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Callers on ICE Shootings, Why Talarico Is the Real Socialist, and Red Light Runners · KSEV Mornings with Craig and Wayne

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Speaker 1: I still enjoy that intro. AI made it.
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Speaker 2: And actually, we're probably going to start using a lot
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Speaker 2: of AI music for reasons that I probably don't need
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Speaker 2: to talk about on the radio for most of our
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Speaker 2: bumps so that we can do something else so that
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Speaker 2: Wayne Dolcefino can hear stuff easier during the show. That's
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Speaker 2: a thing we're probably going to do. So for anyone listening...
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Speaker 2: You might notice a lot less licensed music on this
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Speaker 2: program and a lot more.
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Speaker 1: Kind of sounds like licensed music. Like, here's what I love.
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Speaker 2: I'll just say this quickly and then we'll get back
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Speaker 2: to politics and I'll get Carlos on the air and
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Speaker 2: anybody else that wants to jump in on the air
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Speaker 2: can be a part of the show, too. The thing
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Speaker 2: that I really love about like AI music, when you
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Speaker 2: tell it to mimic real music, music that you like,
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Speaker 2: classic rock, for example.
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Speaker 1: It sounds similar. It sounds like it's sort of it.
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Speaker 2: It's the version of where you buy like a name
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Speaker 2: brand product, but in another country and they misspelled it.
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Speaker 2: So like it's Oreos instead of Oreos. And you're like,
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Speaker 2: these are kind of Oreos. They're not exactly Oreos, but
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Speaker 2: they're kind of the same thing. That's AI and classic rock,
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Speaker 2: which you might hear a lot of again on this show.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's get to Carlos. He'll hold on through
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Speaker 2: the break. Carlos is a caller who calls in a
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Speaker 2: lot to this station. and my show, I think, whatever
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Speaker 2: time slot that's in.
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Speaker 1: Carlos, what do you want to say?
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Speaker 3: Good morning, Greg.
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Speaker 4: I just want to disagree with the last caller, and
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Speaker 4: I agree with you. I think you did the right thing.
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Speaker 4: I'm hoping he's still listening because I want to hopefully
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Speaker 4: bring some sense into him. You don't argue. You try
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Speaker 4: to make your point because if you argue with them,
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Speaker 4: you just make them mad, and they're not going to
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Speaker 4: listen to you. I think what you did was the
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Speaker 4: right thing. That's the reason I call your show because
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Speaker 4: you're not like the rest. You don't make fun of them.
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Speaker 1: Thanks.
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Speaker 4: You don't pretend you're smarter than them. You just try
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Speaker 4: to make your point across, right?
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Speaker 2: Well, I'll admit I'm probably not smarter than everybody who
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Speaker 2: calls in the show. I know that I've been told
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Speaker 2: by at least one consultant never to say that on
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Speaker 2: the radio because that means everybody will stop listening to me.
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Speaker 2: They'll go look for a smarter guy. But I'm probably
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Speaker 2: not smarter than everybody who calls into the show. That's crazy.
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Speaker 2: The host to like pretend they are because we don't
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Speaker 2: know everything.
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Speaker 1: We just have opinions.
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Speaker 2: And I appreciate what you're saying. I appreciated the other caller, though,
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Speaker 2: because there is a fine line. Between seeming like I
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Speaker 2: agree with something because I'm not talking and waiting for
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Speaker 2: someone to finish so I can I can argue with it.
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Speaker 2: And there is a lot of stuff I left out
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Speaker 2: of that conversation, Carlos, with a caller a little while
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Speaker 2: ago for anyone just tuning into the show who was
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Speaker 2: basically trying to.
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Speaker 1: Accuse Paxton of being a socialist, which is insane.
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Speaker 2: But there's a lot of things that I left off
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Speaker 2: for the reason you said, is that I don't think
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Speaker 2: I'm going to reach that person. But I do think
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Speaker 2: after that guy is off the air and maybe after
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Speaker 2: you and I are done talking, I'm going to go
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Speaker 2: through a lot of the socialist positions of a James
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Speaker 2: Tallarico because there's a ton of them. And a lot
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Speaker 2: of them get closer and closer, and some just seem
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Speaker 2: to blatantly be socialism, like health care for y'all, which
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Speaker 2: is one of his positions, which is health care for everybody,
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Speaker 2: government health care. the way it happens, other government takes
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Speaker 2: over that industry. That's just one example, but there's a
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Speaker 2: bunch of them. But I don't know if there's anything
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Speaker 2: else you wanted to say about the Senate race yourself.
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Speaker 2: I actually have a different question for you, too. But
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Speaker 2: is there anything you want to say about the Senate race?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, but the Senate race is, hopefully, like I said,
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Speaker 4: that guy's still listening. Like I told you before, I'm
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Speaker 4: an independent voter. I'm not a sheep of either party.
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Speaker 4: And I told you, I don't like Trump.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 4: Personally, I don't like him. I don't think we could
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Speaker 4: be friends, but I understood... he was the better choice
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Speaker 4: for this country at the moment, right? So I understood
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Speaker 4: he was going to do what needed to be done.
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Speaker 4: So if that guy's still listening, look, I don't like
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Speaker 4: taxing either, but I do understand he was a great
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Speaker 4: politician for the state.
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Speaker 1: Attorney General, yeah.
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Speaker 4: Exactly, Attorney General. He threw a lot of companies, brought
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Speaker 4: a lot, billions of dollars back to Texas. So I
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Speaker 4: don't like him as a person either. Believe me, and
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Speaker 4: I told you before, I wasn't a fan of him.
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Speaker 4: I would rather have Corning or the other guy that
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Speaker 4: was running the... I can't remember his name right now,
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Speaker 4: which I actually voted for.
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Speaker 1: Wesley Hunt is the guy that I also voted for.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Wesley Hunt.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the guy I wanted to.
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Speaker 5: Me too.
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Speaker 4: But obviously he didn't make it, right? So I don't
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Speaker 4: like taxing as a person. I know he has personal baggage,
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Speaker 4: but as a politician, he actually has done his job.
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Speaker 4: He's done a good job. Because even though I might
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Speaker 4: not like him as a person, he's done a great
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Speaker 4: job as a politician. So we have to know how
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Speaker 4: to separate the both.
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Speaker 1: We do. And I totally agree with you.
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Speaker 2: And that's one of the points they did make to
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Speaker 2: that first caller that called in is that when you
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Speaker 2: look at, Paxson, excuse me, his record in his political
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Speaker 2: roles that he's had in his life, he is going
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Speaker 2: to quickly align with a lot of the things that
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Speaker 2: I think that first caller who's upset about actually wants,
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Speaker 2: like policy decision making from the Trump administration, not necessarily
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Speaker 2: how he's carried himself publicly or the stuff he puts
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Speaker 2: on social media, but policy decision making. There's a lot
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Speaker 2: of it that a lot of people are actually happy about.
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Speaker 2: And Iran and the fight there might be the exception
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Speaker 2: to said rule. But a lot of going after fraud
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Speaker 2: differently than we have before is just one example I
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Speaker 2: use a lot.
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Speaker 1: They're actually happy with it closing the border the way
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Speaker 1: that it got shut down. And that's actually the question
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Speaker 1: I want to ask you, Carlos.
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Speaker 2: People can tell when you call into the show you
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Speaker 2: have a little bit of an accent. But I want
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Speaker 2: to ask you about what happened in Austin. I want
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Speaker 2: your opinion real quick on that, if you don't mind.
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Speaker 4: I just had an argument this morning at work with
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Speaker 4: my coworkers about it because I'm the only one that
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Speaker 4: stands on the fact that I haven't seen any unreasonable
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Speaker 4: shooting for me. Look, this is what I told my brother.
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Speaker 4: If I'm a cop, if you're my brother and you're
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Speaker 4: a cop and I have to catch you and you
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Speaker 4: try to run me over a vehicle, I would shoot
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Speaker 4: you and you're my brother. That's the way I see it.
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Speaker 4: And that's what I told him. Obviously, I'm the lone
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Speaker 4: survivor in my group because everybody's like, oh, ICE are
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Speaker 4: a bunch of killers, whatever, blah, blah, blah. And I
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Speaker 4: was like, dude, I would shoot you if you try
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Speaker 4: to run me over while I'm doing my job.
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Speaker 5: Of course.
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Speaker 1: You defend yourself.
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Speaker 4: That's what I said.
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Speaker 1: I get it.
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Speaker 2: And I'll be honest with you. Thank you very much
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Speaker 2: for the call, Carlos. But I'll be honest with you.
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Speaker 2: The other thing that I have a problem with, because
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Speaker 2: I do have a problem, is the lack of clear
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Speaker 2: information that we should be getting. They should be wearing
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Speaker 2: body cameras. That's the only problem. And ICE is supposed
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Speaker 2: to wear them. And I know there's some like financial
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Speaker 2: reasons or something. They're not all wearing them yet, but
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Speaker 2: I think they will. I think at some point in
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Speaker 2: the future, and it's not just Democrats who've asked for that,
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Speaker 2: it's Republicans, because it should prove that these ICE agents
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Speaker 2: are not acting the way that Democrats are claiming they're acting,
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Speaker 2: but we can't prove it. And we're a weird society.
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Speaker 2: I've said this before and I'll say it again, that
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Speaker 2: we've gotten so used to everyone having a flock camera
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Speaker 2: in their pockets that we really do only trust definitive
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Speaker 2: video at this point as proving one narrative true and
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Speaker 2: another narrative false. And when we don't have it, a
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Speaker 2: lot of people make up their own mind. Even when
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Speaker 2: we have people on the record and versions of video
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Speaker 2: and a clip over here, I've sat next to somebody
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Speaker 2: and told them to watch something that I thought made
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Speaker 2: a crystal clear argument with definitive facts, and they still
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Speaker 2: are trying to find little holes, little things to poke there.
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Speaker 2: Because it's really more about being right for a lot
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Speaker 2: of people than it is about being open-minded to what
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Speaker 2: could or could not be true based on information. But
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Speaker 2: thank you again for the call, Carlos. George from Tombaugh
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Speaker 2: is on the line, so we'll go to George next. Really,
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Speaker 2: this has become an accidental call-in show, so if you
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Speaker 2: want to call into KSEV Radio for the morning show today,
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Speaker 2: you can.
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Speaker 1: But, George, what do you want to say?
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Speaker 5: First, I want to say my Royal X watch is real.
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Speaker 5: Because you can tell, you can watch it count off
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Speaker 5: each second. It is definitely real. I can see it
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Speaker 5: count off the second. One, click, click, click, click.
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Speaker 1: There you go.
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Speaker 5: Wow. I got to wind it, what, three times a day.
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Speaker 1: But definitely real. Fantastic. What else do you want to say, George?
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Speaker 5: It's a definitely real knockoff. The other thing, too, is
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Speaker 5: that there are several problems we have. First of all,
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Speaker 5: justice in our country, especially looking at what happened in
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Speaker 5: this latest trial where a woman clearly murdered her children. Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Justice in our country is no longer a matter of
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Speaker 5: what's right, what's true, what's correct. It's about what you
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Speaker 5: can get away with and how you can manipulate the rules. Oh,
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Speaker 5: I know this. I'm a victim of it. Don't want
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Speaker 5: to go into detail. Sure.
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Speaker 6: Right.
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Speaker 5: So now here's the other thing too. When you, when
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Speaker 5: you listen to these, some of these other callers or
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Speaker 5: even the opposition party, and then I'll, I'm going to
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Speaker 5: finish it with a statement that you'll disagree with. Okay. Right.
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Speaker 1: Is that, I like you're predicting my behavior. Go ahead.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I think cause it's, it's a conclusion I
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Speaker 5: reached this weekend and I just don't care anymore.
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Speaker 7: Sure.
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Speaker 5: Um, Truth has become the lie that you're most comfortable with.
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Speaker 1: How so? You've got to explain that.
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Speaker 5: No, it's really simple.
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Speaker 1: Oh, wait. I think I understand what you mean now.
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Speaker 2: Most people will accept a lie if it agrees with them.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, if it agrees with them. And if enough people
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Speaker 5: believe a lie, then it can become true. Well. Just
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Speaker 5: based on.
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Speaker 2: I understand the reason you're using the words you're using
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Speaker 2: to make your point effectively.
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Speaker 1: You're doing a great job with it, George.
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Speaker 2: I really dislike hearing a lie will become true because
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Speaker 2: it doesn't become true.
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Speaker 1: You and I know it doesn't become true.
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Speaker 2: But people behave as though it is.
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Speaker 5: Yeah. Truth is written by the contemporary society. Sure.
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Speaker 1: That's true. That unfortunately is true.
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Speaker 5: That's essentially– and there's no way around it. That being said,
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Speaker 5: I'm checking out. I'm not going to vote anymore. I
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Speaker 5: don't care.
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Speaker 8: Why?
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Speaker 5: It doesn't matter.
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Speaker 1: It really doesn't matter to me anymore. It's not that
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Speaker 1: I disagree with that. I'm more intrigued by that, George. Why?
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Speaker 2: Because by choosing.
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Speaker 5: It doesn't matter who I vote for. It doesn't matter
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Speaker 5: because both of them are equally going to abuse me.
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Speaker 2: You sure they're equally going to abuse you? You really
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Speaker 2: believe that they're equally?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, positive.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 5: Positive. And if you want, I got an entire case
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Speaker 5: file to show you of just nothing but abuses. As
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Speaker 5: a person, I no longer have the right to medical
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Speaker 5: privacy if the laws don't apply to me. I don't
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Speaker 5: have the right– it's like this. When it comes to
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Speaker 5: me as an individual, and I can show you in
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Speaker 5: a court document, they didn't have to prove anything. I
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Speaker 5: have to prove something. So why?
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Speaker 3: Why am I going to upset myself?
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Speaker 2: I love your example to start this phone call of
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Speaker 2: Lindsey Clancy and how crazy it is that there are
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Speaker 2: a lot of people out there who seem to think
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Speaker 2: it's okay to murder your kids now.
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Speaker 1: Because, like, I feel like our society has changed.
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Speaker 2: I feel like that used to not be true, that
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Speaker 2: if a woman killed her children, there weren't going to
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Speaker 2: be a lot of people out there defending the woman,
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Speaker 2: regardless of what she was saying was the reason for
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Speaker 2: doing it.
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Speaker 1: But there are.
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Speaker 2: But here's the thing that intrigues me about about your
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Speaker 2: position of I'm just going to give up.
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Speaker 1: I'm just going to pack it in. I'm done with this.
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Speaker 2: I think that the policies on one side of the
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Speaker 2: aisle will always make things worse than the policies that
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Speaker 2: are likely like, for example, right now. If our border
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Speaker 2: were still wide open, that's a worse version of day-to-day
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Speaker 2: life than we have right now, isn't it?
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Speaker 1: If our border was still wide open, that's a bad thing.
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Speaker 5: No, it's a bad thing.
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Speaker 2: So there was only one side of the aisle that
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Speaker 2: was saying that they were going to close the border,
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Speaker 2: and only one side of the aisle who did.
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Speaker 1: And now that the border's closed, that is a good thing.
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Speaker 1: All right, go ahead.
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Speaker 5: But here's what it comes down to. And I've trained
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Speaker 5: with ICE agents. Sure. I've trained ICE agents.
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Speaker 1: You're a military guy.
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Speaker 9: I know you are.
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Speaker 5: I know their policy. Yep. I know they're, right? As
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Speaker 5: soon as you ram another car, that's deadly force. Yes.
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Speaker 5: That's it. Yes. You know, so you've got to justify that.
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Speaker 5: And the thing is, some of these people, they're indoor cats.
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Speaker 5: ICE has been indoor cats for God knows how long,
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Speaker 5: and now you let these little kittens outside and they
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Speaker 5: all think they're tigers. And they do not have the experience.
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Speaker 5: They don't have the knowledge.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate what you're saying. I get it.
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Speaker 5: And that's basically what it comes down to.
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Speaker 1: Well, and George, yeah, and I really appreciate the phone call.
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Speaker 1: I thank you.
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Speaker 2: I have more calls. I don't know why we're getting
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Speaker 2: so many calls today, so I'm going to move on.
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Speaker 2: But I want to say one last thing to what
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Speaker 2: you're saying. My problem when we talk about ICE specifically,
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Speaker 2: and a lot of us have strong opinions, I'm sure
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Speaker 2: Carlos would call back in and tell you he totally
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Speaker 2: disagrees with you in what you just said, which is
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Speaker 2: laying potential blame, some potential blame on some of what's
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Speaker 2: going on in our world on the ICE agents themselves.
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Speaker 2: My problem is not having better information, is not having
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Speaker 2: video cameras that are worn on people's bodies and in
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Speaker 2: more of these vehicles. If you have an unmarked vehicle
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Speaker 2: and you crash into someone that you're trying to apprehend
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Speaker 2: and they don't necessarily know that you're ICE, I don't
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Speaker 2: know how long it is for that to become apparent.
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Speaker 1: I truly don't.
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Speaker 2: I don't know when you get out of the car
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Speaker 2: and run and you got the ice uniform on.
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Speaker 1: I think that's different.
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Speaker 2: And I don't think I've seen a lot of people
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Speaker 2: complain or claim that ICE agents are wearing plain clothing
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Speaker 2: because they're not.
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Speaker 1: But I don't know.
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Speaker 2: So some of this, I just want to see a
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Speaker 2: more definitive version of what happens to more confidently defend
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Speaker 2: the side that I'm guessing is more innocent that they're
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Speaker 2: being led to believe they are.
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Speaker 1: And that's the ICE agents themselves.
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Speaker 2: But I appreciate what you're saying, too, about how some
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Speaker 2: people are really weren't trained to be doing what they're
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Speaker 2: doing now. I think we've got to take a break.
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Speaker 2: We do have more phone calls. Just taking the bottom. Okay,
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Speaker 2: that's what that meant. You said keep going.
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Speaker 1: Awesome. Thank you, Russell. Teresa is next up. Teresa, what
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Speaker 1: do you want to say?
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Speaker 5: Hi, good morning, Craig.
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Speaker 1: Good morning.
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Speaker 8: Hi.
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Speaker 10: The issue I'm having is that we're not unifying. And
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Speaker 10: the Democrats do it well. We go to the primary.
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Speaker 10: We choose our candidate. And us Republicans, conservatives, we then...
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Speaker 10: Most of us try to get behind whoever is going
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Speaker 10: to be on the ticket. But then there's some of
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Speaker 10: us who, for whatever reasons, they will not get behind
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Speaker 10: the person. And that's what we fall apart. And the
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Speaker 10: Democrats don't do that. They get behind the person and
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Speaker 10: that's where they're going to win. And we've got to unify.
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Speaker 10: We've got to get together and forget. We're going for
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Speaker 10: the best man for a woman for the position. That's it.
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Speaker 10: Forget everything else. Who is the best for the position?
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Speaker 11: Right.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Who's going to do the better job of the people
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Speaker 2: that are actually up for the job? Because I can't force,
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Speaker 2: you know, my best friend in there if I think
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Speaker 2: he's going to do better than both of these people.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's really interesting about what you said, Teresa.
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Speaker 2: I agree with you that that the Republicans are not
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Speaker 2: as unified as the Democrats. But there's times where I'd
15:39
Speaker 2: like that. And I want to explain that real quick,
15:42
Speaker 2: like when it took forever to pick a speaker of
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Speaker 2: the House. Democrats were so happy to watch Republicans sort
15:47
Speaker 2: of be at each other's throats and fighting about it.
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Speaker 2: But I think that's what makes the Republican Party, or
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Speaker 2: at least the conservatives who vote within the Republican Party,
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Speaker 2: maybe not the politicians and especially the rhino ones that
15:58
Speaker 2: Chris Salcedo would tell you about all the time and
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Speaker 2: probably is this morning.
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Speaker 1: On his show. And there are a lot of rhinos.
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Speaker 2: But the thing I like is that Republicans seem to
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Speaker 2: accept diversity of opinion more than Democrats do.
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Speaker 1: But it does hurt us.
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Speaker 2: You are right that that version of saying, you know,
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Speaker 2: darn it, my opinion matters, even if it doesn't fully
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Speaker 2: agree with your opinion and and we can both coexist
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Speaker 2: without demanding each other think the same. There are times
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Speaker 2: where that defiant nature that I like about this party
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Speaker 2: pushes people to be defiant in harm to the party
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Speaker 2: actually winning an election. And that could be what happens
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Speaker 2: in the case of Tallarico and Paxton, because Paxton.
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Speaker 1: Is easily the better choice.
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Speaker 2: When you look at the two people and what they'll do,
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Speaker 2: he's just easily the better decision. And people who seem
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Speaker 2: to say that he's not are really mad at the
16:48
Speaker 2: party they may have voted for in the past, more
16:51
Speaker 2: so than truly looking at, you know, the two apples
16:54
Speaker 2: and comparing them or the apple and the orange and
16:56
Speaker 2: comparing them, because there's just so many differences there. I
17:00
Speaker 2: don't want us to be a better party at at,
17:04
Speaker 2: you know, hive mind thinking. But I do want us
17:07
Speaker 2: to be a better party at coming together when we
17:10
Speaker 2: don't get what we want, that we come together to
17:13
Speaker 2: at least make sure the other side doesn't get a
17:15
Speaker 2: win because we're standing on the sidelines.
17:17
Speaker 1: I agree with that.
17:19
Speaker 10: One one hundred percent. You're absolutely right. It's not the
17:22
Speaker 10: herd mentality because we're smart enough to know the differences.
17:25
Speaker 5: Yes.
17:25
Speaker 10: Between the candidates. And that's great.
17:28
Speaker 7: Right.
17:29
Speaker 5: That's great.
17:29
Speaker 10: It's kind of like when the all the data center information.
17:33
Speaker 10: I remember I was at the convention. And people were
17:36
Speaker 10: very strong about not allowing the data center. And I
17:39
Speaker 10: first thought was like, why? I mean, why are you
17:42
Speaker 10: saying no? And now I agree with the fact that
17:47
Speaker 10: is it all that bad?
17:48
Speaker 3: Really, guys?
17:48
Speaker 10: I mean, it's good to sit and look at all
17:51
Speaker 10: the facts, you know. Yeah, are we going to let
17:55
Speaker 10: China win? I mean, I think that's part of it.
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Speaker 2: No, I love that, Tariq, because I do think it's
18:00
Speaker 2: that simple, by the way. And is there anything else
18:01
Speaker 2: you want to say? I don't want to cut you
18:02
Speaker 2: off if you want to say something else.
18:03
Speaker 3: That's it.
18:04
Speaker 4: No, no, no, that's it.
18:04
Speaker 10: Thank you.
18:05
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, because I want to say one
18:07
Speaker 2: thing in response to the data center comments, because I
18:10
Speaker 2: do really think, and I thought this yesterday, and we
18:14
Speaker 2: were getting a text from Ben Stroussand, who's very informed
18:17
Speaker 2: on a lot of this stuff. So I think a
18:19
Speaker 2: lot of people are going to focus on that issue.
18:22
Speaker 2: And try to turn it into something that it might
18:24
Speaker 2: not be. And conservatives, if they're easily attacked on it,
18:28
Speaker 2: are going to struggle to maybe reposition it. And I
18:31
Speaker 2: know a lot of Republicans don't like the idea of
18:33
Speaker 2: data centers either because it plays on a lot of
18:36
Speaker 2: the fears that you have. I'll say it that way.
18:38
Speaker 2: The data centers that are government supported because we need
18:44
Speaker 2: them to protect our country from other countries who won't
18:47
Speaker 2: have this kind of debate. who force the hive mind
18:50
Speaker 2: on the people who live certain places. Places like China
18:53
Speaker 2: murder the people.
18:53
Speaker 1: Who don't have the hive mind.
18:55
Speaker 2: That's how they go about just doing whatever they want
18:58
Speaker 2: in Russia. They kill the people who say the thing
19:01
Speaker 2: out loud that they don't like. At least we don't
19:04
Speaker 2: do that often. Sadly, someone killed Charlie Kirk for what
19:08
Speaker 2: he thought and believed, and it does happen, but nowhere
19:11
Speaker 2: near as much as other places. But nonetheless, what I
19:13
Speaker 2: think is really interesting about the data center is that
19:15
Speaker 2: the simple argument plays into a significant amount of genuine fears,
19:23
Speaker 2: legitimate fears that people on the right or on the
19:26
Speaker 2: left have about distrust of government, about, you know, overly
19:31
Speaker 2: benefiting the one percent, whatever it might be like. Republicans don't,
19:35
Speaker 2: by and large, think that it's OK. At least I
19:37
Speaker 2: believe this to be true, that there's so much wealth
19:40
Speaker 2: disparity in the world or in our country that there's
19:43
Speaker 2: so few people at the very top and so many
19:46
Speaker 2: people at the bottom. But as I've said several times,
19:49
Speaker 2: and I'll say it again on the show, we profoundly
19:51
Speaker 2: disagree on the solution to that, to how we go
19:54
Speaker 2: about fixing that, because you cannot just force people who
19:58
Speaker 2: are wildly successful to give you their success.
20:01
Speaker 1: They won't do it.
20:02
Speaker 2: They have more than enough capability of saying no to
20:05
Speaker 2: that demand, however it goes.
20:07
Speaker 1: The richest people out there have the teams.
20:10
Speaker 2: The teams who can fight all the different tax loopholes
20:12
Speaker 2: or find them and get, you know, out of paying
20:15
Speaker 2: all the taxes that Democrats say they're going to charge them.
20:18
Speaker 2: And then they also have the means to leave. And
20:20
Speaker 2: we don't want them to leave. New York is a
20:23
Speaker 2: great example of this. Real quick, as we have just
20:26
Speaker 2: a couple minutes before we take the bottom of the
20:28
Speaker 2: hour news. I love having a conversation with with some
20:33
Speaker 2: of the people I still know on the East Coast
20:35
Speaker 2: about what the promise of Mamdami was.
20:38
Speaker 1: And what the reality of Mamdami is and.
20:40
Speaker 2: How that's going to continue to sink in over the
20:43
Speaker 2: course of, say, the next few years. Because like the
20:46
Speaker 2: government grocery store is such a wildly socialist.
20:50
Speaker 1: Concept and terrifying concept in and of itself.
20:54
Speaker 2: And it's the kind of thing that is going to
20:55
Speaker 2: harm other businesses that is not going to go well.
20:58
Speaker 1: Like you're just seeing this again and again and again.
21:00
Speaker 2: And the reason I'm bringing this up in this conversation
21:03
Speaker 2: is the amount of rich people.
21:05
Speaker 1: Who are fleeing New York. They're just leaving.
21:07
Speaker 2: And Kathy Hochul, the governor of that state, had to
21:10
Speaker 2: beg people not to leave. I think she actually specifically said, hey,
21:14
Speaker 2: everybody that's moved to Florida, please move back here. But
21:18
Speaker 2: if you make something, and to be honest, I'm not
21:22
Speaker 2: trying to get us lost in a bunch of thoughts
21:23
Speaker 2: at the same time, but I do want to say
21:25
Speaker 2: this because I think it's important. To be honest, I
21:28
Speaker 2: think part of the harm of what's happening here in
21:31
Speaker 2: Texas comes from our ability to steal these companies from
21:35
Speaker 2: the crazy left-leaning places that they're currently in.
21:38
Speaker 1: And it's not something I want us to change.
21:41
Speaker 2: I want this state to be an incredibly attractive state
21:44
Speaker 2: to business.
21:45
Speaker 1: I think it's really, really beneficial for us.
21:48
Speaker 2: But when the lefty companies in California, Chicago, or New
21:52
Speaker 2: York decide to uproot and move to Texas, they bring
21:56
Speaker 2: some of those employees with them, and some of those
21:58
Speaker 2: employees don't have Texas values. So I'm a little worried
22:02
Speaker 2: that part of what's changing this state is something very
22:05
Speaker 2: few people talk about, Because just like with the wage
22:10
Speaker 2: disparity problem, there's not a good solution. Because forcing the
22:14
Speaker 2: people who have the most ability to do something they
22:17
Speaker 2: don't want to do doesn't work.
22:20
Speaker 1: It doesn't.
22:20
Speaker 2: We should have learned this lesson enough times by now.
22:23
Speaker 2: And not only that, it harms us long term. And
22:26
Speaker 2: so the last thing I'll say about the data center,
22:28
Speaker 2: and I was trying to make this argument yesterday, and
22:31
Speaker 2: I'm glad to make it more maybe today, especially after
22:34
Speaker 2: a break, is the benefits of the technology, are wildly
22:39
Speaker 2: misunderstood by a lot of people who hate the idea
22:42
Speaker 2: of data centers. Like, wildly misunderstood, because not only from
22:47
Speaker 2: a protection standpoint, not only from a standpoint of China's
22:51
Speaker 2: going to do it anyway, and if we let them
22:53
Speaker 2: get too far ahead of us, it's going to be
22:55
Speaker 2: a tremendous risk to us from a military and a
22:57
Speaker 2: safety standpoint.
22:58
Speaker 1: That is true.
23:00
Speaker 2: That's an easy way to try to convince people who
23:02
Speaker 2: still ignore it that we should have as many data centers,
23:05
Speaker 2: if not more data centers, smarter data centers, better built
23:09
Speaker 2: ones than China has.
23:10
Speaker 1: That's its own thing.
23:12
Speaker 2: But the technology of the computer being able to think
23:15
Speaker 2: 24-7 on things that we then get to evaluate as humans,
23:20
Speaker 2: like I'm sure there's harm done to it thinking for
23:23
Speaker 2: us instead of us thinking with it. So we need
23:26
Speaker 2: to make sure we're still thinking too. We're still providing
23:29
Speaker 2: human brain power to enhance the artificial brain power. But
23:33
Speaker 2: the more capability we have there, the more amazing things
23:36
Speaker 2: that will happen. I think they will cure cancer and
23:40
Speaker 2: that AI will be a tremendous part of that solution.
23:43
Speaker 2: Because here's what I'll say. I'll just say this quickly
23:46
Speaker 2: and then I really will take a break. In my
23:49
Speaker 2: own profession, in this profession, there have been times where
23:52
Speaker 2: I would do something a certain way, whether it's prep
23:55
Speaker 2: a topic, pull an audio clip, whatever it might be.
23:58
Speaker 2: I even do things that I've done for this station,
24:00
Speaker 2: like design our website or our apps. And there's a
24:03
Speaker 2: moment where I've done a decent amount of the work
24:06
Speaker 2: where I go to AI and I look more for
24:08
Speaker 2: an idea than it to do the rest of the
24:10
Speaker 2: work for me.
24:11
Speaker 1: And it thinks differently.
24:13
Speaker 2: It gives me a different idea and we create a
24:16
Speaker 2: different product. And I think when you yet let our
24:19
Speaker 2: medical minds, as one example, work with an artificial intelligence
24:23
Speaker 2: that's as superior as it can be to any other
24:26
Speaker 2: artificial intelligence out there, collectively, you'll find a better path
24:31
Speaker 2: to a solution that we haven't been finding on our own.
24:34
Speaker 2: And so I think that's the biggest win is how
24:37
Speaker 2: different the thought can be when the machine is just
24:40
Speaker 2: thinking and not adding any of the human element into
24:42
Speaker 2: it and then us again taking it and running with
24:45
Speaker 2: those thoughts.
24:46
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28:30
Speaker 2: I will miss some of the music if we go
28:32
Speaker 2: to all AI music for reasons that I'm not going
28:36
Speaker 2: to describe on the radio because that's a great song.
28:39
Speaker 1: But you can call in.
28:40
Speaker 2: This became a call-in show today, not intentionally. It just
28:43
Speaker 2: kind of happened. I don't do this a lot personally.
28:47
Speaker 2: It's not that KSEV radio doesn't do it a lot
28:49
Speaker 2: because they like to do it here. We like to
28:51
Speaker 2: do it here. 281-558-5738 is the phone number. 281-558-5738 if
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Speaker 2: you want to get involved and be a part of
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Speaker 2: the show in the last half hour.
29:03
Speaker 1: But I promised you something, and I want to pay
29:05
Speaker 1: it off.
29:06
Speaker 2: When I was talking earlier with a caller about Tallarico,
29:10
Speaker 2: I said that he is obviously— the more socialist candidate
29:14
Speaker 2: than Paxton. And it was crazy to hear someone say
29:16
Speaker 2: the opposite and to use two examples of policies that
29:19
Speaker 2: Paxton has that might benefit people and cost money, because
29:25
Speaker 2: there's not many of those, but they do exist, and
29:27
Speaker 2: they're more at a federal level, child tax credits or
29:30
Speaker 2: first-time homebuyer credits that actually do benefit pulling people into
29:35
Speaker 2: Texas with the means to buy a home that move
29:39
Speaker 2: here because of the tax credit.
29:40
Speaker 5: Itself.
29:40
Speaker 1: I've seen that work other places. But let's compare it
29:43
Speaker 1: to Tallarico.
29:44
Speaker 2: Because the real position, the real value is looking at
29:47
Speaker 2: what Tallarico would do. Tallarico has countless times voted to
29:51
Speaker 2: actually create a Texas income tax. He's very much a
29:55
Speaker 2: fan of that, as are the people running against Greg
30:00
Speaker 2: Abbott and Dan Patrick and so many others.
30:03
Speaker 1: They love taking your money.
30:04
Speaker 2: And one of the most attractive things about taxes is
30:07
Speaker 2: the lack of that happening, the lack of our.
30:11
Speaker 1: Decision to actually do that.
30:13
Speaker 2: And even Gina Hinojosa saying that she wants to write
30:16
Speaker 2: checks to everybody. Part of the problem with that is
30:19
Speaker 2: they then need to get that money back, because if
30:21
Speaker 2: they claim they're going to give us money from a surplus,
30:23
Speaker 2: They inevitably are going to want to put that money
30:25
Speaker 2: back in their coffers.
30:27
Speaker 1: Democrats love to do that. How would they go about that?
30:30
Speaker 2: Well, they'll create new taxes and take your money, even
30:33
Speaker 2: raising the property taxes. When you hear, I think we
30:38
Speaker 2: got a call popping in real quick if we can.
30:40
Speaker 2: I know that our booth over there, can we answer
30:43
Speaker 2: that phone call? We just missed one. I know you
30:47
Speaker 2: guys are having a conversation over there, but If we can,
30:50
Speaker 2: we might have just missed it. But anyway, just again,
30:53
Speaker 2: to go back to it, even when you talk about
30:55
Speaker 2: property taxes, higher property taxes in this community, in Harris County,
31:01
Speaker 2: the excuse Democrats are using for why they're doing it,
31:04
Speaker 2: why they're enhancing property taxes on you and I, is
31:08
Speaker 2: that they need the money, is that, oh, the evil,
31:10
Speaker 2: terrible people in the world of taxes itself have decided
31:15
Speaker 2: to take the money away or the I saw an
31:18
Speaker 2: op-ed in the Houston Chronicle where one of the local
31:20
Speaker 2: Democrats was trying to blame Trump for them raising property
31:24
Speaker 2: taxes to a historic level because guess what? The Democrats
31:28
Speaker 2: want government money. They want to put more money in government.
31:31
Speaker 2: They want to put it other places. Tallarico supports all
31:34
Speaker 2: of those things. But it's not just simply higher taxes
31:38
Speaker 2: on billionaires, capital gains, income taxes, federal labor laws that
31:44
Speaker 2: he'd like to challenge and change. He'd like to make
31:46
Speaker 2: it easier for people to be a part of a
31:48
Speaker 2: union here in Texas specifically. As I said before, health
31:53
Speaker 2: care for y'all is a position he takes a lot,
31:56
Speaker 2: which is, hey, let's go ahead and throw a whole
31:58
Speaker 2: bunch of of money at a health care system that
32:01
Speaker 2: we've seen fail in other ways in our country. And look,
32:05
Speaker 2: I'm no fan of how health care is actually done
32:09
Speaker 2: in the United States. I do think we have problems,
32:12
Speaker 2: but I don't think any of the Democratic solutions have
32:14
Speaker 2: ever really been the right path to fixing it. I
32:18
Speaker 2: don't think they've ever been the approach that we need.
32:20
Speaker 2: to get to a better place, not a worse place.
32:23
Speaker 2: And the reason why I think that is because the
32:27
Speaker 2: insurance companies are as big as they are. They're hard
32:30
Speaker 2: to just remove from the process. So I do love
32:33
Speaker 2: what President Trump has advocated for. Maybe unsurprising to some
32:36
Speaker 2: people listening to this show, but I do. I love
32:39
Speaker 2: transparency in the world of our health care. I want
32:42
Speaker 2: a world in the future where no matter what the
32:45
Speaker 2: insurance system is that's a part of me eventually paying
32:50
Speaker 2: for my health care, that I know what he charges
32:53
Speaker 2: and she charges and the guy across the street. I
32:55
Speaker 2: want it to be like going to a gas station.
32:58
Speaker 2: I want to be able to compare the pricing and
33:00
Speaker 2: to choose the option that I think is the most
33:02
Speaker 2: cost effective, but also the best. I want that competitive
33:06
Speaker 2: need to exist in health care that I think has
33:09
Speaker 2: been a big part of the change that doesn't happen
33:13
Speaker 2: that should to exist within the numbers themselves. Because much
33:16
Speaker 2: like our education system has changed, in ways that Tallarico
33:20
Speaker 2: supports and others don't, the assumption that you're just going
33:24
Speaker 2: to give them whatever amount.
33:25
Speaker 1: Of money they want.
33:27
Speaker 2: A lot of colleges and a lot of hospitals kind
33:30
Speaker 2: of think they can make up whatever number they want
33:33
Speaker 2: and that you or the insurance agencies or the loan
33:36
Speaker 2: department services in the world of education are just going
33:39
Speaker 2: to find a way to build all that money for them.
33:41
Speaker 2: And I think they need to be far more competitive
33:44
Speaker 2: about that. You can look up the tuition cost in
33:47
Speaker 2: most universities. I'm not saying it lacks the transparency of
33:52
Speaker 2: the health care system, but I am saying that there's
33:54
Speaker 2: an important component to, well, you can't get that much anymore.
33:58
Speaker 2: The Parent PLUS loan, for example, this is another Republican position.
34:03
Speaker 2: Trump limited it, meaning that people couldn't put themselves in
34:06
Speaker 2: tremendous amounts of debt to put kids through school, which
34:11
Speaker 2: was a thing that a lot of parents were pressured
34:12
Speaker 2: to do, sign Parent PLUS loans for hundreds of thousands
34:16
Speaker 2: of dollars. to better the lives of their children, who
34:19
Speaker 2: then maybe don't actually wind up working whatever the job
34:21
Speaker 2: might be, capping that system means the schools can't just
34:25
Speaker 2: count on getting someone to sign up.
34:28
Speaker 1: For a loan that they could get before.
34:30
Speaker 2: Even if they weren't qualified for it, there were ways
34:32
Speaker 2: to get way more funding than you should get to
34:35
Speaker 2: send a kid off to school. So I think those
34:38
Speaker 2: types of solutions are good. If we go even further
34:41
Speaker 2: from the Tallarico position's that I think are overwhelmingly socialist.
34:47
Speaker 1: Healthcare for y'all is just one of them.
34:49
Speaker 2: The social ownership of a lot of things, AI-related things
34:55
Speaker 2: or other things, scares me the most. Universal basic income conversations,
35:00
Speaker 2: socialized claim on a sector, again, for a normal tax
35:03
Speaker 2: credit or something else. There's versions of positions that Tallarico takes.
35:09
Speaker 2: And this is now, by the way. This is the
35:11
Speaker 2: things that he says publicly currently not the things that
35:14
Speaker 2: we can also feel are his belief system from anything
35:18
Speaker 2: we've seen him say in the past that likely would
35:20
Speaker 2: be the things he actually does while in office. There's
35:24
Speaker 2: going to be ways, and this is the Obamacare thing
35:27
Speaker 2: all over again, where they sort of teased what they do,
35:30
Speaker 2: but they do a much worse version in office. But
35:32
Speaker 2: there are things that we hear from Tallarico where it
35:34
Speaker 2: sounds like he believes in a universal basic income for everybody.
35:38
Speaker 2: It's just a check that everybody gets written. And he
35:40
Speaker 2: believes in socialist versions of taking over certain spaces. or
35:43
Speaker 2: owning certain sectors. And he'll do that the same way
35:47
Speaker 2: Mondami would. Couching it in, we're going to make groceries
35:50
Speaker 2: cheaper by taking over the grocery stores because the evil
35:53
Speaker 2: companies are too unwilling to lower the prices themselves. And
35:57
Speaker 2: once the government takes over, it doesn't get better.
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Speaker 1: It gets worse. To be honest with you, I can
36:04
Speaker 1: say it kind of simply. And again, we're running out
36:06
Speaker 1: of time.
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Speaker 2: If you do want to be a part of the show,
36:07
Speaker 2: I'll throw the phone number out one more time so
36:09
Speaker 2: it can be a call-in show.
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Speaker 1: 281-558-5738, 281-558-5738.
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Speaker 2: I often agree, and this is a bad way to
36:21
Speaker 2: say it, but I'm going to say it on the radio.
36:23
Speaker 2: I often agree with Democrats in what the problem is.
36:27
Speaker 2: There's oftentimes, not all the time, I certainly not across
36:30
Speaker 2: the board agreeing with them that this problem is what
36:33
Speaker 2: they claim it is. But I often do say, all right,
36:36
Speaker 2: I've heard this complaint, and I agree with you that
36:39
Speaker 2: there is a problem. sort of like the one you're describing.
36:43
Speaker 2: I almost never agree with their solution. The reason that
36:47
Speaker 2: I don't personally vote democratically and have not voted democratically
36:51
Speaker 2: ever actually in my life, I was a registered Republican
36:54
Speaker 2: at 18, I was going to say in a long time,
36:56
Speaker 2: but I really have never done it. The biggest reason
36:59
Speaker 2: why is that the solution is always terrible. It's always
37:03
Speaker 2: worse than the problem itself. It's like, to me, the
37:06
Speaker 2: Democratic message is like when you hear the side effects
37:09
Speaker 2: of a medicine on television. And you're like, oh, those
37:11
Speaker 2: side effects are way worse than what the medicine's curing.
37:14
Speaker 2: Like the medicine's going to make my hand shake less,
37:17
Speaker 2: but it might kill me. And you're like, well, that's
37:19
Speaker 2: not good. I would rather just have a shaky hand
37:21
Speaker 2: than be dead. And that to me has always been
37:24
Speaker 2: the messaging on the left is we're going to fix
37:27
Speaker 2: this one problem by killing this other thing that we
37:30
Speaker 2: shouldn't kill. Bart has called in. He wants to talk
37:33
Speaker 2: about colleges real quick. I threw out a little bit
37:35
Speaker 2: of a comment there. But, Bart, what do you want
37:37
Speaker 2: to say?
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Speaker 3: Hey, Craig, I'm from upstate New York. I went to
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Speaker 3: one of the SUNY schools, and they're really hurting for students.
37:44
Speaker 3: They've had 30 years now of a million-plus babies being
37:48
Speaker 3: aborted every year, and now they don't have any kids
37:51
Speaker 3: applying to college. It's gotten so bad that they're now
37:54
Speaker 3: accepting students that don't even apply.
37:57
Speaker 2: I've heard that, actually, whether it was AI that got
38:00
Speaker 2: blamed for that, but there were students getting acceptance letters
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Speaker 2: that did not apply to the school. I didn't know
38:04
Speaker 2: you went to a SUNY school. That's a state university
38:06
Speaker 2: of New York. What else do you want to say?
38:09
Speaker 3: I was just laughing because so many of the majors
38:12
Speaker 3: that don't have any return on investment, the students are
38:15
Speaker 3: opting out. Half the people with bachelor's degrees end up
38:19
Speaker 3: in jobs they didn't even need to go to school.
38:21
Speaker 3: So they're just choosing not to go to school for that.
38:24
Speaker 3: And they have all these tenured professors under the UUP.
38:28
Speaker 3: The union guarantees tenured jobs, but they don't have any
38:31
Speaker 3: students to teach.
38:33
Speaker 5: They don't know what.
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Speaker 3: They're going to do.
38:34
Speaker 1: It's crazy. I see that all the time.
38:36
Speaker 2: Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs does a really good job
38:38
Speaker 2: of talking about this stuff pretty often, where he tells
38:41
Speaker 2: you how much money you'll make in this profession over
38:44
Speaker 2: here and how few people are chasing it because everyone's
38:47
Speaker 2: going to school to study something.
38:48
Speaker 1: They're never going to have a job in. It is crazy.
38:52
Speaker 2: Also, the loan system was broken in the world of,
38:54
Speaker 2: I think, education for a long time. And I do
38:57
Speaker 2: think Trump has tried to fix that a little bit.
38:59
Speaker 3: Well, the whole loan system was to prop up the
39:02
Speaker 3: cost of the colleges, which they couldn't really justify as
39:06
Speaker 3: far as economics. There's an old saying in money, when
39:09
Speaker 3: you're in a hole, quit digging. And the Democrats' solution
39:13
Speaker 3: to spending is to keep them for more spending.
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Speaker 1: That's true.
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Speaker 3: And I'm like, that's a solution?
39:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, that never works. Is that all you want to
39:19
Speaker 1: talk about, Bart, or you got something else?
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Speaker 5: No, that was it.
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Speaker 1: All right, thanks, buddy. I appreciate the call.
39:24
Speaker 2: Bart, a pretty regular caller to the station as well.
39:27
Speaker 2: This is KSEV Mornings on The Voice of Texas. I
39:31
Speaker 2: did not know he went to a state university in
39:33
Speaker 2: New York there's a lot more New Yorkers or people
39:35
Speaker 2: that have a tie to places on the east coast
39:38
Speaker 2: in Houston than you think Houston's a melting pot of
39:41
Speaker 2: a place I feel like I've learned there's a good
39:43
Speaker 2: portion of people who are from Texas and a good
39:46
Speaker 2: portion of people who aren't and maybe it's the portion
39:48
Speaker 2: that aren't are hurting us More than they should be,
39:50
Speaker 2: I'm not sure. But some of us actually do adopt
39:52
Speaker 2: the Texas values even before we live here. But actually,
39:55
Speaker 2: that's probably why we eventually get here as soon as
39:58
Speaker 2: we can.
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Speaker 2: We have no live stream out there, and part of
42:43
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42:45
Speaker 1: I don't know how to say that nicer, so I'll
42:46
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42:48
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42:50
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42:52
Speaker 2: to increase the bandwidth of our Internet here at the station. Plus,
42:56
Speaker 2: you know, crazy stuff happened yesterday, and everything kind of
42:59
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43:02
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43:03
Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Also, one of our cameras is broken right now, which
43:07
Speaker 2: is weird. I think we might just be having bad luck.
43:10
Speaker 2: But anyway, that's enough of talking about that publicly and
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43:17
Speaker 2: So you can find us at KSV radio dot com
43:19
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43:22
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43:27
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43:29
Speaker 2: tune in. And I think a lot of people do
43:31
Speaker 2: from some data that I get from them. But you
43:34
Speaker 2: now have an Android app, and I see more and
43:35
Speaker 2: more people are downloading that one, which is cool. Russell
43:38
Speaker 2: did a great spot about it, so you can hear
43:41
Speaker 2: that occasionally. But if you go to the Google Play
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Speaker 2: Store for an Android phone, you can have a crystal
43:46
Speaker 2: clear– I like the way that Ben Streusand says it,
43:48
Speaker 2: actually– a crystal clear listening experience. Because by and large,
43:52
Speaker 2: as long as that thing's not broken, and it's been
43:54
Speaker 2: breaking a little recently, but I think we've fixed that
43:56
Speaker 2: long term now, it is a better quality audio experience
44:01
Speaker 2: than the radio itself. But anyway, let's move on to
44:04
Speaker 2: just a couple other quick calls. And then one other
44:06
Speaker 2: thing I wanted to talk about that I left off
44:08
Speaker 2: the table from socialist Tallarico and how he actually is
44:12
Speaker 2: a socialist.
44:13
Speaker 1: But Alan has called in. Alan, what do you want
44:15
Speaker 1: to say?
44:17
Speaker 11: Yes. Good morning.
44:18
Speaker 1: Good morning.
44:19
Speaker 11: Glad to hear your voice. We're breaking crisp.
44:22
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you.
44:23
Speaker 11: Yeah. One thing I see becoming a lot more common
44:28
Speaker 11: now in the city of Houston is the running the
44:31
Speaker 11: red light.
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Speaker 1: 100%. Totally agree with this.
44:35
Speaker 11: And it is now spreading to the suburb where I
44:38
Speaker 11: live also. It's becoming a trend now. It's like people
44:41
Speaker 11: running red light, like no concern.
44:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, blasting through them.
44:44
Speaker 11: No police around.
44:45
Speaker 4: Yeah.
44:46
Speaker 11: I'm sorry?
44:46
Speaker 1: I said blasting through them. I see people in Houston.
44:49
Speaker 2: I live on the southwest side of Houston, just like
44:52
Speaker 2: flying through that light way after it's turned red. This
44:56
Speaker 2: is not even, you just missed it. This is, I
44:58
Speaker 2: don't give a crap about anybody.
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Speaker 1: I'm going. Continue, sir.
45:03
Speaker 11: Yeah, so now the red light camera, which I'm not
45:08
Speaker 11: thrilled of, but I think it's the only solution for now.
45:12
Speaker 11: We need to put a vote in for all the
45:16
Speaker 11: city of Houston and other suburban areas to authorize that.
45:22
Speaker 11: That's the least costly thing.
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Speaker 5: To do.
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Speaker 7: I don't know.
45:26
Speaker 11: Because I don't see police anywhere anymore.
45:28
Speaker 1: No, that's fair. I would rather just pay more money
45:31
Speaker 1: for more police officers.
45:32
Speaker 2: That's one thing I like spending money on, hire a
45:34
Speaker 2: bunch more police officers and hold people accountable differently than
45:37
Speaker 2: the camera thing. But I agree with you that, and
45:40
Speaker 2: I think this gets to a different conversation, Alan, and
45:43
Speaker 2: I don't know if you want to have it or
45:44
Speaker 2: not on the air.
45:45
Speaker 1: And if you don't, that's okay. You can plead the
45:47
Speaker 1: fifth and I'll let you go.
45:48
Speaker 2: I think it's another representation of something I've been talking
45:52
Speaker 2: about today, which is people are just mad.
45:54
Speaker 1: Like they're just inconsiderate and mad.
45:56
Speaker 2: I can't tell you the amount of times, like at
45:58
Speaker 2: a grocery store, I'll be going to the actual checkout
46:02
Speaker 2: and not go to like the electronic one. And the
46:04
Speaker 2: person who rings up my groceries seems grumpy. And like,
46:07
Speaker 2: I'm not, I'm not even talking to them. I'm usually
46:09
Speaker 2: like being friendly and then they'll be grumpy and that'll
46:11
Speaker 2: be it. But the amount of like public facing customer
46:16
Speaker 2: service people who don't care about being a jerk the
46:19
Speaker 2: minute you walk into a place feels much higher. It
46:23
Speaker 2: feels like there's a more significant amount of unapologetic anger
46:27
Speaker 2: just in our society. And I think running the red
46:29
Speaker 2: light might be another example of that. Someone who's just like,
46:32
Speaker 2: screw it, I'm going, I don't care about anybody else.
46:35
Speaker 2: I don't know how you feel about my explanation for
46:38
Speaker 2: the thing we're seeing.
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Speaker 11: Well, it's becoming a trend.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's true. All right, well, thank you
46:44
Speaker 1: for the call, Alan.
46:45
Speaker 2: I appreciate you calling in, being a part of it,
46:46
Speaker 2: and saying something nice about me taking over as part
46:49
Speaker 2: of this show, Wayne Dolcefino. the other part of the show,
46:53
Speaker 2: taking over for Chris Salcedo. Chris Salcedo got a better opportunity.
46:57
Speaker 2: For anybody that doesn't know, I feel like occasionally radio
47:01
Speaker 2: stations forget to do a better job of explaining when.
47:05
Speaker 1: You know, a thing changes. And what I mean by
47:08
Speaker 1: that is, like, Chris did it.
47:09
Speaker 2: He talked about it on his morning show before he left,
47:12
Speaker 2: but there are people who went on vacation for a
47:14
Speaker 2: couple weeks who come back, tune something on, and notice
47:17
Speaker 2: somebody's gone and And some people might think that KSEV
47:21
Speaker 2: didn't want Salcedo anymore, and that couldn't be.
47:23
Speaker 1: Further from the truth. We loved Chris Salcedo.
47:26
Speaker 2: Actually, he's one of my other— I barely got to know him,
47:29
Speaker 2: but one of my other favorite people I've gotten to
47:31
Speaker 2: know in radio at all because he was such the
47:35
Speaker 2: same guy. The guy you heard on the radio and
47:37
Speaker 2: the guy that I occasionally talked to on the phone
47:40
Speaker 2: was the same dude. But he got a better gig.
47:42
Speaker 2: He's doing some other things. So that's where he is.
47:45
Speaker 2: And Wayne Dolcefino and I have taken over this show.
47:48
Speaker 2: Wayne does travel a lot, though, so there are going
47:50
Speaker 2: to be days when you're not going to hear as
47:51
Speaker 2: much from Wayne as other days when Wayne will be
47:55
Speaker 2: on the entire show. But I do like— I' ll say this
47:59
Speaker 2: last thing, and then I will move on to a
48:00
Speaker 2: real topic. And 281-558-5738 if you want to be a
48:05
Speaker 2: part of the show for the call-in show that we've
48:08
Speaker 2: done today, and pretty much we've taken phone calls the
48:10
Speaker 2: entire two hours.
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Speaker 5: 281-558-5738.
48:11
Speaker 2: But I will say that I like one of the
48:12
Speaker 2: challenges— that Wayne and I have identified both on air
48:21
Speaker 2: and off that we intend to try to wrap our
48:26
Speaker 2: hands around while we're on the radio, while we're talking
48:29
Speaker 2: to you on the show. And it is the right
48:32
Speaker 2: messaging for the right compared to the messaging that might
48:35
Speaker 2: be happening now. Because when I think about logical policies
48:40
Speaker 2: that benefit us versus policies that harm us, conservatives and
48:45
Speaker 2: Republican politicians are overwhelmingly winning the race of, this would
48:51
Speaker 2: be good, I want this, compared to that would be bad,
48:54
Speaker 2: I don't want that at all. When you hear a
48:55
Speaker 2: politician give you an idea, and if the back of
48:58
Speaker 2: your brain says, this would be good, I want this,
49:00
Speaker 2: you're more likely than not hearing an idea that's conservative.
49:04
Speaker 2: And if you hear, that sounds terrible, it's going to
49:06
Speaker 2: go bad, more likely than not, I'm not saying all
49:09
Speaker 2: the time, but more likely than not, I think that
49:11
Speaker 2: that's a Democratic position and a Democratic idea. because their
49:15
Speaker 2: solutions are terrible if they offer them. If you're just
49:18
Speaker 2: listening for your problems, by the way. and this is
49:20
Speaker 2: probably something that Wayne and I will talk about more
49:22
Speaker 2: at some point on the show. There are people who
49:27
Speaker 2: politically listen for problems. And if they hear the politician
49:32
Speaker 2: that they might vote for. say the problem they have
49:35
Speaker 2: out loud or the problem they think is important out loud,
49:39
Speaker 2: there are people who are done.
49:41
Speaker 1: They're like, all right, he said the problem.
49:43
Speaker 2: This guy, this woman, whoever's running for whatever office, they
49:46
Speaker 2: know what the problem is.
49:47
Speaker 1: The issue with.
49:49
Speaker 2: That way of voting is that you didn't listen for
49:52
Speaker 2: them to give you the solution.
49:54
Speaker 1: And oftentimes they don't. Like, that's the trick of a
49:57
Speaker 1: lot of people.
49:58
Speaker 2: Actually, it's something they say about people in simple positions
50:01
Speaker 2: of power is just ignoring... you know, not really communicating,
50:05
Speaker 2: doing as little interaction as possible, is a value set
50:09
Speaker 2: of being a person in power, is that you can
50:12
Speaker 2: give as little information as you want to give because
50:14
Speaker 2: you retain control. And politicians do this better than your
50:18
Speaker 2: boss at your job. Your boss might do it. The
50:21
Speaker 2: politicians do it better. They retain information. They resist giving
50:26
Speaker 2: it to you because they don't feel like they have to.
50:29
Speaker 1: And the difference.
50:30
Speaker 2: between the people we work for and the people who
50:32
Speaker 2: work for us in government, is that we can actually
50:35
Speaker 2: demand that they tell us the whole answer. And the
50:38
Speaker 2: way that we do that is we don't let them
50:40
Speaker 2: win races if they don't tell us the entire thing.
50:43
Speaker 2: So part of the problem that I've identified is there
50:46
Speaker 2: are people who think once I've heard this issue said
50:50
Speaker 2: out loud in this way, that I then can more
50:52
Speaker 2: confidently vote for someone.
50:54
Speaker 1: And that's not true.
50:55
Speaker 2: And I do think I'll take this somewhat random shot
50:59
Speaker 2: at the end of the show at President Trump.
51:01
Speaker 1: And I don't intend to take it to hurt Trump.
51:03
Speaker 1: I'm not a Trump hater person.
51:07
Speaker 2: But I do think the promise of the economy getting
51:10
Speaker 2: better and the reality of a conflict in Iran, making
51:13
Speaker 2: gas prices more expensive, which made things difficult for us,
51:17
Speaker 2: is enough to make a lot of people mad. That
51:19
Speaker 2: when Trump was running and when he won the popular
51:22
Speaker 2: vote and won in all the swing states, one of
51:25
Speaker 2: the messages was, I did better things for our economy
51:28
Speaker 2: than Biden did. Put me back in charge and the
51:31
Speaker 2: economy will get better. Your life will get better. You'll
51:33
Speaker 2: have more money. That hasn't happened the way people expected
51:37
Speaker 2: in just a couple of years. There are signs of
51:40
Speaker 2: it happening, but that never is enough. When I tell
51:42
Speaker 2: you there's signs, you never care. You just care about
51:45
Speaker 2: the reality. And so I think that that's one of
51:47
Speaker 2: the biggest things harming the current president and his administration
51:51
Speaker 2: and blinding some people from the good things they have
51:53
Speaker 2: done is that right now, Because of gas prices, things
51:57
Speaker 2: are more expensive.
51:57
Speaker 1: Than they should be.
51:58
Speaker 2: That will end. The conflict in Iran will end. I
52:01
Speaker 2: do not believe that it will go on for the
52:03
Speaker 2: entirety of Trump's time in office. I just don't believe that.
52:06
Speaker 2: I don't think we'll give in and we'll exit this
52:09
Speaker 2: conflict in a way that harms us or makes it
52:13
Speaker 2: worthless that we started it in the first place. I
52:15
Speaker 2: continue to believe that we won't do that. We'll find
52:18
Speaker 2: a better solution. We'll force a better solution on the Iranians.
52:22
Speaker 2: And then it'll end. And then gas prices will get
52:25
Speaker 2: way better. And toward the end of the Trump administration,
52:28
Speaker 2: we might be in as great of his economy as
52:30
Speaker 2: we were in before we were hit by COVID. And
52:33
Speaker 2: I just hope that benefits who's ever next, because it
52:36
Speaker 2: seems like a lot of the things Trump's going to
52:39
Speaker 2: do might benefit who's next and not benefit him. But anyway,
52:42
Speaker 2: this is KSEV and the KSEV Morning Show. My name
52:45
Speaker 2: is Craig Colonese. He on special assignment today, Wayne Dolcefino.
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Speaker 2: We will be in Austin on Friday. For the Texas
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Speaker 2: Faith Festival, I'm very much looking forward to that. You'll
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Speaker 2: probably hear from just me tomorrow and Thursday, but you'll
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Speaker 2: have Wayne Dolcefino and I live from Austin on Friday
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Speaker 2: with the protesting backdrop going on in that city as
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Speaker 2: probably part of the conversation maybe later this week.
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Speaker 1: KSV Mornings, Voice of Texas.
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Speaker 5: See you tomorrow.