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Harris County's Tax Hike, Wayne on Toll Road Surpluses, and Trump on a Fed Rate Hike · KSEV Mornings with Craig and Wayne

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  Speaker 1: And now, the mob guys creak.
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  Speaker 2: On your knees and.
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  Speaker 4: We are the mob, guys. I am Craig. He can
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  Speaker 4: say his own name. Wendell Cefino.
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  Speaker 5: You're Wendell Cefino, and we are here on KSEV in
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  Speaker 5: the beautiful radio studio that is so well represented by
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  Speaker 5: the visual that people saw before the show started, the
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  Speaker 5: animated visual.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, so what exactly was that?
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  Speaker 5: That was AI's rendition of our studio. That's what AI
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  Speaker 5: assumes we look like.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, can we show people again the picture, or is
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  Speaker 4: that not possible?
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  Speaker 5: Give me a second.
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  Speaker 4: I can get there. But I'd like to comment before
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  Speaker 4: you actually show it. Okay. So this AI thing, I
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  Speaker 4: think our AI went a little crazy. It was being deceptive,
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  Speaker 4: and I think it sort of epitomizes– The scary reality.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to I'm going to zoom forward. So you're
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  Speaker 5: seeing the video now.
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  Speaker 4: I'm driving down. Where are we driving? What road is that?
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  Speaker 5: That is not a real road. It's just supposed to
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  Speaker 5: be a highway. And we're seeing now. Here's the thing.
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  Speaker 5: Anyone that's watching on social media, including Wayne's Facebook page,
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  Speaker 5: you can see that all the other like things were
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  Speaker 5: passing on the side of the road.
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  Speaker 4: It's not.
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  Speaker 5: Perfectly representative of what the thing actually is.
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  Speaker 4: There's like two things built.
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  Speaker 5: No, there's like 12 that go by. You just saw
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  Speaker 5: San Juanicito. You're going to see a version of SpaceX.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, a monument, right?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, there's NASA. Yeah, right. Without the buildings. There's no buildings.
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  Speaker 5: This is AI, man. But here, we're going to jump
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  Speaker 5: ahead so that you don't criticize everything else. And then
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  Speaker 5: we'll get to, there is KSV radio.
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  Speaker 4: All right. Now, look. I really believe in truth and transparency.
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  Speaker 5: You do.
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  Speaker 4: And I have been to the studio.
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  Speaker 5: And it looks almost exactly like that.
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  Speaker 4: And it is shocking how great it is. Look, KSEV
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  Speaker 4: looks nothing like that. Yeah, I know. And then the
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  Speaker 4: next shot is like some fancy studio with all kinds of... Actually.
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  Speaker 5: What's interesting about that, that last shot is a real
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  Speaker 5: photograph of the inside of our station that was animated
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  Speaker 5: by AI by Lucas Hall, one of the other producers here.
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  Speaker 5: So that is not actually fake. That last thing is real.
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  Speaker 5: I can go back to it again. We can do
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  Speaker 5: it again. Hold on.
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  Speaker 4: You're a little blurry.
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  Speaker 5: Am I a little blurry? So this is actually a
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  Speaker 5: shot of the real radio station.
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  Speaker 4: Where?
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  Speaker 5: That's the producer booth. That's an actual visual of the
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  Speaker 5: real producer booth.
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  Speaker 4: That's an actual picture.
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  Speaker 5: Well, the thing in the background, the voice of Texas Banner,
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  Speaker 5: that's not real. And I don't know what threw that window.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, because he used a cardboard sign in the corner
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  Speaker 4: of the studio. It was like eight bucks.
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  Speaker 5: Lucas Hall, who is the producer of Chris X's show
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  Speaker 5: and also doing a lot of digital for us, he's
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  Speaker 5: the one who made that. And that's a real photograph
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  Speaker 5: he took.
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  Speaker 4: Very nice. Okay, well, let's talk about something important.
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  Speaker 7: All right, fine.
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  Speaker 5: Let's talk about something important.
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  Speaker 4: Other than your deceptive AI model that's obviously run amok.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that you enjoy a lot. Well, there's a lot
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  Speaker 5: of things out there. I think you wanted to talk
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  Speaker 5: about something that Bill Hall said on, or Bill King,
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  Speaker 5: excuse me, said on What's Your Point?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, because we're going to raise taxes again because, hey,
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  Speaker 4: we got money to burn, baby. Just take some more
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  Speaker 4: of my money. Can I tell you something? I think
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  Speaker 4: we've raised taxes like 30% in the last three or
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  Speaker 4: four years. And I know inflation is out of control
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  Speaker 4: at 3% or 3.7% or whatever it is. How do
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  Speaker 4: we need to raise taxes like 30% in a three
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  Speaker 4: or four year period when inflation has only gone up
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  Speaker 4: like 4%? And I'm told that the new budget will
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  Speaker 4: bring in, I think it's $ 327 million more.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: It will bring in a lot of money.
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  Speaker 4: What is going on?
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  Speaker 8: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I don't have a good idea.
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  Speaker 4: And then I heard Leslie Briones, who apparently was defending
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  Speaker 4: the need to constantly raise taxes because of our explosive
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  Speaker 4: growth in Harris County. That was like we're exploding with people.
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  Speaker 4: And while I will admit there does seem to be
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  Speaker 4: a lot more different kind of folk living here. Bill
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  Speaker 4: King was on What's Your Point with Greg Grugin, and
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  Speaker 4: he was asked to respond to Leslie Briones' theory that
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  Speaker 4: because we've got a crapload of, I guess, illegals or
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  Speaker 4: whoever's coming, that we need to raise taxes again. And
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  Speaker 4: I kind of wanted folks to listen. I called Bill
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  Speaker 4: last night at like midnight to say, hey, come on
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  Speaker 4: the show this morning. but he didn't answer the phone.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what happened.
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  Speaker 5: All right, well, we can play it first, and maybe
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  Speaker 5: we'll hear from him today at some point. We'll get
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  Speaker 5: him on another show.
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  Speaker 4: Here we go.
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  Speaker 9: When we're growing so rapidly, and then we have to
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  Speaker 9: contend with the law passed by the state of Texas
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  Speaker 9: in 2019, which is the revenue cap, to cap it 3.5%,
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  Speaker 9: there is an inherent tension that we're always having to balance, right?
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  Speaker 9: Delivering core services, delivering what I call the non-negotiables with excellence, right?
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  Speaker 9: while having to balance the growth and the increasing demand,
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  Speaker 9: which is then, of course, made further interesting by additional
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  Speaker 9: unfunded mandates that we get.
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  Speaker 10: Panel Commissioner Leslie Briones trying to put lipstick on this
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  Speaker 10: pig at the public trough. For the record, we invited
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  Speaker 10: Commissioner Briones to defend this massive tax hike here this morning.
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  Speaker 10: And let me check. Nope, still haven't heard back yet.
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  Speaker 10: I'm going to go straight to Bill King.
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  Speaker 6: So none of what Commissioner Breonna said in that statement
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  Speaker 6: was true, not a single part of it. She made
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  Speaker 6: three points. Harris County is rapidly growing. Harris County is
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  Speaker 6: not rapidly growing. It grew by less than 1% last year.
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  Speaker 6: 100% of that growth was international immigration. And you know
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  Speaker 6: what's happened to international immigration. Every demographer that I know
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  Speaker 6: thinks Harris County will lose population this year. By the way,
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  Speaker 6: until Biden had his border policy that led a lot
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  Speaker 6: of people in, Harris County had been flat for about
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  Speaker 6: 10 years. Starting about 2015, people started moving out of
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  Speaker 6: Harris County. And we've had negative domestic migration every year
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  Speaker 6: for the last 10 years. Last year was the highest
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  Speaker 6: level ever, 44,000 people. It's about 300,000 people have moved
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  Speaker 6: out of Harris County in the last 10 years. 18
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  Speaker 6: out of 25 Harris County school districts lost enrollment last year.
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  Speaker 6: A total enrollment drop of 26,000 students, 3%. Does any
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  Speaker 6: of this sound like a growing county to you?
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  Speaker 8: No, it's not.
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  Speaker 6: So I don't know what county she's living in, but
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  Speaker 6: it's not Harris County. Let me finish. So the unfunded mandates,
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  Speaker 6: here are the increases in the budget, $ 327 million. $ 89
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  Speaker 6: million to continue free health care for the employees, not
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  Speaker 6: mandated by the state. Increase of $ 76 million for law
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  Speaker 6: enforcement raises and filling positions, not mandated by the state.
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  Speaker 6: Continuing the ARPA and special funds, $ 58 million, not mandated
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  Speaker 6: by the state. civilian pay increases, $ 50 million, not mandated
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  Speaker 6: by the state. You can go through this list. There
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  Speaker 6: is not one dollar of the $ 327 million increase in
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  Speaker 6: the funding that they're asking for and asking us to
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  Speaker 6: pay for that was mandated by the state. And oh,
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  Speaker 6: by the way, part of that increase is for Leslie
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  Speaker 6: Briones to add 70 staff members to her personal staff.
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  Speaker 6: There's 98 staff members being added in.
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  Speaker 5: All the commissioner's office.
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  Speaker 6: Her office is adding 70 staff members in her office.
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  Speaker 5: He crushed it right there for all the stuff that's
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  Speaker 5: absolutely a lie. Go ahead, Wayne.
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  Speaker 4: For people that don't know, Bill King ran for mayor.
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  Speaker 4: I got to tell you, I've done investigations of Bill
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  Speaker 4: back in the past, right? So we're... We're friends. We
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  Speaker 4: do the show together. But I think he probably still
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  Speaker 4: secretly hates me for what I did before. But having
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  Speaker 4: said that, he is one of those few people that
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  Speaker 4: I trust. When I hear him say numbers, I know
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  Speaker 4: that Bill, because he has money and apparently doesn't have
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  Speaker 4: to work like slaves like we do, he is right.
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  Speaker 4: He's right on. I've done a lot of investigations into
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  Speaker 4: Harris County. And One of the departments I've investigated is
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  Speaker 4: called D E E O. It's the diversity, equity, opportunity,
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  Speaker 4: whatever people, we need equity, right? We need to have like,
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  Speaker 4: if there are people that are fat, we need to
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  Speaker 4: have fat chairs. If there are people that are skinny,
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  Speaker 4: we need to have skinny chairs. I really cannot. I
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  Speaker 4: literally heard a person speak at a city council meeting
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  Speaker 4: who had been hired as some, equity person talking about like,
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  Speaker 4: we have to understand that not all people can fit
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  Speaker 4: in these small chairs. And I'm going, really, are we
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  Speaker 4: going to have different size chairs for, are we going
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  Speaker 4: to have to weigh in when we go to a
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  Speaker 4: city hall meeting? I just don't know what these people think.
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  Speaker 4: But this department has exploded in cost. And what they
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  Speaker 4: do is go around checking to make sure affirmative action
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  Speaker 4: companies are really whatever. They worry about what color people are,
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  Speaker 4: which is one of the big problems in this country.
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  Speaker 4: We got to stop talking about what color people are
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  Speaker 4: because it doesn't matter. I don't know whether those brown
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  Speaker 4: people lived here for a thousand years or they just
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  Speaker 4: like jumped in the Guadalupe. I don't know what or
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  Speaker 4: whatever river that is down there. I don't know what
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  Speaker 4: these people are and I don't care. And I really
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  Speaker 4: think it's one of the missing messages for us.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: That we're the party that doesn't give a crap what
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  Speaker 4: color you are. We just want you to get off
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  Speaker 4: your butt and work.
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  Speaker 5: I can go even further, Wayne, because there's a missing
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  Speaker 5: message for sure on the conservative. I don't care what
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  Speaker 5: you do in your own home if you're an adult.
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  Speaker 4: Have a good time.
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  Speaker 5: There's a lot of things I don't care about that
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  Speaker 5: I provide you the freedoms that you expect and you
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  Speaker 5: provide me the freedoms that I expect, and you don't
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  Speaker 5: demand your ideology is in my brain, which is the
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  Speaker 5: problem on the left. The left always needs... other people
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  Speaker 5: to think like them. But yes, you're absolutely right. It's
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  Speaker 5: one of several things that my problem sometimes with the
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  Speaker 5: conservative attacks on the messaging, not necessarily the real message itself,
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  Speaker 5: is that they're racist and sexist and this. And the
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  Speaker 5: truth is, I don't care about any of that. None
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  Speaker 5: of it matters. I'm just not going to prioritize any
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  Speaker 5: sort of, you know, government bills that I create around
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  Speaker 5: anything other than skill. I want you to be the
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  Speaker 5: best at whatever job you get. And I want everyone
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  Speaker 5: to have a shot at it. I want to give
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  Speaker 5: opportunity to everyone, but I don't want to control outcome
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  Speaker 5: at all. And it's crazy that they don't go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: Can I make another quick complaint and then I'll go on?
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  Speaker 4: This is a personal thing. I have a, I want
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  Speaker 4: to send a message out to the city. I have
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  Speaker 4: a recycling can that's been broken for six months. Okay. It,
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  Speaker 4: every time it rains, it fills up with water and
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  Speaker 4: to move it to the curb requires me to call
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  Speaker 4: the one of my staff to say, can you come
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  Speaker 4: over and help me push this garbage can?
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: And I, I just want this city. I'll give that
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  Speaker 4: my address. I don't care. I mean, someone wants people
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  Speaker 4: who want to kill me can find me.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 4: So I get it. I just would like someone to
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  Speaker 4: replace my darn, but recycling can with a new one. And, um, I,
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  Speaker 4: I just, I don't understand what I'm paying for. We,
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  Speaker 4: I just don't understand it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Leslie Briones, of all people, besides for adding staff, she's
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  Speaker 4: the one that paid all these bonuses that they don't
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  Speaker 4: call bonuses to her staff because she wanted to keep them.
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  Speaker 4: Of all people to complain about spending. You know, Leslie
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  Speaker 4: Briones seems real nice and she's all bubbly and we're
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  Speaker 4: just trying to spend money, whatever. It's just insane. And
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  Speaker 4: it reminds me of the other thing that's insane is
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  Speaker 4: that's the toll road.
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Okay?
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  Speaker 11: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: And I will tell you that of all the investigations
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  Speaker 4: I've done, there is virtually none, other than maybe some
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  Speaker 4: cop haters out there. There is nothing that gets more
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  Speaker 4: views than the stories I've done on the toll road
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  Speaker 4: and the hundreds of millions of dollars of surplus money
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  Speaker 4: that we get every year that is then spread around
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  Speaker 4: to the commissioners to do stuff they want to do
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  Speaker 4: in their districts. Okay? That's interesting. I'm sure a curb
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  Speaker 4: is really nice and some flowers. I get it. Okay. But,
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  Speaker 4: but we, it is one of the great scams of
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  Speaker 4: the public.
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  Speaker 5: That's interesting.
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  Speaker 4: When they sold it, you got to go.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we do have to take a break, but I
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  Speaker 5: was going to tell you that I was in the
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  Speaker 5: middle of a story. Go ahead. Keep going. No, no,
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  Speaker 5: go ahead. I was going to tell you that we
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  Speaker 5: get calls all the time, complaining the toll road also
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  Speaker 5: still has traffic. If it's going to cost so much
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  Speaker 5: money and they're going to steal all the money, at
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  Speaker 5: least try to make the traffic nicer on the toll road.
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  Speaker 4: I'm with you. Okay, well, let's take your break. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: And then I can continue my break.
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  Speaker 12: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Collienese.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And I am Wayne Dolcefino. What does Collienese mean? Uh,
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  Speaker 4: I'm old. I'm the guy that says I don't remember.
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  Speaker 4: I know. But Dolce Fino means sweet and fine.
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: I guess.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: And when I'm in a confrontation with someone and they
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: call me a terrorist or an a-hole or the most
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: corrupt person in America, I say, hey. I'm sweet. I'm fine.
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: So there's two meanings. First, there is a town in Italy, Cagliano.
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: So it's technically someone who is from Cagliano. And then
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: the other meaning is not so great. It's fool or idiot.
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: So that's the other thing that colonies can be.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's why you don't remember. Because it means you're
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: an idiot.
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: It does.
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: A fool or an idiot.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Don't you feel bad about people whose family names
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: can be traced back to the word idiot? Yeah. I do.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: Or fool.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: I do.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: I feel bad for those people. And that's why you've
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: been calling yourself Collins all these years. Because you're trying
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: to hide your identity. And we live in a country
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: where everybody's identity is unique and must be respected. And
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: I am Italian-American. And from what I understand, when my
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: grandparents came over, let me look up at the map,
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: 1921 to this country. My grandfather made furniture, apparently, but
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: you couldn't do that here, right? It wasn't like you
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: weren't allowed. It was like a quota. And he came here,
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: and he ended up working at a butcher shop. I'm
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: looking at the picture. It's on my wall of my
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: uncle who died when he was, like, in his 40s,
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: which is sad in its own right. But he died,
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: and he worked at a butcher shop. It was a
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: New Jersey butcher shop that had fresh Jersey pork and
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: what they call city dressed beef whatever the hell that
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: is and my point if I can make it is
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: if I even know what the hell I'm talking about
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: is that I should be complaining every day about the
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: treatment of my you should Right. I mean, being called
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: WAP and Dago. And I think Italians today, I should
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: get my Italian flag. I should put it up next
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: to Don Corleone and say, why are you treating me
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: this way?
• 20:27
  Speaker 10: Right.
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: I'm a white guy. I think I'm an olive guy,
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: but I'm a white guy.
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: My family would talk about the two. My great grandparents
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: were the ones that came over here and they'd talk
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: all the time. My grandfather about how poorly people were
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: treated back in the day. So you're right. By the
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: rules of 2026, both of us deserve something. Have I
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: actually been treated racially as a person in my life? No,
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: but that doesn't matter. Somebody in my lineage was treated unfairly.
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: So I need compensation, I believe.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: When people call me names, I don't know whether or
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: not they're doing it because I'm Italian, American.
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: Probably they're racist.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: Or because I'm an investigative reporter. But back to my
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: toll road thing. Okay.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: Because I'm serious. And I would like... What's the number
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: to call in here?
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: I don't have it memorized. Hold on.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: Isn't it 281 something?
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, 281. That's part of it.
• 21:19
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: You don't even know the number to call in?
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: I don't encourage people to call in as much as
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: the rest of the station does.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: But it's 281-558-5738.
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: 281-558-5... I always have to look it up to make
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: sure I get it right.
• 21:29
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: So.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: And when people– I would like to hear– look, I
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: believe that if there was a vote today– and I
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: have been very disappointed in the candidates for Harris County
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: judge in this campaign. Obviously, I think Orlando Sanchez would
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: be far better than Letitia Plummer, who was on city
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: council and I think lived in another city. But whatever.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: It's another story. But we should stop this toll road nonsense.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: The toll road has become– another large tax. Yeah. So
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: when they talk about property taxes, right. And that going
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: up 7% or who knows, I mean, every year it's like,
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: we need more government. We need more people. We've got
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: to pay people three, $ 400, 000 a year. And I'm going, really?
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: I work like six days a week and run a
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: company and I don't make that money. I mean, what
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: are you talking about? Why do we need to pay?
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: And I even have the problem with constables, but back
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: to my toll road, It's like we now get like
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: $ 800 million in surplus money. Pay off the damn roads.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: I mean, look, if you have money to spend and
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: you owe like billions of dollars on these roads, right?
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: How do you have all this extra money to send
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: to some politician? Pay off the damn roads. Tell us
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: how much it costs to maintain. There's not even people
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: in these booths anymore. It's all like electronics.
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: You know what's amazing about that? I immediately thought of
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: like an old radio stunt, which radio stations used to
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: do very effectively and nobody does anymore, of just us
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: on the side of the toll road with signs that say,
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: pay off the damn road. Pay off the damn, just
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: hold those up and see if people beep. We can
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: do a social media video, something.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: Okay, I'll do it. I don't have anything else to
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: do with my life. I'm not running. I'm not running
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: a company.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: I'll do it. You're very busy.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: I tell you what, let's do it together. I think
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: we should hook up. We should go to a toll
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: road booth and knock on the door and say, where
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: the hell is everybody? Right. And there's some company making
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: a crap load of money running this electronic toll road thing.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: And so when you look at salaries, and I forget
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: exactly the amount, but it's like $ 460, 000 that the toll
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: road director makes. Now, I'm sorry. Once the roads are electronic, right,
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: all you got to do is.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: Like- A 491-218. Thank you very much. It's almost $ 500, 000.
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: What the hell?
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: That's nuts.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: These government salaries are out of control.
• 24:08
  Speaker 7: That's out of control.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: I've said it before, and those of our older audience
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: will really appreciate this, is that we used to not
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: pay public service much. Right. We gave them a great pension. Hey,
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: don't worry about it. We'll pay you like 10 bucks now.
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: I think this will pay you a lot when you're old, right?
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: And I made more money when I was working, and
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: now without thinking about the fact that when I stopped working,
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: I would live in a trailer home in an RV
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: park with a bunch of sex offenders. But I don't understand.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: I don't understand why we can justify paying someone who
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: runs a toll road, which is mostly built, Right. Maybe
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: there's a one more they're doing.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: Everything's a toll road now.
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: I think the biggest problem I've always complained when I
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: watch it at like a federal level where the Congress
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: will vote on whether or not to give a raise
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: to Congress, that the last thing we should ever do
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: is allow anyone in the world of politics to choose
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: their own salary or choose the salaries of people around them.
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: We should always be choosing those salaries ourselves and we
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: should be able to adjust them right now. If we're
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: unhappy with, say, the quality of the roads around. We
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: should be able to bring that down in our next
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: vote as the public by a whole crap ton of money.
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: We take a zero off of that number and give
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: them $.
• 25:27
  Speaker 19: 50, 000.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: If there was a vote today on the toll roads, look,
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: I think, look, I don't know if we can get
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: enough people to do it, but I would urge somebody
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: who's got money to back it. Let's force a vote.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: Let's get enough people to sign a petition saying, which
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: you'll be in charge of going to get. All right.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: Every day you'll be walking the roads.
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: That's fine.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: I'll do it. Let's get something on the ballot to say,
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: when you build a toll road, you pay the damn
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: thing off. They actually gave out like $ 800 million, and
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: then they borrowed money at 10% interest.
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: That's crazy.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: That's a really smart guy. Let's pay him nearly a
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: half a million dollars a year.
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: The music's playing. I don't know if you can hear it.
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: I tried to turn the music up for you this time.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: No, I don't know.
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: I don't know what's wrong. This is a great, great
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: bit that we need to dive into deeper. We need
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: bumper stickers for the, you know, KSV morning show, pay
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: off the damn toll road. We need to do all this, man.
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: Quick break.
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: A lot more.
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: Wayne is, I think, going to be on special assignment
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: after one more segment. So if you're loving Wayne, you
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: only got a little bit more time to talk to him.
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  Speaker 5: Who imposes property taxes?
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  Speaker 5: Nice try, but no.
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  Speaker 21: Local governments.
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  Speaker 17: Correct.
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  Speaker 14: The state of Texas does not impose a property tax.
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  Speaker 14: Only local governments impose property taxes. One of the reasons
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• 29:55
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• 31:29
  Speaker 4: Hey, I'm Sean. Hey, S-E-V. I'm Indole Trefino. I'm the
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: famous one. And then there's this Craig Cullinay's guy that
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: no one ever heard of. And we're doing the radio together.
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: You know, we just met. People think we've been friends
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: for like 30 years. Someone said, you and that Cullin's, Cullinay's, Cullinay's,
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: whatever the hell his name is. You guys hang out
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: together well. And I said, you know, we've known each other, what,
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: like nine days?
• 31:53
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's maybe maybe a little. I think this is
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: week three. So like 11 days we've known each other.
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: And when you came to the station, I was I
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: purposely avoided being here. I said, oh, God, that guy,
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: you guys coming over. And my guy said, hey, he's
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: a nice guy. And then I don't think we actually
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: met until I actually came to the studio.
• 32:14
  Speaker 21: No, no.
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: And I told you the story that I opened the
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: door for you once and you told me not to
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: make eye contact with you ever again. And that was it.
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: That was the only time.
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I have a thing about eye contact. I don't
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: want people looking at me.
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: Can I talk about the thing we were talking about
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: off the air? Because I do think it's kind of fascinating.
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: You should be in the Hall of Fame for radio
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: here in Texas. And you're not.
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: It's a travesty.
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: It is a travesty. I think we have to start
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: demanding that they reconsider that and put Wayne Dolcefino in
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: the Hall of Fame.
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: So there is no Texas Television Hall of Fame. And
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: I've always, look, I'm not going to be around that
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: much longer. I would like to be in the Texas
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: Television Hall of Fame. And here's my resume. 27 years
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: on TV in the biggest TV station in the state.
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: I was the investigative guy, right? I got sued a lot.
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: No one has been sued more than me in Texas
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: television history. And I think that alone.
• 33:10
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: So I'm going to start the Texas television hall of fame.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: And I'm going to be the first inductee.
• 33:16
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: Did you have like a lawyer that you'd contact every
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: day when you were getting sued that much? Was there
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: a station lawyer that you had a cell phone for.
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: Chip Babcock before he was Oprah Winfrey's lawyer in the thing,
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: but before Oprah, I was his most famous client.
• 33:32
  Speaker 13: Gotcha.
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: And Jackson and Walker represented me on a number of lawsuits.
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: And I love those guys because they were fighters and
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: they were aggressive and they're offensive, like I am. And
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: I just, I like those guys. When those guys were
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: our lawyers, I felt... protected, not safe. Because look, at
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: the end of the day, you know, I was throwing grenades.
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: People were suing me. I did one story on the
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: building department. I think everyone and their mother sued me.
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: And I had like five different lawsuits. I've been sued
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: for so many things and I actually enjoy it. So
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: if you're out there listening and I have pissed you off, Hey,
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: sue me.
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: Come after me.
• 34:18
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: Well, the thing is that means that you're having an
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: impact to be honest. And this is a weird pivot because,
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: But I'll throw this pivot out there because I saw it.
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: Somebody on social media was celebrating the latest vote to
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: try to impeach President Trump that failed. And I think
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: Al Green brought it forward.
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: I'm shocked.
• 34:32
  Speaker 7: You're right.
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: I'm shocked, too. The funny thing about stuff like that
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: is it does mean something you're doing is working. Something
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: you're doing is having the impact that the people that
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: are upset don't want you to be having. So they
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: go the road to try to stop you. Every time
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: you got sued, someone was trying to shut you up.
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: And the fact that it didn't work at all is amazing,
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: but it meant you were over the target every one
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: of those times.
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I told you this before, I think, maybe in
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: the 11 days we've known each other, but I was
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: sued by a guy once claiming he couldn't have sex
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: with his wife anymore because of an interview I did
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: with him.
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: I think I remember that, yeah.
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: It's true. Look it up. It's Folks versus Dolce Fito.
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: It's F-O-W-K-E-S versus Dolce. Look it up. And he claimed
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: he couldn't have sex anymore because I had confronted him
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: on camera. I'm going, dude. And I remember that when
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: I was deposed, the lawyer tried to make me feel
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: bad for him not having sex. And I said, I
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: was in the same interview. I have sex just fine.
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: So I don't know. It's a personal problem to me.
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: And maybe he'll sue me again for calling out his name.
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: Is that just– do they lie about stuff like that?
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: I mean, I know it's– I don't know what I'm
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: allowed to say. But do they lie about stuff like
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: that because they want the emotional money that they're asking
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: for to go up? Because that sounds insane.
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: When he sued me, I didn't know there was a
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: thing called loss of consortium, which is I can't do
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: it anymore because you were mean to me. And I'm
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: going– Really? I mean, are we really going to spend
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: like hundreds of thousands of dollars defending that? And I
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: was also sued by Lloyd Kelly, the lawyer over hidden cameras.
• 36:15
  Speaker 20: Wow.
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: He believed that a hidden camera was a wiretap. And
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: I said, there's no wire coming out of this camera. Right.
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: First of all, I don't even know what's in the camera, right?
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: We did a story once, and we had a hidden camera.
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: And then about six months later, we were trying to
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: get video of a Metro bus, right? And we wanted
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: the camera on the ground looking at the Metro bus
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: as it passed us, like right by the camera. Well, instead,
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: the bus ran over the camera, okay? and smashed it
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: into a hundred pieces. Well, you know, we said, oh crap,
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: that was a good idea.
• 36:50
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: And then a couple of months later I got sued
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: and they wanted to see the actual hidden camera that
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: we had used. And we said, well, we'd love to
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: show it to you, but it got run over by
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: a bus and the judge sanctioned us. She didn't believe
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: that we were dumb enough to put a hidden camera
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: on the road next to a Metro bus and I
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: will agree with her that we were stupid to do that.
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: But we didn't do it knowing that we were going
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: to get sued for it months later. So we had
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: to go try to reconstruct the camera. We still had
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: some pieces. And we go, here, Judge. Here's the camera.
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: This is it.
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: It got run over.
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: Have a good time.
• 37:28
  Speaker 8: Take a look.
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: We shouldn't elect judges, by the way.
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: No, we shouldn't.
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: We should not. No. They should be appointed by a
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: panel– of Supreme Court folks, we should retain them. We
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: have so many people that are lawyers, I mean, that
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: are judges, who, like, never tried a case. When I
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: hear that, and the problem is, we don't know who
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: the hell we're voting for anymore, right? We know about
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: Paxton and Tallarico, right? That's true. I know more about
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: the Syed guy in Michigan than I do about who's
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: running for the Supreme Court of Texas.
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know what's funny about that? Only when
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: someone goes truly viral like Beau French do I know
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: a little bit more about some of those races that
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: feel more off the beaten path for most people. I'm
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: not saying that you and I don't follow something like
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: Railroad Commissioner a little bit more than the average person.
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: I have no idea what they do. I know they
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: do oil and gas, but I have no idea what
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: they're doing, whether they're scamming. I don't, and I think
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: it's part of the problem. We don't know Who the
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: hell is running our government half the time?
• 38:29
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 38:30
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: We do know that the people in Harris County, the government,
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: somebody needs to slap them on the side of the head. Now,
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: I don't know if you have any Ramsey audio, the commissioner. Right.
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: One Republican. You know, the Democrats gerrymandered Harris County. So
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: there's only one Republican.
• 38:47
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: Because there used to be two. And they did that
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: to screw over Jack Cagle and make it a Democratic
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: thing for Leslie Briones.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: And so we have only one Republican in a commissioner's
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: court when at least 48 percent of us, 49 percent
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: of us aren't Democrats.
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: And when I hear people whining about what Republicans do,
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: I say, really? Yeah. The hypocrisy is stunning. Yeah.
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: No, it's amazing to hear people say we need to
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: change things because Republicans are screwing up. And then you
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: look at Harris County. and how dominant the Democratic control is.
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: And you're like, if you really want to change things,
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: if that's how you're going to vote on a Senate
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: race or somewhere else, you should out all of the
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: Democrats from Harris County and vote in all the Republicans.
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: If that's what you think fixes stuff, let's try that
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: at a local level.
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, look, we talked about Beau French for
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: like nine days because he made a probably off-color comment
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: about what color people are. Taught some Indian students and
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: he got all pissed off thinking this isn't America anymore. Whatever.
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: We need to be talking about what the Democrats do
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: when they get in power. I mean, they can all
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: be flowers and sunshine. Let's lower prices. Please tell me.
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: Can someone tell me a specific thing they're going to
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: do to lower prices for the middle class? I get
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: that they want to give poor people a bunch of money.
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: I get that. Like the bottom, whatever.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: But the most of the people are in the middle.
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: What specific things are they going to change?
• 40:25
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: Medicare for all sounds great. I love my Medicare. It'll
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: cost trillions of dollars.
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: Where are they going to pull this money out of
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: their butt?
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: Well, the thing they always sell their supporters is we're
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: just going to take a lot more money from the
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: rich people. And then they fail to do that or
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: the rich people leave whatever spot that they might successfully
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: take the money from them at. And either way, they
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: don't get the money from those individuals. So then they
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: have to raise taxes on the rest of us. Then
• 40:52
  Speaker 5: they have to put property tax like that's happening in
• 40:54
  Speaker 5: Harris County. The property tax jump is crazy. And the
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: reason for it is their reckless, stupid spending is. and
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: how they never get the money from the places they
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: claim they'll get it from.
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: Scum.
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they're scum.
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: They're terrible people. I don't know why I said that,
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: but I just felt it. No, they are. Hey, I've
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: got to leave because I'm going– I'm going to share
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: real quick. I'm going to a doctor because I have
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: a hernia in my belly button that is turning purple,
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: and that's not a good sign.
• 41:23
  Speaker 5: That's not.
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: That's a bad sign.
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: It's not dark purple. It's sort of a light purple.
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: I'm also getting a new thumb. Did I tell you that? Hey, nice.
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: Is it going to be like a robotic one?
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: It's going to be metal and plastic, my thumb. It's true.
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: That's crazy. That's really true.
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: I'm getting the surgery. In fact, if you'd like, we
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: could set up a camera in the operating room.
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: Of course we should.
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: You know how people that think they're famous have like, please,
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: I want to record my surgery going in?
• 41:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: I think the thumbectomy or whatever it's called.
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we should definitely do that.
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: I think we should have live coverage.
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: I mean- This station is famous for doing live procedures
• 41:59
  Speaker 5: on the air, so we should do that again. Yes,
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: that sounds great.
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: Hey, by the way, I would like to shout out
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: the guy, Lieutenant Governor Patrick. He apparently owns this station.
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: I don't even hang out with him. But he stopped
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: the ERCOT guy from getting a new deal. The guy
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: was going to be paid like $ 6 million, the guy
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: running the electric grid. I mean, it's another example, and
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: then I'll shut up. of this out-of-control pay for our
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: government people. Yeah. I mean, they're making way more. Like,
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: in Galveston, I'm doing stuff, and, like, the city manager makes, like, $ 350, 000
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: a year because they have so many visitors.
• 42:41
  Speaker 13: Ridiculous.
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: I mean, what the hell?
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 42:43
  Speaker 5: What the hell is right. Well, thank you very much, Wayne.
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: Good luck with your thumbectomy. Another odd thing about us
• 42:49
  Speaker 5: is we both have hernias in our bellybuttons.
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: I will show you mine.
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: I'll show you mine, but mine's not purple. Mine's okay.
• 42:57
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• 42:59
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• 43:01
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• 45:32
  Speaker 5: the rest, he's at the doctor's office. I like to
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: call it special assignment because then you don't know what's
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  Speaker 5: we think that's true, by the way, Russell, that he's
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: going to have his thumb cut off and a plastic
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  Speaker 5: thumb put on? You do believe it or you don't?
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  Speaker 9: Okay, you don't.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't believe it either. I don't know what to
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: think sometimes because Dolcefino... To me, Wayne Dolcefino is one
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: of the most honest dudes. And he was just talking
• 45:56
  Speaker 5: about this, so I'll say something quickly and then we'll
• 45:57
  Speaker 5: get to actual news stuff. Like, we've only truly known
• 46:00
  Speaker 5: each other for 11 days, honestly. I did meet him
• 46:04
  Speaker 5: once in the hallway here at the radio station and
• 46:07
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• 46:11
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• 46:12
  Speaker 5: along great. But he's one of the most honest, transparent
• 46:15
  Speaker 5: people I've ever met. In all honesty, like a lot
• 46:19
  Speaker 5: of the things that he'll talk about on the air,
• 46:21
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• 46:24
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• 46:26
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• 46:28
  Speaker 5: kind of amazing. And it fits with the person that
• 46:32
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• 46:35
  Speaker 5: Like nothing is is really off the table. The man
• 46:38
  Speaker 5: would probably talk about anything that we think we should
• 46:41
  Speaker 5: be talking about, which is so amazing. But let's do
• 46:45
  Speaker 5: a couple different clips that I have. that I'd like
• 46:47
  Speaker 5: to get to. There's one of Mamdami that's gone quite viral.
• 46:51
  Speaker 5: And then there's also a, I think it's a CNBC
• 46:55
  Speaker 5: thing that connects to President Trump's Truth Social post about
• 47:00
  Speaker 5: interest rates and them going up recently. And I do
• 47:03
  Speaker 5: think that as far as news that maybe you didn't
• 47:06
  Speaker 5: pay a whole lot of attention to, but is going
• 47:09
  Speaker 5: to have a huge impact on you and on me
• 47:12
  Speaker 5: and on all of us is the Fed interest rate hike.
• 47:16
  Speaker 5: That happened. That seems very confusing because not only did
• 47:21
  Speaker 5: you want to kick certain people out of the Fed
• 47:23
  Speaker 5: because they were unwilling to lower interest rates, keeping them
• 47:27
  Speaker 5: the same time and again, but now you're actually seeing
• 47:30
  Speaker 5: the polar opposite of what many of us hoped and
• 47:32
  Speaker 5: expected would happen occur. So let's play the CNBC announcement
• 47:36
  Speaker 5: audio first, then we'll go from there. If this actually
• 47:39
  Speaker 5: does play, which it should be. It should be playing.
• 47:43
  Speaker 5: Is it up on the 360? Russell, is the audio
• 47:48
  Speaker 5: up on the 360? Let's try that again. Let's see
• 47:49
  Speaker 5: if this works. It might be now. And it's interest rates.
• 47:53
  Speaker 7: Megan Casella's got this. Megan.
• 47:55
  Speaker 11: Melissa, that's right. This is the first we're hearing from
• 47:57
  Speaker 11: the president since that decision to raise interest rates. He
• 47:59
  Speaker 11: just posted on Truth Social saying interest rates in the
• 48:02
  Speaker 11: United States should be one percent or less because we
• 48:05
  Speaker 11: are the best credit in the world by far. Our
• 48:07
  Speaker 11: country is booming with new investment. If we stop trading
• 48:10
  Speaker 11: with every country that we have a deficit with, which
• 48:12
  Speaker 11: is most of them, we would make at least $ 1. 5
• 48:15
  Speaker 11: trillion a year. The word deficit is nothing more than
• 48:19
  Speaker 11: a fancy word for loss. We are carrying almost every
• 48:22
  Speaker 11: country in the world, and that cannot go on any longer.
• 48:25
  Speaker 11: Lower the interest rates for the United States of America
• 48:29
  Speaker 11: and fast. Now, a little interesting here, Melissa. He seems
• 48:32
  Speaker 11: to be re-upping at least a loose threat to cut
• 48:34
  Speaker 11: off all trade with most of the U.S. 's trading partners,
• 48:36
  Speaker 11: something that we first heard. a couple of weeks ago
• 48:39
  Speaker 11: in part of this campaign to pressure the Fed to
• 48:41
  Speaker 11: lower rates. But he wasn't going after Fed Chairman Kevin
• 48:44
  Speaker 11: Warsh here directly at all. This comes after a White
• 48:46
  Speaker 11: House spokesperson earlier today called the move rather unfortunate, sort
• 48:50
  Speaker 11: of soft language there by the White House's own standards
• 48:52
  Speaker 11: or the standards of this administration.
• 48:54
  Speaker 5: She's obviously comparing it to what they used to say
• 48:56
  Speaker 5: about Jerome Powell, because they've had a lot more influence
• 48:59
  Speaker 5: in putting the current person in charge at the Fed.
• 49:02
  Speaker 5: And I'll just say this. the rates shouldn't be going up.
• 49:06
  Speaker 5: You know that, and I know that. They shouldn't be.
• 49:08
  Speaker 5: And the argument being made, and maybe we'll get E.J.
• 49:10
  Speaker 5: and Tony on the show again, our economists, to talk
• 49:14
  Speaker 5: about this more, the argument they're making is that they're
• 49:16
  Speaker 5: still trying to tamp down inflation, that inflation is still
• 49:19
  Speaker 5: going up. wildly the wrong way, and raising the interest
• 49:22
  Speaker 5: rates is going to do that. But at the same time,
• 49:25
  Speaker 5: we're handicapping our economy once more. And I think the
• 49:29
  Speaker 5: big thing for President Trump specifically on this, if I
• 49:33
  Speaker 5: can kind of read the tea leaves and understand, is
• 49:36
  Speaker 5: so very often— I think at the end of the day,
• 49:40
  Speaker 5: he's looking at something and saying this is causing the
• 49:43
  Speaker 5: economy that I'm creating to be worse than it should be.
• 49:45
  Speaker 5: And that is unfair. And it seems to be happening
• 49:48
  Speaker 5: all the time, whether it was honestly. And I don't
• 49:51
  Speaker 5: mean this is exactly the same, but the covid pandemic
• 49:55
  Speaker 5: hitting when it did and ruining what was a great economy.
• 49:58
  Speaker 5: And now certain decisions, especially borrowing rate decisions by the Fed,
• 50:03
  Speaker 5: seem to be holding our economy back from being even better.
• 50:05
  Speaker 5: And it is true. If we need to make up
• 50:07
  Speaker 5: some sort of financial thing, a way that we're not
• 50:11
  Speaker 5: doing it, if we need to replace some of what
• 50:14
  Speaker 5: might be the additional impact of, say, lowering interest rates,
• 50:19
  Speaker 5: then the best way to do that is to stop
• 50:21
  Speaker 5: propping up every other country, stop being the weakest, at
• 50:24
  Speaker 5: least from a negotiation standpoint, country on the world stage.
• 50:28
  Speaker 5: We are the strongest country and the strongest economy and
• 50:31
  Speaker 5: the place everyone wants to do business in. Let's act
• 50:34
  Speaker 5: like that. I do agree with the president on that.
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  Speaker 5: I also want to play this Mamdami audio that's gone viral.
• 50:39
  Speaker 5: Let's get to this.
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  Speaker 20: An institute filed a lawsuit looking for your administration to
• 50:44
  Speaker 20: turn over records related to your deputy mayor and a
• 50:48
  Speaker 20: meeting with the Iran U.N.
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  Speaker 4: Ambassador that didn't end up happening.
• 50:52
  Speaker 5: But just what is the delay for these records? Why
• 50:55
  Speaker 5: not turn them over?
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  Speaker 7: So sorry, I think you're referring to the commissioner of
• 50:59
  Speaker 7: the International Affairs or deputy mayor.
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  Speaker 20: Your deputy mayor, yeah, Ana Maria Archila.
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  Speaker 7: She's the commissioner for international affairs.
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  Speaker 4: I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 13: No worries.
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  Speaker 7: I just wanted to make sure that I knew of
• 51:10
  Speaker 7: the same thing that we were talking about. So our
• 51:13
  Speaker 7: law department is reviewing this lawsuit, and we are fully
• 51:16
  Speaker 7: committed to transparency, and we are working to return FOIL
• 51:19
  Speaker 7: requests in full accordance.
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 51:21
  Speaker 5: Freedom of information requests. We're totally looking to do that,
• 51:24
  Speaker 5: but we also really don't want to do it. Because
• 51:26
  Speaker 5: here's the thing, and here's the thing that I love
• 51:29
  Speaker 5: so much about this. If you want to be transparent,
• 51:32
  Speaker 5: then immediately be transparent. Does that mean that you fulfill
• 51:35
  Speaker 5: the entirety of a request that comes in from a
• 51:37
  Speaker 5: Freedom of Information request?
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: No.
• 51:39
  Speaker 5: But you can give us some of it. You can
• 51:41
  Speaker 5: give some of the information, say we're reviewing what other
• 51:44
  Speaker 5: information we may or may not be capable of providing.
• 51:47
  Speaker 5: When you put something into legal channels that make it
• 51:51
  Speaker 5: more challenging and you make excuses, you're trying to hide stuff.
• 51:56
  Speaker 5: That's as simplistically as it is, and that's the reason
• 51:58
  Speaker 5: that these questions are being asked. Of Mamdani, mostly, I think,
• 52:03
  Speaker 5: because of what he claims he is versus the reality
• 52:07
  Speaker 5: of what he actually is. He is a politician that
• 52:10
  Speaker 5: will tell New York and to a certain extent the
• 52:13
  Speaker 5: rest of the country because people are voting for individuals
• 52:16
  Speaker 5: who wholeheartedly agree with the philosophies of Mamdani. But anyway,
• 52:22
  Speaker 5: he will tell someone that he is obviously so different
• 52:25
  Speaker 5: than every other politician. He's so much more transparent.
• 52:27
  Speaker 18: He's this.
• 52:28
  Speaker 5: He's that. He's all these great things. And at the
• 52:30
  Speaker 5: end of the day, you know and you can see
• 52:32
  Speaker 5: that he's the exact opposite behind closed doors. It's similar
• 52:36
  Speaker 5: to the Barack Obama complaints that people often made, because
• 52:40
  Speaker 5: I still know a lot of people. And these are
• 52:42
  Speaker 5: mostly people who are very much on the left who
• 52:45
  Speaker 5: believe that Barack Obama was the most incredible, amazing president
• 52:49
  Speaker 5: in the history of the country. And you ask them why.
• 52:52
  Speaker 5: And they'll tell you, because I like the way he
• 52:54
  Speaker 5: spoke to the public. Like, I like that. Like, do
• 52:56
  Speaker 5: you know anything about the policy decisions he made? what
• 52:59
  Speaker 5: happened to health care because of the Obamacare bill and
• 53:03
  Speaker 5: how it eventually was. But like, do you know anything
• 53:04
  Speaker 5: about any of the actual impact he had doing his
• 53:08
  Speaker 5: day to day job? And a majority of people who
• 53:10
  Speaker 5: will tell you they love Obama will not know that.
• 53:12
  Speaker 5: They'll just tell you the thing they loved most about
• 53:15
  Speaker 5: Barack Obama was how he behaved publicly. And that should
• 53:19
  Speaker 5: be the least important part of what any politician does
• 53:23
  Speaker 5: for us. And honestly, the big reason I'll say this.
• 53:26
  Speaker 5: And we're going to end the Facebook for Dolce Fino
• 53:29
  Speaker 5: because he's not here with us. So this will be
• 53:31
  Speaker 5: the end of the Facebook broadcast for Dolce Fino's page,
• 53:36
  Speaker 5: Dolce Fino Consulting. But anyway, I'll just say this. When
• 53:39
  Speaker 5: you love a politician, you should at least know what
• 53:42
  Speaker 5: they did with their job, not just how they spoke
• 53:45
  Speaker 5: whenever a camera was on them. All right, that's it.
• 53:48
  Speaker 5: Quick break. A lot more coming up. KSV Radio, The
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