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Late Night TV and Equal Time, Rubio on Anonymous Sources, and Harris County's Budget Climb · KSEV Mornings with Craig and Wayne

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Nice calming music.
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That's me.
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Not here today. He was.
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This is the Mob Guys on KSEV radio.
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I am contemplating bringing in like a giant lock box that I put on this board that I have in this studio for the entire
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Week and then take it off on Friday when the amigos get here so that nothing can be touched on this boy
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That'd be very mob guy asked to go the extra
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Maybe I have two Italians Jack that stand outside the studio
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Two family members of mine that ask everybody if they're supposed to be in here before they come in here
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Maybe I told you a couple of guys named Corley owners. Yeah, they're waiting for it when I got here
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You're like there's a couple Corley owns out there
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I'm sure you'll make it to the hour. I'm sure they're my cousins
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I'm sure they got to talk to me about some business. I asked him to take care of just taking care of the family
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Right, exactly.
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No, but I think I should get a couple of Talians to stand outside this door moving forward.
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But we fixed it.
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Jack and I got everything done.
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We got a lot of stuff to play for you here in the second hour of the show.
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I want to start, I was going to play this last and actually I'm going to play it first
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because I do think it's probably the most interesting.
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I continue to praise Scott Jennings on CNN because his gig's not easy.
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He shows up every day, gets yelled at by everybody else and Abby Phillips show or somebody
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else's show and he just keeps going.
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He just keeps doing it.
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But they were talking about the FCC equal time requirements.
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Interesting that that topic came up yesterday.
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The president has lashed out recently, even at Fox for some of the people that
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they've been interviewing and some of the people have chosen not to.
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And I'll explain this real quick before I hit play on any audio.
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And then we get into the weeds on why I think this is an important
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topic still to talk about.
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You might remember, I think a lot of people probably do remember in 2006
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when Jay Leno got potentially in trouble.
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There was a thought that maybe get trouble for interviewing Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Schwarzenegger was running for reelection and the FCC at the time in in 06 decided that was a bona fide
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News interview because certainly late night television, but a lot of other things our legacy television cable all of it
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They had more ability to convince many of us that they weren't one-sided that they weren't so overwhelmingly
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In a corner of the political world a Jay Leno is not someone that I think
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overwhelmingly was thought of as Republican or Democrat. I think people think he's a Republican,
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but I don't think they thought he was, you know, infusing that type of ideology in his late night
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show. Certainly, Johnny Carson and anyone before that wasn't doing this, but now it's constant.
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And so the difference with the FCC, the Communications Act of 1934, or the FCC rules in
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general, is that if it's not bona fide news, if it's partisan, if it's one-sided discussion,
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then you do have to have equal time.
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You do have to put the other side on,
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which is something we have to follow
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because we play by a certain playbook
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where I'm allowed to give my opinion
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and my opinion often lands on a certain side.
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Every time I interview someone that's in a political race,
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we put it out there in a public file
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and that tells all of the other candidates
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running against that person,
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they can jump on the show.
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They don't wanna come on the show with Wayne and I
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for reasons you can probably figure out,
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but they have every ability to do it.
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They can't control what questions I ask them. They can't control how the discussion goes and how much I challenge them
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But they can come on they get their 10 15 minutes
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Whatever the other person got at relatively the same time like all of that stays the same
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And so I think what's really interesting about this and really appropriate about it and most Americans actually wouldn't argue
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If this you know discussion was presented this way
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These these late night shows are obviously one-sided now
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I mean Colbert was the worst of them and thank God that thing's over but Jimmy Kimmel is basically the same thing
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constant Trump bashing
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constant praise of Democrats a one-sided political opinion those
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Individuals who do shows like that have to be willing to book the other side
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And when they say that they're putting things up on the internet when the Talarico interview
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Which is done on purpose winds up on YouTube instead of another place what they're actually saying out loud
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The Kimmels and the Colbert's of the world before him is that they refused to interview the Republican they refused to interview Paxton
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They don't want him on their show
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Which is amazing to me because it furthers the argument that they're one-sided which we all know they are but here let's let
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Scott Jennings object to some of this discussion on CNN
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FCC people with FCC license and there's a difference between like ABC and a cable channel number one
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I think the Talarico thing frankly was a total setup
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They did that knowing they wanted to put it on the internet and then claim they were being silenced or banned.
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No one is silencing Jimmy Kimmel. He's literally free to do whatever he wants and he often does whatever he wants.
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Your shows, The Viewed is able to do whatever it wants. Nobody is doing anything to anyone.
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Democrats, liberals, they get plenty of access to the airwaves. The comedians get to make all the jokes they want to make.
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Yeah, they do. Conservatives, by the way, are very critical of this.
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the president banning certain outlets from access to the White House and certain pool reporting, Air Force One, etc.
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Is that another thing that's happening?
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We have a national Trump TV that pools for the press now when the press aren't there?
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I don't think we should ban people from the pool. I put the time. I thought that lumping CNN and Politico in with MS now or whatever was not appropriate
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because I consider those two things to be different kinds of entities. But no, I don't think we ought to ban media.
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I don't think we have.
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I don't think we ought to ban media either.
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Like, I don't think so.
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But what's funny about the thing that Jennings is saying for the first 45 seconds of this
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one-minute piece of audio, they don't actually want to argue that.
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They want to do the change to shift to the other conversation where they're like, yeah,
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but CNN's not allowed in anymore.
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They can't go to places they used to go before, and that's the real problem.
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Let's just acknowledge the world we live in.
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Let's acknowledge the type of media we have, which I think Trump was really good at pointing
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out.
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I don't think people were as convinced of it, even if we thought it was maybe a reality,
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but as convinced to how overwhelmingly one-sided it was until Trump started complaining about
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it in 2016, or even before that, before winning that election.
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We are at a point where if you watch the late-night news programs and you can tell
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how ridiculously one-sided and biased they are, you immediately should agree that, yeah,
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they probably need to do at least equal time.
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They at least need to, and especially at this point when it's no longer like a primary,
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because I think one of the objections, if I remember correctly, that Colbert specifically
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made was that they didn't want to interview all the fringe candidates.
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It wasn't that they just wanted to interview, you know, Talarico, and they didn't want
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to put Jasmine Crockett on, but there were too many fringe candidates.
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Now that doesn't exist.
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During the actual race, after the primaries are over,
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there's really only one other person
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that you have to talk to in order to comply
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with equal time and they wouldn't do it.
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I want to play a couple pieces of audio from Scott Besant.
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He, to me, is someone that does a really, really great job,
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the Treasury Secretary, of saying honest things
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and sometimes saying them sort of unapologetically,
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which I think is great.
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We can start with him roasting Elizabeth Warren.
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I thought that was amazing.
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And then we'll play audio of Scott Besant
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trying to tell young people that capitalism is actually much better than that other thing
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that you're advocating for, that thing that would be much worse for you very quickly.
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I'll call that communism.
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They like to call it democratic socialism, but here we go.
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We've only got four years, Laura.
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If the Democrats win, what happens to the Trump agenda?
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It's over.
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In November?
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Dead.
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Or in 28?
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In the next two years.
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Look, there's plenty we can still do on the regulatory side.
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They will try to inhibit everything we do.
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I think, I can't remember, I've got like 141 inane letters from Elizabeth Warren.
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Some of them shows, like she doesn't even know foreign exchange.
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She sent another one on the bond market, so we had foreign exchange for dummies.
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Now we're going to have bond market for dummies for her and her staff.
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Oh, it's so great.
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Well, I- Hold on, that is good right there.
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I love, she's like, she's sending us letters, just annoying us, and we got to explain some
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things to her, and then Elizabeth Warren will hopefully go away because the thing
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she's saying make absolutely no sense.
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And that's honestly part of what it is.
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They just disrupt whenever they can.
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They don't even really care if they get information they need.
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They're the most annoying kid in the classroom who doesn't want to be in the classroom.
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I hear he is talking about Scott Bessin about capitalism and how much better it is than
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communism.
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But people have got to understand that a capitalist system benefits them ultimately.
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A lot of great people are doing really well.
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A lot of rich people are doing really well.
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So how do you convince those young people that capitalism works for them, not just the
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AI crowd?
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But look, Laura, that the median wages are up about 3.7% as of August for the year.
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Headline inflation's 3.5.
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Bottom quintile wages are up about 4.5, 4.7.
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And look, that's not our goal.
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Our goal is to get inflation back to target.
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This is a price shock.
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We're going to get to the other side of this.
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But the important thing to remember is we've had a million private sector jobs, and those
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are going to Americans.
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So...
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That's a big point that has to be made.
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You're getting the jobs, not foreigners.
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You're getting the jobs.
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The other thing, too, is we're down 300,000 government jobs.
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And government jobs, you can't outperform inflation because they're indexed to inflation.
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We're seeing a manufacturing boom.
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I said it last year.
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Last year, we're setting the table.
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This year's the banquet.
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And we are seeing...
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I like the banquet.
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construction jobs that are turning into manufacturing jobs. We're seeing fixed asset investment.
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I like all you can eat buffets, to be honest. I know that's not what they're talking about,
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but I thought of it when he said banquet. I'm a fan of that. My wife thinks that it just makes
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me fatter as a person. When I get to the actual topic itself, what Scott Besson is talking about
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in the world of the benefit of kind of aggressively forcing manufacturing back into
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this country, and we are seeing it and we're going to see a whole bunch more of it,
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and we don't want it to stop, whether it was the threat of tariffs, the reality of tariffs,
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the fight about tariffs, whatever you want it to be, or just the thing that's dawning
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on I think a lot of business leaders in this country, we need to protect ourselves from
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places like China turning off a faucet that we need to be running all the time.
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Because truthfully, that's really what happened, I think, in the world of not just how Iran
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is trying to fight the Iran war with us by trying to turn off the oil faucet throughout
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the world.
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But this is the same discussion about AI, about anything else, about what other people
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will use, powers will use with said technology, with said capabilities, and how far they'll
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go to harm us.
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And so we need to put this giant box that I'm joking about, or put the two Italians
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outside the front door like I'm joking about, to protect the equipment inside the studio
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so we have no technical issues in the morning at the beginning of every show.
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The same is true with our country.
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We need to get the Italians at the front of the entrance and get all the manufacturers
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back inside so that we can make all the things here and we can make sure that no one can
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control us by turning off a capability.
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And actually I'll say one last thing and then I know we're late for a break so we should
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take one.
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But the last thing I'll say, a lot of this debate about AI and China and the US, which
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you've probably heard, and how we can't slow down because if we slow down they'll speed
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up.
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One of the things in our are one of the advantages we have is that technology some of those chips some of that data and the
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Way in which it's executed not just the data centers, but the way in which it's it's utilized
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We actually have a monopoly on it and we've refused to
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Outsource as much of it to China as they want and that's good and I'm glad that we're doing that
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We don't want the same thing to be something they're capable of doing to us with semiconductors or anything else and they are and so
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So part of the reason even dealing with, say, Venezuela and other countries, the way that
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we have, is to reopen doors that China has sort of tried to close on us through relationships
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that surround us.
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And Iran is a big one of those.
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Iran is a very closely tied to China country that we want that tie to sever.
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We want that to break because we want to be in the driver's seat.
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We don't want anyone else trying to drive our car.
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All right, we'll take a quick break.
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We'll get to a lot of other things.
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I do have audio that I think is really interesting about Minnesota.
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There were a lot of people who showed up at a city council meeting furious after a gang shooting happened,
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at a high school football game there, the latest in a version of these crazy things
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that seem to all be tied to the Somali community in Minnesota are impacting everybody else that lives there,
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and this wound up getting national news.
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So talk about that and more in just a bit.
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This is KSEV 700 a.m. The Voice of Texas.
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KSEV 700 a.m. The Voice of Texas.
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Thrilled to be with you. A lot of stuff out there to talk about.
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Marco Rubio unleashed on people.
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I love, you know what's really funny to me, actually I should say this first, I enjoy quite a bit the way that people describe these things.
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Because if you read the description and like all the capital letters that usually go with some of these posts on social media,
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you would think that Rubio came in with like a sword and was cutting people up.
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And it's not that, like he's just saying things honest out loud.
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Like we shouldn't actually consider this, my point is, we shouldn't consider that to be some overwhelming version of like he took no prisoners.
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Because this should really be the way that most of our politicians speak.
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They should tell us the truth in an unguarded way and refute things that are ridiculous,
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that are said to them.
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We shouldn't consider this to be like, wow, he really turned off that thing that we expect
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normally, which is someone to say fake crap and to control themselves as much as possible.
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He really actually gave us an honest opinion.
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Everyone should do this.
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And the fact that so many politicians don't is why we like it when we hear somebody do
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Here we go
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Guys I'm not playing this game with you
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Okay, you guys write a story and then your editors tell you make sure you get a comment from him on something
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We haven't seen
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Are not gonna be our only source of information in the world
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I'm sorry to tell you that do it and so I want you to understand no
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That's not the way the process is gonna work
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Well, first of all, the process doesn't work like this
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We don't conduct these things in a press conference on a tarmac in a foreign country
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Because you wrote a story or somebody else wrote a story because some source gave it to you
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So get that out of your head, because that's never the way it's going to work with me.
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It's a game that's been played for a long time, but it's not a game we're going to play.
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We're conducting serious business here, and we'll handle things appropriately.
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I don't even know what your reporting is true.
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You guys somehow walk around thinking that because some source told you something,
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and you reported it. It's the gospel. It's not the gospel. It's not the gospel for me.
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That's not the way we do it.
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You know what's so amazing too about the way that Rubio attacks that, some sort of,
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you know, one-sided version of a question that's designed to get a very specific
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answer from him that they can then distort as much as they want. When you
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talk about these sources inside government, you pretend like government
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isn't obviously biased for certain reasons. Like let's let's change the the
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scenario and help everybody understand it that doesn't and I doubt a lot of
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the listeners to this station need this kind of a thing but I'm just gonna put
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it out there for anyone that doesn't get it. Let's say that you work in an
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environment where like a bunch of people hate you. Like let's say that's
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thing.
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And then instead of going to you, if something goes crazy, they go to all the people that
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hate you.
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They're like, hey, what happened over here?
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The people that hate you are going to say a terrible thing happened because they hate
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you.
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And most of the media hates, and I use that word intentionally, hates Trump, hates Rubio,
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hates the Republican Party, a lot of people who actually represent it and aren't rhinos,
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they hate them.
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And so instead of trying to tell the truth in a daily basis or instead of going to the
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have the information and asking an open-ended question to that person to be like, hey, what's
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going on here?
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Why are you traveling throughout Europe?
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What is the intention of this trip in this place?
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They ask a very specific question and they quote an anonymous source that is motivated
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to harm them because again, a lot of people in the bureaucracy that is government hate
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the Republican Party too.
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A lot of those lifelong political job people that work in D.C. that have never been elected to anything,
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that have been appointed or hired and then work there, they see it.
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This is a very easy thing, I think, for people to understand.
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And I've said this a lot to people on the left who seem to not want to get it.
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They see it as harming their own job to support a Republican.
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Like, they want the Democrats to funnel money into government because they work there.
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I get my check from the organization that wants to steal more money from Americans.
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I start to be on board with the idea that we should all steal it together.
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We see that all the time.
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We should absolutely not allow people to be career politicians in roles that they aren't
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elected to.
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That should be the first thing.
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None of those people should get to stay in their gig.
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Anthony Fauci is a great example of this, and Trump should have fired him the first
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time, although I think for certain reasons that President Trump has said he didn't do
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it.
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And then he wasn't really in office when Fauci most deserved, I think, to be fired.
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Then Fauci quit, terrified that he was definitely going to get fired when Trump got
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back into office. And also the other things that we found out that seem to indicate that
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Fauci was hiding a lot of the lying he was doing.
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But he's a great example, because at some point somewhere down the line, he might have
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been more effective at just doing a job than being corrupted by politics.
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I'm not saying that's true.
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I know he was appointed by a Republican and I know how we feel about that Republican
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and now, but nonetheless, like, I think that there's, there's this trajectory.
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I see it all the time.
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I feel like I've talked about this on the show before because I've seen it with AOC.
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AOC was a, a brainwashed lunatic.
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And I know whenever I bring up AOC, by the way, Jack is a fan.
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So we might have talked about that.
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I'm not sure.
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But every, every time I saw AOC early on, when she was first running for an
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office in New York and people didn't really expect she'd have a shot to win.
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She was a very typical young, I think naive person whose ideas were terrible, but they weren't really driven in this way that felt like she had been corrupted because the system probably didn't care about her yet.
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The Democratic Party and all of its tentacles wouldn't care about some bartender in New York when that's all she was.
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When she became more, when she got elected, when she showed that she was likely to probably keep getting elected to positions of power, when that was not going to go away anytime soon, the tentacles got in there.
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And then the different version of the same corrupt person started to come out.
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And I think that it's a more developed, horrible thing, and I think we see it constantly.
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I mean, she's becoming, and probably will become if she keeps her job for a long time and doesn't run for a bigger one, which I think unfortunately she might try to.
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Although I should say fortunately,
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because AOC feels very beatable on a national stage,
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but then Talarico feels very beatable on a Texas stage,
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and we're not totally sure that that's happening.
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But nonetheless, what I mean by that is,
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is if she wanted to,
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she's probably the next Nancy Pelosi.
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She could have a career where she's in politics,
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in a position of power, in Congress,
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for as long as she wants to be there.
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I wind up being in charge at some point of her party
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within that position as the Speaker of the House.
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Like, those are all the rabbit holes
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she could easily already go because of how much the tentacles are in her and how much it seems that the entire thing is just built this way.
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I think that her ego is going to get the better of her. She's going to be too hungry and she's going to want more.
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But I think that we definitively know and we're hearing Rubio rip apart this version of a thing where people are just on somebody's cell phone.
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I know that Joe Pags has talked about this a lot.
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You have reporters who have like six names in their phone
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To people that technically work in government who are just gonna be quote machines and you call them you say is this happening?
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And they don't even have to know what you're talking about
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They're like yes, I can confirm off the record that's happening
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Whatever you said and they do that how they do that just to cover their bases. I see Mike is called in from Tom ball
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I don't know if he was listening to the death wobble hour of the show, but I'm glad that he's listening now Mike
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How you doing? How are you? Good morning? Good. Good. My god. You always have a good show. Thank you, buddy
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What do you want to say?
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I don't always agree with everybody, but I always enjoy the show.
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Awesome.
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The other thing I think when you were talking a little bit earlier about the economy and
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things like that, but one thing that's missing, and nobody, Republican nor Democrat, nor the
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President is talking about right now is the debt and the national deficit.
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We've got a $40-plus trillion debt.
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debt. It's going to be $45 trillion by the Trump gets out of office. He's not proposed
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any cut to spending growth, not just spending spending growth in the last budget. We're
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spending $2 trillion a year in debt. This economy is growing because of the debt. That's
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what people miss. It's not, it's because all this economy is debt driven because we're
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on Monday, money like a drunken fiddler and spent it.
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And if this don't ... I'm not going to disagree with that, Mike.
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We're going to be a third world country real soon.
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And let me say one other thing.
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The president ... I want to say, wait, I want you to be able
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to say your last thing, but I want to say this in response to what you said, that Trump
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didn't do anything.
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The big beautiful bill cut $1.4 trillion in government spending.
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So it ... It's not enough.
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It's not enough, but it's a different thing than saying nothing and the 1.4 trillion
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I think was over 10 years so it's not even like right away because you know for several reasons that wouldn't happen
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But nonetheless like I it's not true to say that I know that you and I and I agree with you on this
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Feel that it's not enough
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But there is an attempt that doesn't happen when the other teams in charge to do any of the pulling back
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So the big beautiful bill did try to pull back a lot of that and one of the reasons actually here in Harris County
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that our politicians are claiming they had to raise our property taxes, which they obviously didn't have to do, was because of the lack of money
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they're now getting from the federal government because of the big beautiful bill. But please, continue. What else did you want to say?
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Well, when you propose an increase to defense by 500 billion dollars,
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and I don't I disagree with that amount, do we need to increase the spending?
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spending? Yeah, probably more like 150 to 200 billion, not 500 billion. I think that's astronomical.
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I don't think Congress is going to approve it. But regardless, yes, they did cut spending
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in the latter years. But there's not year to year. In the last two years, and in 2016,
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there was no net reduction in spending. It was always increased, period. And that's
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fact. You can look it up. Federal spending has not gone down $1 year to year. Neither
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in Biden nor over the president. If I have any critique of the president, it's that because
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you know you can propose the spending cuts in the future and they never happen.
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I've watched Republican and Democrat and we're mortgaging our kids' future. That's the bottom line.
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Here's the thing I want to point out because sometimes some of this data takes a little
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bit longer for us to get to the point where we want to actually discuss it compared to
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you know like when you say this year and last year I think there's a more reliable breakdown
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by the US Treasury Department when it comes to a few years ago.
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I just want to read some things for you.
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2017 total spending budget for the federal government $3.98 trillion.
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That's too high.
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That's too much.
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2018 these are all years the Trump's in office.
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$4.11 trillion, 2019, $4.41 trillion.
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The first year that a Democrat takes hold of office, 2021, $6.55 trillion.
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It's not just COVID spending too, by the way.
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That jumps astronomically when Democrats get into power.
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So part of what I think, and you're right in saying this, like $3.98 trillion, $4.11
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one that's up, that's not going down. The version of up versus down seems significantly
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important when a certain side is in power. I agree with you that our side should do more
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of what they promise to do and actually prevent us from continuing to waste our tax dollars,
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steal more of them. I agree with you on all that, Mike, but I do again keep going back
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to if I have to pick a poison, and I feel like you'll agree with this, I have to
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to keep picking the poison that at least isn't recklessly adding to the already reckless
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decisions.
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I agree with you on that point.
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You're right about that.
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We've been less than the Democrats.
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I call it Democrat light.
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You want it all Republican light, whatever you want to call it.
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But it's still up.
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And I've got a teenage boy and I look at the amount of debt the US is going to have
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in 10 years and what that means.
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I mean, we're looking at $50 trillion in debt, which we'll never, let's be honest, we'll
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never pay back that debt.
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We just don't have it.
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What are they going to do?
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The hope, the only one in the administration that talked about this is the Secretary of
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Treasury with the 333 plan, 3%.
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That plan actually would work if they would implement it.
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Congress should pass it while they're there, increase oil production by 3 trillion, 3 million
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barrels a year and hold the deficits to 3% of GDP and things along that nature.
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He's proposed that, and that would actually bring the deficit down to around half a trillion
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dollars, way too much, but at least if we cut it and have an annualized growth to 3%.
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But all this growth is debt driven right now.
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You know every bit, every bit.
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It's just facts don't add up.
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I'm a con...
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No, it's fine.
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I actually, I really appreciate the call, Mike.
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Thank you for calling in.
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I wonder, the last thing I'll say, and I don't need your reaction to it, but if you
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want, you can throw it out there, I guess somehow.
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You can always comment on social media to us too.
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I wonder if someone did come in and actually turned that thing around, like actually did,
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because it'd be incredibly hard.
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You'd need a whole bunch of power in a whole bunch of places.
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You don't just need someone in a position of power, say, at the White House.
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You need an overwhelming amount of power in Congress and in the Senate to get that type
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of thing done where you're really pulling back on all the people even owe favors to
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other people.
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Because you don't realize the amount of times that the Rhino Republicans, Mike probably
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does, but maybe other people don't, realize the amount of times that Rhino Republicans
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are part of the thing preventing actual Republicans from doing the job they want because they
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owe money or a favor to somebody who gave them a thing. So they vote against truly pulling back
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the government spending and all the ways it's wasted and essentially just fraud is going on
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in our company, in our country. Those things occur very much because there's too much corruption
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in government. So you'd have to put so many people in. And I think a good example for this
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actually is the FBI. And I've listened to Bonjino a lot and what he said and what
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better as far as that organization goes, but they took a bunch of people and just fired
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them from jobs or like pushed them on their way out because that agency, like any other
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agency in DC, is so overwhelmingly corrupt with biased political people that do horrible
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political things.
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But I do wonder what I meant to say, that the completion of my thought for Mike is
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if somebody really came in and wound up with the capability through our system to
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get it done to start turning the government spending the other way, where you're seeing
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$6 trillion turn into $5 trillion into $4 trillion.
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I wonder if that person would get overwhelming support from the United States of America,
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from all of the people.
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The Democrats would shape it the way they're shaping it here, that they're cutting off
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funding to daycare, and they'll have a kid with a little single tear standing on a television
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somewhere being like, I can't be cared for anymore, which is ridiculous and emotional
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and completely illogical as to how one leads to the other.
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But that's what they do.
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They're doing it now, even as federal spending did go up, but ever so slightly.
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I think it went from like $6.9 trillion to $7 trillion or something, although those numbers
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will be revised, as I was saying, over the next couple of years.
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But even so, if it had not jumped up even more, I think the immediate argument is these
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are all these great programs.
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Alina El-Dago has done that at this level, even when she wasn't endorsing the ridiculousness
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of the property tax hike that happened here in Harris County,
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Lena was saying there's some programs we just need.
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Well, let's go through them.
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Let's go through them with a fine tooth comb
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and actually see if that's true program after program
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and the amount of money they're making
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and the amount of times now that we're seeing the reality
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of how this nonprofit over there with government money
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or this organization over here with government money
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is actually just trying to get Democrats elected
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by getting more people registered to vote
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in a really shady way,
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which we're seeing more and more of that too.
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All right, we'll take one more call and then we'll take a break.
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I see that Sharon has called in a regular caller.
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Sharon, what do you want to say?
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Hey, you and Mike talking about the debt?
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Yes.
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If Mike, people like Mike and me who are concerned about the debt would refocus, give
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it down on a local level, that's where we can help do some good.
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True.
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And that's why we need to get ... I heard that the Democrats, since they took over
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Harris County Court have hiked our property taxes 60% since 2018.
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That's when they took over.
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And you've touched on that.
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Well, the commissioner's proposed budget is $3.095 billion, the general budget fund here
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in Harris County.
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Continue.
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So, so if, if people expect that just because President Trump gets in the office, he can
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flip and switch and undo all the horrible things done by two terms of Obama.
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And then the third term of Obama, which was the Biden administration, they did horrible
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damage to our country.
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We can't just go in there, one man as president and in his cabinet and his team and flip
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the switch and make it all right again. It's going to take some time. And we are on the
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right road, so we need to get busy on the local level. And we need to get busy and get
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him a good Senator like Ken Paxton. Get him up there in the Senate and get people up there
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who can help President Trump's agenda, MAGA first. Make America first. MAGA. Make America
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great again. MAGA. That's what we need to hear. And also I want to hear more about
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The devastation that we went through under Biden nobody talks about that. Yeah. Well, thank you very much Sharon. I appreciate it
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They do talk about it
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Probably don't talk about it enough in certain places because they hate it then they don't want to discuss it
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I but I think it's interesting to couch this conversation and local and to talk about the budget here and and how much things have climbed
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The county budget stood at approximately 1.9 billion dollars when the Democratic majority initially took office
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following the 2018 election
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2019 budget baseline.
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This is just information that I'm pulling up
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to make sure it's accurate.
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I think a lot of this actually comes
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from the NPR affiliate here in town.
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The current budget is $3.1 billion.
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So 2019, 2026, that's not that long of a period of time.
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That's not even 10 years.
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1.9 billion becomes 3.1 billion.
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What happened is the question you ask.
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And somebody somewhere is gonna tell you
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other programs or the COVID or something like something happened.
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We had to do this.
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We had to find this avenue over here.
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And when you stop like listening and they eventually stop talking, you
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just repeat the same question again.
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You know what I feel like this is like, this could be a weird reference.
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I don't know if people know this movie as well as I know this movie, but I
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do like Goodwill Hunting and the movie with Robin Williams and Ben Affleck
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and Matt Damon, and there's a scene in Goodwill Hunting where the main
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character who dealt with a lot of trauma in his life just has to be told one thing over
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and over again.
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Like he has to keep hearing the same message again and again and again, and then eventually
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he breaks and he understands it.
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If you know the movie, you know the reference I'm talking about.
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If you don't, that was a good enough explanation.
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But I feel like that's what we need to do to Harris County politicians here about
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the budget specifically.
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1.9 billion in 2019, 3.1 billion now.
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So you just say over and over again, what happened?
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And they give you all these answers.
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They give you all this crap and then you just wait it out.
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And you're like, what happened?
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And then eventually, hopefully they weep, which won't happen, but this would be great.
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It'd be very similar to the movie.
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And then they tell you, we stole a bunch of it.
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We did a bunch of fraud.
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We did a bunch of spending that we shouldn't have done.
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And I'm just saying hypothetically that this could happen.
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We did a whole bunch of waste, fraud, and abuse, and we're not going to do it
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anymore.
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And then you hug them and you send them on their way and hopefully replace them with
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Republican because unfortunately they're all terrible and they're like they're not going
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to do this.
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But that's the movie.
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In the movie, you hug the character who finally accepts the idea that we know what's going
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on.
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We know the reality of the situation.
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We know what needs to happen moving forward and then they do it.
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That would be great.
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That's what I feel like we need.
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Maybe I'll make an AI video of Alina Hidalgo and some of the other people that make these
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horrible decisions, anybody other than Ramsey, and have them all getting hugged by someone
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who keep saying, what are you doing, what are you doing, what are you doing?
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And eventually they cry and weep and say, we're doing waste, fraud and abuse.
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We're doing government stuff and we promise to stop.
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I don't know who that would make mad, but I'd probably be amused by it.
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All right, we'll take another break.
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We'll come back from this break.
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I don't know how many breaks we have left, Jack.
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Is this the last one?
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Are we good after this?
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We have two more?
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I have two breaks left still?
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Uh-oh.
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I've done some bad things in the second hour.
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I got too comfortable talking, Jack.
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Just went the wrong road.
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All right, we'll take a break here.
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We'll come back.
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We'll try to get another break in before we get out of here on the Voice of Texas.
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This is the Voice of Texas, 700 a.m. KSEV radio. Thrilled to have you with us.
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I should sit up since I'm on the camera and whatnot on the live stream.
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Shouldn't lean back like that.
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I just got a message from a listener that's like, hey, Craig, how dare you?
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Say $3.1 billion when the real amount of spending in Harris County is $7.1 billion.
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And he's right about that.
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By the way, there are two different numbers.
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There's a spending budget, consolidated total budget, and both are horrible over the last 10 years
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since Democrats have taken power in Harris County.
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So I looked up the other one too.
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4.4 billion was the total consolidated financial footprint for the county, one of the biggest
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in the country in 2016.
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Now it's 7.1 billion.
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The crazy thing is even over the last couple years, 6.2 to 7.1, like the jumps are just
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astronomical and ridiculous.
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And it's because the people in charge aren't getting their wrists slapped hard enough.
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Like, the other thing, I would say this to Democrats actually before I move on and play any of their audio before we get out of here, like the last rant of the day, is if you think that the government spends too much money and there's just too many unfair, like, just benefiting them sorts of things, which they do, and most Americans believe this, that the system is unfair and benefits one side a lot more than us, you need to slap the hands of your side a little bit more to tell them to stop spending as much as they're spending and let them realize that we actually can fire it higher.
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these people, just like they're saying they want to do at a federal level with Trump.
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A lot of people out there in Podkastastan, as Dana Lash calls it all the time, but I
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think it's a really awesome thing that she calls it that.
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But anyway, all the people in Podkastastan are saying how much you need to force change
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in just one spot where we see change constantly.
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The other thing that's funny about this, I was thinking about this the other day,
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when people tell me that we desperately need a Democratic president back because they
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think that Trump has broken things in just a couple of years.
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I remind them of how often we get change at that level.
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Like how many Democrats and Republicans and Seache at one
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side or the other gets flipped.
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And even at the other federal levels, when you look at the
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House or you look at the Senate, how often it is just a
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couple seats, but one direction, one year, maybe the
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other direction, a couple of years later, especially in an
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off year, in midterm elections, we usually see the opposite
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side of the president take power.
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So one of the avenues where you are seeing consistent change and you might be saying yourself that change for the sake of it
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Is good is there the place where we're not seeing enough change is the local level the thing that
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Sharon keeps calling it and wanting to talk about every single day is that's how locally we're not doing enough to demonstrate to the people
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Who love you know what I'm gonna do this a little different
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And actually I do this a lot where like I get in my train of thought and then I think of a better way to
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articulate it so we do a pause and a restart.
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I lived in a different place.
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This is in Harris County.
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Nobody here can sue me for saying this on air.
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And I know this definitively to be true.
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So even the people from the place that I'm talking about, if they wanted to come after
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me, they would have a problem.
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I love, that's very Wayne D'Altrifino of me too because he loves to court lawsuits.
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But I have documented proof that this is true.
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I know definitively in a place I used to live, the power that one city manager,
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One politician wielded over everything and how much they use that power in corrupt, crazy ways.
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There was a story. This is one of the biggest ones. It's not actually tied specifically to the
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city manager in this case, but a broken system at a local level. There was a story where a young
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man, I think he was 20-something years old, and the document said, I'm going to tell you the
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story verbatim, that he was not intoxicated, that there was nothing going on that made
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him incapable of driving a vehicle.
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Although the ability to take that from him, to take a blood test or anything that would
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have given them definitive information that he was or was not impacted took way longer
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than it was supposed to.
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Like when he first got to the hospital after a car crash, they didn't do any of that
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stuff.
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All that stuff stayed not being done for hours at a time where your system can restore
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itself.
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But nonetheless, that is what it is.
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The fact is they didn't take the blood test.
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They didn't take any of the tests, any sort of P test or anything, till long after they
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should have.
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But the person wound up killing a 17 year old girl.
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So the guy is driving on a roadway and the woman, I think she was working at a movie
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theater, she's driving home and he's on the wrong side of the road.
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Like he's driving on her path.
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She doesn't see him.
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He doesn't see her.
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I don't know exactly why I think lighting was one of the things they wound up blaming in this local community
39:46
I used to be in but he plowed into her and killed her and then he survived
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I think he hurt his leg, but it went away
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He never was held responsible
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this is the type of thing that Wayne dulcifino investigates all throughout the country and
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The more I went into this story the more I found out the biggest reason he wasn't held accountable is he was very closely tied
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to a very big company that did a lot of political donating in the very small or relatively small community.
40:14
And a couple individuals were able to wield ridiculous amounts of power to prevent any level of culpability being a part of this.
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Even if, say, you know, him being potentially intoxicated or something wasn't actually true, like, because nobody knew,
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is how long it took for the test, even just like a manslaughter charge or something like that for
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killing another person by driving on the wrong way, the wrong side of the street would be a
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fairly typical process that would happen and didn't. And I remember finding out about this
40:44
stuff on this one off case and realizing two things. One, how corrupt the community I lived
40:50
in was and how ridiculous it was. And by the way, I can even add another caveat to that.
40:55
But probably the reason I lost a job, I know I was telling Wayne about my history of all
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the places I worked and he made a joke on the year yesterday that I've been fired a
41:04
lot.
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I actually quit almost all those jobs.
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I quit at WGN, I quit at WIBC to take this gig.
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I quit at a lot of the things that I've worked because I found a better opportunity.
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It's just the way that we live in our society.
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But one of the places where I got canned was the place I'm talking about, the community
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I'm talking about, and this was the story.
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and a break had happened in the story the day that I got let go.
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Which I don't think I've ever publicly said all this but I know I can because I
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never signed whatever document I was supposed to sign for this thing to be
41:32
over. But anyway, the day I was let go there was a break in the case where a
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little bit more information came out and when the replacement person came in who
41:42
was also the morning show host to do the show for the day they immediately
41:45
addressed it without giving all of the details which I thought was hilarious.
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It was the first day after I lost a gig, so I did listen.
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I heard the person from the other show, and then I heard him talking about this big story
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and the big break in it.
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I was so fascinated that the reason I probably was let go immediately, and maybe there was
42:06
a long-term plan in place that wasn't worked out as well as it should have been, was because
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I was definitely going to talk about the latest update in this thing that I had been
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talking about for a while and give some information that told you who the person was and who the
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person was tied to, the person who committed this act, I guess it's not a crime, like
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an act where he killed a young woman.
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And the young woman, she was a high honor student.
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She had a great grade.
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She had a promising acceptance to an awesome college, a lot of a bright future for her.
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And I remember as I talked about it, I know I'm running out of time on the show, but
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I'm just throwing this out there.
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Her family reached out to me.
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I'm just some radio jimoke talking about a thing
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that I think is important to a community.
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And her grandma sent me a message on Facebook
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like, thank you so much for talking about my granddaughter
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and talking about this story.
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We are so confused.
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That family was so confused that these roadblocks
43:03
were being hit by them and by their lawyer.
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And all of it came from this power structure
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that's ridiculous.
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So every level, everywhere you go,
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you probably underestimate the amount of people
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in your local community who wield way more power than the people that we
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actually are switching from Republican to Democrat more often. We need to do
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more of that here, especially in Harris County because man it's not working for
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us. Alright that's it. That's the whole show. Brian Kilmeade is up next on The
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Voice of Texas KSEV radio, the Mob Guys in the Morning.