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Wayne Investigates a Brazoria County Judge Candidate, and Does Angela Paxton's Ad Help? · KSEV Mornings with Craig and Wayne

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  KSEV Radio, The Voice of Texas. My name is Craig Coglianese. He is Wayne Dolcefino.
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  And I think everything works now. How you doing, buddy?
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  You know, it's about time.
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  Okay. So now you hear us, you hear programming, you hear the music.
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  I hear everything.
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  Look at you. And you don't hear yourself twice?
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  No.
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  Okay.
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  I think you've done it.
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  Okay.
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  That last string.
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  Okay.
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  That last Dixie card.
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  And then you told me to stop whining and complaining off the air, which I loved a lot too. That's awesome.
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  Yeah, because it's Monday.
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  It's Monday.
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  Everybody whines and complains on a Monday.
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  You know what?
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  I don't.
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  Okay, except Wayne.
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  I forgot.
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  I actually had a very pleasant weekend.
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  What did you do?
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  Because you and I had talked and you were planning on maybe hitting the beach and then
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  I don't think you did that.
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  No, because the weather guys scare you.
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  You know, you're like, right?
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  I gotta tell you.
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  They scare, yes, they scared both of us.
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  Yeah, but I think it's really cruel because they said it was going to be like 90% chance
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  of rain like all day Saturday and all day Sunday.
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  I had visions of floating in a boat down Buffalo Bayou.
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  So Saturday morning, I was thinking about going down to the island and getting a hotel
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  and just kind of hanging out, cause some trouble.
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  Why not?
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  wild wild wave and but the but the they scared me so I didn't do anything and
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  then all day Saturday I was outside it was like it didn't rain one I didn't have
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  a drop of rain like until last night maybe so okay I basically sacrificed do
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  you care about my story I do I hundred percent okay like am I boring you or
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  something without I was making sure all the technology was working and it was
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  You need to just relax. Everything's fine.
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  I think so.
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  And so I didn't go anywhere at all.
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  And last night I had some black beans and rice and plantains and some chicken.
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  I like not going anywhere. My wife hates not going anywhere. She hates it.
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  If we spend a weekend where we go nowhere, it drives her crazy.
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  And I would be so happy if it ever happened.
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  No, I've got to keep moving. I've got spookies.
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  You know what spookies is?
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  I do not know what spookies is.
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  Really and you're from the north bookies is a Yiddish word. Okay, I'm not Yiddish and spookies means
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  Anson your pants. Oh
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  I have a very hard time just sitting still. Yeah. No, I like to move around. No, I love I love laying around
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  All right. Let's talk about the big investigative piece that you did over the weekend
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  Although I think it might have broken Friday and the reaction to it because the reaction is pretty cool
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  And I'll just say this because you're gonna know everything about it
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  What I love about Dolcefino & Fino Consulting and all the different videos, and this is
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  kissing up to the guy doing it, but I promise it's genuine. I promise it's true. What I love about it
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  is how obvious it is that you're a professional investigator because there's so much right now,
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  so many people who are doing a good job of showing up in the right place, asking the right question,
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  exposing the truth, but they're just not presenting it in a way that's also entertaining.
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  Like there's a lot of people who do it, but in order to have me pay attention for 10 minutes
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  I have to ignore the fact that it's just not really done well and your stuff is both
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  You're asking the right questions in the right place with a fearless attitude and you also create it great
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  So like the whole coverage of it was so interesting
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  But that dude who got in trouble and then yelled at you on his front yard
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  Yeah, you know, so so we're talking about Eugene Howard
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  who is running for a Bizoria County judge.
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  And, you know, I read a little bit about him.
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  I didn't know he was.
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  And I read that he had been given a medal of freedom
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  by President Biden, right?
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  So I'm thinking, well, this kind of must be, you know,
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  must be, you know, top notch guy, whatever.
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  And I started researching him.
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  And we discovered that he had two jobs,
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  one at HISD and one at Fort Bend ISD.
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  But on his LinkedIn page, you don't see them.
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  And the reason you don't see them is because it didn't go so well.
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  First he abandoned his job helping special needs children at HISD.
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  And then he goes to Fort Bend ISD.
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  He doesn't show up for six months.
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  Then he goes to Fort Bend ISD and apparently decided to show his single-member district
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  to a woman who worked at the school district, then sent her pictures and videos.
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  I'm going like, so he can never, he has permanently surrendered his educator license.
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  Well, and let me ask you, let me ask you real quick.
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  Are you always mystified as a investigative journalist when people do the photo version?
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  Because like the, I showed my whatever to somebody thing is a he said, she said.
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  So at least the bad guy has a chance that he can try to convince people he didn't do
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  it, but the photo version, there's no denying that.
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  That's a proof thing.
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  Are you surprised that happens or no?
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  No, you know what?
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  I'm not surprised by much anymore because people, look, people in their personal lives
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  do incredibly stupid things.
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  I've done my share, right?
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  And I generally took the attitude when I was working in TV that as long as their personal
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  stuff didn't interfere with their professional stuff, like if some council member wants to
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  home and wear like high heels and run around a dress. I mean, whatever. I have a good time.
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  You know, I don't care. But like, and I don't mind politicians who drink. I just don't like
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  them to be drunk at city council meetings, right? I mean, that's kind of the wing barometer
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  on this stuff. But this guy, look, we set out to interview all three candidates for
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  Missouri County judge. And the great thing is you would think when you're
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  running for office, which is a job interview, right? It's a job interview
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  that you would love any opportunity to talk to anyone about anything. If you're
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  an authentic politician and you actually believe the BS you spout, then you'll
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  talk to anyone. I will literally I get calls from people that in the media that I know
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  hate me. Right. They hate me. Yeah. And they want to interview with me. And a lot of times,
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  you know, people will just not call those people back. I always call those people back.
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  The Galveston Daily News, which is a left wing that I call it the Galveston Democratic
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  news. They had me on their front page every once in a while and talk about how controversial I am.
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  And I'm, are you still messing around with this technology? No way. Definitely not doing that.
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  Stop touching things. They said how controversial you are, sir. I'm listening to you. Please continue.
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  That's good. Good catch. Controversial. And I love being interviewed by the Galps and New Year's
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  Because I really, I'm not afraid of anything I say, and I think it really helps.
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  I like publicity.
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  Yeah, of course you do.
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  You know, when the Chronicle was going to do a story I made months ago, everyone in
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  my office was going, man, I think it's going to be a hit job on you, man, you know, that
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  left wing newspaper, and ain't going to like you.
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  Now, the article actually wasn't that bad.
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  It really wasn't.
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  Well, I don't know how, I actually, I'll say this one last thing after watching a whole
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  lot more of what you've been putting up on social media. I spent the weekend
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  watching a lot of Dolcefino & Fino reporting. No, I'm just curious because I'm not
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  actually from here originally so for me it's it's different than a lot of other
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  people that you know grew up watching you and I'll say that I don't know how
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  people hate you and that also seems like I'm kissing up to you but I think
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  you tell the whole story and my favorite part of the reporting that we started
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  this conversation talking about is when the guy in the lawn yelled at you that
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  one of the other people he's running against is the person that was the catalyst to the
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  investigation.
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  The biggest shot against you all the time is who's paying Wayne.
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  And you're like, not only did that guy not pay me, he's not at all involved in this and
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  I'll crap on him too.
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  And he crapped on some of the stuff he's done.
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  So like, I think it's hard to accuse you of being partisan in your reporting when you
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  see that.
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  Well, and look, we are asked to look at various things, right?
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  And that's exactly what we do.
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  And it's either there or it ain't there.
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  Like once I know that someone running for county judge has permanently lost their teaching
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  license because they couldn't keep their PP out, I'm going, dude, you're done.
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  I'm sorry.
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  I don't really, I wasn't going to, I wouldn't have voted for the guy anyway.
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  He's a Democrat, but that's beyond the pale.
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  And then you have Kevin Henry, wife Lucinda Henry, who's running as an independent, because
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  She couldn't win as a Republican, so she's running as a defendant.
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  Kevin Henry does a blog there, and I actually have come to his defense when I thought he
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  was being unfairly vetted.
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  But he's running an investigative media site, and virtually every story he's putting out
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  is how great his wife is and how weasily the other people are.
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  Look, I get it.
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  I mean, I deal sometimes with ethical conflicts.
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  I'm investigating the Fort Bend District Attorney's office right now.
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  I haven't done a story yet, so it's breaking news.
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  but we are
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  We are not only following up the fake hate investigation that sort of took off in Fort
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  Big County where they were basically creating fake profiles and making Republicans all seem
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  like they're a bunch of crazy racists.
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  But there's also the election, Brian Middleton's up for reelection and he's one of the five
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  Soros DAs in the state.
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  So there's some soft on crime issues there.
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  But I reached out to him and he doesn't want to talk to me either.
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  Look, I always offer people a chance to sit down like a grown-up and answer questions.
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  I don't give them questions in advance because when you do that, people start coming up with stupid answers that then require you to ask the question another way.
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  Sure.
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  And you go down this into the woods, right?
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  And by the time you finish, you don't even know what the hell the question was anymore.
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  So, and I have, and I will say this, the Brian Milton thing for me is a little person.
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  I will say that, a little person.
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  Because years ago when I was arrested for contempt by Judge Darrell Jordan, the grand
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  jury indicted the judge for official oppression.
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  It was an investigation done by the Fort Bend District Attorney's Office.
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  And he got an indictment against a judge for what he did to me and
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  Brian Middleton threw it out. Now. I always thought it was a political favor. I was on Rodney Ellis's fingerprints were in there somewhere
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  right and so I'm not a fan of Brian Middleton and
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  And when I do these stories over the next few days, I'm gonna have to I'm gonna tell people that look not a fan
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  Right. I have a lot of friends again who are fans
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  What's what's amazing man is and I'll say and I know we were up against another break
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  so I got to take a break in a second here, but I'll say this.
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  What's incredible to me is that you're the antithesis
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  of a typical YouTuber.
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  You got called like some guy trying to make it on YouTube.
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  And some of the things you do are the exact opposite
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  of what all the YouTube kids do.
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  Like you are more transparent about your own motivations.
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  And I think there's some of that missing.
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  There's some sort of well-trained reporter instinct
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  and journalistic credibility that's just missing.
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  Because I gravitate toward, I guess the reason I'm saying this is I gravitate toward independent journalists because I believe they're more likely to give me the actual truth.
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  And I believe that a lot of mainstream media is now inherently biased and intentionally vague in certain ways to control me.
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  But I just, I miss the quality of the content that did come from legacy media that you seem to be capable of doing on your own.
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  Yeah, the only problem is how you pay for it, right?
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  It's very expensive, especially in these public corruption investigations.
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  It's very expensive, and sometimes you begin over here, and then you end up over here,
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  and you're investigating X, and all of a sudden you discover Y.
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  You do your first video, and then people start coming out of the woodwork.
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  Anyone that's ever hated you in your life will come out and go, you think that's bad?
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  years. So, Collin A's did when he was working in WGN in Chicago. So, the social media tends
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  to feed on itself. I really wish the media would spend more time uncovering local politics.
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  They just don't.
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  Amen. They don't. All right. We got to take a break. You can hear the music. I can hear
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  So much stuff out there to talk about.
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  I really like Angela Paxton.
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  I really do.
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  I think she's really sharp.
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  And I just thought it was the most tortured thing
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  I've ever seen and I don't know how it helps.
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  Yeah, I don't know.
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  I just don't, I-
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  281-558-5738 is the phone number, 281-558-5738.
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  Did you see the Angela Paxton ad?
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  What do you think of it?
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  And the best question Wayne asked, does it help?
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  Which it doesn't. I think the answer is it doesn't.
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  It was almost like, you know, it was like read through the thing like, I hate him for what he did to me.
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  But hey, sometimes you still got to vote for the team. We want the whole team to win.
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  Yes. Right. Look, this team thing for me and look, I am very conservative about a lot of things. Right.
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  I believe there's some great stories to tell about crime coming down, about
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  fentanyl deaths
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  being obliterated, right? About a
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  president that is tough. I just think and I actually would still lean into
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  immigration. I watched an interview on the
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  Sunday Night in America, the Trey Gowdy Show, and he had the
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  parents of that freshman that was killed by the criminal legal guy and it was
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  such a tearjerker last night about these sanctuary cities who are protecting
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  criminals. Why we ever allowed that narrative, we get was so scared about
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  what happened on a couple of really screwed up occasions, right? Yeah. And I
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  I didn't like the whole, you know,
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  Kristi Noem wearing a flak jacket and, you know,
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  whatever, that's all like show stuff.
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  But a lot of really bad people are gone
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  and it's one of the reasons why crime is down.
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  And I don't know why we are afraid of that.
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  It's almost like when you think you're losing,
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  you don't wanna do anything to own who you are.
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  And I think that's part of our messaging problem is that we need to own
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  Who we are.
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  I think what might motivate more people is what is the right actually, which is one of
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  the questions I think you asked one of the first days we started this show is who are
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  we, what are we supposed to be and what are we supposed to be doing if we get back into
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  office?
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  And I think that's the part that maybe more and more people are looking for and don't
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  think they're hearing enough and all this.
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  Part of that is the go and home thing is like I would have been voting things every day
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  Yeah.
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  Out of, to say, this is what we want to do.
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  Sure.
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  They're stopping us.
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  And I would have started a year ago on the positive economic things.
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  Yeah.
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  There's some really good things going on.
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  There's some manufacturing numbers that look really promising.
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  People are still spending money.
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  They maybe go into debt.
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  But if you look at like the wages are up 3% and inflation is up 3.4%.
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  Really, the end of the earth, that maybe 0.4% of our money we have to spend that we didn't
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  have to spend before.
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  I mean, are people literally jumping out of buildings?
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  I mean, the media has gotten to the point where they...
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  And I say this as someone who duly loves the media, that they just...
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  It's like the end of the earth, right?
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  Yeah, can I can I say that differently and see if you agree with it?
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  You said you dearly loved the media
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  What you mean is you dearly love what you think the media should be you don't love what it currently is, right?
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  Oh, no, it's discussed
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  You loved what it what it should be and what it could be and what you know
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  It's been in the past and it could be again if they put the right people in positions because I also love
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  That I'd like the Tom Brokaw idea of people who actually gave us news and from Walter Cronkite
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  that provided it in a way that just doesn't exist anymore on legacy places.
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  Yeah, I gotta tell you, I don't remember discussions at Channel 13 about the political ramifications
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  that whether or not we want to help one candidate over another. We were just terrorists. We'll
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  election, we'd investigate everything.
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  I do believe that the tax argument is probably the best argument the Republicans have.
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  I think Greg Abbott has it against Hina Housa, who wants to have a state income tax.
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  I still think even though Texas is changing that when you tell Texans that this lady wants
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  a state income tax, I don't think you have to tell them anything else.
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  Right?
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  I agree.
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  And I don't see us laying in.
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  I mean, it's tran- and you know how I feel about this transgender stuff.
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  I know.
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  I totally, I agree with Talarico.
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  These are genetic abnormalities, no special deals for anybody.
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  You know, you go to the right, the bathroom you were assigned at birth.
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  If you don't like it, then build your own bathroom.
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  Whatever.
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  But I just think, all I hear, I hear the word radical, I hear communist, I hear, and I agree that some of them are.
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  Yeah, that's the thing I was going to say is the funny thing is that some of that is more true now than it's ever been before.
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  Because we might have been crying wolf years ago and claiming that they're all that side, but they're absolutely doing that thing again now.
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  Yeah, I look I just we got a month left. I think there's time to still get this thing
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  nailed shut. I think there's still time for Paxton to win. Yeah, she'll wish you was a
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  better candidate. I don't mean ethically. I mean, just even communicating wise. Yeah.
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  Just not that guy. I agree with you. All right. We got to take a break. Wayne's got to get
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  a tooth pulled out of him and I got to stop messing with all the technology that he was
• 24:25
  in the studio. I really enjoyed the three minutes we have where we could actually see
• 24:29
  the country. I'm glad I got a break. If you do this tomorrow, it'll work the whole time.
• 24:35
  That's the benefit of going through the crappy stuff for one day. A quick break, a lot more
• 24:39
  the voice of Texas.