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Mike Waltz vs. Cuba at the UN and the GOP midterm message · KSEV Mornings with Craig and Wayne

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And now,
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the mob guys Craig Coglianese
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and
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Wayne Dolcefino,
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We are the mob guys. I am Craig Coglianese.
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He is Wayne Dolcefino. We are thrilled to be with you every single morning,
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Monday through Friday from 7 to 9 o 'clock.
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We will not be at Wings Over Houston, but the Amigos will be there on Friday.
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We actually also have a couple of tickets left to give away.
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So I don't know if you want to do that.
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Now we can just do it for like the fifth caller who calls in to Russell right now
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and we find out who that winner is or we can hold him.
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I'll let Wayne decide. Why the fifth caller?
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I like to not do like the second, you know what I mean?
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And I also don't, I used to be a producer, so I don't like to do like the 11th.
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Because the 11th seems mean to Russell, the second seems mean to anybody trying
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to win the ticket. Well if it's mean to Russell then let's go with the 29th
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caller. No if it's mean to Russell let's just do caller number one.
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I could be caller number one. I don't know that's how I've always done it man
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because I used to produce and if you ever had I'll call this person because
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they're imaginary and not either one of us a jerk of a host who's like let's do
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the 15th or 20th caller then you got to like run through those phones and that
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sucks I don't want to do that. Did you just lie?
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No I always told the truth. I always told the truth there.
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How many tickets do we have? We have a set of tickets.
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So it's two tickets to Wings Over Houston for the 52nd call.
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No, I'm kidding. The third caller to KSEV Radio.
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Let's do that. So we have decided on the third caller.
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Yeah, that's fine. The third caller that calls in right now to the main call -in
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line for KSEV Radio has a chance to get the two tickets to Wings Over Houston.
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281 -558 -5738, 281 -558 -5738.
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You don't get another prize, but you get bonus points if you also wanna come on
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the air and talk to us about something.
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If you just wanna win the tickets, fine.
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But maybe you can also have a KSEV t -shirt if you come on the air, then we'll do
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both. Wow, I don't even have a KSEV t -shirt.
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You don't? I have a ton of them just open in this box next to me over here.
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Do you know one? I don't have one.
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Sure. Okay, it's just a t, you don't wear a lot of t -shirts.
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You're not a t -shirt guy. You know, you were in my house at night.
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I mean, I wear a t -shirt and long johns with cigarette burns in it.
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You're a suit jacket guy. You're a collared shirt guy from what I'm...
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You're doing it today because I'm a professional.
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I got you. Because the difference between me and you is that I am dressed for...
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...New York, and you are dressed, like, to talk on the radio.
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I've been in radio since I was 20, man.
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Without regard for the fact that people watch us, too.
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So there is a... I don't... I think the Galveston shirt's okay today, right?
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It's very nice. Thank you. Look at how nice you were just there.
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You were going to tell me the truth and then you didn't go that road.
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It's fine. We do have a clip that we want to play.
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The clip is of Mike Waltz, and I think Mike Waltz does an amazing job of saying
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and doing things that some other people don't say and do that have jobs like
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Mike's. And what I think is really interesting probably about this clip, if I'm
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being honest, is that But the person who probably got the target of this,
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the person that he was saying, whoa, dude, back up, leave me alone, probably
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didn't expect this reaction at all.
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But we can go ahead and play this.
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And he was the Cuban foreign minister.
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Yes, he was a Cuban diplomat who was coming up and trying to yell at our
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politician and our politicians like, you shut your mouth when you're talking to
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me, which I thought was pretty great.
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Here we go. I have tried to listen to you to this political prison.
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Wait, was that the end of it? Was that the whole thing?
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where is the end of it i think held up and i'll ask ever
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you back up ambassador back away this isn't
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i'm suspecting the mid -day i'm going to attend i'm spending this meeting
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understand who you're dealing with this is america backup the rule is clear
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this is the substance of the speech there are no procedural you can bring the
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meeting is expanded please sit down The meeting is suspended.
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He's awesome. I think Mike Walt is great in how he handled that.
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I really, really like that. Back up.
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Yeah, back up. You back yourself up right now.
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Back off. Yeah, this isn't Havana, this is America.
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Right. Look, I like public officials who defend
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America. Me too. And that's why when I see Abdul in
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Michigan, right, not being able to figure out who's worse, Israel
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or Iran, right, it was more dangerous.
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And I, the Israeli elections sort of reminded me that if we think we're
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screwed up in this country with two parties, that the number of parties
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that like either former government in Israel with the Arabs.
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Yes. Or you form a government with the real right wing, you know,
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religious Jews that, you know, do have visions of conquering
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territory. It's just an interesting dynamic when you have multiple parties.
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Sometimes I say to myself, we should have more than two parties, right?
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We should have like a Conservative Party and maybe a country club party and maybe
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a Democratic Party and maybe a Socialist Party, right?
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But once you start seeing how bizarre it is to try to put together
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coalitions of people like the far left or the far right, all these different
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combinations to try to form a government just seems so unworkable.
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Yeah, no, I agree with you. It does.
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But I wish that there was a way to find a middle ground party because I
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know you said there's like seven or eight.
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I just don't, I think it's more likely that we splinter, right?
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That it would be right way, moderate.
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Sorry, that's what they always say about the third candidate who runs
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occasionally is that they're set up by one party to hurt the other party because
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they're really like a lighter version of the Republican or the Democrat and not
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truly an independent. I don't think a lot of people who run, even Kanye West is
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an example, mostly agreed with stuff that Trump wanted to do when he's running
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for office and just a few things that he said that were insane and crazy that
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made him unelectable. But I really think that that's part of the problem is that
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instead of having a truly down -the -middle voice on a lot of issues, you have
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voices that are basically the sugar -free version of Republican or Democrat.
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But I, and people, you know, get mad at me for saying this sometimes, people on
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the right, but you know, politics is a game of addition,
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not subtraction. Sure. And while I may believe strongly in a lot
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of my conservative personal beliefs, I also understand we live in a
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country where we have to convince the people in the middle that
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our diehards are going to go out, right?
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Mostly a lot older to a certain degree, a lot of folks, nothing wrong with that.
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But the diehards are going to vote.
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It's the people in the middle. And that's why, you know, and it's hard to know
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what will happen, but the tune of the campaigns may backfire because I
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think there is a lot of people that just kind of want to chill on the nastiness
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a little bit. Let me ask you, I want to frame this question a different way.
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And I have no idea what you're going to say.
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I didn't prep you for this topic at all.
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Either do I. Here we go.
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So we had a caller yesterday that I like, his name's Joe.
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he called in and he said he doesn't want, you know, Democrats to win because they
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want to trans the kids. And then we had a caller today George, who made the same
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reference about transgender and kids.
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And I agree with them both that the left's version of a conversation on that
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topic is that a child can cognitively decide that their body should be medically
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changed. And that's insane. However, this is the part that's reframing the
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discussion. When you look it up as far as the data that's in this world, even
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today, even with the craziness of the left trying to encourage people to question
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whether or not they're born in the right body, 3 .3 % of youths between the age
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of 13 and 17 identify as transgender, 724 ,000 according to UCLA study.
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It's 2 .2 % of high school students that say they question whether or not they're
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transgender, even at those numbers, that amount of people is still relatively
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small. It's much larger than anyone medically would say it is for someone that
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might be born with body parts that don't match, you know, or have more whatever,
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whatever the thing is that Talarico was trying to say are the medical exceptions
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now, instead of the other four genders.
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But genuinely as a question, this topic is such a lightning rod in politics,
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and so unlikely to be an actual thing that most people experience in their day to
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day life on either side of it, because it's 3 % of children.
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Yeah, but but it's bigger than that.
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I know big bigger than that. I don't mean the number is I don't have any idea.
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I never had that issue growing up.
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Well, I was thinking to myself, you know, am I am I a chick?
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I never thought that right. But but and I don't really get it.
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But but I do think that it's a it's a representation of the cultural difference,
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right? It's sort of a sure it's a may call it cultural wars.
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I don't think it's a war because I think you're either like we either are what we
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were or we're becoming something that many of us don't want to be yeah And we
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don't want to be. And it's not because I hate anybody.
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Right. I just I don't understand because I did the stories that
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led to a change regarding women cheer people at schools.
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Right. And the men not being able to be in their rooms.
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I was the guy who did the stories in West Texas that led some of that.
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I it's not a close call to me. No, it's not a guy can't play in women's.
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I don't want a guy with a pee pee.
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Right. If I was my daughter in a locker room, that's not difficult.
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I agree with you. That's not the question I'm asking.
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I'm not asking about whether or not that is a defendable topic on the left
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because it's not. It's ridiculous.
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It's insane. This goes to the better question that I think we ask very often on
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the show through you, which is political messaging and if it lands in the middle.
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If only 3 % of children identify as transgender to begin with and you're someone
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in the middle and you don't have this experience in your life, you don't question
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your gender, your kids don't question your gender, is this topic hollow to you?
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Is this topic the kind of thing that you think maybe the right is overly
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projecting it or the left is being crazy about it?
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You just dismiss it and you look for something more relevant.
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Yeah, look, these are base elections, although the midterm this time is going to
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be much more than a base election because I think a lot of people are voting,
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whether they like Trump or don't like Trump.
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and that we're sort of stuck with that narrative.
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But I do think that we have to have a better message this
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time than trans and terrorists.
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That's what I know, I know. I've said that and I just believe it.
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Right, and so even if I'm not seeding any ground on the conversation that does
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matter, that is important, that is a thing that when the left talks about it I
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think is insane, I probably should also be talking about the thing that's
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affecting 70, 80 % of people and not just 3 % because when I focus on the 3 %
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issues I probably lose. We'll take a quick break, a lot more KSEV radio, the
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voice of...
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KSEV! As a voice of Texas, we are not giving you our off -air conversation
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on social media, but I thought it was pretty good just there.
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I am Craig Coglianese, he's Wayne Dolcefino.
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Well, we call ourselves the mob guys.
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And instead of criticizing, I'll turn up the volume for Wayne and his headphones.
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Instead of criticizing what we are talking about, it does seem to be valuable to
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also discuss the things that we think are being left off the table.
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Manufacturing is something that is coming back in large numbers because of
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President Trump, because of a push for this, to try to make this a solution to
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what inevitably will become an even bigger problem, as I think some gigs are
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going to go away. I think AI is going to take some jobs.
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I think there's going to be a lot of reasons that having more manufacturing in
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this country would be good, not just, you know, in general economically, but also
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from the standpoint of not being subject to being harmed by China or someone else
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if they don't like something we're doing in some sort of capacity where they're
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giving us stuff that we need. We need to be making it ourselves.
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But that is a conversation that's not really happening at all, Wayne.
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Yeah. I was talking about, you know, look, people are frustrated with prices.
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I do better than most folk, and I'm frustrated with prices and how expensive
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things are, right? You go for a nice dinner and it's like ridiculous.
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Yes. Right? So I get it. But we haven't told
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people, I would have started at the beginning of the year flooding social
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media with all the things that are better.
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The crime is down to like historic lows.
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The border. Fentanyl. We blew up some boats and the shipment of drugs
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has been dropped dramatically, which was killing tens of thousands of people.
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I would have been doing commercials with the mother of some kid who killed
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himself with fentanyl. I would have been doing snippets of the
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price of eggs. Remember when the Democrats were all about eggs, right?
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Sure. When eggs were stupid for a while.
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Yes. Well, the price of eggs has dropped, right?
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Remind people, Trump talks about all this manufacturing and investment, right?
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And I'll be honest with you, even as a guy who's fairly plugged in, the media
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doesn't show me the factory in dumb butt Nebraska, right?
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that they're building. And maybe they're not, right?
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Maybe it's all just a big, you know.
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I think they are. But I think they are too.
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And I just I don't know why rebuilding America isn't
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part of the messaging, remind people that, you know,
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these are all the things that have happened.
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The price of gas will come down one way or the other.
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And we just moved Patriot missile battery from Texas to the Middle East.
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I read and we're moving big planes to England.
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There's going to be one mirror over the other.
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This thing is going to come into your head here after the election.
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But there are so many good things that have happened.
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It's not perfect by any means. And we all know that.
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But there are stories to tell, economic stories to tell.
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Well, manufacturer jobs are up, right?
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We got rid of a lot of government fat.
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I don't hear that word. All I hear about is the poor government bureaucrats that
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were all making like $180 ,000 a year to push paper.
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Sure. I just don't see why we're not doing that.
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I don't know. And actually, I'm trying to find the manufacturing factory
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information right now as you're talking.
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And apparently, there's not a good list of it.
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There's not an easy way to do it.
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but the manufacturing industry has grown by tens of thousands of companies over
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the last year or two. So that seems good.
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You would see that. People are spending money.
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Yeah. I mean, consumer confidence is up like 7 % over last month.
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The Atlanta Fed is talking about a GDP of like over 3, I think 3 .4%.
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That's great. That's good. Yes.
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And if we're turning the corner on it and these tariff disputes will be settled
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one way or the other but I think and I understand the political problem that it's
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created for Trump but what I think what he's trying to do is is play chess and
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not checkers sure and he but he doesn't know how to communicate it to a lot of
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people in the middle right who just get turned off by the snippets yeah of some
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offhand thing he says or jokes about right they don't cover the substance of
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anything he says No, and they don't want to and they love the fact that, and this
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is the problem because I like and I still like, even though it's becoming
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somewhat, you know, you've seen this movie before for a lot of Republicans, I
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still enjoy the stuff Trump says that is thought of to be the most outlandish,
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the most disrespectful. Like I still find it funny personally and I laugh at it.
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However, I guess I would also say that the left loves the fact that he does that
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because it allows them to make that the entirety of the point.
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You said this the other day about one of the last speeches that Trump gave.
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I think this was last week, so, or maybe it was Monday.
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So there's only a few left that are going to happen before people vote on
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Tuesday, if you haven't voted already.
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And they summarized it by playing a minute of audio.
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And he spoke for over an hour. And they love the fact that they can do that.
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And they love the fact that their side responds to that.
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And they keep doing it to him. And it's, it's, go ahead.
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Look, I was just going to say, I just, I don't know what we're doing.
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The Democrats say, let's end the war.
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So what are we going to do? Just like pick up and pick our ships and say, the
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Strait of Hormuz is yours and keep gas prices high.
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I think the Democrats want high gas prices because it'll add to the, we need to
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have a bunch of windmills, right?
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I hate the windmills. I'm one of my biggest, I drive around the countryside now
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in Texas, I go all over the state and I see this like miles and miles and miles
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and windmills and it's not about alternative energy to me, it's just I don't like
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the look of giant white windmills.
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Yeah, well they also don't create a lot of energy.
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The other problem with the windmills is they're not really efficient.
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Yeah, and they rust. Right, and there's just a crap ton of them out there and
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yeah, it's not as valuable as they say.
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But I don't understand, I know James Talarico says he's now for like all the
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energy, whatever. But his comments about the oil and gas industry, I can't
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believe that a state like Texas, which has been uber
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successful and has been able to do a lot of things and give back property tax
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relief to people, is actually going to elect someone who
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fundamentally challenges the way most of us think.
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Just because they're mad. Look, I know people are mad about corruption.
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I think it's a problem. I do. I think the perception is a real problem for
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Republicans who still haven't proven to me at least recently that they can govern
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and that they can't, you know, someone can't keep their hands out of the cookie
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jar. And I think people are frustrated by that.
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They see people getting rich and they're not.
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Do you mean that at the federal level?
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Yeah. I think it's, I think, I think the Trump administration, and I'm getting
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into a specific, I'm just talking about a flavor, that they just seem like
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there's a lot of grifting going on.
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Yeah, there's a lot of people in the administration who are doing things that
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maybe Trump is not aware they're doing and that they shouldn't be doing.
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He does fire people. This did happen recently.
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When people get caught with that version of a thing like demonstrating that
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they're selling access to the White House, for example, they do get canned.
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So that's kind of nice, but maybe we're not finding as much of it as we should.
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I'm talking about perception. Sure.
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Well perception matters more than reality.
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People are really mad at rich people.
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Yeah, they are. And they shouldn't be, right?
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Because that's just success. But I get it.
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And you have to deal with the realities on the ground.
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Not what we think, but what the average Yahoo thinks.
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Sure. You're right about that. And there are a bunch more people now that are
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growing up in a world where they're told, if they try hard, they'll also be rich.
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And that's not true. A lot of people won't wind up being rich, and they don't
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seem to like that fact. All right, quick break, a lot more.
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The Voice of Texas, the Mob Guys, Wayne Dolcefino, Craig Coglianese, KSEV radio.
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KSEV radio. The voice of Texas.
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We are the Mob Guys. He is Wayne D 'Alchafino.
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I am Craig Coglianese's. We both stayed up too late watching baseball that we
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shouldn't have watched. So we're both kind of tired.
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Let's get to a phone call. We got Michael.
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He wants to talk about transgender stuff.
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Michael, what do you want to say?
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See, my whole thing is, is yes, the mutilating of children is horrible.
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Yes, that is a huge problem. But you're right, it's only 3 percent.
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But I think it's bigger than the 3 percent.
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Sure. My opinion, it's about keeping control of what they say towards
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children. I mean, they push an agenda on how your kids are supposed to be
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raised. And if you look, and they're trying to take away parental decisions.
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100%. And what parents can do. So it's bigger.
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Well, here, you know, what's happening with the 3%.
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I agree with you, Michael. But can't we have that conversation?
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Can't the thing that you and I just talked about be in addition to the other
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thing? Instead of having the quotable or the thing that the left can change to be
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something else or the stupid version of a discussion, let's have the full context
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of the problem. And I wholeheartedly agree that the left would like a teacher
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in a classroom to have more say over what a child does in their life than the own
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parents of the kid. If the parents don't agree with the teacher, the teacher's
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liberal and the parents are conservative, the teacher wants more control of those
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children and that's insane. But that's a more valuable discussion and one that
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affects far more families. Because I bet you there's a kid who goes to school
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wearing a hat that a teacher doesn't like.
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I think we've seen stories like this.
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Like some kid wore a MAGA hat to a classroom and it became a giant thing.
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And who cares? And if that same kid had worn like a Bernie Sanders shirt, I doubt
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anyone would have cared. I doubt anyone would have had this same reaction.
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So now you've added substance to the discussion that deserves to be there to
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begin with, in my opinion. I mean, the whole thing is that it's
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about training the next generation.
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Yes. They believe the way they want them to believe.
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Indoctrination. And by using the whole transgender thing where you have to be
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compassionate, well, then they're playing on people's beliefs in victimhood.
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100%. these children are victims.
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But I believe the bigger issue is about keeping a grip on how they
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decide what they teach our children and removing the parents from the equation.
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Amen. I couldn't agree with you more.
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I don't know if there's anything else you want to say.
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No. Okay. Thank you very much, Michael.
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I got to tell you, remember when Yunkin ran for governor of Virginia and all the
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school boys, they were making all those stupid COVID decisions and other
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nonsense, right? I think the education issue is the
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much better issue for Republicans, right?
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Because what the trans thing represents is a
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continued chipping away at what the values of this
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country were, right, and that a lot of people strongly
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believe it is going to be the ruination of us.
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If we keep going down this, you know, call it Sodom and Gomorrah path, whatever
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you want to call it, I don't care.
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And I think, but I think the better fight is education for Republicans.
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Well, I think, I think to use the example that Michael was kind of giving us in
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the phone call, I think that was the guy's name I've already forgot, but I think
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so. What What he said was the issues are connected.
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And what you're saying is the issues are connected.
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And it's true, but people don't draw that line well enough in a short sound bite
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to get people to understand the totality of it.
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So instead, you have these leftists who walk around saying, you know, the right
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is exaggerating and saying we're all trying to trans kids.
24:42
When the reality is that what you're really trying to do is step in between the
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relationship of a mother and a father and their child and raise that child
24:51
yourself with your values. And I went to school at a time when I think grade
24:56
school, high school, college, all of it was getting even more extremely liberal.
25:01
I feel like my brain was jostled around multiple times.
25:04
And I especially remember a college course I took where I wound up arguing with
25:08
the professor in front of the classroom.
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I think it was an English class, but like it was a very political discussion.
25:14
And like most of the classroom wanted me to shut up and move on, but I thought it
25:17
was really important that the thing the teacher was saying was definitively
25:20
untrue and bias and all that other crap.
25:24
And it's just the world we live in now.
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And I think that that is the more valuable discussion that could win over people
25:30
in the middle. That's what I totally agree.
25:33
I think education and the indoctrination of our children from middle
25:39
school to elementary school to college, colleges and universities around the
25:44
country is the biggest threat in a lot of ways.
25:49
I mean, the politics should not be in the classroom, Right, but but it infects
25:54
the classroom I saw some video where where teacher was like sort of pretending to
25:58
shoot at a Trump image, right? In a classroom, right?
26:02
Really? We are what are we teaching these kids about work ethic about
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values? Yeah And sure, are there some really crappy parents out there?
26:13
Absolutely, right? But it's their kids.
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They're right and I believe that We ought to be a party that
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celebrates families. Yes. You know, the Trump money for the kids,
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the kid in America's... Yeah, that's not bad.
26:30
... Trump plan. I don't know why we're not...
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It's all negative, negative, negative and nothing, positive, positive, positive
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that reminds people, oh, that's right.
26:39
Well... He's done this. The other thing I'll say, and I don't mean to sound like
26:43
a weak person in saying this, it's just simply, oh, thanks buddy.
26:46
You don't even know what I'm going to say yet.
26:48
But it's just simply true. If you've ever dealt with someone that is sure you're
26:52
a piece of crap, like, and you probably have, I have, you walk into a room and
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they're just, they're just so sure that you are the most horrible monster that
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they've ever been around in their entire life.
27:03
And you say anything compassionate, even if it's still fully reflects your views,
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you don't have to like agree with them.
27:09
You know, I don't have to pretend I think they're smart if they're an idiot.
27:12
But if you say anything compassionate within your response to something, it
27:17
disarms somebody, somebody who wants to fight you struggles more, it's to kill
27:21
them with kindness thing, they struggle more to do that.
27:23
If you can find an eloquent way to not back off any of your beliefs and stances,
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and still come off differently.
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I think it's the Marco Rubio thing that you talk about a lot too.
27:33
On this show, Wayne, there are people that can do that better than others.
27:37
And there is a moment for that when you when you eventually need to pull back and
27:41
find a different path to the same discussion, Because you can't change your views
27:46
and change your beliefs to make someone happy with you.
27:49
That's surrender. That's horrible.
27:50
That's wrong. We can't do that.
27:52
But there has to be a way to do something that's slightly different, that still
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says what you believe, but says it differently and makes it harder to argue with.
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And I think part of this discussion on this segment has demonstrated that,
28:04
because we went from the simple snippet they're trying to trans the kids, which
28:08
is a way for the to try to overly vilify the right into something about much more
28:14
than just trying to convince a kid that's confused that he's transgender and his
28:17
body should be changed, but actually also step in the middle of a relationship
28:20
that's important and change the way that a kid is raised from how their parents
28:24
want them to be raised. Yeah, I think there's a much better way to message it.
28:30
Right. And that's just one example.
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I understand with certain bases, certain base voters, you know, who don't think
28:36
about the complexity of the issue, right?
28:39
And that what the trans thing represents to people is a failure of our education
28:43
system, where teachers are deciding to call Johnny Sally without
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asking their parents. To be honest, that's the whole LGBTQ thing.
28:54
When you see the classroom that's full of rainbows and the teacher who might be
29:00
gay themselves teaching the class, you know that they're going to be injected
29:04
with a whole bunch of political opinion, because there's a political fight right
29:07
now. And to be honest, a lot of conservatives don't care who you are in your own
29:11
personal life. I don't care. An adult person be whoever you want to be.
29:15
But I don't want you to stand in the classroom and think that you're doing a
29:18
social justice warrior fight by turning every discussion you can into something
29:22
political and not something that actually is relevant to like a five year old or
29:27
10 year old trying to learn math.
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Just teach them math would be great.
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And don't teach them the rest. I think that this is one of several conversations
29:34
we could do this way though. It's not just this one.
29:38
When you go back to the manufacturing jobs in the economy, there's so many ways
29:41
to embrace what conservatives are saying that makes us all wealthier, that makes
29:45
us all happier. I'm not saying everybody will be rich.
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But people would be doing better.
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And that doesn't happen because instead the left wins over some people with the
29:54
stupid argument of give us the money and we promise we'll give it to you.
29:59
Instead of go make more of it, we'll give you more opportunities, more places to
30:03
do it. The left literally says we're going to take it and then we promise you'll
30:08
get it back. And we never get it back.
30:10
In fact, we get less of it than we even wanted in other ways.
30:13
And I don't know why that's a better message than what the right says, that we
30:17
want to create more opportunities for wealth in your individual life through
30:20
things like bringing manufacturing back to this country.
30:24
Yeah, look, people are frustrated about prices, but again, we're turning the
30:27
corner. I think it's pretty clear we're turning the corner.
30:31
I think there was a reason Trump used that Venezuelan ship with a million barrels
30:37
of oil under it or whatever as an example to say, look, we're going to fix this
30:42
gas thing one way or the other.
30:44
Maybe it'll take another six months.
30:46
It's not a forever war. You know, there's not anybody shooting at each other
30:50
right now, but but that's gonna happen after the election I think we all know
30:54
that yes, like because we really don't have any choice anymore Right either
30:58
either the Iranians work a deal with us And allow us to make sure and get
31:04
the uranium out of there or or we let them You know enrich uranium up to
31:09
3 % nothing more and kind of kind of deal that similar to the
31:15
Obama deal but better? Yeah, well because...
31:18
That's a win. Well, because they were enriching uranium up to 60 percent, even
31:21
though they were supposed to be keeping it way beyond that, way below that, and
31:25
they were getting very close to the 90 percent threshold to make a nuclear
31:28
weapon. That's not an opinion. That's an actual fact that's out there in the
31:33
world, whether or not people think it's true or not.
31:36
And so I think the more important thing is just taking it away.
31:39
Like, as much as we can, take all that stuff away that they've successfully
31:42
created. Like we have to win definitively with Iran.
31:47
Yeah. I know you believe that too.
31:49
And I know that I think that'll happen in the very near future with more military
31:53
strikes that will be the way to make it happen.
31:55
But we are turning the corner. We are.
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And I think the economic numbers show we're turning a corner.
32:02
Like people's confidence is up.
32:05
Yeah. People are spending a crap load of money.
32:07
They're expecting like a trillion dollars worth of like delivery stuff.
32:12
this year, the post office is, I mean, the post office is doing well.
32:16
We are doing well in so many ways.
32:19
Yeah. But I don't hear it. I don't, I don't see that as at least part of the
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messaging. It's all negative. That's true.
32:27
That's true. And it's working. The other thing is that it's working because we,
32:31
we could be talking about races beyond Texas right now, where it is shocking that
32:35
people are in dogfights. It's shocking that some Republican politicians aren't
32:39
running away with, you know, certain wins in other parts of the country, places
32:43
where we've never really seen a struggle as significant as we're seeing it,
32:47
including in Texas. And so I think that part of it in this moment, as much as it
32:53
might sound weak to some, is accepting the reality of the situation we're
32:57
currently in, which is the message isn't winning over enough people anymore.
33:00
They're either not going to vote or they're not voting the right way.
33:04
Yeah, and we've really got to fix that.
33:06
And look, I know Republicans are going to try it out on election day and they'll
33:09
be all day. I'll be there. The hand -wringing will be for naught.
33:12
But I think we also have to save people in place for a long time and people get
33:18
tired of anybody. That's true. They do.
33:20
All right, we've got to take a break.
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A lot more. A little segment left.
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One last segment left in the Voice of Texas, KSEV and the Mob Guys.
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Back with you after this. KSEV radio.
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Voice of Texas, Wayne Dolcefino, Craig Coglianese, thrilled to be with you.
33:35
We are the mob guys. Let's get to Mike.
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Mike has called in. I think it's a different Mike than before.
33:40
What do you want to say?
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Well, I agree with what you said about Iran can't have a nuclear weapon.
33:47
And it has to be. And I agree with everybody on that.
33:51
I don't so much agree with the Strait of Hormuz.
33:54
It's not an issue. I'd say you're more of a European issue, but it does affect
33:58
our gas prices. But with that with that said, Diesel is like 650
34:04
a gallon in the Midwest and like Kansas, Ohio, other places.
34:09
And that's hurting farmers, hurting truck drivers.
34:12
These are Republican voters. They may just set it out, you know, and if they set
34:17
it out, we lose Kansas and we lose Iowa, the Senate is gone.
34:21
There'll be another, there won't be another federal judge appointed for the next
34:25
two years, the budget, the president will not get his defense budget.
34:31
It just won't happen. So there's - Let me talk about something with you, Mike, on
34:35
this. The logic of sitting it out.
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I actually want to discuss that because I know Wayne and I have talked about that
34:40
before, and I'm not saying that you yourself are saying you're going to sit it
34:44
out, but the people that do choosing to do that causes things to get worse, not
34:49
better because you're letting the side in that's going to make it even more
34:53
challenging. The left is not like oil and gas, not a fan.
34:58
So if they get back into power, like when Biden was in power, they will do things
35:02
to disrupt that industry before or after we get out of the fight with Iran.
35:07
So gas prices will not go down and they will not stay down during a democratic
35:11
rule. So if I was a truck driver, I would vote to protect the likelihood of
35:16
things going down in the future, as opposed to them staying up.
35:20
But I don't know if that's how everybody thinks.
35:23
Well, I've already voted. I voted to trade Republican.
35:26
But like I said, there's other people, these are blue collar type workers.
35:31
I'm not. I'm a white collar. And those type of workers live paycheck to
35:37
paycheck, most of them. And I think it's, you can see it in the polls.
35:44
Now you may disagree with me, but I think there's a real indication here.
35:49
we're going to lose the Senate and we shouldn't.
35:52
But it may happen. You know, it's too hard to flip the coin to be honest.
35:57
And if we lose the Senate, the administration, if we lose the Senate, the
36:03
administration, like I said, judges, the budget, the military spending to
36:07
continue with the wrong is dead.
36:09
Let's just be honest, it's dead.
36:11
Absolutely.
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Absolutely. That's all I want to say.
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Fair enough. Thank you, Mike. He's absolutely right.
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And that's why there's so much more on the ballot than whether or not you love
36:22
Donald Trump. Because Donald Trump is not on the ballot as much, but they
36:28
made it about Trump when it should be about ideas and the future.
36:34
Do you really want to go back to the people that raised your taxes, who voted
36:40
against tax cuts. Forget that the rich people got away, but regular folks
36:45
saved thousands because of that.
36:48
It would cost people thousands of dollars more a year if the
36:54
Democrats had won those votes. I don't understand,
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like I always go back to Harris County, I don't the life of me understand why
37:05
people are going to elect the people who just raised taxes 41
37:11
% in the last three years. Whose budget is up 41 %?
37:17
I don't understand it. I don't understand people voting against their own
37:22
financial self -interest. Sure, you're frustrated, but going back
37:28
to the people that help create the mess that you're trying to fix is just dumb
37:33
to. Right. Well, and going to people who are likely to make it worse, because the
37:37
thing is, if the left is claiming that if they were in power, we'd never be in a
37:41
fight with Iran, it does not mean our gas prices would just inherently be lower.
37:45
That's not how that works, because when Biden was in office, he literally
37:49
campaigned on going after that industry.
37:51
And then he did it for the first couple of years.
37:52
Executive orders and whatnot caused pain for oil and gas.
37:56
And what did they do? They stopped gaining as much, they stopped creating as much
38:00
product. And when they stop creating as much product, things get more expensive.
38:03
Now there's a restriction, a restraint on product that we don't even really use.
38:07
To Mike's point, this is a Europe problem more than an us problem, but it's
38:11
hurting us and hurting everybody.
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But it doesn't mean that it goes away because the other side takes over.
38:16
We've seen this movie before, and we've seen it very recently.
38:20
So that's, that's to your point with voting against your self interest.
38:24
There's literally people who are voting to make things financially harder on
38:27
themselves who think they're doing it for the opposite reason.
38:30
They think they're making it better and they're doing exactly the other thing.
38:34
Yeah, because they're more focused on whether Paxton's the perfect candidate than
38:38
what Paxton will do if he's in the Senate, right?
38:43
And, you know, that he will, I think we are going to be, we would be lockstep in
38:49
voting. Yes. And voting record matters.
38:53
And James Talarico is weird to me, but he seems like a friendly guy.
38:58
You see videos his team puts out.
39:01
He's always saying, hi, everybody.
39:02
Talking to little kids, doing all the politician kind of stuff.
39:06
He may be a better guy, like in terms of a nicer guy, whatever.
39:10
But he's wrong for what this state is about.
39:15
Yes, he is. I mean, just fundamentally wrong.
39:18
Right. And I know I've joked about him, you know, we called him names, whatever,
39:24
but folks need to get off their duff.
39:27
And you're not sending a message, you know, if Republicans, if the Cornyn people
39:33
stay you Right? And Talarico wins.
39:37
The cornered people are going to regret that vote because they need to stop
39:41
whining. Well, I want to say one other thing because I think we touched on it
39:44
during the show and we only have a few minutes left.
39:46
You were talking about political corruption in general and out of all the voices
39:50
in Houston to listen to when it comes to political corruption, Wayne Dolcefino is
39:53
probably one of the best ones because you've literally investigated a bunch of
39:56
this stuff yourself for years. I do wonder though if whatever the problems are
40:01
that could exist within the Trump administration, If there are people that are
40:05
paying themselves somehow money the same way the left did before, a lot of the
40:10
young people that I listen to that are on the right believe that allowing the
40:14
left to win an election is similar to waking up the right.
40:19
But I don't think that that's true.
40:20
I think that this has been going on for too long.
40:23
To them, it's their first or second election and they think, yeah, we're screwing
40:26
the side that should have won and somehow that's helping us.
40:29
But you're being an idiot because I don't think that goes away with anything
40:33
other than handcuffs I think people need to be arrested for the things they do
40:38
and people that Attempt to do them in the future need to have the fear of being
40:41
arrested for that system to actually change Well, look, I know that the Justice
40:46
Department is actively investigating Corey Lewandowski and all the DHS contracts
40:51
Whether or not he was a boyfriend or not because you know, who okay Yeah.
40:56
But the Trump administration is investigating people that
41:02
were crooked. Yes. Now, whether the president makes a lot of stock trades or as
41:07
people do is, to me, less important because he's investing in a lot of the same
41:12
companies that every American invested.
41:14
Well, he was rich before. Yeah, very.
41:18
A little more than you. Yeah, a little more than me.
41:20
Yeah, he was rich before. To be honest, Trump specifically is not someone that
41:23
worries me as to how much richer he got because he didn't become rich because of
41:27
politics. It's the people like AOC that go into the office with nothing that now
41:33
are worth millions of dollars and you think to yourself how did that happen?
41:36
How did that person become worth that much money?
41:38
That's more confusing than someone who seems to have made it on their own.
41:42
Did you see Yolanda Omar was out, did some ad where she was begging people for
41:46
like five and ten bucks? I guess the Somalian thing is coming to an end.
41:50
The Somalian... Well, she's gonna need some court money.
41:53
She's gonna need some lawyer money.
41:54
I think she already has criminal lawyers Yeah, it was she's sure she does I'm
41:58
sure she does and she's she's paying a bunch of money to them because I think
42:01
that's gonna get very messy for her very soon, but if the Dems take the Senate, I
42:05
think one of my biggest fears is Is the two years of impeachment stuff because
42:11
they will impeach the president sure they will impeach the defense secretary Yes,
42:14
they'll vote straight. They'll all vote the same way, right?
42:18
and I think that we'll have two years of just bitterness, ugliness, nastiness,
42:24
and you know, Trump's going to be a lame duck after this election.
42:29
One way. No, he will be. I mean, when, when, when there's no election anymore and
42:34
you're not on the ballot, they're going to make Trump.
42:37
Sure. Right. They're going to say the next person is another Trump and you got to
42:41
figure out our next play. Sure.
42:43
I agree with that. If that, I'm saying the will be is maybe we can still win the
42:47
Senate. Part of me still, I'm not accepting fully that It's over.
42:51
I'm not either. And I'm not trying to be a downer at all.
42:55
I'm just saying that the consequences of it are terrible.
43:00
Would have a lot of really bad effects.
43:03
And I think judges, Mike is right.
43:05
Judges is one of them. And honestly, part of the whole reason that we talk about
43:08
this topic as often as we both do is because we hopefully motivate the people
43:11
that are afraid of this stuff to go out and vote and stop it.
43:14
Because that's what we need to do.
43:15
Go out and vote and stop it. We'll end every show this week with that simple
43:18
message. All right, that's it. Yeah, go vote.
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This is the mob guys. He's Wayne D 'Alchifino.
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I'm Craig Coglianese the voice of taxes.
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See you tomorrow