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Remembering Charlie Kirk With Jonathan Saenz, Talarico's Flip Flops, and County Taxes · KSEV Mornings with Craig and Wayne

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Speaker 9: Wayne Dolcefino is on special assignment for the day. He
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Speaker 9: here tomorrow, which is going to be fun. And I
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Speaker 9: definitely look forward to a discussion with Wayne tomorrow. But
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Speaker 9: there is a lot of stuff to talk about. The biggest,
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Speaker 9: most gigantic thing out there in the actual news to
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Speaker 9: as you heard Dan Patrick say yesterday, it's probably going
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Speaker 9: crap ton of moving forward all the time.
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Speaker 1: In the world of the.
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Speaker 9: Midterms and doing conventions just like we do during presidential
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Speaker 1: So there's a lot to talk about there.
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Speaker 9: Before that, though, I do have a special guest I'd
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Speaker 9: like to bring on, and we're not going to talk
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Speaker 9: about the breaking news. I promised to get to that
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Speaker 9: at like 7.15, 7.30 this morning. But there is a
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Speaker 9: pretty cool event coming up, and the president of Texas Values,
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Speaker 9: Jonathan Sinez, is with us.
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Speaker 1: How are you doing, Jonathan?
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Speaker 10: Good morning. I'm doing great.
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Speaker 1: So tell me a little bit more.
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Speaker 9: I've never been to the event before. I do intend
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Speaker 9: to go this year for the first time. That's no
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Speaker 9: offense to you. I'm a fairly new Texan. So tell
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Speaker 9: me what people can expect.
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Speaker 1: If they go to this.
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Speaker 10: Well, as someone who was born and raised in Houston,
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Speaker 10: I will do my best to make it worth your while.
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Speaker 10: But I don't think it'll be hard for me to
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Speaker 10: convince you once you've left the event that it was
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Speaker 10: worthwhile because most of the people that have come to
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Speaker 10: this event for the first time have left and said,
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Speaker 10: It changed their life. They're coming back next year, even
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Speaker 10: reporters that have been a part of the event. But
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Speaker 10: just before we get into the details of the event,
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Speaker 10: I want to take a minute to acknowledge that sadly
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Speaker 10: today is the anniversary of the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Yes,
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Speaker 10: it is. I remember our event last year that we
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Speaker 10: have every year is the ninth year to have it,
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Speaker 10: Texas Faith Fest. You can go to the website TexasFaithFest.com
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Speaker 10: or TXValues.org. And I remember we were coming right off
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Speaker 10: of that. It had just been a week or two
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Speaker 10: before that Charlie Kirk had been assassinated. As a matter
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Speaker 10: of fact, the day after 9-11, as we know, I
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Speaker 10: was driving into Houston to the northwest part of the area,
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Speaker 10: going to a meeting with Cypress Fair Republicans and talking
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Speaker 10: about this issue and still just being in shock. And
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Speaker 10: the reason I mention that is for a variety of reasons.
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Speaker 10: Number one, the organization that we run, Texas Values, is
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Speaker 10: centered on the issues of faith, family, and freedom. We
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Speaker 10: know those were so important to Charlie Kirk. We also
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Speaker 10: know how important it is for people to feel not
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Speaker 10: only the value but the importance of them speaking out
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Speaker 10: in public, talking about important issues, and challenging the status
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Speaker 10: quo or what people think is true when oftentimes it's not.
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Speaker 10: And so it's sad to wake up this morning and
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Speaker 10: think about that it's been a year and that Charlie
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Speaker 10: Kirk has actually been gone forever. and in such a
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Speaker 10: brutal and violent way. But there is a pathway forward.
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Speaker 10: But I do think it's appropriate to take that moment
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Speaker 10: this morning and acknowledge the importance of his life and
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Speaker 10: legacy and why we need to carry that on.
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Speaker 9: And his importance of his advocacy for faith. Charlie Kirk,
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Speaker 9: to me, is someone that was so intentionally misunderstood by
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Speaker 9: anyone that disliked him And all you had to do
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Speaker 9: was watch a very simplistic five, 10 minute, even a
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Speaker 9: highlight video of the way he conducted himself with others.
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Speaker 9: He had firm beliefs. There is no denying that. But
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Speaker 9: he was very much grounded in his faith. And he
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Speaker 9: was very compassionate, in my opinion, to everyone he talked
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Speaker 9: to in the sense of a willingness to hear their
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Speaker 9: entire point and then provide his entire point back. And
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Speaker 9: so it was an utter tragedy when it would be anyway,
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Speaker 9: if someone were shot and killed in that horrific of
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Speaker 9: a fashion. but even more so, I think, for a
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Speaker 9: conversation that's incredibly needed with young voters that centers around faith.
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Speaker 9: And I imagine that's one of the bigger things that'll
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Speaker 9: be a part of the Texas Faith Fest is having
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Speaker 9: Brandon Gill as one of your guests and how well
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Speaker 9: of a job he did last night. Like, great move there,
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Speaker 9: because I do think you're bringing in that sensibility that
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Speaker 9: seems to be missing in younger generations that really does
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Speaker 9: a lot to to push us in a better direction
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Speaker 9: as a society.
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Speaker 10: No, I think you're absolutely right. And the goal of
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Speaker 10: the event is to educate, motivate, and activate people on
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Speaker 10: the issues of faith, family, and freedom. Most of it's
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Speaker 10: going to be centered around Texas. We are a state-based organization.
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Speaker 10: We're the Family Policy Council organization for the state of Texas.
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Speaker 10: We lead policy efforts, legal efforts. We're in the courts,
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Speaker 10: the legislature, and the media, really being a voice and
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Speaker 10: an advocate. I'm a licensed attorney. I've been practicing law
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Speaker 10: for over 20 years, so it's a lot of Legal
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Speaker 10: work we get involved in as well. But that will
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Speaker 10: be on center stage. And you're right. Brandon Gill would
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Speaker 10: be a big part of that because he's the keynote
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Speaker 10: speaker of our event. We booked him probably two or
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Speaker 10: three months ago. But we've had interaction with him before.
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Speaker 10: He's made some brief appearances at events. But, boy, the
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Speaker 10: guy is on fire right now. And, look, for a
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Speaker 10: year or so, he's been getting a lot of attention.
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Speaker 10: He's not afraid to call people out and tell the truth.
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Speaker 10: But this is an exciting opportunity. I'm just telling people,
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Speaker 10: come to this event on September 26th, TexasFaithFest.com to go
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Speaker 10: to the website or go to TexasValues.org because this is
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Speaker 10: probably your last chance to get this close to him.
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Speaker 10: Because in the next month or so, good luck getting
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Speaker 10: into an event and getting up close with Brandon Gill.
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Speaker 10: But that's what we're promising at TexasFaithFest.com. along with 15
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Speaker 10: to 20 other incredible speakers.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, well, and I do wonder, because he's a 32-year-old congressperson,
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Speaker 9: I think he's the youngest Republican within the Texas community.
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Speaker 9: And just honestly, he's another person that I think can
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Speaker 9: really lend his voice to all generations, can speak to
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Speaker 9: generations of people that might be more typically listening to
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Speaker 9: a faith-based message than the younger ones. Do you get
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Speaker 9: a lot of younger attendees to this event?
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Speaker 11: Oh, absolutely.
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Speaker 10: We definitely do. And we had a panel on the
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Speaker 10: young vote, the importance of younger voters and people being involved.
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Speaker 10: We have a lot of volunteers that are high school students,
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Speaker 10: including my kids, who often volunteer for the event and
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Speaker 10: bring some kids over from their school. But we had
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Speaker 10: a special panel on this last year, a little bit
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Speaker 10: about Charlie, but also about the importance of young people
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Speaker 10: being involved in these types of issues and having a voice.
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Speaker 10: And I think that's what we're seeing a lot of.
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Speaker 10: Young people really want to have a voice they want
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Speaker 10: to be involved, but they know that they got to
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Speaker 10: show up and vote. For a long time, the stats
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Speaker 10: have said young people don't, you know, they get all
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Speaker 10: fired up, but they don't actually go to the ballot box.
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Speaker 10: This generation is a little bit different, but we're going
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Speaker 10: to need that trend to continue. I mean, we've got
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Speaker 10: a big election coming up in November, even though a
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Speaker 10: lot of times people feel like Texas is safe. and
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Speaker 10: all these kind of things, we know that that's oftentimes
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Speaker 10: not true if the right people don't show up to
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Speaker 10: the ballot box.
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Speaker 1: Amen.
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Speaker 9: I know that you have a pretty special guest, a
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Speaker 9: volleyball player that played at San Jose State and now
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Speaker 9: is a big part of the Save Women's Sports group.
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Speaker 1: Can you tell me a little bit about Brooke?
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Speaker 10: Yeah, Brooke Flusser, just a phenomenal player. young athlete and
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Speaker 10: advocate and just courageous young woman who I like to
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Speaker 10: say she's like Riley Gaines' little sister, even though she's
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Speaker 10: a little bit taller than Riley. Because Brooke's a volleyball player,
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Speaker 10: Riley's a swimmer, but we've had Riley Gaines at our
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Speaker 10: event several times. But Brooke is from Texas, and we
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Speaker 10: worked with her last year. She helped us pass the
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Speaker 10: law that says you can't have men in women's shower rooms,
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Speaker 10: locker rooms, and bathrooms. And a big reason why is
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Speaker 10: because she's from North Texas, but she went to California
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Speaker 10: to play volleyball, and she was forced to have a
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Speaker 10: man not only on her team, she had to share
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Speaker 10: a hotel room with him, a locker room. This guy
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Speaker 10: was demanding for almost two years to be roomed with her.
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Speaker 10: And the guy did put enough makeup and disguise on
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Speaker 10: him that it was a little bit tough to tell
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Speaker 10: that he was actually a man. And a lot of
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Speaker 10: these girls, they believe what the coaches tell them. Why
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Speaker 10: should they have thought differently? But They knew. The coaches knew.
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Speaker 10: Many of them they were lied to. Brooke went through
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Speaker 10: this experience, but she's come out the other side of it.
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Speaker 10: But she left San Jose. She couldn't take it. It
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Speaker 10: was wrong. She's suing the NCAA. But her voice has
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Speaker 10: led to us passing state laws to protect young ladies
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Speaker 10: from these issues. And not only in Texas, but she's
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Speaker 10: having an impact across the country. She's going to be
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Speaker 10: one of our speakers. It's going to be incredible. TexasFaithFest.com.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And what I really like, I'm going to keep you
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Speaker 1: for a couple extra minutes. Don't worry.
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Speaker 9: We're going to go a little bit past 715 here.
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Speaker 9: But I do want to say that I love hearing
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Speaker 9: a message from these young women because a lot of
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Speaker 9: the rest of us who advocate for Which is so crazy.
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Speaker 9: By the way, it's crazy to me that the conservative
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Speaker 9: message right now is to advocate for women's sports, and
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Speaker 9: Democrats are the ones that are trying to attack it
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Speaker 9: by letting men play women's sports. But I love hearing
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Speaker 9: a message from the actual young people who are most impacted,
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Speaker 9: because I think that's the biggest way to convince someone.
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Speaker 1: to change any.
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Speaker 9: Sort of philosophy here that is a competing idea, is
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Speaker 9: to do it through the eyes of a parent watching
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Speaker 9: their kid attempt to compete at a sport and lose
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Speaker 9: to someone that they had no ability to defeat because
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Speaker 9: of a biological advantage.
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Speaker 1: It's surreal that this is actually a political discussion in 2026.
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Speaker 9: You'd think the side that is proud of being woke
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Speaker 9: would actually be for this, but they're not. And so
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Speaker 9: I love when we hear a message from the actual
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Speaker 9: impacted athletes. I know you also have Mays Middleton, who
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Speaker 9: will be there.
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Speaker 1: Maga Mays. I do really enjoy his campaign.
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Speaker 10: What a clever message.
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Speaker 7: Seriously.
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Speaker 9: And I do also think it's interesting to compare his vision,
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Speaker 9: the vision for Texas, to anyone else, to his opponent.
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Speaker 9: And honestly, we had Dan Patrick, the lieutenant governor, on yesterday,
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Speaker 9: and he went in 30 seconds through it. But what
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Speaker 9: do you think are some of the big messaging pieces
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Speaker 9: that will come out from Mays Middleton convincing people that
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Speaker 9: one side is sane and another side is crazy?
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Speaker 10: Well, one of the biggest responsibilities of the attorney general's office,
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Speaker 10: which Mays Middleton is running for, and beat the other
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Speaker 10: two or three strong candidates to earn this spot, and
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Speaker 10: he's been a leader in the Texas Senate, it's about
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Speaker 10: public safety in so many ways. It's about keeping people safe. Now, look,
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Speaker 10: we're all about freedom, but there are times when you
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Speaker 10: need the government to step in, too, and have your back.
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Speaker 10: And that means enforcing laws that you don't have men
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Speaker 10: going into women's bathrooms, showers, and locker rooms. You don't
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Speaker 10: have medical facilities, so-called hospitals that are transitioning kids, cutting
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Speaker 10: up their healthy body parts behind the backs of parents,
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Speaker 10: and sending women, shipping women to other states and countries
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Speaker 10: to have abortions to get around our laws, and enforcing
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Speaker 10: the border, making sure we don't have people illegally coming
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Speaker 10: into our states. from other countries and other places that
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Speaker 10: want to do us harm. You know, the guy's got
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Speaker 10: a legal background. Mays Middleton does. He's a licensed attorney himself.
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Speaker 10: He's going to do a phenomenal job. And he's got
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Speaker 10: the full backing of Republicans, conservatives, and probably a lot
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Speaker 10: of people in the middle all over the state.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: One last question, one last person, and then we will
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Speaker 9: let you go. And thank you for hanging out a
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Speaker 9: little bit extra. I know I only asked you for
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Speaker 9: about 15 minutes, but you have a judge that will
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Speaker 9: be speaking there.
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Speaker 1: Diane Hensley, I think is her name. She was punished.
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Speaker 9: For not performing specific weddings that her faith told her
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Speaker 9: that she couldn't support.
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Speaker 1: What do you expect from that panel?
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Speaker 9: And then the Texas Supreme Court vindicating her, probably being
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Speaker 9: a component to how people talk about even seeing her speak.
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Speaker 10: Well, and we're going to send out an email today.
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Speaker 10: We're going to do a special panel on pushing back
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Speaker 10: against Sharia law and a lot of those things that
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Speaker 10: have been happening. Because what you'll see at our event,
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Speaker 10: you will have some elected officials there that are grassroots
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Speaker 10: leaders like Brandon Gill and Mays Milton. But you're also
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Speaker 10: going to see the people that are in the middle
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Speaker 10: of the fight that maybe you haven't heard of as much.
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Speaker 10: I mentioned Brooke Slusser, Diane Hensley for years. has been
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Speaker 10: a judge in the central Texas area, minding her own business.
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Speaker 10: But people keep trying to force her to perform weddings
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Speaker 10: that go against her beliefs because they know– they've heard
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Speaker 10: that she is a traditional Christian. So for years she's
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Speaker 10: been defending her religious freedom rights, not getting a lot
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Speaker 10: of support in many ways. But the Texas Supreme Court
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Speaker 10: stood up and said, hey, the rule that applies to
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Speaker 10: this issue, she's been following. And the people that were
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Speaker 10: trying to punish her from the– that review judges on
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Speaker 10: these issues, which is a government entity, if you will, quasi,
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Speaker 10: they were wrong. And so she's now, years later, hung
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Speaker 10: in there, taking so much criticism. And we've had her
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Speaker 10: back for many years, too. Our friends at First Liberty
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Speaker 10: Institute have been representing her as her attorneys. So now
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Speaker 10: that she's won, she's going to be able to speak
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Speaker 10: more freely and talk about why we have to stand
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Speaker 10: firm on these foundational truths, like the biblical definition of marriage,
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Speaker 10: and how your religious freedom rights are protected, and people
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Speaker 10: will look out for you if you stand up.
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Speaker 12: Amen.
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Speaker 9: You mentioned Sharia law, so now I have to complete
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Speaker 9: that thought with you because it's out there.
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Speaker 1: You're adding a brand new panel? Yeah, we are.
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Speaker 10: Go ahead. It hasn't even been in— it' s been in the works,
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Speaker 10: but there's a lot of moving parts sometimes in these events.
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Speaker 10: And we're going to have a flash sale that goes
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Speaker 10: along with it. We want as many people there. There's
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Speaker 10: a half-off sale today we're going to announce by email, TexasFaithFest.com,
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Speaker 10: September 26th, because we want to pack the room, okay?
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Speaker 10: But we're going to have a special panel on how
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Speaker 10: we handle these issues of radical Muslims that want to
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Speaker 10: do us harm, that we know behind the scenes are
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Speaker 10: using Sharia law. They're trying to expand with all these
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Speaker 10: mosques all over the place, and many of them have
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Speaker 10: other motives that do not follow our law. So we've
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Speaker 10: got Carissa Richardson, the state representative from the North Texas area,
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Speaker 10: Brent Money, Andy Hopper, who's a state representative. They've been
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Speaker 10: leading on these issues in a lot of other parts
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Speaker 10: of the state. We're bringing in an expert from Texas.
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Speaker 10: an issue-based group that focuses a lot on these issues,
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Speaker 10: but we're going to have the conversation. People need to
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Speaker 10: know what's happening about these issues. And a lot of
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Speaker 10: people have seen the headlines, but they probably have sort
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Speaker 10: of maybe an all kind of dismissive or people are
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Speaker 10: exaggerating it. That's not the case at all. I think,
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Speaker 10: so we want people to know, here's what's going on.
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Speaker 10: Now decide why you want to do something and why
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Speaker 10: it's important. And so I'm really looking forward to that,
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Speaker 10: but that's coming out in an email today. And it's
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Speaker 10: going to be one of the most important panels of
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Speaker 10: the day for our September 26th TexasFaithFest.com. Got to get
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Speaker 10: your tickets now before it sells out.
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Speaker 1: There you go.
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Speaker 9: It is Texas Faith Fest, as he said. It is
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Speaker 9: September 26th. It is just outside of Austin, Texas. And TexasFaithFest.com, TexasFaithFest.com,
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Speaker 9: a great way. to go ahead and read all that information,
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Speaker 9: but actually also get your tickets. I think that Sharia
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Speaker 9: law panel is going to be very impactful and very,
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Speaker 9: very well attended.
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Speaker 1: I'm just going to guess that. Thank you. It was
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Speaker 1: a real pleasure talking to you, Jonathan. Go ahead.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, and remember, not only November election, but the legislative
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Speaker 10: session in Texas starts in January. This is a part
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Speaker 10: of getting ready for that.
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Speaker 1: Okay, cool.
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Speaker 9: All right, we'll talk to you again soon. I look
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Speaker 9: forward to seeing you at the event. We've got to
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Speaker 9: take a break. A lot coming up. This is KSEV Mornings.
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Speaker 9: My name is Craig Collins. Wayne Dolcefino is on special
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Speaker 9: assignment today. But a lot to get to involving Brandon Gill,
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Speaker 9: the politician just mentioned a moment ago as part of
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Speaker 9: the Texas Faith Fest event.
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Speaker 1: And absolutely, Jonathan's right about that.
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Speaker 9: Rising freaking star, Brandon Gill. So very difficult probably to
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Speaker 9: be in the same place as him if you don't
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Speaker 9: go to this event. But he crushed it last night
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Speaker 9: on a stage at the Republican National Convention. I have
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Speaker 9: a couple pieces of audio from him and a bunch
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Speaker 9: from Trump, including, of course... That offer for five grand
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Speaker 9: that I'm very happy about, too.
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Speaker 9: The Voice of Texas. This is your KSEV morning show.
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Speaker 9: My name is Craig Collins. Wayne Dolcefino is on special assignment.
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Speaker 9: I think that after seeing just a small amount of
20:07
Speaker 9: one of two days, of the convention that's happening in
20:10
Speaker 9: Dallas for the Republican National Committee. I think that right
20:15
Speaker 9: now what you're seeing is something that definitely will happen
20:18
Speaker 9: on both sides politically all the time moving forward because
20:22
Speaker 9: it seems like such a good idea. And honestly, one
20:24
Speaker 9: of those reasons, and we just mentioned that politician a
20:28
Speaker 9: short time ago because he will be at the Texas
20:31
Speaker 9: Faith Fest event that's happening outside Austin, is Brandon Gill,
20:35
Speaker 9: who absolutely crushed it, in my opinion. But the thing
20:39
Speaker 9: that most stole the show, the thing that people are
20:42
Speaker 9: talking about was President Trump and an offer that he
20:45
Speaker 9: made that I thought was pretty great.
20:47
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and play that audio. If I can
20:49
Speaker 1: get this to actually play from the 360. Here we go.
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Speaker 17: All right.
20:53
Speaker 1: It doesn't seem that it's playing. I don't know if
20:55
Speaker 1: that's a me thing or an us thing.
20:57
Speaker 14: It's up.
20:58
Speaker 1: It's up on the board. OK, it's up on the board.
20:59
Speaker 9: So that should be working. If it's not, I will
21:02
Speaker 9: get it to work a little bit later on in
21:04
Speaker 9: the show. because it should all be plugged in and
21:07
Speaker 9: should all be functioning correctly unless something got disconnected behind
21:12
Speaker 9: me over here, which I don't see.
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Speaker 1: As a problem.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 9: Well, anyway, President Trump did make an offer for let's
21:20
Speaker 9: see if this is actually wrong, too. Just give me
21:22
Speaker 9: one more second and I'll get it.
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Speaker 1: OK.
21:24
Speaker 9: Anyway, I think that one of the biggest, most valuable
21:29
Speaker 9: things that we will talk about over the course of
21:31
Speaker 9: the next few months is will be why you should
21:35
Speaker 9: vote a certain side of the aisle and why you
21:37
Speaker 9: shouldn't vote the other way. And one of the most
21:39
Speaker 9: obvious ways to to demonstrate that. Oh, I see what
21:42
Speaker 9: the problem is now. Be able to play the audio.
21:44
Speaker 9: I had the wrong thing muted. One of the most
21:46
Speaker 9: easy way to demonstrate that is to do some of
21:49
Speaker 9: the stuff that the left is doing here in Texas.
21:52
Speaker 9: You do have someone running against Greg Abbott that I
21:54
Speaker 9: don't care to even name that has dangled the carrot
21:57
Speaker 9: of giving us all money. She said that because there's
22:00
Speaker 9: a surplus, why don't we throw some money at certain people?
22:03
Speaker 9: What I thought was hilarious about that is those same
22:07
Speaker 9: individuals who are so happy to hear a person running
22:11
Speaker 9: for a role of governor in Texas offer to buy
22:14
Speaker 9: your vote. Hate what President Trump did.
22:16
Speaker 1: But here we go.
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Speaker 12: If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the
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Speaker 12: United States Senate, both of them, because of our economic.
22:27
Speaker 12: Tremendous economic success.
22:29
Speaker 1: Tremendous.
22:30
Speaker 12: In history, we've never had anything like what's happening. But
22:33
Speaker 12: because of our tremendous strength and success economically, I will
22:39
Speaker 12: issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United
22:42
Speaker 12: States of America for five thousand dollars.
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Speaker 1: I'll take the money, sir. I will.
22:51
Speaker 9: And to be honest, what I really like about this,
22:53
Speaker 9: my favorite part of this offer is that it comes
22:56
Speaker 9: from a tariff surplus.
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Speaker 1: It comes from a very similar place.
23:01
Speaker 9: But with a very different sort of connection than what
23:05
Speaker 9: they're offering us here in Texas. What I mean about
23:07
Speaker 9: similar is they're saying that we've collected a lot of
23:10
Speaker 9: money and we can use that money for a certain purpose. Now,
23:13
Speaker 9: in Texas, that surplus has long been important for reasons
23:15
Speaker 9: well beyond just cutting a check to everybody.
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Speaker 1: And you'd want to keep it that way.
23:19
Speaker 9: We don't want to become a California or an Illinois
23:22
Speaker 9: where I used to live that runs a massive deficit itself.
23:25
Speaker 9: But in the world of the United States and the
23:27
Speaker 9: ridiculous amount of money, that we've actually pulled in via tariffs,
23:30
Speaker 9: especially if the Supreme Court didn't try to hamper what
23:34
Speaker 9: President Trump was doing, and if we could go back
23:36
Speaker 9: to doing more of it. The idea of a surplus, well,
23:39
Speaker 9: it might annoy some, or the idea of us getting
23:43
Speaker 9: a payout from that money that's been collected, it's fantastic.
23:47
Speaker 9: And it is exactly what the Democrats are trying to do.
23:49
Speaker 9: They try to buy your vote with so many different
23:52
Speaker 9: things that they offer, whether it's student loan debt forgiveness,
23:57
Speaker 9: It's just another version of buying a vote and causing
23:59
Speaker 9: massive amounts of potential debt for our country. Why not
24:04
Speaker 9: do it the tariff way, is my question, and I
24:06
Speaker 9: don't have an answer that negates it. All right, let's
24:08
Speaker 9: get to some of what Brandon Gill said, though. And
24:11
Speaker 9: I love the way that he even kicked off the convention,
24:14
Speaker 9: because this was hilarious. Brandon Gill said that the most
24:17
Speaker 9: appropriate way to get things going was to do a
24:22
Speaker 9: land acknowledgment which the left does sometimes when they want
24:26
Speaker 9: to tell you where they think or who they think.
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Speaker 1: Actually owns a piece of land that you're standing on.
24:32
Speaker 1: Here's how Gil handled that.
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Speaker 3: Now, I think it's only appropriate that we kick this
24:37
Speaker 3: convention off properly with a land acknowledgement.
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Speaker 1: It's so good.
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Speaker 3: I'd like to acknowledge that we stand here today And
24:54
Speaker 3: the great state of Texas and the United States of America.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: The ancestral homeland of great American patriots, pioneers, and explorers
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Speaker 3: who put down roots, fought for freedom all over the globe,
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Speaker 3: and bled and died to build the greatest civilization ever
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Speaker 3: known to man.
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Speaker 18: 100%.
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Speaker 1: Excellently done.
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Speaker 3: My friends, we live in the finest country in the
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Speaker 3: history of the world.
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Speaker 17: We do.
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Speaker 3: And we're no longer going to apologize for that.
25:35
Speaker 9: I love everything that Brandon Gill said there.
25:38
Speaker 1: I love a lot of the other stuff that he
25:39
Speaker 1: said throughout the convention.
25:40
Speaker 9: He talked about James got his non-binary Tallarico and other
25:46
Speaker 9: things that he added, I think, into that middle name.
25:49
Speaker 9: He also did have a conversation about Abdul Al-Said.
25:53
Speaker 1: And what he thinks he represents.
25:55
Speaker 9: And then finally, one last piece of audio that I
25:57
Speaker 9: really did like from the convention last night, which also
26:00
Speaker 9: involves Trump, we'll get to in just a little bit.
26:03
Speaker 9: But President Trump was also on fire, in my opinion,
26:06
Speaker 9: and certainly seemed to enjoy Trump. the atmosphere that he
26:09
Speaker 9: was in, which I think happens any time there's a
26:12
Speaker 9: giant crowd and an event and Trump is speaking. And
26:16
Speaker 9: the reason that I think that that's so important to
26:18
Speaker 9: enthusiasm within the Republican Party is that when he has
26:22
Speaker 9: these types of events and eyeballs are actually on him,
26:25
Speaker 9: he brings out an A game that very few people
26:27
Speaker 9: can bring out that does, I think, whip up enthusiasm.
26:30
Speaker 9: So we'll get to a little bit more of that.
26:31
Speaker 9: I want to keep playing some of the audio from
26:33
Speaker 9: the event itself. But this is KSEV Mornings. Craig Collins,
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Speaker 9: This is KSV Mornings. My name is Craig Collins. Wayne
29:24
Speaker 9: Dolcefino is on special assignment. Lots and lots of things
29:28
Speaker 9: to talk about and get to on the show. I
29:32
Speaker 9: think that the convention last night was an absolute success.
29:36
Speaker 9: I wonder if anyone can make the argument that the
29:39
Speaker 9: people who are paying attention to that are the people
29:42
Speaker 9: that we already had in our corner, essentially meaning that
29:45
Speaker 9: anyone who's on the outside might not have seen the totality,
29:50
Speaker 9: the Brandon Gill moments, all the moments that I thought
29:53
Speaker 9: were great. But you can't make the argument that no
29:56
Speaker 9: one paid attention to any part of it because Trump
29:58
Speaker 9: offered everybody.
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Speaker 1: $ 5, 000. Genius, genius decision.
30:04
Speaker 9: And I know people, I'll say this, because I find
30:06
Speaker 9: this kind of funny, because I know people in both camps,
30:09
Speaker 9: and I have audio to play of James Tallarico and
30:11
Speaker 9: the Fox News interview that he did that I thought
30:14
Speaker 9: was fascinating. And part of me actually thought about not
30:17
Speaker 9: playing too much of that. And part of the reason
30:20
Speaker 9: why would be that he just blatantly lied again and
30:24
Speaker 9: again and again. He's trying to distance himself from his
30:28
Speaker 9: radical beliefs that he literally gave as sermons in a
30:31
Speaker 9: church at one point. The man deeply believes the things
30:35
Speaker 9: that we know to be most radical about him. He's
30:38
Speaker 9: just trying to pretend right now that he can say
30:41
Speaker 9: something different at the 11th hour and that people are
30:44
Speaker 9: dumb enough to believe it. But before I say that, again,
30:47
Speaker 9: I know a lot of people will praise this action
30:50
Speaker 9: of Trump or that action of Trump as genius. And
30:53
Speaker 9: the people who hate him most will all of a
30:55
Speaker 9: sudden scream and yell like you're a Trump sycophant. You're
30:58
Speaker 9: someone who is as MAGA as they get for believing
31:02
Speaker 9: that any act done by this current president is even
31:05
Speaker 9: intelligent because they hate him so much. They don't want
31:07
Speaker 9: to ever acknowledge any level of intelligence from the man.
31:10
Speaker 9: At the same time, there's people I know that I
31:13
Speaker 9: would call very MAGA that will tell me that everything
31:17
Speaker 9: he ever does is genius and amazing. And sometimes I
31:20
Speaker 9: do think Trump is throwing stuff at the wall. For
31:23
Speaker 9: my purview, for my vantage point, at times I believe
31:27
Speaker 9: that it wasn't a genius move that happens. It's just
31:30
Speaker 9: a let's see what happens when we say or do this.
31:33
Speaker 9: And there's a value to that, but it's different. The $ 5, 000
31:36
Speaker 9: for every American thing that happened last night, that's genius
31:41
Speaker 9: because it's impossible to ignore. And the funniest thing about
31:45
Speaker 9: it and the best part about it is it plays
31:48
Speaker 9: into everything that.
31:49
Speaker 1: Democrats want to do to win votes themselves.
31:53
Speaker 9: Like, wouldn't five grand, let me say it this way,
31:57
Speaker 9: help anyone out there who's complaining and saying, I'm not
32:00
Speaker 9: doing that well right now.
32:01
Speaker 1: I need I need a leg up. I need some assistance.
32:04
Speaker 1: Wouldn't five grand get you a lot further to where
32:07
Speaker 1: you need to go? The answer is probably yes.
32:10
Speaker 9: I'm sure people will say I'd rather have that money
32:12
Speaker 9: spent on lowering our deficit. And I'm not completely against
32:16
Speaker 9: that idea instead. But when you're fighting fire with fire,
32:20
Speaker 9: the best way to do it is to do it
32:22
Speaker 9: in a way that that also can't be ignored. And
32:25
Speaker 9: that's what happened. So I am obsessed with that. I'll
32:28
Speaker 9: probably talk about it a lot throughout the show today.
32:30
Speaker 1: Because I honestly.
32:33
Speaker 9: Last thing I'll say right now, I can't even really
32:36
Speaker 9: figure out where that genesis of that idea came from. Like,
32:41
Speaker 9: is that just Trump that he walk out on stage
32:43
Speaker 9: is like, screw it. I'm going to say a thing
32:45
Speaker 9: and I'm going to go a road and we'll see
32:47
Speaker 9: what happens. Or was this well planned by a lot
32:50
Speaker 9: of people beside him? Because I kind of think it
32:52
Speaker 9: might have just been him. And he's the guy at
32:54
Speaker 9: the top. He can make those kind of decisions. All right,
32:57
Speaker 9: let's get to some South Tallarico stuff. He did an
33:00
Speaker 9: interview on Fox. During the interview on Fox, he said
33:04
Speaker 9: a lot of things that absolutely fly in the face
33:08
Speaker 9: of what he currently believes. Now, I don't want to
33:11
Speaker 9: play a whole lot of that stuff, not because I'm
33:14
Speaker 9: shying away from it, It's because I can see the
33:17
Speaker 9: political decision being made to pretend you believe something different
33:21
Speaker 9: now conveniently in September with a midterm election coming up
33:25
Speaker 9: in two months. I almost feel as though people who
33:29
Speaker 9: believe this have to be morons. But I do want
33:33
Speaker 9: to play something he admitted that he seems to think
33:35
Speaker 9: is still optically a good thing that even now he
33:38
Speaker 9: says is still an opinion he has. He'd love to
33:41
Speaker 9: pack the Supreme Court. Is that as buzzworthy of a
33:45
Speaker 9: gotcha as saying that there are six genders or God
33:47
Speaker 9: is non-binary or all the other crazy things he said? No,
33:51
Speaker 9: but it does show that he's still radical. He's just
33:54
Speaker 9: trying to hide the things that are working as messaging
33:58
Speaker 9: against him.
33:58
Speaker 1: But here we go.
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Speaker 18: If you win this, should our voters expect you to
34:02
Speaker 18: vote for or against adding Supreme Court justices more than nine?
34:06
Speaker 4: Well, I think the Supreme Court needs to be overhauled.
34:09
Speaker 4: We have seen that corruption has infected the judicial branch,
34:12
Speaker 4: just as it's infected the legislative and executive branches. And
34:16
Speaker 4: so you're going to expect that I will vote for
34:18
Speaker 4: overhauls to the Supreme Court. That'll include binding codes of
34:21
Speaker 4: conduct for our justices. It'll include term limits. And I'm
34:25
Speaker 4: open to a discussion about expanding the number of justices.
34:27
Speaker 9: Yeah, because he can't lose his base, by the way.
34:29
Speaker 9: He can't say all the things that he is radical
34:33
Speaker 9: about as opposite opinions now, Because those people who most
34:36
Speaker 9: love him in Austin, and there are some that do,
34:39
Speaker 9: I don't feel like there's as many as he thinks
34:41
Speaker 9: there are, they'll get mad when he stops saying that
34:44
Speaker 9: there are six genders.
34:45
Speaker 1: But I do want to play this. I thought this
34:46
Speaker 1: was great.
34:47
Speaker 9: Will Kane reacted to the entirety of this interview and
34:51
Speaker 9: a lot of the shifting positions by saying how ridiculous
34:55
Speaker 9: it is.
34:55
Speaker 1: Here we go.
34:56
Speaker 4: And so I will oppose trans athletes playing in girls
34:59
Speaker 4: sports if it risks safety or fairness. So I guess
35:03
Speaker 4: they can play chess, but not anything that risks safety
35:06
Speaker 4: or fairness.
35:08
Speaker 17: I hope they can play it as aggressively as James
35:10
Speaker 17: Tallarico is playing against James Tallarico. I mean, this is
35:12
Speaker 17: not the man that he's been throughout his entire career,
35:14
Speaker 17: no matter how nicely he says it. He has been
35:17
Speaker 17: an absolute radical on these issues. I don't know if
35:19
Speaker 17: Brooke got to this issue as well, but he wants
35:20
Speaker 17: to dismantle capitalism.
35:22
Speaker 1: That's fairly recent.
35:24
Speaker 17: Does he disavow that version of himself as well?
35:26
Speaker 1: James Tallarico can't run from James Tallarico.
35:30
Speaker 15: Amen.
35:30
Speaker 1: Amen to Will Kane. James Tallarico cannot run from Tallarico.
35:33
Speaker 9: Now, look, because of transparency, I do want to play
35:35
Speaker 9: some of the other things He did say that he
35:38
Speaker 9: no longer believes. But I have to implore people to
35:43
Speaker 9: actually use their brains and think when you see some
35:46
Speaker 9: of this, like the are there six genders thing, because
35:49
Speaker 9: he was asked that question and he did give an answer.
35:53
Speaker 9: And that answer will alienate, as I said, the people
35:56
Speaker 9: who most deeply support him, unless they think it's OK
35:59
Speaker 9: to lie a little bit. If you're playing a long
36:01
Speaker 9: run game and once you get in power, you will
36:04
Speaker 9: do the things that we all expect him to do,
36:06
Speaker 9: the radical things. far left things. But the reason I
36:09
Speaker 9: hesitate to play this is that I think it is
36:12
Speaker 9: intentionally a clip, meaning that the left wants this out there.
36:16
Speaker 9: They want Tallarico on Fox. They want him answering the
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Speaker 9: question this way so they can push it to anyone
36:22
Speaker 9: that says something different, like Paxton will be doing and
36:26
Speaker 9: did on the stage in Dallas, too. I thought Paxton's
36:29
Speaker 9: speech was good. I didn't think it was as good
36:31
Speaker 9: as others. That's not his skill set, but I thought
36:33
Speaker 9: it was good. I thought he did a good job
36:34
Speaker 9: and he had a good shot against Tallarico, too. But again,
36:38
Speaker 9: I don't want to play into the game and give
36:41
Speaker 9: the left the thing they want, because if you've paid
36:44
Speaker 9: attention at all, you know, Tallarico doesn't believe this.
36:47
Speaker 18: But here 2021 hearing, you said there are six biological sexes.
36:53
Speaker 18: Do you still believe that standing here with me right now?
36:55
Speaker 4: No, I've missed the mark on some of my past statements.
36:58
Speaker 4: I will be the first to admit it. What I
37:00
Speaker 4: meant is that there are two sexes and then there's
37:02
Speaker 4: a small percentage of people with genetic abnormalities. I obviously
37:06
Speaker 4: didn't say it correctly. There are not six sexes. There
37:08
Speaker 4: are two.
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Speaker 1: It's ridiculous.
37:11
Speaker 4: And I think the reason that politicians in that convention
37:15
Speaker 4: center across the street want to talk about six sexes
37:17
Speaker 4: is because they don't want to talk about $ 6 diesel.
37:20
Speaker 4: Everywhere I go across the state of Texas, people are
37:22
Speaker 4: struggling to survive in this economy.
37:24
Speaker 9: I'll stop right there because he's going to go into
37:26
Speaker 9: his whole pitch about how he'll lower prices, which we
37:28
Speaker 9: know he won't, especially not. oil and gas, which is
37:31
Speaker 9: an organization or a industry he's wanted to fight for
37:35
Speaker 9: a very long time. And he has several positions that
37:37
Speaker 9: demonstrate that. But here's the most valuable takeaway from someone
37:42
Speaker 9: who pivots this hard. And what I mean by that,
37:44
Speaker 9: and this is the Kamala Harris all over again thing
37:48
Speaker 9: of suddenly pretending all of your radical positions are aren't
37:51
Speaker 9: the things you believe, that you misspoke, that you were
37:54
Speaker 9: being really specific about six abnormalities that exist in. 000
38:01
Speaker 9: something percent of people, according to him now, because the
38:04
Speaker 9: first time you said the thing, there are six genders,
38:08
Speaker 9: you were placating the radical left. And I think you
38:11
Speaker 9: were also stating something that you believe. Now, when you
38:15
Speaker 9: don't placate the radical left anymore... you are demonstrating how
38:18
Speaker 9: full of crap you are all the time. I've said
38:21
Speaker 9: this many, many times, and I'll say it again. When
38:24
Speaker 9: someone flip-flops on one or two positions, I am capable
38:29
Speaker 9: of believing that they changed some thinking, some thought process
38:34
Speaker 9: over time. Usually it takes years, and they've now come
38:37
Speaker 9: to a different conclusion. But when you flip-flop on everything,
38:41
Speaker 9: when it's topic after topic, And all of a sudden,
38:44
Speaker 9: all your positions are different. You have to throw out
38:47
Speaker 9: the entirety of the person. And specifically, what I mean
38:50
Speaker 9: is you have to accept that they're a big, giant
38:52
Speaker 9: liar all the time. Because like, let's say this is
38:56
Speaker 9: the best example I can give you as a married guy.
38:59
Speaker 9: My wife asked me some questions and I gave her
39:02
Speaker 9: a set of answers. And then the next day she
39:04
Speaker 9: asked me the same questions and I gave her a
39:06
Speaker 9: totally different polar opposite set of answers.
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Speaker 1: I'm sleeping on the couch.
39:11
Speaker 9: I'm sleeping outside in the front yard for a few
39:14
Speaker 9: days because now she knows I'm lying. She doesn't know
39:17
Speaker 9: which side's a lie, but it doesn't matter to her.
39:19
Speaker 9: And it shouldn't matter to us. It shouldn't matter to you.
39:23
Speaker 9: It shouldn't matter to anyone voting in this election. The
39:26
Speaker 9: minute that someone outs themselves as being a performative. robot
39:31
Speaker 9: politician type of person and not someone. who I think
39:36
Speaker 9: actually deserves to be taken at their word, you have
39:40
Speaker 9: to just decide that they can't be trusted at all
39:42
Speaker 9: because it's too many things. And to be honest with you,
39:46
Speaker 9: I've heard people say, well, yeah, at one point, Trump
39:49
Speaker 9: donated to Democrats or whatever it is that people say.
39:53
Speaker 9: And the funniest part about that to me is how
39:56
Speaker 9: much longer ago it is than Tallarico's positions and how donating.
40:00
Speaker 1: To political people that might be giving you.
40:03
Speaker 9: Some sort of benefit as a business person is is
40:05
Speaker 9: a pretty tried and true version of a day-to-day experience
40:09
Speaker 9: or day-to-day behavior that's a little bit different. Because if
40:13
Speaker 9: you go back and actually watch Trump interviews, he says
40:16
Speaker 9: a lot of the things he says now a certain
40:18
Speaker 9: number of years ago, they were just Democratic positions back then,
40:22
Speaker 9: and they aren't now, which is even crazier to think, too.
40:25
Speaker 9: But anyway, the big takeaway for me, and maybe we'll
40:29
Speaker 9: play more audio as we go throughout the remainder of
40:31
Speaker 9: the show here, from Tallarico's interview on Fox, is that
40:34
Speaker 9: it was 100% designed to be a clip factory type
40:39
Speaker 9: of interview that they would put out all over social
40:41
Speaker 9: media and pretend as though Tallarico is not the lunatic
40:45
Speaker 9: that he's about to be described as on a daily
40:49
Speaker 9: basis because money is flooding in to the Paxson campaign.
40:52
Speaker 9: There is finally offense that will attack Tallarico. And so
40:57
Speaker 9: he's deciding his best way to defend that or prevent
41:01
Speaker 9: that offense from working.
41:02
Speaker 1: Is pretend none of it's true.
41:04
Speaker 9: And again, going back to the example of my wife,
41:07
Speaker 9: we need to all see through whatever the lie is there,
41:10
Speaker 9: and I don't even care what side it's on. I'm
41:12
Speaker 9: assuming it's on the less radical side, but I truly
41:15
Speaker 9: don't care.
41:15
Speaker 1: A quick break, a lot coming up.
41:17
Speaker 9: This is KSEV Mornings, 700 a.m., The Voice of Texas.
41:23
Speaker 9: I am Craig Collins. Wayne Dolcefino is on special assignment.
41:26
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41:29
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41:32
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41:34
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41:35
Speaker 1: Not often.
41:36
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41:39
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41:40
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Speaker 1: And now for the bonus round. Who imposes property taxes?
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Speaker 19: State government.
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Speaker 1: Nice try, but no. Local governments.
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Speaker 2: Correct.
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Speaker 1: And we have a winner.
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Speaker 19: Here's Governor Greg Abbott on his plan to control property taxes.
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Speaker 13: The state of Texas does not impose a property tax.
44:47
Speaker 13: Only local governments impose property taxes. One of the reasons
44:51
Speaker 13: why your property taxes are going up is because local
44:54
Speaker 13: governments are increasing their spending. So the first thing we
44:58
Speaker 13: got to do is to stop the spending that leads.
45:01
Speaker 1: To property tax increases.
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Speaker 13: You should have a say on whether or not your
45:05
Speaker 13: property taxes go up. It should be a vote that
45:08
Speaker 13: requires two-thirds vote before any property tax increase can ever
45:12
Speaker 13: be imposed on our fellow Texans. You're going to be
45:15
Speaker 13: able to live in your home for the rest of
45:17
Speaker 13: your lives without being priced out of it.
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Speaker 5: Protecting homeowners, lowering property taxes.
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Speaker 19: That's Governor Greg Abbott.
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Speaker 13: Political ad paid for by Texans for Greg Abbott.
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Speaker 1: This is KSEV Mornings. My name is Craig Collins.
45:43
Speaker 9: Wayne Del Trofino is on special assignment today. We are
45:47
Speaker 9: talking to you from The Voice of Texas, AM 700,
45:51
Speaker 9: and thrilled to have you with us all over social
45:53
Speaker 9: media today. We hit the wrong buttons yesterday, so we're
45:57
Speaker 9: rebuilding that full show so you can see it.
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Speaker 1: That wasn't a Russell problem. By the way, if you
46:02
Speaker 1: just heard me say that, that was a me problem.
46:03
Speaker 9: We did it. Russell and I did a live show
46:06
Speaker 9: yesterday for you. We just didn't send it anywhere, which
46:09
Speaker 9: was a mistake that I fixed today. And I don't
46:12
Speaker 9: know why we did that. But we are putting that
46:14
Speaker 9: show back up commercial free from yesterday. So you did
46:16
Speaker 9: see the first hour on social media. You will see
46:18
Speaker 9: the second hour, I think, later today. But today's show
46:21
Speaker 9: is on all the platforms, although not on Facebook still.
46:26
Speaker 9: And we're going to do that once Wayne is back
46:27
Speaker 9: because Wayne really wants us to. But I try to
46:30
Speaker 9: leave the Facebook a little more alone. I know that
46:32
Speaker 9: Chris X and the Amigos are both on Facebook on
46:35
Speaker 9: their respective shows. And I kind of like just doing
46:38
Speaker 9: one live show a day on that platform because it
46:40
Speaker 9: sort of sucks. Meta is sort of terrible. And the
46:43
Speaker 9: more things we do in meta, the more likely they
46:45
Speaker 9: are to throttle us.
46:47
Speaker 1: But we'll see.
46:47
Speaker 9: Wayne does have a big following there. Anyway, I want
46:49
Speaker 9: to talk about something different that's local. And I kind
46:53
Speaker 9: of think is a pretty big deal. This would be
46:55
Speaker 9: something that Senator Paul Betancourt has been I'm pretty sure
47:00
Speaker 9: the loudest voice in a very good way on this
47:04
Speaker 9: topic of property taxes and how ridiculous they are. But
47:08
Speaker 9: Senator Betancourt yesterday put up on social media that he
47:11
Speaker 9: finally agrees with Lena Hidalgo on something. And this is
47:15
Speaker 9: no credit to Lena. I think even she may acknowledge
47:20
Speaker 9: the horrible political decision that it would be to go
47:23
Speaker 9: as ridiculously far at increasing property taxes in Harris County.
47:28
Speaker 1: As they're planning to go.
47:30
Speaker 9: But Lena was one of the no votes, along with
47:32
Speaker 9: Tom Ramsey and along with Senator Betancourt, that was trying
47:36
Speaker 9: to prevent Harris County from increasing property taxes by about
47:40
Speaker 9: 200 bucks per home. And why do you think this
47:43
Speaker 9: isn't a more talked about point or a more discussed topic?
47:47
Speaker 9: It's because a lot of people don't appreciate how ridiculously
47:50
Speaker 9: expensive that is. When you hear 200 bucks a year
47:54
Speaker 9: that you're paying an additional money per person, Part of
47:58
Speaker 9: some of the listeners out there might be like, well,
48:00
Speaker 9: I can afford that.
48:01
Speaker 1: That's not that big of a deal.
48:02
Speaker 9: But when you compare it to the average, whether that
48:05
Speaker 9: average is a state average or national average, Harris County
48:08
Speaker 9: continues to push itself ridiculously far into the extremes. And
48:13
Speaker 9: Senator Betancourt did a great job in a barometer that
48:17
Speaker 9: he put up on social media demonstrating that our simple
48:20
Speaker 9: local services would now cost about as much as paying
48:25
Speaker 9: for school districts costs. which essentially means that anything that
48:28
Speaker 9: we have in the world of county services would be
48:32
Speaker 9: as expensive as humanly possible.
48:34
Speaker 1: And you and I both know something else.
48:37
Speaker 9: And this is the more important point to discuss when
48:39
Speaker 9: you talk about this, the tremendous likelihood that every dollar
48:44
Speaker 9: that is wasted and not used well, they'll keep taking
48:47
Speaker 9: more of our money. As you heard in Greg Abbott's
48:51
Speaker 9: commercial that we played a second ago, He is very
48:54
Speaker 9: proud of the fact that Texas does not take property
48:56
Speaker 9: taxes from you.
48:57
Speaker 1: But local communities do. Local governments do.
49:01
Speaker 9: And Harris County is abusing this as far as they
49:04
Speaker 9: can and trying to increase the rate by a ridiculous
49:08
Speaker 9: additional percentage to get all of us.
49:09
Speaker 1: To pay more and more and more money.
49:12
Speaker 9: A 10 percent increase is a combined average Harris County
49:17
Speaker 9: tax homestead bill.
49:19
Speaker 1: It would go to 2000.
49:20
Speaker 9: Is only $ 50 less than what we pay for Harris
49:26
Speaker 9: County school districts. So again, the amount of money you're
49:28
Speaker 9: paying per year is as extreme as humanly possible, and
49:32
Speaker 9: they're trying to make it worse.
49:34
Speaker 1: And here's actually.
49:35
Speaker 2: I.
49:38
Speaker 9: From a discussion like this, this is what Democrats actually do.
49:43
Speaker 9: This is how they behave well in power. And unfortunately,
49:47
Speaker 9: in Harris County, the Democrats have had a disproportionate amount
49:50
Speaker 9: of power for way too long.
49:52
Speaker 1: But the thing they actually do is cost you.
49:55
Speaker 9: And I more money. They make things more expensive. Increasing
49:59
Speaker 9: the property tax bill by a historic rate makes your
50:03
Speaker 9: life worse.
50:04
Speaker 1: It simply does.
50:05
Speaker 9: At a time when most people are saying the reason
50:07
Speaker 9: that they'd vote for a Democrat right now and not
50:10
Speaker 9: a Republican is because they believe the Democrats are willing
50:15
Speaker 9: or at least plan to make your life better by
50:19
Speaker 9: talking about issues like how much stuff costs. That's not
50:22
Speaker 9: true in action. The best way to say this is
50:26
Speaker 9: that you should always observe how a person actually behaves much,
50:31
Speaker 9: much more than you care about what they say.
50:34
Speaker 1: Like their behavior on a day to day basis is.
50:37
Speaker 9: So much more important to any sort of discussion about
50:40
Speaker 9: who they are as a person.
50:42
Speaker 1: And my favorite.
50:43
Speaker 9: This is my favorite example. I've had arguments and conversations
50:47
Speaker 9: with people on the left are just idiots. I'll call
50:50
Speaker 9: them that. where you can see in their face how
50:52
Speaker 9: much they hate you. You can feel it.
50:54
Speaker 1: You can feel as the discussion goes a certain.
50:56
Speaker 9: Way, as you use logic and facts to circumvent the
51:00
Speaker 9: stupidity of their argument, and they come back with angrier
51:03
Speaker 9: and angrier responses, you can feel the lack of any
51:08
Speaker 9: sort of ability to think being a part of that discussion.
51:12
Speaker 9: And sometimes it's even as easy as just seeing it
51:14
Speaker 9: on someone's face. As you talk to someone, the facial
51:18
Speaker 9: expressions they can't control... demonstrate to you how livid they are.
51:22
Speaker 9: I see that in Tallarico in part of the interviews
51:25
Speaker 9: that he gives when he's trying to say the opposite
51:28
Speaker 9: stuff that he hasn't said before. I see those little
51:31
Speaker 9: micro expressions is what they're called that demonstrate.
51:35
Speaker 1: How he hates that he's even saying this stuff out loud.
51:38
Speaker 9: And that's truly what you need to pay attention to
51:40
Speaker 9: and what matters most when you have a conversation about
51:44
Speaker 9: what people actually do in power. If I were to
51:46
Speaker 9: sit across from someone and I were to ask them,
51:49
Speaker 9: to tell me the issues we face right now in
51:52
Speaker 9: this country, and they go through a list of things
51:55
Speaker 9: I wholeheartedly agree with, like this moment, this moment, whether
51:59
Speaker 9: it's the cost of living, whether it's girls playing men's
52:03
Speaker 9: or men playing women's sports, whatever the case might be,
52:06
Speaker 9: if they rattle off a list and I think that
52:09
Speaker 9: just saying the problem out loud is the same as
52:12
Speaker 9: solving it, I'm the one making the mistake. I need
52:16
Speaker 9: that person to step from Here are the issues you
52:19
Speaker 9: and I are facing to what are you going to
52:21
Speaker 9: do to fix it so that I can judge whether
52:23
Speaker 9: or not their plan and their decision is horrible. One
52:27
Speaker 9: more example that I'll give you in my day to
52:30
Speaker 9: day life that kind of connects to this. Whenever I
52:32
Speaker 9: tell my wife I can fix something in our house,
52:35
Speaker 9: whenever anything's broken in our house, in our condo, and
52:38
Speaker 9: she goes, somebody needs to come in and repair this.
52:41
Speaker 1: And I look at her and I go, I can
52:42
Speaker 1: fix that.
52:43
Speaker 9: My wife has now learned over a course of years
52:46
Speaker 9: being married to me.
52:48
Speaker 1: That she has to ask me how. She's like, how
52:50
Speaker 1: do you fix that?
52:51
Speaker 9: What are you going to do to make this work
52:54
Speaker 9: better that it's not doing right now? And if I
52:56
Speaker 9: can't answer the question, the rule is that then we
52:59
Speaker 9: hire a professional. And oftentimes, if I think I can
53:02
Speaker 9: fix something but can't answer the questions because I think
53:05
Speaker 9: I can go look it up on the Internet. And
53:07
Speaker 9: that's the thing she wants me to stop. She wants
53:09
Speaker 9: me to not go try to learn something in 10 minutes.
53:11
Speaker 9: And then try to fix it. But we should have
53:13
Speaker 9: that same rule. Let's call it the Betty rule, because
53:16
Speaker 9: that's my wife's rule for me, for our politicians. You
53:20
Speaker 9: can't just tell me what the problem is. You have
53:22
Speaker 9: to tell me what the solution is. And they're terrible, terrible,
53:26
Speaker 9: terrible at doing that in a valuable way, because just
53:29
Speaker 9: to cyclically wrap this conversation in a circle, the plan
53:34
Speaker 9: to increase your property taxes in 2026 in Harris County,
53:37
Speaker 9: 100 percent a Democratic plan. at a time when most
53:42
Speaker 9: people are saying they can't afford their day-to-day living, just
53:45
Speaker 9: seems to be we don't give a crap about you
53:48
Speaker 9: types of politics. I do want to keep playing audio
53:52
Speaker 9: from the Republican National Convention that happened in Dallas. I
53:56
Speaker 9: will also keep playing some audio of James Tallarico that
54:00
Speaker 9: I thought was fascinating on his Fox interview that he did.
54:04
Speaker 9: The biggest reason I want to keep playing that is
54:05
Speaker 9: because I think he's trying to disrespect the intelligence of
54:09
Speaker 9: voters even more. by pretending he's not as radical as
54:12
Speaker 9: he is and thinking it'll work as a message he's
54:15
Speaker 9: delivering all brand new in September.
54:19
Speaker 1: But anyway, we'll get to that.
54:20
Speaker 9: We'll get to what Trump offered and how Brandon Gill
54:23
Speaker 9: stole the show in night one, all on The Voice
54:26
Speaker 9: of Texas, KSEV, 700 a.m., the KSEV Morning Show.
54:32
Speaker 2: I was caught in the middle of a railroad track