Speaker 16: of a unique model of pregnancy care that we're trying
• 18:40
  Speaker 16: to find a financially sustainable way to provide a quality
• 18:45
  Speaker 16: OBGYN care, prenatal, deliver the babies, postnatal care, and then
• 18:52
  Speaker 16: be there for moms and families living in poverty and
• 18:56
  Speaker 16: for up to three years to help them find stability.
• 18:59
  Speaker 15: And we're doing good things. We're growing quickly.
• 19:04
  Speaker 16: And we believe that there are two ways to end
• 19:08
  Speaker 16: abortion in Texas. One, obviously, is the wonderful lawmakers that
• 19:15
  Speaker 16: have said no abortion in Texas to people. And Planned
• 19:19
  Speaker 16: Parenthood has closed a lot of surgical abortion clinics.
• 19:23
  Speaker 15: But we know abortion is still happening in Texas.
• 19:27
  Speaker 16: There's over 90 websites that make it easy for a
• 19:32
  Speaker 16: frightened woman who's experiencing unexpected pregnancy to go online late
• 19:37
  Speaker 16: at night when she's freaking out and get pills. And
• 19:41
  Speaker 16: we've had those women come to our center with the
• 19:44
  Speaker 16: pills in their hands and say, I don't have any options.
• 19:49
  Speaker 15: I don't know what I'm going to do. to do.
• 19:50
  Speaker 16: My boyfriend's going to hit the road. I don't know
• 19:54
  Speaker 16: what I'm going to do.
• 19:55
  Speaker 11: And we.
• 19:57
  Speaker 16: Get her to slow down, to pause. We have a
• 20:00
  Speaker 16: brand new abortion pill education campaign going on at Metta
• 20:08
  Speaker 16: and Google Ads. Let young women know, don't get these
• 20:11
  Speaker 16: pills without seeing a doctor. Your health, you could really
• 20:15
  Speaker 16: end up in the emergency room. You might not even
• 20:18
  Speaker 16: be pregnant. It might be an ectopic pregnancy. If you
• 20:21
  Speaker 16: take an abortion pill when you have an ectopic pregnancy,
• 20:26
  Speaker 16: your life really is in danger.
• 20:28
  Speaker 15: And so we're trying to tell young.
• 20:30
  Speaker 16: Women that are fooled by the misinformation they see online
• 20:35
  Speaker 16: that these are as safe as aspirin to know, come in.
• 20:39
  Speaker 15: Get tested.
• 20:40
  Speaker 16: And what we find is when the woman takes the time,
• 20:43
  Speaker 16: comes in, has an ultrasound, sees a doctor, talks to
• 20:48
  Speaker 16: a client advocate, sees, hey, you know what? I really
• 20:52
  Speaker 16: do have choices. And that and I'm not going to
• 20:56
  Speaker 16: be alone in this. I have a whole community that's
• 20:58
  Speaker 16: going to surround me with care. They choose life. And
• 21:03
  Speaker 16: I used to live in Chicago.
• 21:04
  Speaker 14: So me, too.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: Actually, for a long time. I lived in Chicago for
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: like 20 years, so I totally understand. Let me ask
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: you this, because I think it's a big theme that
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: Wayne and I talk about all the time. Your organization
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: on the left will be shaped somehow as hateful, somehow
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: as angry or mean, because you're not allowing women to
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: kill children, to kill babies. That's the only way that
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: I think they can try to fight the argument that
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: you're making, because it's very common sense. It's very easy
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: for us to understand. You want to give young women
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: the opportunity to to keep a child. And you want
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: to do that by giving them answers to any of
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: the questions they have.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: You know, the road, the roadmap.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not a choice, but you're giving them the
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: roadmap to how this isn't something that maybe other places
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: have convinced them is too hard for them to do.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: And one of the biggest reactions to it is how
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: dare you, I guess. And I wonder how you respond
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: to to that, to the people that criticize our position,
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: your position on an issue like this, by somehow saying
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: it's mean? Because a lot of things we're accused of
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: are just being bad people.
• 22:07
  Speaker 16: Well, I believe women are intelligent and deserve to make
• 22:13
  Speaker 16: informed choices.
• 22:14
  Speaker 14: Yes.
• 22:15
  Speaker 15: And if you believe in choice, you have to believe
• 22:17
  Speaker 15: in education.
• 22:19
  Speaker 11: And so.
• 22:20
  Speaker 16: We don't judge people. We serve every woman that walks
• 22:24
  Speaker 16: in the door. We don't ask them what they believe in.
• 22:27
  Speaker 16: We don't ask them anything. We ask them if they
• 22:29
  Speaker 16: need help. And if they say yes, we march them
• 22:33
  Speaker 16: down the hall. We give them an ultrasound. We explain
• 22:37
  Speaker 16: what their choices are. And some of them walk out
• 22:40
  Speaker 16: the door. We had one young woman that walked in
• 22:44
  Speaker 16: with abortion pills. She had seen one of our ads
• 22:48
  Speaker 16: about get yourself tested first. Don't just do this through
• 22:53
  Speaker 16: telehealth or through the mail. And she had an ultrasound
• 22:57
  Speaker 16: and it turned out she was almost 10 weeks pregnant.
• 23:00
  Speaker 16: She saw her baby's heart beating on the ultrasound and
• 23:04
  Speaker 16: she walked out the door with us uncertain what her choice.
• 23:11
  Speaker 15: Was going to be. But she knew.
• 23:14
  Speaker 16: How pregnant she was, that the that it was a
• 23:17
  Speaker 16: viable pregnancy, that she had people here to help her.
• 23:20
  Speaker 15: And that if.
• 23:22
  Speaker 16: She wanted an appointment at a world-class OBGYN clinic, delivering
• 23:28
  Speaker 16: her babies at Ascension Seaton's new woman's hospital down the street,
• 23:33
  Speaker 16: she could. And we prayed for her, you know, like
• 23:37
  Speaker 16: we didn't know what her choices were going to be.
• 23:38
  Speaker 15: We weren't pressuring her.
• 23:41
  Speaker 16: And she chose, she, the next morning she called and said,
• 23:45
  Speaker 16: I threw the pills.
• 23:46
  Speaker 15: Away and made an appointment at our Vitae clinic.
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: I want to say that the way you're framing this
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: is exactly the way I believe the way forward for
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: those of us who believe in life is to talk
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: to people. We believe in freedom, but we also believe,
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: and I think we have a responsibility to help women make,
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: the right choice. And I think, you know, calling someone,
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: you know, shouting, standing outside an abortion clinic shouting, baby killer,
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: baby killer, baby killer. I understand why some people do it.
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: I think that's not the right play.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Is there anything you want to say in reaction
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: to Wayne's comments?
• 24:34
  Speaker 15: Well, we kind of say we lead with love.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 24:38
  Speaker 15: And if you lead with love, like, we care about you.
• 24:42
  Speaker 16: You're not alone. We understand that. why you're feeling anxiety
• 24:46
  Speaker 16: and fear.
• 24:47
  Speaker 15: It's scary.
• 24:48
  Speaker 16: Being a mom, being pregnant, you're feeling alone is very scary.
• 24:53
  Speaker 16: And there's a lot of challenges. And we don't try
• 24:56
  Speaker 16: to say this is going to be easy. We just
• 24:59
  Speaker 16: say you have people that care about you that will
• 25:02
  Speaker 16: walk with you and help you find a path forward.
• 25:05
  Speaker 16: And we say we want to give you a hand up,
• 25:09
  Speaker 16: not a hand out. You know, we want you to
• 25:11
  Speaker 16: take control of your life. We want you to make
• 25:14
  Speaker 16: good decisions because when you make good, virtuous, value-based decisions
• 25:21
  Speaker 16: in your life, you're going to be happier.
• 25:22
  Speaker 15: You're going to find joy.
• 25:24
  Speaker 16: And, you know, I've been in this business for a
• 25:27
  Speaker 16: really long time and have helped thousands of women make what,
• 25:34
  Speaker 16: in my opinion, is the correct decision to move forward
• 25:37
  Speaker 16: with their pregnancy. I haven't had one woman come back
• 25:42
  Speaker 16: and say, You were wrong, Linda.
• 25:44
  Speaker 15: I should have had an abortion.
• 25:45
  Speaker 7: I bet.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: This kid is horrible. I was wondering that, actually.
• 25:49
  Speaker 16: Do you know how many hundreds of women I've talked
• 25:52
  Speaker 16: to that have had abortions?
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that regret it.
• 25:55
  Speaker 15: And, you know, just really regret it and wish they hadn't?
• 26:00
  Speaker 17: Yeah.
• 26:00
  Speaker 15: I wonder how life would be if they hadn't had it.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: We have a lot of guests set up, so I
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: think we are pretty much out of time. But I
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: do want to say that. I want to kind of
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: end with that with so much thanks to you, Linda,
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: for coming.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: On and talking about this.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Good job, Linda.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: But I wanted to say that I imagine so many
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: women that were so close to making a different decision
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: that your organization pushes to make a better decision have
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: told you that other thing, too.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: Like, thank you so much for.
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: Keeping, like, the exact opposite of what you just said.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: I bet you hear that constantly.
• 26:29
  Speaker 15: All the time. So make an educated choice. Know your body.
• 26:33
  Speaker 15: Know yourself.
• 26:34
  Speaker 16: And you have a lot of people in the community
• 26:36
  Speaker 16: that want to support you. And Governor Abbott cares about family.
• 26:41
  Speaker 16: Mays Middleton cares about family.
• 26:43
  Speaker 15: These are the people we've got to keep in office.
• 26:45
  Speaker 11: Cool.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Mays will be here.
• 26:46
  Speaker 15: God bless you.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: God bless you. See you later. Thank you so much.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: A quick break. A lot coming up. What did you
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: want to say? You're looking at me.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: No, I just want to say this is a great
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: show today.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: It is a great show today.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Look, I really appreciate it.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: People like Linda are making it awesome.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Groups like Linda's, because that.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: Is exactly the.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Right way to do it. Yes, amen.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: All right, cool. We're going to take another break.
• 27:06
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  Speaker 4: We're very excited to talk to our next guest who
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  Speaker 14: 94.
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  Speaker 3: I got so close.
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  Speaker 3: The 94th district, Arlington, a big part of that district.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to the show, Cheryl.
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  Speaker 13: Thank you. I'm really glad to be here.
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  Speaker 4: So tell us some of the challenges that you've been
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  Speaker 13: Affordability, affordability, affordability.
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 13: People are not happy with the cost of living. Let's
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  Speaker 10: Housing is the biggest issue associated with that, so I
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• 31:52
  Speaker 13: And property tax. It's all kind of tied together there.
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, with mortgage rates now over 7%, and with our
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: mortgage rules, people having to put down 20%, having to
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: have hundreds of thousands of dollars to potentially buy a
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: house these days, houses getting more expensive. What do you
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: tell folks about how we fix this?
• 32:15
  Speaker 11: Well.
• 32:17
  Speaker 10: You know, there's a lot of regulations coming at it
• 32:20
  Speaker 10: at housing that are doing nothing more than driving the
• 32:22
  Speaker 10: cost up.
• 32:23
  Speaker 13: But we have a basic reality here.
• 32:25
  Speaker 10: We have 1,800 people a day moving to Texas, and
• 32:27
  Speaker 10: a large portion of those are in my area, the
• 32:30
  Speaker 10: Dallas DFW area. And when you have that many people coming,
• 32:33
  Speaker 10: you go through your entire supply every year. We can't
• 32:36
  Speaker 10: build apartments and housing fast enough, and we're running out
• 32:40
  Speaker 10: of lots. Supply and demand, guys, there's part of that
• 32:42
  Speaker 10: we're not going to fix. But the things we can fix,
• 32:45
  Speaker 10: we need to take on very boldly and very strongly.
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I do worry this time that people are getting
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: so frustrated and that, quite honestly, Republicans, my fellow Republicans,
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: have not done a good enough job messaging what we
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: are fixing and what is coming down the pike and
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: how difficult it was. I think sometimes we need to
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: level with people more than we do. I think they
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: appreciate that authenticity, but, but there are a lot, I mean,
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: there are a lot of good.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: Things that is going on with the economy.
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: And I personally, I'm very frustrated about the way we
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: message it. I, I agree with you.
• 33:30
  Speaker 13: We just need to be more, like you say, more transparent.
• 33:34
  Speaker 10: And the reality is even the issue of the demand
• 33:37
  Speaker 10: and the people coming here, we create more jobs than
• 33:39
  Speaker 10: any place else in America.
• 33:40
  Speaker 13: I mean, Do we want to stop that in order
• 33:43
  Speaker 13: to revert back?
• 33:44
  Speaker 7: No.
• 33:44
  Speaker 13: I mean, you kind of have a choice, guys. I mean,
• 33:47
  Speaker 13: that's kind of where it is.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: You know, it's interesting.
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: You mentioned property taxes real quick, and I can't fathom
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: an issue that is going to impact a lot of people.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: We have a state senator that's one of the hosts
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: of the Amigos at KSCV Radio, Senator Paul Betancourt, who's
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: been fighting this like crazy, all of the insane property
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: tax hikes and how much of an impact it does have.
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: on our day-to-day lives, on our ability to enjoy that
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: good economy that does exist. And I imagine you're someone
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: that would also very much fight that fight.
• 34:17
  Speaker 13: Oh, absolutely.
• 34:19
  Speaker 10: And I'm absolutely– in DFW or in Tarrant County, we
• 34:22
  Speaker 10: have a county judge that has really put– he's put
• 34:26
  Speaker 10: a lot of pressure on bringing property taxes down. In fact,
• 34:29
  Speaker 10: we are actually enhancing for the last four years real
• 34:32
  Speaker 10: property tax savings despite the appraisals going up.
• 34:35
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 34:35
  Speaker 20: Yes.
• 34:36
  Speaker 13: In fact, so much so.
• 34:37
  Speaker 10: That the cities are now screaming that they can hardly
• 34:40
  Speaker 10: fund their first responders and things. I mean it's that
• 34:44
  Speaker 10: much of an impact. So that's a really good thing,
• 34:46
  Speaker 10: and at some point you have to do a little
• 34:48
  Speaker 10: of that pressure. It's not going to just dynamically happen
• 34:51
  Speaker 10: bottom up.
• 34:51
  Speaker 13: Do you know what I'm saying?
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: I do, and I also think it's crazy the amount
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: of times that they blame the Republicans for then wanting
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: to raise the property taxes in the liberal places.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: Okay, go ahead.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 35:02
  Speaker 13: I mean absolutely. Who votes consistently to lower it? and
• 35:05
  Speaker 13: who votes consistently to raise. And by the way, while
• 35:08
  Speaker 13: we're at it, let's add income tax too, right?
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: It's not the Republicans.
• 35:12
  Speaker 13: Never has been.
• 35:13
  Speaker 10: In fact, to be perfectly blunt, I don't think we're
• 35:16
  Speaker 10: in this affordability situation because of what our policies have done.
• 35:20
  Speaker 10: I think look at the previous administration, and that's where
• 35:23
  Speaker 10: a lot of that started right there.
• 35:25
  Speaker 11: Amen.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: Where does faith intersect?
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: How important do you think the message about faith resonates
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: with folks? I'm not a big believer in saying everything
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: should be a certain way, but I do believe that
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: faith and our politics in Texas are sort of intersecting in.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: A really big way.
• 35:49
  Speaker 13: Faith and politics?
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Is that your question?
• 35:53
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: I didn't mean to be deep. I really didn't.
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: I just think that we are facing a political battle
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: that in many ways intersects with the way we believe.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: 100%.
• 36:06
  Speaker 13: I will take that a step forward.
• 36:08
  Speaker 10: I get the question all the time, particularly at the doors,
• 36:11
  Speaker 10: is why is government getting involved in all these.
• 36:14
  Speaker 13: Social issues, right?
• 36:16
  Speaker 18: Yes.
• 36:16
  Speaker 13: And people are upset about that.
• 36:18
  Speaker 10: And my response to that is because the churches are not.
• 36:22
  Speaker 10: If you aren't hearing it in the pulpit and you're
• 36:25
  Speaker 10: not hearing it You know, where you go to talk
• 36:27
  Speaker 10: about those issues, it leaves us no choice but for
• 36:30
  Speaker 10: the government to step in and say, you know, we've
• 36:33
  Speaker 10: got to establish boundaries that have historically been established there
• 36:37
  Speaker 10: at the church. So I am very grateful that I
• 36:39
  Speaker 10: go to a very bold church, and they are very
• 36:42
  Speaker 10: clear on what the Ten Commandments are and a lot
• 36:45
  Speaker 10: of other things.
• 36:46
  Speaker 13: Call you out on it. But, you know, I think
• 36:48
  Speaker 13: that's part of our failure, and that's why you see
• 36:50
  Speaker 13: this clash.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: Well, and I would also wonder, kind of piggybacking on
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: what Wayne's saying there, because we're at this event that
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: you'll be coming to, Texas Faith Fest here in Austin
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: for the next couple of days.
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: I think there's still some tickets available.
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: Brandon Gill, a big name speaking there, but demonstrating to
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: the people within, you know, all of Texas that faith
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: has an absolute place in how we, you know, live
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: our lives and how we govern certain things. I'm not
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: saying that we're connecting church and state. They can stay separate.
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: But at the same time, the existence of faith within
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: our political leaders is vitally important. Do you want to
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: say a little bit about your own faith and how
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: it pushes you to make some of the decisions you
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: might make if you get elected?
• 37:33
  Speaker 13: Oh, man, my faith and.
• 37:35
  Speaker 10: My biblical worldview is absolutely the foundation of why I'm running. OK, and,
• 37:40
  Speaker 10: you know, I believe strongly that that is the basis.
• 37:44
  Speaker 10: That's how our country was even founded. Right.
• 37:46
  Speaker 13: And I'm just going to be very– tell you something.
• 37:49
  Speaker 10: I was given a couple of days ago 8,000 copies
• 37:53
  Speaker 10: of a constitution designed for school kids aged 6 through 12.
• 37:58
  Speaker 10: Charlie Kirk actually designed it, and it was given to
• 38:00
  Speaker 10: me free to hand out to the schools. To tell
• 38:03
  Speaker 10: you how crazy we are now, particularly in the education world,
• 38:08
  Speaker 10: half the schools will not take them. And you know
• 38:10
  Speaker 10: what their response is? Oh, our constitution is too right-winged.
• 38:15
  Speaker 10: It's too– We don't want to allude to faith. So,
• 38:19
  Speaker 10: you know, you look at it, and what has been
• 38:21
  Speaker 10: absolutely stunning to me, we had this wave of socialism,
• 38:24
  Speaker 10: and I never think God wanted us to be slaves.
• 38:26
  Speaker 13: He freed the Jews, you know?
• 38:28
  Speaker 10: And here we are running a portion of our society
• 38:33
  Speaker 10: is running full steam into slavery again under socialism because
• 38:38
  Speaker 10: we're afraid to admit that our Constitution is biblically based.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: Do you mind?
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: Because we had a representative for young Republicans here in
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: Austin pop into the show for a little bit talking
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: about Gen Z and their approach to some of these conversations.
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: Do you mind giving me your opinion as you've been
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: campaigning of maybe some younger people who might be more
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: supportive than I would have expected?
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: Maybe you would have expected them to be.
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: But as you're going out and speaking to people, it
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: seems like some of the youngest generation are really embracing
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: some of this message.
• 39:06
  Speaker 13: You are absolutely correct. I mean, 100% correct.
• 39:09
  Speaker 10: When we knock doors, and I've knocked 20,000 in the
• 39:12
  Speaker 10: last few weeks, months.
• 39:13
  Speaker 9: Wow.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: How are your shoes, by the way? Just real quick.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: How are your shoes? Okay, continue.
• 39:19
  Speaker 13: Well, my shoes are fine. My feet are terrible.
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: Sure, sure.
• 39:23
  Speaker 10: But I want to be very honest. The bulk of
• 39:27
  Speaker 10: the people who will answer the door are 60s.
• 39:30
  Speaker 13: And above.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 39:32
  Speaker 10: That's where your Republicans and your solid faith believers are.
• 39:36
  Speaker 10: There is a huge gap in the 30s, 40s and 50s.
• 39:40
  Speaker 10: Very few people even register as these are people are
• 39:44
  Speaker 10: Republicans to begin with. But you hit the 20s, And, oh,
• 39:48
  Speaker 10: my gosh, that's the next group that people are knocking.
• 39:51
  Speaker 10: And I have several young men in their 20s right now,
• 39:53
  Speaker 10: and they are awesome. They want biblical values. They want family.
• 39:58
  Speaker 10: They want children. They want God-centered lives. And, oh, by
• 40:02
  Speaker 10: the way, they don't want to have to wait until
• 40:03
  Speaker 10: 42 to buy a house either. And they feel like
• 40:06
  Speaker 10: they're being deprived of the American dream because we've gone.
• 40:09
  Speaker 13: So far straight in a lot of this stuff. They're inspiring.
• 40:12
  Speaker 13: They're absolutely inspiring.
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: We're almost out of time.
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: This has been a lightning quick show for us because
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: we keep interviewing people that are going to be here
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: at the Faith Fest.
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: Before we let you go, Cheryl, is there anything else
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: you want to say? The floor is yours.
• 40:24
  Speaker 14: Okay.
• 40:25
  Speaker 13: Well, I will be speaking tomorrow on predatory gambling.
• 40:28
  Speaker 10: I got in the middle of this fight in the
• 40:29
  Speaker 10: 2025 session, and I'll be honest, I got my attention.
• 40:34
  Speaker 10: I've never been for gambling, but I wasn't extremely against
• 40:38
  Speaker 10: gambling until I started watching out-of-state billionaires from China, basically.
• 40:43
  Speaker 10: come in and try to buy state elections. And mine
• 40:46
  Speaker 10: was one of them. You probably have heard that story.
• 40:49
  Speaker 10: And that caused me to really dig into it and
• 40:52
  Speaker 10: how much harm predatory.
• 40:53
  Speaker 13: Gambling does to the citizens.
• 40:56
  Speaker 10: And it's harm that's heavily funded with lies. And the
• 41:01
  Speaker 10: lies are we're going to get a whole lot more jobs.
• 41:03
  Speaker 10: We're going to create government revenue. It's all false, guys.
• 41:07
  Speaker 10: So tune in tomorrow. You'll get to hear us talk
• 41:09
  Speaker 10: about that. That will be really great.
• 41:11
  Speaker 13: We'll expose it for what it is.
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: Awesome. Thank you very much for the time, Cheryl Bean.
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: She is the 94th district candidate for state representative. Thank
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: you for joining us so much on the show.
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: Quick break. A lot more. What were you.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: Going to say?
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: I'm not so sure we should even separate church and
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: state anymore.
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: Seems like it's okay if they're together.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: Do we have to do that?
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: Well, because we don't.
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: Like the people who govern, like Cheryl, she is going
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: to use her faith as part of her decision making.
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: And that's a good thing.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: And I think we should embrace it.
• 41:41
  Speaker 14: Sure.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: And stop trying to say, well, we're not really saying that.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: We are. We're saying that you people are crazy.
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: How terribly appropriate of you to say that at the
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: event we're at right now, man.
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry. That's awesome.
• 41:50
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: We've got to take a break. Thank you, Cheryl, again.
• 41:52
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  Speaker 5: Brandon is the youngest member of the State Board of Education.
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  Speaker 11: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Or Wayne, tell us a little bit about Brandon.
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  Speaker 5: We don't even need Brandon. Youngest member of the State
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  Speaker 5: Board of Education. And my first question is, the biggest
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  Speaker 5: failure of conservatives in this country was education. Taking our
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  Speaker 2: I'm a boomer. I saw it that the Pilgrims and
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  Speaker 2: I hear.
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  Speaker 5: About like how we psychologically tortured them and had sex
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we've gone so off the rails in education.
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  Speaker 14: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: So how could you answer that question about taking our
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: eyes off and how we get our eyes back focused
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  Speaker 4: on education?
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  Speaker 14: Yeah, well, you're absolutely right. I appreciate you having me
• 45:41
  Speaker 14: on today. And, you know, for a long time, conservatives
• 45:44
  Speaker 14: did neglect education. And liberals have been at this, you know,
• 45:47
  Speaker 14: really since the progressive era in the early 1900s, they've
• 45:52
  Speaker 14: really been focusing on education. And, you know, they understand
• 45:55
  Speaker 14: if you can get the minds of the next generation,
• 45:58
  Speaker 14: you can take this country. And of course, they don't
• 46:00
  Speaker 14: want our students to know the exceptionalism of America, you know,
• 46:03
  Speaker 14: our great history as Americans, because if they don't know
• 46:06
  Speaker 14: how special our country is, then, you know, students won't
• 46:09
  Speaker 14: see any reason why not to allow us to become
• 46:12
  Speaker 14: a socialist country. And so, That's something that we've really
• 46:15
  Speaker 14: been tackling at the State Board of Education. That's the
• 46:17
  Speaker 14: reason why I ran for the SPUE. I didn't come from.
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: The public education world.
• 46:22
  Speaker 14: I'm in full-time ministry. But I felt like it was
• 46:25
  Speaker 14: really important for conservatives to once again start caring about
• 46:28
  Speaker 14: public education and our next generations.
• 46:30
  Speaker 5: What are the big fights right now that you think
• 46:32
  Speaker 5: are coming up for the State Board?
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: What's big on the agenda?
• 46:41
  Speaker 14: Well, we just came through two really big fights this year,
• 46:44
  Speaker 14: which was our social studies standards rewrite. And we wrote,
• 46:48
  Speaker 14: we redid the social studies standards, the history standards for
• 46:51
  Speaker 14: the first time in 16 years. And so that was
• 46:55
  Speaker 14: a huge, you know, more than a year long battle
• 46:57
  Speaker 14: really where we were, you know, had the battle of
• 47:00
  Speaker 14: ideas between the exceptionalism of America, you know, the fact
• 47:03
  Speaker 14: that our founding fathers are Titans of history, that there
• 47:06
  Speaker 14: are heroes and not villains. And so we, we're able
• 47:10
  Speaker 14: to roll back really decades worth of historical revisionism. And
• 47:14
  Speaker 14: I think we have the best set coming out of
• 47:15
  Speaker 14: that battle. We have the best set of social studies
• 47:17
  Speaker 14: standards in the entire country, very pro America, America focused standards.
• 47:24
  Speaker 14: And so that was a big deal. And then also
• 47:27
  Speaker 14: we packed a literary works list this year of required reading.
• 47:30
  Speaker 14: So we can get back to a lot of our
• 47:32
  Speaker 14: great classics that we all grew up on, but have
• 47:35
  Speaker 14: really made their way out of our classrooms now for more,
• 47:37
  Speaker 14: you know, shallow, modern works. We're able to say, okay,
• 47:42
  Speaker 14: we're going to require that you teach the classics. And
• 47:44
  Speaker 14: also for the first time in the state of Texas
• 47:46
  Speaker 14: in over 60 years, requiring that you teach foundational passages
• 47:51
  Speaker 14: of the bestselling book of all time, which is the Bible,
• 47:54
  Speaker 14: which if you don't understand the Bible, key passages from
• 47:56
  Speaker 14: the Bible, you can't know our history, our laws, our
• 48:00
  Speaker 14: culture as Texans.
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: And so we're able to bring those two things back.
• 48:03
  Speaker 14: Those were huge battles. And I think in Texas, we're
• 48:06
  Speaker 14: really now leading the whole country and what we're doing
• 48:08
  Speaker 14: in public education.
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: You said that you come from a faith-based career before
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: getting into politics, and we're at Texas Faith Fest. And
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  Speaker 4: so I wanted to ask you how important it is
• 48:19
  Speaker 4: that you're connected. We're literally just talking in our last
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  Speaker 4: break and with our last guest about the importance of
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  Speaker 4: faith within a government, within policy decision-making. Why don't you
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: tell us how one has helped guide you with the
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  Speaker 4: other of your work?
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  Speaker 14: Well, I think there was, for a long time, especially
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  Speaker 14: in public education, there was this idea that we could have,
• 48:41
  Speaker 14: you know, a secular space, sort of a vacuum where
• 48:44
  Speaker 14: there's no morals, no values, you know, nobody's religious principles
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  Speaker 14: at all. And, you know, what we found is something
• 48:51
  Speaker 14: is always going to fill that vacuum. And so, you know,
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  Speaker 14: first it was, we kind of had the woke values
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  Speaker 14: coming in. Now we even see the influence of Islam
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  Speaker 14: starting to creep into our curriculum, our schools. And so
• 49:04
  Speaker 14: like somebody's values are always going to be in place.
• 49:08
  Speaker 14: And what we need to do in United States of
• 49:10
  Speaker 14: America and in Texas is not apologize for our Christian heritage,
• 49:15
  Speaker 14: the Christian roots of America, because really our laws.
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  Speaker 2: Our constitution.
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  Speaker 14: They're based off of these christian principles that come out
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  Speaker 14: of the bible and if you try to separate you
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  Speaker 14: know our society from those principles that really ground us
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  Speaker 14: that's where you get all of the you know insanity
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  Speaker 14: that we see today kind of happening in our culture
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  Speaker 14: and especially in our public schools and so i think
• 49:36
  Speaker 14: we've gotten to the point in texas where it's like
• 49:37
  Speaker 14: hey it's it's literally you You know, that experiment of
• 49:40
  Speaker 14: trying to say that there's going to be no values,
• 49:43
  Speaker 14: it didn't work, it's impossible. And so we're going to
• 49:45
  Speaker 14: kind of get back to what this nation was founded
• 49:47
  Speaker 14: on and those principles.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Lord, that's what I've been saying.
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  Speaker 5: I think we're like sort of dancing around the reality
• 49:55
  Speaker 5: that our culture is very faith-based and you can't separate it.
• 50:02
  Speaker 5: And we can't pretend, we shouldn't pretend that it's not
• 50:06
  Speaker 5: part of who we are and how we think it
• 50:10
  Speaker 5: affects everything. We're trying to hide kids from bad things,
• 50:16
  Speaker 5: but I think I'm going to run for office.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: I'm announcing it now. It's going to be called MASA.
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: Make America Sane Again.
• 50:26
  Speaker 14: Oh, nice.
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: I like that.
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  Speaker 5: Because that's really what I think is happening. I think
• 50:30
  Speaker 5: we've strayed so far from the faith principles, from the
• 50:35
  Speaker 5: cultural principles of this country, And we need to fight
• 50:38
  Speaker 5: it every step of the way.
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: It's not a sort of sideline time.
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: Well, and Brandon, you're fighting in one of the most
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: important spaces, I think, as far as the thing that
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: Wayne's saying is what you're doing is one of the
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: things that, as Wayne said to start the interview, we
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: neglected on the conservative side of the aisle a lot
• 50:55
  Speaker 4: more than we should have. And you're seeing the results
• 50:58
  Speaker 4: of that and also seeing the right ways to change it.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah, well, and I think what we're seeing is that
• 51:04
  Speaker 14: when you're willing to take a stand on these issues
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  Speaker 14: for a long time, conservatives just, you know, left the
• 51:09
  Speaker 14: chat and really didn't even try in public education or
• 51:12
  Speaker 14: didn't try for reform. What we're seeing is when you're
• 51:14
  Speaker 14: actually willing to take a stand, boldly speak the truth
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  Speaker 14: that we actually can win these battles. And so we
• 51:21
  Speaker 14: are turning the tide in the state of Texas. We're
• 51:23
  Speaker 14: not just playing defense anymore. We're actually going on the
• 51:26
  Speaker 14: offense to roll back a lot of the influence of
• 51:29
  Speaker 14: You know, the woke values that have made their way
• 51:31
  Speaker 14: into our education system. And that's actually, you know, it's
• 51:35
  Speaker 14: been amazing so far.
• 51:36
  Speaker 4: How hard is it to silence the wokest of the
• 51:38
  Speaker 4: teachers out there from from still infusing their thoughts in
• 51:42
  Speaker 4: the classroom?
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: Like how?
• 51:43
  Speaker 4: And I don't mean silence per se, but how hard
• 51:45
  Speaker 4: is it to actually force them to just educate children
• 51:48
  Speaker 4: and not try to force their own ideological values on it?
• 51:52
  Speaker 14: Well, you know, that's always a problem. We have lots
• 51:54
  Speaker 14: of great teachers in the state of Texas, of course.
• 51:57
  Speaker 14: But the education we all know that the educational field
• 52:01
  Speaker 14: attracts tons of leftists. And I don't think that's a coincidence.
• 52:05
  Speaker 14: I think that kind of goes back to what we
• 52:06
  Speaker 14: were talking about earlier. They understand how important education is.
• 52:09
  Speaker 14: They're drawn to this kind of like moths to a
• 52:11
  Speaker 14: to a flame. And so, you know, no matter what
• 52:14
  Speaker 14: the standards we're setting at the state level, we still
• 52:16
  Speaker 14: really have to make sure at the local level that
• 52:19
  Speaker 14: we're hiring the right teachers. And, you know, part of
• 52:21
  Speaker 14: that is parents just staying really locked in and engaged.
• 52:24
  Speaker 14: They need to know their child's teacher. They need to
• 52:27
  Speaker 14: know what's going on in the classroom.
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: Is there anything else you want to add?
• 52:30
  Speaker 5: No, I was just thinking about a big fight I
• 52:33
  Speaker 5: had with HISD when they were changing the names of
• 52:36
  Speaker 5: the schools a couple years ago, like wasting money on
• 52:38
  Speaker 5: that instead of just teaching the kids. Like, you know,
• 52:41
  Speaker 5: I went to, Johnson Junior High School, right? Albert Sidney
• 52:44
  Speaker 5: Johnson had no idea he was even in the Confederacy.
• 52:48
  Speaker 5: It wasn't like we went around with rubble flags in
• 52:50
  Speaker 5: school and they spent millions changing the name of that stuff.
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: And not teaching children.
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: I think that stuff is so ridiculous. It's just a
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: waste of time.
• 52:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, actually, we only have about two minutes left, Brandon.
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: We can close with that.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: No, no, no.
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: I'm going to ask the question you're at.
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: I've had it.
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: I'm going to say it.
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: I've had it.
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: I'm going to say it. How do you deal with
• 53:07
  Speaker 3: all the waste that exists, too?
• 53:08
  Speaker 4: Like, how do you fight all the financial waste in
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: places that is spent on things other than just teaching
• 53:13
  Speaker 4: children math and science?
• 53:17
  Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean, there's a ton of it in public education,
• 53:19
  Speaker 14: and I think that's, you know, a lot of the
• 53:21
  Speaker 14: battle is where are our priorities? Are we focused on
• 53:24
  Speaker 14: the core... subjects that we're teaching our students to read, write,
• 53:28
  Speaker 14: do math competently, or are we, you know, overly emphasizing sport.
• 53:33
  Speaker 14: And of course we all love sports and the extracurriculars.
• 53:35
  Speaker 14: Sometimes that's sort of the tail that's wagging the dog
• 53:38
  Speaker 14: in Texas public education and far too much money goes
• 53:41
  Speaker 14: to those things. So we're really looking for ways in
• 53:43
  Speaker 14: the state of Texas to get the money directly into
• 53:46
  Speaker 14: the classroom and you know, cutting down on bloated administration
• 53:52
  Speaker 14: all of the wasteful spending, all of those things are
• 53:54
  Speaker 14: a part of it for sure.
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: Cool. Well, thank you very much. We have one minute left.
• 53:57
  Speaker 4: Like I said, Brandon, you are our last guest on
• 53:59
  Speaker 4: today's show. Our show is done. We're all going to
• 54:02
  Speaker 4: do whatever. You'll be here at Faith Fest. When are
• 54:04
  Speaker 4: you speaking here at the Faith Fest in Austin?
• 54:08
  Speaker 14: I'm speaking tomorrow afternoon. I'll be there with some of
• 54:10
  Speaker 14: my State Board of Education colleagues.
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: Awesome. Thanks. Good luck. Good luck.
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: Thank you so much. We look forward to talking again soon, dude.
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: Make America sane again.
• 54:18
  Speaker 5: I grew up playing with toy soldiers. Japanese soldiers were yellow.
• 54:23
  Speaker 5: The German soldiers were gray.
• 54:25
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: And who cares?
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, who cares?
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: What is wrong with this country? Make America sane, please.
• 54:32
  Speaker 4: Make America sane again. That is Wayne Dolcefino's political campaign.
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: He's going. I can't wait. What are you running for,
• 54:37
  Speaker 3: by the way? You said you're running.
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: I'm going to run for something that pays a lot
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: of money that I can.
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: The big paying job.
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: I could finally steal some money like everybody else.
• 54:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's got to be something at the
• 54:48
  Speaker 4: federal level.
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: I want to run for waste, fraud, and abuse.
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: Okay, cool. We're here. We're the Mob Guys.
• 54:53
  Speaker 4: We'll see you back in Houston tomorrow or on Monday.
• 54:57
  Speaker 4: We're not working tomorrow.
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: On KSV Radio, The Voice of Texas.
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: All right, guys.
• 55:02
  Speaker 10: Bye.