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Orlando Sanchez on Harris County's Tax Hike, and Hasan Piker Compares the U.S. to al-Qaeda · KSEV Mornings with Craig and Wayne

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  Speaker 1: And now the mob guys creak on your knees and
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  Speaker 1: wing Dolce Fino on KSV Radio.
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  Speaker 2: This is the Mob Guys on KSV Radio. I am
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  Speaker 2: Craig Colonese. He is Wayne Dolcefino, and he's not here today,
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  Speaker 2: which is my bad, actually.
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  Speaker 3: He travels a lot on Friday. I think it's what
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  Speaker 3: he told me a while back, maybe when this thing
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  Speaker 3: first started. And yet he was just texting me this
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  Speaker 3: morning saying, He's like, hey, man, we got this guest
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  Speaker 3: coming up today. We got this going on. And he
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  Speaker 3: was like, Craig, it's Friday. I'm going somewhere else for
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  Speaker 3: some business things.
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  Speaker 2: And then he said, I like this. This is from
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  Speaker 2: Wayne Dolcefino. You got spoiled by having me all this week.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 4: I did.
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  Speaker 3: So Wayne Dolcefino is on special assignment is what I
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  Speaker 3: usually call it. There is a lot of stuff out
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  Speaker 3: there to talk about. I will preview a few things
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  Speaker 3: on today's show. Orlando Sanchez will be here at 735.
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  Speaker 3: One of the biggest conversations we'll be talking about with
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  Speaker 3: Orlando is the ridiculous amount of additional property taxes that
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  Speaker 3: Harris County is trying to throw on all of us,
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  Speaker 3: anybody that lives here. It is the largest, I think,
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  Speaker 3: tax hike in the history or maybe second largest in
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  Speaker 3: the history of the county. It is something that even
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  Speaker 3: Lena Hidalgo had voted no, which says something very loud.
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  Speaker 3: And I think she actually skipped the final vote. So
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  Speaker 3: I don't think there was a no vote in the
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  Speaker 3: final voting. But it's kind of amazing that even Lena
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  Speaker 3: Hidalgo was saying that this is probably too much, too far,
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  Speaker 3: and we shouldn't do it, which, by the way, is
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  Speaker 3: incredible when you watch a politician who no longer cares
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  Speaker 3: about being reelected change some of their positions on things,
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  Speaker 3: actually act a little bit more reasonable, not a lot
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  Speaker 3: more reasonable, still mostly crazy and insane and skipping out
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  Speaker 3: all the time on even doing the work itself. But
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  Speaker 3: beyond that, there are some moments where where you hear
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  Speaker 3: a politician break ever so slightly from the stuff that
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  Speaker 3: they normally do. And I find that pretty fascinating. I
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  Speaker 3: find that pretty interesting when that happens. But anyway, that
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  Speaker 3: is some of what's coming up on today's show. I
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  Speaker 3: will continue to play anything and everything I find from
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  Speaker 3: James Tallarico. And a lot of what I'm finding actually
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  Speaker 3: has been put out there by Amuse. who, as I
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  Speaker 3: said the other day, does a weekly, I think it's
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  Speaker 3: like a Wednesday night show.
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  Speaker 2: With Chris Salcedo.
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  Speaker 3: They call it The Third Rail, I think is the
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  Speaker 3: name of that show. And you can find it all
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  Speaker 3: over social media. And both those guys are awesome. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: we think Salcedo is incredible in his long run here.
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  Speaker 3: But Amuse is a pretty influential person in the world
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  Speaker 3: of at least social media, and if not more than that,
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  Speaker 3: in the world of politics. But he has been helping
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  Speaker 3: to either discover or push out a bunch of additional
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  Speaker 3: Tallarico stuff that voters need to hear and see. And
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  Speaker 3: I thought this one was kind of interesting because there's
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  Speaker 3: another one now. James Tallarico needs thoughts and prayers for Texans.
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  Speaker 3: Paxson needs their votes. Tallarico isn't fit to serve was
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  Speaker 3: the post that Amuse put up. And then here, I
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  Speaker 3: can play some of this audio because I do think
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  Speaker 3: it's pretty interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go.
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  Speaker 5: I think having a rainbow in class is considered indoctrination.
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  Speaker 5: What if we ran our world like we run a
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  Speaker 5: kindergarten classroom? Because at the end of the day, aren't
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  Speaker 5: we all just really big kindergartners? The American flag is
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  Speaker 5: such a complicated symbol for most of us in many ways,
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  Speaker 5: like Jesus, like the cross. It's been co-opted and and
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  Speaker 5: and and no. And in some ways, its true meaning
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  Speaker 5: has been betrayed. For me, prophetic voices like Jesus have
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  Speaker 5: helped me reckon with my own whiteness, my own masculinity,
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  Speaker 5: my own certainty, my own ego. It's a never-ending process,
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  Speaker 5: and it's a painful process.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not in pain at all. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: I want to play that first one again.
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  Speaker 5: And I guess I'm just confused why having a rainbow
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  Speaker 5: in class is considered indoctrination.
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  Speaker 2: What is it?
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  Speaker 3: So I really like that first one because the rainbow symbol,
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  Speaker 3: the way it's used and the way that they talk
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  Speaker 3: about it is 100 percent about more than just some
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  Speaker 3: sort of, hey, we're trying to help. We're trying to
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  Speaker 3: do this or that or something to be, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's 100 percent about LGBTQ.
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  Speaker 2: They know it. They don't care.
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  Speaker 3: It's amazing to hear them make these arguments that they
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  Speaker 3: make all the time. And it's it's mostly just amusing
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  Speaker 3: to me, to be totally honest with you. that these
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  Speaker 3: kind of things happen because, darn it, it's always the
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  Speaker 3: freaking same. And there doesn't seem to be a way
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  Speaker 3: to convince most people on that side that what.
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  Speaker 2: We're saying is just simply logical.
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  Speaker 3: They have to attack it as racist or they have
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  Speaker 3: to attack it as hateful. It has to be something
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  Speaker 3: beyond being just simply what most of us would consider obvious.
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  Speaker 3: That's not the only thing out there, though, but I
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  Speaker 3: do love the fact that more and more of this
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  Speaker 3: stuff is becoming mainstream. And I also, I'll say one
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  Speaker 3: last thing, because I'm not going to talk about Tallarico
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  Speaker 3: all day again.
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  Speaker 2: We did a lot of that yesterday after Wayne left.
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  Speaker 3: But I will tell you that one thing that I
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  Speaker 3: do like is watching Tallarico try to completely shift from
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  Speaker 3: what he said in the past to what he claims
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  Speaker 3: to believe now.
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  Speaker 2: And the reason I like that is twofold.
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  Speaker 3: First, it will make some of the left mad, the
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  Speaker 3: people who love him the most for the crazy things
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  Speaker 3: he says, which there are some people out there. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know if a whole lot of them actually live
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  Speaker 3: in Texas, but the most ridiculous people will start to
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  Speaker 3: get upset that he continues to say things that actually
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  Speaker 3: disregard their radical ideology. That is one reason that I
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  Speaker 3: like that he's trying to pivot. The other reason, it
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  Speaker 3: just outs him as a giant liar. The last thing
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  Speaker 3: I think that we should accept, although it's the most
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  Speaker 3: common thing that happens all the time in the world
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  Speaker 3: of politics, is people who are blatantly and obviously lying
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  Speaker 3: to us on a myriad of issues, especially on core
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  Speaker 3: beliefs of theirs.
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  Speaker 2: I've said it before and I'll say it again.
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  Speaker 3: This is, to me, the most obvious thing for us
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  Speaker 3: to push back on, is that when you can tell
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  Speaker 3: someone is a consistent and constant piece.
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  Speaker 2: Of crap liar, that you're like, all right, that's too much.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to go ahead and try to pull back
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  Speaker 3: on this And we're not going to elect you to
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  Speaker 3: some sort of office that you don't deserve because this
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  Speaker 3: is the point that we can all definitively say we
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  Speaker 3: agree that you've been outed as completely inauthentic.
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  Speaker 2: That should matter more.
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  Speaker 3: And it sounds almost naive, to be honest with you,
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  Speaker 3: to complain about politicians and lies like that. That sounds
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  Speaker 3: in the society we live in now. I'm I'm willfully
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  Speaker 3: admitting this myself, even though I'm the one saying it.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds silly to say that. How dare we expect
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  Speaker 2: politicians to tell the truth?
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  Speaker 3: And yet we should. What we should be doing is
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  Speaker 3: continuing to demand this of these people, that they behave
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  Speaker 3: the way we expect them to behave, the way.
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  Speaker 2: That we hold all other people accountable. And yet it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't happen here.
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  Speaker 3: I want to play one other piece of audio, though,
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  Speaker 3: before we take our first break and then we get
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  Speaker 3: set up for Orlando Sanchez at 730.
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  Speaker 2: Gail King.
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  Speaker 3: Upon hearing there was a black man who was the
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  Speaker 3: holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy case, really struggled with
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  Speaker 3: that information. More audio has been going viral of the
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  Speaker 3: morning show, CBS Mornings, excuse me, and some of their
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  Speaker 3: discussion about this.
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  Speaker 2: And it's really interesting. Here, let's play this clip.
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  Speaker 3: But they actually told the judge through that note that
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  Speaker 3: the holdout juror they believed.
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  Speaker 6: Did have reasonable doubt and wasn't following the law.
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  Speaker 7: So even now they're telling conflicting stories.
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  Speaker 1: Correct.
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  Speaker 7: The jurors are saying and what he is saying.
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  Speaker 2: He sounds sound in his reasoning.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad he's.
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  Speaker 8: Speaking up because everybody wants to know where he was
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  Speaker 8: coming from.
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  Speaker 7: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: What's amazing to me about that, what I love so
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  Speaker 3: much about that audio, is that all of.
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  Speaker 2: A sudden the holdout juror. They actually told the judge
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  Speaker 2: through that. Stop, stop.
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  Speaker 3: All of a sudden, the holdout juror is someone that
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  Speaker 3: they might be able to understand.
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  Speaker 2: He sounds like he had some good reasons.
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  Speaker 3: He sounded like he made a lot of sense, is
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  Speaker 3: what a couple of the panelists, including Gayle King, are saying.
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  Speaker 2: That's incredible to me.
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  Speaker 3: And the reason why I guess it is before we
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  Speaker 3: actually do hit our break, I'll just say this quickly,
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  Speaker 3: is it's so obvious, just like how we should demand
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  Speaker 3: politicians tell the truth.
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  Speaker 2: It's an obvious demand. and one that we don't get
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  Speaker 2: a lot of, it's so obvious that the.
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  Speaker 3: Minute that this person looks like them, looks like Gayle King,
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  Speaker 3: looks like Michael Duraville, I don't even know how to
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  Speaker 3: say his name, but anyway, looks like those people, those
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  Speaker 3: individuals on that show, I don't mean those people as
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  Speaker 3: in all black people, I mean the people speaking on
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  Speaker 3: the television show, as soon as he looks like someone
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  Speaker 3: with an opinion, that opinion changes. The person immediately says, well,
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  Speaker 3: maybe this could be more reason, maybe I could understand
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  Speaker 3: this better, It's obvious that the thing before was rooted
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  Speaker 3: in some sort of racist thought. You don't have to
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  Speaker 3: be a full on racist to have racist thoughts and behaviors.
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  Speaker 3: And I do think a lot of times when we
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  Speaker 3: see certain media members talk about the assumed white conservative,
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  Speaker 3: they say it in a way that almost feels unapologetic.
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  Speaker 2: Racist.
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  Speaker 3: And so it's amazing to actually hear the transition when
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  Speaker 3: someone thinks it's not a white conservative who is actually
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  Speaker 3: the person responsible for what they had been upset about
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  Speaker 3: just a few days ago.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we'll take a break.
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  Speaker 3: A lot, like I said, to get to, a lot
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  Speaker 3: This is The Voice of Texas, 700 a.m.
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  Speaker 2: And now for the bonus round. Who imposes property taxes?
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  Speaker 2: State government. Nice try, but no. Local governments.
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  Speaker 9: Correct.
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  Speaker 10: And we have a winner.
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  Speaker 6: Here's Governor Greg Abbott on his plan to control property taxes.
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  Speaker 11: The state of Texas does not impose a property tax.
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  Speaker 11: Only local governments impose property taxes. One of the reasons
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  Speaker 11: why your property taxes are going up is because local
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  Speaker 11: governments are increasing their spending. So the first thing we
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  Speaker 11: got to do is to stop the spending that leads.
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  Speaker 2: To property tax increases.
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  Speaker 11: You should have a say on whether or not your
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  Speaker 11: property taxes go up. It should be a vote that
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  Speaker 11: requires two-thirds vote before any property tax increase can ever
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  Speaker 11: be imposed on our fellow Texans. You're going to be
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  Speaker 11: able to live in your home for the rest of
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  Speaker 11: your lives without being priced.
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  Speaker 12: Out of it.
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  Speaker 2: This is KSEV, The Voice of Texas, 700 AM.
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  Speaker 3: Thrilled to have you with us. I am one of
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  Speaker 3: the mob guys. My name is Craig Colonese. You have
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  Speaker 3: Wayne Dolcefino on special assignment today. I always debate how
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  Speaker 3: much I should talk about Hasan Piker because I do
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  Speaker 3: think he's someone.
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  Speaker 2: And I listen to The Dana Show a lot. The
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  Speaker 2: Dana Show is from 2 to 4 o'clock. I fill
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  Speaker 2: in on it occasionally.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, I have fill-in shifts coming up on that show
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  Speaker 3: that I should probably let Russell know about at some point.
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  Speaker 3: I got to find the text from Kane for what
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  Speaker 3: those were. But anyway, I listen to her show a
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  Speaker 3: lot and she goes after Hassan often because he deserves
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  Speaker 3: it because he's an insane, crazy person who is very influential.
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  Speaker 3: If you don't know who the guy is, he is
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  Speaker 3: a Twitch streamer out of California, but he's more than that.
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  Speaker 3: He's very influential on the left and especially with younger Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: He did a CNN interview in.
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  Speaker 3: Which he said typical crazy stuff And he tried to
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  Speaker 3: couch it in sounding more logical than he actually is.
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  Speaker 3: But this, to me, is terrifying because I've heard this
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  Speaker 3: sort of belief or a version of it, what I'm
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  Speaker 3: about to play as an answer to a question from
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  Speaker 3: Hasan Piker.
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  Speaker 2: I've heard this sort of belief from some of our listeners.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't think that those listeners are actually on
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  Speaker 3: the same side of the political aisle as I am.
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  Speaker 3: But I've definitely heard some of the listeners say things
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  Speaker 3: that mirror this. And I'm terrified that these are our thoughts.
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  Speaker 3: that are gaining wider acceptance because they're so idiotic. But here,
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  Speaker 3: let's play one of these. Hold on, actually, I've got
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  Speaker 3: to make sure that you can hear this audio. That's
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  Speaker 3: a me problem because I was screening it. Because sometimes
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  Speaker 3: CNN drops an F-bomb, which I'm not used to, but
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  Speaker 3: that does happen.
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  Speaker 2: Jake Tapper loves the F-bomb. Here we go. Do you
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  Speaker 2: think the Middle East would be more stable if Iran
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  Speaker 2: had a nuclear weapon? I believe yes.
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  Speaker 14: I think that the Middle East would be more stable.
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  Speaker 14: Having said that, once again, I'm not advocating. I'm not
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  Speaker 14: trying to send Iran enriched nuclear uranium. Nuclear-grade enriched uranium.
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  Speaker 14: But with respect to Iran, I think the nuclear conversation.
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  Speaker 2: Is a distraction. Stupid.
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  Speaker 14: Time and time again, they have shown the Iranian government,
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  Speaker 14: regardless of whether you want to trust them or not,
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  Speaker 14: you can just look at their actions.
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  Speaker 2: You can't trust them.
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  Speaker 14: They have proven that they are utilizing the conversation of
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  Speaker 14: enriched uranium as a point of leverage to bring America
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  Speaker 14: back to the table to get sanctions relief.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so no. No part of that. actually makes sense.
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  Speaker 2: And here's the reason why.
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  Speaker 3: They hide centrifuges all over their country. They put them
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  Speaker 3: in places that would be very difficult for us to find,
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  Speaker 3: very difficult for any organization, any agency that's trying to
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  Speaker 3: make sure that Iran is being transparent about their nuclear capabilities,
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  Speaker 3: finding them.
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  Speaker 2: There have been countless amounts.
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  Speaker 3: Of stories over the last several years where Iran has
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  Speaker 3: been deceptive, we found stuff in bunkers, all kinds of
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  Speaker 3: places that it wasn't supposed to be, all of that
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  Speaker 3: is an attempt to further enrich uranium to make it
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  Speaker 3: nuclear weapon capable. And Hassan Piker started the answer by
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  Speaker 3: saying the most dangerous thing that he could, that it
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  Speaker 3: would actually be a safer place if Iran had a
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  Speaker 3: nuclear weapon, which when I judge that country.
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  Speaker 2: By its actions.
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  Speaker 3: I know definitively that would not make any part of
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  Speaker 3: any of the world safer. The world would not be
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  Speaker 3: any safer. The United States, of course, would not be
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  Speaker 3: safer if Iran had a nuclear weapon. It's idiotic to
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  Speaker 3: hear it said. But then also, the other thing that's
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  Speaker 3: a through line on the left is some desire to
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  Speaker 3: trust Iran more than our country. And look, I'm not
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  Speaker 3: going to tell you that we don't lie, that politicians
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  Speaker 3: don't lie. I'm not going to tell you that there
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  Speaker 3: aren't a bunch of rhinos who pretend they're something that
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  Speaker 3: they're actually not. None of those things are things that
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to disagree with if I have a conversation
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  Speaker 3: about the flaws within our country and our political system.
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  Speaker 2: But we're still not Iran.
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  Speaker 3: And anyone that compares us to that country or pretends
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  Speaker 3: that we're similar or an Hassan Piker or In the
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  Speaker 3: case of Hassan Piker, he actually went even further to
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  Speaker 3: compare us to al-Qaeda.
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  Speaker 2: That's ridiculous. That's insane.
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  Speaker 3: And that's the kind of thing, the dangerous kind of thing,
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  Speaker 3: that I think is causing more people to actually hate
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  Speaker 3: our country than be proud to be a part of
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  Speaker 3: the United States.
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  Speaker 2: And it's simply not true.
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  Speaker 3: It's also based so ridiculously in lies, so ridiculously in
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  Speaker 3: things that these people can't prove. They'll say it, but
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  Speaker 3: they definitely can't prove it. And it's sort of amazing here.
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  Speaker 3: I want to play one other thing. Piker said that
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  Speaker 3: America was worse than Al Qaeda. And Abdul Al Saeed
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: is someone that has to defend himself now with using
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: Hassan Piker as much as he does. But I do
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: think what's amazing is the other Democrats out there who
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: all want to say that this Hassan Piker guy, it's fine,
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: whatever he says, even if it's crazy.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Let's just not think about it.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: But they love the influence and the ability for this
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: person to push people to vote. on the side of
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: the aisle they want them voting on. Here's a little
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: bit from Fox.
• 18:12
  Speaker 15: Democrats on the Hill forced to respond to that earlier today.
• 18:15
  Speaker 11: Hassan Piker told Axios that America is pound for pound.
• 18:20
  Speaker 16: Worse than Al Qaeda.
• 18:22
  Speaker 11: He's wrong.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: He's been on the campaign.
• 18:24
  Speaker 16: He's wrong.
• 18:25
  Speaker 15: I don't know this guy, but obviously that's a sentence
• 18:28
  Speaker 15: that makes no sense.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Obviously, he's an issue that came up in the Abdul campaign.
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: And Abdul is going to have to be addressing that.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he will.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: He'll have to address it more because Abdul had him
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: all over the place. And Hassan Piker is someone who is,
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: as I said, gaining a whole lot of influence within
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: the Democratic side of the aisle, which also tells you
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: something else, something very important. It shows you the reality
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: of the feelings, the thoughts that Democrats have. When you
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: watch someone spike in popularity on the left, like Hassan Piker,
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: You have to assume that some of those people ideologically
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: agree with them. You don't have to assume everybody does.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to pretend that, say, everyone that flocked to, say,
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: the Candace Owens podcast agreed with the crazy thing she
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: was saying. There are people that want to watch the
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: cars that are, you know, in the accident off on
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: the side of the road that'll.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Just stare at them as you drive by.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Those people exist, and those people certainly go to social
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: media things and view stuff that they may not agree
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: with because— They find it interesting. But I do think
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: there's people that have to agree with that. It's not
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: all popularity based on people that are just watching the
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: car crash. It is people that think that these things
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: are accurate. And actually, you know what's really interesting to
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: me about that? I'll say something kind of a little
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: bit different. and then we probably got to take a
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: break in a couple minutes so that we're ready for
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: Orlando Sanchez to call in just after 7.30. But I
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: will say part of the misunderstanding with President Trump and
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: the value of Donald Trump, the politician, was that a
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: lot of people, and this was maybe true more in
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: his first campaign than his second time in office. But
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: a lot of people would tell me that he created
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: thoughts on the right that they didn't like, that these beliefs,
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: these whatever, and I didn't agree with the premise at all.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: I don't think the right is, certainly I'm a part
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: of it, is hateful or racist or any of that stuff.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: So most of the argument was crap. But the thing
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: I would always say to someone when they said that
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: is that simply doesn't make sense. An individual who rises
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: in popularity like that is actually saying things that a
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: vast majority of the party already thought or believed and
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: wanted to hear. And what actually I think was really
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: attractive about President Trump from a you-wanted-to-vote-for-him standpoint was the
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: amount of times he just said the simple thing or
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: attacked the politician on the stage for being a piece
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: of crap and how many people applauded that because of
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: how rarely we saw that in the world of politics.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: Politicians pretended that everybody in that profession was honorable when
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: we know the vast majority of people are not. So
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: I think the refreshing thing that President Trump did when
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: running for office is he he dropped the fake version
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: of respect that they all seem to have for each other.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: But nonetheless, I've said that before and I'll say it again.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: I don't think that a politician, any politician invents ideology
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: that people then flock to. I think people feel and
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: think certain things. And the politician who wins an election best,
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: you know, captures those thoughts and those beliefs. And right
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: now on the left, you are seeing a lot of
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: people rise in popularity that think ridiculous and insane things
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: very far on the left in socialist ideology and Marxist ideology.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: And so you say to yourself, how?
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: Like the other thing that I'll say just quickly about
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: this is you ask yourself the simple question, how is
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: this becoming more popular? And the only answer I've ever
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: been able to come up with is anger. There's a
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: lot of people who are angry that they haven't gotten
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: in life what they thought they were supposed to get.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: what they were promised, whether they think they were promised
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: that by society or, I don't know, their family. There
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: are a lot of young people who feel like their
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: life is not where it's supposed to be at whatever
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: age they are, and they're upset about that.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: So anger is one thing.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: The other thing is stupidity or lack of knowledge and
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: a lack of understanding of history and what happens when
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: you put people in power that want control of everything
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: through the government and claim they're going to do it
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: to benefit you. communists, Marxists fail time and again. Most
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: of us who actually have any semblance of history know that.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: I think some of the youngest people who haven't really
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: seen it firsthand or any story about it firsthand all
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: over the news, for some reason, seem to not know that.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: But I think those are the two reasons that that
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: has spiked in popularity.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: But anyway, like I said, we should take a break
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: because Orlando Sanchez will be coming up in just a
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: little bit.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: I think he's going to be on right at 730
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: on the show.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: And I very much look forward to talking to him
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: about a a tremendous amount of stuff, but we will
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: focus a lot specifically on the increase in property taxes
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: that's been suggested here in Harris County and been voted
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: on and they're shoving through because of how terrible it is,
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: how awful it is at this time for the Democrats,
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: the people that are winning some arguments. I'm not sure
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: if they're actually going to win the races when it
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: comes to November, but they're winning some arguments on a
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: national stage by pretending that they're the people that will
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: do more for you financially, that they'll protect you more,
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: that they'll help you more. They're claiming that they're the
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: individuals who will make things better for you. And we're
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: seeing firsthand in Harris County the ways that they're refusing to.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Do that and the ways that they're doing exactly the opposite.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: The Biden policies, the Democratic policies, at whatever level you
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: want to talk about them, absolutely harm us more than
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: help us.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: And we have a really easy example here.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: And a really great politician running for office in Orlando
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: Sanchez who wants.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: To stop that stuff.
• 24:10
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• 24:11
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• 28:19
  Speaker 3: We call ourselves the Mob Guys. I am Craig Colonese.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: He's Wayne Dolcefino, two Italians from the East Coast. And
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: oftentimes what I actually see in the world of politics
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: feels much more like the mob.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Than what we actually joke about here on this show.
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: But one guy who I think would actually fight the
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: political mob is Orlando Sanchez. Orlando Sanchez, thank you very
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: much for making some time.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: Welcome to the show.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: I want to start immediately by asking you about the
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: property tax, historic property tax.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: Hike that happened just yesterday, I think was voted on yesterday.
• 28:52
  Speaker 9: Well, first of all, good morning. It's wholly unforgivable when
• 28:56
  Speaker 9: you start looking at the Harris County budget. You know,
• 28:58
  Speaker 9: when I was county treasurer, We left with money in
• 29:02
  Speaker 9: the bank. We hadn't increased property taxes in 26 years.
• 29:09
  Speaker 9: And in just a short period of time, since the
• 29:12
  Speaker 9: conservatives were escorted out of office, they doubled the county budget,
• 29:16
  Speaker 9: which used to be about a billion and a half
• 29:19
  Speaker 9: to now about 3.5 billion. That's just the general fund. And,
• 29:24
  Speaker 9: you know, when you look at, it's just intellectual dishonesty.
• 29:27
  Speaker 9: You know, when the left is talking about affordability, What
• 29:31
  Speaker 9: happens at the local government is they've increased our property
• 29:34
  Speaker 9: taxes back to back to back for years in a row,
• 29:38
  Speaker 9: doubled the budget. And our salaries have not increased. Our
• 29:42
  Speaker 9: salaries haven't doubled. And there are more people now paying
• 29:46
  Speaker 9: more in taxes than they did for their principal and
• 29:50
  Speaker 9: interest on their homes. Basically, you are now renting your
• 29:53
  Speaker 9: house from Harris County.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: It's crazy.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: And honestly, the thing that shocked me most about this topic, Orlando,
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: and I think Lena Hildago just skipped the vote yesterday,
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: but she even said something negative about it. And it
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: feels like it gets to a certain place. And granted,
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: she's not running for office anymore. And of course, your
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: competition would probably greenlight a crazy tax increases even beyond this.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: But it's just interesting to even hear one of those voices,
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: one that the rest of the Democrats don't care about anymore,
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: actually saying some semblance of But I love what you
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: just called it because it is, in every sense of
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: the word, completely illogical for us right now. And Bill
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: King made a really good point on what's your point
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: over the I think that was on Friday or Saturday
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: of last week where he said there's so many ways
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: in which Harris County is doing worse, not better. And
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: so how could you possibly think now's the right time
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: to try to take more money, increase the budget more
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: like none of that makes sense from the position of
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: what's actually going on day to day within the county?
• 30:56
  Speaker 9: Well, and I watched Bill, and I actually met with
• 30:59
  Speaker 9: him last week. We went over the budget. And his
• 31:02
  Speaker 9: comment is, if you noticed, he said on What's Your Point,
• 31:07
  Speaker 9: that of the $ 325 million additional revenue, none of it,
• 31:14
  Speaker 9: because the Democrats are claiming that this was mandated by
• 31:18
  Speaker 9: the state of Texas, none of the $ 325 million.
• 31:23
  Speaker 9: Is mandated by the state. In fact, he pointed out
• 31:27
  Speaker 9: that they're hiring 98 new staff members, 70 of which
• 31:31
  Speaker 9: are going to be employed by Precinct 4. That's just unacceptable.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: Yes, it's unacceptable. It's crazy.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: Beyond the conversation about taxes and those issues and what
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: you would do if you actually become the next judge,
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: I would also ask you about something that I think
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: you don't get enough credit for because it's talked about
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: a lot, being much, much tougher.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: On criminals and the criminal justice policies that we have.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: Do you mind talking a little bit about that as
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: one of your stances as Harris County judge?
• 32:02
  Speaker 9: Well, to quote my former colleague, because if you remember,
• 32:05
  Speaker 9: I started my career at Harris County as a probation officer,
• 32:09
  Speaker 9: so I have a little experience in the criminal justice system.
• 32:12
  Speaker 9: But Andy says that victims are not volunteers in the
• 32:17
  Speaker 9: criminal justice system. They didn't ask to participate. But it's
• 32:19
  Speaker 9: all upside down, Craig. Today, we have an increase of
• 32:23
  Speaker 9: 126% in the public defender's office. Now, think about this.
• 32:29
  Speaker 9: The lawyers for criminal defendants are now paid for by
• 32:33
  Speaker 9: the taxpayers. The breathalyzer machines for DWI, those charged with DWI,
• 32:39
  Speaker 9: used to be paid by the defendant. Now they're paid
• 32:42
  Speaker 9: for by the taxpayer. And in the old days, when
• 32:46
  Speaker 9: a judge would order an ankle monitor to monitor your location,
• 32:53
  Speaker 9: that was paid for by the defendant. Today, the taxpayer
• 32:56
  Speaker 9: pays for it. And to make matters worse, if you recall,
• 32:59
  Speaker 9: a couple of months ago, a gentleman in the Heights
• 33:02
  Speaker 9: area murdered his wife, cut off his ankle monitor. And
• 33:05
  Speaker 9: the department that we fund, which is pretrial services... didn't
• 33:11
  Speaker 9: work Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday night, until Monday morning
• 33:15
  Speaker 9: did they not notify the judge, the sheriff, or the
• 33:18
  Speaker 9: bail bond company that the defendant was in Italy after
• 33:22
  Speaker 9: murdering his wife. That is a complete failure of the
• 33:26
  Speaker 9: criminal justice system.
• 33:27
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: No, absolutely you're right. And it's the kind of thing
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: that we need to do. We need to profoundly change.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: And we should have here in Harris County and throughout
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: all of Texas. I actually want to ask you a
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: little bit differently about, then maybe you've heard it before,
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: probably a question you've been asked. I think one of
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: the biggest travesties of Harris County, and I'm a fairly
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: new Texan. I moved here about a year and a
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: half ago from Chicago, and I thought I was fleeing
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: insanity in Illinois and Chicago and getting to reason and
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: logical thought by going to Texas. And yet Harris County
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: specifically is so disappointing as far.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: As that goes.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: What other things can we do to better reflect the
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: values of Texas and Texans that are not at all
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: apparent within day-to-day life here in this county?
• 34:15
  Speaker 9: Harris County, like every other county in the state of Texas,
• 34:20
  Speaker 9: operates under state statutes. In other words, we operate for
• 34:25
  Speaker 9: the benefit of the state of Texas. As you know,
• 34:27
  Speaker 9: our legislature only meets once every two years, so they
• 34:30
  Speaker 9: created 254 counties to manage the business of the state.
• 34:34
  Speaker 9: We've gone way above and beyond what the state mandates.
• 34:38
  Speaker 9: We've gotten into all kinds of activities at taxpayer expense
• 34:43
  Speaker 9: that we have no business being involved in, whether it's
• 34:46
  Speaker 9: child care or providing legal aid at taxpayer expense to
• 34:51
  Speaker 9: criminal undocumented aliens in the Harris County Jail, to providing
• 34:57
  Speaker 9: free lawyers for violent criminals. It's completely upside down, Craig.
• 35:02
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: No, you're right about that. It's absolutely upside down.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: One last question that I want to ask you about,
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: or one last topic that we can discuss, energy and
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: energy policies and some of the crazy stuff that's going on.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: I think the G20 Energy Summit happened here in Houston.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: Just a few days ago.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: We had Doug Burgum on the show talking a little
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: bit about it. How would you, in that role as
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: Harris County judge, help the energy overregulation discussion? Because there's
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: so many people, and Doug was saying this, that don't
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: understand how much red tape was created during the Biden
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: administration on a national level and in places like California
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: that actually are restricting a lot of what would be
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: valuable energy and lower costs in our county, in our country,
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: in our society. They don't seem to understand it's not
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: just some conflict going on in the Middle East. It's
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: a lot of policy decision making over the last few
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: years that needs to be fixed.
• 35:59
  Speaker 9: We have to create an environment that's good for all businesses.
• 36:02
  Speaker 9: But as you probably have heard by now, we are
• 36:05
  Speaker 9: the energy capital of the world. Not only does the
• 36:09
  Speaker 9: G20 come here, but all of the energy companies come
• 36:13
  Speaker 9: to Houston once a year at the OTC, the Offshore
• 36:17
  Speaker 9: Technology Conference. We have to make sure that we don't
• 36:20
  Speaker 9: tax our businesses out of existence. You know, this tax increase,
• 36:24
  Speaker 9: by the way, people think it just affects your home. Craig,
• 36:28
  Speaker 9: it doesn't. If you're an apartment dweller, you're going to
• 36:30
  Speaker 9: pay more.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: When you go to.
• 36:32
  Speaker 9: Home Depot and buy materials, you're going to pay more.
• 36:35
  Speaker 9: And Kroger and HEB and our grocery stores aren't going
• 36:39
  Speaker 9: to absorb that property tax increase. Guess who they're going
• 36:42
  Speaker 9: to pass it on to? Those of us that are
• 36:45
  Speaker 9: trying to feed our families. So this tax increase, it
• 36:49
  Speaker 9: has tremendous tentacles that are going to affect the cost
• 36:53
  Speaker 9: of living. And again, intellectual dishonesty from the left. They
• 36:57
  Speaker 9: talk about affordability, but they hammer us at the local
• 37:01
  Speaker 9: level with billions of dollars in increase in budgets, 30
• 37:06
  Speaker 9: percent tax increase over the last 36 months. And frankly,
• 37:10
  Speaker 9: it's just out of control.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, you're right about that. Is there anything else
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: you want to talk about? I don't want to let
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: you go.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: Without giving you the floor to discuss a topic that's
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: maybe not in my brain, but something you've been talking
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: about or hearing from people as you're going around and campaigning.
• 37:25
  Speaker 9: Five and a half million residents live in Harris County
• 37:29
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• 37:33
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• 37:38
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• 37:44
  Speaker 9: Make a difference for your family, your children, and your grandchildren.
• 37:48
  Speaker 9: We cannot continue down this route. of our young people
• 37:53
  Speaker 9: embracing socialism. I came to Houston in 1962. I've been
• 37:57
  Speaker 9: here a little longer than you. And the reason I
• 38:01
  Speaker 9: came here is fleeing communism and socialism. And I tell
• 38:04
  Speaker 9: people all the time, in my 68 years of life,
• 38:07
  Speaker 9: I'd never thought I'd be running against socialists wanting to
• 38:12
  Speaker 9: be at the helm of Harris County. Make sure and
• 38:16
  Speaker 9: go vote. It's all about turnout.
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I do think that that's before I let
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: you go.
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: I do think that that's true, that a lot of
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: the left's rhetoric, especially on a local level, they seem
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: to expect a lot of the rational, sane people to
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: stay home. They want to radicalize that small amount of
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: very active people that they have, get a lot of
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: them to turn out and vote in elections that profoundly
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: change things for us. And I know on a national level,
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: part of the argument on the left has been change
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: the leadership because you're not happy with this or that.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: And I'm fascinated with that idea on a local level
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: because Democrats have been in charge for a while in
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: Harris County.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: Democrats have done a lot of bad things in Harris County.
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: And if you do want to see change happen, maybe
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: you have to start locally and maybe you have to
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: put people in a position of power like you to
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: make things better, to make things to make spending just
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: wholeheartedly more logical and less insane. I don't know if
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: there's really even a question there, but I'd love for
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: you to respond to the idea that I find it
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: so amazing that these crazy radical people on the left
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: can be screaming they want change at the top of
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: their ticket while ignoring all the change that probably should
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: be happening toward the bottom of it.
• 39:30
  Speaker 9: Well, I think you ask yourself one question. I spent
• 39:33
  Speaker 9: 12 years as the Harris County treasurer. By the way,
• 39:36
  Speaker 9: never arrested. But Frankly, I tell people, be intellectually honest.
• 39:46
  Speaker 9: Are you better off today than you were when the
• 39:50
  Speaker 9: conservatives ran Harris County? We never raised the tax rate.
• 39:54
  Speaker 9: We had money in the bank. Our bond ratings were excellent.
• 39:59
  Speaker 9: the criminal justice system was working, are you better off
• 40:02
  Speaker 9: today than you were in 2018? And if you're intellectually honest,
• 40:06
  Speaker 9: you will say absolutely not.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, absolutely.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: Well, thank you very much for the time, Orlando Sanchez.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: Where do people go to get information about you? They
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: just go to, what's the website again?
• 40:17
  Speaker 9: OrlandoSanchez.com.
• 40:18
  Speaker 12: That's it.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: That's easy. All right.
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: Well, thank you so much, sir. I hope to talk
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: again soon. I know you're busy, but it was a
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: real pleasure to talk to you today.
• 40:26
  Speaker 9: Enjoy the weekend, Craig.
• 40:27
  Speaker 15: You too.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: That is Orlando Sanchez. He is running for the Harris
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: County judge position, and he deserves it, man. He does.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: My favorite thing that Orlando Sanchez said just a moment
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: ago was we just.
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: Need to be more rational. And you know who he
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: agrees with so much on that? Wayne Dolcefino and myself.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: When we say we just have to go back to
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: common sense thinking, common sense approaches to a lot of
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: our challenges.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: And not blast another horrible.
• 40:55
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• 41:01
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• 41:03
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  Speaker 2: name is Craig Collins. Wayne Dolcefino is on special assignment today.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: My name is Craig Collins. I just did it. The
• 44:02
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• 44:05
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• 44:07
  Speaker 3: I should have asked Orlando Sanchez about some of the
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: controversies of his competition because Dr. Letitia Plummer is terrible
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: and has a lot of different issues. But two of
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: my favorite that have been more recent were all the
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: campaign finance things she was accused of.
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: This happened back in July.
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: I think they submitted a correction a couple weeks ago
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: in early September where they essentially admitted.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: That they got a lot of stuff wrong.
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: But it was a anonymous complaint that was actually sent
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: in to the Texas Ethics Commission in July that caused
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: the plumber campaign and someone who has a history of
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: being accused of financial and medical and all kinds of malpractice.
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: But it's interesting to watch that complaint pop up, and
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: then eventually a few months later, watch the corrections all
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: demonstrate the validity of said complaint. And then Plummer's campaign
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: claimed that they just, they made some accidents or some
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: whoopsies in the world of math. And then also the debate,
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: the virtual debate that didn't happen, that was supposed to happen,
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: I think, earlier this month. And I think there will
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: be another debate and how both sides claim different things.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: Orlando connected to a virtual debate Easily. You know, this
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: makes me crazy, actually. I really should ask Orlando about this.
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: I regret not doing this now. Because I wanted to
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: focus on his campaign stuff and not necessarily this. But
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: as a guy who really loves technology, I'm a technology nerd,
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: it's so easy to prep someone effectively, especially if you
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: can be in the same place as them, to do
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: the technology things.
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: We have today well.
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: You have to prep them. You have to be around them.
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: And if you're to the degree... where you're running for
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: an office like county judge in Harris County and you
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: claim you've raised hundreds of thousands of dollars, you have
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: the ability to spend a little bit of money on
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: a tech savvy person that can even just like be
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: there with you to set up your Zoom call or
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: whatever it is. And that still didn't go well. That
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: is a myriad of technical issues. And so then Plummer's campaign,
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: I think, claimed that Orlando eventually was like, I'm not
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: coming back if you finally fixed your issues. And Orlando
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: said they had a ton of time and they had
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: a lot of technical issues and they never were fixed.
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: And she just kept dropping out and disconnecting. And so,
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: you know, you can't do that. And so I found
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: that uniquely entertaining earlier this month, again, that that was
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: a problem where the virtual debate dispute became a thing
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: because it shows the seriousness of one candidate and the
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: lack of seriousness of the other. And actually, it shows
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: something worse. I will say this in regards to this election.
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: There are people on the left who just assume they're
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: going to win. They just assume it. Plummer's campaign believes
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: she can't possibly lose. They think that right now. They
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: behave that way when they show up or fail to
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: show up for a digital debate because they don't put
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: the effort in to make sure the technology works effectively, which, again,
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: easy to do with prep time in our society. Wayne
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: Dolcefino does the show every day right now from his office.
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: At least he did most of the show's I think
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: he's only done a few shows here in person, and
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: then it's been almost entirely in his office. And sure,
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: we've had technical ups and downs a little bit, but again,
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: he's also figuring that out completely on his own on
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: a daily basis because we're not forcing somebody else to
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: be in the room over there. And for a one-off
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: political debate, you'd think you'd have a tech-savvy person standing
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: near Plummer if she doesn't know what she's doing.
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: But it's just amazing because what.
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: We need to do, and actually I'll Say it away that, again,
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: I think a lot of people on the left are
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: saying certain things, and some people, unfortunately, on the far
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: right are saying this too. We need to wake up
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: our politicians by kicking a lot of them out of
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: these jobs that they think that they're just going to get.
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: There are a lot of entitled behaving politicians. Like something
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: that actually drives me crazy, and it's driven me crazy
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: for a long time in the world of politics, is
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: how every year, whether it's a presidential election or whether
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: it's something like this, a midterm election season. So many
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: of the races are assumed over before they start. Actually,
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: Carmen Montiel was running for office here in Harris County
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: and didn't wind.
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: Up being successful.
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: But I think something that really made her go crazy, too,
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: in conversations I had with her is how often people
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: just assumed they were going to lose and how we
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: need the politicians.
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: To stop believing, especially at a local level. that they're
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: just guaranteed these positions.
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: And all the people who complain, all the people who say, like,
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: this isn't going well, that hasn't gone well over the
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: last six years, my life and financially, this has gotten worse.
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: You need to try to show people, at least show
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: the people that are currently in power, that they're not
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: just entitled to that power and to do whatever they
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: want with it by forcing them out. It would wake
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: up the Democrats on the left and maybe make them
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: behave more like a John Whitmire Democrat to have them
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: lose more of these races locally. It's probably not going
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: to happen, which is a shame, but it drives me crazy.
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: It drives me crazy that we talk about the House
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: and the Senate and we talk about these four, five,
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: six competitive races and even the fact that Texas is
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: surprisingly or shockingly a competitive race. And I find that
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: mostly to be true because Tallarico doesn't reflect at all
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: the value system of the average Texan, which probably should
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: be a reason that he can't win this election.
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: But darn, it doesn't matter.
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: But I just think it's amazing that so many people
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: out there, especially people in my generation and a younger generation.
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: I'm 40, though, now, so I'm middle aged, I think.
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: But nonetheless, like millennials, Gen Zers, they all want things
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: within our political system to change. And yet the thing
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: they don't do well is demonstrate to the politicians that
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: they work for us.
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: Because if we did that better as a society, as
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: a as a group.
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: Of people, if we often demonstrated and I think Cornyn
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: has learned that lesson. John Cornyn, one of the few
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: examples of someone that I thought absolutely didn't deserve a
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: shot at reelection that was told by the the voters
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: in in our community and in our state that he
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: wasn't going to get that shot at reelection.
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: And that's a good thing to me. But that can't
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: be the exception to the rule. That has to become
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: the rule.
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: We need more of these people to be easily voted
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: out of office if they fail us. And there are
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: so many people in Harris County is a great example
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: to go back to it one more time and talk about, again.
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: The property tax hike, the historic one.
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: If I rewound the tape like two months, three months, whatever,
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: I'd need to rewind it for that to not be
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: a discussion that was in the public eye that a
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: lot of people weren't paying attention to at, say, a
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: local level.
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: Local news wasn't talking about it. None of that.
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: And I asked you what's one thing that people in
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: power could do right now to hurt you. You would
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: say it was to raise prices on stuff, to make
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: things more expensive. And a property tax hike that hits
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: the entirety of Harris County, that as Orlando Sanchez pointed out,
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: will make things more expensive for businesses who will pass
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: that cost on to you. But a property tax hike
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: is going to make things worse, not better. raising costs here,
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: raising costs there, all of it is worse. And historically so,
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: raising the cost of your day-to-day living is uniquely bad
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: in our society. I'm laughing as I say this because
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: I'm amazed that these are the kind of things we
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: need to try to point out to people. And yet
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: I feel like we do need to try to point
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: this out more often because the only reason it happens
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: is the politicians think they're completely safe in their jobs,
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: that they can do whatever they want and they can't
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: possibly be kicked out of office. And we have to
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: show them it's wrong. You know what it's like to me?
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: This is a rant, and we'll move on to national
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: or other.
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: Topics after the hour.
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: It's sort of like if you had a boss that
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: didn't give a crap about your company, like just didn't
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: care at all, like a boss who barely ever shows up,
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: who doesn't really yell at anybody or act like anything
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: about the company matters.
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: How would the employees inevitably behave?
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: At a company where the guy at the top or
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: the woman at the whoever's at the top doesn't give
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: a crap about anything, they would also stop giving a
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: crap about anything.
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: It would be the type of.
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: You know, just infectious sort of idea that would cause
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: everyone to do something terrible. Like businesses would easily fail
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: if the person at the top just assumed no matter
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: what we do as a business, I stay in power,
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: we stay in power.
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: Everything keeps working out for all of us.
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: That is a death sentence to so many companies throughout
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: our country and our society. Politicians every day play by
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: different rules. They play by the rules of I can
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: do whatever the hell I want. The people that I
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: work for, I can ignore. I can pretend as though
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: their voices and their opinions completely don't matter. And I'll
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: stay in power. I'll stay in charge. And I'll keep
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: doing whatever I want to do.
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: We need to show them that's not true.
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: And the founding fathers built our system accurately and effectively
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: in order for us to be able to do that.
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: And yet the biggest takeaway I.
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: Think I had from the conversation with Orlando Sanchez that
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: happened a little bit ago, and we'll put up some
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: of it on social media, but the biggest one is
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: how few people will vote. Five million people live in
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: Harris County, and not even a fifth of them are
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: expected to vote in an election for the person who's
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: in charge of the budget, of the financial spending decisions
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: here in this community.
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: That is recklessly stupid.
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: More of us need to show up and vote, and
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: more of us need to reject the powers that have
• 54:05
  Speaker 3: harmed us so far.
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: All right, quick break. A lot coming up. This is
• 54:09
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