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The Briones Factor, Harris County Propaganda and Robots at Work · KSEV Mornings with Craig and Wayne

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And now, the mob guys Craig Coglianese and Wayne Dolcefino,
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We are the Mob, guys.
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I am Craig Coglianese.
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He is the legend.
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Wayne Dolcefino.
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I have a...
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Oh, go ahead.
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What were you going to say?
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Oh, today.
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Hey, I have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
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I'm going to eat at some point during the show.
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I'm not doing it now, though.
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I'm not doing it yet.
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I'll eat it at some point.
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Um, and, uh, where's my sandwich?
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Where's your sandwich?
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I don't have a sandwich.
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I don't know.
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I, you need one.
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I think you need one.
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You know what?
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What?
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I spoke last night, um, to the Republicans of Southwest Houston.
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It was over at Bayland community center, which is off Bissonette and Hillcroft.
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And, um, you don't know the town as well as I do, but I actually moved.
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It was the first area I lived in when we moved here in the late 60s.
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My father, you know, in New York, there's like ethnic neighborhoods, right?
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There are two in some places here, but really not.
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I mean, New York, you have like the Italians lived in a place with the Jews and the Irish.
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You had like Puerto Rican neighborhoods, you had, you know, black neighborhoods, you had
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green neighborhoods, whatever.
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and so when we were looking to move to Houston my father looked up and there
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was an Italian grocery store named Sako's okay it was on Bissonette right
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off hillcraft he might near it that's very smart actually dude my father
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thought like we were moving into like the little Italy of Houston yeah of
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course.
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And of course now it's it's it's
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that area is extremely different than it was in terms
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of the ethnicities of the people that live there right is
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mostly Hispanic over there.
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But when we move there we got there and my mom and I and my
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brother will look around first of all we cried the entire way
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because we were so upset first of all I left my first girlfriend
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joy rabbinowitz.
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That was my first girlfriend.
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And to this day, I wonder what happened to her.
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Perhaps one morning we could just go look for her.
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But anyway, I spoke at this thing.
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First of all, somebody came up to me and said,
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man, I love the mob guys.
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Yes, there we go. That's awesome.
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We do have fans. We have a fan.
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The mob guys is now a thing.
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That's awesome.
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I yeah, and I think we should lean in and offer to
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assassinate one of our
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I think just break just break legs, man
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I think all we're going to do is break legs like sending your names and numbers and we'll pick
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Some unlucky unlucky person at random. Anyway, we were talking about Republicans and a number of candidates were there
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One of them is a woman that I've known back for a very long time, not in any personal
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way, but just I used to deal with her years ago.
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Not as well as you knew her Benowitz.
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No, no, Joy, her Benowitz.
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If she's listening, if she's listening somewhere in the world.
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Anyway, Jacqueline Lucci Smith was there.
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She's running against Abbie Kamin for Harris County Attorney, and I like Jacqueline.
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I had seen her in probably 20 years, but I like her.
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But you know people need to pay attention to these down ballot races
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I know there's an awful lot of oxygen spent yes on
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National races, you know the Paxton race obviously the governor's race, but
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in Harris County where we live and and man this massive media operation
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In Harris County, the county attorney, jobs like that, really make a difference.
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Like Christian Menefue is now in Congress, was a horrific county attorney.
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He protected all the nonsense.
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Not my buddy, I'm not his.
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But and Abbie Kamin, is already pulling a Lesley Briones.
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I'm going to start calling it the Briones factor.
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I was I saw I'm in this Bayland Community Center and of course, there's a big picture of of
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Lesley Briones on the wall. Of course, because you got to put your pictures everywhere apparently and I
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Was thinking about all the criticism of President Trump for using taxpayer money to promote America
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And while I didn't think that was a you know, the smartest idea of the world
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I
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I look at all the money that our local politicians are now spending.
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And I use Lesley Briones because I think she's the queen of it.
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The queen of creating a big operation to do nothing but tell people how great she is.
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It's really not about just informing people like, hey, at the park this weekend there's
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a thing.
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This is what you call self-promotion because I want more power and want to do more things
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Isn't she the person that's also adding a lot of additional staff members?
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Oh, yeah, she's the one that we busted for those bonuses that weren't bonuses. That would be illegal
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So they called it, you know, I'd call it tuna fish and then oh, I'm not about this
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Dollars in cash put in a tuna fish can
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I think of all the money that's being spent
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I killed years ago when I was a channel 13. I actually
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Worked on a story once about the money being spent to change signs
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Every time somebody gets voted out of office like, you know this road brought to you by
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Commissioner
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Waka Wuba how I'm going how much was it?
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Well, it wasn't like tons of money. Okay, it's the it's the point right? Why do we do that? We don't need to do that
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But I just, you know, sure.
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It was Lee Brown used to be the mayor of Houston long before you were, you know, around.
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And Lee Brown spent like $400,000 on a big sign at the airport and had his big mug on
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it.
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And people went like crazy.
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Right.
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See, back then, that kind of money, there's a lot of money.
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Right.
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Now we, we like spend money on stuff.
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Like I don't need to see Lesley Briones every day on social media
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And if she wants to be on social media, I got an idea go do this go. Hi
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Let me give you a community update
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Some fancy media operation. Yeah
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That's happening everywhere
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What's also interesting about what you're saying about how people used to care more and get mad about a road sign
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We don't care about road signs anymore. No matter how much they cost
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I don't think the people today will get up in arms about those things and they misunderstand
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The amount of money that you're talking about that gets wasted on that stuff. Oh, yeah
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I think the toll road, you know, yeah, I always complain about the toll road guy, right?
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Who's not the brightest bulb in the planet and he also makes like a half a million dollars to run an automated toll road
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I'm going when did these government stuff yet become it like a like a
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performance art, I just want you to fix my crap. That's all I want you to do.
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Nothing more.
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Protect me and, you know, you have a bond election for flood projects. Do the projects.
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Yeah.
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Right? I voted against that. As I told you, you know this, I vote against pretty much
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every bond. If it was up to me, there would be a complete standstill in all economic development.
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No, I'm just kidding.
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But anyway, I spoke to these people and there's some, so Abbie Kamin is the current Harris
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County attorney, I should say that.
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And I started seeing her on social media every day talking about all the great liberal things
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she wants to do.
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And I'm thinking to myself, this is like, Lesley Briones has created another monster.
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So many, yes.
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Yeah, it sounds like there's so many monsters.
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And honestly, and it's the more simplistic thing that you're saying too.
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They've been in charge for so long that they've continued to push the boundary
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Further and further in this these crazy places in Harris County
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And the last thing we need is for them to think they're gonna go unchecked even more
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Yeah, look we need to pare down government. Yeah, did you stop unnecessary spending? Yes
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Now I understand why Lesley Briones does it because the local media is
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When especially when it comes to politics?
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is dead. We see the ads, so it sounds like the TV people are still doing ads and
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and consultants are still convincing people to buy ads on local TV stations
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that nobody watches that much anymore. And so I think that's part of the reason
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why everybody, and HISD is a great example, right? They have a complete like
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news operation because they decided like a lot of other people, Craig, to just like sell
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your own crap.
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If the media won't cover, especially the good things you do, if you do any.
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sell it yourself. And that requires people, that requires a newsroom, that requires
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basically reporters. So now what you're seeing is propaganda from our local government agencies.
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I don't know how much money this company will have together.
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Oh, yeah, it's all paid for.
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It's like, it's like I'm paying you to tell me good crap that you're doing.
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And ignore all the bad crap that I actually want to know about that's going on.
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No, no, they fight to the death to keep you from knowing the bad crap.
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Right, yeah. Yeah, they silence anybody who goes after it like you. Someone like you who tries to go after gets sued 75,000 times.
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Yeah, by the way, I know for people that aren't listening and you can watch us, where can you watch us? Everywhere.
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I had a shirt on, but I got this lobster shirt, octopus lobster, whatever it is, in the mail.
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In, I guess, early 2000s, I would do the double pop collar, which is what you're doing right now.
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You can pop both of those collars to double pop.
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All right, we'll take a break.
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A lot coming up in a bit.
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Very important conversation.
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Very important.
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Very important way to end it, too, by the way,
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on the double pop collar on the Voice of Texas KSEV radio.
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Feel like a headphone's out of fire right now.
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I gotta do that, too, OK?
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This is the Voice of Texas.
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My name is Craig Coglianese.
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He is Wayne Dolcefino.
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We are thrilled to be with you.
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So much stuff out there to talk about in the world.
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And yet we started because Wayne did a fancy speaking
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engagement. Did they throw some cash your way? Did you get some money for that kind
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of thing or not? No, I have never charged for a speech. I'll
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tell you once I was asked to speak at some Rotary Club in Bay City or something or somewhere
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far away and they called me before and said, where do you want us to send a check? And
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I'm not like you. I don't take 20 bucks. You will literally sell yourself. I just do it
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because I just want to make my city a better place.
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I actually am actually a caring guy.
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That's amazing.
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So I told him, I told him now, I don't take money for speeches, never have.
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And I said, why don't you just give it to charity?
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Yeah. So like a couple of weeks later, I started getting letters from like
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every charity within like 100 miles of the place saying,
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thank you for the $500 donation.
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Thank you for the $250.
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Thank you for the thousand.
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I'm going, how much were they going to pay me?
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Yeah, so like you would sell out for 20 bucks, right?
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Well, I wouldn't start I wouldn't start at 20 the point about the guy who takes 20 is no one would give him 30
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And you keep going up. Yeah
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Why you're a greedy slop I do but but I
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If I'd known it was thousands of dollars, I might have sold that you know, everybody has a price
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Mm-hmm, right. This is like yours is like a peanut butter sandwich
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If we get there.
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You got to go a little higher for me.
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We don't start, again, for anyone that's thinking about hiring me for anything, we don't start
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at Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich.
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We get there.
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If you won't give me anything else, we lower and lower until we land at Peanut Butter and
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Jelly Sandwich, which I do have.
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That's right.
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And look, we are in a different caste level, as you know.
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We are.
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Economically, I hang out with the rich people.
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Well, can I say something that happened yesterday when I went over to your place?
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Do you care?
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Sure.
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When you, you had to give me like 40 bucks for something that I didn't have.
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And you could only find hundreds.
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And I made a joke as you're pulling $100 bills in your wallet.
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That's never happened to me.
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I've never in my life only had hundreds in my wallet.
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So I think that is a demonstration of a little bit of a difference.
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There is a difference between the models.
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No, no.
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You were going like, you were like putting pennies on the table and trying to count
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to $7.
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And I said, and you said you have changed.
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And I said, no, I only have hundreds.
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And did I, I gave you the hundred.
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You did.
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And you're expecting the rest of it back at some point.
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And then you, well, I'll never see that money.
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And then you send me a text saying that your wife really enjoyed the tacos I bought.
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And I'm going, wait a second.
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Did I say, hey, here's a hundred?
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Go buy your wife some tacos?
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You did not.
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I just I figured when I went to go pay for the tacos and by the way
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Paying for tacos with $100 is not ideal
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They don't like that when you give them a hundred bucks for like seven dollars in tacos people people don't like cash anymore
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I feel bad about is when you go to like to a valet or something
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And you come out and like they don't have a way to give the guy tip here on the cash
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Yeah, you know, I like every hundreds. I don't you know, right, you know, I know you apparently yeah
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I'm a big guy.
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It's awesome.
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And then while you were here, I bought a microphone for you because I left this microphone in
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Austin.
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So you sold me, you marked it up.
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I think we should tell the listeners.
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Well, no, it's the fancy case that you got with it.
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That was what really cost all the money.
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It was really just the case.
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Hey, by the way, and I have to make this the subject of the day, but I just want to mention
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that I was watching CNN last night,
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I saw a commentary online that this whole
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Tala Rico mental health thing was a big giant conspiracy
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that fell apart because James Tala Rico says so.
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Well, you know, here's what I think is interesting
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about that, because we put, I think,
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one or two clips up on X and got a few
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pretty liberal comments, which I often delete.
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The social media people should know that,
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that are out there trying to troll us.
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I usually delete them, and the reason I do that
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Is that if it's a real if it's a real person they'll come back and do it again if it's a robot it'll give up
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And so anytime you delete the first message from anybody if they don't come back
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They're probably just a bot and so yeah, I have a really different view of that on my site
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Go ahead. Don't you fino calm which of course is bigger than yours, but this is KZ radio, but you're still bigger. Yes
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But
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I don't like to delete anything
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Sure.
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There are, if you look at my site and you look at the comments of my story, there's
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always the Wayne haters, I call them the Wayne haters, who think I am like the lowest form
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of Ponds Garden.
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Sure.
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And then you get the people that disagree with you.
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And I actually, I don't mind that.
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If you want to call me out and say I'm like a hired assassin.
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Absolutely.
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The reason I do it, because I can explain,
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it's for KSEV's radio page, it's not necessarily mine.
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I don't put a whole lot of stuff out
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of my social media page right now,
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is that we're not getting a terribly large amount
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of interaction from people who support us.
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And so the robot things can see.
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You never do.
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You never do.
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The robot things can maybe see that they can flood it.
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Oh, robots.
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I think there are some of them,
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because when you delete it and they don't come back,
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you don't ban them.
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It's not like I kicked somebody out
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where they can't comment again.
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They just give up after one try. That's not very human. But when it go ahead
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When we do that, I see that it just gets loaded like when I don't beat delete them loaded with negative comments
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It's like one two ten and then we have seven or eight comments and they're all negative on some posts
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And you start to think yourself if I leave this and granted there's a difference because it would benefit our traffic
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If I left the comments the algorithm would see that there's more comments and spread it to more people
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But we need some people to interact in a positive way,
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so it at least looks like everyone
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doesn't hate what we're saying.
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All right, well you mentioned robots,
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and we had this conversation yesterday.
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Yeah, we did.
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And you were trying to get me to fire some human beings
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to hire a robot.
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I was not, actually.
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And when Carter came by and got kind of like worried
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about that, I told him that wasn't the plan.
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But we can publicly say it if you want to.
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Robots.
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You can say anything publicly.
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I don't care.
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Okay, robots are producing our show right now.
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Outside of Russell, who is actually hitting the buttons
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and answering the phones and stuff,
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I mean like the-
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And you.
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And we're doing the show.
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I mean like the post-production part of producing,
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they put videos up on social media for us,
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they edit them.
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If we want a clip of something
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and it's got bad words in it, they'll bleep it for us.
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Robots are working for us every day right now
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to do some of the stuff that traditionally
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You'd hire a producer to do after the show
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We're not doing that the robots are taking over. So I you know, one of my fears about that enough fear
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I mean, I'm not like sitting home and I know drinking my margaritas. I think oh my gosh, but but I I
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Do worry a lot about what goes out on my page
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Yeah, because I get sued a lot and I'm I'm already envisioning
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I'm already envisioning.
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You know, I told you I got sued once because a guy said he couldn't have sex anymore.
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Yes.
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I remember that one.
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So I get sued a lot.
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So I'm trying to figure out how you go into court and they say, why did you say those
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words?
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And you were to say-
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I didn't say it.
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My robot employee said it.
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Yeah.
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Well, so I have a couple of thoughts in reaction to what you said.
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The first one being you can set up the robots so they can't do anything a final action until you say yes
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So every day they could come to me and say Craig
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Do you want me to post this clip of Wayne that we think is funny and I don't want to say yes
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I just want him to do it
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So they're just doing it right now and we'll see and then the other the other thought is that you can create
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Limitations when you tell them what to do you can say don't use these words don't say these things don't post clips like this
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So you can try to mitigate that.
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Yeah. First of all, my headphones are getting pulled again. My thing is tangled around my chair.
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I never brought that sleeve over. I got to get you that sleeve.
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No, I really have a constant problem every morning with my cheap chair rolling over my headphones.
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To go back right now during the political season, I think that there are a lot of politicians and a lot of super PACs doing what I'm doing to produce the post stuff for our show.
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So part of the reason I'm deleting it right now is I assume after November, it's probably
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not going to be as many robots.
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And it's just crazy how many there are now.
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Yeah, the interesting development is that I was going to fire my social media person
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this morning as a result and just hire a robot for 10 bucks.
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He just got married, so I thought it was a perfect time to fire him.
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And I came to work this morning, I was going to do this show and then fire him, and he
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called and said.
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Oh, okay. My whole plan now is yeah, really thrown us under so here's the problem for
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The professionals out there especially the younger ones who might call in sick a little too often
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The robots will never get sick
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So if you don't want the robot to take your job, you probably want to be extra careful not to get sick
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If you can if you can I'm just putting it out there the robots won't go
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You know the mob is gonna find a way to control AI sure
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I think I think everybody's trying to control AI right now
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I think that's the whole data center conversation and all of it, but it is, it's surreal to
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watch the things that the robots can do.
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Oh, actually, I think one of the clips we shared yesterday was a James Talarico piece
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of audio and the robot that makes video clips for us said, hey, you played the audio, but
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you don't have the video.
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Can you send me the video?
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And I sent it and it added it to the clip and put it up on social media because we're
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playing audio now through Russell so that the robot did the extra work and
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noticed the problem and I didn't tell it anything. It's like talking to people.
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If you could scam all day and get a robot to do your work, God bless you man.
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That's not really my work but yeah I got it. Go ahead.
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But I just wanted to finish on this Republican local thing.
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Sure, please.
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I really implore people to go to the entire ballot. Don't just do the
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couple of things and say, I don't know who these people are.
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There are a lot of judges on the ballot.
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If you want tough on crime judges, you elect Republicans.
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Amen.
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And a lot of times people blow past those at the end or they just, they don't pay attention.
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Please.
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The judges, the county attorney, of course the county judge.
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We have Orlando Sanchez who's running as the Republican.
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I've known Orlando for a very long time.
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I think he's supposed to be back in the show sometime soon.
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We have Letitia Plummer who corrupts.
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I'm not a fan of Letitia Plummer.
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Legal challenges.
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She's had all kinds of like drama, right, surrounding her?
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And you could tell that local TV is dead.
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I'll tell you one of the reasons you can't.
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We're in the last couple of weeks of a political campaign
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where the commissioners have just voted to raise taxes, now 41% in the last three years.
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The community should be outraged.
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I don't care if they're Democrats, Republicans, the Green Party, the Pink Pajama Party, the
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people that are there, don't give a crap about affordability.
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They've raised your taxes 41%.
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And if you want a glimpse at what Democrats do, just go to any big city in the country.
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Go to Harris County.
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Yeah, exactly.
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And you'll see it play out.
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Yeah, and you'll see them be desperate for more of our money and more control because
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they take ridiculous amounts of our money already in any way that they can and spend
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all of it.
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It's the drunken sailors spending that we also see with the federal government.
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That's the reason we have a deficit as high as we do.
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All right, we got to take a break.
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We will come back.
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The robots will probably do some things for us during the commercial break. I imagine
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Now that you're gonna have to get my headphone you're gonna have to do that part yourself
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That's the thing you're gonna have to do yourself quick break a lot more
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It's the mob guys KSEV radio the voice of Texas KSEV radio
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As the voice of Texas. My name is Craig Coglianese. He is Wayne dulcefino
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We are thrilled to be here. Is this um, is this working? Are you working? No, you're not working. Yeah, there you go
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I'm working, but I just want you to turn on my headphones.
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Oh, you want me to, I can do that every single,
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yeah, here we go.
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Has that better now?
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I can speak this way, I can actually hear you.
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Yeah, I'm turning it down during the break
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so you can hear me over the spots.
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I think the listeners and viewers should know that you,
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we had like a three minute commercial, whatever that was,
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and you waited until about nine seconds
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before we went on the air when you shoved
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that peanut butter sandwich in your face.
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And I'm thinking, that's, you know, radio guys,
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I remember those radio days, right?
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You could do all kinds of stuff in a couple of seconds.
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You could.
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You can.
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You can.
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Well, you can go to the bathroom in under a minute.
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It doesn't matter where it is if you're radio trained.
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No, you can go to the bathroom while I'm doing the show right here.
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I can't.
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Look at the man.
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But real quick on this Harris County speech, and I only mentioned it for this, is that
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I told them what I tell you and all our listeners and viewers when I'm on this show.
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While I understand the getting out the base thing and using messages about child porn
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and transgender and men in sports and all this kind of stuff, but I heard a commercial
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that Susan Collins was doing in Maine.
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And I understand it's Maine, different place.
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But it was about taxing Troy Jackson.
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Like loves taxes.
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Guy's been around forever, loves raising taxes.
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Sounds about right.
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I actually think that if I was trying to communicate,
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look, this is a base election.
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You know, this election isn't like everybody voting.
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Like this is like the partisans, right?
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And maybe some independents,
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people that just like to vote, but it's really a base election.
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But I do like the idea of talking about taxes.
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If you're worried about affordability, the last thing you should do is elect people who
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always, always raise your taxes.
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Now, you're absolutely right about that.
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You know what's interesting about that too, and we were talking about that during the
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the difference in some messaging and others,
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it is out there.
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Like the thing that I'll say,
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because sometimes I think you and I land on the assumption
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that no one's even talking about the more important issues.
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And there are people that do,
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they're just not getting traction for doing it.
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And there's a couple exceptions out there.
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I thought one interesting one,
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and we were gonna play the clip,
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but the clip actually doesn't contain the thoughts
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that are in the post itself was Chip Roy.
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Who Chip Roy, I know persona non grata for some people now.
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his message on television, which obviously is what maybe he thinks sells better, is you don't
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want to let men play women's sports, all the things we hear. But then in the writing of the post,
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it says, these taxes over here, this spending over here are the actual problems, and if you
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put Democrats back in power, it will only get worse. And it made me think of audio from Scott
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Jennings yesterday that I just sent over to Russell. This is Scott Jennings challenging
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encouraging Democrats on CNN and telling them the Democratic talking heads on that show,
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telling them what are the Democrats actually going to do to fix the stuff that they always
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run on and they always talk about as being the things that they'll make better.
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How are they going to make my financial life better kind of stuff?
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It just happens to be that nobody can answer those questions.
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I think that goes to your point again, as Russell gets the clip ready, because I think
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I just threw that at him a second ago.
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But as he gets ready, I'll tell you again, your point is there's a message that's not
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being delivered well enough to actually, you know, succeed.
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Because I think it's the thing that actually does reach a lot of the people in the middle.
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It reaches a lot of young people who just want a better opportunity financially than
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they're currently getting.
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They just want to believe that things are going to get a little bit better, not worse.
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Unfortunately, we don't have a president that can say, I understand your frustration.
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We've made lots of progress on the border, on this, on that, on stopping fentanyl, blowing
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up drug traffickers.
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But prices are stubbornly high in part because if we don't take care of a nuclear threat,
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are on now.
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I mean, there's a Wall Street Journal story today talking about how they're fortifying
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their nuclear sites.
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Well, if you're making like nuclear fuel for like the gas stations, you don't need to fortify
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them.
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Right?
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They're fortifying their nuclear sites.
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And you know, forgetting the debate about whether we obliterated them or really messed
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it up or whatever, these people will threaten us forever if we don't finish it.
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And there's a third aircraft carrier going over there.
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The Wall Street Journal article sort of talked about how they're doing it because they think
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it's coming, right?
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And I do think it's coming.
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I think after the election, if Trump's gonna whack him.
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And I don't think he wants to whack up.
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Look, I don't really think Trump really likes the whole war thing.
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I really don't.
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I think Trump's a peace president, not a war president.
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And sometimes it's unfair in a presidency when things happen.
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But a lot of the stuff he's doing will take time and is just beginning to emerge, like
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the manufacturing jobs number, right?
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The Atlanta Fed is talking about 5% growth.
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Sure. There are some really good things happening in the economy.
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Sure. And people may not feel it yet, but the wave is coming.
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Cool. I think Russell's ready now.
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He has the clip and I think this is going to lean into a lot of what Wayne just said.
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But here's Scott Jennings asking very pointed, very simple questions to the Democratic, you know,
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talking heads on CNN. What ideas have you actually brought forward that fix these problems
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that you're saying have been created by the Republicans?
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Feel free to be disappointed about one thing or the other.
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What would a Democrat do?
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What has a Democrat proposed to do in this election that would change your life in any
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meaningful way?
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And don't forget, 90% of the cost of living that you're upset with was handed to you by
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Democrats anyway.
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Right.
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And if you look at the USDA data on grocery, they have somewhat tamed food inflation right
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now.
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I know a graph is cold comfort to people who are having trouble affording things.
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But the real debate is what has a Democrat done or proposed to do even on gas prices?
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Yeah, no, that's great that is exceptional on gas prices on food and anything go ahead and then what excuse did
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Adlimate nothing there were no answers that she kept saying, you know, I hear that a lot I hear that a lot and
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We'll figure those things out when we go because it's true. Right? It is true. It is right
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Well, and this is to your point, this is what you said about President Trump, who I know
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that both of us in certain ways support.
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I certainly do and have most of the man multiple times.
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Oh, yeah.
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Sure.
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Yeah, you do too.
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He isn't capable of going out there and not saying everything's great.
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It's the way that he approaches all of this.
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He has a firm belief that projecting that I'm the greatest and everything around me
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is the greatest benefits him and our party more than the opposite.
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it. And occasionally, that's not true. And I think this is one of those times where you could say,
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yeah, that is kind of high. Yeah, that's kind of expensive. Yep, this is bad. Just to make people
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believe that you actually are continuing to do the work you're already doing. And we're already
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seeing success as Jenny points out in grocery prices and grocery stores, like it just convinces
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us that work is actually happening. Instead of that part being the assumed part. It's more focused
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in the messaging. Yeah and look, the media is not gonna hold the Democrats accountable.
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Of course not. Even if you say Medicare for All, which because people think money is just
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flying out of the space, right? Yeah. They really do. Let's just, let's give everybody
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health insurance. Yeah. Sure. But that's causing a fortune. It does. It does. And then there are
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programs that they want to help the people on the lowest rungs, right?
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But the people in the middle, the people that are like actually working all day long, they're
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not going to get help by Democrats.
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No, and we find all the time, you find all the time, I think legitimately go find this,
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how those programs that are supposed to help the lowest level actually have the most fraud
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and abuse in them.
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Those are the ones that have the most stealing from the people who are most in need.
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So the compassionate person who wants your tax dollar to actually go to someone who most needs it,
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they're completely naive in thinking that actually occurs if you hand it to the government.
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It doesn't happen. That's where you need churches and other organizations to be stepping in
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and doing this work beyond government money. Yeah, we got to get the government. I know
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this part is not going to happen because everybody's like a bunch of lazy sloths now.
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We need to get the government out of a lot of stuff that it does, which is, which may be a
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need idea, but it's just not what our tax money should go for.
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Right. And I promise, at least I believe wholeheartedly, that other organizations would step in to fill the gap that actually helps people in need, not just leave them hanging, and we won't have all the fraud and abuse then.
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Yeah, I was talking about homelessness last night. We'll talk about it after the break.
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Okay. We'll talk about the homelessness problem. I have something about the homelessness problem too. On The Voice of Texas, KSEV Radio. It's the mob, guys.
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KSEV Radio, 700 a.m., the voice of Texas.
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I am Craig Coglianese, he is Wayne Dolcefino.
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I am punching up right now the post on social media,
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the post on Dolcefino Consulting specifically
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that says certain things to get people
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to watch us on Facebook.
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We are on Facebook, we're on YouTube,
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we're on X, we're on Rumble, we're a bunch of places.
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Can I make an appeal to Facebook?
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Sure.
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Because, you know, I, when I started my company 14 years ago, we used an email.
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I've told you that story that I couldn't get my domain name because there was a guy in
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Germany named like Schmeckle or something that owned the name Dolcefino.
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He owned my name.
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So when I started my company, I had to call it Dolcefino.com.com.
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Right.
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I had to add a C O M because I couldn't use my name.
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Dolgefino.com.com.
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Yeah, now it's Dolgefino.com.
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Anyway, we set up our Facebook page
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and Dolgefino Consulting was the name of the company
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at the time because at the time,
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I was gonna mostly consult with other people.
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But as it evolved and as the local media died,
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we became much more of a content company, right?
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Our investigations are put out there.
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If you like old school investigative reporting,
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where you're guys.
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But I used an email.
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I think it had something to do with Dolcefino.com.com.
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It's like 14 years ago.
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Sure.
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And so I have no clue what that email was.
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Wow.
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So we have tried literally for like eight years.
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Maybe we can get a robot to do this.
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You probably can get a robot to do it.
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We have tried for the first thing I was thinking of.
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Eight years to get Facebook to let us change our company on social media to Dolcefino media.
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Okay.
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If you look at our site, it says consulting, but we really, we're not
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Safino media. Yeah. But we can't get anyone to respond. And when they do send
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the code, they send it to an email address that I must have had 14 years
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ago when I first created the company. How do I get to that email? I don't have that email.
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You can't. You can't get it. Yeah. I think your problem... Did you work on that for me?
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I could actually. I've done that before. I remember recovering the things like you're saying for a WGN group that had lost theirs.
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The problem is that your page is a little bit too big for it to be easy. If you were less popular Wayne, this would be easier.
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They don't like to give up the control of pages that have 100,000 plus people on them.
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Yeah, I don't want, like I just want to change the background.
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And it really is one of the things that really, like I get a letter from someone saying, I'm
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going to sue you some lawyer.
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I go, you know what, man, take a crap on yourself and I throw it away.
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But this Facebook thing really, really tweaks me.
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Well, I can help.
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I actually think I might be able to help you get it.
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We'll pay you.
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Okay, cool.
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Well, you gave me a little bit of money yesterday, so we'll see.
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No, no, no, but you know, look, I made a minimum wage is what?
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$7.50?
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What?
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It's fine.
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I said I would ask for more and then I'd take a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
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I will pay you what a what a burger guy made.
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The guy at the burger line.
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Well, which one?
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Like the guy that's been working there a few years?
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Maybe that guy, he gets a little bit more.
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Okay, first day guy.
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That guy's not making that much.
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That's fine.
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All right.
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But now, I think that a lot of the reason that this is so interesting to so many people,
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too, when you talk about some stuff like this, or to get back to what we were saying just
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before the break.
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Yeah, the Republicans.
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Yeah, the Republicans and the challenges that people face and the way that it kind of goes
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is, I think I just want to hear someone on the side I support that I believe is actually
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doing things that are making my life better admit that it's not done yet, admit that it's
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not and not in the way of saying, you know, like, there's
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a lot more work we could do to make things even better for you.
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I want them to say that, hey, looking at everything right now,
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this isn't where we wanted it to be. By October of 2026, when we
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took office in 2024, we wanted us, we wanted to be further
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down the road on some of the plans we have to make, you know,
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some of those costs go down. I think that that message alone
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would work more. And I think that's part of what you're
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saying is that if I just heard more people say, you know, we haven't succeeded to this
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certain level that we use this rhetoric or these, you know, kind of exaggerations all
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the time to claim we're succeeding to, if it's a little more muted, but we promise more
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is coming, that that would win over a lot of people.
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Yeah, but look, these consultants and the political party, the Republican Party, is
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must be looking at some numbers that tells them that this trans thing still gets people
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And I do think it gets a lot of the people that that culturally yeah, you know, there's two frustrations
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There's the money frustrations, right? I
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I bought what I buy. Oh a big thing a gum
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At the store last night. Okay, one of those big John things. It was seven dollars and 58 cents
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Wow.
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I understand why the party is tapping into the cultural frustration because it is true
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that if we don't hold the line, we can see it.
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You weren't there yesterday when we had this big debate in my office about Columbus Day.
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I mean, quite honestly, I almost gave my people off Columbus Day because they were annoying
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me.
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Oh, wow.
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The left wing freaks about Indigenous Peoples Day.
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And I said, who was here?
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Who was your first?
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And it was some tribe and I'm sure there were lovely people and I said well, where were they?
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I mean were they actually in the Heights? I mean were they sitting I mean, I think the cavemen
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I don't believe we're the only indigenous people right but but but cavemen
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I think we should go back to the days of the cavemen and
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I think back the land. Yes
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If we're gonna do this, yes, so I think there's two frustrations. There's the money frustration
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There's the cultural frustration and there's a cultural frustration and it's a kind of a recipe
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Well, you know, it's what's interesting about that too
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I think that a lot of people feel as though at times
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We've taken our eye off the ball in one way or another
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Education is a thing that I hear about a lot now that Republicans really just let that go
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We decided there was something more important over here and we ignored this issue over there and we let it grow
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And I think that's part of the reason that people attack culture
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So much is because it you are inundated with it if you if you step out of whatever silo you're in and just see generically
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What and I continue to do this. I don't know why we talked about this so much
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I think it's because of me I continue to do this via AI
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I'm keep having this stupid argument with Google's AI about how biased it is. I'll ask it for something
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It'll deliver me back what I think is a pretty biased message and I'll tell it like this is politically one-sided
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And I don't know if arguing with it once or twice a week will help it get better
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But I don't I don't think it matters the control. I'm not gonna argue. I'm not gonna argue with your robots
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Really? I'm a robot do what I say
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Well the control though about that messaging is so important that I think people do focus on culture wars and there are things
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We're dropping the ball on things that we at least need to be talking about
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Even if there is work being done behind the scenes to make those things better
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I do want to talk about Talarico again after the break because I think the left's
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explanation of what's going on with Talarico is weird. I know Wayne thinks it's weird too.
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Why can't you admit that some of it doesn't make any sense? Maybe it's not what we've said it could
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be, but it can't just be a flu. It doesn't seem like it's just a flu based on how he's behaved.
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But more of that on the Voice of Texas KSEV radio, the mob guys, Craig Coglianese Wayne Dolcefino.