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8-27-26 KSEV Mornings with Craig and Wayne Hour 2 · KSEV Mornings with Craig and Wayne

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  Speaker 1: Showtime, folks!
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  Speaker 2: From Houston and across the great state of Texas, this is.
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  Speaker 3: Anything at all no it's crazy welcome to the thunderdome.
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  Speaker 2: People news opinions politics and the stories that matter to texans.
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  Speaker 4: I shaved for this.
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  Speaker 2: Here are your hosts craig collins and wayne dolcefino remember.
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  Speaker 5: Everyone just don't be yourselves.
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  Speaker 2: On ksev am 700 the voice of texas yes that's awesome.
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  Speaker 4: And now, Craig Collins and Wayne Dolce.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Dana Lash. You can hear her from 2
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  Speaker 1: to 4 o'clock every single day on this radio station,
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  Speaker 1: and occasionally I fill in for her. My name is
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  Speaker 1: Craig Collins. This is KSEV Mornings with Craig and Wayne
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  Speaker 1: on AM700, The Voice of Texas. So many things to
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  Speaker 1: talk about, and yet Texas deserves to be a focal point.
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  Speaker 1: Two things. First, I'll go ahead and play audio of
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  Speaker 1: Ted Cruz discussing once again the race between Tallarico and
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  Speaker 1: Ken Paxton. Ted Cruz is someone who definitely is familiar
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  Speaker 1: with the idea that somebody who's radical and crazy is
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  Speaker 1: going to somehow beat you in a race and then
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't actually happen. So hopefully we see a repeat
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  Speaker 1: of any of those versions of history because this state nominating,
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  Speaker 1: or excuse me, this state actually electing Tallarico to the
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  Speaker 1: Senate would be a seismic shift in so many ways
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  Speaker 1: for politics itself, I feel, because Texas cannot elect a Tallarico.
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  Speaker 1: It just can't and shouldn't happen for a variety of
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  Speaker 1: very obvious reasons, reasons that I hope President Trump's visit
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  Speaker 1: to Houston today will help alleviate, meaning more money will
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  Speaker 1: be put in Paxson's campaign so that we can start
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  Speaker 1: spending that money, they can start spending that money on
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  Speaker 1: getting the word out on how insane Tallarico is. But
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  Speaker 1: here's a little bit of what Ted Cruz told Fox News.
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  Speaker 6: Into appropriate place, the value of polling. But this is
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  Speaker 6: what polling currently says about the race for Senate in Texas.
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  Speaker 6: And it shows that James Tallarico is currently leading the
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  Speaker 6: Republican candidate, Ken Paxton, by something like nine points. And
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  Speaker 6: in many of these districts, these are districts won by
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  Speaker 6: double digits by President Trump. What is the state of
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  Speaker 6: play in Texas? Well, listen, we have a very real
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  Speaker 6: race in Texas. I believe we're going to win. I
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  Speaker 6: think Ken Paxton is going to be the next senator
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  Speaker 6: from Texas. We're going to stay red. But it is
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  Speaker 6: a fight.
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  Speaker 7: It is a serious fight. It's going to cost several
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  Speaker 7: hundred million dollars.
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  Speaker 8: Correct.
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  Speaker 7: The Democrats are flooding cash into the state of Texas, California,
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  Speaker 7: New York. They're pumping cash. into Texas, and the result
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  Speaker 7: is we have a fight on our hand. Here's the
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  Speaker 7: good news. Tallarico's record is extreme. It is far radical left-wing.
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  Speaker 7: He believes God is non-binary. He believes there are six
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  Speaker 7: different genders. He believes on our southern border. we should
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  Speaker 7: have a welcome, Matt, and welcome illegal immigrants into this country.
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  Speaker 7: He is genuinely extreme. He has voted in favor of.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't like they're making this stuff up. He is
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  Speaker 1: absolutely a crazy, insane person.
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  Speaker 7: Boys and girls sports. He's voted in favor of allowing
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  Speaker 7: China to buy land in Texas, including land near military bases.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all that's bad. All that stuff we don't want.
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  Speaker 1: And all that stuff that the average Texan will not like.
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  Speaker 1: And it doesn't matter how much you think that Ken
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  Speaker 1: Paxton's personal life is a problem. James Tallarico's political life
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  Speaker 1: is a bigger problem. Let's get to the phone. I
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  Speaker 1: see that somebody called in. Doug, what do you want
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  Speaker 1: to say? Doug, are you there?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Hold on a minute.
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  Speaker 1: I can put you back on hold.
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  Speaker 10: Put me on hold.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. Doug's like, I got a radio thing,
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  Speaker 1: but then also I got something else going on. Whatever
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  Speaker 1: else you got going on is fine. That was amusing. But, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I'll do one more thing, and then I'll come back
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  Speaker 1: to you in a couple minutes. I also want to
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  Speaker 1: play this audio. This is our governor, and this is
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  Speaker 1: a while ago, but this is a big deal because
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  Speaker 1: a federal judge just made a decision not to extradite
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  Speaker 1: an ICE agent to Minnesota because Minnesota was being crazy
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  Speaker 1: and trying to demand that we send an ICE agent
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  Speaker 1: there for them to have a horrible version of any
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  Speaker 1: kind of trial, I would said person. Greg Abbott, Governor Abbott,
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  Speaker 1: fought it. doing so multiple times in press interviews, demonstrating
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  Speaker 1: that that's not how Texas plays ball. That's not what
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  Speaker 1: we do. I want to remind people of when Abbott
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  Speaker 1: really first started addressing this a few weeks ago because,
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  Speaker 1: darn it, he won. Surprise, surprise that Texas actually won
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  Speaker 1: in a fight in a federal court where a judge
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  Speaker 1: says we're not going to have to send an ICE
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  Speaker 1: agent somewhere else for some sort of, as I said,
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  Speaker 1: stupid trial.
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  Speaker 11: Well, first of all, I don't trust Tim Walz.
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  Speaker 5: Me neither.
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  Speaker 11: Let alone something like this. But listen, while they're making demands,
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  Speaker 11: I've got a demand of my own, and that is
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  Speaker 11: it's time for Minnesota to step up and repay the
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  Speaker 11: United States of America and Americans for all the fraud
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  Speaker 11: that they've committed in their state under federal programs. And
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  Speaker 11: I will not respond to them at all until they
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  Speaker 11: step up and do what's right.
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  Speaker 1: I do have a recommendation, by the way, and it's
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  Speaker 1: just a general recommendation for anyone out there. When there's
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  Speaker 1: only a few people in a place, when you only
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  Speaker 1: have like five to ten people, don't applaud because that
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  Speaker 1: seems sad. And then when I play that version on
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  Speaker 1: the radio and you only hear like six or seven claps,
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  Speaker 1: and it's not because there's not more people that support
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  Speaker 1: what Governor Abbott just said. It's because there's just not
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  Speaker 1: enough people there to have an overwhelming response to it.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody clap. Nobody do it. Look around the room, people
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  Speaker 1: who work for the governor or anyone else. And if
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  Speaker 1: there's not enough people in your corner, keep the clapping
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  Speaker 1: to yourself. Let's try Doug again and see if he's
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  Speaker 1: available now. Doug is now a good time.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: That's okay.
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  Speaker 5: That's funny.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's funny. What do you want to say, bud?
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  Speaker 5: Okay. I called the other day. I think Wayne came
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  Speaker 5: up with a slogan that to me I thought was,
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  Speaker 5: you know, 100% in a political organization.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. It's, you know, I think the slogan was, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I'm not perfect, but I ain't crazy, which is it
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  Speaker 5: addresses everybody's issues. Now, a Democrat can have that, but
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  Speaker 5: it doesn't mean a damn thing to him because if
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  Speaker 5: you understand a Democrat, he's actually a parasite. He needs
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  Speaker 5: people that make money. And they always come up with solutions,
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  Speaker 5: but they always come up with what they're going to do.
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  Speaker 5: But their constituents never benefit from it. No, they don't.
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  Speaker 5: They're the only ones who benefit from it.
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  Speaker 13: Amen.
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  Speaker 5: Anyway, what I was calling for is, because what I
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  Speaker 5: suggested is that we do a bumper sticker.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: You know, with that on it.
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  Speaker 1: That'd be great.
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  Speaker 5: And what I wanted to do is get permission from
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  Speaker 5: you and.
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  Speaker 5: And Wayne, to do the bumper sticker, because I'm going
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  Speaker 5: to create a proprietary asset for you.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: So that if it is used, you know, let's say
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  Speaker 5: Ted Cruz, you know, they're talking about spending $ 200 million
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  Speaker 5: on the campaign. So they're going to be throwing money away.
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  Speaker 1: That's true.
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  Speaker 5: You know, this bumper sticker would be low cost. But
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  Speaker 5: maximum benefit. So they might come. So that's the only
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  Speaker 5: way you'd ever get a royalty interest on it.
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  Speaker 1: I got you. As if people start using it, we
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  Speaker 1: have some sort of trademark or something. I get it.
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  Speaker 1: This sounds great, Doug. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And then what... The other thing I was going to
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  Speaker 5: do is a propriety ask for y'all. Y'all have been
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  Speaker 5: coming up with some good names, you know, for your
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  Speaker 5: radio station.
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  Speaker 1: Sure.
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  Speaker 5: Or, you know, your program.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 14: And.
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  Speaker 5: You know, Michael Berry, he's a czar already.
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  Speaker 15: Who?
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  Speaker 1: Never heard of him. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, I know. But how would y'all... We get a
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  Speaker 5: bumper sticker so that you've got a proprietary interest in there,
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  Speaker 5: especially in the local market, that y'all are the godfathers
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  Speaker 5: of talk radio.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Doug, I love it. This phone call paid off so,
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  Speaker 1: so well. That was so great. We are the godfathers
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  Speaker 1: of radio because we're both Italians from the East Coast.
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  Speaker 1: That's fantastic. Thank you very much for giving me that idea, man.
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  Speaker 1: And anything else that you threw out there as far
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  Speaker 1: as stuff you want to do, if it doesn't cost
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  Speaker 1: our radio station money, I think we're game. The boss
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  Speaker 1: is sitting behind me, though, so he could actually throw
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  Speaker 1: that out there. If it doesn't cost us money, we're
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  Speaker 1: okay with stuff, right? Okay. Russell says yes. So, yeah, Doug, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: free stuff, Doug, go for it. Do whatever you want
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  Speaker 1: to benefit us, and we've got to get that bumper
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  Speaker 1: sticker out there into the world. We've got to give
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  Speaker 1: away tchotchkes. That's the other thing. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: people know what tchotchkes are here in Texas. I assume
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  Speaker 1: you do. Just little, like, stuffed animals, all kinds of stuff,
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  Speaker 1: just crazy things, T-shirts, t-shirts. And I know we have
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  Speaker 1: some of those that we give away. We've got to
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  Speaker 1: do that because I love giving away tchotchkes. We'll figure
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  Speaker 1: out a way to do that on this show. More
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  Speaker 1: coming up in just a bit. This is KSEV Mornings,
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  Speaker 1: KSEV, 700 AM, The Voice of Texas. My name is
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  Speaker 1: Craig Collins. This is your KSEV morning show with Craig
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  Speaker 1: and Wayne. Wayne on special assignment. That's probably going to
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  Speaker 1: happen a lot. I'm just going to put that out
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  Speaker 1: there for the audience. Wayne will be here a decent
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  Speaker 1: amount of the time, but he probably also won't be
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  Speaker 1: here a decent amount of the time. The man is
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  Speaker 1: a very busy person. So we'll see, and maybe we'll
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  Speaker 1: hear from him for a portion of the show every
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  Speaker 1: once in a while. in a few different technology ways
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  Speaker 1: that we can get that done. But we intend to
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  Speaker 1: have him as much as he's capable of being here.
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  Speaker 1: We put his name in the title of the show,
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  Speaker 1: darn it. All right, let's do this. Just a couple
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  Speaker 1: serious things. And then I have a silly thing I
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  Speaker 1: want to play. I've done a segment for a while
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  Speaker 1: now on some other radio stuff I've done, which is
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  Speaker 1: either called the Quick Five, when I'm in for Dana,
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  Speaker 1: or I call it the Quick Four-ish. So it's a
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  Speaker 1: totally different topic where we just do palate cleansers. We
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  Speaker 1: just do sillier, lighthearted stuff Because you can't do Sirius
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  Speaker 1: all day, at least two days, or at least for
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  Speaker 1: two hours every single morning. You'll go crazy. So I'll
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  Speaker 1: show you what I mean in a little bit. But
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  Speaker 1: let's do Sirius first. I love this. Harry Enten is
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  Speaker 1: the statistician for CNN. He is also a person who
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  Speaker 1: very often says the thing that no one else on
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  Speaker 1: CNN wants to say. Usually it's something that is demonstrated
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  Speaker 1: via polling to be beneficial to Trump or to the
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  Speaker 1: Republican Party. And President Trump seemed to really like this one.
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  Speaker 1: He shared it on Truth Social. But here's Harry Enten
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  Speaker 1: saying that, hey, surprise, surprise, when it comes to Republicans—
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  Speaker 1: Guess who's popular within the party?
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  Speaker 2: I just love this one.
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  Speaker 3: OK, the president Republicans most admire. It's Donald Trump. This
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  Speaker 3: is a historic comparison. A majority of Republicans say 53
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  Speaker 3: percent say he is the Republican president they most admire.
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  Speaker 3: Ronald Reagan, who traditionally has won that much. Donald Trump
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  Speaker 3: nearly tripled up on this. Reagan at just 18 percent.
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  Speaker 3: And then Abraham Lincoln, who by most historic accounts is
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  Speaker 3: the greatest president of all time. But Republicans say that
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  Speaker 3: the president that they most admire by what is this
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  Speaker 3: is six, seven times as many. Donald John Trump at
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  Speaker 3: 53 percent, easily crushing Abe Lincoln at eight percent. And
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  Speaker 3: the Elon polls showed that he was the greatest president
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  Speaker 3: as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Ronald Reagan got the 18 percent if you didn't
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  Speaker 1: hear him say that there. Look, is that actually true?
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  Speaker 1: Do I think that President Trump? is a better president
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  Speaker 1: than Abe Lincoln or Ronald Reagan? No, I don't necessarily.
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  Speaker 1: Although I'm not going to say that he's so far
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  Speaker 1: off in some regards, but I do think in other regards,
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  Speaker 1: maybe in some regards, though, I do think what this
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  Speaker 1: is really about is a willingness to fight a enemy
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  Speaker 1: face to face. The enemy of our country is Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 2: Itself.
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of the things that they do, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the things that both sides do and Salcedo,
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  Speaker 1: 14 years on this radio station and this program, talked
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  Speaker 1: about this a lot and was absolutely right every time
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  Speaker 1: that Chris Salcedo brought it up. But the selfishness, the
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  Speaker 1: self-serving aspects of politicians themselves are the biggest problem for
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  Speaker 1: you and me in our country as a whole. It's
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  Speaker 1: the biggest danger, the biggest villain. And the crazy thing
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  Speaker 1: about that villain is it also has a tremendous amount
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  Speaker 1: of power. And when you watch someone fight that power,
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  Speaker 1: you admire it. I think that you watch the underdog succeed.
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  Speaker 1: And Trump is an underdog more than people want to
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  Speaker 1: think he is, especially in the 2024 election when they
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  Speaker 1: were literally trying to throw him in jail like that.
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  Speaker 1: I think people forget that now. Democrats don't. They like
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  Speaker 1: to say the simple like felony phrase, which is stupid.
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  Speaker 1: But other than that, there were so many court cases
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  Speaker 1: that just went away that we're all trying to upend
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  Speaker 1: our election process and prevent someone from being nominated and
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  Speaker 1: then eventually winning the presidency, that you know who the
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  Speaker 1: bad guy is. Like, you see it. That's the most
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  Speaker 1: blatant version of that sort of thing. And so if
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  Speaker 1: I were to explain a poll in 2026 where 53
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  Speaker 1: percent of Republicans who are surveyed said the president they
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  Speaker 1: most admire is Trump and that 18 and 8 percent
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  Speaker 1: are where Reagan and Lincoln go, it's a twofold. It's
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  Speaker 1: the version of watching the current fight unfold. And then
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  Speaker 1: also maybe not knowing your history, maybe not knowing everything
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  Speaker 1: about there's there's actually, you know, we'll probably do this.
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  Speaker 1: I've thought about this for a while. There's so many
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  Speaker 1: things that Reagan said, so many interviews he gave or
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  Speaker 1: speeches he made and just ways he talked that feel
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  Speaker 1: like they're about today. They're not. They're, of course, about
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  Speaker 1: a time that was a while ago. But nonetheless, like
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  Speaker 1: the way in which some of that goes. And I
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  Speaker 1: have a few in mind. So maybe we'll play them.
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  Speaker 1: Probably not today, but we'll do that at some point
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  Speaker 1: in the show. Just taking that wisdom of the past
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  Speaker 1: and seeing how applicable it feels like it is to
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  Speaker 1: all the things we're dealing with right now. But I
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  Speaker 1: just love this poll, and I love that President Trump
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  Speaker 1: shared it, and that a lot on CNN would be
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  Speaker 1: mad about it. It's weird to watch them like Ronald
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  Speaker 1: Reagan and, well, Abe Lincoln, I think they've liked for
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  Speaker 1: a while. But it's weird to watch them do that,
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  Speaker 1: because if you were writing the tape, they really, really
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  Speaker 1: hated Reagan, too, at one point. All right, let's play
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  Speaker 1: this audio. I believe that I actually teased this at
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of the show and have yet to really
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  Speaker 1: play it. But there is a conversation about an operation
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  Speaker 1: that unfolded in Florida that saved 163 missing kids. I
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  Speaker 1: want to play part of this, a statewide shield rescue program.
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  Speaker 1: The biggest reason that I think this is important is
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  Speaker 1: that during the Biden presidency, you heard a whole lot
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  Speaker 1: about especially children just going missing. like people who cross
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  Speaker 1: the border and then all of a sudden a kid
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: would just vanish into the ether, mostly because they were
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: letting kids legally come into our country with no requirement whatsoever,
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: much like they were doing with adults. And a lot
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: of times when asked about it, the former president would
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: say something like, yeah, we're working on that. But there
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: wasn't really a lot of success there. Florida seems to
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: have been successful. And the horrific part of this story
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: is that many of these kids were abused, neglected, exploited
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: or trafficked. Here we go.
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  Speaker 17: A multi-agency effort in Florida rescues 163 missing children during
• 17:48
  Speaker 17: Operation Statewide Shield. Florida law enforcement spending five days recovering
• 17:53
  Speaker 17: the missing children.
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  Speaker 13: Many appear to have been trafficked, neglected, exploited, and abused.
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  Speaker 13: Thanks to our partners, we have them back in our custody.
• 18:07
  Speaker 13: We have them in a loving environment, and we will
• 18:10
  Speaker 13: give them the treatment they need to get back on
• 18:12
  Speaker 13: the road to recovery.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Here's the question I have for you, and it's very simplistic,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: and anyone out there, I assume, can answer it, and
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: you probably don't want to. But when you see Republican-led states,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: and certainly the ones on the forefront, like us or
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: like Florida, do things like this where they simply rescue
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: kids and How do you debate that? Just out of curiosity,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: how do you go around still saying, oh, I'd never
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: want to live in Florida? It's a horrible, terrible place
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: because it's run by Republicans. And they're out there saving
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: 163 kids that were in all kinds of terrible situations
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: that had simply gone missing, mostly because they came into
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: the country at a time when they were allowed in
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: and then they just got lost, which is horrible. So
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: rescuing the children is very important. But nonetheless, I just
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: think it's amazing. that these are the types of successes
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: that happen unique to certain places, again, Texas and Florida,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: and that they're the kind of things that never get
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: talked about, never get debated or discussed by most of
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: media because they don't want to demonstrate that conservatives have wins.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: They want to pretend that none of that exists. And
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: then we have idiots call into the show, like one
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: of the idiots who called in yesterday, and say things
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: that are profoundly untrue, that they simply heard from the left,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: when they try to hide whatever the actual truth is
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: by just not telling you. The amount of people who
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: are simply in the dark about what actually is going
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: on in our society, it's shocking. And it shouldn't be–
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: and I say that, and I'm sure some people out
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: there immediately consider me naive to say that, of course, Craig,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: come on, this many people still accepting the simple narrative
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: from places that have been outed as liars that we've
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: known for a while do not do anything to benefit us.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Most media is out there benefiting itself, just like politicians
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: are benefiting themselves. But when I say that, I am
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: still surprised that we haven't had a deeper crack in
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: that version of tool, in that version of a thing
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: that continues to be the propaganda machine of the Democratic
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Party here in this country. There's so many moments of
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: either just willfully neglecting a true story because you don't
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: like what the narrative does. I'll tell this story. I'll
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: probably get to the silly stuff that I planned a
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: little bit later on in the show. But I want
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: to tell this story very quickly that I've told on
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: the radio before, but it's simply true. And this is, again,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: a different radio station that I was at. This is
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: not something that happened here. We used to do weekly
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: meetings where the news staff and the hosts and everyone
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: would be in the same room and have a discussion
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: about the topics that were coming up, the topics that
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: we'd cover the next week. And there was a pretty
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: big story that occurred in this community in which someone
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: who was tied to a charity organization and a big
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Democratic donor had been caught embezzling a crap ton of
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: money from the charities that she represented. like just a
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: horrible thing, the kind of thing that was so obvious
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: to talk about and had so many different political tentacles
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: to it that I was discussing it already before the
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: meeting even occurred and giving the information I had as
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: it was happening. But sitting in that room, we found
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: out that the woman had committed suicide. And so in unison,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: all the people in the room who wanted me to
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: stop talking about the story started saying that it was
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: dangerous to discuss something like this because simply acknowledging that
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: someone takes their own life encourages other people to do it.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: And I scratched my head. I looked at them. I go,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's true at all. I don't think
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: the data backs that up at all. I think that
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: confronting issues like that, serious mental health things, are something
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: that our society is doing better at, and it's actually
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: helping people. I hear that all the time, that if
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: you have a discussion about a certain thing, that by
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: and large, you actually wind up demonstrating to someone that
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: they're not alone. A lot of the conversations I have
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: with the veterans during my Veteran Voices segment are I think,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: allow them to share their story and to tell other veterans,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: whatever the thing is they're going through, that they're not alone.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: And so I've always thought that that was true. And
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: so I was sitting in the room and I was
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: thinking this to myself. And for a little bit, I
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: was quiet because they almost got me in the emotional
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: argument that they were making, not the substantive argument about
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: the story itself and the ties to political parties. And
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: then eventually I just refused to acknowledge it. I refused
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: to do it. I just ignored it. I went on air.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: I did my own thing because it was ridiculous. It
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: was a lie. And I thought that the audience actually
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: needed to know the truth. And it actually wound up
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: being one of the bigger stories that wound up being
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: a problem for me at the radio station that I
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: was at that I'm not at anymore. I'm pretty happy
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: I'm not there anymore. But they were trying to hide
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: the truth. And I did think that that was ridiculous
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: and unfair. So to this day, I'm fairly happy in
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: the decision that I made, even though the decision wound
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: up costing me a gig, because it's just ridiculous. But
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: it was so interesting in such a small version of
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: a macro topic that we could talk about a bunch
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: of different stories where we see those same examples playing out. Like,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: why didn't this news organization cover this? Why didn't they
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: dive deeper into that story? I bet you there's some producer.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Some host, some person that might have been accidentally hired
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: by an organization that believes the opposite of the thing
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: that most of the people in the organization believe. Essentially,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: you have one conservative in a room of Democrats that
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: would rather they tell you the truth and they're not
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: allowed to do it. They're forced into silence. And if
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: they're not forced into silence, they lose their gig. That
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: is how the political machine or the media version of
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: the political machine works. They intimidate you and they remove you.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: if you become a problem. So I just think it's
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: fascinating to, again, think about that in the context of
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: the story out of Florida and how little you'll probably
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: hear about it in certain places that don't want conservatives
• 24:01
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  Speaker 1: This is KSEV Mornings with Craig and Wayne. Craig and
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: sometimes Wayne might eventually be the name of the show. No,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: I'm kidding. He's just going to travel a lot. The
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: man is very busy, very important, very fancy. And actually,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: I think Sharon called in earlier in the show and said,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: I shouldn't call him a legend because Wayne made the
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: joke that he thinks that that makes him sound old.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: But he is, you know, the investigative reporter guy. He
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: is the secret agent. He's the dude doing all the
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: awesome stuff that I'm honestly like so jealous. Part of
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: it with Wayne Dolcevino is just his job is very cool.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: And I'd like to do that job, too, someday where
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: I just investigate horrible people doing horrible things all the time.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: But all right, let's move on. Other stuff out there
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: that I think is fun. We're going to do a
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: couple stories that are not the most serious for just
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: a bit. We're going to have a little bit of
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: fun on the radio. And then we're going to replay
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: the E.J. and Tony conversation from the beginning of the show.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: He is the Heritage Foundation's chief economist. He's on TV
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: all the time, specifically on Fox, but on a lot
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: of places. So you'll hear from him if you didn't
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: catch that right at the beginning at 7 o'clock. If
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: you were still asleep and now you're making your commute,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: to work but let's do this first the ceo of
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: flock safety i went on fox news and begged people
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: to compromise their privacy and he promised more public safety
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: a whole lot of people aren't going to do this
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: bud but let's hear garrett is the guy's name make
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: the argument.
• 28:19
  Speaker 18: I value my privacy my family values their privacy my
• 28:22
  Speaker 18: employees value their privacy but what we're talking about is
• 28:24
  Speaker 18: safety as well and so i think when people talk
• 28:27
  Speaker 18: about just one of these privacy or safety They're prioritizing
• 28:31
  Speaker 18: the wrong thing. What we have to prioritize as a
• 28:33
  Speaker 18: country is compromise. How do we have our safety and
• 28:36
  Speaker 18: how do we balance privacy?
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's not going to work with a lot
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: of people. I will say one thing because I'm not
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: for the flock camera. I do think that I have
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: a value, like my privacy has value. I have an
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: expectation of it at certain times, but I do like
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: one aspect of it. And I'm not sure that it
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: would actually be used the way I'd want it to be.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: But whenever you see a story go viral, Where because
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: we're all essentially a flock camera, like the strangest thing
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: in my thinking through this topic is that everybody right
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: now walking around with a telephone is just a button
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: push away from being their own human flock camera. And
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: so the thing that I like, I'm going to finally
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: get to the point is if a story goes viral
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: and we only get to see a few different versions
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: of the truth via the cameras that people hold and
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: when they decided to hit record. We might not know
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: what actually happened. I think very often you see these
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: videos go viral that are either edited or simply got
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: turned on late in the process of something that make
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: one narrative look true. And the whole version of the video,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: which you would get later, would actually demonstrate that a
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: very different narrative is in fact accurate. I do like
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: that because I like the truth. I like knowing what
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: actually happened in certain situations. For example, I can even
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: do this here in Houston and with Texas. The ICE-involved
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: shooting of the individual that became a big giant story
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: here and what actually happened. Part of the problem with
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: that story, at least to me, is that there's only
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: simple videos and like broken video versions and weird angles
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: from stores and whatnot. And it would be better if
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: you had a more definitive video of that to understand
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: what exactly happened. Now, it's still not worth my privacy.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that I will compromise like the flock
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: CEO is asking me to, but I do think that
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: We're in a place in society right now where the
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: difference between our public version of privacy today and what
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: it was a certain number of years ago is already
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: overwhelmingly changed. It's already fairly obliterated. The version of if
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: I walk around and do something in public that I
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: can expect no one to take a video of me,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: because if I get even a remote amount of attention,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: someone somewhere is going to pull out their camera and
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: record it. But doing so, but even so, I should say,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: admitting that on the radio, I still don't think the
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: right approach is let's just let a company do a
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: whole bunch of this on their own, especially when the
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: data told us that a bunch of the people who
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: work at the flock camera companies and a bunch of
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: the people who use them in law enforcement kind of
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: wound up just like stalking the wrecks and stuff. That's
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: not a good look. That's not a great thing. You
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: don't want that at all, I would say. All right.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Another thing out there that I want to play that
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: I just thought was interesting. and certainly sillier. This is
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: a mom-calling competition. I like this a lot. This happened
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: at the Iowa State Fair. A lot of these state
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: fairs do a lot of crazy stuff. I don't know
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: if Texas has ever done a mom-calling competition, but kids
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: tried to get their mother's attention, and about 30 seconds,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: 25 seconds of this went viral, where children were just
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: yelling their mom's name, and the mother who showed up
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: first wound up winning the competition. I don't know how
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: they made the moms not aware they were participating, so
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: I think this was just a stunt and a joke,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: but I did like it.
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  Speaker 10: Mom!
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  Speaker 15: I'm getting out of my bed!
• 32:05
  Speaker 8: Mom, when's dinner ready? Mom!
• 32:07
  Speaker 13: Mom!
• 32:07
  Speaker 15: Don't make me call Grandma!
• 32:09
  Speaker 10: Mom!
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: And none of that's going to work, by the way.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: I thought that was a really poorly done job of
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: all these kids just screaming and yelling, Mom, because that's
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: not what it takes. I will tell you what works
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: in the version of getting your mother's attention that I
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: remember vividly when I was a little kid. You just
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: got to break your arm. I'm not actually suggesting anyone
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: do this. When I was in second grade, I broke
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: my arm, my left arm. And I remember the story
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: and I've told it on the radio and people say
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: they like it. So I guess I'm going to tell
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: it again. My favorite part of that story is I
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: was playing outside with other kids in the neighborhood. We
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: didn't have all the technology that people have today. So
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: we did stupid stuff. I think we were like throwing
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: logs into a baby pool and trying to see who
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: could make the biggest splash. Like that's the stupidity we
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: got up to. There's someone had cut down a tree.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: A bunch of logs were sitting on the ground and
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: And we were just chucking them in the air and
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: trying to make a big splash in a baby pool.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: And I tripped over one, fell on my hand, broke
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: it in like four places. So it was like dangling
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: off of my my wrist. You could see like they
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: didn't pop out, but you could see bones. Stuff is gross.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: And I remember all of my friends that were hanging
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: out with me just ran away. Like I got up
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: from my injury. I looked at my arm. I wasn't crying.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: I was probably in shock. I was eight. And I
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: just saw a bunch of kids going opposite directions, which
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: is usually not good. And so the point of the
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: story is I go inside and I say to my mother, hey, Ma,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: I think I broke my arm. Literally, I think that's
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: exactly how I said it. And she's around the corner
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: in the kitchen. She can't see me. And she goes, oh, honey,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: come here. Immediately pays attention to me, turns the corner
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: to see me and then breaks down in a way
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: I've never I had never seen an adult breakdown in
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: my life as a child. Just like she became a
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: blubbery mess. And I remember she ran me to the
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: van that we had. She's yelling at my sisters, telling
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: them she's taking me to the hospital. I look at
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: her for a second and go, Ma, what do I
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: do with the arm? It's broken. She says, hold on.
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  Speaker 1: She runs inside and she comes back with the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: She put the Bible in my lap, told me to
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  Speaker 1: put my arm on the Bible and said, put it there.
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• 34:29
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  Speaker 1: that some might not. But I enjoy telling it. My
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: mom was driving like she was a NASCAR driver the
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: entire time in a minivan that was not built to
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: be a car driven the way that she was driving it.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it was only like five minutes from
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  Speaker 1: our house to the closest hospital. So it wasn't a
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: long drive. But my favorite part of that entire thing
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: was as I'm sitting there with my hand on the Bible,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: my mom's just running red lights. just firing through them
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: the way that only a reckless human does. And I
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: remember I started crying. Like I looked at her, I
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: looked at the vehicle and I just started weeping. And
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: it wasn't because I was in pain. It was because
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: I was terrified of the car ride to the hospital.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: And when we got there, the doctors see me and
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: they think I'm in this horrible pain and they like
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: give a shot to me immediately to get me out
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: of pain. And I couldn't even explain to them. I'm
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: like my single mom who raised me was trying to
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: kill me in the car, everybody. She was trying to
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: take my life. But they didn't care. It was a
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: simpler time in our society where a mother could run
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: a bunch of lights with a minivan and no one
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: seemed to worry about it. All right, we'll take a break.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: We'll come back from our break and we will try
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: to play the E.J. and Tony conversation that we had
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: at the beginning of the show, because I do think E.J.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: did a great job of talking to us a lot.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: He's a chief economist for the Heritage Foundation about what's
• 35:50
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• 35:53
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  Speaker 1: stuff to talk about. I did an interview right at
• 39:01
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• 39:05
  Speaker 1: the Heritage Foundation, E.J. Antoni. I wanted to replay part
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  Speaker 1: of that, well, all that interview here in case you
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• 39:13
  Speaker 1: 7 AM. So here it is. Here's E.J. and I
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: talking about a whole bunch of stuff in the world
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: of gas prices and the economy.
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  Speaker 13: E.J.
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  Speaker 1: Antoni, welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 10: Greg, it's great to be with you.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Thank you for waking up. I don't know if you
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: woke up early for me, actually, but I'm assuming you did.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: So thank you for getting up early and doing this.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: I want to immediately get to some of the things
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: that I'm most interested in. I know you've been talking
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: a lot about Canada, and I find that very fascinating,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: especially and you don't have to weigh in on this
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: as an economist. but the contemplating of changing Lake Ontario
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: to Lake America. But what's actually going on from the
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: world of the financial fighting between our country and our
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: neighbor to the north?
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: Oh, goodness.
• 39:55
  Speaker 14: Well, look, there's a couple of things that I think
• 39:57
  Speaker 14: are really worth emphasizing here, Craig, one of which is
• 40:00
  Speaker 14: the fact that, yes, we had a bunch of new
• 40:02
  Speaker 14: tariffs put in place in the last few days. Canada
• 40:05
  Speaker 14: is going to retaliate in the coming days. But this
• 40:08
  Speaker 14: is on a relatively small amount of the overall trade
• 40:11
  Speaker 14: between the U.S.
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: And Canada.
• 40:13
  Speaker 14: So it's only about 5% of what we.
• 40:16
  Speaker 10: Buy from Canada.
• 40:16
  Speaker 14: It's only about 6% of what they buy from us.
• 40:19
  Speaker 14: So for all the talk of a full-fledged trade war,
• 40:22
  Speaker 14: this sure feels a heck of a lot more just
• 40:24
  Speaker 14: like a skirmish. Now, come January 1st, a lot more
• 40:27
  Speaker 14: tariffs will come into effect if we don't get a
• 40:30
  Speaker 14: trade deal by then. So that's when maybe we can
• 40:32
  Speaker 14: start talking about an actual trade war.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: How how often has this worked? I thought that during
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: a lot of the tariffs and all the conversations about
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: them and then the fighting in courtrooms about it, that
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: actually President Trump got a lot of deals done. So
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: this version of fighting, does it benefit the United States?
• 40:52
  Speaker 10: Great, great question.
• 40:53
  Speaker 14: The short answer is that we're not really sure because
• 40:59
  Speaker 14: we've never actually seen tariffs used like this before, Craig.
• 41:03
  Speaker 14: And that's why there's some, I think, ambiguity there. The
• 41:06
  Speaker 14: fact is tariffs have traditionally been used to essentially try
• 41:10
  Speaker 14: to keep out foreign competitors or to raise revenue. But
• 41:15
  Speaker 14: in this instance, you have a president who's just trying
• 41:18
  Speaker 14: to use them essentially as a negotiating tool.
• 41:21
  Speaker 10: He's trying to use them as leverage.
• 41:23
  Speaker 14: It's the threat of tariffs that is hopefully bringing other
• 41:27
  Speaker 14: parties to the negotiating table. Because at the end of
• 41:30
  Speaker 14: the day, what we're after is free and fair trade.
• 41:34
  Speaker 14: In other words, we want to have the same access
• 41:36
  Speaker 14: to Canadian consumer markets that they have to ours.
• 41:40
  Speaker 13: Right.
• 41:40
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: All right. I want to transition to something else. And
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: this is going to be very selfish because it's a
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: big conversation here in Texas. I saw that Governor Abbott
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: was asked this, I think, over the weekend in one
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: of the interviews that he did, where the promise was
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: the gas prices would be down by now and they're not.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: And essentially the premise of the question to our governor was,
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: will that cause a whole lot of people to vote
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: for Democrats come the midterm election? Could potentially a James
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Tallarico win a Senate seat in a place like Texas,
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: which to me still feels crazy, but it's closer than
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: I want it to be. What do you think about
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: the gas prices and potentially any sort of relief coming
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: down the road and even what its impact might be
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: on how people vote in November?
• 42:26
  Speaker 14: Well, I think it's certainly possible that this is definitely
• 42:29
  Speaker 14: going to fuel a lot of animosity to the party
• 42:33
  Speaker 14: in power, which obviously is the Republicans, right? I think
• 42:37
  Speaker 14: we're all aware of who controls Congress in the White House.
• 42:40
  Speaker 14: But look, I think the issue is the fact that
• 42:44
  Speaker 14: people in particular, they sent Trump back to the White
• 42:48
  Speaker 14: House because they wanted affordability addressed. And unfortunately, even though
• 42:54
  Speaker 14: things were looking really, really good for 2026, if we
• 42:57
  Speaker 14: go back to February, we were firing on all cylinders.
• 43:00
  Speaker 14: A lot of consumer prices were actually ready to start
• 43:03
  Speaker 14: going down, Craig, if you can believe that. So not
• 43:05
  Speaker 14: just they stop increasing, but they actually start going down.
• 43:09
  Speaker 14: And again, unfortunately, with this fuel crisis and the supply
• 43:12
  Speaker 14: chain disruptions, disruptions that we have seen, all resulting from
• 43:15
  Speaker 14: the Iran war, it has just been a total wrench
• 43:18
  Speaker 14: in the works. And I think voters are definitely going
• 43:21
  Speaker 14: to be very, very upset about that. The polling data
• 43:25
  Speaker 14: is crystal clear that they are not happy that the
• 43:28
  Speaker 14: affordability crisis remains unaddressed.
• 43:31
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: Do you think that that's something that can be resolved
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: once the fighting in Iran? This is the way I
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: should say it, E.J. I'm not convinced that this is
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: a forever war the way people talk about. I know
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: it's much longer than they initially pitched it to be.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: We're entering something like the sixth month of this conflict.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: But I still believe that at some point it will
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: resolve itself. When that happens, prices will plummet, correct? I mean,
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: I know the president has said before, and he was
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: taken out of context when he said this, that he
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: sort of liked inflation because it allows him to demonstrate
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: how great things are once the inflation goes away. Is
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: that your professional opinion of what could happen or no?
• 44:10
  Speaker 14: I think we're definitely going to see prices come down.
• 44:13
  Speaker 10: Absolutely.
• 44:14
  Speaker 14: I mean, look, this is an energy story, right?
• 44:17
  Speaker 10: The fact that.
• 44:17
  Speaker 14: You have oil where it is, is largely due to
• 44:21
  Speaker 14: what's happening in Iran. Now, I will say, Craig, one
• 44:24
  Speaker 14: important caveat here is the fact that it's not.
• 44:27
  Speaker 10: Just the Middle East, it's Eastern Europe.
• 44:32
  Speaker 14: The Ukraine on Russia, where they have really, really disrupted refining, essentially,
• 44:39
  Speaker 14: supply chains, and they've reduced Russia's refining capacity. Russia is
• 44:44
  Speaker 14: now not, they're not going to export a single drop
• 44:50
  Speaker 14: So that I think puts into perspective.
• 44:52
  Speaker 10: Where we are. In other words, even when oil.
• 44:55
  Speaker 14: Comes down because the Strait of Hormuz opens up, it's
• 44:57
  Speaker 14: going to take longer for prices at the pump to
• 45:00
  Speaker 14: get down because we're going to have to rebuild that
• 45:02
  Speaker 14: destroyed refining capacity globally. The other important thing, and this
• 45:06
  Speaker 14: is a lesson we learned in 2020, You know, we
• 45:09
  Speaker 14: shut down the global economy in the spring of that year,
• 45:12
  Speaker 14: but you had some consumer shortages and price increases that
• 45:16
  Speaker 14: didn't actually show up until the spring or summer of
• 45:19
  Speaker 14: the following year. In other words, supply chain disruptions, which
• 45:22
  Speaker 14: we have a lot of right now, aren't always going
• 45:25
  Speaker 14: to rear their ugly heads in terms of the effect
• 45:28
  Speaker 14: on the.
• 45:28
  Speaker 10: Consumer for a while down the road.
• 45:30
  Speaker 14: So yes, prices are going to come down, but I
• 45:33
  Speaker 14: think it's going to take a while for certain things
• 45:36
  Speaker 14: to actually work their way out of the supply chain
• 45:38
  Speaker 14: and for us to get the back to normal.
• 45:41
  Speaker 10: Quote unquote.
• 45:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: Well, then let me ask you a different question. And
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: it's within the same vein of this conversation, because this
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: is the part that I think is the most egregious
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: error that the typical voter might actually commit come November.
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: Democrats aren't better at this. I don't know a different
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: way to say that. If power shifts from one side
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: to the other in any branch of government, all of
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: the policies of the Democratic Party are only really positioned
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: to make prices worse not better. That's at least my opinion.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: Let's get your professional one.
• 46:14
  Speaker 14: Well, yeah, this is the irony of when they talk
• 46:17
  Speaker 14: about making student loans. more affordable, making health care more affordable, right?
• 46:26
  Speaker 14: Those are big talking points from the Democrats, especially the
• 46:29
  Speaker 14: new Democrat Socialists of America. And the fact of the
• 46:32
  Speaker 14: matter is, Craig, those are in particular the three areas
• 46:36
  Speaker 14: in which they have already been meddling the most in
• 46:40
  Speaker 14: the entire economy. It is hard to find sectors of
• 46:43
  Speaker 14: the economy that are more regulated, for example, than higher education,
• 46:47
  Speaker 14: than mortgages, than home lending. It's harder to find something
• 46:52
  Speaker 14: that's more regulated than healthcare on every sector, every part
• 46:56
  Speaker 14: of that sector, whether it's prescription drugs, whether it's hospitals,
• 47:01
  Speaker 14: whether it's the healthcare providers themselves.
• 47:03
  Speaker 10: You name it. In other words, all of the areas in.
• 47:06
  Speaker 14: Which government has been most involved in our economy are
• 47:08
  Speaker 14: precisely the areas where we have seen prices the fastest
• 47:12
  Speaker 14: and for the longest. In other words, all of those
• 47:15
  Speaker 14: attempts to help, quote unquote, are just more of the
• 47:19
  Speaker 14: same and will only make that affordability crisis even worse.
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know what's really interesting about you mentioning
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: the DSA? We can look no further than just at
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: New York right now and a lot of what Mamdami
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: has promised and a lot of the calculations as to
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: how expensive Some of these things are a thing. I
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: think El-Said has been out there on the campaign trail
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: actually being confronted with the question of this policy that
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: you're so proud to talk about, whether it's some new
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: version of the Green New Deal or something like it.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: The cost of it is astronomical. So to promise the
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: American taxpayer that you're going to actually reduce costs. at
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: a time when you would somehow find a way to
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: just claw more money from them is sort of ridiculous.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: But in that context with the DSA, is there anything
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: that's really entertained you as far as an idea that
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: you've heard and then what the projected cost of it
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: would be if they actually did it?
• 48:11
  Speaker 14: Well, I mean, Craig, if you mean by entertain me,
• 48:13
  Speaker 14: raise my blood pressure, then sure. I mean, almost everything
• 48:15
  Speaker 14: that comes out of their mouth. But look, one of
• 48:19
  Speaker 14: the things I find really, I guess you could say,
• 48:21
  Speaker 14: is it would be funny were it not so tragic.
• 48:24
  Speaker 14: You look at something like Mandani's grocery stores that he's doing, right?
• 48:28
  Speaker 10: Grocery stores.
• 48:28
  Speaker 14: You're talking about an industry with what, a about a
• 48:31
  Speaker 14: 2% margin and he's going to sell stuff for 30%
• 48:35
  Speaker 14: below retail. In other words, taxpayers, because that's who funds
• 48:39
  Speaker 14: government stores, taxpayers are going to take a wash of
• 48:42
  Speaker 14: 28% on these grocery stores. They're going to lose 20%.
• 48:46
  Speaker 14: of every dollar that taxpayers have to put into these things.
• 48:50
  Speaker 14: Are you kidding me? That's your plan for success? That's
• 48:53
  Speaker 14: how you think you're going to win? Again, it's just laughable.
• 48:57
  Speaker 14: And that $ 0. 28 loss is assuming that these grocery stores
• 49:02
  Speaker 14: are run as efficiently as the private sector ones, which
• 49:05
  Speaker 14: obviously we know is not going to be the case.
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: Well, and the other thing that was my favorite part
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: about the grocery stores is when he said it's not
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: going to hurt the mom and pop shops that are
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: also selling these products at the 30% percent higher price
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: to not go out of business. I was like, how
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: does that work?
• 49:19
  Speaker 10: Yeah, exactly.
• 49:20
  Speaker 5: Exactly.
• 49:21
  Speaker 14: Don't worry.
• 49:21
  Speaker 5: Don't worry.
• 49:22
  Speaker 14: This won't take business away from anyone else. We're just
• 49:25
  Speaker 14: magically going to have additional consumers come from who knows
• 49:28
  Speaker 14: where to buy stuff for 30 percent off. But everyone else,
• 49:32
  Speaker 14: they'll still pay full price.
• 49:33
  Speaker 10: Don't you worry.
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: This interview was way too quick. It's basically already over
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: because I know I'm up against a break, EJ. But
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: before I let you go, is there anything else that
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: I didn't ask you that I didn't cover that you
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: feel like Texans should know, especially with November coming up?
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: And somehow, someway, James Tallarico, our version of the DSA candidate,
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: doing better in polling than anyone expected.
• 49:55
  Speaker 10: Oh, goodness.
• 49:56
  Speaker 14: Well, I mean, let's think back to the Ted Cruz race, right?
• 49:59
  Speaker 14: Ted Cruz and Bateau O'Rourke that he ran against. You know,
• 50:04
  Speaker 14: Cruz was not doing that great in the polls. There
• 50:07
  Speaker 14: was a lot of really conflicting data there. So I'm, hey,
• 50:12
  Speaker 14: maybe we're just seeing a repeat of that, right?
• 50:14
  Speaker 10: And and we're going to.
• 50:15
  Speaker 14: See the Republicans just clean the Democrats' clock. It is
• 50:18
  Speaker 14: Texas after all.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: Yes, exactly. It is Texas. But I do think our
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: listeners need to understand you've got to show up and vote.
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: And I don't think E.J. is saying anything different. You've
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: got to show up and vote. We can't expect the
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: win because somehow, someway, things are crazy. I really thank
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: you for the time, the chief economist at the Heritage Foundation.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: Look forward to talking again soon. Hopefully we make this
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: a regular thing, E.J.
• 50:40
  Speaker 10: Oh, we're going to be my pleasure.
• 50:42
  Speaker 18: Awesome.
• 50:43
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: We'll take it quick. Yeah, we're 100 percent going to
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: make it a regular thing.
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: E.J.
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: And Tony is going to be here a bunch to
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: talk about all kinds of economic stuff because you see
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: him all over the television. And he's also a family
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: member of mine. I have a couple of family members
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: that are doing some good things in the world of politics.
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: You'll hear from another one tomorrow. Vince Colonese, who is
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  Speaker 1: the host of the 12 o'clock hour show that we
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: have here at KSCV. And then actually, I think Dana
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: is going to be on my show at some point, too.
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  Speaker 1: just because I wanted them all on on this show.
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  Speaker 1: But Vince will be here tomorrow. I think it's at
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: 830 that we're going to call Vince and chat with
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: Vince about just a whole bunch of stuff. It's always
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: fun to interview him, my cousin Vinny. And then, as
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: I said, we'll have some other interviews down the road.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: We're also going to do our veteran voices tomorrow. Please
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: do tune in for that. Typically, I think that that
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: would be at 830. But for tomorrow's show, we're going
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: to place it at 730. It is a longer form
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: conversation than you typically find in radio. So we'll try
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: to go a little bit longer in that segment than
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: we normally would. Just chatting with a veteran about whatever
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: they want to talk about. And I want to do
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  Speaker 1: that every week. Every single Friday, we give a 20-minute
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  Speaker 1: or so segment at least to veterans to have a
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  Speaker 1: conversation about the experience that you have serving our country
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  Speaker 1: and or literally anything else. Like, I actually do open
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: the floor. So if you know a veteran that you
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: think would be great for that, you can email me,
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  Speaker 1: craig at ksevradio.com. If you are a veteran and you
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  Speaker 1: think you'd be great for that, even better. It's actually funny.
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  Speaker 1: I'll just tell you this before we get out of here.
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  Speaker 1: I put a post up in a social media place
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  Speaker 1: that a lot of veterans in Houston and in Texas
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: are in, and I got an overwhelming response because when
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: veterans are asked to do a favor for somebody... Veterans
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  Speaker 1: do it, and they're amazing to do it. So we
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: have quite a few booked for weeks to come, but
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: I'd still love to have more. So Craig at KSEV Radio,
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: if you know a vet or you are a veteran
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: that would want to take advantage of KSEV's Veteran Voices segment,
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: it will continue, but it will be on in mornings
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: now since that's where I am. But we'll get out
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  Speaker 1: of here. That's it for us for today. Please listen
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: to everything else. Kill Me next. You've got Chris X
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: in the afternoon. A lot of great stuff. So stick
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  Speaker 1: right at KSEV. AM 700, the voice of Texas.