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Dan Patrick on the Midterm Convention, His Tight Race, and an AI Ad Targeting Talarico · KSEV Mornings with Craig and Wayne

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  Speaker 1: This is KSEV Mornings with Craig Collins.
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  Speaker 2: Mean anything at all no it's crazy welcome to the thunderdome.
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  Speaker 1: People news opinions politics and the stories that matter to.
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  Speaker 2: Texans i shaved for this.
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  Speaker 1: Here are your hosts craig collins and wayne dolcefino remember.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone just don't be yourselves.
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  Speaker 1: On ksev am 700 the voice of texas yes that's.
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  Speaker 3: Awesome This is KSEV Morning. And now Craig Collins and
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  Speaker 3: Wayne Dolcefino. I always forget about Dana Lash, and I
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  Speaker 3: asked her to do that. This is Craig Collins, and
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  Speaker 3: Wayne Dolcefino is on special assignment at the moment. He
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  Speaker 3: will be back any second. I think he just stepped
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  Speaker 3: away from his position. We welcome the lieutenant governor of
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  Speaker 3: the state of Texas, Lieutenant Dan, who has an incredible
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  Speaker 3: podcast that I've been watching on YouTube, but it's all
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  Speaker 3: over the place. Lieutenant Governor, welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, thank you, Craig, and welcome.
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  Speaker 5: I know you've been on the station for a while,
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  Speaker 5: but taking over the morning, and we're excited about that.
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  Speaker 5: I appreciate that. And same thing with Wayne. I think
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  Speaker 5: his special assignment must be down the hall, I would assume.
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  Speaker 5: His special assignment.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's another way to say it, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: So let's start with a conversation about the oddness of,
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  Speaker 3: but I think a very smart decision, a midterm convention.
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  Speaker 3: Do you mind starting there with your belief on what
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  Speaker 3: will happen over the next two days?
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 5: In fact, I'm heading to catch a plane now to
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  Speaker 5: go up there. It's a jam-packed schedule the next couple
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  Speaker 5: of days, and I'm honored to have a chance to
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  Speaker 5: speak at the convention tomorrow afternoon sometime. But the president
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  Speaker 5: came up with this idea, and I know you said
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  Speaker 5: you watched the podcast, so I'll plug that in a second.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I talked to him about this, about he's the idea guy.
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  Speaker 5: Whether it's Trump accounts, it's the Gulf of America, Lake America,
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  Speaker 5: it's the Space Force, it's now the Space Academy. He's
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  Speaker 5: always thinking of something out of the box. And we
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  Speaker 5: were talking back in June, I guess it was, and
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  Speaker 5: he shared this idea with me. And I said, I
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  Speaker 5: think it's a great idea. And by the way, where
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  Speaker 5: are you going to hold it? And he said, well,
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  Speaker 5: we're looking at a couple of cities. I said, well, Dallas,
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  Speaker 5: Texas is the place to do it, or Houston, Texas,
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  Speaker 5: a big city in Texas. And so they came to
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  Speaker 5: the right place because it will be a great event.
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  Speaker 5: And it is a national convention, the first ever midterm.
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  Speaker 5: And for people who don't know how those things work,
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  Speaker 5: normally what happens to go to the normal convention convention
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  Speaker 5: they have every four years, you know, you become a
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  Speaker 5: delegate at your local level and you become a delegate
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  Speaker 5: to your state convention and you're chosen as a delegate
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  Speaker 5: to the national convention. So this was an expedited process
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  Speaker 5: for that process. And then most of the people who
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  Speaker 5: will be coming will be coming, uh, as part of,
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  Speaker 5: you know, just the citizens of Texas or around the
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  Speaker 5: country who are coming in for the convention. So, uh, it's,
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  Speaker 5: it's going to be two days of lots of speakers.
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  Speaker 5: I think we have a hundred and, and, uh, nine
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  Speaker 5: speakers in two days, starting this afternoon later. And the
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  Speaker 5: president will speak, J.D. Vance will speak, Don Jr. will speak,
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  Speaker 5: Mike Johnson, all the leaders of the party and all
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  Speaker 5: the candidates who are running across the state. You know, Craig,
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  Speaker 5: I gave a speech yesterday in Baytown And I centered
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  Speaker 5: it around our flag. And I just heard Ben Struzan's editorial,
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  Speaker 5: which was great. And I centered it around the flag.
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  Speaker 5: And I said, you know, both parties, quite frankly, I
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  Speaker 5: don't care about the other side, but they're in disarray.
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  Speaker 5: And our party's not in disarray, but there are definitely
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  Speaker 5: some people that aren't all in agreement. And people have
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  Speaker 5: got to put that aside. And they've got to look
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  Speaker 5: at that Texas flag, as I did yesterday when we
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  Speaker 5: did the pledge. And I thought about this, that that
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  Speaker 5: flag represents who we are. And we're not a communist party.
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  Speaker 2: State.
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  Speaker 5: We're not a socialist state. It represents who we are
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  Speaker 5: in our faith. We're a state with a great belief.
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  Speaker 5: We're a state now that has school choice because we
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  Speaker 5: believe in parental choice. We're a state that believes in
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  Speaker 5: protecting your guns, the Second Amendment. We're a state that
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  Speaker 5: believes in all of these things in common, and I'm
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  Speaker 5: including moderate Democrats. There aren't many left. But the opposite side,
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  Speaker 5: the other side here with Tallarico and my opponent and
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  Speaker 5: Abbott's opponent, They voted against all of these things. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: they voted for boys to be in girls' sports. They
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  Speaker 5: voted for a state income tax. They voted for a
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  Speaker 5: capital gains tax. They voted for a death tax. They
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  Speaker 5: voted to take your guns away. They voted against school choice.
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  Speaker 5: I can go down the list. I'd be here until
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  Speaker 5: 9 o'clock. And so people have to understand of who
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  Speaker 5: we are. So right now, it's not about electing Republicans
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  Speaker 5: and Democrats. It's about darkness and light. It's about It's
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  Speaker 5: about what is right and what is wrong. And it's
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  Speaker 5: about you, the voter. It's not about me. It's not
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  Speaker 5: about re-electing me. It's not about re-electing Greg Abbott or
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  Speaker 5: Ken Paxton or re-electing any other. It's about you as
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  Speaker 5: a citizen and what values do you hold. And look
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  Speaker 5: at the policy and you put the people aside. You
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  Speaker 5: just have to do that. And if we don't win
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  Speaker 5: this election, if we send Tallarico to Washington for six
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  Speaker 5: years and He will be the person who tries to
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  Speaker 5: lead and build their party in Texas. And we don't
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  Speaker 5: want someone who is absolutely 100% against everything the listeners
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  Speaker 5: today listening are for. So we have to come together.
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  Speaker 5: And that's the reason for this convention, not just here
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  Speaker 5: in Texas. I mean, it's in Texas, but it's for
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  Speaker 5: the whole country because we have key races everywhere to
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  Speaker 5: hold the House and hold the U.S.
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  Speaker 6: Senate.
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  Speaker 5: So that's the purpose of the convention. I think it's
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  Speaker 5: a brilliant idea. It's never been done. And here's my guess.
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  Speaker 5: It will be done every time by both parties moving forward.
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: Wayne, what did you want to say to Lieutenant Governor?
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  Speaker 7: Hey, Wayne.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, Wayne.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Lieutenant Governor.
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  Speaker 5: I'm so excited that you're on board. This is awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you. It's great to be here. And by
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  Speaker 2: the way, I have no idea who's even running against you,
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  Speaker 2: which I think speaks volumes about you.
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  Speaker 9: And we don't care.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm not saying it, and we don't really care,
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  Speaker 2: but I would like to ask you, look, Ken Paxton
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  Speaker 2: is not Dan Patrick in the sense that you're a communicator, right?
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  Speaker 10: You.
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  Speaker 2: you just did in 30 seconds the best sort of
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  Speaker 2: explanation for the fact that we're like logical and they're crazy, right?
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  Speaker 2: But what does Ken Paxton have to do? Because, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and not to be mean or anything, he's not like
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  Speaker 2: the most charismatic speaker. What does he have to do tonight?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a great question, Wayne. And let me go
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  Speaker 5: back to that first thing when you said you don't care,
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  Speaker 5: you don't know who's running against me or Abbott who's–
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  Speaker 5: And here is why I'm working so hard. I'm doing
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  Speaker 5: another 100-city bus tour. I'm never stopping until the election
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  Speaker 5: day to be sure that we win as a party
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  Speaker 5: and that I win. But here's the thing. No one
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  Speaker 5: knows who they are. Yesterday when I was at that
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  Speaker 5: Baytown speech, I do it everywhere. Raise your hand if
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  Speaker 5: you know who's running against Greg Abbott. There were 200
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  Speaker 5: people yesterday, maybe five. Raise your hand against me. It
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  Speaker 5: was even less, three or four. But the race is
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  Speaker 5: still within the margin of error. Wayne, the race when
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  Speaker 5: you see these polls where Abbott's up one, I'm up one,
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  Speaker 5: I'm up two, I'm down one, Abbott's even. That's real.
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  Speaker 5: Those are real polls. And there's a lot of junk
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  Speaker 5: polls out there. You say, well, how can that happen?
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  Speaker 5: It's because the other side isn't voting for anybody. They're
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  Speaker 5: not even voting for any policy. They're just voting because
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  Speaker 5: of the Democrats. And in the state, we have about
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  Speaker 5: a 10-point advantage. If you poll, you normally poll about
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  Speaker 5: 43 percent of Republicans, about 32 percent of– or 33
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  Speaker 5: percent of Democrats, and the rest you poll are independent.
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  Speaker 5: That's kind of the breakdown. And so we do have
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  Speaker 5: that edge. So my unknown person who's running and Abbott's
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  Speaker 5: unknown person, they're still going to get walking in the
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  Speaker 5: door 35 to 40 percent of the vote. And it
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  Speaker 5: could be Daffy Duck on the ticket. It doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 5: So this is a wave election, and they're just angry
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  Speaker 5: at Republicans. They're angry at the president. They're angry at everything.
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  Speaker 5: And they've been taken over by the socialists and a
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  Speaker 5: strong wing of the communists. And that's what it's about.
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  Speaker 5: And every person running as a Democrat, every person will
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  Speaker 5: have to salute that flag if they win, James Tyler
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  Speaker 5: Rick or anybody else. So it's the reason– look, I'm
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  Speaker 5: in a tight race. I've never been in this tight
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  Speaker 5: of a race in a general election. I've been in
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  Speaker 5: some top primaries, and we've won them. And I believe
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  Speaker 5: in the end, Paxton, Abbott, and I win, but we
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  Speaker 5: can't take anything for granted. And for the Cornyn voters
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  Speaker 5: who say, well, I'm not voting, and some other voters
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  Speaker 5: who are mad about this issue or that issue, it
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  Speaker 5: puts the race closer than it should be. And heaven
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  Speaker 5: forbid we have a blue state here in Texas.
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  Speaker 11: The country's through.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, terrified.
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  Speaker 7: So Wayne, now to your questions.
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  Speaker 5: To the question you asked. And I know you're helping me, Craig,
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  Speaker 5: get off the air because I've got to go catch
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  Speaker 5: a plane. But I really wanted to lay that out
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  Speaker 5: for you. It doesn't matter who we're running against. We
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  Speaker 5: have to run a strong campaign and win and get
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  Speaker 5: our vote out. That's the key.
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  Speaker 7: Get the vote out.
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  Speaker 5: So what Ken Paxton has to do, first of all,
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  Speaker 5: he's got to get $ 100 million. The president asked me
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  Speaker 5: a couple of weeks ago, what does he need? He
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  Speaker 5: needs $ 100 million. $ 100 million. It's expensive to run in Texas.
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  Speaker 5: We have 19 TV markets. We have social media now
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  Speaker 5: is more than half your budget. You've got to have
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  Speaker 5: a video on Hulu and Netflix and Amazon and ESPN.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, whatever you stream on, you've got to be there.
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  Speaker 5: So it's got to be very expensive races. Ken is now,
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  Speaker 5: the money is starting to come in from Washington, from
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  Speaker 5: the MAGA PAC and from the Senate PAC. If he
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  Speaker 5: has the money, which I believe he will now have,
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  Speaker 5: you know, Tallarico's had an open field. He's like, Earl Campbell,
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  Speaker 5: you know, in the old days running from the 10-yard
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  Speaker 5: line to the end zone at the other place. You
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  Speaker 5: couldn't catch him when he went out. Well, we're going
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  Speaker 5: to catch Tallarico. But Tallarico has had no offense against him,
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  Speaker 5: and now he's going to. So I believe that at
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  Speaker 5: the end of the day, our advantage of Republicans over
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  Speaker 5: Democrats in Texas will prevail. It will be a very
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  Speaker 5: close race between the two of them. I believe Ken wins,
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  Speaker 5: and he's working hard, and it's policy. People will come
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  Speaker 5: down at the end of the day.
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  Speaker 2: Policy.
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  Speaker 5: I don't care how you're dressed, and I care how
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  Speaker 5: your hair looks, and I care. It's about you, and
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  Speaker 5: that's what my opening remark is. It's not about us.
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  Speaker 5: It's about you, the listener. It's about you, the voter.
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  Speaker 5: What do you want for your life? And so that's
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  Speaker 5: why what Ken has to do is keep working, keep
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  Speaker 5: raising the money, keep showing up everywhere around the state,
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  Speaker 5: and that's.
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  Speaker 7: How we win.
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  Speaker 5: And we've got to tell the voters they've got to
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  Speaker 5: turn out. There's no excuse for people saying, well, I'm
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  Speaker 5: sitting this one out because I'm mad about this. And
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  Speaker 5: I've had some voters tell me, hey, Dan, you had
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  Speaker 5: a great session, most conservative ever, but this one really
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  Speaker 5: makes me mad. Well, we passed nine out of the
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  Speaker 5: ten of the top conservative bills, and if one doesn't–
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  Speaker 5: I'm just using that as an example that, well, let's
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  Speaker 5: look at the nine. Let's not look at the one.
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  Speaker 5: And look, we have big issues. Property taxes still have
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  Speaker 5: to come down. We've got to get our arms around
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  Speaker 5: the data centers, the 765 lines, the affordability issue. I'm
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  Speaker 5: going to lower the senior citizen tax. age from 65
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  Speaker 5: to 55 where your appraisals and values are frozen. If
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  Speaker 5: it's good enough for Denny's to get a Grand Slam
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  Speaker 5: breakfast and be a senior at 55, it's good enough
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  Speaker 5: for Texas. That will save homeowners thousands of dollars by
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  Speaker 5: getting that value frozen 10 years earlier. I'm going to
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  Speaker 5: cut home insurance, which is skyrocketing, by 30 to 50 percent.
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  Speaker 5: And those are the biggest affordability issues. So I gave
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  Speaker 5: you a long, long answer, but do we just have
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  Speaker 5: to work? And I think people are going to wake up.
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  Speaker 5: I think they're just going to wake up and say, yes,
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  Speaker 5: maybe this issue I don't like or maybe I'm upset
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  Speaker 5: about with that candidate or what. But at the end
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  Speaker 5: of the day, Texans have to come home. The Republicans
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  Speaker 5: have to come home. And the leaning independents. Look, the
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  Speaker 5: Republicans are going to vote for Republicans. The Democrats are
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  Speaker 5: going to vote for Democrats. It's the independents that matter.
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  Speaker 5: And it's the Republicans who some are saying, I'm not
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  Speaker 5: voting for Ken or I'm not coming out to vote
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  Speaker 5: this time because I'm mad about this.
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  Speaker 12: Amen.
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  Speaker 3: I know that you had to get a plane. You
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  Speaker 3: had to catch a plane. I do want to promote
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  Speaker 3: your podcast, LT Dan Podcast, at LT Dan Podcast with
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  Speaker 3: Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, Lieutenant Dan. It's incredible. 1.4 million views,
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  Speaker 3: your Trump interview. Riley Gaines was posted earlier today. Is
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  Speaker 3: there anything you want to say about the podcast?
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  Speaker 5: No, I'll just say that I started in July. You know,
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  Speaker 5: I'd gone out to... to a TPUSA after Charlie Kirk
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  Speaker 5: had been killed. And I went out there to give
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  Speaker 5: them a million dollar check in Charlie's name because he
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  Speaker 5: was a dear friend. And I wanted to support them
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  Speaker 5: at that time. And I was on their podcast. And
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  Speaker 5: I said, wait a minute, this is like talk radio
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  Speaker 5: without the callers and without the commercials. I'd never been
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  Speaker 5: on anybody's podcast. I said, I used to do this
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  Speaker 5: for a living and this would be fun. So we
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  Speaker 5: started it in July. So our guests have been We've
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  Speaker 5: had Ken Paxton.
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  Speaker 7: We've had Dr.
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  Speaker 5: Carson on.
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  Speaker 3: We've had Dr.
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  Speaker 7: Phil on.
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  Speaker 5: We've had Ted Cruz on. We've had people who people
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  Speaker 5: don't know their names but have great stories. So Riley Gaines,
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  Speaker 5: everyone knows today. She'll be on. We've got great guests
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  Speaker 5: coming up all the way up until the election and
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  Speaker 5: beyond that. And so Lieutenant Dan, LT Dan. Dot com
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  Speaker 5: is our website or our tenant channel on YouTube. We
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  Speaker 5: are now in the top 2% after two months, Craig.
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  Speaker 5: Top 2% of all podcasts in the country. We've gone
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  Speaker 5: from no subscribers to about 65,000 in about six weeks.
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  Speaker 5: And we're averaging about 600,000 to 700,000 viewers now. since Dr. Phil,
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  Speaker 5: Peg Cruz, and President Trump. And Raleigh Gaines will have
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  Speaker 5: a great audience.
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  Speaker 7: It's fun.
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  Speaker 5: It's just a conversation like this. I don't talk as much, though.
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  Speaker 5: I let them do the talking. Hey, guys, I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Catch the plane.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, I'm really.
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  Speaker 5: truly excited that you guys are on the morning. The
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  Speaker 5: morning show of any talk station is the key to
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  Speaker 5: start the day. And in the past, we've had great
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  Speaker 5: morning hosts along all those. Once upon a time, I
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  Speaker 5: used to do the mornings. And then there was Ed Hendy.
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  Speaker 5: And then there was Chris Salcedo. And now there are
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  Speaker 5: the two of you. And I know you guys are
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  Speaker 5: doing a great job. So thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, Lieutenant Governor.
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  Speaker 11: I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 7: Bye, Wayne.
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  Speaker 5: Wayne, you and I go back a long, long time
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  Speaker 5: since the first time I got here in 1979. So
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  Speaker 5: glad we were here.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we do. We've been cranking about the same amount
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  Speaker 2: of time, and I wish you the best. I really do, because,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you're right. There is a very stark question afoot,
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  Speaker 2: and folks better come around and figure it out.
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  Speaker 13: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, this is an election that gets better after it's
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  Speaker 5: over if the other side wins. It'll be a takeover
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  Speaker 5: of Texas as a country.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks, guys.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, this is KSEV Mornings.
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  Speaker 3: He is Wayne Dolcefino. I am Craig Collins. That was
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  Speaker 3: a lot of fun. And, Wayne, you're only here for, like,
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  Speaker 3: one more segment, and you've got to bounce to go
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  Speaker 3: to court, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got to be in court. I'm hoping to
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  Speaker 2: get arrested because it's a Wednesday.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a Wednesday. All right, a quick break. A
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  Speaker 3: lot coming up. KSV Mornings, The Voice of Texas.
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  Speaker 3: KSEV Mornings. This is The Voice of Texas. My name
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  Speaker 3: is Craig Collins. He is, unless he wants to say
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  Speaker 3: his name himself. No, he doesn't. Wayne Dolcefino. He will
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  Speaker 3: have to go in about five or six minutes because
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  Speaker 3: he's being forced into court. Someone is trying to get
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  Speaker 3: him again. I don't know the right way to say that,
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  Speaker 3: but it feels like people are after you all the time.
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  Speaker 2: You know what? Fine. Come on. You know, I used
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  Speaker 2: to worry about getting whacked by someone in the old days.
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  Speaker 2: Now I'm almost 70. And my view is, even if
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  Speaker 2: I'm whacked walking out of my office this morning, I
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  Speaker 2: would have had a pretty good run.
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  Speaker 3: I think you'd be big news. It'd probably make national news.
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  Speaker 3: Wayne Dolcefino whacked if he got shot.
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  Speaker 2: I would get in the paper.
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  Speaker 3: I don't even know if I'd be in the paper
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  Speaker 3: if I got shot.
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  Speaker 2: I can almost guarantee you. It would be blank, you're
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  Speaker 2: all blank, got blanked in the blank hundred block of blank.
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  Speaker 2: is what it would be.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks, boy.
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  Speaker 11: Thanks.
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  Speaker 2: It wouldn't even be like, they probably wouldn't even have
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  Speaker 2: any video.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, who knows? Unless the flock camera was going.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: Then you never know. There is a really interesting Tallarico ad,
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  Speaker 3: or excuse me, it's a Paxton ad taking a shot
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  Speaker 3: at Tallarico that's out now. It's going viral because it
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  Speaker 3: actually does lay out all the crazy things that Tallarico
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  Speaker 3: says and believes. I'll probably play that after the break.
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  Speaker 3: I don't need to play that. now, but we can
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  Speaker 3: play that in about 10 minutes or so. But I
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  Speaker 3: will say this about talking to Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick. Wayne,
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  Speaker 3: you seem to like light up in the sense that
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  Speaker 3: his message is exactly the message you want to be
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  Speaker 3: delivered at the convention.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and look, I'm not saying this because of the
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  Speaker 2: radio station and whatever. I'm serious. Dan Patrick is a
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  Speaker 2: great communicator who can, in 30 seconds, lay out Five
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  Speaker 2: or six really tangible ways we have made people's lives better.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to get over the media shield, right? If
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  Speaker 2: you look at the media, all they're focused on is
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  Speaker 2: to find the five-second offhand Trump being Trump out of
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  Speaker 2: a 20-minute speech.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So two things have to happen, and I'm serious, and
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  Speaker 2: I enjoy the president's humor, okay? I get the joke
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  Speaker 2: a lot, but a lot of people are Karens, right?
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: And they get all whiny and stuff. I personally get it,
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  Speaker 2: but I think what you need is a red meat
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  Speaker 2: speech that doesn't include, like, the stupid stuff. And I
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: call it the stupid stuff. I get it. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to call something, we're going to change the name of
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  Speaker 2: Greenland or Lake, whatever it is, Ontario. I get all that.
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  Speaker 2: But I think this is an opportunity to get a
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  Speaker 2: lot of eyeballs on you. And I think it's important
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  Speaker 2: to show people that we are adults and that we
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: are the ones that have the ideas, the only ideas
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  Speaker 2: that make sense. We can all agree that housing is
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  Speaker 2: screwed up. We can all agree that health care is
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: screwed up, but we've got to be willing to tackle
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  Speaker 2: the insurance companies and all that kind of stuff. But
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of things that have positively happened, and
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of money coming in, and it's showing
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  Speaker 2: up in the jobs numbers, and people have to appreciate
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  Speaker 2: that we're coming out of it. The problem with Iran
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  Speaker 2: is I'm fine. Every time Iran fires a missile at us,
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  Speaker 2: let's blow up five of their tankers. Fine. That doesn't
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  Speaker 2: cost us that much money. I had a cruise missile
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  Speaker 2: here or there. Why not? So I'm not– people are
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  Speaker 2: freaking out because they're being told that the gas prices
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  Speaker 2: have set them over the edge. When eggs were eight
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  Speaker 2: bucks an egg, right, it was more than a tank
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  Speaker 2: of gas.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Get over it. Right.
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  Speaker 3: Seriously, get over it. I think that's absolutely right. And
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  Speaker 3: I do think it's really interesting that both you and
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  Speaker 3: the lieutenant governor and a lot of people out there
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  Speaker 3: can easily realize the successes of the campaign, the successes
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: of the administration. And it's just not wanting that one
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  Speaker 3: moment that the media's people are waiting for, for them
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  Speaker 3: to clip it and put it everywhere, that to anyone
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  Speaker 3: not paying attention will be the total story because it
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: won't be the whole story. By and large, I believe
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  Speaker 3: this convention will tell. The important story that is Republicans
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: have actually done a pretty good job and they're likely
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  Speaker 3: to do an even better job if you leave them
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  Speaker 3: in power.
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  Speaker 2: So I would also suggest that from a showman's perspective,
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  Speaker 2: that the visual we should invite Republican voters of all
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  Speaker 2: stripes onto the stage and show America that, first of all,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: like we're not like fascists and Nazis and stuff like this.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: That's nonsense, right? But let's get a cross-section of the people.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Let's focus on the growing cultural issues that help us
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: with voters. Because even if people are frustrated with prices,
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: and I do think that both parties have to be
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: a little more honest about that, that there are some
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: things we can do and some things we can't. And
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: the goal is to get you jobs, right? And maybe
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: find ways to reduce the amount of money you need
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: to get into a house. maybe provide tax credits for
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: people who have a child or a married couple. There's
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  Speaker 2: got to be ways in the tax code we can
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  Speaker 2: write off more stuff, maybe write off the down payment.
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  Speaker 3: He's just giving people $ 1, 000 to have a kid, too,
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  Speaker 3: by the way. You just get a nice Trump account
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  Speaker 3: with some money in it when you have a child.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to have one.
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  Speaker 3: Congratulations, man. I'm going to have a kid, too.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, there you go.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to have a kid.
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  Speaker 8: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: Why not? But look, this is really, when we make
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  Speaker 2: America great again, is actually right, right? What the Democrats
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: have tried to do, as they do with every Republican
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  Speaker 2: that's in office, is to vilify them, right? George Bush
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  Speaker 2: was a butcher. Donald Trump is the Mad King. That's
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  Speaker 2: what they do. The playbook is so obvious. And at
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  Speaker 2: some point, People need to sort of say to themselves,
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  Speaker 2: this is what they do every time. There is not
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  Speaker 2: a Republican that's run that the Democrats don't call a killer,
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  Speaker 2: a fascist or or a nut job.
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  Speaker 13: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So we know what they say.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: What have we done?
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  Speaker 15: Right.
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  Speaker 2: With a Congress where half the people are those people.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Great point. I got nothing else for you, man. Absolutely true.
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  Speaker 16: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Wayne Dolcevino, I know you've got to go. You've got
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  Speaker 3: to go show up in court. But thank you very
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  Speaker 3: much for being a part of the show every day,
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  Speaker 3: all the time.
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  Speaker 3: Do we have you tomorrow here back on the show?
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  Speaker 2: You know what? You have to beg tonight. Call me tonight.
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  Speaker 3: I call. I will.
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  Speaker 2: And beg. I will. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: No problem.
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  Speaker 2: And we can talk about the Paxton speech.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. We'll do it. All right. Talk to you later.
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  Speaker 3: Wayne Del Cefino is now officially actually on special assignment. Thrilled.
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  Speaker 3: So much to have you with us toward the tail
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  Speaker 3: end of the show. Let me hit a button over here.
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  Speaker 3: So this actually is showing me. There we go. All right.
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  Speaker 3: Let's do a lot of stuff. I do want to
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  Speaker 3: talk about the lieutenant governor's podcast, which I desperately wanted
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  Speaker 3: at the tail end of the interview we did about
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  Speaker 3: after the show today in thinking that I was trying
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  Speaker 3: to interrupt him to let him catch his flight because
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  Speaker 3: we were trying to let him catch his flight. But
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  Speaker 3: I also did want to ask him about his podcast
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  Speaker 3: and the 1.4 million views that he got for the
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: Trump interview that he did, the President Trump interview. I
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: don't know why I said that. There are other Trumps,
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: but of course, you probably figured out which Trump he
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: talked to. That was all over the place. It was
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: even covered by a lot of media. A of Lieutenant
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: Governor's conversation with the president leading up to this convention
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: that's taking place today and tomorrow in Dallas, which I
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: also really wanted to go to. And we couldn't figure
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: out how to get that done this year, but hopefully
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: next time they have one of these, darn it, Wayne
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: and I are there. But nonetheless, what I think is
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  Speaker 3: so interesting about the ability for the Lieutenant Governor to
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: utilize his broadcast skills, which are Obviously pretty significant. If
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: you're listening to this station, you're probably aware of just
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: how good he is at that. And to go as
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: viral as he has on the internet and on YouTube,
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: it shows us the value, I think, of every single
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: podcast slash conversation medium that's out there. And so in
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: that sense, I will also say you can find everything
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: that we do now on social media. You can find
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: it on YouTube, on Facebook, on a lot of different places.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: So please go to KSEV's places, too, to check out
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: everything that we're doing, because I do think it's pretty significant.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: But one more time, also check out at LT Dan.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: So Lieutenant Governor at LT Dan podcast on YouTube or
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: anywhere else, because it's just an excellent freaking show. It
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: just absolutely is. And it's the kind of thing that
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: I believe probably enough people are not paying attention to,
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: but should be paying attention to. And hopefully that changes soon.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: I do want to play another thing. There's a lot
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: of Tallarico audio that's out there. And some of this
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: Tallarico audio, to me, is pretty much a perfect demonstration
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: of the piece of crap person that he is. And
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: so there's probably not a better way to start that
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: than to actually play the brand new campaign ad that's
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: out there that is going after Tallarico for all the
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: crazy stuff he says and does. Because there's a whole
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: lot of it. that he says and does. So let's
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: play this first. A brand new ad. This is why
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: you need more money to be funneled into the Paxton campaign,
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: because they need to tell us who Tallarico actually is.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: All right, hold on. Actually, let me make sure that
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: I switch this audio so you can hear it again,
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: because I was saying goodbye to Wayne. And now here
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: we go.
• 32:44
  Speaker 20: In the beginning, God was non-binary and he wasn't a Christian.
• 32:48
  Speaker 20: And God said, let there be six genders. And there were.
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  Speaker 20: Then God so loved the world that he gave us
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  Speaker 20: his only son, who is a radical feminist and never
• 32:57
  Speaker 20: asked people to worship him. Look, I always think of
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  Speaker 20: myself as a Christian who hates Christianity.
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  Speaker 3: He does.
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  Speaker 1: James Tallarico, wrong for Texas.
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  Speaker 20: America is not a Christian nation.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: And wrong for America, too.
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  Speaker 3: This is devastating. That is an AI created ad of
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: Tallarico himself reading from his version of the Bible that
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: says things in it that the rest of us are
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: unfamiliar with because it simply doesn't say those things. etc., etc.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: There's so many examples here, so many moments here where
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: you actually see the person that Tallarico is. And as
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: I said before, and I was saying this to Wayne,
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: there are so many other clips that have gone viral.
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: One of the biggest things is probably this conversation he
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: did over the weekend where he talked to, I think
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: it was CBS, about some of his voting record. And
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: probably one of the biggest things in it, and you
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: heard the lieutenant governor reference this, but Tallarico was asked
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: and gave a very quick answer to a question about
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: voting to create income tax here in Texas. Tallarico was
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: one of several people that would rather see us start
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: to pay an income tax, which will never happen and
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: not be popular at all here in Texas. And thank
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: God people are in charge in the positions of power
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: they need to be in to prevent that. But nonetheless,
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: like if anything, we're disqualifying as far as a Texas
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: specific position that Tallarico has, it feels like this might
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: be it. And his excuse for why he decided to
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: vote the opposite way is that because it's banned already,
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: so it didn't matter. I'm voting for something I want,
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: but I know it won't happen. It was a very
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: quick back and forth, but I thought it was interesting.
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: The Republicans have said, you know, you voted against the
• 34:36
  Speaker 6: banning the state income tax back in 2019.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Why did you do that?
• 34:42
  Speaker 21: Because it's already banned.
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: But this would have banned it permanently. There's already a high.
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you already voted against it, buddy. And you voted
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: and you wanted to have eventually a state income tax
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: come back. I love that excuse from Democrats, too, when
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: they vote for the thing they actually want and they
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: pretend they wouldn't have won anyway. So that's why they
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: voted for it. Here's more of the CBS interview.
• 35:02
  Speaker 6: I mean, in your bill back, House Bill 2206 on
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: the energy, you said there would be a transition to
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: the green economy and you would. want to replace lost jobs.
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: That doesn't suggest that there wouldn't be an impact on
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: oil and gas.
• 35:16
  Speaker 21: Well, this is why I was trying to work with
• 35:18
  Speaker 21: Republicans and Democrats alike in the legislature to make this
• 35:21
  Speaker 21: bill a reality. But the bill wasn't even given a hearing.
• 35:24
  Speaker 21: And as you know, covering the legislature bills when they
• 35:27
  Speaker 21: first introduced are a rough draft. And it's meant to
• 35:29
  Speaker 21: go through a process with stakeholders and with members of
• 35:32
  Speaker 21: both political parties. But folks in the state capitol didn't
• 35:35
  Speaker 21: want to have this conversation. And so the bill died
• 35:38
  Speaker 21: before it.
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: Even got to the committee.
• 35:39
  Speaker 21: And that's a real shame because I think there are
• 35:42
  Speaker 21: ways to both grow our oil and gas industry and
• 35:45
  Speaker 21: limit these emissions at the same time.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there are ways to do one or the other, sir.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: There are not ways to do both. And you know
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: that there's ways to do things that you would say
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: are green and things that we would actually want to
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: keep doing here in Texas. It's fascinating, though, because there again,
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: there are so many of these. There's an example of
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: him talking about the border that I.
• 36:03
  Speaker 12: Call a Christian and reject the stranger seeking asylum at
• 36:08
  Speaker 12: our southern border. You can't call yourself a Christian.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: By the way, if you didn't hear that, you can't
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: call yourself a Christian and reject the stranger seeking asylum
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: at the border.
• 36:17
  Speaker 12: You can't call yourself a Christian and reject the stranger
• 36:20
  Speaker 12: seeking asylum at our southern border.
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: That was one that went viral somewhat recently. And even
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: on data centers, Tallarico made the accusation that Paxson is
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: bought and paid for by data centers themselves. I definitely
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: have a reaction to this. If anything may have landed...
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: with the audience as far as people who consumed the
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: eye on politics interview. It might have been this, but
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: I think it's for incredibly the wrong reason. But here
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: we go.
• 36:48
  Speaker 21: You shouldn't trust anything a politician says. You should look
• 36:51
  Speaker 21: at what a politician has done, because the best indicator
• 36:54
  Speaker 21: of future behavior is past behavior. Ken Paxton has taken
• 36:58
  Speaker 21: nearly half a million dollars linked to the data center industry.
• 37:03
  Speaker 21: And it's why he ignored residents in Hood County when
• 37:06
  Speaker 21: they asked for his help as attorney general. to pause
• 37:09
  Speaker 21: data center construction in their community.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: He just ghosted them.
• 37:12
  Speaker 21: And that's because he's bought and paid for by the
• 37:14
  Speaker 21: data center industry. I don't take money from data centers.
• 37:17
  Speaker 21: I don't take money from the data center industry. I
• 37:18
  Speaker 21: don't take any money from corporate PACs. I am focused on.
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: He takes a ton of money from California and a
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: ton of money from outside of Texas that wants him
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: to win this race to change the makeup of the
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: Senate beyond Texas. The people who support Tallarico financially... are
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: by and large people who want absolutely bad things or
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: they don't care at all about the state of Texas.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: But here's what I think is really interesting about talking
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: about the data centers. And I know people are up
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: in arms. I know they're upset about the idea in
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: a lot of places of it coming to their own community.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: I think it's inevitable. I think that if you fast
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: forward 10, 15, 20 years, the ubiquity of data centers
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: is going to be off the charts. We're going to
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: see them in every community all over the place. And
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: if we want to blame anyone for that, we deserve
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: some of that blame because we will all utilize AI
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: and our military will need AI. Artificial intelligence will become...
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: I think Elon Musk, and they've been talking about it
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: a lot, is actually literally building robots that'll walk around
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: and function like humans and can do the day-to-day tasks.
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: I think he's calling it Optimus after Optimus Prime. But
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: that's a real thing. And I've heard the All In
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: podcast and other podcasts discuss... how it'll probably be the
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: best-selling thing that's ever existed in the history of the
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: world if it does come to fruition, that a robot
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: can function somewhat like a human and do day-to-day tasks
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: maybe at your house or something for you. And so
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: I just, I believe, and I don't necessarily like this,
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: but I believe that it's an inevitable future reality that
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: AI and data centers will be everywhere. And we don't
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: want to be behind on that fight.
• 39:04
  Speaker 15: We don't.
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: We want to be at the forefront of it. I
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: think I've heard some people, whether it's politicians or supporters,
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: even talk about this and say that it is literally
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: like the next version of striking oil as far as
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: data centers are concerned. I see we've got a full
• 39:18
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• 39:21
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• 39:24
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• 39:26
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• 39:29
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• 39:32
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  Speaker 3: Let's get right to the calls. We'll start with George
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: in Tombaugh. George, what do you want to say?
• 44:27
  Speaker 11: Thank you, Craig. First of all, I did vote for
• 44:29
  Speaker 11: John Cornyn. And there's a number of reasons why I
• 44:32
  Speaker 11: did that. I'm not going to go on to it.
• 44:34
  Speaker 11: But I could say that he's on a very short
• 44:37
  Speaker 11: list of politicians that is actually important. took the time
• 44:40
  Speaker 11: to help me in my personal life.
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, wow.
• 44:43
  Speaker 11: And I can tell you most certainly if not for
• 44:45
  Speaker 11: John Cornyn, Senator John Cornyn, I would have been homeless.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 44:50
  Speaker 11: I was on the verge of losing everything.
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: Okay. I understand why you voted for him then. I'm
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: not even going to ask you.
• 44:56
  Speaker 11: Go ahead. But that being said, I would vote for
• 44:59
  Speaker 11: a ham sandwich if it had an R next to
• 45:02
  Speaker 11: it and I don't eat pork.
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: Instead of Tallarico, you would vote for a ham sandwich.
• 45:08
  Speaker 11: I would vote for anybody else because for a good
• 45:11
  Speaker 11: portion of my life, I can honestly say that I
• 45:13
  Speaker 11: was a socialist.
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: Gotcha.
• 45:15
  Speaker 7: Right?
• 45:15
  Speaker 11: And when I first started listening to KFCV, like 14
• 45:19
  Speaker 11: years ago on the afternoon program, I actually listened. I
• 45:24
  Speaker 11: didn't call and talk. I listened and said, let me
• 45:27
  Speaker 11: check that. Let me check that. Let me check that.
• 45:29
  Speaker 11: And it changed my opinion. It almost hurt me to
• 45:33
  Speaker 11: vote in the Republican primary. This is the first time
• 45:36
  Speaker 11: I've ever declared a party officially by voting. But I
• 45:40
  Speaker 11: can tell you what I expect now with the next
• 45:43
  Speaker 11: series of callers over the next month or so, they're
• 45:47
  Speaker 11: going to be bringing up all kinds of wild things
• 45:49
  Speaker 11: like water quality or what about this? What about that?
• 45:53
  Speaker 11: What about let's stick to the main subject?
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 45:56
  Speaker 11: Let's vote for the person who's going to stay out
• 45:58
  Speaker 11: of my pocket.
• 45:59
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 45:59
  Speaker 11: Who's going to stay out of my way. And if
• 46:02
  Speaker 11: I want to be charitable, let me do that.
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: Amen.
• 46:04
  Speaker 11: You know, don't impose it on me. So anyway, that's
• 46:07
  Speaker 11: all I got to say. And thank you for letting
• 46:09
  Speaker 11: me speak.
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: No problem. Thank you, George, for the phone call. We'll
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: shift to Mike, who is next on the line. Mike,
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: what do you want to say?
• 46:17
  Speaker 7: Good morning.
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: Enjoy your show.
• 46:19
  Speaker 4: Thank you very much.
• 46:21
  Speaker 7: So I'm one of those Republican-leaning independents that Dan Patrick mentioned.
• 46:26
  Speaker 7: I voted for John Cornyn in the primary, but I'm
• 46:29
  Speaker 7: going to support Kim Paxton in the general election, the
• 46:33
  Speaker 7: reason being we can't have Telerico, period.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: Amen.
• 46:38
  Speaker 7: Telerico will be bad for the state. If Telerico wins,
• 46:43
  Speaker 7: we will probably lose the United States Senate overall because
• 46:47
  Speaker 7: that means there will be a huge wave. He's got
• 46:50
  Speaker 7: to be stopped. But I want to say one other thing.
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 46:54
  Speaker 7: As an independent, I'm more conservative than most independents. But
• 46:58
  Speaker 7: the president doing thing, renaming make Ontario and renaming New
• 47:04
  Speaker 7: Mexico drives those independents bonkers. Not me.
• 47:08
  Speaker 11: Sure.
• 47:08
  Speaker 7: But the more moderate independents that drive those independents bonkers. Now,
• 47:12
  Speaker 7: some of it, like what your your comrade on the
• 47:16
  Speaker 7: show there says, some of it is the president's humor.
• 47:18
  Speaker 7: That's true. But that's the type of stuff that needs
• 47:22
  Speaker 7: to stop now, and we need to get serious and
• 47:25
  Speaker 7: have a red meat speech. Here's what we're going to do.
• 47:31
  Speaker 7: Here's what we've done. Here's what we're going to do.
• 47:34
  Speaker 7: No more of this namby-pamby type of stuff where we're
• 47:37
  Speaker 7: going to rename New Mexico.
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: I get it.
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: I want to ask you a question about that, though, Mike,
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: if you don't mind, because I think it's interesting. If
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: President Trump and this is something I did say to Wayne, too,
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: when we had this conversation earlier this week, did everything
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: that people say he should do as far as no
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: more trolling, no more offhand, whatever he says, if he
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: just acted by the book as presidential as humanly possible.
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: Don't you think a lot of media that has already
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: vilified him would just ignore it? And I think the
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: biggest thing that frustrates President Trump and I think the
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: reason that he carries himself the way that he does is.
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: is when his message is just ignored. And I believe
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: that the presidential version of Trump would only be seen
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: by the people who don't mind the crazy version of
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: Trump or the silly version or whatever you want to
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: call it. I don't think the presidential version would be
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: seen by enough people that you're talking about, which I
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: think is the double-edged sword of this discussion is you're
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: darned if you do and you're darned if you don't
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: because they won't talk about you if you behave quote unquote, correctly?
• 48:47
  Speaker 7: Well, no. Number one, Donald Trump's not going to behave correctly.
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: He's not.
• 48:54
  Speaker 7: He's not going to do that.
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 48:56
  Speaker 7: So but my problem is you're talking in a non-election
• 49:01
  Speaker 7: mode year. It's a different story.
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 49:03
  Speaker 7: Now we're in election mode. We got the House and
• 49:06
  Speaker 7: the Senate up for grabs. The House is probably going
• 49:09
  Speaker 7: to go Democrat by a few votes. I don't know
• 49:12
  Speaker 7: how many, 10, 12, probably. The Senate's probably going to
• 49:17
  Speaker 7: be 51, 49 Republican, you know, when it's all said
• 49:19
  Speaker 7: and done. Now's not the time to be cute. Now's
• 49:23
  Speaker 7: the time to get serious.
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 49:26
  Speaker 7: And people who are these independents or moderates, and Dan
• 49:31
  Speaker 7: Patrick did it right. Texas has got 10 to 12
• 49:33
  Speaker 7: percent independents. Now, they tend to be Republican-leaning independents.
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 49:40
  Speaker 7: But stuff like that drives them crazy.
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 49:43
  Speaker 7: They want the president to talk about the issues. Talk
• 49:46
  Speaker 7: about the big, beautiful bill. Talk about he extended the
• 49:50
  Speaker 7: tax cuts. Talk about those kind of things.
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: The closing of the border. Talk about the amount of
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: manufacturing coming back into our country, etc. Exactly.
• 49:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 49:59
  Speaker 7: Talk about those successes. You know, talk about the stock
• 50:03
  Speaker 7: market at all times.
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 50:05
  Speaker 7: Talk about those kind of things. That's what drives these
• 50:08
  Speaker 7: Republican-leaning independent voters to vote Republican, not renaming New Mexico
• 50:13
  Speaker 7: and make Ontario. I'm sorry.
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: Fair enough. I appreciate it. No, it's fine. Thank you
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: very much for the call, Mike. I appreciate you calling in.
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: I know that John was there, too, but I think
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: he hung up. John is the, I think, kind of
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: crazy anarchist guy who calls this radio station sometimes. Oh,
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: wasn't it somebody else? OK, good. Russell's telling me it's
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: a different John. So then that conversation about groundwater might
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: not have been as as crazy. I was going to
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: respond to the idea that someone who objects to data
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: centers might say that the intense use of groundwater is
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: a problem. And I was going to respond to that
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: by saying that that's true. But there are ways to
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: mitigate that, especially over time. If you do things like
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: adopt nuclear power and then adopt refrigeration systems that might
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: allow for these data centers to use far less water
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: to cool themselves. But all of that is a down
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: the line process. And I do think that there's a
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: a push pull of us allowing ourselves to fall too
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  Speaker 3: far behind, say, a China when it comes to building
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  Speaker 3: data centers. They won't care about any of that. They
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: certainly won't care about the the environmental fallout of building
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  Speaker 3: a data center. And so when we object in ways
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: that I don't think detrimentally change our society, these objections
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: are valid, but they're not ones that are as as
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: truthful as they are exaggerated by people who talk about them.
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: I think that they, in fact, become a problem that
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: pushes us further away from the end goal. And the
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: end goal will be to be the technology hub of
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: the world. We want to be the most advanced country
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: at all times from a military standpoint, from an information
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: and intelligence standpoint. We just do. We always want to
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: be at the forefront of that war. And we are.
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: And I think the data centers and the capability of them,
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: the processing power of them is the next big fight.
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: It's like Here's what I'll compare it to, and I
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: know I only have like a minute left, and I
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: know that that wasn't even the caller who was calling in,
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: or maybe that was the thing they were going to say,
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: but they hung up. I believe that this version of
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: finding a way to have data centers and technology within
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: the United States is similar to developing weapons. Same concept.
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: The amount of missiles we have, the amount of defense
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: capabilities we have in certain places, to me, is akin
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: to what data centers and the existence of them throughout
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: our country will be. It'll be like arming ourselves against
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: any threat anywhere in the world, and we have to
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: do it. Whether we want to do it or not
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: is irrelevant. I think we have to. All right, that's it.
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: That's the whole show. Thank you to the Lieutenant Governor,
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: Dan Patrick, for being on the show and saying nice
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: things about our brand-new morning show. And thank you to
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: Wayne Dolcefino for hanging out as he does every day
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: that he's available on this show, which will include tomorrow,
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: I think. Wayne will be back tomorrow. He seems to
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: like doing the show from his office with the really
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: cool Godfather poster in it. Talk to you guys tomorrow
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: on KSEV, The Voice of Texas.