1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 1: It's that time time time, time, Luck and Load. 2 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:13,400 Speaker 2: The Michael Varry Show is. 3 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 3: On the air. 4 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:38,520 Speaker 4: On the subject of shrimp. A Khou investigation a short 5 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 4: while back revealed that forty four restaurants in Galveston or Chema, 6 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:53,320 Speaker 4: we're serving foreign shrimp. Why aren't you serving the shrimp 7 00:00:54,440 --> 00:01:01,200 Speaker 4: from the water a foot away? We know why, it's cheaper, 8 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:09,319 Speaker 4: it's frozen. But imagine that. Imagine you're having a shrimp 9 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:16,480 Speaker 4: dinner in Keema or Galveston and you're eating I don't 10 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:20,039 Speaker 4: think they tell who the restaurants are, but you're eating 11 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 4: shrimp that's come from what, China or Thailand or this 12 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 4: was the story. 13 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:34,280 Speaker 5: Galveston shrimping industry has been sinking for years. Trimpers say 14 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:37,840 Speaker 5: the competition from cheaper, farm raised imported shrimp has driven 15 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 5: down the price per pound of Gulf shrimp so much 16 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:43,520 Speaker 5: they're losing money each time they put gas in their boats. 17 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:46,840 Speaker 6: There used to be three hundred boats. I think now 18 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 6: there's seven, seven or eight in Galveston. That's sad. It's 19 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:52,480 Speaker 6: just really sad. 20 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 5: Nikki Johnson Coons, also known as the Shrimp Diva, married 21 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 5: into a family of Galveston shrimpers that's made a living 22 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 5: fishing the waters the golf for generations. She wasn't surprised 23 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 5: to learn recent genetic tests performed on shrimp dishes at 24 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:09,799 Speaker 5: forty four seafood restaurants in Galveston and Chema revealed nearly 25 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 5: sixty percent of them were serving shrimp that was imported 26 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 5: and raised in farms abroad. 27 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:18,480 Speaker 6: It wasn't shocking the restaurants that failed. I hope that 28 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 6: they come around and to start doing what's right, not 29 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:25,639 Speaker 6: lying to not lying to their customers. 30 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 7: Looking from the outside, you can't really see any difference. 31 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:32,080 Speaker 7: If you just saw a dish with one of the 32 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:35,679 Speaker 7: other items, you wouldn't be able to identify which one 33 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 7: as which. 34 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 5: Dave Williams is a commercial fishery scientist. He's also the 35 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:43,359 Speaker 5: founder of Seed Consulting, the Houston based company that developed 36 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:46,760 Speaker 5: a DNA testing process it says can determine a shrimp's 37 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:51,400 Speaker 5: origin whether it's raw or cooked. Last year, the company 38 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 5: was contracted by the Southern Shrimp Alliance to investigate randomly 39 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:59,119 Speaker 5: selected restaurants in Galveston and Chema that claimed or implied 40 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 5: they served while old caught golf shrep. 41 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 7: Fifty of the restaurant serving shrimp with serving the imported 42 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:11,560 Speaker 7: farmery shrimp. Of those, approximately half of them actually said 43 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 7: that they were golf shrimp when they weren't. 44 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:16,920 Speaker 5: The rest william says, implied they were serving gold shrimp 45 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 5: through the restaurant's marketing. The Federal Trade Commission is the 46 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:23,800 Speaker 5: authority that's supposed to enforce incidents of consumer fraud. The 47 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 5: agency declined or request for an interview today. However, on 48 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:30,960 Speaker 5: its website, the FTC warrants restaurants they may be committing 49 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 5: fraud even by the decorations in their dining rooms like 50 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 5: fishing nets and boats implying their seafood is caught locally. 51 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:39,040 Speaker 6: A kind of eating switch. 52 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:40,120 Speaker 8: I don't think it's fair. 53 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:43,920 Speaker 5: Chris Lopez is the executive chef at Boulevard's Seafood on 54 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 5: the Galveston Sea Wall. His restaurant is among the little 55 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 5: more than a dozen tested by Seed that turned out 56 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,920 Speaker 5: to actually be serving wild caught golf shrimp. 57 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 4: If your toy is you come to Galvin you want 58 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:56,440 Speaker 4: product from these waters. 59 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 5: You don't want to come here and they get a 60 00:03:57,800 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 5: frozen product from somewhere. 61 00:03:58,640 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 1: Now, this makes no sense. 62 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 5: Instead of naming the restaurants that didn't pass the test. 63 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 5: Dave Williams says his company will be sending them letters first. 64 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 5: He's hopeful they'll make the changes on their own for 65 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 5: the sake of their customers and for the sake of 66 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:13,640 Speaker 5: the Texas shrippers. 67 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:20,280 Speaker 4: And that, my friends, is how you got the American economy. 68 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:30,680 Speaker 4: You see, wages around the world, historically, by historically, in 69 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:35,279 Speaker 4: modern history, have been so much less than American wages. 70 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:42,920 Speaker 4: American wages are, in that sense, by international standards, artificially high, 71 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 4: which always meant a high standard of living. And they say, well, 72 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 4: it's all relative. What does it matter if you make 73 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 4: twenty dollars an hour here and five dollars an hour 74 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 4: in another country, if everything their cost a quarter is 75 00:04:56,040 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 4: much true, but it meant that you had international buying power. 76 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:04,680 Speaker 4: And that was why a middle class American could travel 77 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:08,680 Speaker 4: to much of the world, not Norway or Japan, but 78 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 4: much of the world and think, wow, this is great. 79 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 4: Everything here is so cheap. But that has changed, and 80 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:22,520 Speaker 4: you have seen a coincident rise in wages around the 81 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 4: world and decrease or stagnation in American wages. And the 82 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:32,799 Speaker 4: reason is because American companies stopped valuing American workers period, 83 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:37,560 Speaker 4: end of story. So what happened was it's driven largely, 84 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 4: not exclusively, but largely by public companies. And public companies goal, 85 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:46,600 Speaker 4: and it's a noble goal, I'm not going to say 86 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:52,480 Speaker 4: it's not, is to yield the greatest return on investment 87 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 4: that they possibly can, whether that's in the form of 88 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:59,920 Speaker 4: a dividend paid directly to a shareholder, or whether that's 89 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:03,160 Speaker 4: a form of a higher profitability that makes the stock 90 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 4: more desirable, which drives the stock price up. And by 91 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 4: the way, typically the types of people making decisions are 92 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 4: large shareholders of stock, they're getting stock options all the while, 93 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:21,799 Speaker 4: or just outright stock grants. So as one company says, hey, 94 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 4: it's a lot harder to grow revenues than it is 95 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:29,839 Speaker 4: to cut costs. And that's why you've seen massive cost 96 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 4: cutting across the country in the last ten years. Especially, 97 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 4: this has been going on since the eighties to this 98 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:39,599 Speaker 4: degree where you're seeing that companies are finding ways to 99 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:44,880 Speaker 4: simply eliminate every position they possibly can across the board. 100 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:48,520 Speaker 4: Because every position you can eliminate there's a short term 101 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:52,719 Speaker 4: cost in a payout. But even that, even though there 102 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:56,280 Speaker 4: is not a greater profitability. When there are layoffs but 103 00:06:56,360 --> 00:07:00,560 Speaker 4: no changes in output, you'll see an immediate rise in 104 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 4: the stock because the anticipation. So you bake in the 105 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:07,440 Speaker 4: extra profits you're going to make in three, six, nine months. 106 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 4: Whenever those severance packages run out, the market will bake 107 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 4: that in immediately, price that in immediately. So once one 108 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 4: company says we're no longer going to let's take by 109 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:28,680 Speaker 4: local shrimp, then everybody else says we have to compete. 110 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:33,280 Speaker 4: That was the whole game of illegal immigration. Once one 111 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:36,720 Speaker 4: company started showing up being able to bid a construction 112 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 4: project with illegal labor which was at a far lower 113 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:44,560 Speaker 4: rate and no benefits, no social security, none of that stuff, 114 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 4: then the guy complying with the law couldn't compete. He couldn't, 115 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 4: especially when labor is the greatest cost in a construction project. 116 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 4: So that was going on for a number of years, 117 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:56,560 Speaker 4: and I think that led to a lot of the 118 00:07:56,600 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 4: anti illegal sentiment is a lack of any sense of fairness. 119 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:07,000 Speaker 4: But the question becomes why doesn't the marketplace work? And 120 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:09,280 Speaker 4: this is the one I struggle with. It frustrates me 121 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 4: because if the marketplace worked, consumers would say, is this 122 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 4: a local fit shrimp and if it's not, I don't 123 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 4: care that it's cheaper. I'm going somewhere that it is, 124 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 4: but they don't not so rich and famous are as. 125 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 1: I call it the Michael Berry Shows. 126 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:28,520 Speaker 7: On this day. 127 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:36,200 Speaker 4: In nineteen eighty six, Fox Broadcasting Company FBC launches as 128 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:42,599 Speaker 4: the fourth US television network, after of course ABC, NBCCBS. 129 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:48,880 Speaker 4: The first show broadcast on the network, the Late Show 130 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:53,840 Speaker 4: with Joan Rivers. That would be the end of her 131 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:59,880 Speaker 4: friendship with Johnny Carson. Johnny Carson had mentored her, seem 132 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:03,360 Speaker 4: to be very fond of her, believed she had a 133 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:08,400 Speaker 4: great deal of talent. He would never speak of how 134 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:12,440 Speaker 4: he felt when she left or when she took the 135 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:17,120 Speaker 4: position with her own late night show. He would never 136 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:20,440 Speaker 4: speak of that, but she would, of course, being Joan 137 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:24,880 Speaker 4: Rivers dish as I think the word was created for her, 138 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:28,959 Speaker 4: maybe on the fact that he was very angry at her. 139 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,240 Speaker 4: He cut her off. He went out of his way 140 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:34,679 Speaker 4: to tell people that if you appear as her guest, 141 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:38,319 Speaker 4: you'll never be on our show. Needless to say, he 142 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 4: took it very very personally, and I suppose your reaction 143 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 4: to that is up to you. You can say, well 144 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 4: that wasn't very big of him. He could have been gracious, 145 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:54,840 Speaker 4: he could have helped her succeed. There were enough viewers 146 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 4: out there that everybody could have gotten along. It wasn't 147 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:00,440 Speaker 4: going to really hurt his show at the end of 148 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:04,000 Speaker 4: the day. And it was a sign of his success 149 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:07,959 Speaker 4: to have his protegee go off, or somebody that he 150 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 4: had nurtured anyway, go off and have their own show. 151 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 4: And as a woman on late night TV, this was groundbreaking, 152 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:17,640 Speaker 4: and he had been a big part of really developing 153 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:24,160 Speaker 4: her and exposing her to the networks. Or you could 154 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:29,720 Speaker 4: say Johnny Carson behind the smile was intensely competitive, and 155 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:33,280 Speaker 4: he was, and I think that's one of many examples 156 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:38,920 Speaker 4: of that. The first show to be broadcast on that 157 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:42,360 Speaker 4: new network was The Late Show with Joan Rivers. The 158 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:48,040 Speaker 4: first prime time show for the network was Married with Children. 159 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 4: A scene this is a scene where I'll find something 160 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 4: of his dad's in the attic, and the whole family 161 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:02,800 Speaker 4: tries to guess what he found. Oh, I guess that 162 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:09,040 Speaker 4: that audio wasn't loaded. That's all right, Well it's okay, yeah, 163 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:09,560 Speaker 4: you got it. 164 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:12,199 Speaker 7: Okay, guess what I found in the attic. 165 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:15,560 Speaker 8: It's something of my father's that served him well for 166 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:18,959 Speaker 8: twenty years and now will serve me for the rest 167 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:19,440 Speaker 8: of my life. 168 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:21,080 Speaker 4: A pair of socks. 169 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:26,160 Speaker 8: But what do you think I found? If it's a 170 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:31,280 Speaker 8: rubber woman, Dad, I can explain. You send away for 171 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:32,959 Speaker 8: one archie comic and the next thing you know, they 172 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:33,800 Speaker 8: put you on a list in. 173 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:44,160 Speaker 6: Pumpkin, you found a pumpkin, Daddy. 174 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:48,440 Speaker 4: Did you ever watch that show regularly or you just 175 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:52,200 Speaker 4: watch it some? I never watched that show. I never 176 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:55,520 Speaker 4: watched the Tim Allen show. I never watched the Ray 177 00:11:55,600 --> 00:12:00,160 Speaker 4: Romano show. That was That's not an indictment one of 178 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 4: the shows or an insult of the shows or bragging. 179 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:08,400 Speaker 4: That's just a statement that I realize that I am 180 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:13,720 Speaker 4: in the minority in so what well Yet, No, I 181 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 4: didn't say I got lawyer degrees. I'm not watching. I'm 182 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:19,760 Speaker 4: just saying I didn't. There's a lot of the American 183 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:25,520 Speaker 4: cultural iconography that at least yearbook that I did not watch. 184 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:31,400 Speaker 4: A fifty seven inch pothole, which means almost six feet 185 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:37,400 Speaker 4: sorry nearly five feet long in southwest Houston cost more 186 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:40,240 Speaker 4: than one thousand dollars in damages to a family's car. 187 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 4: The city says they are not liable for property damage 188 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:48,000 Speaker 4: resulting from the use, operation, or maintenance of its streets. 189 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:50,480 Speaker 4: Peggy Stewart and her family paid fourteen hundred dollars in 190 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:55,640 Speaker 4: car repairs after slamming into the pothole on Meadow Glen Lane. 191 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 4: She says, I don't think it was a pothole. It 192 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:01,079 Speaker 4: was more like a crater. The city says they are 193 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:03,880 Speaker 4: not liable. Stewart says, I felt that I made a 194 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:06,160 Speaker 4: strong argument about the damage and neglect that I thought 195 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:09,040 Speaker 4: the City of Houston made in repairing the street. In fact, 196 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:12,440 Speaker 4: they haven't repaired the cavity. There is no curb, and 197 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 4: the curb is the only way to sustain the repair 198 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:17,360 Speaker 4: to the street. According to state law, the city is 199 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:21,040 Speaker 4: only liable when property damage is caused by city employees 200 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:25,440 Speaker 4: negligent operation of a motor driven vehicle or equipment, and 201 00:13:25,559 --> 00:13:29,040 Speaker 4: that employee would be personally liable. 202 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:33,440 Speaker 2: Yeah. 203 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 4: That's uh uh, that's comforting, isn't it so. At the 204 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:43,200 Speaker 4: very time that we had a five foot long pothole, 205 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:47,920 Speaker 4: we had a rainbow intersection in Montrose that, due to 206 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:51,240 Speaker 4: some construction, had been torn up. But it's been replaced. 207 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:55,440 Speaker 4: The road has been replaced and yes, all the payments 208 00:13:55,480 --> 00:14:01,240 Speaker 4: have been made to put the Rainbow crosswalk back, because 209 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:13,200 Speaker 4: I suppose that's more important than anything else. Apparently, Governor 210 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:16,840 Speaker 4: Abbot has asked tex dot to enforce strict roadway guidelines, 211 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:20,560 Speaker 4: threatening to withhold state and federal funding from cities that 212 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:22,960 Speaker 4: failed to comply with the order to remove what he 213 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:26,800 Speaker 4: calls any and all political ideologies from streets. The governor 214 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:30,160 Speaker 4: said in a statement, Texans expect their taxpayer dollars to 215 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:37,880 Speaker 4: be used wisely, not advanced advanced political agendas on Texas roadways. Today, 216 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 4: I directed the Texas Department of Transportation to ensure Texas 217 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:44,400 Speaker 4: counties and cities remove any and all political ideologies from 218 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 4: our streets. Abbot's order states that taxpayer dollars are not 219 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:51,680 Speaker 4: meant to advance political agendas and that non standard surface 220 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:55,640 Speaker 4: marketings that do not promote traffic control are prohibited. He 221 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:58,920 Speaker 4: added that maintaining roadway safety should be a primary concern. 222 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:02,640 Speaker 4: Any that refuses to comply with the federal and federal 223 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 4: road standards will face consequences, including the withholding or denial 224 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:10,320 Speaker 4: of state and federal road funding and suspension of agreements 225 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:13,760 Speaker 4: with tech dot. Well, he'll never actually follow through with that, 226 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 4: but I guess he got a press release out of it. 227 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:17,400 Speaker 7: So here we are. 228 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:21,600 Speaker 4: Weeks ago, Mayor John Whitmyer said the City of Houston 229 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:24,960 Speaker 4: was broke, and it is now it is spending sixteen 230 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:28,720 Speaker 4: million dollars on a super hub for the homeless. City 231 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:31,840 Speaker 4: officials announcing plans this week to purchase a property on 232 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:34,440 Speaker 4: Emancipation Avenue to serve as a new super hub for 233 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:37,760 Speaker 4: the city's homeless population. I don't think that's necessarily a 234 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:42,560 Speaker 4: terrible idea. I mean, nobody wants to say it this way, 235 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:45,960 Speaker 4: and so it will never be said this way. But 236 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 4: I think it's good to be honest and to have 237 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:52,600 Speaker 4: honest conversations, even though they offend people. What you're really 238 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:54,640 Speaker 4: trying to do is find someplace to round all the 239 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:58,960 Speaker 4: homeless up and dump them. And you can say, oh, 240 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:01,400 Speaker 4: that's not not you don't live next to them. Okay, 241 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 4: you don't live next to them, so spare me the bs. 242 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:07,800 Speaker 4: What you're trying to do is round these people and 243 00:16:07,920 --> 00:16:12,840 Speaker 4: all of their trash, heap, dubsters and salvage yards that 244 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:15,360 Speaker 4: they create and dump them in one place. And if 245 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:17,400 Speaker 4: you're actually going to keep rounding them up and dumping 246 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:22,240 Speaker 4: them in that place. Okay, yeah, hope for that, I 247 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:25,760 Speaker 4: told them man on a jagged tent. 248 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 2: Inmates escaped from New Orleans and the Orleans Parish Justice 249 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:37,080 Speaker 2: Center in May. 250 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:42,680 Speaker 4: The tenth of those has been captured in Atlanta. Derek 251 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:45,720 Speaker 4: Groves was serving a life sentence for second degree murder, 252 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 4: convicted last year for opening fire during a Marty Grass 253 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:52,560 Speaker 4: block party that killed two people and wounded several others. 254 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 4: It was also convicted of two counts of manslaughter in 255 00:16:56,680 --> 00:17:00,800 Speaker 4: a separate case. Wus Marshall. Brian Fair said Groves was 256 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:04,800 Speaker 4: located after a search that lasted several hours at an 257 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:09,760 Speaker 4: Atlanta home. The story from Fox eight in Our Beloved. 258 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:11,200 Speaker 9: This was the scene on Honeysuckle Streets. 259 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:13,720 Speaker 4: It wasn't there yet. I was gonna say some nice 260 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:19,359 Speaker 4: things about New Orleans Fox eight in Our Beloved. 261 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:20,080 Speaker 9: This was the scene on Honeysuckles. 262 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:21,720 Speaker 7: We're not there yet. We're not there yet. 263 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:23,639 Speaker 4: I had a couple more, a couple more things to 264 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:26,640 Speaker 4: say about about that. Okay, Fox eight and Our Beloved, 265 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:28,680 Speaker 4: this was the. 266 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:30,560 Speaker 9: Scene on Honeysuckle Street in. 267 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:36,320 Speaker 4: Our Take five. We'll do it live, We'll do it live. 268 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:44,800 Speaker 4: If you know, you know Fox eight, New Orleans with 269 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:50,440 Speaker 4: our in our beloved if in slight Decline. New Orleans 270 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:53,879 Speaker 4: has the story this. 271 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:58,080 Speaker 9: Was the scene on Honeysuckle Street in Southwest Atlanta. New Orleans. 272 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:01,639 Speaker 9: US Marshall's contacted Atlanta authorities over the summer with a 273 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:04,640 Speaker 9: tip from crime stoppers of Greater New Orleans. We're told 274 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:08,760 Speaker 9: law enforcement spent the next months narrowing down Groves location. 275 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:12,360 Speaker 8: Ever since the escape, which was in May, the US 276 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:17,200 Speaker 8: Marshals in New Orleans, along with several other departments, started 277 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:20,040 Speaker 8: basically a task force just for this case and have 278 00:18:20,359 --> 00:18:24,760 Speaker 8: spent thousands of hours working tons of leads. We can't 279 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 8: say exactly what brought us here, but it was a 280 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:32,200 Speaker 8: very thorough investigation, mainly by our New Orleans Marshals, and 281 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:35,760 Speaker 8: then they sent us information which we corroborated and was 282 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:37,560 Speaker 8: able to locate him at this location. 283 00:18:38,119 --> 00:18:40,879 Speaker 4: We are so thankful for the bravery encourage all the 284 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:42,360 Speaker 4: officers involved in this operation. 285 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:45,720 Speaker 1: He is the tenth of ten individuals to be taken 286 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:48,000 Speaker 1: into custody from the Orleans Parish incident. 287 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:53,440 Speaker 9: New Orleans Deputy US Marshal Brian Fair emphasized bringing Grows 288 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:56,520 Speaker 9: back into custody was a collaborative. 289 00:18:55,880 --> 00:19:01,000 Speaker 3: Effort, the law enforcement effort between the Les Sheriff's office, 290 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:08,359 Speaker 3: the New Orleans Police Department, Louiana State Police, h I, FBI. 291 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:09,440 Speaker 8: And the US Marshalls. 292 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:12,640 Speaker 3: So all these agencies contributed to what happened today. 293 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:16,680 Speaker 9: And Fair says it's not clear whether Groves had been 294 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 9: working or had otherwise changed his appearance while on the 295 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:23,720 Speaker 9: run for nearly five months. Fair says the investigation into 296 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:26,919 Speaker 9: grooves escape and subsequent disappearance is ongoing. 297 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:29,879 Speaker 4: That's pretty impressive five months. They don't usually make it 298 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:36,359 Speaker 4: that way either, they make it forever, like, uh, what's 299 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:41,840 Speaker 4: the what is the woman? It was a godmother to Tupac, 300 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 4: the woman that killed the cop in New Jersey. She 301 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:47,840 Speaker 4: ended up in Cuba. She made it a lot. I mean, 302 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:50,639 Speaker 4: she made it until she died and then the left 303 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:54,160 Speaker 4: all celebrated how great she was now that she had died. 304 00:19:55,160 --> 00:20:00,000 Speaker 4: But usually what happens is they get out, either they're 305 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:02,480 Speaker 4: captured as part of the exit, you know, before they 306 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:07,080 Speaker 4: can kind of get themselves established, or once they get 307 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:10,120 Speaker 4: themselves even slightly established, you know, they need money quickly 308 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:12,760 Speaker 4: and they're not real sharp, so they have to commit 309 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:16,680 Speaker 4: petty crimes and get caught doing that, or most common 310 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:21,000 Speaker 4: they go see mama. There's two things that every thug 311 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:23,639 Speaker 4: when he breaks out of prison needs to do. One 312 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:26,719 Speaker 4: is go see mama. Number two is go lay up 313 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:29,360 Speaker 4: with this baby mamas and maybe make another baby real 314 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:32,280 Speaker 4: quick while he's in prison. And you have to wonder 315 00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:35,840 Speaker 4: about it. I mean, honestly, you have to wonder what 316 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:40,800 Speaker 4: kind of woman makes a baby with the kind of 317 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:44,919 Speaker 4: person who ends up in a career. I understand there 318 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:47,439 Speaker 4: are gonna be some guys who turn bad. There are 319 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:51,880 Speaker 4: gonna be some guys who surprise you that they, you know, 320 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:55,400 Speaker 4: were harboring a secret. But by and large, these guys 321 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:59,119 Speaker 4: are completing utter thugs in some of these women themselves 322 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:03,479 Speaker 4: work and it's it's there's a total there's a total 323 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:08,840 Speaker 4: change of direction in it's a flip of the whole 324 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:13,560 Speaker 4: role system where women chase the men in inner city 325 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:17,960 Speaker 4: thug life, and the man is, you know, the preening princess, 326 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,919 Speaker 4: and you know he's got what she wants. It's the 327 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:24,159 Speaker 4: craziest thing. It is the craziest thing. He doesn't have 328 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:26,520 Speaker 4: to work. He's like you know, in the old days, 329 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:29,479 Speaker 4: a beautiful woman you should get married and her husband 330 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:31,679 Speaker 4: take care of her, and she'd take care of the 331 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:34,719 Speaker 4: house and raise the kids. But she was the you know, 332 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:38,719 Speaker 4: she was the prize boy with this group. My goodness Alive. 333 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:44,760 Speaker 1: We get our up this program to bring you this message. 334 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:49,359 Speaker 1: Graciously sponsored by John Wayne mccornyan, one of us. We're 335 00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:52,880 Speaker 1: going to have random people with permanent fake smiles pretend 336 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:56,400 Speaker 1: to represent the target demographics you hopefully belong to. Hi 337 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 1: to their neighbor. I'm the guy meant to look like 338 00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:01,440 Speaker 1: the suburban white dad with low t hastosteron who works 339 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:04,520 Speaker 1: in Houston, Dallas, or Austin as a lawyer. I might 340 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:07,480 Speaker 1: be an accountant. I represent the carpetbackers who came to 341 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:11,719 Speaker 1: Texas from California, New York. Are squishy, don't like guns 342 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:15,080 Speaker 1: or Trump, are keen on abortion, but like to claim 343 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:19,439 Speaker 1: they're Republicans. Thank you John Wayne mccornn for voting the 344 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:23,320 Speaker 1: way I like. I'm the guy wearing the law enforcement 345 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:26,560 Speaker 1: uniform that is three sizes too small, so you think 346 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:29,679 Speaker 1: I'm the local sheriff of every small, god loving county 347 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:32,320 Speaker 1: in this wonderful state. I want to thank John Wayne 348 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 1: mcconnan for me in such a good potent with US 349 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:38,399 Speaker 1: gun toting law enforcement folk y'all like so much. We 350 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:41,240 Speaker 1: call him Big John because he's real tough and such. 351 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:42,720 Speaker 4: Thank you, Big John. 352 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:46,480 Speaker 10: Hi, I'm rural lady wearing jeans and boots who lives 353 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:49,080 Speaker 10: on a farm. I'm just going to walk across my 354 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:52,720 Speaker 10: property at an oddly rapid pace as I tell you 355 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:56,399 Speaker 10: how much I love John Wayne mccornyn, without slowing down 356 00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:59,800 Speaker 10: even though you're recording, because it's important. You think I'm 357 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:04,040 Speaker 10: just being natural. Thank you, John Wayne mccornyn. They didn't 358 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:06,360 Speaker 10: tell me in the script what I'm thanking you for, 359 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:09,480 Speaker 10: but I think me saying thank you makes it seem 360 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:11,440 Speaker 10: like you've done something for us Texan. 361 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:14,639 Speaker 1: Now let's look at some great footage we staged and 362 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:17,359 Speaker 1: used some AI to help as well. Of John Wayne 363 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:21,000 Speaker 1: mccornyan being a badass. Notice the music bed that says 364 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:25,000 Speaker 1: patriotic but also shopping Malvine. Look at this footage of 365 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:28,080 Speaker 1: John Wayne mccorn being one of us, just a bigger 366 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:30,640 Speaker 1: batter one of us. Look at him with his ball 367 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:33,679 Speaker 1: caf on turned backwards like one of those skinny jeans 368 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:36,720 Speaker 1: Nashville singers do when they want to look country. Look 369 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:39,560 Speaker 1: at him talking to people, actually listening to people who 370 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,480 Speaker 1: are all wearing cowboy hats as they stand for some 371 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:44,680 Speaker 1: odd reason out in the middle of the street. Try 372 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:47,280 Speaker 1: not to notice that those hats are all new, like 373 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:49,760 Speaker 1: they weren't just all purchased from the Cowboy in a 374 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:52,880 Speaker 1: box at the local western wear store. Matter of fact, 375 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:55,600 Speaker 1: notice how those rugged Texans and cowboy hats and stars 376 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:58,080 Speaker 1: dress shirts and jeans and boots look like that group 377 00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:00,800 Speaker 1: of your company's Chinese clients you took them to their 378 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:04,080 Speaker 1: first night at the rodeo. Notice how the flag just 379 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:07,080 Speaker 1: happens to keep appearing in the background of these random places. 380 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:10,200 Speaker 1: John Wayne mccornan seems to glide into just to meet 381 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:15,400 Speaker 1: regular every day Joe's from every specific target demographic as 382 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:18,640 Speaker 1: he continues to show us that he's one of us. 383 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:23,480 Speaker 1: So on behalf of all Texans everywhere, all the time. 384 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:27,000 Speaker 1: Thank you, John Wayne mccorin for being. 385 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:27,320 Speaker 10: One of us. 386 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:30,000 Speaker 9: Wayne mccarde. 387 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:32,360 Speaker 5: One of them. 388 00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:58,760 Speaker 4: I saw the headlines, but I don't know. 389 00:24:59,280 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 2: I didn't. 390 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:01,600 Speaker 4: I didn't get a chance to go back and check 391 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:05,639 Speaker 4: it out. It was while we were recording. I was 392 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,199 Speaker 4: in the middle of doing spots and I said, well, 393 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:11,400 Speaker 4: finish this next spot, and then I'll go back and well, 394 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:13,399 Speaker 4: let me do this so I don't forget it, and 395 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:15,480 Speaker 4: I'll go back, and I forgot to ever go back. 396 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:20,480 Speaker 4: It was Dolly Parton. And so the story this week 397 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:25,560 Speaker 4: has been that Dolly Parton's sister asked for prayers for 398 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 4: her sister's health. I could be wrong. I'm not, certainly 399 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:38,120 Speaker 4: not a Nashville insider in that sense, but has her 400 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:43,560 Speaker 4: sister been her spokesman in the past. That felt a 401 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:47,720 Speaker 4: little awkward. You know, who is where's her sister been? 402 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:52,800 Speaker 4: Did we know about her before? But you know whatever. However, 403 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:59,159 Speaker 4: then I see a video yesterday and I don't know 404 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:01,560 Speaker 4: who was who was it? But I see a video 405 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:05,840 Speaker 4: yesterday that that was Dolly and she looked good. I 406 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:07,760 Speaker 4: don't know what the condition is, if it's the kind 407 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:11,159 Speaker 4: of thing that would hospitalize her, cause her to look frail, 408 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:15,160 Speaker 4: or whatever else. If somebody can give me a one 409 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:19,120 Speaker 4: minute synopsis on the situation and get right to it 410 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:23,000 Speaker 4: with good facts, what you believe to be correct, I 411 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:25,080 Speaker 4: will put you on the air seven one three nine 412 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:27,520 Speaker 4: nine nine one thousand, seven one three nine nine nine 413 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:33,560 Speaker 4: one thousand. But anyway, I hope she is doing well. 414 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:37,720 Speaker 4: Her politics are absolutely whack, but there is no doubt 415 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:41,280 Speaker 4: that we love these stories of people who seem to 416 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:49,920 Speaker 4: defy gravity and time by by performing well late into 417 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:54,560 Speaker 4: their lives and kind of embracing the old in a way. 418 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:57,959 Speaker 4: Hers is a little different than say Betty White or 419 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,360 Speaker 4: George Burns, but I can think of so so many 420 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:03,919 Speaker 4: of these folks that became just national treasures that we 421 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,199 Speaker 4: want to keep alive. I don't know what kind of 422 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:10,919 Speaker 4: shape Thomas Soul is in mentally or physically, but I 423 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:14,120 Speaker 4: would love for the President to do something for him 424 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:17,840 Speaker 4: while he is still alive. My understanding is he won't. 425 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:22,879 Speaker 4: He doesn't do public appearances any longer. But for my money, 426 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:27,199 Speaker 4: he's the greatest living thinker, the greatest thinker alive today, 427 00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:30,400 Speaker 4: and he should be honored as such, and I would 428 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,199 Speaker 4: love to see President Trump do so. I don't know 429 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 4: how many people in Trump's orbit have that level of 430 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:40,359 Speaker 4: awareness of Thomas Soul to be willing and able to 431 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:44,080 Speaker 4: do that, but in any case. A new poll is 432 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:47,680 Speaker 4: out from the Hobby School at the University of Houston 433 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:51,119 Speaker 4: as well as Texas Southern. I guess they've worked together 434 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:56,879 Speaker 4: on this all polls are specious. All polls are suspect. 435 00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:59,320 Speaker 4: So I've never been one to push polls before, and 436 00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:02,480 Speaker 4: I'm not one now. But here is what the poll 437 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:06,720 Speaker 4: they claim reveals, and that is in the Democrat primary, 438 00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:10,199 Speaker 4: forty six percent for Colin alredy forty two percent for 439 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:15,119 Speaker 4: James Talerico. In the Republican primary for US Senate Ken 440 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:19,800 Speaker 4: Paxton leading the field at thirty four, John Cornyn leading 441 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:23,840 Speaker 4: the field at thirty three, Wesley Hunt leading the field 442 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,360 Speaker 4: at twenty two. Now, I would like to see how 443 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:34,639 Speaker 4: that poll was conducted, because there's always biases added in, 444 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:39,440 Speaker 4: sometimes by design, sometimes inadvertent. It's not possible to take 445 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:42,360 Speaker 4: a perfect poll, but there are things you can do 446 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:45,680 Speaker 4: to make them more accurate, and by accurate, that is 447 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:51,400 Speaker 4: more reflective of what the vote would be if the 448 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:54,960 Speaker 4: vote were held today. And one of the ways that 449 00:28:55,040 --> 00:29:00,160 Speaker 4: you see that polls are inaccurate, for instance, is polling 450 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:06,720 Speaker 4: all Texans, not reducing it to registered voters. Remember, in 451 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:08,720 Speaker 4: the state of Texas, we don't register by party. We 452 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:13,040 Speaker 4: register as a voter. That means we have passed the 453 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:15,920 Speaker 4: test that we are eligible to vote, so that on 454 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 4: election day, whether that be a primary or the general election, 455 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:23,120 Speaker 4: the primary is to depict the party's nominees. That general 456 00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:27,280 Speaker 4: is for November. That just means that we're eligible to vote, 457 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:28,960 Speaker 4: so that when we show up, we're not in the 458 00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:34,040 Speaker 4: country illegally or a resident of another state or country. 459 00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:39,000 Speaker 4: If you only if you only poll Texans, then you're 460 00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:42,240 Speaker 4: going to get a skewed number because those aren't Most 461 00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:44,800 Speaker 4: of those people won't even be able to vote, they're 462 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:47,760 Speaker 4: not eligible to vote. Number two, if you only poll 463 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:53,240 Speaker 4: registered voters, now you're polling voters who are registered but 464 00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:56,840 Speaker 4: may not vote. So you can be a registered voter, 465 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:00,280 Speaker 4: but you haven't voted in twelve years, you're not votvoting 466 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:00,640 Speaker 4: this time. 467 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:01,000 Speaker 2: Either. 468 00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:06,440 Speaker 4: You're much more likely to get a predictive or accurately 469 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:12,880 Speaker 4: reflective poll if you are polling people most likely to vote, 470 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:16,640 Speaker 4: and the better poll is a subpole of that, which 471 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:19,760 Speaker 4: is a three R poll, and that is somebody who 472 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:23,200 Speaker 4: voted in the last three Republican primaries, and in this case, 473 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:25,920 Speaker 4: since this will be twenty six, that would be twenty four, 474 00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:32,040 Speaker 4: twenty two, and twenty The most predictive of those three 475 00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:34,560 Speaker 4: primaries is going to be twenty twenty two. If you 476 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:38,440 Speaker 4: are a Republican primary voter in twenty twenty two. That 477 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,360 Speaker 4: means you voted when Trump was not on the ballot, 478 00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:46,120 Speaker 4: in a Republican primary, when there weren't any really sexy 479 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:50,760 Speaker 4: races to pay attention to. If you are a Republican 480 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:53,640 Speaker 4: primary voter and Trump is on the ballot, you are 481 00:30:54,080 --> 00:31:00,000 Speaker 4: not necessarily a consistent primary voter. That's the power of Trump. 482 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:01,840 Speaker 4: And by the way, we saw the same thing with 483 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:06,520 Speaker 4: Democrats with Barack Obama in his first in his first campaign. 484 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:10,280 Speaker 4: So I don't know how accurate these polls will be 485 00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:12,880 Speaker 4: based on what they've done, but that's what it reveals. 486 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:16,320 Speaker 4: Paxton at thirty four, Cornin at thirty three, Wesley Hunt 487 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:19,760 Speaker 4: at twenty two, which of course adds up if you 488 00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:22,520 Speaker 4: did the quick math, to be eighty nine percent leaving 489 00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:29,080 Speaker 4: eleven percent undecided. That's about where I would have expected it. 490 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:33,840 Speaker 4: In fact, I probably would have expected twenty five percent undecided, 491 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:38,040 Speaker 4: but somewhere between twenty five and ten percent undecided. At 492 00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:41,479 Speaker 4: this point, A lot of undecided voters will end up 493 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:45,560 Speaker 4: never voting if they never gravitate toward another one of 494 00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:49,400 Speaker 4: the candidates. We now begin the actual campaign with Wesley 495 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:53,880 Speaker 4: Hunt in the race we begin the campaign, and one 496 00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,800 Speaker 4: of the things we're noticing for those of you who 497 00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:01,280 Speaker 4: are Paxton supporters who feared Wesley Hunt's entrance into the campaign. 498 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:07,040 Speaker 4: In a Texas Monthly interview, Wesley Hunt said Ken Paxton 499 00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:10,840 Speaker 4: is the best attorney general in the entire country. If 500 00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:13,280 Speaker 4: I don't win, I would want him to win, and 501 00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:17,680 Speaker 4: if it's me and him in a runoff, I consider 502 00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:21,240 Speaker 4: that a win for the state. So I understand the 503 00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:23,960 Speaker 4: theory is that Wesley Hunt is a plant from the 504 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,200 Speaker 4: Feds and that that's from Corny's people. But boy, they 505 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:30,000 Speaker 4: sure are playing these things that they deserve an award 506 00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:32,480 Speaker 4: for the acting if that's the case, because Wesley Hunt 507 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:36,120 Speaker 4: has only attacked John Cornyn, and John Cornyn since Wesley 508 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:39,960 Speaker 4: Hunt has been in has only attacked Wesley Hunt, and 509 00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:43,920 Speaker 4: Wesley Hunt is saying very nice things about Ken Paxton. 510 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:46,560 Speaker 4: Those two like each other. I know that to be 511 00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:50,400 Speaker 4: the case. Wesley and Ken Paxton. They've gotten along in 512 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:53,320 Speaker 4: the in the past few years very very well, and 513 00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:56,680 Speaker 4: they would be wise to not fire at each other 514 00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:01,440 Speaker 4: and continue to both attack from different angles. Like a 515 00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:06,520 Speaker 4: great Roberty Lee advance on John Cornyn because he can't 516 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:09,360 Speaker 4: fend them both off at the same time, and that 517 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:11,440 Speaker 4: would weaken him and put them in a primary and 518 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:14,160 Speaker 4: then go at it, tear each other up, you know how, 519 00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:16,400 Speaker 4: Like when they'll have like a Chad Knows on Tomo. 520 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:19,040 Speaker 4: They'll have like a regular MMA guy and then two 521 00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,080 Speaker 4: midgets and they're coming at it from different angles.