1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:01,680 Speaker 1: Hello, Michael or Mike. 2 00:00:02,520 --> 00:00:05,040 Speaker 2: See there had switched that one up. You w wasn't 3 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:10,000 Speaker 2: ready for that anyway. I wanted to know after I 4 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 2: just watched a clip of Marco Rubio at a security 5 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:24,599 Speaker 2: forum here recently in the did he lose to Donald 6 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:29,440 Speaker 2: Trump in twenty sixteen? This dude just kills it. 7 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:34,159 Speaker 1: He's in his element. It's a great question. But you 8 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:37,560 Speaker 1: have to go back to twenty sixteen, and remember there 9 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: were I think four hundred and seventy two candidates in 10 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:44,640 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. I may be off by three or four, 11 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:50,720 Speaker 1: doesn't Yeah, but there were a lot of candidacy, including Jeb. 12 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 1: Remember Jeb with the exclamation point. Now, don't get me wrong, 13 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:56,960 Speaker 1: Jeb and I are still friends, and I love Jeb 14 00:00:57,560 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 1: and quite frankly would have loved to have served under 15 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:04,720 Speaker 1: him in an earlier time. You know, the whole family 16 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 1: always thought he would be the president. They never thought 17 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:09,959 Speaker 1: that W would be the president. But if you go 18 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:14,440 Speaker 1: back to then, you got Marco who truly did need 19 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:18,480 Speaker 1: to He's kind of like a He's like a really 20 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:22,640 Speaker 1: good solid pino. Nois you need to open the bottle. 21 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:26,840 Speaker 1: You maybe need to decant it, let it set for 22 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:30,959 Speaker 1: a while so that everything kind of you know, gets 23 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 1: a little oxygen in there that moves around a little bit, 24 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:37,199 Speaker 1: and he gets a little experienced. And then when you finally, 25 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 1: if you just jug it out of the bottle, it's 26 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 1: not going to be quite as good as if you 27 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:45,200 Speaker 1: let it, you know, get all of its full body together. 28 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 1: And that's what he's doing. In fact, my guess is 29 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 1: he very well could be the nominee. Tell me the 30 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 1: last time you heard anything about JD Evans? I know 31 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 1: it's early, it's early. I mean, we forget that in politics, 32 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 1: a week is a long time, and so yeah, just 33 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 1: just who knows what's going to happen. 34 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:09,000 Speaker 3: Now? 35 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:12,239 Speaker 1: I need to get something to something, something very very serious. 36 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:15,839 Speaker 1: Two things dragging first and foremost, I need to draw 37 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:17,839 Speaker 1: your attention to did you get the email that came 38 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:20,760 Speaker 1: in this morning about your signature box? Oh? 39 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:23,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I properly hit the delete button. 40 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 1: First of all, who who? I was gonna say, who 41 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:30,640 Speaker 1: are those clowns? But that might be inappropriate, so I 42 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:35,360 Speaker 1: won't say that exactly who are those two? 43 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:37,079 Speaker 4: You know? 44 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:39,840 Speaker 1: Sid it's it's it's it'd be like it'd be like 45 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:43,440 Speaker 1: Michael and Dragon at iHeartMedia dot com. That's that's what 46 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:46,480 Speaker 1: the email address it was even Michael and Dragon's Michael 47 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:49,799 Speaker 1: Dragon and it's it's but it's not. It's two different people. 48 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 4: You know. 49 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:52,960 Speaker 3: That's not unusual because we had a sales team that 50 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:54,960 Speaker 3: would have share an email. 51 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 1: I forget about that. So I still find it weird. 52 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 1: I just find it weird, and then kind of because 53 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:04,639 Speaker 1: I'm always curious, you know me, I gotta check it out. 54 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:07,559 Speaker 1: I can't find what's. 55 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:11,560 Speaker 3: Different, I assume because when I first started reading, I 56 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 3: thought they were gonna tell us to add the guaranteed 57 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 3: human on there, but that's not what it says. They 58 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:19,679 Speaker 3: went into the reaching nine out of ten Americans every day, 59 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 3: you know that kind of which is already part is 60 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:23,240 Speaker 3: already there? Yeah, well should be already there. 61 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:28,080 Speaker 1: Right, Yeah for those who are so yes, I just 62 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 1: want to make sure you saw it because well, occasionally, 63 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 1: like every morning, you'll send me an email and I 64 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 1: have yet to see. 65 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 3: But I don't email anybody outside of the building ever, 66 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 3: so nobody's gonna care what my title is. Everybody already 67 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 3: knows it. 68 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 1: Do you even have a personal email address? Personal? Yeah? Yeah, 69 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 1: I don't think I know what it is. Good Why 70 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:51,440 Speaker 1: don't you give it out to everybody? 71 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 3: Not a chance? Come on, twenty bucks, Dragon Redbeard at 72 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 3: Comcast dot net? 73 00:03:57,800 --> 00:03:58,520 Speaker 1: Is it really there? 74 00:03:58,640 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 3: Really is a. 75 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 1: Dragon red Beard that Comcast gotten it? Just sign him 76 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 1: up for every porno side, every Democrat, liberal, fascist, Marxist 77 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:15,640 Speaker 1: and conservative too. Let's let's get him both sides, signing 78 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 1: him up for all sorts of marx anytime that you're 79 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:21,960 Speaker 1: buying something. Even email address, that's what you use right there? 80 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 3: What do you think I use? 81 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:27,240 Speaker 1: So that's not really it? 82 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 3: Really it is my email. I just dragging red Beard 83 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:36,720 Speaker 3: at I hear I Concast radio professionals around we are, 84 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:37,280 Speaker 3: you know. 85 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:41,479 Speaker 1: And it's Friday, and and it's something's happening outside that 86 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:46,919 Speaker 1: Apparently people in Colorado don't have a clue that March 87 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:49,600 Speaker 1: is our snowiest month now, not that it's going to 88 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 1: keep doing it all month long, which it may or 89 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:52,840 Speaker 1: may not. I don't know. It's supposed to be like 90 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 1: sixty five degrees again tomorrow. 91 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:59,480 Speaker 3: But this is beautiful snowball, snow man, it is snowball 92 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 3: snow truly is. 93 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:04,240 Speaker 1: And it wasn't down Hyden's Ranch. There wasn't much. I mean, 94 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:07,120 Speaker 1: even the pavement was just barely wet, but by the 95 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:09,120 Speaker 1: time I got onto the twenty five, it was like 96 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 1: it was coming down really good, and the snowplows were 97 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:14,919 Speaker 1: out there driving but not doing anything because there was 98 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:17,480 Speaker 1: nothing to do because it's melting, so nothing to do. 99 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:22,599 Speaker 1: And then I get every I subscribe, I don't actually subscribe. 100 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 1: I guess I could, you know, unsubscribe. But I get 101 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:31,040 Speaker 1: a lot of trade magazines online about you know, radio, 102 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:35,720 Speaker 1: and one came in yesterday, and I usually skimmed through 103 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:40,240 Speaker 1: them because one there's sometimes sometimes not very often, but 104 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:44,359 Speaker 1: sometimes there's something that is actually worth reading. Then I 105 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 1: come on to this one. Now, this is written by 106 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 1: I'm not going to give his name or the trade 107 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:52,280 Speaker 1: magazine that it was in, but it's written by someone 108 00:05:52,279 --> 00:06:00,840 Speaker 1: who is a radio talk show consultant. And the title 109 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:06,680 Speaker 1: of this article is spring forward show prep because this 110 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:09,920 Speaker 1: weekend is what dragon It's our favorite time of the year. 111 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:13,880 Speaker 1: Daylight saving or some people say savings daylight saving time. 112 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:19,520 Speaker 1: And you would expect, you expect, right, the usual everybody 113 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:21,719 Speaker 1: bitches and moans about daylight saving time, right. 114 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:25,559 Speaker 3: Of course, so they either dude headline news on Monday. 115 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 1: Exactly, so either be today or Monday, that's all anybody 116 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:31,279 Speaker 1: will talk about. So I thought, oh, spring Forward show prep, 117 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:34,599 Speaker 1: let's read through this unless you live in Hawaii or 118 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 1: and Arizona, except the Navajo Nation or American Samoa, Guam, 119 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:44,479 Speaker 1: the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico. I read something yesterday. 120 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:47,240 Speaker 1: It said that if you say Puerto Rico, that that 121 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:50,719 Speaker 1: is cultural appropriation, and you can't. You can't say that 122 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 1: if you're a white guy. So if you live in 123 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 1: the Mariana Islands or Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, 124 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 1: your clocks will change. When we quote spring Forward on 125 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:05,040 Speaker 1: Sunday three eight. Every year, that one missing hour becomes 126 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 1: a big topic of conversation. So it's an opportunity to 127 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:14,800 Speaker 1: flex your radio advantage. Dragon, I'm gonna flex my radio 128 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:18,480 Speaker 1: advantage today. Oh please don't. Oh yes, I've gotta get dressed. 129 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:20,160 Speaker 1: I gotta get undressed to do that. But I'm gonna 130 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:23,320 Speaker 1: flex my radio advantage today. Too bad, we don't have 131 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:26,080 Speaker 1: a rod in here today filming as I flex my 132 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 1: radio advantage. 133 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 3: Nobody want to see that, not even Tamra. 134 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:34,200 Speaker 1: Well, you're right, nobody does plan now to empathize. Wait 135 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:38,000 Speaker 1: a minute, this program. You want this program to empathize 136 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:42,480 Speaker 1: with the emotional and practical adjustments that listeners are confronting, 137 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:43,760 Speaker 1: and including. 138 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:45,960 Speaker 3: Who does that? 139 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 1: What empathize with the yahoo's the goober's out there? No, 140 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 1: not at all. So then he goes through what you 141 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:05,160 Speaker 1: should talk about darker mornings. Gasp, I'm shocked. This is 142 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:10,240 Speaker 1: breaking news and this is a full fledged, complete article 143 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:15,160 Speaker 1: in the trades. Positive, later sunrise can feel cozy, especially 144 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 1: for people who enjoy easing into the day. Early morning 145 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:22,680 Speaker 1: workers may appreciate the quieter, calmer pre dawn hours. Now 146 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 1: the negative for many waking up in the darkness can 147 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:28,680 Speaker 1: be jarring. Kids heading to school and commuters on the 148 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:34,200 Speaker 1: road face reduced visibility. But longer evenings positive. More daylight 149 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:37,360 Speaker 1: after work boosts mood, encourages outdoor activity, and feels like 150 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:41,199 Speaker 1: the unofficial start of spring. Families can get more time outside. 151 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:44,400 Speaker 1: Business is tied to recreation, dining in retail see a lift, 152 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:49,200 Speaker 1: But the negative evening routine shift, especially for parents managing homework, sports, 153 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:51,679 Speaker 1: and bedtime. People who work late may feel the day 154 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 1: stretching uncomfortably long, and then sleep disruption. There's a positive. 155 00:08:57,040 --> 00:09:00,680 Speaker 1: Some listeners welcome the psychological reset of a reasonal shift. 156 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:03,960 Speaker 1: A later sunset can help night elves feel more aligned 157 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 1: with the clock. Negative, losing an hour can hit hard. 158 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:16,319 Speaker 1: Many experienced grogginess, irritability, and a few days of circadian chaos. Grogginess, irritability. 159 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:19,360 Speaker 1: That's just like me, every single day, just every day. 160 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:21,440 Speaker 1: Come in here and I see him, doesn't make any 161 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:24,240 Speaker 1: difference whether it's light outside or dark outside. I see him, 162 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:25,640 Speaker 1: and I'd just become irritable. 163 00:09:25,679 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 5: It's just another day that ends. And why That's exactly right. 164 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:32,440 Speaker 5: Health and mood positive. More evening light is a proven 165 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:36,720 Speaker 5: mood booster, So I'd expect on Monday that you be 166 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:39,680 Speaker 5: in a better mood, all right, Not a chance For 167 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 5: those prone to seasonal effective disorder commonly referred to as SAD. 168 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:46,840 Speaker 5: The extended daylight is a relief, but the negative The 169 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:50,320 Speaker 5: abrupt change can trigger fatigue, headaches, and short term stress 170 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:55,679 Speaker 5: and sleep. Deprived mornings can amplify anxiety. Productivity and daily 171 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:59,680 Speaker 5: rhythm is the next section. Positive Longer evenings can aspire productivity, 172 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:02,600 Speaker 5: extra size and social plans. Maybe you and I could 173 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:05,559 Speaker 5: do something socially together one evening dragon, Wouldn't that be fantastic? 174 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:09,120 Speaker 1: No, okay. People feel like they get their life back 175 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:12,960 Speaker 1: after winter. They kept in Colorado when marchmen's the snow 176 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:17,360 Speaker 1: this month. Usually in the year, negative morning productivity thanks 177 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:20,720 Speaker 1: for a few days as bodies adjust, Parents, shift workers, 178 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:24,800 Speaker 1: and early risers feel the strain most acutely. Safety considerations. Yes, 179 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 1: we gotta consider the safety considerations. Positive more daylight during 180 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:32,880 Speaker 1: height traffic evening hours improves visibility and reduces accident risk. 181 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:36,560 Speaker 1: The negative darker mornings increase hazard for pads, slightness and 182 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:41,160 Speaker 1: school children. Sweep deprivation contributes to slower reaction times and 183 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 1: energy consumption. The positive, longer daylight in the evening can 184 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 1: reduce lighting needs. Yeah, that's right, because thirty of your 185 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:51,160 Speaker 1: lights on later is gonna save you so much on 186 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:56,080 Speaker 1: a soaring electric bill. Outdoor activity replaces indoor energy use, 187 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:58,160 Speaker 1: not in our house loads. You got to keep it 188 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:01,960 Speaker 1: meat locker cold. You know your year long year around. 189 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:06,280 Speaker 1: Negative darker mornings mean more lights, heating, coffeemakers running earlier. Yep, 190 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:09,160 Speaker 1: those coffeemakers are going to just drive your lucky bill up. 191 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:12,560 Speaker 1: Any savings are inconsistent and very very region any impact 192 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:14,880 Speaker 1: on schedules, This just goes on and on and on 193 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 1: till it gets to So what's a radio station to do? 194 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:27,480 Speaker 1: This is where local radio can shine be human, helpful. 195 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:31,320 Speaker 3: And hyper local, guaranteed human, guaranteed human. 196 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:36,959 Speaker 1: Here you could play songs about time, Cindy Lauper's Time 197 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:42,880 Speaker 1: after Time shares, if I could turn back time, explain 198 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:47,920 Speaker 1: the history of daylight saving time. Note parentheses, it's saving, 199 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:52,760 Speaker 1: not savings. Close print. Ask callers how they feel about DST. 200 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:56,520 Speaker 1: You'll get strong opinions on both sides and stories. What 201 00:11:56,559 --> 00:11:59,800 Speaker 1: will you do with your longer evenings? Who cares? I 202 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:02,040 Speaker 1: don't care what you're gonna do with your longer evening? 203 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:05,720 Speaker 1: And guess what nobody else cares about what you're gonna 204 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:09,880 Speaker 1: do with your longer evenings either nobody cares. Giveaways that 205 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:13,960 Speaker 1: fit the moment. Giveaways. Is this guy living in the 206 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:17,439 Speaker 1: eighteenth century radio giving away something? Well? 207 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 3: Yeah? Roskominsky on the news with Ginegondeck. Yeah, we hate. 208 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:24,600 Speaker 3: We gave away ACDC tickets earlier today. 209 00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:31,439 Speaker 1: So there's that you gave away a CDC tickets. Yeah, 210 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:34,960 Speaker 1: well did I win? Yeah? Okay? 211 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:35,760 Speaker 2: Uh. 212 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:40,120 Speaker 1: We can give coffee cards, breakfast treats, outdoor gear, spring cleaning, kits. 213 00:12:40,679 --> 00:12:43,280 Speaker 1: What exactly isn't a spring cleaning kit just a bottle 214 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:47,239 Speaker 1: of windecks and side I guess partner with the advertisers 215 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:51,360 Speaker 1: spring ahead specials. Yeah, that'll get them. Man a spring 216 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:55,920 Speaker 1: Ahead special and interview a local health pro about sleep. Wow, 217 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:00,520 Speaker 1: waste my time doing all of that? Absolutely amazing. Then 218 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:02,840 Speaker 1: I get a text message. I get a text message 219 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:10,400 Speaker 1: this morning from a listener that I truly found interesting. Quote. 220 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:13,440 Speaker 1: We control the straight of hor moves. Why can't we 221 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:17,000 Speaker 1: direct that gas prices not be based upon panic data? 222 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:20,360 Speaker 1: The gasoline in the tanks was refined before the panic 223 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:24,280 Speaker 1: inflated oil prices. Why is this not price gouging of 224 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:30,440 Speaker 1: a necessary commodity? Thoughts? Well, okay, great listener question, genuinely thoughtful, 225 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:35,680 Speaker 1: emotionally satisfying instincts, but built on a few premises that 226 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:38,560 Speaker 1: I think are going to need some work before we 227 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:41,240 Speaker 1: can defend them on air. I'd break it down for 228 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:45,120 Speaker 1: you this way. The straight of her move's point, pump 229 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:50,120 Speaker 1: the brakes. Now, we have dominant naval presence there, but 230 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:53,520 Speaker 1: we don't control the straight of or moves. We don't 231 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:57,720 Speaker 1: control it in any sovereign or legal sense. Iran literally 232 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:00,880 Speaker 1: borders it, so we could threat and to keep it open. 233 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:05,480 Speaker 1: We can't dictate global oil pricing through it. Now, if 234 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:12,400 Speaker 1: you know, I guess you could correctly shred me. But 235 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:15,679 Speaker 1: here's how I would frame. We have more influence over 236 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:18,120 Speaker 1: that waterway than any nation on Earth, So why aren't 237 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:21,200 Speaker 1: we using that leverage more aggressively? That might be defensible 238 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 1: we control it, I don't think is defensible. Now, the 239 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:28,440 Speaker 1: gas in the tank was already refined. Argument that listen, 240 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:33,440 Speaker 1: this is the emotional core and it's real, But economics 241 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 1: doesn't care about how you feel. This is classic inventory 242 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:43,280 Speaker 1: repricing problem. The station owner paid X number of dollars 243 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:45,840 Speaker 1: for what's in the ground, but the moment he sells that, 244 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:48,760 Speaker 1: he's got to replace that in the ground, and at 245 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:53,840 Speaker 1: at the new market price. Now, if he doesn't reprice 246 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:59,000 Speaker 1: today's inventory to reflect tomorrow's replacement cost, he goes rope 247 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 1: when he restocks the gas in the tank. Every commodity 248 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 1: business on Earth operates this way, lumber, grain, copper, everything. 249 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:12,520 Speaker 1: The frustration, Your frustration is legitimate, but the economics are 250 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 1: not optional. They are what they are. I think the 251 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:20,720 Speaker 1: sharper argument that you're actually reaching for future markets are 252 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:26,080 Speaker 1: pricing in anticipated disruption, not actual supply shortage. And that's 253 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:30,040 Speaker 1: a real legitimate critique of how speculative trading drives pump 254 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 1: prices before a single barrel is actually affected. But the 255 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:39,360 Speaker 1: price gadging framing bothers me Price gadging laws require a 256 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:43,520 Speaker 1: declared emergency essential goods and a threshold price increase. Colord 257 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:46,560 Speaker 1: has a stupid one ten percent above pre emergency prices. 258 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 1: The legal standard almost certainly isn't meant here in normal circumstances. 259 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:55,280 Speaker 1: A bit more importantly, price controls and gasoline have a 260 00:15:55,360 --> 00:16:00,280 Speaker 1: documented truck record of catastrophic failure the nineteen seventies. That's 261 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:05,040 Speaker 1: not ancient history. Nixon's price controls on oil created the 262 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:08,520 Speaker 1: exact shortages they were meant to prevent. Lines around the 263 00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:13,240 Speaker 1: block odd even rationing empty pumps. The price signal, as 264 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:16,600 Speaker 1: ugly as it feels, that's what tells the market to 265 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 1: produce more and consume less. You kill the signal, you 266 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:23,040 Speaker 1: kill the supply response, and then you boom, you got 267 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:26,400 Speaker 1: gas lines. So your instinct is right that something feels wrong, 268 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:28,520 Speaker 1: and it may and it may be wrong. But the 269 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:31,040 Speaker 1: problem isn't that the market is broken. It's that the 270 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:34,520 Speaker 1: market is doing exactly what markets do, and nobody in Washington, 271 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:37,560 Speaker 1: DC has the guts to use our actual leverage to 272 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:40,640 Speaker 1: prevent the disruption. In the first place. Price controls are 273 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:43,840 Speaker 1: where good intentions go to create gas lines. Except I 274 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:47,960 Speaker 1: would say, there is somebody in Washington, DC who is 275 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:50,720 Speaker 1: going to use our actual leverage to prevent the disruption. 276 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:53,640 Speaker 1: And it's Donald Trump. And he did that with as 277 00:16:53,640 --> 00:16:56,760 Speaker 1: I explained yesterday, Lloyd's in London and said, oh, guess what, 278 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:00,920 Speaker 1: the United States will ensure your shipping lanes and your 279 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:04,800 Speaker 1: shipping lines, and we'll take all of that revenue in 280 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:07,120 Speaker 1: to the United States instead of Lloyd's. 281 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:13,360 Speaker 4: Gentlemen, it is your colleague and perhaps borderline friend. It's 282 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:21,960 Speaker 4: unclear still, but I too, gentlemen, it's your colleague Jesse Thomas, 283 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:26,199 Speaker 4: down here in the desert in Scottsdale, Arizona. I was 284 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:29,000 Speaker 4: gonna go play golf today, but I too got that 285 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:32,679 Speaker 4: corporate email, and I will spend the rest of my 286 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:37,440 Speaker 4: day making sure my email signature is up to par 287 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:42,400 Speaker 4: I suggest you, gentlemen, do the same. This is serious stuff, Okay, 288 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:46,440 Speaker 4: I gotta go guaranteed human too. 289 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:53,320 Speaker 3: I had to Jesse I'm sorry they're so. 290 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:59,960 Speaker 1: First, let's establish that we love Jesse, oh, of course, 291 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:02,600 Speaker 1: and we both consider him to be a good friend. 292 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:07,960 Speaker 1: Of course I do anything, but yeah, I do almost 293 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:12,320 Speaker 1: anything for Jesse. But yes, we're gonna mock you and 294 00:18:12,359 --> 00:18:14,040 Speaker 1: make fun of you when you try to send a 295 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:17,560 Speaker 1: talk back and you screw it up and then you 296 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 1: send another one. What do you think? 297 00:18:20,119 --> 00:18:20,320 Speaker 3: You know? 298 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:22,760 Speaker 1: Dragon Kit catches me during the break and he goes, 299 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:25,240 Speaker 1: you know, you know I love Jesse, And I said, yeah, 300 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:27,320 Speaker 1: why well, he tried to leave a talk back and 301 00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:27,880 Speaker 1: he kind of strung. 302 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:29,320 Speaker 3: I feel a little bad, but. 303 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:34,800 Speaker 1: I mean feel bad at all? You like said, And besides, 304 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:38,800 Speaker 1: let me remind you first look at your window, to 305 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:39,640 Speaker 1: your window. 306 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:41,359 Speaker 3: Barely the building across the street. 307 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:45,199 Speaker 1: He's in Scottsdale, in an apartment that probably hasn't a 308 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:49,000 Speaker 1: has a balcony, and he may actually be spending some 309 00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:52,960 Speaker 1: quality time trying to get his iHeart signature just exactly 310 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:56,560 Speaker 1: right while he sits there with you know, probably a 311 00:18:56,560 --> 00:18:58,840 Speaker 1: bagelttle some smear, or maybe he's got a pholp. He's 312 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:01,320 Speaker 1: got scrambled eggs and bacon, got a little orange juice, 313 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:03,560 Speaker 1: maybe a little go to something and he's sitting on 314 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:05,720 Speaker 1: the balcony and it's I don't know what it is 315 00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:08,399 Speaker 1: in Scottsdale right now, but my guess is it's probably 316 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:11,520 Speaker 1: pretty damn cold. It's probably like sixty two degrees outside. 317 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:15,720 Speaker 1: Poor thing. Yeah, so, you know, Jesse white my ass, 318 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:17,919 Speaker 1: and you know, work on your work on work on 319 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,680 Speaker 1: your email signature to get that done right. We'll check 320 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:22,760 Speaker 1: it later, in fact, email us later and we'll and 321 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:24,640 Speaker 1: we'll check it on air for you to make sure 322 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:25,199 Speaker 1: it's done right. 323 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:26,960 Speaker 3: And you need to work on your nine iron. 324 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:30,720 Speaker 1: And you need to work on how to work my 325 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:36,400 Speaker 1: heart up and leave a talk back appropriately too. The 326 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:38,720 Speaker 1: best part is did he not think that we weren't 327 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:41,359 Speaker 1: going to make fun of him? I didn't make it. 328 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:44,880 Speaker 1: We make our own mothers. We make fun of everybody, 329 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 1: We make fun of each other, we make fun of ourselves. 330 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:49,880 Speaker 3: And again, I hope he gets the job. I hope 331 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:50,920 Speaker 3: he's going. 332 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:54,639 Speaker 1: To be So maybe we should love before him to 333 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:57,080 Speaker 1: not get the job. Maybe we should send it a 334 00:19:57,080 --> 00:19:59,600 Speaker 1: refer like a reference letter for him that says we 335 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 1: loved we really want Jesse to get the job. That 336 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:07,159 Speaker 1: will kill it right there, and then, you know, don't 337 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:08,960 Speaker 1: get the job. No, maybe I mean we should say 338 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:10,920 Speaker 1: that we don't want him to get the job. 339 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:12,280 Speaker 3: I mean it is gonna be a lot more work 340 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:14,080 Speaker 3: for him because he's still going to be the Rockies 341 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:16,400 Speaker 3: producer and then doing play by play as well. That's 342 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:16,880 Speaker 3: gonna be there. 343 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:19,400 Speaker 1: And this is why you think I want to get 344 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:22,240 Speaker 1: the job because I think it'll be great for him professionally, 345 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:24,119 Speaker 1: and I think he'd be very good at all of 346 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 1: this is true, but I want him to be like 347 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:30,800 Speaker 1: everybody else in the company. I was just talking to 348 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:34,080 Speaker 1: a Ja the way in this morning too. I figure that, 349 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 1: you know, we lost the guy downstairs that helps cut 350 00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:39,800 Speaker 1: produce things. Well, I guess who's took it on taking 351 00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:43,440 Speaker 1: on those responses. Of course I didn't realize that, so 352 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:44,359 Speaker 1: so I said, it's. 353 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:46,360 Speaker 3: Not like he has any other duties that he needs 354 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:47,440 Speaker 3: to do around here. 355 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 1: I know. So now it's just like it's it's just 356 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:53,040 Speaker 1: like everybody else out there in the real world. Not 357 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:56,679 Speaker 1: that this is not the real world, but yeah, everybody downsizes, 358 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:59,000 Speaker 1: everybody tightens the you know, the bottom line, and then 359 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:02,399 Speaker 1: everybody takes on. Oh dragon, guess what, uh, yeah, we 360 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:03,360 Speaker 1: need you to do this too. 361 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:07,159 Speaker 3: Oh does it come with a rais Oh. 362 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:09,680 Speaker 1: Silly boy, silly boy. So yes, we wanted to get 363 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:12,080 Speaker 1: the job although we knowed it. But yeah, he can 364 00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:14,840 Speaker 1: put like forty different things on his in his signature 365 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:17,800 Speaker 1: line too. Oh that's true. Yeah, yeah, he can have 366 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:23,480 Speaker 1: a signature line bigger than mine. We can instead of comparing. 367 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:26,440 Speaker 3: That your signature line is Michael D. Brown ahole, I mean, 368 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:28,000 Speaker 3: of course, be bigger than. 369 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:38,440 Speaker 1: You're guaranteed human. Hey, guaranteeing that Americans? Oh man uh 370 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:43,000 Speaker 1: President of the United States. Uh, real quick. 371 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:47,679 Speaker 3: I just got a text message that says warranted, warranted, 372 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:49,840 Speaker 3: warranted from from jes Oh. 373 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:53,480 Speaker 1: Oh just warranted. Yes, yeah, of course, of course I 374 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:58,119 Speaker 1: thought he'd put like warranted human. It's the guaranteed it 375 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:04,480 Speaker 1: is warrant warranted human. The Republican primary race. That this 376 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:09,760 Speaker 1: is from what two days ago, the Republican primary race 377 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:11,760 Speaker 1: for the United States sen in the great state of Texas, 378 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:14,159 Speaker 1: the state I love and won three times in record numbers, 379 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:16,919 Speaker 1: the highest vote ever recorded by far can offer the 380 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:18,960 Speaker 1: good of the party and our country itself be allowed 381 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:21,400 Speaker 1: to go on any longer. It must stop now. He says, 382 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:24,639 Speaker 1: we have an easy to beat radical left opponent and 383 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:27,359 Speaker 1: we have to totally focus on putting him away quickly 384 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:32,000 Speaker 1: and decisively. Both John and Ken are ran great races, 385 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:35,240 Speaker 1: but not good enough. Now this one must be perfect. 386 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:39,200 Speaker 1: My endorsements within the Republican Party have been virtually insurmountable. 387 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:42,639 Speaker 1: It is such an honor to realize and say that 388 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:46,760 Speaker 1: almost everyone I endorse wins and wins by a lot, 389 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:49,400 Speaker 1: especially in Texas. I will be making my endorsement soon 390 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:52,480 Speaker 1: and will be asking the candidate that I don't endorse 391 00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:55,040 Speaker 1: to immediately drop out of their race. Is that fair? 392 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 1: We must win in November. Thank you for your attention 393 00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:02,639 Speaker 1: to this matter, President Donald J. T. I loved it 394 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:06,560 Speaker 1: not for the content of the message, but because it 395 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:10,080 Speaker 1: broke up a four day string of endless pontificating and 396 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:13,679 Speaker 1: doming relating to the utter disembowment of the Iranian regime. 397 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:19,080 Speaker 1: And so I took on not the endorsement aspect, but 398 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:22,560 Speaker 1: I took on the issue about whether or not I 399 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:26,440 Speaker 1: care about John Cornyn winning or Ken Paxton winning, while 400 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:29,280 Speaker 1: my preference would be Ken Paxton at the end of 401 00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:31,800 Speaker 1: the day, a phrase that I hate, but at the 402 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:33,480 Speaker 1: end of the day, I just want to make sure 403 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:36,640 Speaker 1: that a Republican wins in Texas. You cannot have, according 404 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:40,359 Speaker 1: to the president's own description, a radical lefty like Tallerico 405 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:43,280 Speaker 1: winning in Texas. So I did something that I don't 406 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:45,480 Speaker 1: normally do last night, talk to some family members and 407 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,639 Speaker 1: talk to some friends down in Texas about what's really 408 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:53,840 Speaker 1: going on. And it's really amazing to me. Now, before 409 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:56,760 Speaker 1: I get into that, what I appreciate most about this 410 00:23:56,880 --> 00:24:01,360 Speaker 1: audience is that you really are capable of forming your 411 00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:06,440 Speaker 1: own opinions about ongoing events. Sometimes you might apologize on 412 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:09,200 Speaker 1: the text line because you disagree with whatever my assessment 413 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:13,160 Speaker 1: opinion might be, and I would say that that feedback 414 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:17,439 Speaker 1: is valued and usually it's very well thought out. That 415 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:20,280 Speaker 1: also means I expect a lot of you to catch 416 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:23,200 Speaker 1: what I'm going to say here about the forthcoming runoff 417 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:27,760 Speaker 1: between Cornyn the senior US editor from Texas, and Ken Paxton, 418 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:34,359 Speaker 1: the state sitting attorney general. Let me make this queer clear. 419 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:39,400 Speaker 1: Let me make it clear, to quote macho man Randy Savage, 420 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:43,240 Speaker 1: you don't have to like it, but accept it. Accept 421 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:47,320 Speaker 1: the fact that President Trump has different standards for endorsements. 422 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:49,359 Speaker 1: Some of the picks drive people up the wall, and 423 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:51,720 Speaker 1: some of the picks people love, some of the picks. 424 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:54,280 Speaker 1: I hate some of the picks people hate. Understand all that. 425 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:57,719 Speaker 1: For more than a decade now, Trump's endorsements have been 426 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:04,280 Speaker 1: a major sticking point in people's commentary on air, off air, everywhere. 427 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:07,920 Speaker 1: But we have no control over that decision making process, 428 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:14,000 Speaker 1: and we can only impact our grassroots candidates positively by 429 00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:17,800 Speaker 1: financially supporting them making sure that their messages are heard 430 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:24,560 Speaker 1: on Cornan, Everybody I talked to agrees that he is 431 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:29,280 Speaker 1: undoubtedly one of the worst officials in Congress among Republicans 432 00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:31,960 Speaker 1: representing a state that Trump won all three times and 433 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:35,439 Speaker 1: by almost fourteen points in twenty twenty four. Cornyn is 434 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:40,320 Speaker 1: what I despise most about Washington DC. I've got the 435 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:45,280 Speaker 1: exit and entry wounds to prove it. Cornyn is a backstabber. 436 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:50,879 Speaker 1: You may not know this, but his worst voting scores 437 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:57,760 Speaker 1: occurred exclusively under Trump's first term. When you go to 438 00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:02,760 Speaker 1: the Freedom Index and you look at his ratings, his 439 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:07,000 Speaker 1: lifetime scores only sixty two percent. But then you go 440 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,720 Speaker 1: through and you look at the different congresses and you 441 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:12,679 Speaker 1: see that his lowest rate he just take twenty nineteen 442 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:16,760 Speaker 1: to twenty twenty course only twenty seven percent under Biden. 443 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 1: But you go before that forty three percent, fifty four percent. 444 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:26,600 Speaker 1: It's just pretty bad uber conservative under Democrat presidents, in 445 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:29,480 Speaker 1: kind of a limp dishrag under Republicans, including my old 446 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:33,040 Speaker 1: boss Bush. He tried to shove Trump out of the 447 00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:35,960 Speaker 1: race over Democrat law fare in twenty twenty three and 448 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:39,520 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. He's been practically useless since Trump resumed 449 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:42,960 Speaker 1: the presidency and just burned over sixty million to defend 450 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:47,639 Speaker 1: his sevens probably responsible for Wesley Hunt's No Shock candidacy 451 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:50,399 Speaker 1: so he could ensure Kim Paxton didn't win a majority 452 00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:54,320 Speaker 1: in round one. I had not heard that before, but 453 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:59,240 Speaker 1: when one host down in Texas talked about that, yeah, 454 00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:01,280 Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I've really thought about that one, 455 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:04,320 Speaker 1: and I will think about a break now. Want you 456 00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:07,680 Speaker 1: to think about hmmm. Did Wes we Hunt, the congressman, 457 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:11,200 Speaker 1: get into the race to make sure that Paxton didn't 458 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:14,720 Speaker 1: get a majority? Could be ladies and gentlemen. 459 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:17,840 Speaker 6: Following the success of our new straight of horror moves 460 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:23,280 Speaker 6: shipping insurance, we now offer American fury insurance. Yes, for 461 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:27,919 Speaker 6: our government subsidized fee, we will assign an armed predator 462 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:32,080 Speaker 6: drone to protect your car, truck, boat, or tesla from 463 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:36,560 Speaker 6: theft or vandalism. This offer not subsidized for foreign car 464 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:38,200 Speaker 6: owners like those damn BMW. 465 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:45,159 Speaker 1: Drivers minus fact manufactured in one of the Carolinas I 466 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:50,720 Speaker 1: forget which one. So there, that's pretty damn good, except 467 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:54,800 Speaker 1: you might want to exclude some like blue cities. You 468 00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:57,880 Speaker 1: shouldn't be able to get that subsidized insurance in those 469 00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:01,440 Speaker 1: blue cities. So let's look about Ken Paxton for a second. 470 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,680 Speaker 1: Now you may ask yourselves why am I talking about 471 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:09,359 Speaker 1: this Texas Senate race, because it is so instructive about 472 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:15,000 Speaker 1: retail politics. And I know that Republicans in Colorado don't 473 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,359 Speaker 1: have much of a chance to understand and really live 474 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:24,040 Speaker 1: retail politics because we have a dysfunctional state Republican party. 475 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:30,640 Speaker 1: We have a dearth of really qualified good candidates running 476 00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:34,280 Speaker 1: for office. And not say that some of mark good, 477 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:36,600 Speaker 1: don't get me wrong. But when I say a dearth, 478 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:39,520 Speaker 1: you know, one out of ten or two out of 479 00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:42,880 Speaker 1: fifteen or whatever. That's just not much of a bench. 480 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:49,080 Speaker 1: So told you about Cornyn and how he's a weather 481 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:52,720 Speaker 1: vein depends on which way the wind blows. On the 482 00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:56,080 Speaker 1: other hand, the attorney General Ken Paxton has done a 483 00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 1: lot that you can look at and say, oh, in 484 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:01,320 Speaker 1: terms of America First Movement, He's done a lot of 485 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:05,640 Speaker 1: stuff unlike so many other elected officials. He's defended the 486 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:09,880 Speaker 1: president and you know, has gone to super linkx to 487 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:13,479 Speaker 1: do so, such as that blockbuster Supreme Court case Texas 488 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:16,520 Speaker 1: versus Pennsylvania, which was you know, joined by a lot 489 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:19,959 Speaker 1: of other states, I think like maybe twenty other states. 490 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,960 Speaker 1: Now the Supreme Court tossed it out for standing, which 491 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:26,719 Speaker 1: I think was a they were just trying to avoid 492 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:32,080 Speaker 1: deciding the case. But he's been very successful and I 493 00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:36,360 Speaker 1: think he deserves credit for that. And I think we've 494 00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:39,000 Speaker 1: also reached a point where the American electorate doesn't care 495 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:41,560 Speaker 1: nearly as much about personal troubles as they did, say, 496 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:46,000 Speaker 1: fifty years ago. Obviously nineteen ninety eight, when Democrats made 497 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:50,360 Speaker 1: mid term gains despite all the scandals under Bill Clinton. 498 00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:54,120 Speaker 1: Trump overrode those conserves in twenty sixteen when he beat 499 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:56,800 Speaker 1: a woman for the presidency, a month after Washington had 500 00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,840 Speaker 1: been a crippling access all he would reveal with some 501 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:03,840 Speaker 1: really cringe locker room talk played on every television screen 502 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:06,000 Speaker 1: and radio station for twenty four to seven until the 503 00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:11,080 Speaker 1: election one. Paxton should be able to get divorced in peace, 504 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:15,320 Speaker 1: even with accusations flying everywhere. Is there every release? And 505 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,280 Speaker 1: you know when I was a baby lawyer, you know 506 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:20,480 Speaker 1: you took every case that came in the door because 507 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:23,760 Speaker 1: you needed to start building a practice. Well, I soon learned, 508 00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:25,480 Speaker 1: probably within a year or so, I'm never going to 509 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:28,280 Speaker 1: do another divorce case in my life. Is there such 510 00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:31,480 Speaker 1: a thing as a peaceful divorce? No, And you put 511 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:33,720 Speaker 1: it in the public eye, There's never going to be 512 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:37,440 Speaker 1: a peaceful divorce. So leave it to cornyin and a 513 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 1: massive war chest that should be used for good candidates 514 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:44,040 Speaker 1: is to go after Paxston's personal life and make mountains 515 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:46,560 Speaker 1: out of molehills that he was acquitted up back in 516 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:50,280 Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. Now, I may not be a polls guy, 517 00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:53,400 Speaker 1: but polls are all we have in primaries. And if 518 00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:56,600 Speaker 1: you look at the polls going into that primary, the 519 00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:59,880 Speaker 1: Realtor of Politics average had Paxson up about three point 520 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:02,760 Speaker 1: There was an outlier that had him up plus two, 521 00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:05,880 Speaker 1: but take that out, and with that out, Paxton was 522 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:09,680 Speaker 1: plus four point three. What does that mean? It means 523 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:13,920 Speaker 1: that Paxton underperformed by about six points. And when you 524 00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:18,160 Speaker 1: look at the map of Cornin versus Paxton, you would 525 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:21,440 Speaker 1: have expected that Paxton or that Cornyn excuse me, Cornyn 526 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:24,920 Speaker 1: would have made his money gotten his votes along the 527 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:29,440 Speaker 1: Interstate thirty five Corridor, which is really kind of the 528 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:34,200 Speaker 1: Texas version of the San Francisco Bay. That I thirty 529 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:38,000 Speaker 1: five corridor runs you through Fort Worth, Dallas, Austin, and 530 00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:40,520 Speaker 1: then you kind of make a sideswipe down to Houston 531 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:46,800 Speaker 1: and it goes straight into San Antonio. That's all liberal Texas, 532 00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:55,160 Speaker 1: and that liberal Texas, Yeah went for Cornyon. But why 533 00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:58,360 Speaker 1: is that important? Let me explain that next