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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Arry Show is on the air.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Don Adams on this day, one hundred three years ago, passed,
unfortunately in two thousand and five, the star of the
TV show Get Smart. If I were to list three
shows that I consider to be genius or I really
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liked in my lifetime that did not get the critical
acclaim or the public acclaim that I think they deserve,
I would say Get Smart, the Green Hornet, I had
my third one, oh, huckleberry Hound.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Love huckleberry Hound.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
In fact, of all the cartoons, I really feel huckleberry Hound.
And what would be a number four? I like to
do things in threes. But since you asked, I say Foghorn.
Leghorn another classic, just absolute classic. Don Adams born on
this day, American actor and director of the star of
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Get Smart. In this scene, Maxwell Smart is being held
captive along with ninety nine. He tries to talk his
way out of it, as only Maxwell Smart would do
to men.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Your demented plan will not work. Why not because this
very mort this warehouse is being surrounded by one hundred
cocks with Doberman pinchers.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Would you believe it?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
One hundred cops with Joberman pinchers. Believe would you believe
ten security guards.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
On a blood house? I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
How about a boy scout with radis mister smartt There's
no force on the earth capable of stopping me.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
It's just very smart humor. I thought it was. I
thought it was so clever. Then. I remember when the
when the what's it?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Apple Watch? They don't call an eye watch to the
Apple watch. Okay, when the Apple Watch came out, they
did an ad campaign on all the times throughout history
that there had been an attempt to put a watch
in a in a put it to put a phone
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in a watch, and of course he had his phone
in his shoe.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I absolutely positively loved that.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
All the tough taught last year about stripping chairmanships or
expelling the fleaback Democrats in Austin.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Remember the Austin Remember the Democrats.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Fled the state to break quorum, Remember that shutting down
the state government.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Our state government only meets.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Every other year, which is often enough for one hundred
and fifty days, I believe. Now often there will be
a special session called by the governor that will extend
that and that's kind of the threat looming. Hey, if
a governor wants to get something through, he says, hey,
get this thing done, or I'll call a special session.
And nobody wants that because then they can't go back
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to their real jobs. For people that have an insurance
agency or a legal practice or whatever else.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
But if a governor.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Calls a special session, I think he can call it
up to thirty days. I haven't looked at that in
a while, and then if he doesn't get done what
he wants to get done, he can call another one.
I mean, conceivably he can keep them there for quite
some time. But the Democrats, in order to drag this
thing out, create some drama, fled the state to avoid
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a quorum. The governor has the authority to then have
them arrested and brought back. And every time there's always,
you know, the discussion that they're going to do this,
And there was taught at the time by the governor
and the Speaker of the House, Dustin Boroughs, that they
were going to strip them of their chairmanships, which raises
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the question which you already knew and we already knew,
why did you have Democrats in charge of committees?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Why'd you have Democrats as vice chairman.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
You've got a strong enough majority that you don't ever
need the Democrats to vote for anything. You could just
steamroll them, you know how Nancy Pelosi did in the
US House when they passed Obamacare. But no, we can't
do that because there's a dirty little secret in state
government in Texas and nobody wants you to know it.
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And a lot of my friends get angry when I
tell this. A lot of your Republican friends who you're
convinced are up there just fighting them. Democrats did Bernity
just they just goshed. We would have gotten away with
if it hadn't been for you meddling kids. The Republicans
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are in on it with the Democrats. And the way
it works is this. Let's say it's fifty Democrats one
hundred Republicans. You need seventy six votes to get the
Speaker's office. So the fifty Democrats, they have their only
chance is this gambuit right here. So they pull together
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and they say we need twenty six Republicans and we
can control the House. And you say, well, why would
the Republicans do that? Because the Republicans you pick the
Republicans off the drunk DAIDs. For instance, this with Dade
feeling they're not really conservative. They think it would be neat,
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it would be an honor to serve. These are Mitt
Romney Republicans. These are George hw Bush repelic the honor
of the dignity, Mike Pince, the honor of being in government.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Okay, we need to cut all the aid.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
We need to do this in the schools, We need
to eliminate this. Ways, well, we have a sort of
no bless obliege. We don't want this to be an
unpleasant Republican party. We want everybody to be happy at
the Episcopalian church. So that's what they do. So they
get twenty six votes, and now that they have seventy
six votes, they go to the other seventy four and
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they go, hey, guys, we've got the votes to win
the speaker's race. Now we don't want this to be
seventy six to seventy four, So you come on over
and vote with us, because we've already got this locked up.
We got this locked up by having all the Democrats.
You come over here and vote with us, and we'll
give some of you some chairmanships too, and so they
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get another fifty of them to do that. So you
end up with twenty twenty five every time, Republicans sometimes
more who are not with the speaker, who hold out,
and who spend the whole time going, hey, guys, you
all realize the Democrats are running our state party. So
that is the reason that after all that tough talk
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about punishing the Democrats after they fled here, we are
getting played like the Washington generals all over again. The
Texas Democrats who fled the state to break corum last
year in order to delay the redistricting vote are refusing
to pay the fines levied by House Republicans now clueless
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on what to do.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
But don't worry.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Republicans now say they will force those Democrats to pay
the fines. We don't want fines. We want them stripped
of any power. We want them shamed. We want you
to actually govern the way you come back in campaign,
like you would maybe look at the case of Dad
feeling what happened to him?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Let that be a lesson thought it was funny.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Michael Berry.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Oh no, I won't do that. It's too much for
my She won't go that House that was so funny.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I would put this into a category of songs around
seventy two. They are just pretty songs. We're just they're pleasant.
They could they would work just as well as a
folk song if you if you stripped out the arrangement,
the pre disco, just pretty folk style styling singing. You know,
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they're not they're not changed the world songs. But so
here is the story from clip number three Ramoncito uh
CBSDFW about the Republicans saying, hey, you remember when the
Democrats made a fool out of us by leaving the
state and shutting down the state legislature. Remember that, Remember
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when we pounded on the table and said, don't worry,
we're the majority party. We got control of the state Legislature,
the Senate, the governor. We're not going to allow them
to get away with this.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Remember that?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Well, well today they want you to know this is
the sort of thing up with which we will not
put We will we will find them. They're not they
say they're not going to pay the fine. What wait,
what the uh? We will tell them that their mother
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was a horse's ourse. Yeah, they said, they don't care
she kind I was. They're Democrats. They didn't know their
mother anyway. Well, we will say harsh things for at
least one news cycle about them. Yeah, they said they
expected that. They're out playing golf. They're not really too
worried about CBSDFW.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Aside from the fines, the House Democrats are also having
to pay for the investigative costs of Texas dps to
try to locate them during their quarum break. All told,
the lawmakers will split nearly four hundred and twenty two
thousand dollars in costs and fines. For most members, that
amounts to more than eighty three hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Now.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
This was all just decided in the last hour by
the House Administration Committee, which includes six Republicans and five Democrats,
including Democratic usen NIC nominee James Tallerico. This committee is
chaired by Representative Charlie Garron of for Worth, and they
all went into executive session to hear testimony for much
of the day. Last August, dozens of House Democrats left
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Texas for Illinois, California and other states to try to
prove vent Republicans from approving these five newly drawn districts
favoring Republicans at the Democrats expense. Republicans sharply criticized the
Democrats last year, while the Democrats argued they were standing
up for their constituents.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Texas had its first corn break in eighteen seventy.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
None of this is new.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
So we know that these members had a right to
do this, and we know that the House also has
a right to enforce.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Rules and create consequences. Those are just facts.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
But as we've discussed fines and costs all day, I
want to remind everyone that partisan hyperbole has a very
real cost to.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Under the House rules.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
The Democrats won't be allowed to pay the fines and
costs with their campaign funds.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Oh no, they'll have to pay them from their ill
gotten gains for how they cast votes.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
That would be most unfortunate.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
So you heard the name James Tyler Rico was not
only a leader among Democrats in the state House. Tall
Rico had a vaunted position within the entire House.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Who gave him that.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Dustin Burroughs drunk Dade feeling see the Tallo Rico That
is the modern day Beto, the very dangerous candidate running
for the US Senate on the Democrat side. He was
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being given positions of authority in the state House.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
And you might say, well, how does that happen?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
I thought we worked our butts off to get a
Republican majority. You did, and it wasn't even close. It
wasn't seventy six seventy four you did. You worked hard
in your state district all across the state. He worked
hard in your Senate districts all across the state to
put a super majority in the state Senate. You worked
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hard for the governor's office, lieutenant governors. You worked hard
to get every statewide elected official, ag, Railroad Commission, Supreme Court,
all of them Republican. So how did Talarico who didn't
just wake up as James Tallerrico. He's been James Talerrico
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since time he got there. He's been the little creep
show weirdo mark my words. Before November you will learn
what a weird, weird combination of his view of divinity, politics,
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the role of the state, and a lot of other things.
That is one odd bird who has pushed for very
odd things that are out of line with Texas values.
So why did the Republicans put him in positions of leadership?
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Because these aren't the types of Republicans that represent your values.
In fact, you'd be surprised how many of you have
a state rep that will come to your Chamber of
Commerce meeting, show up at your church, come to the parade,
and it'll be a convertible and they'll have their sign
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on it, and they'll waive. They'll know some people's names
and they'll air pistol or mah, and they will have
gone to school with you, or their brother did, or
their sister did, or they grew up in the same
church you did. Maybe they went to same university you did,
maybe they went to same law school you did, or
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maybe they're in the same business circle you're in, or
the same social club you're in, or maybe their wives
went to SMU together or TCU. And you will find
out that those guys will go to Austin and they
will give James Tallerico a position of authority. And it's
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not until now that he's running for the US and
that people go, how did that freak show end up
in such a powerful position in the state party When
they're at the minority party, Reps, look at your local rep.
Because he was part of it. O Man Pulose stopped
that I'm saying in rewind. I wonder how many people know.
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Hat tip to Pat Gray, who's probably the biggest bread
fan I've ever known. Pat Gray loved Bred, loved that
they were Mormon. Probably still still does love Bred. I
should say, uh, because he still he still does his
show and does does his work with Glenn. I had
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kind of an awkward relationship with Pat because Pat was
very close to Ken Charles, who was the program director.
He was actually a regional vice president of our company.
And when I was brought in, I was brought in
by Eddie Martini, who thought.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Oh, this guy, he's just great, you know, we should.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Put him on the air. And Ken Charles liked to
put his people on the air. He didn't think anybody
knew anything about programming but him. And they put me
on early morning. No, no, they put me on after Pat.
So they had Pat on till nine and then I
was nine to eleven and then they fired. So when
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I went on nine to eleven, I replaced Glenn back.
So for a little while, Glenn hated me, but we're
past that now. But Pat hated me for that. I
had nothing to do with it. They asked me to
do the show. I'd been a guest on. I'd been
a guest for three or four out of the five
days a week. I would be a guest on Rod
Ryan's show, k t R H, KPRC Mexicans in the Morning. Uh,
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what was the one on Arrow? The two dudes that
did the birthday skin Deanie Roger. I would be a
guest across those shows just constantly. Sometimes I'd Dana Dana,
I'd be on with Dana and Mark at the time, Dana,
Mark and Jay.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
And yeah Dana Tyson.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Sorry I thought I said that, And so I would
go and sometimes I just walk the hall and they'd
see me, go, hey, you want to come on the
show real quick. So Eddie Martinez was like, hey, this
guy'd be great. We gotta we gotta give him a show.
So this was just this was oh five ish. This
was just before Glenn Beck was going to blow up.
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He's about to be given a show on CNN. And
that was my favorite Glenn Back. I don't know if
you remember that. Glenn Back. He would wear a three
piece suit like a hand like a Reagan brown or
a tan brown suit with a bright blue tie and
a bright blue shirt and he would have his chalkboard
behind him, remember, and he would draw things up and
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he would lay it out, and he.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Was the professor. I thought that was such great programming.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Well, that would occur less than a month after they
took Glenn back off and put me on in Houston.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Now, the rating, he didn't have.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Any ratings, but part of that was he was on
a station that wasn't doing anything at the time, and
that was KPRC, the oldest station in Texas. So it
was Pat Gray and then Glenn back and then I
don't remember after that, so they took Glenn off and
put me on. So Pat already didn't like me for that,
and then eventually they fired Pat and put me in
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the morning and that slot. And part of it, part
of the reason was, well, we were bringing in a
lot of money because advertisers loved our show, and we
were start to build ratings. And I didn't get paid
for two years, and I was okay with that because
I was getting paid off of my live endorsements. So
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they were saving money and improving ratings and bringing in
a lot more money from advertising. So it was working.
And that was kind of the inception of our concept.
But I remember I gave a new ear to Oh,
Robert Reese says, Pat was six to ten and you
were ten to noon.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Okay, so not nine to eleven, ten to noon. Okay.
Well you get the point though anyway.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
But Pat taught me to appreciate bread. All that by
West said, Pat taught me to appreciate bread. And he's
back with Glenn, and Glenn is doing great. But I
looked up nineteen seventy two, which we mentioned a minute ago.
Albert Hammond, I just want you to think about for
those of you old enough to remember music, For most
of you, there is.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Not a song. But I don't know that that's true
for me.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I don't know that there's a song on the radio
right now that speaks to me that I feel like
I can identify with. But I want you to listen
to the list of the top one hundred songs.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Of nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I won't read all of them, but I will go
through a few, and let's see, I'd like to teach
the world to sing. Perfect Harmony was ninety seven. Baby
let Me take You in my arms, Speak to the sky.
Rick Springfield Vincent by Don mcclan. I'm working up the list.
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Doctor My Eyes by Jackson Brown, Motorcycle, Mama, I Saw
the Light by Todd Rundgren Man.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
I mean, these are to me just timeless songs.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Power of Love by.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Joe Simon Witch Queen of New Orleans, Redbones, Freddy's Dead,
Family Affair. Family Affair was only the seventy ninth best
song of the year that year. Saturday in the Park
by Chicago Never Been to Spain three, Dog Night Wow.
That was only seventy three.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
For the year.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Joy Anticipation by Carly Simon was only seventy two. Hot
Rod Lincoln Commander Cody, That's I mean, that's incredible. You
don't mess around with Jim was only sixty eight. Coconut
Harry Nielsen sixty six, Sylvia's Mother, Doctor Hook and The
Medicine Show. I'm just going up this list. And Layla
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was the sixtieth top song that year. Mother and Child
Reunion Paul Simon, Banga Gong, Happiest Girl in the Whole USA, Dona.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Fargo, Who Loved Me From Dona Fargo?
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Everything I Own by Bread, I mean, that's just that
is just incredible.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
But the beauty of that song. I told you we
were going to come back to it.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
David Gates wrote that for his father, Clarence Gates, and
it sounds like yet another love song. But for some
of you you will not have known this. And this
will be the most memorable thing I say today. It
won't be politics or the straight of hormones. His father
passed ten years earlier in seventy three, nine years earlier
in seventy three.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
His father was a band director.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
His father was the one who taught him to love music,
and he wanted to write a tribute to his father
that would express what he would do to get his
father back, just to see how well he had done
in music, because that would have made his dad so proud.
It is not a love song, or it is a
love song. It's a love song to his father. But
when you know it that way, I think it just
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changes the whole song. A right, Just play a little
bit of that, oh man, That takes on a whole
new meeting, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
You know, when you go back to the core of
who we are.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
As a species and you look at politics, you will
notice that almost every leftist has dysfunctional relationships. They can't
keep a marriage, they can't get along with their kids,
they can't get along with their parents. That's people who
have become separated from the core of who we are.
Our love of our parents, our love of our kids,
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our love of our spouse.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
And it's just that simple.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says Houston City Council's new
ordinance that limits the Houston Police department cooperation with ICE
agents runs a foul of Senate Bill four, which prohibits
cities from passing laws that would stop local law enforcement
from cooperating with ICE.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
It is already the case.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
The Left loves to talk about threats to democracy, threats
to democracy When you have in the city of Houston
a city council saying we do not want we will
not allow our local police officers Houston Police Department to
enforce federal laws and to cooperate with the federal agents
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carrying out the next phase of that federal law. You
take an oath to uphold the laws of your local,
state and federal government. It is a threat to democracy
when the city of Houston, or Los Angeles, or Seattle
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or Portland says federal law won't apply in our city.
The tenth Amendment says roughly that that which is not
taken up by the federal government shall be reserved to
the states. But where federal government, where federal law is passed,
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it is not for the local government to overturn it
or to decide those laws won't be enforced. So what
you're witnessing here is the Houston City Council has decided
that when illegal aliens are picked up, they don't want
them removed from the city of Houston. Well, first of all,
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there ain't a one of them down there smart enough
to figure out the grand scheme of why you want
to keep illegal aliens, because that's how you win elections
as Democrats. They're not that smart. They're just happy to
have a job. Not the smartest pencils in the pack.
But what this is about, if you think about it,
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this is Rodney Eli is telling them what to do,
and Rodney ellis as the conduit and local capo of
the Sorols community. That's where Rodney's power comes from. He's
whip smart, is very very smart. The ability to grab
hold and execute power. He's good at that in a sense.
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He was doing that as a state sener, just not
within the State Senate. Nobody's ever asked the question how
Rodney Ellis got rich and he is rich as a
state senator all those years, Nobody ever asks the question,
where asked the question what his wife does? How she
is a funnel of funds to the Ellis family. Whatever
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asks about the public housing or the Housing Department committees
that she serves on and executes wields a great amount
of power, And how many inside deals have been done
to line the coffers of the Ellis family. Oh, it's
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an amazing thing. It's an amazing thing. Indeed, you probably
saw the news over the weekend. Eric Swalwell, who is
this loudmouth democrat. You got Adam Schiff, You got Eric Swalwell,
this loudmouth democrat who's always in the news saying the
most ridiculous thing, and he was running for governor to
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succeed Gavin Newsom, who of course is running for president.
Swalwell's the guy who's been caught in scandal after scandal,
including an affair with Fangbang, who was a Chinese spy.
When it was revealed, the Chinese government that CCP recalled
her quickly got her out of the country. It turns
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out she was having three different affairs with three different
elected officials. Swalwell had a security clearance in Congress, and
lord knows what she got out of him in Pillowtop.
But did it cost him his seat? No, he's up
every two years. Did all the other scandals cost him? Know,
he's up every two years.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
But now now he's done the one thing.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
That'll get you in trouble if you're not Bill Clinton,
and that is a sex scandal, especially after me too,
where you've got women saying that you kept going when
they said stop. So now the leader of the Democrats
in the House, they're now calling on him to step down.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Right here is him.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
This is clip number one NBC Bay Area him dropping
out of the California governor's race.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
There are many in major endorsements for Swalwell that have
been withdrawn just over the last couple of days, and
also major Democratic leaders who have said that they want
to see him step out of the race. On top
of that, multiple current and former staff members adding to
those calls. Now, Swalwell posting at around five point thirty
this evening that he's suspending his campaign, apologizing for mistakes
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in judgment in the past and saying he will fight
the serious and false allegations that have been made. This
comes today after fifty five former congressional and campaign staffers
who worked with Swalwell signed a public letter calling on
him to end his campaign for California governor and resigned
from Congress, saying they believe the women's allegations. Prior to that,
current senior staffers with his office issued an unsigned letter
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saying they are horrified by the allegations against him. Meanwhile,
there are efforts in motion to have Congress vote to
remove both Swalwell and Congressman Tony Gonzalez of Texas, who
also bases sexual misconduct allegations. As we've mentioned, Swalwell has
denied these allegations, releasing this message on Friday.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
They also come on the eve of an election where
I have been the front runder candidate for.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Governor in California. I do not suggest to you in
any way that I'm perfect or that I'm a saint. Stop.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
I've never been a big fan of the whole you know,
what does their body language tell us? But somebody sent
me over the weekend a link to a fellow name
Scott rous ro U s and Scott Rouse is a
body language expert to attorneys preparing for trial and to
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law enforcement questioning people, and he did a breakdown. It's
about a fifteen minute breakdown, and he goes frame by
frame of the things that Swalwell does. And when you
watch it you will think, you know, it's it's like
a hostage video. He looks like, you know, they're they're
getting ready to chop his head off, just the side
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of camera. But he goes through and points out things
like at one point, his the only time he blinks,
the eyes don't blink together, or he says, I want
you to hear it from me that you know I
didn't do this, But he has rehearsed it so many
times that the motion he's supposed to point to his
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own chest when he does that, he starts between the
words you and here, I want you to hit his chest.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Hear it from me.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Because he's rehearsed it so many times, it's become rope.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
The motions he goes through.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
It's a really really good breakdown of what Swalwell is
doing here. And and you know, look he's affirming what
you already believe, which is Swalwell is a scumbag, and
let's just watch his breakdown as a scumb bag. But
it's quite interesting. He's reading too much into this stuff.
But I found it in the stream. His name is
Scott Rause R O U.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
S E.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
His page is called you can look up Scott Rause
and find him. I think it's called behavior dash X.
But he goes through the Swalwell, you know, Swalwell thinks
he can do one of those Bill Clinton's. You know
I did not have sex with that woman Monica Lewinsky
and point into the end of the screen.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
I don't think it's gonna work this time.
It's that time time time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Arry Show is on the air.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Don Adams on this day, one hundred three years ago, passed,
unfortunately in two thousand and five, the star of the
TV show Get Smart. If I were to list three
shows that I consider to be genius or I really
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liked in my lifetime that did not get the critical
acclaim or the public acclaim that I think they deserve,
I would say Get Smart, the Green Hornet, I had
my third one, oh, huckleberry Hound.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Love huckleberry Hound.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
In fact, of all the cartoons, I really feel huckleberry Hound.
And what would be a number four? I like to
do things in threes. But since you asked, I say Foghorn.
Leghorn another classic, just absolute classic. Don Adams born on
this day, American actor and director of the star of
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Get Smart. In this scene, Maxwell Smart is being held
captive along with ninety nine. He tries to talk his
way out of it, as only Maxwell Smart would do
to men.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Your demented plan will not work. Why not because this
very mort this warehouse is being surrounded by one hundred
cocks with Doberman pinchers.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Would you believe it?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
One hundred cops with Joberman pinchers. Believe would you believe
ten security guards.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
On a blood house? I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
How about a boy scout with radis mister smartt There's
no force on the earth capable of stopping me.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
It's just very smart humor. I thought it was. I
thought it was so clever. Then. I remember when the
when the what's it?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Apple Watch? They don't call an eye watch to the
Apple watch. Okay, when the Apple Watch came out, they
did an ad campaign on all the times throughout history
that there had been an attempt to put a watch
in a in a put it to put a phone
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in a watch, and of course he had his phone
in his shoe.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I absolutely positively loved that.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
All the tough taught last year about stripping chairmanships or
expelling the fleaback Democrats in Austin.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Remember the Austin Remember the Democrats.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Fled the state to break quorum, Remember that shutting down
the state government.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Our state government only meets.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Every other year, which is often enough for one hundred
and fifty days, I believe. Now often there will be
a special session called by the governor that will extend
that and that's kind of the threat looming. Hey, if
a governor wants to get something through, he says, hey,
get this thing done, or I'll call a special session.
And nobody wants that because then they can't go back
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to their real jobs. For people that have an insurance
agency or a legal practice or whatever else.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
But if a governor.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Calls a special session, I think he can call it
up to thirty days. I haven't looked at that in
a while, and then if he doesn't get done what
he wants to get done, he can call another one.
I mean, conceivably he can keep them there for quite
some time. But the Democrats, in order to drag this
thing out, create some drama, fled the state to avoid
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a quorum. The governor has the authority to then have
them arrested and brought back. And every time there's always,
you know, the discussion that they're going to do this,
And there was taught at the time by the governor
and the Speaker of the House, Dustin Boroughs, that they
were going to strip them of their chairmanships, which raises
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the question which you already knew and we already knew,
why did you have Democrats in charge of committees?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Why'd you have Democrats as vice chairman.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
You've got a strong enough majority that you don't ever
need the Democrats to vote for anything. You could just
steamroll them, you know how Nancy Pelosi did in the
US House when they passed Obamacare. But no, we can't
do that because there's a dirty little secret in state
government in Texas and nobody wants you to know it.
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And a lot of my friends get angry when I
tell this. A lot of your Republican friends who you're
convinced are up there just fighting them. Democrats did Bernity
just they just goshed. We would have gotten away with
if it hadn't been for you meddling kids. The Republicans
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are in on it with the Democrats. And the way
it works is this. Let's say it's fifty Democrats one
hundred Republicans. You need seventy six votes to get the
Speaker's office. So the fifty Democrats, they have their only
chance is this gambuit right here. So they pull together
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and they say we need twenty six Republicans and we
can control the House. And you say, well, why would
the Republicans do that? Because the Republicans you pick the
Republicans off the drunk DAIDs. For instance, this with Dade
feeling they're not really conservative. They think it would be neat,
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it would be an honor to serve. These are Mitt
Romney Republicans. These are George hw Bush repelic the honor
of the dignity, Mike Pince, the honor of being in government.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Okay, we need to cut all the aid.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
We need to do this in the schools, We need
to eliminate this. Ways, well, we have a sort of
no bless obliege. We don't want this to be an
unpleasant Republican party. We want everybody to be happy at
the Episcopalian church. So that's what they do. So they
get twenty six votes, and now that they have seventy
six votes, they go to the other seventy four and
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they go, hey, guys, we've got the votes to win
the speaker's race. Now we don't want this to be
seventy six to seventy four, So you come on over
and vote with us, because we've already got this locked up.
We got this locked up by having all the Democrats.
You come over here and vote with us, and we'll
give some of you some chairmanships too, and so they
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get another fifty of them to do that. So you
end up with twenty twenty five every time, Republicans sometimes
more who are not with the speaker, who hold out,
and who spend the whole time going, hey, guys, you
all realize the Democrats are running our state party. So
that is the reason that after all that tough talk
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about punishing the Democrats after they fled here, we are
getting played like the Washington generals all over again. The
Texas Democrats who fled the state to break corum last
year in order to delay the redistricting vote are refusing
to pay the fines levied by House Republicans now clueless
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on what to do.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
But don't worry.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Republicans now say they will force those Democrats to pay
the fines. We don't want fines. We want them stripped
of any power. We want them shamed. We want you
to actually govern the way you come back in campaign,
like you would maybe look at the case of Dad
feeling what happened to him?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Let that be a lesson thought it was funny.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Michael Berry.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Oh no, I won't do that. It's too much for
my She won't go that House that was so funny.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I would put this into a category of songs around
seventy two. They are just pretty songs. We're just they're pleasant.
They could they would work just as well as a
folk song if you if you stripped out the arrangement,
the pre disco, just pretty folk style styling singing. You know,
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they're not they're not changed the world songs. But so
here is the story from clip number three Ramoncito uh
CBSDFW about the Republicans saying, hey, you remember when the
Democrats made a fool out of us by leaving the
state and shutting down the state legislature. Remember that, Remember
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when we pounded on the table and said, don't worry,
we're the majority party. We got control of the state Legislature,
the Senate, the governor. We're not going to allow them
to get away with this.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Remember that?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Well, well today they want you to know this is
the sort of thing up with which we will not
put We will we will find them. They're not they
say they're not going to pay the fine. What wait,
what the uh? We will tell them that their mother
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was a horse's ourse. Yeah, they said, they don't care
she kind I was. They're Democrats. They didn't know their
mother anyway. Well, we will say harsh things for at
least one news cycle about them. Yeah, they said they
expected that. They're out playing golf. They're not really too
worried about CBSDFW.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Aside from the fines, the House Democrats are also having
to pay for the investigative costs of Texas dps to
try to locate them during their quarum break. All told,
the lawmakers will split nearly four hundred and twenty two
thousand dollars in costs and fines. For most members, that
amounts to more than eighty three hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Now.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
This was all just decided in the last hour by
the House Administration Committee, which includes six Republicans and five Democrats,
including Democratic usen NIC nominee James Tallerico. This committee is
chaired by Representative Charlie Garron of for Worth, and they
all went into executive session to hear testimony for much
of the day. Last August, dozens of House Democrats left
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Texas for Illinois, California and other states to try to
prove vent Republicans from approving these five newly drawn districts
favoring Republicans at the Democrats expense. Republicans sharply criticized the
Democrats last year, while the Democrats argued they were standing
up for their constituents.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Texas had its first corn break in eighteen seventy.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
None of this is new.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
So we know that these members had a right to
do this, and we know that the House also has
a right to enforce.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Rules and create consequences. Those are just facts.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
But as we've discussed fines and costs all day, I
want to remind everyone that partisan hyperbole has a very
real cost to.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Under the House rules.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
The Democrats won't be allowed to pay the fines and
costs with their campaign funds.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Oh no, they'll have to pay them from their ill
gotten gains for how they cast votes.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
That would be most unfortunate.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
So you heard the name James Tyler Rico was not
only a leader among Democrats in the state House. Tall
Rico had a vaunted position within the entire House.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Who gave him that.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Dustin Burroughs drunk Dade feeling see the Tallo Rico That
is the modern day Beto, the very dangerous candidate running
for the US Senate on the Democrat side. He was
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being given positions of authority in the state House.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
And you might say, well, how does that happen?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
I thought we worked our butts off to get a
Republican majority. You did, and it wasn't even close. It
wasn't seventy six seventy four you did. You worked hard
in your state district all across the state. He worked
hard in your Senate districts all across the state to
put a super majority in the state Senate. You worked
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hard for the governor's office, lieutenant governors. You worked hard
to get every statewide elected official, ag, Railroad Commission, Supreme Court,
all of them Republican. So how did Talarico who didn't
just wake up as James Tallerrico. He's been James Talerrico
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since time he got there. He's been the little creep
show weirdo mark my words. Before November you will learn
what a weird, weird combination of his view of divinity, politics,
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the role of the state, and a lot of other things.
That is one odd bird who has pushed for very
odd things that are out of line with Texas values.
So why did the Republicans put him in positions of leadership?
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Because these aren't the types of Republicans that represent your values.
In fact, you'd be surprised how many of you have
a state rep that will come to your Chamber of
Commerce meeting, show up at your church, come to the parade,
and it'll be a convertible and they'll have their sign
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on it, and they'll waive. They'll know some people's names
and they'll air pistol or mah, and they will have
gone to school with you, or their brother did, or
their sister did, or they grew up in the same
church you did. Maybe they went to same university you did,
maybe they went to same law school you did, or
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maybe they're in the same business circle you're in, or
the same social club you're in, or maybe their wives
went to SMU together or TCU. And you will find
out that those guys will go to Austin and they
will give James Tallerico a position of authority. And it's
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not until now that he's running for the US and
that people go, how did that freak show end up
in such a powerful position in the state party When
they're at the minority party, Reps, look at your local rep.
Because he was part of it. O Man Pulose stopped
that I'm saying in rewind. I wonder how many people know.
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Hat tip to Pat Gray, who's probably the biggest bread
fan I've ever known. Pat Gray loved Bred, loved that
they were Mormon. Probably still still does love Bred. I
should say, uh, because he still he still does his
show and does does his work with Glenn. I had
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kind of an awkward relationship with Pat because Pat was
very close to Ken Charles, who was the program director.
He was actually a regional vice president of our company.
And when I was brought in, I was brought in
by Eddie Martini, who thought.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Oh, this guy, he's just great, you know, we should.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Put him on the air. And Ken Charles liked to
put his people on the air. He didn't think anybody
knew anything about programming but him. And they put me
on early morning. No, no, they put me on after Pat.
So they had Pat on till nine and then I
was nine to eleven and then they fired. So when
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I went on nine to eleven, I replaced Glenn back.
So for a little while, Glenn hated me, but we're
past that now. But Pat hated me for that. I
had nothing to do with it. They asked me to
do the show. I'd been a guest on. I'd been
a guest for three or four out of the five
days a week. I would be a guest on Rod
Ryan's show, k t R H, KPRC Mexicans in the Morning. Uh,
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what was the one on Arrow? The two dudes that
did the birthday skin Deanie Roger. I would be a
guest across those shows just constantly. Sometimes I'd Dana Dana,
I'd be on with Dana and Mark at the time, Dana,
Mark and Jay.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
And yeah Dana Tyson.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Sorry I thought I said that, And so I would
go and sometimes I just walk the hall and they'd
see me, go, hey, you want to come on the
show real quick. So Eddie Martinez was like, hey, this
guy'd be great. We gotta we gotta give him a show.
So this was just this was oh five ish. This
was just before Glenn Beck was going to blow up.
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He's about to be given a show on CNN. And
that was my favorite Glenn Back. I don't know if
you remember that. Glenn Back. He would wear a three
piece suit like a hand like a Reagan brown or
a tan brown suit with a bright blue tie and
a bright blue shirt and he would have his chalkboard
behind him, remember, and he would draw things up and
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he would lay it out, and he.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Was the professor. I thought that was such great programming.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Well, that would occur less than a month after they
took Glenn back off and put me on in Houston.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Now, the rating, he didn't have.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Any ratings, but part of that was he was on
a station that wasn't doing anything at the time, and
that was KPRC, the oldest station in Texas. So it
was Pat Gray and then Glenn back and then I
don't remember after that, so they took Glenn off and
put me on. So Pat already didn't like me for that,
and then eventually they fired Pat and put me in
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the morning and that slot. And part of it, part
of the reason was, well, we were bringing in a
lot of money because advertisers loved our show, and we
were start to build ratings. And I didn't get paid
for two years, and I was okay with that because
I was getting paid off of my live endorsements. So
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they were saving money and improving ratings and bringing in
a lot more money from advertising. So it was working.
And that was kind of the inception of our concept.
But I remember I gave a new ear to Oh,
Robert Reese says, Pat was six to ten and you
were ten to noon.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Okay, so not nine to eleven, ten to noon. Okay.
Well you get the point though anyway.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
But Pat taught me to appreciate bread. All that by
West said, Pat taught me to appreciate bread. And he's
back with Glenn, and Glenn is doing great. But I
looked up nineteen seventy two, which we mentioned a minute ago.
Albert Hammond, I just want you to think about for
those of you old enough to remember music, For most
of you, there is.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Not a song. But I don't know that that's true
for me.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I don't know that there's a song on the radio
right now that speaks to me that I feel like
I can identify with. But I want you to listen
to the list of the top one hundred songs.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Of nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I won't read all of them, but I will go
through a few, and let's see, I'd like to teach
the world to sing. Perfect Harmony was ninety seven. Baby
let Me take You in my arms, Speak to the sky.
Rick Springfield Vincent by Don mcclan. I'm working up the list.
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Doctor My Eyes by Jackson Brown, Motorcycle, Mama, I Saw
the Light by Todd Rundgren Man.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
I mean, these are to me just timeless songs.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Power of Love by.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Joe Simon Witch Queen of New Orleans, Redbones, Freddy's Dead,
Family Affair. Family Affair was only the seventy ninth best
song of the year that year. Saturday in the Park
by Chicago Never Been to Spain three, Dog Night Wow.
That was only seventy three.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
For the year.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Joy Anticipation by Carly Simon was only seventy two. Hot
Rod Lincoln Commander Cody, That's I mean, that's incredible. You
don't mess around with Jim was only sixty eight. Coconut
Harry Nielsen sixty six, Sylvia's Mother, Doctor Hook and The
Medicine Show. I'm just going up this list. And Layla
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was the sixtieth top song that year. Mother and Child
Reunion Paul Simon, Banga Gong, Happiest Girl in the Whole USA, Dona.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Fargo, Who Loved Me From Dona Fargo?
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Everything I Own by Bread, I mean, that's just that
is just incredible.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
But the beauty of that song. I told you we
were going to come back to it.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
David Gates wrote that for his father, Clarence Gates, and
it sounds like yet another love song. But for some
of you you will not have known this. And this
will be the most memorable thing I say today. It
won't be politics or the straight of hormones. His father
passed ten years earlier in seventy three, nine years earlier
in seventy three.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
His father was a band director.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
His father was the one who taught him to love music,
and he wanted to write a tribute to his father
that would express what he would do to get his
father back, just to see how well he had done
in music, because that would have made his dad so proud.
It is not a love song, or it is a
love song. It's a love song to his father. But
when you know it that way, I think it just
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changes the whole song. A right, Just play a little
bit of that, oh man, That takes on a whole
new meeting, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
You know, when you go back to the core of
who we are.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
As a species and you look at politics, you will
notice that almost every leftist has dysfunctional relationships. They can't
keep a marriage, they can't get along with their kids,
they can't get along with their parents. That's people who
have become separated from the core of who we are.
Our love of our parents, our love of our kids,
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our love of our spouse.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
And it's just that simple.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says Houston City Council's new
ordinance that limits the Houston Police department cooperation with ICE
agents runs a foul of Senate Bill four, which prohibits
cities from passing laws that would stop local law enforcement
from cooperating with ICE.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
It is already the case.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
The Left loves to talk about threats to democracy, threats
to democracy When you have in the city of Houston
a city council saying we do not want we will
not allow our local police officers Houston Police Department to
enforce federal laws and to cooperate with the federal agents
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carrying out the next phase of that federal law. You
take an oath to uphold the laws of your local,
state and federal government. It is a threat to democracy
when the city of Houston, or Los Angeles, or Seattle
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or Portland says federal law won't apply in our city.
The tenth Amendment says roughly that that which is not
taken up by the federal government shall be reserved to
the states. But where federal government, where federal law is passed,
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it is not for the local government to overturn it
or to decide those laws won't be enforced. So what
you're witnessing here is the Houston City Council has decided
that when illegal aliens are picked up, they don't want
them removed from the city of Houston. Well, first of all,
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there ain't a one of them down there smart enough
to figure out the grand scheme of why you want
to keep illegal aliens, because that's how you win elections
as Democrats. They're not that smart. They're just happy to
have a job. Not the smartest pencils in the pack.
But what this is about, if you think about it,
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this is Rodney Eli is telling them what to do,
and Rodney ellis as the conduit and local capo of
the Sorols community. That's where Rodney's power comes from. He's
whip smart, is very very smart. The ability to grab
hold and execute power. He's good at that in a sense.
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He was doing that as a state sener, just not
within the State Senate. Nobody's ever asked the question how
Rodney Ellis got rich and he is rich as a
state senator all those years, Nobody ever asks the question,
where asked the question what his wife does? How she
is a funnel of funds to the Ellis family. Whatever
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asks about the public housing or the Housing Department committees
that she serves on and executes wields a great amount
of power, And how many inside deals have been done
to line the coffers of the Ellis family. Oh, it's
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an amazing thing. It's an amazing thing. Indeed, you probably
saw the news over the weekend. Eric Swalwell, who is
this loudmouth democrat. You got Adam Schiff, You got Eric Swalwell,
this loudmouth democrat who's always in the news saying the
most ridiculous thing, and he was running for governor to
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succeed Gavin Newsom, who of course is running for president.
Swalwell's the guy who's been caught in scandal after scandal,
including an affair with Fangbang, who was a Chinese spy.
When it was revealed, the Chinese government that CCP recalled
her quickly got her out of the country. It turns
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out she was having three different affairs with three different
elected officials. Swalwell had a security clearance in Congress, and
lord knows what she got out of him in Pillowtop.
But did it cost him his seat? No, he's up
every two years. Did all the other scandals cost him? Know,
he's up every two years.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
But now now he's done the one thing.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
That'll get you in trouble if you're not Bill Clinton,
and that is a sex scandal, especially after me too,
where you've got women saying that you kept going when
they said stop. So now the leader of the Democrats
in the House, they're now calling on him to step down.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Right here is him.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
This is clip number one NBC Bay Area him dropping
out of the California governor's race.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
There are many in major endorsements for Swalwell that have
been withdrawn just over the last couple of days, and
also major Democratic leaders who have said that they want
to see him step out of the race. On top
of that, multiple current and former staff members adding to
those calls. Now, Swalwell posting at around five point thirty
this evening that he's suspending his campaign, apologizing for mistakes
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in judgment in the past and saying he will fight
the serious and false allegations that have been made. This
comes today after fifty five former congressional and campaign staffers
who worked with Swalwell signed a public letter calling on
him to end his campaign for California governor and resigned
from Congress, saying they believe the women's allegations. Prior to that,
current senior staffers with his office issued an unsigned letter
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saying they are horrified by the allegations against him. Meanwhile,
there are efforts in motion to have Congress vote to
remove both Swalwell and Congressman Tony Gonzalez of Texas, who
also bases sexual misconduct allegations. As we've mentioned, Swalwell has
denied these allegations, releasing this message on Friday.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
They also come on the eve of an election where
I have been the front runder candidate for.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Governor in California. I do not suggest to you in
any way that I'm perfect or that I'm a saint. Stop.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
I've never been a big fan of the whole you know,
what does their body language tell us? But somebody sent
me over the weekend a link to a fellow name
Scott rous ro U s and Scott Rouse is a
body language expert to attorneys preparing for trial and to
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law enforcement questioning people, and he did a breakdown. It's
about a fifteen minute breakdown, and he goes frame by
frame of the things that Swalwell does. And when you
watch it you will think, you know, it's it's like
a hostage video. He looks like, you know, they're they're
getting ready to chop his head off, just the side
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of camera. But he goes through and points out things
like at one point, his the only time he blinks,
the eyes don't blink together, or he says, I want
you to hear it from me that you know I
didn't do this, But he has rehearsed it so many
times that the motion he's supposed to point to his
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own chest when he does that, he starts between the
words you and here, I want you to hit his chest.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Hear it from me.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Because he's rehearsed it so many times, it's become rope.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
The motions he goes through.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
It's a really really good breakdown of what Swalwell is
doing here. And and you know, look he's affirming what
you already believe, which is Swalwell is a scumbag, and
let's just watch his breakdown as a scumb bag. But
it's quite interesting. He's reading too much into this stuff.
But I found it in the stream. His name is
Scott Rause R O U.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
S E.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
His page is called you can look up Scott Rause
and find him. I think it's called behavior dash X.
But he goes through the Swalwell, you know, Swalwell thinks
he can do one of those Bill Clinton's. You know
I did not have sex with that woman Monica Lewinsky
and point into the end of the screen.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
I don't think it's gonna work this time.
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