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Why Is Talarico Competitive? Plus a Diesel Export Ban and Trump Presses NATO on Iran · KSEV Mornings with Craig and Wayne

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Speaker 1: And now, the mob dies, Craig Coyenne is dead.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 3: It is The Mob, guys, on KSV Radio. My name,
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Speaker 3: my real name, is Craig Colonese. I went by a
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Speaker 3: fake name for a long time in radio, and now
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Speaker 3: that's over. Because I work with an investigative reporter in
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Speaker 3: Wayne Dolcefino, who is on special assignment today.
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Speaker 4: Wayne will be back on Friday, actually, I think. I
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Speaker 4: think he'll be back on Friday.
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Speaker 3: And I think we have a guest set up for
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Speaker 3: tomorrow that's going to be pretty cool, does a podcast.
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Speaker 3: And I'll tell you more about that maybe later on
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Speaker 3: in today's show.
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Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 3: So I was coming in today and I was thinking
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Speaker 3: about something.
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Speaker 4: And I wanted to kind of start the show.
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Speaker 3: I think I kind of want to rant at the
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Speaker 3: beginning of these shows more now, and then I'll get
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Speaker 3: into audio and do stuff. Yesterday we were having technical issues.
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Speaker 3: That was kind of the reason I didn't play as
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Speaker 3: much sound as I normally do. But today I'm just
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Speaker 3: going to rant at the beginning, and then we'll go
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Speaker 3: from there. But I was thinking about something. Why is Tallarico,
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Speaker 3: and it's pretty much always Tallarico-specific when I'm thinking about
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Speaker 3: Texas politics right now, but why is he succeeding? I
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Speaker 3: was genuinely trying to think that. because there are a
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Speaker 3: lot of things. I've said it multiple times in the show.
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Speaker 3: You've probably heard it a bunch of other places that
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Speaker 3: seem to be the type of things that would make
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Speaker 3: it impossible for a place like Texas to actually hire
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Speaker 3: Tallarico to be our next senator, to vote him into office.
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Speaker 4: There just seem to be enough things. So like, why?
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Speaker 4: Why is he succeeding?
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Speaker 3: And I think it's fairly easy to point to some
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Speaker 3: of the more obvious things that are a catalyst to this.
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Speaker 3: And one of those to a lot of people, will
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Speaker 3: easily be that I think that they think that there's
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Speaker 3: just a lot of animosity, a lot of anger toward
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Speaker 3: Trump and a lot of people who will vote anti-Trump.
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Speaker 3: Within the Democratic Party, I think that's true. But what
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Speaker 3: else is there? Because that one, that's too simple. One
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Speaker 3: of the other ones, I think, is just the guy
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Speaker 3: is well-spoken. In that way, he reminds me a bit
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Speaker 3: of Barack Obama. And I think I mentioned that a
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Speaker 3: little bit yesterday. But again, I was kind of thinking
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Speaker 3: about that as I was heading in here today, is
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Speaker 3: that people like Barack Obama, or in this case, Tallarico
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Speaker 3: to an extent, they can do a good job walking
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Speaker 3: into a room, being on a microphone or a camera,
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Speaker 3: doing an interview, coming off eloquent enough that some people
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Speaker 3: can be impressed with that person based on watching whatever
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Speaker 3: the thing is, the interview that they do. But then
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Speaker 3: I was thinking how low that standard has become in
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Speaker 3: our society. It's not recent, and it's not because of Trump.
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Speaker 3: Whoever wants to say, well, Trump's the opposite of that.
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Speaker 3: So he's lowered the standard.
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Speaker 4: That's stupid.
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Speaker 3: But what I mean is there are a lot of
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Speaker 3: people now that seem to be impressed with a display
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Speaker 3: of basic intelligence, like basic back and forth capabilities that
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Speaker 3: most politicians had that maybe some don't have anymore. Essentially,
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Speaker 3: I guess what I'm trying to say is I believe
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Speaker 3: our politicians have gotten dumber, that a vast majority of
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Speaker 3: them are just stupider. They do less to hide the fraudulent,
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Speaker 3: terrible things that they do.
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Speaker 4: That's more on display. It's less apologetic.
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Speaker 3: It's more like go ahead and try to get us
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Speaker 3: out of these jobs that we think we have forever,
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Speaker 3: even though they are elected by us.
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Speaker 4: But I was thinking about that.
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Speaker 3: I think part of it is we're too easily impressed
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Speaker 3: as a society because Tallarico intellectually may be somewhat impressive
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Speaker 3: to some, to many people in an interview, in a
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Speaker 3: conversation where he doesn't actually offer you solutions.
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Speaker 4: And then the other thing I was thinking.
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Speaker 3: About, this is the last piece specifically, to the puzzle
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Speaker 3: of why Tallarico is doing so well. And I think
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Speaker 3: one of the things that we're talking a lot about
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Speaker 3: on the show now, after Wayne and I took over,
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Speaker 3: is Republicans are making the mistake that Democrats have made
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Speaker 3: time and again when it comes to Trump. And that
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Speaker 3: mistake is that we're only shooting the negative all over
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Speaker 3: the place. We think the negative is enough to win
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Speaker 3: the election. Essentially saying that, reiterating to you over and
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Speaker 3: over again, day in and day out, I wake up
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Speaker 3: in the morning, I drive to the radio station, I
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Speaker 3: tell you Tallarico thinks God is non-binary.
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Speaker 4: I go home and I think I've done my job.
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Speaker 3: And that's not true. Just doing that part isn't working.
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Speaker 3: And that's the really interesting one to me. And that's
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Speaker 3: kind of the question I would ask to you. I'm
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Speaker 3: not sure that I'm trying to turn this into another
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Speaker 3: like full-on call-in show, but I don't mind interacting with
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Speaker 3: the audience. And KSEV loves it when we interact with
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Speaker 3: the audience.
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Speaker 4: So, you know, we can have people call in.
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Speaker 3: But the thing I was thinking about is maybe we've
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Speaker 3: become numb to negative messaging more than we should be
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Speaker 3: as a society because of how often politicians use it
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Speaker 3: in general. And 281-558-5738, if you think that's true, if
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Speaker 3: you think that's false, and I'll explain a little bit
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Speaker 3: more what I mean. Since 2016, and probably long before it,
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Speaker 3: but certainly since 2016, it's become even more heightened and
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Speaker 3: more obvious to us. The messaging on the left has
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Speaker 3: been Trump's an evil piece of crap, even now. And
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Speaker 3: I think I mentioned this just the other day. One
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Speaker 3: of the reasons that Houston-based politicians, Harris County politicians, claim
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Speaker 3: that they have to raise your property tax to a
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Speaker 3: record level, they blame.
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Speaker 4: Trump for that.
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Speaker 3: It's ridiculous, the amount of things that they blame Trump for.
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Speaker 3: But in the 2024 race, just like in 16, just
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Speaker 3: like in 20, that's pretty much the entire Democratic message is,
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Speaker 3: Trump is bad.
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Speaker 4: Trump is terrible.
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Speaker 3: He's whatever, a Nazi, a fascist, whatever they said.
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Speaker 4: They tried to throw him in jail. A couple people
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Speaker 4: tried to kill him. And none of that worked.
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Speaker 3: And I'm glad that it didn't work then because the
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Speaker 3: negative messaging by itself was not successful to convince enough
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Speaker 3: Americans of anything anymore. And I think one of the
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Speaker 3: reasons why, too, as we've talked about on this show,
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Speaker 3: is that people just simply don't trust media. And when
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Speaker 3: media tells you something negative, if you don't trust media—
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Speaker 3: You look at that with a lot of skepticism. You
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Speaker 3: say to yourself, that's probably not true. They're probably lying
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Speaker 3: for some reason. And so you dismiss it. And right now,
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Speaker 3: I do think the vast majority of the conversation about
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Speaker 3: our Senate race is how to bash Tallarico for being
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Speaker 3: an insane person.
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Speaker 4: It's just too tempting.
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Speaker 3: But I think that it's landing on hollow ears more
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Speaker 3: and more as I contemplate the why, the reason for this.
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Speaker 3: And I opened the show with that kind of thought,
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Speaker 3: the thing that's the problem, because we need to do
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Speaker 3: a better job of talking about the other stuff, the
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Speaker 3: stuff that we actually would.
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Speaker 4: Do well in office.
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Speaker 3: And that's where Ken Paxton does shine. I will tell
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Speaker 3: you that, that even more so than a Cornyn, Paxton's
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Speaker 3: value is that he is going to do the tough
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Speaker 3: stuff that the Republicans most want you to do. Look,
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Speaker 3: a senator that goes off to Washington, not the type
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Speaker 3: that actually stays here. State senators, I think, have more
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Speaker 3: control over our day-to-day lives than than the ones that
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Speaker 3: go off to Washington. It's debatable, but I think that's true.
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Speaker 3: But the ones we send there, we really want them
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Speaker 3: to stand with us at the tough times. That was
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Speaker 3: the big problem with John Cornyn, is not only did
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Speaker 3: he not stand with Republicans in Texas, people that most
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Speaker 3: wanted him to, say, do more when it came to
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Speaker 3: the border, or do more when it came to preventing
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Speaker 3: gun control, not allowing gun control. Those are the moments
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Speaker 3: when you need someone who's a jerk, who's tough, who's
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Speaker 3: who's going to ignore anyone attacking him and just dive
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Speaker 3: deeper into, I'm going with the team on this.
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Speaker 4: And that is Paxton.
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Speaker 3: Paxton very often has looked to the more difficult things
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Speaker 3: while being an attorney general and said, yeah, I can
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Speaker 3: do that. Yeah, I can get that done. I can
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Speaker 3: go ahead and push this through or prevent this from
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Speaker 3: happening by taking this case and seeing this case to
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Speaker 3: the end.
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Speaker 4: Those are the things we want. It's very basic.
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Speaker 3: It's very simple to And that message might need to
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Speaker 3: be delivered more to.
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Speaker 4: Get people motivated to show up and vote.
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Speaker 3: Because even yesterday, talking to several callers that called into
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Speaker 3: the station, I realized how much doubt exists, how many
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Speaker 3: people are sitting out there thinking, the politicians aren't going
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Speaker 3: to do what I want them to do.
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Speaker 4: They don't care.
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Speaker 3: Both sides are going to harm me. Both sides are
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Speaker 3: going to do terrible things for me. And so it
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Speaker 3: doesn't even matter anymore.
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Speaker 5: Screw it.
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Speaker 4: I'm packing up and going home.
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Speaker 3: And I think the only reason people think that about
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Speaker 3: the conservative side of the aisle is the promises versus
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Speaker 3: the reality of the President Trump 2.0, of the President
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Speaker 3: Trump administration right now. And it's really only one promise.
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Speaker 3: The one promise is that your economy, your life financially
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Speaker 3: would be better.
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Speaker 4: And it's not. But that's a big question I've.
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Speaker 3: Been wondering to myself and thinking about more and more
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Speaker 3: as I drove in today, is that we're too easily impressed.
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Speaker 3: Too often, we see somebody on TV sound smart, you know,
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Speaker 3: seem like they handle questions well.
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Speaker 4: They basically are doing an.
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Speaker 3: Interview and you walk away being like, that guy did
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Speaker 3: a good interview, but he didn't actually say anything.
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Speaker 4: He didn't tell us anything. And that's long been the problem.
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Speaker 3: And that alone should not be something that sways you
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Speaker 3: to vote for one side or sways you to stay
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Speaker 3: at home so that that side can win, because that's
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Speaker 3: not enough. You actually have to go deeper and ask
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Speaker 3: the tougher question. How are you going to handle this?
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Speaker 3: What actions are you going to take and realize who's
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Speaker 3: actually going to be with you when the time is toughest,
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Speaker 3: when the you-know-what is against the wall.
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Speaker 4: You want someone who's actually going to lean in.
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Speaker 3: And I think that's really the easiest way to paint
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Speaker 3: what Paxton will do as a senator. If he becomes
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Speaker 3: a senator, which I think he should, there will be
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Speaker 3: multiple days. Like, let's project the future for just a
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Speaker 3: second before I take my first break. There will be
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Speaker 3: multiple days where somebody on some TV station will demand
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Speaker 3: that Paxton go on to explain himself, and this will
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Speaker 3: be mostly on the left, because he voted with the
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Speaker 3: Republican Party on a tough thing. He did the exact opposite.
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Speaker 3: He's one of the people that's at the forefront of
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Speaker 3: let's do this, let's pass that. And certainly, if I
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Speaker 3: want to point to a specific issue, I think the
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Speaker 3: Save America Act or the version of protecting our elections
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Speaker 3: by making sure that only people who are citizens vote
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Speaker 3: in them, is one of the first things that Paxson
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Speaker 3: would be at the forefront of championing while he is
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Speaker 3: in the Senate. And that's something we all want. That's
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Speaker 3: something 80-something percent of Americans want. We want you to
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Speaker 3: have to have an ID, a photo ID, a driver's license,
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Speaker 3: a state ID, something, a passport that most everyone in
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Speaker 3: our country who's legal has, in order to vote and stuff.
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Speaker 4: And he'll do that. He'll do all those things.
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Speaker 3: So we really, really just want someone that stands with
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Speaker 3: us when the times are tough. We can boil it
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Speaker 3: down that simply. And we know who that person is
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Speaker 3: and we know who that person isn't.
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Speaker 4: I will take our first break.
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Speaker 3: I have audio of President Trump sitting down with Vladimir
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Speaker 9: She was 14 years old for sale in a motel
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Speaker 9: off I-35. Traffic through Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio. Now
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Speaker 9: her traffickers are imprisoned. because Ken Paxton put them there.
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Speaker 3: He will be here on Friday. And we will be
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Speaker 3: at Texas Faith Fest on Friday, which I'm very much
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Speaker 3: looking forward to. Doing a bunch of interviews on Friday morning.
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Speaker 3: And then I'll do a lot more recording of stuff
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Speaker 3: on Saturday that you'll hear throughout the week next week
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Speaker 3: here on this radio station. I do want to play
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Speaker 3: some audio now. First, it's President Donald Trump being asked
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Speaker 3: a question while sitting with Vladimir Zelensky. This was a
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Speaker 3: question about what is going on in Iran, which is
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Speaker 3: interesting to demonstrate. I think via this question at the
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Speaker 3: United Nations with Zelensky sitting next to him, the involvement
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Speaker 3: the U.S. has in a couple different things that go
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Speaker 3: beyond our borders. One is, of course, our fight in Iran.
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Speaker 3: The other one is the assistance of Ukraine in fighting Russia.
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Speaker 3: And a lot of people are frustrated with some of
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Speaker 3: the financial impact that those decisions have had. And I've
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Speaker 3: defended at least one of those a decent amount. But nonetheless,
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Speaker 3: I do think this is interesting. So let's go ahead
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Speaker 3: and see if... And actually, I just switched something in studio.
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Speaker 3: So let's see if this audio actually plays correctly. Then
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Speaker 3: I have to hit this button over here to make
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Speaker 3: sure that this actually works on my side because I
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Speaker 3: don't have this set up. I don't think this is
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Speaker 3: even plugged in the way it's supposed to be plugged in.
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Speaker 4: Hold on. Let's plug that in again. And then there
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Speaker 4: we go. Let's see if this actually works, though.
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Speaker 3: No, I can't hear that. Probably why not. Oh, no,
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Speaker 3: I can hear it a little bit now. Let me
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Speaker 3: turn this up more and see if we let's try
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Speaker 3: it one more time.
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Speaker 4: There we go.
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Speaker 11: It ended an hour ago.
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Speaker 4: It was.
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Speaker 11: A meeting that lasted for three hours and ended an
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Speaker 11: hour ago. What was that? It was a very good meeting.
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Speaker 11: I mean, I must tell you, it's very good. I
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Speaker 11: can't imagine why they wouldn't want to do it. It's greatness,
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Speaker 11: potential greatness, or obliteration. What do you mean? In one case,
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Speaker 11: it's obliteration, and the other alternative is potential greatness. It
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Speaker 11: could be a great country.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that is not a new message.
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Speaker 3: That's a message that we've heard already, and we're probably
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Speaker 3: going to hear more from when it comes to the
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Speaker 3: President of the United States and his discussion about what's
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Speaker 3: going on in Iran and what they could do if
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Speaker 3: they actually make a deal. But what I do think
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Speaker 3: is interesting about this is the inevitable action that is taken.
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Speaker 3: I think more so than the discussion points, which again,
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Speaker 3: we've heard multiple times, I think the reality of what
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Speaker 3: them continuing to say no, which is the thing everybody
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Speaker 3: expects to happen, what that actually means. What does that
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Speaker 3: look like is the question I most want to ask
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Speaker 3: and most want an answer to because in the next
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Speaker 3: few weeks we might see that version of something because
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Speaker 3: you can't just keep going forever here.
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Speaker 4: You've got to eventually.
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Speaker 3: Push the boulder a little bit more up the hill
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Speaker 3: or down the hill or whatever direction it's supposed to go.
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Speaker 4: I also want to play this. I thought this was interesting.
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Speaker 3: This was a question about banning exports in diesel fuel. The,
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Speaker 3: I think, short-term thinking is that more availability here in
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Speaker 3: our country might help with the need for diesel fuel
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Speaker 3: here at home. It might also disrupt the market even more.
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Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of pros, a lot of
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Speaker 3: cons to that type of decision. And I wonder how
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Speaker 3: people in our country, the actual people involved in creating energy,
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Speaker 3: would feel about an inability to.
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Speaker 4: Export it places.
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Speaker 3: But President Trump is a supporter, as our many members
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Speaker 3: of the Senate.
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Speaker 4: And he was asked about that, too.
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Speaker 12: If President Zelensky told us one that he is ready
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Speaker 12: to come to Miami for a G20 summit and sit
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Speaker 12: down with you and Vladimir Putin, if you extend this
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Speaker 12: invitation to Vladimir Putin, will he respect it?
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Speaker 13: Will he join you?
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Speaker 11: Well, I don't know. I know that he will meet.
19:12
Speaker 11: And we've had a meeting already in Alaska. We can
19:14
Speaker 11: do another one. I don't know about Miami. We have
19:18
Speaker 11: a big thing happening in Miami very soon. But he'll meet.
19:21
Speaker 11: He's willing to meet. He'd like to see the war end.
19:24
Speaker 11: Would both you and President Zelensky? I think they both
19:26
Speaker 11: want to see the war end, to be honest with you.
19:28
Speaker 11: It's time. A lot of people are being killed, and
19:30
Speaker 11: they don't want that. But I think they both want
19:32
Speaker 11: to see the war end.
19:33
Speaker 3: Yeah, they do both want to see the war end.
19:34
Speaker 3: That was not the question I intended to play. Our
19:37
Speaker 3: reporter did want to ask about a ban on diesel exports.
19:40
Speaker 3: Sometimes I hate when they give you one caption and
19:43
Speaker 3: then the other audio is actually embedded in the post.
19:46
Speaker 3: But Senator Sullivan today has called for a ban on
19:49
Speaker 3: diesel exports.
19:50
Speaker 4: Chuck Grassley has called for it. Mr.
19:52
Speaker 3: President, what do you think of that? He said, well,
19:54
Speaker 3: I've called for it, too. I've said, let's not send
19:57
Speaker 3: out the diesel. We make a lot of diesel. That
20:00
Speaker 3: could be a little bit of an effect on regular
20:02
Speaker 3: automobile gasoline. Essentially saying what I just told you, that
20:06
Speaker 3: the benefit here in the short term is with more
20:09
Speaker 3: availability of product in.
20:11
Speaker 4: Our country is that diesel costs go down for us.
20:14
Speaker 3: Here in the United States, it might not be a
20:17
Speaker 3: thing that's as effective as we want it to be,
20:20
Speaker 3: but I do think getting a grasp on diesel and
20:25
Speaker 3: how it's continuing to go up and up in cost,
20:29
Speaker 3: like offering a solution, is almost as good as actually
20:33
Speaker 3: fixing the problem because right now I think a lot
20:35
Speaker 3: of people feel as though they're sort of ignoring it.
20:37
Speaker 4: They're not actually.
20:38
Speaker 3: behaving as though it's important and it needs to be fixed.
20:42
Speaker 3: And so like this is at least signaling that there's
20:44
Speaker 3: discussions trying to get us to a place that's better.
20:47
Speaker 4: Here, I want to play the actual, I think this
20:49
Speaker 4: is the actual audio.
20:50
Speaker 14: President, Senator Sullivan today has called for a ban on
20:53
Speaker 14: diesel exports, a temporary ban.
20:55
Speaker 15: A what?
20:56
Speaker 14: A ban on diesel exports. Chuck Grassley called for the
20:58
Speaker 14: same thing. Mike Rogers called for the same thing. Is
21:00
Speaker 14: that something you're considering?
21:02
Speaker 11: Well, I'd call for that too. I've said, let's not
21:04
Speaker 11: send out the diesel. We make a lot of diesel.
21:07
Speaker 16: That could have a little bit of an effect on
21:09
Speaker 16: regular automobile gasoline, because when you do that, you know,
21:13
Speaker 16: it's sort of a flow, it's a balance.
21:15
Speaker 11: But no, I've called for it within my people. I've
21:19
Speaker 11: been talking about it. Scott, do you want to talk
21:20
Speaker 11: about that for a second?
21:22
Speaker 17: Yeah, we're examining that, whether it's feasible in terms of
21:27
Speaker 17: the overall refining process. capacity and whether a full or
21:31
Speaker 17: partial ban would work.
21:33
Speaker 3: And whether it's beneficial at all, like whether it would
21:36
Speaker 3: actually do anything that we actually want it to do,
21:38
Speaker 3: et cetera, et cetera.
21:39
Speaker 4: I do think it's an interesting discussion, though.
21:41
Speaker 3: And Scott Besant is the other voice in there, if
21:43
Speaker 3: you don't recognize it, that Trump says, Scott, do you
21:46
Speaker 3: want to say something on this?
21:47
Speaker 4: Giving his opinion on what we should do. I guess
21:50
Speaker 4: the easiest way to say it.
21:53
Speaker 3: In my opinion, is that if you find a way
21:55
Speaker 3: to provide short-term relief, not long-term relief, which is what
22:00
Speaker 3: we all actually want, and what I do think a
22:02
Speaker 3: lot of the policies of this administration are designed to
22:06
Speaker 3: actually provide, I think that long-term versions of relief in
22:10
Speaker 3: a vast majority of the pain points that exist for
22:13
Speaker 3: Americans financially are already there. The groundwork has already been done.
22:17
Speaker 3: So two years from now, without us changing a lot
22:20
Speaker 3: of what we're doing outside of the conflict in Iran ending,
22:24
Speaker 3: we're going to be in a better place. But giving
22:26
Speaker 3: you a short-term solution added into the long-term solution to
22:30
Speaker 3: relieve pain right now might actually be tremendously effective as
22:34
Speaker 3: far as an impact on the midterm elections. The $ 5, 000
22:40
Speaker 3: that was floated and hasn't been talked about more since
22:43
Speaker 3: the RNC, at least I don't think that Trump has
22:46
Speaker 3: talked about it a whole bunch more, that doesn't seem
22:48
Speaker 3: to have worked as well as we want.
22:50
Speaker 4: But essentially, that was the same thing.
22:53
Speaker 3: Because I'm going to give you immediate relief, and then
22:55
Speaker 3: I'm also going to give you long-term relief to the
22:57
Speaker 3: problems that you're facing. Finally, I do want to play
22:59
Speaker 3: this audio, and I know that this has been a
23:01
Speaker 3: more controversial topic.
23:03
Speaker 4: This is J.D. Vance standing in front of Dr.
23:06
Speaker 3: Oz and others, making a joke about CNN and MSNBC
23:11
Speaker 3: and Politico and some of the organizations that have been
23:14
Speaker 3: kicked out of certain press conferences for the Trump administration.
23:19
Speaker 3: And look, I'm going to play the audio first and
23:21
Speaker 3: then I'll tell you what I think about it. But
23:23
Speaker 3: I understand the position that people like my co-host Wayne
23:27
Speaker 3: have that this is an unnecessary injury that Republicans are
23:32
Speaker 3: causing themselves. Kicking out some news organizations that aren't really
23:36
Speaker 3: news organizations at all from press briefings of any kind
23:40
Speaker 3: is the sort of thing that's easily criticized. and the
23:42
Speaker 3: sort of thing that didn't need to happen now, or
23:46
Speaker 3: maybe at all. But here, I'll play the audio first,
23:49
Speaker 3: and then I'll go from there.
23:50
Speaker 15: And with that, I have my notes here that I'm
23:52
Speaker 15: supposed to take questions from CNN and Politico.
23:55
Speaker 14: Anybody from CNN and Politico here?
23:57
Speaker 11: No?
23:58
Speaker 18: Okay, all right.
23:59
Speaker 4: Okay, I like two things about this joke.
24:01
Speaker 3: First, I love the idea that Biden, when he was
24:05
Speaker 3: in office, actually did need a cheat sheet for who he.
24:08
Speaker 4: Would call on and who he wouldn't call on. And second,
24:10
Speaker 4: I love the demonstration.
24:12
Speaker 3: That banning people and just not allowing them to ask
24:16
Speaker 3: questions are essentially the same thing. If you never take
24:20
Speaker 3: questions from Fox News, because every time the president, the
24:24
Speaker 3: former president, President Biden spoke to media, which was much
24:27
Speaker 3: rarer than how often Trump does it. But if the
24:30
Speaker 3: other thing you do is you always avoid those guys,
24:34
Speaker 3: those teams, anyone asking questions within those organizations, you've essentially
24:39
Speaker 3: banned them. from these sort of briefings. So it's really
24:44
Speaker 3: not all that different, in my opinion. I think it's
24:46
Speaker 3: a good way to demonstrate that as to what he's
24:49
Speaker 3: doing here, because the right and conservative politicians do take
24:53
Speaker 3: more questions from the crazy people when they're in these
24:56
Speaker 3: rooms in the first place.
24:58
Speaker 4: So I just thought that was funny.
24:59
Speaker 3: Again, do I think that this is the kind of
25:02
Speaker 3: thing we needed right now, especially as it causes an
25:05
Speaker 3: accusation that Trump is acting the same way that you know,
25:09
Speaker 3: dictators and whatnot act other places, which is a ridiculous
25:12
Speaker 3: comparison when you factor in just kicking out CNN and
25:17
Speaker 3: how negative they are to Trump on certain press briefs. Like,
25:20
Speaker 3: it's ridiculous to compare those two things. But nonetheless, I
25:23
Speaker 3: don't think we needed it. I don't think it should happen.
25:25
Speaker 3: I think everybody should be in the room, get to
25:27
Speaker 3: ask their questions, have their press credential. I think that's better.
25:31
Speaker 3: I don't think this is better, but I do find
25:33
Speaker 3: it amusing. that it is causing as much conversation as
25:37
Speaker 3: it is. And I'll say one last thing about this,
25:39
Speaker 3: and then we should take another break. I love how often,
25:44
Speaker 3: and I hear this more from the right, I do
25:45
Speaker 3: hear this more from conservatives, I am told, or other
25:49
Speaker 3: people are told, to be tougher. I love how often
25:52
Speaker 3: you get that, and I'm not criticizing the message itself,
25:55
Speaker 3: because I understand where it comes from. Like, never bend
25:58
Speaker 3: the knee, never relent, always make sure to have the
26:01
Speaker 3: tough conversations in the tough way, Because it benefits society
26:06
Speaker 3: to do that. And then when the Trump administration does
26:08
Speaker 3: something tough, they also get crap done by their own
26:12
Speaker 3: side for the thing they do that feels like it's
26:14
Speaker 3: aligned with the people that are asking us to stand
26:17
Speaker 3: stronger against the things the left does that harm us most.
26:22
Speaker 3: Against their false narrative, rhetoric, crap, you know, indoctrination of people.
26:26
Speaker 3: When you try to push up against that, occasionally you
26:29
Speaker 3: hear the voices that are telling you to be tougher
26:31
Speaker 3: all of a sudden go, whoa, whoa, not that tough.
26:34
Speaker 3: That's too tough for me. We got we got too
26:36
Speaker 3: strong here. And I don't understand that. I genuinely don't
26:39
Speaker 3: think that makes any sense. You got to pick a lane.
26:43
Speaker 3: If you want a tough administration, you got one. Now
26:45
Speaker 3: be happy about it when they do the tough things.
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Speaker 3: with you. So much stuff out there to talk about.
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Speaker 4: This example of a thing that I'm going to play
30:41
Speaker 4: for you.
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Speaker 3: This is CNN, and this is one of the guys
30:44
Speaker 3: who does amazing on CNN, Scott Jennings, which is almost
30:48
Speaker 3: non-existent as a sentence. Very few people on CNN do
30:51
Speaker 3: great things. But this is Jennings also doing two things
30:55
Speaker 3: at the same time. He is tearing apart to a
30:58
Speaker 3: small degree, President Trump's kind words about Mamdami and New
31:03
Speaker 3: York and how weird that is for a lot of us,
31:06
Speaker 3: because Mamdami does seem like a piece of crap that's
31:10
Speaker 3: doing a lot of piece of crap things. And so
31:12
Speaker 3: President Trump, for example, saying he's got great potential or
31:15
Speaker 3: he's off to a good start, like those things seem weird.
31:17
Speaker 4: And I think there's a strategy to it. But nonetheless,
31:21
Speaker 4: let me play this.
31:22
Speaker 3: And then I love the second half of this audio
31:25
Speaker 3: and the point that Jennings makes. As CNN is criticizing
31:28
Speaker 3: Trump for praising Mamdani, which is a weird position for
31:32
Speaker 3: CNN to take.
31:33
Speaker 18: Scott, do you agree with Trump that Mamdani has great potential?
31:38
Speaker 22: Potential? Yeah, he has the potential to, you know, bring
31:41
Speaker 22: about the downfall of America.
31:42
Speaker 19: Sure.
31:44
Speaker 18: Trump also said Mamdani is off to a good start.
31:46
Speaker 18: Do you agree with him?
31:49
Speaker 2: Look.
31:49
Speaker 4: He's a New Yorker. He loves the city.
31:52
Speaker 22: I don't agree with much of anything Mom Donnie has done. However,
31:54
Speaker 22: I will say this.
31:55
Speaker 18: About the meeting. But that means you're not agreeing with
31:56
Speaker 18: the president right now.
31:57
Speaker 4: That's okay. We're allowed.
32:00
Speaker 11: Listen.
32:00
Speaker 18: I can't agree with that.
32:02
Speaker 22: Isn't this what you guys say you want?
32:04
Speaker 18: We have two people from two different parties.
32:06
Speaker 12: Yes.
32:07
Speaker 22: They both love New York.
32:08
Speaker 4: So good.
32:08
Speaker 22: I don't agree much with Mom Donnie. I'm sure Trump
32:10
Speaker 22: doesn't either. But they had a meeting to talk about
32:12
Speaker 22: something they could possibly do, whether they get there or not.
32:15
Speaker 18: It's OK to talk. It's OK for us to talk
32:18
Speaker 18: to each other.
32:18
Speaker 22: It's kind of what we're modeling here on a nightly basis.
32:21
Speaker 22: Will they ever come to an agreement about anything?
32:22
Speaker 4: I don't know.
32:23
Speaker 22: Do I want the president, the mayor of New York City,
32:25
Speaker 22: whoever they are, to have a relationship?
32:27
Speaker 16: Sure.
32:27
Speaker 22: Of course I do. And I don't have any problem
32:29
Speaker 22: at all with him meeting now that having been said.
32:32
Speaker 22: Mamdani is currently suing Trump over this public charge rule
32:36
Speaker 22: on the welfare for immigrants, which I thought the president
32:38
Speaker 22: might bring up today, but I guess it didn't come up.
32:40
Speaker 4: Well, it might have come up behind scenes. I don't know.
32:42
Speaker 3: But anyway, here's what I love about that position that
32:45
Speaker 3: Scott Jennings takes on CNN halfway through, because the Democrats
32:49
Speaker 3: that surround him every day are celebrating what they think
32:53
Speaker 3: is going to be a separation from their pundit and
32:57
Speaker 3: President Trump, who they want to attack and destroy, even
33:00
Speaker 3: though they're supposed to like And they should like the
33:03
Speaker 3: thing that Trump is saying about Mamdami, which is the
33:06
Speaker 3: whole point that I think that is being made by
33:10
Speaker 3: Scott Jennings there is that isn't this what you want?
33:13
Speaker 3: Why are you doing your victory lap at me right now?
33:16
Speaker 3: Because they're not actually doing this to praise Trump. The
33:19
Speaker 3: Democrats are incapable of that. So they can't do it.
33:22
Speaker 3: They can't tell you that anything that he does is good. Instead,
33:26
Speaker 3: they want to find ways to be divisive within our party.
33:29
Speaker 3: And we can't let those things work.
33:31
Speaker 4: To be honest.
33:32
Speaker 3: But what I love even more about the way that
33:33
Speaker 3: Jennings says it, and I've said this a lot about
33:37
Speaker 3: a certain amount of topics that involve the president, isn't
33:40
Speaker 3: this what you're being told by mainstream media or someone
33:43
Speaker 3: else is what he's supposed to do? The moments when
33:46
Speaker 3: he does act presidential... My message has always been, isn't
33:51
Speaker 3: this what you're saying you actually want and how often
33:54
Speaker 3: you're told now this isn't what because, again, you can't
33:58
Speaker 3: do anything that actually will make people happy. It's just impossible,
34:02
Speaker 3: it seems, for that side of the aisle to ever
34:05
Speaker 3: embrace any sort of conversation they ever have where they
34:09
Speaker 3: just simply say, you know, Trump did well here. There
34:11
Speaker 3: are a few examples to that rule, but by and large,
34:14
Speaker 3: not so great. I do want to play one last
34:16
Speaker 3: thing that's definitely making the rounds on social media. People,
34:20
Speaker 3: at least on the right, seem to find this funnier, surprise, surprise,
34:23
Speaker 3: than people on the left do. But this was President
34:25
Speaker 3: Trump being asked about CNN and Caitlin Collins, and he
34:28
Speaker 3: made a very quick assessment of that organization.
34:30
Speaker 4: Here we.
34:36
Speaker 12: Go.
34:36
Speaker 4: He's yelling stuff.
34:37
Speaker 16: So it's an honor to be here. I'm surprised that
34:40
Speaker 16: CNN is here covering me. You shouldn't be here. You
34:42
Speaker 16: should not... You should not be here covering me.
34:45
Speaker 11: You said you weren't going to cover me. You shouldn't
34:47
Speaker 11: be covering me.
34:48
Speaker 16: But I will tell you, it is an honor to
34:51
Speaker 16: be at the United Nations.
34:52
Speaker 4: It's an honor.
34:52
Speaker 16: And we're making a lot of progress. Our country is
34:54
Speaker 16: doing really, really well. Thank you very much, everybody.
34:57
Speaker 4: Thank you so much. You should not be here covering me.
34:59
Speaker 3: Not because I don't want you here in the sense that, like,
35:02
Speaker 3: Trump wants to ban them from even showing up there.
35:04
Speaker 3: I think it's the you said you're not going to
35:06
Speaker 3: talk about me. And part of it, I think, is
35:08
Speaker 3: just trying to control ratings. Like, to be honest, if
35:12
Speaker 3: CNN did talk about Trump less, they'd actually have way
35:15
Speaker 3: worse ratings because they are obsessed with talking about him
35:18
Speaker 3: all the time.
35:18
Speaker 4: The left is, I bet you know people. You know what?
35:21
Speaker 4: Why don't we do it that way? Well, let's have
35:23
Speaker 4: this conversation a different way.
35:25
Speaker 3: I bet you know people that say that they hate
35:28
Speaker 3: President Trump or at least say that they really they
35:30
Speaker 3: might even object to the word hate. But then obviously
35:33
Speaker 3: they hate him. But they at least really dislike him.
35:35
Speaker 3: Like whatever word you choose that eventually they agree with.
35:38
Speaker 3: You probably know people like this. who can't shut up
35:41
Speaker 3: about him ever. They can never do it. They have
35:44
Speaker 3: to talk about Trump and what he's doing all the time.
35:48
Speaker 3: And that's sort of amusing to me in the sense
35:51
Speaker 3: that these are people who then rely on him, President Trump,
35:55
Speaker 3: and this is the CNNs of the world, to actually
35:57
Speaker 3: retain their audience. And if they do stop talking about him,
36:00
Speaker 3: if they actually on their own, as they said they would,
36:03
Speaker 3: willfully try to ignore him, it will be to their
36:07
Speaker 3: own detriment.
36:07
Speaker 4: It will hurt them more.
36:09
Speaker 3: And the things that they plan to do every single day.
36:12
Speaker 3: They desperately want to be a victim harmed by President Trump,
36:16
Speaker 3: or at least an organization that has to talk about him,
36:21
Speaker 3: doesn't want to, but reluctantly is forced to talk about
36:25
Speaker 3: him kind of stuff. That's the version of a thing
36:27
Speaker 3: that they constantly want to be. Whether or not that's
36:31
Speaker 3: actually true of them, or anyone you know that sits
36:33
Speaker 3: in that same world, I just find it, again, to
36:36
Speaker 3: be sort of amusing to that Trump said what he
36:38
Speaker 3: said to Caitlyn. Guys are like, how dare you show up?
36:41
Speaker 3: You're not supposed to be here because you said you
36:42
Speaker 3: guys were done with me. But they can't quit him.
36:45
Speaker 3: They're like that ex-boyfriend or girlfriend that you got back
36:47
Speaker 3: together with six times and you just can't get away.
36:51
Speaker 3: And then eventually, hopefully you do, because they go absolutely insane.
36:54
Speaker 3: Not saying I have an example of this in my
36:56
Speaker 3: own life, but nonetheless, that's what it feels like here.
36:59
Speaker 3: All right, one last thing I want to play. This
37:01
Speaker 3: is Marco Rubio. I actually referenced this yesterday. It happened
37:05
Speaker 3: on Fox & Friends yesterday morning, but I do think
37:08
Speaker 3: it's important. And it was some questions about NATO. And actually,
37:12
Speaker 3: I think Kilmeade's question was, how disappointed are you that
37:15
Speaker 3: NATO has not, to this moment, helped you at all
37:18
Speaker 3: in Iran? And that is the backdrop, as Trump is
37:23
Speaker 3: talking to the NATO countries about a certain myriad of things, is, hey,
37:29
Speaker 3: a little bit more assistance over here so this ends
37:31
Speaker 3: quicker wouldn't be the worst thing in the world for
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Speaker 3: all of us.
37:35
Speaker 4: This is how Rubio responded to that question.
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Speaker 23: How disappointed are you that NATO has not, to this moment,
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Speaker 23: helped you at all in Iran?
37:43
Speaker 24: Well, look, I mean, I think there are some countries
37:45
Speaker 24: in NATO that have done more than others in that regard.
37:48
Speaker 24: I think some of them, they all have different reasons,
37:49
Speaker 24: but we're very disappointed in many cases. I mean, we
37:52
Speaker 24: can't hide that disappointment. The biggest disappointment was a number
37:55
Speaker 24: of countries, a handful of countries. One of the reasons
37:58
Speaker 24: why we have bases in NATO, one of the benefits
38:00
Speaker 24: to us is the ability to project power In case
38:03
Speaker 24: of a contingency, we had a contingency and we had
38:06
Speaker 24: a couple of countries say you can't use your base here. Well,
38:09
Speaker 24: that's absurd. If we can't use our base when we
38:11
Speaker 24: have a contingency, though, what's the point of having the base?
38:14
Speaker 24: And frankly, what's the point of having the alliance? And
38:17
Speaker 24: I've been a strong supporter of NATO my entire career.
38:19
Speaker 24: But I understand that one of the arguments I used
38:21
Speaker 24: to use was that one of the biggest benefits NATO
38:24
Speaker 24: had to the United States was. were these bases in
38:26
Speaker 24: Europe that allowed us to project power into different parts
38:28
Speaker 24: of the world. If that's going to be denied to us,
38:31
Speaker 24: then we've lost the biggest reason for us to be
38:32
Speaker 24: in NATO.
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Speaker 3: I think people don't understand how significant that is, the
38:37
Speaker 3: way that Rubio says that, especially the part where he says,
38:39
Speaker 3: you know, throughout a lot of my career, I've actually
38:42
Speaker 3: been a pretty big proponent and supporter of the concept
38:45
Speaker 3: of NATO, mostly because of the ability to intimidate other countries,
38:49
Speaker 3: anyone that wants to do us harm anywhere in the
38:51
Speaker 3: world through that alliance. If that goes away, if that
38:55
Speaker 3: evaporates even a little bit, what is the point of this?
38:58
Speaker 3: That's a big concept because Rubio also, I will remind people,
39:04
Speaker 3: is the person who gave the speech in front of
39:06
Speaker 3: the European nations where he was very critical of them
39:10
Speaker 3: but did it in a very eloquent way and got
39:12
Speaker 3: praised by a lot of people for doing it. They
39:14
Speaker 3: gave him a standing ovation at the end of it
39:16
Speaker 3: because he talked about the importance of the relationship, how
39:22
Speaker 3: long it's been going on for, the historical benefits of it,
39:25
Speaker 3: et cetera, et cetera. But then also said, but it's
39:27
Speaker 3: not really working for us right now. And this is
39:30
Speaker 3: more of that. This is more of the thing that
39:33
Speaker 3: Trump was criticized for quite a bit, quite a few
39:35
Speaker 3: years ago. And honestly, probably still that I think we
39:40
Speaker 3: do need to have a better grasp on. I do
39:43
Speaker 3: think this is the type of demonstration of the reality
39:47
Speaker 3: of something that often goes in one ear and out
39:50
Speaker 3: the other, for anyone that actually needs to be paying
39:54
Speaker 3: attention at the moment where Trump is proven right. I
39:57
Speaker 3: guess that's the easiest way to say that, is there's
39:59
Speaker 3: a lot of examples of, hey, he said this thing,
40:02
Speaker 3: he said it a certain way, everybody seemed to doubt it,
40:06
Speaker 3: the reality of it seems to be what it is,
40:08
Speaker 3: now's the moment of proof, now's the moment where people
40:11
Speaker 3: most want to ignore. But again, we'll see if this
40:14
Speaker 3: actually goes anywhere, because I do think The meetings with
40:18
Speaker 3: NATO are interesting. And I do think what comes of that,
40:22
Speaker 3: if anything comes for that, might.
40:24
Speaker 4: Be really important for us. All right, we're going to
40:26
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40:27
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40:30
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40:32
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40:33
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40:36
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40:38
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43:45
Speaker 3: Let's talk about New York and their robo-toilets a little bit.
43:49
Speaker 3: You might not know what these are. These are like fancy,
43:51
Speaker 3: I think they spent $ 4 million on a pilot program
43:55
Speaker 3: to install, quote, 17... high-tech robo-toilets across New York City.
44:03
Speaker 3: The toilets, I guess, provide certain information. They do some
44:08
Speaker 3: odd things. My favorite thing that they do that's gone
44:11
Speaker 3: very viral is they tell you to get the hell
44:13
Speaker 3: out of the toilet, apparently, at some point. I think
44:16
Speaker 3: there's a 10-minute rule, and then the toilet starts being
44:19
Speaker 3: aggressive with you to tell you that you can't be
44:21
Speaker 3: in there anymore. I'm going to play what the warning
44:24
Speaker 3: sounds like when you're told that you only have a
44:26
Speaker 3: little bit more time that you're allowed to be in
44:29
Speaker 3: this public.
44:29
Speaker 4: Restroom or the toilet itself is going to turn on you. Also,
44:33
Speaker 4: I'll just put this out there.
44:35
Speaker 3: If anybody is afraid of artificial intelligence, of AI one
44:38
Speaker 3: day turning on us, getting the toilets to do it
44:41
Speaker 3: first seems like a bad decision.
44:43
Speaker 8: Attention, your use time has expired.
44:45
Speaker 11: The door is opening now.
44:48
Speaker 4: That's horrible. I'm going to play it one more time.
44:50
Speaker 11: Attention, your use.
44:51
Speaker 14: Time has expired.
44:53
Speaker 11: The door is opening now.
44:54
Speaker 3: It's a port-a-potty that's telling you you're out of time,
44:56
Speaker 3: and it was giving you warnings up until time ran out,
44:59
Speaker 3: and now you're going to be on.
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Speaker 4: Public display, which is horrible. Every part of this is bad.
45:04
Speaker 3: But again, if you want to restrict the amount of
45:07
Speaker 3: fear that people have about technology, do not start by
45:12
Speaker 3: having a toilet that they're on in public swing itself
45:16
Speaker 3: open after 10 minutes because they ran out of time.
45:18
Speaker 3: That's a bad move. This is a coaching decision that
45:21
Speaker 3: I'm making. where I'm saying let's not do this anymore.
45:24
Speaker 3: Another thing that I like a lot, most common regrets
45:27
Speaker 3: went viral on social media. I think this is mostly
45:31
Speaker 3: on Reddit, which is a place that I like and
45:33
Speaker 3: I don't talk about enough in this morning show, at
45:35
Speaker 3: least haven't. I love to go to specifically on Reddit,
45:39
Speaker 3: like who's the jerk is what I call it.
45:41
Speaker 4: It's am I the A word?
45:43
Speaker 3: And somebody tells a story and then asks a simple
45:45
Speaker 3: question and the internet decides if they're a jerk or not.
45:50
Speaker 3: And by and large, I think the Internet usually calls
45:52
Speaker 3: these people who ask these questions jerks. But that's one
45:54
Speaker 3: place I like. I also just like these like stupid
45:57
Speaker 3: polls that go viral on Reddit. But it said, what
46:00
Speaker 3: are some of your biggest regrets? Twenty two percent of
46:03
Speaker 3: people who respond to this poll said nothing, which I
46:08
Speaker 3: think is amazing. Twenty two percent of people like I
46:10
Speaker 3: have no big regrets in my life. There's nothing I
46:13
Speaker 3: do different. There's nothing I change.
46:15
Speaker 4: I want to meet more of those people in the
46:17
Speaker 4: real world.
46:18
Speaker 3: Because I think on the internet, I think in the
46:21
Speaker 3: world of polling, you hear about these people, but I
46:24
Speaker 3: don't think we know a lot of them. I don't
46:26
Speaker 3: think there's a lot of people you know that say, like,
46:28
Speaker 3: no big regrets. Because that can be anything. It doesn't
46:32
Speaker 3: mean you did something bad and you wish you didn't
46:35
Speaker 3: do it necessarily.
46:36
Speaker 4: It also means that I wish I had done something better.
46:39
Speaker 3: Like, I wish I had invested in Apple, for example,
46:42
Speaker 3: back when it was worth nothing.
46:44
Speaker 4: I wish I owned more Bitcoin is another thing that
46:47
Speaker 4: I could say. Because here, I'll tell you this. This
46:49
Speaker 4: is stupid.
46:51
Speaker 3: I'm just going to talk about it real quick. I
46:52
Speaker 3: promise I don't want to talk about this for a while.
46:54
Speaker 3: You probably don't care. I knew about Bitcoin because I'm
46:57
Speaker 3: a bit of a tech nerd. When you could still
47:00
Speaker 3: mine it for relatively little money and get a bunch
47:03
Speaker 3: of it, like you could just set up a computer somewhere,
47:06
Speaker 3: go to some websites, pull some of this Bitcoin. I'm
47:10
Speaker 3: not explaining it the way that makes sense, but I'm
47:13
Speaker 3: explaining it the way that most people would understand it.
47:16
Speaker 3: and then just put it in like a digital wallet somewhere.
47:18
Speaker 3: I knew about it and didn't do it. And I
47:20
Speaker 3: regret that profoundly. If I had even taken a little
47:24
Speaker 3: time and just had more fun with the concept of
47:27
Speaker 3: digital currency, of cryptocurrency when I was familiar with it,
47:31
Speaker 3: and almost nobody was, including when somebody bought a pizza
47:35
Speaker 3: using like hundreds of Bitcoins.
47:37
Speaker 4: It was the first ever transaction.
47:38
Speaker 3: I think it was a Pizza Hut that said yes
47:40
Speaker 3: to the deal.
47:41
Speaker 4: Like I knew about it then.
47:43
Speaker 3: I wish I had just gotten a little bit like
47:45
Speaker 3: a couple thousand bitcoins because I would be worth so
47:48
Speaker 3: much more money right now. That's a regret that it
47:51
Speaker 3: can be like that. It doesn't have to be. These
47:53
Speaker 3: are things that I did that I wish I could
47:55
Speaker 3: take back. It's things that I didn't do that I
47:58
Speaker 3: wish I had done as well. But 22 percent of
48:00
Speaker 3: people said nothing. Ten percent their career or work is
48:05
Speaker 3: the thing they most regret. I wonder what that means
48:07
Speaker 3: because they don't give enough specificity there. Are they saying
48:11
Speaker 3: that they regret the fact that they're in the field
48:13
Speaker 3: that they're in? They regret a job they took because
48:16
Speaker 3: of something that happened with an employer?
48:18
Speaker 4: I don't know the answer. I'm intrigued.
48:20
Speaker 3: 7% of people say they regret not having more money,
48:24
Speaker 3: getting a higher education, 6%. And then finally, 5% of
48:27
Speaker 3: people said they regret not having kids, that they wish
48:30
Speaker 3: they had had children.
48:32
Speaker 4: My wife and I don't have any kids. It wasn't
48:34
Speaker 4: a decision we made on purpose.
48:36
Speaker 3: The way that I say it, if I talk about
48:37
Speaker 3: it on the radio, it's a decision God made for us.
48:40
Speaker 4: Like, we certainly wanted kids. We tried.
48:42
Speaker 3: We haven't exactly stopped trying, which is good. But kids
48:46
Speaker 3: are not likely to be in our future is what
48:47
Speaker 3: we've been told. And that is what it is. You know,
48:50
Speaker 3: it's a thing that happens. So I can't regret that one.
48:53
Speaker 3: But I understand the people that might have chosen not
48:55
Speaker 3: to have kids that would regret it. And then finally,
48:58
Speaker 3: 4% of people said they regret something about their health.
49:01
Speaker 3: Some decision they made, not staying healthier. I think right
49:05
Speaker 3: now for me at 40, I turned 40 last year.
49:09
Speaker 3: I'll turn 41 next month. This is the time. I
49:13
Speaker 3: think I don't know if more people say this, actually.
49:15
Speaker 3: And I'd wonder what your take, anyone listening to the show, is.
49:20
Speaker 3: on when in your life health needed to be it's
49:22
Speaker 3: most important like when in order to have a happy
49:26
Speaker 3: like full life when is it that you really had
49:29
Speaker 3: to focus more on being a person that will retain
49:33
Speaker 3: a certain level of good health throughout the totality of
49:36
Speaker 3: your life I don't know if I've said this the
49:37
Speaker 3: right way Like, what was the threshold? This age, at
49:41
Speaker 3: this time, I should have been this amount of healthy?
49:44
Speaker 3: Because for me, I think it's now. And I think
49:47
Speaker 3: my wife has told me several times that it's now.
49:49
Speaker 3: They're like, I got to make the decision to start
49:51
Speaker 3: forcing certain habits on myself or they're not coming ever.
49:55
Speaker 3: And if they don't come ever, things will get bad
49:58
Speaker 3: as I get older. Because I think right now, I'm
50:00
Speaker 3: right on that line, I believe, where it could go good,
50:03
Speaker 3: it could go not so good. And then finally, one
50:06
Speaker 3: last thing I like, This is something that I thought
50:08
Speaker 3: was very amazing or very amusing.
50:12
Speaker 4: Some couples are now eating separately.
50:14
Speaker 3: I've talked about this before other places, the non-divorce divorces
50:19
Speaker 3: that you might have in a marriage. This is like
50:22
Speaker 3: sleep divorce is what they call it. When you decide
50:25
Speaker 3: you can't sleep in the same room as somebody anymore.
50:27
Speaker 3: So you get your own bed, you get your own setup.
50:30
Speaker 3: This is the thing my wife is closest to doing
50:33
Speaker 3: to me, I think because of snoring.
50:35
Speaker 4: And we've tried a few solutions to that.
50:38
Speaker 3: If she really gets mad at me, she'll basically shove
50:40
Speaker 3: me till I wake up and then tell me to
50:42
Speaker 3: go sleep downstairs, which I'll do.
50:44
Speaker 4: It's like, all right, fine.
50:45
Speaker 3: If I have to do that, I'll do that to
50:47
Speaker 3: make you happy. But it's not an everyday thing, which
50:49
Speaker 3: is good. But there are people that are doing certain divorces.
50:53
Speaker 3: And one of them now, and I really like this one,
50:56
Speaker 3: is the food divorce. And that means that either you're
50:59
Speaker 3: annoyed with the person and how they consume food, or
51:02
Speaker 3: you just don't want to eat the same things as
51:04
Speaker 3: them All the time.
51:06
Speaker 4: And this is that's the reason I like it so much.
51:09
Speaker 3: Like my favorite place to go to consume any amount
51:12
Speaker 3: of food out with the missus is a place where
51:15
Speaker 3: multiple restaurants are. And this is mostly if you're doing
51:18
Speaker 3: fast food all around each other, like a food court
51:21
Speaker 3: at a mall type of thing, because then she doesn't
51:25
Speaker 3: feel like she has to make the same decision as me.
51:28
Speaker 3: And that's the problem. The missus will tell me what
51:30
Speaker 3: she wants to eat. And if I don't want to
51:32
Speaker 3: eat it, I'll be like, all right, I'll take you
51:33
Speaker 3: to that place. And then when we get your food,
51:36
Speaker 3: I'll also go to this other place where I'll get
51:38
Speaker 3: totally different food for me.
51:41
Speaker 4: And she's never okay with that.
51:42
Speaker 3: She's like, no, just take me to the place you
51:44
Speaker 3: want to go and I'll eat food I don't want
51:46
Speaker 3: to eat. And so I love the food divorce as
51:48
Speaker 3: a concept. It's a thing that more people are doing.
51:51
Speaker 3: I do find it fairly amusing. And I wonder if
51:53
Speaker 3: it's a thing that anyone listening to the show has done.
51:57
Speaker 3: Or if you have your own unique version of a
52:00
Speaker 3: not-divorce divorce.
52:02
Speaker 4: A thing you used to do together that you no
52:04
Speaker 4: longer do.
52:05
Speaker 3: My favorite one that came up, I remember this one vividly,
52:09
Speaker 3: is the 70-something-year-old woman who could no longer ride in
52:13
Speaker 3: the same car with her husband, also a 70-year-old guy,
52:17
Speaker 3: because she said she'd had enough of being in an
52:20
Speaker 3: enclosed space for an hour or two with the husband,
52:23
Speaker 3: which is probably not a good sign for the relationship.
52:26
Speaker 3: But if it's going well beyond that, so she did
52:28
Speaker 3: a road trip divorce, which is going to be very
52:31
Speaker 3: tough with gas prices being what they are. right now,
52:34
Speaker 3: but nonetheless, I did find that one amusing, and she
52:37
Speaker 3: went viral a few years ago.
52:39
Speaker 4: One last thing.
52:40
Speaker 3: That I'll tell you as far as sillier, lighter, let's
52:42
Speaker 3: call this quick four-ish topics, similar to what Dana does
52:46
Speaker 3: from two to four o'clock when she does her fast five.
52:50
Speaker 3: One in three Gen Z men haven't experienced certain things romantically.
52:57
Speaker 3: I have to clean this up for radio. One in
53:00
Speaker 3: three Gen Z men have not had a romantic experience
53:03
Speaker 3: with in several months. This is a recent study that
53:07
Speaker 3: went viral online, and this is bad. And it can,
53:11
Speaker 3: I think, be more mild than what you're probably thinking
53:14
Speaker 3: I'm trying to say but not say on the radio.
53:18
Speaker 3: But a fifth of Gen Z guys said they've never
53:21
Speaker 3: had certain romantic experiences, and some of them haven't had
53:24
Speaker 3: any version in quite some time.
53:26
Speaker 4: And people are worried about this, man.
53:28
Speaker 3: That's all I'll say about it is there's a study
53:30
Speaker 3: out that more and more people who are angry, who
53:32
Speaker 3: are upset... might be because a lack of romantic possibilities.
53:36
Speaker 3: And finding those avenues might make people, well, not as angry.
53:41
Speaker 3: So I just think that's interesting, too. Noodle that as
53:43
Speaker 3: however you want. Think about that however you want. That's
53:46
Speaker 3: it for the quick four-ish topics. We'll come back, I promise,
53:49
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