Yet another government shutdown is on the horizon

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Jack GANA government sucks soon of happiness. Radio is delups liberty and freedom will
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make you smiles of the suit of
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cheeseburgers a liberty rise at the suit
of us. It's an afternoon filled with
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underdogs. Jamison ellis stopping by.
He is challenging Dan Crenshaw. John Perez
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is stopping by. He is running
an HD one thirty three Texas state representative
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candidate, and of course, standup
comedian Tim Math is always an underdog.
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He's going to be here soon as
well. Before we get to any of
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that, can we start the afternoon
with this? There could be another government
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shut down on the horizon. And
I know what we're all. We're all
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think of the same thing right now. Kenny Webster, crazy Kenny Webster with
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his anarchist rhetoric telling us it's okay
if we don't pay a few contractors for
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a week, it's the government shut
down. Reason dot Com today reporting lawmakers
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returning to Washington next week to work
or not work or eat bacon wrap shrimp,
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probably take bribes, and they will
have just days to avoid a partial
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government shutdown that could occur on March
first. Cross your fingers, kids.
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This is the first of a series
of new fiscal deadlines created during the most
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recent year. The near shutdown that
happened back in November. Oh, that
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was a bomber, wasn't it.
Oh the shame we almost didn't pay park
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rangers for a few days. I
mean, they still would have got paid,
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they just would have been given They
would have been furloughed for a week,
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and then they would have been paid
later on. I know, how
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will they survive? It's terrible they
would have I get it. I don't
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mean to seem insensitive, but you
remember that those of us that work in
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the free market, we have this
problem all the time. People that work
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in the government, they don't have
this issue. It's like being a tenured
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professor when you work at the EPA. Do you remember a while back there
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was a news story about an employee
at the EPA who would sleep six hours
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a day. I mean, I'm
just these aren't these aren't the real specific
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numbers, but he would spend a
majority of his day sleeping and looking at
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porno. I don't remember what the
exact hours were, but it was a
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majority of his day and it took
years years to fire this guy. Why
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did it take so long? Because
their government employees they don't have to adhere
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to the same checks and balances that
you and I do when we go to
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work. So in light of all
that, some Conservatives are now pushing Speaker
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of the House Mike Johnson to consider
a year long continuing resolution as opposed to
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a possible omnibus bill being rushed to
the floor for a vote at the last
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minute. And you you know what
an omnibus bill is. But just in
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case you don't know what an omnibus
bill is, you're new to talk radio
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or new to politics, imagine if
you will, we could do We could
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vote on our budget in one of
two ways. We could do a vote
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on healthcare, where we decide in
one vote how much money will we spend
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on med Medicaid and public clinics and
stuff like that. That could be one
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vote, and then there could be
another single vote on border security, and
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another single vote on Ukraine, and
another single vote on transportation. We could
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do that right, or we could
have one big, quote unquote omnibus bill
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where we just cram it all together
under one umbrella and you have to vote
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yes. Or no on it.
It's all the same package. Some of
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the stuff in here doesn't even make
any sense. And that's part of the
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reason why we've spent millions of dollars
funding treadmills for shrimp and cocaine that we
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gave to quails. How did that
happen, Well, we just snuck it
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in the omnibus bill. That doesn't
make any sense. I know, it's
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stupidity. That's the problem with omnibus
bills. It's the reason that Matt Gates
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got rid of Kevin McCarthy last year. You remember that. So on Wednesday,
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that was yesterday, the House Freedom
Caucus sent a letter to House Speaker
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Mike Johnson and they laid out a
list of policies it's members said should not
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be included in an omnibus package designed
behind closed doors, and then put it
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up for a vote. And if
you don't vote for it, well too
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bad. Then and whatever project's important
to you that doesn't get funding next year,
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or if you don't vote for it, then whatever little issue in the
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bill that did seem necessary, you'll
now be accused of not supporting for the
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next year or two or up.
The next time you're up for reelection.
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They'll say, Oh, this guy
didn't want to vote for a healthcare for
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victims of nine to eleven. Well, that's crazy. Why wouldn't he want
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to help out first responders from September
eleventh? Well, he did want to
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help them out, but it was
included in a spending bill that would have
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given billions of dollars to Ukraine when
they don't need any more money. For
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the record, the policies included in
the House Freedom Caucus list of demands are
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a mix of what you'd expect from
that group, trimming government, and it's
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important, right. What's more important
than any of those specific proposals is what
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this letter indicates about the ongoing fight
within the Republican Caucus over how the federal
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budget ought to be put together.
Members of the Freedom Caucus has spent years
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advocating for our return to the regular
order, the so called regular order,
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in which Congress patches passes each of
the twelve annual appropriation bills separately. Why
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can't we do it that way?
That hasn't happened since nineteen ninety six.
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Return to the regular budget process.
The problem with omnibus spending bills is it
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gives lawmakers the ability to corrupt our
government more easily. Johnson has a difficult
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choice here. He can keep his
promise to his constituents or he can sell
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out to the establishment. It's going
to be interesting to see how the next
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week plays out. In pursuit of
that penis radio coming now. Just this
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is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness on
KPRC nine fifty Houston. You hear that,
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You know that right We're coming for
the Rhinos. Early voting happening right
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now. It's Republican primary season.
My friends Mono die Alla District one thirty
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three. It's a local boy from
here in Houston. It's one of those
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guys that wanted to impeach Ken Paxton. It's one of those guys that didn't
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do enough to support school choice.
Pick an issue. I would imagine he
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either didn't support it or he didn't
do enough to support it to actually do
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any good With Republicans like this,
who needs Democrats. It's frustrating, it
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sucks, it's disappointing, really makes
you wonder. Fortunately for us, there's
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a guy named John Perez, a
member of the Spring Branch Independent School District
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school Board in Texas, not far
away from here. He actually represents position
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six. He's a conservative. He
wanted to let you decide as the voter
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what a radical concept to our attorney
general should be. He supports school choice.
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He doesn't want kids looking at porno
in public school libraries. Why is
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that controversial? John Prez is on
the line right now. John, Welcome
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to KPRC Radio. My friend,
Hey, thanks for having me on board.
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Kenny, fan of the show.
Thanks, my brother. You're out
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there right now, you're campaigning.
You're out and about around the city around
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Houston. This is you know,
to KPRC listeners, A lot of them
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are in District one thirty three.
I think, right, yeah, I
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think so you're looking at Dietend down
to West tim Or in Highway SI's over
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to Jimmy Rock. So I'm apprey
sure you have a lot of huge fan
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base there. Absolutely, yeah,
that's it. I mean, that's we
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have a ton of listeners in that
area. I owned a condo in that
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area for quite I live not far
away from there, and I got to
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tell you it really makes my skin
skin crawl to think that the guy that
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represents that part of our state in
Austin does not represent the values of the
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people that live in that community.
No, I agree, and I think
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a lot of what you have to
look at is the money they've taken,
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the crowd they've fallen in into,
maybe the ambition they have beyond the first
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seat at the House, and I
think that's what's happened to some of our
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representative representatives, including our current incumbent. All right, what made you decide
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to write against Mono? Well,
at the end of the day, I
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just need someone that's going to be
on the right side of that tug of
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war, pulling the center and Seoul
of Texas back to the riot. I
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mean, they have to have both
hands on that rope, pulling with all
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their might, and right now we
don't have that. And it's not just
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Mono. I mean, he's a
nice guy and his family's nice. But
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we're talking about a lot of folks
in the House that just don't seem to
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have that courageous conviction, true conservative
values that are driving them and forcing them
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to pull with all their might.
And you have to ask why. And
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I think they're enabling a democratic agenda
along with day Zeland. And I'll tell
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you, grassroots have had it we're
done with the establishments. If he's a
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nice guy, why did he vote
to remove Paxton from office with no evidence?
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Well, sometimes nice guys want to
be liked and popular, and perhaps
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that's more important to him. The
the pel pen perhaps is more important.
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The cocktail parties might be more important
than actually holding strong, holding the line
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and making sure that we don't get
rid of the lawyer for we the people.
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And that's what that vote was about, usurfing the vote of HD one
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thirty three. Everyone had weigh in. There was no new evidence, no
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sworn testimony. Forty eight hours.
These folks were given over a thousand pages
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and they come in and they weigh
in, and they think that they can
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just undo the vote of the electorate. And there's moral hazard associate with that.
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Okay, So this guy is on
the wrong side of the school choice
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issue. You are highly involved in
local education over there in the Spring Branch
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school district. So what do people
in your community think about him? Well,
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I think right now they're trying to
figure out where's this guy stand.
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I mean, it's very squishy.
He's pretty good about not giving you an
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answer and letting you try to figure
out, Well, how do I read
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between the lines a lot of word
salad with some BS dressing, is how
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I like to describe it. I'm
not sure that our community, Yeah,
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I'm not sure our community really knows
where he stands on some of the key
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issues. Whereas for me, I'm
an engineer. I give answers. I
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think folks deserve answers, and I'm
not afraid to say, Hey, this
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is what I believe in, and
when I go to the house, that's
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what I'm going to back up with
my actions. John, I don't get
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invited to a lot of cocktail parties
with politicians, do you. No,
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I don't. No. I definitely
didn't grow up in the establishment world here
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in Houston or anywhere else. All
Right, so you've been offered an endorsement
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by Paxton. What do you think
about that? I welcome it. I'm
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proud of it. Paxson is a
fighter for the people right now. I
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think we need those fighters, and
I'm ready to serve as one of those
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fighters in the arena. And I
know some folks sit there and say,
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well, you know, where do
you stand on the policy in person issue?
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I'm going right now. If an
imperfect warrior is what we need.
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Then that's what we're going to get. And you know, let's go because
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we need to change what's going on
out there. Kenny. You look outside
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the window and beyond your kitchen table, and folks are worried about the border.
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They're worried about election integrity, they're
worried about vaccine mandates, they're worried
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about funding all Texas students. And
right now, the establishment, with only
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eight Republican Party priorities going into the
last legislative session, they didn't get it
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done. And there's no excuse for
that. Yeah, look, I'm going
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to offer you my endorsement as well
as I have pretty much most of the
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candidates on Paxxton's list. And I
got to tell you it is your opponent
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is welcome to come on the show
and express his points. But he let
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us down on school choice too,
didn't he. So he let us down
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on a lot of things, school
choice being one of them. So during
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the regular session, he didn't even
express his conviction on the Aurero amendment.
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And it wasn't only until I jumped
in and had expressed my conviction on Hey,
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the two issues public funding and school
choice do not have to be married.
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We need the same based funding.
We need to attack them and can
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right conservatives in HT one thirty three
want both, and the legislator for that
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district should fight for both. But
at the same time, he didn't show
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his conviction, and he didn't do
that until afterwards, and that's really how
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he got the the endorsement from Governor
Abbit. It's not like Governor Abbit agrees
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with him on everything. He made
the endorsement simply about not stripping school choice.
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So Monod's all over the place,
to be honest. I mean,
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I'm not sure I could even tell
you where he stands on things. And
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he's not getting nailed down right now
because he knows that if people try to
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nail him down, they're going to
have a hard time understanding whether they should
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keep him in the office. And
he loves the lapelpon. Okay, it
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kind of reminds me of Representative Tony
Gonzales down at the border. He talks
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about border security, he talks about
having conservative values, but then if you
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actually look at his voting record,
it's two totally different things. And the
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problem is not everybody has time to
go read someone's voting record. They see
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you on TV. They read your
interviews, they look at your tweets,
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and they assume, yeah, this
guy represents my values. But unfortunately,
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there's a lot of guys like Tony
Gonzalez and Mono out there, aren't There?
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There are? And one of the
problems I've seen, especially now let
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them in this race, the big
money, the establishment, the swamp,
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the UNI Party. They have these
packs and they push out smoking mirrors.
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The link letter didn't even call me
or you know, ask me for you
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know, any questions. Really,
So these are pay to play endorsement slates
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that could put out there, and
a lot of people that don't do the
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homework there. They're educated folks,
they're just uninformed and the big money's counting
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on that. And it's actually it's
offensive that the big money just believes the
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electorate is that dumb and stupid,
and it bothers me. So grassroots is
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really trying to educate them. All
right. So the other obvious issue we
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haven't touched on yet is down at
the border. You're going to be voting
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on border issues. We know because
of his recent Supreme Court ruling, our
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state is at war with the federal
government. I've criticized Governor Abbott in the
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past. I think he's doing a
great job right now at this exact little
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corner of time and history on dealing
with the border issues, especially when butting
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heads with Joe Biden and our federal
government. But as a lawmaker, as
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a guy that's going to propose policy
and support other people's bills, what do
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you plan to do? So we
had good legislation already, there can and
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that's one of the frustrations I have
is I'm not sure why the House didn't
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push some of this good legislation through, But we need to mandate everify,
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right you have to start attacking the
magnets. The money de incentivize the behavior.
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So mandate mandate everify. You have
to get some stricter enforcements to the
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Border Protection Unit that didn't get pass
needs to be pushed through. And right
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now we have foreign threats that are
allowed to buy land next to critical infrastructure,
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whether it's ag or whether it's land
next to an Air force base,
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and we have to stop that practice. Yeah, things like Colony Ridge have
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to be looked into. And so
those are easy pieces of legislation that should
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be pushed through, no problem.
The Senate did it I don't understand why
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the House can't. Well, I
do understand why the House can't. And
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we just got to get rid of
feeling and a bunch of his feeling Eastice.
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Yeah, the problem is George P. Bush seems to control the Texas
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legislature, at least the House side
of it. And I've noticed he's not
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an elected official, but he's got
his fingerprints all over everything, doesn't he.
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Yeah, it's interesting. There are
a handful of players that I think,
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for a long time have been able
to fly under the radar. Not
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just George P. Bush, but
you have the TLR Texans Philosophy Reform,
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you have the Associated Republicans of Texas, and just look at all the packs.
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I mean, just pick any mail
or from my opponent that's hitting your
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mailbox and Brett that right there is
the establishment. Look at his endorsement list
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and you can get a sense for
who's really part of the big cabal that's
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really trying to fleesh the grassroots electorate. But I'm very hopeful, Kenny,
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because we've got a lot of volunteers. You take a look at my campaign,
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and I think we're making ways big
time. Chim. We have people
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that we have supported on the show. I'm not going to name any names,
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but I think a lot of people
know who I'm talking about that promise
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to support the grassroots and not try
to sell us out in an effort to
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go get some leadership position. And
over the past year, we have learned
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that a lot of those people lied
to us, a lot of them let
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us down. And I'm just curious
if it comes down to that, John,
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can you promise to our listeners right
now in your voting district, if
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you have an opportunity to go get
some leadership position, if they dangle that,
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carry it out in front of you, are you going to stay true
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to the grassroots or are you going
to sell out to the establishment. I'm
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going to stay true to the grassroots. And the reason why I think I
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can well I can make that promise, Kenny, because I've done so as
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a board trustee. I ran as
a grassroots candidate. I worked with Pipeline,
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did shout out the pipeline for really
being the reason Grassroots took back our
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Spring Branch Independent School District Board of
trustees. And as a trustee, I
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have served my conviction. I've said
and done everything I promised during my campaign.
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So yeah, I just know who
I am. I have great anchors,
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and my wife and my family,
and my faith in Texas and people
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like pipeline. Groups like pipeline.
So I feel confident that as long as
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I can you see those anchors and
I'll be able to then Yes, I
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don't plan on I don't plan on
dropping Grass who's like a lot of other
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candidates do Yeah. John Perez District
one thirty three, Spring Branch Area,
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Border Security School Choice, not selling
out to the establishment. Check out his
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candidacy, consider him if you're in
his district. Kenny has always thought the
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best things in life are free,
free plus tax. Of course, Kenny
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Webster's pursuit of happiness. I remember
way back when Dan Crenshaw first ran for
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office here in the Houston area.
He was in a runoff against a woman
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named Kathy Glass and I'll be the
first two Amn. We made fun of
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Kathy Glass's voice on the radio.
She had a very high pitched voice.
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She would talk in her commercials on
TV, but only for a few seconds
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because her voice sounded like she was
sucking down a balloon full of helium.
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And her opponent was this Navy Seal
Dan Crenshaw. I mean, we all
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know who Dan is with the eye
patch and the war stories, and he
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seemed like a real conservative. He
seemed like a cool guy. Finally we
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got him elected. I mean,
he was on this radio show before anybody
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knew who he was. And then
of course the Saturday Night Live thing happened.
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For those that don't know that story, Pete Davidson made fun of his
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eye patch and a lot of people
felt that was a kicking the groin to
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military veterans everywhere. You're attacking a
man for having a disability after he served
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his country. I agreed with all
of that, you know, shame on
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SNL. But that was years ago. A lot's changed since then, Boy,
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a lot has changed. Dan Crenshaw's
voting record didn't really impress a lot
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of us. Do you remember when
he voted yes on what was it?
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A four hundred million dollars COVID vaccine
database? That sucked? Right? And
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I mean, look, I'm not
I could sit here and list them all
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off the top of my head.
It's a lot, right, funding for
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war overseas forever wars, not exactly
the hawk on the border that he claims
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to be And that's just the start
of it. I've met Dan crenshaw before.
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I have stories he's kind of an
arrogant guy. But I don't care
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if you're arrogant. If you're full
of yourself and you represent my values,
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that's cool. But if as a
public figure you're voting is contradicting your message
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and behind closed doors you're kind of
rude to your constituents, why do we
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put up with you? We all
remember the story about when he screamed at
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that little girl at a town hall
a couple of years back because she asked
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him about that famous SoundBite where Dan
crenshaw basically said that Jesus was a What
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did he say that she was a
Jesus was a like a fictional character.
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Hang on a second here, let
me let me just play the sound bite
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so I don't misquote it. Dan
crenshawe is famous for talking in a podcast
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where he said this, go ahead. So that's important. That's the important
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thing is here is that we have
societal hero archetypes that we look up to.
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Jesus is a is a hero archetype. Superman is a hero archetype.
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Real characters too, You know,
I put we can name a thousand you
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know Rosa Parks. Now, Dan
claims he misspoke there, claims he didn't.
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Really. Jesus is fake like Superman, says Dan Crenshie. He claims
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he misspoke and he got. He'll
scream at you in public if you challenge
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him on this anyway, I didn't
mean to give such a long introduction.
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He's being challenged now in the runoff
right well, in the primary. It's
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not a runoff against a local guy
a lot of you are familiar with.
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Jamison Ellis has been running against Dan
Crenshaw now for years. He ran in
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the last election, he's running again
in this one. He's been endorsed by
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mattress Mack. I think that's about
the biggest endorsement in Houston you can get
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from a vocal hero. He's been
endorsed by Michael Barry, a bigger radio
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show than this one, a friend
of ours. Obviously, I was on
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Michaels show for about a decade and
Jamison Ellis was on this radio show two
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years when he ran for office,
and I invited him back this Republican primary
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season to give him some aretime.
Obviously, Jamison's opponent, Dan Crenshaw is
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invited if he'd like to be on
the show. Something tells me he's not
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going to accept that invitation, is
he, Jamison, Well, Kenny,
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I can tell you, excuse me, sorry, I actually don't have helium.
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I don't have a voice that sounds
like helium. I don't wanted to
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do that ever since you said that
a few minutes ago. No, I
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seriously doubt he is going to do
that, just simply because he refuses to
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debate me. So he didn't even
show up to the Montgomery County Eagle Forum.
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We had a candidate debate, and
I just stood on stage for forty
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five minutes just taking questions from the
audience because he didn't show up. And
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so I spent two, probably the
next two or three weeks just challenging him,
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you know, challenging him to a
debate, calling him out for it,
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demanding a debate, and he just
would not answer. And I think
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that's really unfair to the constituents,
because the constituents deserve to hear how we
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differ on how we believe that we're
going to represent the district, and the
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constituents also have the right and they
deserve to be able to hold his feet
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to the fire. I'm a constituent, right, I'm not just a primary
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opponent. I'm also a constituent,
and it is it is. I think
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it says a lot about his unwillingness
to be held to account. One of
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the things about Dan Crenshaw that disappoints
me is there's just so much that you
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forget about. He's been around for
several years now, and obviously the Jesus
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thing the vaccine database was very frustrating
January six We all know where he stood
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on January sixth. He supported Liz
Cheney, did not support Donald Trump.
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For you, Jamison, what was
the last straw well? I mean,
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just to be totally honest with you, I mean, when I started out
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running for Congress a couple of years
ago, it wasn't in district too.
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It was in District eight, and
I happened into District two just by sheer
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accident. It was actually totally outside
of my control because if you remember,
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if you remember Kenny, two years
ago, Texas added two new districts,
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and whenever you have to whenever you
add something to you have to make room
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for them. And whenever that happens, the district line shifted. So I
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found myself districted out of District eight, which I had spent six months campaigning
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in, and districted into District two. And I could have stayed running in
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District eight, but on principle and
principle alone, I believe that if you're
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going to run to represent a district, it needs to be a district the
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district that you live in. And
so so I say that just to say
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that we didn't start off primary and
Dan Crenshaw. So I will say though
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that, you know, running against
an incumbent it's kind of a double edged
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sword because on one hand, because
they're the incumbent, they have a ninety
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eight percent success reelection ery on the
flip side of that, they also have
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a voting record, and truth be
told, if he had a great voting
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record, then I probably would have
stepped out of the race, because if
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you have great representation, then why
challenge them? You have a great representative,
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if anything else. Being switched from
eight to two, it encouraged me
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and inspired me to continue running even
more because I was thankful I didn't live
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in Dan's district, and then all
of a sudden, here I find myself
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in Dan's district and he's my congressman, and so you said it a little
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bit earlier. There's a whole list
of things that we can go down the
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line. I will say that the
one thing that I think woke me,
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as well as several others up about
Dan was back in twenty nineteen, and
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it wasn't a piece of legislation that
he voted on. It was just the
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fact that he flirted with the idea
of being in support of red flag laws.
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And I think most people have probably
seen the tweet that he put out
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there, but that's a big no
no. If you're really big on if
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you're really pro gun, and you're
big on Second Amendment as a purist,
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which I am, then red flag
laws is an infringement and for him to
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even flirt with that idea, now, believe it or not, that's not
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the worst thing. But I think
that's the one thing that really caused most
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people to raise up their heads or
raise up their ears and say, wait,
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what did you say? And so, yeah, great answer, Jamison.
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Look you've gotten some big endorsements,
Mattress Mac michael Berry. You can
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add my name to that list.
Brother Kenny Webster from the Walton and Johnson
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Radio Network. And I think I
speak on behalf of everybody on our morning
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show and this afternoon show when I
say that, And you know, I
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know that this election ain't over yet. It's primary time, early voting has
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started. Anything you need our listeners
to do to support you, and anything
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you'd like to ask people to do
for you, I mean, in all
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reality, what is happening right now, and I want to say thank you
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for that. By the way,
that does mean a lot your support and
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your endorsement. The one thing that
I want to ask people is get engaged
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in the political process because what we're
hearing and what we're feeling and what we're
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sensing as we're out there talking to
constituents is that the people feel disenfranchised.
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The people do not feel like the
government, that those that are serving in
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the government represent their principles and values
anymore. But on the flip side of
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that, there's still so many people
that just are uninformed and they're not paying
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attention. So if there's one thing
that I could ask people to do is
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to start informing yourselves. Go look
up the voting records of Dan Crenshaw or
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your representative, see how they are
representing you, and then look at the
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legislation. You can go to Liberty
Score, which is libertyscore dot Conservative Review
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dot com. You can look at
the Freedom Index. And in this case,
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there was a site that was brought
to my attention here recently which you
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can also go to to learn more
about Dan, which is fired Dancrenshaw dot
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com. And I'll tell you what. That site is pretty well done.
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It's pretty well done, and it
explains his voting record. But start informing
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yourselves. We've got to start having
these hard conversations. We've got to start
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talking about politics and religion. And
again we have to get engaged because and
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I said this two years ago and
I'm continuing to say it today, is
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that if we lose our country,
it will not be because of corruption in
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the government. It will be because
of complacency in the electorate. But what
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I'm sensing right now, Kenny,
is that the electorate are pissed and they're
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ready for change. They're ready to
reclaim what the left and when I say
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the left, I mean even those
that may have an R next to their
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name that do not represent us as
conservatives. We are reclaiming what rightfully belongs
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to us. We are restoring liberty
and you can feel the momentum. You
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can feel it all over the district. Jamis and elis running against Dan Crenshaw
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in district too right now. Obviously
Crenshaw is invited on the show as always,
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We've been trying to get him on
for years. Weirdly enough, he
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doesn't return my calls. Jamis and
Elis find him on social media. America,
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the land of taxation that was founded
to avoid taxation Kenny Webster's pursuit of
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heaviness. Let's talk about artificial intelligence. Where's all the nerds. Pay attention,
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nerds, this is for you.
This segment is for the nerds.
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We're gonna get real nerdy in here
right now. You understand. Yesterday Google
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launched a new component of artificial intelligence, their new product. They call it
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Gemini AI, and it was supposed
to correct a problem that had existed for
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a while since the advent of AI, which is really just over the last
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year or two. Right A chat
GPT came out, and then GROCK and
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there's a handful of other ones.
And what they do is you get what
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artificial intelligence is, well, they
do a lot of things. You can
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have conversations with them. You could
teach them things that it can teach you
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things. GROC that's Twitter, the
Twitter AI, that's Elon Musk's version.
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Supposedly, it has a sense of
humor. That's what makes it unique.
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And it's not politically biased like the
other ones are. Well, how politically
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biased are there are they? For
a while, people have criticized CHAP,
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GPT and some of the other image
generating AI programs for being racist or misogynistic
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or relying too much on stereotypes.
What does that mean exactly? Like,
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you'll tell it, show me an
image of poor people, and it'll show
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you black kids. Or you'll say, show me an image of a weak
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person and it'll show you a woman
in a wheelchair or something like that.
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Like, wow, that's really offensive. Okay, it's kind of offensive.
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But stereotypes generally tend to exist because
they have grains of truth in them,
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right, They're reliant upon opinions we
have because of perceived reality. That's not
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to say that all black people are
poor, or all women are weak or
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whatever, but artificial intelligence doesn't know
that. So artificial intelligence is scouring the
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Internet looking for information, and when
you ask it to generate an image,
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which is something it can do.
It can create an image of a mountain,
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create an image, make me take
this picture of me and make me
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look like an astronaut, or whatever
it is you're asking the program to do.
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It'll do that. But it's relying
on stereotypes, because how could it
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not. What else does it have
to go on? It's a computer.
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So Google comes along and they say, well, we're going to solve this.
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We're going to fix this. We're
going to make artificial intelligence generated images,
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but we're going to make them diverse. And the problem is they went
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a little too far. The pendulum
swung a little too far in the other
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direction. They came up with an
AI program called Gemni AI, and when
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you asked it to generate images of
the Founding fathers, they were all black,
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and he said, oh, I
doesn't look right. And then you
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asked it to generate images of rabbis, and instead of them looking like traditionally
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Jewish men wearing rabbi garb, they
were Native Americans with Jewish shawls on its
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like, that doesn't make any sense. And then they said, all right,
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show me images of mid twentieth century
German soldiers during the Nazi era,
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and it came back with black women
wearing German uniforms. So this is really
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confusing. What was the point again? The pendulum went too far in the
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other direction. So here we are
now with the wokest AI generated images we've
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ever seen, and Tim mathis stand
up comedian from Texas now working out of
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Hollywood. Tim, is this improving
our lives? Imagine how many millions of
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dollars went into this? You know
what, now that you mention it,
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it actually might improve our lives.
A lot of people are still talking about
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reparation. If it turns out that
the computers think that black folks were the
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slavers, then we might make a
come up. Yeah, isn't this basically
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just revisionist history? I mean,
what good does this do? It doesn't
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I mean, I guess your point
about reparations is valid from you know,
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if you're saying it in jest.
But revisionism is bad, isn't it?
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Oh? Yeah, no, it's
really terrible. I guess we could call
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it artificial ignorance. At this point, you know, these AI bots are
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starting to sound like your average studio
executive. Everything's got to be changed.
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The history has to be changed to
fit modern sensibilities. Its stuff like I
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can't remember what show it had,
but a Viking queen was a black woman.
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It's like, Okay, that's ridiculous. And stuff like that is really
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pervasive in pop culture right now.
And like I said earlier, it's a
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problem in that Hollywood used to have
a lot of whitewashing and stuff like that.
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I think famously Mickey Rooney played Asian
stereotype and Breakfast at Tiffany, and
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that even went all the way up
until twenty thirteen, I think with the
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Gods of Egypt movie. But it's
like they've gone so far in the other
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direction from whitewashing, now they're trying
to overcompensate the other route. I don't
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know if I talk to you about
the Echo Show, where a casting call
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went out and they were looking for
a Native American woman who was also deaf
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and also missing a leg. H
So they kind of narrowed it down and
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they ended up getting a lady that
had never acted in anything, and it
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showed, you know, her performance
was everybody panned it because she wasn't ready
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to play a lead role. I
mean, I'm out there acting and I
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don't even try to play lead roles. Even though I do have some experience,
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I don't think I can carry an
entire series on my back, you
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know what I'm saying. And unfortunately, with the way you have to box
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check nowadays, they're forcing more and
more people that aren't ready for certain positions
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to play those positions. Are you
watching the new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm
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on HBO. I have not watched
it, but a friend of mine was
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just in a a recent episode,
John Reefs, very funny, the redheaded
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country guy, redneck guy, very
funny guy. Okay, but no,
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I haven't seen it. I'm not
a huge HERB fan, but you know,
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I might get around to it,
all right, in the last season,
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I don't want to, you know. Spoiler alert, folks. In
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the last season of Kirby Your Enthusiasm, Larry makes a TV show and he
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decides he doesn't want to make the
TV show, so he tries to make
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it suck and he puts this woman
in it. She's like a short,
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chubby Hispanic woman who's never acted before, and she doesn't make any sense,
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and then she becomes a runaway star. Is it possible that behind the scenes
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that's what Hollywood or even Silicon Valley
is doing. They don't want to work
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on these projects, so they're making
them suck. You think it's sort of
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like trading places from back in the
eighties where they're betting people, Hey,
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I bet I can make this nobody
a star. They're all betting one dollar
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on whether or not they can make
these folks big stars. I mean,
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it's an interesting question, but no, I don't think that's what's going on.
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I think, like I said,
I think they're just overcompensating for the
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past misdeeds. And yeah, there
were some issues, a lot of issues
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with white watching back in the day. I mean, you used to have
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old movies that were, you know, the Japanese versus American and have to
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Japanese people were played by American folks. It's ridiculous. Yeah, but we've
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come so far that now they're overcompensating
in the other direction where they're replacing historical
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characters with people that look nothing like
them, even gender swapping them in some
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cases. And I think that's what
the Gemini AI bot is picking up on
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and it's confusing them. So,
you know, it's really weird. Hollywood
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is a weird way of getting involved
in hot button issues and trying to improve
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things, just like Silicon Valley does. They're both you know, it's the
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two heads on the same serpent,
if you will. And Hollywood just did
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the silliest thing. I mean,
you think Google Ai Gemini is ridiculous.
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Apparently a union of animators in Hollywood
just gathered together and voted and called for
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a ceasefire in Gaza. I gotta
tell you, Tim, if the Chicago
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City Council calling for a ceasefire in
Gaza didn't do it, surely this is
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going to end the war in the
mid East, isn't it. I mean,
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are we all happy that the conflict
has been resolved? That's the real
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question. Once the animators get on
the job, it's pretty much wraps.
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So I don't understand why a union
or a guild thinks that they should even
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chime in on this situation. I
mean, it's just like you said with
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the Chicago City Council, Like,
okay, so what. I don't understand
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the concept that they think that they're
going to come in and solve the issue
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by making a statement about it.
Hollywood's a weird cultural place. It's got
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a lot of like they're trying to
bring in a bunch of younger, more
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diverse writers and more diverse in this
case animation folks. I assume, and
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they the the newer generation in America
is more pro Palestinian and anti Israel than
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the previous generations because of our education
system. And and it's really going to
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butt up against the culture out of
here because it's a very heavily Jewish culture.
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I mean there's a lot of Jews
in Hollywood. I mean that's not
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a that's not a fake stereotype.
They don't run the place, you know,
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that's that's a lot of Jewish Historically. The reason why that is is
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because Jewish folks couldn't get jobbed in
New York City. Y'reing the depression,
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so a lot of them moved out
here and started Hollywood. Basically a lot
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of the first studios were run by
Jewish folks. And so there's a lot
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of Jews in Hollywood. Then a
lot of Jews support Israel, I mean
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more than don't. So it's probably
going to hit a loggerheads at some point
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where a lot of these pro Palestinian
supporters are going to have to reconcile with
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the fact that a lot of the
community out here is Jewish folks, so
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it's got to be a little weird. I don't know why the Animation Guild
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felt that they needed to go out
on a limb, but that's an interesting
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thing that happened. Yeah, it's
a bizarre thing. Right. Hey,
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before you leave, one more point
I want to make here. You and
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I both know that America is nostalgic
for what it used to be with this
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current America as it currently is over
the past few years has really been shaped
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by leftism and liberalism, and it
all goes back to academia. When you
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look at what's going on in the
media, when you look at what's going
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on in Hollywood right now, nobody
likes these new movies that are coming out.
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The new Disney sucks. Everything is
a remake of something old. Star
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Wars keeps cranking out new crap.
Superhero action films. Nobody wants to see
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them anymore because they've been done to
death. And when you look at what
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people are watching on streaming services right
now, it turns out the most watched
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shows are things like The Office,
Friends, Suits. None of this stuff
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is new, and I think it
really just goes to show you if that's
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what people are choosing to watch in
their free time. Are these people don't
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have a political agenda, They're sitting
down in front of streaming services, they're
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bored, and they're not watching the
new shows they're watching. That is Hollywood
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going to learn from this? I
mean, it feels like the message here
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is obvious. I'm hoping they do, because I mean, the whole reason
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I came out here was to make
those old school comedies like The Office and
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that nature. But I don't know
if they will, at least not for
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a little while. The numbers don't
lie. I mean, the new stuff
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is not getting as many eyes on
it as the old stuff, And especially
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when it comes to comedies, I
think the main reason for that is that
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a lot of comedies just aren't even
allowed to be anymore. You couldn't even
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make and and The Office isn't all
that edgy, but you couldn't even make
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that today. In fact, I
believe one of the writers of the Office
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came out and said recently that she
regrets some of the episodes, that they
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were just too over the line.
And I'm thinking, what is wrong with
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you? Like comedy is supposed to
push boundaries. There's a certain areas you
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can't go into, you can't go
so far. But people miss that.
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People missed the edgy comedies. They
missed the comedies where, oh my god,
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I can't believe they just said that. If you say it in the
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right way, if you say it
in the right context, you can get
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away with it because it's funny and
you might be actually shining a light on
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the issue that you're making fun of. So the fact that you know,
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older comedies and older dramas and stuff
like that are getting more watching hours than
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the new stuff should alarm Hollywood.
But I don't know if they'll get to
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hint this early. Yeah, that
Tim mathis very funny stand up comedian to
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your point. The Office had a
famous episode called Benny Hannah Christmas. It
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featured two Asian girls. One of
them goes on a date with Michael and
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he can't tell which of the two
Asian girls as which because he's racist and
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he's stupid, And that's the joke, right is Michael, the star of
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the show is an idiot? But
the girl that played the one of the
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Asian girls in the episode now publicly
spoke out and said she regrets doing the
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show because it's racist. Isn't the
show making fun of racism? I think
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I made my own point there,
But anyway, follow Tim mathis on Twitter
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and Instagram at Tim mathis Comedy.
He's a good follower at the Gillan Jane.
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If you ever see him do stand
up around the country, I think
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you'll enjoy that as well. Do
you have any shows coming up in the
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region, Tim, Actually, yes, we're doing a big show on June
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fifteenth. Theo Taylor is filming a
TV special with Comedy Dynamics and that's going
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to be in South Houston, actually
in fifth Ward. My bad, but
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yeah, we're doing that on June
fifteenth, and we'll have warm making them
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out too. My brother Tim mathis
Hey to the rest of you, have
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an awesome afternoon. We'll be back
bright and early tomorrow morning. On the
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Walton and Johnson Show. You are
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