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9-2-26 KSEV Mornings with Craig and Wayne Hour 2 · KSEV Mornings with Craig and Wayne

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  Speaker 1: From Houston and across the great state of Texas, this is....
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  Speaker 2: Mean anything at all no it's crazy welcome to the thunderdome.
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  Speaker 1: People news opinions politics and the stories that matter to.
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  Speaker 3: Texans i shaved for this.
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  Speaker 1: Here are your hosts craig collins and wayne dolcefino.
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  Speaker 4: Remember everyone just don't be yourselves.
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  Speaker 1: On ksev am 700 the voice of texas yes that's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: And now, Craig Collins and Wayne Dolcefino.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, Dana.
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  Speaker 6: This is the Craig Collins and Wayne Dolcefino morning show
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  Speaker 6: on KSEV. I think we actually call it KSEV mornings
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  Speaker 6: with Craig and Wayne. Wayne is on special assignment today,
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  Speaker 6: so he is not available. He will be here tomorrow, though,
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  Speaker 6: although he will be on via some connections from afar
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  Speaker 6: kind of thing. He'll be connected to the show in
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  Speaker 6: kind of an interesting way. And I think it's the
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  Speaker 6: first time we're going to attempt that. So I wish
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  Speaker 6: Jack and I a whole lot of luck as we
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  Speaker 6: attempt to get that done. Let's get to some of
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  Speaker 6: the news things that I think are important today that
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  Speaker 6: I'd like to discuss. First is a reaction to the
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  Speaker 6: latest and craziest thing that James Tallarico said. I talked
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  Speaker 6: about it earlier. We'll probably talk about it a lot today.
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  Speaker 7: Here we go.
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  Speaker 8: This is James Tallarico, but there is stuff coming out
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  Speaker 8: about him as well.
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  Speaker 9: Here he is.
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  Speaker 8: He wants to dismantle capitalism.
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  Speaker 10: Watch.
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  Speaker 8: I saw firsthand the challenges that my students faced. Every
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  Speaker 8: day working in that neighborhood, I quickly realized how so
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  Speaker 8: many oppressive systems from the lack of access to health care,
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  Speaker 8: to climate injustice, to a broken criminal justice system hold
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  Speaker 8: my students back. The more I have done this work
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  Speaker 8: at the Capitol, the more I'm committed to helping to
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  Speaker 8: dismantle unjust systems across our state.
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  Speaker 6: He says dismantle white supremacy, climate change and capitalism.
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  Speaker 4: He did.
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  Speaker 11: I mean, he's memorized a whole bunch of really outdated,
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  Speaker 11: woke talking points, just like his ideas about God having
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  Speaker 11: multiple genders.
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  Speaker 10: Get him, Miranda. Again, not a real person.
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  Speaker 6: And he's, you know, I mean, actually, I want to
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  Speaker 6: stop right there. I kept it for that last part
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  Speaker 6: because I love when she says he's not a real person.
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  Speaker 6: He doesn't exist in Texas. And what I mean by
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  Speaker 6: that is, by and large, the vast majority of people
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  Speaker 6: in this state don't think any of the things he's
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  Speaker 6: saying are things that we would want to, you know,
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  Speaker 6: actually have in a position of power in this state
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  Speaker 6: because none of us believe them. None of us think
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  Speaker 6: these things. It's only the crazy, insane people who predominantly
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  Speaker 6: don't actually live in Texas. Most of those Democratic socialists
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  Speaker 6: are in other places, and they're the ones feeding money
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  Speaker 6: to Tallarico's campaign to try to get him to win
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  Speaker 6: a Senate seat here. They don't live here because Texas
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  Speaker 6: is not really a place that would tolerate a lot
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  Speaker 6: of those opinions. Well, you would not win a lot
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  Speaker 6: of elections if you're someone who wanted those thoughts represented
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  Speaker 6: in although Harris County. And I feel like there are
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  Speaker 6: some other places where we at least have some people
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  Speaker 6: dabbling in the world of democratic socialism. that we need
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  Speaker 6: to make sure to stop. I also want to play this, Tom,
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  Speaker 6: Holman audio that I thought was pretty interesting.
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  Speaker 12: Does Border Patrol do anything to stop these businesses from trafficking,
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  Speaker 12: you know, people in just to have babies?
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  Speaker 13: Well, it's not Border Patrol. It would be Homeland Security Investigation,
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  Speaker 13: the Division of ICE, and President Trump's right. We know
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  Speaker 13: of about 25,000 to 30,000 a year that are occurring.
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  Speaker 13: And it's the misuse of the visa process. Getting a
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  Speaker 13: visa is a privilege coming to this country. And when
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  Speaker 13: you lie and commit fraud saying you're coming here for work,
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  Speaker 13: but you're actually coming here to get birthed, I mean,
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  Speaker 13: that's a violation of the law. But what's most important,
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  Speaker 13: what concerns me the most, is the national security issue.
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  Speaker 13: Because two of the biggest abusers of this process is
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  Speaker 13: Russia and China. So you're going to have hundreds of
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  Speaker 13: thousands of U.S. citizens living in Russia and China that
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  Speaker 13: can come back here and vote, can run for political office,
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  Speaker 13: and can get a government job. So it's a huge,
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  Speaker 13: huge national security issue.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 12: I mean, we've seen reports of young women saying that
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  Speaker 12: they came in just to get the passport and then
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  Speaker 12: they're heading back to China.
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  Speaker 6: It's pretty shocking.
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  Speaker 12: I want to switch gears.
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  Speaker 6: What's your take on this?
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  Speaker 12: Can the Border Patrol do anything to stop?
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  Speaker 6: That real quick is my mouse has now disappeared on
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  Speaker 6: the computer, which is odd for me to get that
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  Speaker 6: to fix. I don't know why we're having so many
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  Speaker 6: gremlins today. There we go. That's better. But this is
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  Speaker 6: another of the big things. that I think should matter
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  Speaker 6: a lot to more people and don't. If you're talking
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  Speaker 6: about birth tourism, specifically in our state, we are seeing
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  Speaker 6: way more of this than you would have assumed we'd
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  Speaker 6: be seeing. I think there's a lot of people who
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  Speaker 6: just wrongfully believe. They're like, ah, that's not actually happening
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  Speaker 6: in Texas. And then you had the report of the
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  Speaker 6: billboards that people are driving past as they're driving into
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  Speaker 6: our state from another country. driving through McAllen or through
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  Speaker 6: the southern parts of the state, and they're seeing literal
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  Speaker 6: advertisements for birth tourism types of behavior. And you're scratching
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  Speaker 6: your head and you're saying to yourself, like, who's going
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  Speaker 6: to fix this? Who's going to get this done? Who's
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  Speaker 6: going to get this to be a thing that can't
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  Speaker 6: happen anymore? And then President Trump makes an attempt. President
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  Speaker 6: Trump goes the road of, I would like to see
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  Speaker 6: a whole lot less of this occur in our country.
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  Speaker 6: And then part of what he attempts to do to
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  Speaker 6: stop it gets spiked down by the Supreme Court, which
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  Speaker 6: was crazy. And Amy Comey Barrett was one of the
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  Speaker 6: big problems there in any sort of attempt to change
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  Speaker 6: a birthright citizenship itself because it never, ever was intended.
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  Speaker 6: I'll say this just clearly, and you should know this
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  Speaker 6: if you've paid any attention at all to this show,
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  Speaker 6: and I'm sure Sal Sato, when he talked about this
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  Speaker 6: topic or just any sort of historical information on it,
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  Speaker 6: because they debated it. Like, here's the funniest thing. I'll
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  Speaker 6: say this about birthright tourism just quickly and not necessarily
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  Speaker 6: intent to do a big, giant topic on it on
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  Speaker 6: the show today. But the funniest part to me is
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  Speaker 6: they debated this back when they wrote the bill. This
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  Speaker 6: is real. They actually debated whether or not it made
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  Speaker 6: sense for people to just be able to to walk
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  Speaker 6: into our country, pop out a child and have that
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  Speaker 6: child be someone who had U.S. citizenship. And the biggest
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  Speaker 6: argument being made by the people who fought the bill
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  Speaker 6: when it was first passed. over 100 years ago were
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  Speaker 6: saying that they thought that would be a problem and
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  Speaker 6: that would be wrong. And the big political win then
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  Speaker 6: was it wasn't going to happen very much. It was
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  Speaker 6: a real thing. People were like, ah, how could that happen?
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  Speaker 6: And now all these years later, you see how technology
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  Speaker 6: has advanced beyond the ability that people could have projected
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  Speaker 6: a certain number of years ago. And you say to yourself,
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  Speaker 6: of course, this is not the design of this bill
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  Speaker 6: to allow people to just fly on a plane and
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  Speaker 6: At eight and a half months pregnant, pop out a
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  Speaker 6: kid that has U.S. citizenship and then fly back. Like,
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  Speaker 6: of course, that's not the intention of birthright citizenship in
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  Speaker 6: this country. It was actually very much to respond to slaves,
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  Speaker 6: children and slaves themselves who wanted to be thought of
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  Speaker 6: as citizens and deserve to be thought of as citizens.
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  Speaker 6: And an easier conduit to that than anything else. If
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  Speaker 6: you were born here in the United States, you got citizenship.
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  Speaker 6: It should have been like up until a certain point.
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  Speaker 6: They shouldn't have passed it forever. They should have said, like,
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  Speaker 6: we get another 30 years from right now where anybody
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  Speaker 6: born here is a citizen and then we're going to
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  Speaker 6: cap it. But again, they couldn't have projected the world
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  Speaker 6: we live in now and the ability for someone to
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  Speaker 6: easily come here and have a child. So what did
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  Speaker 6: Trump do? He tried to get rid of it. And
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  Speaker 6: the biggest part to me of that conversation that people
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  Speaker 6: seem to not understand at all, or at least as
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  Speaker 6: much as they really should understand it, when Trump tries
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  Speaker 6: to get rid of the citizenship, is that most other
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  Speaker 6: countries don't have this in Europe. A few other countries
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  Speaker 6: on this side of the pond do, but most of
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  Speaker 6: the places that you'd want to live do not allow
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  Speaker 6: you to have citizenship just by being born somewhere. It's
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  Speaker 6: actually quite a bit more difficult than that. Why is that?
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  Speaker 6: Why do you think that exists? And, of course, the
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  Speaker 6: reason is because if they had what we had, they'd
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  Speaker 6: have the problem we have, and we don't have a
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  Speaker 6: better way to address it.
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  Speaker 11: So.
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  Speaker 6: Hopefully in the future we can get some things changed
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  Speaker 6: and find more ways to circumvent this. But right now
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  Speaker 6: the best fight we have is what Tom Holman is doing.
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  Speaker 6: The best avenue to preventing people from continuing to pay
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  Speaker 6: money and pop out kids here in the United States
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  Speaker 6: that they then hop on a plane and fly back
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  Speaker 6: to wherever they're from. Mostly this is happening a lot
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  Speaker 6: with people from China. The best way to fight that
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  Speaker 6: is to tell Holman and Homeland Security to do their
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  Speaker 6: job because unfortunately the Supreme Court chose not to do
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  Speaker 6: its job. when President Trump tried to make this whole
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  Speaker 6: thing harder. But I'll say one last part about this
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  Speaker 6: as I rant on this topic. I do think inevitably,
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  Speaker 6: at some point in the future, it will go away
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  Speaker 6: because it's an unsustainable philosophy here in the United States.
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  Speaker 6: It's not going to work forever. It's not working now.
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  Speaker 6: At some point, more of the people who fight this,
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  Speaker 6: I believe, will inevitably agree with it. I just hate
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  Speaker 6: the fact that it'll take however much longer for us
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  Speaker 6: to get there, where birthright citizenship won't be a thing
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  Speaker 6: anymore in this country, because it's only damaging the country
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  Speaker 6: more until we get to that point. But it'll happen eventually,
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  Speaker 6: hopefully in my lifetime. All right, quick break. There's a
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  Speaker 6: lot to talk about and a lot to discuss. I
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  Speaker 6: thought there was a really interesting hearing that happened yesterday
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  Speaker 6: that you probably didn't pay much attention to.
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  Speaker 1: A father.
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  Speaker 6: A person who was a victim of an illegal alien
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  Speaker 6: commercial truck driver. testified in front of Congress and absolutely
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  Speaker 6: flamed Democrats for what they deny of that situation. We'll
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  Speaker 6: play that audio and more in just a bit. This
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  Speaker 6: is week two of this show. Very, very happy to
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  Speaker 6: I want to play some audio from testimony that happened
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  Speaker 6: yesterday that I thought was incredibly powerful. This was a
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  Speaker 6: lot of places. It was fairly viral. The father, his
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  Speaker 6: name is Marcus Coleman. was incredibly upset with Democrats after
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  Speaker 6: an illegal alien truck driver plowed into him and his family,
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  Speaker 6: leaving his five-year-old daughter permanently disabled. Of course, he has
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  Speaker 6: every right to be upset, by the way, about the
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  Speaker 6: policies that allow for something as horrible as this to occur.
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  Speaker 6: But here's the thing that matters more than just the
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  Speaker 6: simple fact that this is a truth and that if
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  Speaker 6: you're a Democrat, you might think that Republicans had to
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  Speaker 6: go looking for someone to say the thing out loud
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  Speaker 6: that they believe. What matters more is hearing his voice
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  Speaker 6: and hearing him talk about it. And a lot of
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  Speaker 6: media will ignore this because they don't like the way
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  Speaker 6: it reinforces the narrative. They don't like it at all.
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  Speaker 6: So they'll be very, very upset with that, and they'll
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  Speaker 6: do whatever they can to attack it. But here, let's
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  Speaker 6: play part of this audio right now. This is, again,
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  Speaker 6: testimony in front of Congress by a Mr. Coleman, Marcus Coleman,
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  Speaker 6: whose family was hurt, and his daughter, five years old,
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  Speaker 6: permanently disabled because an illegal alien was driving a truck
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  Speaker 6: that they shouldn't have been driving in a country they
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  Speaker 6: shouldn't have been in. Let's actually make sure that this
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  Speaker 6: audio plays, and.
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  Speaker 10: There we go. Right here.
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  Speaker 15: How are you guys not fighting for this? I reject
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  Speaker 15: your guys' sympathy, to be honest with you. There's no
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  Speaker 15: way you guys are sorry. Not one of you guys
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  Speaker 15: have ever called me. Not one of you guys have
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  Speaker 15: ever reached out to me. Not one of you guys
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  Speaker 15: have ever sat there and seen me in the hallways
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  Speaker 15: and said, hey, sorry about your daughter. You guys do
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  Speaker 15: it right here while you guys are grandstanding on top
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  Speaker 15: of your soapbox. This is when you guys care. Right
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  Speaker 15: here inside this room is the only time you guys care.
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  Speaker 15: I've never received anything from anybody over here at all
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  Speaker 15: regarding my daughter or my family or anything.
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  Speaker 10: Hey, Mr.
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  Speaker 15: Coleman, your guys' Delilah Law, I want to help you
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  Speaker 15: revise it so that we're interested inside of it.
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  Speaker 10: Nothing.
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  Speaker 15: You guys have no pathway to anything. You guys want
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  Speaker 15: to sit there and talk about the pathway to citizenship.
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  Speaker 10: There is a pathway.
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  Speaker 15: It's not jump the fence and apply. That's not the
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  Speaker 15: way it goes. There's a process to get it done.
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  Speaker 15: You don't just do that. I can't just go over
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  Speaker 15: there and go sit down inside one of those seats
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  Speaker 15: and become a Democrat.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, you know what? I probably could. I honestly probably could.
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  Speaker 10: So I'm not even going to say that.
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  Speaker 6: That's great.
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  Speaker 15: But I can't go inside a hospital and become a
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  Speaker 15: doctor just because I want to and go put on
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  Speaker 15: a coat and come to work.
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  Speaker 10: It's getting ridiculous the way things are going now.
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  Speaker 6: Amen.
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  Speaker 10: It honestly is. It makes no sense at all.
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  Speaker 15: Sanctuary cities allow so much to be done that it's
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  Speaker 15: almost like the parents not there to take care of
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  Speaker 15: the household.
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  Speaker 10: And everybody's running around and doing what they want to do.
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  Speaker 10: And it sucks.
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  Speaker 15: It honestly does. You guys sit there and you guys
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  Speaker 15: talk about ICE invading cities and doing this and doing that.
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  Speaker 15: I agree with Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Gordon. Jordan, sorry. That if you guys, if the state
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  Speaker 10: sat there and told.
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  Speaker 15: Them come pick up the person, it would take one
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  Speaker 15: or two people to go do it. Instead, they got
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  Speaker 15: to send an army out there because now they have
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  Speaker 15: to look for them. And then since it's a sanctuary state,
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  Speaker 15: you got people sitting there abusing the ICE officers that
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  Speaker 15: are out there. I have a whole statement right here
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  Speaker 15: that I was going to read to you guys. But
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  Speaker 15: just listening to you guys, none of this is relevant
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  Speaker 15: anymore because you guys just changed so much.
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  Speaker 10: It makes no sense at all.
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  Speaker 15: My daughter doesn't deserve this. She didn't ask for any
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  Speaker 15: of this. The people that jumped the fence did, though.
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  Speaker 15: They knew exactly what they were doing. They still chose
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  Speaker 15: to move forward in that direction. And every day something's
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  Speaker 15: happening to somebody. And it is your guys' fault. I
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  Speaker 15: hold each and every one of you responsible for it.
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  Speaker 15: And I always will.
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  Speaker 6: I think that's excellent. And what I think is most
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  Speaker 6: excellent about it, and of course somebody somewhere will say
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  Speaker 6: it's racist somehow, even though the guy is not actually
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  Speaker 6: a typical white guy, throwing that information out there, but
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  Speaker 6: he is the father of a victim, a five-year-old who
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  Speaker 6: was permanently disabled because of an illegal alien behind the
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  Speaker 6: wheel of a truck that crashed into them. And so
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  Speaker 6: here's the part that matters to you and to me
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  Speaker 6: about this is the intention of media or politicians or others,
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  Speaker 6: as he says at the beginning of his statement, to
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  Speaker 6: ignore him, to pretend he doesn't exist, to continue to
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: say out loud that this doesn't happen at all, that
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: the people who are talking about this are just racist
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: and inventing it because of that prejudice that they have
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: in their hearts and not actually the reality of the
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: people that are saying this happened to my family. And
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: it's your fault until you stop it from happening to
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: the next family or the family after them or or
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: every family for the rest of history. You can never
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: allow this to happen again. You need to be the
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: ones that hold the accountability for the decisions you're making.
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: It's it's truly the way that I think a lot
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: of these discussions in politics to be a macro and
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: somewhat on a soapbox today deserve to go. There's so
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: many things where and I love the fact that he says, too.
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: that no matter how you grandstand in front of the world,
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: no matter how you do it in front of the country,
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: the reality of what you're doing behind closed doors is
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: not at all comparable to who you're pretending to be
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: in those moments where the camera and the microphone are
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: in front of you, even though Democrats, by and large,
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: still in those circumstances reject any of the change that
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: needs to be made to fix this problem. But the
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: thing that I love so much that he says behind
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: closed doors, none of you have reached out to me.
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: None of you have talked to me. None of you
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: even said we're so sorry for your family and for
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: your daughter because they know they're responsible for this. They
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: know that they're doing this just to win elections. The
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: Democrats believe, you know this and I know this, that
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: allowing the border to be open, allowing people to potentially
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: get the right to live here just means that they
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: get more votes and more races and win more elections.
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: That's all they care about. If a five year old
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: is permanently disabled because of someone who was not supposed
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: to be in this country doing something they're obviously not
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: supposed to do, that's the cost of doing business for them.
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: I've said this before and I'll say it again about Democrats.
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: And I mean this profoundly differently than just the simplistic
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: statement of they want to win elections because both sides
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: want that. Republicans, of course, want to win elections. Democrats do.
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: Anyone that runs for political office. wants to win the
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: thing they're running for. But the way they go about
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: fighting for that win, the things they're willing to sacrifice
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: along the way to get that win should be disgusting
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: to you and to me. In this case specifically, in
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: this type of conversation specifically, this should be beyond the cost.
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: This should be the thing that you say out loud,
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: all right, we can't do that. And I do believe
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: at some point, a long time ago in this country,
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: people on both sides were able to come together and say,
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: you know what, this is too far. This is the
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: line we cannot cross. That doesn't exist anymore. And it
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: hasn't existed for quite some time. And you get to
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: a place now, and I believe this to be the
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: next step in the evolution of this type of behavior,
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: political behavior. You get to the place now where the
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: Democrats think they can just sell communism and socialism to
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: the American people. Like, well, that's that's got to be
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: what we do next. It's because of these small breaks,
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: these small surrenders of this over here, that over there,
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: this belief, this this value that the United States should
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: have that we no longer have, that we abandon. It's
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: because of those decisions that we get to the point
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: where people can even remotely say or believe that they'd
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: win an election claiming that they're going to do more
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: as the government to make your life better. And you
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: know that. And I know that is completely not true.
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: Completely not the case and not not even something they're
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: capable of doing. But that's the path they go when
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: they realize that they can throw the border open, that
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: they can have the horrible issues like this occur in
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: our society and they don't lose elections. They should lose
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: massive amounts of elections on this topic alone because of
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: the actual harm and damage it's doing to our society
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: and to our country. Those things should matter. And yet,
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: of course, they they don't. And I actually this is
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: probably the most frustrating thing. that I talk about in
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: the world of politics or the world of... I even
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: just think this is like our day-to-day lives, a version
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: of a conversation. But this is the thing that drives
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: me the craziest. And I think I've been saying it
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: the whole show, so I'll just say it again because
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: it's truly what it is. The fact that the results,
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: the proof, isn't evaluated better by the average everyday American
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: who votes for these things on a certain side of
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: the aisle, that they don't actually evaluate the end results
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: the cause and effect components to how they make their
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: political decisions. Because if they did, you'd think that some
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: of this would get through. Some of these things would
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: be more easily discussed in a rational way between both
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: sides without the side that's trying to do the bad thing,
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: trying to couch whatever you disagree with them on as
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: racism and sexism and something that's not. I'm married to
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: a woman who was born in Mexico and is a U.S. citizen.
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: I don't dislike illegal immigration laws because I'm a racist.
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: That's an insane thing to say. I dislike it because
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: it's harming our country. It's harming our society and it's
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: harming people and families. I like the family of that
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: individual that spoke in front of Congress, of Marcus Coleman
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: and his five-year-old daughter. That's why I don't like it.
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: And that's why you shouldn't like it either. All right,
• 22:21
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• 22:23
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Craig, I appreciate you having me on this morning.
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  Speaker 6: No, I'm thrilled to have you on, man. A lot
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  Speaker 7: Sure.
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  Speaker 4: The website is vtexasvoice.com, vtexasvoice.com. And basically, it's a news website.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, to have someone reporting news and information about
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  Speaker 4: highlighting work that conservatives are doing to make lives better
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  Speaker 6: Well, and honestly, and even further, I know you got
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  Speaker 6: social media pages, too, at the TX voice that people
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: can check out. But let's get right to some of
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: the topics. Dishonorable conduct. Plumbers bid for Harris County. A
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: judge clattered by professional controversies. Support from far left policies.
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: I love the headline. I love the story. Can we
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: dive into that one first?
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  Speaker 10: Absolutely.
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: And the term dishonorable conduct, I have that in quotations
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: because it's not just personal opinion because I'm with this website.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: Although I have my own opinions, I'm certainly happy to
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: share those with you and your audience. On the website,
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: I'm fact-based. Again, our only agenda is the truth. So
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: this woman, Letitia Plummer, she was on Houston City Council,
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: now the Democrat nominee for Harris County judge. Not many
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: people know a whole lot about her background, so I
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: kind of did a deep dive on her and found some,
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: quite frankly, very interesting, some may say disturbing things that
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: speak to her character and fitness to run Harris County.
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: Well, and you even looked at her dental practice. Why
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: don't we start there as far as what some of
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: these things are? Yeah, go ahead.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: Sure. Right now, Harris County wants to ask taxpayers for
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: more of their hard-earned money, as they've done the last
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: several years under the leadership of Lena Hidalgo. Letitia Plummer
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: running with Lena Hidalgo's endorsement. I know there's a lot
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: of conservatives who can't believe that she might be worse
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: than Lena Hidalgo, but that's kind of the consensus I'm
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: hearing from some of my friends here locally that she
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: may even be more extreme. But when you're running a
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: huge government entity like Harris County, I think your business
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: and professional background is absolutely relevant. to your competence and
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: the way that you're going to administer billions of taxpayer dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Of course.
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: So in her dental practice, she's actually been sanctioned twice
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: by the state dental board, the Texas Board of Dental Examiners.
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: And her most recent sanction, which came in 2022, the
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: state dental board I want to make sure I.
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: Get all this correct. It's okay. I'll give you a
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: sec to pull it up.
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: It said Letitia Plummer, quote, engaged in dishonorable conduct and
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: violated her duty of fair dealing with respect to a
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: particular patient by overcharging them. And then there's all sorts
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: of other, you know, there's a whole laundry list, both
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: in the 2022 sanctions and a sanction that she had
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: received several years prior about just the sloppiness and the
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: way she ran her dental practice.
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: She's been fined thousands of dollars. She had to do
• 30:56
  Speaker 6: continuing education. So many crazy things happened there. So here's
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: the real point to discuss this, and we can get
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: more into the details of how Plummer herself is terrible
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: as a person, which seems to be pretty much the
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: takeaway from your article. But what's funny to me, and
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: this is what I'd love you to react to, Mark,
• 31:13
  Speaker 6: is that this debate about Paxton and who he is
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: as a person, like what things he might or might
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: not do in the world of a Senate seat if
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: he got one, is so relevant, it appears, to so
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: many people who are just going to willfully ignore the
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: terrible baggage that comes with the vast majority of the
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: politicians on the left that they're going to vote for.
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: So even though they say that they're people who care
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: about the quality of the person, they evidently don't. They
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: very hypocritically don't. Time and again, when it comes to
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: the things you can find or others can find, out
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: a lot of these people as just awful people. How
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: do you want to respond to that?
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, 1,000%. I mean, when you
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: look at Letitia Plummer's record, not only did she have
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: these professional sanctions from the state dental board, but she's
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: also had state and federal tax liens, one of which,
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: one federal tax lien, was for over $ 100, 000 before she
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: eventually got those resolved. But still, I mean, if she...
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: If she's not able to pay her own taxes, why
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: should she be asking the taxpayers of Harris County for
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: more of their hard-earned money? And she loves to do that. Yeah,
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: when she was on Houston City Council, she was an
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: extremely vocal proponent of a tax increase that even other
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: Democrats on the Houston City Council were like, hey, we're
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: not doing this.
• 32:39
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: Yeah, no, it's amazing to have that conversation about the
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: way in which, again, the people that they fight to
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: support are identical, if not worse than just from a
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: human behavior standpoint. to the people that they claim they
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: can never vote for on the other side of the aisle.
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: And a lot of it, to a certain extent, has
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: little to do with how they govern. But you make
• 33:03
  Speaker 6: a very good argument in this article and in general
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: that if it's about money and the handling of money
• 33:08
  Speaker 6: and you're going to wind up being someone who's very
• 33:10
  Speaker 6: influential in how certain financial decisions are made, that this
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: is relevant to what you'll actually do in a government
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: position because you've proven you can't be trusted. It's like
• 33:20
  Speaker 6: Having someone steal from your business and then being like,
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: all right, let's put you in charge of a lot
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: more stuff instead of firing you. We need to fire
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: more of these politicians for this type of behavior and
• 33:31
  Speaker 6: this type of rhetoric. And it just doesn't happen, which
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: which mystifies me. And do you think like a caller
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: did who called in earlier to the show that part
• 33:40
  Speaker 6: of the reason why, especially when it comes to property tax?
• 33:43
  Speaker 6: is a whole lot of people don't even pay attention
• 33:45
  Speaker 6: to how much property tax they're paying. They should be,
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: but a lot of people who support these policies and
• 33:50
  Speaker 6: potentially are harmed by them, uh, simply turn the blind
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: eye accidentally or on purpose to the reality of two,
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: $ 300 hikes year in and year out to how much
• 34:00
  Speaker 6: you're paying in property taxes each year.
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: No, it's some of the two, especially, uh, with, with
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: younger voters. I think you and I are both what
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: they call elder millennials. Uh, you know, I've, I'm personally
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: a homeowner, so I see it, I feel it. But
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: for my friends, especially younger friends who are still renting,
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: they're not writing a property tax check. Now they're paying
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: higher and higher rent because of property taxes that are
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: being passed along to them. But they don't get a
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: property tax bill in the mail. So it's not something
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: they see directly, even though it absolutely– impacts in the
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: affordability of their housing.
• 34:45
  Speaker 7: Amen.
• 34:45
  Speaker 6: Let's talk about another story that you have out there.
• 34:47
  Speaker 6: This is a Tallarico endorser, a medical freedom opponent of
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: Mark Cuban that's going to testify before the Texas House.
• 34:55
  Speaker 6: Give me a little bit more about this celebrity billionaire
• 34:58
  Speaker 6: and how he's tied to this whole thing.
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so one of James Tallarico's big talking points on
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: the campaign trail is he wants to get rid of
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: the influence of billionaires and big money in politics.
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: Well, just this past weekend in Fort Worth, he's literally
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: up on stage with Mark Cuban, one of the most
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: outspoken celebrity billionaires in the country, talking with Mark Cuban,
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: praising James Tallarico, talking about how great he is. They're
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: working together on health care policy, even though Tallarico, he
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: has his own plan to increase government intervention in health
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: care that he's calling Medicare for y'all. He's talked about
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: how universal health care is a, quote, unquote, human right.
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: So one of the reasons, though, that health care in
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: America right now is such a mess is is especially
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: after Obamacare passed and James Tallarico said he's going to
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: have to send Obamacare and the Affordable Care.
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: Act.
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: So instead of looking for free market, limited government solutions
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: to drive down the cost of healthcare, you've got James
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: Tallarico calling for more and more and more government intervention
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: and regulation. And all we've seen is that the more
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: the government gets involved in healthcare and healthcare policy, the
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: more expensive health care it gets for Americans and the
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: fewer choices Americans have for their health care.
• 36:36
  Speaker 6: Sure. Did you watch the actual testimony from Mark Cuban
• 36:39
  Speaker 6: the other day? Did you have any reactions to what
• 36:41
  Speaker 6: he said to the Texas House?
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: So a lot of his testimony, it looked like, was
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: focused more on prescription drugs. He has a pharmacy that
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: he started. But I just, again, have to wonder, you know,
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: is someone like Mark Cuban... who's galvanizing around with James Tallarico,
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: the best person to be taking advice from on health
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: care policy.
• 37:08
  Speaker 6: Well, and honestly, anytime that someone has skin in the game,
• 37:11
  Speaker 6: I always trust them even less. Like, I don't know
• 37:13
  Speaker 6: if you remember this, Mark, I do vividly, when the
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: big pharma guys would be interviewed during COVID, and they're
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: the ones talking about how we need more shots. And
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: I'm like, how can you interview the CEO of Pfizer
• 37:26
  Speaker 6: and ask him an opinion? on this, because he obviously
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: has a very financial... Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: He might be just a touch bit biased on this subject.
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: He might not be the best voice to have this discussion.
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: Just a tad.
• 37:37
  Speaker 6: Just a tad, Craig. Cuban feels very similar in that vein.
• 37:41
  Speaker 6: Before I let you go, we're running out of time
• 37:42
  Speaker 6: very quickly, but Mark, and pronounce your last name for
• 37:45
  Speaker 6: me so I get it correctly.
• 37:47
  Speaker 10: McKegg.
• 37:48
  Speaker 6: McKegg. Okay, I want to make sure.
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: Like Kegavir.
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Mark McKegg.
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: It's spelled M-C-C-A-I-G, but pronounced McKegg.
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  Speaker 6: McKaig, thank you very much. You are the person behind
• 37:59
  Speaker 6: The Texas Voice at thetexasvoice.com. Before I let you go,
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: something that might not be on my radar as a
• 38:04
  Speaker 6: relatively new Texan, having only lived here for a little
• 38:07
  Speaker 6: over a year now, that you've been talking about a
• 38:09
  Speaker 6: lot on The Texas Voice. Can you think of one
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: that you want to throw out there? Sure.
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: I mean, I think a lot of it is, you know,
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: as we're approaching the November election season, one of the
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: biggest things I've been concerned about as a conservative is
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: are folks who really stir discontent among conservatives for their
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: own personal gain. And I think right now there's a
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: need for conservatives to unify. There's a lot of great
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: work that Republican candidates and elected officials have done. And
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: I don't want to see unnecessary infighting caused and stirred
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: up by a few people who get paid to stir
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: dissent among conservatives. conserved as when the real enemy is
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: the far left, folks like James Tallarico, folks like Letitia Plummer,
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: and folks who are even more extreme than those guys
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: who see Texas as the crown jewel, not just to
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: impact Texas, but nationwide. Because if Texas falls, there's going
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: to be tremendous repercussions nationwide. And quite frankly, I don't
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: like hyperbole. But I really do think the American way
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: of life is in jeopardy if Texas falls to the Democrats.
• 39:29
  Speaker 6: I hate hyperbole, too, and I agree with you on that,
• 39:31
  Speaker 6: that I think that truthfully the fight now is significant
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: to the degree that they've long told us it was,
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: but it actually rises to that level if we let
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: someone like Italo Rico wind up being a senator out
• 39:43
  Speaker 6: of Texas. I really enjoyed talking to you. I really
• 39:46
  Speaker 6: enjoyed this conversation, Mark. I assume... I will do it
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: again soon. And I do want to say to part
• 39:52
  Speaker 6: of the response you just gave me there, part of
• 39:54
  Speaker 6: the answer, that it's interesting to hear from you, a
• 39:57
  Speaker 6: guy that runs a website that's putting some stuff on
• 39:59
  Speaker 6: social media that would like to get probably more and more,
• 40:02
  Speaker 6: you know, views and eyeballs paying attention to you, that
• 40:06
  Speaker 6: you don't want to sell out like some of those
• 40:08
  Speaker 6: people have in social media to get that amount of attention.
• 40:11
  Speaker 6: There are a lot of people who are doing whatever
• 40:13
  Speaker 6: it takes to get all the eyeballs on them and
• 40:16
  Speaker 6: and make as much money as possible for their own
• 40:19
  Speaker 6: social media channel or web page or whatever it might
• 40:21
  Speaker 6: be that I think are part of that group you
• 40:23
  Speaker 6: described that are harming a party within by advocating against
• 40:28
  Speaker 6: it because they've noticed that gets them more attention than
• 40:31
  Speaker 6: the opposite. So it's kind of nice to hear from you,
• 40:32
  Speaker 6: a guy who runs your own site, that you have
• 40:35
  Speaker 6: no interest in doing that.
• 40:37
  Speaker 7: No, no.
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: Like I said, my only agenda is the truth. Again,
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: check us out at vtexasvoice.com, vtexasvoice.com. Sign up for our
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: email list. Follow us on social media. And, Craig, I
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: really appreciate you having me on. And hopefully we can
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: do it again soon.
• 40:52
  Speaker 8: Sure.
• 40:52
  Speaker 6: Absolutely. Thanks so much. That is Mark McKegg. I like
• 40:55
  Speaker 6: the way that he explains how to pronounce his last
• 40:57
  Speaker 6: name because I've often done that with another name that
• 41:02
  Speaker 6: I went by for a lot of my life. And
• 41:04
  Speaker 6: you just got to find out what rhymes with it.
• 41:06
  Speaker 6: But Mark McKegg, thetexasvoice.com is a great website to go
• 41:09
  Speaker 6: to and to read a bunch of the things going
• 41:12
  Speaker 6: on in Texas from someone who seems very tapped in.
• 41:15
  Speaker 6: and interested in what I'm interested in on this radio station,
• 41:19
  Speaker 6: simply telling you the truth. I'm certainly going to share
• 41:21
  Speaker 6: my opinion. The vast majority of what I'll do on
• 41:24
  Speaker 6: this show will be opinion-based discussion of what I think
• 41:27
  Speaker 6: are the facts, what I believe to be the facts,
• 41:30
  Speaker 6: and what I intend to prove to you are the
• 41:31
  Speaker 6: facts in a vast majority of the conversations we discuss
• 41:35
  Speaker 6: or I discuss on this show. That is really the goal.
• 41:38
  Speaker 6: People roll their eyes on the left when they hear
• 41:41
  Speaker 6: someone on the right say that, But they don't understand.
• 41:44
  Speaker 6: This is my opinion. And we'll take a break and
• 41:46
  Speaker 6: then we'll come back and we'll close the show maybe
• 41:48
  Speaker 6: with a couple more calls. But my opinion is that
• 41:51
  Speaker 6: the people on the left who roll their eyes when
• 41:53
  Speaker 6: they hear someone on the right say, I just want
• 41:54
  Speaker 6: to tell you the truth, are still eating all of
• 41:57
  Speaker 6: the lies that they're being told by a lot of
• 42:00
  Speaker 6: media outlets that are willingly lying to them. And they're
• 42:03
  Speaker 6: the only people that I seem to not be able
• 42:05
  Speaker 6: to reach by saying that I just want to tell
• 42:07
  Speaker 6: you the truth because they have no idea what the
• 42:09
  Speaker 6: truth is. All right, quick break. A lot more. KSEV Mornings,
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  Speaker 6: of Texas. My name is Craig Collins. Wayne DelGiovino is
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  Speaker 5: There it is!
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  Speaker 6: Wayne DelGiovino is on special assignments. Just a few minutes
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  Speaker 6: left in the show. If you want to participate, you
• 44:46
  Speaker 6: want to be a part of it, I'm giving out
• 44:47
  Speaker 6: the phone number more today because I like the fact
• 44:50
  Speaker 6: that KSV is a a caller-friendly radio station? I do.
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  Speaker 6: I genuinely do. I know that some data I've seen
• 44:57
  Speaker 6: in radio indicates that maybe it's not a great approach
• 45:00
  Speaker 6: all the time, but who cares? Let's go ahead and
• 45:03
  Speaker 6: talk to people. Sharon is on the phone. Sharon has
• 45:06
  Speaker 6: called us from West Houston. Sharon, what do you want
• 45:07
  Speaker 6: to say?
• 45:09
  Speaker 12: Hi, Greg.
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: Thanks for the interview with Mark.
• 45:12
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: He's getting good information out there, and that harks back
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: to what? Wayne said, first day of your show, your
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: new format. He said, the people are just incredibly ignorant.
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: And that includes all of us. We haven't been paying attention.
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: And so one of the jobs of your show that
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: I appreciate you're doing is you're informing people, helping us
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: get informed about for the upcoming election. So I like
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: what Mark had to tell us about Letitia Plummer. And
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: she's a real danger. But the reason I called is
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: because I want to encourage everyone to get involved on
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: the local level. Find out who your precinct chairman is.
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: My precinct chairman, I'm in Harris County, contacted me, asked
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: if I could help. And I asked him for signs,
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: and he brought signs to my yard yesterday. And we
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: actually sat on my front porch and talked on my
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: front step, talked together, got to know one another. And
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: we talked about property taxes and all the things the
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: callers have talked about this morning. So getting everybody involved
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: and getting to know one another instead of walking around
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: looking at our phone screens all the time. But get
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: to know the neighbors. Get to know your precinct chairman.
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: And the interesting thing is he actually grew up in
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: New York. He's a New Yorker.
• 46:38
  Speaker 14: Oh, wow.
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: And he said that– I said, well, how did you
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: get down here? Oh, and he's a Democrat. And I said,
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: how did you get to the Republican Party? Because he's
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: Republican Party precinct chairman.
• 46:50
  Speaker 6: Sure, sure.
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: And he said, he said, I, he said, it happens,
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: he's a baby boomer, like I am.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: Gotcha.
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: And he said, it was the year of the election
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: for Ronald Reagan. Wow. And we opened the newspaper, my
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: wife and I, and we read the platform and what
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: Ronald Reagan wanted to do. And he said, They voted
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: for Ronald Reagan, and they haven't gone back.
• 47:11
  Speaker 4: They're Republicans ever since.
• 47:12
  Speaker 6: There you go. You want to shout him out by name?
• 47:15
  Speaker 6: Do you want to actually give his name, Sharon, on
• 47:16
  Speaker 6: the air.
• 47:18
  Speaker 9: Or no?
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know. I guess he wouldn't care.
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: It's Mitch Lurk.
• 47:23
  Speaker 6: There you go.
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's of our precinct here in my village.
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: But he contacted me first, and then I jumped into him.
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: So the point is we got to know each other.
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: And now I have yard signs in my yard.
• 47:38
  Speaker 6: There you go.
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: And I'm supporting the Republican. But the point is, we
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: need to get to know one another. And that's the
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: value of your show.
• 47:46
  Speaker 10: Amen.
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: And people calling in and bringing up issues. And we're
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: all getting to know one another. And we need to
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: know about the people that are going to be on
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: the ballot in November.
• 47:56
  Speaker 6: Amen. Thank you very much for the call, Sharon. I
• 47:57
  Speaker 6: really appreciate it. And I love shouting out the precinct
• 48:01
  Speaker 6: chair close to you. And we should do more of that.
• 48:04
  Speaker 6: Maybe we should get to know your precinct chair. or
• 48:06
  Speaker 6: some of the other political roles that exist in this
• 48:09
  Speaker 6: city and in this state via this show. Maybe I'll
• 48:12
  Speaker 6: interview some of them. We could even do that as
• 48:13
  Speaker 6: like a little segment. I get to know the precinct chair,
• 48:16
  Speaker 6: get to know somebody who you can talk to on
• 48:18
  Speaker 6: a local level to get involved in elections because I
• 48:21
  Speaker 6: love it. And I absolutely agree with what Sharon said.
• 48:24
  Speaker 6: And I think that that's kind of been at the
• 48:26
  Speaker 6: heart of the discussion throughout the totality of the show
• 48:29
  Speaker 6: today is that you have to pay attention.
• 48:32
  Speaker 14: You just do.
• 48:33
  Speaker 6: In the world we live in now, so many people
• 48:35
  Speaker 6: think that they pay attention, and yet they don't, because
• 48:38
  Speaker 6: if they choose one outlet or one spot to pay
• 48:41
  Speaker 6: attention to and then think they're informed. I can't tell you.
• 48:45
  Speaker 6: I'm going to say something. I am an elder millennial,
• 48:48
  Speaker 6: as Mark McKegg referenced when he was on from The
• 48:51
  Speaker 6: Texas Voice a little bit earlier in the show. And
• 48:53
  Speaker 6: I can't tell you the amount of people I know
• 48:55
  Speaker 6: of my age group, a lot of them who are
• 48:57
  Speaker 6: still Democrats. who said that they got most of their
• 49:00
  Speaker 6: information in politics years ago, and even today, from Jon
• 49:04
  Speaker 6: Stewart and The Daily Show, which is a humor-based show
• 49:07
  Speaker 6: that does not tell you just profound truths. They give
• 49:10
  Speaker 6: you a whole lot of opinion themselves and are very unfair,
• 49:14
  Speaker 6: I think, at times in the topics they discuss. But
• 49:16
  Speaker 6: that was it. Like, that's the only outlet that someone
• 49:19
  Speaker 6: went to, even if Jon Stewart himself is someone at
• 49:21
  Speaker 6: times that I disagree with but don't heavily dislike. I
• 49:25
  Speaker 6: dislike his positions and his beliefs on a myriad of topics,
• 49:29
  Speaker 6: but there's a certain amount of respect they have for
• 49:31
  Speaker 6: the person himself and the humor, whether I think it's
• 49:34
  Speaker 6: funny or not. But I'll say this, that the amount
• 49:37
  Speaker 6: of people I know who get their information from that,
• 49:39
  Speaker 6: or like the Saturday Night Live opening thing that they'll see,
• 49:45
  Speaker 6: the cold open is what it's called if it's political,
• 49:48
  Speaker 6: like that's where they think their political opinions deserve to
• 49:50
  Speaker 6: come from, it's terrifying that people don't look a little
• 49:53
  Speaker 6: bit closer, a little bit more, or at a more
• 49:56
  Speaker 6: local level. So yes, Sharon, I will respond to you
• 49:59
  Speaker 6: directly and say we'll do a better job on this
• 50:01
  Speaker 6: show of that by interviewing some local politicians and having
• 50:04
  Speaker 6: some local Texas and Harris County-specific I thank everybody who
• 50:09
  Speaker 6: called in and participated in the show today. A bunch
• 50:11
  Speaker 6: of fun. KSEV mornings. I am Craig Collins. I am
• 50:15
  Speaker 6: actually one of the two hosts of the show. Not
• 50:17
  Speaker 6: just filling in, but Craig Collins, Wayne Dolcefino, KSEV mornings,
• 50:22
  Speaker 6: the voice of Texas on 700 AM. See you tomorrow.
• 50:33
  Speaker 10: There was no turning back.