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James Talarico's Classroom Story, Greg Abbott, Early Voting · KSEV Mornings with Craig and Wayne

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  Speaker 1: And now, the mob.
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  Speaker 2: Guys, Craig Coyenese... Hey! Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: This is the Mob Guys on KSCV Radio. I am
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  Speaker 3: Craig Colonese. He is Wayne Del Cefino, and he's on
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  Speaker 3: special assignment today. He's got a lot going on, traveling.
• 0:51
  Speaker 3: I think he'll be here tomorrow. Although I think he'll
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  Speaker 3: actually be in Austin and we'll test the brand new
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  Speaker 3: docking station the station got for him so that he
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  Speaker 3: has a better video connection. And actually, the Amigos will
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  Speaker 3: be at the Wings Over Houston tomorrow. I don't think
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  Speaker 3: there are any more tickets to go. So when I
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  Speaker 3: say that to you on the air, to the Friday thing,
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  Speaker 3: I know there's more tickets to go to the weekend thing.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think all of Wings Over Houston is sold out.
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  Speaker 3: But there's the special Friday thing that they do that
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  Speaker 3: also involves like launching the Wings. I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: it's got a name. Russell, I don't remember what it's called. OK,
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  Speaker 3: you're shaking your head.
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  Speaker 1: OK, good.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's something there's some sort of start tomorrow
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  Speaker 3: and the Amigos will be there. I will also be
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  Speaker 3: there and we'll have a crap ton of cameras because
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  Speaker 3: for the first time, we're going to try to video
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  Speaker 3: the entire thing.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm going to bring way too many cameras.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't think I've said anything to anyone, not
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  Speaker 3: to Russell, who's the P.D., not to Ben, like I'm
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  Speaker 3: bringing like five, all the cameras we have. And I'll
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  Speaker 3: have like a shot of the people of all kinds
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  Speaker 3: of things. It might not be valuable. We're going to
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  Speaker 3: be entirely honest going in. It might be too much
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  Speaker 3: for one dude to try to do on his own,
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  Speaker 3: but screw it.
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  Speaker 1: Screw it. We're going to at least, yeah, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Russell. We're going to at least try.
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  Speaker 3: And hopefully you'll get to see the amigos at the airport,
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  Speaker 3: all the cool stuff that you might not see if
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  Speaker 3: you're not going to go.
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  Speaker 1: So hopefully a lot of people watch.
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  Speaker 3: Tomorrow to our live stream, or maybe we'll clip some
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  Speaker 3: stuff and put it up there too. And the Amigos
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  Speaker 3: also have, I believe, I'm not sure if it's actually
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  Speaker 3: fully out yet, but I know we've been working on it,
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  Speaker 3: a ton of interviews they've done with people from Wings
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  Speaker 3: Over Houston, with military heroes. This is all the years
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  Speaker 3: that they've been doing that event. We're turning it into
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  Speaker 3: this big podcast where you can listen to a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of those different conversations all at the same, like all
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  Speaker 3: in the same thing. It sounds like it's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 3: And I think it's done. I think it's out there,
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  Speaker 3: although it might not be quite yet, but it should
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  Speaker 3: be soon. But it's the Amigos best of Wings Over
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  Speaker 3: Houston interviews over a tremendous amount of years of doing
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  Speaker 3: that show. And I was actually even calling people. I
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  Speaker 3: know this is I plan on talking about something else
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  Speaker 3: to start the show. But I was calling people with
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  Speaker 3: the organization yesterday to coordinate the camera stuff and the technology.
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  Speaker 1: That we need, the Internet that we need in order
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  Speaker 1: to do it out there.
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  Speaker 3: And every time I called somebody, they're like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: the Amigos, Wings Over Houston. You guys have been doing
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  Speaker 3: that forever. And I'm like, we have.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we have. But it'll be fun to do it
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  Speaker 1: again this year.
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  Speaker 3: And please tune in tomorrow to that show or at
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  Speaker 3: least watch it on social media because a lot of
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  Speaker 3: stuff will.
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  Speaker 1: Be going on. All right.
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  Speaker 3: I do want to talk about voter turnout here in
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  Speaker 3: Harris County. I am not a vote early guy. I've
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  Speaker 3: never been a vote early guy. My wife got me
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  Speaker 3: to vote early yesterday because the polling place for me
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  Speaker 3: is like, four blocks from my house.
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  Speaker 1: So we actually could like walk there.
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  Speaker 3: So the first part that sort of surprised me when
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  Speaker 3: we did decide to go is just how close the
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  Speaker 3: polling place was for us. The other thing that I
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  Speaker 3: will say, I don't know if that polling place just
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  Speaker 3: wasn't one I paid attention to at other times. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know if it's just not an election day one,
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  Speaker 3: because I could have voted there before. Maybe I just
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  Speaker 3: never paid attention that close. But the other thing I'll
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  Speaker 3: say is that there was almost nobody there. So voter
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  Speaker 3: turnout has hit a record high. Harris County turnout is
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  Speaker 3: supposed to be soaring. I saw multiple people report about
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  Speaker 3: it a couple days ago. Nineteen million, I think, votes
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  Speaker 3: have come in through early voting. So there's there's some
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  Speaker 3: significant numbers going on. And yet the polling place I
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  Speaker 3: was at had like four people. So I know it's anecdotal.
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  Speaker 3: I know I can't disprove any of the narrative that's
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  Speaker 3: out there by saying, and I'm not saying they even
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  Speaker 3: make it up. They have data that backs up what
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  Speaker 3: they're saying. But it was just interesting. And probably the
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  Speaker 3: biggest reason I decided to vote early is this discussion
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  Speaker 3: about how many people are going. Now, granted, Wayne Dolcefino
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  Speaker 3: knows fancy people, and he has some insider information from
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  Speaker 3: time to time. And from a friend of his who
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  Speaker 3: seems to be in the know, he sent me a
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  Speaker 3: message yesterday saying, on some additional information that seemed important.
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  Speaker 3: And I loved the headline to the text message that
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  Speaker 3: I got from Wayne, because it was from his friend,
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  Speaker 3: a turnout alert, people lie and opinion polls can be manipulated,
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  Speaker 3: but these numbers can't be changed. So saying that the
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  Speaker 3: turnout number is in fact real, but the worry for
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  Speaker 3: Democrats is black turnout is low, essentially meaning communities that
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  Speaker 3: are significantly of a certain ethnicity are are not voting
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  Speaker 3: in anywhere near the kind of number that you'd expect
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  Speaker 3: them to be voting in if, say, the black community
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  Speaker 3: was overwhelmingly trying to support Tallarico.
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  Speaker 1: Now, could they vote on Election Day?
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  Speaker 4: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: Of course they can. Of course those numbers can change.
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  Speaker 3: Is that an important piece to Tallarico actually winning Texas?
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  Speaker 1: You better believe it is. Tallarico needs to do incredibly.
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  Speaker 3: Well with the Hispanic vote, with, you know, obviously Democrats voting,
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  Speaker 3: and then also with the black vote. He just needs
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  Speaker 3: to do well with those votes in order to have
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  Speaker 3: a shot at actually defeating Paxton in a state that
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  Speaker 3: hasn't elected a Democrat in forever. And I thought it
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  Speaker 3: was interesting saying that there are 36 early voting locations
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  Speaker 3: across Harris County that have tallied more in-person votes than
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  Speaker 3: the overwhelmingly, you know, black communities of Sunnyside, Acres, Hones,
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  Speaker 3: and Clark Multi-Service Center, which is one of the other
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  Speaker 3: places that's taking these votes, they're not getting anywhere near
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  Speaker 3: as many. Black vote turnout is up compared to previous midterms,
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  Speaker 3: but the turnout numbers of, but not, excuse me, I
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  Speaker 3: want to repeat this, not as high as the turnout
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  Speaker 3: numbers of other ethnic groups. So the black vote is
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  Speaker 3: not doing as well as they might have expected it
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  Speaker 3: to do. And again, in order to actually defeat a
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  Speaker 3: Republican in a statewide race in Texas, you have to
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  Speaker 3: have overwhelming support from all the places that you'd assume
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  Speaker 3: to get it.
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  Speaker 1: And you have to get.
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  Speaker 3: Some support from surprising places. I did see I can't
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  Speaker 3: remember what poll it was. And again, polls can be manipulated.
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  Speaker 3: But there was a poll out there that said that
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  Speaker 3: like three percent of Republicans were planning on voting for Tallarico.
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  Speaker 1: And there was like no Democrats planning on voting for Paxton.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I don't know if I believe that because it
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  Speaker 3: seems kind of insane to me to say it that way.
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  Speaker 3: And I imagine somebody who answers the phone from a
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  Speaker 3: pollster could claim.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, I'm a Republican. and not be one at all.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, I will say one other thing, actually,
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  Speaker 3: about my voting experience yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: It felt like a lot of Democrats.
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  Speaker 4: It did.
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  Speaker 3: Where I went, the people that were there, even though, again,
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  Speaker 3: there were only like four or five people in the place,
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  Speaker 3: the feeling.
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  Speaker 1: I got was, these.
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  Speaker 3: Are Democratic voters, not my wife and I, but everybody
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  Speaker 3: else felt to be of a certain side. I think
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  Speaker 3: one person was wearing some sort of, you know, dumb shirt.
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  Speaker 3: I don't even know if I want to explain what's
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  Speaker 3: on the shirt. Because here, I'll say this, because I'm
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  Speaker 3: not going to tell you, actually, the dumb phrase on
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  Speaker 3: the shirt. I don't dislike standing up for people. You know,
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  Speaker 3: when someone walks around with blue hair and a shirt
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  Speaker 3: that says, like, Black Lives Matter instead of All Lives
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  Speaker 3: Matter or some weird attack, a part of me thinks
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  Speaker 3: to myself, like, I don't disagree with your message.
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  Speaker 1: I care about people. That's fine.
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  Speaker 3: What I disagree with is how stupid you're going about
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  Speaker 3: using it to demonstrate what side of the political aisle
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  Speaker 3: you're on.
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  Speaker 1: And how crazy you probably are.
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  Speaker 3: Having a conversation with you is probably horrible because to me,
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  Speaker 3: there's no difference between some of those things. Like all
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  Speaker 3: lives matter. Cops lives matter. Black lives matter. All that's important.
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  Speaker 3: All that's true. We can put it all in the
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  Speaker 3: same bucket. But people on a certain side don't want
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  Speaker 3: to put it all in the same bucket. They want
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  Speaker 3: to try to attack you as if me saying all
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  Speaker 3: lives matter means I don't care about black people or
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  Speaker 3: whatever the case may be. And it wasn't a Black
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  Speaker 3: Lives Matter shirt, by the way. It was just an
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  Speaker 3: easier example to use than the dumb one that was there.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know why I'm not saying it. I guess
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to give any additional publicity out of
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  Speaker 3: the thing I saw. But it was a girl who
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  Speaker 3: had blue hair and a stupid shirt, and she was
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  Speaker 3: very happy to.
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  Speaker 1: Vote, which is great.
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  Speaker 3: You know, one last thing I'll say, I guess it's
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  Speaker 3: just a rant to start the show. My wife is
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  Speaker 3: from Mexico, born and raised there.
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  Speaker 1: I've talked about it before on the show. She's a U.S.
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  Speaker 1: citizen now because of a marriage to me. She loves voting.
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  Speaker 1: She doesn't.
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  Speaker 3: Really know who to vote for. She asks me who
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  Speaker 3: to vote for, which is great. And I tell her
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  Speaker 3: and she listens, which is also great. And she thinks
• 9:12
  Speaker 3: that a lot of politics is just corrupt because in
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  Speaker 3: Mexico it is. So if you tell her that this
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  Speaker 3: politician is corrupt, you don't even have to finish the sentence.
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  Speaker 3: And she'll probably be like, yeah, that's true. I think
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  Speaker 3: that's probably true. Whoever they are, whatever they're up to,
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  Speaker 3: because politicians and corrupt go together very quickly for my wife.
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  Speaker 3: But she loves to vote. So every time we get
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  Speaker 3: to this season, she's always like, we got to go vote.
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  Speaker 3: We got to go do it.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, of course we're going to.
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  Speaker 3: Of course we are. But it's funny. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: why I get so amused by that.
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  Speaker 1: I just love it.
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  Speaker 3: The fact that, you know, my wife cares about something
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  Speaker 3: that maybe a lot of other people won't care enough
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  Speaker 3: about and maybe not show up and vote. And if
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people don't show up, this election could
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  Speaker 3: go a very bad way. Tallarico might win because of
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  Speaker 3: low turnout from conservatives, which is surreal.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's obvious. I know it happens all the time.
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  Speaker 3: What I'm saying is surreal is just how crazy and
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  Speaker 3: far left Tallarico is.
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  Speaker 1: And to allow that.
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  Speaker 3: And I know we've talked about that a lot on
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  Speaker 3: the show, but I'll say it again after voting yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: to allow that to potentially represent Texas, those ideologies are
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  Speaker 3: It's shocking, really.
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  Speaker 1: And it shouldn't be, but it is. Quick break.
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  Speaker 3: We'll play audio. We'll do all the normal stuff. KSCV,
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  Speaker 3: the voice of Texas. It is the Mob Guys. I
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  Speaker 3: am Craig Colonese.
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  Speaker 1: More after this.
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  Speaker 3: KSCV Radio, 700 a.m., the voice of Texas. I am
• 10:36
  Speaker 3: Craig Colonese, Wayne Dolcefino on Special Assignment. We call ourselves
• 10:40
  Speaker 3: the Mob Guys. I keep telling you we do it
• 10:43
  Speaker 3: because it's a reflection on the actual mobsters who are
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  Speaker 3: the politicians who we talk about all the time. Tallarico
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  Speaker 3: made another thing up, and it's a weird thing to
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  Speaker 3: make up. At least it seems made up. And so
• 10:54
  Speaker 3: it's going very viral. I'll play you two versions of
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  Speaker 3: the clip. I'm going to use the 360. I'll let
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  Speaker 3: Russell know that instead of playing the stuff over in
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  Speaker 3: your studio. I'll just play it here today.
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  Speaker 1: It's easier for me. And hopefully this works, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: I think it'll work.
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  Speaker 3: But this is Tallarico talking about why he got into politics.
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  Speaker 3: And then somebody found an Obama clip That sounds eerily
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  Speaker 3: similar as to why he decided to get into politics.
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  Speaker 1: This is weird. Here we go. Let's clip one.
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  Speaker 5: And I entered the classroom in the fall of 2011,
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  Speaker 5: right after our state legislature cut more than $ 5 billion
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  Speaker 5: from public education in this state. So I saw the
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  Speaker 5: impact of those cuts firsthand. I saw programs get eliminated.
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  Speaker 5: I saw class sizes grow. At one point, I had
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  Speaker 5: 45 students in one classroom. There weren't enough desks. For
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  Speaker 5: all those kids. So I had students sitting on the
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  Speaker 5: air conditioning unit in the wealthiest country.
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  Speaker 1: In human history. And I was so obsessed.
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  Speaker 5: In the 21st century.
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  Speaker 3: How dare they sit down on the air conditioning unit
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  Speaker 3: to try to learn from us.
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  Speaker 1: Now, that's fine.
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  Speaker 3: That sounds very motivating to Tallarico, except for the fact
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  Speaker 3: that it sounds really similar to a story Obama told
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  Speaker 3: in 2012.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no!
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: How dare 45 students sit on places other than desks
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  Speaker 3: inside a classroom to inspire someone to become motivated to
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  Speaker 3: actually enter into politics. Shocking that that's it. I love
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  Speaker 3: the Internet. And I'll tell you why, because the Internet's undefeated.
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  Speaker 3: Anytime anyone says a thing and you can go back
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  Speaker 3: and find a different version of the same thing. And
• 12:52
  Speaker 3: of course, Tallarico can tell you that he had the
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  Speaker 3: exact same experience to some teacher in 2012 that Obama knew.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's more likely that Tallarico asked for an
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  Speaker 3: answer to the.
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  Speaker 1: Question, why did I get into politics? And Obama told
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  Speaker 1: him that answer.
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  Speaker 3: Or someone in the orbit of Obama told him that
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  Speaker 3: answer who remembered that story before. And the point of that,
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  Speaker 3: if that's how this occurred, if Tallarico wasn't actually in
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  Speaker 3: a classroom with 45 kids and a bunch of kids
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  Speaker 3: sitting on an air conditioner, It shows you how inauthentic
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  Speaker 3: everything about politics is, because part of me wonders.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll just go on a rant about this for
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  Speaker 1: a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: If the truth is that Tallarico is sitting at his
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  Speaker 3: desk one day and thinking to himself, man. I'd be
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  Speaker 3: a great politician. And then he gets into politics. And
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  Speaker 3: that's the whole story. That's the story for a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people. They don't need this wonderful, incredible. I was
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  Speaker 3: inspired and nothing could stop me.
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  Speaker 1: I really didn't want to do it, but I guess
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  Speaker 1: I will.
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  Speaker 3: A version of a conversation. They could just want to
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  Speaker 3: be in charge of stuff. I think by and large,
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: a whole lot of people in politics. I think President
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  Speaker 3: Trump is in the group of people that wants to
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  Speaker 3: be in charge of stuff. And I'm fine with that
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  Speaker 3: as a story by itself. So when you have to
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: make up and elaborate and do these ridiculous things, hyperbolic
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  Speaker 3: versions of this is what pushed me to say I
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  Speaker 3: had no choice but to represent part of Austin, then
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  Speaker 3: to me, you show yet again how much of a
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  Speaker 3: full of crap person you are. You know, like everything's
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  Speaker 3: a performance. Everything's fake. And I wonder what that does
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  Speaker 3: to your brain. Like, truthfully, part of me has thought
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  Speaker 3: because actually, I'll tell you this.
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  Speaker 1: Early on.
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  Speaker 3: Right after she got elected, AOC sounded like someone that
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  Speaker 3: you might have met in New York. What I mean
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: by that is she was dumb. She said a lot
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  Speaker 3: of stupid things. The Green New Deal was horrible. But
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  Speaker 3: there weren't as many performative aspects of the things about
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  Speaker 3: her personality when she first got elected that exist now.
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  Speaker 3: Because now all of those ridiculous things that probably built
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  Speaker 3: the original person are heightened by the performance that is Washington's.
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  Speaker 3: And I can't imagine how your brain gets warped by
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  Speaker 3: drinking your own Kool-Aid, thinking that you're the most important
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  Speaker 3: person in the world, and then also thinking that you
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  Speaker 3: have to perform all the time about everything. Because that's
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  Speaker 3: what a lot of these people do. It's what a
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  Speaker 3: lot of their lives become. And it's so annoying. And actually,
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  Speaker 3: I'll go even a step further, because I have praised
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  Speaker 3: him before on this show, and it's not just because
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: the guy works here. But Senator Betancourt is just a
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  Speaker 3: regular guy. You meet the person, you talk to him,
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  Speaker 3: and you're like, I don't get the feeling of politicians
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  Speaker 3: which is a compliment, Senator Betancourt, from him that you
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  Speaker 3: get from some of these other people that you meet,
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  Speaker 3: especially like high ranking people in D.C. If you meet
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  Speaker 3: any of them and the way they just feel like
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: the kind of, you know, popular high school girl who
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: wound up getting way too additionally popular and then everything
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: being about them. And I don't mean just for women,
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: this male politicians who drink too much of their own Kool-Aid.
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  Speaker 1: That's really the best way to say it. And it's
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  Speaker 1: just crazy.
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  Speaker 3: But Obama is also in the news because he's walking
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: back his Cheesecake Factory comments, which is weird. I don't
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: want to play a lot of Obama. I think the
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: left wants me to play Obama. So partially for that reason,
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: I don't want to play it. But I'll play this
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: because it's on Fox and it's a bunch of other
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: places where President Obama, former President Barack Obama, was talking
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: about how much he loves Chuck E. Cheese and the
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: Cheesecake Factory after he had crapped on it earlier. It
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: just feels like, again, this is also very political in nature.
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: Where the stupid people say the dumb thing and then
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: they feel like the dumb thing is too powerful.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: So they have to take it back like every day.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: I can't imagine. Actually, I'm kind of glad I've never
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: done this.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: I can't imagine what it's like to be in a
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: political strategist's office talking to a team or a politician
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: about what to do next about anything. Like just constantly
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: strategizing and not just saying I'm going to walk out
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: there and be me.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: And I've said this, I'll say it again.
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: It's one of the other reasons that I think President
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: Trump is such an effective and popular, he is still
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: popular with conservatives, politician, is that I don't think he
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: ever listens to a single strategist ever. From what I see,
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: from how he speaks, if a strategist was in his
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: orbit before he took a stage and was like, hey, Mr. President,
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: don't say this, Trump patted that guy in the back
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: and said, I'll handle it.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: And then he did whatever he wanted.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: But here's Obama saying that he actually really likes the
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: Cheesecake Factory.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: The president was not happy.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: When I joked over the weekend that he's.
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: Got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: cheesecake factory.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: And listen, first of all.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: It's also really funny that he thinks that that's like
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: a hilarious joke because he seems very proud of himself
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: for that. And I'll tell you this, the president, the
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: current president, Trump, he does a lot more jokes. If
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: you were comparing comedians... You get a lot more humor
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: in a 15-minute speech from one guy than the other guy.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Let me get this on the record.
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: I am the father of two daughters.
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: Do you think I could have survived their childhood without
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: going to the Cheesecake Factory?
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I do, actually. I lived at Chuck E.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Cheese.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: I don't think you did, sir.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: And California Pizza Kitchens.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: I'm the Cheesecake Factory. That was my jam for about
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: a decade.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: You know, what's really funny about that is a lot
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: of the time that he's claiming that would have been
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: his jam is his kids were little, so he was
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: in office. And I don't remember the president hitting up
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: a lot of Cheesecake Factories when he was in the
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: White House.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: I don't remember that story. So I'm going to have
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: to remind.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: Me of President Obama goes to the Cheesecake Factory or
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: to Chuck E. Cheese or California Pizza Kitchen, which rough,
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: I'll say this, rough to throw that one in there.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: Because no offense... to Chuck E. Cheese or the Cheesecake Factory.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: I'm not trying to take shots at them. I'm not
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: going to pull an Obama myself. But I think the
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: California Pizza Kitchen is a step up, especially from the
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: pizza at a Chuck E.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Cheese.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: So I would say it's a little bit higher up
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: the totem pole of chain restaurants. And actually, the Cheesecake
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: Factory is great. My grandma used to love that place,
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: which is funny because she's a very Italian grandma that
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: shouldn't like the Cheesecake Factory.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: And she really did. She really enjoyed it because it
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: is delicious food.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: But nonetheless, I just, again, think it's so funny that
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: all of this stuff becomes such an obsession of people.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: And honestly, I guess I'll say before we take another
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: break that I think the best thing you can do
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: as a voter out there is pick the people who
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: are the most real and just vote for those people.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: They don't all have to be Republicans. I think by
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: and large they are. I think we've talked to some
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: of them on the show over the last couple of
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: weeks as we're getting closer and closer to the election itself. But,
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: you know, just pick people who are real. Pick people
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: who say real things into cameras, whether those things are
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: eloquently said, whether they're the things that somebody should have
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: said or not. I'm attracted to the idea, at least politically,
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: that people say real stuff and that that real stuff
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: is what they actually think and that they're not going
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: to have a team of 10 people tell them what
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: story they should tell when asked, why did you get
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: into politics? A story that we can then find an
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: eerie similarity to. from when Obama was on stage in 2012,
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: campaigning for himself and saying very similar things. I want
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: a photo of the Tallarico classroom that he was in
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: when people were sitting on the air conditioners.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: I want to know.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: I want to see more there, because I don't believe you,
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: and it's one of the stupidest things to lie about
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: that says a whole lot about who you are.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: All right, quick break.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: A bunch more audio to get to. It's KSEV mornings,
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: the mob guys on The Voice of Texas.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: KSEV Radio. The Voice of Texas. That is 700 AM.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: We're also on a bunch of social media.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: You can find us on YouTube, Rumble, X. The live
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: stream is working today.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: I took a long time yesterday to fix the live stream,
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: but that one's out there, too, if you want to
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: watch yesterday's show. But today's show is up on all
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: of those platforms. Greg Abbott did some pretty interesting interviews
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: over the last couple days. I think yesterday he was
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: both doing an interview live from a campaign stop in Texas. Well,
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: that was on Fox News. And then also he sat
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: down with Benny Johnson, who continues to get a lot
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: of great guests.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Benny Johnson is now a bigger influencer and.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: Does exactly what radio does without being on the radio
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: a whole lot of places.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: But anyway, I'm not jealous. It's fine.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: Let's play Abbott on Fox first, where he ripped to
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: shreds Gina Hinojosa and everything that she says and does
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: that seems to be pro Sharia law, pro mass third
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: world invasion kind of things.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: That's the way it's described. I thought this was pretty
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: great by the governor.
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: It's for Joe Biden's open border policies. She's for defunding
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: the police. She voted 40 times for higher poverty taxes.
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: She wanted to impose a state income tax in the
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: state of Texas.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: And she supports boys and girls sports.
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: She is wrong for Texas. She is dangerous. And that's
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: exactly why Republicans have to get out and vote and
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: make sure we keep Texas red.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: So, Governor, so let me ask you about your race there,
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: because the RealClearPolitics average has got you up by 3.2 percent.
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: You won this race back in 2022 by 11 points.
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: At this point, with seven days to go, the polls
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: showed you anywhere from 10 to 13 points ahead. So
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: why is this so close?
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: I love this answer, by the way.
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: I feel really good about where things are, because in
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: your own poll, it showed me up by five points
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: and other polls more or less. But I got to
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: tell you this, Texans and I think Americans are tired
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: of polls.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: Yes, we are.
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: What matters is not polls. What matters is people. And
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: with the people I'm here with today, with the people
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: I visit in communities like this across the entire state
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: of Texas, there is energy. There's excitement because of what
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: Texans realize is there's so much at stake.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: They want to make sure Republicans.
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: Independents and just people who love our great state, they
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: want to turn out and vote to make sure we
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: keep Texas, Texas.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Keep Texas, Texas is a great first thing to say.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: And I've heard that phrase thrown around a lot by
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: a lot of people. But Greg, Governor Abbott did a
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: great job there. But I love that we're just sick
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: of polls. I'm sick of being told what's going to happen.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you. And I know I've I've
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: on this very show.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: I've been worried, consistently worried that Tallarico has a legitimate
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: shot to win. And there's a big difference, I think,
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: at least me, you might not think this way between
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: saying that and saying he will win because he will
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: win still seems like it's untrue.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: It still seems like it's it's not going to happen.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe I go back and forth on that.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: I can't remember if I've said anything different on the
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: show because you get you get Debbie Downer occasionally. And
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: especially if you pay attention to the polling and all
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: that crap where you start to think, man, maybe he
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: really could win. And then you remind yourself that it
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: is Texas. And even though you have to vote, I
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: voted yesterday. I broke my rule. I voted early because
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: I really wanted to make sure that we did. I
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: didn't want to miss it.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: But I'll say this, too, like. I don't know.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: I just on Tuesday when the votes come in, I
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: love that, too. Actually, I'll say that very quickly. My
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: wife asked me, like, when we'll know the answer. And
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: I said, we live in Texas now. So we probably
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: know the answer to these races a lot sooner than.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: We used to know when we lived in Illinois.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: The winner is something we'll probably know on election night
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: for most of this stuff. And that is not necessarily
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: the case in the place we used to live. But nonetheless,
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: I will just say and I think this is kind
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: of the most important thing to say. As long as
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: people show up and vote and vote Texas values, Tallarico
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: can't win. He just doesn't represent their values enough.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: All right, let's play some of the Benny Johnson audio.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: I have two clips.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: I have one where Abbott, very, very smart of him
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: to stay on point, on message with the issues that
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: there's a significant difference between him and Gina Hinojosa on.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Because that is something that even I think Wayne has
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: been saying as much as maybe anybody. that the Republicans
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: need to do. They just need to hit people with
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: the issues. You don't have to hit them with just
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: the political, radical talking point stuff, but go after everything.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Go after open borders. Go after income tax in this state,
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: which is something you heard Abbott do on Fox. He
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: does it again with Benny Johnson.
• 25:07
  Speaker 8: Tallarico, I got to tell you, Governor, I never thought
• 25:10
  Speaker 8: I'd see a Texas Senate candidate that doesn't eat meat,
• 25:14
  Speaker 8: that doesn't eat the barbecue. A vegan Texas Senate candidate
• 25:18
  Speaker 8: that thinks that God's non-binary, that there are six genders,
• 25:22
  Speaker 8: that Jesus is permissible of abortion, and that he dreams
• 25:25
  Speaker 8: of trans kids at night, which is a strange thing
• 25:27
  Speaker 8: to dream about. It is, Benny. Everybody can admit. A
• 25:29
  Speaker 8: little weird to be like, I go to bed dreaming
• 25:31
  Speaker 8: of trans kids. What is that?
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: What the hell is that guy?
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: So he's from Austin, Texas, and he adopts Austin ideology.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: He does.
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: And he thought he could get away with saying things
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: like that when he was a state representative from Austin.
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: It does not sell in the rest of the state. Candidly,
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: it's going to be easier running against Tallarico than it
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: would have been against Jasmine Crockett, because Tallarico has a
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: worse voting record than Jasmine Crockett has. And wait till
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: you see the contrast. If Kim Paxson is able to
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: show against Tallarico, it's going to make Tallarico look silly,
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: and Kim Paxson will run away.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: With that race.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I hope that that winds up being true, because
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: that was said a while back, as you can tell,
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: and it doesn't totally wind up being as true as
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: it should be now. But it is accurate to, again,
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: state The Tallarica's voting record is terrible. And again, on
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: basic stuff, stuff that Texans care about, things like whether
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: we have an income tax in the state, whether they
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: take more of our money, whether the borders stay wide open.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: And I think Governor Abbott is trying to do more
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: about making it a state and a Texas thing to
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: make sure that borders stay closed and that people get
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: out who aren't supposed to be here.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: A little bit more from this Greg Abbott interview.
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: Can you answer a question for me about why Texas
• 26:41
  Speaker 8: doesn't look like California?
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Everywhere in California... piss soaked. Sorry about that. We got
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: to hit the button there. Get rid of that. But
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: that is yes.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: And actually, I think that word is allowed. But he's
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: talking about how terrible California looks. And Abbott comes back
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: and says, well. We haven't answered that.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Homeless encampments?
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 26:59
  Speaker 8: The buildings aren't covered in graffiti.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: I don't see the city burning to pieces.
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: Because in Texas, the state can override local governments. And
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: so we passed a law banning homeless encampments. And withhold
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: funding from any city that fails to comply.
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: Good.
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: And so whether homeless encampments or lack of enforcement of law,
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: whatever the case may be. So there was an episode
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: you probably missed about two months ago where the city
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: of Houston cast a vote. Well, they were no longer
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: going to comply with ICE requests. I said, oh, yes,
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: you are, because I've got a contract right here with
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: the city signature on it, with the police department signature
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: on it, saying they will comply and they don't. I
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: was going to force them to repay the state of
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: Texas $ 132 million. They said, oh, you know what? We
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: will comply with that.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah. See, I love this.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: And these are the kind of things that you actually want,
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: because this is more than saying I'm going to protect
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: your children from from the crazy left who wants to
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: trans them. And that is, again, its own thing and
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: something we should obviously protect kids against.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: But this is more substance to me.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: And saying that I prevented Houston from going even further
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: down the cesspool that it is. I saw a comment
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: on that post from the interview that Benny Johnson did
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: saying this place still has a ton of homeless.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: People and is a cesspool of bad things.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: And there's a homeless person in every single corner, it
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: feels like, but they don't have an encampment somewhere. where
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: then you have like 50 people in an area that
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: shouldn't be there, which is what California has. And then
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: you have, you know, poop on the streets and whatnot.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: I don't know a better way to say that. So
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: I'll just say it that way. That's what California deals with.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: That's what we do not deal with. That's why you
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: cannot vote some of these people into political office. You
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: want to keep Texas, Texas and people like Abbott protected.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: And if you had a Gina Hosa in that position,
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: if you had, you know, a Tallarico as a senator
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: for the state as a whole, You have all of
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: these individuals who then don't do those things that keep Texas, Texas.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: It doesn't protect the state.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: It doesn't, you know, prevent the Democratic crazy parts of
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: this state from acting as though they can enforce their
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: will on everybody else. It's honestly very Illinois, too. I
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: know California is the more trendy one, but I lived
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: in Chicago for a long time. And I can tell
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: you that Chicago loves that it's a Democrat blue state,
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: even though a.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Don't actually agree with the politics of that city.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: But the city itself loves that it influences the entire
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: state and that no politician pushes back on anything. They
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: have a crazy, insane jelly bean governor, as he's called
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: all the time in Pritzker, who wouldn't do anything that
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: Abbott does. And Gina Hinojosa would be the same. She
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: would immediately start allowing the Austin and the Houstons and
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: the Dallases of the world of this state to influence
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: how the rest of the state behaves. And that would
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: be terrible instead of actually forcing Texas values on places
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: like Houston. Because I'll say one last thing. I don't
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: mean to rant about a bunch of stuff today. I
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: just feel like that's kind of the role I'm in.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: When I first moved, here to Texas. I was really
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: excited about the idea of getting somewhere that finally believed
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: in the stuff I believed in that wasn't Illinois, that
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: wasn't Jersey, where I lived when I was a little kid.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: I thought, hey, we're finally going to.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: Get to a place that I think my values are
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: reflected by a bunch more people. And we picked Houston, which,
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: no offense, there's a bunch of great people. I think
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: a lot of the suburbs have a lot of really
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: great people that think things I think. But a lot
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: of the internals of the city and the politicians who
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: are in power here They remind me a lot of
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: places I've been before, and we don't want more of that,
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: and we don't want these people to have more outstretched
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: power throughout the state because there's no pushback. If you
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: don't have pushback at the higher levels, you have horrible, terrible.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Things, which you see in states like California and in Illinois.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: All right, one last piece of audio I want to
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: play before we take a break. This is President Trump
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: just joking about Dan Sullivan, which I thought was pretty funny.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Let's play that audio.
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: Be respectful here because I don't want to call them
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  Speaker 4: Democrats because this is a very serious charge. Democrats in Alaska,
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: despite their sworn statements to the contrary, put a man
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  Speaker 4: named Dan Sullivan on the ballot in order to continue
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: the public with highly, think of it, they wanted to
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  Speaker 4: continue the public dialogue. They wanted to say that there
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  Speaker 4: was a man named Dan Sullivan on the ballot. He's
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  Speaker 4: a great esteemed senator. So they found a man named
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  Speaker 4: Dan Sullivan. And they put him on the ballot and
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  Speaker 4: nobody can tell the difference. This is voter fraud at
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  Speaker 4: the highest level of the Democrat candidate who is involved
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  Speaker 4: in the scheme. Mary Peltola, who said she didn't know
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  Speaker 4: anything about it in court. She should be removed from
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  Speaker 4: the ballot and prosecuted, and so should the fake Dan Sullivan.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's hilarious, and I think that's great.
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  Speaker 3: My favorite part about that, and we'll take a break
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: and we'll come back with it in just a bit.
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  Speaker 3: My favorite part about that is that it's the most
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: obvious voter fraud, and he's talking about it in a
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  Speaker 3: way that makes you think about all the other types
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  Speaker 3: of voter fraud that could still be going on. A
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  Speaker 3: quick break, a lot more. This is KSED Mornings, The
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  Speaker 3: Voice of Texas, Greg Colonnese, Wayne Del Trofino.
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  Speaker 1: On Specialist 9. KSV Radio. Voice of Texas. Wayne Delgertino
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  Speaker 1: is texting me.
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  Speaker 3: He might not be capable of calling into the show
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  Speaker 3: like last time that he was on special assignment, but
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: he is texting, which I love. And he asked me
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  Speaker 3: if there is really poop on the streets. I think
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  Speaker 3: he was just kidding. In San Francisco, I think there was.
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  Speaker 3: I think right before Diplomat came into town, too, they
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  Speaker 3: had to clean that up, which probably isn't fun, which
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  Speaker 3: we don't want here. We don't want a lot of
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  Speaker 3: that here in Texas. I don't see any poop on
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  Speaker 3: the streets here, which is always good. A couple clips
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  Speaker 3: that I like a lot that I'll play before we
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: start take the news break here in a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I want proof. I'm not getting it for you, Wayne.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not doing that.
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  Speaker 3: I love the fact that I can see his texts
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  Speaker 3: on my computer that I'm playing audio from. I didn't
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  Speaker 3: even realize I had that set up.
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  Speaker 1: And there it is. I want to play a couple
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  Speaker 1: clips from Texas voters.
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  Speaker 3: Fox is doing a pretty good job of walking around,
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  Speaker 3: just asking people whether it's in polling place lines or
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  Speaker 3: like restaurants, what they think.
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  Speaker 1: And what's going on?
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  Speaker 3: One of these guys is like a 16 year old
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  Speaker 3: kid in Dallas, which is amazing. The other guy is
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  Speaker 3: a retired military veteran in Lubbock. Let's go military veteran first.
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  Speaker 3: Not that I don't like the 16 year old kid's position.
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  Speaker 3: I just tend to usually like. veterans and what they
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  Speaker 3: say more. So here we go with this.
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  Speaker 9: All right, this audio is a little screwed up, so
• 33:43
  Speaker 9: I probably won't play all of it.
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  Speaker 3: He says we fought for it. He gets very emotional.
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  Speaker 3: He's asked a question as to why he thinks it's
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  Speaker 3: important to vote and vote red. And he said that
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  Speaker 3: if you don't go other places, he went overseas and
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  Speaker 3: fought for this country.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't go other places, you don't understand. You
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  Speaker 1: don't know the things that you should know.
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  Speaker 3: And because of that, there's a lot of people who
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  Speaker 3: are just confused.
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  Speaker 1: That's bad.
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  Speaker 3: I'm paraphrasing his position. I would have liked to play
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  Speaker 3: all of it. I didn't expect the audio to be
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  Speaker 3: distorted like that. It worked fine on my computer. Just
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: didn't work fine when I plugged in the headphone thing.
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  Speaker 3: Let's try this one. Let's see if this one actually
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  Speaker 3: works or hopefully plays better. This is The Kid. in
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  Speaker 3: a diner in Dallas that's asked by Fox News why
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  Speaker 3: he cares about who to vote for. I think he's
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  Speaker 3: actually 19. I said 16 because he looks so young
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  Speaker 3: to me. But the kid is a.
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  Speaker 1: person who can vote so maybe his opinion is even
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  Speaker 1: more important here we go.
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  Speaker 6: What's your name uh my name is elijah okay and
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  Speaker 6: elijah what's what's your big issue.
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  Speaker 2: My big issue is school choice i want to have
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  Speaker 2: the ability as a future father to know what my
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  Speaker 2: kids are learning in school yeah uh know what values
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  Speaker 2: are being instilled into them see if they're being uh
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  Speaker 2: indoctrinated or not and if they are i want to
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  Speaker 2: have the freedom to put them in a place where
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  Speaker 2: they're truly.
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  Speaker 1: Prospering The whole diner went crazy.
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  Speaker 3: 19-year-old kid is like, as a future father, I want
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  Speaker 3: to make sure to protect my children from the stupidity
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  Speaker 3: of the left and the way that they try to
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  Speaker 3: convince people to believe and say all kinds of things.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what's important to me. And that's what I'm
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  Speaker 3: voting for. Well done, kid. Well done, young man. And yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I think that the best thing I'll say about that
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  Speaker 3: is that's a reflection of Texas. You can go to
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  Speaker 3: a diner in Dallas and find a 19-year-old and ask
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  Speaker 3: them that question and get that answer.
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  Speaker 1: That's not staged as much as it can be authentic.
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  Speaker 1: to this state.
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  Speaker 3: And that's one of the biggest reasons, I think, that
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  Speaker 3: a Tallarico just can't win it and people like him
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  Speaker 3: just can't wind up being in charge. And how much
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: Texas would regret that? Actually, not that I want it
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  Speaker 3: to happen. I desperately don't want it to happen, actually.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: But I wonder if the lesson could be learned and
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: learned long term, which never happens in politics, if Texas
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  Speaker 3: made this terrible of a decision. It's different than if
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: you make just a basic mistake like, oh, we swung
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: a little bit on a direction we shouldn't have gone.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: This is a full force swing. This is far left.
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  Speaker 1: This is stupid.
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  Speaker 3: And maybe they'd regret it so much they'd learn about
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  Speaker 3: it and we'd have another 20, 30 years where it
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  Speaker 3: didn't happen.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I'd prefer that we keep the streak alive.
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  Speaker 1: They should say that, by the way.
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  Speaker 3: This should be a keep the streak alive campaign for
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: Texas and not electing a Democrat at a statewide race.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: Streaks are always important in the world of sports. There's
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: something that people care about a lot. You know, Joe
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: DiMaggio's hit streak, one of the best and probably never
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: breakable records in the world of sports. Come on, let's
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: keep the streak alive in Texas and not vote anyone
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: into office that doesn't deserve it. And by the way,
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: I did watch the World Series last night. I did
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: see the Brewers actually win the thing. I was a
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: little surprised. I mean, they had a great regular season,
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: 103 wins, great team. They have the best pitcher on the.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: Like, I guess the Brewers were probably a much more
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: likely champion than I thought they were going into the playoffs.
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: It's just the Dodgers seemed so much more likely to
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: just win it all again. And right now, you know,
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: the funniest thing is I saw the projections for next
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: year last night. So as the Brewers are still celebrating
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: their World Series win, I saw a couple of those,
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: you know. sports thinking places, talking head places.
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  Speaker 1: Because Vegas never sleeps. Yeah, because Vegas never sleeps. Tell me,
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  Speaker 1: who is going to win next year? Dodgers, number one.
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  Speaker 3: I think Yankees were third on that list, but I
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: don't even know if Brewers were in the top five.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see that thing, too, or no, Russell?
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  Speaker 4: I didn't, but they're probably not top five.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, which is crazy.
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  Speaker 3: It's crazy to think that the champion, as they're celebrating,
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: you're like, eh, we don't know about next year.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: We'll see.
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  Speaker 3: Most of that core is staying intact. Most of the
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: young players are going to be there. They might lose
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: some of their pieces.
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  Speaker 1: But who knows? I don't know. They'll have great pitching,
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  Speaker 1: so that'll be a thing.
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  Speaker 3: But the Dodgers can continue to reload whenever baseball actually happens.
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: By the way, that's the other thing I said to
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  Speaker 3: my wife last night. We're watching the end of the
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: World Series, and she actually likes baseball enough to let
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: it be on, and she kind of watches. And I
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: was saying I'm just really sad, not just because the
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: Yankees did win, but that baseball probably won't be back
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  Speaker 3: for a while.
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  Speaker 1: Like, there's a good shot we might not even get
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: much of a season next year.
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: And I think if I distill it down to just
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: one issue, it's salary cap or no salary cap. I
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: think the owners have gotten to a point where they've
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: put enough money into the places they need that money
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  Speaker 3: to go, and the owners have a bunch of money anyway,
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: to where they could sit out a whole season.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: I think the owners aren't even really afraid of.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: The idea of skipping 2027 if they don't get a
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: salary cap.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: If they get that, they'll do whatever it takes to
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: get there.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: And the players seem fairly adamant, and they've tried to
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: do as much as they can do, to protect themselves
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: from a long-term lockout to not do the salary cap.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: I think that's all it's going to be.
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: I think if the owners get a salary cap at
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: some point in one of the collective bargaining agreements, we
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: have baseball next year. I think if they don't get it,
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: there's a chance we have no season. I don't know
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: if that's too extreme. I don't know if you agree, Russell,
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  Speaker 3: or no.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: I think they need to have a salary cap, but
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: the players don't want it.
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  Speaker 4: I know.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: They're going to fight it. Well, because it doesn't help them.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: The salary cap is not good for players. It's not
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: just that they want the chance to make a bunch
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: of money themselves. They also want to be in a
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: negotiation with the Brewers and say the Yankees called, the
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: Dodgers called, and that inflates their value because all those
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: other teams have to be afraid that the rich teams
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: will throw a bunch of extra money at their mediocre players.
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: So everybody makes more money when there's no salary. I
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: don't think there's going to be a salary cap, man.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: I think the players are going to stay as against
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  Speaker 3: that as they possibly can, and I think it's going
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: to potentially cause.
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  Speaker 1: no season.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: Because the one thing that's funny to me, I'll say this.
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: I know we only got a couple minutes. Every time
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: you talk about collective bargaining in the world of sports,
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: I think people misunderstand athletes' brains. Because the athletes, they
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: don't want to lose anything. They don't want to lose anything.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: They don't want to lose in the field. You watched
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: a bunch of grown men cry yesterday on the Tampa
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: Bay Rays when they lost. So like these guys see
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: this as a competition against the owners. And so you
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: could tell them the guy's making a couple hundred thousand
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: dollars that they're not going to get a salary this year.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: And they'll be like, that's fine. I want to win.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: I want to win no matter what. So I don't
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: think the players will give in. Well, we'll see. Maybe
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: I'm wrong.
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: Maybe somehow they'll get there. But I think the owners
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: are ready to sit out a whole season for no
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: salary cap. And I think the players are just athletes.
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: Their brains just work a certain way and they can't
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: really be rewired. We'll take a break in a little bit.
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: After the break, I do want to talk about another
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: clip from President Trump, because you know what I want
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: to do in the next segment? I'd like to demonstrate
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: to you, anyone listening, the way that media refuses to
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: cover some pretty simple things that the president says and does.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: And so last night at one of the rallies that
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: he's had in Texas, The president of the United States
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: talked about what it's like to be on the road
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: all the time as the sitting president and how his
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: wife feels about it. I know people know Melania's name
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: and they know who she is and they. They picture
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: Melania when he says it. But even if you didn't,
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: even if you just like heard some guy in a
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: bar talking about how he's got to work a whole
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: lot and because he's working so much, his wife's complaining
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: he's not home enough. That's the kind of thing that
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: is very human. You hear that a lot. And Trump
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: does this and he does this, I think, pretty well
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: last night and describes Trump.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: Seeing the lights of.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: The White House as he's coming up to them and
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: how happy his wife will be when he gets home.
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: And I just think that that's one of the things
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: that we don't have enough of in politics.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: We don't have enough people saying this in.
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: A believable way at a believable moment when they probably
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: could be saying something else. Trump could have spent more
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: time on anything other than the lights of the White
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: House as I'm driving up late at night to go home.
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: And that's one of the things that came up in
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: his speech yesterday.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: A quick break.
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  Speaker 3: A lot coming up. Hour two on the mob guys.
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  Speaker 3: 700 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: KSEV radio. More after this.