S14, Ep. 32: The Show Behind The Show, TORCH Radio Edition

On this Salcedo Storm Podcast:

Chris & Sean talk about their new radio venture on Torch Radio, the balance between politicis, pop-culure, and government, plus gas prices falling in certain areas.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
And eighty four percent of Americans want the same America.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
But anybody who follows this process closely knows that we
don't have the votes.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
He tried your best, and you failed miserably. The legend
is never tried.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
The proof that you mailed your ballot on or just
before election day.

Speaker 4 (00:26):
It's not just the postmark.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
You can handwrite the date, wow, and that count.

Speaker 5 (00:31):
This is this horrible thing to say that they will
remove twenty five million people off the.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Roll shall signal storm podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
You know, I've been getting a lot of feedback on
my interview with the Speaker of the Texas House, Dustin Burroughs.
The Speaker knows about how I have been one of
his harshest critics, and by virtue of the fact of
how he got made speaker was one of my main
bits of consternation. Plus there were some conservative priorities that

(01:33):
didn't get addressed in the last legislative session. I think
that looking back on it, it was probably my objections
were magnified because because the Speaker was elected with the
majority Democrat votes, it clouded everything else I saw. And

(01:53):
maybe some of it was justified, some of it wasn't.
I don't know. But I saw nefarious motivations behind and
every bit of conservatism that didn't get past conservatism that
was voted into the majority, into the Texas House. So
there are a lot of people that heard the interview
with Dustin Burroughs. Some were like, hmm, wow, that's odd.

(02:17):
A Republican showing leadership qualities. That's odd. I know that
the President Trump is considered Republican folks, but I he
is the founder of the America First movement, and that's
what I look at President Trump as the leader of
the leader of the America First Coalition, a bunch of
Republicans and Democrats and Conservatives and independents who still believe

(02:43):
in this last best hope of mankind on planet Earth,
the United States of America. But I think it's fair
to say if you look at policy, if you look
at government and how it's a raid, if you look
at massive overspending, if you look at what government has
been allowed to get away with in trampling and usurping

(03:04):
our constitutional rights, you will definitely note that there has
been a great deal of advancement of left wing thought,
socialist thought, communist thought, and policy into the American system,
and there has been very little, if any, substantial pushback

(03:26):
from the alleged conservative party the Republicans. Put another way,
I've made this example before, but I'll say it again. Obamacare.
No majority wanted Obamacare, yet Democrats crammed it down our throats.
Right now, the vast majority of Americans want to save

(03:47):
America Act, and the Republicans say, yeah, we're not going
to give it to you. So that's the difference between
the parties. But that difference means left wing wins. Conservative
constitutional conservatism loses always. So that means when I say
the uniparty, that's what I'm talking about, left wing extremism, totalitarianism,

(04:10):
government control wins, and freedom and liberty of the individual.
The emphasis on freedom and liberty for the individual loses.
Put another way, the Democrat Party in its modern incarnation
is committed to socialism and communism and totalitarianism, complete government

(04:31):
control over your life. It is dedicated to that prospect.
It's voters say, I'm electing you to run my life.
I'm electing you so you can steal money from other
people and give it to me, you know, take care
of me, cradle to grave. That's what the Democrat voter supports.

(04:51):
No innovation, no free enterprise, no freedom, no liberty, totalitarian
government rule. They vote for it, they believe it. It's
foundational to the Democrats, Socialist Party, It's what it's devolved
into the Republicans. The Republicans are dedicated to finding the

(05:11):
nearest Democrat butt cheek on which to firmly plant their lips.
That is the call of the day for Mitch McConnell,
for John Cornyn, for Tom Cotton, for John Barrasso, for
John Thune. These individuals look at the Democrats as their
main priority, pleasing Democrats and socialists and Marxists, and they

(05:34):
look at the American people who are conservative as the
enemy that we constitutional conservatives are the ones who need
to be targeted and defeated. That's the current state of
our politics today. And what is it all equal? What
does it all mean? It all means what I've been
telling you the uniparty, whether it's a failure to rise

(05:57):
to meet the Red Green Alliance, a failure to stop
left wing extremism and socialism. That seems to be where
our government is a raid and the only thing that
will save us is a recognition that we the people
outnumber them. When we start voting and recognizing our power,
power that was given to us by our constitution, power

(06:19):
that was that was carved out for us by the
founding fathers. If we don't utilize that power now, folks,
we're going to lose it. We're going to lose this
way of freedom of ours that Reagan talked about. The
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Scorecard dot com. Today tive of the show Behind the Show,
Sean Schastain is back and you know what, dude, I
guess we should start talking about our new venture. You
have been able to and I said goodbye to the
Vote the Voice of Texas on Friday after fourteen years.

(10:25):
It was pretty as you can imagine, it was pretty emotional.
And so now we're moving on to something called Torch
Radio and it is going to be still separate, like
the radio show is separate from the Salsado Storm podcast folks.
But you know, it is something that Sean and I
are going to be It's the first time you and
I have worked together outside of the Salsado Storm podcast

(10:49):
since you know the radio station that shall not be named.
So tell me, tell me about what the technology is like,
tell me about your training, how it's going over there.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
It was funny because I walk in the door. First
of all, you've been to that facility right.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Up in Las Colinas.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
Uh huh, yeah, I have.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Oh my god, I know, it's crazy, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
That's like the freaking space shuttle in in Glenn Beck's studio.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
But then the whole complex, I guess they have movie
movie uh lots there and TV studios and I don't
know what's on in that lot, but that is one
impressive facility. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
Remember I told to get you a job back when
I was doing Blaze Radio. I tried to get you.

Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yeah, I just couldn't get it worked out because I
was working full time.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
At the station, the show at the station.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
Yeah, so, and I just couldn't do anything because of that.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
Not anymore though, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
So, yeah, that was that was impressive. And then coming
to the door is a guy I actually trained at.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
B A p Are you serious?

Speaker 3 (12:05):
Yeah, Pj's his name and good kid and uh and
he's I didn't know that. Yeah, And so he's training
training me. Now he's full time over there. And he
he got booted from the radio station because he didn't
get the jab damn. And so they said no. And

(12:29):
then then they have the gall to try to bring
him back. Wow, he was telling me about it. He goes, yeah,
you know, I'm not a fan of that company. Well
he said, yeah, then they have the goal to call
him when you know, they need people to say, hey,

(12:50):
you know, how about you? How much you come back
where we we forgot all about that whole dont get
the shot and you get fired thing.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah, and I didn't forget. But you know, you know
there's I guess wish this isn't something that's that's quote
unquote disparaging because it just happens to be a financial fact.
I'm hearing that that that that company is in dire
straits again, the.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
The the bankruptcy again. Again. Yes, not no, it's not
asparaging because it's all over the financial times.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
Yeah, exactly, And you know what, and and one has
to wonder I'll never forget. Do you know what a
pirate is, uh? An industry pirate. They they they come in.
Their job is to come in and and resurrect failing
companies and save failing companies the first order of business.

(13:45):
When when I'll never forget this, the guy comes in
and he fires all the management and and he was asked,
you know, you're getting rid of the entire company infrastructure.
He goes, Why would you do that? He goes, because
if they were doing their job right, I wouldn't be necessary.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
Makes sense to me. Man, So that this is the
second time I know, gone into bankruptcy.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
I know so, But that that stuff.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
Sounds like they need a pirate pretty bad.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Well, I don't know. And that that would take, that
would take wisdom, that would take a dedication to preserving
what this radio company was or could be. You know,
a First Amendment outlet. It's not it's not been in
a while. So uh again, I have I have just
given up on sanity taking over there. But when when

(14:34):
I see these situations, and whether it's you know, a
company I used to work for, or it's just a
company out there like Walke Disney for example, you losing
billions and billions and billions of dollars, you know, and
that they fire uh what was her name? Kennedy was
her name, because you know, she's putting out woke crap
that nobody wants to watch instead of telling good stories.

(14:56):
So it's like, yeah, every single time I see, you know,
a storied company that had so much potential for success,
I always think about that that pirate story about this
guy saying, yeah, my job is to come in and
save failing companies, and the first thing I'd do is
is fire all the managers. And then he starts looking

(15:16):
at the at the talent or the people that are
the salaried employees or the hourly employees. But the first
order of business is to get rid of the poorly
managed company infrastructure and restructure it.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
In that situation, it's amazing to me that because I
come from I was born in nineteen sixty five, so
I started working when I was well I health, started
mowing lawns, you know, when I was eight around the
neighborhood for five bucks. Yeah, but started working working when
I was fourteen or fifteen at the local garage and

(15:59):
was complete letely have been completely loyal to every employer
I've ever had, me too, And and you know, obviously
one of those was that radio station where I was
completely loyal for thirty years, right, and that means nothing anymore.
The loyalty means nothing. And that's I think a real

(16:20):
shame for companies just to ignore that. You know, when
you have good people who know what's going on, and
if those people get lazy, if those people get sloppy,
if they get weird, you know whatever, then yeah, you
don't have any obligation to keep them, but to cut
them for financial reasons, it just it seems just silly

(16:45):
because then you got, you know, two twenty year olds
coming in to take the place of the one old guy.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
Right, But what is thirty years of training, thirty years
of experience? I mean there is a money value in that?

Speaker 3 (16:59):
And oh yeah, of course there is.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
And I think that there is a either a short
sightedness or an unwillingness for companies to acknowledge. Wait a minute,
we spent thirty years training and investing in this guy,
and we're just gonna let him walk out the door
so we can quote save money.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
Did you yeah?

Speaker 2 (17:20):
Did you really?

Speaker 3 (17:21):
I know? Yeah, that's that's my question.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
And you know, and the things that they're choosing to cut.
You know, the executives aren't getting cuts, you know, it's
it's the product itself that is being And this is
not just to the company that we used to work for.
This is a mindset across the board that you sacrifice

(17:43):
your product and you maintain salary levels and money levels
to stuff that isn't essential to the product itself and
the saleability of the product. So you're cutting, You're cutting
your nose despite your face that that that's the problem
I see. And there are so few executives who have

(18:07):
the mindset to say, you know what, if the company's
going to take a haircut, I'm taking a haircut too,
because you know, if it's if it's all a quote
team effort, but that you you rarely see that. And
you know, there's a political aspect of the companies that
the companies that believe like this, I believe, uh it

(18:28):
is a mindset born of the Baby boom generation, not
of the greatest generation. And you and I are kind
of workman workman class mentality. You work hard, you pay
your dues, and you're supposed to be rewarded at the end,
right it's not the case anymore. And it's taking me
this long in life to figure out. You know, you

(18:49):
got to start working smarter rather than harder, you know
what I mean?

Speaker 3 (18:54):
Yeah, Oh, I wish I had to figure that out
a long time ago. Me too, Me because I spent
forty years in an industry and I don't have what
I feel like I should have or some of the
people that I spent that time with have, you know exactly,
And and I mean that's on me. I could have

(19:16):
been a whole lot more aggressive with my career and
not stayed there for thirty years, had my own show
somewhere else for thirty years, right, But I didn't because
I loved what I did, and I always, you know,
told myself I was doing it for the art and

(19:36):
the money will take care of itself. But right, and
it did, you know. I mean, I've survived, but now
I'm having to work two jobs to pay my mortgage.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
So did you read the article I put out about
the torch? No, I guess I might as well. We
might as well make it official here. I did it
on the radio show. But folks, this is this is
what I road. It's short, so I don't mind end
Sean will appreciate because of a radio station I'm speaking
of in this the Chris Salsado Show has a new

(20:08):
radio home. After fourteen years at AM seven hundred KSV,
the Voice of Texas Chris Salsato Show is moving to
a network that might be considered new, but the inner
workings of Torch Radio are experienced, principled, and determined to win.
KSV is a rarity and an anomaly. Station has survived
so many ups and downs that they are too numerous
to list here, but suffice it to say the little

(20:30):
station that Could has weathered the ever changing media landscape
and AM radio band struggling to find its identity without
the great rush, limb baw and a pandemic, and is
still plugging away. Out of the fourteen years I've been
on the station, I've never been told what to say,
what subjects to cover, or more importantly, what subjects were verboten.

(20:53):
I can't say that about all the places I have
worked in my nearly thirty five years in media and news.
The voice of TIXIS is unique, from the staff, to
the ownership, to the audience. At this stage in my
career and considering the condition of the nation and our government.
It was unfathomable that I could work for a company
that wasn't fully committed to being a true reflection of
the American public square, a true devotee of the American

(21:16):
principles of debate and dissent, and committed to discussion of
the issues confronting our people. I found that company in
Torch Radio, behind the one of the staunchest conservatives and
critical thinkers in the constitutional conservative movement, Glenn Beck. Torch
Radio will be blessed with a technical and management team
that not only knows and loves radio, but is committed
to excellence in the medium that, in my opinion, is

(21:39):
the closest reflection to our nation's founding principles that exists
in media, with perhaps the exception of what Elon Musk
is doing at x So, not only will Tortu Radio
go there exploring areas where angels fear to tread, but
we'll also do so some of the best talent with
with some of the best talent in the industry, with
a mind toward discussing issues that to our people, the

(22:01):
American people. So what to look for and then I
detail go to Glennbeck dot com folks in the coming
weeks and you will see how to follow Torch Radio
from a new app that will be coming out. And
you probably caught window this shown in your training. The
distribution network for Torch radio is going to be quite impressive,

(22:23):
including with some of the iHeart infrastructure that is going to.

Speaker 3 (22:27):
Be available, and you'll be able to to yell at
your smart speaker to play it well. And now it
should be easy.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
And I was talking with the head Hans show, one
of the head hon shows over there about where we
were when the Chris Salsado show. Many people don't even
know it was born on Blaze Radio. That was the
first My first show and opinion was Blaze Radio. Did
you know that? No?

Speaker 3 (22:52):
Huh so?

Speaker 2 (22:53):
Yeah, it was so back then though, Blaze Radio. When
was this about twenty thirteen ish, We were having to
tell everybody what a smartphone is, had to tell everybody
how to interface it with your car radio. There was
no such thing as car play back then. So now

(23:16):
with the exception of you, Sean, because you like driving,
you know, older model vehicles, but now you jump into
your car, everything syncs up. You've got an app on
your phone. Everybody knows what an app is. Everybody knows
how to interface your smartphone with your car. So I
mean I remember having to cut videos and explainers and

(23:40):
audio explainers and this is how you're doing this, and
that stuff's gone. I mean, we're now what is it?
I guess thirteen fourteen years in the future and digital
base entertainment information is the norm now.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
And listen to the radio radio. Uh, there's a there's
a local station that I listen to on my way
to work for fifteen minutes, you know, because they play
some pretty decent music. But the rest of the time,
like if I'm driving to Omaha, you know, to go
see the grand babies. Uh, it's all apps of the

(24:20):
shows that I like around here that are on terrestrial radio.
You know that I would normally listen to on the radio,
but I can listen to it all the way up there,
and it's just like having it's just like on my radio, you.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
Know, uninterrupted programming. And you know what, the torch is
gonna be the same way all of that.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
I mean, yeah, it's gonna be where where you used
to listen to it on the radio until it faded
out because you got too far away, right, And now
it's everybody's familiar with streaming. Everybody's familiar with, you know,
all these music services and stuff like that. Well, just
think of radio is as your music service, except it's

(25:03):
some great talk radio service.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
So there you go, and you know it's it's going
to be available on some of those music platforms, so
you can listen to, you know, if you want to
switch over conservative conservative slash American style talk about issues
that matter h and then listen to the music same app.

Speaker 3 (25:23):
That's the that's the unique part of this, I think,
is because the thing that radio has offered up until
now is the interaction. Podcasts are great, but you can't
really take calls during broadcasts, you know, true, And and
since every swinging dick on the planet has a podcast,

(25:44):
it seems that you know, you missed that interaction. And
that's why I still listen to terrestrial talk radio even
though it's on an app.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
Well that's why I said in that and.

Speaker 3 (25:55):
So yeah, so this is going to be really unique
that that it just be like any other talk show
that you hear on any other radio station, where if
you've got an opinion, you can call in and and interact.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
And that's what you know, I'm a big believer in
conservative talk radio because of that aspect. I mean, Rogan's great.
I mean, seriously, the Joe Rogan experience, it has its place,
and the guy's very successful. I'm not going to poo
poo anything he does. It's just it's minus we the people.
And I'm and I'm not saying this is Rogan. I
have a sensitivity to that because that's how our government is, right,

(26:30):
you know, it's it's like f the people. You know,
we don't care about you, people save America. You know,
screw you. We're not going to give you what you want.
I'm sick and tired of a mindset and I'm not again,
i want to be very very clear, and i want
this to come bite me in the ass. I'm not
saying that's what Rogan does. He didn't set it out
to exclude people. It's just the format he chose. Government

(26:51):
is doing that, okay, And so I am sensitive to
any medium that takes out the people, we the people
out of the discussion. And that's why I think Torch
Radio is going to be is going to be fantastic.
And again, what you folks are hearing out there from
these major media companies with stations owned by these major

(27:15):
media companies. You're not getting conservative talk radio. You're getting
and this is by design, You're getting problem. You're getting
a bunch of bullshit that doesn't matter. And by design,
because they're being told them, These programmers are being told
by their gms and by their boards of directors that,

(27:35):
you know what, the American people they just want to
you know, get fat, lazy, and die. They just want
to be entertained, applied with alcohol and good times. Nobody
wants to be bothered with being what it takes to
be an American self government. Nobody wants to know what
government is doing. Everybody wants to tune out and just
figure out what the sports scores are. Folks, you think

(27:56):
I'm exaggerating. This is what some of these gms and
some of these managers of these major media companies are
telling their program directors are telling their talent the American
people are stupid and you don't need to be talked
to as if you're intelligent. All you need to be
you know, you talk about UFOs or the Barbie movie
or something. It's going to do. Radio is going to

(28:16):
be a diversion for reality and that's and you Sean,
you know me, I've never been that. But that being said,
that's why I think it's advantageous on the news show
that you and I are going to be together again,
because first off, you're gonna be in charge of monitoring
my heart rate and but also you know this may

(28:41):
come as a shock to many of you, but sometimes
I can get a little wonky. I know, I know,
and then it's gonna be up to Shan Chastain to say,
what the f are you talking about? Can you please
bring this down to planet Earth for those of us
out here who who have to deal with what you're
talking about? And that's that's what you and I have
always done back at when we were working together before

(29:05):
and here on the show Behind the Show and I
by the way, if you look at the Salcedo Storm
podcast and you look at the the most tuned in podcast,
it is always the Monday Show Behind the Show with
you and me. That's weird, man, Well, it's because that
that's the.

Speaker 3 (29:25):
Way you do get wonky. That's your one trick, Pony.
I mean, that's been my criticism of you the whole
time I've known you, is that yes, people do care
about what's going on in America. People do want to
know what's going on with their government, but people do
also want to know about the Barbie movie. People also
want to know about Sophie Cunningham, what she's you know,

(29:45):
you know, why is she in the news. People also
want to know about just local, everyday goofy stuff.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
And it's all tied in, you know, everything and you.

Speaker 3 (29:56):
And that's just not you. You don't like that, and
which is fine, but you've got to And we've talked
about this many times, especially since I've I've left the
business until now I don't have time for news anymore.
I you know, I kind of keep up, but I'm

(30:18):
not like you where I'm looking at a thousand sorts
of a day to try to find news stories, you know,
to talk about it.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
But if you think about it, Sean, everything that you
do is in your orbit and everything that is in mind,
they're tied that they are tied together, and it's just
h And it's not.

Speaker 3 (30:37):
That I don't you go straight to the politics page. Well,
we're all stop at the sports and the entertainment page.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
Well right, but see, and that's I think it's because
of your influence and some others in my life that
I've started to look And it's not that I don't
like the pop culture references. For a long time, and
this is where you're right about me. For the longest time,
I thought the pop culture stuff was frivolous. I'm like,
I go, you want to talk about this while the
country's burning down seriously, And to a degree, I'm correct

(31:08):
in that. But what I didn't realize is that is
that the culture informs our politics. So if you don't
engage in the cultural level, you don't engage in the
pop culture, you don't engage on the trends you know
that the kids are partaking in that it directly impacts
everything I'm bitching about or praising in government and in policy,

(31:34):
and in how in man's relationship to our elected officials
in the country we live in. So it's all tied.
And that was something for the long It took me
a long time, and probably because of a lot of
your prompting to realize and to make those connections. And
I'll give you an example. The Attorney General of the
Great State of Texas, Senate candidate Ken Paxton shows up

(31:55):
to a w NBA game. Did you see the pictures
from us. Now, what I didn't know is that that
Ken Paxton's daughter, who he was at the game with,
was also an athlete, a female athlete when she was
when she was in sports. I think she's got a
family now, she got kids and all that. But and
she's been campaigning with her dad. But they they show

(32:18):
up sporting the x x X Y merchandise. I think
it was Oh gosh, I'm looking right at her, the
real hot swimmer. Oh my gosh, I can't believe I
just lost her name. You remember Riley Gaines. Riley Gaines,
she has been the poster child. I think that she,
along with some other people, started this brand. Anyway, So

(32:41):
Paxton shows up because he wants to support Sophie Cunningham
and what's her name, Caitlin Clark. Yeah, Kaitlyn Clark. I
don't watch the n w n B. A hell, nobody
watches the w NBA. That's a that's not a political thing, folks,
they don't.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
Know, Well they watch it. When those two were on
the court, Yeah, they'll sell out. I think they were
just here the other day. Yeah, they were at the
Wings game. Yeah, look at that crowd. There's twenty thousand
people there.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
Right, and the Attorney General and the Lieutenant governor were
there to show.

Speaker 3 (33:12):
Their sy The Wings play in a very small arena.
There's like twenty five hundred people or something like that.
I don't know. I don't keep up with the WNBA
at all. I don't give up with any basketball because
I just don't get it.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
Yeah, communist, but the Communist League, well you know Wnbaay.

Speaker 3 (33:30):
That's your problem right there?

Speaker 2 (33:31):
No, they are, dude, they are okay, okay, okay, did
you know? Okay? Do you know why I say that
is because it's because of Lebron James and those people.
They go where do they go when they go internationally?
They go over to communist China and they've curtailed all
of their criticism of China because they make money over there. Right.
So yeah, so we're gonna we're gonna give up any

(33:53):
any standard of being an American because we're making coin
off it. I find that offensive. I just do, okay,
But anyway, so you're right, I don't follow the NBA.
The WNBA wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the NBA
because it's the NBA that finances it. And these cats
they and we've played it last week. I think you know,

(34:14):
or men have a penis, women have a vagina. I
remember that from kindergarten cop. The Women's National Basketball Association
doesn't know what a woman is. And it's laughable. It
is laughable. And I have not talked this much about
the WNBA in its entire my entire life that I
have in the last month, month and a half. But again,
this is where the pop culture and politics and government

(34:37):
and policy come together. And so you've got the top
of the ticket in Texas attending a w NBA game
and wearing this merchandise and totally pissing off you know,
left wingers who are we've got to deny science. Of course,
a man can be a woman, a woman can be
a man, which is bullshit, and everybody knows it's bullshit.

(35:00):
And and this is this is pretty amazing to me,
the confluence of what you wouldn't what you would know,
and I what I would know, and where they meet.

Speaker 3 (35:08):
You know what I'm saying, Yeah, here's here's a clue
for you. You mentioned that, you know, you want to
talk about this kind of crap when the world's melting down, right, Well,
the world is always melting down, so I wouldn't. Uh,
you know, it's a nice respite to talk about. Uh,

(35:29):
the the America two fifty that's running around DC today.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
The yeah, that's the same thing that hit us here
in North Texas, right the race around at and T
Stadium in Orleans. And yeah, okay, yeah. As a matter
of fact, I was who was I talking to with
it about that? Somebody said I had no interest in it.
But it's cool, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (35:52):
It's cool. Yeah, yeah, it's not. It's it's for for
those of us who aren't involved in politics as much
as you are. It's nice to know, Uh, it's nice
to be able to talk about a TV show that's
inspiring to you, or it's nice to talk about a
movie that was just really well done. You know. And yes,

(36:14):
the world's melting down, but the world's always melting down,
so you can take a little bit of a break
from it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
Well, and that's and that's why Sean is going to
be the good Yang to the Yang on the on
the New on the New Torch Show, folks, because it's
it's going to be you know, when I get on
one of my and you guys have heard me on
the podcast. You guys have heard me on radio. I
I and again I think that I'm making good points
or else I wouldn't make it. But there's there's gonna

(36:43):
there's gonna be Sean there saying so, so you told
us about so what do you know? What do we do?
What does it mean? That kind of thing. And that's
sometimes where you know, I just I say, well, I
tell you folks about a problem, and that's what I say.
And it's like, well, okay, but where were you going

(37:05):
with that? And I think that's what the valuable asset,
not ass but the asset that Sean is going to be.
Uh for the torch show, the Chris Alcedo showing the torch.
Did you see what transpired this last week in the
Carmelo Anthony case.

Speaker 4 (37:22):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (37:22):
You didn't look good for either one of them, obviously.
Carmelo Anthony is a very bad person. He's the kid
who stabbed the other kid at the track meet.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
Austin Metcalf. Austin Metcalf is his.

Speaker 3 (37:34):
Name, Yeah, and so yeah, that's Uh. He had some
tweets and some posts and stuff like that that were
hidden during the trial. The initial trial, which makes.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
Me, yeah, I raises some pretty serious questions, is it not.

Speaker 3 (37:56):
I mean, I don't know. I've never been really involved
in the legal system thing God from that side of things,
so I don't know. They talked about on the news
that they there was a gentleman's agreement between defense and
prosecution to not bring this stuff up because there was
some stuff about Austin Metcalf too that they didn't want

(38:21):
coming out well, and so they had the gentleman's agreement
just we won't go there.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
Well, here's the thing. Carmelo Anthony's family was asking for
a new trial. Yeah, and the prosecution goes, wait a minute.
You know he got thirty five years, right, I think
he's eligible for parole in like half of that. I guess,
probably because he was seventeen when he committed the murder.

(38:49):
So my understanding is that maybe that gentleman's agreement you
were making reference to was kind of broken by the
other side. So what leaked out was Carmelo Anthony fantasized
about committing a murder, but an hour before he did so,
and fantasized about licking the blood off of the blade

(39:12):
he would use. And I'm figuring to myself, holy crap,
this doesn't come out during the trial. So, by the way,
the judge folks said, no new trial, You're going to
be put away for at least seventeen years. But if
there was a new trial, that little bit of information
might have led to a life sentence, right, which you know,

(39:38):
I'm like, Bring, I was actually hoping he'd get a
new trial because that evidence would come out.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
Yeah, I mean, that would not have gone well for
him had gotten a new trial. No.

Speaker 2 (39:46):
Well, and this is where this crime blodder. And you
know how I feel about crime blodder hosts. I'm not
a big oh you know, stabbing here, stabbing there. You know, crime, crime, crime,
that's not what the show ever been about. But when
it goes into the pop culture slash the political realm,

(40:07):
that's because I mean, you've got people out there who
are on the Democrat side who were saying, this kid
got a raw deal, the Carmelo Anthony got a raw
deal because you know, it should be open season on
white guys because of the past. I don't know, it's
they're politics, right, that they hate white people whatever for
whatever reason, you know, they believe that to be the

(40:28):
genesis of freedom. I have no idea what their hang
up is, but these people are actually racists against whites, right,
and one of them happens to be the guy running
against running against Ken Paxton, James Tallerico. This is what
he was saying about. And this is it makes you wonder.
Doesn't make you wonder, It makes you just really despise

(40:50):
the left wing press because had this been a Republican,
it would have been everywhere. Right that if the cat
that was fantasizing licking his victim's blood off of a
knife was being supported by a Republican, it would be everywhere.
But because it's a Democrat, it's it's nowhere. Here's what
tell Erico said, listen to this from Texas.

Speaker 5 (41:12):
We see what happened, Melo Anthony, And you said it
was a tragedy.

Speaker 3 (41:15):
Yeah, what did you mean by that?

Speaker 5 (41:16):
Well, I've done a lot of work in the state
House on justice reform, and right now we've got a
system that doesn't serve all Americans equally, and and we
know that black Texans have been have not gotten the
justice they deserve in many cases. And you know, I'm
not an expert on this particular case, but I know
that there were no black members of the jury. And

(41:38):
to me, that's that's the only evidence you need to
to to really prove that this system is not working
or black Texans.

Speaker 2 (41:46):
Oh my gosh, are you kidding me right now? So,
so what's the implant? I mean, what you tell me?
Where your takeaway is on that?

Speaker 3 (41:56):
What on the no no black jury memories?

Speaker 2 (41:59):
Yeah, I mean that's I mean, I can't this this cat,
I can't. I mean, granted he said this before he
was running for United States Senate, but seriously, dude, I mean, well.

Speaker 3 (42:10):
I mean he's right, there weren't any black jurors. But
I mean, what is it called vardor the you know,
I'm going back to my watching cousin Vinny. When they
get to choose the when they get to choose the
juror the jurors, you know, they have a certain number
of yes, we'll take him, or no, we don't want him,

(42:33):
you know, dismissals for whatever reason they want. So and
I'm sure there were black people there that showed up
in the jury pool, but they just didn't make the
cut for some reason.

Speaker 2 (42:45):
Right and again the reason and it saddens me to
know that there are people that have been conditioned. Again,
I would rationalize by white leftists, white liberals to say,
you know what, when when a black commits a cron
it's justified because of the the sins of white people
from two hundred, three hundred years ago. It's like that,

(43:08):
I just don't get that, and the majority of black
people don't think that way, but there's a significant number
who do well.

Speaker 3 (43:16):
And then how racist is it that, Okay, say there
were a black jury member, he's implicating that they automatically
will go with.

Speaker 2 (43:29):
Carmelo Antony, right because they're yeah, because you're because you're black.
And again that's that's the assumption in and of itself.
I'm glad you said it is racist that, hey, if
there was a black jur on the on the panel,
then uh we you know, he would have been wound
up in a hung jury because no black will ever
convict another black, even if they're guilty. It's like, seriously,

(43:51):
that's what you think about black people. It's just this
is why Jasmine Crockett says that there's no enthusiasm from
James Tallery in the black community. She's right, there there
is none.

Speaker 3 (44:04):
Yeah, he is, you know, really working hard, there being
on the Breakfast Club to regain the regain some popularity
among the black community.

Speaker 2 (44:17):
I don't know Charlemagne, the god as he calls himself,
by the way, speaking of this race, I don't know.
Poly Market, which is a betting which is a betting market.
Had tell a freak show up fifty two to forty
eight in the betting odds, which is And you know
our buddy Mark Davis who is in North Texas radio.

(44:40):
I mean he has been a warrior. And I'll give
you the quote. Do I have to do this every day?
Many many actual polls are flawed, but poly Market is
a completely meaningless reflection of what a bunch of randos
think will happen. And they have a snoop full of
the recent ridiculous polls. And I'll give you a example

(45:00):
of this. That chick that just won this communist just
one in Florida, right, Alexander Vinman, remember Rush? Oh say?

Speaker 3 (45:11):
Can you see?

Speaker 2 (45:13):
He had millions and millions of dollars at his disposal.
The Democrats were full throated behind Alexander Vinman, a colonel
and a disgraced colonel as well. He had every advantage.
The polls had him no way he could lose. I
think it was ten to fifteen points. The polls had

(45:34):
him up. He loses to somebody that he outspent ten fifteen,
twenty times. Crazy, and so the socialist wins, right, But
that shows you the status of American polling. It's in
the shitter, it really is. This is meaningless stuff. And
if and I just know Texas and the idea that

(45:58):
James Talerico appeals to any majority in Texas, especially with
what he says about Christianity and what he says about
Christians writ large, it just doesn't pass the smell test.
But it's again back to Limbaugh who said these polls
come out to shape public opinion, not reflect them, you know,

(46:19):
And that's kind of what I'm feeling.

Speaker 3 (46:23):
Yeah, I can't believe this guy's even sniffing the advantage here.
But like I said last week, man, all I see
are Tallarico ads, and some of them are pretty good.
So Paxton better get on it. Yeah, No, he doesn't
have the money to spend right now, but he better

(46:44):
find a way because he's got to start counterpunching here
because I haven't seen a single packs and ad I
haven't heard a single packst in ad on the radio.
I haven't done any of that. I don't even know
the guy is running, except I know he's running, so
he better jump on it. And I'm not the only one.

(47:04):
I was listening to Mark this weekend this week as
a matter of fact, and I'm not the only one
thinking that. There were several callers saying, hey, uh, why
am I not seeing any Packston ads right?

Speaker 2 (47:19):
And I can. I can tell you, folks, the reason
why you're not it speak And I've been trying to
get an answer to this question. The Republican Party was
willing to spend one hundred million dollars to defeat Ken
Paxton in the primary. How much are they willing to
spend to defeat an actual socialist and Marxist. I'm asking
Nobody will give me the answer, And I what You've

(47:42):
got to know, man, it's this is kind of the
inside baseball stuff. But I think people ought to know
because they don't like they don't like people knowing there's
a there's one of these firms called f P one Strategies,
and these are the guys, These are the guys that
make millions and millions of dollars by getting people elected right.
And one of the guys that works for FP one

(48:03):
strategy is a guy named of Chris los Avita, Big Bushy,
Big bush guy. It was also part of the Trump
victory team, sadly, and he's the one and others of
this ILK are the ones controlling where all this massive
war chess the Republicans have built up half and they're there.
They are not willing to spend it to defeat Democrats.

(48:23):
They're only willing to spend it to defeat conservatives. And
it's pissing me off. It's really pissing me off. Where
I saw at seven eleven gas prices around what did
I say, three fifteen? I saw three fifty?

Speaker 3 (48:41):
Who really? Well, I was sitting in the Walmart parking
lot yesterday picking up a food order, right, and it
looked across the parking lot there to the Walmart Gas,
to the Murphy gas stations, you know, and it was
three nine and I was like, wow, wow, yeah, gas,

(49:02):
just gas just came down about thirty cents since yesterday.

Speaker 2 (49:06):
It didn't the see seven eleven has this this rewards program.

Speaker 3 (49:12):
You get their card, That's what you saw.

Speaker 2 (49:14):
Yeah, so if you get their card and on the
seventh and the eleventh you can fill up your tank
and they're knocking like thirty cents off again.

Speaker 3 (49:24):
Oh wow. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (49:26):
So, I mean my kids told me about this, and
I'm like, they go, like, Dad, you really ought to
you really ought to try this. I'm like, seriously, so
to save some money. I mean, yeah, it is really crazy.
Seven eleven had like three or fifteen. I saw the
same Walmart pricing you saw. I was up in northern
Fort Worth yesterday, as I mentioned, I think I did that.

Speaker 3 (49:49):
That's thirty cents cheaper than it was yesterday. The three
thirty nine that I saw, it was three sixty nine
yesterday or the day before the same wall. So uh no,
I mean just generally around town, right, I mean that's
kind of the average was three cent.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
Where I live, it's probably around three fifty nine, three
fifty eight, but seven eleven and Walmart there, and I
think Costco not to that degree. Costco is also knocking
a few cents off. But if you look at the
highest average state average is five dollars and sixty one cents. That's,
of course in the People's Republic of California. So that's all.

(50:26):
That's all tax induced.

Speaker 3 (50:27):
Dude.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
I saw I saw gas six dollars a gallon out
there when I was when I was visiting. The lowest
is in Indiana average three dollars fifty two cents, which
is kind of what we're playing here in Texas. But
I just was curious what you thought about what's going
on with the Iranian conflict. And I guess the takeaway

(50:50):
is these pipelines that are being expedited. Yeah, and President
Trump's saying that the Strait of Horror Moose is now
is now an American territory, you.

Speaker 3 (51:03):
Know, Oh yeah, but it's also becoming less and less critical.
Is about sixty percent of the oil that moved through
there is now moving through popplanes, poplines, and so yeah,
it's they played their card. Hey we've got control of
the straits, and now that card is worthless. But so

(51:25):
I don't know what's up with the war, man. I
every time we hear about it, the streets open, Nope,
the straits closed, nope. There's there's mines everywhere, Nope, the
mines are clear and ships are flowing through there, like
doctor Pepper threw me. But no, you know, so I

(51:45):
have no idea what's going on. Yeah, And it seems
to me that we either need to shit or get
off the pot, because this thing seems to be dragging
on and I don't know where I'd like to I'd
like to hear a clear here's what winning means to us,

(52:06):
you know. And I don't know just the truth about
what the hell's going on, and I don't know where
to find it.

Speaker 2 (52:17):
Yeah, And you know, I was listening or I saw
a sound bite out there, and I thought I had
downloaded it because I was going to play it for you,
of of the not Treasury Secretary Todd Blanche, the Attorney General.
And Blanche was talking about, let me see if I
can find it. He was he was talking about, dang it,

(52:40):
it had something to do with with the gas prices,
and I just can't find it. Anyway. He was I'm
not sure what the Attorney General was doing talking about
gas prices, but he seemed to be indicating something was
going on with a rant. I'm just trying to find
the SoundBite, but it was.

Speaker 3 (52:59):
I mean, I'll say that as soon as this is over, Yes,
you're gonna see gas and oil plummet.

Speaker 2 (53:05):
Oh, it's gonna be.

Speaker 3 (53:07):
You know, to to where I hope hope oil doesn't
plummet so far that it's you know, nobody's making money.
But the little plummet at the prices at the pump,
you'll see the prices plummet, and then barrels of oil
will be back down to reasonable, which I think they're
fairly stable reasonable. So yeah, so they're about twenty five

(53:34):
thirty dollars high. So yeah, And I.

Speaker 2 (53:37):
To me, I it's gonna you're asking yourself, and we've
been pointing this out going man man alive. I cannot
fathom an oil industry that looks at this stuff and goes,
oh time that makes some profit, time to really screw
of the American people. And it's like, seriously, you're you're that,

(53:57):
that's that's how you're seeing this. The country is dropping
bombs and you're like, oh yeah, time to uh, time
to make a whole crapload of money. It's like, seriously,
off the backs of the American people.

Speaker 3 (54:10):
That's above my head. I have no idea how gas
pricing is. You know, how they arrive at the three
thirty nine or three sixty nine or four to oh
one per gallon. I don't know how they come up
with that. I know that all that gasoline has been
bought months ago. Yeah, and so I don't know how
they come up with the pricing, you know, And I

(54:33):
know the President's frustrated with that too, that he just
wants some at least some transparency with how it's you know,
with how they do set their prices, and he wants
to make sure they're not gouging us so well, but
I just I just want some answers on I want
to know what the goals are. Obviously the goal is

(54:54):
Ran will never have a nuclear weapon, Okay, we understand that.
What's the next and how does this war end? What
does it look like when it ends? Is it going
to end with the white flag being waved by Iran?
If that's the case, we better get it on, uh.
And that's going to take more than economic strangling and

(55:18):
you know, the occasional bombing of a radar facility. Yeah,
and I hate to say that, but you know, I
don't want to see boots on the ground, but we
better throw every fricking drone we can at it, and
and every jet fighter that's over there better be dropping
something and then let's just get it on or you know,

(55:41):
I don't know, because.

Speaker 2 (55:43):
We've got so many boots that are not American boots
that are that are willing and ready to go into
Iran and we're not letting them go. But that is
and see to me the destabilization of the Middle East
that if that were to occur, because you know, frankly,
that they may be allied against the Sharia that are

(56:04):
dominating Iran right now, It's like, how many times do
we have to get burned by, you know, trusting one
side because they're allied against the side that happens to
be a pain in our ass at the particular moment.
And by the way, I said Attorney General Todd Blanche,
it wasn't Blanche, it was Trey Yanks to the Karl
Rove never Trump network. And this is something that I

(56:25):
think is key Sean, that you and I were talking
about just to get it back to and I can't
believe I'm saying this to get it back to how
it impacts us on our wallets, you know, not the
politics of all this. Have a listen to Trey yanst
I mean.

Speaker 1 (56:35):
Reports indicate that vessels crossing out of the Strait of
Hormuz are up four hundred percent over the past two weeks.
This comes as the United States Navy is overseeing other
vessels in the Persian Gulf that have millions of barrels
of crude oil on board through.

Speaker 2 (56:50):
A safer passage to the south of the strait.

Speaker 1 (56:53):
In the backdrop, there is an ongoing US naval blockade
and fresh sanctions are expected for Iran next week.

Speaker 2 (57:00):
Eight crossings up four hundred percent. So while the president
is is, work is and I kind of like this strategy.
Just keep focusing the straight, the straight, the straight, the straight,
the straight while they're building out the infrastructure, these pipelines.
And it was Katie McFarlane, I think that that revealed.
I think, what did you say, sixty percent? Sixty percent

(57:21):
now of the oil that was moving through the straight
is now moving by pipeline and it's and it's heavily
guarded and Iran can't touch it. And I kind of
like where this is going. But they've really got to
wrap it soon because it's it's getting.

Speaker 3 (57:38):
I mean, and even if it's not soon, you know
that that part. Yes, I would like to see it
over before the midterms, yes, but I also want to
see it done right. I don't want to see some
vacuum and then have somebody worse come in there?

Speaker 2 (57:54):
Is it, big Dan?

Speaker 3 (57:55):
I just want to know what what the uh?

Speaker 2 (57:59):
What?

Speaker 3 (57:59):
When?

Speaker 2 (58:00):
Like? Is it baked in at this point that that
the pricing, the the the in effect, I know, the
ineffectiveness and the lack of productivity of the Republicans is
already baked in. I I've been seeing poll after poll
after poll of of Republican voters saying why did I
vote Republican? Because all they do is give me excuses

(58:23):
as to why they can't act. Whenever the Democrats get
in power, they they move heaven and earth to use
that power to you know, to screw the country right.
But the Republicans are not equally committed to implementing their
their policies that they ran on, they promised. And that
is Republican voters saying that it's useless to vote Republican.

Speaker 3 (58:48):
Oh We've talked there about that a million times. That
I'd like to see the Republicans use the same tactics
that the Democrats do, but for the right things. But
I don't know, we just don't do it. I don't
know that you know we do. You think it's some
we seem to take some moral high road. I don't

(59:10):
know that.

Speaker 2 (59:11):
It's not I'm discovering, it's I'm discovering it's it's ideological.
I that the way the Republican part and it's all
geared towards this un A party control.

Speaker 3 (59:21):
Yeah, I mean, it's again a million times we've talked
about it. It's all about staying in power. And if
they think of staying in power is you know, putting
your finger up in the wind and see where it's blowing.
And that's what they'll do. Uh, you know, if if
it means watering down some ultra conservative thing because they
think that's what's going to keep them in power, that's

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what they'll do. It's just, you know, I mean I
hate I hate talking about it because all it does
is breeded in me.

Speaker 2 (59:55):
Futility feeling.

Speaker 3 (59:56):
Well, yeah, it's just I just don't care. You know,
I've said it many times on here. I don't even
care if I vote anymore because it doesn't seem to
do any good. But obviously it does, and we need
to or else we're going to have the taller eCos
of the world running things.

Speaker 2 (01:00:14):
Well, what you got to know is is that what
you're experiencing the attitude you're experiencing, and that a lot
of the Republicans who are polled are experiencing. That's designed
that way. They're doing it to make you feel this
way because they want that goal. And this is why
I have said, and that this is why I asked

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you the question do you think it's all baked in?
Because remember the Senate has been mailing it in for
the last year, doing absolutely nothing, and in the affirmative,
in the the the agenda that they ran on doing,
other than the big beautiful bill, there's really nothing that
they have done in the affirmative for the country. Everything
seems to be geared toward keeping this keeping the Democrats viable,

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even though they're you know, they're full blown socialists and
Marxist now, and it seems they're the biggest fans of
the Democrat Party are Republicans because they need this foil,
they need this illusion of choice to continue. So that
that's precisely what they have done in their inaction. And

(01:01:19):
I know I've pointed out this before and I'm doing
it in several spaces and on the radio, but just
look at Obamacare versus the Save America Act, right, nobody
wanted Obamacare, but we got shoved down. Our throats are
up the nearest orifice, right, and what do they say.
They say, well, there's just really nothing that we could do.

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The Republicans bitched and moaned and that at the end
of the day, there was nothing they could do now.
And that's with no majority of Americans clamoring for it.
You look at the Save America Act, You've got eighty
four percent of the American people want it, Republicans, Democrats, independence,
and the Republicans say, yeah, no, it really make it
would really make the Demos's mad, So we're not going

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to do it. That's the difference in the parties.

Speaker 3 (01:02:05):
I mean, the apathy that I'm feeling. Yeah, I don't
understand why they want that. But the the few times
where I've you know, really been energized about politics, the
Tea Party days, yep, and Trump and why they don't
see that. And I know I'm not alone in those things.

Speaker 2 (01:02:29):
I'm so glad you brought that up. Do you know
remember the Tea Party? I remember the Tea Party. It
was very taxed enough already, that's what the Tea Party
stands for, folks, Tea and Mitch McConnell and the Republican
Party establishment went to work co opting the Tea Party
and it's gone. They infiltrated it, they quote, put them

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in power, co opted it, and now it's gone. The
winds out of the sales are just gone. Now. The
Democrats were supposed to do the same thing where they're
socialists and their Marxists, right, the Democrats were supposed to
infiltrate it. We're supposed to disband it, you know, all
in service to this uniparty stuff. But guess what, they're
getting elected. The communists and the socialists are getting elected.

(01:03:16):
So this is why I've said the John Thunees little
gambit here to turn over the government back over to
Democrats is a failure already, because there aren't Democrats waiting
to take over that there is a good possibility they'll
be handing it over to a socialist party, to a
Marxist party, and that's not good news for the United States.

Speaker 3 (01:03:39):
Nope, Nope, and and if again a billion times, if
they want to stay in power, get me energized the
way I felt during the Tea Party days. Get me
energized the way I felt for Trump, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:03:55):
And they and I get the sense they don't want that.
I get the sense they don't want to win. I dude,
I know it's kind of controversial to say that, but
I'm I just get the sense they don't want to win, right,
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:04:14):
I mean, they do want to win because that means
money and power for them, so they obviously want to win.

Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
But well, John Thune isn't up for re election until
next year.

Speaker 3 (01:04:24):
Yeah, well, no, he'll he'll be all about it then.

Speaker 2 (01:04:27):
Oh yeah, oh he'll be all about winning then for him. Yeah,
but no, but Democrats won't feel threatened or intimidated that
he might win. That They're not gonna They're not gonna
feel anything at all because John Thune has been their
best friend.

Speaker 4 (01:04:47):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:04:47):
And it's it's this uniparty cabal that is and this
illusion of choice that really has awakened me. And it's
not and I don't want to mistake this for I
think it's up to our people. I got on a
space you're gonna love this with a whole bunch of contrarians.
I mean, this whole space was just a bunch of people,

(01:05:11):
you know, the kind who are like, oh man, come on,
whatever you say or whatever you propose. You're like, oh, man,
I you know, what are you? What are you? What
are you saying that they have no opinion, but they
can just bitch about everybody else. That's a whole It
was a whole space dedicated people like that. So I
got on and I said, you know, we just got

(01:05:32):
to remember that we outnumber them. And then they started
coming at me like, oh, what are you talking about
a revolution or make complete derision. It's like, no, what
I'm talking about is self government requiring self. You've got
to be engaged. There's more of us than there are
of them, right. And the minute we start recognizing the

(01:05:53):
power and that is when we start reversing course in
this country. But the minute we start saying, oh, yeah, well,
just I'm going to hire you to go run trust
me government, and you tune out, you know, go go,
you go do Washington, and we don't watch them. Look
at what they were forty trillion, forty trillion dollars in debt.
It hit this this week, Sean I forty trillion. I

(01:06:16):
can't even cond one trillion dollars a year in interest alone,
a trillion an interest. It does nothing, No entitlement program,
no defense spending.

Speaker 4 (01:06:29):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:06:30):
Uh, it doesn't pay a government that one government employee.
It's all the finance forty trillion dollars of unacceptable debt
that you and I were never asked as to whether
or not we wanted it.

Speaker 3 (01:06:42):
Right, it's complete.

Speaker 2 (01:06:44):
It's complete, bs, and the only way they get away
with it is because we allow it.

Speaker 3 (01:06:53):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:06:56):
So there you go, buddy. So tomorrow, because we're recording
this on a Sunday, folks, we still haven't gotten this down.
And maybe because our new wake up call, maybe we
will be invested in doing this on Fridays moving forward. Uh,
tomorrow will be the shakedown week. Uh that you guys
will be hearing this on Monday morning. So join us

(01:07:17):
the rest of the week on the Salcedo Show, streaming
applications on Getter on Rumble on X and you can
be a part of setting the tone for the new
Torch Radio Network because you're going to be the only
live audience out there that we've got. And I'm not
sure what the other what the other hosts are doing.

(01:07:37):
I'm not even sure the other hosts are streaming, man,
I'm not sure the Justin Barclay and Scottie and the rest.
I know Glenn will be uh, they're gonna be car
but Glenn's not even going to be talking. Glenn Beck
is not going to be talking about uh Torch untill
and dude, I've You've got to check me because I'm

(01:07:59):
probably gonna say a blaze. It's probably gonna come out
it is not the Blaze because I've associated Glenn with
the Blaze for so long. He founded he founded that company,
but that Torch Radio. I think we're going to be
the only live audience out there for the for this
whole shakedown week.

Speaker 3 (01:08:17):
So cool, Well, all right man, you excited? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:08:23):
Oh dark thirty man, it's a it's a hell of
a wake up call. M M for ten for ten.
The alarm is going to be going off.

Speaker 3 (01:08:30):
Yeah, a little earlier for me since I got to drive,
that's right.

Speaker 2 (01:08:33):
Are you gonna take the bike in? Not early?

Speaker 3 (01:08:36):
No? No, all right, it's too too damn high. You've
obviously never been on a motorcycle in Texas in the summer.

Speaker 2 (01:08:44):
I can't say that I have. I have been on
a motorcycle, but not in Texas well. Of course, before
the sun comes up, I would imagine it's bearable.

Speaker 3 (01:08:52):
I mean, if you had a convertible, yeah, would you
be driving around?

Speaker 2 (01:08:55):
No? Hell to the No, you're absolutely right, You're absolutely right.

Speaker 3 (01:08:58):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (01:08:59):
Okay, man, Well onward and upward and Salsado and Chastain,
the man with the greatest radio name in radio, Sean Chaste. Sorry,
I know you've always said that. All right, we'll do
it tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (01:09:13):
I'll do it tomorrow. Man, have good week.

Speaker 2 (01:09:16):
Two, buddy, not right there is going to put a
wrap on this Salsado Storm podcast. Folks, do me a favor.
Check out the Torch coming online, well unofficially all this
coming week, then officially the following week, and also check
out Chrissalsado dot com. Check out Texas scorecard dot com.

(01:09:36):
And also check out the new book, The Rise of
the Liberty Loving Latino a New American Revolution, and you
can pick that up at Amazon for you know, reduced cost.
I believe they've now marked down the audio book. For
a while, there was the hard copy. Now they're marking
down the audiobook. So get while the getting's good. And
remember this, folks. A society's worth is not measured by

(01:09:58):
how much power is stolen by government. A society's worth
is measured by how much power is reserved for you
and me. We the people, keep fighting to save your
country out there, my friends, because it's worth it.