December 18, 2025 • 22 mins
On this Salcedo Storm Podcast:
Adam Kahn, higher education reporter for the Texas scorecard.
Adam Kahn, higher education reporter for the Texas scorecard.
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
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Speaker 3 (00:07):
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Speaker 4 (00:08):
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(00:43):
sick and tired of the least qualified among us making
decisions for us. I'm tired of having government that checks
every box except for the i'm qualified for my job box.
This is what we get with Democrats and disinterested Republicans.
They hire staff, mostly Democrats, but even some Republicans they
higher staff. I'm sorry. They don't know their rearnts from
a home in the ground kids. And this is happening
(01:06):
all the time, and they're making decisions for us. Let
me give an example. The FCC Chairman, Brandon Carr was
up before a committee in Congress and he was being
grilled for the first time since he went after Jimmy
Kimmel on ABC broadcast. Jimmy Kimmel of course putting out
disinformation about the shooter of Charlie Kirk, the killer, the
(01:30):
assassin of Charlie Kirk, saying that he was maga complete,
provable lie. And there was a discussion by the FCC
chair that something would need to be done about that,
because ABC Broadcast would have to be held accountable for
putting up that kind of inflammatory falsehood on the air.
(01:50):
So a lot of left wingers were catterwauling over we
should be able to lie with impunity, right, that kind
of thing. Well, that's not the law. And here comes
this left wing senator. What is her name? I don't
know her by heart. I think that's Rosen, Senator Rosen,
Jackie Rosen. I believe that if memory serves anyway. So
(02:11):
here's Jackie Rosen in questioning the FCC chair and listen
to this back and forth.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Will you commit to opening an investigation into Fox News
for its deceptive editing of this clip?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Again? Yes?
Speaker 6 (02:23):
Or no?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Please?
Speaker 6 (02:24):
Because I have questions for the other witnesses.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
No, okay, So he says, no, I am not going
to be investigating Fox News, and this senator is indignant
and she's perplexed. Wait a minute, you said you want
to investigate ABC for the Jimmy Kimmel nonsense and their
(02:47):
distortion and lies about the charliekerk assassination, but not Fox News.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
No, So you're an elected bureaucrat.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
You're deciding an elected bureaucrat. That, folks, that's a cut prediction,
is it not. First off, he's appointed, he's not elected.
This woman is is really three burritos short of a
combination play?
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Is she not that some investigation should go on and
others shouldn't. And are you basing this solely on the target?
Or are you basing this what are you basing this on?
Can you answer that question? This was clearly edited. Why
is one edit fine and one edit not in the
middle of a presidential campaign.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
It's based on the law. The Fox News interview was
on cable. There's no public interest standard, there's no broadcast
hoax rule, there's no news distortion, there's no role for
the SEC there.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
So he cites the law that this so called senator
should know sheet Folks, she doesn't know the difference between
broadcast ABC, CBS, NBC, those who use the public air
waves and those who use cable. Cable is a paid
(03:58):
service that people go out of their way to get
over the air. Broadcast is paid for by the federal government. Basically,
you get it for free. They can't monetize it. So
the government says, we license out these frequencies to those
who are broadcasting over the air, and they must meet
certain standards. That's the law. Those standards who do not apply,
(04:22):
even though many of them are notpted voluntarily by the
cable companies, but they do not apply to the rule
of law because there has not been a law that
has been passed that allows the FCC to regulate cable broadcasts.
Because frankly, folks, HBO is on cable. You can buy
HBO and you can get all their R rated movies.
(04:44):
And back in the day, I know it was when
I was in school. This is the way. Back when
HBO first got started, they were showing a soft core
porn and know a lot a lot of people were
buying that to see the soft core porn. I remember that,
so not that I would partag in any of that
but as kid, but I do remember that. And those
are paid services, so you know what you're getting when
(05:06):
you pay for them, and you know what they are
not under any obligation on cable to tailor their broadcast
standards to you, because you knew the job was dangerous
when you took it. Fred, you knew what you were buying,
or you should have known. So now Brendan Carr I'm
going to recuue this so Brendan Carr can actually answer
(05:27):
this and then listen to how perplexed this senator is
over his sighting of the law, something she's completely ignorant of.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
Fine, and one edit, not in the middle of a
presidential campaign.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
It's based on the law. The Fox News interview was
on cable. There's no public interest standard, there's no broadcast
hoax rule, there's no news distortion, there's no role for
the FCC there.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Well, I think there is a rule for fairkness, and
the American public understand what's fair in justin broad.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Fairness rule that we should apply at the SEC.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Chairman car Oh, she's gonna go on to other things
because he just made her look like a dumbass, which
she is. He just made her look silly. Her staff
was completely ignorant of the difference between broadcast and cable,
and thus this senator, who doesn't know her rear end
from a hole in the ground, she was also made
to look dumb. I guarantee you folks, she took their
(06:27):
staff members and rake them over the coals because what
just happened here is Brendan Carr, the f SEC chairman
made this woman look as stupid as she is, and
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Speaker 3 (10:23):
Folks, I want to welcome on to the celsatal Storm
podcast Adam Cohn. He's the higher education reporter for the
Texas Scorecard. Adam, it's great to meet you.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Oh, great to be on with you. Chris.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
You are handling as the title denotes issues that pertain
to higher education, which I think it's a strain to
call what passes for higher education today higher education because
of left wing dominance inside of these inside of these colleges.
What are some of the storys you're working on and
maybe that you've already published you want to let us
know about.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Well, last Friday we published a fairly big investigatorative story
involving Texas A and M University. One of their professors
in the School of Public Health, doctor Dan Marthy, is
unfortunately doing a major research project on the how to
(11:20):
mitigate the pro life Dobbs decision that came out in
twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
And what does the project entail?
Speaker 2 (11:31):
So they he comes at it from a perspective where
he claims that not being able to obtain an abortion
with a with ease creates a negative impact for young women,
(11:53):
and so he claims that he wants to study the
degree to which that happens.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Oh, so that begs all kinds of ethical questions, and
m does get taxpayers money. Texas is not an abortion
friendly state. As everybody knows. Abortion is illegal except in
very rare cases in the state of Texas. So everybody
with the sound of our voices can understand the conflict here.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Oh absolutely, absolutely, Just so we're clear, this research project
that was recently approved earlier this year comes in the
context of the laws that Texas passed in twenty twenty
one primarily. His research refers primarily to the heartbeat bill
(12:41):
that passed that year. But we did pass we did
pass multiple laws, new laws in that legislative session that
leads to abortion, at least, at least on paper, being
illegal in the state of Texas. Obviously, there are enforcement
challenge and you can mail the pills in from out
(13:02):
of state, as we have unfortunately learned. But at least
you know in our laws, in the laws to which
the taxpayers subsidized Texas A and M University is subject,
it's certainly fully illegal.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Yeah, you know, and angela passion, of course, making the
trigger law that had noted if Roe v. Wade was overturned,
that the complete prohibition of abortion would would be triggered
in the state of Texas. The Democrats let that go,
believing that Roe v. Wade would never be overturned. But
guess what President Trump made that happen. So so I
guess the question is out there, what do the alumni
(13:39):
think of A and M when they're confronted with this,
this idea that that you've got a professor arguably left wing,
exploring ways of expansion of abortion when clearly the state's
going a different direction.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I mean, that's a great question. I I am not
an A and M alumni, and I certainly know the
ones that I know who have found out about this
don't like it. But yeah, I would say that alumni
would if you have any direct connection to Texas A
(14:18):
and M University, whether you're an alumni, whether I mean
even just as you know you may not think it's
that big deal, but even just down to the season
ticket older level, you know, let the university know what
you think about this, Let the board of regents know
what you think about it.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
No kidding, folks. We're talking to Adam Khn. He's a
higher education reporter for Texas Scorecard, and what he's discovered
is that at A and M, a taxpayer funded so
called institution of higher learning, they are promoting and basically
an idea, to quote their words, mitigate that the Dobbs decision.
The way that we can serve it as we look
(14:56):
at at it would be like ways to skirt the
Dobbs decision, ways to continue.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
The Yeah, well, well it's not about skirting the Dobbs decision.
It's about trying to create a nair. I'd say, if anything,
the long term plans it's trying to come up with
data to create a narrative to overturn it over time,
or in the failing that, to you know, dramatically expand
(15:22):
social services in schools. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Yeah, and again you know that.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
That's a fairly common argument that the lefties like to make.
They say, well, if you're going to restrict abortion, then
you need to at least, you know, do this massive
expansion of social services. And that's something they've certainly argued
in the past. And that's another aspect that this research
(15:47):
proposal that we got through an open records request wanted
to explore.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
What other issues are you exploring in higher education in Texas.
I know that Michael quinn Sullivan came on the program,
was it a week ago or two weeks ago, talking
about China's infiltration and education written large in Texas and
the proclivity for a lot of these so called not
just in Texas but all over the country, the institutions
(16:13):
for reaching out to foreigners to come to the to
the United States and in some cases take advantage of
our assets, take advantage of money, the research facilities, and
take that knowledge and know how and leave and then
head on back to their country of origin, a hostile
country of origin. With that information, what other issues are
(16:34):
you working on A.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Well, that's certainly always research. Security is certainly always an
ongoing interest of ours. I will say UT sand and
so we just had a story went up today. It's
about UT San Antonio. They had a conference that prior
(16:58):
to kind of the sea chain in public opinion that's
happened in the last few years was it was a
Latino cancer research conference specifically restricted to Latinos, and they're
rebranding it for twenty twenty six to include the phrase
and all populations. But it looks like the content of
(17:21):
the conference is going to be, you know, more of
the same.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Well, that sounds kind of odd. My understanding is that
disease knows no boundaries. Diseases like cancer anyway, knows no
racial boundaries. It seems kind of odd that they would
want to focus in on only the Latin. Being a Latino,
I guess I would be honored in a way, But
knowing that there are blacks and whites and Asians and
anybody and everybody else in between who also suffers from cancer,
(17:49):
it seems a little odd that they would they would
single out one ethnic group.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
I mean, I can't really argue with you there.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely anything else that you've got in the
fire that folks could be looking out for in the
coming days published by you Adam Kahn at Texas Corecard.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Well, well, definitely so obviously, twenty twenty five has been
a year of great tumult in the higher ed sector
when I started, when I started doing this, if I
had had any idea, idea, I would have witnessed half
of what I did this year. I would not have
(18:34):
I would not have expected that. But we will definitely
have some stories wrapping up just the end of the year,
and may have one or two other pieces on some
bad actors around the state, depending on how quickly things
are able to get all tied together.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Understood, understood, you know, I will say. Brian Harrison, who's
been a frequent guest on the Celsaal Storm podcast, on
the radio show, even on the TV show as well.
Brian Harrison has been a one man wrecking crew for diversity, inclusion,
equity that what I call the DIE program, and and
the universities here in Texas just seemed well, actually not
just the universities, all of Texas government seems to have
(19:18):
a really hard problem. The comptroller had to be threatened
with a lawsuit from the Trump administration before he dropped
his diversity inclusion equity criteria for hiring.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
So uh, out of curiosity, when when? When was when
did that happen?
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Brian Harrison? Around Thanksgiving, Brian Harrison said that he had
referred to the Trump the OJ the comptroller Kelly han Hancott,
the acting Comptroller to the Trump the OJ.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Well, the only the reason I bring this up is
because we're talking about Texas A and M and Glenn
Hager became the chancellor of Texas A and M, you know,
a few months ago. With why Hancock is in this position, right, Yeah,
I mean to some degree, I think this stuff has
(20:06):
just sort of been around for a long time and
it kind of has a life of its own and
you just need to sort of identify it. Yeah, and
it's just sort of an ongoing process. But yeah, I
mean it's certainly.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Well and don't misunderstand Adam.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
For me, as a conservativective proactivity from within some of
these institutions is certainly an ongoing feature. Yeah, Okay, especially
Texas A and M.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yeah, yeah, you know what I get what you're saying
there and again, it's not like as a suggestion, it
is the rule of law, and and for me it
wouldn't be an affront at all. I mean, you want
to practice diversity, inclusion, equity and your private business, go ahead,
just don't bring me the taxpayers into that kind of stuff.
And you know what, if you do it in your business,
I have a choice whether or not to go to
your business or not. But when government or publicly funded,
(21:00):
taxpayer funded institutions start partaking in this, that's when that's
when you open the door to people saying, hey, just
crosses a line and they got to comply with with
Texas law. All right, Adam Conn, I.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Agree to be fair to some of those private businesses.
A lot of that is because the government created legal
liabilities for them if they didn't.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
True, Very true, Adam Conn. Everybody, higher education reporter over there,
the Texas Scorecard will be touching base with you over
the weeks and months as you break even bigger stories.
Thank you, man, appreciate the time.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
All right, thank you.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
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Hello, I'm you happy people.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Neil Smith and old Buck Buddy.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Are you hearing Neil?
Speaker 4 (00:08):
Neil?
Speaker 5 (00:09):
I miss you, man, I have a question we respect
for me.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Down breaking a major story. Chris Congratulations four podcast. I'm
(00:43):
sick and tired of the least qualified among us making
decisions for us. I'm tired of having government that checks
every box except for the i'm qualified for my job box.
This is what we get with Democrats and disinterested Republicans.
They hire staff, mostly Democrats, but even some Republicans they
higher staff. I'm sorry. They don't know their rearnts from
a home in the ground kids. And this is happening
(01:06):
all the time, and they're making decisions for us. Let
me give an example. The FCC Chairman, Brandon Carr was
up before a committee in Congress and he was being
grilled for the first time since he went after Jimmy
Kimmel on ABC broadcast. Jimmy Kimmel of course putting out
disinformation about the shooter of Charlie Kirk, the killer, the
(01:30):
assassin of Charlie Kirk, saying that he was maga complete,
provable lie. And there was a discussion by the FCC
chair that something would need to be done about that,
because ABC Broadcast would have to be held accountable for
putting up that kind of inflammatory falsehood on the air.
(01:50):
So a lot of left wingers were catterwauling over we
should be able to lie with impunity, right, that kind
of thing. Well, that's not the law. And here comes
this left wing senator. What is her name? I don't
know her by heart. I think that's Rosen, Senator Rosen,
Jackie Rosen. I believe that if memory serves anyway. So
(02:11):
here's Jackie Rosen in questioning the FCC chair and listen
to this back and forth.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Will you commit to opening an investigation into Fox News
for its deceptive editing of this clip?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Again? Yes?
Speaker 6 (02:23):
Or no?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Please?
Speaker 6 (02:24):
Because I have questions for the other witnesses.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
No, okay, So he says, no, I am not going
to be investigating Fox News, and this senator is indignant
and she's perplexed. Wait a minute, you said you want
to investigate ABC for the Jimmy Kimmel nonsense and their
(02:47):
distortion and lies about the charliekerk assassination, but not Fox News.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
No, So you're an elected bureaucrat.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
You're deciding an elected bureaucrat. That, folks, that's a cut prediction,
is it not. First off, he's appointed, he's not elected.
This woman is is really three burritos short of a
combination play?
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Is she not that some investigation should go on and
others shouldn't. And are you basing this solely on the target?
Or are you basing this what are you basing this on?
Can you answer that question? This was clearly edited. Why
is one edit fine and one edit not in the
middle of a presidential campaign.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
It's based on the law. The Fox News interview was
on cable. There's no public interest standard, there's no broadcast
hoax rule, there's no news distortion, there's no role for
the SEC there.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
So he cites the law that this so called senator
should know sheet Folks, she doesn't know the difference between
broadcast ABC, CBS, NBC, those who use the public air
waves and those who use cable. Cable is a paid
(03:58):
service that people go out of their way to get
over the air. Broadcast is paid for by the federal government. Basically,
you get it for free. They can't monetize it. So
the government says, we license out these frequencies to those
who are broadcasting over the air, and they must meet
certain standards. That's the law. Those standards who do not apply,
(04:22):
even though many of them are notpted voluntarily by the
cable companies, but they do not apply to the rule
of law because there has not been a law that
has been passed that allows the FCC to regulate cable broadcasts.
Because frankly, folks, HBO is on cable. You can buy
HBO and you can get all their R rated movies.
(04:44):
And back in the day, I know it was when
I was in school. This is the way. Back when
HBO first got started, they were showing a soft core
porn and know a lot a lot of people were
buying that to see the soft core porn. I remember that,
so not that I would partag in any of that
but as kid, but I do remember that. And those
are paid services, so you know what you're getting when
(05:06):
you pay for them, and you know what they are
not under any obligation on cable to tailor their broadcast
standards to you, because you knew the job was dangerous
when you took it. Fred, you knew what you were buying,
or you should have known. So now Brendan Carr I'm
going to recuue this so Brendan Carr can actually answer
(05:27):
this and then listen to how perplexed this senator is
over his sighting of the law, something she's completely ignorant of.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
Fine, and one edit, not in the middle of a
presidential campaign.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
It's based on the law. The Fox News interview was
on cable. There's no public interest standard, there's no broadcast
hoax rule, there's no news distortion, there's no role for
the FCC there.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Well, I think there is a rule for fairkness, and
the American public understand what's fair in justin broad.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Fairness rule that we should apply at the SEC.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Chairman car Oh, she's gonna go on to other things
because he just made her look like a dumbass, which
she is. He just made her look silly. Her staff
was completely ignorant of the difference between broadcast and cable,
and thus this senator, who doesn't know her rear end
from a hole in the ground, she was also made
to look dumb. I guarantee you folks, she took their
(06:27):
staff members and rake them over the coals because what
just happened here is Brendan Carr, the f SEC chairman
made this woman look as stupid as she is, and
I cannot stand these people having power over us. I
blame education K through twelve and higher education. Talk more
about that coming up on the Salsado Storm podcast. And
(06:48):
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copays at the doctor and no deductible on all outpatient services.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Including surgeries.
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Speaker 3 (10:23):
Folks, I want to welcome on to the celsatal Storm
podcast Adam Cohn. He's the higher education reporter for the
Texas Scorecard. Adam, it's great to meet you.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Oh, great to be on with you. Chris.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
You are handling as the title denotes issues that pertain
to higher education, which I think it's a strain to
call what passes for higher education today higher education because
of left wing dominance inside of these inside of these colleges.
What are some of the storys you're working on and
maybe that you've already published you want to let us
know about.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Well, last Friday we published a fairly big investigatorative story
involving Texas A and M University. One of their professors
in the School of Public Health, doctor Dan Marthy, is
unfortunately doing a major research project on the how to
(11:20):
mitigate the pro life Dobbs decision that came out in
twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
And what does the project entail?
Speaker 2 (11:31):
So they he comes at it from a perspective where
he claims that not being able to obtain an abortion
with a with ease creates a negative impact for young women,
(11:53):
and so he claims that he wants to study the
degree to which that happens.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Oh, so that begs all kinds of ethical questions, and
m does get taxpayers money. Texas is not an abortion
friendly state. As everybody knows. Abortion is illegal except in
very rare cases in the state of Texas. So everybody
with the sound of our voices can understand the conflict here.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Oh absolutely, absolutely, Just so we're clear, this research project
that was recently approved earlier this year comes in the
context of the laws that Texas passed in twenty twenty
one primarily. His research refers primarily to the heartbeat bill
(12:41):
that passed that year. But we did pass we did
pass multiple laws, new laws in that legislative session that
leads to abortion, at least, at least on paper, being
illegal in the state of Texas. Obviously, there are enforcement
challenge and you can mail the pills in from out
(13:02):
of state, as we have unfortunately learned. But at least
you know in our laws, in the laws to which
the taxpayers subsidized Texas A and M University is subject,
it's certainly fully illegal.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Yeah, you know, and angela passion, of course, making the
trigger law that had noted if Roe v. Wade was overturned,
that the complete prohibition of abortion would would be triggered
in the state of Texas. The Democrats let that go,
believing that Roe v. Wade would never be overturned. But
guess what President Trump made that happen. So so I
guess the question is out there, what do the alumni
(13:39):
think of A and M when they're confronted with this,
this idea that that you've got a professor arguably left wing,
exploring ways of expansion of abortion when clearly the state's
going a different direction.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I mean, that's a great question. I I am not
an A and M alumni, and I certainly know the
ones that I know who have found out about this
don't like it. But yeah, I would say that alumni
would if you have any direct connection to Texas A
(14:18):
and M University, whether you're an alumni, whether I mean
even just as you know you may not think it's
that big deal, but even just down to the season
ticket older level, you know, let the university know what
you think about this, Let the board of regents know
what you think about it.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
No kidding, folks. We're talking to Adam Khn. He's a
higher education reporter for Texas Scorecard, and what he's discovered
is that at A and M, a taxpayer funded so
called institution of higher learning, they are promoting and basically
an idea, to quote their words, mitigate that the Dobbs decision.
The way that we can serve it as we look
(14:56):
at at it would be like ways to skirt the
Dobbs decision, ways to continue.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
The Yeah, well, well it's not about skirting the Dobbs decision.
It's about trying to create a nair. I'd say, if anything,
the long term plans it's trying to come up with
data to create a narrative to overturn it over time,
or in the failing that, to you know, dramatically expand
(15:22):
social services in schools. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Yeah, and again you know that.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
That's a fairly common argument that the lefties like to make.
They say, well, if you're going to restrict abortion, then
you need to at least, you know, do this massive
expansion of social services. And that's something they've certainly argued
in the past. And that's another aspect that this research
(15:47):
proposal that we got through an open records request wanted
to explore.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
What other issues are you exploring in higher education in Texas.
I know that Michael quinn Sullivan came on the program,
was it a week ago or two weeks ago, talking
about China's infiltration and education written large in Texas and
the proclivity for a lot of these so called not
just in Texas but all over the country, the institutions
(16:13):
for reaching out to foreigners to come to the to
the United States and in some cases take advantage of
our assets, take advantage of money, the research facilities, and
take that knowledge and know how and leave and then
head on back to their country of origin, a hostile
country of origin. With that information, what other issues are
(16:34):
you working on A.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Well, that's certainly always research. Security is certainly always an
ongoing interest of ours. I will say UT sand and
so we just had a story went up today. It's
about UT San Antonio. They had a conference that prior
(16:58):
to kind of the sea chain in public opinion that's
happened in the last few years was it was a
Latino cancer research conference specifically restricted to Latinos, and they're
rebranding it for twenty twenty six to include the phrase
and all populations. But it looks like the content of
(17:21):
the conference is going to be, you know, more of
the same.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Well, that sounds kind of odd. My understanding is that
disease knows no boundaries. Diseases like cancer anyway, knows no
racial boundaries. It seems kind of odd that they would
want to focus in on only the Latin. Being a Latino,
I guess I would be honored in a way, But
knowing that there are blacks and whites and Asians and
anybody and everybody else in between who also suffers from cancer,
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it seems a little odd that they would they would
single out one ethnic group.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
I mean, I can't really argue with you there.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely anything else that you've got in the
fire that folks could be looking out for in the
coming days published by you Adam Kahn at Texas Corecard.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Well, well, definitely so obviously, twenty twenty five has been
a year of great tumult in the higher ed sector
when I started, when I started doing this, if I
had had any idea, idea, I would have witnessed half
of what I did this year. I would not have
(18:34):
I would not have expected that. But we will definitely
have some stories wrapping up just the end of the year,
and may have one or two other pieces on some
bad actors around the state, depending on how quickly things
are able to get all tied together.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Understood, understood, you know, I will say. Brian Harrison, who's
been a frequent guest on the Celsaal Storm podcast, on
the radio show, even on the TV show as well.
Brian Harrison has been a one man wrecking crew for diversity, inclusion,
equity that what I call the DIE program, and and
the universities here in Texas just seemed well, actually not
just the universities, all of Texas government seems to have
(19:18):
a really hard problem. The comptroller had to be threatened
with a lawsuit from the Trump administration before he dropped
his diversity inclusion equity criteria for hiring.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
So uh, out of curiosity, when when? When was when
did that happen?
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Brian Harrison? Around Thanksgiving, Brian Harrison said that he had
referred to the Trump the OJ the comptroller Kelly han Hancott,
the acting Comptroller to the Trump the OJ.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Well, the only the reason I bring this up is
because we're talking about Texas A and M and Glenn
Hager became the chancellor of Texas A and M, you know,
a few months ago. With why Hancock is in this position, right, Yeah,
I mean to some degree, I think this stuff has
(20:06):
just sort of been around for a long time and
it kind of has a life of its own and
you just need to sort of identify it. Yeah, and
it's just sort of an ongoing process. But yeah, I
mean it's certainly.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Well and don't misunderstand Adam.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
For me, as a conservativective proactivity from within some of
these institutions is certainly an ongoing feature. Yeah, Okay, especially
Texas A and M.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yeah, yeah, you know what I get what you're saying
there and again, it's not like as a suggestion, it
is the rule of law, and and for me it
wouldn't be an affront at all. I mean, you want
to practice diversity, inclusion, equity and your private business, go ahead,
just don't bring me the taxpayers into that kind of stuff.
And you know what, if you do it in your business,
I have a choice whether or not to go to
your business or not. But when government or publicly funded,
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taxpayer funded institutions start partaking in this, that's when that's
when you open the door to people saying, hey, just
crosses a line and they got to comply with with
Texas law. All right, Adam Conn, I.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Agree to be fair to some of those private businesses.
A lot of that is because the government created legal
liabilities for them if they didn't.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
True, Very true, Adam Conn. Everybody, higher education reporter over there,
the Texas Scorecard will be touching base with you over
the weeks and months as you break even bigger stories.
Thank you, man, appreciate the time.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
All right, thank you.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
That's going to put a wrap on this Alsato Storm podcast.
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until we visit again, my friends, a society's worth isn't
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worth is measured by a much power is reserved for
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