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Ken Paxton's Corpus Christi Speech, Early Voting Turnout and Open vs. Closed Primaries · KSEV Mornings with Craig and Wayne

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  Speaker 1: KSCV Radio.
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  Speaker 2: This is the voice of Texas just telling Wayne Dolcefino,
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  Speaker 2: this is us.
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  Speaker 1: That's me. That's that guy. I love spaghetti. That'd be great.
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  Speaker 3: Let's have a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: KFCV Radio.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, we are the mob, guys.
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  Speaker 1: Can I tell people what spaghetti sauce is like?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you want to tell people what spaghetti sauce?
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  Speaker 1: There's a particular crushed tomato I like to use in
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  Speaker 1: my pasta sauce. Okay. It's called– I just thought I'd
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  Speaker 1: give a little– Yeah, please. A little help to the
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  Speaker 1: people who like to cook.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I want to know.
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  Speaker 1: What is it? It's called Moody, M-U-T-T-I. You ever buy
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  Speaker 1: Moody's sauce?
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  Speaker 4: No, never bought Moody's sauce.
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  Speaker 1: They have a great arrabbiata, but they also have good
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  Speaker 1: crushed tomatoes. Okay. And I make my sauce fresh because,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, of course.
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  Speaker 3: Come on.
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  Speaker 4: You got to do that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not having mozzarella. People down here call it mozzarella.
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  Speaker 1: It's like moots.
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  Speaker 4: It's mozzarella. Thank you. That makes me happy. It is mozzarella.
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  Speaker 2: I will say this. I buy the Jersey sauce. There's
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  Speaker 2: a sauce from New Jersey. It's like in HEB and
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  Speaker 2: I just buy that.
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  Speaker 4: It's okay. It's not as good as homemade.
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  Speaker 1: Is it called Jersey sauce?
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  Speaker 4: It's actually literally called like Jersey sauce.
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  Speaker 2: And then it's all different kinds of you know, marinara
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  Speaker 2: and whatnot in its jersey. It's got the state of
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  Speaker 2: New Jersey on the bottle.
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  Speaker 1: Gosh. You know what? When you're from New York, quite honestly,
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey seems like a.
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  Speaker 5: It sucks.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you hate it.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of like... Yeah. Whatever.
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  Speaker 3: No, I know.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of New Yorkers hate it.
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  Speaker 1: It's like when you're from Houston, you think about Beaumont.
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  Speaker 1: No offense to Beaumont. No, it's fine. They don't listen
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  Speaker 1: to us in Beaumont.
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  Speaker 2: I think that is offensive to Beaumont, actually, if you
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  Speaker 2: knew how New Yorkers felt about New Jersey. I was
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  Speaker 2: telling you off the air that the AI robots do
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  Speaker 2: a lot of our clips now. And a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the clips will pop up on my social media pages.
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  Speaker 2: I think we're putting one clip a week up on
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  Speaker 2: KSEV's Facebook and Instagram page too. And it'll probably feature Wayne.
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  Speaker 2: But we're going to start throwing some clips up on
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  Speaker 2: Dolce Fino Consulting too. Because, you know, the AI thinks
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  Speaker 2: you do great. I actually have to tell the AI
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  Speaker 2: sometimes not to pull five clips of Wayne. I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: can I get one clip of me for my social
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  Speaker 2: media pages?
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  Speaker 1: But you're not saying anything worth repeating it. Why would
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  Speaker 1: they do that? I mean, the AI, does the AI
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  Speaker 1: go back to you and go, who is Craig Coyne
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  Speaker 1: and Izzy? Did they say that?
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  Speaker 4: No, they haven't done that yet. They might.
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  Speaker 1: I'm actually AI today.
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  Speaker 3: Are you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we want to get you a docking station because
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  Speaker 2: your internet feed is going in and out since it's Wi-Fi.
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  Speaker 4: So people are seeing a pixelated version of you. We'll
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  Speaker 4: fix that. I can fix that.
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  Speaker 2: We have the Ken Paxton audio that you were talking about.
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  Speaker 2: I actually found the entire post from, I think it's
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  Speaker 2: Fox 4. that put this up. So it's the entire speech.
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  Speaker 2: It's actually the entire thing. It's like an hour and
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  Speaker 2: a half long, but we'll play just like the first
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  Speaker 2: five or six minutes or we'll jump in and out
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  Speaker 2: as we go, probably. But this is what you said
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  Speaker 2: was the best part, right? Right at the beginning of
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  Speaker 2: the speech?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it wasn't the first minute, but it was the
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  Speaker 1: first couple of minutes where he goes through the stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you want to, how far you
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  Speaker 1: want to play.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, no, no, no, not that Russell. It was
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  Speaker 2: at the right spot as the beginning. That's all others.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, go back to 48. Go back to the 48.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Cause that's when Paxton starts. So we'll go ahead and
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  Speaker 2: hit play on this. And we'll start playing this audio.
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  Speaker 2: We'll jump in as we go. Cause it's probably too
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  Speaker 2: much to just leave it. I'm talking on his own.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Running a five minute ad for him.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 4: But you really liked the beginning of this conversation.
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  Speaker 3: All for having me here in Corpus Christi today. This
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  Speaker 3: is awesome.
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  Speaker 7: As you know, early voting is underway and Texans are
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  Speaker 7: already showing up.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm honored to be here with you all today.
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  Speaker 7: As we continue to tour across Texas. Did you all
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  Speaker 7: see my campaign bus? My message to the far left
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  Speaker 7: extremists trying to destroy Texas is simple.
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  Speaker 3: You can see it on the bus. Come and take it.
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  Speaker 4: Come and take it.
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  Speaker 3: And am I right?
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  Speaker 7: I'm not alone in this fight, right? Well, I want
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  Speaker 7: to thank Representative Todd Hunter for being here today. He's
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  Speaker 7: been a great friend to me for 20 years. I
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  Speaker 7: can't imagine this area without Todd, actually. And thank you
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  Speaker 7: also to Carmen Calderon for being here. And finally, a
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  Speaker 7: big thank you to Eric Flores, who's going to be
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  Speaker 7: a next congressman.
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  Speaker 2: And we can pause it for a second. I want
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  Speaker 2: to make sure Wayne can hear it. You can hear
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  Speaker 2: that whole thing?
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  Speaker 4: No, you can't.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, make sure that that's in Audition, if the computer
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  Speaker 2: isn't in Audition, because I'm thinking Wayne couldn't hear it. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: that's what I thought. So he's just introducing himself so far.
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  Speaker 2: We can go ahead and hit play on it again,
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  Speaker 2: and hopefully.
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  Speaker 4: Go ahead. What do you want, Russell?
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  Speaker 2: Is the computer... The computer has to be an audition.
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  Speaker 2: The spot that's playing the audio... Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, got it.
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  Speaker 2: Because I can hear it on the air, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: not seeing it actually get fed into the thing, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't think Wayne can hear it. Let's try it
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  Speaker 2: again and see if it actually happens, and maybe I'll
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  Speaker 2: try to fix it on my side.
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  Speaker 7: Well, since April of not this year, but actually 2025,
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  Speaker 7: I've had the privilege.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I'll just translate it for you.
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  Speaker 3: Of traveling all across our state. And I'll tell you
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  Speaker 3: what I've learned. The best part of the state is
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  Speaker 3: not just the scenery.
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  Speaker 7: or even our great Texas barbecue, which is great, it's
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  Speaker 7: the people of Texas.
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  Speaker 2: The people of Texas are the best part of Texas.
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  Speaker 3: And they are telling me the same thing.
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  Speaker 7: Everything costs more, from groceries to gas, the electric bill,
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  Speaker 7: everything's up except your paycheck.
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  Speaker 3: And my agenda is very simple.
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  Speaker 7: I'm going to fight so that every Texan can buy
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  Speaker 7: a home, raise a family, and live a healthy life
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  Speaker 7: without struggling to make ends meet. And that's why I
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  Speaker 7: unveiled my Protecting the Texas Promise plan. This is an
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  Speaker 7: economic vision to put thousands of dollars back into the
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  Speaker 7: pockets of hardworking Texans.
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  Speaker 3: So what does that mean for you and your family?
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  Speaker 3: Let's see if you like this.
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  Speaker 7: It means a landmark $ 25, 000 deduction for out-of-pocket medical expenses
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  Speaker 7: so that no family goes bankrupt for just getting sick.
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  Speaker 3: And that's for every member of your family.
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  Speaker 7: It means you can own a home with a historic $ 50, 000
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  Speaker 7: down payment deduction.
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  Speaker 3: And this might be my favorite.
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  Speaker 7: A healthy living deduction for gym memberships, nutrition programs, youth sports,
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  Speaker 7: and yes, even physician prescribed GLP-1s.
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  Speaker 3: Not that anybody's using those here.
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  Speaker 4: We can go ahead and stop it again, too.
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  Speaker 3: How about doubling the child tax?
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  Speaker 2: What I think is really interesting is he's just going
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  Speaker 2: through all the different things that he wants to do
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  Speaker 2: and saying GLP-1s are going to be something that's more affordable.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you want to say anything to
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  Speaker 2: any of this, Wayne.
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  Speaker 1: Well, look, I just think it's exactly the right tone.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And it's exactly the right message. We have ideas to
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  Speaker 1: bring costs down, too.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And the Democrats have been allowed to say, hey, we
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  Speaker 1: want to break costs down when nobody's ever said, well, OK,
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  Speaker 1: exactly how we're doing that. Yeah, because let's even if
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  Speaker 1: you believe that Medicare for all is some right, right,
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  Speaker 1: that everybody's got the right, even if you believe that. Right.
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  Speaker 1: Who pays for it? You could tax every billionaire 80%
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  Speaker 1: of their money and it doesn't pay for it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So it's great to say, look, I would like, I
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  Speaker 1: pay $ 3, 000 a month to rent my bungalow in the Heights. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Not fancy. You got some Ikea stuff. I got my mattress,
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  Speaker 1: Maxi Kleiner right next to me. I don't really have
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  Speaker 1: nothing special in here. Right. I'm here. I'm not here
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  Speaker 1: that much, right? But if somebody wants to tell me
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  Speaker 1: they're going to give me free rent, I'm all in. Please.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I get you.
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  Speaker 1: I want free rent.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And I want everything free. Right. I want to rent
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  Speaker 1: my car and not have to pay a deductible. I
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  Speaker 1: want everything free. Sure.
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  Speaker 2: I know, because the people that want to vote for
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  Speaker 2: that just don't care where the pain goes as long
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  Speaker 2: as they believe it's not going to go on them.
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  Speaker 4: And then it does go on them.
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  Speaker 2: They're actually some of the people who pay the most
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  Speaker 2: money when everything breaks and everything is more expensive because
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  Speaker 2: of those promises. And they also just aren't delivered. The
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  Speaker 2: other thing is just the stupidity of people to keep
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  Speaker 2: believing this.
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  Speaker 4: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: Well, because I believe because I think money comes out
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  Speaker 1: of like somebody's butt. I don't know where they think
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  Speaker 1: it comes from, dude. I mean, I am so frustrated. Look,
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  Speaker 1: I believe in success. I believe in working. And my generation,
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  Speaker 1: I worked all the time. You know, people that worked
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  Speaker 1: at Channel 13 during the heyday of local TV, we
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  Speaker 1: literally worked day and night. We were often there till
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  Speaker 1: midnight working. And without regard for saying, well, you're only
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  Speaker 1: paying me X and I'm just going to work my
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  Speaker 1: eight hours and at 801 I'm leaving. Right. We worked
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  Speaker 1: till we got the job done. And because of that,
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  Speaker 1: we had success. We are losing. We are losing some
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  Speaker 1: of our core values.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're right about that.
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  Speaker 1: And we've got to. We've got to make that, I think,
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  Speaker 1: part of our fight going forward. It's almost as I
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  Speaker 1: as we played that Kennedy speech, you know, a couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks ago, you remember we were talking about John
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  Speaker 1: Kennedy speech.
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: That's not what your government could do for you or
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  Speaker 1: what you could do for the government. Yes. Where is
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  Speaker 1: that sense of common ground?
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  Speaker 2: Patriotism anymore well it's something we've been talking about is
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  Speaker 2: that there's a lot of people who come into this
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  Speaker 2: country who kind of like hate us and now they
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  Speaker 2: live here and they're spreading that message of like hate
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  Speaker 2: the country you live in there's a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: who were born here that are young people that think
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  Speaker 2: they hate the United States and the only reason I
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  Speaker 2: say think is they have no idea what it's like
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  Speaker 2: to live somewhere else they would hate everywhere else they
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  Speaker 2: go more than they think they hate here but there's
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  Speaker 2: just so much of that man Wayne is on a
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  Speaker 2: tear today And frustrated.
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  Speaker 4: AI is going to love you today as far as
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  Speaker 4: the clips go. Quick break.
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  Speaker 2: A lot to talk about. KSEV Radio, The Voice of Texas.
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  Speaker 2: We are the Mob Guys.
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  Speaker 4: More after this. KSEV Radio.
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  Speaker 8: That's The Voice of Texas.
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  Speaker 2: We are the Mob Guys. That's the Night at the
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  Speaker 2: Roxbury song. I think it's actually like Hathaway. I forget
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  Speaker 2: what it's actually called, the name of that song. But
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  Speaker 2: that's famous from that SNL skit. Do you remember that
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  Speaker 2: or no?
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  Speaker 4: Do you not care?
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  Speaker 1: Of course I remember.
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  Speaker 4: The bobbin heads with Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I remember I was in eighth grade when that came out,
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  Speaker 4: when that was famous.
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  Speaker 1: I was 50. I'm sorry. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: And I remember asking for it at like eighth grade
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  Speaker 2: dances and a very popular decision to be made there.
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  Speaker 2: People really loved it. And they all did this. That
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  Speaker 2: was when SNL was funny. It's not funny anymore, which
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  Speaker 2: is sad. All right.
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  Speaker 1: I don't I don't even watch it. Do you watch
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  Speaker 1: it anywhere?
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  Speaker 2: The only thing I saw was the the Shane Gillis thing.
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  Speaker 2: And I see whatever goes viral more so than actually
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  Speaker 2: watch the TV show. And to be honest, it was
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  Speaker 2: probably even funnier before Will Ferrell. Like if you really
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  Speaker 2: get into the heyday of Saturday Night Live, it's just
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  Speaker 2: not it's not even really good cultural commentary anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Like they don't even really serve that purpose.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know what they're doing. I still think
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  Speaker 1: Shane Gillis was right. And I'm sorry that so many
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  Speaker 1: women seem to be like, how dare you suggest that
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  Speaker 1: when I wore something and you could see all these
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  Speaker 1: things and that I wasn't doing it to entice you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. How dare you get mad at my skin tight
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  Speaker 4: clothing at the gym?
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  Speaker 1: It's all part of the disintegration of the culture, man.
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  Speaker 1: It's someone who grew up when people had a sense
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  Speaker 1: of humor. Right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And and there are some stereotypes. I'm sorry. Right. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm and I'm now the new thing is going to
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  Speaker 1: be Islamophobia. Right.
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  Speaker 4: I think so.
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  Speaker 1: That's the new thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Anytime that you're upset with something that you see going
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  Speaker 2: on that seems like it's influenced by people with a
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  Speaker 2: certain religion, you're Islamophobic.
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  Speaker 1: I just can't keep up.
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  Speaker 2: I do want to talk about you mentioned that the
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  Speaker 2: turnout numbers are more and more interesting.
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  Speaker 4: You actually pulled them all. So let's go through some
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  Speaker 4: of that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, actually, you know, I do What's Your Point sometimes
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  Speaker 1: on Fox 26 on Sunday morning. Not very often because
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  Speaker 1: I'm too smart for those people and, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: make them look bad. But, you know, the first day
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  Speaker 1: looked really, really bad, but it's tightening up in terms
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  Speaker 1: of of the history of the voters. So the numbers
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  Speaker 1: show that there have been 2,100,000 voters as of the
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  Speaker 1: end of 1022, which I guess would be today, or
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of 1022. 36.6% only voted in Democratic primaries
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  Speaker 1: from 2020 to 2026. 34.2% primaries. Those are the base voters.
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  Speaker 1: Primaries of both parties, which means the people that go
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  Speaker 1: back and forth, the transgender voters. I'm just kidding. 3.5%
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  Speaker 1: of I'm trying to see who else I can offend.
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  Speaker 4: 3.5 is way too high of a percent for actual
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  Speaker 4: transgender voters.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's probably like 0.1. Or 0.01. But this
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  Speaker 1: is the number that I think is pretty interesting. The
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  Speaker 1: no primary. So they didn't vote in primaries. 25% of
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  Speaker 1: the voters did not have not voted in in the primary,
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  Speaker 1: which could be problematic for Republicans. And, you know, it
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  Speaker 1: gets really difficult. And even as somebody who pays attention
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  Speaker 1: to the media a lot, there is such a bombardment
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  Speaker 1: of anti-Republican, anti-conservative things on most of the media. Not
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  Speaker 1: all of it, right? But most of the media. That
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you wonder, like in 2016, if you believe the media,
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  Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton would have been our president. So that's true.
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  Speaker 1: So who knows?
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting about what you're saying is I
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  Speaker 2: saw a clip from John Cornyn yesterday. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: that we'll play it, but Cornyn was asked a question. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we don't need to play it. He was asked a
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  Speaker 2: question about how the election is going. And as you said,
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  Speaker 2: he seems just like a bitter, sore loser person in
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  Speaker 2: how he's behaving. But he did say that the problem
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  Speaker 2: with the primary season is the people that make the
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  Speaker 2: decision on who the candidate is. Obviously, this is what
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  Speaker 2: he blames is the reason he's not the candidate are
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  Speaker 2: too far to their side. He goes, they're too far
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  Speaker 2: to the left, too far to the right. Not enough
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  Speaker 2: people in the middle show up for the primaries. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know that that's actually true. I know that that
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  Speaker 2: logically sounds true. And I know a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: believe it to be true. But I don't know what
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  Speaker 2: we even describe an independent as now, if they vote
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  Speaker 2: often on one side or the other, but believe themselves
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  Speaker 2: to be an independent.
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  Speaker 4: Are they an independent?
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  Speaker 2: But nonetheless, as I say all that, it kind of
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: leads to the thing you're saying. If people didn't show
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: up and vote in the primaries and they're voting now,
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: does that make it more likely that they're voting because
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: they've been motivated by something that they didn't care about
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: during the primary season?
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: That probably hurts Paxton.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Two things I want to say. Number one, Cornyn got
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: his butt beat by Paxson. It wasn't like close.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: He did.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: He got destroyed by Paxson. And the internal pollings at
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: the time showed that he was no more, had any
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: better chance to beat Tallarito. I know the media says, well,
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: if Cornyn had run, there wouldn't have been a race. Sure.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: And six-gender guy wouldn't have done so well, right? Right.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: But the reality of the internals numbers were showing that
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Paxton actually had a better chance because his voters were
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: more motivated to vote for Paxton.
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: Right. So. But it doesn't matter. If you believe in
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: the system and you run as a Republican and you're Republican, Republican,
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: I'm the senator. And then after a while, people are
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: mad at you for things you did that they were against. Yeah,
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: that's called Mr. Cornyn. Right. Right. Well, did a bunch
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: of stuff that made people think you were a squishy,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: weak guy and didn't do what the people that voted
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: to send you there wanted you to do. Right. So
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: they got somebody else who was always done what he
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: said he was going to do.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Well, and what's also really interesting to me about, like,
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: the whole idea of this is that there are a
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: lot of individuals. I think we heard from them during
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: the primary season on this radio station that really wouldn't
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: have voted if it was Cornett. They would have been
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: so mad at our party doing the same thing over
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: and over again that they hate. There were a lot
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: of people that might have sat out because Cornyn to
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: them represented a refusal to evolve in a way that
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Paxton didn't. Paxton seemed like someone that was more willing
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: to fight for the things that people care about most,
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: all the stuff you just said. So I do believe
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: that the challenge that we're facing right now of motivating
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: the Cornyn people to come out and vote would have
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: absolutely been true for the Paxton people If he was
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: not the nominee.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: And I think there are more Paxton people.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Or at least the Paxton people, the conservatives are going
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: to vote.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Right. It's not the conservatives we need to worry about. Well,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: we shouldn't. They're going to vote. But it's the it's
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: the moderates. And that's why I am personally. not for
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: close primaries. And I know that makes some people mad,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: but I do think that you do, people are sort
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: of disenfranchised by the system to a certain degree. But
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: a couple of things could be true at the same time.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Maybe John Cornyn would have been a smarter play, but
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: that's not what the party chose.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: I also don't think that's true, but yes.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: And the party has done so much for John Cornyn
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: that John Cornyn owed it, I believe, to the Republicans,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: the party that made him so important for so long,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: to say, look, obviously, I've got my issues with Ken Baxter.
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: That's what he should say.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: But it's not a close call of what's better for Texas.
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: Amen.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Well, I wanted to you said you're more for open
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: primaries than closed primaries. And I just want to I
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: want to ask you one question about that. Do you
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: think turnout should be better for that to be true?
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Because the thing I dislike about people who intentionally vote
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: on the opposite side that they are to throw off
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: a primary is how easy it is to potentially get
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: success there because of how few people actually vote in primaries.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: If primaries had overwhelmingly large numbers of responses, I would
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: agree with you that an open primary is better. But
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: I think a closed primary is important when not that
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: many people show up to begin with and they can
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: throw a wrench. And maybe it's not in the Senate race.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: But they can throw a wrench in some race by
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: voting as a Republican when they're a hardcore Democrat and
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: trying to prop up people that they think are going
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: to lose.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: And I want to say this in a way that
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: sounds logical. I try to think it through. I obviously
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: haven't voted for a Democrat in a very long time.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: I'm a conservative guy and I want conservatives to win.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: But I also want us to be cognizant. at least cognizant,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: that there are a lot of people who will be
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: with us when we tell them in the right way
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: what we're trying to do. And I sometimes think the
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: closed primaries ends up creating a situation where we end up,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: and we've seen it around the country, Craig, where we
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: end up with candidates that Maybe closer to what you
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: or I want, but can't win in general.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: We have at least one caller on hold. Robert, hang on.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: We're going to hit a break.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: We'll get back to you when we come back. If
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: other people want to call in and be a part
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: of the show, we can. I keep failing to give
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: out the phone number, which is my bad, and I'm
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: not going to give out my own number. 281-558-5738 is
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: the phone number for the radio station. 2-8-1-5-5-8-5-7-3-8 if you
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: want to get involved.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: Quick break.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: A lot more from the mob guys after this. And actually, actually,
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: real quick, Wayne, before we take that break, I just
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: want to say a couple of quick things about American
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: medical plans.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: Obamacare. I'm going to repeat what I said yesterday.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Horrible.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: And I actually I heard from a family member who
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: is on Obamacare. They're not here in this state, but luckily,
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: American medical plans is all throughout the country.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: So you can get it anywhere.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: And they're going to absolutely call Scott Ferguson and try
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: to compare what they're doing and what he can find them.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Because competing against the ridiculousness of a government run system
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: that is uniquely expensive and terrible and taking advantage of
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: people that aren't doing the extra work like Scott will
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: do it for you. Why trust the government to tell
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: you what the cheapest plan is when Scott will do
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: this work?
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: Go ahead.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: I don't trust the government.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: About anything.
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: No.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: About anything. Yeah. And I'm going to call him and
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: he'll give me some free insurance.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it's free, but he usually saves
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: people 60 percent on what they're paying in Obamacare because
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: he actually goes through all the process and takes you
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: through every single option. As you said yesterday, you can
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: also pick what you need. The nice thing about going
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: to American American medical plans is you don't have to
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: have insurance to pop out a kid if you're a
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: dude because you can't have kids, whether the left thinks
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: you can or not.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: I got a text that you left up the audio
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: on YouTube on this podcast. OK, what that means.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Well, we're we're currently still talking right now. We're talking
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: about American medical plans. So that's a good thing. We're
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: doing this on purpose because we're still talking about we're
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: still doing a spot right now for Scott Ferguson and
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: American medical plans, man.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Oh, we are.
• 23:41
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: I didn't know we were doing we're doing this right now.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm talking about it.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: I thought you were just hanging out with me during
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: the break.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: That's why I'm waiting for you to say stuff.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: I was like waiting. Look, American medical plans make sense.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Obamacare is like a nightmare.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: I was thinking, why is Craig talking to me about
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Scott Ferguson? I love him.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: I haven't met him, but I love him already because
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: he's a patriot. He's a guy that cares about America.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: He cares about your cost of your health insurance.
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: And he can save you money. And look- I could
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: save you money.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that's why we're talking about this right now.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: We haven't taken the break yet.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: 833-500-7526.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Say the number again. 833-500-7526 is the phone number for
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: American Medical Plans. As I said, he will walk you
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: through the process. He'll compare the Obamacare plans to what
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: he can also find you outside of them. So if
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: you need to see them, he'll show you how they're
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: terrible and expensive. But 833-500-7526. AmericanMedicalPlans.com is the website. It
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: is a health care plan chosen by you, not the government.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Can I say one more thing?
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Go ahead, Wayne.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: What do you want to say?
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: I just want to say that one of the great
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: things I like about American Medical Plans is that if
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: you're a guy and you're not going to get pregnant, right,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: as the Democrats think we can, you don't have to
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: pay for that.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: You don't.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: So I pay for stuff you don't need.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Save yourself some money. No cost consultations. Totally free to
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: talk to him. Licensed independent advisors. You're going to get
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: a very small team.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: No AI robots. One more time. 1-833-500-PLAN to talk to
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: Scott Ferguson.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: 700 AM, the voice of Texas, the mob guys.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: He is the consigliere. Did you say it different than me?
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: Did you pronounce that word?
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: What?
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: I say consigliere.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: Why do you say it like that? Just because it's
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: more Italian?
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Because I'm Italian. Okay, got it. That's why. Because I
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: know the language.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: They say consigliere here, right? That's how people pronounce it
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: in the United States or no?
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: I don't.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Okay. I say it the way I say it. I
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: don't care what anyone else says.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: Do you actually speak Italian?
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: I can speak a little bit, but not like I
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: used to be able to. Back in the, back when
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: I was like, you know, in my twenties, my dad
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: was still alive and we used to go to Antonio's.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: We're going to Antonio's flying pizza.
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: We are.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: We plan to go. The missus is going to go too.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: She's very excited to meet you.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I'd like, I look forward to meeting her because
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: hopefully she's better half than you. But, but I, But
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: my father used to go there and see Tony, and
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: they used to talk Italian, and so I would pick
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: it up.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: That's amazing.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, my grandmother, very upset that none of the grandkids
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: spoke Italian. It's something that made her very sad.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: I took Italian in college.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: That's good. I should have done that.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: You're a better Italian than me. We got full phone lines.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: I don't know why. I don't know what happened, but
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: this is good.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: What did I say?
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll see.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: What did I say?
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: I will go to Robert first. He's been hanging on
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: the longest. Robert and Katie, what do you want to say, bud?
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: Good morning, guys.
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: I just want to talk about commercials that have been
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: airing with Enosa and Tallarico. Tallarico, on one hand, says,
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: I'm Republican, all right, so I'm not advertising for these people.
• 27:15
  Speaker 9: He called out Joe Biden on the border, and he
• 27:21
  Speaker 9: was part of the greatest property tax relief in the.
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: State of Texas. And then, uh, he knows, uh, you
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: got this guy, he's a coach that he won eight titles,
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: whatever the heck that, I don't care about all that.
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: But anyway, he says that he started Greg Abbott raised
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: in Texas. I mean, here you got two Democrats, uh,
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: contradiction each other, you know, what, what says he's part
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: of the, tax relief and the other ones saying they're
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: raising taxes i mean it just goes to show yeah
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: that they say anything yes to get a vote yep
• 28:07
  Speaker 6: yes um anyway i just thought i'd bring that up
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: no it's funny they air those commercials one after each
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: other and one comes on say he's doing this the
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: other one comes on And contradict what he just said.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: Now, I love the call, Robert, so much. I'll tell
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: you why. Wait, you go first.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: No, go ahead.
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: Well, I was going to tell him why.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: I saw Tallarico in an interview the other day say
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: that Democrats voted for. voter ID and that Republicans voted
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: against it and that Democrats voted for stopping gerrymandering and
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: that Republicans voted against it. And it's so ridiculous when
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: they pretend that that's true, because any bill that a
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Democrat has put forward that has required something similar to
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: voter ID or similar to a restriction on gerrymandering is
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: It comes with all this other stuff that is 100
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: percent stuff Republicans can't support. In one case, it would
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: have caused us to have completely open elections where anybody
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: could vote and totally the opposite of voter ID. But
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: they claim it because on some vote, some way where
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: they built a bill that was ridiculous, they kind of
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: sort of included that in it. And then they say
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: the other side doesn't support it. So the way they
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: lie is ridiculous, Robert.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Robert, I'll say one other thing. If you
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: think about it, Tallarico did call out Biden on the border,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: but he did it like a week ago. And so
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: I would love to find the clip of Tallarico, and
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: it doesn't exist, where he called out Joe Biden on
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: the border while Joe Biden was actually president. Saying it
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: now when you're trying to convince people you're something you
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: are not, He can say, I called out Joe Biden. Like,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: I could call out Craig Coglianese today. And then tomorrow
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: I could say, I've called out Craig Coglianese. Come on.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: You think people are stupid, and they are to a
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: certain degree.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: It's sad that some are, that many people do get,
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: you know, roped into that stuff.
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: You're absolutely right about that.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: The other thing that's funny is I think it was
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: like 2021 is when Tallarico put forward a bill that
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: would have given anybody here amnesty, would have allowed anybody
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: here illegally. So during the open border problem, when Biden
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: is swinging the door wide open, Tallarico is trying to
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: be at the forefront of allowing people to be citizens
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: or allowing people to have residencies here in this country illegally.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: that came in illegally, the exact opposite of lock on
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: the door. That is the part of the quote that
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: people claim he believes in. No, he believes in the
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: welcome mat. He doesn't believe in the lock on the door,
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: even if he says the words.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: There might be a lock on the door, but they
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: give everybody a copy of the key.
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: Well, they're all locked in, by the way.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: They all got inside and then we locked the door,
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: which seems like the wrong spot.
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: We got more calls. Let's go to Bart next. I
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: think Bart is also calling in spring. Bart, what do
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: you want to say?
• 30:55
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I must be one of those stupid people. Every
• 30:57
  Speaker 8: time I hear Tallarico say that we have to give
• 31:00
  Speaker 8: abortion services for the trans community, are those the trans
• 31:04
  Speaker 8: men or the trans women getting pregnant?
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: I'm not sure. That's a great question.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: The trans women getting pregnant and needing birth care services
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: is crazy, Bart.
• 31:16
  Speaker 8: I know they think men can get pregnant, but I'm like, How?
• 31:20
  Speaker 8: How do they get pregnant if they're trans women or
• 31:22
  Speaker 8: trans men? What's going on here?
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: Bart's making me want to play the Monty Python sketch,
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: the joke about how men can't get pregnant.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: We should play it sometime. I will tell you, it's
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: one of my favorite things.
• 31:32
  Speaker 8: Wannabe Rebecca.
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: Wannabe Rebecca. Yeah, exactly. Exactly, Bart. Anything else you got
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: first or is that it?
• 31:38
  Speaker 8: No, just wondering which group he's talking about. And people
• 31:41
  Speaker 8: must be stupid to hear him say men can get
• 31:43
  Speaker 8: pregnant and believe him. This guy is nuts.
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he is nuts. He is insane. All right, well,
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: thank you very much for the call, Bart, in spring.
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: I agree with you.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: And probably we'll take a break after we take one
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: more call, and then we'll play the thing from Monty Python,
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: because it's so good from the life of Brian.
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: Dale, what do you want to say?
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a different angle, I think, to the open primaries, Craig,
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: that you you're not talking about, uh, sure. And I'll
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: tell you about my district. I'm, I've lived in my
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: house for 35 years. And unfortunately my district was red, red,
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: red for like 27 or 28 years. Uh, a lot
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: of times, you know, for the congressional race, you would
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: have a, either a Democrat wouldn't even run or you
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: would have a very, very weak Democrat. So I would
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: vote in the Republican primary because, uh, My thoughts were,
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: let me vote for the Republican that I think will
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: do the least damage. Or, you know, let me vote
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: for who I think is the best Republican. I've never
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: voted in a.
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: I just want to make sure I understand.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: So, Dale, you're a Democrat and you voted in a
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: Republican primary because you knew a Republican was going to
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: win your district and you wanted your voice to still
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: be heard that way.
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  Speaker 5: Exactly. I wanted to vote for what Republican was either
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: the least offensive or who I felt would do a
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: good job. I've never voted in a Republican primary to.
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: Just disrupt. I get it.
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: Like in 2000, I knew that Gore was going to
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: get the Democratic nomination. And I never was a big
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: fan of George W. So I went and voted in
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: the Republican primary. It's the first time I voted in
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: an open primary so I could vote for John McCain. Now,
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: that was the biggest mistake I've ever made because now
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: I'm on every Republican mailing list.
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: That's not so bad. I think you enjoy that, Dale.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: Come on, Dale. Maybe they have some good points. Crack
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: those open.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Go ahead. So, yeah.
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: So that's my case for open primary.
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: Well, let me respond to that, actually.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: And I know Wayne just said he likes the open primary,
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: so he'll probably say something different.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Love may be too strong. I mean, I just think.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: That it's it's not fair to those voters that want
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: to come on board to tell them they're not welcome
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: is to me the message.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: So this is the question I have for Dale. And
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: I think it kind of leans into what Wayne just said, too.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: Do you think that's the point of the primaries? I
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: think the point of the primary is to allow a
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: party to pick its representative. And when you vote as
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: a Democrat who has no intention of actually voting for
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: the person that you're voting for in the primary on
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: the next stage, which you didn't, I like that you
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: did it honestly, Dale, and that you weren't just trying
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: to screw up the system and harm whatever Republican, you know,
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: might have had a good chance at winning by trying
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: to throw in a Republican that you thought had a
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: bad chance of winning. I like that he did it honestly.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: But still, that's not the intention of the primary. The
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: primary is not to let Dale, if he's a Democrat
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: who has no intention again of voting when the actual
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: election is running for the person he's voting for in
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: a primary of picking that candidate. It's for the party
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: itself to pick its candidate that represents them.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess the only question I have is as
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: more and more people are identified, right or wrong, whether
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: I agree with them or not doesn't matter, right? Sometimes
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: reality is reality. So more and more people are identifying
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: as independents. Wouldn't you want more people to– vote and
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: I get the party thing, but you know, when the
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: parties represent just about half the country now, structurally, we've
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: got to figure out what, what, That means.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: I know Matthew McConaughey recently went viral for telling us
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: all that most people are independents now.
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: They're actually not on the right or left. But I'll
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: say this.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: The nice thing about the primary, if it's closed, is
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: you don't have to, like, pick it forever. You pick
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: it this time. Like, I would go this year and
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: be a Republican if I'm an independent. And then two
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: years later, if I'm insane, I become a Democrat for
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: some reason and I vote on the other side. Like,
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: I don't think that the flaw is the same as
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: you think it is because you get to choose every.
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: Primary season differently. which primary you vote in.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: Um you know you don't have to stay in that
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: side forever.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: All right shut him down shut those.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: Damn primaries but now i know dale was still on
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: the phone i wanted to let him get a shot
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: in if he wanted to respond to what i said
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: one more yeah go ahead sorry.
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: No i wanted to ask what i did i ask
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: one more.
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: Question yes please you're back on the air you're back
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: in the.
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: Air okay and this is gonna sound kind of mean
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: but who is hinosa I've got a Hinojosa sign in
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: my front yard, but who is Hinojosa?
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: Who said Hinojosa?
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: That's a new one on me.
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: Who said what? Which one of us said that?
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: You didn't say it, but the caller before last was
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: talking about Hinojosa.
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: I didn't know who that was. Gina Hinojosa. It's actually,
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: the H is silent. It's Hinojosa, I think.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Well, I know.
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: But I don't know who Inosa is. I just thought
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: maybe y'all could enlighten me.
• 37:01
  Speaker 6: I know that's mean.
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: Well, no, you know what's funny is I also don't
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: know who she is because I don't think she's going
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: to win.
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: I don't care about her at all.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: I don't.
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: Never heard of her. I never heard of her name before.
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: Gina who? All right, a quick break. A lot more
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: kids know we were being mean. The Voice of Texas.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: See you.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: KFTV Radio, the voice of Texas. Wayne is laughing because
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: of something we just talked about off the air. We
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: are the mob guys.
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: That was a mob guy move that I tried there.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. So what's the odds right now on Polly Market?
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: I think it's like 65-35 or something for Tallarico to
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: win Texas. Most of the money is coming in for Tallarico.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: So Paxton's actually a good bet right now if you
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: think he's going to win.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Okay. So the other day, I think there was like
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: some $ 15 bill or $ 20 bill or something, and I
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: gave you $ 100 because I only carry hundreds. That's true.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: And so you owe me right now about $ 60.
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: $ 65, I think it is.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: $ 65, whatever it is. And so during the break, we
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: were talking about... We think we should put money on Paxton. Right.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: To win.
• 38:17
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: And I said, hey, why don't you just use the
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: 60 bucks?
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: And you said, okay, I'll use your $ 60 to place
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: the bet.
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: And we'll split it.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: If we win. Yeah.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Wait a second. Why do you get 50%? It's not
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: even your money.
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: No, a bookie doesn't get that much. A bookie gets
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: like 5% or something.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: That's true. It's like mob interest rates. I'll do it
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: for you, but I got to take 50%.
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: We're going to put some juice on it.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: So I was hoping you'd just say yes to that
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: was what the plan was.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: I was actually going to offer it.
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: But I've taken my offer back now.
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: I made a mistake.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: I don't even need you. Give me my darn money
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: back and I'll place my own.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: I'll give you, I'll give you your money back. I
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: promise I'm going to do it, but we can go
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: in together. You with your 65, me with five, and
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: then we can split it.
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: If we went, you know what I mean?
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: We'll put it, we'll put a $ 70 bet in. So
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: we're both in on it. And then if we, if
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: we win, we, we get half.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: We'll use it to, we'll go have good pizza.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: And then we'll, um, yeah, I get the money back.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: It is crazy to me though, that people act like the,
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: the prediction markets are the same thing as Vegas, because
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: there's a way that they're not the prediction markets.
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: Markets just focus on how people are betting.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: Vegas actually does think that like a team is going
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: to win on Sunday and give you better odds or
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: worse odds based on what team they think is capable
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: of actually like winning a game. Everybody treats the prediction
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: markets like it's the same thing. Like Kalshi has a say.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: And what they think will happen. And that's not true.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: It's just how people are betting. So more and more
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: people are putting money on Tallarico right now in the
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: Texas Senate race, which means again. that if Paxton actually wins,
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: he makes you more money. I'm not, I'm not encouraging
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: people to gamble, but I just think it's funny when
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: I hear from a lefty that tells me how, what's that?
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: Oh, he will.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: Well, I think it's funny when I hear from a lefty,
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: like even Cal, she thinks that Tallarico is going to win.
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: No, they don't.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: They're just reflecting on how the money is coming in
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: to their system.
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: That's all they're doing.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Look, I, I think it's, I like this come
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: and take it slogan for the last, for the bus tour.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: I think it's, I think it's very Texan. I think
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: it was a smart strategy. And I think if Paxton
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: can continue to talk about what he's done, I still
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: maintain that Paxton needs to do a media blitz as well.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: He needs to be interviewed by every TV station, radio station.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: I didn't agree with the strategy of trying to keep
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: him away from the media that much. I think he's
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: got to get his message out because if you don't talk,
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: then they're not obligated to help you.
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true. The show's over.
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: That's it. We're done.
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know. Two-hour show. Went by real fast.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: You're on your own tomorrow.
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: Okay, I'm on my own tomorrow. Thank you for telling
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: me that now. I got it. Where are you going? Austin,
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: you traveling?
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: I can't.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: All right, fair enough. Special assignment tomorrow for Wayne Dolcefino.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: I am Craig Colonese. We are the Mob Guys. We're
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: going to put some clips up on Dolcefino Consulting that'll
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: probably all feature Wayne and barely have me in them
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: at all.
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: But that'll be coming up in a little bit.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't want you on our site.
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: Okay, check that out online. Be with us tomorrow. Check
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: our podcast out, all that stuff.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: KSV Radio, The Voice of Texas, talk to you at
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: 7 o'clock.