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Abbott Speaks on the Texas ICE Shooting, Iran Strikes, Trump's Big Rig Crackdown & "State Rankings" · KSEV Mornings with Craig and Wayne

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Speaker 1: Where should I beget Can we talk about this?
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Speaker 2: What are you trying to beyond the usual controversial talking
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Speaker 2: over there?
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Speaker 1: One one to.
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Speaker 3: Prepare yourself, okay for Craig preparing ging you go here.
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Speaker 1: It stimulating, gets you a writing shot there, there, you
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Speaker 1: go back. You start becoming a team.
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Speaker 4: This is the Craign Cullen Show.
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Speaker 1: Jesus, oh no talking talk.
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Speaker 4: This station is now the ultimate power in the universe.
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Speaker 1: Your host, he's a good man.
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Speaker 5: You've been radio silent when it comes to the shooting
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Speaker 5: here of Florenzo Sado.
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Speaker 1: What are your thoughts?
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Speaker 5: I know you are very vocal when it came to Minneapolis.
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Speaker 6: Sure listen first and immediate thoughts, and that is any
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Speaker 6: loss of life is tragic. Everyone in Texas wants to
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Speaker 6: ensure there's no loss of life. And I do want
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Speaker 6: you all to know this, and that is there has
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Speaker 6: been a meeting with the Texas Prominent Public Safety, the
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Speaker 6: Texas Rangers, meeting with federal officials as well as with
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Speaker 6: your local police department here in Houston, and the Texas
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Speaker 6: Rangers are now going to be involved in an investigation
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Speaker 6: of this matter, working alongside federal officials to get to
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Speaker 6: the bottom of exactly what happened.
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Speaker 7: Now is this going to be an independent investigation?
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Speaker 6: So listen, anytime the Texas Rangers are involved, they work independently.
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Speaker 6: They're well known just in the stead of Texas, but
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Speaker 6: everywhere for the independence and conducting investigations.
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Speaker 8: Here's this is the Craig Collins Show KSCVKGBC, the Voice
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Speaker 8: of Texas. Here's the reason I say that's good. No
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Speaker 8: matter what the Texas Rangers find, my belief is that
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Speaker 8: they'll go looking for everything and then whatever they come
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Speaker 8: up with. Whoever you are, and whatever you decided. The
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Speaker 8: narrative of this story is the ice involved shooting that
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Speaker 8: happened in Houston. You will either believe or not believe
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Speaker 8: the Texas Rangers. But I do think this is the
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Speaker 8: right approach. Governor Abbott was here in Houston. He was
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Speaker 8: talking about something totally different, talking about flooding and all
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Speaker 8: kinds of insurance charges and how terrible they are and
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Speaker 8: how ridiculous it makes living in the city for so
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Speaker 8: many of us that live here and have to have
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Speaker 8: things like flood insurance on the home. So he's working
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Speaker 8: on something else, but then inevitably the press started asking
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Speaker 8: him questions about the ice involved.
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Speaker 1: Shooting, and these were his answers.
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Speaker 8: I have more another minute or so of Abbot talking
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Speaker 8: about this from a couple more questions before he said
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Speaker 8: that's it, he's done, and he left. But here's a
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Speaker 8: little bit more from me.
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Speaker 9: Floody Corners.
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Speaker 10: We know you've been supportive of the federal immigration crackdown,
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Speaker 10: but after the shooting of this man, who says ILUDHS
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Speaker 10: says was not the intended target, does that give you
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Speaker 10: any pause about how these operations are being carried out
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Speaker 10: in Texas communities.
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Speaker 6: So one thing we want to say see in Texas
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Speaker 6: and across America, we don't want to see people shot. Period.
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Speaker 6: That's separate from whether none of the immigration laws are
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Speaker 6: going to be enforced. I fully expect our immigration laws
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Speaker 6: to be enforced. But it's proven the immigration laws can
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Speaker 6: be enforced and stopping illegal immigration from coming across our
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Speaker 6: border can be achieved without shooting people.
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Speaker 3: They're going to be shot because not taking a look
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Speaker 3: at anybody, they're just basically shooting.
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Speaker 6: So again, the goal for law enforcement, whether you be
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Speaker 6: Houston Police Department, Texas Department of Public Safety, or or
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Speaker 6: federal law enforcement is the first thing, don't kill people.
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Speaker 6: But you can achieve that goal well at very same
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Speaker 6: time making sure you're enforcing immigration laws.
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Speaker 11: That's awesome.
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Speaker 8: And actually I'll go a step further, and I know
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Speaker 8: that the mayor, the governor, excuse me, didn't do it there.
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Speaker 8: But you do have the right to protect yourself as
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Speaker 8: an icy, as a cop, as anybody. So if you
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Speaker 8: are in a position where your life is in danger,
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Speaker 8: you have every right to defend yourself and even protect
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Speaker 8: people around you.
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Speaker 1: But we don't know what happened. There is still questions.
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Speaker 8: A lot of people have accepted the narrative, and I
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Speaker 8: don't blame you for doing that, especially if you're somebody
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Speaker 8: that wants to believe in the good in law enforcement
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Speaker 8: and specifically in this case, in ice. And I'm someone
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Speaker 8: who falls into that category that often wants to believe
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Speaker 8: in the good and these people. I don't think there
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Speaker 8: are many people who gravitate toward a profession like this
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Speaker 8: because they just want to like shoot innocent people. I
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Speaker 8: just don't think that that's a thing. However, I do
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Speaker 8: like clarity. The thing that sort of amazed me about this.
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Speaker 8: I was listening to Chris Alcedo this morning and he
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Speaker 8: talked about this topic for a while, and he took
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Speaker 8: a bunch of calls on it. A bunch of people
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Speaker 8: called into his show. He talked about a CBS piece
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Speaker 8: of audio that I'm going to play next in just
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Speaker 8: a second that I thought was pretty interesting and I
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Speaker 8: think a lot of people in fact, I thought was
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Speaker 8: pretty interesting. And then also, you know what, actually, I'll
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Speaker 8: play this first. How don't I do that first? I
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Speaker 8: did hear during Chris X's show that one of his
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Speaker 8: great callers, Chris and Spring, called in and asked about
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Speaker 8: clarification on whether or not somebody just made up that
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Speaker 8: ICE was going to pause stopping vehicles. And then after that,
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Speaker 8: President Trump said, now we're going to keep that going
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Speaker 8: because we need that to keep going to secure our
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Speaker 8: country and to secure our citizens and to remove people
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Speaker 8: that shouldn't be here. I played that audio yesterday. That
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Speaker 8: was Tom Holman, who was responding to a question on
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Speaker 8: Fox News of all places, about the announcement that ICE
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Speaker 8: would pause, not fully stop, but pause the.
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Speaker 1: Pulling over vehicles.
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Speaker 8: And so I'll play that again just so people know
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Speaker 8: this wasn't an invented narrative, it wasn't fake news, It
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Speaker 8: was real. But the President went ahead and said no
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Speaker 8: to this version of it.
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Speaker 1: But here we go.
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Speaker 7: You tell me, sir, what is the change in Why
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Speaker 7: are you doing it?
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Speaker 12: Well, that decision was made by the Secretary along with
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Speaker 12: leadership at ICE. But look, it's not a policy change,
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Speaker 12: it's a temporary pause. Look the last couple of shootings.
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Speaker 12: ICE leadership along with DHS believes they want to look
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Speaker 12: at these last a couple of instants and look, is
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Speaker 12: there something that could have been done better? Is there
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Speaker 12: any training to get me improved? Or it's simply I
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Speaker 12: used doing the job, and bad things happen when people
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Speaker 12: don't comply with law enforcement officers. So I think it's
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Speaker 12: going to be a short pause, and I'm confident that
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Speaker 12: it was training. The vehicle stops and you're going to
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Speaker 12: see us keep moving forward. But this is just a
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Speaker 12: temporary pause.
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Speaker 8: Where they it was a very temporary pause the announcement
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Speaker 8: of it, and then it was over relatively quickly. Here's
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Speaker 8: the thing, and I'll say this, and I appreciate the
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Speaker 8: stuff like what Selsado was saying all morning about the
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Speaker 8: challenges that we face in this country, the need to
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Speaker 8: enforce the law, the likelihood that people who have broken
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Speaker 8: one law might break more laws, all those things. I
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Speaker 8: understand all that stuff, I don't know why at times
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Speaker 8: from the side of the aisle r side of the aisle.
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Speaker 8: The intelligent people is what i'd call all of us,
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Speaker 8: A lot of us who vote on this side. We
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Speaker 8: don't want the full narrative on everything, Like why would
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Speaker 8: we accept any narrative on any topic without getting more information,
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Speaker 8: without getting to see it. And if the governor is
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Speaker 8: saying there's gonna be an investigation by Texas Rangers, great fantastic.
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Speaker 8: I'm not gonna play the game that the left plays
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Speaker 8: and left leaning media plays and tell you that I
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Speaker 8: can't answer the question, which means I'm answering it in
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Speaker 8: the negative, essentially saying that if I don't have all
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Speaker 8: the information, I'm allowed to fill in the gaps with
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Speaker 8: my biases, my beliefs, and in those gaps, I'm gonna
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Speaker 8: put a whole bunch of bad deeds done by Ice
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Speaker 8: or anyone else, because that's completely.
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Speaker 1: Avoid of the facts.
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Speaker 8: And I'll tell you one more thing, because I know
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Speaker 8: this is such a big story and CBS News, I
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Speaker 8: think Salcedo this morning called them fake CBS News all morning,
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Speaker 8: which was pretty amusing to listen to him do that.
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Speaker 8: But nonetheless, the thing that I thought was so interesting
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Speaker 8: about it when I watched national news coverage continued national
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Speaker 8: news coverage of a thing that happened in Houston more
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Speaker 8: than a week ago. Now, I kept thinking to myself
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Speaker 8: that one of the biggest things that blows all of
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Speaker 8: these discussions away, like just removes them from people being
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Speaker 8: you know, curious, is transparency, is authenticity, is more information.
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Speaker 8: And so I don't know why that's ever a bad thing,
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Speaker 8: and I don't know why we can't as a society.
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Speaker 8: I'll just keep myself advocating for this all collectively say
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Speaker 8: we can't jump to conclusion so quick, you know, like
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Speaker 8: not because we don't probably know the answer, not because
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Speaker 8: you're not smart enough to figure out what you think
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Speaker 8: the answer might be, but because if you don't have receipts,
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Speaker 8: you don't have receipts. And I think that that goes
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Speaker 8: a long way. And I've talked about this before, and
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Speaker 8: I've had people tell me about this all the time before,
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Speaker 8: like you're not going to get receipts. There's so many
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Speaker 8: receipts that they'll hide from you forever. They'll burn, they'll destroy,
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Speaker 8: they'll do whatever with the information. We found out today
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Speaker 8: that the FBI is investigating whether or not there were
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Speaker 8: drugs inside the vehicle the person who was shot in
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Speaker 8: Houston by ice agents.
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Speaker 1: They weren't like giant, huge drugs.
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Speaker 8: They were baggies, and I think they were found inside
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Speaker 8: and outside of the vehicle, like three or four of
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Speaker 8: them in total. So that this story is evolving and
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Speaker 8: we are gaining information, and I kind of think that
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Speaker 8: if all of us were able to be just a
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Speaker 8: little bit slower in the process of thinking we knew
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Speaker 8: what happened and yelling at each other kind of like
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Speaker 8: we did during COVID. All the people who were telling
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Speaker 8: you to get a shot and that you were killing grandma,
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Speaker 8: they were profoundly wrong, and they were incredibly arrogant in
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Speaker 8: their opinion the entire way. And then when the data
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Speaker 8: finally came out a few years later that told them
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Speaker 8: that they were wrong the whole time.
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Speaker 1: What did they do? They told you, it's not time
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Speaker 1: to talk about that anymore.
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Speaker 8: They shoved the goalposts as far as they could, away,
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Speaker 8: as far as they could into whatever corner of society.
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Speaker 8: It was because they were blatantly wrong and didn't want
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Speaker 8: to admit it. And I don't know why we do that.
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Speaker 8: We can just wait and maybe if we keep waiting
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Speaker 8: for information, it starts to force people to put more
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Speaker 8: receipts out there into the world. I know there was
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Speaker 8: a time before social media, before the immediacy of the
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Speaker 8: Internet and the news cycle that we live in now,
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Speaker 8: where we did this, where we waited more.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, I want to.
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Speaker 8: Play the CBS story just like Salsato in the Morning did,
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Speaker 8: even though I think he played it just, you know,
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Speaker 8: piece by piece and eventually kept coming back after commercial
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Speaker 8: breaks and doing it, which was cool.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to play a lot of it. It's like
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Speaker 1: two and a half minutes.
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Speaker 8: And the big takeaway is our Attorney General, who's in this,
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Speaker 8: who is saying with it? Seems a certain opinion on this,
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Speaker 8: And actually I saw I should also say this before I.
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Speaker 1: Hit plan any audio.
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Speaker 8: I saw the Attorney General did multiple interviews with a
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Speaker 8: local radio station here, one a group that's on the
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Speaker 8: other side of the political spectrum to us, and it
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Speaker 8: was interesting in those interviews, and I thought about playing
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Speaker 8: that audio, but I'm probably not going to promote another
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Speaker 8: radio group, another radio station. In those interviews, he said
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Speaker 8: something about how he had to remain impartial, like, I
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Speaker 8: don't want to show if I believe something, I don't
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Speaker 8: want to go to the vigil a vigil. I don't
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Speaker 8: want to be at this stuff. I want it to
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Speaker 8: seem as though I'm capable of looking into this story
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Speaker 8: in an unbiased way. And then in one of the
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Speaker 8: interviews he added, but if you asked me my personal opinion,
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Speaker 8: my personal opinion is what it is. I thought that
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Speaker 8: was hilarious because you can't actually be non bias. You
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Speaker 8: can't actually be in the middle. If you reference that
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Speaker 8: you've already made up your mind. You just can't do that,
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Speaker 8: especially when in those interviews our Attorney General was also
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Speaker 8: admitting he didn't have all the information he might have been.
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Speaker 8: I don't think he was direct about this, convinced that
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Speaker 8: some of it was being hidden from him, that I
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Speaker 8: had collected some of it or told people to delete stuff.
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Speaker 1: Whatever that narrative is, that's out there.
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Speaker 8: But I just thought that was funny that he's like,
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Speaker 8: I have to remain impartial so I can be a
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Speaker 8: part of the process to figure out the truth. But
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Speaker 8: what you know, and you know what I think, but
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Speaker 8: let's play. This is CBS News. Last night they had
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Speaker 8: a reporter in Houston. It's interesting within the last twenty
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Speaker 8: four hours, a national news whether you think they're fake
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Speaker 8: or not, as Salcedo does, and most news is still
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Speaker 8: pretty fake.
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Speaker 1: And even the governor. They've all been.
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Speaker 8: In Houston, Houston Fields for a lot of reasons, like
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Speaker 8: it's become the mecca of a lot of stories or
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Speaker 8: a lot of news conversation here in our community.
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Speaker 1: But here's the CBS repair.
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Speaker 13: During President Trump's second term, at least eleven people have
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Speaker 13: been shot and killed by federal immigration officers, and many
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Speaker 13: others have been caught up in high profile, very public incidents.
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Speaker 13: CBS News Immigration correspondent Camila Montoya Galbez has been looking
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Speaker 13: into why there's seeming to be so many of these cases,
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Speaker 13: even considering the president's policies. He joins us now from Houston,
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Speaker 13: Camila Good Evening, What have you learned.
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Speaker 2: Hi, Tony Good Evening. Ice sources tell us that they
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Speaker 2: are deeply concerned that these fatal shootings across the country
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Speaker 2: could continue to increase. They are under tremendous political pressure
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Speaker 2: from the White House and people like Stephen Miller, one
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Speaker 2: of the president's top advisors, to expand in ecreation enforcement
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Speaker 2: and to record up to two thousand daily arrests. Historically,
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Speaker 2: under Republican and the Democratic administrations, most ICE arrests have
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Speaker 2: occurred in local jails, state and federal prisons, away from
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Speaker 2: the public's view, Tony. But to enforce President Trump's dramatic
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Speaker 2: crackdown on illegal and equestion, which is not just targeting
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Speaker 2: criminal egregious offenders, more ICE agents are being placed on
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Speaker 2: the streets of American towns and cities to make arrest
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Speaker 2: in broad daylight, in public. That is a strategy Tony
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Speaker 2: that it's more likely to create the dangerous and often
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Speaker 2: tragic situations we have seen.
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Speaker 1: Here in Houston.
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Speaker 8: Now, I'm going to do something that Salsato, as I said,
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Speaker 8: also did this morning. I'm going to dissect a few
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Speaker 8: of the words chosen from that portion of the news coverage,
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Speaker 8: just to point out what I think is obviously a
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Speaker 8: bias that's already existing and already being demonstrated there. He
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Speaker 8: says broad daylight, as if it's shocking that police would
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Speaker 8: do things when the sun is up. I actually think
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Speaker 8: that that's probably better than doing something in the middle
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Speaker 8: of the night, so that was weird. There was a
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Speaker 8: reference of the amount of people who've been shot and
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Speaker 8: killed by ice. I think he said something like eleven,
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Speaker 8: and I heard Salcedo this morning say that they're probably
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Speaker 8: I think he said, I'm sure there are more people
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Speaker 8: who've died at the hands of people here illegally. There's
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Speaker 8: actually data that you can look up to back up
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Speaker 8: that opinion, and it is true. I think the data
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Speaker 8: says something like nine or ten just this year, twenty five,
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Speaker 8: twenty six, last year.
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Speaker 1: Every single year it happens.
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Speaker 8: And I know that data might be inconvenient to some
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Speaker 8: people's narrative, but it's simply true, demonstrating the unique challenge,
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Speaker 8: the chaos, the difficulty of the entirety of this story,
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Speaker 8: and then the branches it takes, like the roads it
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Speaker 8: goes beyond saying something simplistic. And I'll continue to tell you,
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Speaker 8: and I'm going to go back to the CBS audio
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Speaker 8: that none of this is to say that I think
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Speaker 8: what happened in Houston is good or bad yet, because
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Speaker 8: I still don't know, and I still think that's the
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Speaker 8: more intelligent way to approach this, and not to assume
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Speaker 8: something and wind up like one of the idiots during
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Speaker 8: COVID who looked like a moron when they screamed and
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Speaker 8: yelled something and the data wound up proving it not true.
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Speaker 8: And to be honest, just simply being patient doesn't necessarily
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Speaker 8: make you wrong. If what comes out is exactly what
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Speaker 8: I said, it just makes you more willing to wait
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Speaker 8: to then say exactly what you were hoping. And I
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Speaker 8: do hope that that's what happened. I hope that somebody
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Speaker 8: wasn't just shot in the middle of the street in
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Speaker 8: a way where you didn't need to shoot them. And
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Speaker 8: I have a piece of discussion about the video that
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Speaker 8: is still out there, but it's hard to do because
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Speaker 8: I know that everybody's not going to watch the social
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Speaker 8: media channels, the Facebook, and I don't think I'm even
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Speaker 8: on Facebook, the X and YouTube and Rumble shows that
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Speaker 8: we do.
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Speaker 1: And I want to.
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Speaker 8: Describe what's in the video, but I'll do that in
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Speaker 8: a second. Let's get back to the CBS News first,
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Speaker 8: and then let's keep going.
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Speaker 13: So Cimilla, let's talk about tactics as they pursue these arrests.
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Speaker 13: In some cases, they are wearing masks, they are driving
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Speaker 13: on identified vehicles. They're not using body cameras. How does
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Speaker 13: that compare to the standards of traditional law enforcement.
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Speaker 2: Well, Department of Homelands security policy stipulates Tony that agents
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Speaker 2: can only use deadly and fatal force when they believe
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Speaker 2: somebody is posing a danger to the officers or to
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Speaker 2: others in the public. In the case of people who
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Speaker 2: are fleeing on operation, like was the case allegedly in
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Speaker 2: that incident in Maine, officers are not supposed to use
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Speaker 2: any deadly force unless they detect that they're a significant
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Speaker 2: threat to life. They can now use deadly force simply
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Speaker 2: to stop somebody from escaping and fleeing. Tony, and we
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Speaker 2: have to remember.
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Speaker 1: That here in Houston.
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Speaker 2: After that fatal shooting, the local district attorney, Harris County
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Speaker 2: District Attorney Sean Tiery, told us that he's investigating this
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Speaker 2: case and that he's never seen anything like this in
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Speaker 2: his twenty years in law enforcement.
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Speaker 7: It appears from everything we've seen that either these agents
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Speaker 7: are completely untrained or intentionally putting themselves in situations where
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Speaker 7: they can justify firing into cars.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, and I want to reiterate something that I said before.
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Speaker 8: If you go watch his interviews that he's done for
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Speaker 8: public access radio station that you can figure out what
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Speaker 8: it is now that's on the left, and he's obviously
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Speaker 8: on the left. He actually admits that he doesn't know
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Speaker 8: a whole lot. So it's kind of amazing that the
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Speaker 8: national news clip of our attorney general is saying to
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Speaker 8: the world and to our country that what he's seen
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Speaker 8: makes him believe that what happened is terrible, that either
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Speaker 8: it's intentionally done or because of a complete lack of training.
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Speaker 8: And then in other mediums and smaller ones, local ones
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Speaker 8: here with friendly people doing interviews with him, he admits
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Speaker 8: that there's a lot of information he doesn't have. That's
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Speaker 8: kind of weird. That's a weird juxtaposition to me. But nonetheless,
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Speaker 8: I don't know the truth, and I want you to
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Speaker 8: understand that that's okay right now, it's not okay forever.
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Speaker 8: I think a lot of people, for a lot of reasons,
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Speaker 8: are definitely going to want to know what inevitably happened
17:53
Speaker 8: as far as the story goes. And I'll say one
17:56
Speaker 8: last thing before I take a first break, and then
17:58
Speaker 8: we come back and we do a whole lot more.
18:00
Speaker 8: That's both about this topic and a lot of other
18:02
Speaker 8: things out there in the world, in the city and
18:06
Speaker 8: just in general, and maybe some fun stuff too. But
18:10
Speaker 8: the last thing I'll say is I get the impulse
18:13
Speaker 8: to want to defend people, and in this case, even
18:16
Speaker 8: the impulse of many of say, our own listeners, to
18:19
Speaker 8: want to defend what you believe to be just good
18:22
Speaker 8: ice agents, just good law enforcement officials. And how angry
18:26
Speaker 8: we get when we hear something reminiscent of the amount
18:30
Speaker 8: of lies that we hear constantly in the world of
18:32
Speaker 8: mainstream or left leaning media. If you hear someone, even
18:35
Speaker 8: somebody that's a friend of yours or somebody that you
18:37
Speaker 8: agree with ninety nine percent of the time go down
18:40
Speaker 8: a similar road to the road you hear the people
18:43
Speaker 8: go down who you think are manipulating you. I think
18:45
Speaker 8: it makes sense that people get mad, but I think
18:48
Speaker 8: you got to pause, take a break from that, and
18:51
Speaker 8: assume that some people are doing this in a genuine
18:55
Speaker 8: and an authentic way with good intentions. We have to
18:58
Speaker 8: give some people the benefit of the doubt who say
19:00
Speaker 8: let's wait for more information, to believe in fact that
19:03
Speaker 8: those people are waiting to tell you the absolute truth.
19:07
Speaker 8: And the drug aspect of this story brand new today
19:10
Speaker 8: is significant. Does that mean that someone in the backseat
19:13
Speaker 8: of the car was dealing drugs that just had three
19:17
Speaker 8: or four bags of meth on them? Does this mean
19:19
Speaker 8: that the people in the front of the car, including
19:21
Speaker 8: the person who was a shot and tragically.
19:23
Speaker 1: Died I was involved in that.
19:25
Speaker 8: We don't know, but it's definitely a brand new question
19:27
Speaker 8: with new investigation tentacles, I guess is the way to
19:31
Speaker 8: say it going on. But those who think that there's
19:34
Speaker 8: nothing to see here, like there's no news here. If
19:37
Speaker 8: that were true, people like Abbott wouldn't be telling you
19:40
Speaker 8: that the Texas Rangers are going to do an investigation.
19:43
Speaker 8: If there were no reason to at least have a
19:46
Speaker 8: cause for concern to make sure that what happened is
19:49
Speaker 8: in fact what happened, there wouldn't need to be this
19:52
Speaker 8: version of events. But I also think that just the
19:55
Speaker 8: genuine level of interest from so many people in the
19:58
Speaker 8: public and in the city does demonstrates the desire to
20:02
Speaker 8: prove whatever happened happened for whatever reasons it did to
20:07
Speaker 8: make those people eventually accept the narrative that might have
20:10
Speaker 8: been put out there. If it is in fact proven
20:12
Speaker 8: true that that's what happened, and that's the same token.
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Speaker 1: Again.
20:16
Speaker 8: I'll use the example one more time for the people
20:18
Speaker 8: who think that all the shots and the social distance
20:20
Speaker 8: and everything was good. There's a lot of data out
20:23
Speaker 8: there that says you were wrong and that it's not
20:25
Speaker 8: and you need to.
20:26
Speaker 1: Face that pied piper. All right, quick break, A lot
20:29
Speaker 1: coming up.
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Speaker 8: This is Craig Collins on the Craig Collin I almost
20:32
Speaker 8: said filling in because I fill in all the time
20:33
Speaker 8: and other stuff. And actually I'll be in all next
20:36
Speaker 8: week for Dana. I think it's seven shows in a
20:38
Speaker 8: row that I'll be doing for Dana Lash that I'll
20:40
Speaker 8: air in the station from two to four o'clock. So
20:42
Speaker 8: she's taken a vacation, much deserved, very very hard working,
20:46
Speaker 8: very famous human being, and I will be filling in
20:49
Speaker 8: for her for a bit. But this is actually my show,
20:52
Speaker 8: Craig Collins Show, KSV, The Voice of Texas. This is
20:55
Speaker 8: the Craig Collins Show KSCV, KGBC, The Voice of Texas.
20:59
Speaker 8: Thrilled to be a few A bunch of stuff out
21:02
Speaker 8: there to talk about. President Trump says that Iran is
21:04
Speaker 8: now begging to settle as far as a deal goes.
21:08
Speaker 8: This is not a new claim. We've heard this before
21:12
Speaker 8: when things get crazy. I hope that's it's real. And
21:16
Speaker 8: actually I'm not trying to accuse President Trump lying. He's
21:20
Speaker 8: referenced many many times how Iran says one thing and
21:23
Speaker 8: then they get behind a door and they say a
21:25
Speaker 8: completely different thing and their pieces of crap, and then
21:28
Speaker 8: they go out publicly and they say like a third
21:29
Speaker 8: different thing, and it's impossible to deal with them. But
21:32
Speaker 8: I did think this was interesting. Today the President, speaking
21:34
Speaker 8: at a Pennsylvania event, said that you know, they really
21:38
Speaker 8: really want what's happening now to stop happening. The blockade
21:42
Speaker 8: is back. We're bombing the crap out of them. We
21:46
Speaker 8: are more than capable of being in the driver's seat
21:49
Speaker 8: and have been in the driver's seat here, and they
21:51
Speaker 8: seem to think we won't be. And I think they
21:54
Speaker 8: were counting on our politics and reading our social media
21:57
Speaker 8: and watching our mainstream news media can convinced themselves that
22:01
Speaker 8: they had leverage they didn't have. And President Trump is
22:04
Speaker 8: trying to once again obliterate that idea.
22:07
Speaker 14: And it wasn't Other presidents didn't do what was right.
22:09
Speaker 14: They should have done it. A long time ago would
22:11
Speaker 14: have been much easier, and they want to settle so badly.
22:16
Speaker 14: They don't like what we're doing, and they do want
22:19
Speaker 14: to settle. We'll find out whether or not we settle
22:21
Speaker 14: with him or we just finish it off. But I
22:23
Speaker 14: want to thank Secretary of War Pete hagg Seth. He's
22:26
Speaker 14: been amazing. Pete, thank you very much.
22:28
Speaker 1: Great job, great job, Pete.
22:34
Speaker 14: He's been really amazing. You know, he used to do
22:36
Speaker 14: interviews only wanted to talk about his war. Sir, would
22:40
Speaker 14: you give a pardon to nineteen?
22:41
Speaker 1: Yeah?
22:42
Speaker 8: Well, mister President, I do love that when you give
22:44
Speaker 8: a pardon to nineteen people, that's ridiculous.
22:47
Speaker 1: The Department of War is still a cool name.
22:48
Speaker 8: I love when Joe Paggs makes jokes about that oven
22:52
Speaker 8: in the last Yeah, like way to give some praise
22:54
Speaker 8: out to Pete hagg Seth, who seems to deserve it,
22:56
Speaker 8: and mainstream media refuses to ever talk about him in
22:59
Speaker 8: a positive man whatsoever. I think that the SNL people
23:05
Speaker 8: try to pretend that he's just like a frat bro
23:07
Speaker 8: that does nothing good at all, But there's been multiple
23:10
Speaker 8: times where even the things he said publicly seem pretty fantastic.
23:14
Speaker 8: But yes, the President of the United States is uniquely
23:17
Speaker 8: paying attention to and trying to demonstrate to Iran that
23:20
Speaker 8: they have absolutely no leverage, and hopefully this time it
23:24
Speaker 8: actually is happening. The President did also talk about veterans,
23:28
Speaker 8: which I thought was interesting. He announced a new initiative
23:30
Speaker 8: to get illegal alien truck drivers off the roads because,
23:36
Speaker 8: and this is true, one of the things that eventually
23:39
Speaker 8: is a catalyst to many of the problems we're facing
23:41
Speaker 8: and being debated and talked about in our society is
23:45
Speaker 8: the capability of people to do things here in this
23:49
Speaker 8: country illegally. That makes more people want to come and
23:52
Speaker 8: be a part of this country illegally, and you have
23:54
Speaker 8: to upend that system. So not only did the President
23:57
Speaker 8: say we're going to do something to prevent people that
24:00
Speaker 8: don't have a legal right to be driving around in
24:01
Speaker 8: a car to get a CDL license and get a
24:04
Speaker 8: job delivering stuff, but we're actually going to find a
24:06
Speaker 8: way to empower veterans to give them those opportunities. A
24:10
Speaker 8: lot of people won't be able to say no to
24:12
Speaker 8: this because of the nice aspect of veterans getting to
24:16
Speaker 8: benefit from a thing that shouldn't exist to begin with.
24:19
Speaker 8: People shouldn't be working jobs of that value without the
24:23
Speaker 8: right to do them. We should follow the law. That's
24:27
Speaker 8: not a extreme take, and it shouldn't be an extreme
24:30
Speaker 8: take to anyone.
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Speaker 3: But here we go today, I'm making one more important announcement.
24:34
Speaker 3: My administration will soon take historic action to get illegal
24:37
Speaker 3: alien truck drivers who are just killing a lot of people.
24:40
Speaker 14: They can't read signs, many of.
24:43
Speaker 3: Them are on drugs or alcohol, and they shouldn't be
24:47
Speaker 3: driving these things, and they came in totally illegally. We
24:53
Speaker 3: don't want them, but they are driving all over American roadways,
24:58
Speaker 3: and we're going to replace them with the proud American veterans.
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Speaker 14: We're going to take our veterans who are going to
25:03
Speaker 14: make them.
25:04
Speaker 3: We're going to teach him a lot about driving trucks,
25:06
Speaker 3: and in many cases they know we're going to say
25:08
Speaker 3: any American who's driven a heavy truck for our military
25:11
Speaker 3: will automatically be eligible for a commercial drivers.
25:14
Speaker 1: That's pretty cool too.
25:15
Speaker 8: I like when they do the thing where they reference
25:17
Speaker 8: the fact that people have experience from the military. They're
25:21
Speaker 8: asked to do all kinds of stuff. I actually kind
25:23
Speaker 8: of uniquely, can we turn the mic down just a
25:24
Speaker 8: little bit. It's kind of a distorting not a whole lot,
25:27
Speaker 8: ought like, just a just a little tiny bit.
25:29
Speaker 1: Anyway.
25:30
Speaker 8: One of the things that I think is kind of
25:32
Speaker 8: interesting about this topic is that's so very often there's
25:37
Speaker 8: so many different aspects where the members of our military
25:40
Speaker 8: have a profound amount of experience, like an it in
25:43
Speaker 8: anything that inevitably gets them.
25:48
Speaker 1: The belief that they should get a lot of jobs.
25:51
Speaker 8: And I agree with them. I think they should get
25:53
Speaker 8: a lot of jobs. I think there's a lot of
25:55
Speaker 8: things that they should do. This is one of those things.
25:58
Speaker 8: If you drove a humvy during a conflict, you can
26:01
Speaker 8: drive a truck to a destination and drop off my
26:04
Speaker 8: desserts for me for Amazon. By the way, I did
26:07
Speaker 8: order these Drake's cakes that I love that have to
26:10
Speaker 8: come from the East Coast, and Amazon does it the
26:12
Speaker 8: second time I've done it now this year, and both times,
26:15
Speaker 8: when the Missus sees like a giant box of drake
26:18
Speaker 8: Cakes in the front of our house, she shakes her
26:20
Speaker 8: head and she likes, she loves me, so she accepts
26:23
Speaker 8: it and it's a thing that happened. And those go
26:25
Speaker 8: in the fridge and they last a while and I'd
26:27
Speaker 8: be very thrilled if a veteran drove and dropped that
26:30
Speaker 8: off for me and gave me that opportunity to eat
26:32
Speaker 8: those delicious, delicious snacks. Other things out there in the world,
26:37
Speaker 8: other conversations that I think I deserve to be talked about.
26:41
Speaker 8: A senator slam Democrats for avoiding a Senate hearing on
26:45
Speaker 8: exposing fraud.
26:47
Speaker 1: I thought this was really good audio.
26:49
Speaker 8: And what's funny to me is that there's these hot
26:53
Speaker 8: button issues that we can talk about right now. I
26:56
Speaker 8: can go on a twenty minute rant with you about
26:59
Speaker 8: the two three topics the mainstream news media and a
27:03
Speaker 8: lot of Democrats seem like they want us talking about,
27:06
Speaker 8: especially if any of those stories wind up furthering their
27:10
Speaker 8: narrative of something. If the few things that they want
27:13
Speaker 8: us discussing are things that could potentially benefit them even better.
27:17
Speaker 8: But the funny thing is there's so much stuff out
27:20
Speaker 8: there that they willfully ignore. And they do this on
27:23
Speaker 8: purpose because they absolutely understand that if they don't do this,
27:28
Speaker 8: if they don't keep pretending as though the things that
27:32
Speaker 8: you do, the things that I do, the things that
27:33
Speaker 8: we all do are not important, then they'll lose that
27:38
Speaker 8: control they have over their side of the political aisle.
27:40
Speaker 8: Fraud is one of these things.
27:42
Speaker 1: Fraud is. It's not political.
27:45
Speaker 8: What I mean by that is like uncovering it, outrooting it,
27:48
Speaker 8: getting our money back. That's not a bipartisan or that's not,
27:52
Speaker 8: excuse me, a partisan issue. Both sides should support that,
27:56
Speaker 8: and all Americans support it. It'd be like me being
28:00
Speaker 8: be if someone figures out that someone stole money from
28:02
Speaker 8: my wallet and they give me the money back. We
28:04
Speaker 8: all feel the same way about this topic. It is
28:07
Speaker 8: crazy the ways in which Democrats are trying to circumvent
28:11
Speaker 8: what's going on and how great it is in the
28:14
Speaker 8: world of fraud. And Nick Shirley did it again. By
28:16
Speaker 8: the way, Nick Shirley was in New York with doctor
28:19
Speaker 8: Oz knocking on doors and showing ridiculous amounts of medical
28:23
Speaker 8: fraud in another very deeply blue state.
28:26
Speaker 1: But here we go a little bit of.
28:28
Speaker 8: A senator slamming on a lot of the ridiculous things
28:31
Speaker 8: that Democrats do.
28:32
Speaker 4: I think preventing fraud and government should be completely nonpartisan.
28:37
Speaker 4: It's not a Democrat is your Republican issue. Yet the
28:41
Speaker 4: entire almost the entirety of the Republican dias has filled
28:44
Speaker 4: people sitting here listening to the entire hearing, and literally
28:46
Speaker 4: the entire Democrat dias is empty.
28:50
Speaker 1: I think that they don't want to be there, frankly disgraced.
28:51
Speaker 1: They don't want to talk about it.
28:52
Speaker 4: I think it's a disgrace to the people who pay
28:54
Speaker 4: taxes to know that there's an entire party that does
28:58
Speaker 4: not care. Whether it's the taxpayer money is burnt.
29:02
Speaker 8: They just don't care. And you know, you can go
29:04
Speaker 8: a step further with that. I'm sure a lot of
29:06
Speaker 8: your brains already just did they do it on purpose?
29:08
Speaker 8: Because they're the ones stealing all the money, They're the
29:10
Speaker 8: ones embezzling at all. They're the ones keeping it all
29:12
Speaker 8: and it's terrible. Other or my mom, I yes, the
29:15
Speaker 8: funny bones that is accurate. As far as the Drake
29:18
Speaker 8: cake that I order, we all love those grown up
29:20
Speaker 8: in New Jersey, and every once in a while I
29:23
Speaker 8: can't resist it, Like they're just sitting there on my
29:25
Speaker 8: Amazon as a previously ordered item and I just I
29:28
Speaker 8: have to do it. I don't do it a lot,
29:30
Speaker 8: but I do it occasionally. Anyway, let's get back to
29:33
Speaker 8: the topic. That was funny as far as this goes.
29:36
Speaker 8: I love pointing out the obvious that there's such a fear, like, honestly, genuinely,
29:42
Speaker 8: here's the best way to say it. Before we take
29:44
Speaker 8: another short break and we come back and we wrap
29:47
Speaker 8: up this whole a show with a lot of maybe
29:50
Speaker 8: less serious stuff. I don't know, I will see there's
29:52
Speaker 8: still a lot of news out there, and we only
29:54
Speaker 8: get the one hour to talk about it. But the
29:56
Speaker 8: last thing I'll say before we take a pause of
29:59
Speaker 8: any kind on all of this kind of ridiculousness of
30:03
Speaker 8: these discussions that we have is Democrats are terrified that
30:09
Speaker 8: they'll lose power from one of three different things. There
30:13
Speaker 8: are three avenues in which Americans overwhelmingly start to vote Republican,
30:18
Speaker 8: and Republicans win a majority of elections. The first one's
30:21
Speaker 8: the Save Act, securing our elections. Democrats have said out loud,
30:25
Speaker 8: I've played audio on this show that they're terrified of
30:29
Speaker 8: the Save Act because they think it means Democrats will
30:32
Speaker 8: stop winning elections. And why is that? If all the
30:35
Speaker 8: Save Act is doing is trying to force only people
30:38
Speaker 8: who have the right to vote to vote, how do
30:40
Speaker 8: Democrats know that's already going to cause them to lose
30:42
Speaker 8: a lot of elections. I ask you that you ask
30:44
Speaker 8: me that the second of the three things that democrats
30:47
Speaker 8: are afraid will do is coordinate thought in such a
30:51
Speaker 8: way on our own through platforms like acts that aren't
30:56
Speaker 8: as censored as other stuff, is to be better in
31:00
Speaker 8: they really don't want us well informed. Well informed is
31:03
Speaker 8: very very bad. It's terrifying to them because well informed
31:08
Speaker 8: means you can make nuanced decisions and nuanced and you
31:11
Speaker 8: don't have to always run and retreat into your corner
31:14
Speaker 8: as sort of a gut reaction or a knee jerk
31:17
Speaker 8: reaction to something. I understand it because of how crazy
31:20
Speaker 8: everything is on the other side all the time. You
31:23
Speaker 8: don't have to do that. If we have better conversation,
31:26
Speaker 8: more informed discussion, and a willingness to highlight the wins
31:31
Speaker 8: that exist out there for our country and for our society,
31:35
Speaker 8: then like let's call that to B is the times
31:40
Speaker 8: when something great happens and it's the other side of
31:42
Speaker 8: the aisle and they don't want to admit it, and
31:44
Speaker 8: if you just admitted it, you'd show that you were
31:46
Speaker 8: at least willing to be honest.
31:48
Speaker 1: That would be great.
31:49
Speaker 8: That's the second thing they're terrified of they're terrified of
31:51
Speaker 8: honest conversation. And then third, they're terrified of people like Trump.
31:55
Speaker 8: And what I mean by that is people who can
31:57
Speaker 8: win the popular vote, people who can demonstrate Spencer Pratt
32:01
Speaker 8: terrified of that guy in California who probably did win
32:06
Speaker 8: and then get cheated out of his spot in a
32:08
Speaker 8: runoff election, because it was no nonsense, it was simplistic.
32:12
Speaker 8: The idea was, you know, California has done terrible things
32:15
Speaker 8: with your money and with the city and the state,
32:19
Speaker 8: and it's not fair to you. It's not fair to me.
32:21
Speaker 8: And Spencer Pratt was saying, my own house burned down
32:24
Speaker 8: and that's terrible, and I'd really really like to have
32:26
Speaker 8: you know, a house again. And these are things that
32:29
Speaker 8: I can help get done for the country and for
32:31
Speaker 8: the city and the state. If you elect me a
32:35
Speaker 8: mayor of Los Angeles, that's something I can do. And
32:38
Speaker 8: that's no nonsense. That's simplistic. That's like talking about how
32:42
Speaker 8: inflation is going down and that's good for all of us.
32:45
Speaker 8: Just very easy, simple things that they are terrified I
32:49
Speaker 8: will actually land with more people, especially younger voters, just
32:53
Speaker 8: because they're simply common sense.
32:55
Speaker 1: So that's it.
32:55
Speaker 8: Those are the things they're most afraid of when they're
32:58
Speaker 8: planning all the time to restrict which stories you do,
33:01
Speaker 8: talk about which ones you don't, and how they inevitably
33:03
Speaker 8: get just their narrative out there. Right, We'll take one
33:06
Speaker 8: more break. Kind of a serious show, kind of like
33:09
Speaker 8: a dreary day.
33:10
Speaker 1: I don't know why.
33:11
Speaker 8: I think it's just like, you know, hot and nice outside.
33:13
Speaker 8: I don't think it's rain and a whole bunch is
33:15
Speaker 8: rain in the middle of the day. But part of
33:17
Speaker 8: me is like in that weird kind of funk mood.
33:19
Speaker 8: I don't know if you are too. I said, we'll
33:21
Speaker 8: come back, We'll probably hit a little bit of news
33:23
Speaker 8: and then we'll have some fun on the Voice of Texas.
33:26
Speaker 1: This is the Greig Collins Show.
33:28
Speaker 8: KSCV KGBC, the Voice of Texas. I want to let
33:32
Speaker 8: you know one other programming thing. Tomorrow on this show,
33:35
Speaker 8: I will be inviting a buddy of mine who I
33:37
Speaker 8: disagree with on almost everything in politics. I felt like
33:41
Speaker 8: it's my version of the Judge The Amigos on Friday
33:44
Speaker 8: do that where they have Senator Bettencourt, they have the
33:47
Speaker 8: Strew with a view, the smart One as he is
33:50
Speaker 8: known on social media, and then they have the judge,
33:53
Speaker 8: Eric Indll, who I do like off air, will make
33:56
Speaker 8: a bunch of jokes about how he should just leave.
33:58
Speaker 1: I think he enjoys the show. I think they all
34:00
Speaker 1: enjoy the show.
34:01
Speaker 8: I think they obviously disagree on a lot of stuff,
34:04
Speaker 8: but it's an interesting version of a conversation that if
34:07
Speaker 8: you don't have a bunch of people calling in that
34:09
Speaker 8: you like disagree with, you don't get so. I reached
34:12
Speaker 8: out to a buddy of mine, longtime broadcaster in Chicago
34:14
Speaker 8: and other places. I was like, Hey, you want to
34:17
Speaker 8: do this once in a while, once a week whatever,
34:20
Speaker 8: where we definitely argue about topics. We're not going to
34:23
Speaker 8: do it just for the sake of argument. We're going
34:25
Speaker 8: to talk about things and I'm going to tell him
34:27
Speaker 8: how he's wrong about stuff, and that'll be fun.
34:29
Speaker 1: That's happening tomorrow.
34:30
Speaker 8: My friend's name is Brian Noonan, and he will be
34:32
Speaker 8: on the show playing the role of Eric the judge
34:37
Speaker 8: a one day before the judge does that for the
34:38
Speaker 8: amigos and we'll see how it goes. And like I said,
34:41
Speaker 8: we might do it kind of often on this station
34:44
Speaker 8: because he likes to talk about stuff. I like to
34:46
Speaker 8: talk about stuff, and we disagree on a ton of stuff.
34:50
Speaker 8: Let me play this audio. This is the Daylight Save
34:54
Speaker 8: daylight saving time or daylight save Time act. I don't
34:57
Speaker 8: know why it's called that. I hear because it's daylight
35:01
Speaker 8: saving time. But nonetheless, what I think is really interesting
35:04
Speaker 8: about this is that there's no reason not to pass it.
35:09
Speaker 1: It blew through the House. The Senate might pass, it
35:12
Speaker 1: might not pass it.
35:14
Speaker 8: Apparently we did this once before for like a year,
35:17
Speaker 8: where we stayed on daylight saving time, and then we
35:20
Speaker 8: went back to not having it. A lot of people
35:23
Speaker 8: thought that maybe more accidents car accident in the morning
35:26
Speaker 8: were going to happen. Let's not do that again, people,
35:29
Speaker 8: Let's stick to this.
35:29
Speaker 1: Let's make this a thing. But I just thought it
35:31
Speaker 1: was interesting.
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Speaker 8: Fox talked about it, and the President is pushing for it,
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Speaker 8: and I couldn't be happier at the idea of it
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Speaker 8: because it would allow for a lot of reasons, but
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Speaker 8: it would also allow my radio station to be easier
35:42
Speaker 8: to hear my radio show, excuse me, to be easier
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Speaker 8: to hear a year round instead of just part of
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Speaker 8: the year.
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Speaker 1: So let's hit play on this.
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Speaker 5: It is almost on your side. The House passing the
35:52
Speaker 5: Sunshine Protection Act, which is a bill that would make
35:55
Speaker 5: daylight saving time permanent and now heads to the Senate,
35:59
Speaker 5: and if passed, a Maria kids would no longer have
36:01
Speaker 5: a chance to change their clocks twice a year, but
36:04
Speaker 5: it would also allow states to opt out. President Trump
36:07
Speaker 5: has been pushing to get the legislation passed, writing in
36:09
Speaker 5: May quote, it's time that people can stop worrying about
36:13
Speaker 5: the clock. We are going with the far more popular
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Speaker 5: alternative saving daylight, which gives you a longer, brighter day,
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Speaker 5: and talk can be against that. Now, this is an
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Speaker 5: easy one.
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Speaker 8: It is an easy one. They should do it. I
36:25
Speaker 8: don't know why they won't do it. If they don't,
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Speaker 8: and if they do, a great I'll be happy about that.
36:29
Speaker 8: One other last piece of audio in the world of
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Speaker 8: serious stuff, or at least news and political stuff, and
36:35
Speaker 8: then we'll do some silly things before we get out
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Speaker 8: of here. I saw this story, and I think I
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Speaker 8: even talked about it the other day. But lore Ingram
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Speaker 8: also noticed it and thought it was ridiculous because it
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Speaker 8: is CNBC did a report where they ranked the best
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Speaker 8: and worst states, and you will be completely unsurprised to
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Speaker 8: know that all of the terrible states were won by
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Speaker 8: President Trump and all of the really great states, the
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Speaker 8: blue hell holes is some call them that people are
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Speaker 8: fleeing from, like Illinois and New York, somehow made it
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Speaker 8: to the top of the list.
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Speaker 1: That's kind of crazy. Now check out this recent list.
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Speaker 15: Six hundred and fifty CEOs were polled and they rated
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Speaker 15: the best states in which to do business, the top
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Speaker 15: ten including Texas and Florida, Mnnessee, Georgia, South Carolina a Republican.
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Speaker 15: They were run by Republicans except Virginia, which is at
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Speaker 15: number ten. In North Carolina kind of a purple state
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Speaker 15: at number five. Sure, so money and people resources are
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Speaker 15: pouring into red states.
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Speaker 1: Yes, So how did the socialist brush this off?
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Speaker 15: Well, they do so either by ignoring it or distorting
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Speaker 15: the data, or the little help from their friends.
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Speaker 1: This CNBC report just comes out.
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Speaker 15: They listed the ten worst states to live in for
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Speaker 15: twenties twenty six. All the states on this list, okay,
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Speaker 15: Trump won every state.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: And by the way, for anyone that's not actually watching
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Speaker 8: on social media and I'm putting up the video, there
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Speaker 8: the states that are the worst according to CNBC completely
37:58
Speaker 8: different than the state that these CEOs said were great
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Speaker 8: but terrible states Tennessee, Texas, Indiana, Louisiana, Georgia, Utah, Missouri, Alabama, Oklahoma,
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Speaker 8: and Arkansas, so red states. And then if you look
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Speaker 8: at the really great ones on their list, it was California,
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Speaker 8: New York, Illinois, a bunch of places that the leaders
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Speaker 8: of those companies would tell you were absolutely horrible and
38:22
Speaker 8: terrible places for them to do business. And a lot
38:25
Speaker 8: of businesses are fleeing and a lot of people are
38:27
Speaker 8: fleeing all of those states. But it's just kind of
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Speaker 8: hilarious that somebody somewhere was like, this looks bad. It
38:33
Speaker 8: looks like some people might keep moving to the places
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Speaker 8: we don't want them to live, especially taking the money
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Speaker 8: with them, because New York is learning how bad of
38:42
Speaker 8: an idea is to crap all over people who have money,
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Speaker 8: because then the people leave and then you're screwed.
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Speaker 1: Then you have no other option.
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Speaker 8: You have nothing else that you can do in that situation,
38:53
Speaker 8: because you know that's how you were making all your
38:56
Speaker 8: money to begin with, as the government. But I just
38:57
Speaker 8: thought that was kind of funny. Some other things out there,
39:00
Speaker 8: these are definitely lighter things. A mashup of a music
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Speaker 8: of a couple songs went viral. One of them is
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Speaker 8: choosing Texas, and I thought that was kind of funny.
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Speaker 8: Someone mashed it up with that boy is Mine and
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Speaker 8: people seem to really really like this. You decide if
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Speaker 8: this is sacrilege or not for choosing Texas to be
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Speaker 8: squished with a Brandy and Monica song. But I did
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Speaker 8: at least think this was amusing to listen to.
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Speaker 1: Here we go.
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Speaker 13: Excuse me, Can I please talk to you for a minute.
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Speaker 1: I just want to let you know that he's mine.
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Speaker 2: No, no, he's.
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Speaker 9: Mine from Texas sacon tell he's just stepping rail, judging
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Speaker 9: smile his face. There's nothing I can do. It doesn't
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Speaker 9: tag a crid Why the cowboy eyes bi Away drinking
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Speaker 9: Jacob on myself?
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Speaker 8: These choosing Texas town just yeah, it's kind of almost desperate.
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Speaker 8: The little Brandy and Monica, that boy's mind clips, they're
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Speaker 8: being dropped in there.
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Speaker 1: Most of it is is pretty good, but I do
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Speaker 1: think a.
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Speaker 8: Lot of people think this will be sacrilege to shift
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Speaker 8: these two things together. A mashups go viral a lot.
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Speaker 8: It's an odd, very digital form of music that is
40:28
Speaker 8: popular today that doesn't seem like it should be that popular.
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Speaker 8: I don't mean to crap on mashups entirely, but I will.
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Speaker 8: It's just a dude with a computer. It's very different
40:37
Speaker 8: than bands playing songs and writing lyrics and putting it
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Speaker 8: all together and impressing everybody. It's just a guy putting
40:44
Speaker 8: stuff together on his you know, programs on his computer
40:48
Speaker 8: and then pushing it out into the world and it
40:50
Speaker 8: gets millions and millions of hits. Another story I saw
40:53
Speaker 8: that I thought was funny. I don't know why we've
40:56
Speaker 8: been seeing so many of these recently, but like animal
40:59
Speaker 8: attacks have been in the news, a guy in New
41:01
Speaker 8: York is recovering after he was attacked by a beaver
41:04
Speaker 8: while swimming in link. I'm not gonna make any jokes
41:06
Speaker 8: will simming in lake. George Brandon is the guy's name.
41:09
Speaker 8: I think his last name is actually his last name
41:12
Speaker 8: is actually short Sleeve. So Brandon short Sleeve was in
41:15
Speaker 8: the water with his brother and a friend and that's
41:17
Speaker 8: when a beaver attacked him. He's gonna be okay. I
41:21
Speaker 8: think that there's some audio that we can play though
41:23
Speaker 8: of this conversation.
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Speaker 11: The first time. My friend ended up picking it up
41:26
Speaker 11: swam back at him. So we were like, okay, this
41:30
Speaker 11: is out for blood. This was a puncture, but his
41:32
Speaker 11: teeth went through my stomach. He said, I attacked him.
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Speaker 11: I just jumped in the water and then I grabbed
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Speaker 11: whatever it was attacking him pulled it out. I was
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Speaker 11: a little freaked out. I didn't like think it was
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Speaker 11: a beaver at first, you know, I just grabbed this
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Speaker 11: little brown blob in the water. It ended up biting
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Speaker 11: me a few times as I got it out of
41:48
Speaker 11: the water, so I was like, I got to keep
41:50
Speaker 11: a good grip on this thing. And then I just
41:52
Speaker 11: tossed him pretty far by the way.
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Speaker 1: That's probably not easy, oh wet beaver.
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Speaker 8: That's you know, like being plucked out of the water
41:59
Speaker 8: that's attacked and somebody and then you chuck it any
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Speaker 8: direction you can.
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Speaker 1: Probably chug it.
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Speaker 8: That's uniquely a difficult time. I do love the fact
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Speaker 8: that he said, like the thing was attacking the wild
42:09
Speaker 8: animal was attacking his friend, and so he just kind
42:12
Speaker 8: of stuck his hands in whatever the blob is.
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Speaker 1: You yank it out and you throw it.
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Speaker 8: That's the beginning of a lot of terrifying movies, because
42:19
Speaker 8: the blob is not just a beaver. The blob is
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Speaker 8: some crazy like snake monster that you've never seen before,
42:25
Speaker 8: and then it eats both people like. The thing that's
42:27
Speaker 8: funny to me is that if they learned any lesson
42:29
Speaker 8: from Hollywood, and I'm glad they did it, I'm glad
42:32
Speaker 8: you protect your friend, but it could have gone much
42:34
Speaker 8: worse than inevitably did. Good that it didn't wind up being,
42:38
Speaker 8: you know, I don't know, the Locknest monster or something else.
42:42
Speaker 8: A couple other quick stories before we get out of here,
42:44
Speaker 8: then I thought were interesting. Another stupid news story. Nevada's
42:48
Speaker 8: governor dropped his name to avoid a ticket. This went viral.
42:52
Speaker 8: I have a question about this in general, not even
42:55
Speaker 8: just specifically with like a politician, but anybody who can
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Speaker 8: benefit in any way from throwing a name around. But
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Speaker 8: here's some audio of a body cam of George Lombardo
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Speaker 8: being like, you really don't want to give me a ticket?
43:11
Speaker 8: I'm an important person.
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Speaker 1: He dun Sir Sergeant Chugar Nutchell Police, some reason I'm stapping.
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Speaker 14: In us for the mart I'm a fully web right violation.
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Speaker 1: You're right turn onto a battles for you're good to go.
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Speaker 1: So appreciate you're good to go, Sarah, because you're important.
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Speaker 1: That's right at the beginning here, Sir Sergeant Chugar Nutchell
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Speaker 1: Police some reason, I'm stapping in us for the Joe Lombardo,
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Speaker 1: that's me.
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Speaker 8: You've heard of me. I'm I'm the governor. Can I
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Speaker 8: leave now? And then he lets him go. Here's my question.
43:40
Speaker 8: Even though I hate this, especially in the world of
43:43
Speaker 8: like elitist politicians of any kind on either side of
43:47
Speaker 8: the political aisle, I don't like watching them think that
43:49
Speaker 8: they can do things the rest of us can't do.
43:52
Speaker 8: If you had a shot to take any sort of
43:56
Speaker 8: card out of your pocket and say this is a
43:57
Speaker 8: way for me to get out of this thing that
43:59
Speaker 8: I'm in trouble before, I think a lot of us
44:01
Speaker 8: would do it. I don't know if we do it
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Speaker 8: like this. I don't know if you do it this blatantly,
44:06
Speaker 8: or you might do it a little bit more apologetically
44:08
Speaker 8: or just kind of hope it's discovered. But I think
44:11
Speaker 8: that a lot of people would be you know, would
44:15
Speaker 8: struggle to not take advantage of those moments. And I
44:18
Speaker 8: remember something unique about this topic, and it's I don't
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Speaker 8: I shouldn't probably name the person.
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Speaker 1: It's a sports guy.
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Speaker 8: I was doing sports radio in South Bend, Indiana, and
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Speaker 8: Notre Dame was good because I was in college at
44:31
Speaker 8: the time and got to cover the team. I didn't
44:33
Speaker 8: go to Notre Dame. I went to Holy Cross, which
44:35
Speaker 8: is the Rudy School. But anyway, there was an event
44:38
Speaker 8: that happened. I think it was one of the USC games,
44:41
Speaker 8: and like all of the national sports media came into
44:43
Speaker 8: town and so the press people we line up in
44:47
Speaker 8: a certain spot for marquee games, or at least we
44:50
Speaker 8: did at Notre Dame Stadium, and they take a little
44:53
Speaker 8: while to let you in and they're checking your press
44:55
Speaker 8: credentials all that kind of stuff, especially for big games
44:58
Speaker 8: like that, and a couple very fancy high flutin like
45:02
Speaker 8: national media sports guys showed up and cut the entire
45:06
Speaker 8: line of other press people and we were living so
45:10
Speaker 8: many of us were like yelling at these dudes, and
45:12
Speaker 8: they just didn't care.
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Speaker 1: They looked at us like we didn't matter.
45:14
Speaker 8: And the funny thing was the people checking the badges
45:18
Speaker 8: let them in because they were more famous than the
45:20
Speaker 8: rest of us.
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Speaker 1: They did they jumped the line. It was stupid. We
45:23
Speaker 1: were mad.
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Speaker 8: We all went to a thing for free in which
45:26
Speaker 8: Notre Dame wound up losing at the end in a
45:28
Speaker 8: terrible way. That's the Bush Push, a game for anyone
45:31
Speaker 8: that actually does care and follow out the world of
45:34
Speaker 8: college sports and like Notre Dame.
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Speaker 1: But we all got to go in for free. I
45:37
Speaker 1: got to eat the same food.
45:38
Speaker 8: Everything about it was great, but I was annoyed they
45:41
Speaker 8: tried to take that little advantage that the rest of
45:43
Speaker 8: us shouldn't take. And yet if it were me and
45:46
Speaker 8: I could have tried to skip the line. I don't
45:49
Speaker 8: know how you resist that. I think there's a lot
45:51
Speaker 8: of people out there, in fact, who don't resist it.
45:53
Speaker 1: So it is what it is. But I just thought
45:55
Speaker 1: that was.
45:56
Speaker 8: Kind of funny too that the Nevada governor was like,
45:58
Speaker 8: I'm this guy, really, could you just not give me
46:01
Speaker 8: a ticket? One last thing, one last silly story or
46:06
Speaker 8: not so serious thing before we get out of here.
46:10
Speaker 8: Forty used to be middle aged, but now it's not anymore.
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Speaker 8: According to an article that's on the internet, I am
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Speaker 8: forty years old. I've talked about it on the show before.
46:19
Speaker 8: I think MSN was the place that put this out
46:22
Speaker 8: there even more. But there were some people that were
46:26
Speaker 8: talking about this in the world of media photographer and
46:28
Speaker 8: an article written in Harper's Bizarre magazine, forty is now
46:33
Speaker 8: still thought of as young to some, not to everybody.
46:38
Speaker 8: Forty Again, you thought that at some point in your
46:40
Speaker 8: life this was a thing that I don't know, you
46:44
Speaker 8: felt like you were officially on the wrong side of
46:47
Speaker 8: the life wheel. But now life expectancy means you're not
46:51
Speaker 8: many many people live into their late seventies and early eighties,
46:54
Speaker 8: so forty feels different than it did a certain set
46:58
Speaker 8: of years ago. I don't know if that's really all
47:00
Speaker 8: it is, if I'm being honest, because I know there's
47:02
Speaker 8: a lot of people who would say that forty is
47:05
Speaker 8: still young and it's not as old as maybe they
47:09
Speaker 8: felt when they were forty, which is kind of funny
47:11
Speaker 8: to me. But the thing I think that's actually really
47:14
Speaker 8: causing this is the delayed things we're doing later in
47:17
Speaker 8: life now, the buying a house. There's some stuff that
47:20
Speaker 8: really isn't happening. I had a conversation with somebody in
47:23
Speaker 8: radio yesterday, like a boss person in radio not here
47:27
Speaker 8: somewhere else, about the value of a younger listener and
47:31
Speaker 8: long time. This is a silly thing to end the
47:33
Speaker 8: show on, but I will for a long time. Our
47:35
Speaker 8: industry would say, like a twenty something radio listener might
47:39
Speaker 8: not have the finances of a person that's a little older,
47:43
Speaker 8: and that person that older is a valuable audience member
47:46
Speaker 8: even if they're much older than twenty because they do
47:50
Speaker 8: they have excess money. They have things that they can
47:53
Speaker 8: spend their hard earned dollars on that maybe a younger
47:56
Speaker 8: person can't. And I do think that's kind of changed
47:59
Speaker 8: because a lot of young people are living at home,
48:01
Speaker 8: skirting some of these expenses, and they wind up having
48:04
Speaker 8: excess cash that I don't think they save, that I
48:06
Speaker 8: do think they spend.
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Speaker 1: So I was kind of pointing that out.
48:09
Speaker 8: I was like, you know, that feels to me like
48:11
Speaker 8: a little bit of a dated opinion, just because people
48:15
Speaker 8: are sitting on those accomplishments in life or those expensive
48:20
Speaker 8: moves in life for longer for a variety of reasons.
48:23
Speaker 8: But I just kind of thought that was funny that
48:24
Speaker 8: they're saying that forty now isn't as old as it
48:27
Speaker 8: used to be. Not that I know anybody in my
48:30
Speaker 8: group of friends who's doing this, but people living at
48:34
Speaker 8: home at forty isn't completely unheard of in that seems.
48:38
Speaker 8: I don't know why you do that, but it's not
48:41
Speaker 8: a zero sum game anymore, and it probably was much
48:43
Speaker 8: more of a zero some game before.
48:46
Speaker 1: So my belief is that's kind of what's causing it there.
48:48
Speaker 8: My knees do hurt, by the way, So as far
48:51
Speaker 8: as me myself, I feel old, I do not feel
48:54
Speaker 8: like I am just simply on the younger side of
48:56
Speaker 8: middle aged because this right knee right now is in
48:59
Speaker 8: pain and I've nothing.
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Speaker 1: Today to make it feel the way it does. All right,
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Speaker 1: that's it. That's the whole show.
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Speaker 8: Thrilled with you as always to be here, psyched to
49:07
Speaker 8: be back tomorrow and back on Friday.
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Speaker 1: Talk to you then, Craig Collins Show, KSV