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The Dana Show with Dana Loesch – Politics & Cult... - BONUS: The Midterm Message - What Reaches Voters And What Doesn’t? · WGKM

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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins
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  Speaker 2: filling in. Thrilled to be with you. So much stuff
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  Speaker 2: out there to talk about. So little time. It feels
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  Speaker 2: like occasionally, although this is the start of the show.
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  Speaker 2: We have all the time right now. The president is
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  Speaker 2: doing an amazing job out there campaigning because he loves
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  Speaker 2: doing this. I will tell you, first and foremost, the
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  Speaker 2: reason that President Trump is a valuable person is to try, one,
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  Speaker 2: to get to have all the midterm elections just be
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  Speaker 2: about him. There's been a lot of discussion, it seems
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  Speaker 2: like mostly on the right, as to whether or not
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  Speaker 2: it's a good thing if voters show up at the
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  Speaker 2: ballot boxes thinking about Trump and only Trump. And a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people in the conservative side of the aisle,
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  Speaker 2: on the conservative side of the aisle, will say yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, go ahead. I make this about Trump and he
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  Speaker 1: likes it.
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  Speaker 2: I do think that's kind of funny that he'll probably
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  Speaker 2: campaign harder, be out there more, enjoy himself quite a
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  Speaker 2: bit if he is the focal point of a lot
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  Speaker 2: of this.
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  Speaker 1: And a case in point is.
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  Speaker 2: Right here when he reminded everybody of what he went
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  Speaker 2: through in order to get elected just a couple of
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  Speaker 2: years ago.
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  Speaker 3: They've tried to smear us, slander us, persecute us, demoralize us.
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  Speaker 1: They've attacked me. They've impeached me.
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  Speaker 4: They've arrested me and they even tried to kill me,
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  Speaker 4: I guess.
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  Speaker 1: That's true. But with you at my side. I love
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  Speaker 1: that he says, I guess, still.
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  Speaker 2: There's something that's kind of amazing about that because, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure they tried to kill you more than once, sir.
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  Speaker 4: We have always prevailed and prevailed by a lot and
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  Speaker 4: got record-setting votes and record-setting victories.
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  Speaker 2: True. True.
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  Speaker 1: We've won every battle. We've defeated every hoax. We've overcome
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  Speaker 1: every threat.
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  Speaker 4: And now we are on the cusp of beating the communists, socialists,
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  Speaker 4: radicalized lunatics and villains once and for all.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to put them down once.
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  Speaker 3: And for all. All right.
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  Speaker 2: So that's where it's interesting to me. And none of
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  Speaker 2: that was was inaccurate. That's all 100 percent correctly the
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  Speaker 2: way to describe Democrats, especially now. The funky thing, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if funky is the right word. It's the
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  Speaker 2: one I went with. The odd thing about the time
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  Speaker 2: that we're in in history is that the left in
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  Speaker 2: my lifetime has never been more communist, more all the
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  Speaker 2: things we don't want them to be Marxist, even though
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  Speaker 2: that's been a version of rhetoric a talking point that's
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  Speaker 2: existed on both sides of the aisle for several years.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody calls everybody a fascist. Everybody lobs around these terms
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  Speaker 2: that are ridiculous. And yet right now, you actually do
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  Speaker 2: have a bunch of democratic socialists of America running on
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  Speaker 2: a message that is just definitively communism.
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  Speaker 1: There's no mystery there.
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  Speaker 2: It's exactly what you and I think it is and
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  Speaker 2: what people have accused it of being a forever or
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  Speaker 2: for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what's interesting?
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  Speaker 2: I feel like that's the message that's working the least.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't mean with people that are already on
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  Speaker 2: a certain side of the aisle. And this is tough
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  Speaker 2: for a lot of us to understand, for me to
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  Speaker 2: understand sometimes, candidly, especially when I broadcast for a living.
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  Speaker 2: Like most of the audience of Dana's show, of this show,
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  Speaker 2: this very fancy radio show that has a giant freaking audience,
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  Speaker 2: I think are people that do care about all the
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  Speaker 2: things I just said about, you know, men not playing
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  Speaker 2: in women's sports, for example, about everything that is communist, ridiculous, current,
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  Speaker 2: democratic positions. And yet to win elections, there are people
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  Speaker 2: that are in the middle, even if they vote more
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  Speaker 2: on one side or the other, that you want to
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  Speaker 2: reach differently because they've been hearing that for too long.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost, I guess the way I've been thinking about
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  Speaker 2: it recently, it's almost boy who cried wolf. Like both sides,
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  Speaker 2: not just the Republicans, have been accusing each other of
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  Speaker 2: hating America as it is for years now. Like that
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  Speaker 2: version of the other side wants to upend the entirety,
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  Speaker 2: the fabric of our society, of the things that make
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  Speaker 2: us special and who we are as a country.
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  Speaker 1: They're going after them.
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  Speaker 2: You've heard that message before, but it's never been this
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  Speaker 2: true before.
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  Speaker 1: And so I debate something. I'll tell you this.
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  Speaker 2: And honestly, my co-host and I have a morning show
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  Speaker 2: I do at a Dana affiliate in Houston, a KSEV
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  Speaker 2: radio in Houston who facilitates me even doing this thing
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  Speaker 2: that I'm doing right now for you hopping in.
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  Speaker 1: On the Dana show.
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  Speaker 2: I will tell you that one of the debates we
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  Speaker 2: have is like, what's the right message to actually win
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  Speaker 2: the election? What's the part that's missing? Is it the
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  Speaker 2: effectiveness of the Trump administration? Because that's a message we
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  Speaker 2: can talk about.
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  Speaker 1: There are things. that are going well. Is gas as
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  Speaker 1: cheap as you want it to be right now?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 2: But is there a myriad of different signs that things
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  Speaker 2: actually are going to be okay and are going in
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  Speaker 2: the right direction and decisions that are being made are
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  Speaker 2: helping to drill, baby, drill once the war in Iran
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  Speaker 2: does end? that these numbers will go back to a
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  Speaker 2: place that we want them.
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  Speaker 1: To go back to. Yeah, like that data is out there.
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  Speaker 2: People dismiss that all the time because they hear that
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  Speaker 2: all the time, too. And maybe this is the most
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  Speaker 2: interesting discussion to have about this topic. And it's a
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  Speaker 2: long rant and just a simple thing that Trump said.
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  Speaker 2: Trump said that the Marxists and leftists and communists are
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  Speaker 2: coming after us.
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  Speaker 1: He's telling the truth.
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  Speaker 2: But the thing I keep thinking about is how much
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  Speaker 2: better it would be If we could inform people without
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  Speaker 2: using rhetoric that they're used to and whether that's, you know,
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  Speaker 2: even going harder in the paint, being stronger, demonstrating even
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  Speaker 2: more how this side is radical and the other side isn't.
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  Speaker 2: There's the crazy people and the rational people or doing
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  Speaker 2: something else, some other version of the same basic sort
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  Speaker 2: of discussion. There has to be a way to reach
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  Speaker 2: people that seem like they're not reachable. And I'll tell you,
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know. It's a good way to say it,
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  Speaker 2: like a smart thing to say on the radio.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know.
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  Speaker 2: They're just leave it at that and just move on
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  Speaker 2: to the next topic. But now what I'm thinking is
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  Speaker 2: I'm not even sure how much of the polling data
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  Speaker 2: that I never really take seriously anyway is going to
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  Speaker 2: wind up being accurate. I would have thought this is
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  Speaker 2: the best way to say this and then we will
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  Speaker 2: move on to other topics. I would have thought if
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  Speaker 2: one side of of a, you know, political system in
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  Speaker 2: our country or really anywhere else. when as hardcore communist
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  Speaker 2: as our democratic side is going, that they would fail
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  Speaker 2: in a bunch of countries like ours. No country is
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  Speaker 2: exactly like ours, but a bunch of countries that care about, say,
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  Speaker 2: freedom and lack of state control. I would think a
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  Speaker 2: lot of places we would know going in, like that's
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  Speaker 2: a message that's not going to work. But according to
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the polling and data, it is working.
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  Speaker 2: There are people that are like, well, I want free stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I want all the free stuff and I want the
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  Speaker 2: government to give it to me because none of these
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  Speaker 2: mean other people are doing it. So I want somebody
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  Speaker 2: else to give me that sweet, sweet handout that I've
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  Speaker 2: been looking for.
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  Speaker 1: And bad news, government's not going to give it to you.
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  Speaker 2: If you give more money to them, they're not going
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  Speaker 2: to hand it willingly any more or less willingly than
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  Speaker 2: a entrepreneur or business owner is. They're not going to
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  Speaker 2: give you free stuff. They're going to claim to do
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  Speaker 2: that and then keep a whole lot of stuff for themselves. Here,
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  Speaker 2: I will move on, though, but I just find it
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  Speaker 2: fascinating that I'm in a debate with myself all the
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  Speaker 2: time as to how much I focus on what, to me,
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  Speaker 2: is the obvious, the ridiculousness of the left, and then
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  Speaker 2: how much maybe I focus on a different message, a
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  Speaker 2: message that might break through to the people in the middle,
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  Speaker 2: if there really are people in the middle. I always
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  Speaker 2: think there's nobody in the middle. I'll tell you that, too.
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  Speaker 1: It's always hard for me to believe.
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  Speaker 2: That in twenty twenty six with the way the politics
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  Speaker 2: goes now many people that walk around and identify with
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  Speaker 2: their political party actually have people who are really in
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  Speaker 2: the middle who just don't care there is a don't
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  Speaker 2: care crowd but those people they don't even want to
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  Speaker 2: vote at all they're not i i can't mobilize them
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  Speaker 2: to do stuff because they don't care i let me
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  Speaker 2: play this this is president trump crapping over tala frico
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  Speaker 2: and calling him a vegan which I'm not sure what
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  Speaker 2: this is intent. I know vegan is of course the
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  Speaker 2: thing he's adding in here, but like, what's the actual
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  Speaker 2: undercurrent of this shot?
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  Speaker 1: Is it, is it gay? Like what, what are we
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  Speaker 1: saying with a vegan? Here we go.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, when I see that Telefrico in, uh,
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  Speaker 3: in Texas, so he's been a vegan all his life.
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  Speaker 3: He's campaigned and he's a vegan, vegan.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't even know what the hell a vegan was.
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  Speaker 4: A vegan is vegetables.
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  Speaker 1: A vegan is eating a piece of lettuce all day long.
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  Speaker 1: I love the vegan.
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  Speaker 2: He says vegan is his newest favorite thing and that
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  Speaker 2: this guy's a vegan, which also says one other thing
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  Speaker 2: about President Trump. He absolutely likes meat in all of
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  Speaker 2: his meals. If he says vegan, if he's not sure
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  Speaker 2: what that is or how that even works, he definitely
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  Speaker 2: has never been close to being it himself, which I love.
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  Speaker 2: But I feel like there's like an undercurrent of he's
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  Speaker 2: he's gagging or something, because a lot of people, I
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  Speaker 2: live in Texas, not trying to take an inappropriate shot,
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  Speaker 2: get mad at me if you want to and say
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  Speaker 2: I'm anything other than woke. There's a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: who wonder if Tallarico and his maybe fake girlfriend are
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  Speaker 2: actually covering something else up. There's another thing going on
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  Speaker 2: there from a romantic relationship, whatever standpoint. I don't care
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  Speaker 2: about that. To be honest with you, it doesn't matter
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  Speaker 2: to me at all. If he's gay or straight, I
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  Speaker 2: care a whole lot more about whether or not he
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  Speaker 2: would ruin my country with his socialist ideas. I think
• 9:20
  Speaker 2: those are the thing. That's the thing that I most
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  Speaker 2: care about. But I think it's weird if you lie
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  Speaker 2: about stuff like that. Like, honestly, too, like, I'll say
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  Speaker 2: this and then we probably should take a break.
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  Speaker 1: I know there's debates out there. I know the political people.
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  Speaker 2: The pundits or the, you know, consultants who influence people
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  Speaker 2: in these campaigns. Some of them might tell you like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: a gay guy can never get elected here. He could
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  Speaker 2: never win over there, maybe in Texas or something. And
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how to say this better. I'm a
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  Speaker 2: straight white dude who's happily married to my wife. I
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  Speaker 2: would never deny like who I am as a person
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  Speaker 2: to win an election.
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  Speaker 1: I would never do.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I deny who I am as a
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  Speaker 2: person to get along with like my friends and family.
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  Speaker 1: It's just who I am. And I know other people do,
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  Speaker 1: but I'd never do that.
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  Speaker 2: And so it never makes sense to me that if
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  Speaker 2: you're a politician, someone who I think needs to sell
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  Speaker 2: us on authenticity, first and foremost, the age of the
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  Speaker 2: YouTube generation, the people who grew up watching YouTubers, run
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  Speaker 2: into stuff and fall over and embarrass themselves on purpose.
• 10:22
  Speaker 2: And I have some stories about that we might touch
• 10:23
  Speaker 2: on a little bit later. One idiot in Florida doing
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  Speaker 2: something inherently dangerous for YouTube clicks.
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  Speaker 1: Again, you see that all the time. But this generation
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  Speaker 1: really likes authenticity.
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  Speaker 2: And if you went out there and pretended to be
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  Speaker 2: straight and you're gay, even though I didn't care about the...
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  Speaker 2: subject to begin with. I don't really care what you're
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  Speaker 2: doing behind closed doors in your own home. Now I
• 10:42
  Speaker 2: care that you lied about it. Now I care that
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  Speaker 2: you're willing to change anything about yourself to win an election.
• 10:48
  Speaker 2: And a lot of people are saying that Tallarico is
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  Speaker 2: absolutely lying about a bunch of other things. And there's
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  Speaker 2: a really good campaign ad out there that I'll play.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want this to be an all Texas show.
• 10:56
  Speaker 2: I know it's a national show, even though I live
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  Speaker 2: in Houston and I have some Ken Paxton audio I
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  Speaker 2: want to play. But there are other races. There are
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  Speaker 2: other things going on. Vivek Ramaswamy, I thought, also did awesome.
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  Speaker 2: in Ohio while he was campaigning with President Trump. I
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  Speaker 2: think Scott Jennings is great. But I'll just say this
• 11:13
  Speaker 2: one more time for the cheap seats in the back
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  Speaker 2: as far as the debate of this first segment of
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  Speaker 2: what the hell is going on in politics, of what
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  Speaker 2: we should do, what we shouldn't do, what we should say,
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  Speaker 2: what we shouldn't say, is that it feels like nothing
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  Speaker 2: is off the table. as far as what people are
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  Speaker 2: capable of behind closed doors, now behind scenes, in a
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  Speaker 2: political environment. I mean, I'm not talking about the other
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  Speaker 2: thing anymore. From a political sense, someone like Talofrico can
• 11:37
  Speaker 2: say the right thing publicly for just a month and
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  Speaker 2: a half when he's been saying a crazy wrong thing
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  Speaker 2: that no Texas person believes in for years as a politician.
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  Speaker 2: And then the minute he gets in office, we'll do
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  Speaker 2: the worst possible version of turning our society into a
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  Speaker 2: communist dictatorship. Like that really feels like it's on the table.
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  Speaker 2: in 2026, and that terrifies me. A quick break, a
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  Speaker 2: lot more. Craig Collins filling in on.
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  Speaker 1: It's time for Dana's Quick Five. That's right.
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  Speaker 2: It's time for Quick Five on DLash, Dana Lash Radio.
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  Speaker 2: A great place to stay connected to her on X.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, I saw a couple different silly things, including this one,
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: a survey that claimed the most played out for the
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: least popular Halloween costume in 2026 is the sexy whatever,
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  Speaker 2: meaning a sexy then blank. You fill in. It doesn't
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  Speaker 2: matter what it is. People don't like it. I think
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: that's insane. I immediately thought of the drive-by disagreement on
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  Speaker 2: Family Guy, which is something I like a lot, which
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: I think was what I would do. If I heard
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  Speaker 2: this getting talked about in public, I would just drive
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  Speaker 2: by and yell, I disagree. I would just yell, I disagree,
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  Speaker 2: and then drive away. Because I love that a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think you could really hear that. I probably
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  Speaker 2: had that too quiet in the mix. Yeah, let's try
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  Speaker 2: it again just to play my stupid little drum.
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  Speaker 3: Disagree!
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  Speaker 2: I disagree!
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  Speaker 1: And then you drive away.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Don't do it again, family guy. Also, I know that
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  Speaker 1: Mean Girls went viral in reaction.
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  Speaker 2: To this and what they said on that TV or
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  Speaker 2: that movie about the sexy Halloween costume.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and play that.
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  Speaker 2: Halloween is the one night a year when a girl
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  Speaker 2: can dress like a total slut and no other girls
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  Speaker 2: can say anything about it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 2: That's a thing that a lot of people seem to
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  Speaker 2: believe is true, and I'm fine with that. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know why this is a problem. I don't know who's
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  Speaker 2: trying to change it. I don't think it's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of dudes. Whether it's sexy, whatever you pick, even if
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  Speaker 2: it's a thing that's oddly sexy. Like SpongeBob should not
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  Speaker 2: be attractive, but it is for some reason.
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  Speaker 1: In the case of this costume, yeah, you don't have
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  Speaker 1: to go home and change. You can be fine.
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  Speaker 2: I also sound like a perv when I say this
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  Speaker 2: this way. I'm not like I'm wandering the streets trying
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  Speaker 2: to see as many of these dirty costumes as I can,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm not telling anybody to change their attire.
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  Speaker 1: That's the whole point of the message.
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  Speaker 2: And I think anybody who voted that way is someone
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: that's grumpy that somebody else looks better in a costume
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: than they do. All right. Other things out there that
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: I just thought were kind of silly and funny. The
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: right time to have breakfast is the latest weird thing
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: that people decide online. There's like a definitive answer to
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: seven to eight o'clock in the morning is when people
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: say it's the best time to have breakfast. I am
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: on the radio in Houston, Texas, for the entirety of
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: that hour. I'm not going to be eating breakfast. That
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: probably won't go well. So no is going to be
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: the answer for me. But I love that the entirety
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: of this message, too, was breakfast. just have breakfast at
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: normal early hours. I don't eat it at 11, 12.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: My wife loves breakfast. She'll eat it any time of day,
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: even though she's somebody who gets up early and I'm
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: somebody who likes to sleep in if I can. But
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: I think this entire thing was just to admonish us
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: that I don't want to wake up at seven or
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: eight o'clock for anything.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: Even free breakfast at the hotel, which is never as
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: good as they tell it.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: Every time you check in at a hotel that has
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: free breakfast, they're going to oversell it to you. And
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: then you could have done better on your own is
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: how that usually goes. And then one final thing I
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: saw that I can't get over. An AI radio DJ
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: is on the path to stardom, according to, I think,
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: NBC News. This is a DJ out of California who
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: broadcasts on a Spanish-language station. And as an AI DJ
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: in that specific atmosphere, doing super great. I don't know
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: if it'll be great everywhere else, and I have my
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: thoughts as to why. But we'll get to that later.
• 16:36
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  Speaker 1: Thrilled to be with you.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: A bunch of stuff out there to talk about. I
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: want to bring in State Senator Paul Betancourt. He is
• 18:18
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• 18:20
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• 18:24
  Speaker 2: the place where I do my morning show. He's also
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: called the tax man and one of the big fights
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: that he has all the time in Harris County. But
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: I think a lot of Republicans are facing in a
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: lot of very deeply blue, crazy places. his ridiculous tax
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: hikes and property tax hikes. Senator Betancourt, welcome to the show.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: Good afternoon, Craig. Yes. Nothing like fighting leftist progressives in
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: urban cities across America.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Hey, you know, for this interview that I plan to
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: do with you, I just Googled it and I forced
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Google to subtract the city. So I just wanted to
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: see all the places and every like blue run place
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: right now, Harris County and Houston among them is hiking
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: property taxes at ridiculous degrees. Democrats are running on a
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: message nationally that claims that they'll make your life more affordable.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: And anywhere that they have power, we're seeing the exact
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: opposite happen. How do you fight that fight in your community?
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: How do you fight that fight in Houston?
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: Well, you've got to point out the incredible hypocrisy. It's
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: just a two faced. operation, because they're pounding Republicans from
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: left coast to west coast on affordability, but yet where
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: they're in charge, and we'll take Houston as the nation's
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: fourth largest city, third largest county, they have raised property
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: taxes by 41 in three years. That's a tune of
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: at least $ 650 more that the average home is paying.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: And they're, quite frankly, they don't care. They're unapologetic. They're
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: plastering homeowners. And they're just as unapologetic about plastering Democrats
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: and independent households as they are Republicans.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Well, and what's even more amazing, Senator Betancourt, is I
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: hear them all the time say that it's Republicans' fault,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: which is the craziest version of insane thinking I've ever heard.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: But they claim that, like, President Trump cut back on
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: the amount of federal spending in some place somewhere.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: So because of that, you have to pay more money
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: in your property taxes.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: It's total political propaganda what's going on in these urban cities.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: And I call these blueberries because whether they're in a
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: red state or not, they're still– You know, functionally, you know,
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: leftist progressive socialists. And it's it's just it's actually progressive propaganda.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: That's really what's going on here, Craig, because they know
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: that that they're the ones making the vote. They also know.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: that it's not like the rug's getting pulled out from
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: underneath them. In our county, they've got $ 2 billion of
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: reserve in the hospital district and another billion and a
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: half in the toll road authority. It's just highway robbery,
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: and they're doing it on purpose, and they have zero regrets.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: There's just no sympathy for the actual taxpayer. So the
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: national message of, Republicans are terrible on affordability. These individual
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: cities are just blowing, literally blowing past all the stop signs,
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: stealing the money. That is a reduction in the big,
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: beautiful bill. Or in Texas, Lieutenant Governor Patrick and I
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: have worked to lower property taxes along with the entire
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: legislature on schools. They're just taking the money right back,
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: hand over fist. Yeah.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Let me ask you about another thing that you broke,
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: I think, this week in Texas about voter registration and some,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: you know, voting records that were kept, I think, from
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: ever reaching election offices. This is another example. I think
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: you've found a couple of these just within Texas and
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: in Harris County. where we're kind of worried that there's
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: definitive proof of election fraud, or at least the potential
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: for an avenue toward election fraud, even in places as
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: deep red as Texas itself. Give me a little bit
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: more context to what you broke over the last week.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Well, unfortunately, this is a two-agency snafu in Texas between
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: DPS and Secretary of State. Most people understand this as
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: motor voter registration. And unfortunately, the DPS was collecting files.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: They had an update from a vendor that knocked that
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: automatic transmission off. And then the Secretary of State's got
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: a problem with their vendors who should have been pulling it.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: The bottom line is we had several hundred thousand registrations
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: that were delayed getting onto the rolls. The counties are
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: actually cranking it up. In fact, I just got off
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: the phone with the County voter registrar here in Harris County,
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: the nation's third largest, and they caught up with a
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: backlog of about 100,000 of these. Now, here's the problem, Craig.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Whether it's bureaucracy snafu, pick a number, that's always a
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: cover for election fraud. And if you don't have a
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: voter roll with integrity, the public will not accept the results.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: And that's something that I've been campaigning– well, I've actually
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: been campaigning. It's been part of my life. I mean,
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: 20 years ago, I testified in the federal Congress for–
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: guess what, Greg? Photo ID and a citizenship list.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: Amazing.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: And we still can't pass that, you know, blank to
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: be blank, simple one in 20 years.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: I know, it's crazy.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: And Ken, this actually perfectly pivots us to the other
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: discussion that's going on in Texas. And nationally, it's been
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: catching people's attention for a while now. The Senate right there,
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: the Senate race there. Ken Paxton is a guy that
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: would absolutely be a conduit to helping pass the Save
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: America Act, which would force voter ID.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: 100 percent for it. Yeah. Came out for it. Right, Greg.
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: And Cornyn Cornyn is one of the first people that
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: you can think of who is blocking it, who's in
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: the Senate seat right now. And Talafrico, Talafrico would absolutely
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: go after it. Are you mystified that we're in October
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: and the basic message that Tallarico is so far disconnected
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: or so far removed from simple Texan values that he
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: actually is still potentially going to put up a close,
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: if not maybe even win the Senate race? Like, are
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: you as surprised as I am that it's this close,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: this close to the actual midterm election?
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Well, I may not be happy about it, Craig, but
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: I'm not surprised. The problem is all of this got
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: baked in during the summer. And it wasn't just this
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: Texas race. We've got nationally, you've got problems in Alaska.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: You've got problems in, let's see, Iowa. You've got problems
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: in North Carolina. You've got problems in Maine. I mean,
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: you know, pick a state. Georgia looks like, you know,
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: often off is coming back. I mean, the problem is,
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: is that. The playbook was wrong. They shouldn't have let
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: these leads bake in during the summer. Now we're pouring
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: in what is apparently a billion dollars to try to
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: chisel all this out nationwide. And the problem is... It
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: takes $ 50 to $ 75, maybe $ 100 million to chisel points
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: back once people made up their mind. So that's why
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: turnout is so important. That's why everybody understanding what's really
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: going to happen here. My wife got so frustrated after
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: watching everything over the weekend, she listed everything that was
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: wrong in the Biden administration. And, you know, because because
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: people have such short memory spans.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: But but, you know, the problem is, you know, it's
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: a it's an affordability election and the headwinds are are
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: are are tough.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I think I saw on ABC this week
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: they shared a poll that said two years ago people
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: were much more likely, I think, even, you know, the
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: majority of people to say Republicans would do better for
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: you financially. And now that that lead is completely wilted
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: and Democrats seem to have a small margin of people
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: believing that they would actually benefit you more. How is
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: your memory that short was my reaction, too. It's been
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: literally just two years. And for the four years that
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Biden was in office, your life got much, most people listening,
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: your life got much worse financially the entire time. How
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: can it only take this short of an amount of
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: time for people to be like, you know what, let's
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: give them another try?
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: Well, the problem is, is that we should be reminding
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: people of, you know, the big, beautiful bill, how much
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: it saved them, several thousand dollars and oops. A socialist
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: county judge in Texas is taking $ 650 back. We should
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: be reminding them of, gee, the big beautiful bill saved
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: you on this, and some crazy in an urban area
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: near you is ripping you off. We should be talking
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: about the fraud that exists, and you've got to make
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: the connection. in a draft, what you're going to do
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: for real people. Like it's really simple. You know, we've
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: got 61% of seniors, 39% of all homeowners in Texas
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: are now paying zero school taxes. Well, we want to
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: do better than that. Okay. You know, it's up now.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: There's only about a month left to game time. And
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: all the Republicans out there have got to sharpen their
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: message and say, you know, bad guys, you know, to
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: the left, what we're doing on the right for good people.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: You know, it's really amazing about hearing you say that,
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Senator Betancourt. And I just love how easy it is
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: for you to, you know, rattle off all the numbers
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: as the tax man. But when you talk about the big,
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: beautiful bill specifically, $ 2, 272 was the average savings in just
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: 2026 for a taxpayer and a business 1541. So the
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: average filer, $ 3, 813, $ 3, 813 in total that was saved per
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: taxpayer in the United States of America by one big,
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: beautiful bill. I've heard a lot of people, even on
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: the conservative side, say that Trump hasn't gotten a lot done,
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: that we have the majority, we have the House, we
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: have the Senate, and not a lot's been done. I
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: think people wildly misunderstand how the big, beautiful bill did
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: a whole lot all at once. I imagine you agree.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: Absolutely. Because, look, the fact of the matter is that,
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: you know, people, you know, that's something the congressional candidates
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: should have been harping on. And I'm just shocked I
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: don't see congressional candidates that are Republican saying, you know,
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: cut the gas tax and have cut it out. I mean, whatever. OK,
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: they need to be taking this message. And that's our
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: real weakness right now is we're all focused on the
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: Senate races. And while those are really thrillers and manilas,
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: but under that, on every ballot, to everyone we're talking
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: to right now across the entire country, the next thing
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: up is your congressional race. And that's what we should
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: be really pushing is how well we're doing here. Okay?
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: That's how much we've saved you. I mean, I can
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: look at, in Texas, we saved people 13.5% last year
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: on their school property tax. the average bill is down
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: to $ 896, okay? That's unheard of, okay, in Texas, much
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: less in the country. So these are things that people
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: are running, and they've got 30 days, and they need
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: to sharpen the message and pop this balloon of propaganda
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: barrage balloons that the Democrats have, because if you pop them,
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: there's nothing but hot air there.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: They don't have.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: A property tax plan. They don't have a you know,
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: an economic plan. They're just not Donald Trump or the Republicans.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: That's what they're running on.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, they're actually behaving as if suddenly they have
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: the same financial sensibilities that we do.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: And we know they don't. We know that when they're
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: in power, things go horribly wrong. It's so interesting.
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: Go ahead.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: And their Democrat party is upside down on approval, approval ration,
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: just like the Republicans are, Craig. So we that's what
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: these congressional races should be all about is pushing the message. OK, man,
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: I think that's it.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you so much.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: Before I let you go, is there anything else you
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: want to say? I'd like to just throw the floor
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: open to you if there's something I missed.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: No, I think the bottom line is that you've got
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: to get incremental people interested in voting. So use facts. OK,
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: they've got plenty of emotion on the screens. OK, this
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: is the most frothy year I've ever seen in politics.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: So just repeat that. Hey, the big, beautiful bill got
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: you off thirty eight hundred bucks to start with. Don't
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: let these local Democrats and these urban blueberries pop that
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: your wallet. for the money that you got back on
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: the big, beautiful bill. Start with that message.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Oh, that is awesome. I love that. Just lead with
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: the facts. It's that easy if we all do it.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Senator Paul Betancourt, a state senator out of Texas, the
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: main host, I'm going to say the primary host of
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: the Amigos, an influential show throughout all of Texas on
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: KSEV Radio.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: I look forward to talking again soon, sir.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: Thanks for having me on. Of course.
• 31:54
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  Speaker 1: He was then caught. He was pulled over on the
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: side of the road.
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  Speaker 2: Inside his vehicle, they found meth, which I'm not surprised about.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: They also found, I don't know if I can say this.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: I know I can say this on the radio. They
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: found adult toys. So the dude driving around filming other
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: dudes in truck stops throughout Florida has meth and adult
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: toys in his vehicle. This dude is hopefully going to
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: be in jail for a while because I don't want
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: him anywhere near me or anyone else I know. I
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: want him to stay very far away. Another Florida guy
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: that I saw that went viral apparently was accused of
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: selling peyote mushrooms on Facebook Marketplace, which is hilarious. Like,
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: I do think that there's a guy out there, apparently,
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: at least this one, but maybe more, who think to themselves,
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  Speaker 2: usually this is illegal, but it's Florida. So let me
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: see if I can go ahead and sell some drugs
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  Speaker 2: on Facebook Marketplace in Florida with my name, my face,
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: and a location to meet me. Like, this makes it
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: as easy as possible for the cops. They go to
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: the marketplace. They type in peyote. They type in mushrooms.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Like, oh, it's Hank. He's selling it over here. Let
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: me just go ahead and set up a meeting with him.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: I'd love it if one of the cops did it
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: on a profile that was evidently a police officer, like
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: they do it with like the Facebook for the county department.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: And he still shows up. He's like, I don't know.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: I thought they wanted drugs.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: This is Florida. And you get in a lot of
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: trouble for that sort of thing.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: Another story that I saw out there that I thought
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: was interesting, a Florida man was arrested after blocking a
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: train and attempting a carjacking. Which is two very unique moves,
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: both of which probably don't usually work out well for you.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: But I get the thought process a little, especially if
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: it's Florida. Hey, you flag the train, get it to
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: stop to where people can't pass, then all the cars
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: organically stop. And if you don't have the ability to
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: get up on the train and rob from them because
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: you're not, you know, like riding a horse and in
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: a Western, but you want to steal from somebody, you
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: try to carjack somebody else. And then the most hilarious
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: part about it, not just stealing things out of the car,
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: but trying to take the entire vehicle is you're then
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: also stuck at a train. Like once you get in,
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: if you get the guy out and you're like, I
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: got it, I got the train, man, or I got
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: the car. Why won't this train move? Becomes your next complaint.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: And that's an all you thing. And then you might
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: try to do a U-turn. But anyway, the guy got
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: arrested because this was a horrible plan and a plan
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: that I love.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Here's the thing.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: I do really enjoy stupid criminals and I never want
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: them to do their crimes better. So I always debate
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: whether or not talking about them and making fun of
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: them is, in fact, a good idea, because somebody out
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: there is going.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: To try to think a little harder next time. Quick break.
• 36:00
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  Speaker 2: My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: with you. A bunch of stuff out there to talk about.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: I did think a couple sort of silly things were
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: interesting too, including a Trump-promoted gas station chain that's open
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: to Detroit locations. I think this is fine. Like, at
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: least Trump doesn't own the gas station. It's just a
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: freedom fuel version of a thing. We had a burger
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: joint in Houston, Trump Burger, that got a lot of
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: trouble and like people were obsessed with it. And I
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: think the owners actually got unique other problems. I think
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: like one guy was actually here illegally, which is sort
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: of surreal, but he got kicked out. But I remember
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: like the drama and it's hilarious to me. Because the
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: left wants to actually own the gas station and then
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: tell us how much gas to charge. Occasionally, people on
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: the right just decorate their gas station to be hardcore MAGA.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: And people are mad about that. Like, who cares? Get
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: your gas somewhere else.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: There's a thousand gas stations all over the place. And
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: the gas is expensive at basically all of them. So
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: if you don't want to go to the MAGA one,
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: don't go to the MAGA one.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: That'll be fine.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: But I love that people are up in arms and
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: mad about this.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Like, how dare you, business owner? do a thing that
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: you want to do that I don't like.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: Also, superpowers are racing to put a nuclear reactor on
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: the moon. This feels somewhat similar to people also talking
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: about whether or not we should put data centers on
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: the moon. Look, I think people talking about what goes
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: up there that doesn't have to be a part of
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: down here but helps us down here is just getting going.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: That's just going to be an ongoing conversation that we'll
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: continue to talk about for a variety of reasons. I
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: don't know if all of them or any of them
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: will be good, but I sort of don't care because
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: I'd like to see it done. Like, go ahead, put
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: stuff on the moon. Have it benefit me and have
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: it be up there instead of down here.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: That's fine. This is somewhat kind of tied. to that story,
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: But a question was asked of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: in which he said that he differs from some other
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: AI leaders and how much they're calling to warn people.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: They're saying the dangers of AI are obviously going to
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: ruin society. I think everything's going to explode at some point,
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: according to some of those people. Sam has a somewhat
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: different perspective. I'm sure at least one thing he said,
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: not everyone will like, though.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, wait, hold on. You can't hear that audio, can you?
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Let me fix that.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Let me hit this again so that we can hear
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: this correctly.
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: Always been... a big believer that this technology has to
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: be democratized and put in people's hands. I think one
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: of the biggest differences between us and some of the stricter,
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: let's say, safety people is we believe that the world
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: this technology and people having.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: I think you got to say it a different way,
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: but I think you can't say it that way. I
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: might talk about this more after the break, because I
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: find it fascinating that some bad things happening in far
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: as good things also happening sounds OK, as long as
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: the bad thing isn't like nuclear abomination.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: Quick break. A lot more. And now all of the
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, rapid fire, quick five, maybe even just a quick
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: one on the Dana thing right now. On the Dana show,
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: the Dana thing right now. This is her segment. I
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: steal it on the show that I do. Is it
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: possible to harass a bear? An Aspen man has pled
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: not guilty to harassment of a bear.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: Not the other way around.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: Not a bear that was harassing him, but one that
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: apparently he was making mad.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know what's happening. John Miller is the guy's name.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Of course it is.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: And he's saying, I'm not guilty. I do not deserve
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: to be held accountable. And I do not want to
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: pay my $ 250 fine for the claims that this bear
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: that was.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: In my yard was someone that I harassed, which I
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: find hilarious.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: There's probably people picketing on the far left with blue
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: hair saying, you know, the bear deserves to be heard, too.