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Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Diesel Prices, Refineries and Venezuelan Oil · KSEV Mornings with Craig and Wayne

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  Speaker 1: And now, the mob guys creak for your music. And
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  Speaker 1: Wayne Dolcefino on KSCV Radio.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: This is the Mob Guys on KSCV Radio. I am
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  Speaker 3: Craig Colonese. He is Wayne Dolcefino. Unless you want to
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  Speaker 3: say your own name, Wayne.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you could have said it like the other guy did,
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  Speaker 4: like the Italian thing. You said Wayne Dolce, and then
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  Speaker 4: you just blew it off.
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  Speaker 2: Wayne Dolcefino. Wayne Dolcefino. Is that better?
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  Speaker 5: Motto.
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  Speaker 4: Motto.
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  Speaker 6: Motto.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: We are the Mob Guys on KSEV Radio. Both you
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  Speaker 3: and Russell were telling me that that graphic that I
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  Speaker 3: was crapping on yesterday looks a little bit better than
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  Speaker 3: I thought it did. And, Wayne, I told you off air,
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  Speaker 3: and anyone that doesn't know what I'm talking about, you've
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  Speaker 3: got to watch us on social media. We're on a
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  Speaker 3: bunch of different social media channels, including Wayne's Facebook page.
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  Speaker 3: We are up on Dolce Fino Consulting as one of
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  Speaker 3: several Facebook pages that you can find us, which is
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  Speaker 3: pretty cool.
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  Speaker 2: But I put a graphic. It's like a video.
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  Speaker 3: It looks like a cartoon of our logo driving to
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  Speaker 3: the radio station. And you had criticisms.
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  Speaker 5: Well, no. You said me and AI.
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  Speaker 2: Made this video.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm going, you didn't do crap.
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  Speaker 4: I mean— All you did was say, hey, AI, make
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  Speaker 4: this thing for me. And you sat back eating Cheetos
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  Speaker 4: while AI made it. And then you say, well, me
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  Speaker 4: and AI made it when you didn't do anything.
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  Speaker 5: We don't need you anymore.
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  Speaker 2: So that's not true at all.
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  Speaker 4: He told AI what to do.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, he built it. He told him landmarks and
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  Speaker 5: all that other stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, Russell.
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  Speaker 3: So the funny thing about somebody who doesn't at all
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  Speaker 3: work with AI, like has never done anything with it
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  Speaker 3: and doesn't know how it works, and that sounds like you, Wayne.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think you've made anything with AI.
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  Speaker 3: Is how long it takes to tell the AI thing
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  Speaker 3: to do exactly what you want.
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  Speaker 2: It must be exhausting. It is, because it takes days.
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  Speaker 3: That thing took like a week for me to make
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  Speaker 3: with AI to redo and change and manipulate stuff that
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  Speaker 3: it was doing wrong.
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  Speaker 5: Can I tell you something?
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  Speaker 4: As somebody who runs a social media company, With highly
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  Speaker 4: paid editors. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 4: That a week of editing time for me is about $ 20, 000 maybe.
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  Speaker 5: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 4: Are you telling me that that thing you made cost $ 20, 000
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  Speaker 4: in human capital to make?
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  Speaker 3: Well, if they were paid at your salary, yeah, it did.
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  Speaker 3: It costs like $ 20, 000 to me.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no, it would be $ 100, 000 if they were paid
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  Speaker 4: at my salary. No, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: I meant the salary of your staff because it depends
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  Speaker 3: on how much you're paying someone. And by the way,
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  Speaker 3: I did think about, because there's times where I've updated
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  Speaker 3: our website. I'm the one who created our brand new website.
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  Speaker 3: I'm the one who created our brand new apps that
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  Speaker 3: are out there.
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  Speaker 7: I'm so bored.
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  Speaker 2: Now, hold on. Now, hold on, though, Wayne.
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  Speaker 3: Like, I actually can code that stuff. So part of
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  Speaker 3: it is like a mutual working thing. You can fix
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  Speaker 3: AI quicker if you actually have skills. If you don't,
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  Speaker 3: you have to keep asking AI to fix a thing.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: You just said something that crystallizes my point.
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  Speaker 8: All right.
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  Speaker 4: You said, I can code like you're trying to communicate
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  Speaker 4: to our vast audience worldwide that, That you have some
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  Speaker 4: special skill.
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  Speaker 9: I do.
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  Speaker 4: Because I can't code.
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  Speaker 5: You can't. I can barely go on a website.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: I've built websites before AI. I'm just building them with
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  Speaker 3: AI now.
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  Speaker 6: Oh.
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  Speaker 8: Right.
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  Speaker 5: In other words, soon we won't need you.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we'll see.
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  Speaker 10: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Because I think you should try to make a website
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  Speaker 3: and see how far you get.
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  Speaker 2: And then you can decide if you need me. But no,
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  Speaker 2: this is fun. This is fun.
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  Speaker 3: And honestly, the whole reason to talk about this is
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  Speaker 3: not even because, because the music thing, I'll be fair, Wayne,
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  Speaker 3: that's more of a good shot because I just told music,
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  Speaker 3: a music app to make a song for us.
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  Speaker 2: It pumped that out and that was over. That took
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  Speaker 2: five minutes.
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  Speaker 4: Was that, was that the only selection?
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  Speaker 2: There are other options. Do you want faster?
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  Speaker 3: I said something Godfather-y and it pumped out something Godfather-y.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'd like some bullets flying.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Can we get, can we get?
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  Speaker 7: Sure.
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  Speaker 4: They can do anything you want. Can we open up
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  Speaker 4: with someone getting shot in the middle of the forehead?
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  Speaker 3: I thought about putting two mobsters in our logo that
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  Speaker 3: are driving to the radio station for that other part,
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  Speaker 3: and maybe we can have some bullets just flying around.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I like that.
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  Speaker 4: And as we're driving down the road, you and me, right,
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  Speaker 4: we could have, like, AI, like, bubbles.
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  Speaker 5: On our head. Yes.
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  Speaker 4: How we put different people's heads on bodies now and stuff.
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  Speaker 5: And we could have.
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  Speaker 4: You ever see online those things where you can like
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  Speaker 4: make yourself like the godfather?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 5: Would you do that for me?
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  Speaker 4: Because I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I can do that for you.
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  Speaker 5: I have Carter as my number two, and I was
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  Speaker 5: going to say Carter.
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  Speaker 11: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And not only can I, I will do that for you, Wayne.
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  Speaker 3: Look at the teamwork here at this radio station.
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  Speaker 4: What are we going to talk about of importance today,
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  Speaker 4: not your attempt to.
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  Speaker 5: Try to take credit for AI stuff?
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot.
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  Speaker 3: You actually sent me an AI topic that we can
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  Speaker 3: talk about at some point. I did try to cover
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  Speaker 3: it a little bit yesterday, but figured it'd be better
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  Speaker 3: to hang out and wait for you today to do
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  Speaker 3: more of it.
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  Speaker 5: What was it?
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  Speaker 3: I think you sent me another one about the risks
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  Speaker 3: of AI and how we're all doomed.
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  Speaker 5: We are doomed.
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  Speaker 3: You did also send me a story about President Trump
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  Speaker 3: that at some point I think you wanted to get into.
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  Speaker 3: And then we do also have guests booked for today
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  Speaker 3: at 730 and 745. We'll be talking to two different guests.
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  Speaker 3: One of them is the secretary of the interior, Doug Burgum.
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  Speaker 10: My buddy Doug is coming on.
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  Speaker 2: Are you a big fan, big friend of his?
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  Speaker 5: No, I'm not a fan of his. We are like this,
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  Speaker 5: Doug Bergman and I.
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  Speaker 2: The billionaire will be on the show.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe we'll ask him what he thinks about AI and
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  Speaker 3: maybe even throw some investments our way.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe just a million dollars. I don't ask for much.
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  Speaker 11: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a billionaire.
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  Speaker 4: I'm at the stage in life where I don't, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: his tip is good enough to get me through the
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  Speaker 4: rest of my life.
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  Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like his pocket cash would be good enough for me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's totally fine. Do you want to talk about
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  Speaker 3: the Trump thing now, or do you want to wait
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  Speaker 3: on that too?
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  Speaker 4: Which Trump thing? There's so many Trump things.
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  Speaker 3: So you sent me a topic yesterday about a donation
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  Speaker 3: or investment of some kind, and then a building.
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  Speaker 5: Of some kind. You mean you're talking about the Russian guy?
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  Speaker 2: If you want to, we can also talk about- The
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  Speaker 2: Russian guy.
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  Speaker 4: Who's best friends with Donald Trump Jr., a guy that
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  Speaker 4: doesn't speak a lick of English, and he decided- Look,
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  Speaker 4: I have a few close friends, very few, okay? And
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  Speaker 4: I would not buy them a several hundred thousand dollar
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  Speaker 4: wedding gift.
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  Speaker 5: Sure.
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  Speaker 4: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: So, look, I have tried. Everyone knows where I come from.
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  Speaker 4: I have tried to look.
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  Speaker 5: The other way. I really have.
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  Speaker 4: Because, you know, in my view, and I'll bring it
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  Speaker 4: back locally for a second, and then tell me when
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  Speaker 4: we got to take a break.
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  Speaker 7: Sure.
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  Speaker 4: One of my first investigations was a guy who was
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  Speaker 4: a county commissioner in Harris County. His name was Robert Eccles.
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  Speaker 4: He got like a road in front of his house
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  Speaker 4: from a contractor. A lot of people didn't like the
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  Speaker 4: investigation of him because they said, you know what, it
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  Speaker 4: doesn't bother me so much if he gets a little
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  Speaker 4: gravy on the side as long as he takes care
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  Speaker 4: of me. And Robert Eccles was really good at taking
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  Speaker 4: care of of his constituency. I'll also point out that
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  Speaker 4: his son, who you would think would hate me just
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  Speaker 4: from a generational standpoint, right? Because I sort of did
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  Speaker 4: his dad, and he'd be like my enemy. We're actually
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  Speaker 4: very good friends, and he actually helped draw up the
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  Speaker 4: papers for my vast media empire here at Dolce Vita Communications.
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  Speaker 4: But my point is, people can overlook some stuff if
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  Speaker 4: they think you're doing something the right thing for me.
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  Speaker 4: It's kind of the way I feel about Ken Paxton
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  Speaker 4: when I say, I can overlook some of the ethical
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  Speaker 4: lapses because I believe this guy thinks like I think. Right.
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  Speaker 6: Right?
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  Speaker 4: So people are willing to sort of, you know, maybe
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  Speaker 4: look the other way. But I got to tell you,
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  Speaker 4: and I told you this, I even texted you. It
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  Speaker 4: was like three in the morning. I texted you and
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  Speaker 4: I said, hey, what's up with the Russian guy giving.
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  Speaker 5: The president's son.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Like this couple of hundred thousand dollars worth. And
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  Speaker 4: then he said, well, it wasn't really for the wedding.
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  Speaker 4: It was for the party after the wedding. I'm going, oh, gee,
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  Speaker 4: that makes it better.
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  Speaker 3: So if anyone doesn't know the actual story, I can
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  Speaker 3: fill them in on that part.
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  Speaker 4: I think I just told us.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I can tell you like the actual specifics.
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  Speaker 3: Umar Kremlev, I think, is the guy's name, obviously, of
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  Speaker 3: the famous Kremlevs. And he paid for a multi-day Bahamas trip.
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  Speaker 3: After Don Jr. 's wedding, he paid like hundreds of
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  Speaker 3: thousands of dollars.
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  Speaker 2: To facilitate that.
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  Speaker 4: Because he's so broke.
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  Speaker 2: Because he's so broke.
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  Speaker 3: Apparently, there was $ 70, 000 spent on oceanfront fireworks just by itself.
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  Speaker 3: Does this look bad? I'll agree with you, yes.
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  Speaker 2: It does look bad. it's not the kind.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you thank you for agreeing with what is so
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  Speaker 4: obviously screwed up.
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  Speaker 3: But here I'll say this because this has always been
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  Speaker 3: the defense of President Trump and his family versus say
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  Speaker 3: Hunter Biden and the Bidens the Trump organization is a
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  Speaker 3: giant multi you know national organization sure and the opportunity
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  Speaker 3: to go ahead and scratch somebody's back if they scratch
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  Speaker 3: your back is just a business entity, has always been there.
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  Speaker 3: So the Russian oligarch doing the favor for Don Jr. isn't,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying that it wasn't because of what you
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  Speaker 3: think it's because of, but it doesn't have to be that.
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  Speaker 2: Like someone could make the argument that.
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  Speaker 3: It's just a business guy doing a favor for another
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  Speaker 3: important business.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no. Look, I'm not a Yahoo. I mean, I
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  Speaker 4: get it. People do favors for people, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 4: What sort of tweaked me, look, it's one thing if
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  Speaker 4: you've done business with someone. Like the Trump folks have
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  Speaker 4: done business.
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  Speaker 5: All over the world, right?
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  Speaker 4: It's not like some crack addict like Hunter Biden.
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  Speaker 12: Right.
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  Speaker 4: It's actually like these are multi-international business people. Exactly.
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  Speaker 5: I get it.
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  Speaker 4: But even by their own admission, he's known this guy
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  Speaker 4: like two and a half years.
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  Speaker 13: Right.
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  Speaker 4: It's not like, you know, I've been dealing with Uncle
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  Speaker 4: Vinny for 30 years. And so I throw Uncle Vinny
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  Speaker 4: some gravy. This is a guy who doesn't speak English,
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  Speaker 4: who he's known for two years.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what I was saying was because they can make
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  Speaker 3: the argument that does seem like it's probably not true
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  Speaker 3: in this case, in this actual thing, that it's definitely
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  Speaker 3: like a political favor for a political reason because they
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  Speaker 3: can make the other argument. they don't seem to care
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  Speaker 3: and they do these sort of things on a pot.
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  Speaker 3: Cause I think the other part of your text is just,
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't even like hidden. This was in plain sight
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  Speaker 3: version of the thing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: The Russian guy. We're like, we're buddies.
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  Speaker 2: I'm my best friend.
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  Speaker 5: This is me and Igor.
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  Speaker 2: Who doesn't, he doesn't, he doesn't want any favors from.
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  Speaker 5: The ball games together.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my God. We go so far back.
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  Speaker 4: Look, I, I, I just, I, I beg, I beg,
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  Speaker 4: I'm begging tonight.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: This is the kind of election where people are so frustrated.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't I don't import the same blame on
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  Speaker 4: the Trump folks as others.
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  Speaker 12: Right.
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  Speaker 5: Like, I just don't.
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  Speaker 4: But at the same time, the narrative.
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  Speaker 5: The Democrats are trying to put on us is, yeah.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: The reason it's time to help the so-called little people is.
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  Speaker 4: is because these Republicans are all a bunch of grifters
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  Speaker 4: and all try to make a bunch of money.
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  Speaker 5: And look, I know both sides do it. I get it.
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  Speaker 4: But isn't this the moment where we can avoid for
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  Speaker 4: at least maybe six weeks doing something that's incredibly stupid
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  Speaker 4: to do?
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  Speaker 5: I say stupid. They know it's obvious.
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  Speaker 4: I know.
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  Speaker 5: They don't care.
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  Speaker 2: They don't.
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  Speaker 4: I just think it hurts people. I think it hurts
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  Speaker 4: us in so many places. I think it hurts us
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  Speaker 4: in the Paxton race.
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Because it adds to that aura that, yeah, well, they
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  Speaker 4: may be communists, but we're a bunch of crooked, you
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  Speaker 4: know what?
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  Speaker 12: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: It's a bad narrative.
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  Speaker 3: Russell is playing the music, so it seems like we
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  Speaker 3: do have to break. But I will say, I think
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  Speaker 3: it just stopped.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to do it again. I do have to
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  Speaker 2: say that I do think you're right.
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  Speaker 3: That from an optics standpoint, from a political strategy standpoint,
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  Speaker 3: from a myriad of different positions this is not a
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  Speaker 3: good thing to have happen right now and it would
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  Speaker 3: have been better had it not happened i absolutely agree
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  Speaker 3: with that um all right we got to take a
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  Speaker 3: break more coming up in a bit it is the
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  Speaker 3: mob guys kscv radio uh he is wayne dolcefino i
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  Speaker 3: am craig colonese and we'll be back after this hey.
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  Speaker 2: KSEV. Mornings. On the voice of Texas.
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  Speaker 3: My name is Craig Polianese, and he is Wayne Dolcefino.
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  Speaker 2: I told him he had a minute, and then he
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  Speaker 2: didn't have a minute. I was guessing. I can't see.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, hold on.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: I've got to plug this back in so you can
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  Speaker 3: hear us. I can't see how much time you actually have.
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  Speaker 3: So I just kind of guess, which I probably should
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  Speaker 3: have told you.
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: Well, if KSV could like spring for six bucks, maybe
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  Speaker 4: I could get like a counter up here.
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  Speaker 5: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we can send you this one. I don't use
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  Speaker 3: this one that's up here. We have a fancy clock
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  Speaker 3: in here, but I don't need it. Although I think
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  Speaker 3: the Amigos use it. So you'd have to give it
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  Speaker 3: back on Fridays.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not doing that.
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: Just tell him to go to Walmart and buy a
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: darn digital clock.
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  Speaker 5: And give it to me.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: By the way, I did want to swing by your
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: office again and turn that mute button off that's on
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: your microphone so you can't mute it anymore. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if that's something I can do, if you care,
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  Speaker 3: if I can swing by and do that or if
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  Speaker 3: I can tell Carter how to do it.
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  Speaker 5: You can tell Carter.
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  Speaker 2: All right. I can't come by. All right.
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  Speaker 5: That's fine.
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  Speaker 4: That's good.
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  Speaker 5: Don't come over. We've moved offices.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, have you? I got you.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It looks the same, though. That's amazing how quickly you.
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: Built it all.
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  Speaker 5: Our new address is in Atascosita. Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 2: That's crazy. All right.
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: So just head north and we'll let you know.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: We were talking a little bit about President Trump and
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: about the gift and all that stuff that happened with
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: Don Jr., That is one of several big stories that
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: is out there. Another big story to me, and we
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: were just debating it, is this G20 energy summit thing
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: that's here in Houston. And Doug Burgum will be on
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: the show in about eight minutes to talk more about it.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: But you were saying.
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: Because I'm an economist. I took economics in college.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: Gotcha.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: You were saying that it used to be a time
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: when a whole lot of television stations went and now
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: they're not there.
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I forget the.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: Name of the, but every year I remember early on
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: in my career, it was like last century, but I
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: remember it, that the oil, the gathering of all the
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: oil companies and the energy business was like a huge
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: deal on local TV. We would do live shots from there.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: We would talk about all things energy all day long
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: because it was so vital to our economy.
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: And now it's like, I didn't even know they were
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: meeting here.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: If you turn on local TV, it doesn't say, you know,
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: world leaders from around the globe. Yeah.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, you're right.
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: It doesn't.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: And honestly, you were even asking me to try to
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: find some local coverage of it, and I can't find any.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: I find national coverage of it.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: I find, you know, Reuters and AP and others covering
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: this story and then Fox News, of course.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: I don't find anyone locally that's– is it because of Trump?
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: Maybe, but I think it's just the dumbing down of
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: the local media. I mean, right now, with the Iran war, right,
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: and with the hooties doing whatever the hooties.
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: Are doing, right? By the way, I would blow up
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: the hooties.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: Can I tell Secretary Burgum, go back and tell Trump.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: To blow me up some hooties, okay? Sure.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: Because it's like why are we putting up with these
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: like loons i don't know yeah.
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: But anyway but with with all this stuff going on
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: with oil.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: And energy and diesel fuel and all this kind of
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: stuff this should be like a huge national.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: Story correct well i i think and especially the fact
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: that he's talking about cutting more red tape to make
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: things better for energy companies at a time when they're
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: used to being attacked about global climate change initiatives and
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: whatnot I think the main focus of this entire summit
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: has been what the Trump administration will do to make
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: things better, the drill, baby, drill sort of initiative for
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: oil and gas companies that is quite a bit different
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: than the global climate change.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Fight that's going other places. We will ignore all that crap.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: One other quick thing.
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: The regulations, right?
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: For two years, we've been cutting regulations in red tape.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: I'm assuming it's been done. I have no idea whether
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: it has or hasn't, right? So if we've done all that,
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: what else do we need to do? Because I was
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: driving in from Galveston, I think it was yesterday, and
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: there was that big flame thing coming out of that smokestack.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: Over there in Pasadena.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: Because the power went out, and all of a sudden
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: it was belching thick black smoke that I'm sure was fine.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: It didn't bother it. It wasn't going to hurt anybody.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: And I said to myself, is this because we've cut
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: red tape? I don't, I don't, I don't know, but
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: I'm saying what, what more do we have to do
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: to send the signal to the companies?
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: Just have a good time.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: And if, and if, And I still don't understand, and
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: maybe the secretary can help me.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like these are all great questions for him.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: Well, okay, well, I'll talk to him then.
• 21:12
  Speaker 10: No, tell me.
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but why is diesel going up so much?
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. That's a good question.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: Do we get that from there?
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we can talk to him about it.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: I know that the big announcement, too, has been all
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: the energy from Venezuela and how we'll wind up using that.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: So I'm sure that'll be some part of a component
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: to a discussion with Doug Burgum here in a little bit.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: So we should probably take a break in about a
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: minute because Doug should be calling in at 7.30.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: So I should just shut up until Doug comes on?
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: No, no, it's not that.
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: I call him Doug like we're buddies. Hey, Doug, what's
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: going on?
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Doug Burgum, the Interior Secretary. I don't know the answer
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: to your question. That's the reason I can't answer it.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: But we do have a guest who is very, very
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: good at At doing this stuff, yeah.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: When I was in college, one of the classes I
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: actually did go to was oil and gas reporting.
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: Back then.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Was that a big one? Could you close my door?
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: What did you get in that class, by the way?
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Oil and gas reporting.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: I'm yelling at my employee.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: I saw you.
• 22:05
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• 22:07
  Speaker 4: My car is on?
• 22:12
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• 22:13
  Speaker 4: If my car is running, turn it off.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Just jump in and take his car. Just do it.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Just do okay.
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: Andrea works for me, right?
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: She comes in early, and she's like actually having a
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: conversation with me, and I'm like, I'm on the radio.
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: What are you doing?
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Well, you said you were a butterfly person yesterday, right?
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but that doesn't mean I'm like, I'm rude.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: No, you're not. I'm sitting here talking to a microphone
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: at 7 something in the morning, and she's like having
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  Speaker 4: a conversation with me.
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  Speaker 5: Like, what is it about what I'm– look at my lips.
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  Speaker 5: I am talking. Right.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: And the microphone.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: By the way, how can people– people can watch me–
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  Speaker 3: Yes, people can go to YouTube Rumble X and then
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  Speaker 4: There are thousands of people who watch just on my
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  Speaker 2: I know, which was awesome.
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  Speaker 3: All right, we've got to take a break because we've
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: got Doug Burgum coming up in a little bit.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: He'll be calling in at 730. All right.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: And I think Wayne's going to ask him a bunch
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: of tough questions. I think that's what the plan is, which.
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  Speaker 5: Will be fun.
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  Speaker 2: That'll be great. I think that'll be amazing. Quick break.
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  Speaker 2: KSTV, 700 AM.
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  Speaker 3: This is The Voice of Texas. My name is Craig Colonese.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: He is Wayne Dolcefino. We call ourselves the Mob Guys
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: because we're both from the East Coast, and now we
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: live in Houston, and we do a radio show. We're
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: going to be bringing on the Secretary of the Interior,
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: Doug Burgum, who is here in Houston for the last
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  Speaker 3: couple days. doing part of the G20 Energy Summit thing.
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  Speaker 3: He can probably tell me more about it.
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  Speaker 5: Doug, welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 2: I probably did a bad job.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Craig.
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  Speaker 13: Good morning, Wayne. Honored to be with a couple of legends,
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  Speaker 13: even though you might be mobsters. Great to be with you.
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  Speaker 2: We're thrilled. So let me ask you this first, just
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: because I think it's kind of interesting.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: Why Houston and what has been the message that you
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: guys have been talking about the last couple of days? Obviously,
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: a lot of investment has been flooding into the United States.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: in a lot of different areas, but oil and gas
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: I think is one of the bigger ones. So what's
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: going on there, Mr.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Secretary?
• 28:28
  Speaker 13: Well, the G20, of course, is an organization of the
• 28:32
  Speaker 13: 20 of the largest economies in the world. So 85%
• 28:36
  Speaker 13: of the world's economy is represented here, and this is
• 28:39
  Speaker 13: specifically focused on energy and all energy-critical minerals, energy from
• 28:47
  Speaker 13: transportation fuels to baseload power, All of these topics that
• 28:51
  Speaker 13: are covered by energy ministers from around the world, they're
• 28:53
  Speaker 13: all gathering here in Houston because where else? This is
• 28:55
  Speaker 13: the energy capital of the world right here in Houston,
• 28:58
  Speaker 13: so what a better place. The U.S., they have rotating presidencies.
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  Speaker 13: The U.S. is the president of the G20 this year.
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  Speaker 13: So Secretary Chris Wright, Secretary of Energy, Lee Zeldin, the
• 29:10
  Speaker 13: best deregulator ever in American history, leading the Trump EPA.
• 29:16
  Speaker 13: Those two and I are all here co-hosting These 20
• 29:19
  Speaker 13: countries and lots of announcements going on, including record amounts
• 29:24
  Speaker 13: of of investment coming into the United States in the
• 29:29
  Speaker 13: energy sector and in the manufacturing sector.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: And a big part of.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: That is also the energy we're getting from Venezuela, which
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: I know has been a big conversation within the Energy Summit.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: Can you tell me more about I've heard this.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Is what I'll tell you.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: I've heard that even though it's great that we're getting
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: all this oil from Venezuela, that there's a process that's
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: going to take a couple of years.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: So it's not really relevant.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: I think it's a crazy excuse for someone to try
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: to poo poo this whole thing by saying that there's
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: going to be some sort of refining process involved. Because
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: it can't be bad that we just got a bunch
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: of new oil and whatnot.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: From a Venezuelan deal. So do you mind giving me
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: a little bit more context there?
• 30:07
  Speaker 13: Well, happy to. And of course, Venezuela has not been
• 30:11
  Speaker 13: part of the G20, but the United States is leading
• 30:14
  Speaker 13: this year's G20. We were able to invite a couple
• 30:16
  Speaker 13: of special guests. So Poland here from Eastern Europe, who's
• 30:20
  Speaker 13: got a huge role to play in energy security. vis-a-vis
• 30:26
  Speaker 13: Europe's dependence on Russia and Venezuela. So we have a
• 30:29
  Speaker 13: big delegation from Venezuela here. We had meetings with them
• 30:32
  Speaker 13: last night. There's going to be some exciting announcements made
• 30:35
  Speaker 13: this morning at the conference with Venezuela. But they sit
• 30:41
  Speaker 13: on top of the world's largest reserves, larger than Saudi Arabia.
• 30:45
  Speaker 13: And with the amazing work of President Trump and the U.S. military,
• 30:50
  Speaker 13: they went from a sanctioned adversary to nine months ago,
• 30:56
  Speaker 13: September back to January, sanctioned adversary that was selling oil
• 31:01
  Speaker 13: at $ 15 a barrel to China. And now they're a
• 31:05
  Speaker 13: strategic ally. All that oil is flowing to the United
• 31:08
  Speaker 13: States to these Gulf Coast refineries, which were built to
• 31:11
  Speaker 13: handle that Venezuelan food. And it's fantastic. In the bigger picture,
• 31:18
  Speaker 13: it's actually shifting the geopolitical center of of energy away
• 31:22
  Speaker 13: from the Middle East, which has been wrapped with conflicts,
• 31:25
  Speaker 13: to the Western hemisphere and what's going on in Guyana, Argentina,
• 31:30
  Speaker 13: what the president's doing as we're unleashing Alaskan energy, which
• 31:34
  Speaker 13: helps us with our allies in the Pacific, with Korea
• 31:37
  Speaker 13: and Japan and everything going on in lower 48. I mean,
• 31:40
  Speaker 13: we're the largest oil producer in the world now, number
• 31:42
  Speaker 13: one LNG exporter in the world, largest natural gas producer
• 31:47
  Speaker 13: in the world. We've displaced two-thirds of Russian gas sales
• 31:50
  Speaker 13: into Western Europe. We're taking two out of three dollars
• 31:53
  Speaker 13: out of their war chest with work that's being done
• 31:58
  Speaker 13: right here in Texas. Then we're shipping that product overseas.
• 32:03
  Speaker 13: This is a generational shift. This is not just for us,
• 32:06
  Speaker 13: but for everybody's children, your children's children. President Trump has
• 32:11
  Speaker 13: reset the entire global stage on energy. And we've got
• 32:15
  Speaker 13: short-term disruptions in price, but long-term, we've got the lowest-priced,
• 32:20
  Speaker 13: most secure, most plentiful energy of any country in the world.
• 32:23
  Speaker 13: And that's why you're seeing trillions of dollars being invested
• 32:27
  Speaker 13: to build things back in America, because we've got the
• 32:29
  Speaker 13: best energy system in the world, thanks to President Trump.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Wayne, what did you want to say? Did you want
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: to ask a question?
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: Well, yeah, by the way, I can't hear.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Oh, you can't hear?
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: Okay, hold on. Go ahead.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: No, go ahead.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Mr.
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: Secretary, it's an honor to meet you.
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: I'm a fan. But I'm also one of those curious conservatives,
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: and I like to be able to come up with
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: explanations to people for why certain things are happening and
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: why it's not as like doom and gloom as people think.
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: What's up with diesel prices? I mean, we don't get
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: that stuff from the Middle East, do we? And if not,
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: then how do we explain this surge, sudden surge? It's
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: like the eggs of this year. Can you explain to
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: me what's going on?
• 33:18
  Speaker 13: Well, in the United States, on a net basis for
• 33:22
  Speaker 13: the whole country, we don't have an oil problem because
• 33:25
  Speaker 13: we're producing more oil than we ever have before. But
• 33:28
  Speaker 13: there is the refining capacity constraint, and this was self-inflicted.
• 33:32
  Speaker 13: We've got states... that have been pursuing these European-style green approaches,
• 33:38
  Speaker 13: not Texas, thankfully. Texas still has a boatload of refineries here,
• 33:45
  Speaker 13: and they're building more capacity and are building an ounce.
• 33:48
  Speaker 13: The first new refinery in America being built here in Texas,
• 33:52
  Speaker 13: that's already been announced earlier this year. But then let's
• 33:55
  Speaker 13: go to California. California used to have 30 refineries plus,
• 33:59
  Speaker 13: like Texas did. They went in rapid succession from eight
• 34:03
  Speaker 13: to seven to six, just even in the last couple
• 34:06
  Speaker 13: of years. And so they're shutting down refining capacity because
• 34:10
  Speaker 13: they're like, Hey, we're all going to be driving EVs.
• 34:12
  Speaker 13: We got to shut this stuff down. And so there
• 34:14
  Speaker 13: are state regulations driving these companies out of business and
• 34:18
  Speaker 13: out of their state. And California now does import, they
• 34:23
  Speaker 13: import two thirds of their oil from foreign countries and
• 34:25
  Speaker 13: they import 25% of the refined products from foreign countries. They,
• 34:29
  Speaker 13: somehow managed to make themselves dependent on foreign sources, including
• 34:34
  Speaker 13: oil coming out of the Strait of Hormuz, because in
• 34:36
  Speaker 13: February of this year, the number one importer into California
• 34:40
  Speaker 13: was the country of Iraq. All their oil exports would
• 34:42
  Speaker 13: come through the Strait of Hormuz. So you talk about
• 34:45
  Speaker 13: crazy policies that are driving up prices. And so if
• 34:48
  Speaker 13: we see an average number of diesel for the country,
• 34:51
  Speaker 13: it's being driven up because of states like we have
• 34:55
  Speaker 13: New York and others in the New England area, California
• 34:59
  Speaker 13: and Washington, Oregon, the West Coast that have all been
• 35:01
  Speaker 13: anti-hydrocarbons and anti-liquid fuels, they're driving up the cost because
• 35:07
  Speaker 13: of shutting down the refining capacity. So it's very uneven.
• 35:12
  Speaker 13: It depends on where you live in this country, what
• 35:15
  Speaker 13: your price of your fuel is. And it's a fact
• 35:17
  Speaker 13: of State policies matter, not just federal policies.
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: And do you mind if I even ask a follow
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: up to that? I know you've got to run because
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: you've got a lot of things going on. But I
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: kind of think it's interesting that if Biden's energy policies
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: weren't so detrimental to oil and gas companies, he wasn't
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: attacking them for an entire four years during the time
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: he was in office. I wonder if what is happening
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: now would have been handled better, weathered better. And some
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: of the things that you guys are now doing, some
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: of the things you're putting in place, to reverse those policies,
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: to ignore the myth that a lot of people talk
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: about of the, you know, climate change problems that exist
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: that don't really exist in a lot of these capacities.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: If those things hadn't happened before, would it be easier
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: right now to make things cheaper today for the American people?
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: Is there more blame due from the past administration than
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: people seem to give it?
• 36:09
  Speaker 13: Well, absolutely, 100 percent. I mean, And again, the country,
• 36:14
  Speaker 13: they were on the wrong track. And some of the
• 36:15
  Speaker 13: states were even ahead of where Biden was in terms
• 36:18
  Speaker 13: of policies. They were based on climate fantasy versus physical
• 36:26
  Speaker 13: reality of what it takes to run this country. And
• 36:30
  Speaker 13: the same thing for talking liquid fuels, but the same
• 36:33
  Speaker 13: thing with baseload. We got parts of our country that
• 36:35
  Speaker 13: were shutting down baseload. and you know, which is a
• 36:38
  Speaker 13: seven by 24 dispatchable source, like natural gas, like, like, uh,
• 36:43
  Speaker 13: you know, clean American coal, shutting that power sources down
• 36:47
  Speaker 13: and replacing it with, you know, intermittent dependent on the weather,
• 36:52
  Speaker 13: foreign sourced, uh, unreliable, expensive sources. And then they called
• 36:56
  Speaker 13: it an energy transition. That's not an energy transition. That's
• 37:00
  Speaker 13: energy subtraction. We had less electricity, not more electricity. And without, uh,
• 37:06
  Speaker 13: the Trump administration and Chris Wright, Lee Zeldin doing the
• 37:09
  Speaker 13: work that everybody's been doing, we would have had disasters
• 37:13
  Speaker 13: in the Northeast worse than the storm Uri that was
• 37:16
  Speaker 13: here in Texas four years ago. I mean, we were
• 37:18
  Speaker 13: hanging on by a thread last winter because there was
• 37:21
  Speaker 13: over 16 gigawatts. That's like 16, you know, 16 major
• 37:27
  Speaker 13: power plants that were ordered by the Trump administration to
• 37:30
  Speaker 13: stay open. If they would have been shut down under the,
• 37:32
  Speaker 13: as Biden had ordered them to do, we kept them
• 37:34
  Speaker 13: open after we got in office. There'd have been blackouts
• 37:37
  Speaker 13: throughout the entire Northeast during that storm. And during that storm,
• 37:44
  Speaker 13: coal flexed up 50%, natural gas flexed up 50% in
• 37:48
  Speaker 13: terms of their total production of electricity. Wind and solar
• 37:52
  Speaker 13: in that region of over 20 states was producing 2%
• 37:55
  Speaker 13: of the electricity when the nameplate said it was supposed
• 37:58
  Speaker 13: to be producing 35%. But it turns out when the
• 38:03
  Speaker 13: sunset has occurred, And when the wind's not blowing during
• 38:06
  Speaker 13: a high-pressure system and every solar panel's covered with ice,
• 38:10
  Speaker 13: they produce virtually no electricity. And, you know, there's some
• 38:14
  Speaker 13: places in New England that burn wood for electricity. Other
• 38:18
  Speaker 13: municipalities burn garbage. So trash and wood produce 3% of
• 38:22
  Speaker 13: the electricity during that storm, wind and solar 2%. So
• 38:25
  Speaker 13: trash and wood was outperforming wind and solar, which had
• 38:29
  Speaker 13: received hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer subsidies.
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: That's crazy.
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: Wayne, do you have any other questions for him before
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: we let him go?
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: No, my only frustration is that there are such common
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: sense explanations for a lot of what's going on that
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: people are concerned about. And one of my frustrations about
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: my fellow conservatives, the Republican Party, is that we we
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: talk about common sense versus crazy. And what you were
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: just talking about in terms of the way these left
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: wing freak governments do energy is. is the explainer for
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: a lot of our problem. We can bring prices down
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: on a lot of things if we would just use
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: common sense and not listen to the crazies.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and we will be probably bringing prices down too, right,
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: Interior Secretary?
• 39:21
  Speaker 13: Well, yeah, absolutely. And President Trump, trust me, he knows
• 39:26
  Speaker 13: how to get prices down because it's like, guess what?
• 39:29
  Speaker 13: You didn't supply, price goes down. It was energy subtraction
• 39:35
  Speaker 13: on electricity. It was energy subtraction on refining capacity. It
• 39:39
  Speaker 13: was energy subtraction. Just here in the Permian interior, we
• 39:44
  Speaker 13: manage the permitting for drilling on federal lands we inherited 5,600
• 39:50
  Speaker 13: unprocessed applications for permit to drill in the Permian in
• 39:55
  Speaker 13: one location, the Carlsbad office in New Mexico. We cleaned
• 39:59
  Speaker 13: up that backlog. We've got that rolling again. And then
• 40:04
  Speaker 13: we did a lease sale. And when there's a lease sale,
• 40:06
  Speaker 13: then private companies write a check to the government. It's
• 40:09
  Speaker 13: not taxpayer money going out the door. It's private sector
• 40:12
  Speaker 13: money coming in the door. And this is part of
• 40:15
  Speaker 13: America's balance sheet. Everybody Everybody is like, oh, we've got
• 40:18
  Speaker 13: all this debt. America's got this debt. Woe is us.
• 40:21
  Speaker 13: We have all this debt. We have assets that could
• 40:23
  Speaker 13: be 10 times higher than our debt, and it's called
• 40:26
  Speaker 13: our natural resources. But if you shut those down, whether
• 40:30
  Speaker 13: it's in the Gulf of America or in the Permian Basin,
• 40:33
  Speaker 13: you're just killing America's balance sheet. And Biden was doing
• 40:36
  Speaker 13: that with a stroke of a pen regularly, taking stuff
• 40:39
  Speaker 13: off the table or illegally slow rolling the permitting process,
• 40:42
  Speaker 13: which were supposed to legally be issued by And we
• 40:45
  Speaker 13: had a lease sale earlier this summer where $ 4 billion
• 40:49
  Speaker 13: came in the door as opposed to going out the
• 40:51
  Speaker 13: door because we had the highest lease sale ever of
• 40:54
  Speaker 13: American companies coming in and saying, we want to develop
• 40:57
  Speaker 13: this resource. Well, that stuff is coming online. Venezuela is
• 41:00
  Speaker 13: coming online. And you talked about right away, Venezuelan production.
• 41:04
  Speaker 13: Venezuela's production, by the time we get to December, they're
• 41:08
  Speaker 13: going to be, could be up as high as 50%
• 41:10
  Speaker 13: from where they were last January. And American companies more
• 41:14
  Speaker 13: every day going down there to help develop that resource.
• 41:18
  Speaker 13: So more supply, lower prices, President Trump, energy abundance, Biden administration,
• 41:23
  Speaker 13: energy subtraction.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and energy investment, too.
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: I know Hitachi gave us half a billion dollars or
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: is investing half a billion dollars in manufacturing.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: Here, which is a huge other big story that came
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: out of the summit.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: Thank you very much, Mr. Secretary, for taking some time
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: with us. We really, really appreciate it.
• 41:39
  Speaker 12: Well, love you guys.
• 41:40
  Speaker 13: Thanks for all you do. Thanks for keeping all your
• 41:42
  Speaker 13: Patriot listeners informed. And, you know, go Texas, go Houston.
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: Amen.
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: Go Texas, go Houston. All right, we've got to take
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: a break. We've got another guest coming up in just
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: a little bit. That was, Wayne, incredible, in all honesty,
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: to hear somebody explain a thing that, as you said,
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: if you listen to it from a common-sense way, you
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: start to actually understand it.
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: Like, we don't understand the problems, and then.
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: Suddenly, boom, somebody tells it to you, and you're like,
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: I get it now.
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I will talk after the break, but I tell you,
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: I keep going back to my frustration. I think the
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: Republicans should have, like, get a commercial and have some, like,
• 42:20
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• 42:24
  Speaker 4: you want to know, right, everyone wants to blame the war, right,
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: for the fact that all this stuff cost 10 times
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: more than it did. Yes. But here's the problem. Pay
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: attention closely, kids, right? Let's get a little chalkboard and say,
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: when you close refineries, there aren't as many places to
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: make the crap we need to make. And it makes
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: it more expensive for people to get it.
• 42:54
  Speaker 5: This is sometimes so simple.
• 42:56
  Speaker 14: Yes.
• 42:56
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  Speaker 3: He's the director of public policy for Texas Values. He
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  Speaker 3: is deeply involved in Texas Faith Fest. Welcome to the show, Jonathan.
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  Speaker 9: Thanks, guys. Great to be on with you. Appreciate you
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  Speaker 9: having me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you. Great to have you on. I'll start
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  Speaker 2: it here, the easiest place to start it.
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  Speaker 3: Tell us what the Texas Faith Fest is for anyone
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  Speaker 3: that hasn't gone before, anyone that's unfamiliar.
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  Speaker 2: When it's happening. Give us all the basics first.
• 46:32
  Speaker 9: Yeah, absolutely. So Texas Faith Fest is a one-day gathering
• 46:36
  Speaker 9: that brings together leaders from public policy, law, education, churches, culture.
• 46:42
  Speaker 9: It's going to be on Saturday, September 26th in Cedar Park,
• 46:45
  Speaker 9: and Texans will hear from people who have defended religious liberty,
• 46:50
  Speaker 9: parental rights, unborn life, truth about biological sex. And, you know,
• 46:55
  Speaker 9: this is for people who care about faith family and
• 46:58
  Speaker 9: freedom in the future of Texas, but they may not
• 47:00
  Speaker 9: know where to begin because we combine compelling speakers and
• 47:04
  Speaker 9: interviews and panels and even practical opportunities to be involved.
• 47:10
  Speaker 9: And you do not have to be a policy expert.
• 47:12
  Speaker 9: We just want you to come ready to learn and
• 47:14
  Speaker 9: connect with other Texans, and it will help you identify
• 47:17
  Speaker 9: a concrete way to make a difference in your church
• 47:20
  Speaker 9: or your school district or your community. And that's what
• 47:23
  Speaker 9: Texas Faith Fest is.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: Wayne, do you have any questions for him?
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: I was going to make a quick comment. I'd like
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  Speaker 4: you to respond to it. My family goes to a
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: Catholic church in Austin off 360. And every week I
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: am shocked at how busy it's become. I think it's
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: one of the great stories that's not being told about
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: this sort of reemergence, especially of a lot of young
• 47:53
  Speaker 4: families into the church.
• 47:58
  Speaker 9: Yeah, absolutely. I mean, families are reemerging into the church.
• 48:04
  Speaker 9: They're reemerging into active lifestyle. And what we do at
• 48:08
  Speaker 9: Texas Values and at Texas Faith Fest is to connect
• 48:12
  Speaker 9: those people with actual folks who are getting involved, who
• 48:16
  Speaker 9: are leading on these individual issues like religious freedom, like
• 48:20
  Speaker 9: unborn life. and being able to educate them, motivate them,
• 48:25
  Speaker 9: and then finally activate them so that they can get
• 48:27
  Speaker 9: out and make a difference.
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you have some really big guests that are
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: part of this. I know Mays Middleton will be there.
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: I know that some of the big names that we've
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: talked about, at least from the experiences that they've had,
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: include a San Jose State volleyball player, Brooke Sussler. But
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: Wayne and I are also obsessed with the idea that
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: Brandon Gill will be there because he is– an incredible
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: rising star within the party. Is there anyone maybe you
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: want to comment on, Brandon or someone else, that you're
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: excited to see at the FaithFest?
• 49:00
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, all of our speakers, of course, but
• 49:03
  Speaker 9: Congressman Brandon Gill is especially exciting. He'll be keynoting our
• 49:07
  Speaker 9: dinner on Friday night as well as our conference on Saturday.
• 49:12
  Speaker 9: And You know, he's the youngest Republican congressman today. He's
• 49:17
  Speaker 9: a rising conservative star. He's had this... famous confrontation with
• 49:21
  Speaker 9: an abortion advocate. And what he did was force the
• 49:24
  Speaker 9: abortion advocate to move beyond those slogans and confront what
• 49:28
  Speaker 9: abortion actually entails. He kept asking this person what her
• 49:33
  Speaker 9: preferred method of abortion was, and she tried to avoid
• 49:36
  Speaker 9: the question. He began describing the procedures, and his point
• 49:39
  Speaker 9: was that abortion advocates frequently use this sanitized-type language, like
• 49:46
  Speaker 9: reproductive health care, but they don't want to discuss what
• 49:50
  Speaker 9: physically happens to an unborn child. And so he's a star.
• 49:54
  Speaker 9: It was a very direct and very revealing exchange. And
• 49:57
  Speaker 9: I think that's a lot, one reason why a lot
• 49:59
  Speaker 9: of people are paying attention to him.
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: Is the abortion argument, uh, in Texas, not as, I
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: don't hear about it anymore. Is that because, you know,
• 50:10
  Speaker 4: we got all this crying wolf that the world was
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: going to end if we banned abortions in Texas and,
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: and all of a sudden all those people went away. Um,
• 50:20
  Speaker 4: what's the status of that fight here?
• 50:24
  Speaker 9: Yeah, so, I mean, the status is, of course, we
• 50:28
  Speaker 9: outlawed abortion through not only the Texas Heartbeat Bill, but
• 50:34
  Speaker 9: Senate Bill 20, the Texas, you know, the Texas Parental
• 50:39
  Speaker 9: Life Protection Act. And, you know, so now what we're
• 50:42
  Speaker 9: doing is we're confronting abortion appeals across the state. Abortion
• 50:46
  Speaker 9: pills have become the largest single way that folks are
• 50:49
  Speaker 9: having abortion. And there are a lot of organizations out
• 50:53
  Speaker 9: there that are helping facilitate those illegal abortions, facilitate getting
• 50:57
  Speaker 9: those pills, and really in an attempt to weaken Texas law.
• 51:01
  Speaker 9: So that's what we're working on. The question is no
• 51:04
  Speaker 9: longer simply whether Texas protects unborn life. It's whether those
• 51:08
  Speaker 9: protections will be meaningfully enforced.
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  Speaker 2: Wayne, you can go again if you have another one.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I was going to say my son worked
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  Speaker 4: for the Attorney General's office, as you know, and he
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: was involved in helping to file lawsuits against these mail
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  Speaker 4: order abortion pill folks that are finding ways, you know,
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  Speaker 4: like cooperating or having their companies overseas where you can't
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  Speaker 4: get the people as much. So there's always ways around things,
• 51:39
  Speaker 4: but I have been sort of, intrigued that the abortion
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  Speaker 4: folks don't seem to be trying to claim that the
• 51:48
  Speaker 4: sky has fallen because we have taken a stand for
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  Speaker 4: life in this state.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, I think that, you know, that sort
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  Speaker 9: of speaks to, you know, how comfortable they are, you know,
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  Speaker 9: with the whole situation as well. You know, they continue,
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  Speaker 9: these firms and organizations continue are operating out of India.
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  Speaker 9: They're being mailed. These pills are being mailed from New York.
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  Speaker 9: One thing I found revealing is that, you know, abortion advocates,
• 52:19
  Speaker 9: you know, they really aren't claiming the sky is falling,
• 52:21
  Speaker 9: you know, because mail order abortion pills just continue in
• 52:26
  Speaker 9: a stream to enter the state. And so that really
• 52:29
  Speaker 9: just tells us where the next frontier of enforcement is
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  Speaker 9: And Texas has very strong pro-life laws, but those protections
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  Speaker 9: mean very little if out-of-state providers can openly mail abortion
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  Speaker 9: drugs into Texas and they can evade that accountability.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: So I know that we only have a couple minutes
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  Speaker 3: left here. I know the goal of the organization is
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: to educate, motivate, activate, which is great. I know that
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: students and pastors get in for free, which is even
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: more amazing. And then it's $ 39 for everybody else. This
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: event is on September 26th. Do you mind giving me
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: a little bit, an example maybe, of how our listeners
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: might get more plugged in and make a difference because
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: they register, because they get out there? Or, as Wayne
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  Speaker 3: is pointing out, as families are getting more active within
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  Speaker 3: the church, maybe bring your family to an event like this.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, so it's going to be at Park
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  Speaker 9: Social in Cedar Park between 9 and 5 on Saturday,
• 53:22
  Speaker 9: September 26th. And the tickets are going really fast, so
• 53:26
  Speaker 9: jump in there. But, you know, we don't want to
• 53:28
  Speaker 9: leave folks with a notebook full of information and then
• 53:30
  Speaker 9: do nothing about it. We want to identify a place
• 53:33
  Speaker 9: where they can make a difference. And that might mean
• 53:35
  Speaker 9: becoming more involved with their local school board, contacting legislators
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  Speaker 9: about an important bill, even helping the church understand a
• 53:42
  Speaker 9: religious liberty issue, registering voters, giving testimony at the Capitol.
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  Speaker 9: There are just so many things. But the goal is
• 53:49
  Speaker 9: to help people understand what's happening, give them the confidence
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  Speaker 9: to speak up, and then connect them with those practical
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  Speaker 9: opportunities to act. And that's what we mean when we
• 53:59
  Speaker 9: say educate, motivate, activate.
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  Speaker 5: Cool.
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  Speaker 2: And for a student, what does that mean?
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  Speaker 3: Does that mean a college kid or anybody that's in
• 54:05
  Speaker 3: some form of education can get in for free?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, absolutely. If you're a college kid or if you're
• 54:11
  Speaker 9: in anyone's studying, any form of education, you're going to
• 54:15
  Speaker 9: get in for free thanks to the generosity of our sponsors,
• 54:18
  Speaker 9: also pastors, because we especially want pastors and the next
• 54:21
  Speaker 9: generation of leaders in the room. They still do need
• 54:25
  Speaker 9: to register in advance at TexasFaithFest.com, though, because we have
• 54:28
  Speaker 9: limited seating.
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  Speaker 3: Talk about a very smart way to make it a
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: family event, to make it easy to have not just
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: you and your spouse go, but to bring the kids
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: because they might get in for free. Thank you very
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  Speaker 3: much for everything, for the time, for the conversation, Jonathan.
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: And good luck to you and the Texas Faith Fest.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
• 54:45
  Speaker 4: That's it.
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: We've got to take a break. A lot coming up.
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  Speaker 3: This is KSEV Mornings, The Voice of Texas.
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  Speaker 18: AM 700, KSEV.com.