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Can We Trust the Polls? Vince Coglianese on JD Vance, and a Veteran Turned Country Singer · KSEV Mornings with Craig and Wayne

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  Speaker 1: And now, the mob guys, Craig Coyenese.
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  Speaker 2: And Wayne Dolcefino.
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  Speaker 3: On KSV Radio.
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  Speaker 4: KSV Radio, the voice of Texas.
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  Speaker 5: We call ourselves the Mob Guys because we're Italians originally
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  Speaker 5: from the East Coast, but we're both Texans now.
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  Speaker 4: Wayne Dolcefino, the legend.
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  Speaker 5: The multi-Emmy award-winning investigative reporter who's probably doing a bunch
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  Speaker 5: of investigative reporting right now today.
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  Speaker 4: And then me. I am Craig Colonnese. I used to
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  Speaker 4: go by Collins.
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  Speaker 5: I was at Wayne's office yesterday, and he was telling
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  Speaker 5: the story very happily to a couple of people that
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  Speaker 5: were in the room that he changed my name in
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  Speaker 5: just three weeks.
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  Speaker 4: And it's totally true. He definitely did. All right.
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  Speaker 5: I want to play Harry Enten from CNN, who very,
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  Speaker 5: very often is willing to tell the left that there's
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  Speaker 5: a problem. at least when it comes to the data
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  Speaker 5: that he interprets on that channel. I think he's one
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  Speaker 5: of the only people that says true stuff on CNN consistently.
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  Speaker 5: I think some people might stumble into the truth occasionally,
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  Speaker 5: but Scott Jennings and Harry Enten, and Harry doesn't do
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  Speaker 5: this with a political bias.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, Scott is admittedly a conservative.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know exactly what Harry is as their data expert,
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  Speaker 5: but he's very willing to tell them the part they
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  Speaker 5: don't want to hear Here's the latest, at least in
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  Speaker 5: some of the polling and how it looks eerily similar
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  Speaker 5: to how it looked in the past when guess what?
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  Speaker 5: Democrats didn't win all the stuff the polls said they
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  Speaker 5: were going to win. I do love this as far
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  Speaker 5: as an honesty perspective goes, because, yes, this is fool
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  Speaker 5: me once, shame on me or shame on you. Fool
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  Speaker 5: me twice or seven thousand times.
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  Speaker 4: That's going to be shame on me.
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  Speaker 6: Here we go.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: You know, we've had really good Democratic polls coming out
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  Speaker 8: from Ohio, Michigan, Iowa. And, you know, Fool me once,
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  Speaker 8: shame on you. Fool me four times, I just have
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  Speaker 8: to ask the question, could it happen again? Because just
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  Speaker 8: take a look at this. Okay, Midwest polling misses. GOP
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  Speaker 8: outperformed September polls by in the major 2024 races. That is,
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  Speaker 8: President and Senate in the states that had a Senate race.
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  Speaker 8: In Iowa, where the Democrats have been getting really good polls,
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  Speaker 8: Republicans outperformed their September polls by nine points back in 2024.
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  Speaker 9: Shocking.
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  Speaker 8: How about Ohio?
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  Speaker 10: Six points.
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  Speaker 8: How about Michigan? Five points. And I will note that
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  Speaker 8: the leads that the Democrats have in all of these
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  Speaker 8: races right now are under how much the GOP outperformed
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  Speaker 8: back in 2024. So you look at this and you go,
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  Speaker 8: You know what? Maybe we should just hold on a
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  Speaker 8: second here because we've seen this dance before and it
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  Speaker 8: was not a dance that Democrats like when the vote.
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  Speaker 5: Let me interpret that a couple different ways. First and foremost,
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  Speaker 5: and a lot of people, mostly conservatives, I think, say this.
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  Speaker 4: Polls don't matter.
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  Speaker 5: At least they're not a great barometer of the truth.
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  Speaker 5: They're they're an OK projection. It's kind of like the
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  Speaker 5: intern at the weather station because it's not even the
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  Speaker 5: weatherman who's going to get stuff right a little bit
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  Speaker 5: more often than the intern is. It's the new person,
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  Speaker 5: the person right out of college. They're trying pretty hard.
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  Speaker 5: They're reading the maps the way they can, seeing all
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  Speaker 5: the different formations of clouds, and they're guessing. That's what
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  Speaker 5: polling is up until a couple weeks before the actual election.
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  Speaker 5: And this is another admission of that, especially when it
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  Speaker 5: comes to polls that project Republicans to do poorly. They
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  Speaker 5: outperform them in every single state, in Iowa by nine,
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  Speaker 5: Ohio by six, Michigan by five. And it is also
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  Speaker 5: interesting that, that Harry goes a step further and says
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  Speaker 5: all of the current leads that polling data is claiming
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  Speaker 5: Democrats have over Republicans in these places is within these
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  Speaker 5: margins of error, which are additional than just the regular
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  Speaker 5: margin of error that also exists in every single poll,
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  Speaker 5: because this is how much better these Republicans do.
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  Speaker 4: I'm fascinated by this.
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  Speaker 5: And I love that Harry is telling the CNN people,
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  Speaker 5: although I kind of don't totally love that because that
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  Speaker 5: might make more Democrats go out and vote.
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  Speaker 4: I need the Republicans to show up and vote.
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  Speaker 5: I need people on the side that want to protect
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  Speaker 5: all the things we actually care about to make sure
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  Speaker 5: and protect them. But I think that this is essentially
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  Speaker 5: what we will be seeing here in Texas. It'll be,
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  Speaker 5: you know, Beto 2.0, but slightly different. A lot of
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  Speaker 5: people talk about our Senate race in this state. And
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  Speaker 5: they say that, you know, Beto was never really winning
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  Speaker 5: the way that Tallarico seems to be beating Paxton throughout
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  Speaker 5: that campaign. He was doing quite well compared to historical
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  Speaker 5: averages of Democrats in statewide races and polling up until
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  Speaker 5: Beto ran. But it wasn't Beto ran, but it wasn't
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  Speaker 5: the same thing as it is now, which projects a
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  Speaker 5: win for Tallarico.
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  Speaker 4: And even some of the.
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  Speaker 5: Betting markets, the calci's of the world, are giving the
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  Speaker 5: edge to Tallarico. I think we're going to see the
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  Speaker 5: opposite actually occur. And this might be one of those
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  Speaker 5: reasons why another leaked video has come from a Tallarico's
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  Speaker 5: church and a person pretending to be a radical leftist
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  Speaker 5: member of it, talking to other radical leftist members.
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  Speaker 4: Is this the pastors anymore?
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  Speaker 11: No.
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  Speaker 5: We've had tons of leaked audio, and I can play
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  Speaker 5: some of it, of some of the crazy things some
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  Speaker 5: of the pastors are saying. His current pastor, some of
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  Speaker 5: the other ones. These are just the people that also
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  Speaker 5: go to the church. This is a place that Talafrico
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  Speaker 5: loves to be. He loves to be in this world. Here,
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  Speaker 5: let's play a little bit of that. Not even a Christian.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I keep forgetting it's a church.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: No, it's really a cult, but it's.
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  Speaker 13: A fun cult.
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  Speaker 14: Uh, what?
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  Speaker 4: In good ways, not bad.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 4: It's one of those, you can drink the Kool-Aid safely.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I'm kidding.
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  Speaker 9: A little red for you.
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  Speaker 5: That doesn't kill anyone.
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  Speaker 4: Some people that are members are Republican.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, really?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. There's not that many.
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  Speaker 16: Well, I guess they must be like a different brand
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  Speaker 16: of Republican.
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  Speaker 17: Maybe.
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  Speaker 18: Like the old school.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, I have to imagine them going.
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  Speaker 5: You know what's so weird to me? It's so weird
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  Speaker 5: that people at a church would talk about stuff like that. Like,
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  Speaker 5: shouldn't it not matter? But when I go to church,
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  Speaker 5: the last thing I think about here in Houston is
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  Speaker 5: if people are Republican or Democrat. I check my politics
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  Speaker 5: at the door at church, not because I have to.
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  Speaker 5: I think Texas Faith Fest was trying to instill in
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  Speaker 5: a lot of people, myself included, that maybe we don't
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  Speaker 5: have to do that as much as we've done it before.
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  Speaker 4: But I still do.
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  Speaker 5: I just don't care about the person sitting next to
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  Speaker 5: me's politics saying, when we're sitting through a Catholic mass.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know why I'm supposed to care about that.
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  Speaker 5: And it's amazing to hear these people at this church
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  Speaker 5: that Talafrico loves to go to, like being surprised there's
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  Speaker 5: some Republicans among them. I would tell you that from
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  Speaker 5: a data standpoint, even in a place like Austin, there's
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  Speaker 5: a chance there's more than you think. No matter what
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  Speaker 5: number you think are there, there's a chance there's even more.
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  Speaker 4: Let's get to Bart.
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  Speaker 5: Bart's calling in from Spring about the, is this the
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  Speaker 5: Senate debate that you want to talk about?
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  Speaker 14: No, they had a debate on with Piers Morgan Live
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  Speaker 14: between Victor Davis Hanson and Richard Wolff.
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  Speaker 4: Did you get a chance.
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  Speaker 14: To see any of that?
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  Speaker 4: I saw a clip of it. I didn't watch the
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  Speaker 4: whole thing. What did you think of it?
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  Speaker 14: Oh, it was classic to see somebody logically present points
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  Speaker 14: that went against the college indoctrination, and all he could
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  Speaker 14: do is insult and interrupt, and it was typical because
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  Speaker 14: he had nothing to stand on, and he blamed every
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  Speaker 14: fact— as being a lie or that he was being
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  Speaker 14: cherry picked.
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  Speaker 12: Of course.
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  Speaker 14: I was just a classic debate by Victor David Hanson.
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  Speaker 14: He finally turns to Pierce Morgan and said, this is
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  Speaker 14: a debate. This is what you need to get educated.
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  Speaker 14: And he's the chair of the history department at Stanford.
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  Speaker 5: That is the clip that I do have. Maybe if
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  Speaker 5: you were a little more educated, you'd learn it thing.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. I only saw portions of this clip.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if there's any bad words in it,
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  Speaker 5: because I know it's on his podcast, The Uncensored One.
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  Speaker 4: Do you remember, Bart? You watched it. Did they say
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  Speaker 4: anything inappropriate? No, I didn't hear any bad words.
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  Speaker 5: You know what, Bart? We're going to do the thing
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  Speaker 5: we do when you call in. You're going to call
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  Speaker 5: for a clip, and we're going to play a clip.
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  Speaker 5: from listener part. You're awesome, too. This is Piers Morgan
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  Speaker 5: in the debate you were just describing and how one
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  Speaker 5: of the two people, even though he is an educator
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  Speaker 5: at a fancy university, seems to be an idiot about
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  Speaker 5: educational statistics.
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  Speaker 19: The American empire, if that's the term, and we were
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  Speaker 19: not a colonial empire.
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  Speaker 19: Is not in decline, it's in ascendance relative to the EU,
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  Speaker 19: relative to our neighbors to the north, Canada, relative to Russia,
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  Speaker 19: relative to... I didn't cherry-pick those statistics, that's just a fact. Yes,
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  Speaker 19: you did. No, if you want to say that the
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  Speaker 19: GDP figures are wrong, you tell me. But as for
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  Speaker 19: here in America.
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  Speaker 11: Let me tell you.
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  Speaker 19: I didn't interrupt you, please.
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  Speaker 11: No, no. Look, I let you say three or four things.
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  Speaker 4: That were reasonable.
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  Speaker 19: You talked a lot longer than I did.
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  Speaker 4: You talked a lot.
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  Speaker 11: I have to answer the question.
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  Speaker 2: That's another cherry pick.
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  Speaker 11: It's not the length.
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  Speaker 2: It's really the substance that matters.
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  Speaker 11: You might learn that.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe if you were a little bit more educated, you'd
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  Speaker 2: learn it. I'm a professor of economics. I study economic history.
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  Speaker 2: One of the things we study is economic development. There
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  Speaker 2: is no country on earth in the history of our
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  Speaker 2: race that has developed its economy faster, further than the
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  Speaker 2: people's representation.
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  Speaker 11: Of China. Whatever you want to play games, that is
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  Speaker 11: the reality. For the last 40 years, The average growth
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  Speaker 11: of GDP in China has been between six and.
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  Speaker 19: I didn't question that.
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  Speaker 20: I didn't say that.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 11: Come on.
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  Speaker 21: Fight it.
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  Speaker 11: Fight it each other.
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  Speaker 4: I love it.
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  Speaker 5: This is probably how I debate, too. That's probably why
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  Speaker 5: I like it so much. Bart, what else did you
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  Speaker 5: want to say about that?
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  Speaker 14: Well, yeah, he should have pointed out that Hitler, under
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  Speaker 14: a totalitarian, raised his country's GDP faster than China did.
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  Speaker 9: He did.
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  Speaker 14: If you want to encourage totalitarianism. Right. Later on, he
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  Speaker 14: goes on and really destroys this guy because Hansen is
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  Speaker 14: the professor emeritus of history at Stanford.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 14: And I'm like, tell him he needs to get educated.
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  Speaker 4: It's amazing.
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  Speaker 14: I just thought I'd add the clip.
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  Speaker 21: Thanks for playing it.
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  Speaker 4: Of course. No, Bart, I love that. You call in,
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  Speaker 4: you mention a clip, and I usually have it, so
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  Speaker 4: I just play it. You get to call some clips out.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks so much, man. Nothing else you want to talk about?
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  Speaker 14: Well, I do want to mention that in the past,
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  Speaker 14: especially under Obama, these leftists have been able to portray
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  Speaker 14: themselves as moderates. And they've been able to distance things
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  Speaker 14: like a Reverend Wright saying, I never heard him say
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  Speaker 14: goddamn America. And I'm like, yes, you did. You were
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  Speaker 14: there 20 years. They just lied. But with Tallarico, and
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  Speaker 14: he's doing the same thing, pretending to be a moderate
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  Speaker 14: when he's a far leftist. We have clips and evidence
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  Speaker 14: to show he's just lying.
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  Speaker 5: We have a ridiculous amount of clips. Thanks so much
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  Speaker 5: for the call, Bart. I really appreciate it. We'll take
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  Speaker 5: even more about Talafrico. And my cousin does deserve the
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  Speaker 5: credit for coining the name. Everybody was calling him Talawacko,
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  Speaker 4: How you doing, buddy?
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  Speaker 10: I'm so good.
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  Speaker 21: Good morning.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning.
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  Speaker 5: I gave you credit simply just like a few minutes
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  Speaker 5: ago for coining Talafrico because everybody else was going Talawaco
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  Speaker 5: and you wanted a different thing. And it became the
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  Speaker 5: thing that stuck. I just want to make sure that
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  Speaker 5: you know that I'm throwing the credit out there for you.
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  Speaker 10: I really appreciate that. I don't mandate that people give
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  Speaker 10: me credit.
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  Speaker 4: But man, I love it. Well, look, you had a
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  Speaker 4: great interview with Vice President J.D.
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  Speaker 5: Vance earlier this week. We played the entirety of it
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  Speaker 5: on this radio station. And you did say that you
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  Speaker 5: call him Talafrico. And I saw the vice president did
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  Speaker 5: not react like he didn't try to take credit away
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  Speaker 5: from you.
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  Speaker 4: So that was good.
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  Speaker 5: Can you talk to me a little bit about some
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  Speaker 5: of the other stuff? I know everybody who listened to
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  Speaker 5: it heard it, and I want to play portions of
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  Speaker 5: it on this show. But tell me some of the
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  Speaker 5: stuff that you most took away from that conversation.
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  Speaker 10: Well, I thought he was great. You know what I
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  Speaker 10: love about him? As a guy, you've experienced this. You
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  Speaker 10: interview people, and you can kind of tell when they're
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  Speaker 10: trying to spin you and super guarded when they're trying
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  Speaker 10: to stick to the talking points. That's not J.D.
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  Speaker 4: Vance.
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  Speaker 10: You know, the cool thing about the vice president, extremely,
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  Speaker 10: extremely candid on all of the subjects. We talked about–
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  Speaker 10: I thought one of the– I thought the newsiest elements
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  Speaker 10: was when I was asking him about the Safe America
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  Speaker 10: Act and what it's going to take to actually pass
• 16:28
  Speaker 10: election integrity nationwide. And there's something that I've heard really frequently,
• 16:33
  Speaker 10: which is like J.D. Vance is the president of the Senate,
• 16:36
  Speaker 10: which is true. Why can't he just take over the
• 16:39
  Speaker 10: floor of the Senate and fire everybody, fire the parliamentarian,
• 16:42
  Speaker 10: get rid of John Soons? forced the Save America Act through.
• 16:45
  Speaker 10: Why isn't he using his constitutional powers? And so I
• 16:49
  Speaker 10: figured rather than try and explain it to everybody, I
• 16:51
  Speaker 10: would just ask him because I had the opportunity.
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: And so I did.
• 16:54
  Speaker 10: And the answer he gave me I thought was really
• 16:57
  Speaker 10: interesting because for a million reasons. One, he straight up
• 17:00
  Speaker 10: disclosed that he had been wargaming that very strategy with
• 17:04
  Speaker 10: the president of the United States.
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 17:06
  Speaker 10: These are details he's never shared before.
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: Huge breaking news. And nobody covered it other than you, Vince.
• 17:12
  Speaker 8: Continue.
• 17:13
  Speaker 16: No.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 17:14
  Speaker 10: No, it's like it was crazy. Well, I spent so
• 17:17
  Speaker 10: much time attacking the legacy press.
• 17:18
  Speaker 21: They probably do.
• 17:19
  Speaker 10: They refuse to talk about that.
• 17:21
  Speaker 21: That's true.
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: No, but I thought I thought that that was an
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: incredible moment. Not only did you get him to acknowledge
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: the plan and the flaw of the plan, but you
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: heard him and then you followed up with. Are you
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: saying that you and President Trump have sat down and
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: he's like, yes, that was incredible.
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: I didn't mean to interrupt you, but I totally agree
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: with that.
• 17:37
  Speaker 10: Continue. I thought it was great. And then the other
• 17:40
  Speaker 10: big thing, which is very unusual in Washington, is he
• 17:42
  Speaker 10: started naming names from his own party. He was like, yeah,
• 17:46
  Speaker 10: there's four Republican senators who would make this impossible because
• 17:50
  Speaker 10: they would join with Democrats and overturn whatever I do.
• 17:52
  Speaker 10: And then he said that it would be McConnell, it
• 17:54
  Speaker 10: would be Murkowski, it would be Tillis, and it would
• 17:57
  Speaker 10: be Cornyn. And then, boom, there you go. And so
• 18:00
  Speaker 10: this would have been ceremonial. And we're not interested in
• 18:02
  Speaker 10: ceremonial gestures. We're actually interested in victory. So- This is
• 18:06
  Speaker 10: all a long way of saying that he needs backup.
• 18:08
  Speaker 10: We need to send real conservatives to Washington. We need
• 18:12
  Speaker 10: Ken Paxton to defeat Talifrico. And we need people to
• 18:15
  Speaker 10: go in there so they can stick the landing on
• 18:18
  Speaker 10: some more elements of this agenda that really matters. And
• 18:21
  Speaker 10: that's a role that the voters can play.
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought it was really interesting that he dropped
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: the name John Cornyn because a lot of Texans would
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: feel that way. And this is kind of the macro
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: question for you and one that I'm hearing a lot
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: from people talking about the Senate race here in Texas.
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: Some people are like, I don't like this about Paxton
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: and his background or something that he was accused of
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: doing that, granted, our own Senate acquitted him of. But
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: what I always say in response is you want someone
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: that's going to stand with you at the toughest moments.
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: You don't want the Republican politician who's just going to
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: vote with other Republicans on the easy stuff. You want
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: the person that's the polar opposite of Cornyn, who is
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: not going to stand in the way of things exactly
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: like Protect America or Save America, as far as that
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: act goes. And I think it's fascinating because Paxton, as
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: an attorney general, has proven his willingness to attack the
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: hard stuff and to stand on a certain side of
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: the discussion on the hard stuff and also to win.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: So if there is one thing I think we want
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: in today's society from our representatives, certainly our senators, but
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: a lot of them, is to actually stand with us
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: when it matters most, and that's when you see the
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: rhinos wilt the hardest, including Cornyn. Is that something that
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: you think was basically the sentiment of that conversation, too,
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: is we really need to crystallize the desires we have
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: for people to vote for us in the Senate on
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: a very small amount of topics?
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: Go ahead.
• 19:44
  Speaker 10: We just need more fighters.
• 19:45
  Speaker 21: That's it.
• 19:46
  Speaker 14: Ken Paxton's definitely one.
• 19:47
  Speaker 10: If you like President Trump, which I do, and if
• 19:50
  Speaker 10: you voted for him enthusiastically through multiple elections, you should
• 19:53
  Speaker 10: trust his judgment on Ken Paxton. He keeps saying it
• 19:55
  Speaker 10: because he's the best attorney general in the country. And
• 19:57
  Speaker 10: now he wants him to be in the United States
• 19:59
  Speaker 10: Senate to offer him backup there. That'd be wonderful. Also,
• 20:02
  Speaker 10: Ken Paxton, to be clear, and you know this better
• 20:04
  Speaker 10: than anybody, he's very battle-tested. The guy's been through it.
• 20:08
  Speaker 10: He's faced the forces of the institution that have tried
• 20:11
  Speaker 10: to suffocate him, including in the Texas state legislature, a
• 20:14
  Speaker 10: lot of the drama around Ken Paxton is because you
• 20:18
  Speaker 10: had establishment forces who were trying to hurt him and
• 20:21
  Speaker 10: that had nothing to actually do with merit and everything
• 20:23
  Speaker 10: to do with trying to prevent him from being that
• 20:26
  Speaker 10: kind of outside voice that could affect positive change. So, look,
• 20:30
  Speaker 10: I think the case for Ken Paxton is super strong,
• 20:32
  Speaker 10: and I think the case against James Salafrico is extraordinarily strong.
• 20:35
  Speaker 10: I mean, it's so obvious that that the people of
• 20:37
  Speaker 10: Texas shouldn't have a guy who straight up says he
• 20:40
  Speaker 10: hates Christianity, hates Christians, who hates the energy industry, that
• 20:45
  Speaker 10: all of these things which make up, which literally are
• 20:48
  Speaker 10: the composition of the good people of Texas, the guy
• 20:50
  Speaker 10: should not represent them in the Senate.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: No, he can't represent them in the Senate.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: And actually what's more amazing is the gift that keeps
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: on giving that's all the hidden camera videos that are
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: coming out of his church, whether it's the pastors, the
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: participants of the church who describe themselves as not even
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: really being religious.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: Like that church seems nuts.
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: And the most recent one is where they're calling themselves
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: a cult, sort of happily, to someone that's doing a video.
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: I also saw— go ahead, go ahead.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: Respond to that.
• 21:16
  Speaker 10: I just— on that point, I just— like, all these videos— so what
• 21:18
  Speaker 10: have we learned about this church? That they don't know
• 21:23
  Speaker 10: whether or not Jesus even existed. If he did exist,
• 21:26
  Speaker 10: he didn't die for us, and they're pretty sure the
• 21:28
  Speaker 10: resurrection didn't literally happen. So other than those things, they're Christians, right?
• 21:33
  Speaker 15: Ha ha ha!
• 21:34
  Speaker 10: Like, yeah, other than a couple of things in the totality,
• 21:38
  Speaker 10: other than the totality of the Christian faith, they're entirely
• 21:41
  Speaker 10: the most important.
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: OK, anyway, I wanted to ask you one other thing, too.
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: And then I have a veteran voice coming up. And
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: after 830, I talked to a local veteran for a
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: half hour commercial interrupted every Friday at 830. I love
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: doing that. And I think you'd appreciate it, too, as
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: a guy from a military family. But I did want
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: to ask you, Harry Enten put out another piece of
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: whatever data.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: From yesterday, and I just played the audio.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: A little bit ago, that says that Republicans in this
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: state outperform polls by this number, in this state by
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: this number, and all of the polling that suggests that
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: there's going to be a giant blue wave is within
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: these margins to which Republicans do better than polls typically
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: say they will. What is your take, now that it's October,
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: getting closer and closer to the midterm elections, on the
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: likelihood or lack of likelihood of an actual blue wave?
• 22:30
  Speaker 10: I think people come alive every day that we get
• 22:32
  Speaker 10: closer to the election. I think their awareness is skyrocketing
• 22:36
  Speaker 10: right now. And I think that what we're about to
• 22:39
  Speaker 10: go through is going to be a very real and
• 22:41
  Speaker 10: tough battle, but it is in no way a fait accompli.
• 22:44
  Speaker 10: This is not over. The Republicans have an extraordinary chance
• 22:48
  Speaker 10: to not only keep the Senate, but the House as well.
• 22:51
  Speaker 10: And I would love to see them just come into
• 22:53
  Speaker 10: this with all the energy in the world in order
• 22:55
  Speaker 10: to grow their numbers. The key is when you're– just
• 22:59
  Speaker 10: in terms of voter enthusiasm, you always want to kind
• 23:01
  Speaker 10: of feel like you're a little bit behind, like you
• 23:03
  Speaker 10: want to come into it like you're a point down.
• 23:06
  Speaker 10: But this is a real fight, and I think Harry Enten,
• 23:11
  Speaker 10: the numbers enthusiast over at CNN, when he talks about
• 23:14
  Speaker 10: these numbers, I think he's doing it in an unvarnished way.
• 23:16
  Speaker 10: He's just being real about it. He's like, guys, the
• 23:19
  Speaker 10: polls always get this wrong. The polls always underappreciate Republican enthusiasm,
• 23:25
  Speaker 10: Republican turnout. And so I hope I hope Democrats go
• 23:29
  Speaker 10: into Election Day sleepwalking, thinking that they have this thing
• 23:32
  Speaker 10: in the bag, because that's.
• 23:33
  Speaker 21: A great situation.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: One last thing I want to ask you about your
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: own show.
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: You've interviewed the president of the United States, the vice
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: president of the United States. Who is on your list
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: of people that you actually want to have on the show?
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: And I'm just curious if there's any like dream list
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: of guests that you haven't had on yet.
• 23:48
  Speaker 10: Oh, well, maybe the pope someday. Actually, candidly. You know, candidly,
• 23:54
  Speaker 10: we're trying for Secretary Rubio. It's actually been kind of
• 23:57
  Speaker 10: a long winded process. I've been trying to get the
• 23:59
  Speaker 10: secretary of state on from the early days of the show.
• 24:02
  Speaker 10: But we'll we'll keep plugging away. I think, you know,
• 24:04
  Speaker 10: every time I add one of these guys to the list,
• 24:06
  Speaker 10: I figure, OK, this could increase my odds because they're like, no,
• 24:08
  Speaker 10: this guy's legit. We could be on with him.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it does.
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: I've had Doug Burgum on so far in the start
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: of this show. That's as far as I've gotten with
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: the administration.
• 24:16
  Speaker 11: But he is great.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: And I'm not trying to discredit Doug Burgum.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: I hope his team is telling them that there's another
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: colonies out there who likes them as well.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: But all right.
• 24:26
  Speaker 10: By the way, it's not just.
• 24:27
  Speaker 21: The caliber of the interview, which is great.
• 24:29
  Speaker 10: He is a high profile secretary. He's got a massive portfolio.
• 24:32
  Speaker 10: But he's also that's another guy who's very candid. And yes,
• 24:35
  Speaker 10: it makes for a great interview.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: Look at you giving praise to me. Thank you, Vince.
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  Speaker 5: The Vince show every day from 12 to 1 on
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  Speaker 4: Crushing it. You are crushing it, sir. Thank you for
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: making some time with us today.
• 24:52
  Speaker 10: Thanks, Greg.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: Talk to you later. That is Vince, as I said,
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: my cousin, who's doing an amazing job.
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: And I'm starting to a little bit less apologetically glow
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: about the awesomeness of that show because I listen to
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: it at least.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: An hour of it every day now. All right. Quick break.
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: A lot more coming up, including our veteran voices segment.
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: I did see we got some calls in line. I'm
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: not sure outside of our guests that we'll be able
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: to get to Frederick or anyone else. So thank you
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: to those people for calling in. But John will be
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: next in just a bit on The Voice of Texas.
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  Speaker 4: I am Craig Colonese.
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: Wayne Del Trofino is on special assignment. I am glad
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: that we're still doing this every Friday. I really, really
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: wanted to do this, even when we moved from the
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: evenings to the morning show about a month ago now,
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: which is crazy. It's a veteran voices discussion. It's a
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: half hour commercial free. We probably need to get a
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: sponsor for it. So I don't keep begging the people
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: behind the glass to get rid of the commercials for us.
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: We probably need somebody to help us with that part.
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: But we'll figure that out at some point. John Swatt
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: is our guest. John Swatt is a U.S. Army veteran.
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: He's deployed in Operation Iraqi Freedom. He's also an incredible
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: musician who's going to be given an award at the
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: Country Music Awards of Texas Award Show that's coming up
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: on October 14th.
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: John, welcome to the show.
• 29:47
  Speaker 21: Hey, thanks, Craig, for having me. It's a real honor.
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: Thrilled. It's an honor. The honor's mine, sir.
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: So first, I will ask you, if you don't mind,
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: just give me, even though I said it, the branch
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: of the military, the you know, title you had when
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: you retired from the military, all that stuff?
• 30:02
  Speaker 21: Sure, yeah. I was in the United States Army. I
• 30:06
  Speaker 21: was stationed at Fort Stewart, Georgia, at 3rd Infantry Division,
• 30:11
  Speaker 21: 1st Brigade, 41st Field Artillery Battalion. So, of course, I
• 30:16
  Speaker 21: got to deal with some of the big guns. I
• 30:19
  Speaker 21: was the unit supply sergeant with my rank, and so
• 30:24
  Speaker 21: I kind of help take care of everybody if they
• 30:26
  Speaker 21: ever needed anything. And I did two tours overseas in Iraq.
• 30:30
  Speaker 21: The first was into Crete, and the second was in Ramadi.
• 30:34
  Speaker 21: And I was deployed both times with that unit.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: So I got an email.
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: The way that you even got on the show, by
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: the way, is I put something up on social media,
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: and I got an email from a Gold Star mother.
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: Her name is Tracy.
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: And in the email, she said, one of the biggest
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: things that you do, even after serving our country in
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: a combat role in Iraqi freedom, is you came home
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: and you wanted to continue serving. And I love the
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: way that Tracy put it in the email. It's about
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: continuing to serve after the uniform comes off through time, music,
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: and heart, which you give to veterans, Gold Star families,
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: families of the fallen and survivors. Can you talk about
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: the impact that you're having with people like Tracy, with
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: Gold Star mothers, and what you're doing to actually reach
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: out to them?
• 31:18
  Speaker 21: You know, first and foremost, I just want to say
• 31:21
  Speaker 21: thank you to Tracy. That meant so much to me,
• 31:23
  Speaker 21: her putting that out there. And, you know, that just
• 31:26
  Speaker 21: hits me to the heart. You know, it is such
• 31:29
  Speaker 21: a relief to see the impact that you have. You're
• 31:33
  Speaker 21: not really aware of it until you kind of meet
• 31:35
  Speaker 21: the people. You know, it's a way for us to
• 31:38
  Speaker 21: not only connect with the Gold Star families, of course,
• 31:41
  Speaker 21: and the veterans, but to also connect those people together
• 31:46
  Speaker 21: because we all have something in common. And Fortunately enough
• 31:50
  Speaker 21: for me, music is the universal– I call it the
• 31:54
  Speaker 21: universal medication for everybody because music can bring all kinds
• 31:58
  Speaker 21: of people together and get those conversations started, get those
• 32:02
  Speaker 21: people to interact and get to know each other because
• 32:05
  Speaker 21: we all share some of the same stories.
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: So how long have you been a musician? How long
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: have you been singing country music?
• 32:12
  Speaker 21: I have been singing all the way back since I
• 32:14
  Speaker 21: was knee-high to a grasshopper. Okay. I used to. My
• 32:20
  Speaker 21: mom actually got me started off. She's actually a better
• 32:22
  Speaker 21: singer than I am. So I would sing along with her,
• 32:26
  Speaker 21: of course, to the radio and we'd go out and
• 32:28
  Speaker 21: I'd harmonize. I did the choir when, of course, when
• 32:32
  Speaker 21: I was in school. But then afterwards, you know, considering
• 32:37
  Speaker 21: the time, it was right around 9-11. And of course, everybody,
• 32:41
  Speaker 21: you know, knows right around that time how that impacted
• 32:45
  Speaker 21: so many people's lives, including my own. And so I
• 32:48
  Speaker 21: kind of felt that pull to join and to serve
• 32:52
  Speaker 21: my country and do my part. And, of course, I
• 32:55
  Speaker 21: brought my music flavor with me, and it actually helped out.
• 32:59
  Speaker 21: And with the troops is kind of where I started
• 33:01
  Speaker 21: over there overseas, Craig, performing for them. You know, in
• 33:05
  Speaker 21: our off time when we weren't out on patrol or
• 33:08
  Speaker 21: we were, you know, we didn't have to deal with
• 33:11
  Speaker 21: any of that kind of stuff. We would have a
• 33:12
  Speaker 21: few minutes where everybody would be smoking a cigarette and
• 33:15
  Speaker 21: John would be over there playing his guitar.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: It's amazing.
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: How does it feel to be getting an award from
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: the Country Music Association here in Texas? How does that
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: feel to be a couple weeks from being given an
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: award for your music and for also your outreach to veterans?
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: I'm just curious what emotionally is going on for you.
• 33:40
  Speaker 21: You know, it is just so overwhelming, Craig. First and foremost,
• 33:44
  Speaker 21: I want to say a big thank you to the
• 33:45
  Speaker 21: CMA of Texas and Mary and for, you know, allowing
• 33:50
  Speaker 21: us to not only participate, but, you know, just to
• 33:52
  Speaker 21: be there this year. And the fact that I am
• 33:55
  Speaker 21: receiving an award that, just like you said, it ties
• 33:58
  Speaker 21: in two of my passions, which of course is music
• 34:02
  Speaker 21: and military. It's just, it's so overwhelming and so humbling,
• 34:06
  Speaker 21: but it goes to show that I am having an
• 34:09
  Speaker 21: impact in the things that not only am I doing,
• 34:12
  Speaker 21: but others are doing, are helping people out there and
• 34:16
  Speaker 21: helping us connect with them. So it's just, it's such
• 34:19
  Speaker 21: an honor to be awarded, and I'm so humbled. I'm
• 34:23
  Speaker 21: going to be in such great company there, so it's
• 34:26
  Speaker 21: going to be exciting.
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: So I usually do this whenever I talk to musicians.
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: I ask permission.
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: I should do this a different way, I'm going to
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: be honest with you, John, because I do it very
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: difficultly for you. But I'm going to ask you for
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: permission to play one of your songs live on the air,
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: and then I'll play one of your songs, the whole thing,
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: alive on the air so people can get a better
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: sense of who you are as a musician.
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: Is that something you approve of me doing?
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: Do you give me the digital rights just for this
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: one day to play this song on the radio and
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: on the Internet?
• 34:53
  Speaker 21: You have my 100% full permission.
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: And I have Sure Feels Good.
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: I don't know if you have a different song you'd
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: rather I feature, but that's the one that I found
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: and listened to first. Is there a different song you'd
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: like me to find, or does that work?
• 35:06
  Speaker 21: No, I think that's a good choice. That one was
• 35:09
  Speaker 21: in the top 40 here down on the Texas charts,
• 35:12
  Speaker 21: so I think people really appreciate and like that one,
• 35:14
  Speaker 21: so that's a good one.
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: All right, so we're going to play that song. I'm
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: going to put you on hold for just a couple seconds.
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: This is still our Veteran Voices segment, and this is
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: John Swatt's music, Sure Feels Good, and one more time
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: he will be getting an award at the Country Music
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: Awards here in Texas in a couple weeks. I'm laughing
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: because I'm happy about it. That's a giggle of joy.
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: because how awesome he is and how awesome his work is.
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: But I want anybody that's not familiar with the music
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: to hear him.
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: So here we go.
• 35:45
  Speaker 17: I ain't here on.
• 35:53
  Speaker 13: A rainy Sunday morning.
• 35:58
  Speaker 23: With you.
• 36:01
  Speaker 15: I can think of nothing else I'd rather do I.
• 36:04
  Speaker 17: Used to run around all.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Over town with my crazy friends and never slow down.
• 36:11
  Speaker 21: All it took was you, girl. Come along and.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Change my world. You got me spinning, spinning, spinning. Round
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: and round like I've never been.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: I keep wishing, wishing, wishing.
• 36:28
  Speaker 23: But it won't ever end You got me falling, falling
• 36:34
  Speaker 23: Falling in love.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Never felt like this Wasn't planning on it But it.
• 36:43
  Speaker 13: Sure feels good Never thought that I would meet.
• 37:00
  Speaker 15: An angel But down you flew.
• 37:06
  Speaker 17: I know heaven must be missing you When it's just
• 37:11
  Speaker 17: us two Alone in this room.
• 37:13
  Speaker 16: And you do what you do That takes me to.
• 37:16
  Speaker 13: The moon Every night Every time we kiss I gotta hold.
• 37:22
  Speaker 24: On tight You got me.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: Spinning, spinning, spinning Round and round like I've never been
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: I keep wishing, wishing, wishing That it won't.
• 37:35
  Speaker 17: Ever end You got me falling, falling Falling.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: In love Never felt like.
• 37:44
  Speaker 13: This Wasn't planning on it But.
• 37:46
  Speaker 23: It sure feels good.
• 38:02
  Speaker 24: It's like a ticket to ride on a tilt to work.
• 38:06
  Speaker 23: Every time I'm with you, girl, you got.
• 38:09
  Speaker 9: Me spinning, spinning, spinning.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: Round and round like I've never been. I keep wishing, wishing,
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: wishing that it won't ever end.
• 38:22
  Speaker 23: You got me falling, falling, falling in love.
• 38:29
  Speaker 24: Never felt like this.
• 38:31
  Speaker 23: Wouldn't put it on me, but it sure feels good.
• 38:36
  Speaker 17: Yeah, it sure feels good, baby. You got me spinning, spinning, spinning.
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: Bringing back John Swatt onto the air.
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: Sure Feels Good is the song you just got the
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: entire playthrough of.
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: John, that is awesome.
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: And you're awesome as both a veteran who served and
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: protected our country and legitimately on its own as just
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: a musician. But how does it make you feel one
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: more time to be getting a chance to be acknowledged
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: by the Country Music Awards for your musicianship as well
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: as your veteran status and your service to the country?
• 39:20
  Speaker 21: Well, I hate to take the words out of your mouth,
• 39:22
  Speaker 21: but it sure feels good, Craig.
• 39:24
  Speaker 14: It's your mouth.
• 39:27
  Speaker 21: It's just a wonderful feeling. and knowing that you have
• 39:31
  Speaker 21: your fellow veterans, the Gold Star families, and everybody out
• 39:35
  Speaker 21: there that are pulling for you. You know, that's the
• 39:38
  Speaker 21: reason that I do what I do, and I know
• 39:41
  Speaker 21: a lot of other people do what they do as well.
• 39:43
  Speaker 21: We do it for the families. We do it for
• 39:45
  Speaker 21: our fans. We do it for... the people that are
• 39:48
  Speaker 21: brought together by our music and our hard work. So
• 39:52
  Speaker 21: it's amazing.
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: Let me ask you this, because you referenced it for
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: the military community itself, because they are a very supportive,
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: very tight-knit group of individuals that you're a part of.
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: Do you think that that's a big reason that you've
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: seen some success in the world of music, not just talent,
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: but also the veterans who will probably respond to you
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: more once they know you're part of that brotherhood?
• 40:14
  Speaker 21: I think so, absolutely. You know, I think that's one
• 40:18
  Speaker 21: thing that I have come to realize over the years,
• 40:22
  Speaker 21: especially playing music, is some of the songs that I've
• 40:26
  Speaker 21: played that have a patriotic feel to it. One of
• 40:30
  Speaker 21: my most recent ones that was actually in the top
• 40:32
  Speaker 21: 30 called Stripes and Stars. You know, when I would
• 40:35
  Speaker 21: go out and I would play that song or I
• 40:37
  Speaker 21: would play, you know, Red, White and Blue Eyes or
• 40:39
  Speaker 21: Red Mexico or certain songs that connect with certain people.
• 40:43
  Speaker 21: we would come up and they would start telling me
• 40:45
  Speaker 21: their story. And lo and behold, you know, they would
• 40:48
  Speaker 21: either be a vet, you know, connected to a veteran
• 40:50
  Speaker 21: or veteran themselves, or maybe part of a gold star family,
• 40:55
  Speaker 21: or they had, you know, everybody, I think in some way,
• 40:58
  Speaker 21: form or fashion has some kind of connection to that world.
• 41:01
  Speaker 21: And so I think, like I was saying, you know,
• 41:04
  Speaker 21: music kind of brings those stories out sometimes. And it's really,
• 41:07
  Speaker 21: it's kind of fascinating. And it actually helps me with
• 41:10
  Speaker 21: my songwriting a lot because I have a lot of
• 41:13
  Speaker 21: people that I can pull from their experiences.
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was also curious if it's a catharsis for you.
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: I've talked to a lot of veterans during this segment
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: who do some sort of artistic endeavor, whether it's simply
• 41:26
  Speaker 5: like painting or something as.
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: Different as you and being a musician.
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: But do you think there's some sort of piece you
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: get and maybe some sort of way to work through
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: any of your feelings from your time in service and
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: your time being deployed into a combat situation to throw
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: your heart into music as much as it seems that
• 41:48
  Speaker 5: you do?
• 41:51
  Speaker 21: Absolutely, Craig. You know, I found a long time ago
• 41:57
  Speaker 21: that I've been blessed in the fact that I do
• 42:00
  Speaker 21: have music, which is very therapeutic for me, that I
• 42:03
  Speaker 21: can kind of express and get my feelings out or
• 42:06
  Speaker 21: get my emotions out, and they come across. Whereas there's
• 42:10
  Speaker 21: so many people out there that on a day-to-day basis,
• 42:13
  Speaker 21: they struggle with those experiences and with, you know, PTSD
• 42:18
  Speaker 21: and other things that they're going through. And, you know,
• 42:22
  Speaker 21: hopefully I'm praying that maybe through my music or other
• 42:26
  Speaker 21: people's or our reach out programs that, you know, or
• 42:30
  Speaker 21: the two-step foundation, we're able to reach those people and
• 42:33
  Speaker 21: let them know, Hey, you do have a voice. There
• 42:35
  Speaker 21: is somebody that, you know, understands, uh, to an extent,
• 42:38
  Speaker 21: what you're going through, and we can help each other.
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: Tell me about the Two-Step Foundation. What is it? How
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: does it work? How are you involved?
• 42:47
  Speaker 21: Well, the Two-Step Foundation was established in memory of my
• 42:52
  Speaker 21: very good friend, her son, Adam, who was a sergeant
• 42:56
  Speaker 21: in the United States Army. His nickname, of course, when
• 42:59
  Speaker 21: he was in was Two-Step. He unfortunately lost his life
• 43:03
  Speaker 21: while serving our country. And so.
• 43:07
  Speaker 21: Ever since then, Tracy has just felt this pull. Of course,
• 43:11
  Speaker 21: being a Gold Star mom, she started this foundation to
• 43:14
  Speaker 21: reach out and help other Gold Star families, other veterans.
• 43:18
  Speaker 21: And one of the main things that she focuses on
• 43:21
  Speaker 21: is the siblings as well is a very big focus
• 43:24
  Speaker 21: of her foundation because it's not just that one person
• 43:30
  Speaker 21: or that one family member that goes through these tragedies
• 43:32
  Speaker 21: and these traumatic experiences. It affects everybody. It's kind of
• 43:36
  Speaker 21: a ripple effect. And so by pulling in the veterans
• 43:40
  Speaker 21: and using music and kind of it establishes and, of course,
• 43:44
  Speaker 21: pulls other people in. And everybody likes to go out and,
• 43:47
  Speaker 21: you know, you can sit back and enjoy some music
• 43:50
  Speaker 21: and then meet some new friends and connect and support
• 43:54
  Speaker 21: each other. And, you know, it's just every chance I
• 43:57
  Speaker 21: get that Tracy calls, I can come. And when she
• 44:00
  Speaker 21: has her two-step foundation, you know, where she does her
• 44:04
  Speaker 21: fundraiser down there. I'm always there. She's always reaching out
• 44:09
  Speaker 21: to help others. And of course, I feel like that's
• 44:11
  Speaker 21: just a little bit I can do to help out
• 44:13
  Speaker 21: and reach.
• 44:14
  Speaker 5: So can you tell me, whenever we mention a veteran
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: that we know that lost his life, I do like
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: to remember them in a positive light. I think it's
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: something that you guys, anyone that serves in our military
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: does quite well. Can you give me some memories you
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: have of Sergeant Two Steps, some fun ones that you
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: can share with us to keep his memory alive?
• 44:34
  Speaker 21: You know, I will say this. I myself personally did
• 44:37
  Speaker 21: not know Adam, but I have gotten to know Tracy very,
• 44:40
  Speaker 21: very well. And, you know, she has shared some of
• 44:44
  Speaker 21: the similar stories that I've been through where you're with
• 44:48
  Speaker 21: your friends and, you know, you want to tell mom
• 44:51
  Speaker 21: that you're not going out partying, but she knows better. Tracy. First,
• 44:55
  Speaker 21: he says if they were a little too close sometimes,
• 44:58
  Speaker 21: he would overshare some things that maybe his son shouldn't
• 45:01
  Speaker 21: be telling his mom.
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: He's a veteran.
• 45:03
  Speaker 21: But from what I've gathered from other people that knew Adam,
• 45:08
  Speaker 21: he was just a wonderful person. He served his country proudly.
• 45:11
  Speaker 21: He liked to live life. He loved supporting his fellow friends.
• 45:17
  Speaker 21: And he just was just so proud to be in
• 45:21
  Speaker 21: the United States, serving the United States Army. I know
• 45:25
  Speaker 21: Tracy is proud of him, and I don't mean to
• 45:29
  Speaker 21: get too deep into this, Craig, but the way I
• 45:31
  Speaker 21: kind of feel like it is is Adam's looking down,
• 45:34
  Speaker 21: and I think that that's Tracy's big motivation, and that
• 45:38
  Speaker 21: is the foundation of the Two-Step Foundation is his memory,
• 45:42
  Speaker 21: and we can build upon that, and we can help others.
• 45:45
  Speaker 5: I can't tell you that I'm surprised that you've heard
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: stories about how Sergeant Two-Step was a partier, because it
• 45:50
  Speaker 5: does sound... You get that kind of nickname by having
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: a lot of fun. Tell me about your own experience
• 45:56
  Speaker 5: in the military. It is something I like to highlight
• 45:58
  Speaker 5: and do. As you said early on at the beginning
• 46:00
  Speaker 5: of this discussion, you served two tours in Iraq for
• 46:04
  Speaker 5: Operation Iraqi Freedom.
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: Do you mind sharing some of your experience protecting our country?
• 46:11
  Speaker 8: Absolutely.
• 46:12
  Speaker 21: You know, I will say this. When you're over there,
• 46:16
  Speaker 21: there is a bond that is just... It's created between
• 46:20
  Speaker 21: the people that go through what you've gone through. But
• 46:24
  Speaker 21: I will say, while I was over there, some of
• 46:27
  Speaker 21: the things that we went through we don't really like
• 46:30
  Speaker 21: to talk about. But the fun things I can tell
• 46:32
  Speaker 21: you is when I first got over there, Craig, I
• 46:35
  Speaker 21: saw this guy that I was replacing, and he had
• 46:38
  Speaker 21: a $ 20 guitar that he was going to sell me.
• 46:41
  Speaker 21: And the strings were all dried out from the desert air.
• 46:45
  Speaker 6: Sure.
• 46:45
  Speaker 21: The wood was all, you know, whatever. It was not
• 46:47
  Speaker 21: a very expensive guitar, but I retaught myself how to play.
• 46:52
  Speaker 21: And we also, when we would travel up and down
• 46:56
  Speaker 21: doing our patrols in Iraq, we had it rigged up
• 47:00
  Speaker 21: where we could listen to our music while we were patrolling.
• 47:04
  Speaker 21: We probably weren't supposed to be doing that. But you
• 47:06
  Speaker 21: know what we.
• 47:08
  Speaker 14: Well, we kind of figured.
• 47:09
  Speaker 21: You know, we're serving our country. We're kind of putting
• 47:12
  Speaker 21: our lives on the line. You know, we're in a
• 47:13
  Speaker 21: combat zone. I think we're allowed to enjoy ourselves with
• 47:16
  Speaker 21: a little bit of music.
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: I think you are. I think that's totally fine.
• 47:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 47:20
  Speaker 21: Yeah. But, you know, I think that also it opened
• 47:23
  Speaker 21: up my eyes, you know, because you pull from different
• 47:27
  Speaker 21: people around the entire country.
• 47:29
  Speaker 11: Sure.
• 47:30
  Speaker 21: And you meet different people. Just in my platoon alone,
• 47:33
  Speaker 21: I had, you know, a friend from Alaska, a friend
• 47:35
  Speaker 21: from Georgia.
• 47:36
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 47:36
  Speaker 21: A friend from California. I'm from Texas. But music, of course,
• 47:42
  Speaker 21: brought us all together. And of course, being in that
• 47:45
  Speaker 21: particular instance in a combat zone, you all pull together
• 47:49
  Speaker 21: and remember what you're doing this for and what you're
• 47:52
  Speaker 21: fighting for. And the one experience I can share with you, Craig,
• 47:57
  Speaker 21: and I love this story because it is what has
• 47:59
  Speaker 21: motivated me to continue my journey in music is I
• 48:03
  Speaker 21: lost a very dear friend of mine overseas, Specialist Lex Nelson,
• 48:08
  Speaker 21: and we did his ceremony. I had to perform the
• 48:12
  Speaker 21: national anthem, and that was very tough for me to do,
• 48:16
  Speaker 21: of course, because he was just like a brother to
• 48:19
  Speaker 21: me and all of us in our section. And when
• 48:22
  Speaker 21: we performed that 21-gun salute, I don't think there was
• 48:26
  Speaker 21: a dry eye in there. Sure. But I remember afterwards,
• 48:30
  Speaker 21: my platoon sergeant walked up to me and he said,
• 48:33
  Speaker 21: you made Lex proud. You made all of us proud.
• 48:36
  Speaker 21: And when you get out of the military, you better
• 48:38
  Speaker 21: continue on with this music thing. You better keep making
• 48:40
  Speaker 21: us proud. And I made him a promise that I
• 48:43
  Speaker 21: would do that. And hopefully I've kept my word to
• 48:46
  Speaker 21: this day.
• 48:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, you're about to be given an award from
• 48:49
  Speaker 5: the Country Music Awards here in Texas. So I think
• 48:53
  Speaker 5: you have done that. I want more question for you.
• 48:56
  Speaker 5: And then I have Stars and Stripes and Stars. You
• 48:58
  Speaker 5: mentioned it. We could play it to close with about
• 49:01
  Speaker 5: six minutes left. It's a three minute song. So the
• 49:04
  Speaker 5: last thing I can ask you, because I'm intrigued by it.
• 49:06
  Speaker 5: You said someone gave you a guitar when you first
• 49:08
  Speaker 5: got to Iraq. Were there a lot of moments where
• 49:12
  Speaker 5: it was just you and your guitar and you were
• 49:15
  Speaker 5: trying to deal with maybe some of those things you
• 49:17
  Speaker 5: don't want to talk about on the show and the
• 49:18
  Speaker 5: guitar really helped you?
• 49:19
  Speaker 6: A lot?
• 49:22
  Speaker 21: Absolutely. That is where in the military is kind of
• 49:26
  Speaker 21: where the spark for writing music kind of was reignited.
• 49:32
  Speaker 21: And a lot of my first songs that I wrote
• 49:35
  Speaker 21: were about some of those experiences that we were going through. And,
• 49:41
  Speaker 21: you know, going back to what we were talking about earlier,
• 49:44
  Speaker 21: it was very therapeutic. But some of my early songs,
• 49:48
  Speaker 21: it was because of the things that we went through.
• 49:49
  Speaker 9: Sure.
• 49:50
  Speaker 21: The things that maybe I wouldn't want to share with
• 49:53
  Speaker 21: a lot of people. But just like you were saying,
• 49:56
  Speaker 21: it helped me get it out. And it helped me
• 49:58
  Speaker 21: develop now where I can do it through my music nowadays.
• 50:03
  Speaker 19: Wow.
• 50:03
  Speaker 21: And I can share it with the veterans and people saying, hey,
• 50:06
  Speaker 21: I've been through that experience. This is the way I
• 50:08
  Speaker 21: was able to deal with it. Let me help you
• 50:10
  Speaker 21: if I can help you in any way. Deal with it.
• 50:13
  Speaker 21: And if not that way, let's find you some help. Because,
• 50:16
  Speaker 21: you know, you know this as well as I do.
• 50:18
  Speaker 21: There are 22 veterans a day that commit suicide in
• 50:23
  Speaker 21: their lives. And it is very sad. And, of course,
• 50:27
  Speaker 21: anything that we can do on our end to help
• 50:30
  Speaker 21: and just a little bit I can do if it's
• 50:32
  Speaker 21: through my music. Of course, you know, Tracy's doing everything
• 50:35
  Speaker 21: she can do through the Two Step Foundation. And, of course,
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  Speaker 21: I want to do my part. And I can tell
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  Speaker 21: that you're doing your part as well, Craig, through these interviews,
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  Speaker 21: which it is so great to get our voices out
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  Speaker 21: there because there's so many people that connect with us.
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  Speaker 21: with veterans that are either going through it now or
• 50:54
  Speaker 21: have been through it.
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  Speaker 8: Amen.
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  Speaker 5: So we have about three minutes left, so with your
• 50:58
  Speaker 5: permission again, we could close with this last song, but
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  Speaker 5: I just want to tell people that they can go
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  Speaker 5: see you on October 14th for the Sergeant Two-Step Foundation
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  Speaker 5: in association with the Country Music Awards of Texas. They'll
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  Speaker 5: be honoring you at the Country Music Texas Award Show
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  Speaker 5: that's at the Big Barn in the Woodlands, which is very,
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  Speaker 5: very cool. But do I have your permission to play
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  Speaker 5: as much as I can of Stripes and Stars to
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  Speaker 5: close this?
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  Speaker 21: You've got two thumbs up, Craig.
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  Speaker 14: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: It's been an honor to speak to you, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you so much for your service and for your
• 51:29
  Speaker 5: willingness to come on the show today and promoting a
• 51:32
  Speaker 5: really cool event that's coming up.
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  Speaker 4: And it does benefit the Sergeant Two Steps Foundation, I imagine.
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  Speaker 4: Is that true? If people go out and buy tickets
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  Speaker 4: to this?
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  Speaker 21: That is correct. And thank you so much for having
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  Speaker 21: me on today. It was an honor. And I really
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  Speaker 21: appreciate it, and thank you so much.
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  Speaker 4: You're awesome.
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  Speaker 5: All right, we're going to play a little bit of
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  Speaker 5: Stripes and Stars before we get out of here on
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  Speaker 5: The Voice of Texas.
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  Speaker 9: I've been burned, torn, weathered, and worn. I've been loved
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  Speaker 9: and hated, still proud, but a little faded.
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  Speaker 17: I've been to hell and back.
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  Speaker 4: I still stand.
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  Speaker 17: Tall in the middle of it all.
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  Speaker 24: And I will fly high as I'll be damned if
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  Speaker 24: I fall When the smoke clears and the war is
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  Speaker 24: won The battle cries are.
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  Speaker 17: Left unsung Proudly wear the scars Cause.
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  Speaker 13: I am stripes and stars.
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  Speaker 15: The colors of freedom. Faith and union.
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  Speaker 17: Red, white, and blue.
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  Speaker 15: Proof that love exists and hope does too.
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  Speaker 17: Dreams are.
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  Speaker 24: As I'll be damned if I fall When the smoke
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  Speaker 24: clears and the war is won The battle cries are
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  Speaker 24: left unsung Grab me where the stars As I strive
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  Speaker 24: and start.
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  Speaker 23: I'll be damned.
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  Speaker 13: If I fall When the smoke clears and the war
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  Speaker 13: is won The battlegrounds are left unsung
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  Speaker 17: Proudly wear the scar AM 700