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8-13-26 Craig Collins Show · KSEV Mornings with Craig and Wayne

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Speaker 1: Where should I begin?
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Speaker 6: That's right, It is the Craig Collins Show, K S
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Speaker 6: So much stuff out there to talk about, and yet
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Speaker 6: here in this room that I'm in, and so I
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Speaker 6: do want to test some stuff to make sure that everything.
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Speaker 6: I turned off my mic for a second. I didn't
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Speaker 1: amigos tomorrow. There we go.
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Speaker 6: You can hear it. It could be louder, louder, could
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Speaker 1: All right, lots of things to talk about today.
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Speaker 6: As I said, I did think it was interesting as
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Speaker 6: far as the conversation right before I get on the radio,
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Speaker 6: a conversation with a listener and with Chris X about
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Speaker 6: healthcare costs, and well that's not.
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Speaker 1: What they were talking about.
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Speaker 6: They actually talk about transgender surgery and all that stuff,
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Speaker 6: and it lands in the world of healthcare costs. Because
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Speaker 6: literally today on the Will Kine Show, and I had
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Speaker 6: this prep to go, I didn't know what I was
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Speaker 6: gonna talk about on the show. The amount of fraud
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Speaker 6: that exists within and gender care, puberty blockers, all kinds
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Speaker 6: of crazy things. It's an insane amount of money. So again,
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Speaker 6: when you tell me it's like one percent or point
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Speaker 6: one percent of people that even do a thing, I
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Speaker 6: wonder how they're capable of stealing as much money as
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Speaker 6: they are in this place. And here's the other stat
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Speaker 6: that does really matter about that discussion again that I
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Speaker 6: heard on Chris's show. The amount of people today, young
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Speaker 6: people that describe themselves as something other than their biological
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Speaker 6: gender compared to the amount of people who did it
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Speaker 6: years ago is profoundly different. And it's profoundly different because
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Speaker 6: of I think society and the way that society has
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Speaker 6: approached a topic that we used to call mental illness.
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Speaker 6: There's a lot of people now that are fighting and
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Speaker 6: defending the idea of a ten year old getting their
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Speaker 6: body changed. So if you look at the total number,
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Speaker 6: the total percentage, it is more like one. But if
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Speaker 6: you're talking about people that are, say children, right now,
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Speaker 6: it's a scary difference, like six ten percent of people
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Speaker 6: that describe themselves as not wanting to be in their body,
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Speaker 6: and a lot of that is body dysmorphia, which is
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Speaker 6: a very different thing than someone thinking that they were
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Speaker 6: born the wrong sex. They're just ashamed of their body
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Speaker 6: and they have to grow more to not feel that way,
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Speaker 6: and it would be horrific, and we've seen this be
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Speaker 6: true several times for people to change their body and
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Speaker 6: then regret it, which does happen. And the transgender community
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Speaker 6: doesn't like to talk about d transitioning the President. I'll
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Speaker 6: just say this before I hit play in the audio,
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Speaker 6: justcause I think it's so interesting. The President in one
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Speaker 6: of his recent speeches, had a woman up at the
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Speaker 6: stands who had D transitioned. She was born a woman,
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Speaker 6: tried to be what she thought was a man for
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Speaker 6: a bit, and then became a woman again, which is
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Speaker 6: what she biologically is, and absolutely regret and her parents
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Speaker 6: regretted the entire process. That doesn't get talked about enough,
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Speaker 6: but here just because it's in the news and I
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Speaker 6: had planned on talking about it anyway. This is part
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Speaker 6: of a discussion about the amount of money in fraud
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Speaker 6: in like puberty blockers and all kinds of things that
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Speaker 6: are transgender care types of treatments, and it's horrific to
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Speaker 6: see how much fraud exists in this place.
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Speaker 4: Average healthcare cost for a minor is roughly three thousand dollars,
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Speaker 4: but for miners receiving transgender treatments, that number climbs to
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Speaker 4: seventy five thousand dollars. If that minor elects transition surgery,
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Speaker 4: it climbs to one hundred and seventy thousand dollars. So
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Speaker 4: the question isn't just what happened, but whether or not
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Speaker 4: anyone broke the law. And now Vice President Vance is
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Speaker 4: referring the report to the Department of Justice calling for
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Speaker 4: criminal prosecution of anyone who intentionally misled children in order
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Speaker 4: to get them transgender treatment.
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Speaker 6: Because of how much money they can make off it.
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Speaker 6: And the report said three thousand dollars to seventy five
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Speaker 6: thousand to one hundred and seventy As you heard there,
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Speaker 6: the actual amount of fraud is believed to be fifty
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Speaker 6: million dollars in puberty blocker claims alone, eleven million in
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Speaker 6: coding for chemical castration and surgical mutilation of children.
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Speaker 1: All of these matter.
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Speaker 6: All of these things are incredibly important to a discussion
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Speaker 6: about whether or not this is something that has political agenda,
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Speaker 6: financial agenda for the people doing it, and not a
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Speaker 6: whole lot of we care about human beings. So I
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Speaker 6: just thought it was fascinating. But Jade Vance did appear
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Speaker 6: on Will Caine's show and one of the topics of
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Speaker 6: conversation was this as well.
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Speaker 1: He also talked.
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Speaker 6: About the amount of crazy fraud going on in medical care,
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Speaker 6: in medicaid in general in Minnesota.
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Speaker 1: I thought that was really interesting.
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Speaker 4: I'm curious, what's the most brazen fraud scam you've seen
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Speaker 4: so far?
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Speaker 7: Oh, well, that's.
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Speaker 3: The toughest question I've ever been asked, because so many
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Speaker 3: of these things are so braisen. I mean, look, I
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Speaker 3: really do think that it's hard to top the medicaid
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Speaker 3: fraud that we saw in the Minneapolis area, where you
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Speaker 3: had primarily Somali immigrants who came to the country, some
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Speaker 3: of them who don't even have children, but were billing
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Speaker 3: Medicaid for services provided to autistic children. I mean, it's
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Speaker 3: one thing to engage in fraud. It's one thing to
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Speaker 3: lie about a disorder that your child has when they
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Speaker 3: actually don't have that disorder. But it's something truly extraordinary
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Speaker 3: to actually collect services for children that you don't actually have.
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Speaker 3: So that's got to be at the top of my list.
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Speaker 3: But well, I got to say, man, while it is
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Speaker 3: hard sometimes to put a stop to the fraud, it's
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Speaker 3: hard to prevent the money from going out the door,
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Speaker 3: and of course, once it's gone out the door, it's
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Speaker 3: very hard to get the money back. Finding fraud, there's
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Speaker 3: just so much of it. I mean, you asked about
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Speaker 3: this Chinese marriage scheme. There were thousands of people who
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Speaker 3: were actually getting paid money to marry somebody that they
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Speaker 3: had never met before so that that person could get
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Speaker 3: access to American citizenship and all the benefits that come
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Speaker 3: from it. There's all the Medicaid fraud, there's the Food
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Speaker 3: Stamps fraud. There's the Small Business Administration fraud.
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Speaker 6: I gotta be honest, I don't love hearing anybody, even
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Speaker 6: this administration and this Vice president say how easy it
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Speaker 6: is to find fraud, but how hard it is to
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Speaker 6: either get the money back or hold people accountable, Like
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Speaker 6: there's certain levels. And I know he's not saying that
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Speaker 6: because the other administrations don't do any version of that.
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Speaker 6: They just let the fraud happen and they don't go
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Speaker 6: after anyone. He's not saying that it's impossible. He's not
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Speaker 6: saying that we can't do it, but he is saying
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Speaker 6: that once it's occurred, it's already an issue that is
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Speaker 6: much more difficult for us to actually succeed in addressing
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Speaker 6: than if it hadn't happened to begin with, if we
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Speaker 6: could have stopped it before the check went out the door.
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Speaker 6: And I think that's the biggest reason you're fighting it now.
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Speaker 6: You are stopping something that has a tremendous impact on
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Speaker 6: our future, much more more so than it has an impact,
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Speaker 6: in my opinion, on what people talk about as far
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Speaker 6: as how much money did I save today, how much
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Speaker 6: money did I save in the near future, versus how
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Speaker 6: much money I save down the road, significantly down the road,
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Speaker 6: because it's going to be a crap crap ton more
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Speaker 6: and it's gonna make me a lot happier.
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Speaker 1: All Right.
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Speaker 6: That's not the only issue out there, though. That's not
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Speaker 6: the only big thing. There is a lot of crazy,
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Speaker 6: ridiculous stuff to talk about. I just thought that was
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Speaker 6: so funny that I'm sitting here getting ready for my show,
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Speaker 6: listening to the show before me and Chris X talking
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Speaker 6: to a listener, and they're talking about a topic that
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Speaker 6: we have a bunch of financial information about as of today.
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Speaker 1: All Right.
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Speaker 6: Another thing that I thought was interesting Luigi Mangioni. There
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Speaker 6: was an update out of court. Fox News was talking
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Speaker 6: about a plea deal agreement potentially being a thing that
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Speaker 6: could happen. He has expected to plead guilty in federal court.
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Speaker 6: I want to play a little bit of this audio.
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Speaker 5: Hi, John, Luigi Mangoni's lawyers and federal prosecutors asked for
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Speaker 5: a last minute conference tomorrow at eleven am, as The
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Speaker 5: New York Times and The New York Post both report,
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Speaker 5: Mangioni is expected to plead guilty under a federal deal.
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Speaker 5: Mangioni faces two federal Interstates stocking charges resulting in Brian
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Speaker 5: Thompson's death, carrying a maximum of life in prison without parole.
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Speaker 5: But if Mangioni accepts a plead deal, it not only
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Speaker 5: cancels the January federal trial, but could also end his
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Speaker 5: state trial, set to start on September eighth, because of
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Speaker 5: New York's double jeopardy law. That's significant because the state
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Speaker 5: case is where Mangioni faces actual murder charges. While the
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Speaker 5: US Constitution allows separate state and federal prosecutions, New York
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Speaker 5: law is stricter and could bar the state from prosecuting
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Speaker 5: Mangoni if he's already federally convicted for the same criminal act.
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Speaker 6: Now, it's really interesting to me about this, and honestly,
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Speaker 6: it's a topic that may be a lot lot of
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Speaker 6: people don't talk about anymore, as certainly people I think
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Speaker 6: on the conservative side of the isle because it's fairly
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Speaker 6: cut and dry. A Mangione murdered someone in cold blood.
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Speaker 6: There's no version of sympathy for a vast amount of
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Speaker 6: people on the conservative side as far as the story
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Speaker 6: is concerned. A lot of people on the left seem
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Speaker 6: to almost praise Mangione for what he did and why
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Speaker 6: he did it, claiming that what he was actually doing
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Speaker 6: was fighting high prices of medical care in our society.
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Speaker 6: Gunning down the CEO of an insurance company is not
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Speaker 6: actually fighting that fight, you know that. I know that
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Speaker 6: logically we don't need to be told it the left
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Speaker 6: seems to. But I think it's interesting if he does
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Speaker 6: plead guilty because the thing that all of us believed
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Speaker 6: from Jump is the thing that obviously is happening. And
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Speaker 6: I'm not saying the left pretends as though he didn't
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Speaker 6: actually commit this murder because it's literally on videotape, But
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Speaker 6: I do think the way that they talk about what
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Speaker 6: they think the punishment or lack thereof should be, and
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Speaker 6: the way they were funneled money to defense campaigns for him,
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Speaker 6: a lot of people donated in that world, only to
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Speaker 6: find out now that he's probably just gonna plead guilty and.
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Speaker 1: Keep it all.
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Speaker 6: So there's that now I saw a call pop in.
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Speaker 6: I'll take the call before we take a break, A
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Speaker 6: call her.
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Speaker 1: What's your name? Hey, Mike, Hey, Mike, what's up?
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Speaker 4: Hey?
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Speaker 2: I just on that subject. I firmly believe why the
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Speaker 2: Feds have done this is because they assume the state
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Speaker 2: was not never going to get a conviction. Yes, not
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Speaker 2: with all the publicity and all the people that are
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Speaker 2: taking his side for whatever.
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Speaker 1: Reason, insane reasons.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think this. They said, let's get something before
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Speaker 2: he gets goes to a state trial, because once they
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Speaker 2: do that and they, you know, have a hung jury,
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Speaker 2: then all the rest of it's going to go out
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Speaker 2: the door.
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Speaker 1: Mike.
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Speaker 6: It's a really good point because in New York we've
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Speaker 6: seen certain juries make insane decisions. And I'm not comparing
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Speaker 6: what Luigi Manngioni would go to trial for. To like
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Speaker 6: when President Trump was found guilty of felonies, but they
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Speaker 6: weren't felonies. Most people admitted that they were at most,
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Speaker 6: you know, misdemeanor charges that really shouldn't have landed on
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Speaker 6: the feet of Trump. They should have landed somebody else
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Speaker 6: in the Trump you know, international company. And so it's
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Speaker 6: crazy to watch New York make decisions, and their jury
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Speaker 6: make decisions. So it's a great point for you to
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Speaker 6: say that if this got to court, if they played
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Speaker 6: the video in the courtroom, there's a chance that a
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Speaker 6: New York jury would somehow not find him guilty, which
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Speaker 6: would be insane to think. So I agree with you
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Speaker 6: that the Feds are trying to circumvent that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they wanted to make sure he gets
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Speaker 2: at least, you know, a lengthy prison term. Yeah, they
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Speaker 2: hopefully will at this point.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: No, he shot somebody in the back on the street
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Speaker 6: and there's a video. I don't know how we're having
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Speaker 6: any sort of conversation about anything other than life in prison.
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Speaker 2: Right of course.
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Speaker 6: All right, Well, thank you very much for the call, Buddy,
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Speaker 6: Thank you, Chuck, no bra, thank you Mike for calling in.
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Speaker 1: You can call it and be a part of the
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Speaker 1: show too.
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Speaker 6: But Luigi Mangioni will plead guilty likely tomorrow in a
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Speaker 6: federal case about the killing of a United Healthcare CEO.
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Speaker 6: It's just surreal to me, though, to say it one
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Speaker 6: more time, that these are the kind of topics that
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Speaker 6: somehow divide us in society, like I do.
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Speaker 1: What's the right way to say this? Let me think
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Speaker 1: of the right way to say this.
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Speaker 6: I do want to have conversations with the other side
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Speaker 6: when it's so blatant the reason that they actually feel
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Speaker 6: a certain way, and it has nothing to do with
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Speaker 6: the stories themselves. It has everything to do with some
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Speaker 6: sort of political motivation to oppose the opposite, Aisle. I
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Speaker 6: think that very often here. I'll tell you this before
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Speaker 6: we take a break, because I always think of stories
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Speaker 6: like this, as far as examples go, I remember that
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Speaker 6: right after Charlie Kirk died, and I think I told
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Speaker 6: this story on my Saturday show. I don't know if
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Speaker 6: I ever told it on this evening show. Right after
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Speaker 6: Charlie Kirk died, I wound up in a conversation with
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Speaker 6: a twenty something person, a young woman, and she was
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Speaker 6: talking about how happy she was that Charlie Curd could die.
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Speaker 6: And I didn't really know this person very much at all,
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Speaker 6: but I decided to speak and I was like, I
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Speaker 6: can't fathom why you'd say that about anyone. I can't
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Speaker 6: understand why any part of joy would exist if someone
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Speaker 6: gets murdered, especially in horrific fashion where it's viral and
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Speaker 6: social media, and his wife and family could see it.
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Speaker 6: His kids will grow up and at some point, if
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Speaker 6: they want to, they might be able to search the
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Speaker 6: Internet and find the video of their dad being shot
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Speaker 6: in the neck.
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Speaker 1: Just horrific.
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Speaker 6: And I was looking at this person, and those are
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Speaker 6: the kind of things I was saying. And I noticed,
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Speaker 6: partly through this conversation it didn't matter what I said,
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Speaker 6: and you know this, I know this. It didn't matter
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Speaker 6: how reasonable, how devoid of political opinion. I was saying
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Speaker 6: things like, I don't care what his political ideology was.
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Speaker 6: You don't deserve to be shot and killed for it.
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Speaker 6: The CEO of a healthcare company, regardless of how unfair
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Speaker 6: you think our healthcare system is, doesn't need deserve or
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Speaker 6: it doesn't do any good to shoot them in the
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Speaker 6: back in the middle of the street in New York
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Speaker 6: and then run away for a while and then plead
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Speaker 6: guilty to doing that because there again is video that's
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Speaker 6: not actually fighting the fight they think they're fighting. But
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Speaker 6: so often I feel like these individuals who support the
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Speaker 6: left are convinced that they're the social justice warrior that
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Speaker 6: is saying the good thing out loud, the thing that
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Speaker 6: like good people agree with and believe, and the bad
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Speaker 6: guys on the other side are saying something horrible.
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Speaker 1: It's it's ridiculous.
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Speaker 6: But there's a lot of topics that fall into this
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Speaker 6: category for me where you can just see it and
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Speaker 6: you can just hear it that their blinders are so tight. Now,
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Speaker 6: like the conversation about kids and surgery. I don't know
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Speaker 6: when society ever got to that place. And I'll open
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Speaker 6: with that. I opened with that topic, so I'll close
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Speaker 6: with it before we take our first break. But I'm
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Speaker 6: it's mystifying to me to talk to someone who thinks
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Speaker 6: that in some cases, a very depressed, very upset, very
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Speaker 6: convinced that they're in the wrong body, like ten year
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Speaker 6: old needs to have a surgery that changes their body forever,
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Speaker 6: and then when they get older, when their brain functions better,
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Speaker 6: they might regret it, and you've changed their body for
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Speaker 6: good at such a young age. I don't know how
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Speaker 6: anyone says they think that's a good idea.
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Speaker 1: And I know the people.
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Speaker 6: Who ever claim that couch it in you're saving lives
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Speaker 6: because these people are so depressed, these children, that they'll
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Speaker 6: hurt themselves if we don't do this. That seems to
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Speaker 6: be highly illogical. There's a lot of other ways to
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Speaker 6: give someone mental health therapy and treatment and help without
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Speaker 6: changing profoundly changing their body.
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Speaker 1: But all right, we'll take a break.
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Speaker 6: And it's those simple, basic things, like you can't even
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Speaker 6: talk about these topics on that level with people, it seems.
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Speaker 1: I will take a break.
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Speaker 6: After the break, we will come back and we'll talk
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Speaker 6: about some other big stories out there in the news,
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Speaker 6: and some stuff going on with Tall Rico that I
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Speaker 6: think is interesting. I got to keep talking about the
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Speaker 6: Senate race because somehow, someway I am still somewhat worried
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Speaker 6: that Allerco could win, which makes no sense to me
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Speaker 6: at all, But I still think that there's an outside
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Speaker 6: shot that that happens. So we're going to cover the
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Speaker 6: hell out of it basically from now until November quick break,
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Speaker 6: a lot more Craig Collins Show, KSV, The Voice of Texas.
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Speaker 6: This is the Craig Collins Show, KSV, The Voice of Texas.
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Speaker 6: Thrilled to be with you, so so much stuff out
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Speaker 6: there to talk about. I do really like playing audio
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Speaker 6: Scott Jennings. I probably play too much of it sometimes,
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Speaker 6: but it feels like it's almost every night that he
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Speaker 6: pops up on CNN and then he says a thing,
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Speaker 6: and then you're like, I love that thing, and he's
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Speaker 6: the only one saying it to the other crazy people
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Speaker 6: who are all part of CNN. And honestly, I heard
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Speaker 6: my cousin who does the Vince Show here at KSV
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Speaker 6: at twelve o'clock of most days, I heard him talk
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Speaker 6: about how if you want certain narratives to emerge in society,
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Speaker 6: especially to influence democratic voters, He's totally right about this.
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Speaker 6: You tell those stories to the CNNs of the world
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Speaker 6: so they can break them as one hundred percent true.
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Speaker 6: That if I'm someone who wants to manipulate the left
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Speaker 6: to care about the thing or to believe my version
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Speaker 6: of facts that might not actually be facts at all,
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Speaker 6: then the people I like it to include CNN New
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Speaker 6: York Times, like there's avenues you go, and then I
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Speaker 6: guess if you want to influence people on the conservative side,
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Speaker 6: you go to Fox News. But even so, I just
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Speaker 6: think it's really interesting how often you see CNN break
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Speaker 6: a story and you don't really feel like they're at
18:25
Speaker 6: the forefront of diving in and you know, researching this
18:28
Speaker 6: news themselves. I think they're being contacted by certain people
18:32
Speaker 6: with certain types of agenda. But here's a little bit
18:34
Speaker 6: on CNN of Scott Jennings, thank God, on that station,
18:38
Speaker 6: talking about how a Muslim democrat in Michigan is a
18:42
Speaker 6: US Senate nominee. And there's a bunch of other people
18:45
Speaker 6: who just seem like radical, crazy people.
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Speaker 1: This is what the left has become.
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Speaker 8: He's got Thanksgiving the problem twenty nineteen. Just a reminder
18:54
Speaker 8: this Thanksgiving, this country was built on the systematic annihilation
18:58
Speaker 8: of indigenous peoples who his ancestors suffer some of the
19:01
Speaker 8: highest rates of homelessness, joblessism, mortality. We owe so much
19:04
Speaker 8: more than thanks time for reparations.
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Speaker 1: So the problem with true fact, the problem, the problem.
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Speaker 8: With don't be weird is that all these socialists or
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Speaker 8: socialists adjacent or communist A Jason or whatever candidates all
19:20
Speaker 8: spent a fair number of years tweeting weird things that
19:24
Speaker 8: put them in the same bucket.
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Speaker 1: His home.
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Speaker 2: You said, he's a political animal.
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Speaker 9: He's got a lot of the same belief probably.
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Speaker 6: He's got he has a lot of the same beliefs.
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Speaker 6: They all do, and they've all put them out there.
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Speaker 6: And my favorite out of everybody who says anything about this,
19:37
Speaker 6: like the excuse for why they say the things they
19:39
Speaker 6: do is Francesca Hong, who says that at one point
19:42
Speaker 6: she wanted to be a sports journalist, and so a
19:45
Speaker 6: lot of her crazy, insane political takes, which doesn't feel
19:49
Speaker 6: like the avenue to sports journalism, but a lot of
19:52
Speaker 6: them were just solely because she wanted to someday be
19:56
Speaker 6: on something like an ESPN. I also saw that Ken Paxton,
19:59
Speaker 6: who did a lot of interviews. I heard he did
20:01
Speaker 6: Danish show, but I think he also called in to
20:04
Speaker 6: Fox News, has reacted to some things and believes that
20:10
Speaker 6: there's certain failures that exist within not protecting children in California,
20:17
Speaker 6: Like it goes well beyond.
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Speaker 1: Just Texas here.
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Speaker 6: But that was interesting that it's Ken Paxton on Fox
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Speaker 6: who's addressing some of these topics.
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Speaker 1: Let's play a little bit of that audio.
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Speaker 6: Adam Aserrogate, who refused to abort her baby despite requests
20:29
Speaker 6: from the biological parents, gave birth yesterday in Texas.
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Speaker 5: Madeline Rivera has the latest details in the complicated legal battle.
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Speaker 7: Hey Maddie, Hi, Good morning guys. So the Dallas Morning
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Speaker 7: News says part of the mother's attorney, the baby is
20:41
Speaker 7: named Gabriel.
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Speaker 1: He was born.
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Speaker 7: Yesterday and will reportedly now get life saving care. The
20:46
Speaker 7: saga began back in April, when Gabriel was diagnosed with
20:49
Speaker 7: a serious congenital heart condition at twenty weeks. His intended
20:53
Speaker 7: parents told gabriel surrogate mother McKenna West to have an abortion.
20:57
Speaker 7: West refused, then traveled to Texas, where she would be
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Speaker 7: recognized as the birth mother under state law. Texas Attorney
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Speaker 7: General Ken Paxton asked the district court to intervene to
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Speaker 7: give the baby care, prevent his removal from the state,
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Speaker 7: and set an expedited hearing on any refusal of treatment.
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Speaker 7: Packston saying, my office utilize every tool at our disposal
21:16
Speaker 7: to protect life, and we will not back down in
21:19
Speaker 7: continuing to support baby Gabriel's well being. Every child in
21:22
Speaker 7: our state deserves to be cared for and protected, and
21:25
Speaker 7: that's exactly what I'll fight for.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: I love this story, and I'll tell you exactly why
21:30
Speaker 6: I love it so much. And I think Ken was
21:32
Speaker 6: actually on the show later and then he's on Dana
21:34
Speaker 6: and he is talking about stuff like this a lot,
21:37
Speaker 6: but the idea that somebody could be pregnant with a kid,
21:42
Speaker 6: and that in certain states if the intended parents, which
21:46
Speaker 6: is what they say, don't want the kid anymore. They
21:48
Speaker 6: could actually force somebody to have an abortion, even if,
21:52
Speaker 6: like if you're a surrogate and you've agreed to all
21:54
Speaker 6: this and then you say, you know what, all right,
21:57
Speaker 6: if you don't want the kid, I'll go ahead and
21:58
Speaker 6: have the child that's in my body. I'm going to
22:00
Speaker 6: go ahead and raise it myself. It's my child. And
22:03
Speaker 6: they continue to tell you no, it's insane that this
22:05
Speaker 6: is a version of my body, my choice that they
22:08
Speaker 6: don't like.
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Speaker 1: In those places, they're like, no, how dare you?
22:10
Speaker 6: It's our baby because we used our stuff to wind
22:15
Speaker 6: up getting you pregnant. The first place is surrogate, so
22:18
Speaker 6: we get to decide what you do. And thank god
22:21
Speaker 6: there's a place like Texas, like this state and an
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Speaker 6: Attorney General like Ken Paxton who has done certain fighting
22:27
Speaker 6: to make this the kind of place where you would
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Speaker 6: run and go and then, as you heard in that report,
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Speaker 6: be acknowledged as the biological mother because you're literally having
22:37
Speaker 6: the child. It's just it's crazy to me that this
22:40
Speaker 6: is the kind of thing that had to get to
22:42
Speaker 6: that part to be fought about the way that it
22:45
Speaker 6: was fought about to inevitably get the win that everyone
22:48
Speaker 6: probably assumed we should have had early on.
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Speaker 1: But that's essentially what this is a.
22:55
Speaker 6: Version of a demonstration of how certain rules apply in
22:59
Speaker 6: certain scenarios, they don't apply in other scenarios, and the
23:03
Speaker 6: Left really only cares about themselves. They don't actually care
23:06
Speaker 6: about I don't know, protecting a woman's body in her choice.
23:10
Speaker 6: If this person didn't want to have an abortion, the
23:13
Speaker 6: fact that anyone anywhere could think that they could force
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Speaker 6: her to do it is crazy, and yet there we are.
23:20
Speaker 6: That's the world we live in. I do want to
23:22
Speaker 6: play this. This is Ken Paxton as well. He was
23:25
Speaker 6: on I think another television show and other of those
23:28
Speaker 6: like talking head shows, and he was reacting to all
23:33
Speaker 6: the fake tall Rico stuff that's out there. Everything about
23:37
Speaker 6: James Tallerico is fake, I think, is part of the quote.
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Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and play that audio.
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Speaker 10: So, Attorney General, your opponent, James Tellerco making headlines as
23:44
Speaker 10: of late, accused of voting in five elections using his
23:49
Speaker 10: parents' address, buying his own home nearby. Here's what he
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Speaker 10: had to say.
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Speaker 1: This is Ken Paxton's playbook. It is not rooted in fact,
23:58
Speaker 1: So are.
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Speaker 11: You saying that you and not use your parents' address
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Speaker 11: in those five elections.
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Speaker 3: I'm saying I followed all of our election laws, taxes,
24:06
Speaker 3: and did not commit vote fraud.
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Speaker 10: No, I'm assuming you're aware of this.
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Speaker 11: Well, Look, this is up to other people to investigate,
24:18
Speaker 11: but it is questionable that he registered with his parents
24:21
Speaker 11: and then he ran actually in a different district. You're
24:24
Speaker 11: supposed to live in a district at least twelve months
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Speaker 11: before you run, and he clearly moved into his parents'
24:30
Speaker 11: house after that twelve month period and filed in a
24:33
Speaker 11: different district, and then also, as it's been suggested, voted
24:38
Speaker 11: there when he was likely living somewhere else.
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Speaker 6: Okay, now here's what is really interesting to me about
24:44
Speaker 6: this whole discussion. Very often people will say that Ken
24:47
Speaker 6: Paxton has baggage. They'll tell us that they being a
24:51
Speaker 6: lot of mainstream media outlets and maybe some people out
24:53
Speaker 6: there that say that you're in Texas, But I don't
24:57
Speaker 6: talk to many of them, so I don't know how
24:58
Speaker 6: many people are actually saying this, but I'm gonna assume
25:00
Speaker 6: there are some, and I've heard certain conservatives that call
25:04
Speaker 6: into the show tell me, it's difficult to vote for
25:07
Speaker 6: Paxton because of his personal life and decisions he made there.
25:11
Speaker 6: But the baggage, I think reference goes well beyond an
25:15
Speaker 6: affair or personal life, and I think it's starting to
25:17
Speaker 6: attack what he was acquitted of, any form of fraud
25:21
Speaker 6: and doing bad things in the world of the position
25:23
Speaker 6: of power he had as a tyranny general here in Texas.
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Speaker 1: It's long.
25:27
Speaker 6: I'm trying to get to the reason I'm talking about this.
25:30
Speaker 6: What I think is so interesting is evening that playing
25:34
Speaker 6: field by demonstrating how Talaaco did some fraudulent and corrupt stuff,
25:40
Speaker 6: because it makes it a lot harder, in my opinion,
25:43
Speaker 6: to make the argument that you don't like Paxton for
25:45
Speaker 6: that reason if the person you'd vote for instead has
25:49
Speaker 6: also done stuff they're not supposed to do. And I
25:51
Speaker 6: think this is actually the real value in this discussion.
25:57
Speaker 6: Most people who I think wind up in the world
25:59
Speaker 6: of polity probably at some point do some questionable things,
26:03
Speaker 6: and you have to ask yourself what those questionable things were,
26:07
Speaker 6: why they happened, if you even know about them, and
26:10
Speaker 6: if the person can still move forward and be an
26:12
Speaker 6: incredibly effective, you know, arbiter of the things you believe in,
26:17
Speaker 6: because I think that that's always the case. I know
26:21
Speaker 6: this is sort of an unfair argument to make in
26:23
Speaker 6: that sense, because I'd like no corruption, I'd like no
26:26
Speaker 6: bad things. And I'm not saying I believe that Paxton
26:29
Speaker 6: did the stuff that he was acquitted of doing. I'm
26:31
Speaker 6: just saying that I think every politician has baggage. So
26:35
Speaker 6: I think whenever they say, like, while there's too much
26:38
Speaker 6: baggage there, it's ridiculous because the likelihood of the baggage
26:43
Speaker 6: seems like it's one hundred percent to me, and the
26:45
Speaker 6: likelihood that we know about it for some politicians is
26:48
Speaker 6: lower than others. So I think that just putting this
26:51
Speaker 6: information out there, letting it become a thing that you
26:54
Speaker 6: talk more and more about, I think the deck gets
26:58
Speaker 6: as much closer to the place that we supposed to
27:00
Speaker 6: be at, which is understanding that maybe a vote for
27:03
Speaker 6: different reasons. Maybe whether a person did or didn't do
27:06
Speaker 6: something in their personal life that you agree with isn't
27:10
Speaker 6: as important as whether or not they'll do things in
27:13
Speaker 6: Washington that actually are stuff you want to see happen,
27:17
Speaker 6: stuff you agree with, Like, maybe that's a more important avenue.
27:20
Speaker 6: They say that about Donald Trump all the time President Trump,
27:23
Speaker 6: any of the attacks and criticisms of him, and yet
27:26
Speaker 6: a whole lot of people, a lot of polling says
27:28
Speaker 6: the Conservatives are wildly happy with the job he's doing
27:31
Speaker 6: because they're getting he's getting things done that they wanted
27:35
Speaker 6: to have done, and that that feels like it should.
27:38
Speaker 1: Be more important. I want to play this.
27:40
Speaker 6: This is Ken Paxton on with Dana lash just a
27:43
Speaker 6: little bit of this, and I like a kind of
27:45
Speaker 6: the way that they talked about the race itself and
27:48
Speaker 6: how tall Ico is still someone who a lot of
27:51
Speaker 6: people don't seem to fully understand the way they should,
27:54
Speaker 6: like a lot of Texans still aren't aware of.
27:57
Speaker 1: How many things you disagree with him on.
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Speaker 8: You're getting the funding that you need from the GOP
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Speaker 8: groups that are normally involved at this stage, are.
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Speaker 11: You, or well, we haven't yet, but we're very helpful
28:06
Speaker 11: that that's coming soon. We've been told soon.
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Speaker 1: Want me to be involved now though.
28:12
Speaker 11: I would like, you know, it would help me now
28:14
Speaker 11: because James Alerico, you know, we had a three month
28:16
Speaker 11: lag where he had three months to raise money and
28:19
Speaker 11: I didn't because I was I was raising money and
28:20
Speaker 11: running and spending it and run off. So when June
28:23
Speaker 11: first hit, I had zero dollars and he had I
28:25
Speaker 11: think raised thirty million, had twenty one million cash on hand,
28:28
Speaker 11: most of it from California. I think at least close
28:30
Speaker 11: to half of it. So the Californias are pushing him
28:32
Speaker 11: and he's got money. He's been on TV for about
28:34
Speaker 11: four or five weeks and it's helped him a little
28:36
Speaker 11: bit the polls. That's why the polls have gotten closer
28:38
Speaker 11: because I have not been and he's running as a
28:40
Speaker 11: moderate Democrat right now, highlighting his his cutting of taxes
28:44
Speaker 11: and his currying the bar always is fake and so
28:47
Speaker 11: what we need to be able to do is get
28:49
Speaker 11: up as soon as we can to tell people the
28:51
Speaker 11: truth about who he really is, and don't we can't
28:54
Speaker 11: let him get away with lying to people and fooling
28:57
Speaker 11: people into voting for him.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, and they gave out being from on how you
29:00
Speaker 6: go to Ken Paxton excuse me dot Com to give
29:03
Speaker 6: money to Ken Paxson campaign so that he can do
29:06
Speaker 6: the messaging that we need to have done, because I
29:09
Speaker 6: do hear a lot of people say, and I think
29:12
Speaker 6: I've even been in this camp to a certain degree,
29:14
Speaker 6: that it's so confusing how little advertising for Ken Paxson
29:18
Speaker 6: is actually out there, and how bad it would be
29:21
Speaker 6: if that continues. And this is the why, this is
29:25
Speaker 6: the whole reason that you need to give money, or
29:28
Speaker 6: I need to give money, or we all need to
29:29
Speaker 6: give money to Paxson's campaign so that he can run
29:32
Speaker 6: anti Tallarico, adds because if people vote in November and
29:38
Speaker 6: aren't aware of how insane tall Rico is and the
29:41
Speaker 6: stuff he said and done, that's on us.
29:44
Speaker 1: That's an US problem.
29:46
Speaker 6: The God is non binary thing is often talked about
29:49
Speaker 6: a lot on the left, but or excuse me, on
29:52
Speaker 6: the right. But if the left pretends they don't know
29:54
Speaker 6: about that and that they might somehow agree with it,
29:58
Speaker 6: there could be just a tremendous amount of damage done
30:01
Speaker 6: in the world of this state and who we send
30:03
Speaker 6: to the Senate by people who would regret it, people
30:06
Speaker 6: who would say, oh, I didn't know that.
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Speaker 1: We can't let that be the reason.
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Speaker 6: I firmly, firmly agree anytime that I've heard anyone say that,
30:13
Speaker 6: all right, we're going to take one more break. We're
30:15
Speaker 6: going to come back from a second break and do
30:17
Speaker 6: a little bit more serious topic a little bit more
30:20
Speaker 6: news stuff, and then after that we will have some fun,
30:23
Speaker 6: because you've got to have fun every single time you
30:25
Speaker 6: do the radio, otherwise you go crazy. But I thought
30:28
Speaker 6: there was some interesting pulling out of Michigan in Maine
30:31
Speaker 6: from some voters that I think is worth a discussion.
30:35
Speaker 6: And then actually some other stuff just on a national level.
30:38
Speaker 6: And also Brandon gil the guy continues to impress me.
30:41
Speaker 6: I have more audio of Brandon Gill saying things that
30:44
Speaker 6: I like, and then Hakeem Jeffries saying things I tremendously
30:48
Speaker 6: don't like. So all that coming up in a bit
30:50
Speaker 6: is the Craig Collins Show. As I said on the
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Speaker 6: Voice of Texas KSV seven hundred, am thrilled to be
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Speaker 6: with you today, Thrilled to be with you every single day.
31:00
Speaker 6: This is the Craig Collins Show KSCV, the Voice of Texas.
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Speaker 1: Thrilled to be with you.
31:04
Speaker 6: So much stuff out there to talk about, so little
31:06
Speaker 6: time I left to do it. We have about fifteen
31:08
Speaker 6: minutes left in the show and then it's over. I
31:11
Speaker 6: call it the fastest show in radio because of that.
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Speaker 1: Let's do this.
31:14
Speaker 6: Let's play a little bit of Hakeem Jeffries being the
31:17
Speaker 6: piece of crap that Hagem Jeffries is he was talking
31:20
Speaker 6: about the Supreme Court and how he believes it needs
31:23
Speaker 6: to be packed. You need to put a whole bunch
31:24
Speaker 6: more people in it because they don't like the decisions
31:27
Speaker 6: that get made on that side. If Democrats take control
31:32
Speaker 6: of the House of the Senate of the White House
31:34
Speaker 6: at some point, and if inevitably they do the thing
31:37
Speaker 6: that they talk about doing, which is add a whole
31:39
Speaker 6: bunch of additional seats to the Supreme Court so they
31:41
Speaker 6: can force a bunch of people with their agenda onto
31:45
Speaker 6: a part of our society that's actually not supposed to
31:48
Speaker 6: be politically driven. And they do all this using the
31:51
Speaker 6: excuses of we're just trying to even the playing field
31:54
Speaker 6: because the Conservatives did it first. They're behaving the way
31:57
Speaker 6: that they always accuse Republicans of being, which is, you know,
32:02
Speaker 6: basically authoritarian and making whatever decision they want as long
32:05
Speaker 6: as it benefits their side, and not caring about things
32:08
Speaker 6: like having Trump had been in office when certain roles
32:12
Speaker 6: are open within the Supreme Court, like Trump didn't force
32:15
Speaker 6: people to leave or get sick and decide to leave
32:19
Speaker 6: before passing away, Like that's not a thing he did.
32:22
Speaker 6: He just happened to be the duly elected president at
32:25
Speaker 6: a time when you could nominate people to Supreme Court.
32:28
Speaker 6: And the left hates that.
32:29
Speaker 1: They hate that a lot, apparently.
32:31
Speaker 6: But here's a Keem Jeffrey saying, we want to rig
32:33
Speaker 6: the system and change it.
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Speaker 9: In my view, dramatic Supreme Court reform is necessary. And
32:43
Speaker 9: you know, I'm going to leave it to the Democrats
32:45
Speaker 9: on the Judiciary Committee led by Jamie Raskin, who will
32:50
Speaker 9: be the next chair. The American people give us the
32:52
Speaker 9: ability to govern on their behalf in the majority, and
32:57
Speaker 9: there's a variety of different options that are on the table.
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Speaker 9: Think that we can't foreclose any single one of them.
33:03
Speaker 9: The Supreme Court, the conservative right wing majority on the
33:07
Speaker 9: Supreme Court has become, you know, basically a subsidiary of
33:13
Speaker 9: the MAGA Republican Party.
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Speaker 6: That's what a hunters not true. By the way, it's
33:17
Speaker 6: a hunter percent not true. And here I'll tell you
33:20
Speaker 6: why I think this isn't true and why I think
33:22
Speaker 6: this topic does deserve some discussion. There's a whole lot
33:25
Speaker 6: of decisions that have been made that still don't go
33:28
Speaker 6: the way of the current president of the United States
33:30
Speaker 6: from the Supreme Court. They actually are actively still disagreeing
33:34
Speaker 6: with him, and we talk about it. Amy Comy Barrett
33:38
Speaker 6: was one of the justices that President Trump put on
33:41
Speaker 6: the Supreme Court that a lot of people failed, that
33:44
Speaker 6: a lot of people feel like, excuse me, that she
33:46
Speaker 6: failed when it came to certain recent decisions, and that
33:50
Speaker 6: you're not allowed. She's not the only person that is
33:53
Speaker 6: at some point seemed to say or do a thing
33:56
Speaker 6: that made no sense whatsoever. So it's such an illogical
34:01
Speaker 6: lie to act as though this Supreme Court does whatever
34:04
Speaker 6: Trump wants, because they simply don't. But what's more important
34:07
Speaker 6: about this discussion is how they want to transform and
34:10
Speaker 6: change something by what often people just call packing the
34:14
Speaker 6: court and essentially what they would call cheating if this
34:18
Speaker 6: thing was being done, you know, by Republicans and not
34:21
Speaker 6: by them, because there's so many versions of and so
34:24
Speaker 6: many crazy, crazy discussions about how this is obviously not
34:30
Speaker 6: okay because Trump is saying it, and that's really the
34:33
Speaker 6: only reason why. By the way, I want to throw
34:35
Speaker 6: one other thing up that is distracting me that I'll
34:37
Speaker 6: be honest about, because I do think it's kind of funny.
34:40
Speaker 6: There's a viral meme that shows what I think. This
34:45
Speaker 6: came from town Hall Media what people are experiencing in
34:49
Speaker 6: the world of the WNBA right now, and I actually
34:51
Speaker 6: kind of think it's genius as far as how they
34:54
Speaker 6: went about trying to demonstrate that if you're somebody right
34:58
Speaker 6: now who thinks that you're a WNBA fan, and there
35:03
Speaker 6: used to not be a lot of those and suddenly
35:06
Speaker 6: there's a lot more now, you might feel very much
35:09
Speaker 6: a certain way about how the decision making of the
35:12
Speaker 6: WNBA is alienating you from being someone that wants to
35:16
Speaker 6: keep paying attention. And I think that I don't know
35:19
Speaker 6: if I just said it the way that I needed
35:21
Speaker 6: to say it to make you understand the position or
35:23
Speaker 6: the point that I'm making here, but I do think
35:26
Speaker 6: it's true that when you look at certain discussion, I'm
35:29
Speaker 6: going to put the image up on the screen. I
35:31
Speaker 6: know this is radio, so a lot of people can't
35:33
Speaker 6: see it, so.
35:35
Speaker 1: I'll explain it to the people that are just listening
35:37
Speaker 1: on the radio.
35:38
Speaker 6: But it essentially is a photo from a movie that
35:40
Speaker 6: has three people all sitting in the pews of a church.
35:44
Speaker 6: One person is NBA players joining the WNBA in front,
35:48
Speaker 6: and then WNBA players is sitting directly behind that person
35:51
Speaker 6: holding a gun ready to shoot them because the WNBA
35:55
Speaker 6: players don't want to see actual dudes competing in this sport.
35:59
Speaker 6: Then behind them it's a WNBA owner's image or someone
36:04
Speaker 6: who stands in for the owners who actually want to
36:06
Speaker 6: stop the players from stopping the dudes from playing the sport.
36:09
Speaker 6: And I'll explain what I think that means to me.
36:12
Speaker 6: What that means is the owners of the WNBA would
36:15
Speaker 6: love it if the NBA, the WNBA version of a
36:17
Speaker 6: product became more athletic, and if you let dudes play
36:21
Speaker 6: in that league, it's gonna be more athletic. It's just
36:25
Speaker 6: probably not gonna be the kind of thing that's.
36:26
Speaker 1: Fair to biological women.
36:28
Speaker 6: And then finally, the WNBA is looking from a sniper position,
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Speaker 6: ready to shoot everybody. And what I think is missing
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Speaker 6: from this meme, this meme that went very viral and
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Speaker 6: is a joke from as I said town Hall, is
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Speaker 6: NBA fans or WNBA fans, which also would be somewhere
36:44
Speaker 6: in the shot and also be getting murdered by a
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Speaker 6: bunch of different people because this league is is somehow,
36:52
Speaker 6: some way squandering the gift that is Caitlin Clark, Like
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Speaker 6: if you were someone who was part of the decision
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Speaker 6: group and it's the WNBA is the organization that I'm
37:04
Speaker 6: talking about where you get to make some decisions and
37:07
Speaker 6: you see someone like Caitlyn Clark come in and have
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Speaker 6: the amount of popularity that she's had in your league,
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Speaker 6: like the amount of excitement I assume you would have
37:16
Speaker 6: as an owner that has been part of an organization
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Speaker 6: that has been wildly losing money for quite some time,
37:23
Speaker 6: suddenly be like, wait a minute, We're not going to
37:25
Speaker 6: lose money anymore. We're actually gonna get to make money.
37:28
Speaker 6: And then, for whatever reason, the organization itself, for the
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Speaker 6: women in it who are benefiting from the popularity of
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Speaker 6: Caitlyn Clark hate her so much, Like truly, they hate
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Speaker 6: her so much that they're squandering the benefit of it.
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Speaker 6: It makes no sense to me if the league we're
37:46
Speaker 6: doing a better job of promoting how good Caitlyn is.
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Speaker 6: I think she recently had like another double double, and
37:52
Speaker 6: she's probably breaking some other record in the league. I
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Speaker 6: think there's a chance that more people would watch it.
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Speaker 1: I like that.
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Speaker 6: Ben Strusand, while filling in for us earlier this week,
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Speaker 6: described me as the WNBA expert at the radio station.
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Speaker 6: I liked it because it's it's not true. I mean,
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Speaker 6: I probably know more than everybody else here, but none
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Speaker 6: of us really watch that at all, that sport. But
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Speaker 6: I think I would be more likely to if I
38:15
Speaker 6: was being told all the time by the league that
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Speaker 6: has this star player in it that she is changing
38:22
Speaker 6: the game, that she is doing things they've never seen
38:24
Speaker 6: done before. I think there's something really interesting about that.
38:29
Speaker 6: I think that's what made Michael Jordan such a tremendous
38:33
Speaker 6: player in the world of the NBA is that he
38:36
Speaker 6: was transforming the sport. He was doing things that were clutch.
38:38
Speaker 6: He was winning games in the last second. He was,
38:41
Speaker 6: you know, dunking like very few people in the league,
38:44
Speaker 6: although several others could dunked during games.
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Speaker 1: He was just doing so much to.
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Speaker 6: Eventually show that he was so far superior to everyone
38:53
Speaker 6: else playing at the time, and it was it was
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Speaker 6: something a lot of us wanted to see.
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Speaker 1: We wanted to see greatness in action.
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Speaker 6: Muhammad Ali greatest boxer in the history of that sport,
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Speaker 6: in my opinion, someone I actually got to sit next
39:06
Speaker 6: to for an entire baseball game one time. He wasn't
39:10
Speaker 6: as healthy as he had been earlier in his life.
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Speaker 6: So it's not like I had a crazy conversation with
39:15
Speaker 6: Mamita Lee, but uneless. I think a lot of people
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Speaker 6: paid attention. Then Mike Tyson might be another good example
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Speaker 6: of this. When you're so far and above everyone else
39:24
Speaker 6: who's doing something at a professional level, just the simplicity
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Speaker 6: of that person being so much better becomes something that
39:31
Speaker 6: a lot of us have to see. The home run
39:33
Speaker 6: races that existed that I'm mad about now because steroids
39:36
Speaker 6: were so tied to them. You would see like local
39:39
Speaker 6: news cutting away to a Mark McGuire at bat when
39:43
Speaker 6: he was getting close to hitting his seventieth home run
39:46
Speaker 6: and that seemed to matter, or his sixty second home run,
39:50
Speaker 6: whatever it might be that he was going for an
39:51
Speaker 6: even Aaron Judge to a degree, this also happened a
39:54
Speaker 6: few years ago. But that's what I think we most
39:56
Speaker 6: like as Americans in the world of sports. We like
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Speaker 6: seeing people do transformative things and be exceptionally better than
40:07
Speaker 6: other people at said sports like we like seeing that,
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Speaker 6: We like watching that occur, and so the WNBA is
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Speaker 6: losing their opportunity to tell people that it exists because
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Speaker 6: they won't promote her, they won't discuss Caitlin Clark the
40:20
Speaker 6: way they should for that to be a thing. By
40:23
Speaker 6: the way, Hugh Laurie, the guy who played House, has
40:27
Speaker 6: defended Sophie Cunningham and her opinions. The comedian declared that
40:31
Speaker 6: you can't be canceled after he defended Sophie Cunningham for
40:35
Speaker 6: saying that men shouldn't play in women's sports. Now as
40:38
Speaker 6: the WNBA seems to want to discuss that in a
40:41
Speaker 6: different way. It's just it's so funny to me that
40:45
Speaker 6: we get to the point where people are throwing out
40:47
Speaker 6: these opinions and then other people are arguing about them
40:50
Speaker 6: like they don't make sense somehow, and of course, of
40:52
Speaker 6: course they do. Of course, it makes every sense in
40:54
Speaker 6: the world to say, hey, this shouldn't happen, and you're
40:58
Speaker 6: not crazy if you think it should, or excuse me,
41:01
Speaker 6: you're not crazy for saying out loud that it shouldn't happen.
41:03
Speaker 6: I meaning women shouldn't play men's sports, Like that's not
41:06
Speaker 6: a radical opinion, although apparently for some it is. All right,
41:09
Speaker 6: let's have fun, Screw the rest of the stuff I
41:11
Speaker 6: had planned. We'll do it tomorrow after the Amigos show,
41:14
Speaker 6: and we do have another veteran voice on at six
41:17
Speaker 6: thirty tomorrow. Every Friday at six thirty we have a
41:20
Speaker 6: veteran voice jump in and be a part of the show.
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Speaker 1: But I want to play this. I thought this was funny.
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Speaker 6: A couple saw a Chick fil A worker chasing after
41:27
Speaker 6: a customer who was driving away on foot to take
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Speaker 6: them a coffee that they had forgotten, and the people
41:34
Speaker 6: reacted to watching a Chick fil A employee go above
41:37
Speaker 6: and beyond to get somebody their coffee. Chick fil A
41:41
Speaker 6: always a restaurant that lands on the top of every
41:43
Speaker 6: list for people and how much they like it. And
41:46
Speaker 6: this might be part of the reason why, Oh.
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Speaker 10: God, chick Filly, I'd be best.
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Speaker 1: That is crazy, I would God, she need a tip,
41:56
Speaker 1: she need a tip.
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Speaker 11: But I love it though.
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Speaker 10: Listen, if you're a business owring, you just saw that.
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Speaker 2: You saw that lady running.
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Speaker 9: After the car to deliver a coffee that the person
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Speaker 9: drove off on and out the way at cheap Fila.
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Speaker 10: She's on the road running.
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Speaker 4: Listen.
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Speaker 11: If you have that level of service.
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Speaker 1: You will win in business. Yeah, you will. You absolutely
42:15
Speaker 1: win in business. I love everything about this. The beginning
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Speaker 1: is the best.
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Speaker 6: When they're sitting in their car watching this woman explode
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Speaker 6: out of a Chick fil A and run toward a
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Speaker 6: car that's driving away holding a piping hot coffee.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, they are that is crazy.
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Speaker 10: Ood God, she need a tip.
42:35
Speaker 6: She does need a tip. I don't know if she
42:36
Speaker 6: got a tip. I don't know if that part of
42:38
Speaker 6: the story ever wound up being public. But I just
42:40
Speaker 6: love the way that people sitting in line waiting for
42:42
Speaker 6: their food or watching this woman like I just absolutely
42:45
Speaker 6: try as hard as she can to get somewhere to
42:47
Speaker 6: give somebody a coffee that they forgot that's worth a
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Speaker 6: couple bucks. But that is what puts you above and
42:52
Speaker 6: beyond I think. I think those are the things that
42:55
Speaker 6: truly make any sort of place you go feel special.
43:00
Speaker 6: I think it's funny to juxtapose that I used to
43:02
Speaker 6: do a segment a good story, bad story. Right, Compare
43:06
Speaker 6: something that's great that happened in our society that gives
43:09
Speaker 6: you hope that the world we live in is actually
43:11
Speaker 6: a positive, and then I would compare it to something
43:14
Speaker 6: that's the exact opposite, that shows you that you know
43:17
Speaker 6: some things in life are actually terrible, and we can
43:20
Speaker 6: do that. We can compare this story to another one
43:23
Speaker 6: that I thought was interesting, and I just I don't
43:26
Speaker 6: know why these sort of things happen so much, But
43:29
Speaker 6: this is a woman that found the craziest dunkin Donuts
43:33
Speaker 6: in the country in Atlanta, where she's talking about how it's.
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Speaker 1: Underground and really dangerous. Here, I'm gonna play the story too.
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Speaker 7: I met the dunkin Donuts and literally it's in a
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Speaker 7: parking deck.
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Speaker 6: I thought they were joking, what did you even know?
43:51
Speaker 9: I'm what this looks.
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Speaker 3: So she.
43:57
Speaker 9: First pull then it was like, oh, duncan dive through this.
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Speaker 9: I'm like, ain't no way this could be like a
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Speaker 9: hunted house.
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Speaker 6: LOOKI it is a underground parking structure that you have
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Speaker 6: to drive a couple layers down to to get down
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Speaker 6: to the dunkin Donuts.
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Speaker 1: And then the customer services is not great.
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Speaker 6: A lot of very bad words were used in the
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Speaker 6: video that I can't play on the radio, which I
44:18
Speaker 6: thought was funny because I don't know. This establishment exists
44:21
Speaker 6: so people can get a paycheck and then hopefully not
44:24
Speaker 6: have any customers at all. I thought that was hilarious.
44:26
Speaker 6: But that was out there too in the news. Probably
44:29
Speaker 6: better bad stories that I might do next time if
44:32
Speaker 6: I bring that segment. Maybe I'll bring that segment back
44:34
Speaker 6: a good story bad story where I compare something that
44:37
Speaker 6: gives you hope in humanity and something that immediately ruins it,
44:40
Speaker 6: because darn it, it's something that goes.
44:41
Speaker 1: Away all the time for so many of us. All Right,
44:44
Speaker 1: that's it. That's the whole show. Thrilled is always to
44:47
Speaker 1: be with you.
44:47
Speaker 6: I know the Amigos have a bunch of big things
44:49
Speaker 6: coming up tomorrow on their show, so please tune in
44:53
Speaker 6: for everything that is the Amigos tomorrow, and please listen
44:58
Speaker 6: to me and my show, which happens tomorrow night. There
45:01
Speaker 6: are two things that we'll be doing, just a regular
45:03
Speaker 6: news roundup and then Veteran Voices. And I saw one
45:06
Speaker 6: of my recent Veteran Voices episodes did a little bit
45:10
Speaker 6: better than most of them do on social media, which
45:13
Speaker 6: gave me a lot of hope, a lot of excitement,
45:16
Speaker 6: because I think the Veteran Voice is segment, not because
45:19
Speaker 6: it's promoting me, it's not because I'm involved in it,
45:22
Speaker 6: but I just think it's a really good thing that
45:24
Speaker 6: we should all be listening to any version of it,
45:27
Speaker 6: not just maying other ones. Because my guest last Friday
45:30
Speaker 6: told a pretty emotional story and open up about a
45:33
Speaker 6: lot of things, and I think his message deserves to
45:35
Speaker 6: be hurt. So please listen next tomorrow at six thirty
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Speaker 6: or any time when we do the Veteran Voices segment
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Speaker 6: to hear from more veterans. But that's it, that's they'll show.
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Speaker 6: See you next time. Craig Collins KSV, The Voice of
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