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8-27-26 KSEV Mornings with Craig and Wayne Hour 1 · KSEV Mornings with Craig and Wayne

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Speaker 1: Folks from houston and across the great state of texas
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Speaker 1: this is ksev mornings with craig collins and.
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Speaker 2: Anything at all.
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Speaker 3: No, it's crazy.
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Speaker 4: Welcome to the Thunderdome, people.
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Speaker 1: News, opinions, politics, and the stories that matter to Texans.
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Speaker 5: I shaved for this?
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Speaker 1: Here are your hosts, Craig Collins and Wayne Dolcefino.
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Speaker 5: Remember, everyone, just don't be yourselves.
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Speaker 1: On KSEV AM 700. The Voice of Texas.
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Speaker 6: Yes!
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Speaker 1: That's awesome!
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Speaker 7: Fuck!
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Speaker 8: And now Craig Collins and Wayne Dolcefino.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, Dana Lash. This is the Craig Collins show,
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Speaker 3: or actually it's, excuse me, the morning show with Craig
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Speaker 3: Collins and Wayne Dolcefino, although it's starting to feel like
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Speaker 3: the Craig Collins show because Wayne is out again on
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Speaker 3: special assignment. And I have a guest set up, the
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Speaker 3: chief economist at the Heritage Foundation, a fancy person that
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Speaker 3: you see on television all the time if you watch
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Speaker 3: Fox News.
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Speaker 7: E.J.
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Speaker 2: Antoni, welcome to the show.
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Speaker 9: Greg, it's great to be with you.
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Speaker 3: Thank you for waking up. I don't know if you
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Speaker 3: woke up early for me, actually, but I'm assuming you did.
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Speaker 3: So thank you for getting up early and doing this.
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Speaker 3: I want to immediately get to some of the things
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Speaker 3: that I'm most interested in. I know you've been talking
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Speaker 3: a lot about Canada, and I find that very fascinating, especially,
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Speaker 3: and you don't have to weigh in on this as
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Speaker 3: an economist, but the contemplating of changing Lake Ontario to
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Speaker 3: Lake America. But what's actually going on from the world
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Speaker 3: of the financial fighting between our country and our neighbor
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Speaker 3: to the north.
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Speaker 9: All goodness well yellow there's a couple things i think
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Speaker 9: are are really worth emphasizing here craig one of which
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Speaker 9: is the fact that yes we had a bunch of
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Speaker 9: new tariffs put in place in the last few days
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Speaker 9: canada is going to retaliate in the coming days this
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Speaker 9: is not a relatively small amount of the overall trade
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Speaker 9: between the u s in canada so it's only about
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Speaker 9: five percent of what we buy from canada it's only
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Speaker 9: about six percent of what they buy from us. So
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Speaker 9: for all the talk of a full-fledged trade war, this
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Speaker 9: sure feels a heck of a lot more just like
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Speaker 9: a skirmish. Now, come January 1st, a lot more tariffs
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Speaker 9: will come into effect if we don't get a trade
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Speaker 9: deal by then. So that's when maybe we can start
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Speaker 9: talking about an actual trade war.
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Speaker 2: How often has this worked?
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Speaker 3: I thought that during a lot of the tariffs and
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Speaker 3: all the conversations about them and then the fighting in
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Speaker 3: courtrooms about it, that actually President Trump got a lot
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Speaker 3: of deals done. So this version of fighting Does it
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Speaker 3: benefit the United States?
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Speaker 7: Oh, great, great question. The short answer is that We're
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Speaker 7: not really sure because we've never actually seen tariffs used
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Speaker 7: like this before, Craig. And that's why there's some, I think,
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Speaker 7: ambiguity there. The fact is tariffs have traditionally been used
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Speaker 7: to essentially try to keep out foreign competitors or to
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Speaker 7: raise revenue. But in this instance, you have a president
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Speaker 7: who's just trying to use them essentially as a negotiating tool.
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Speaker 7: He's trying to use them as leverage. It's the threat
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Speaker 7: of tariffs that is hopefully bringing other parties to the
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Speaker 7: negotiating table, because at the end of the day, what
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Speaker 7: we're after is free and fair trade. In other words,
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Speaker 7: we want to have the same access to Canadian consumer
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Speaker 7: markets that they have to ours. Right.
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 11: All right.
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Speaker 2: I want to transition to something else.
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Speaker 3: And this is going to be very selfish because it's
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Speaker 3: a big conversation here in Texas. I saw that Governor
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Speaker 3: Abbott was asked this, I think, over the weekend in
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Speaker 3: one of the interviews that he did. where the promise
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Speaker 3: was that gas prices would be down by now, and
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Speaker 3: they're not. And essentially the premise of the question to
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Speaker 3: our governor was, will that cause a whole lot of
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Speaker 3: people to vote for Democrats come the midterm election? Could
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Speaker 3: potentially a James Tallarico win a Senate seat in a
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Speaker 3: place like Texas, which to me still feels crazy, but
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Speaker 3: it's closer than I want it to be. What do
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Speaker 3: you think about the gas prices and potentially any sort
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Speaker 3: of relief coming down the road? and even what its
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Speaker 3: impact might be on how people vote in November.
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Speaker 7: Well, I think it's certainly possible that this is definitely
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Speaker 7: going to fuel a lot of animosity to the party
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Speaker 7: in power, which obviously is the Republicans, right? I think
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Speaker 7: we're all aware of who controls Congress and the White House. Yes.
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Speaker 7: I think the issue is the fact that people in particular,
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Speaker 7: they sent Trump back to the White House because they
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Speaker 7: wanted affordability addressed. Even though things were looking really, really
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Speaker 7: good for 2026, if we go back to February, we
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Speaker 7: were firing on all cylinders. A lot of consumer prices
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Speaker 7: were actually ready to start going down, Craig, if you
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Speaker 7: can believe that. So not just they stop increasing, but
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Speaker 7: they actually start going down. And again, unfortunately, with this
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Speaker 7: fuel crisis and the supply chain disruptions that we have seen,
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Speaker 7: all resulting from the Iran war, it has just been
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Speaker 7: a total wrench in the works. And I think voters
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Speaker 7: are definitely going to be very, very upset about that.
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Speaker 7: The polling data is crystal clear that they are not
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Speaker 7: happy that the affordability crisis remains unaddressed.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Do you think that that's something that can be resolved
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Speaker 3: once the fighting in Iran? This is the way I
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Speaker 3: should say it, E.J. I'm not convinced that this is
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Speaker 3: a forever war the way people talk about. I know
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Speaker 3: it's much longer than they initially pitched it to be.
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Speaker 3: We're entering something like the sixth month of this conflict.
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Speaker 3: But I still believe- that at some point it will
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Speaker 3: resolve itself. When that happens, prices will plummet, correct? I mean,
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Speaker 3: I know the president has said before, and he was
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Speaker 3: taken out of context when he said this, that he
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Speaker 3: sort of liked inflation because it allows him to demonstrate
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Speaker 3: how great things are once the inflation goes away. Is
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Speaker 3: that your professional opinion of what could happen or no?
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Speaker 7: I think we're definitely going to see prices come down. Absolutely.
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Speaker 7: I mean, look, this is an energy story, right? The
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Speaker 7: fact that you have oil where it is, is largely
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Speaker 7: due to what's happening in Iran. Now, I will say, Craig,
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Speaker 7: one important.
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Speaker 9: Caveat here is the fact that it's not.
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Speaker 7: Just the Middle East, it's Eastern Europe. In other words,
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Speaker 7: because of the recent strikes by the Ukraine on Russia,
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Speaker 7: where they have really, really disrupted refining, essentially, supply chains,
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Speaker 7: and they've reduced Russia's refining capacity, Russia is now not
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Speaker 7: going to export a single drop of diesel for the
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Speaker 7: rest of the year. So that, I think, puts into
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Speaker 7: perspective where we are. In other words, even when oil
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Speaker 7: comes down because the Strait of Hormuz opens up, it's
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Speaker 7: going to take longer for prices at the pump to
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Speaker 7: get down because we're going to have to rebuild that
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Speaker 7: destroyed refining capacity globally. The other important thing, and this
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Speaker 7: is a lesson we learned in 2020, You know, we
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Speaker 7: shut down the global economy in the spring of that year,
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Speaker 7: but you had some consumer shortages and price increases that
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Speaker 7: didn't actually show up until the spring or summer of
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Speaker 7: the following year. In other words, supply chain disruptions, which
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Speaker 7: we have a lot of right now, aren't always going
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Speaker 7: to rear their ugly heads in terms of the effect
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Speaker 7: on the consumer for a while down the road. So, yes,
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Speaker 7: prices are going to come down, but I think it's
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Speaker 7: going to take a while for certain things to actually
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Speaker 7: work their way out of the supply chain and for
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Speaker 7: us to get completely back to normal, quote-unquote. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Well, then let me ask you a different question.
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Speaker 3: And it's within the same vein of this conversation, because
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Speaker 3: this is the part that I think is the most
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Speaker 3: egregious error that the typical voter might actually commit come November.
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Speaker 3: Democrats aren't better at this. I don't know a different
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Speaker 3: way to say that. If power shifts from one side
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Speaker 3: to the other in any branch of government, all of
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Speaker 3: the policies of the Democratic Party are only really positioned
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Speaker 3: to make prices worse, not better.
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Speaker 2: That's at least my opinion. Let's get your professional one.
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Speaker 7: Well, this is the irony of when they talk about
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Speaker 7: making student loans. They talk about making education more affordable.
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Speaker 7: They talk about making housing more affordable, making health care
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Speaker 7: more affordable. Those are big talking points from the Democrats,
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Speaker 7: especially the new Democrat Socialists of America. And the fact
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Speaker 7: of the matter is, Craig, those are in particular the
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Speaker 7: three areas that in which they have already been meddling
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Speaker 7: the most in the entire economy. It is hard to
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Speaker 7: find sectors of the economy that are more regulated, for example,
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Speaker 7: than higher education, than mortgages, than home lending. It's harder
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Speaker 7: to find something that's more regulated than health care. Every sector,
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Speaker 7: every part of that sector, whether it's prescription drugs, whether
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Speaker 7: it's hospitals, whether it's the health care providers themselves, you
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Speaker 7: name it. In other words, all of the areas in
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Speaker 7: which government has been most involved in our economy are
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Speaker 7: precisely the areas where we have seen prices the fastest
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Speaker 7: and for the longest. In other words, all of those
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Speaker 7: attempts to help, quote unquote, are just more of the
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Speaker 7: same and will only make that affordability crisis even worse.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know what's really interesting about you mentioning
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Speaker 3: the DSA? We can look no further than just at
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Speaker 3: New York right now and a lot of what Mamdami
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Speaker 3: has promised and a lot of the calculations as to
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Speaker 3: how expensive some of these things would be. I think
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Speaker 3: El-Said has been out there on the campaign trail actually
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Speaker 3: being confronted with the question of this policy that you're
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Speaker 3: so proud to talk about, whether it's some new version
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Speaker 3: of the Green New Deal or something like it, the
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Speaker 3: cost of it is astronomical. So to promise the American
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Speaker 3: people you know, taxpayer that you're going to actually reduce
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Speaker 3: costs at a time when you would somehow find a
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Speaker 3: way to just claw more money from them is sort
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Speaker 3: of ridiculous. But in that context with the DSA, is
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Speaker 3: there anything that's really entertained you as far as an
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Speaker 3: idea that you've heard and then what the projected cost
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Speaker 3: of it would be if they actually did it?
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Speaker 7: Oh, I mean, Craig, if you mean by entertain me,
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Speaker 7: raise my blood pressure, then sure. I mean, almost everything
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Speaker 7: that comes out of their mouth. But look, one of
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Speaker 7: the things I find really, I guess you could say
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Speaker 7: is it would be funny were it not so tragic.
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Speaker 7: You look at something like Mandani's grocery stores that he's doing, right?
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Speaker 7: Grocery stores. You're talking about an industry with what, about
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Speaker 7: a 2% margin and he's going to sell stuff for
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Speaker 7: 30% below retail. In other words, taxpayers, because that's who
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Speaker 7: funds government stores, taxpayers are going to take a wash
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Speaker 7: of 28% on these grocery stores. They're going to lose
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Speaker 7: 28 cents. of every dollar that taxpayers have to put
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Speaker 7: into these things. Are you kidding me? That's your plan
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Speaker 7: for success? That's how you think you're going to win? Again,
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Speaker 7: it's just laughable. And that $ 0. 28 loss is assuming that
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Speaker 7: these grocery stores are run as efficiently as the private
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Speaker 7: sector ones, which obviously we know is not going to
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Speaker 7: be the case.
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Speaker 3: Well, and the other thing that was my favorite part
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Speaker 3: about the grocery stores is when he said it's not
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Speaker 3: going to hurt the mom and pop shops that are
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Speaker 3: also selling these products at the 30% higher prices.
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Speaker 2: To not go out of business. I was like, how
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Speaker 2: does that work?
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Speaker 7: Well, yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 12: Exactly.
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Speaker 7: Don't worry. Don't worry. This won't take business away from
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Speaker 7: anyone else. We're just magically going to have additional consumers
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Speaker 7: come from who knows where to buy stuff for 30
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Speaker 7: percent off. But everyone else, they'll still pay full price.
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Speaker 7: Don't you worry.
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Speaker 3: This interview was way too quick. It's basically already over
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Speaker 3: because I know I'm up against a break, EJ. But
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Speaker 3: before I let you go, is there anything else that
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Speaker 3: I didn't ask you that I didn't cover that you
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Speaker 3: feel like Texans should know?
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Speaker 2: Especially with November coming up.
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Speaker 3: And somehow, some way, James Tallarico, our version of the
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Speaker 3: DSA candidate, doing better in polling than anyone expected.
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Speaker 13: Oh, goodness.
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Speaker 7: Well, I mean, let's think back to the Ted Cruz race, right?
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Speaker 7: Ted Cruz and Bateau O'Rourke that he ran against. Cruz
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Speaker 7: was not doing that great in the polls. There was
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Speaker 7: a lot of really conflicting data there. So I'm, hey,
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Speaker 7: maybe we're just seeing a repeat of that, right? And
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Speaker 7: we're going to see the Republicans just clean the Democrats' clock.
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Speaker 7: It is Texas after all.
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Speaker 3: Yes, exactly.
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Speaker 2: It is Texas.
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Speaker 3: But I do think our listeners need to understand you've
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Speaker 3: got to show up and vote. And I don't think E.J.
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Speaker 3: is saying anything different. You've got to show up and vote.
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Speaker 3: We can't expect the win because somehow, someway, things are crazy.
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Speaker 3: I really thank you for the time, the Chief Economist
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Speaker 3: at the Heritage Foundation.
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Speaker 2: Look forward to talking to you soon. Hopefully, We make
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Speaker 2: this a regular.
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Speaker 3: Thing, EJ.
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Speaker 7: Craig, it would be my pleasure.
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Speaker 6: Awesome.
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Speaker 9: All right.
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Speaker 3: We'll take a quick break. A lot coming up, a
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Speaker 3: lot to get to. This is KSEV Mornings on The
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Speaker 2: I am Craig Collins. Wayne Del Cefino is on special assignment.
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Speaker 7: Thank you to E.J.
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Speaker 3: And Tony, the chief economists of the Heritage Foundation. We
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Speaker 3: will replay that interview at 845 today. I'll pull it
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Speaker 3: find them there. But we'll replay that for anyone that
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Speaker 3: wasn't with us at the very beginning of the show.
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Speaker 3: EJ actually is also a family member of mine. I'm
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Speaker 3: usually transparent about that when that happens. All right, let's
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Speaker 3: get to a bunch of things out there that I
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Speaker 3: think are pretty interesting. First, I know I talked about
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Speaker 3: this a little bit yesterday, but I do want to
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Speaker 3: play some of the updated data that's coming out about
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Speaker 3: this lawsuit with Meta. and the amount of money that
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Speaker 3: they're going to have to pay, but then also the
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Speaker 3: way in which hopefully they're going to build in some
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Speaker 3: amount of restrictions that prevent the terrible things that Facebook
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Speaker 3: was accused, Meta was accused of doing, that I.
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Speaker 2: Don't think they actually admitted.
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Speaker 3: I know that I heard yesterday during part of the
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Speaker 3: Fox coverage on this, and I think it was Brian
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Speaker 3: Kilmeade who said it, that they admitted wrongdoing, but I
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Speaker 3: think in the lawsuit itself, There's some stupid version of
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Speaker 3: we're going to pay you 16.7 billion dollars to 29
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Speaker 3: states who came forward to sue Meta for creating an
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Speaker 3: addictive platform that specifically targets children. We're going to pay
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Speaker 3: you all this money, but we're not going to actually
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Speaker 3: say we did anything wrong, which makes no sense. But
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Speaker 3: here is part of I got to plug this into
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Speaker 3: this might make a noise. It made a noise.
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Speaker 2: My bad.
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Speaker 3: Here is part of the audio of Fox from yesterday
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Speaker 3: talking about not just the settlement itself, but then also
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Speaker 3: the likelihood of changes for the social media platform to
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Speaker 3: attempt to be a little less addictive.
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Speaker 2: I doubt they'll do much of this for kids.
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Speaker 3: Let's go over some of them with our audience.
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Speaker 17: Daily time limits, two hours with pauses. Also nighttime blocks,
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Speaker 17: restrictions between midnight and 6 a.m. Limiting school time access.
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Speaker 17: Age restrictions that verify the age of young users. More
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Speaker 17: content controls on what's age appropriate. And then also bringing
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Speaker 17: down the social comparison features like beauty filters and.
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Speaker 3: Visible light counts.
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Speaker 17: I mean, these are pretty significant steps. My question for
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Speaker 17: you is, why did it take so long for them
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Speaker 17: to do this?
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Speaker 2: Amen.
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Speaker 3: Sorry.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, good question, Jackie.
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Speaker 7: How are you?
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Speaker 18: I mean, the biggest story here, really not that $ 17
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Speaker 18: billion price tag. It is those things that we're talking about,
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Speaker 18: the agreed settlement that you as a parent can really
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Speaker 18: relax a bit more when it comes to your kids
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Speaker 18: being in social media situations. Because it's now the obligation
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Speaker 18: of these platforms, according to this settlement, if approved by
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Speaker 18: the judge, that they will actually allow an auditor to
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Speaker 18: make sure that they're abiding by these strict rules. And
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Speaker 18: I am, quite frankly, surprised to see as strict guidelines
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Speaker 18: as are being proposed here. For kids under 18, that
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Speaker 18: two hour daily time limit, overnight access blocked from midnight
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Speaker 18: to six without your parental approval and notifications that are
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Speaker 18: completely off during school hours. I mean, this is going
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Speaker 18: to be a profound change for American kids.
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Speaker 2: And I'm going to stop it right there.
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Speaker 3: So I think it's really interesting that Fox and it's
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Speaker 3: their reporter throw out the idea that this is a
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Speaker 3: surprising settlement from Facebook, from Meta, because it's not surprising
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Speaker 3: to me. And what I mean by that is for
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Speaker 3: this lawsuit to have continued and to have gotten to
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Speaker 3: a point where they're in front of a jury where
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Speaker 3: Zuckerberg is testifying again and he is atrocious at testifying
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Speaker 3: and seeming like anything other than a scary robot evil human.
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Speaker 3: He's some he's some strange amalgamation of like an evil
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Speaker 3: robot and I don't know, a Bond villain. But nonetheless,
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Speaker 3: if Zuckerberg had gotten to that point where he's saying
18:50
Speaker 3: that stuff in front of this jury, I think it
18:53
Speaker 3: looks worse and worse and worse again. And I do
18:56
Speaker 3: think there's a chance where the typical parent hears this
19:00
Speaker 3: news and regardless of what they think Facebook might change, decides,
19:04
Speaker 3: you know what, I need a whole lot less of
19:07
Speaker 3: this social media platform in my child's life. I need
19:10
Speaker 3: a whole lot less of any social media in my
19:12
Speaker 3: kid's life. I do like one thing. I'll praise one
19:15
Speaker 3: thing about the settlement agreement itself. other than the amount
19:19
Speaker 3: of money, removing visible like counts. I do think it's
19:23
Speaker 3: really important that kids don't obsess about whether or not
19:27
Speaker 3: their social media posts are successful, successful by whatever metric
19:32
Speaker 3: a child would choose for that to be, because there's
19:34
Speaker 3: really only two avenues for that to be true. One,
19:37
Speaker 3: a lot of people that aren't in your kid's social
19:39
Speaker 3: network are liking their posts, and that's creepy.
19:42
Speaker 2: That makes me not very happy.
19:44
Speaker 3: And then two, the other thing is that for some reason,
19:46
Speaker 3: some way, you know, some of their friends just aren't
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Speaker 3: liking it. And I don't want kids to obsess about that.
19:52
Speaker 3: I don't want them to think about that in a
19:54
Speaker 3: negative way. So I do think the visible view count
19:58
Speaker 3: has to be removed, not just from the post itself,
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Speaker 3: from anything that the public sees, but also the child
20:04
Speaker 3: shouldn't know how successful their posts are That would be
20:07
Speaker 3: better for all involved, but they really shouldn't be posting. Like,
20:10
Speaker 3: to be honest, and I assume a lot of people
20:12
Speaker 3: out there feel this way about their own children, the
20:15
Speaker 3: more you hear about the damage that social media has
20:18
Speaker 3: done to the entirety of our population, not just to kids,
20:21
Speaker 3: but to everybody, the more likely you are to probably
20:24
Speaker 3: take it away, no matter how much your kid would
20:26
Speaker 3: be upset about it, because it would.
20:28
Speaker 2: Be better for them in the long run.
20:30
Speaker 3: And I do think that there's a, this is my
20:32
Speaker 3: own assumption, a knee-jerk version of that discussion. Where if
20:37
Speaker 3: you have a young child or, you know, a preteen
20:40
Speaker 3: or something that you really don't want to be on
20:42
Speaker 3: social media, but a lot of their friends are, that
20:44
Speaker 3: when you initially take it away, they might be upset.
20:46
Speaker 3: But I think over time, they'll be happy. And I
20:49
Speaker 3: mentioned this the other day on the show, too. My
20:52
Speaker 3: wife got rid of all of her social media. She
20:54
Speaker 3: did this years ago before I really started doing a
20:57
Speaker 3: lot more public stuff in the world of radio and
21:00
Speaker 3: hosting things and getting the angry social media message occasionally
21:04
Speaker 3: from the people who hate the stuff that I say.
21:07
Speaker 3: But she did this years ago, and she couldn't be
21:09
Speaker 3: happier now for that. The only thing she ever asks
21:13
Speaker 3: me to do is occasionally check on a family member
21:15
Speaker 3: or someone that she's curious about and show her how
21:18
Speaker 3: they're doing or even contact them for her. But that
21:21
Speaker 3: really happens very rarely because she'll just call somebody or
21:23
Speaker 3: text somebody on her own, which is obviously better and
21:26
Speaker 3: would make a lot of us feel less lonely. The
21:30
Speaker 3: other thing that I know, at least for me, feel
21:33
Speaker 3: as though it's a part of this story is is
21:35
Speaker 3: how many people express feeling lonely in today's society. And
21:39
Speaker 3: I think social media has been a huge part of
21:43
Speaker 3: that impact, of that feeling of, I already know what's
21:46
Speaker 3: going on with these people.
21:47
Speaker 2: Why reach out? Why talk to them?
21:49
Speaker 3: And maybe if some of that changes, especially for younger people,
21:53
Speaker 3: things get better. All right, I want to play something
21:55
Speaker 3: else that I certainly am upset about. It is an
21:58
Speaker 3: anniversary of a pretty horrific thing that happened. The 13
22:02
Speaker 3: brave American heroes who were killed when a terrorist attack
22:06
Speaker 3: happened in Afghanistan during the horrible botched withdrawal in Afghanistan
22:12
Speaker 3: by the Biden administration. I know that Fox and Friends
22:15
Speaker 3: covered this just a little bit ago, or actually I
22:18
Speaker 3: think this was yesterday. But let's go ahead and play on.
22:20
Speaker 19: Five years since 13 U.S. service members killed in the
22:24
Speaker 19: bombing at Abbey Gate in Kabul during former President Biden's
22:27
Speaker 19: botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.
22:30
Speaker 7: It was sloppy.
22:31
Speaker 19: Deadly exit was the ultimate foreign policy failure of the administration.
22:35
Speaker 19: They ultimately would not recover. It led to the Taliban
22:38
Speaker 19: takeover of the country. Our next guest helped evacuate hundreds
22:41
Speaker 19: from the region because the administration wouldn't. Former Green Beret
22:45
Speaker 19: and Task Force pineapple leader wrote a book about it.
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Speaker 1: Lieutenant Colonel Scott.
22:48
Speaker 5: Mann joins us now.
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Speaker 19: Scott, you're going to be on the special. You're on
22:52
Speaker 19: the special on Fox Nation. What are your reflections today?
22:56
Speaker 20: I think the first thing is just like what so
22:57
Speaker 20: many veterans are feeling today and family members is those
23:00
Speaker 20: 13 warriors who fell five years ago today holding the
23:03
Speaker 20: line at Abbey Gate. along with all the others that
23:05
Speaker 20: fell in that 20-year war, Brian, but certainly it's very
23:08
Speaker 20: poignant that five years ago today, those young men and
23:11
Speaker 20: women that were just doing their job in a really
23:13
Speaker 20: chaotic situation gave everything.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with him on that, that your first
23:18
Speaker 3: thought is the fact that these people, these individuals that
23:21
Speaker 3: are willing to sign on the dotted line to give
23:24
Speaker 3: their life for our country were essentially forced to do
23:27
Speaker 3: it by a horrible withdrawal from a terrible president.
23:31
Speaker 2: And so I do think it's the kind of thing.
23:33
Speaker 3: that you don't want to just move on and forget about.
23:36
Speaker 3: It is the kind of thing that deserves to be
23:37
Speaker 3: mentioned on anniversaries, especially ones that are just a few
23:42
Speaker 3: years removed from when this happened. And I think it's
23:46
Speaker 3: the kind of thing, and I'll probably talk about it
23:48
Speaker 3: more tomorrow during my veteran voices segment. We do a
23:51
Speaker 3: veteran voices every single week on this show or whatever
23:55
Speaker 3: version of the show I'm doing.
23:57
Speaker 2: That will continue.
23:58
Speaker 3: I think it'll be at 730 tomorrow, but it'll typically
24:01
Speaker 3: be at 830. We just have another guest lined up
24:03
Speaker 3: at a different time. But nonetheless, we will be talking
24:06
Speaker 3: to a veteran about quite a few things, and I'm
24:08
Speaker 3: sure that'll come up. I'm sure there'll be some discussion
24:11
Speaker 3: about Afghanistan and the withdrawal there and what it feels
24:14
Speaker 3: like to willingly protect our country and then watch something
24:19
Speaker 3: happen where the person in charge made such a horrible,
24:23
Speaker 3: simplistic decision that it cost American lives and what feelings,
24:27
Speaker 3: what emotions wind up inside of the people who are
24:31
Speaker 3: still willing to show up and fight the very next
24:33
Speaker 3: day after something like that happens. One last thing, and
24:36
Speaker 3: then I know we have to take a break, but
24:39
Speaker 3: I do think this is at least interesting.
24:40
Speaker 2: I'll tease this.
24:41
Speaker 3: We won't actually play this now. Fox News asked a
24:44
Speaker 3: question to the second.
24:45
Speaker 2: Lady, Mrs.
24:47
Speaker 3: Vance, about why some people are trying to create division
24:51
Speaker 3: within her own family. Abdul Al-Said tried to recently in
24:56
Speaker 3: an interview say, make a reference to how Vance's grandparents.
25:00
Speaker 2: I think it was, would have hated her.
25:03
Speaker 3: It's really what Abdul Al-Seed said, because she is not,
25:06
Speaker 3: in fact, the same race as him. And obviously, Usha
25:11
Speaker 3: Vance didn't think that was at all accurate. She thought
25:13
Speaker 3: it was a ridiculous statement. But really what I liked
25:16
Speaker 3: about this, and the reason I want to play this audio,
25:19
Speaker 3: and again, we'll do it in just a little bit
25:20
Speaker 3: after we take another break, but the reason I want
25:22
Speaker 3: to play it is because of how easy it is
25:24
Speaker 3: to say, Well, that's an insane thought. And then to
25:27
Speaker 3: dive a little bit deeper and say, why is someone
25:30
Speaker 3: on the political side of the aisle opposite my husband,
25:33
Speaker 3: who's the vice president of this country, trying to create
25:35
Speaker 3: division within my family by saying out loud into a
25:39
Speaker 3: microphone and a camera that the grandparents of my husband
25:42
Speaker 3: would have.
25:42
Speaker 2: Hated me had they met me?
25:45
Speaker 3: It's such a ridiculous thing to be in the orbit
25:48
Speaker 3: of politics that when you hear it and when you
25:50
Speaker 3: talk about it, you think to yourself, How did someone
25:53
Speaker 3: even get there as far as how did they even
25:56
Speaker 3: find a way to work that into an interview? The
25:58
Speaker 3: only thing you can possibly say is that they planned
26:00
Speaker 3: this from from, you know, days or weeks or at
26:03
Speaker 3: least hours in advance of this type of conversation.
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Speaker 2: And you just ask yourself, why? Like, what is the
26:09
Speaker 2: goal there? What what is sacred?
26:11
Speaker 3: What do we leave off the table as far as
26:14
Speaker 3: attacking each other for Abdullah Saeed in Michigan? Apparently, that
26:17
Speaker 3: answer is nothing. But we'll get to that audio. We'll
26:19
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Speaker 3: KSEV AM 700, the voice of Texas. My name is
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Speaker 3: Wayne Dolcefino. Wayne is on special assignment traveling the next
29:59
Speaker 3: couple of days. The president is also traveling here. Donald
30:03
Speaker 3: Trump will be in Houston today. He is attending a
30:06
Speaker 3: Ken Paxton fundraising event. This seems to be the beginning
30:10
Speaker 3: stages of something a whole lot of us have been
30:12
Speaker 3: asking for, which is for the money to start flowing
30:15
Speaker 3: toward Ken Paxton to make sure that we do not
30:18
Speaker 3: lose an election that Texas should never, ever even come
30:22
Speaker 3: close to losing, where a radical, insane person is the
30:25
Speaker 3: person running for office against a Republican that's done a
30:28
Speaker 3: lot of winning, regardless of what you think of the
30:31
Speaker 3: baggage that also exists with a Ken Paxton. As an
30:33
Speaker 3: attorney general, he did a whole lot of checkbox, I
30:37
Speaker 3: won this fight, I won that fight, a version of
30:40
Speaker 3: governing that we'd like to see more of from a
30:42
Speaker 3: Senate role. But Ken Paxton's event today, which costs a
30:47
Speaker 3: bunch of money to get into, and then I think
30:49
Speaker 3: it's like $ 10, 000 to show up, and it's almost $ 100, 000,
30:53
Speaker 3: like $ 88, 000. to get a photo with the president. But
30:57
Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of people that'll want to
30:58
Speaker 3: do that. I think that that will do well. I
31:01
Speaker 3: don't think the cost will be too high, is I
31:03
Speaker 3: guess what I'm saying. But I do think this is, again,
31:05
Speaker 3: a good thing and a thing that we need a
31:08
Speaker 3: lot more of in a lot of other ways, because
31:11
Speaker 3: the truth is, I'll just say this about the race itself.
31:14
Speaker 3: And you can call in, you can be a part
31:16
Speaker 3: of the show at any time if you want to.
31:17
Speaker 3: I don't mind people contributing to the show. I probably
31:21
Speaker 3: don't give out the phone number enough. So 281-558-5738, 281-558-5738.
31:29
Speaker 3: But to get back to it, the only thing that
31:32
Speaker 3: I believe is truly holding Ken Paxton back, and this
31:35
Speaker 3: might sound insane to say because a whole lot of
31:37
Speaker 3: other people are going to say it's all the baggage
31:39
Speaker 3: and the reasons that Republicans might hold their nose and
31:42
Speaker 3: vote for him. But essentially they're going to vote for him.
31:45
Speaker 3: So I don't know that that's really the challenge. The
31:47
Speaker 3: only thing that's holding him back is money because Tallarico
31:51
Speaker 3: is his own worst enemy. And the crazy stuff that
31:54
Speaker 3: Tallarico has said, I think there's a video up on
31:56
Speaker 3: our social media pages from part of my discussion yesterday
32:00
Speaker 3: and one of the most recent unearthed clips of James
32:04
Speaker 3: Tallarico just claiming that voter ID is terrible, that we
32:09
Speaker 3: should never have it, that it's a bad thing for
32:12
Speaker 3: some reason. And now he's obviously claiming that he thinks
32:15
Speaker 3: it's fine because a ridiculous amount of Americans believe that
32:18
Speaker 3: it would be good and not at all racist. which
32:21
Speaker 3: is the crazy excuse that they use and the stuff
32:23
Speaker 3: that they say. But nonetheless, the point is that getting
32:27
Speaker 3: that information out, getting the word out more by just
32:30
Speaker 3: blanket coverage, as far as media goes, putting a bunch
32:34
Speaker 3: of different hit.
32:36
Speaker 2: Pieces together is valuable.
32:38
Speaker 3: And actually, I saw somebody comment on that social media
32:40
Speaker 3: post I'm talking about at KSEV Radio's Facebook page and
32:44
Speaker 3: all of our social media pages, that this is the
32:46
Speaker 3: typical version of a political party tearing down an opponent
32:51
Speaker 3: as opposed to running a campaign. I saw that comment
32:54
Speaker 3: and I want to address it because it's ridiculous. And
32:57
Speaker 3: the reason why it's ridiculous is Tallarico needs to be
33:01
Speaker 3: torn down because the stuff he said is insane. And
33:05
Speaker 3: it's so different than what the average Texan actually believes.
33:09
Speaker 3: And we can do best of maybe at some point
33:12
Speaker 3: later on in the show of all the crazy things.
33:15
Speaker 3: that Tallarico has spoken that most Texans don't believe. But
33:18
Speaker 3: when your opponent is that nuts, is that terrible, when
33:22
Speaker 3: his views and the way that he would govern our
33:24
Speaker 3: state are so separate from the actual values that we have,
33:29
Speaker 3: you have to attack them. You can run a campaign
33:32
Speaker 3: that is predominantly focused on the ridiculousness of the person
33:35
Speaker 3: you're running against when they have that many weaknesses. And
33:38
Speaker 3: more importantly, when I think a whole lot of people
33:42
Speaker 3: who potentially could vote for Tallarico actually don't know some
33:46
Speaker 3: of the craziest stuff he said. The problem with me
33:49
Speaker 3: doing a lot of this here, a lot of this
33:51
Speaker 3: discussion on this station, is that by and large, I
33:54
Speaker 3: think a lot of people who listen probably already know
33:57
Speaker 3: most of the crazy stuff that Tallarico has said. So
34:00
Speaker 3: the real point is getting that information to others. And
34:02
Speaker 3: that's where the money comes in. That's where Trump's visit
34:05
Speaker 3: comes in and where Elon Musk and anyone else hopefully
34:08
Speaker 3: tips that scale to get that message to the people
34:11
Speaker 3: that are trying to avoid it.
34:13
Speaker 2: I see we have a call. I'll go ahead and
34:14
Speaker 2: throw Roy on the air. Roy, what do you want
34:16
Speaker 2: to say?
34:19
Speaker 22: Yeah, I want to talk about the campaign that Paxton's running.
34:22
Speaker 22: I think he's going to be just fine. He's been very,
34:24
Speaker 22: very focused on things. When he takes his next trip,
34:29
Speaker 22: which European country do you think he'll go to and
34:31
Speaker 22: which mistress will he bring with him?
34:33
Speaker 3: Why don't you just use your real name? I just
34:37
Speaker 3: want to know that. Why not?
34:38
Speaker 2: We put you on the air. We know that it's
34:40
Speaker 2: you the minute you start talking.
34:42
Speaker 3: And then he hung up.
34:43
Speaker 2: That's hilarious.
34:43
Speaker 3: That's hilarious.
34:45
Speaker 2: I was going to let him keep talking and the
34:46
Speaker 2: guy hung up.
34:48
Speaker 3: I don't know. That'll always be my question to Roy
34:50
Speaker 3: or whatever his name is. Why doesn't he just use
34:53
Speaker 3: his real name? Because if he wants to have a
34:55
Speaker 3: conversation between the two of us, he wants to talk
34:58
Speaker 3: about the... interpersonal, the personal relationship baggage of a Ken Paxton,
35:05
Speaker 3: which by the way, I think this is an interesting
35:08
Speaker 3: thing to just say and put out there. I'm not
35:11
Speaker 3: someone who's going to defend an individual who did things
35:14
Speaker 3: that I wouldn't do from a moral standpoint, but it
35:17
Speaker 3: also won't be a decision maker for me in who
35:20
Speaker 3: I vote for come November. And that's not because I
35:23
Speaker 3: think that those behaviors are okay.
35:25
Speaker 2: It's because they're.
35:26
Speaker 3: So inconsequential to how someone actually governs and how they
35:32
Speaker 3: actually decide to, you know, pass bills, vote on bills
35:35
Speaker 3: like none of that is tied to it.
35:37
Speaker 2: The fact that people want to tear apart the personal lives.
35:42
Speaker 3: Of individuals shows how scared they are of the ways
35:45
Speaker 3: that they actually behave in a day to day basis
35:48
Speaker 3: as a politician. That's the thing that I think is
35:50
Speaker 3: interesting is the people who least want to talk about
35:53
Speaker 3: policy are the people that keep obsessing about the personal
35:57
Speaker 3: life of someone. And so I think that unlike the
36:01
Speaker 3: comment that I saw on social media where they're accusing
36:04
Speaker 3: Republicans of not wanting to discuss, you know, the positions
36:08
Speaker 3: we have on certain topics or at least the things
36:11
Speaker 3: we'd like to do to govern the state of Texas.
36:13
Speaker 3: What I think is much funnier is the idea that
36:16
Speaker 3: the Democrats themselves, at least in this race, don't want
36:18
Speaker 3: to talk about any of the beliefs Ken Paxton has
36:21
Speaker 3: politically because they know that Texans actually agree with him
36:24
Speaker 3: on them.
36:25
Speaker 2: Let's get to Sharon, who's also on the phone. Sharon,
36:27
Speaker 2: what do you want to say?
36:30
Speaker 4: Hi, Craig.
36:30
Speaker 5: Good morning.
36:31
Speaker 4: Hey, good show.
36:32
Speaker 5: You do a really good job alone, although I love Wayne.
36:36
Speaker 24: I do, too.
36:37
Speaker 5: And I have a suggestion of what you could call
36:39
Speaker 5: him instead of the legend since it offended him.
36:42
Speaker 25: Sure.
36:42
Speaker 5: You could call him the special agent.
36:44
Speaker 25: Yes.
36:45
Speaker 7: Oh, I like that.
36:46
Speaker 5: To my point, I want to talk about Ken Paxton.
36:50
Speaker 3: Sure.
36:52
Speaker 5: I have so much confidence in General Paxton, and his
36:56
Speaker 5: record is so good. And I'm so tired of the
36:59
Speaker 5: social opera talk that I'm hearing all over the national
37:05
Speaker 5: shows about Ken Paxton's personal life. We don't elect somebody
37:12
Speaker 5: based on their marriage record and things like that. So
37:16
Speaker 5: I'm just saying he can do whatever he wants, but
37:19
Speaker 5: when he gets into the public arena, he is a fighter.
37:22
Speaker 5: And he wins.
37:23
Speaker 4: And he always has done that.
37:25
Speaker 5: And he always stands for Texas values. And we trust
37:29
Speaker 5: General Paxton. We like General Paxton. And I did hear
37:33
Speaker 5: him say, because you brought it up, why he has
37:37
Speaker 5: been reticent to put money and effort out on the
37:42
Speaker 5: campaign trail yet. I heard him say it on a
37:45
Speaker 5: talk show weeks last month, early in the summer, actually.
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Speaker 20: He said.
37:52
Speaker 5: He is lacking money.
37:54
Speaker 24: Yeah.
37:55
Speaker 5: And he's having to be strategic.
37:57
Speaker 24: Yes.
37:57
Speaker 5: In how he spends his money. So he's saving it
38:00
Speaker 5: for the fall. Yes.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
38:01
Speaker 3: He's he's been waiting because and I think that Trump
38:04
Speaker 3: coming to Houston today and being part of an event
38:06
Speaker 3: is all designed to get him enough money for him
38:08
Speaker 3: to be able to start spending now and have enough
38:10
Speaker 3: to keep going in the fall, because you definitely need
38:13
Speaker 3: people to be as aware as possible, I think, by
38:15
Speaker 3: Labor Day, which is crazy that it's like a week away.
38:19
Speaker 3: But as as knowledgeable as possible. about at least some
38:22
Speaker 3: of the crazy stuff that Tallarico said. I want to
38:24
Speaker 3: do one other thing, and I thank you for calling in, Sharon,
38:27
Speaker 3: but I will ask you this because I think it's
38:29
Speaker 3: most important. The people who are the best fighters when
38:33
Speaker 3: it comes to the system itself, people like Ken Paxton,
38:37
Speaker 3: often those are the people that media most obsesses about
38:41
Speaker 3: the personal lives of. Don't you find that strange that
38:44
Speaker 3: the Donald Trumps and the Ken Paxtons of the world
38:46
Speaker 3: are who essentially try to fight the system that we
38:49
Speaker 3: most hate, are the ones that we know everything about
38:53
Speaker 3: as far as what they do behind closed doors. And
38:55
Speaker 3: all of these other people that I think are probably
38:58
Speaker 3: no better humans when it comes to their morality, for
39:01
Speaker 3: some reason, just don't have as much reporting as to
39:04
Speaker 3: what they do in their day-to-day life when they're not governing.
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Speaker 2: Isn't that strange? Is she still there?
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Speaker 5: The conclusion on that is they don't have anything else
39:14
Speaker 5: to talk about.
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Speaker 20: Exactly.
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Speaker 2: Exactly. Thank you very much for the call, Sharon. I
39:18
Speaker 2: loved it.
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Speaker 3: That is absolutely true. And I think that that's the
39:22
Speaker 3: main goal. When you see someone that's destroying every part
39:27
Speaker 3: or any part of that corrupt system that exists in D.C.
39:31
Speaker 3: and everywhere else, when you see someone go after it,
39:33
Speaker 3: when you see someone pull power away from the people
39:37
Speaker 3: that want it most and try to put it back
39:39
Speaker 3: in the hands of anyone else, you immediately destroy the person.
39:44
Speaker 3: I've actually dealt with that in my own life, which
39:46
Speaker 3: is kind of funny. at radio stations where people are
39:49
Speaker 3: mad about politics because they might have different political opinions.
39:53
Speaker 3: And then all of a sudden you start to do
39:54
Speaker 3: kind of well, like the show you're doing where your
39:57
Speaker 3: political belief is different than theirs starts to succeed. And
40:00
Speaker 3: you watch people just go crazy behind the scenes, just
40:03
Speaker 3: start to say these ridiculous things. And you sit and
40:06
Speaker 3: you scratch your head and you're like, how's that even true?
40:08
Speaker 3: I remember I'll say this very quickly because I know
40:10
Speaker 3: we're about to take a break. There was one time
40:12
Speaker 3: where a salesperson and this was a totally different company.
40:15
Speaker 2: It's not here.
40:16
Speaker 3: But a salesperson, a liberal woman, was very upset about
40:20
Speaker 3: something I had said on the radio. And so in
40:22
Speaker 3: response to that, she canceled a sale for the show.
40:26
Speaker 3: And I thought that was crazy that she called someone.
40:29
Speaker 3: She discouraged them from buying because I heard from the
40:33
Speaker 3: the client. The person eventually called me and said, hey,
40:35
Speaker 3: why can't I advertise on your show?
40:38
Speaker 2: And of course, the woman got in trouble.
40:40
Speaker 3: But this is the point that this person decided to
40:42
Speaker 3: harm the business she worked for by trying to upend
40:45
Speaker 3: something because she got mad at a political take I had.
40:49
Speaker 3: And I think it was just simply that Trump would
40:51
Speaker 3: win the election, which was back and funny that people
40:54
Speaker 3: were so upset about that. But nonetheless, like I think
40:56
Speaker 3: that that's a micro demonstration, a anecdotal expression.
41:01
Speaker 2: Of this thing that exists for so many.
41:03
Speaker 3: If you can't beat the person's words, defeat the person
41:07
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41:09
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44:08
Speaker 2: My name is Craig Collins. Wayne Dolcefino is on special assignment.
44:13
Speaker 3: Thrilled, thrilled, thrilled to have you with us. So much
44:16
Speaker 3: stuff out there to talk about. I did mention this earlier,
44:19
Speaker 3: so I do want to pay it off. This is
44:23
Speaker 3: the wife of our current vice president, Usha Vance, who
44:27
Speaker 3: was asked a weird question about an attack that a
44:31
Speaker 3: Democratic Socialist of America running for a race in Michigan
44:34
Speaker 3: lobbed at the family. So again, I just want to
44:37
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44:40
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44:44
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44:48
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Speaker 2: I don't know why.
44:52
Speaker 3: But she was asked about it, which I thought was
44:54
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44:56
Speaker 2: And here's what she gave as an answer.
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Speaker 6: So recently, your husband spoke about the dangers of Sharia
45:00
Speaker 6: law in America. And there's a candidate in Michigan, Senate candidate,
45:06
Speaker 6: Abdul El-Saeed. And in responding to that, he invoked your
45:11
Speaker 6: name and seemed to imply that your husband's you know,
45:17
Speaker 6: grandparents might not be so pleased or happy about the
45:21
Speaker 6: fact that he is now in an interracial relationship or marriage.
45:25
Speaker 6: What's your response to Abdul Saeed?
45:29
Speaker 3: By the way, before she goes, and I'm going to
45:30
Speaker 3: let her speak, of course, I would have said, what
45:33
Speaker 3: the hell in response to that? Like, why? Why the
45:35
Speaker 3: hell is this a question or a conversation at all?
45:38
Speaker 3: But let's listen to Usha give a much nicer answer
45:41
Speaker 3: out of that question, actually.
45:42
Speaker 25: I have to admit, I kind of laughed because, yes,
45:45
Speaker 25: I never met JD's mama and papa, but I do
45:50
Speaker 25: know and love the children that they raised, you know,
45:53
Speaker 25: his mom, his aunt and uncle, and they have never
45:56
Speaker 25: been anything but incredibly loving. I mean, his, his aunt
45:59
Speaker 25: is like a second mother to me. Um, and so
46:04
Speaker 25: I have to think that if they raise children like that,
46:08
Speaker 25: they would have been loving as well. And I would
46:09
Speaker 25: have really, really, really loved to have met them.
46:12
Speaker 3: How crazy is that, that you give the wife of
46:15
Speaker 3: the vice president an opportunity to be the go-high instead
46:19
Speaker 3: of the go-low individual? I went and asked a question
46:22
Speaker 3: as ridiculous as, do you think your husband's grandparents would
46:25
Speaker 3: have hated you? Because that's essentially what was said and
46:28
Speaker 3: essentially what the political party is going to start throwing
46:32
Speaker 3: out there. And I actually love that too, by the way.
46:36
Speaker 3: Every time I hear from the left how hateful I am,
46:40
Speaker 3: how hateful you are, how hateful anyone that votes opposite
46:43
Speaker 3: them has to be about something.
46:44
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter what it is. I hate gay people.
46:47
Speaker 3: Apparently, I'm told that I'm, of course, every other kind
46:51
Speaker 3: of phobic that I can possibly be. And I think
46:53
Speaker 3: I'm also sexist and racist. I'm fairly certain that that's true,
46:57
Speaker 3: at least from the other party's point of view. And
47:00
Speaker 3: then if I say or do anything that tries to
47:02
Speaker 3: circumvent that belief, like, I don't know, I'm married to
47:04
Speaker 3: a minority. The typical reaction back is, how dare you?
47:09
Speaker 3: How dare you try to fight this with facts and logic,
47:11
Speaker 3: you piece of crap, which I find interesting. Another piece
47:15
Speaker 3: of audio that I did want to play, another conversation
47:18
Speaker 3: that I'd like to have is about Peter Doocy's discussion
47:23
Speaker 3: on Fox about the upcoming GOP midterm convention that will
47:27
Speaker 3: be taking place here in Texas.
47:28
Speaker 2: Can I go to that? Russell is sitting behind me.
47:31
Speaker 2: He's the program director.
47:33
Speaker 3: Can I just, like, go? Would you guys be able
47:35
Speaker 3: to handle that if I showed up there, connected a
47:37
Speaker 3: microphone and was like, hey, can I do the show
47:39
Speaker 3: from here? Do you want to tell me on the
47:41
Speaker 3: air or.
47:41
Speaker 2: Off the air?
47:42
Speaker 3: Is off the air better?
47:45
Speaker 20: OK.
47:46
Speaker 3: I was thinking about it the other day. I'm like, man,
47:48
Speaker 3: I got this brand new fancy morning show. What if
47:51
Speaker 3: I just one day call you at like 630 during
47:54
Speaker 3: a break for the press box and say, hey, I'm
47:57
Speaker 3: in Dallas? And I'd really like to keep doing the
47:59
Speaker 3: radio show today. I'm not going to make the company
48:02
Speaker 3: pay for anything. I'll figure out how to get there.
48:04
Speaker 3: I'll figure it out from there. But the answer is,
48:07
Speaker 3: we're not sure. All right, awesome. Fantastic. I just figured
48:12
Speaker 3: I'd ask.
48:12
Speaker 2: I put Russell on the spot, putting that on air.
48:15
Speaker 2: But I kind of want to go.
48:17
Speaker 3: It'll be right here. It'll be so close to us.
48:19
Speaker 3: But anyway, this is not the point of the discussion.
48:22
Speaker 3: The actual point is that Ducey was talking about how
48:25
Speaker 3: Charlie Kirk's legacy is will actually come up. And the
48:28
Speaker 3: biggest reason why, and I do think that Vance is
48:31
Speaker 3: a byproduct of some of the great work that Charlie
48:35
Speaker 3: Kirk was doing in getting younger people to think differently
48:39
Speaker 3: and getting younger people to actually debate solutions to problems
48:42
Speaker 3: and not just the things that make them mad and
48:44
Speaker 3: not being told to vote based on emotions alone, which
48:47
Speaker 3: is what I think the Democratic Party does. But here
48:50
Speaker 3: is part of that reference of what will happen on
48:53
Speaker 3: September 10th and September 9th. When the vice president speaks,
48:56
Speaker 3: when the president speaks and how Charlie Kirk will be
48:59
Speaker 3: a component, at least the memory of him and the
49:01
Speaker 3: work that he did of the upcoming midterm convention, a
49:06
Speaker 3: first of its kind here in Texas.
49:08
Speaker 13: An RNC official tells us a primetime showcase for President
49:12
Speaker 13: Trump's success, candidates and causes that have propelled the 2026
49:16
Speaker 13: midterms to unprecedented success.
49:20
Speaker 5: Focus.
49:20
Speaker 13: There is also going to be a commemoration of the
49:22
Speaker 13: 25th anniversary of 9-11 and a section about Charlie Kirk's
49:26
Speaker 13: legacy mobilizing young voters for Republicans. Night one, 53 items
49:32
Speaker 13: or speakers. Night two, 56 items or speakers. 109 pieces
49:37
Speaker 13: to this puzzle in all. As the courts sort out
49:41
Speaker 13: whether or not the Trump administration is going to, in fact,
49:43
Speaker 13: limit some mail-in ballots, something they argue will cut down
49:47
Speaker 13: on voter fraud. As blue states argue, only states can
49:50
Speaker 13: do that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't care about that. I just want fraud
49:53
Speaker 3: to go away. I want any fraud to go away.
49:55
Speaker 3: So I like any version of trying to attack it.
49:58
Speaker 3: But back to the Charlie Kirk point. And I think
50:00
Speaker 3: this is really relevant as far as the likelihood moving
50:04
Speaker 3: forward of young people continuing to vote at the numbers
50:07
Speaker 3: they were voting. for conservatives. It's not like we were
50:11
Speaker 3: winning that fight. They still vote more for Democrats than
50:14
Speaker 3: they do for Republicans. But at least in 2024, in
50:17
Speaker 3: the presidential election, you saw a surprising swell of support
50:22
Speaker 3: from a lot of places you didn't expect to see it.
50:24
Speaker 3: And one of those, especially male voters, was younger voters.
50:28
Speaker 3: What I think needs to be the case moving forward
50:31
Speaker 3: is that continued conversations exist that do target the younger
50:35
Speaker 3: demographics in our society and that admit that problems are real.
50:39
Speaker 3: Because there are times when I'll say something, even to
50:42
Speaker 3: Wayne earlier this week, where I say that things have
50:45
Speaker 3: gotten a little harder.
50:46
Speaker 2: It is harder to buy a house.
50:47
Speaker 3: It is harder to, say, pay for your education, even
50:50
Speaker 3: though you probably shouldn't be going to college with how
50:52
Speaker 3: terrible that education likely is and how corrupt.
50:56
Speaker 2: And one-sided it is now.
50:57
Speaker 3: But nonetheless, there are demonstrations of issues that are different
51:02
Speaker 3: than a certain number of years ago. Wages have not grown.
51:05
Speaker 3: to the amount that they should have grown over the
51:07
Speaker 3: last 20, 30, 40 years. Now, that's fine to admit
51:11
Speaker 3: the problem, but then you have to suggest a solution.
51:15
Speaker 2: And any solution you hear, especially.
51:16
Speaker 3: From the Democratic Socialists on the left, but most people
51:20
Speaker 3: on the left, is horrible.
51:22
Speaker 2: And so I think that that's the important thing.
51:24
Speaker 3: To let people know, to let the voters know, is
51:28
Speaker 3: that you have to make sure they're aware that just
51:31
Speaker 3: acknowledging the problem.
51:33
Speaker 2: We still got.
51:34
Speaker 3: Like four minutes, right? Yeah, okay. That's okay. That's okay.
51:37
Speaker 3: Don't worry about it, Russell. It's fine. I just wanted
51:39
Speaker 3: to make sure I wasn't supposed to... Because I got
51:40
Speaker 3: a clock on my computer. I didn't want to make
51:42
Speaker 3: sure it was broken. But anyway, yes, just real quickly,
51:45
Speaker 3: and then I want to bring Bart on the air
51:46
Speaker 3: because Bart's on hold. I do think that acknowledging problems
51:49
Speaker 3: is important and then demonstrating that there are solutions... however
51:54
Speaker 3: long they might take to actually benefit all of us,
51:58
Speaker 3: that are much, much better than the horrible decision-making of
52:01
Speaker 3: the left and how they promise you something, don't deliver it,
52:04
Speaker 3: and then inevitably cost you more money.
52:06
Speaker 2: And they do that much quicker.
52:08
Speaker 3: The negative of Democratic policies, like what we're seeing in
52:11
Speaker 3: New York, are so lightning fast on the taxpayers that
52:15
Speaker 3: usually you learn yourself through mistakes that this was a
52:18
Speaker 3: bad idea. Bart, you're on in spring, I think.
52:21
Speaker 2: What do you want to say about it?
52:23
Speaker 4: Have you read J.D. Vance's autobiography, Hillbilly Elegy?
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Speaker 3: I have, yes.
52:30
Speaker 4: I just read it. It's so inspiring for somebody his age.
52:34
Speaker 4: dealing with all the problems he had to deal with
52:36
Speaker 4: before Trump ever took office, by the way, and how
52:39
Speaker 4: it can be overcome. And I think that makes him
52:42
Speaker 4: an incredible, almost unbeatable candidate for 2028.
52:46
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think if you do appreciate the background, the
52:48
Speaker 3: family struggles that existed, and the fact that the guy
52:51
Speaker 3: winds up going to Yale and doing all the things
52:53
Speaker 3: that he does, that it is a really inspiring, it's
52:55
Speaker 3: pretty much just like an American story. I know he
52:58
Speaker 3: calls it hillbilly elegy for a reason. It's the kind
53:01
Speaker 3: of thing that most of us hope is possible. for
53:04
Speaker 3: any of us, no matter how much struggle we have
53:06
Speaker 3: with family or anyone, you know, in our, any points
53:09
Speaker 3: in our life that we can one day just through
53:11
Speaker 3: hard work succeed. Right, Bart?
53:14
Speaker 7: Yeah.
53:14
Speaker 4: I think the key to winning the election is getting
53:16
Speaker 4: the working class. And I don't see anybody in the
53:19
Speaker 4: working class that can identify with his story, going in
53:22
Speaker 4: the Marines and going to college based on the GI
53:25
Speaker 4: and going to a full scholarship Yale. His success, that
53:29
Speaker 4: movie made like 2 million during 2020 during the, uh, Yeah.
53:34
Speaker 20: I know.
53:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.
53:35
Speaker 3: And it actually had some pretty famous people in it, too.
53:38
Speaker 2: I think one of the two actresses in it was
53:40
Speaker 2: Amy Adams, right?
53:42
Speaker 7: Correct.
53:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
53:43
Speaker 2: It was crazy. Yeah, at least run the movie.
53:45
Speaker 4: He was produced by Ron Howard, who's a hardcore leftist.
53:48
Speaker 12: I know.
53:49
Speaker 3: Well, at that point, they still liked him because he
53:51
Speaker 3: was anti-Trump then. That's when they liked J.D.
53:53
Speaker 7: Vance.
53:54
Speaker 3: Now they want that whole thing to just disappear. Thank
53:57
Speaker 3: you very much for the call, Bart. I always like
53:58
Speaker 3: hearing from you, bud.
54:00
Speaker 12: All right.
54:01
Speaker 2: So we got to take a break in about a
54:02
Speaker 2: minute or so.
54:04
Speaker 3: One thing that I will be discussing after the break
54:06
Speaker 3: that I do think is fairly important, too, was a
54:10
Speaker 3: big story out of Florida, a statewide shield operation that
54:15
Speaker 3: saved a massive amount of children that were missing. I
54:19
Speaker 3: think the ages of the kids were something like two
54:22
Speaker 3: months to 17 years old. But it's 163 missing kids
54:27
Speaker 3: that were found in Florida. I want to talk about
54:29
Speaker 3: why I think this is the kind of story that
54:32
Speaker 3: might sadly exist other places and why a lot of
54:35
Speaker 3: other states aren't doing the things that places like Florida
54:38
Speaker 3: and Texas do to right wrongs, because there's a lot
54:41
Speaker 3: of wrongs like this that places ignore. That and more
54:44
Speaker 3: coming up in a bit. This is KSEV Mornings, 700 a.m.,
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