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- 0:00Speaker 1: Is ksev mornings with craig collins and.
- 0:03Speaker 2: Yeah it would be nice to hear a program.
- 0:05Speaker 3: Stupid by anything stupid i mean anything at all no
- 0:08Speaker 3: it's crazy welcome to the thunderdome.
- 0:10Speaker 1: People news opinions politics and the stories that matter to texans.
- 0:16Speaker 2: I shaved for this.
- 0:17Speaker 1: Here are your hosts craig collins and wayne dolcefino.
- 0:21Speaker 4: Remember everyone just don't be yourselves i'm ksev am 700
- 0:25Speaker 4: the voice of texas yes that's awesome.
- 0:34Speaker 5: And now Craig Collins and Wayne Dolcefino.
- 0:37Speaker 6: Ah, that's right.
- 0:38Speaker 7: This is the show. He is Wayne Dolcefino. My name
- 0:42Speaker 7: is Craig Collins. We are KSEV Mornings, and we're trying
- 0:45Speaker 7: something technologically that this station has not really done a
- 0:48Speaker 7: lot of before.
- 0:49Speaker 6: Wayne, how you doing, buddy?
- 0:51Speaker 2: I'm good, brother. What's going on?
- 0:53Speaker 3: Not much.
- 0:53Speaker 7: Not much is going on right now except for all
- 0:55Speaker 7: the technical things that we're doing. And we were talking
- 0:57Speaker 7: off the air as we're getting set up here, and
- 0:59Speaker 7: we're looking at the background behind me at the fancy
- 1:02Speaker 7: radio station. and your office, and we both have to
- 1:06Speaker 7: admit something on the air right away.
- 1:08Speaker 2: Yeah, you look like you're in a trailer, a trailer
- 1:11Speaker 2: that you didn't decorate.
- 1:13Speaker 7: Yeah, and you look like you're in an awesome, you know,
- 1:16Speaker 7: very mob guy's spot with Corleone behind you.
- 1:20Speaker 6: It looks awesome.
- 1:20Speaker 2: Yeah, I was going to say, you know, I always ask,
- 1:23Speaker 2: a lot of times we do consultations over Zoom, and
- 1:26Speaker 2: I always require prospective clients to identify the people in
- 1:32Speaker 2: the photo. because if they can't identify my godfather. Yeah.
- 1:38Speaker 6: Or his consigliere.
- 1:40Speaker 2: Yeah. So, so we sometimes fashions are fashion ourselves as consigliere. Right.
- 1:46Speaker 2: Cause we give people advice and consult and blah, blah, blah, blah. And, um,
- 1:51Speaker 2: while I don't whisper, um, I, I got a tapestry, uh,
- 1:56Speaker 2: by the way, this is my headquarters. This is, we're
- 1:59Speaker 2: on Richmond Avenue. Um, Don't come by. It's a gray building.
- 2:08Speaker 2: I've got black bars all around me, and you can't
- 2:12Speaker 2: get in, so don't even try.
- 2:13Speaker 7: They actually don't let you in easily. I am going
- 2:16Speaker 7: to admit that. If you show up and you're like,
- 2:17Speaker 7: is this the Dolce Fino place?
- 2:19Speaker 6: They're like, maybe. We don't know.
- 2:21Speaker 2: Well, you know why? Because, first of all, people are
- 2:24Speaker 2: always serving me with subpoenas. They want my records. They
- 2:27Speaker 2: want to bother me. Look, also, as you probably know,
- 2:32Speaker 2: I have a few enemies. And I actually have a
- 2:37Speaker 2: designated parking space here.
- 2:39Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 2:40Speaker 2: And it has– I bought– actually, I didn't buy it,
- 2:44Speaker 2: but I had my office manager buy me something that
- 2:45Speaker 2: says The King. You saw it. I did. You were
- 2:48Speaker 2: at my office, right? So– So if anyone wants to
- 2:52Speaker 2: whack me, that's the place, right? When the cane pulls up. Sure.
- 2:59Speaker 2: But what is that color? You know, I've been in
- 3:02Speaker 2: the studio, and I don't even remember. That color is
- 3:07Speaker 2: so ugly that I don't even remember what color it is.
- 3:13Speaker 7: Yeah, it's like a beige-pink kind of crappy peach.
- 3:18Speaker 6: Maybe it's peach. I might call it that. But it's
- 3:21Speaker 6: just rugs.
- 3:22Speaker 7: The funny thing about a bunch of radio stations, and
- 3:24Speaker 7: I don't know when they actually constructed this, but I'm
- 3:26Speaker 7: assuming it was like the 90s or 80s, is.
- 3:29Speaker 6: You just stapled rugs to the walls. That happened a lot.
- 3:33Speaker 7: And then they made it fancier. But so I guess
- 3:35Speaker 7: somebody found a lot of this rug. And that's probably
- 3:38Speaker 7: why it looks this color.
- 3:39Speaker 2: Can you put some stuff on the shelves at least? Yeah.
- 3:42Speaker 2: Behind you.
- 3:43Speaker 6: Yeah, I can put a little bit of stuff up there.
- 3:44Speaker 6: I'll bring in some stuff from home.
- 3:46Speaker 2: Like a trinket. I have a Tinkerbell. that I got
- 3:50Speaker 2: from Disney for 25 years of service.
- 3:54Speaker 6: Oh, wow.
- 3:56Speaker 2: I also have a Godfather bobblehead back there. Maybe you
- 3:59Speaker 2: can see my Godfather bobblehead.
- 4:01Speaker 6: Not well.
- 4:02Speaker 2: I also have the Godfather. I'll bring it up later.
- 4:05Speaker 2: I also have the Godfather in my bathroom.
- 4:08Speaker 6: Okay, sure.
- 4:09Speaker 2: So there's a hole. And if you could see the walls,
- 4:12Speaker 2: and someday I will show you.
- 4:15Speaker 6: Okay.
- 4:16Speaker 2: I have a picture of my grandfather outside the New Jersey...
- 4:20Speaker 2: Fresh Jersey Pork Shop.
- 4:22Speaker 9: Yeah.
- 4:23Speaker 2: I have the boat my grandparents came over from in Italy. Wow.
- 4:29Speaker 2: It was called the Passaro. Okay. And I have their
- 4:33Speaker 2: passenger itineraries. You know, their passenger things.
- 4:38Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 4:39Speaker 2: From my grandfather, Antonio.
- 4:42Speaker 6: Wow.
- 4:43Speaker 2: And from my grandmother, Anna.
- 4:45Speaker 9: Yeah.
- 4:46Speaker 2: And I have a picture of Brooklyn. So this is
- 4:48Speaker 2: a whole.
- 4:49Speaker 6: It's a whole thing. The whole thing.
- 4:50Speaker 2: The mob guy is a mob guy. So.
- 4:53Speaker 10: So.
- 4:53Speaker 2: And what is that dingy glass window?
- 4:56Speaker 6: That's where Russell is.
- 4:57Speaker 7: You can actually see Russell if he tries to, like,
- 4:59Speaker 7: wave and get in the shot somehow.
- 5:02Speaker 2: You notice Russell. Russell doesn't really talk.
- 5:04Speaker 6: To as much. There he is. There he is standing up.
- 5:07Speaker 2: Russell. He's waving.
- 5:09Speaker 6: But he doesn't like us that much. He likes us
- 5:10Speaker 6: just a little bit.
- 5:11Speaker 2: No, I think we should cover the window. You don't
- 5:15Speaker 2: want to see Russell?
- 5:17Speaker 6: Who cares about Russell? That's probably why he doesn't like us,
- 5:20Speaker 6: because you say stuff like that on the radio.
- 5:22Speaker 2: No, no, no. I love Russell.
- 5:23Speaker 7: I know.
- 5:24Speaker 6: He's amazing.
- 5:25Speaker 7: We got the best producer slash program director in the business,
- 5:30Speaker 7: because he does both jobs, which is crazy.
- 5:32Speaker 2: He's really great.
- 5:33Speaker 6: You sent me a lot of stuff. You just referenced
- 5:34Speaker 6: New Jersey.
- 5:35Speaker 7: I'm sort of tempted to ask you if you like
- 5:37Speaker 7: pork rolls or not, but we can get to regular
- 5:39Speaker 7: news if you'd rather do that.
- 5:41Speaker 6: It's either or.
- 5:42Speaker 2: You know, I'm pretty cool, but I'm not a big
- 5:44Speaker 2: pork roll guy.
- 5:45Speaker 8: Me neither.
- 5:46Speaker 2: I was a potato knish guy.
- 5:48Speaker 6: Yeah, those are actually better.
- 5:50Speaker 2: And I liked the egg rolls. You cannot find egg
- 5:54Speaker 2: rolls in most places here like you could in New York.
- 5:59Speaker 2: And I also, when we moved here in 68, I
- 6:03Speaker 2: guess it was.
- 6:04Speaker 3: And.
- 6:06Speaker 2: My father and mother loved It was little noodles, crispy
- 6:10Speaker 2: Chinese noodles.
- 6:11Speaker 3: Sure.
- 6:11Speaker 2: They were called Me Too noodles. Yeah. And we used
- 6:15Speaker 2: to get like packages and packages shipped to us. I
- 6:19Speaker 2: remember when we came to Texas. But I miss chocolate
- 6:23Speaker 2: egg creams from up there. People down here don't even
- 6:25Speaker 2: know what the hell a chocolate egg cream is. But
- 6:28Speaker 2: I'm not even sure I knew what it was, but
- 6:31Speaker 2: it was great.
- 6:32Speaker 6: But it was really, people don't really know what a
- 6:33Speaker 6: pork roll is either. It's just fine.
- 6:35Speaker 7: All right, let's let, we can get to actual news.
- 6:37Speaker 7: You sent me a bunch of topics that you wanted
- 6:39Speaker 7: to talk about. One of them is a forced Bible study, uh,
- 6:43Speaker 7: that will take place here in Texas. Uh, the Bible
- 6:46Speaker 7: will be a book that, uh, a bunch of kids
- 6:49Speaker 7: have to read, uh, in school grades.
- 6:51Speaker 6: One through 12. Uh, what are your thoughts about that one?
- 6:54Speaker 2: So, um, look, I obviously believe in the Bible.
- 7:00Speaker 11: Sure.
- 7:00Speaker 2: And, um, My wife and son have become very, very
- 7:05Speaker 2: strict Catholics. A lot more stricter than Crazy Wayne, but
- 7:11Speaker 2: certainly strict Catholics. My son is raising my grandkids to
- 7:17Speaker 2: be very faithful. They talk and study a lot about
- 7:22Speaker 2: the Bible and about Jesus. I just don't know that
- 7:28Speaker 2: school should be the place where we require people to
- 7:33Speaker 2: learn one religion. Sure. I mean, if you want to
- 7:36Speaker 2: go to Catholic school, then go to Catholic school. Or
- 7:41Speaker 2: you want to go to a private school. Like, my
- 7:43Speaker 2: grandson goes to a private school, and it's a classical education, right?
- 7:49Speaker 2: So it's a much better education. Sure. This, where the
- 7:54Speaker 2: libertarian wing comes in, I just don't know that's the
- 7:58Speaker 2: right play.
- 7:59Speaker 12: Yeah.
- 8:00Speaker 2: Whether we like it or not is really the point.
- 8:03Speaker 2: We're in a very diverse situation, especially in big cities.
- 8:09Speaker 2: And I just think that's just a recipe for more,
- 8:13Speaker 2: you know, more of this stuff.
- 8:15Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 8:16Speaker 7: The only thing I'll say about it as part is
- 8:18Speaker 7: a devil's advocate sort of approach. But I do I
- 8:20Speaker 7: do agree with you. I do think that you're right
- 8:23Speaker 7: that that forcing the Bible.
- 8:25Speaker 2: Of course, I'm right.
- 8:26Speaker 11: Yeah.
- 8:27Speaker 7: That forcing the Bible on kids in school is probably
- 8:29Speaker 7: not the right approach, but they're already getting forced opinion
- 8:33Speaker 7: every day from these teachers who tell them all kinds
- 8:35Speaker 7: of crazy things and have, like, the gay pride flag.
- 8:37Speaker 6: In their rooms.
- 8:38Speaker 7: Like, the teachers are already infusing kids with ideology. So
- 8:42Speaker 7: if we pretend they're not, then— and I'm not saying you're
- 8:45Speaker 7: doing that, but I'm saying the people who really come
- 8:47Speaker 7: after this are pretending that it has no place in
- 8:50Speaker 7: school when we know— that the other version does. So
- 8:53Speaker 7: this is almost like fighting fire with fire, but it
- 8:56Speaker 7: shouldn't have to come to this. We should pull more
- 8:59Speaker 7: ideology out of the classroom on the other side, as
- 9:02Speaker 7: opposed to forcing this in.
- 9:04Speaker 2: And that's the answer, right? The answer is there shouldn't
- 9:06Speaker 2: be ideology, right? Let's teach kids reading, writing math, how
- 9:12Speaker 2: to take care of their crap. I mean, I would
- 9:15Speaker 2: have loved to have taken auto shop just so I could,
- 9:18Speaker 2: I changed the oil in my car once. It cost
- 9:21Speaker 2: me $ 800 after the damage I did.
- 9:24Speaker 6: I can do that for you. I can change the oil.
- 9:26Speaker 2: Well, good. I'll call you. Anytime, buddy. Like Jiffy Lube. Okay.
- 9:33Speaker 2: Is Jiffy Lube still around?
- 9:34Speaker 6: Yeah, it's still around.
- 9:36Speaker 2: They should send me some money.
- 9:37Speaker 6: They should. We just name drop them.
- 9:39Speaker 7: I like the one with the five-minute auto change, whatever
- 9:43Speaker 7: that is.
- 9:44Speaker 6: That's not the name.
- 9:45Speaker 2: Yeah, but anyway, so there's things that I think would
- 9:48Speaker 2: have been helpful. My father was not a tools guy.
- 9:53Speaker 2: We didn't hang out and work on the car together.
- 9:56Speaker 2: He just wasn't that guy, and I'm not that guy.
- 10:00Speaker 2: and I have no idea how to tell my son
- 10:03Speaker 2: I mean I can barely use like a I could
- 10:06Speaker 2: use a blower because you know you just turn it
- 10:09Speaker 2: on and blow but like I never could use that
- 10:12Speaker 2: weed eater whacker thing I'm serious that's fine I mean,
- 10:18Speaker 2: everybody's got their skill sets and the stuff they do
- 10:21Speaker 2: and the stuff they don't do. Like, you would never
- 10:23Speaker 2: hire me to put together a Christmas toy. You wouldn't.
- 10:29Speaker 2: I can't. I couldn't do it.
- 10:31Speaker 6: Yeah, I get it.
- 10:32Speaker 2: But anyway, so I think the answer is what you said,
- 10:38Speaker 2: is we need to take all the ideology out. Yes.
- 10:41Speaker 2: Let mom and dad and the families know. teach their
- 10:45Speaker 2: kids about faith and how to act and how to
- 10:51Speaker 2: treat others, and I think we'll be fine.
- 10:54Speaker 6: Yeah, I agree with you.
- 10:56Speaker 2: That's what I think.
- 10:57Speaker 7: I just wish that more families were doing that because
- 10:59Speaker 7: the other thing I was going to say is that
- 11:01Speaker 7: faith itself seems to be dwindling in our society, and
- 11:04Speaker 7: that seems to be a bad thing. We got the
- 11:05Speaker 7: bump song playing. Wayne can't hear it yet. We're going
- 11:08Speaker 7: to fix that so that he can hear it in
- 11:09Speaker 7: the near future. But, yeah, he's throwing his hand up
- 11:12Speaker 7: in the air.
- 11:12Speaker 6: That's great. Quick break.
- 11:14Speaker 7: A lot coming up. This is KSV Mornings. He is
- 11:17Speaker 7: Wayne Dolcefino, the man, the myth, the legend. I'm some
- 11:20Speaker 7: other guy. I'm some other dude. My name is Craig Collins.
- 11:24Speaker 2: What's your name again? I don't know.
- 11:25Speaker 6: Who knows? Some other guy, which is perfect for the
- 11:28Speaker 6: mob guys. I'm that other dude. KSV Mornings. Quick break.
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- 15:31Speaker 6: KSDV morning. My name is Craig Collins.
- 15:34Speaker 2: And I am Wayne DelTrofino.
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- 15:39Speaker 2: Darn it.
- 15:39Speaker 7: We are KSCV Mornings, 700 AM, The Voice of Texas.
- 15:44Speaker 7: We were talking about, just a bit ago, kids and
- 15:47Speaker 7: classrooms and learning, you know, the Bible and whatnot. And
- 15:51Speaker 7: if you want to call in about that topic or
- 15:52Speaker 7: any topic, you can call in.
- 15:54Speaker 6: Be a part of the show. Go ahead.
- 15:56Speaker 2: Yeah, what's their number?
- 15:57Speaker 6: Yeah, KSCV's call-in number is 281-558-5738. 281- Five, five, eight, five, seven, three, eight.
- 16:05Speaker 2: Yeah, no. And I, I think our audience might disagree
- 16:08Speaker 2: with me and you a little bit. And like I said, I,
- 16:12Speaker 2: I fundamentally believe that we're a much better society when
- 16:17Speaker 2: we're teaching the fundamentals of our religion. Yes. Right. And
- 16:24Speaker 2: our faith. I really do. And whatever faith you have,
- 16:27Speaker 2: I mean, it's, you know, whatever. I'm not one that,
- 16:31Speaker 2: you know, I'm not one that's in the camp of
- 16:34Speaker 2: if you don't believe everything I believe that you're, you know, whatever.
- 16:39Speaker 2: It's not that that's not a thing for me like that. Right.
- 16:44Speaker 2: But but I I do believe that school should be
- 16:49Speaker 2: to learn stuff so you can add. Right. So I
- 16:55Speaker 2: can ask one of my employees, what is. a hundred
- 16:59Speaker 2: divided by a million and they could, you know, figure
- 17:03Speaker 2: it out and they could go to like their phone
- 17:06Speaker 2: to figure it out. You know, I was from the,
- 17:09Speaker 2: the era when like slide rulers came out and everybody
- 17:12Speaker 2: was going, no, no, no, you can't use slide rulers. Right.
- 17:15Speaker 2: Remember that?
- 17:16Speaker 4: Right.
- 17:16Speaker 6: I remember that.
- 17:17Speaker 2: Yes. Cause it was like new technology. Sure.
- 17:19Speaker 12: Right.
- 17:19Speaker 2: Sure.
- 17:20Speaker 6: I'm of course old enough for that.
- 17:21Speaker 10: Yeah.
- 17:22Speaker 2: And that raised another subject that I thought was really worth,
- 17:26Speaker 2: disgusting and debating is this Amandami nut in New York
- 17:32Speaker 2: actually proposed something that I think is something that we
- 17:36Speaker 2: should debate. And, and again, there's real divergent views of it.
- 17:41Speaker 2: And that is he wants to take AI out of
- 17:46Speaker 2: schools for kids that are in junior high school and
- 17:49Speaker 2: in elementary school. And because we, AI is enabling them
- 17:55Speaker 2: now to not even critically think about stuff. We've taken
- 18:00Speaker 2: away from kids a lot of the stuff they used
- 18:03Speaker 2: to know how to do or figure out on their
- 18:06Speaker 2: own because now you can Google anything. I'm forgetting AI
- 18:11Speaker 2: for a second. You can Google anything. I ask my
- 18:16Speaker 2: employees all the time, my reporters, I go, hey, who
- 18:19Speaker 2: is the mayor of this city? And they'll look at
- 18:22Speaker 2: me like, well, I don't know. Well, we're investigating the mayor.
- 18:25Speaker 2: Shouldn't we know who he is, right? That kind of thing. Yeah.
- 18:28Speaker 2: And they'll look at me like I've got four heads,
- 18:31Speaker 2: and I'll turn around on my computer, and in five
- 18:34Speaker 2: seconds I'll know who the mayor is, and I'll probably
- 18:37Speaker 2: know how much money he makes.
- 18:38Speaker 6: Sure.
- 18:39Speaker 2: Unless he's like a city manager in Galveston where he
- 18:41Speaker 2: makes like a ridiculous amount of money, right?
- 18:43Speaker 11: Right.
- 18:44Speaker 2: You know, the amount of money they pay government people
- 18:46Speaker 2: now is really ridiculous.
- 18:48Speaker 8: Yeah, I know.
- 18:50Speaker 2: In the day, it was, we don't make as much
- 18:53Speaker 2: money as you guys in the private sector. Right. But
- 18:57Speaker 2: we get better pensions.
- 18:59Speaker 17: Yes.
- 18:59Speaker 11: Right?
- 19:00Speaker 2: So you give a crappy salary for 20, 30 years.
- 19:05Speaker 2: Then you retire. And then, you know, I'll be living
- 19:09Speaker 2: in a shack. I'm selling seashells when I'm old and,
- 19:14Speaker 2: and you'll have 80, a hundred, a hundred, $ 20, 000 a
- 19:17Speaker 2: year and you'll be just fine. Yeah. Right.
- 19:19Speaker 11: Yeah.
- 19:20Speaker 2: But now you look at salaries. I mean, we looked,
- 19:24Speaker 2: we were looking yesterday because of an investigation we're doing
- 19:27Speaker 2: down in Galveston. There was like, there's like a city manager,
- 19:30Speaker 2: an assistant city manager, a deputy city manager. And they
- 19:34Speaker 2: make like, I think it's like $ 700, 000 with all three
- 19:37Speaker 2: of them. It's just a lot of money. Wow. And
- 19:40Speaker 2: I'm just going like, I see these towns like in
- 19:43Speaker 2: Conroe where they're like 350 grand they're paying people to.
- 19:47Speaker 2: I'm going like, really?
- 19:48Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 19:48Speaker 6: And they're giving them huge raises. recently, right, too?
- 19:51Speaker 7: Like, some of these people are getting, like, 500 or,
- 19:54Speaker 7: you know, $ 100, 000 extra, depending on where they live.
- 19:59Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
- 19:59Speaker 6: Yeah, go ahead.
- 20:00Speaker 2: And they even give them raises when they mess up.
- 20:03Speaker 11: Right.
- 20:03Speaker 2: Like, in Corpus Christi, the auditor was accused by multiple
- 20:06Speaker 2: women of, of a toxic work atmosphere and some misconduct.
- 20:11Speaker 2: They not only didn't fire him as recommended months later,
- 20:15Speaker 2: they gave him a big fat raise.
- 20:17Speaker 6: What do we do to fight this? I mean, you're
- 20:19Speaker 6: doing part of it, right.
- 20:20Speaker 7: And just telling people about the thing that a lot
- 20:22Speaker 7: of people don't seem to know about or aren't paying
- 20:24Speaker 7: attention to, but what else can we do to actually
- 20:27Speaker 7: stop them from doing this? I, you know what?
- 20:30Speaker 2: I think that is one of the, the worst things
- 20:33Speaker 2: about the death of local media. because when the local
- 20:40Speaker 2: media had, let's say in Houston you had, no offense
- 20:43Speaker 2: to 26, but you had the big three, right, 2, 11,
- 20:47Speaker 2: and 13, and we all had big investigative units, and
- 20:50Speaker 2: we were up everybody's butt, and we were all doing
- 20:54Speaker 2: different stuff, and everybody was doing good work, and you
- 20:59Speaker 2: knew a lot, or you could learn a lot about
- 21:01Speaker 2: the rackets going on. I guarantee you now that most
- 21:05Speaker 2: people don't know what people make. I'll give you another
- 21:10Speaker 2: quick example, and then we'll get on to this other stuff.
- 21:14Speaker 12: Sure.
- 21:14Speaker 2: So as everyone knows, I fight about records, public records,
- 21:20Speaker 2: all the time. So this is just one of nine
- 21:24Speaker 2: million things that are totally screwed up about the Public
- 21:28Speaker 2: Information Act. So I'm investigating an ambulance contract in West Texas.
- 21:35Speaker 2: And so I asked them to see the proposals they
- 21:39Speaker 2: got for ambulance service, and then I asked to see
- 21:43Speaker 2: the scoring sheets, right? And you look at scoring sheets
- 21:46Speaker 2: because you want to see if there's one guy who thinks, hey,
- 21:51Speaker 2: I'll give this company all 10s, right, because maybe I'm
- 21:53Speaker 2: on the tape, right, or I'll grade this company really low.
- 21:57Speaker 2: You just look at stuff like that. So anyway, they'll
- 22:00Speaker 2: give you the scoring sheets. But they won't give you
- 22:03Speaker 2: the proposals. They say it's confidential because of trade secrets.
- 22:09Speaker 2: And I go, back up the truck. Wait a second.
- 22:12Speaker 2: So let me get this straight. Somebody wants to do
- 22:16Speaker 2: business with me, right? Because the city is me. They
- 22:20Speaker 2: call themselves an entity, right? Whatever. But they want to
- 22:24Speaker 2: do business with me. They want me to pay for it.
- 22:27Speaker 2: And there's four companies. And I'm not allowed to see
- 22:30Speaker 2: as a taxpayer anything. what their deal is until you
- 22:37Speaker 2: vote on it. How do you question it? How do
- 22:40Speaker 2: you go to City Hall and say, hey, all these proposals,
- 22:43Speaker 2: they should all be public. If you have a trade secret,
- 22:47Speaker 2: then don't do business with the government. Don't do business
- 22:52Speaker 2: with me.
- 22:52Speaker 6: I love that.
- 22:53Speaker 2: Can you imagine? We got a new cleaning service recently.
- 22:58Speaker 6: Trade secrets.
- 22:59Speaker 2: Obviously, I'm not going to do it, right? And a
- 23:01Speaker 2: couple of cleaning companies, we call people, right? You say, hey,
- 23:04Speaker 2: what's your deal? How much do you charge? How many people? Blah, blah, blah.
- 23:07Speaker 2: And they say, sorry, can't tell you. I'm not going
- 23:11Speaker 2: to tell you how much I'm going to charge you.
- 23:12Speaker 2: You're just going to hire me. I'm going to show up, right?
- 23:16Speaker 2: And in ambulance contracts, cities are paying a lot more
- 23:21Speaker 2: money to certain companies to do exactly the same thing
- 23:26Speaker 2: someone else offered them. when those are good companies too,
- 23:30Speaker 2: and that's where you say, well, that's kind of interesting.
- 23:33Speaker 2: Why would I want to pay $ 700, 000 more for essentially
- 23:39Speaker 2: the same service?
- 23:40Speaker 7: Yeah, I would not want to pay $ 700, 000 more for
- 23:42Speaker 7: essentially the same service.
- 23:44Speaker 2: I digress. I digress.
- 23:45Speaker 10: Sure.
- 23:46Speaker 2: So I wanted to raise this whole Mondami idea about
- 23:50Speaker 2: whether or not people think we should take the tablets
- 23:55Speaker 2: and the phones and all that crap. out of schools.
- 23:57Speaker 6: Yeah, you did.
- 23:58Speaker 2: I think that's something to talk about.
- 24:00Speaker 7: You sent another topic from New York, and I think
- 24:02Speaker 7: we just got like a minute until we take a break,
- 24:04Speaker 7: so we're probably teasing this more than discussing it. A
- 24:06Speaker 7: New York City ban on AI in elementary, middle school classrooms.
- 24:12Speaker 6: Even though I don't like the idea of.
- 24:14Speaker 7: Bans, as you said and I said via text even yesterday,
- 24:21Speaker 7: this is slightly different, and I'm not going to praise
- 24:23Speaker 7: Mamdami often on this show. But I do think that
- 24:27Speaker 7: taking AI and technology out of kids' hands in classrooms,
- 24:30Speaker 7: that can't be bad.
- 24:31Speaker 6: So we'll talk about that more.
- 24:32Speaker 7: Wayne will give us his take on it on The
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- 27:25Speaker 7: KSEV, this is the voice of Texas, KSEV Mornings.
- 27:30Speaker 6: My name is Craig Collins. He is the Wayne Dolcefino.
- 27:34Speaker 2: Hey, kids.
- 27:35Speaker 6: Hey, kids.
- 27:36Speaker 7: And during the break, we were talking about Chicago, but
- 27:39Speaker 7: we also set up a topic about AI in schools
- 27:42Speaker 7: in New York.
- 27:42Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 27:43Speaker 7: Mamdami is a guy who's doing a lot of horrible,
- 27:45Speaker 7: terrible things, like the public grocery stores.
- 27:48Speaker 6: This might not be one of those things.
- 27:51Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I just think it's a legitimate discussion because
- 27:56Speaker 2: we are losing this education thing. And I used to
- 28:01Speaker 2: investigate HIC a lot when I was a TV. In fact,
- 28:04Speaker 2: there are some people who suggested when they put up
- 28:06Speaker 2: the glass walls in the lobby of the old HIC
- 28:10Speaker 2: building that it was called Wayne proofing because I used
- 28:13Speaker 2: to go in there and just walk into people's offices and,
- 28:17Speaker 2: you know, like people that work for me, you know.
- 28:21Speaker 2: I have this weird thing about actually thinking the government
- 28:24Speaker 2: works for me and doesn't run me.
- 28:27Speaker 10: They do.
- 28:28Speaker 2: I remember investigating HISD, and I got a letter about
- 28:32Speaker 2: not giving me something, and they said, for protection of
- 28:34Speaker 2: the entity. And I went, what? What? Protection of the entity?
- 28:40Speaker 10: Who?
- 28:40Speaker 2: Public school. Anyway, so I want to talk about that,
- 28:45Speaker 2: but the thing I was most upset about over the
- 28:49Speaker 2: last couple of days. And there's a story I've been
- 28:51Speaker 2: working on that makes me very upset. I'll talk about
- 28:53Speaker 2: that a little bit later, but, but the thing that
- 28:56Speaker 2: really upset me, um, well, not upset me. I actually, it,
- 29:01Speaker 2: it may, I had to fire a couple of white
- 29:03Speaker 2: people at my company.
- 29:05Speaker 9: Gotcha.
- 29:05Speaker 2: Right. I fired three white people and you're probably going
- 29:08Speaker 2: to ask me why, right?
- 29:11Speaker 6: I would like to know why did you fire them
- 29:12Speaker 6: for being white?
- 29:14Speaker 2: Well, yes.
- 29:15Speaker 13: Okay.
- 29:15Speaker 6: Of course.
- 29:16Speaker 2: Yeah. Because, the mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, look, my company,
- 29:21Speaker 2: you know, we, we got to work. I got to
- 29:22Speaker 2: pay people. Right. So I thought about maybe getting a
- 29:25Speaker 2: contract in the city of Chicago. I thought they would
- 29:28Speaker 2: hire me to investigate corrupt Chicago officials. Sure. Right. The
- 29:33Speaker 2: taxpayers would pay me. I'd get a cut maybe of
- 29:36Speaker 2: what I save. You know, I thought about that.
- 29:38Speaker 11: Yeah.
- 29:39Speaker 6: But they, Yeah, I know. He's crazy.
- 29:50Speaker 7: And he says that doing a business, you need to
- 29:54Speaker 7: have minorities employed.
- 29:55Speaker 6: Is that right? Do you want me to play that audio?
- 29:56Speaker 6: Is that what you're asking for?
- 29:57Speaker 2: No, it's exactly. Can you not get a hint?
- 30:02Speaker 6: I didn't have it ready. Wayne, I didn't have it ready.
- 30:04Speaker 6: I told you that you wouldn't be able to hear it.
- 30:06Speaker 2: That's what the truth is.
- 30:08Speaker 6: I said that you wouldn't be able to hear it,
- 30:10Speaker 6: so I didn't know if you still wanted me to
- 30:11Speaker 6: play it. But I can play it. All right, we'll
- 30:13Speaker 6: play it. Here we go.
- 30:15Speaker 17: If you want to do business with this city, we
- 30:18Speaker 17: want to know whether the people leading your company reflect
- 30:21Speaker 17: the diversity of the communities whose tax dollars are paying
- 30:25Speaker 17: your contracts.
- 30:26Speaker 7: Yeah, so he said that he wants to make sure
- 30:29Speaker 7: that the people who work for your company, as everybody
- 30:31Speaker 7: but Wayne just heard, actually reflect the diversity of his.
- 30:35Speaker 6: Community, meaning they can't be white guys.
- 30:38Speaker 2: Okay, that's exactly right. Okay, so I'll say a couple things.
- 30:41Speaker 2: Number one, folks can't see it, right? But the media
- 30:45Speaker 2: was standing in a room like, I think everybody in
- 30:47Speaker 2: there was, I guess, black. I don't know. They were
- 30:49Speaker 2: darker skinned.
- 30:50Speaker 6: Yeah, there's black guys behind him.
- 30:51Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't really, I'm not in that game where
- 30:53Speaker 2: I say, well, hey, he's black, he's green, he's olive. Look,
- 30:56Speaker 2: I'm not a white guy. I'm Italian. I'm olive skinned, right?
- 30:59Speaker 2: You are, yeah. So I don't really get that. But
- 31:02Speaker 2: he was standing in a room, I would just point out, Mr.
- 31:04Speaker 2: Diversity ought to find some white people to stand in
- 31:08Speaker 2: the room with him because that would be a little diverse, right?
- 31:11Speaker 10: Yeah.
- 31:11Speaker 2: Maybe a few Hispanics. I don't know.
- 31:15Speaker 7: I love when people say diversity and they're of any
- 31:18Speaker 7: minority at all. And what they're actually saying is me.
- 31:21Speaker 7: I want more people that look like me. And, you know,
- 31:24Speaker 7: the white guy who would also be part of the
- 31:26Speaker 7: diversity group, he's now out.
- 31:28Speaker 6: So it's not diverse. It's just very different.
- 31:31Speaker 7: It's everybody has to be black instead of everybody they
- 31:34Speaker 7: assume is white when they're all not.
- 31:37Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, as somebody who investigated government for a long time,
- 31:40Speaker 2: I mean, there's a ton of and a far greater
- 31:45Speaker 2: percentage than, I guess, the color of their skin.
- 31:47Speaker 11: Sure.
- 31:48Speaker 2: Like, look at the judges, right? We elected all these
- 31:51Speaker 2: Democratic judges, right? They're all the black magic ladies, the judges,
- 31:57Speaker 2: the 17 judges. So they call themselves, I think. They do, yes.
- 32:01Speaker 2: And so, and most government agencies, you know, a lot
- 32:06Speaker 2: of African American people, great, congratulations, right? But, I don't
- 32:12Speaker 2: know what he means exactly. So, like, he didn't spell
- 32:16Speaker 2: out for me... Like, if my company wanted to do
- 32:19Speaker 2: business with the city of Chicago and get hired as
- 32:21Speaker 2: their watchdog, right? Which I do. I mean, tell the mayor, right?
- 32:26Speaker 2: I'm available.
- 32:27Speaker 6: He's not happy with you, though.
- 32:28Speaker 2: Exactly what percentage of black people and Hispanics and Asians and...
- 32:37Speaker 2: Should I add South Asians? What percentage... would be appropriate verse.
- 32:42Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 32:43Speaker 2: I just don't know the answer to that question. And
- 32:45Speaker 2: so yesterday I did a survey of my staff because
- 32:52Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe they're not.
- 32:54Speaker 6: That's true.
- 32:55Speaker 2: Hey, maybe they're mixed race. Right. I don't know who
- 32:58Speaker 2: their grandmother was. Maybe she was a, a Sue. Yeah.
- 33:01Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 33:02Speaker 7: Elizabeth Warren is Pocahontas. So you never know what people could.
- 33:05Speaker 11: Yeah.
- 33:06Speaker 2: Right. But I did do a, I did do a
- 33:09Speaker 2: little research yesterday and discovered that I have– I think
- 33:14Speaker 2: I have 10 employees. I don't even know how many
- 33:15Speaker 2: people work for me. I think I have 10 employees.
- 33:18Speaker 2: I think most of them are white. I have had
- 33:22Speaker 2: several African-American employees, just not currently. I do have one
- 33:27Speaker 2: Hispanic person, although I do have an office manager that
- 33:31Speaker 2: thinks all Hispanics are Mexicans. He doesn't know the difference,
- 33:34Speaker 2: but anyway.
- 33:35Speaker 18: Okay.
- 33:35Speaker 2: But but but this employee is Ecuadorian. She has a
- 33:41Speaker 2: Palestinian boyfriend. I've learned.
- 33:43Speaker 6: Oh, well, hey.
- 33:44Speaker 2: Right. I can't claim him as part of my diversity.
- 33:48Speaker 6: Why not?
- 33:48Speaker 1: Right.
- 33:49Speaker 6: Well, he might go to a party like he'll go
- 33:51Speaker 6: to an office party.
- 33:52Speaker 2: Right. I could lie.
- 33:55Speaker 6: You can also lie.
- 33:56Speaker 2: So I said to myself, I told my staff yesterday,
- 33:58Speaker 2: I said, which one of you white folks wants to
- 34:00Speaker 2: get fired? Because I'm going to have to fire. three
- 34:04Speaker 2: or four white people. But then, is it the percentage
- 34:07Speaker 2: of the population in Chicago? Like, I have no idea
- 34:11Speaker 2: what percentage of Chicago is white. I have no idea.
- 34:15Speaker 2: And I think anyone who even keeps track of that
- 34:18Speaker 2: stuff is doing exactly the opposite of what we should
- 34:23Speaker 2: be doing as a society. Yes. Right?
- 34:25Speaker 7: 100%. By the way, white is the most predominant race
- 34:29Speaker 7: even in Chicago. Hispanic and Latino is just slightly higher
- 34:32Speaker 7: than black and African, but it's about 36%, 30%, 30%.
- 34:36Speaker 2: Okay, so I want to tell the mayor of Chicago something.
- 34:40Speaker 2: Next time you open your flap, I want to see
- 34:43Speaker 2: a third of the room.
- 34:44Speaker 6: White.
- 34:46Speaker 2: Only black. I don't want any more black people than 36%. Right.
- 34:50Speaker 2: That's it.
- 34:50Speaker 6: Well, 30%, actually. You can only have 30%.
- 34:53Speaker 7: So if there's 10 guys in a room, you get
- 34:55Speaker 7: three and a half white guys and only three black
- 34:58Speaker 7: guys and only three Hispanic people.
- 35:00Speaker 2: And what do you do with the people who are
- 35:02Speaker 2: of mixed.
- 35:04Speaker 6: race that's the other one that's the other half of
- 35:06Speaker 6: a guy.
- 35:07Speaker 2: You put a half of a guy.
- 35:10Speaker 7: That's half a guy so one one of your employees
- 35:13Speaker 7: has to be half white and half a lot of
- 35:15Speaker 7: stuff and.
- 35:17Speaker 2: What about disabilities should i i.
- 35:19Speaker 6: Don't know you got to check with brandon i just
- 35:22Speaker 6: want to.
- 35:23Speaker 2: Find out because because one of the other things that
- 35:26Speaker 2: really bothers me As a guy who runs a small business,
- 35:29Speaker 2: and you don't know anything about running a business, right?
- 35:31Speaker 2: You're just like a radio guy. What do you know?
- 35:33Speaker 6: I actually did have a small business.
- 35:34Speaker 2: For a while. And it went out of business, right?
- 35:37Speaker 6: Well, now I moved and I closed it.
- 35:39Speaker 2: Okay. Well, so I'm not– I don't want to be cruel.
- 35:42Speaker 2: But seriously, so I have– I am not allowed to
- 35:47Speaker 2: ask people– I don't really care about these federal laws.
- 35:51Speaker 2: I may violate one or two. I don't even know.
- 35:55Speaker 2: Come get me. But– But, but I'm not allowed to
- 36:00Speaker 2: ask people about their health when I hire them. And
- 36:05Speaker 2: I have employees and I won't mention Clayton's name more
- 36:08Speaker 2: than once, but I haven't, I have, I have some employees.
- 36:12Speaker 6: Your employees have to listen to the show. If they
- 36:14Speaker 6: don't listen, they have to listen. Sorry.
- 36:17Speaker 2: I have some employees that call in sick. He's a
- 36:20Speaker 2: Monday sick guy. If it's Monday, I go, Hey, Craig's
- 36:23Speaker 2: going to be sick. Right. Um, I don't know their diseases, right?
- 36:29Speaker 2: I don't know what their issues are, right? I don't
- 36:32Speaker 2: really care, right?
- 36:34Speaker 6: I care, but, you know, not really. Yeah, I got it.
- 36:38Speaker 2: But I think I should have a right to know
- 36:40Speaker 2: as an employer this stuff. I want to know if
- 36:44Speaker 2: you have, like, a gout, right? I want to know
- 36:47Speaker 2: if you have anxiety issues and you get stressed out.
- 36:53Speaker 2: I want to know that, right? Well, and.
- 36:55Speaker 7: Even so, Wayne, we talked about this too, like you
- 36:58Speaker 7: can't know political affiliation. And when you hire people at
- 37:01Speaker 7: political places like this place where we currently work, where
- 37:05Speaker 7: I currently work at KSEV Radio, and this has happened
- 37:08Speaker 7: to me at other radio stations, you hire a guy
- 37:10Speaker 7: that applies for a job to be a producer at
- 37:12Speaker 7: a conservative radio station, and then he hates the politics.
- 37:16Speaker 6: And you're like, I don't know if this is going
- 37:17Speaker 6: to work out, man, if you hate the politics.
- 37:19Speaker 7: But you can't ask them that until you obviously can
- 37:21Speaker 7: tell it's too late and they pretend they like it
- 37:24Speaker 7: until they get the job.
- 37:25Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, look, at my place, I admittedly have some
- 37:28Speaker 2: left-wing freaks that I hired. I didn't know they were
- 37:31Speaker 2: left-wing freaks when I hired them. I mean, they pulled
- 37:35Speaker 2: the wool over my eyes. I don't ask those questions, right?
- 37:39Speaker 2: I tell people what we do, and I tell people
- 37:41Speaker 2: that I don't care whether you're Republican or Democrat. If
- 37:44Speaker 2: there's an investigation, there's an investigation. It is what it is.
- 37:48Speaker 2: But I have some people that if I knew today
- 37:52Speaker 2: what their politics were, back when I hired them, I
- 37:56Speaker 2: might not have hired them.
- 37:57Speaker 6: Yeah, sure.
- 38:00Speaker 2: I just, to be totally honest, and I enjoy the banter, right.
- 38:04Speaker 2: But you know, I'm the boomer here. They're all young,
- 38:07Speaker 2: you know, they're all like half Marxist, like these, all
- 38:10Speaker 2: these other young dumb butts. They're just fools. Right. I mean,
- 38:17Speaker 2: if you can't, if they can't look, if the, if
- 38:20Speaker 2: the people in this country are not smart enough to
- 38:23Speaker 2: look at history, Capitalism has lots of issues. Greed is
- 38:29Speaker 2: the big one. But compared to the other things, it's amazing.
- 38:37Speaker 2: It's been very great for this country. I'm shocked at
- 38:43Speaker 2: the politics. But I should get to know this. If
- 38:47Speaker 2: I only want to hire short Jewish people, Right? Because
- 38:52Speaker 2: I like short Jewish people.
- 38:54Speaker 6: Sure.
- 38:54Speaker 2: Why can't I do that?
- 38:56Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 38:57Speaker 6: Well, but they do do that.
- 38:58Speaker 7: The funny thing about what you said is they do
- 39:00Speaker 7: it when they call it DEI. When they say that
- 39:03Speaker 7: they only want to hire people who look a certain way,
- 39:06Speaker 7: regardless of who's more qualified for it, that's fine as
- 39:09Speaker 7: long as you call it the right thing.
- 39:11Speaker 6: That's not even DEI.
- 39:13Speaker 2: That's not even DEI. That's D-U-M-B.
- 39:15Speaker 6: That's true.
- 39:16Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 39:17Speaker 6: It is dumb. But it's more than just dumb.
- 39:20Speaker 7: The funny thing about it is they do it in
- 39:22Speaker 7: reverse of what You and I might complain about they
- 39:26Speaker 7: do it where they try to prevent hiring a white
- 39:28Speaker 7: guy because of his race and hiring somebody else.
- 39:30Speaker 2: Else.
- 39:30Speaker 6: And and that makes the whole.
- 39:33Speaker 7: Thing that we talk about, much more complicated, where someone
- 39:37Speaker 7: like me, and Charlie Kirk used to talk about this
- 39:38Speaker 7: all the time, could legitimately be concerned if you see
- 39:42Speaker 7: someone of a certain race in a certain job, not
- 39:45Speaker 7: because you normally would think that that would matter, but
- 39:48Speaker 7: because you know at certain companies now, people are getting
- 39:52Speaker 7: hired solely based on race.
- 39:54Speaker 6: So that entire thought process is in.
- 39:55Speaker 7: Your brain because of the way they've approached the topic,
- 39:59Speaker 7: not because of any sort of inherent racism.
- 40:01Speaker 6: Or In me.
- 40:02Speaker 7: It's so interesting the way that they turn it from
- 40:04Speaker 7: a positive into a negative, and then they claim they're
- 40:07Speaker 7: doing it for the betterment of society.
- 40:09Speaker 2: It's horrible. Look, it's really one of the things that
- 40:12Speaker 2: bothers me the most. Trying to hire new people now.
- 40:15Speaker 2: I'm sure any small business people listening out there, trying
- 40:20Speaker 2: to hire people, especially in this journalism world, right? is really,
- 40:25Speaker 2: really hard. Now, you know, with TV, obviously I was
- 40:29Speaker 2: on TV.
- 40:30Speaker 6: We got the bump playing, by the way.
- 40:31Speaker 2: Sorry. Well, we'll talk more about that one.
- 40:33Speaker 7: In TV, Wayne was in TV. He'll talk about his
- 40:36Speaker 7: experience there in just a bit.
- 40:37Speaker 6: It's KACV Mornings. Craig Collins, Wayne Del Trofino, The Voice
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- 43:03Speaker 7: KSEV 700 AM, the voice of Texas. This is your
- 43:08Speaker 7: KSEV morning show. Wayne is dancing to the music. My
- 43:11Speaker 7: name is Craig Collins. He is Wayne Dolcefino.
- 43:13Speaker 6: I like to say your name, by the way. I
- 43:15Speaker 6: don't let you say it enough, do I?
- 43:17Speaker 2: You know what my name means?
- 43:18Speaker 6: What does it mean? Dolcefino?
- 43:20Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 43:21Speaker 18: No.
- 43:22Speaker 6: Dolce is sweet, isn't it?
- 43:24Speaker 2: Okay.
- 43:25Speaker 6: Okay, I don't know what's... No, it's Fino.
- 43:26Speaker 2: Fino is fine. Dolce Fino is sweet and fine.
- 43:29Speaker 5: Oh, nice.
- 43:30Speaker 6: Look at you. You're sweet and fine.
- 43:31Speaker 2: I used to tell all the ladies I was sweet
- 43:33Speaker 2: and fine. Speaking of the ladies, so when I was
- 43:37Speaker 2: in TV, I obviously am very attractive, as you can tell.
- 43:45Speaker 2: And when I got hired in TV, I was actually
- 43:48Speaker 2: the antithesis of what TV people were, right? They didn't sweat.
- 43:53Speaker 2: They always had their hair done nice and shaved. And
- 43:57Speaker 2: I was like a You know, I tape on my glasses.
- 44:00Speaker 2: I didn't wear socks and underwear half the time. I mean,
- 44:03Speaker 2: I was a mess. OK. And they put me on TV. But,
- 44:07Speaker 2: you know, they hired pretty women. Of course.
- 44:10Speaker 11: Right.
- 44:11Speaker 2: Of course. TV did. Right.
- 44:12Speaker 6: It still does that.
- 44:13Speaker 2: But no, not as much. Oh, really? And I'm not
- 44:16Speaker 2: going to call out names. Sure. But there are some
- 44:19Speaker 2: people I see on local TV and I go, what
- 44:23Speaker 2: the hell?
- 44:24Speaker 6: Yeah, but there are some good-looking ones that are also
- 44:27Speaker 6: on local TV.
- 44:28Speaker 2: Okay. But my point was, is that fair? Is that legal?
- 44:33Speaker 6: No, probably not.
- 44:33Speaker 2: Should that be against the law? In Chicago, I suggest
- 44:37Speaker 2: the mayor also say, and we only want really hot
- 44:41Speaker 2: women on the staff. Sure. Right?
- 44:45Speaker 11: Yeah.
- 44:46Speaker 2: That if you have, you know, not to call it anything,
- 44:49Speaker 2: if you have some whatever, I don't want them. Right.
- 44:53Speaker 11: Right?
- 44:53Speaker 2: Now, when someone applies for a job here, I like
- 44:58Speaker 2: to know what they look like. Not because I'm going
- 45:01Speaker 2: to say, but I also like to know disabilities. Yeah.
- 45:07Speaker 6: I think you should be able to know that.
- 45:09Speaker 7: And we were talking about that in the last break
- 45:11Speaker 7: where you said some employees will call in sick a lot.
- 45:14Speaker 7: I think there's got to be a barometer where if
- 45:16Speaker 7: they're calling in sick every Monday, you do get to
- 45:20Speaker 7: know what the problem is. And you do get to
- 45:21Speaker 7: know if it's fake or if it's real. Because it
- 45:24Speaker 7: can't be this serious of an illness, and you have
- 45:28Speaker 7: no idea what it is. Like, they can't.
- 45:30Speaker 2: Put the bottle down on the weekend. You know what
- 45:32Speaker 2: I mean?
- 45:33Speaker 6: That could be the illness. Stop being hungover.
- 45:35Speaker 7: By the way, I found a list of the top
- 45:36Speaker 7: ten hottest female reporters in Houston.
- 45:39Speaker 6: I don't know if we should do this list, but
- 45:41Speaker 6: I did find one.
- 45:41Speaker 2: Dude, it's your show. I'm just visiting.
- 45:45Speaker 6: Well, it's not.
- 45:45Speaker 7: This isn't our topic. We didn't write the list. All
- 45:48Speaker 7: I'll tell you is who came in at number one.
- 45:50Speaker 7: Danielle Guzman was number one on this list.
- 45:52Speaker 2: Yep. She'd be number one on my list.
- 45:56Speaker 6: That's just, yeah.
- 45:57Speaker 2: Who's number two?
- 45:58Speaker 6: Number two is Jessica Wiley. I think this was made
- 46:00Speaker 6: in 2025. That's what it says.
- 46:03Speaker 2: Jessica really is a really good reporter at 13.
- 46:05Speaker 6: Yeah, I didn't even know who that was.
- 46:07Speaker 2: I really like her. Yeah. And who's number 10?
- 46:12Speaker 6: All right. Let's do it.
- 46:13Speaker 7: Again, this is not our list. This is Houston Press's list.
- 46:17Speaker 7: They put it together. Andrea Wynn is number 10 on
- 46:20Speaker 7: the list.
- 46:21Speaker 2: Okay. I like that. Who's number 97?
- 46:23Speaker 6: I only got the top 10.
- 46:26Speaker 2: I think they should put the ugliest ones, too. I
- 46:29Speaker 2: think there should be a list. Sure. And you should
- 46:33Speaker 2: be like 912. Yeah.
- 46:36Speaker 10: Right.
- 46:36Speaker 2: And I know who it is.
- 46:38Speaker 6: Here's the thing.
- 46:38Speaker 7: I was I was just thinking about something because you
- 46:40Speaker 7: were saying like where we hire people. When I was
- 46:42Speaker 7: working at a radio station in Chicago, we hired this
- 46:45Speaker 7: woman as an intern that definitely wanted to be in
- 46:48Speaker 7: TV and not in radio. But the radio gig was
- 46:51Speaker 7: the one that was available. And she was incredibly attractive.
- 46:54Speaker 6: I remember like she'd walk around. Everybody would stare at her.
- 46:57Speaker 7: And the funniest part about it is we tried so
- 47:00Speaker 7: hard to benefit as a radio station from having a
- 47:03Speaker 7: really good looking lady. As part of our group, like
- 47:05Speaker 7: she was on all the social media videos, but there's
- 47:08Speaker 7: only so much value in our world to someone that
- 47:11Speaker 7: looks really good. So inevitably she moved on to the
- 47:14Speaker 7: TV and wound up being very successful. But it was
- 47:16Speaker 7: just funny to have like one person in our atmosphere
- 47:20Speaker 7: that was the same as those other media places, because
- 47:22Speaker 7: in radio, not as important.
- 47:24Speaker 2: And did you harass her?
- 47:26Speaker 7: I personally did not. Our boss kind of did, but
- 47:29Speaker 7: he got away with it. Yeah, a little bit.
- 47:31Speaker 2: Because back then, things weren't as sensitive, right?
- 47:35Speaker 6: They were not.
- 47:35Speaker 2: Like, if you told someone, hey, you're really pretty, let's
- 47:39Speaker 2: go out and have a drink sometime.
- 47:41Speaker 4: Right.
- 47:41Speaker 2: You know, now, like, you know, you'd get indicted and
- 47:44Speaker 2: put on CNN, and they would say... Accused of sexual misconduct.
- 47:49Speaker 11: Yes.
- 47:49Speaker 2: Just because I thought a woman was pretty and said, hey,
- 47:51Speaker 2: let's go hang. Well, yeah.
- 47:53Speaker 7: And honestly, this was only like 20 years ago, and
- 47:55Speaker 7: he did way more than just telling that he wanted
- 47:57Speaker 7: to have a drink with her.
- 47:58Speaker 2: It's all part of the deterioration of our culture. Wow.
- 48:01Speaker 2: That we get in trouble now if we say, hey,
- 48:06Speaker 2: you look really great today. Yeah. Right? Like, I tell my,
- 48:09Speaker 2: I never tell a male employee he looks good. Okay? Sure.
- 48:12Speaker 2: So I do understand there are some snowflakes in my company. Yeah.
- 48:17Speaker 2: that think it's inappropriate for me to say, you look
- 48:21Speaker 2: really pretty today. I don't know. I'm sure it's a
- 48:25Speaker 2: violation of some law, right? I'm sure I'm harassing you.
- 48:28Speaker 6: It shouldn't be.
- 48:29Speaker 2: I never tell a guy, you look really handsome. That's
- 48:33Speaker 2: because I'm a guy. Yeah.
- 48:36Speaker 6: That makes sense, by the way.
- 48:37Speaker 2: I wouldn't do that. There's some things in my world
- 48:41Speaker 2: that just seem logical, and because I don't care about
- 48:43Speaker 2: offending people, Yeah. There are some people I'd want to
- 48:46Speaker 2: offend this morning if we have some time.
- 48:49Speaker 7: By the way, let's get to Marco real quick. We
- 48:51Speaker 7: have a caller that called in. Marco wants to talk
- 48:53Speaker 7: about women. And actually, I'm going to have to turn
- 48:56Speaker 7: this up to make sure that Wayne hears this.
- 48:58Speaker 6: But go ahead, Marco. What do you want to say?
- 49:00Speaker 10: Yeah.
- 49:00Speaker 8: Hey, Bob, guys. For a lot of years, it sort
- 49:04Speaker 8: of fell by the wayside. But for about 15, 20,
- 49:06Speaker 8: 25 years, they would always circulate these sets of pictures
- 49:11Speaker 8: that the Why is it that all the good-looking women
- 49:14Speaker 8: in politics are Republicans and all the Democrats are ugly?
- 49:17Speaker 8: And they modify slides. but you'd have the usual suspect,
- 49:22Speaker 8: and then it would slightly change. But it always did
- 49:24Speaker 8: seem that that was the case, that the Republican women
- 49:26Speaker 8: that were out there, whether they were on shows or
- 49:30Speaker 8: something like that, not necessarily newscasters.
- 49:32Speaker 6: The Republican women were hotter. Just say it, Marco. That's fine.
- 49:34Speaker 10: Yes.
- 49:35Speaker 2: Yeah. That's it.
- 49:36Speaker 8: I mean, I'm sure you guys remember that that was circulating, too.
- 49:39Speaker 8: But why did it always seem to all the big
- 49:41Speaker 8: spokespersons and all that? Yeah, they were, you know, good
- 49:44Speaker 8: looking women. But the Democrats seem to be, you know,
- 49:48Speaker 8: kind of sort of. In some cases, why is that?
- 49:53Speaker 2: So, look, I will congratulate Marco on an accurate observation.
- 49:58Speaker 2: I have been to a number of conventions, both Republican
- 50:03Speaker 2: and Democrat, and I will say. that while there are
- 50:07Speaker 2: some really cool women I've met at Democratic conventions, a
- 50:11Speaker 2: lot of the sort of– how do I say this
- 50:14Speaker 2: without offending? Oh, I don't care. The women that are
- 50:18Speaker 2: all like– they're better, they have blue hair, and they
- 50:23Speaker 2: don't shave their arms and all this kind of stuff.
- 50:26Speaker 2: There are more of those at the Democratic convention. There
- 50:29Speaker 2: are– if you're a little bit of a freak, you
- 50:32Speaker 2: probably– Don't go to the Republic.
- 50:34Speaker 7: Well, and this is the thing. And Wayne is saying it. Marco,
- 50:36Speaker 7: you probably think it, too. Like, they're kind of proud
- 50:39Speaker 7: of it. Some of those women who don't shave and
- 50:42Speaker 7: like have all the armpit hair and stuff, they're proud
- 50:45Speaker 7: of that. They think that that's somehow subverting something in society. So, yeah,
- 50:50Speaker 7: there's a lot of ladies on the Democratic side of
- 50:52Speaker 7: the aisle that I think could look nicer. And they
- 50:55Speaker 7: choose not to for some sort of weird reason.
- 50:58Speaker 2: Does it matter to you in politics, Marco, if a
- 51:01Speaker 2: woman is good looking or not?
- 51:02Speaker 6: Do you care?
- 51:04Speaker 8: Not really, no. That's the point. If they're bringing a proper.
- 51:08Speaker 7: Yeah, he's still there. No, Marco's still here with us. Here, Marco,
- 51:10Speaker 7: go ahead and say that again so that he can
- 51:11Speaker 7: actually hear you say it.
- 51:13Speaker 8: Yeah. No, I mean, the main thing is what they're espousing.
- 51:17Speaker 8: In other words, if what they're talking about has merit.
- 51:20Speaker 11: Yeah.
- 51:21Speaker 8: And that's the main thing about it. It's just like
- 51:22Speaker 8: in any business, too, not just in politics, but that it's, yeah,
- 51:28Speaker 8: if you're selling a product or service or things like that,
- 51:31Speaker 8: You know, you've got to be well-versed in it. You
- 51:33Speaker 8: know what? You're not just trying to use your good
- 51:35Speaker 8: looks to sell something that's not there or whatever. That's all.
- 51:40Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, Mark, I'll say one other thing. It's sort
- 51:43Speaker 2: of like the person that's the front. We used to
- 51:45Speaker 2: have a person at the front that did administrative stuff,
- 51:48Speaker 2: production stuff, whatever. And we're looking for somebody, by the way.
- 51:53Speaker 2: I'm looking for a lot of people. But do I
- 51:56Speaker 2: want Jabba the Hutt?
- 51:59Speaker 6: At the front of your business.
- 52:00Speaker 2: The first person they see is Jabba the Hutt, right?
- 52:04Speaker 2: But isn't that against the law? Aren't I supposed to
- 52:07Speaker 2: be fair and equal? And if Jabba the Hutt applies
- 52:11Speaker 2: and nobody else applies, should I hire Jabba the Hutt,
- 52:16Speaker 2: the most unattractive being in the world, to be at
- 52:20Speaker 2: the front, the first person you see?
- 52:22Speaker 6: A great question, Marco. We're about to run out of time.
- 52:24Speaker 6: Thank you for calling in, buddy. That was great.
- 52:27Speaker 7: And to answer Wayne's question, I'll go ahead and do it.
- 52:30Speaker 7: You shouldn't have to hire Jabba the Hutt. You shouldn't
- 52:32Speaker 7: have to hire her at all, especially if the funniest thing, too,
- 52:35Speaker 7: sometimes I think is those individuals who apply for that
- 52:38Speaker 7: job are also terrible at being friendly, which is the
- 52:41Speaker 7: other aspect that you need for that job. Like they're
- 52:43Speaker 7: not only is it that they look horrible, but their
- 52:46Speaker 7: attitude is also kind of horrible.
- 52:48Speaker 6: And there's there's no redeeming quality of the individual.
- 52:51Speaker 8: You're right.
- 52:53Speaker 2: I think we should get rid of all these laws.
- 52:55Speaker 2: Let people hire who they want. Sure. If you want
- 52:57Speaker 2: to have, you know, 900 Somalians on welfare working for
- 53:03Speaker 2: your place, I think you should be able to do it. Sure. Yeah.
- 53:07Speaker 6: I think that's fine. I don't know why, why we wouldn't.
- 53:09Speaker 6: All right.
- 53:10Speaker 2: All right. Who else can we offend? Can I, can
- 53:14Speaker 2: I mention, I'm not even sure where it works, but
- 53:16Speaker 2: I was driving. I'm going to tell you about this
- 53:19Speaker 2: story that it isn't serious, but, I was driving to
- 53:23Speaker 2: hold a press conference in College Station the other night
- 53:26Speaker 2: for a 22-year-old kid named Caden Crow. Great, great kid.
- 53:30Speaker 2: Sounds like a really, really special boy who got shot
- 53:34Speaker 2: to death by his drunk roommate who was playing with
- 53:36Speaker 2: a gun at 3.30 in the morning. Wow. And I
- 53:39Speaker 2: think the kid should have been charged, right, so to
- 53:41Speaker 2: teach him a lesson. And he wasn't. And we'll get
- 53:44Speaker 2: into that in a minute. But on the way there,
- 53:47Speaker 2: I have a little bit of a lead foot. And
- 53:49Speaker 2: all of a sudden, I was hanging out. I was
- 53:52Speaker 2: actually looking for a cigarette.
- 53:53Speaker 7: Oh, here, we got to go. We're up against the break.
- 53:55Speaker 7: But you will finish that story.
- 53:57Speaker 10: I'll tell you the rest of the story.
- 53:58Speaker 7: You will finish that story after the break. KSEV Mornings,
- 54:01Speaker 7: the voice of Texas. He is Wayne Dolcefino. I like
- 54:04Speaker 7: saying his name, even though he can say it, too.
- 54:06Speaker 7: I am Craig Collins.
- 54:08Speaker 6: Back after this. There was no turning back.