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Ken Paxton on Fox, the Alaska Ballot Probe and Whataburger · KSEV Mornings with Craig and Wayne

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  Speaker 1: And now.
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  Speaker 2: The mob guys creak on your knees.
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  Speaker 3: We are, in fact, the Mob Guys on KSV Radio.
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  Speaker 3: I saw that it popped up on my feed. It
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  Speaker 3: says Chris X Radio. That's funny. It has the date
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  Speaker 3: for yesterday and Chris X as the host of the show.
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  Speaker 3: It is the mob guys on any of the social
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  Speaker 3: media pages. If you go find it on X on YouTube,
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  Speaker 3: I'll fix it after the show. It's not a big deal. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: this is something that I don't know if I can
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  Speaker 3: fix it now. Um, but we can fix it at
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  Speaker 3: the end. Uh, so it's not Chris, uh, if you're
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  Speaker 3: seeing that, but that's, it's okay. Uh, maybe I'll do
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  Speaker 3: more Chris X. Uh, what's that? It's on, uh, X, uh, specifically.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's just the title on our, uh, social
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  Speaker 3: media stuff. I think we forgot to change it for rumble, uh, today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It still says Chris X in there. So that, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: maybe you didn't hit save on that. That's okay, buddy.
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  Speaker 3: It's not a big deal. What's funny to me is
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  Speaker 3: maybe I should embody Chris X a little bit in
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  Speaker 3: the second hour of the show and talk about, like,
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  Speaker 3: hamburgers for a little. I can do that if you want.
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  Speaker 3: We can do a hamburger chat at some point in
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  Speaker 3: the show.
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  Speaker 4: That's strange because, you know, when I... When I do
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  Speaker 4: that in the mornings when I set that up, it
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  Speaker 4: won't let me save it unless you actually change something.
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  Speaker 3: Right. Yeah, that's true. The save button doesn't even pop
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  Speaker 3: up unless you try to change that.
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  Speaker 4: So I changed it and saved it. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: why that happened.
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  Speaker 3: That's okay. It's funny. Part of me is tempted to
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  Speaker 3: do a Chris X thing at some point later on
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  Speaker 3: in the show, which I think would be food related.
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  Speaker 3: I can complain about the prices of Taco Bell, which
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  Speaker 3: he's done a lot. And I agree with him, by
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  Speaker 3: the way, on that. Taco Bell prices are ridiculous. They
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  Speaker 3: need to be lower. It's very disappointing to go into
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  Speaker 3: that place and to pay so much money for Taco
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  Speaker 3: Bell or hamburgers. I think that he did a burger chat.
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  Speaker 3: I think I even did a burger chat in the
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  Speaker 3: in the evening show I did one time that I
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  Speaker 3: heard he might have reacted to. And here I'll just
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  Speaker 3: do this. We'll talk about this in the air real quick.
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  Speaker 3: What's the best burger place in Houston? The best one, Russell.
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  Speaker 3: And you don't just say what a burger.
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  Speaker 4: Sam's Deli Diner.
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  Speaker 3: OK, Sam's Deli Diner.
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  Speaker 5: Why?
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  Speaker 4: Their burgers are just amazing. I mean, they're juicy. They're hot.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they're just good burgers. Okay. Right there on
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  Speaker 4: Kirkwood and I-10.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to go there literally probably on the way home.
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  Speaker 3: I think I'm going to go there. I want to
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  Speaker 3: ask you again for a different layer, though, because there's
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  Speaker 3: two types of burger to get in town. There's a
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  Speaker 3: fancy one that you might actually sit down at a place.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't even have to be like a fancy restaurant,
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  Speaker 3: but it's not going to be a drive-thru. And then
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  Speaker 3: there's the drive-thru version of the best burger in town.
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  Speaker 3: What's the best drive-thru?
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  Speaker 4: Whataburger. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: That's not true, man. It's not.
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  Speaker 1: Who is?
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  Speaker 3: I think, even though I get told it's not a drive-thru,
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  Speaker 3: but I think you can drive through it. Beck's. Can't
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  Speaker 3: you drive through Beck's? I think you can. And if
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  Speaker 3: you can, they're better. That burger is just significantly better
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  Speaker 3: than the other burgers out there. I don't know. Like,
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  Speaker 3: what a burger's fine. You guys build it up so
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  Speaker 3: much here in Texas.
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  Speaker 4: Who did you say was the best fast food burger?
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  Speaker 3: Isn't it Beck's? Isn't the other burger joint?
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  Speaker 6: Beck's Prime?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Their burgers are good.
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  Speaker 3: You can drive through that so that it feels like it's,
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  Speaker 3: I think that when I said that on the air.
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  Speaker 4: They're so overpriced. You're talking about overpriced. They're overpriced. That's
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  Speaker 4: why I can't go there. I mean, they're not an
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  Speaker 4: affordable burger. I can get a better deal at Whataburger.
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  Speaker 3: That's true. But you guys build Whataburger up so much
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  Speaker 3: that I think it can't live up to it. You
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  Speaker 3: know what I mean? Like In-N-Out's not good. I know
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  Speaker 3: we have an In-N-Out somewhere.
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  Speaker 4: There's one out in Katy. I don't get all that.
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  Speaker 3: It's not good.
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  Speaker 4: It's not.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Whataburger is better than In-N-Out. But Whataburger isn't. Is there
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  Speaker 3: a special thing to get at Whataburger that maybe I
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  Speaker 3: haven't tried yet?
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 3: Because I just get like the regular stuff.
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Fine.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's a nostalgia thing for you guys. Like
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  Speaker 3: it's not bad. And if they're an advertiser at some
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  Speaker 3: point of the show, I'll tell you that it's the
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  Speaker 3: best burger in town. But defend it to me. I'm
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  Speaker 3: being very un-Texan right now, very un-Houston. And I would
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  Speaker 3: love for people to call in and defend Whataburger and
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  Speaker 3: tell me what about it makes it so special. because
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't really feel special when I'm consuming it. I
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  Speaker 3: get that Bucky's is special. You know, like when you
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  Speaker 3: walk into that place, like the entire atmosphere of it,
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  Speaker 3: everything about it. I actually enjoy to get gas now
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  Speaker 3: when I'm on the road because of Bucky's. But I'll
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  Speaker 3: tell you that every time I've been to Whataburger, I've
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  Speaker 3: eaten and I've been like, this is fine. This is
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  Speaker 3: this is OK. I'm breaking bad on Whataburger on the
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  Speaker 3: show there. That was my Chris X segment. And not
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  Speaker 3: that I have Chris X's beliefs. I probably don't at all.
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  Speaker 3: He probably very much loves Whataburger, but I assume this
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  Speaker 3: is the kind of thing that would hit his show.
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  Speaker 3: I want to play this. This is President Trump talking
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  Speaker 3: about Melania, talking about driving up to the White House
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  Speaker 3: after all the campaigning he's been doing. And I just
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  Speaker 3: think this is very human. I don't think there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of politicians that tell this story on a stage, well,
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  Speaker 3: you know, holding a rally. I think this is the
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  Speaker 3: kind of story that you might tell in a sit-down
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  Speaker 3: interview a little more often. You'd hear it from politicians. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: I've been working so hard to Like you hear that
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  Speaker 3: on The Tonight Show as a softball question. But Trump
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  Speaker 3: adds it himself. And then no one covers it, really,
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  Speaker 3: because they don't want you to think of him as
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  Speaker 3: human at all. But here, let's go ahead and play this.
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  Speaker 2: I left.
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  Speaker 5: I left.
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  Speaker 4: Where did I leave? Mississippi.
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  Speaker 2: And I was coming home very late. I got home
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  Speaker 2: very late. I've been getting home late every single night.
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  Speaker 2: My wife thinks I'm crazy.
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  Speaker 8: And.
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  Speaker 2: We were riding up that drive, and the lights were on.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the lights were different colors before. They'd have
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  Speaker 2: a light one, a little darker one, another light one,
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  Speaker 2: now one that was broken. Terrible. And now they're magnificent light,
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  Speaker 2: all the best you can get. The exterior lighting is
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  Speaker 2: so beautiful. And I was driving up, and I said,
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  Speaker 2: does that look beautiful? So I just say that... You know,
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  Speaker 2: I do it out of my back pocket. I fix
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  Speaker 2: it and I do it naturally. In fact, for me,
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  Speaker 2: it relaxed for some people. That kind of thing is,
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  Speaker 2: you know, traumatizing.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's hilarious. And I think that it's funny
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  Speaker 3: that he says out of his back pocket, you fix
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  Speaker 3: the lights at the White House. But no, he's saying
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  Speaker 3: that he has been on the campaign trail a lot
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  Speaker 3: and his wife thinks he's insane. Melania, that he would
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  Speaker 3: do this much campaigning while also being the president of
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  Speaker 3: the United States.
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  Speaker 5: And.
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  Speaker 3: There is a belief. I know that I think JD
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  Speaker 3: Vance is in town today, somewhere in Houston or somewhere
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  Speaker 3: in Texas, excuse me. Uh, and they're, they're both hitting
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  Speaker 3: Texas hard, harder than probably, uh, politicians usually have to, uh, state, um,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a state that can usually handle itself where
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  Speaker 3: we're calling in a lot of reinforcements to try to
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  Speaker 3: get over the hump and actually win this thing. And I,
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  Speaker 3: I think that that's interesting that you say that and
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  Speaker 3: you behave that way and that that won't get covered anywhere. Um, uh, Okay.
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  Speaker 3: All right. That's fine. Thank you. We figured that out.
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  Speaker 3: Wayne Del Cefino is scheduling guests and texting me about
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  Speaker 3: guests getting scheduled. I think we'll have Mays Middleton on
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  Speaker 3: tomorrow on the show at 8 o'clock, which is a big,
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  Speaker 3: big guest. We'll have Maga Mays Middleton calling into the
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  Speaker 3: radio show tomorrow at 8. My cousin is at 8.15, E.J. Antoni.
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  Speaker 3: He's also someone I'm related to. He is a financial
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  Speaker 3: expert from the Heritage Foundation. So a couple of big
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  Speaker 3: guests tomorrow. Let's do this. I have another thing that
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  Speaker 3: I want to play as far as audio goes. I
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  Speaker 3: love the multiple different things happening all at the same
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  Speaker 3: time here and me seeing it. I'm actually really excited
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  Speaker 3: to talk to Mays, too, because I think that it
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  Speaker 3: would be really, really hard and it will be really,
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  Speaker 3: really hard to step into the shoes of a Ken
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  Speaker 3: Paxton in that role and be well-liked and succeed in
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  Speaker 3: And I think Mays is going to do it. I
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  Speaker 3: think Mays not only will win, but I think he's
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  Speaker 3: got a significant shot at being the exact same type
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  Speaker 3: of attorney general who goes after all the things that
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  Speaker 3: other people in other states are afraid to go after.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Let's play this audio. There's a couple of things out
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  Speaker 3: there that I think are interesting. The Justice Department has
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  Speaker 3: been carrying out aggressive criminal investigations into Dan Sullivan, the
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  Speaker 3: guy that you heard President Trump talking about a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Here's a little bit of breaking news from Fox News
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  Speaker 3: from earlier this I think this was this morning, although
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  Speaker 3: maybe it was late last night.
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  Speaker 9: New angle to the tightly contested Senate race in Alaska.
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  Speaker 9: New York Times reporting aides to Democratic candidate Mary Peltola
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  Speaker 9: were part of a campaign to recruit so-called spoiler candidates
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  Speaker 9: against incumbent Dan Sullivan, including a man with virtually the
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  Speaker 9: same name that made it onto the ballot. Peltola campaign
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  Speaker 9: has denied involvement, but this is developing at this hour.
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  Speaker 9: Chief Washington correspondent Mike Emanuel has details tonight as it's breaking.
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  Speaker 9: Good evening, Mike.
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  Speaker 3: Brett, good evening.
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  Speaker 5: Fox News has learned from two sources familiar there is
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  Speaker 5: an aggressive criminal investigation into a ballot controversy in Alaska.
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  Speaker 5: Multiple grand jury subpoenas are expected to be issued in
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  Speaker 5: the coming days. That probe has been underway for several months,
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  Speaker 5: but has intensified since today's explosive New York Times report.
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  Speaker 5: The Justice Department has declined to comment. The New York
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  Speaker 5: Times reports operatives aligned with Mary Peltola, the Democratic nominee
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  Speaker 5: for Senate, spent months recruiting candidates to peel votes from
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  Speaker 5: Republican incumbent Senator Dan Sullivan. It says in the summer
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  Speaker 5: of last year, a staffer for Peltola received instruction from
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  Speaker 5: top campaign aides to find as many people named Dan
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  Speaker 5: Sullivan in Alaska as possible.
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  Speaker 4: Dan S.
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  Speaker 5: Sullivan is the name of the state's incumbent GOP senator.
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  Speaker 5: And the Times says the Peltola campaign or its allies
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  Speaker 5: were trying to find and convince another Dan Sullivan to run.
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  Speaker 5: So confusion could cost the senator critical votes.
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  Speaker 3: That's crazy. This is the kind of stuff that I'll
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  Speaker 3: be honest, when your family member tells you this is
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  Speaker 3: going on, You doubt them. Like, I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: that's actually really happening. And then you hear it there
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  Speaker 3: and you hear it via an investigation. You hear staff
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  Speaker 3: members that apparently they have information on who were told
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  Speaker 3: to do these things. And immediately you go, OK, no,
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  Speaker 3: this is real. This is the thing where you thought
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  Speaker 3: your uncle was crazy and he's actually the sanest person
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  Speaker 3: in the room. This is the same as COVID. And
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  Speaker 3: I was probably one of those uncles in the room
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  Speaker 3: saying that stuff about how terrible this was, how horrible
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  Speaker 3: that was. And people looked at you and they thought, man,
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  Speaker 3: he's the conspiracy theorist. And you just wait a few months,
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  Speaker 3: and the conspiracy theorist turns out to be right a
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  Speaker 3: whole lot on a lot of this stuff. All right,
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  Speaker 3: we'll take another break. A lot coming up in a bit.
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  Speaker 3: Maggie Mae's Middleton will be with us tomorrow at 8 o'clock.
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  Speaker 3: That's cool.
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  Speaker 4: E.J.
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  Speaker 3: And Tony at 8.15. A big show tomorrow. And the
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  Speaker 3: Amigos will be at the Wings Over Houston tomorrow afternoon,
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  Speaker 3: so definitely check that out. Quick break. A lot more.
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  Speaker 3: The Mob Guys on 700 AM, Voice of Texas. KSEV Radio.
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  Speaker 3: I want to play this. This is a stunning admission,
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  Speaker 3: at least that's how it's described online, and I think
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  Speaker 3: that's true, from a court case going on in California
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  Speaker 3: where you have someone flatly admitting a California defense attorney
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  Speaker 3: that we're not going to stop counting illegal votes, that
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  Speaker 3: we love illegal votes here in California and we we'd
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  Speaker 3: like as many of them as we can get. That
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  Speaker 3: might not be exactly the way that they said it,
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  Speaker 3: but it's essentially is a sentiment. And if you think
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  Speaker 3: that it's important or if you don't, if you're not
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  Speaker 3: sure if it's important to make sure that, say, Republicans
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  Speaker 3: control the Senate, that we do a lot of things
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  Speaker 3: to continue to have the correct amount of influence on
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  Speaker 3: our court system. You'd be wrong if you think that
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  Speaker 3: that's not important, if you think that you can just
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  Speaker 3: sit this one out. And who cares? It doesn't matter
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  Speaker 3: what judges get into what spots. This is a pretty
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  Speaker 3: great example of someone heavily disagreeing with you and me
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  Speaker 3: and everybody. Like the thing is, I think two thirds
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  Speaker 3: of Democrats say that voter ID makes sense and we
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  Speaker 3: shouldn't have people who are here illegally voting in our elections. California,
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  Speaker 3: not so much.
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  Speaker 10: You would agree that if there is an illegal citizen,
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  Speaker 10: I mean, a non-citizen that votes and we don't stop
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  Speaker 10: it now, that that vote, that ballot will then be counted, correct?
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  Speaker 3: That's absolutely correct. That's absolutely correct.
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  Speaker 11: We're just going to get votes from people who have
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  Speaker 11: no right to vote.
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  Speaker 3: Go after it, Fox.
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  Speaker 12: It's a stunning admission. And right there, that clip explains
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  Speaker 12: why we're in an emergency posture. We asked the judge
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  Speaker 12: to rule yesterday. We expect something today. Regardless of what's issued,
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  Speaker 12: this is going to go back up in an emergency
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  Speaker 12: posture on appeal quickly to the Ninth Circuit. And depending
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  Speaker 12: on the Solicitor General's views, it could go up to
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  Speaker 12: the Supreme Court shortly after that. So we're moving.
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  Speaker 3: Think about this, by the way. Because of California and
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  Speaker 3: the way that it's so very much not Texas, you
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  Speaker 3: actually would have to take a case to the Supreme
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  Speaker 3: Court to make sure that someone who votes in an
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  Speaker 3: election that doesn't have any right to be in this country,
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  Speaker 3: a much less vote in an election, isn't going to
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  Speaker 3: be counted. Like the only way to actually stop that
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  Speaker 3: process is to take it all the way to a
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  Speaker 3: Supreme Court because of the people in positions of power
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  Speaker 3: in California and how important it is to make sure
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  Speaker 3: that we prevent as much of this as humanly possible
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  Speaker 3: and don't open the door. For some of these sort
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  Speaker 3: of appointments to happen here in Texas. I just think
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  Speaker 3: it's crazy that this is I want to play it
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  Speaker 3: again because it's just so silly. And I know it's
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  Speaker 3: such a short clip. And I know that the other
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  Speaker 3: attorney or the other lawyer on this goes on to
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  Speaker 3: say there are ways that we would eventually stop it.
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  Speaker 3: But it's probably going to count because the other part
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  Speaker 3: is lip service and crap. You should pretty much be
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  Speaker 3: stopping people from voting in the first place. So you
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  Speaker 3: don't whoops a daisy accidentally count their vote. when you
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  Speaker 3: decide you need it to win an election.
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  Speaker 10: You would agree that if there is an illegal citizen,
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  Speaker 10: I mean, a non-citizen that votes and we don't stop
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  Speaker 10: it now, that that vote, that ballot will then be counted, correct?
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  Speaker 3: That's absolutely correct. It's crazy to hear him be like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's fine. It'll be good. We love to secure our elections,
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  Speaker 3: just not in California or in any of the places
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  Speaker 3: where you assume the vote is going to go one way. Honestly,
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  Speaker 3: like this stuff is important. I got a message from
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  Speaker 3: a listener on social media yesterday after the show saying
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  Speaker 3: how important it was to talk about the appointments that
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  Speaker 3: get made to the courts and how Wayne was right
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  Speaker 3: on and some of what he was saying yesterday about
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  Speaker 3: certain courts here in Texas that even do some pretty horrible,
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  Speaker 3: terrible things and how we need to do everything we
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: can to stop that. And the system that's in place
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: that will do the best to prevent that. involves control
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: of the Senate at a federal level or just honestly
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: control of as many things as humanly possible. There's one
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: other piece of audio I do want to play. I
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: do kind of like this. This is Katie Zachariah, the
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: person who was a White House press secretary for most
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: of a week. I didn't make it a lot longer
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: than that. She popped up on Newsmax and she was
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: talking to how ridiculous media is. And how, you know,
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: crazy everything was. I think this is pretty funny, though.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: And I think this is pretty good because Katie didn't
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: look great. And she wound up losing her job partially
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: because the struggle was real. However, I do think there
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: was a sort of obsession with it that feels much
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: more jarring and much more tied to someone that's not
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: a person trying to be White House press secretary and
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: the administration itself. Like, you do need a unique skill set.
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: to be the White House press secretary for President Trump
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: compared to, say, a Biden and how much of a
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: moron he was. And we had terrible press secretaries then,
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: and media didn't care.
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: But here we go.
• 16:35
  Speaker 11: Listen, the media does not like outsiders, and Washington, D.C.
• 16:39
  Speaker 8: Does not like outsiders.
• 16:40
  Speaker 11: And what I would briefly say is that the media—
• 16:44
  Speaker 11: and all of Washington made it very difficult for me
• 16:47
  Speaker 11: to do the job I set out to do, Rob,
• 16:49
  Speaker 11: which is to amplify the wins and historic record setting
• 16:54
  Speaker 11: precedent that President Trump has set, especially ahead of the
• 16:57
  Speaker 11: most consequential midterms. They would not let me do my job,
• 17:01
  Speaker 11: which was to focus on him and focus on what
• 17:03
  Speaker 11: he's doing to win.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I do agree with her a little bit that
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: there was this obsession. And I don't know if you've
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: ever like coached kids sports. I think this is a
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: good analogy for it. If a kid gets in his
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: mind that he's not going to be good, like if
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: maybe he made a mistake, maybe he does an error
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: on the field or something, and he comes back to
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: the dugout after the inning, and you can just tell
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: he's mentally impacted by it. If you do anything as
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: a person to enhance that mental block, which is what
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: all media was doing to Katie Zachariah, who's an adult woman,
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: I know. But they were doing everything they could to
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: get further into her brain and make her doubt herself more.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: You'll see someone go out on the field and make
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: another mistake. And this could be one of your best players,
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: but they'll suddenly struggle if the mentality gets them quickly.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: And you see it very easily, I think, in kids.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: And so you do the exact opposite. You tell a
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: kid who just made a mistake in any kind of sport,
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: they missed a tackle, I don't know what they did,
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: that they'll get it next time. That is fine. That
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: everything's okay. That's not a big deal. It doesn't matter.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: And you watch the change, I think, in a person's
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: eyes and a change in their mentality. And they go
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: out and they play exactly like you think they would.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: Media was obsessed with making Katie Zachariah believe she couldn't
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: do the job. And she probably couldn't, if I'm being honest.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: I'm going to go a step further. Like, it wasn't great,
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: but it would have got better. I do believe it
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: would have gotten better and it would have probably gotten
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: better quicker. It's just the media's obsession. Actually, I'll compare
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: it to another sports thing. New York City. They say anybody,
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: any athlete that gets to New York is going to
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: be ripped apart by media. And they can't handle it.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: And to be honest, it's kind of true. As a
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: Yankee fan, I've watched professional athletes that are very good
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: players for other teams in other places go to New
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: York and crumble and just not be capable. And then
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: you get booed on the field by your own fans
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: and you get pretty mad about that and you complain
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: about it. That's happened for the Mets too. And I
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: think that's pretty interesting that at that level, that much
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: success your whole life, the brain can still wind up
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: affecting you. And it can still wind up being a
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: thing that causes you to be incapable of doing what
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: you can do. You know, like that doubt can creep
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: in because people kind of force it in there. And
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: you've got to find a way to get rid of
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: it on your own. And I don't know. I mean,
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: I didn't plan on talking very much about Katie Zachariah
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: ever again on this show. But she does the Newsmax
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: interview and she says how hard her job got after
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: day one because of media wanting to attack her for it.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: And it's because they hate Trump. It's not that they
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: hate her, some blonde lady that they think is– given
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: a job because she's not terrible looking. I don't know
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: what it was that they hated so much about her,
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: but they really, truly hated who he was and who
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: he is and how they attack anyone in the orbit
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: of Trump. And they're doing that right now. I'll tell
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: you one last thing about this before we take another break.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: I've seen a lot of media, even conservative media, somewhat
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: happily describe Trump being less popular now than he was
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: when he got elected. Like there's people that say, oh,
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: Trump is He's so deeply unpopular. He's unpopular in Texas.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: He's unpopular everywhere. And they say it with a smile.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: And it's kind of weird to hear some of these
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: people do this in some of these media places because
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: they also have to pretend, at least some of them,
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: that they're not as biased as they obviously are, that
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: they're not as thrilled by that information as they want
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: to be. And honestly, whether or not it's even true.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of people I know who still like
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: the ideas and the things that Trump does. And for
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: that reason, they still like Trump. Whether they like everything
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: he says all the time, I don't think they liked
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: that before. I think there were a lot of people
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: who voted for Trump that thought he was not the
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: best deliverer of information that voted for him a second
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: time and a third time that, you know, I think
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: have long before accepted that. I don't think that's the
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: wedge that they claim it is to drive in between
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: the administration or the campaign and, you know, everything going
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: on in the midterm elections. I do think Trump might
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: get a lot of candidates over the hump. And help
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: them actually win races, which media would want you to
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: think is impossible because he's so deeply unpopular. I will
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: take another break. I will come back. We'll talk a
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: little bit more about maybe some of the turnout in
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: this county, in this community, in this state, because it
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: is significant. And I did vote yesterday. I early voted
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: and I never do that. And when I put it
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: up on my own social media page, one of my
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: followers said, you got to fight fire with fire. If
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: they're doing it, we got to do it. So I
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: guess that's fine. So look up a place to vote
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: and vote as soon as possible to make sure your
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: voice is heard. Quick break. A lot more. 700 a.m.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: The Mob Guys, the voice of Texas. It's the voice
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: of Texas, 700 AM, the mob guys. Thrilled to be
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: with you. We have phone calls, it looks like, at
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: least one or two. So we can get to those
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: in a second. I feel like I'm making Russell do
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: two things at once because I know he's currently on
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: the phone. I see Bart has called in. Bart wants
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: to talk about Medicaid for all, which is a thing
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: that the left loves to talk about. The left loves
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: to try to sell us a Medicaid for all. Bart,
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: what did you want to say about this topic?
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: Well, first of all, it's not Medicaid. It's Medicare.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: Excuse me. Medicare for all.
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: Sorry.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Go ahead.
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: Yeah, my father just passed away last month up in
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: New York. He was 96, and he went to the
• 22:23
  Speaker 7: doctors almost every month, and he had no problem getting care.
• 22:28
  Speaker 11: I'm in the.
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: Emergency room in Rochester, which is west on the other
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: side of Lake Ontario from Canada. The emergency room is
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: filled with people over 70 years old. They come down
• 22:38
  Speaker 7: from Canada because they can't even see a doctor up there.
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: They get put on waiting lists for two or three
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: years for things like knee replacements and hip replacements. It's ridiculous.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: It is ridiculous. And the president has weighed in on
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: this a bunch of times recently because this is one
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: of the things that is absolutely a part of the
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: Democratic campaign is that everybody should get Medicare and that,
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: you know, it's great and it'll be cheap and it'll
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: work wonderfully. And the big problem with that, the socialized
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: medicine problem with that is everything you just said. When
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: everything is one pay system, when the doctors don't like
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: it anymore because they can't make anywhere near the money
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: they used to make, they're not as happy, the patients
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: aren't as happy because we can't get services that we want.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: Like the whole system crumbles even more than it's already broken.
• 23:23
  Speaker 7: What's really bothering me is that this is really a
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: situation that should be held in the House and the Senate.
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: But our people, what you're talking about, the turnout, a
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: lot of people, they've made the election all about turnout.
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: in the Senate, like Cornyn or our Dan Crenshaw, I'm
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: in District 2 here, people really are turned off by
• 23:47
  Speaker 7: these people who have done nothing to help Trump in
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: the House and the Senate, the Republicans. And I think
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: that's turned a lot of people off. If I ask
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: you who's in run for District 2, I'll bet you
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: couldn't tell me.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: No, I can't.
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: They don't even advertise. It's like they're embarrassed because everything
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: they got done was done by executive order by Trump.
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: And I called in earlier and hung up because you
• 24:12
  Speaker 7: just seemed to be all over the place with baseball
• 24:15
  Speaker 7: salary caps and handlers and whatever.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: I was talking about that. Hey, wait. I want to
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: be clear about something. Do you mean the congressional race
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: for District 2? Is that what you meant or something else?
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: Correct.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: Oh, well, we had Steve on the show. I thought
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: you meant more of a local race. Yeah, I'm not
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: talking about... We had Steve on the show, Bart. I definitely... No,
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: I don't hear his advertisements. Who's he running against? Okay,
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: who's Steve Toth running against? I don't care, but his
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: name is Sean. Sean Finney.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: Sean Finney, right.
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: Do you hear his advertisements?
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: No, I don't, but again, I want to go back
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: for just a second because Steve Toth is one of
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: the guys that I like more than most people. I
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: thought you... At first, I disregarded what you said because
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: I thought you were talking about a local race. Like
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: in Harris County that I wouldn't know the answer to.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: But no, the congressional race for District 2, Steve is awesome.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: And he's one of those people who says what he thinks,
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: behaves the way he thinks, and, you know, he's fairly
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: unapologetic in... how he speaks, and I love that about
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: that guy.
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I like Steve Pope. I voted for him as
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: my state senator up here.
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: Sure.
• 25:19
  Speaker 7: But I'm saying you don't hear the people advertising making
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: these races.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Maybe.
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: The campaign that made it all about Trump because he
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: said to do everything by executive order because the House
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: and the Senate, like Cornyn, haven't done anything.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: That's true. That's probably true. I think you're right about that.
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: They don't even advertise hardly.
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, that's true, partly because I think they thought
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: they were all going to win. I think that Texas,
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: we took it a little bit for granted. Republicans did,
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: and it's not going the way you want it to go,
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: at least right now, although hopefully a lot of these
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: racist people pull out and win. I think Steve's going
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: to win. Probably, but if I'm Steve Koth.
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: I'm saying, look at Medicare for All. Back eight years ago,
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: Joe Biden swore he would never stop. $ 40 trillion over
• 26:07
  Speaker 7: 10 years. It's going to cost even more now. But
• 26:11
  Speaker 7: you don't hear anybody pushing that.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, fair enough. Thank you very much for the call, Bart.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: I appreciate that. And I should have listened more carefully
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: when he asked who's running in the second district, what
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: he means. at a federal level for a congressional seat,
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: I am aware of Steve Toth because we had him
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: on the show and he's awesome. Again, I can't, I
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: couldn't advocate. Actually, out of all the politicians, I know
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: we're going to talk to Mays Middleton tomorrow. Out of
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: all the politicians we've talked to on this show or
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: other shows that I've done here and even other places,
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: like Steve is one of the guys I most liked
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: immediately because of just the way that he carries himself.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: And I think that people like that need to be
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: in positions of power because you can believe that that
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: what they say publicly is what they'll do privately because
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: they just don't have a filter. They just aren't performative
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: in the way that you don't want performance. Alan has
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: called in. Alan wants to talk about something. Alan, what
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: do you want to say?
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: Oh, yes.
• 27:04
  Speaker 8: I want to be an independent observer of the Trump administration. Okay.
• 27:11
  Speaker 8: And I don't see anything but positive. The gas price,
• 27:17
  Speaker 8: If you remember 2022, the gas jumped all the way
• 27:22
  Speaker 8: up above $ 4 in Texas. Nobody talked about that for
• 27:27
  Speaker 8: half a year. That's number one. Number two, quantitative easing
• 27:35
  Speaker 8: has been going on for the past 20 years, and
• 27:39
  Speaker 8: it's caused our debt to spiral up to $ 40 trillion
• 27:43
  Speaker 8: right now, the debt. So how do you attack that?
• 27:50
  Speaker 8: You attack it both front fraud, which is he's doing
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: right now.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: He is. They don't get they don't give they don't
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: give this administration enough credit publicly for the amount of
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: fraud they're uncovering.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: Continue.
• 28:02
  Speaker 8: So you attack your spending by attacking fraud. We spend
• 28:05
  Speaker 8: things that we don't get.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: Number one. The other side, you attack the economy. How
• 28:11
  Speaker 8: do you grow it? We've been managing decline for the
• 28:15
  Speaker 8: past 30 years in the United States, just like Europe
• 28:19
  Speaker 8: has been. And he's trying to create a new economy.
• 28:23
  Speaker 8: Nobody listens to his staff, his administrative representative, you know,
• 28:31
  Speaker 8: Howard Lutnick, Gubbio. You know, everybody's talking about that. Nobody
• 28:38
  Speaker 8: see it. The economy is booming right now, but he
• 28:41
  Speaker 8: can't do it by himself. He needs support from the
• 28:44
  Speaker 8: from the Congress. That's what we're here for. I don't
• 28:47
  Speaker 8: care about the rhetoric, all of that. You know, I
• 28:50
  Speaker 8: only look at people, what they do, you know, the policy.
• 28:54
  Speaker 8: It is we are we are trying. He's trying to
• 28:57
  Speaker 8: fix it. the problem that has been going on for.
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: The past 40 years.
• 29:01
  Speaker 8: Nobody's paying attention.
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: And thank you. Thank you very much for the call, Alan,
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: because it's only going to get worse if those people
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: in those positions that make those decisions make it worse.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: And if they let runaway spending continue to be a
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: thing and they let fraud continue to just be, yeah,
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: that's probably happening, but what are we going to do
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: about it? Because there are a lot of politicians that
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: are not President Trump and not this administration that would
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: tell you that fraud is an acceptable component of to
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: how the government does anything. That they're like, yeah, we're
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: gonna create this thing and it's probably gonna be something
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: that people can take advantage of, but it's fine because
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: we promise we're helping somebody. And truthfully, we just really
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: don't care. The other thing, we'll probably have our own
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: hands in the cookie jar too, even more so. We
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: want to create the opportunity for fraud so we can
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: get in on some. All of those seem like realities
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: that this administration is not accepting. And that for that reason,
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: we hear about fraud and catching people and throwing people
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: in jail and recovering money We hear about that constantly.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: It has been something that J.D. Vance was specifically assigned,
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: by the way. And I don't know if that gets
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: as much credit. I know the president the other day
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: was asked if he would support J.D. Vance as the
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: presidential candidate in 2028. And President Trump, I think, very
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: wisely said, let's not go there yet. He said no.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: But what he meant was J.D. hasn't asked me to.
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: J.D.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: Hasn't said he's running. We're still in the midterm race
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: for a few more days. It's a little early to
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: get involved in that discussion. But if you're happy about
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: the amount of fraud that's been uncovered, you actually are
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: happy about something that very heavily involves J.D. Vance, just
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: as far as value of that goes. I want to
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: play another piece of audio, and then I know we've
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: got to take a break in a second. But I
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: thought this was interesting. Fox has been traveling through Texas.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: Steve Doocy has been all over the place. He showed
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: up at diner. And then one of the places he
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: showed up had Ken Paxton walk into it. And so
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: the crowd erupted when Ken showed up. This has got
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: to feel great if you're Ken Paxton, someone that you
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: hear all the time isn't as popular as he should
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: be as just like a guy. He's incredibly efficient as
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: a politician, but maybe he's not quite as good at
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: the handshake part of the gig is what they call it,
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: as other people are. But This looks like a dude
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: that's getting a whole lot of attention. He walked into
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: the right diner with a whole bunch of people wearing
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: like Abbott shirts and whatnot. But here, let's play this guy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that guy. Good morning to you.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for joining us today.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks for being here.
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  Speaker 3: You know, for people looking in and we just ran
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  Speaker 3: that poll right now, it is a toss up and
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: people are thinking, why is it a toss up?
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  Speaker 8: It's Texas. Midterm elections are always tough for the party
• 31:35
  Speaker 8: in power.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: And it's just been that way at it. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know what the explanation is, but it's typically been that
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: we went through a tough primary.
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  Speaker 10: Right.
• 31:42
  Speaker 8: But look, we're going to win this race. Texas is
• 31:44
  Speaker 8: not going to vote for a socialist.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: I like that one dude who was sitting like five
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: feet away from the interview as it's happening. He's like, hey, man,
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: we're not doing it. We're not voting for a socialist.
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: No one's putting Tallarico in power and letting him do
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: horrible things at a federal level and then claim he's
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: a representative of Texas and not California. By the way,
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: if you actually look at the numbers for the amount
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: of money donated to him by California, it's staggering. It's
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: like 20, 30 percent of the total money that's been
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: donated to his campaign comes from California or someone that
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: lives there. That's jarring. It might even be higher than
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: that if you count the super PAC people and where
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: they're actually, you know, who's actually in charge of those.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: But we can't let that happen here. Don't California my Texas.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: Keep my Texas Texas. Quick break. A lot more. This
• 32:32
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• 32:36
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• 32:53
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• 32:55
  Speaker 3: We're the Mob Guys. I am Craig Colonese. Wayne Dolcefino
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: is on special assignment. He will be back tomorrow. Bart,
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: when he called in earlier, referenced when I was talking
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: about burgers, which was a joke I made earlier in
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: the show because I was trying to do a Chris
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: X segment. That's the explanation. If you weren't listening before,
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: that's pretty much it. You can check the podcast for
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: the whole reason there. I just Googled this. This could
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: get me in trouble. I feel like if I say
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: the right thing about politics, Texas will like me a
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: little bit. If I say the wrong thing about Whataburger,
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: Texas might not like me at all. I feel like
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: I'm playing in a dangerous sandbox right now. I'm looking
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: at Russell shaking his head. I just Googled it. I
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: was just curious if anybody has had an opinion similar
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: to mine that Whataburger might be overrated a tad. And
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: apparently people have had this opinion before. I don't know
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: how many people live in Texas, but there's a bunch
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: of like Whataburger Review, the blind cult of Whataburger. I
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: don't think I'd like who wrote that for a lot
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: of reasons that have nothing to do with Whataburger and
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: probably a lot more to do with them being an
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: annoying liberal person. But Paper Magazine wrote about this. Some
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: people on Reddit have been complaining about this for years.
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: Unpopular opinion. Whataburger is overrated and unremarkable. I'm not saying that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going that far. I don't want to get
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: in that much trouble. But I think it got built
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: up a little bit in my brain before I moved
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: to Texas. Then you move here and like, how can
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: it live up to the thing you want it to be?
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: You want it to be, you know, life changing when
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: you bite into the cheeseburger and it's probably not. I
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: see Mike's called in about fraud. I will go ahead
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: and take a call from Mike real quick. Mike, what
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: do you want to say?
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  Speaker 6: Well, fraud is about 10% of the federal budget. When
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: you look at the cuts you can do, you're not
• 34:45
  Speaker 6: even going to get close to closing the deficit just
• 34:49
  Speaker 6: with fraud. Fraud's got to be a part of it, yes.
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: The main thing we've got to do is get a
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: handle on entitlement. We're going to have to slow the
• 34:56
  Speaker 6: growth of entitlement. Entitlements are the fastest category that's raising
• 35:02
  Speaker 6: the budget, and they contribute the most to the deficit.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: Do you have a plan for how we do that?
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: Well, we're going to have to retie Social Security increases
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: from the CPI to the PPI and slow it down
• 35:20
  Speaker 6: a little bit. Use the producer price index.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 35:23
  Speaker 6: Use the consumer price index.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: We're going to have to raise the retirement age of
• 35:28
  Speaker 6: people that are over 40 up to 68 probably from
• 35:32
  Speaker 6: 67 or 69. That's going to have to be done.
• 35:37
  Speaker 7: Sure.
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: We're going to have to– we're going to have to
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: go– we're going to have to go Including defense. We
• 35:43
  Speaker 6: can't afford a $ 500 million defense budget increase. We're going
• 35:47
  Speaker 6: to have to keep that at about $ 100 to $ 150 billion.
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: That's always the one that I want to knee-jerk and
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: say no to, by the way, because I know it's
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: a pretty popular one when people talk about entitlements to
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: say that defense spending is too high. And if you
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: talk to veterans, they'll tell you that, especially I've known
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: a lot of veterans who were deployed and fought, that
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: the waste that happens within our military is insane. Like
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: they'll watch money just get wasted. I remember I was
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: talking to a CB that was deployed in Desert Storm
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: that told me he could fix something. And he's like, oh,
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: this thing broke and I could fix it. And I
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: asked my commanding officer, I'm like, what can I do
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: about that? He goes, throw it out. We'll get another one.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: I'm like, no, man, I can fix this. And they're like, no,
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: you're not going to do that. So I know that
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: waste is excessive in the world of our military. So
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: I'd like to get a handle on that. But I
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: don't love the idea of pulling back defense spending anymore.
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: because of what that says to the world.
• 36:39
  Speaker 6: But the problem is we can't afford it. We are broke.
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: I know we're broke.
• 36:43
  Speaker 6: We're borrowing... We are borrowing money to pay for these things.
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: That's the bottom line.
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: We are.
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: And the most expensive thing about us borrowing money is
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: the cost of interest on the borrowed money.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: Correct.
• 36:55
  Speaker 6: You are right. You're absolutely right. We've got to get
• 36:57
  Speaker 6: a handle on it or else we're going to be
• 36:59
  Speaker 6: a third world nation in a matter of four or
• 37:01
  Speaker 6: five years.
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: I think that's a little extreme, but I do agree
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: with you that we need to get a handle on it.
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: I think fraud is a great place to start because
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: fraud is unquestionably something we should be preventing better than
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: we do, even if it is 3, 7, 10, whatever
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: percent you want to tie to it. And part of
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: the thing I'll say with you, say to that, is
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: it's hard to evaluate the percentage of our spending that
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: is fraud when they're trying to hide the fraud. You know,
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: like any data set that goes into, it's only really
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: this percent of what we're doing. It's flawed in thinking
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: that it actually knows that amount because then we wouldn't
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: have the fraud if we knew about it. I mean,
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: in Minnesota, for example, I don't think anybody really believed
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: that it was billions of dollars in fraud that it
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: wound up being until somebody caught them red-handed and proved
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: that it was as extreme as it was.
• 37:51
  Speaker 6: Well, I agree with what you said. Fraud is a
• 37:57
  Speaker 6: great place to start, and I'll close with this. Medicare
• 38:01
  Speaker 6: is estimated to have $ 80 to $ 100 million fraud per year.
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: You could take the fraud out of Medicare and never
• 38:09
  Speaker 6: touch anybody that's entitled to it.
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: Sure, sure.
• 38:14
  Speaker 6: And you could put that money... to extend the life
• 38:17
  Speaker 6: of it. And the thing, Social Security has fraud in it.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: It does.
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: There are people that are dead.
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: All the time.
• 38:24
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: Thank you. I got more calls, Mike, otherwise I wouldn't
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: cut you off. But thank you very much for calling
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: in and talking about that. And I appreciate it. And
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: I understand the position, too, that military spending in and
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: of itself is something that seems extreme and we simply
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: can't afford it. It's just always been something to me
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: that I wouldn't want to tell the rest of the world, like, oh,
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: I got to cut back on how much money I'm
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: spending on my military. Because we're the United States and
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: we need to be the United States from a military
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: standpoint to the rest of the world for a variety
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: of reasons. Like it's beneficial to be believed to be
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: the superpower of the superpowers. And I absolutely think we're that.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: Carlos has called in to jump in on the show, too. Carlos,
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: what do you want to say?
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: Good morning, Greg.
• 39:04
  Speaker 12: How are you?
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: Good.
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: How you doing, man?
• 39:06
  Speaker 13: I'm doing great, man. About the military, I do. I've
• 39:10
  Speaker 13: always thought, yes, they spend too much, but it's because
• 39:13
  Speaker 13: of what you said right now.
• 39:14
  Speaker 6: They always waste.
• 39:15
  Speaker 13: Anything that's government-related, there's always going to be too much waste. Look,
• 39:20
  Speaker 13: what breaks the cities, what's making every city in America.
• 39:22
  Speaker 6: Go broke, it's what?
• 39:23
  Speaker 13: The pension.
• 39:24
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 39:24
  Speaker 13: For the city workers, right?
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 39:27
  Speaker 13: They retire after 20 years. They can't collect the check.
• 39:30
  Speaker 13: They got to get rid of that or make it
• 39:31
  Speaker 13: at least 30 years because that's not, it's impossible to
• 39:35
  Speaker 13: keep going that way. And in the military, I think eventually, Greg,
• 39:38
  Speaker 13: it will go down once there's more technology and less
• 39:44
  Speaker 13: people in it.
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:45
  Speaker 13: I'm guessing eventually the wars are going to be fought by,
• 39:48
  Speaker 13: I don't know, robots or something. So there's going to
• 39:50
  Speaker 13: be less pensions to pay. And I think that would
• 39:52
  Speaker 13: definitely help.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: I feel I understand what you're saying with that, Carlos.
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: And I feel, you know, like I agree with a
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: lot of what you just said. But I actually think
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: that the reason for the overspending, it doesn't come from
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: the guys on the ground. I think it comes from
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: the people in the decision positions above them. And they're
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: just going to waste money on robots. Like we're going
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: to have drones that barely work or. you know, work
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: great and we'll just get rid of them for other drones.
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: Like we'll just do terrible decisions in a different way.
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: Because as I said, in my example, I know it's anecdotal.
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: My friend who's a CB that fought in Desert Storm,
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: they were throwing out stuff they could use because the
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: guys at the top of the chain were saying, we
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: don't we don't fix stuff. We just go get new stuff.
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: And so I do think that needs to change. And
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: I'm afraid of less people because there's going to be
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: less people like my friend trying to fix the thing.
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: and not have it just be thrown out and buy
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: a new one.
• 40:44
  Speaker 13: Yeah, but we know, Greg, that as long as it's
• 40:46
  Speaker 13: anything that the government pays for it, it's always going
• 40:49
  Speaker 13: to be taken advantage of, no matter what it is, healthcare, military.
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: You're right.
• 40:53
  Speaker 13: So I think the less people involved, maybe it'll be better.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: Now, go ahead. Finish your thought. I know I have
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: just a minute left, Carlos, but what do you got?
• 41:03
  Speaker 13: Like, look at the city of Houston. They're always complaining
• 41:05
  Speaker 13: that they're broken. The reason is that, oh, you're a cop.
• 41:07
  Speaker 13: 20 years later, you retire, you get a nice paycheck.
• 41:10
  Speaker 6: You're a firefighter. You're a clerk.
• 41:11
  Speaker 13: You get a paycheck.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 41:13
  Speaker 13: For the rest of your life, you start working there
• 41:15
  Speaker 13: when you're 20. By 40, you're getting a check to
• 41:17
  Speaker 13: the day you die. Another, what, 30 years?
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 41:20
  Speaker 13: That's insane.
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: That is.
• 41:21
  Speaker 13: Anything government-related has to be cut down, whether it be...
• 41:26
  Speaker 13: I'm going to give you an example, though.
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: Oh, we're out of time, Carlos. The music means we're
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: out of time. Yeah, call in again next time. We're
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: out of time. That's the end of the show. But
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: thank you very much, Carlos, for calling in. And I
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: agree with you, less government spending in general. is usually
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: going to wind up being a good thing for all
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: of us. All right, that's it. That's the show. We're
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: back tomorrow. Mays Middleton, Wayne Dolcefino will also be here,
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: of course. But Mays Middleton will be here, EJ and
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: Tony of the Heritage Foundation. Big show tomorrow. And one
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: more time, the Amigos are at Wings Over Houston tomorrow night.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: Check that out, too, on The Voice of Texas.