Hour 2: Texas Democrats

Texas Democrats.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning. Tell you thanks for being here on this
beautiful morning. The weather is gonna beautiful for a nice
long stretch. It's gonna be a great weekend. Make sure
you get out and enjoy it. It's gonna be well.
Sunday is gonna be the hottest of the days at
eighty seven. But for the most part, it's gonna be
in the eighties, a little bit in the high eighties.
But it's gonna be sunny, it's gonna be dry, it's

(00:20):
gonna be really, really nice. So make plans if you
don't have them already in the Big Three. Well, I
think the New York Times knew this was gonna happen.
They inserted themselves into this race, saying that Donald Trump
has been talking to Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo about
how to stop zorin mom Donnie. And Andrew Cuomo held

(00:43):
a prescott for yesterday, saying, I don't know. I don't
remember talking to him.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
I don't recall the last time I spoke with him.
I left the message after the attempted assassination. I don't
believe I spoke with him. I believe I left the
message for him.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
We have Rob Astorino coming up in a moment. I
want to ask him about that, because that just does
not ring true. Political analyst J. C. Planco also is
going to be here at eight oh five to talk
about this new twist in the race in Harlem. What
an awful situation. There are now eighty one diagnosed cases

(01:20):
of Legionnaire's disease, twenty three people in the hospital, three
have died, and you can catch it. We find out
just by walking past certain buildings in Harlem.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
The most commonplace for the bacteria to grow is in
cooling towers, which are on top of buildings. These cooling
towers spray miss or droplets, and that miss is outdoors
and can carry bacteria. Right now, the risk to central
Harlem community at large is not limited to any specific building.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
The big thing is if you have any symptoms whatsoever.
If you've been to Harlem and you're just not feeling well,
you think might have a cold, have a flu, get
it checked out immediately, because you can beat Legionnaire's disease.
Most people do if they catch it earlier enough. It's
also important to understand it can't be spread person to
person well. Israeli President Benjamin Nanyahu said he's had enough.

(02:19):
He's pushing forward with plans to take control of all
of Gaza. That's what he intends to do.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
We intend to in order to assure our security, remove
Tramas there, enable the population to be free of Gaza,
and to pass it to civilian governance that is not
Tramas and not anyone advocating the destruction of Israel.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
And President Trump is going to meet with Russian President
Vladimir Putin, although he's not holding his breath that something's
going to happen to try to end the war in Ukraine.
It's going to happen early next week. But Trump now
says Vladimir Zelenski does not need to be there. No,
he doesn't know. They would like to meet with me,
and I'll do whatever I can to stop the killing.

(03:06):
And with that, let's get right to Rob Astorino, former
Westchester County executive and host of The Rob Astorino Show
on WOR Saturday Is from four to five and host
of Saturday Agenda one to three on Newsmax. He's with
us every Friday. At this time. I want to play
for you that sound of Cuomo I played a second ago,

(03:27):
and you tell me what if this rings true to.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
You, I don't recall the last time I spoke with him.
I left the message after the attempted assassination. I don't
believe I spoke with him. I believe I left the
message for him.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
If you talk to a former president after an assassination attempt,
don't you remember that?

Speaker 5 (03:50):
Yeah, you don't need a polygraph to figure this one out. Mary,
This is the easiest one in the world. Cuomo is
a great liar. I mean he's doing it his entire career.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Actually, he's an awful liar. That's the worst lie I've
ever heard.

Speaker 5 (04:05):
That's true. That's normally he's a pretty good one. But
this one, uh, this one is so easy. Come on, please,
are you kidding me? I don't remember. See, here's here's
the issue with Clommeo. He has flipped on everything. There's
not one genuine thing about this guy, and that's why
he lost the primary because everybody knows that everything he's

(04:25):
saying now is revision is history. I mean, he literally
is trying to whitewash everything that's happened because the problems
that everyone are, that people are complaining about in New
York City, some you know about crime and everything else.
It was because of him. Obviously, the laws he passed,
the high cost of rent or housing, it was because

(04:47):
of him. And so he doesn't have a natural base
right now. I know, I know, everyone says, well, wait
a minute, you know he's got a twenty five percent
polls or whatever. By the way, the polls are all
over the place. He doesn't. He has maxed out, and
yet he won't get out. So this whole thing about Trump,
he is so afraid to be touched by Donald Trump

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because he figures in New York City with that electorate.
You know, that could be the kiss of death. Donald
Trump should come out, by the way and say, I
endure Zoran mom Dami. He's my guy that'll drive the
left nuts talk about reverse psychology. That would be great.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
Well, there are some people that think he's like playing
chess with this. It's really it's a kind of a
sinister move to say that he's working to keep Zora
mam Donni out and he's he's working with Cuomo and
he's working with Eric Adams because he secretly wants Zorn
mam Donni in so the Republicans can use him as
the boogeyman for the next four years.

Speaker 5 (05:50):
Oh, trust me, mom Domi would be unbelievable. It would
probably lock up Mike Lawler's race, which is a really
tough you know, reelecto. I believe Mike is gonna win that,
But that'll be a great boogeyman to run against because
will I mean, ma'am Dommi getting in there will scare
the living daylights out of the suburbs. I mean, you

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think about somebody living in Nassau County or in Westchester
or Rockland or other places where Mam Domi where you
go to work in New York City every day and
then have to deal with this nut as the mayor
or or Mam Domi's craziness now seeps up into your
neighborhood because you got Mam Domi wannabe's, you know, running

(06:31):
for your village trustee or school board. So yeah, ma'm
Dommy is going to be a powerful, powerful tool for
the Republicans to, you know, to have that balance with
the voters.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
So do you think he knew what he was doing?

Speaker 5 (06:45):
Look, I think Trump Trump is a is a master
at manipulation with this stuff. He is really good and
he understands the power of what he says and what
he does. And I think, you know, everything Trump says
is for a reaction, and he understands the reaction that
he will get and why he says it. So I

(07:08):
do believe he's inserting himself for the right reasons. And look,
as I have said and others, if you really look
at this race, the way it is now and the
way it is now is the way it's going to
be in November, folks, So stop this whole someone's getting
out routine. Nobody's getting out, which means Mandammi wins. I mean,

(07:28):
I just don't see. You look at the chess board
and again Apps in something really major, and I don't
know what that is, but sometimes it does happen. I
just don't see how he loses, especially now, you know,
the establishment in the Democratic Party is kind of very
slowly circling around Mamdami. You got the you got the

(07:48):
county chairs that are now behind him, you got more
and more politicians behind him, you have the unions that
are behind him. Now nobody's gone back to Cuomo. Whoever
endorsed Cuomo has not done so for the general election.
So slowly but surely they are behind Mandami, and you
know that's the way it's going to.

Speaker 6 (08:07):
Go for them.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah, I agree with you. I think he's going to
win at this point. And I've been in denial until
this point. But maybe sometimes you need the worst to
happen for things to change and for things to get good.
And once he gets in and he can't do anything
that he promised to do and people start getting upset
with him because he broke his promise because all but

(08:30):
he won't give him the money, then I think it
might kill socialism across the country for a while.

Speaker 5 (08:38):
I certainly hope so. But the you know, socialism is
getting a real tryout in a lot of these places
where it shouldn't. I mean Chicago obviously, although can you
believe so? Chicago alects Johnson as mayor. He has a
and this is not incorrect. He has a six, not
a number in front of it. He has a six

(08:59):
percent approval rating the mayor of Chicago, who they elected
as an outright socialist. But Minneapolis is figuring out, hey,
let's do this too. They just nominated a socialist for mayor,
likely to be the next one obviously in New York City.
So I don't think it's going to happen overnight. I
think it's going to get a full tryout right now
because the Democratic Party is heading in that direction and

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it's going to be hard to stop that train. And
there's no adults in the room anymore, the Schoomers of
the world that are willing to stop it because they're
afraid of getting eed up.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
Yeah, maybe it's the best thing that could happen. What
do you have coming up tomorrow in the rab est
Reno Show.

Speaker 5 (09:36):
Yeah, I do want to talk about the mayor's race
and Cuomo. You know, he was so pro Israel his
whole career, and now all of a sudden he's back
in the way because he's again he's afraid of mam
Domini and everything. So we'll talk about the race and
a whole bunch of other things, which means the whole
bunch of other things means I don't know. I haven't
figured that one out yet.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
It is early. It's pretty early to talk to you
about it. It's just the day before you got over
twenty four hours. You're gonna be fine. Thanks a lot.
Rob Astorino, host of The Rob Astorino Show on WOR Saturday,
is from four to five and host of Saturday Agenda
from one to three on Newsmax. Is with us every
Friday at this time at seven oh five. Thanks a lot, Rob,

(10:16):
It was good talking to you.

Speaker 5 (10:17):
Thank Clary.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
Yeah, I'm getting to that point. I always fought back
against that, and you're gonna hear me change my mind
a lot on stuff, and I think normal people do.
It depends on what is going on. But I kind
of get what Donald Trump is doing and what Rob
was just alluding to. Maybe the worst has to happen

(10:40):
for the best to happen when we come back. Can
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to check out a really unusual story, and it seems
to be real. It is a real time index of

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national stress. And door Dash figured this out because you know,
they take orders and they notice that certain orders spike
during certain times, and so they've figured out that during
times of stress, like for instance, tax Day, during times
of stress, orders of ice coffee peak. Here's some takeaways

(12:36):
from their study that they just did on this. Because
they think they're onto something eighty seven percent drink ice
coffee even when they don't need caffeine if they feel stressful.
Ice coffee orders spiked on this past year's most stressful days,
including Blue Monday, tax Day and the April second tariff announcement.

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More than half of ice coffee orders now include an
add on flavor. I don't know what that has to
do with stress. By the way, do you get Chris
is filling in for Natalie? Chris Schweitzer is filling in
for Natalie. She's she's had the week off with the
much needed vacation, especially after having to work with me.

(13:25):
And so do you get add ons into your coffee?
Do you drink coffee? Yeah?

Speaker 7 (13:30):
I was gonna say, I'm gonna blow your mind as
a morning show person. I don't drink coffee. Really, I'm
not a coffee drinker. You're a little low key, though
you probably could use a little bit of coffee maybe.
I mean, I you know, I do frequent the occasional
energy drink, which is probably much worse for me.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
But then coffee, Yeah, coffee is actually supposed to be
good for you if you leave the cream and sugar
out of it, which.

Speaker 7 (13:53):
I was gonna say, yeah, if you throw the add
ons in though. Yeah, you know, that's the treat of it.
That's why people I think that's why they're getting it,
because it's you know, there's rest.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
You want to.

Speaker 7 (14:01):
Splurge a little bit, treat yourself a little bit, Yeah, Jacqueline,
do you drink coffee?

Speaker 5 (14:05):
No?

Speaker 8 (14:06):
I'm a tea drinker.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
Wow, No coffee drinkers. What are the odds? I drink
coffee constantly all day long. Anytime I'm feeling I'm losing
a little bit of energy, I drink coffee. Do you
know they say that if you drink a lot of coffee,
it the effect gets ruined. That after a while, your
body gets used to it and you don't get the

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high that you used to.

Speaker 8 (14:30):
That's with anything addictive, is that right? Your brain grows
more receptors for caffeine, nico, tea, anything, and you have
to keep getting more and more and more to get.

Speaker 7 (14:42):
The same effect.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (14:43):
How many cups a day you knocking out?

Speaker 1 (14:44):
Now? Oh god, I've lost count. I don't know. Let's
see I've had. Let me see how many I've had? Well, yeah,
I don't know if you can count? Do you count
this as one cup?

Speaker 7 (14:54):
I would count that as too.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yeah, it's kind of definitely two cups?

Speaker 7 (14:57):
Are you fell in love with the machines we got
here because the paper cups you got here small, so
if you filled up, you know from the machine you got.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
Me explain what this is. Yeah, it's yet exactly.

Speaker 7 (15:08):
He's got like a like a medium sized yetty.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
So I drink that on the way in. And since
I've been here, I've had two cups of coffee.

Speaker 7 (15:14):
So you've had like six cups of coffee.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
Well, probably four, let's be let's be okay, I'll have
probably seven before the day's out. Seven cups of coffee.
That's average, right, Yeah, not on.

Speaker 7 (15:28):
This show, because you're I mean, it's only you, me
and Jack that are going zeros right now.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
What they're saying here is that, uh is that orders
of for some reason if coffee go way up when
they're stressed. But they're saying one of the things that's
jumping on ice coffees and in all coffee is lavender.
To put lavender in your coffee. I hate that kind
of stuff. I hate being at Starbucks when somebody's got

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the order that goes ten or eleven items long. I'm
like so pretentious. It's like, okay, great, we know you
know all that stuff.

Speaker 7 (16:04):
Yeah, I mean I like the smell of lavender. Well,
but but why would you want to drink that? Like No,
it's it just drives to me. I think the longer
somebody's Starbucks order, it's more of a jerk they are.
I think there's a complete relation between those two things,

(16:26):
because you know, they stay at home and study their order.
Nobody says it that fast, and they they you know,
it's a uh half calf d calf mool.

Speaker 5 (16:38):
What I know.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
What I love is the entire time the barista, which
by the way, is the most pretentious thing I've ever
heard of my life. It's the coffee server. But the
barista gets it right away, got it? Yep? Got that?
Like everybody orders that they're professionals.

Speaker 7 (16:55):
Well yeah, I mean i'd Starbucks.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
Most people do. Maybe I'm just stressed all the time.

Speaker 7 (16:58):
That's maybe say about me. If ified are a black
iced tea.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
If you order a black iced tea, it says, here,
let me see you real quick. You're boring.

Speaker 7 (17:06):
I guess that's not what you think.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
I'm making this up.

Speaker 6 (17:11):
Soul.

Speaker 7 (17:11):
Then it's it's not accurate.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
Okay, thank you, that's just what it says that don't
shoot the message. Now, let's get the news at seven
point thirty with Jacqueline Carl Jacqueline.

Speaker 7 (17:21):
Hey Lary, Good morning.

Speaker 8 (17:22):
The UN is calling for Israel to immediately halt its
planned military takeover of the Gaza Strip. The UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights release the statement today, saying that
Israel quote must bring its occupation to an end as
soon as possible. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer also condemned
Israel's plan and said it would only bring more bloodshed

(17:44):
to the Palestinians and New Jersey.

Speaker 7 (17:46):
Firefighters are at the.

Speaker 8 (17:47):
Scene of a four alarm fire that destroyed an East
Rutherford synagogue.

Speaker 9 (17:52):
Rutherford Mayor Frank Nunziato says firefighters came upon heavy fire
at Congregation Bethel just before three am. Live wires had
also come down in front of the structure, which appeared
to cave in after about an hour as firefighters were
targeting hotspots.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
It's a very old home.

Speaker 4 (18:08):
It's would so we don't have to go right to that.
This is something that is nefarious.

Speaker 9 (18:13):
This same synagogue was firebombed in January of twenty twelve,
but the cause of this fire remains under investigation. The
rabbi and his family were able to get out in time.
Natalie Migliori wour News.

Speaker 8 (18:27):
So I think we've all been here. It just depends
on how you handle it. I'm talking both Larry and Chris.
Have you ever said you're welcome to get someone to
say thank you?

Speaker 10 (18:40):
No?

Speaker 1 (18:41):
No, never, not that I know of.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
Not.

Speaker 7 (18:43):
I haven't said it to a person, but I'm a
little non confrontational, but I definitely said it behind people's backs.
Like you know, you know when you hold the door
from for somebody and they just walk past you yes,
and You're like, and then you know they're out of earshot,
and I go, you're welcome.

Speaker 8 (18:55):
Oh I say it in the ear shot.

Speaker 7 (18:57):
No, I'm'm not if it's.

Speaker 8 (18:59):
Like a one second thing. But I have held doors
for people, Like there's a door far from the door
I'm coming through, and I see they're kind of struggling
to get in with they're holding a child or packages
or whatever. So I will stand there for a while
to give them a chance to catch up, and some
of them just breeze through and I'm like, thank me,
or tip me something I don't work here, Like what

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is this?

Speaker 7 (19:22):
Yeah, they if they need you for the door, like
they got stuff in their hands. I think that's an
immediate thank you.

Speaker 8 (19:27):
And you've and you've waited like i've I've had times
where I've waited. I've seen someone coming and I've waited.
There nothing. You've never gone out of your way for someone,
and you're just so offended because they can't. Since I
was a child and you how to speak and understand
the English language, my parents would say, if someone had
me shake your result, they'd say, what do you say?

Speaker 1 (19:47):
So I was in a car one time. I've never
done this, but I was in a car one time
with a friend and he let somebody in that was
waiting to get into traffic, and he let them in,
and then he got so offended. They didn't wave, they
didn't say, you know, thank you with a little bit
of a wink.

Speaker 7 (20:01):
I was about to say the same thing that annoys
me too when them I wouldn't do that.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
But yeah, when he pulled up next to him and
he started waiting at him, and at that point they
had no idea what was all about.

Speaker 7 (20:16):
Yeah, I would follow the person, but I was I agreed,
just a simple wave.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
It's you know, I let you in.

Speaker 7 (20:22):
I know we all feel it.

Speaker 8 (20:24):
It just depends on what you do about it.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
Thanks so much, Jacqueline car Carl. Will the wayward Texas
legislators be dragged back to Texas to vote on redistricting?
We're going to ask ABC's Jim Ryan, who's covering the
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thousand dollars in cash. Your next chance to win is
this morning at nine a m. This redistricting story continues
and they are going to meet again today and the
big question is going to be as the Texas House meets,
will they have one hundred members there so they can

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have a quorum and move forward with their redistricting plans.
And if not, are they going to either compel Democrats
to come back or are they going to take action
against them? Lots of questions and the man with the
answer is Jim Ryan, ABC News correspondent in Dallas. Jim

(21:53):
as always, thanks for thanks for joining us. Texas is
a crazy place right now. Tell us what is going
to happen today?

Speaker 11 (22:02):
Yes, here's my prediction, Larry, one o'clock, the gable will fall,
the Texas House Speaker will call the session to order
to take up this redistricting proposal, and I'll do a
headcount to look around, and probably the gavel will fall again.
About a minute later, in Hill adjourned for the weekend
because now very unlikely that there will be a quorum

(22:23):
present to take up this matter. So yeah, more than
fifty state lawmakers Democrats are outside the state, outside the
reach of state law enforcement. Now Texas, you know. John Cornyn, Senator,
US Senator has asked the FBI to get involved, not
necessarily to arrest those Democrats who are outside the state,
but to investigate them on grounds that they may be

(22:45):
breaking bribery laws. And according to court, at least to
Kach Patel, the FBI director, has not said publicly what
his plan is, but Cornan says that Patel has agreed
to go ahead and launch this investigation.

Speaker 1 (22:58):
Explain the bribe recharges.

Speaker 11 (23:01):
Well, because these democrats are you know, they're they're being
hit with five hundred dollars a day fines, not to
mention the lodging, the food, the transportation, to leave the
state altogether. Cornin says that and Governor Greg Abbott say
that that may be a bribe, a violation of bribery
laws because they're not using these funds to run for office.

(23:23):
They're using these funds to stay away from the legislative
branch down there, to stay away from the state House,
to avoid a vote on an issue that's before the panel.
And so yeah, that's it's kind of a fuzzy line,
but the FBI is being asked to take a look
at that. Now. The Texas Attorney Attorney General has asked

(23:44):
a court in Illinois to consider a way to enforce
the arrest warrants that have been issued here in Texas.
So you know, his goal is to see them, you know, cuffed,
put onto a plane, brought back to Austin, and forced
to vote on this matter.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
Let's talk about the numbers for a second and then
correct me if I'm wrong about any of this. There's
eighty eight Republicans, right, there's one hundred and fifty members.
There's eighty eight Republicans. And there are a few Democrats
that show up, right, I mean they're twelve, they're twelve
short of a quorum, right, And there are some Democrats
that are going is that right?

Speaker 11 (24:17):
Yes, and not because they support the redistricting math that's
before them, but because they think that, you know, it's
a foregone conclusion that the clock will run out on
this special session and Governor Rabbit's going to call another one.
There will be another one. Potentially, the most this state
has ever seen was five five special sessions. Dolph Brisco,
the storied governor of Texas, called five special sessions back

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in the seventies, not for redistricting, but for school finance,
for property tax other issues. So this could go on
and on and on, and some Democrats have said, look,
this is going to happen anyway. Also, their reasoning is
if we go ahead and vote on this now and
lose the Democrats, that the Republicans will almost certainly win.
In this will go into effect, but challenging it in

(25:03):
court becomes easier if they just go ahead pass it,
it becomes law or is signed by the governor, at
least then it'll be easier to file suit based on
this map. So you know, they have a couple of
reasons not to leave the state.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
Yeah, I've heard a lot of people say exactly what
you just said, is that, why don't they just let
the courts handle this. This is what the courts do.
It's going to pass eventually anyway, and the sooner the
courts get it, the better shot you have of stopping it,
And so you're just holding up progress. That seems to
make sense.

Speaker 11 (25:37):
Jim, Well, that's kind of the logic that's going around.
But at the same time, I think the Democrats who
have left the state see the handwriting on the wall.
They've seen the court's turnover become much more conservative. Here
at the state level, the district level, the Texas Supreme
Court would be the one asked to take a look
at this if in fact it's signed by the governor,

(25:58):
and it's unlikely that it would not approve that map.
So you know, I think that they're being a way
realistic about it. May be pragmatic and knowing that even
the courts are likely to approve this map.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
But then it's going to be appealed, and the appealed
in the pield and it's going to keep going up
and maybe you'll get a ruling on whether this can
happen mid decade forever. Whatever they're doing, and I think
they're just grandstanding. Whatever they're doing at this point, they're
actually holding up the process. They're holding up not just
the process and the legislature, but the legal process. So

(26:31):
it doesn't their actions, except for their getting a lot
of press, don't seem to make any sense.

Speaker 11 (26:37):
Well right, and you know they're making no bones about it.
They are holding up the process on purpose. They're denying
a quorum in Austin to prevent a vote on this,
and in the meantime, trying to create a national attention
to this because there are national implications. Obviously, if Texas
elects five more Republicans to Congress strictly from Texas, then

(26:57):
the buffer for present and Trump his comfort zone in
Congress becomes more comfortable. It's a razor thin lead right
now the Republicans have. This would bolster that somewhat.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yeah, and is that a foregone conclusion. We keep hearing
they're going to gain five seas. No, it's not, it's not.

Speaker 11 (27:14):
And in fact that the lines may have been drawn
such that the Republicans might actually lose one or two.
It's hard to say, but you know, they've taken a
look at voting records and tried to form these lines,
and again they're making no bones about it. The chairman
of the state Senate committee that's looking at redistricting said yesterday, Yeah,
it's a he's not concerned about the fairness of the districts,

(27:37):
or about you know, the map that was drawn in
twenty twenty one, or about the Justice Department claim that
the twenty twenty one map was improperly drawn. He says, flatly,
I want to see more Republicans in Congress, and so
that's the goal here. So yeah, the governor Abbott hasn't
really said that in so many words, he says, he's

(27:57):
just going along with what the Justice Department wants. State
lawmakers here lower are saying, you know, yeah, this is
this is what we're going after.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
Getting back to the math real quick. So there's eighty
eight that show up I've been told that there's been
six Democrats that are showing up, So there's six short
I've also heard and you can tell me if I'm
right about this. There are Democrats that are still in
Texas that have not flown out and they can be
brought in to get to have a quorum. Are there
six of them? Do we know how many there are?

Speaker 11 (28:27):
I think it doesn't, but I don't you know, nothing
is being enforced if they're still in Texas. I don't
you talk about grandstanding is happening on both sides. You're right,
You're right, you know, so issuing in a restaurant for
somebody that sounds really serious. You're not going to see
anybody cuffed up and dragged into the by Texas rangers
in white hats. It's not going to happen. So it's

(28:50):
hyperbole as much as anything else coming from both sides,
from the Democrats who are out of state and from
the Republicans who are still here.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
Yeah. I don't mean to seem sound like I'm eight
years old, but they started it. Jim Ryan, ABC News
correspondent in Dallas. Thanks so much, Jim, have a good
weekend you. Yeah, this is going to keep playing out
ad nauseum and they're going to end up having a vote.
He's right, there is grand standing on both sides, but

(29:18):
what the Democrats are doing in this is just ridiculous.
There's not going to be any arrest. They're going to
keep having special elections. They can have them ad nauseam. Finally,
they're going to have to vote on this. Have you
ever total up how much you are paying for streaming services?
It could be shocking. We're going to talk about the
rising cost of watching TV with WOR correspondent Rory O'Neill next.

(29:42):
I was just talking about this with Chris Schweitzer, who's
in for Natalie Vaka today. We were just talking about
streaming services. I don't think I have any idea how
much I pay for streaming. I probably don't want to know.
I don't know. I have no idea. Really you don't
know either. I mean loosely, loosely, how much do you

(30:02):
pay a month?

Speaker 7 (30:04):
I like twenty I guess I think I think I
pay for two, So like twenty to like thirty bucks
a month.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
That's it.

Speaker 7 (30:10):
I only pay two. I share actual I shouldn't say
that they're gonna.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
Watch you out they're gonna come to the streaming police
are going to come to your house. This is a
great story though, and Rory O'Neil or w R National correspondent,
is covering this. Tay the cost of watching the NFL,
first of all, because that's going up because they're streaming.
But I just want to expand this with Rory a
little bit to how much people pay for streaming, because Rory,

(30:37):
I don't think people have any idea what they pay
for streaming.

Speaker 4 (30:41):
No, they don't.

Speaker 6 (30:42):
And then you know, as they suggest it, sometimes there's
a streaming service attached to your cell phone, or you know,
you get free video from Amazon Prime membership and things
like that. So it all gets mucked up in the works.
And we're still expecting a lot of these streamers to
merge in the years ahead, maybe at the months ahead.
But yeah, personally, I put myself on a diet. I

(31:03):
have one streaming service at a time.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
Is that right, Yep? I just do one at a time,
and it depends on what show you want to watch.

Speaker 6 (31:11):
Right, And you're like, Okay, I've seen all this stuff
I want to see on Netflix that's out now, all right,
I'll move to HBO Max Okay, I've seen all the
new stuff. I want to see there all right next month,
you know, So I'll have it for three or four months,
and then I'll watch the next one. The old shows
aren't going away, and if I'm not up to date
on I don't know, whatever nonsense, I probably shouldn't be watching.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
Anyway, it doesn't really bother me.

Speaker 6 (31:30):
And then it's totally acceptable these days to say, oh,
I don't have that subscription. Right before, if you ever
missed the Hot Show, if you didn't see Twin Peaks
when it was coming out or whatever it was back
you know, in the in the eighties, and you weren't
there at the water cooler to add to the conversation,
that was a big deal. But now it's easy. I
don't have that channel.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
I feel like you're adult in the room of a
lot of adolescent streamers, and that is most of us,
all of us. I have no idea what I signed
up for. I will get something, I'll get a notice.
I just got the other other day that my payment
for Paramount Plus went through. I had no idea how

(32:10):
I had Paramount Plus. I don't remember the last time
I watched Paramount Plus. So my feeling is I'm paying
an exorbitant amount for streaming services right now?

Speaker 6 (32:20):
Yeah, well, then that's one of the first things when
we talked about those financial you know, everyone's in credit
card debt, whatever, because most people don't budget and they
don't know where the money is going. And if you
look every month and said that, do I really spend
three hundred dollars a month on coffee? You'd say, wait
a minute now, or do I really spend one hundred
and sixty nine dollars a month on all these streaming services?
For this story in particular, if you want to get

(32:42):
all the NFL games now, but we're assuming you don't
have a TV, or that you don't you know, yeah,
let's say you want to watch them all through your
phone and stream it that you don't have a TV
antenna was my point. ESPN, Amazon Prime, Peacock, Paramount, plus
Fox one and Netflix. You're gonna need that every month
to watch all the games. And that's going to be

(33:02):
six hundred and seventy one dollars just for NFL viewing costs.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
Six hundred and seventy one dollars a month.

Speaker 6 (33:09):
No, one hundred eleven a month, six hundred and seventy
one from September. Yeah, from September to February six hundred
and seventy one dollars. And that doesn't include red zone,
that doesn't include Sunday ticket.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
Yeah, and that's going to keep getting worse. By the way,
I'm glad you mentioned red zone because that's a way
of watching the best of all those games. I'm addicted
to red zone. I think anybody that's into uh, fantasy
football is addicted to red zone. Do you watch it? Oh?

Speaker 6 (33:37):
Absolutely? But I laugh too because you know I'm saying, oh, look,
I'm so responsible about money. No, because if I want
to watch my Pats game, I'll go to the sports
bar down the street, spend one hundred dollars, you know,
on food and wings and beer and.

Speaker 10 (33:51):
The uber ryde Home And like, wait, if you just
spent the nine ninety nine, you coulda you're a Pats fan. Yes,
it's a Rhode Island native. I'm still in New England.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
Well, it was nice when it lasted.

Speaker 7 (34:04):
Huh.

Speaker 6 (34:06):
I want to see the big statue reveal tonight of
Tom Brady.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
I didn't even know that was happening. See, only a
Pats fan knows. That's happening. I had no idea what
was happening. Where is that happening? And what is that entail?

Speaker 6 (34:19):
In Foxborough at the stadium there they're putting up a
statue of the greatest patriot of all time. So and
sometimes Tampa Bay buccaneer.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
And they could all look at it in sigh. Remember
remember when we were good? Remember that, Remember when we
had a team. Yeah, I'm gonna have I'm going to
immediately go from here and I am going to look
at my streaming bills because my feeling is, and i'll
tell you next week, my feeling is, I'm up over
two hundred hours a month. Oh that's just a guess.

Speaker 6 (34:52):
See, we got to bring it back to radio money.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
That's trust me, I'm there, trust me, I'm there. Hey, Rory,
have a great weekend. Rory O'Neill, wo our national correspondent,
is going to be back tomorrow morning at say seven fifty.
Thanks so much.

Speaker 6 (35:08):
I'll see a Monday. I'm not coming back tomorrow morning,
no way, I'm gonna be here.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
I'll see you Monday morning. I'll see you Monday morning
when we come back. The mayor's race is a national story.
Now we'll talk to j C. Polanco after the eight
o'clock news