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Hasan Piker on Talarico, Steve Hilton's Solar Panel Audit, and a Yankees Playoff Loss · KSEV Mornings with Craig and Wayne

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  And now, the mob guys Craig Coglianese and Wayne Dolcefino,
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  On KSEV Radio.
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  Well, you get one of the mob guys on KSEV Radio.
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  My name is Craig Coglianese, or as you hear me say it still,
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  when I fill in on the Dana show, Craig Coglianese.
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  I'm just going to go by both names.
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  Russell, I think it's going to be a, yeah, either or.
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  People pick.
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  At Radio Craig C on social media if you want to follow me.
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  A lot of things to talk about.
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  I will absolutely start by talking about the New York Yankees, even though I know I live in Houston,
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  but they lost. And so I think people are happy when they lose. So this is like a fun thing. Yeah,
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  I see Russell giving me like thumbs up. So everybody's happy about this. I am going to,
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  I'm going to take issue with something you said on the press box. I don't think that the Rays got to
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  Cam Schlettler as much as I think errors behind Cam as a young pitcher really rattled him. In the
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  first inning, Russell, three errors.
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  Yeah, he's holding his fingers up.
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  Three errors.
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  Three!
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  I mean, and I don't know what happened there.
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  I don't know why Jazz Chisholm didn't know
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  how to throw the ball to first base.
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  He looked like Chuck Knoblock from years ago
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  as a New York Yankee who forgot how to do that.
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  It was, it's horrible.
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  Cause I really thought the Yankees had game two.
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  Now luckily, and this doesn't matter to any of the Texans
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  out there listening to the show,
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  cause most of you want the Yankees to lose.
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  Luckily they're one of the best teams
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  coming back 2-0 in an ALDS in baseball.
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  They've done it multiple times.
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  Russell mentioned one of those said times recently,
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  but they've done it before that.
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  So they're good at this.
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  And it does become a very simple whose pitchers are better.
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  And in the first two games of that series,
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  unfortunately, the Rays pitchers seem to be better.
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  But I think Cam Schlettler is the best pitcher in the thing.
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  And I think he'll win the Cy Young and prove that.
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  And I think if he gets a shot at game five,
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  He'll look different and hopefully the defense behind them looks different, but we got to get there.
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  Max Fried is a great game three starter.
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  No one's going to deny that.
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  And then game four having Garrett Cole come back, which to me is, it's also ridiculous.
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  I complained about this on Dana show.
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  I know it's not a sports show.
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  I know people don't care.
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  And I complained about it in a way that would hurt my team.
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  I don't like how spread out the baseball playoffs are now.
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  And I know they do that for TV money.
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  I know they don't want to have all the games happen on the same day every time they want to happen at night
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  They want to make more money, but I don't think it's fair
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  I think that baseball and the playoffs was better when it mimicked the regular season more which game every day and
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  In the world of being a wild card team and not a team that gets a buy in the first round
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  Which is also stupid. I don't think baseball should have a buy at all
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  But now that they do the world the wild card team shouldn't be able to align their best pitchers to pitch twice
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  That shouldn't happen.
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  You should play so many days in a row that you just can't pitch the best guys multiple
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  times.
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  It should have been Carlos Rodin, and he shouldn't have pitched yesterday, should have pitched
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  two days ago, but I digress.
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  Nonetheless, I'm hoping the Yankees come back and win this thing.
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  Not a lot of people in Houston are hoping for that, and they're getting beat up the
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  same way they beat up the Red Sox.
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  I did also think it was interesting.
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  I was listening to the press box coming in.
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  I forgot that the White Sox won their World Series here and they celebrated on the field
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  I totally forgot about that for the 2005 team and so it is interesting to think that the White Sox
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  They look better than I thought they would I think the Rays might if they beat the Yankees wind up in the World Series
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  But the Red the White Sox are playing like a team of destiny
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  Somewhat similarly to how they did when they won the World Series before but I guess I'll say one last thing about baseball before we get into
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  You know, not baseball stuff and political stuff and Hassan Piker crap that's out there
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  I will just say that I think the National League's gonna win the World Series no matter what I
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  Don't even know if it matters which team gets in if it's the you know
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  Dodgers the brain matters if the Rays get in you think the Rays can beat the Dodgers do I do
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  Why do you think that their pitching is great and they their offense is very scrap very gritty
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  I I'd like the Rays you like the raid. Okay, so you obviously think they're gonna beat the Yankees
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  I do. I do. Okay. Do you think they're going to beat the Yankees in game three?
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  Or are we going to get at least a game four?
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  Hmm. That's tough. That was a tough. That's tough.
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  Smacks freed, man. Come on. Yeah, they're going to sweep them.
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  Oh, my God. Look at that. Fine. That's fine.
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  I'm sure people will be happy about that.
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  But, yeah, the Rays do look better than I want them to look.
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  If the Yankees get through the Rays somehow,
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  would you change your opinion and believe the Yankees would win the World Series?
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  Yes, because of their pitching. Their pitching is great.
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  Pitching will always beat good hitting, especially in the postseason.
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  Don't the Dodgers have the best staff in baseball?
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  Dodgers got to get by the Braves. That's no gimme right now.
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  That's no gimme. That's true.
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  The series taught at one, and now they're going to Atlanta.
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  I think whoever wins that series will win the World Series.
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  My opinion is whoever of those two teams...
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  I like the Brewers. The Brewers are fine.
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  But I think that those two teams are most likely to be the ones that are celebrating come November.
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  Could be. Could be.
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  We'll see.
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  And I hate saying that, because just as much as a lot of people here hate the Yankees, I hate the Dodgers.
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  I think they're a terrible, awful team.
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  Because, well, to be honest, they're doing exactly what the Yankees did in the late 2000s,
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  early 90s, or late 90s, early 2000s, when they bought all the best players.
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  That is exactly how the Dodgers are succeeding, and it annoys me,
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  because my team's not doing it anymore.
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  All right, we have stuff to get to. I do. I have non-baseball stuff.
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  I don't want to talk about that. I'd love to do, like, a two-hour baseball show.
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  I wonder if, like, the Astros were in the World Series.
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  He's the program director. I'll ask Russell this question.
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  If the Astros were in the World Series, would this time slot, which is Salcedo and everybody
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  before him, before us, be allowed to do a two-hour sports show or no?
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  World Series Astros.
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  That would be a lot of talk.
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  I mean, Texas Super Bowl, whatever.
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  I mean, yeah, it would be a lot of sports talk.
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  All right, so the Texas Super Bowl is never going to happen, I feel like.
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  That team looks-
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  Not going to happen this year.
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  They look horrible.
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  Not going to happen this year.
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  I heard you ask one of the listeners that called into your show about C.J.
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  It is really fascinating to think how people felt about him coming into this year and how likely people are to feel about him right now
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  I think that a lot of people would be just fine with CJ
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  Going away after this year not being the court some people would yes, you're not of that
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  I'm not I still think he's a good quarterback. I think he's played well. I mean, it's not his fault
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  They're 0 and 4. I mean you put a couple games on him, but it's just true
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  Yeah, some of those interceptions aren't his fault either. No, they're not and he's played well, you know, he played well against Dallas
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  I mean you scored 30 points you should win. Yeah, that's true. So should when you have supposedly having a leap defense you should win
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  Yeah, that's true. At least they won't be in the playoffs from the fumble seven times. At least that won't happen
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  This doesn't look like they'll be in the playoffs. Hey, come on. What are the chances?
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  How would they have this season would be?
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  I just can't kick a team down just yet when they went 0-3 last year and ripped off 12 out of
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  I know 12 wins out of the last 14 games
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  I just yeah, but now they're one game worse than before. Yeah, the holes getting dug even deeper
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  this year. All right fine. That was fun. Okay so two-hour show if the Texans are
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  in the Super Bowl or the Astros are in the World Series and then I'd have to
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  just be quiet for those two hours. I'd let Wayne and Russell do most of the show
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  because I wouldn't be able to talk. He's not his head too because as a Yankee
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  fan I'm unwelcome in that environment. All right let's play some of the audio
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  that I have some of the other things. I mentioned Hassan Piker. I'm gonna play
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  that first. This is probably the oldest thing that's out there and I meant to
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  play it last week and I just didn't get to it or Wayne and I didn't get to it
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  and it's fascinating to me and if you don't know who Hassan Piker is because I
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  I debate how many people actually know who this crap fest of an individual is
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  if you listen to Abdul Al-Sayed who let him campaign with that person running
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  for a race in Michigan now he is just some twitch streamer out of California
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  but when they were running the race together Hassan Piker was this
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  incredibly influential person on the democratic side of the aisle because that is true.
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  He is an influencer who is succeeding at getting a lot of people at least on the left to listen to the stupid things that he says.
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  And so he was recently talking about James Talarico and about what happens if Talarico wins Texas, which he praised, I don't know, Allah.
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  This is Hassan Piker, that it would occur.
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  But here, I'll play this audio first. Now, I just, I can't get over the fact that like this is real and that these are the things they're saying.
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  out loud into microphones in public on cameras.
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  This is the stuff they should be hiding.
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  This is the stuff that should take that hidden camera in James Talrico's church that shows
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  his pastor saying how crazy he is or someone else saying how crazy he is, but it's not.
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  This is out in the open, a version of how Democrats expect to do whatever it is they
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  intend to do.
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  All right, hold on.
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  I actually got to hit this.
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  I got to hit the right button over here.
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  I like to screen my audio right before the show.
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  Just one last check through to make sure that no horrible words are said because Jake Tapper occasionally drops an F-bomb
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  And you don't expect that on the CNN, but here we go. Hopefully insha Allah after James Talariga wins, okay
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  Yeah
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  After I'm I allowed I feel like I shouldn't even say that I feel like in the state of Texas is no Sharia state
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  They're gonna they're gonna throw me in prison
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  But yeah, hopefully after
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  James Seligman wins, we got to hold him to account.
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  We got to make sure that he doesn't become another do-nothing Democrat, business as usual,
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  and we got to keep up that pressure.
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  And we have to remind him that we are the force that backed him both early on, and we
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  are the force that allowed him to win this seat of power.
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  Yeah.
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  That's all I have for you.
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  If you hear that again, what he's saying is we are the force is the Democratic Socialists of America, the communists, the crazy people.
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  We're the reason that James Talarico could win Texas. We flooded Texas with a bunch of money to help him win a race that he fundamentally does not deserve to win because he does not possess any of the belief system that is a typical Texans belief system.
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  He is so antithetical to the everyday Texan way of life and a lot of the things he says
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  and does that even just the the vegan stuff, which I do love that President Trump keeps
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  calling it vegan and not vegan.
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  I'm very amused by that.
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  But this is just continuation of the ludicrous nature of talking about Talarico like he
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  could actually represent Texas.
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  I want to play part of the audio that's also gone viral from a debate he did years ago
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  where he says crazy things and people are like,
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  wait a minute, this guy?
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  And now for two months he claims
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  he doesn't believe this stuff.
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  But I just have to keep reminding people about this.
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  You might feel like when you listen to the show
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  and actually we're late for a break.
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  So we can take a break first and then I can go back
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  and play the Talrico audio.
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  But I'll say this to everybody who's like,
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  man, he talks about Talrico a lot.
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  I don't know what else to do.
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  I don't know how to better help you,
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  whoever you are out there,
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  understand the catastrophic failure that it would be if James Talarico can become a senator from Texas.
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  Because he barely deserves to be elected as a senator from California.
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  Because of how far left he is, and yet we might, knock on wood we won't, but we might elect him here.
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  And I can't understand it.
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  Quick break, a lot more.
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  No, I do not.
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  Oh, that's amazing.
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  And again, I haven't stated this enough to say this definitively, but there are interpretations
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  They don't.
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  At the state capitol.
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  Biological there are six is both mass look I'll stop right there. You've heard a lot of this before I know you have
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  It's just crazy to hear him say it like a month ago or a few months ago on some of this stuff and say it
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  So definitively because one of two things has to be true
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  He was trying to garner support from the far left by saying things
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  he didn't believe a few months ago,
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  or he's trying to garner support by the middle
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  for doing the exact opposite now.
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  I believe it's the latter.
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  I think that he believes all the stuff he was saying
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  when he was a representative in Austin,
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  and now that he's trying to be a state senator,
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  or excuse me, an actual senator of our state,
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  he suddenly doesn't believe all this stuff.
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  Like all this stuff isn't true anymore.
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  But either way, he's a lying piece of you know what,
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  because he definitely doesn't wanna tell you
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  what he actually thinks.
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  If either of those things
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  don't get him elected into a position of power.
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  All right, I'll move on,
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  but Talarico is someone I do have to keep talking about,
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  I feel like I've poo-pooed that too much,
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  so I don't know if people don't want to call in now
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  That's not the point.
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  281-558-5738, I'm just not used to it.
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  It's just when I do a lot of the radio I do,
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  they don't take calls.
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  So I apologize if I don't throw that number out more tell you to call in more of a 281-558-5738
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  I want to play some Bill Maher audio that I thought was really interesting just shifting gears
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  Bill Maher was talking about the plane that had a hijacker on it with the intention of crashing and killing a whole bunch of people
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  in Israel
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  Essentially, it could have been a version of what happened to us on 9-11 but happening there
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  And the reason it didn't happen is because of the heroic efforts of the pilot who got stabbed by his co-pilot and some other people
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  Involved in this situation, but but it is sort of amazing to hear Bill Maher just the other day on his show
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  Talk about how this story like blipped as far as it was in and then out of the news ecosystem
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  And he thought to yourself like why did that go so quickly?
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  Because, of course, the takeaway from a story like that was uniquely sympathetic to Israel
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  and to Jewish people that someone would target them by being a co-pilot on a flight, stabbing
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  somebody and wanting to steer that plane into some sort of public place where they could
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  do mass casualty damage.
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  There was no alternative version of that story.
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  If you covered it, you had to be sympathetic to Israel and to Jewish people, and a whole
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  lot of media didn't seem to want to do that.
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  Bill Maher seemed to understand that.
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  I think of the airline hijacking this week.
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  I thought it would be a much bigger story if you didn't see it.
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  First of all, let's pause for a minute to say a routine flight of Israeli, almost completely
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  a plane full of Israelis from the United Arab Emirates.
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  A routine would not have happened five years ago.
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  I mean, that was part of the Abraham Accords.
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  This is, and of course it was what happened was one of the pilots was a jihadist, tried
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  to hijack the plane, stabbed the other pilot, and then as in Let's Roll, the one that we
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  stopped here in this country on 9-11, the passengers took over and landed the plane
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  safely.
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  Here's a dirty question.
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  Do you think if that plane full of Jews had crashed, the McLemore's of the world would
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  be celebrating it?
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  I actually don't think that's a dirty question at all.
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  I think it's an inspired question because I do think there's a portion of people who
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  would celebrate.
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  I don't know that Macklemore, the musician who came out pro-Palestine, which isn't a place,
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  but pro the people who live in the Gaza Strip. But nonetheless, there are a lot of people who
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  probably would praise that, and that's horrific. And honestly, and I'll say this, because I've said
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  it before on this show or other shows, I think a portion of it is, and I know this is a reoccurring
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  theme when this topic comes up for me, but I think a portion of it is just anger at something else.
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  and people are so bad at figuring out what actually makes them angry,
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  and also figuring out how to solve the problem that they're angry about.
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  They might be mad that they don't have enough money,
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  that they don't have a house at whatever age they're at,
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  that they don't have the car they think they should be driving.
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  They just don't have the opportunities that they thought that they deserved,
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  and so they're mad, and they don't know how to solve that problem.
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  So instead, they find something to scream and yell at that they think is controlling
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  some part of society in a way that feels similar to how they feel out of control
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  their own life. There's so few people.
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  Like there are a lot and I should say that differently because people of different generations, older generations, the millennial Gen Z, they're better at this.
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  But agency of your own life is something that I see really missing from a lot of people and I try to think about why.
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  But I'd almost love to hear from you on this topic too, if you can figure out a reason why.
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  The first thing I've come up with is that potentially people who see the opportunities
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  in their life be connected to likes and comments on social media.
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  You have to remember this.
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  The youngest generation that is a professional now, the younger Gen Z people, grew up with
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  social media and they watched people of their age, however old they were, because young people
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  do this, that went viral, became famous in millionaires based on likes and clicks on
• 21:23
  social media. I mean, if you scroll through TikTok, and I don't know how many people that
• 21:28
  listen to this station and the show actually use TikTok, but if you scroll through TikTok,
• 21:32
  one unfortunate thing you will see a lot of is what sometimes appears to be underage,
• 21:38
  but mostly like 20 something women trying really hard to get attention by just being
• 21:44
  provocative because there are people that have a huge following that make a lot of money
• 21:49
  based on putting up pictures of themselves
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  in scantily clad outfits and whatnot,
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  that's always been the case on the internet.
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  It more so seems to me to be what a young person's
• 22:00
  reality is as to what success looks like.
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  And then as you get older, if you don't get likes
• 22:05
  and clicks yourself, or hopefully you don't sell yourself
• 22:09
  in some way that you'll regret and you shouldn't do it,
• 22:11
  so hopefully a lot of people wind up preventing
• 22:14
  that temptation from being a reality in their lives,
• 22:17
  but then you get to be older and you're like,
• 22:18
  well, why didn't I get the clicks?
• 22:19
  Why didn't I get the likes?
• 22:20
  Why am I not famous?
• 22:21
  Why don't I have millions of followers and tons of money
• 22:25
  and you blame something else?
• 22:27
  Because the algorithm, whatever the thing was
• 22:29
  on the internet that prevented you from being famous,
• 22:32
  which honestly, it's more like a lottery.
• 22:34
  Like so few people I think actually take off.
• 22:37
  And once you start to succeed,
• 22:39
  the internet feeds that success.
• 22:41
  If you put up videos that get 20,000, 30,000 views,
• 22:45
  in the first couple of weeks you're on social media,
• 22:48
  social media will prioritize the rest of your views because they think it
• 22:51
  benefits them. They're like look at this person taking off and so that's really
• 22:55
  at the heart of it. It's been at the heart of podcasting for a long time too.
• 22:59
  One of the reasons they say Joe Rogan is so successful is he's been doing it
• 23:02
  for so long that he built an audience that's very different than people who
• 23:07
  start out today. If you launch a new thing right now the odds of you
• 23:11
  becoming Joe Rogan in a few months are terrible. But I think that that's an
• 23:14
  interesting potential cause for young people to not blame themselves when they don't succeed.
• 23:21
  I put up the video.
• 23:23
  I thought I was going to get all the likes and hits and I become famous and it didn't
• 23:26
  work and that is the first version of someone else is in control and not me.
• 23:32
  And then they demand to be given things that they didn't earn, that they don't deserve.
• 23:36
  Because if you didn't get the interactions you wanted in whatever place it was, again,
• 23:40
  I'm couching a lot of this discussion
• 23:43
  Specifically in social media, but if you didn't get the interactions you wanted you're gonna blame everybody but you but maybe your content wasn't good
• 23:48
  Maybe the thing you were putting up just wasn't interesting to enough people that they didn't want to go check it out
• 23:54
  They didn't want to see it and you failed because you put a bad thing
• 23:58
  Or not a quality product out there in the world. You didn't fail because of somebody else. I hear that a lot too
• 24:04
  It's one last thing
• 24:05
  I'll say because this this does go way beyond generations to me
• 24:10
  I hear a lot of people talk about how how social media throttles them
• 24:13
  I
• 24:14
  Meaning they believe that their political opinion is the reason that social media
• 24:17
  Doesn't allow them to be seen by more people and that was absolutely true
• 24:21
  For a really long time on a lot of these platforms and still is true on some of them
• 24:26
  But there's platforms that are now an exception to that rule like X like like Twitter now owned by Elon Musk who definitely does not
• 24:34
  that silenced the right.
• 24:36
  And so it's kind of funny when I talked to like a buddy of mine like, oh yeah, man, I
• 24:38
  can't get going.
• 24:40
  You know, they just hate my opinion.
• 24:41
  Because I'm like, you're just picking the wrong platform.
• 24:44
  A rumble was built by conservatives.
• 24:46
  It's a reason that we are on YouTube and rumble and X. And I don't like really being on Facebook,
• 24:52
  because I think Facebook does still potentially screw you compared to the other ones.
• 24:57
  But whatever it is, like there's platforms for it.
• 24:59
  So try it, put it out there, you know, go gangbuster on the ones that allow it.
• 25:03
  and then bring it to the other places,
• 25:05
  because that quality also winds up speaking volumes
• 25:09
  and getting you the traction you want all over the place.
• 25:12
  But nonetheless, I'm not actually trying to coach people
• 25:14
  to be more successful in social media,
• 25:16
  because I do think it's the devil.
• 25:18
  I know I'm on it at Radio Craig C.
• 25:20
  You can follow me on all the platforms.
• 25:22
  I think it's one of the biggest things harming most of us
• 25:24
  in our society, and certainly young people.
• 25:26
  And I think that's one avenue how.
• 25:29
  We'll talk about that more maybe at some point
• 25:30
  later on the show.
• 25:31
  So I do want to talk about a ballot harvesting scam that was exposed via social media and
• 25:38
  a video with Steve Hilton that I thought was fascinating.
• 25:41
  All that and more in just a bit.
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  This is KSEV Mornings on The Voice of Texas.
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  My name is Craig Coglianese.
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  Craig Coglianese, I'm solo today.
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  More after this.
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  for kids and the assault
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  children behind their parents' backs.
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  But that's just the beginning.
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  Gina Hinojosa supports allowing boys and girls sports
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  and in their locker rooms.
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  It's gross, unfair, and harmful to girls.
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  And what does Gina Hinojosa say about it?
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  Listen to this.
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  I really don't understand how girls would be hurt by this.
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  A threat to our little girls that doesn't exist.
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  Gina Hinojosa, radical, dangerous.
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  Yeah, I know you can't hear the music on the Internet. At Radio Craig C, this is KSEV
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  morning on The Voice of Texas. My name is Craig Coglianese. The guy that would be sitting
• 29:20
  across from me at least digitally is Wayne Dolcefino, but he's not here. He had a dentist
• 29:25
  appointment yesterday and he texted me this morning that it didn't go well. I think it
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  went fine. I think he's okay. It's just the after effects of going to the dentist and
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  then dealing with even the next day pain. I wouldn't want to do a radio show if I went
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  to the dentist and had a procedure the day before. I'd want to skip a day. And so Wayne
• 29:43
  kind of told me he was planning on sleeping in. What I love about that, I'll just say
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  this quickly because he didn't say it in his messages, but he could have, like he could
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  show up halfway through. We could easily facilitate that. Russell and I, if Wayne doesn't want
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  to be here at seven, but he wants to be here at 815, we can get that done. However Wayne
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  Dolcefino wants to do it, it can happen. So at some point I'll tell him that, like he
• 30:07
  could do a fly by where he's literally here for like 20 minutes and then bounce. It's
• 30:12
  totally fine. For both me and Russell, we can we can figure that out. We can make that
• 30:17
  happen. We have all the buttons to press. So I probably need to tell them that. Before
• 30:20
  I get back to serious stuff, including I said a piece of audio I think is really informative
• 30:26
  when it comes to how some voter registration ballot harvesting voter fraud occurs.
• 30:33
  I'm going to do a quick-ish five or rapid fire, I think is what I'm now calling this on this show,
• 30:39
  which is where we do stuff that's not necessarily political news because I need the palate cleanser pretty bad.
• 30:45
  I saw a few things that went viral that I thought were crazy. The first one is this. It is a groom in
• 30:51
  Australia that forgot the name of the woman he was marrying and when he blurted out a name,
• 30:57
  It was the sister of the woman he's marrying. This is like a friends TV show moment kind of thing
• 31:03
  But it happened in real life and it went very viral
• 31:07
  And several people in social media asked the question like would you go through with the marriage?
• 31:11
  There's almost nothing you could do
• 31:12
  I think when you're at the altar marrying someone that could in that that's how to not show up that in that moment would cause
• 31:19
  You to no longer want to do it. This might be the other thing you could do
• 31:23
  Take B.
• 31:24
  Take B.
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  I'm a gross pumper.
• 31:26
  Emily, gross pumper.
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  Emma.
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  Emma, gross pumper.
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  Yeah, I know.
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  Whoops.
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  Whoopsie, whoopsie.
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  It's the wrong person.
• 31:34
  You said the wrong person there.
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  So do over, and then keep being married to this new person
• 31:39
  that you're getting married to.
• 31:41
  And I imagine the sister gets invited to less stuff.
• 31:43
  I also imagine if this guy and the sister
• 31:46
  go somewhere for some amount of time,
• 31:48
  that the brand new bride doesn't allow them to be alone.
• 31:52
  This has really happened.
• 31:53
  a guy flubbed the name and still gets married.
• 31:57
  I can't even fad, like I get in trouble with my wife
• 31:59
  for things that pale in comparison to this.
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  If I ever once called her one of her sister's names,
• 32:04
  either sister, older or younger,
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  I think I would be in trouble for weeks.
• 32:08
  I think I would sleep outside for maybe a month.
• 32:11
  Also this, I kind of find this interesting.
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  And granted, I'm gonna assume a whole lot of people
• 32:16
  don't know the newer artists here for a musician.
• 32:19
  They might know the other artists in this.
• 32:22
  I'm assuming a lot of people actually know the other artist in this one, but this is not the
• 32:26
  first musician this year to be accused of stealing a whole lot of music from other people,
• 32:33
  famous people. There's another fairly new musician out there who's getting a lot of attention
• 32:37
  that's doing the same thing, like two women that are solo vocalists. And I'm going to make an
• 32:42
  assumption before I hit play on this. I think there's a lot of younger people in music right
• 32:48
  now who don't even really know how to play instruments.
• 32:51
  So they kind of come up with songs based on lyrics and maybe just singing the lyrics.
• 32:56
  And I think your brain, if you don't know how to play instruments, will probably just
• 33:00
  put your words to some other song.
• 33:03
  You might not even do it intentionally.
• 33:04
  You might very well do it intentionally, but I imagine you also could do it by accident.
• 33:08
  And then you find musicians, they play the music for you.
• 33:12
  Some of them should probably notice that it's eerily similar to something else.
• 33:15
  and then you put it out there and then you get in trouble.
• 33:18
  But this is Olivia Dean,
• 33:20
  who's being accused of borrowing heavily from Bill Withers
• 33:23
  because it sounds like she did.
• 33:25
  And she just won a Grammy as the best new artist.
• 33:29
  And she's pretty, and I think she actually
• 33:30
  either just came to Houston or will be coming to Houston.
• 33:34
  Even if you don't know who she is,
• 33:35
  I admit that as a vocalist, I think she's pretty talented,
• 33:38
  but you be the judge.
• 33:40
  I know this is the kind of thing
• 33:41
  we're not supposed to play on the internet, but screw it.
• 33:44
  I'll turn off the uh the ding from a youtube after the fact. You tell me if these songs sound too similar
• 33:50
  Um because they're by totally different people one of which is gonna pretend she wrote it when she definitely didn't
• 33:56
  I see the crystal raindrops fall and the beauty of it all is when the sun comes shining through
• 34:06
  I've heard it laced in every song
• 34:08
  Oh
• 34:09
  Still the words are coming wrong
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  Uh-oh.
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  Doesn't always answer when you call.
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  I see the crystal raindrops fall and the beauty.
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  Yeah, that's just the two of us.
• 34:21
  Both of us.
• 34:22
  I'll play a little bit more of it,
• 34:22
  but that's literally the same song.
• 34:25
  Different musician, different words, but nothing changed.
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  When the sun comes shining through.
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  I've heard it laced in every song.
• 34:35
  Still the words all come out wrong.
• 34:38
  Those are always awesome when you call.
• 34:42
  I'm going to admit something awkward on the radio show
• 34:44
  this morning, and I'm just going to do it,
• 34:45
  because that's what makes radio good sometimes,
• 34:47
  is oversharing.
• 34:49
  In high school, I wrote what, at first I thought,
• 34:52
  this was weird, it was lame.
• 34:54
  At first I thought it was poetry.
• 34:55
  So I wrote poems.
• 34:57
  And there was this girl that I liked,
• 34:58
  I wrote a poem about her.
• 34:59
  It helped me get her attention,
• 35:00
  so I kind of think that was a success,
• 35:02
  if I'm being totally honest.
• 35:03
  She liked the poem, and that's all that matters,
• 35:05
  because if you swing and miss there,
• 35:07
  you're definitely not gonna have a shot with a girl.
• 35:09
  You write a poem, you tell it to about her.
• 35:11
  She doesn't like you.
• 35:12
  She doesn't like the thing.
• 35:14
  It's over, but that's not how that went.
• 35:16
  And then I just turned it into music in high school
• 35:19
  and I would just like sing my lyrics or my words
• 35:23
  to like a few buddies who knew how to play instruments
• 35:26
  and they play the instruments around what I thought was good.
• 35:29
  And I wasn't very good singer.
• 35:30
  I'm not gonna pretend I'm a good musician,
• 35:33
  but looking back on any of that stuff,
• 35:35
  I'm almost certain that all of it was lifted from famous people like everything I wrote
• 35:40
  I just sang a Rolling Stones song and I just added my lyrics to it because I think that's what a lot of people do and
• 35:46
  I think in the digital the tick-tock whatever age if you don't know how to play an instrument and you do this
• 35:51
  There's a good chance you might sadly wind up fairly famous for a thing. You don't deserve any fame for it
• 35:57
  But she's not the only one
• 35:58
  I think Laufey is the name of the other girl that's been accused of doing this like six or seven times and she recently won a Grammy
• 36:04
  me too, so at least they're not alone.
• 36:07
  Let's go to some serious things.
• 36:09
  Let's do some actual news, or at least political news.
• 36:12
  Steve Hilton recently talked about a solar panel scam.
• 36:17
  It's a nonprofit that was getting people solar panels on low-income housing that really was
• 36:22
  designed to get you to sign up to vote and then probably get you to vote for a certain
• 36:27
  candidate.
• 36:27
  It was ballot harvesting, tremendous scam, one of several that exists out there, legal
• 36:33
  Illegal in some places, illegal in other places like in Texas, but unfortunately it is legal
• 36:38
  in some parts of our country.
• 36:40
  All kinds of crazy things, like California itself.
• 36:43
  And actually why don't we play that audio too?
• 36:44
  So I have audio of Scott Jennings crapping all over how California works as far as registering
• 36:49
  people to vote.
• 36:50
  So we'll do this one first from Steve Hilton, then we'll do the Jennings one.
• 36:54
  But when President Trump says that elections are fraudulent and stolen from him, I don't
• 37:00
  know if he's articulating it the way I'd want him to, because I'd talk about this stuff,
• 37:05
  this stuff that's legal in some places that definitely seems to intentionally get one
• 37:11
  side more represented in elections and in voting throughout the country.
• 37:15
  Here we go.
• 37:16
  They have this program from this scheme for installing solar panels on low income apartment
• 37:23
  buildings.
• 37:24
  It was $100 million a year since 2015.
• 37:27
  Right.
• 37:28
  So we use AI tools to audit this.
• 37:31
  So that's in by 2025, that's $1 billion.
• 37:35
  Billion bucks.
• 37:37
  We found of that $1 billion,
• 37:40
  the actual amount that you could find the invoices
• 37:43
  for solar panel installation, $72 million,
• 37:48
  $928 million, most of the billion dollars
• 37:50
  went to nonprofits doing environmental justice community.
• 37:56
  When you look at what that is, it's the same old story voter registration
• 38:01
  Ballot harvest so it's a scam doing is taking taxpayer money
• 38:06
  Putting it into these nonprofits that sound like they're working for good
• 38:12
  Policy objectives of course, but actually what they're doing with it is put it's building the political machine
• 38:18
  Yeah, and here's what I like about this because because as he described that there's a whole bunch of people who probably listen to this show
• 38:23
  And listen to Sal Sato for years
• 38:24
  They're like, duh, I know this.
• 38:26
  But you might not know this specific roadmap right now via the solar panel installation
• 38:33
  initiative that gets a billion bucks over 10 years and winds up doling out 920-something
• 38:38
  million of that to other nonprofits that are doing stuff completely different that essentially
• 38:42
  is just trying to get people to vote for Democrats any way that they can.
• 38:46
  And it's very similar to the Talrico audio from one of his campaign people, or I think
• 38:50
  a super PAC person that went viral that was saying that they were paying people 25 bucks
• 38:56
  to vote for Democrats.
• 38:57
  They were doing it in a roundabout way, but they were doing it.
• 39:00
  This stuff happens constantly.
• 39:02
  And then I actually also have Scott Jennings, as I said, crapping all over California on
• 39:07
  CNN because darn it, they deserve it.
• 39:09
  He's saying they mail out a lot of ballots in California and they have this system in
• 39:13
  California called ballot harvesting where someone can go to someone's house and carry
• 39:18
  that ballot to the polls.
• 39:19
  It's not the voter.
• 39:19
  This system ought to be punted into the Sun because they inherently this makes some ballots less secure
• 39:27
  It makes voting less secure the way they do it in California and their people on both sides of the aisle who agree that the system is
• 39:33
  Terror. Yeah, it's just one system. That's terrible when I was living in Chicago, Illinois
• 39:37
  I remember having a bunch of conversations and again with like lefties about how great
• 39:43
  Certain ballot harvesting initiatives were you could show up at a retirement home
• 39:47
  and this is legal in that state and in that city,
• 39:50
  walk through it, tell a bunch of older people
• 39:53
  who might not really know what they're doing
• 39:55
  to sign a document and vote for certain people
• 39:57
  and then go mail that ballot as a early mail-in vote.
• 40:03
  And it's crazy how often people did that.
• 40:05
  And honestly, some of the documentaries out there
• 40:07
  that got trashed for what people claimed
• 40:10
  was inaccurate information absolutely demonstrated
• 40:14
  one human dropping off like a hundred ballots into a ballot box in places throughout this
• 40:19
  country that doesn't seem right. And the same people, via some of that cell phone tracking data,
• 40:25
  did it multiple times a weekend or a month. Like one person was dropping off hundreds of ballots
• 40:30
  every day. And you're like, wait a minute, how does this person have access to so many nursing homes
• 40:34
  and how many of those ballots are on one side of the aisle? We know from mail-in balloting data in
• 40:40
  general that a vast majority of mail-in ballots go toward Democrats.
• 40:45
  Surprise, surprise to say the very least.
• 40:47
  But I just think that's really interesting.
• 40:49
  That when you have that conversation about an initiative that claims it's on the up and up,
• 40:54
  and this is the thing that Democrats get up in arms about and pretend Republicans are bad people for not supporting.
• 41:00
  Like how dare you not want to give cheap energy to people that are in low-income apartments.
• 41:06
  We can build solar panels on top of those apartments and give people a sweet, sweet relief from paying a bunch of money for their electricity.
• 41:14
  and then almost none of that money actually goes to that thing that also I
• 41:18
  didn't really care about to begin with. All right quick break we'll take a quick
• 41:22
  break we'll come back I have another piece of audio I do want to play Abdul
• 41:26
  Al Said he got leveled by Martha McCallum on Fox and I thought that was
• 41:30
  awesome so I want to play that audio and then also I do want to have a
• 41:34
  conversation about some of the other things going on beyond politics here in
• 41:38
  Texas or here in Houston but at the same time I thought Senator Betancourt was
• 41:43
  great. I interviewed him yesterday on Dana's show and we talked a lot about property taxes
• 41:50
  and how that's one of the many scams just like the solar panel scam that's out there
• 41:53
  right now. So we'll touch on that too. All that coming up in more in just a bit. This
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  Hey, STV radio. This is the voice of Texas.
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  My name is Craig Coglianese. That's my real last name.
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  I sometimes go by Craig Coglianese as well on the radio still at least when I fill in on national shows
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  I got to fix that too. I guess
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  Part of your morning show Wayne Dolcefino on special assignment today
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  I want to just quickly mention what I thought and what my wife thought were like explosions yesterday that were happening
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  Oh, we live in Houston on the South West side
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  Also, I don't get too specific
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  But we heard a lot of like really loud noises and I haven't seen any report
• 45:48
  that that was actually a thing.
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  Like I don't know if a truck just fell over.
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  I don't know what happened,
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  but there were like three times around nine o'clock at night.
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  And I think the third one was the one that was most
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  convincingly not just like an automobile,
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  where like a huge boom happened.
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  And I kept like wondering what news I would even go to
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  to find it.
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  Like we didn't immediately turn on the TV and switch to
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  whatever the news station was.
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  Cause I don't know that they'd cover it.
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  Plus I was watching the Yankees.
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  I was watching the Yankees get beat up,
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  which was sad on another level.
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  And I thought the first one would might have just been in my brain like the first of what the three noises were
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  But I'm curious if anybody else heard that if anybody else that lives here in the Houston area of
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  This signal heard what they also thought were like explosions that happened
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  Please go ahead and call in
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  Because I would like to hear from you and have you tell me what the heck it was because I'm still not aware of what
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  It was but if not, then you know, we'll just keep going
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  That's fine. And you can call in for any reason if you want.
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  281-558-5738.
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  281-558-5738.
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  I do a bad job of asking for telephone calls,
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  but I should probably try to do that a little more.
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  Although I'm still not used to them.
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  I'm still fine.
• 47:03
  Nope, I'm going to take away the thing I just said.
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  All right, let's do other things.
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  Let's move on immediately so I don't get myself in any trouble.
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  Abdul Al Said was leveled by Martha McCallum.
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  As I said, coming into this segment,
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  I loved this. I thought this was incredible. Let's go and hit play on this
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  All I'm gonna be talking about is get money out of politics. It starts with getting money out of politics
• 47:23
  The man's are also passionate about money out of politics and because the money in politics is about spending lots
• 47:30
  Okay, so here you are in Los Angeles with the Soros family
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  So my question is how is this not taking money from billionaire?
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  Marks and power brokers. So when individuals want to give to my campaign, I welcome their support. You know what? I don't do
• 47:43
  I don't call corporations. I don't call APAC.
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  They spent, they spent, let me just finish my point.
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  In my primary, I got outspent 11 to one,
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  11 to one, $70 million from outside super PACs,
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  from APAC, from corporations, Big Pharma, Big Tech,
• 47:58
  DT, our local utility company.
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  You know who I've never called?
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  I've never called one of them.
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  Here's the difference.
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  When you take their money and then you're in a position
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  to govern on their issues, guess what happens?
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  You turn a blind eye you vote 19 times to keep prescription drug prices high
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  Individuals want to support a campaign that's different Mike Rogers
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  How much money has he taken from corporate super PACs? How much money is he taking from a pack?
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  This is how much money has he taken throughout his career?
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  I think that there's a big difference here the argument you're making is one that I think resonates with a lot of people across the country
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  I think people do feel that lobbyists and corporate money in politics is
• 48:35
  is really removing the process from, you know, representing your constituents and your state
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  the way you want to.
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  But you know, Chuck Schumer's path pack gave your campaign $30 million.
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  Do you know where that money comes from?
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  It comes from corporations.
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  Of course it does.
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  So I mean, sooner or later, you're taking money that is linking back to and you don't
• 48:54
  think that those interests, those people are going to circle back around to you.
• 48:58
  The question I'll stop right there.
• 48:59
  And I love that it started with George Soros too, because like Soros wants some stuff.
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  I don't care if the money that's in huge numbers comes from a super pack or
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  Human and a lot of the reasons it doesn't come from just some dude is they want to hide who they are
• 49:13
  They don't want you to know that like I'm George Soros and I'm handing all this money over
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  But when you're in Abdul Al Said and you're like, I won't do it. I won't take from the super pack
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  You just find other avenues around it. It's amazing to me to listen to people
• 49:27
  You know what here? Let me let me do it this way
• 49:31
  Here's what I envision being the way that people plan their talking points on the left.
• 49:37
  They ask the question first, what's the loophole to the thing I want to claim I'm against?
• 49:42
  And somebody else walks them through what the loophole is.
• 49:44
  They're like, oh no, it's fine.
• 49:46
  We can build solar panels, but then give all the money to other nonprofits that are trying
• 49:50
  to get people registered to vote for Democrats.
• 49:53
  They always know the version.
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  Oh, you don't have to enrich yourself in the White House or in whatever version of, you
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  know, political position you're in.
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  If you're Joe Biden, you can just give the money to your niece and your family members.
• 50:06
  And Hunter can be worth a ton of money both times you're in office.
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  Like, that's fine.
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  That's totally different.
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  That's not the same as enriching yourself.
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  You're putting the money in a bank account that has somebody else's name on it.
• 50:16
  So very often I think how they do it is they go, all right, tell me the loophole first.
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  Let me make sure that that makes sense so I can keep doing the thing I say that I'm against and now that I know about it
• 50:27
  Let me go say I'm against the thing that I'm still taking advantage of and this is case in point with Abdul
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  I'll say you taking 30 million dollars
• 50:35
  From a Chuck Schumer backed organization and then claiming that you didn't get any corporate money is beyond stupid.
• 50:43
  And I loved even in the video if anybody's watching on social media and saw it on YouTube, we're on X, we're on Rumble, as far as the platforms that we stream on on a regular basis.
• 50:53
  But if you saw it, like Abdul said, he even made a face when she said, of course it came from corporations like it didn't.
• 50:59
  And by the way, these people who are incredibly rich own corporations.
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  So even if they don't write the check through their company, they still write the check
• 51:07
  to you and assume that their company is going to get an attaboy, a benefit of some point
• 51:13
  to be truly, truly someone who's immune to the demands of the people who helped you get
• 51:17
  elected.
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  And I played this earlier in the show and maybe I'll play it again in the second hour.
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  There's also the Hassan Pikers of the world now who think that they're so important as
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  an influencer that if they help you get elected, even without giving you any money themselves,
• 51:31
  that they're also going to want some stuff for you.
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  But whoever it is that thinks that they're responsible for the thing you are now, they're
• 51:38
  going to want a slice and they're going to want the slice as soon as they can have it.
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  Oh, which is a may, I'll say something about that.
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  Because I've thought about that before in my own life.
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  There are times where people give you a leg up, they give you an opportunity, whatever
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  it might be.
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  It happens.
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  Someone will do you a favor.
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  And what I find interesting are the people I know in my life who never act as though that favor
• 52:00
  Deserves to be reciprocated, you know, like and this is a mob guy mentality
• 52:05
  They'll throw out there on the mob guy show
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  there are people that'll do something and just
• 52:09
  Assume that their part in the process is over and if you if you do a bunch with whatever they gave you awesome
• 52:15
  Like they don't care there are other people I know in my life or in my family even as the East Coast Italian
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  that if you do them a favor or if they do you one,
• 52:25
  they're expecting one back
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  and they're expecting it back pretty soon.
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  And they kind of think you're a jerk if you don't do it.
• 52:31
  And I imagine most of these people
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  who randomly support someone politically
• 52:35
  and don't even really do it for,
• 52:38
  in a line belief system.
• 52:40
  Like when they talk about President Trump,
• 52:41
  I'll just say this right before the break,
• 52:43
  at one point donating to Democrats,
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  a lot of what people say when he was a business leader
• 52:49
  in New York and he was doing that,
• 52:50
  is that he was kind of getting himself in the system,
• 52:53
  that maybe he was spying on the bad guys
• 52:55
  in an interesting way.
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  I doubt that's true.
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  I'll tell you that he was probably doing
• 52:59
  a smart business thing in New York,
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  that he was donating to people
• 53:03
  that might benefit him somehow politically
• 53:05
  when he's in the position he's in as an organization
• 53:08
  in a deeply blue place.
• 53:10
  He doesn't have to believe the things
• 53:12
  that he's writing the check for someone to believe.
• 53:14
  He wants his company to benefit the way
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  anybody who owns a company would want them to.
• 53:18
  I think that's potentially what he did we see that all the time and we see it now even more so in the ways that they
• 53:25
  Try to go around the obvious route of doing it so they can claim they're against it. We're still benefiting from it
• 53:31
  We really do need to fix that
• 53:33
  We really do need to fix the people have disproportionate amounts of power because of the amount of money they can throw at anybody
• 53:40
  And yet, I don't know how we do to be honest a little bit of me
• 53:43
  Because if you have that much money and you want to throw it around to benefit your company
• 53:47
  I kind of think you've earned it.
• 53:49
  I kind of think you've earned that ability to do it.
• 53:50
  I'm not advocating for this system
• 53:52
  because I think it's good.
• 53:53
  I'm just saying that it's a byproduct
• 53:55
  of being incredibly successful and wealthy.
• 53:57
  You might get more of what you want
• 53:59
  by paying some people to do you some favors.
• 54:01
  That's a mob guy thing.
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  I just wish it wasn't that case.
• 54:04
  All right, quick break, a lot coming up on the show.
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  I'm thrilled to be with you as always
• 54:08
  on a morning here by myself today.
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  Wayne Dolcefino, I think will be back tomorrow.
• 54:14
  I will play some audio from JD Vance
• 54:16
  coming up right after this on The Voice of Texas.