December 5, 2024 • 47 mins
• 🎄 MSU Fantasy of Lights dazzles again! Mike Hendren gives us the inside scoop on this beloved Wichita Falls holiday tradition—plus tips for avoiding the traffic. 🚦
• 🏠 Neighborhood lights: Is it really Christmas if you don’t see the Candyland House? We’ve got your tour guide right here!
• 🌮 Don Jose Mexican Restaurant gets some love! Legendary margaritas, salsa that brings Terry to tears, and why crossing Kemp Blvd after a few drinks might require courage and a guardian angel! 😇🍹
• 🚗 Car show crowds rally big for local radio favorite Keith Vaughn (104.7 The Bear). When Texoma shows up, they really show up!
• 🔥 From fantasy lights to fiery debates: Mike, Terry, and Trey dive into Trump’s cabinet picks, political flip-flops, and why Matt Gaetz gives Terry the creeps.
• 🎞️ Bad Christmas movies: The boys argue over Danny DeVito vs. the Griswolds—Texoma style!
• 🍦 Wichita nostalgia: Dairy Queens, Quarter Palaces, and Taco Mayos—oh my!
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You make this rather snappy,won't you?
I have some very heavythinking to do before 10:00. Hey,
welcome to another episode.Get it Right Tech Soma with the trio.
Mike Hendren, Terry McAdams,Troy. So glad to have you here with
us. Thank you for joining uson YouTube. If you're watching us,
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to click the subscribe buttonon YouTube and the little bell for
the notifications on, onYouTube as well. You also get us
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We need one of those where,where when an episode drops. Sound
like the horse racing bill.
Yeah, exactly.
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And, and also we're working ona QR code. I've actually got a. Terry's
working on a QR code.
Terry's going to work on it. Yeah.
Let me, let me, let'sexperiment a little bit.
Okay.
I'm going to go to that textmessage that we had. I won't show
them.
Last time Terry said let'sexperiment bit. You know, things
got really dark and hurt.
I don't know, things get alittle sketchy, you know.
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Okay, so let's see. This isfor the website. This is for YouTube.
So you're already watchingthis on YouTube. So this won't be
helpful there. But if I touchthat and if I put it up to the camera.
Oh, it's still too small.Well, maybe not. I don't. Well, we'll
figure it out. I know whatI'll do is I'll give it to this guy
right here.
Put it on there, drop it intothe video.
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That'll be our website. Yeah.There we go. So.
Oh, well, and then you, youcan access all the episodes on the
web from the website, bothvisual and audio. Right?
Well, there's a YouTube linkand then you'll see all of the, all
of the audio files like Applepodcast and you can, you can listen
to it on that website or youcan go over and find there's a click
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link on the various platforms.
So there's multiple ways youcan do it. The website.
There's really no excuse, tobe honest with you.
No, there isn't. I mean, ifyou're, if you're not, if you're
not listening to this show,what, what the hell are you doing
with your life? What's reallygoing on with your life? I mean,
what, what, what purpose do.
You have meaning exactly?
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Let's talk about your father.Anyway, get it right. Textilema.com
the website. And of course youcan find us on Facebook at Get It
Right Techsoma as well. So andI know, I know for a fact because
I've talked to probably fiveor six people locally here in the
last week or so that said,they've just picked up on the show
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shared it with them. That'show we grow this audience, is you
share those links and so forthwith your friends and your co workers
and people you love and peopleyou hate especially. So anyway, annoy
them. It's fun. Anyway, we'lljump right into it here. We got a
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few minor things to talkabout. The MSU Burns Fantasy of Lights
launched this past Mondaynight, the 25th. Very good launch,
very successful. And it runsthrough the 26th of December.
Six successful as an Elon Muskrocket launch.
Yes. Maybe more so, actually.Maybe more so.
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And you have a little insightinto the, how successful it was because.
Well, I'm on the, I'm on thecommittee that runs this thing. Yes.
And so anyway, we had, we hada great opening night. It's going
to be, it's going to be goingon through the 26th of December.
It's 6pm to 10pm so dusk to10pm every single night. There's
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going to be a few nights. Ican't remember the exact dates. I
don't have it for the calendarin front of me. But there's going
to be a few daytimeopportunities to see the displays
operating and on for you gotsome groups that will come through,
some school groups.
It's okay. But you definitelyneed to see it at night.
You really cannot, you cannotexperience this fully unless you
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go at night. And you reallyneed to get out. You can drive through
and there's a.
There'S a get out and go park.I mean there's plenty of parking.
Oh yeah.
Plus during other parts arethe one, Are they doing the, the
like the people do thecarriage ride and all.
That kind of stuff that'sgoing on fairly soon.
The carriage rides will startsoon. The trolley, trolley will start
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very soon too. The trolleyrides are really cool because what
they do is they've got thesetrolley cars. Yes. And they'll take
you through the neighborhoodsthat are just adjacent to Midwestern
State University campus.
A lot of the people inneighborhoods just if you're not
from here, a lot of the peoplein neighborhoods do a lot of lights
and things like that. So somebeautiful decorative houses there.
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Lots of Them in Oyster StateUniversity, where it sits. It sits
right at the edge of oldcountry club.
Right.
So there's a lot of beautifulhouses. People don't realize the
wealth. The oil wealth thatwas in Wichita Falls at one time.
Gosh, at one time, WichitaFalls have more millionaires per
capita than anywhere in theUnited States.
That's. That's true.
A lot of these houses in thisarea were built based on old oil
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money from. That was from theturn of the last century.
Some of these folks have 30s.Some of these folks have spent thousands
of dollars and they do everyyear to have these decorations put
up professionally to havetheir life. Because, I mean, some
of. Some of these houses aretwo and.
Three stories tall and thetrees and all that.
Wasn't there somebody who wason some national show? That's the
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one with the drones and.
That'S the one out by the.That was the house that was.
It's out by Midway on 369.
No, that. No, the one that wason the national show was on south.
The end of Southwest Parkwaydown from the stadium. Oh, yeah,
almost. Where SouthwestParkway hits. Hits the highway.
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Well, that. That is. Well,okay, I say 369. Southwest Parkway
and 369 are really the sameroad. Technically, Southwest Parkway
is FM 369, but it really. Andwhere you cross Kell and you get
on the other end, they call itArena Road.
Right, right.
But it's the Candyland houseyou're talking about.
Candyland House. Yes, it'sright there. It's right there. Yeah.
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If you're going down thehighway and you exit at Southwest
Parkway, it's on SouthwestParkway not too far. You. As soon
as you exit, you can see it.That was on a national. Apparently
there's a TV show calledsomething like the Great Christmas
Light Fight or something like.
Something like that.
Yeah, they were on. They werefeatured on that. It is. They started
putting it together. I was. Idrove by there. I don't know, like,
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probably a month ago.
Yeah.
And there was already stuffgetting going. Putting.
They start. They start settingthat up in early October. There's
a lot of. They have to run alot of wiring and stuff for it. So
they start getting all theelectrical. This is what I was told.
They get. They start gettingall the electrical in place usually
around the beginning ofOctober or so. And then by. By Halloween,
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they've started puttingdecorations up.
Right.
They're. They're in theprocess of really getting it built
out because there's.
There's infrastructureinvolved. This Isn't throwing a few
lights up in your yard and.No, this is. This is major. This
is building. These are ourbuilding pieces.
Yeah. And you know, here's thething, too. The. Of course, the MSU
Burns fantasy of lights andall these displays, this predates
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the LED lighting years by decades.
Yeah.
But what these folks aredoing. I don't know if this would
even be possible at someone'sresidence to do a display this elaborate
without LED technology.
Oh, incandescent bulbs. No, Idon't think you draw too much.
Well, and not to mention. Notto mention the electricity. Electric
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bill. You'd have to sell akidney. Yeah.
I don't know that youphysically could do it. I don't know
that you would have enough service.
You'd have to. Have to getanother leg of power on.
Oh, yeah, you'd have to runover like. Was it Jingle all the
Way? There's a Christmas show.It's one of. Actually one of my favorites.
Everybody talks about theGriswolds, but it's the one with
Danny DeVito and MatthewBroderick in it. And they're the
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two stars for it. It's gotsome big names in it. And. And Danny
DeVito goes and plugs in.
Yeah.
At the neighbors to run his.His lights.
I think Jingle all the Way.That was. Wasn't that Sinbad and
Arnold Schwarzenegger Mighthave been.
Yeah. I think whichever onethis one is. But if you get a chance,
the. The show that everybodytalks about, the Griswolds.
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Yeah.
Actually the one that DannyDeVito and Matthew Broderick star
in that has more spectacularlight. Crazy craziness.
Well, by the way, it's theBrown family Christmas lights.
Yeah.
And they. They're actuallytalking about what they're getting
ready to do and all of that.And. But that's cool.
Yeah, very cool.
Just remember, run across thatlast year.
But it's not close to fantasylife. But fantasy life. Different.
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Yes.
Is in a different part oftown. But go check them all out.
That's on the campus ofMidwestern State University along
Taft Boulevard. And like Isaid, you just got to get out of
your car and walk it to reallyexperience it. Electric Critters
is also about to kick off.It'll be November 29th through December
21st.
By the time you hear that, seethis show, it'll probably be kicked
in.
Probably be kicked everyFriday and Saturday night from 6:30
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to 8:30. So, I mean, here's a.Here's a cool idea. Pick a Friday
or Saturday night. Go over toElectric Critters, walk that display
and then head over toMidwestern State University and check
them out. You can get done atelectric critters by 8:30. Fantasy
of Lights is on till 10. Youstill got time to. It'll take you
literally less than 10 minutesto make the drive from Electric Critters
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to the MSU campus.
Yeah, it depends on how busythe Fancy of Lights is. It'll take
you. Won't take you long toget there, but if you get it stuck
in the traffic.
Yeah, it could take you awhile to get parked. You plan to
take at least 10 to 15 minutesto get parked, get out of your car,
get to the displays and walkthem, you know, and they'll have.
There's several nights they'llhave, you know, people have cookies
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and hot chocolate and thingslike that at Fantasy of Lights. So.
But Electric Critters, that'spretty cool in itself too. That's
pretty elaborate displays thatthey do there too.
It's over at the RiverbendNature Center.
Yeah. All along those trailsdown there. I mean that, that can't
be easy to set all that.
I wouldn't think so.
So. But that's going on again29th November through 21st December,
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every Friday and Saturday.
Enjoy the Christmas lights andthe festivities.
Now each show we try to focusa little bit on a local restaurant,
locally owned, family ownedrestaurant. And this particular episode
we're going to talk about DonJose Mexican Restaurant.
They've been there a while.
Yeah. Yes.
Right there at down on Camp.In the old part of Camp.
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Yeah, I think It's Kemp and10th. I think that's right. It was
a dairy. I think it wasoriginally a Dairy Queen building.
It was a Dairy Queen 35 yearsago. 40 years ago.
That doesn't even look.
Oh yeah.
They've done a lot ofremodeling around it because the
building itself was theoriginal building.
Usually you can go, oh, thatwas a Dairy Queen. Or that was a.
Where you used to drive inunder the awning at Dairy Queen.
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Now they've closed all that in.
Yeah.
So that's all. So it does kindof on a.
Corner area right there. It'sa pretty good prime location. But
yeah, that was a Dairy Queen.
Which by the way, Terry, youdon't remember, but at one time we
had 12 or 13 dairy queens inthis area.
Had quite a few.
Yeah, they were more.
Oh, yeah. Well worth. I mean,you know.
Yeah, well, they were everywhere.
The Dairy Queens and then,then the Taco Mayo People came in
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and bought the building,bought those buildings. And there
was Taco Mayo's everywhere fora long time in those. And then some
of the Dairy Queens turnedinto Quarter Palaces.
Do you remember that? Yes, Iremember the quarter. Yes, I do.
What quarter Palace Quarter.
25 cent burger, 25 centburger, 25.
Cent fries, 25 cent drinks,and lots of video games. This was.
This was the era of the arcade.
Yeah.
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This was probably early 80s.Yeah. When the arcades were blowing
and going and.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay.
In fact, there was one not farfrom where we lived on Old Iowa Park
Road here in Wichita Falls. Ithink it was Old Iowa Park Road,
which is business 287 and Ithink Covington. Yeah, there's one.
It was a car lot for a whilethere, but it was a Dairy Queen and
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then it was a Quarter Palace.
Yeah, well. And then theQuarter palace in my neighborhood
was over. Across fromMcDonald's on Enterprise.
Where. That's right.
Where Texoma Community CreditUnion now their indirect lending
building is, right?
Yes, yes, that's right.
That was originally a DairyQueen. And I think it was a Quarter
palace before it was TacoMayo. Yeah, I know it was because
Taco Mothers were around whenwe were in high school.
I'll take you back furtherthan that, Trey. Taco Burrito.
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I remember Taco Burrito, but Idon't remember where they were.
Well, I can tell you where. Ican tell you where. There was one
on Jacksboro Highway.Jacksboro Highway. Kind of. Kind
of on that corner wherethere's a real estate office there
now, I think right there. Andthen there was another one on Old
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Iowa Park Road again, whereTommy's Donuts was. I'll tell you,
that was a Taco Burrito.
Old Iowa Park Road is sodepressing to drive down.
It is very depressing.
It was a hub for business atone time. And you could see all the.
When you drive down Old OhioPark Road years ago in the 70s, the
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60s, the 70s, the 80s, andeven in the 90s. Even in the 90s,
all those buildings had stuffin them.
Yeah, yeah.
Big Nine Grocery was kind ofone of the big anchors there.
Yeah.
But all those little shops inthose buildings where they were all
full of businesses and nowthey're just.
Well, before it was Big NineGrocery, it was Piggly Wiggly.
Yeah.
And then United Supermarketwas a little further west from where
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they are now in that shoppingcenter that's now, I think, almost
totally empty, or maybecompletely empty.
By the way, my wife did notbelieve there was A store called
Piggly Wiggly. She thought I'dmade it up. I said, no. And when
we were actually in these.There's still some of them in America
that we were in the Southeasttraveling, and we drove by and said,
there's a Piggly Wiggly.
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They got them in Louisiana, too.
And by the way, Don JoseMexican restaurants. Oh, yeah, we
got a restaurants. Is theremore than one?
I know where one is.
Yeah. 24 years.
24 years.
Wow.
They've got good. They've gotreally good Mexican food. But I think
they're really also known fortheir margaritas.
I was going to say themargaritas are legendary there. And
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I know people that go therejust for the margaritas. They'll
eat there. But the main reasonthey go there is the margaritas are
super good and apparentlysuper cheap, too.
Yeah, they're reasonableprice, but their chips and hot sauce
are really good. So if you'rein a margarita eater that chips,
hot sauce, and queso, you canhave a meal there and get your tipsy
on or whatever.
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Don't, don't. Don't sleep onthat salsa, man.
That is good.
It's good stuff. Holy Lord,have mercy.
Don Jose's on the corner of10th and Camp.
2601. 10th. It's actually on 10th.
Yeah. Obviously, it's corner.10th and Camp.
Yeah.
Okay. You know, sometimesparking gets to be a little bit of
a challenge. Right around therestaurant. They've got a parking
area right across the street.
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Right.
So you can park over there.And, you know, be careful crossing
Kent Boulevard. There's alittle bit of risk in that sometimes.
Yes.
Especially if you had enough margaritas.
Exactly.
Yeah.
If you're too loaded up. Well,first of all, don't get in your car
and drive anywhere. Call acabin. Don't call me, but call a
cab. Yeah. Anyway, so that'sit. Don Jose Mexican Restaurant.
There we go. All right. Shallwe move on? Sure. Let's see here.
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There was a car show benefitfor local radio host Keith Vaughn.
Of course, Keith is one of thejocks on 104.7. The bear.
The Bear.
And he's got a really deepvoice. And you meet him and you go,
that's you.
Yeah.
One time made the joke. Wewere standing next to each other.
Somebody said somebody met himfor the first time. And I happened
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to be standing there, and theysaid something about that voice comes
out of you. And he goes, yeah.He said, every surprise, everybody.
Because everybody thinks Ilook like him. And he pointed at
me. They hear my voice.
You Expect to meet this hugeguy and. No, he's very average. Very
average.
Anyway, super, super nice guy.Really cool guy. He's into classic
rock and cars. He's been a bigcar enthusiast, muscle cars and that
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sort of stuff.
Yeah.
So this was kind of a fittingbenefit for him. Keith got. Been
very sick. He's somebody who'sbeen very healthy, but he ended up
having a condition that camedown with, I mean, just like something
people. Things happen topeople, and got incredibly ill. And
I believe I heard that he isback on the radio, but I think there
was some speculation at onetime that he may not even be able
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to get back on on the radio.
Well, they had this. They heldthis. This car show to. As a benefit
for Keith to help with medicalbills, raise some money for him and
his wife and to help them outwith that. And apparently it went
very well.
Well, here's how popular heis. I heard through the grapevine
that that car show changedlocations three times because it
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kept getting bigger.
Yeah.
And they end up at CastawayCove and still completely filled
Castaway Cove parking lot up.And they were just trying to park
cars wherever they could out there.
Yeah, yeah, but.
But I've heard that that's.That it had to heard something click.
Click. Somebody cock a gun or what?
No, no, it sounded. Soundedlike the. Like a recording button
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went off.
Oh, I don't know. Anyhow, allright, that says we be recording
over there a lot, so.
All right. But anyhow, so. SoI think it's really cool you have
a guy who's a local personwho's entertained a lot of people
for many, many years and beengood to the community. I mean, Keith's
giving back to the communityand done a lot of community stuff,
and for people to come out andsupport him in his time of need,
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I think it's a great idea.
Yeah. So we wish him the bestand speedy recovery and many more
years on the radio.
Absolutely.
He's a good guy. Let's seehere. Realities and responsibilities
of the position when it comesto fears about Trump's Cabinet positions.
Yeah, I mean, you hear aboutthis. This is one of those deals
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that a lot of people havefears about Trump. Trump's cabinet.
But this. But to be fair,people had those fears. People Republicans
handled some of those fearsabout Obama and. And Biden and Biden
and. And their cabinet picksand that sort of thing. What everybody
needs to understand issometimes you may be. You may. Your
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Persona may be this person inthis position. Like, for instance,
say they pull up Marco Rubio.Marco Rubio is a senator. Marco Rubio
has. He has his positions andeverything that he's done as a senator
in that position.
Sure.
Now he's moving over toSecretary of State. The chain. The
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roles and responsibilities ofthe Secretary of State are different
than being a senator.
Yeah, sure.
So therefore, you can't justsay this guy said this or thought
this as a senator. He'sautomatically going to think the
exact same thing as theSecretary of State.
Yeah.
Because when you get put in adifferent responsibility role, your
mindset has to change. Andthen also there are times, and this
is a perfect example. I'vemade the. I've made this example
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a bunch. This happened withBarack Obama. Barack Obama campaigned
on closing Guantanamo.Guantanamo Bay, remember?
Yes.
Guantanamo Bay is still open.Because I think what happened was.
And I do believe Barack Obamawas sincere about that. I think he
sincerely wanted to closeGuantanamo Bay.
But.
But I think what happened wasthe reality was once he got elected,
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he went to a room with a bunchof people who know a lot of what's
going on in the world, andthey gave him a dose of reality.
Intelligence briefing of what.
What would happen if we didthat, and therefore it stayed open.
And it's one of those things.You don't know what you don't know
until you know it.
Yeah.
And so all of my point behindthis is give everybody a little bit
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of leeway.
Yes.
Now, I'm glad Matt Gaetzdropped out. I am not a Matt Gaetz
fan. I think he was. I don't.I don't think he's a very good human
being for sure. But I know. Idon't like the way he was so disruptive,
and I don't think he wouldhave been a very good person in that
role. So I'm glad he droppedout. But everybody else, whether
you like him or not like him,give him a chance. See what happens.
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And just because they saidsomething or thought something or
had a stance on this, in thisposition does not necessarily mean
it'll translate 100% to this.
Well, here. Okay, tell me ifI'm wrong. Unless I miss something,
let me. What's yourassessment, both of you, on Hillary
Clinton's role and the job shedid as Secretary of State overall?
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Horrible. Terrible.
Really? Okay, what. Whatthings would she. Did she do worse
than you thought?
Benghazi.
Benghazi.
That was her defining momentin that role.
Yeah, so I'd forgotten aboutthat. But. So, but, but other than
that, was there anything elsethat some of the.
Some of the Some of the dealsthat were made, weren't we. Didn't
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we end up selling some prettyprecious metals to, to some. Made
some really strange deals. Anddidn't we sell some. Some, well,
nuclear type stuff? I think wesold some nuclear type.
Basically the interactionswith Iran. Yes, that was, that was.
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We made some horribleconcessions to the Iranians. You
know, I mean, the mullahs inIran are a bunch of murderous thugs.
Let's just call it what theyare, okay? And we made some really
horrible concessions to theseguys. Terrible concessions.
And she was the architect of alot of them.
She was. And then Benghazi,you know, she had personally believe,
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you know, yeah, Obama waspresident, that was her boss. But
she had the power and thestroke, as in her role as secretary,
to do something different with Benghazi.
Oh, to save the world.
She could have saved lives.They could have. That whole situation
could have been a completelydifferent situation. Totally. It
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could have ended totally,totally differently. But because
of her decision making and herfailure, just call it what it is,
it was a total, absolute,unmitigated failure on her part.
Here, let me tell you what,I'm going to recommend this real
quick. The reason I'm lookingat my book, I listen to audiobooks
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and there's an audiobook thatI'm going to recommend to everybody.
It's a real good book overall.It's about Navy seals, I believe
it's eyes on target and ittalks about the Navy seals and, and
the, the whole evolution ofNavy seals and that sort of thing.
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But there's a whole sectionabout Benghazi because that is a
massive stain in the U. S.Military. And there was, there was
a scenario, and this was, thisis a scenario compiled by a whole
bunch of smart people whoknows what the hell they got their
together and they know whatthey're talking about. Of every way
that the problems of Benghazicould have been mitigated. Oh, once
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the shit hit the fan.
There'S a whole laundry listof things that could have been.
It will make you sick. It willmake you sick to your stomach when
you sit and listen to it andgo, those, those men could have been
saved, those Americans.
That's right.
That lots of them could havebeen saved had action been taken.
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And there was a whole scenarioof actions that could have been taken
that probably would haveresulted in changing the whole thing.
Right. Well. And my wholepoint of this is not to get too much
into it, but it certainly.It's a reason why people are skeptical.
Oh, well, yeah.
This kind of Thing happens.And I'm talking about on both sides,
right?
Yeah.
So, yeah.
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Well, here's the other thing,though, is that it's really easy,
and the left seems to be moreapt to do this than the other side.
It's really easy to pick outindividuals in the Cabinet and try
to use them as a primer toblow everything up. I believe if
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Matt Gaetz had stayed in therunning for Attorney General, I think
it would have been sodisruptive in the Senate, it would
have been so disruptive to thebusiness of the Senate trying to
get him confirmed that itwould. They would have. They, they
were going. And I think to hiscredit, I think Gates, whether he
was, whether he was pushedinto. Into stepping away as well
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as he was easily, probably.
He was probably told, you'restepping away. Yes, you're going
to step away one way oranother. To his credit, you're welcome
to do it yourself, but this ishow it's going to happen.
To his credit, he didn't throwa fit about it. He was gracious about
it. He said, I'm doing,basically, I'm doing this for the
greater benefit of the Trumpadministration, the incoming administration.
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Okay, wonderful. And I dothink in his case, they would have
used. Whether any of thisstuff that he's been accused of is
true or not doesn't matter.He's been accused of it. There was
an investigation. There's aHouse report out there on this. So
they would have used that as adisruption tool to try to upend anything
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and everything within theincoming administration that they
could. And I think the left ismore likely to do that than the right
is.
You say that, though, maybe,but during the Obama administration,
though, I don't know how manypeople from the right were. The whole
thing was Obama's taking theguns, taking the guns. And I kept
going. Well, I don't know howmany people I heard that. I'm like,
no, that's a ridiculousstatement. That's not reality.
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Well, you and I both had thoseconversations with people. It's like,
they're not going to go doorto door and start confiscating firearms.
Tell me how it's going towork. I go back to, how is it going
to work physically, how is itgoing to work? Obama going to come
to your door.
If they ever try that in thiscountry. I'm just going to say it
out loud. There's going to bea lot of dead people.
Well, there's going to be alot of bloodshed, but people aren't
even going to do it, what I'msaying is, so if you tell the police
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officers, you must go this, dothis, there's a lot of cops in America.
It's like, hell with that. I'mnot doing that.
That's what I'm saying. Yeah.Most of your local police are not
going to participate in that.I guarantee. I can tell you here
in Wichita county, oursheriff's office, o will have zero.
Yeah.
Clay County, I would say 95%of Texas.
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Yes, Maybe, right?
Yeah.
What is it?
Austin, Travis County, TravisCounty, Harris County, Dallas County,
Tarrant County? Is it El Paso County?
I think it is, yes. Maybe,maybe. But I don't know. I don't
think Tarrant county wouldeither, to be honest with you.
Tara might not, but in Dallascounty, some of those metroplex counties,
the more left leaning might.But yeah, on the whole, in America,
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that's not going to happenbecause of this. I think most people
who truly understand thepurpose and the reasoning behind
the Second Amendmentunderstand that that is a right we
can never ever surrender. TheSecond Amendment and the First Amendment,
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there's a reason that they'replaced in the Bill of Rights where
they are. There's a reasonthat the first two things that they
discuss in the Bill of Rightsis right to say what the hell you
want to and your right todefend yourself with a firearm. That's.
There's a reason that thosetwo items are the first things addressed
in the Bill of Rights.
Number two exists, so numberone can exist.
Exactly. And both of thoseamendments are really what gives
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teeth to everything else inour Constitution. Because you think
about it, if we didn't havethat, how easy would it be for a
rogue government to runroughshod over the people? How easy
would it be for any othercountry to run roughshod over the
people?
Oh, absolutely. You know, lookhow it's happened. Look at Australia.
Australia's a perfect example.Australia. Think about it this way.
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Australia, in many ways waslike Texas.
Yes.
A lot like Texas.
Yes, it was.
It was born from a, from aforeign country. People came over,
you had wide open spaces, butyou. The people live outside, they
buy, they have big houses.There's a lot of rural Australia
had a gun buyback program thathappened in the. Was it the 90s or
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the early 2000s?
Early 2000, late 90s, basically.
They confiscated.
Yeah.
They confiscated handguns.
Yeah.
Which were very prevalent inAustralia. Look what happened during
COVID Oh, God.
That country.
That country turned Marxist.
Yes.
I mean, they, they really did.It was.
They were jailing people.
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Jailing People. People weresitting on the beach in the wide
open, drinking, you know,drinking or partying or sitting around
or whatever, getting arrestedfor. And they were being arrested,
which makes, to me. It wasalways those deals. So you're gonna
say, I'm sitting out in thewide open, and you're talking about
this Covid, which affectspeople when they're closed in. So
I'm sitting in the wide openwhere I'm not a danger to myself
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or anybody else, but you'regonna arrest me and throw me in a.
In a pin that I'm gonna beclosed in with a bunch of people.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, but I put a mask on, sothat'll save it.
Dumbass.
No, so, so you're, you're,you're right. But my point on this
whole deal, a lot of this ismost of these people in this Cabinet,
whether you like them or don'tlike them, give them a shot, see
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what happens. It's likeanything else. Trump was elected.
He has a right to pick hisCabinet. Now, the Senate does have
the right. Is it advising consent?
They do, they do.
But on confirmation. Butdoesn't mean block everyone. No,
it means. It means advisingconsent. If there's somebody that
you really think doesn't meetthe bar. And I think Matt Gates would
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not. I don't think he wouldhave passed Senate confirmation.
I don't, I don't think wouldlet him know. I think you would.
You would have. And I wasgoing to say, I think you would have
had Republicans that wouldhave been. That would have tried
to disrupt that, to try tostop his confidence, didn't want
him there. That would, Would.Would work to stop his confirmation.
And all of that would havebecome very disruptive. I mean, look,
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the Congress has business todo the stuff they should be doing.
They need to be doing thestuff that we pay them to do up there.
And if they're wasting weeks,maybe two or three months on confirmations
and a battle to try to getsome guy confirmed that a full one
third of the Senate may noteven approve of, that's disruptive.
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And it's going to causeproblems in the country. It's going
to cause problems in thegovernance of the country. You can't
have that. So again, like yousaid, whether he was told to step
down or he did it on his own,he was gracious about it. I thought,
at least publicly, privately,he may have been mad as hell about
it.
He might have been an ass. Younever know.
You don't know. But at leastpublicly, I think he was Pretty gracious
(30:37):
about it. And he did the rightthing by stepping away.
I, I, I, you know, I'm not areal big, I don't judge people by
the looks oftentimes, but hejust, I don't know, he creeps me
out.
Yeah, he, I agree with you.He's, he's got, sorry, he's got one
of those, he's, he's, he, hecomes across as a very creepy dude.
(30:57):
He's almost, he's a GavinNewsom slick kind of one of those
guys, it just, it, they justcome across and give you kind of
that icky feeling.
Well, you know, I know whatyou mean. You know, one of the things
he was accused of again,accused of was having sex with a
17 year old. Now out here inthe rest of the world, in America,
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if you're a guy, 40 something,50 something guy, 30 something guy
even, and you do that, thecourt of public opinion puts an end
to your life pretty damn quick.
The one thing, the caveat onthis, and look, would never say it's
right to do that, but at somepoint, did he know that? I'll be
(31:44):
honest with you. I mean, didhe know, did he know that, did he
know that somebody was 17years old? You could obviously tell
when somebody's a child. Yes,but, but there are people, there
are women, men and women whocould pass for 18 at 17 or 16.
Oh, yeah, yeah. There was astory, I can't remember exactly where
I read it. Year. This has beena number of years ago, maybe 20 years
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ago or more. I don't know.It's been a long while. And I believe
the guy that was involved init was in the military. This happened
in another state, like oneTexas, it was somewhere else. Goes
to a bar, meets this girl,they're drinking, she's in the bar
drinking when he meets her.And fast forward several days later,
(32:31):
he gets arrested by themilitary police for having sex with
a minor. She was like 15 years old.
Holy crap.
She had gotten into the bar ona fake id, was drinking. She looked,
obviously you go into a bar,you meet at some you think is a woman
21. I think 21 is the legaldrinking age across the country now.
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Pretty much everywhere now,for sure. You just assume, well,
they're in here, they'redrinking. There's no big red X on
her hand or anything. Okay,she's legal. And what are you gonna,
you're gonna ask for a damndriver's license every time you meet
somebody?
She had a fake ID to get intothe bar.
Exactly you'd still be fooled.And apparently the fake ID was good
enough to get her into the barand to allow her to drink. And so
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he didn't. Well, he ends upbeing charged with a crime anyway.
Even though she deliberatelydeceived the people at the bar. She
deceived him. Who knows howmany people in the chain of events
were deceived.
What the ultimate result was that.
I don't recall. I don't recallif I ever even saw what the end result
of that was. But I got afeeling. I know he probably got booted
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out of the military at aminimum. Well, that's ridiculous.
Well, that also just in lifeyou got to really weigh out the risks.
That's true.
Okay. And if you are, I meanjust, just that alone, whether, whether.
Let's say she wasn't under 18or 21 or whatever and he had sex
(34:00):
with her and then she claimed.Or she had a disease. She had. I
mean, there's a lot of reasonswhy you probably. It's not a practical
thing to do.
Yeah, there's. Yeah, yeah,you're right. You're right. Risk
assessment.
And I agree with that. But.But whether it goes to the level
of criminal. Well, right onthe books. I kind of see what you're
getting at, Mike. You're,you're. Mike is not condoning no
(34:22):
sex with 15 year old girls. Orgirls. Neither am I. Yeah, but what
you're.
Saying is deceived in the same thing.
Yeah. I mean. Yeah. If you, ifyou don't know and you are under
the reasonable. I guess it'sreasonable to have been. If you.
A jury would. I would guess.And I don't know this from a legal
standpoint. I'm just guessingthat jury would have to look and
say would a reasonable person believe.
(34:43):
Right.
That he intentionally sleptwith somebody who was under.
Was it was their intent. Washe deliberately pursuing a minor.
Yeah. Yeah. Which is good.Which is a complete.
That's. That, that, that getsinto a whole other category.
Exactly. That's. That it'screepo central right there.
Beyond that.
Yeah. Well, the bottom line isthat I, I agree with you that, that
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we've really got to give theseguys a chance. And you're right that,
that their role as a senatorin the case of Rubio.
Yeah.
He has a way different agendagoing on. He's trying to please his
constituents and he's. In amuch broader sense, though. But then
if you get into a role in theadministration, one of the head of
(35:26):
departments or whateverposition, you then have a Con. Well,
I guess it's not. Not all ofthem are constitutional, but essentially
they're. You have a rolethat's specific to that. It's very.
You have a job.
Right. And so you, yeah, youtake out. Theoretically, you're not
political in that position,but you're following the orders of
(35:48):
a politician. Right, right.And that's. Your marching orders
are going to be set out at avery high level from a strategy point
of view. And your implement.You have to implement that strategy
of the administration.
Yeah.
So, yeah. Loyalty. Because youwon't hold that position.
It's kind of like military.The military. You're not, you're
not. You're supposed to beapolitical and you can have your
(36:09):
own political beliefs. Butwhen you're given an order.
Right.
And it is from a politicianbecause the chief, the head of the
military is the very top.Commander in chief. Is the politician,
is the elected president.
But it, but in theory, thepresident has two hats, the commander
in chief. And there should bea true. And mostly, I guess, I don't
(36:34):
know how, I guess you can'tcompletely separate politics out
of it in their decision makingbecause a lot of things happen because
of your policies that you makethat are political choices. And then
you have to. If somebody goesand because of a political decision,
another country starts tryingto attack our friends, try to attack
our friends, then we're goingto have to go and help them out.
(36:57):
There's a lot to it. The wholepoint is, I think overall, looking
at this cabinet with Gatesbeing gone, I don't have any heartburn,
any real heartburn withanybody. And the one thing I will
say that I, That I don'tbelieve that I, That I'm happy for
on this cabinet is I don'tbelieve that any of these were hired
to check boxes.
Right.
I don't think, I don't thinkthe chief of staff was hired because
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she's a woman and she's goingto be the first ever. Because that
wasn't the whole thing. Itwas, hey, this is my chief of staff.
And then reporters said, oh,hey, wait a minute, she's the first
women chief of staff. Itwasn't a whole big press conference,
by the way. Yeah, it wasn't abig press conference is we're going
to have a fir. The first womanchief of staff and say 20 times.
Which, which makes sensebecause. And that's a better. For
that person. The fact is, ifyou're hired, it's like Kamala Harris.
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I believe that Joe Biden putKamala Harris in a bad situation
to begin with.
Yeah.
Because he set her up to fail,is she's going to be this and this
and this, and we're puttingher in. Well, did she get the job?
Because she's the best person.Did she get the job? No. And all
of a sudden, in the back of alot of people's minds, whether they
like her or don't like her, inthe back of people's minds was Democrat
(38:03):
or Republican. Did they just.Did she just get the job because
she checked boxes? It's notfair to give people those jobs to
check boxes and then telleverybody I gave them to check.
And I will say this. I don'tbelieve, I don't believe Joe Biden
had a direct hand in choose.
Oh, no, I know. It's.
Joe Biden was basically told,okay, she's going to be your running
(38:24):
mate and we're going to dothis, this and this. And she was
chosen. This is the thing.When you go back to the 2020 Democratic
primaries, she came in dead last.
She never got a vote or neverwon a.
No, she didn't.
She didn't. She never won a delegate.
No, she was, she was deadbottom of the list in the primary.
(38:47):
Yeah.
And so that tells me rightthere that the people didn't want
her. And number two, her ownparty didn't respect her for leadership.
They wanted her because shechecked the boxes. That was it.
I got one other thing realquick on this. So the accusations
(39:10):
on the left right now arethat, that Trump is implementing
his. And I'm using, quote,his, what is it, Project 2025.
Yeah.
So he has, of course, deniedany knowledge, really, in the beginning,
didn't know anything about it.I, I find that hard that he had never
(39:32):
heard of it. But maybe not.Maybe he didn't at the time and didn't
care about it.
It depends on, real quickly onthat. I don't know that he said that
he's never even heard of it,but I don't have any knowledge of
it. There's a lot of things Icould have heard of something and
I don't have any knowledge. Idon't know.
I've heard of it, but I knowvery well.
I'm the same way I've heard of.
It, but I looked into it alittle bit and basically, here's
(39:53):
what it is. It's put out bythe Heritage foundation and apparently
a number of. A high number of.And of course, I don't. I'm looking
for the inventory of this, butthe people who Trump has been nominating,
some of them have had a rolein helping draft. Some parties contributed,
(40:15):
Party right contributed. And Idon't know what level that could
been. They could have justsigned on and said, I support it
all the way to actuallywriting it. But whatever level it
is, here's the realities onthat, too. This, to be fair to everybody
on this, you got to look atit. This is one very conservative
(40:36):
organization that's on, on ourside for the most part. Doesn't mean
that all of us, we may notknow that much in it. But I bet you
if you read it and you lookedat it, because I've looked at it,
some of those things are like,of course, that's a, well, that's
a position of a conservativeat anything.
Usually if you read anything,there's going to be some things that
you agree with.
And so they're making it soundas though the left and making it
(41:01):
sound as though this is, youknow, it's anti women. It's, you
know, it's anti this, it'santi that. And I think there's probably
some argument to be had aboutsome of that. But it's just like
any other politician, youcan't agree. It's very difficult
to agree with 100% of everypolitician that you happen to support.
(41:21):
I'll go back and review. Butsee, I equate this a little bit to.
When you talk about. So thisis a, apparently it's a large document.
Yes.
With many, many, many ideas orprongs or whatever.
Yes.
It's the same thing as all weran into when C Scope. I don't know
if you guys, you guys probablydon't remember. I was on the school
board.
Yeah, I remember this.
Oh my God. And we, we heard somuch about C Scope this and C Scope
(41:44):
that we had people in theWFISD that were contributors to some
of the C Scope stuff. Theydidn't contribute the crazy stuff
in there.
Right.
They were contributing some ofthe stuff that everybody would go,
oh yeah, that's good, solid curriculum.
Right.
And, and so you, it's hard totake my point on this is you don't
take one document that or alarge document that has a lot of
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people that contribute to itand say, okay, everybody that, that
contributed to this believesall, everything that's in here. That's
not true.
Right. Well, the Project 2025,this is from the NY magazine that
they're referring to it thatbasically they're at least 140 members
of the first Trumpadministration helped with the plan
(42:29):
and, and multiple former Trumpcabinet members wrote much of the
Project 2025's 922 pagemandate for Leadership manifesto.
So they, they, they'rebasically, they're calling it a manifest
and then most, yeah.
I'll look, I'm going to lookinto it. So but my, the, the thing
that I've never been thatconcerned about is because Donald
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Trump said got nothing to dowith it.
But they're, oh, but he's nowreally coming out and whatever it's
like he is he, by picking allthese people, he's implementing Project
25, 2025.
That's what I think. That's ahuge, that goes back to the refers,
the realities andresponsibilities of a position. But
also you can think what youthink or you can have your own belief
(43:13):
when you get put in a.
Position, you have a job rightnow already.
It's how you twist thelanguage, guys.
Yeah, well, that's that. We'lltalk about that the next show.
Yeah, that. It's how you twistthe language.
Yeah.
You can take, you can take,you can take the most innocent thing
on the planet and turn intosomething hideous if you want to
by just manipulating thelanguage of it.
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few minor things to talkabout. The MSU Burns Fantasy of Lights
launched this past Mondaynight, the 25th. Very good launch,
very successful. And it runsthrough the 26th of December.
Six successful as an Elon Muskrocket launch.
Yes. Maybe more so, actually.Maybe more so.
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And you have a little insightinto the, how successful it was because.
Well, I'm on the, I'm on thecommittee that runs this thing. Yes.
And so anyway, we had, we hada great opening night. It's going
to be, it's going to be goingon through the 26th of December.
It's 6pm to 10pm so dusk to10pm every single night. There's
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don't have it for the calendarin front of me. But there's going
to be a few daytimeopportunities to see the displays
operating and on for you gotsome groups that will come through,
some school groups.
It's okay. But you definitelyneed to see it at night.
You really cannot, you cannotexperience this fully unless you
(03:55):
go at night. And you reallyneed to get out. You can drive through
and there's a.
There'S a get out and go park.I mean there's plenty of parking.
Oh yeah.
Plus during other parts arethe one, Are they doing the, the
like the people do thecarriage ride and all.
That kind of stuff that'sgoing on fairly soon.
The carriage rides will startsoon. The trolley, trolley will start
(04:18):
very soon too. The trolleyrides are really cool because what
they do is they've got thesetrolley cars. Yes. And they'll take
you through the neighborhoodsthat are just adjacent to Midwestern
State University campus.
A lot of the people inneighborhoods just if you're not
from here, a lot of the peoplein neighborhoods do a lot of lights
and things like that. So somebeautiful decorative houses there.
(04:40):
Lots of Them in Oyster StateUniversity, where it sits. It sits
right at the edge of oldcountry club.
Right.
So there's a lot of beautifulhouses. People don't realize the
wealth. The oil wealth thatwas in Wichita Falls at one time.
Gosh, at one time, WichitaFalls have more millionaires per
capita than anywhere in theUnited States.
That's. That's true.
A lot of these houses in thisarea were built based on old oil
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money from. That was from theturn of the last century.
Some of these folks have 30s.Some of these folks have spent thousands
of dollars and they do everyyear to have these decorations put
up professionally to havetheir life. Because, I mean, some
of. Some of these houses aretwo and.
Three stories tall and thetrees and all that.
Wasn't there somebody who wason some national show? That's the
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one with the drones and.
That'S the one out by the.That was the house that was.
It's out by Midway on 369.
No, that. No, the one that wason the national show was on south.
The end of Southwest Parkwaydown from the stadium. Oh, yeah,
almost. Where SouthwestParkway hits. Hits the highway.
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Well, that. That is. Well,okay, I say 369. Southwest Parkway
and 369 are really the sameroad. Technically, Southwest Parkway
is FM 369, but it really. Andwhere you cross Kell and you get
on the other end, they call itArena Road.
Right, right.
But it's the Candyland houseyou're talking about.
Candyland House. Yes, it'sright there. It's right there. Yeah.
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If you're going down thehighway and you exit at Southwest
Parkway, it's on SouthwestParkway not too far. You. As soon
as you exit, you can see it.That was on a national. Apparently
there's a TV show calledsomething like the Great Christmas
Light Fight or something like.
Something like that.
Yeah, they were on. They werefeatured on that. It is. They started
putting it together. I was. Idrove by there. I don't know, like,
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probably a month ago.
Yeah.
And there was already stuffgetting going. Putting.
They start. They start settingthat up in early October. There's
a lot of. They have to run alot of wiring and stuff for it. So
they start getting all theelectrical. This is what I was told.
They get. They start gettingall the electrical in place usually
around the beginning ofOctober or so. And then by. By Halloween,
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they've started puttingdecorations up.
Right.
They're. They're in theprocess of really getting it built
out because there's.
There's infrastructureinvolved. This Isn't throwing a few
lights up in your yard and.No, this is. This is major. This
is building. These are ourbuilding pieces.
Yeah. And you know, here's thething, too. The. Of course, the MSU
Burns fantasy of lights andall these displays, this predates
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the LED lighting years by decades.
Yeah.
But what these folks aredoing. I don't know if this would
even be possible at someone'sresidence to do a display this elaborate
without LED technology.
Oh, incandescent bulbs. No, Idon't think you draw too much.
Well, and not to mention. Notto mention the electricity. Electric
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bill. You'd have to sell akidney. Yeah.
I don't know that youphysically could do it. I don't know
that you would have enough service.
You'd have to. Have to getanother leg of power on.
Oh, yeah, you'd have to runover like. Was it Jingle all the
Way? There's a Christmas show.It's one of. Actually one of my favorites.
Everybody talks about theGriswolds, but it's the one with
Danny DeVito and MatthewBroderick in it. And they're the
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two stars for it. It's gotsome big names in it. And. And Danny
DeVito goes and plugs in.
Yeah.
At the neighbors to run his.His lights.
I think Jingle all the Way.That was. Wasn't that Sinbad and
Arnold Schwarzenegger Mighthave been.
Yeah. I think whichever onethis one is. But if you get a chance,
the. The show that everybodytalks about, the Griswolds.
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Yeah.
Actually the one that DannyDeVito and Matthew Broderick star
in that has more spectacularlight. Crazy craziness.
Well, by the way, it's theBrown family Christmas lights.
Yeah.
And they. They're actuallytalking about what they're getting
ready to do and all of that.And. But that's cool.
Yeah, very cool.
Just remember, run across thatlast year.
But it's not close to fantasylife. But fantasy life. Different.
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Yes.
Is in a different part oftown. But go check them all out.
That's on the campus ofMidwestern State University along
Taft Boulevard. And like Isaid, you just got to get out of
your car and walk it to reallyexperience it. Electric Critters
is also about to kick off.It'll be November 29th through December
21st.
By the time you hear that, seethis show, it'll probably be kicked
in.
Probably be kicked everyFriday and Saturday night from 6:30
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to 8:30. So, I mean, here's a.Here's a cool idea. Pick a Friday
or Saturday night. Go over toElectric Critters, walk that display
and then head over toMidwestern State University and check
them out. You can get done atelectric critters by 8:30. Fantasy
of Lights is on till 10. Youstill got time to. It'll take you
literally less than 10 minutesto make the drive from Electric Critters
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to the MSU campus.
Yeah, it depends on how busythe Fancy of Lights is. It'll take
you. Won't take you long toget there, but if you get it stuck
in the traffic.
Yeah, it could take you awhile to get parked. You plan to
take at least 10 to 15 minutesto get parked, get out of your car,
get to the displays and walkthem, you know, and they'll have.
There's several nights they'llhave, you know, people have cookies
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and hot chocolate and thingslike that at Fantasy of Lights. So.
But Electric Critters, that'spretty cool in itself too. That's
pretty elaborate displays thatthey do there too.
It's over at the RiverbendNature Center.
Yeah. All along those trailsdown there. I mean that, that can't
be easy to set all that.
I wouldn't think so.
So. But that's going on again29th November through 21st December,
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every Friday and Saturday.
Enjoy the Christmas lights andthe festivities.
Now each show we try to focusa little bit on a local restaurant,
locally owned, family ownedrestaurant. And this particular episode
we're going to talk about DonJose Mexican Restaurant.
They've been there a while.
Yeah. Yes.
Right there at down on Camp.In the old part of Camp.
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Yeah, I think It's Kemp and10th. I think that's right. It was
a dairy. I think it wasoriginally a Dairy Queen building.
It was a Dairy Queen 35 yearsago. 40 years ago.
That doesn't even look.
Oh yeah.
They've done a lot ofremodeling around it because the
building itself was theoriginal building.
Usually you can go, oh, thatwas a Dairy Queen. Or that was a.
Where you used to drive inunder the awning at Dairy Queen.
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Now they've closed all that in.
Yeah.
So that's all. So it does kindof on a.
Corner area right there. It'sa pretty good prime location. But
yeah, that was a Dairy Queen.
Which by the way, Terry, youdon't remember, but at one time we
had 12 or 13 dairy queens inthis area.
Had quite a few.
Yeah, they were more.
Oh, yeah. Well worth. I mean,you know.
Yeah, well, they were everywhere.
The Dairy Queens and then,then the Taco Mayo People came in
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and bought the building,bought those buildings. And there
was Taco Mayo's everywhere fora long time in those. And then some
of the Dairy Queens turnedinto Quarter Palaces.
Do you remember that? Yes, Iremember the quarter. Yes, I do.
What quarter Palace Quarter.
25 cent burger, 25 centburger, 25.
Cent fries, 25 cent drinks,and lots of video games. This was.
This was the era of the arcade.
Yeah.
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This was probably early 80s.Yeah. When the arcades were blowing
and going and.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay.
In fact, there was one not farfrom where we lived on Old Iowa Park
Road here in Wichita Falls. Ithink it was Old Iowa Park Road,
which is business 287 and Ithink Covington. Yeah, there's one.
It was a car lot for a whilethere, but it was a Dairy Queen and
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then it was a Quarter Palace.
Yeah, well. And then theQuarter palace in my neighborhood
was over. Across fromMcDonald's on Enterprise.
Where. That's right.
Where Texoma Community CreditUnion now their indirect lending
building is, right?
Yes, yes, that's right.
That was originally a DairyQueen. And I think it was a Quarter
palace before it was TacoMayo. Yeah, I know it was because
Taco Mothers were around whenwe were in high school.
I'll take you back furtherthan that, Trey. Taco Burrito.
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I remember Taco Burrito, but Idon't remember where they were.
Well, I can tell you where. Ican tell you where. There was one
on Jacksboro Highway.Jacksboro Highway. Kind of. Kind
of on that corner wherethere's a real estate office there
now, I think right there. Andthen there was another one on Old
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Iowa Park Road again, whereTommy's Donuts was. I'll tell you,
that was a Taco Burrito.
Old Iowa Park Road is sodepressing to drive down.
It is very depressing.
It was a hub for business atone time. And you could see all the.
When you drive down Old OhioPark Road years ago in the 70s, the
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60s, the 70s, the 80s, andeven in the 90s. Even in the 90s,
all those buildings had stuffin them.
Yeah, yeah.
Big Nine Grocery was kind ofone of the big anchors there.
Yeah.
But all those little shops inthose buildings where they were all
full of businesses and nowthey're just.
Well, before it was Big NineGrocery, it was Piggly Wiggly.
Yeah.
And then United Supermarketwas a little further west from where
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they are now in that shoppingcenter that's now, I think, almost
totally empty, or maybecompletely empty.
By the way, my wife did notbelieve there was A store called
Piggly Wiggly. She thought I'dmade it up. I said, no. And when
we were actually in these.There's still some of them in America
that we were in the Southeasttraveling, and we drove by and said,
there's a Piggly Wiggly.
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They got them in Louisiana, too.
And by the way, Don JoseMexican restaurants. Oh, yeah, we
got a restaurants. Is theremore than one?
I know where one is.
Yeah. 24 years.
24 years.
Wow.
They've got good. They've gotreally good Mexican food. But I think
they're really also known fortheir margaritas.
I was going to say themargaritas are legendary there. And
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I know people that go therejust for the margaritas. They'll
eat there. But the main reasonthey go there is the margaritas are
super good and apparentlysuper cheap, too.
Yeah, they're reasonableprice, but their chips and hot sauce
are really good. So if you'rein a margarita eater that chips,
hot sauce, and queso, you canhave a meal there and get your tipsy
on or whatever.
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Don't, don't. Don't sleep onthat salsa, man.
That is good.
It's good stuff. Holy Lord,have mercy.
Don Jose's on the corner of10th and Camp.
2601. 10th. It's actually on 10th.
Yeah. Obviously, it's corner.10th and Camp.
Yeah.
Okay. You know, sometimesparking gets to be a little bit of
a challenge. Right around therestaurant. They've got a parking
area right across the street.
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Right.
So you can park over there.And, you know, be careful crossing
Kent Boulevard. There's alittle bit of risk in that sometimes.
Yes.
Especially if you had enough margaritas.
Exactly.
Yeah.
If you're too loaded up. Well,first of all, don't get in your car
and drive anywhere. Call acabin. Don't call me, but call a
cab. Yeah. Anyway, so that'sit. Don Jose Mexican Restaurant.
There we go. All right. Shallwe move on? Sure. Let's see here.
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There was a car show benefitfor local radio host Keith Vaughn.
Of course, Keith is one of thejocks on 104.7. The bear.
The Bear.
And he's got a really deepvoice. And you meet him and you go,
that's you.
Yeah.
One time made the joke. Wewere standing next to each other.
Somebody said somebody met himfor the first time. And I happened
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to be standing there, and theysaid something about that voice comes
out of you. And he goes, yeah.He said, every surprise, everybody.
Because everybody thinks Ilook like him. And he pointed at
me. They hear my voice.
You Expect to meet this hugeguy and. No, he's very average. Very
average.
Anyway, super, super nice guy.Really cool guy. He's into classic
rock and cars. He's been a bigcar enthusiast, muscle cars and that
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sort of stuff.
Yeah.
So this was kind of a fittingbenefit for him. Keith got. Been
very sick. He's somebody who'sbeen very healthy, but he ended up
having a condition that camedown with, I mean, just like something
people. Things happen topeople, and got incredibly ill. And
I believe I heard that he isback on the radio, but I think there
was some speculation at onetime that he may not even be able
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to get back on on the radio.
Well, they had this. They heldthis. This car show to. As a benefit
for Keith to help with medicalbills, raise some money for him and
his wife and to help them outwith that. And apparently it went
very well.
Well, here's how popular heis. I heard through the grapevine
that that car show changedlocations three times because it
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kept getting bigger.
Yeah.
And they end up at CastawayCove and still completely filled
Castaway Cove parking lot up.And they were just trying to park
cars wherever they could out there.
Yeah, yeah, but.
But I've heard that that's.That it had to heard something click.
Click. Somebody cock a gun or what?
No, no, it sounded. Soundedlike the. Like a recording button
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went off.
Oh, I don't know. Anyhow, allright, that says we be recording
over there a lot, so.
All right. But anyhow, so. SoI think it's really cool you have
a guy who's a local personwho's entertained a lot of people
for many, many years and beengood to the community. I mean, Keith's
giving back to the communityand done a lot of community stuff,
and for people to come out andsupport him in his time of need,
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I think it's a great idea.
Yeah. So we wish him the bestand speedy recovery and many more
years on the radio.
Absolutely.
He's a good guy. Let's seehere. Realities and responsibilities
of the position when it comesto fears about Trump's Cabinet positions.
Yeah, I mean, you hear aboutthis. This is one of those deals
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that a lot of people havefears about Trump. Trump's cabinet.
But this. But to be fair,people had those fears. People Republicans
handled some of those fearsabout Obama and. And Biden and Biden
and. And their cabinet picksand that sort of thing. What everybody
needs to understand issometimes you may be. You may. Your
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Persona may be this person inthis position. Like, for instance,
say they pull up Marco Rubio.Marco Rubio is a senator. Marco Rubio
has. He has his positions andeverything that he's done as a senator
in that position.
Sure.
Now he's moving over toSecretary of State. The chain. The
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roles and responsibilities ofthe Secretary of State are different
than being a senator.
Yeah, sure.
So therefore, you can't justsay this guy said this or thought
this as a senator. He'sautomatically going to think the
exact same thing as theSecretary of State.
Yeah.
Because when you get put in adifferent responsibility role, your
mindset has to change. Andthen also there are times, and this
is a perfect example. I'vemade the. I've made this example
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a bunch. This happened withBarack Obama. Barack Obama campaigned
on closing Guantanamo.Guantanamo Bay, remember?
Yes.
Guantanamo Bay is still open.Because I think what happened was.
And I do believe Barack Obamawas sincere about that. I think he
sincerely wanted to closeGuantanamo Bay.
But.
But I think what happened wasthe reality was once he got elected,
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he went to a room with a bunchof people who know a lot of what's
going on in the world, andthey gave him a dose of reality.
Intelligence briefing of what.
What would happen if we didthat, and therefore it stayed open.
And it's one of those things.You don't know what you don't know
until you know it.
Yeah.
And so all of my point behindthis is give everybody a little bit
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of leeway.
Yes.
Now, I'm glad Matt Gaetzdropped out. I am not a Matt Gaetz
fan. I think he was. I don't.I don't think he's a very good human
being for sure. But I know. Idon't like the way he was so disruptive,
and I don't think he wouldhave been a very good person in that
role. So I'm glad he droppedout. But everybody else, whether
you like him or not like him,give him a chance. See what happens.
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And just because they saidsomething or thought something or
had a stance on this, in thisposition does not necessarily mean
it'll translate 100% to this.
Well, here. Okay, tell me ifI'm wrong. Unless I miss something,
let me. What's yourassessment, both of you, on Hillary
Clinton's role and the job shedid as Secretary of State overall?
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Horrible. Terrible.
Really? Okay, what. Whatthings would she. Did she do worse
than you thought?
Benghazi.
Benghazi.
That was her defining momentin that role.
Yeah, so I'd forgotten aboutthat. But. So, but, but other than
that, was there anything elsethat some of the.
Some of the Some of the dealsthat were made, weren't we. Didn't
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we end up selling some prettyprecious metals to, to some. Made
some really strange deals. Anddidn't we sell some. Some, well,
nuclear type stuff? I think wesold some nuclear type.
Basically the interactionswith Iran. Yes, that was, that was.
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We made some horribleconcessions to the Iranians. You
know, I mean, the mullahs inIran are a bunch of murderous thugs.
Let's just call it what theyare, okay? And we made some really
horrible concessions to theseguys. Terrible concessions.
And she was the architect of alot of them.
She was. And then Benghazi,you know, she had personally believe,
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you know, yeah, Obama waspresident, that was her boss. But
she had the power and thestroke, as in her role as secretary,
to do something different with Benghazi.
Oh, to save the world.
She could have saved lives.They could have. That whole situation
could have been a completelydifferent situation. Totally. It
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could have ended totally,totally differently. But because
of her decision making and herfailure, just call it what it is,
it was a total, absolute,unmitigated failure on her part.
Here, let me tell you what,I'm going to recommend this real
quick. The reason I'm lookingat my book, I listen to audiobooks
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and there's an audiobook thatI'm going to recommend to everybody.
It's a real good book overall.It's about Navy seals, I believe
it's eyes on target and ittalks about the Navy seals and, and
the, the whole evolution ofNavy seals and that sort of thing.
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But there's a whole sectionabout Benghazi because that is a
massive stain in the U. S.Military. And there was, there was
a scenario, and this was, thisis a scenario compiled by a whole
bunch of smart people whoknows what the hell they got their
together and they know whatthey're talking about. Of every way
that the problems of Benghazicould have been mitigated. Oh, once
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the shit hit the fan.
There'S a whole laundry listof things that could have been.
It will make you sick. It willmake you sick to your stomach when
you sit and listen to it andgo, those, those men could have been
saved, those Americans.
That's right.
That lots of them could havebeen saved had action been taken.
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And there was a whole scenarioof actions that could have been taken
that probably would haveresulted in changing the whole thing.
Right. Well. And my wholepoint of this is not to get too much
into it, but it certainly.It's a reason why people are skeptical.
Oh, well, yeah.
This kind of Thing happens.And I'm talking about on both sides,
right?
Yeah.
So, yeah.
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Well, here's the other thing,though, is that it's really easy,
and the left seems to be moreapt to do this than the other side.
It's really easy to pick outindividuals in the Cabinet and try
to use them as a primer toblow everything up. I believe if
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Matt Gaetz had stayed in therunning for Attorney General, I think
it would have been sodisruptive in the Senate, it would
have been so disruptive to thebusiness of the Senate trying to
get him confirmed that itwould. They would have. They, they
were going. And I think to hiscredit, I think Gates, whether he
was, whether he was pushedinto. Into stepping away as well
(24:21):
as he was easily, probably.
He was probably told, you'restepping away. Yes, you're going
to step away one way oranother. To his credit, you're welcome
to do it yourself, but this ishow it's going to happen.
To his credit, he didn't throwa fit about it. He was gracious about
it. He said, I'm doing,basically, I'm doing this for the
greater benefit of the Trumpadministration, the incoming administration.
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Okay, wonderful. And I dothink in his case, they would have
used. Whether any of thisstuff that he's been accused of is
true or not doesn't matter.He's been accused of it. There was
an investigation. There's aHouse report out there on this. So
they would have used that as adisruption tool to try to upend anything
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and everything within theincoming administration that they
could. And I think the left ismore likely to do that than the right
is.
You say that, though, maybe,but during the Obama administration,
though, I don't know how manypeople from the right were. The whole
thing was Obama's taking theguns, taking the guns. And I kept
going. Well, I don't know howmany people I heard that. I'm like,
no, that's a ridiculousstatement. That's not reality.
(25:29):
Well, you and I both had thoseconversations with people. It's like,
they're not going to go doorto door and start confiscating firearms.
Tell me how it's going towork. I go back to, how is it going
to work physically, how is itgoing to work? Obama going to come
to your door.
If they ever try that in thiscountry. I'm just going to say it
out loud. There's going to bea lot of dead people.
Well, there's going to be alot of bloodshed, but people aren't
even going to do it, what I'msaying is, so if you tell the police
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officers, you must go this, dothis, there's a lot of cops in America.
It's like, hell with that. I'mnot doing that.
That's what I'm saying. Yeah.Most of your local police are not
going to participate in that.I guarantee. I can tell you here
in Wichita county, oursheriff's office, o will have zero.
Yeah.
Clay County, I would say 95%of Texas.
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Yes, Maybe, right?
Yeah.
What is it?
Austin, Travis County, TravisCounty, Harris County, Dallas County,
Tarrant County? Is it El Paso County?
I think it is, yes. Maybe,maybe. But I don't know. I don't
think Tarrant county wouldeither, to be honest with you.
Tara might not, but in Dallascounty, some of those metroplex counties,
the more left leaning might.But yeah, on the whole, in America,
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that's not going to happenbecause of this. I think most people
who truly understand thepurpose and the reasoning behind
the Second Amendmentunderstand that that is a right we
can never ever surrender. TheSecond Amendment and the First Amendment,
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there's a reason that they'replaced in the Bill of Rights where
they are. There's a reasonthat the first two things that they
discuss in the Bill of Rightsis right to say what the hell you
want to and your right todefend yourself with a firearm. That's.
There's a reason that thosetwo items are the first things addressed
in the Bill of Rights.
Number two exists, so numberone can exist.
Exactly. And both of thoseamendments are really what gives
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teeth to everything else inour Constitution. Because you think
about it, if we didn't havethat, how easy would it be for a
rogue government to runroughshod over the people? How easy
would it be for any othercountry to run roughshod over the
people?
Oh, absolutely. You know, lookhow it's happened. Look at Australia.
Australia's a perfect example.Australia. Think about it this way.
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Australia, in many ways waslike Texas.
Yes.
A lot like Texas.
Yes, it was.
It was born from a, from aforeign country. People came over,
you had wide open spaces, butyou. The people live outside, they
buy, they have big houses.There's a lot of rural Australia
had a gun buyback program thathappened in the. Was it the 90s or
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the early 2000s?
Early 2000, late 90s, basically.
They confiscated.
Yeah.
They confiscated handguns.
Yeah.
Which were very prevalent inAustralia. Look what happened during
COVID Oh, God.
That country.
That country turned Marxist.
Yes.
I mean, they, they really did.It was.
They were jailing people.
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Jailing People. People weresitting on the beach in the wide
open, drinking, you know,drinking or partying or sitting around
or whatever, getting arrestedfor. And they were being arrested,
which makes, to me. It wasalways those deals. So you're gonna
say, I'm sitting out in thewide open, and you're talking about
this Covid, which affectspeople when they're closed in. So
I'm sitting in the wide openwhere I'm not a danger to myself
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or anybody else, but you'regonna arrest me and throw me in a.
In a pin that I'm gonna beclosed in with a bunch of people.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, but I put a mask on, sothat'll save it.
Dumbass.
No, so, so you're, you're,you're right. But my point on this
whole deal, a lot of this ismost of these people in this Cabinet,
whether you like them or don'tlike them, give them a shot, see
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what happens. It's likeanything else. Trump was elected.
He has a right to pick hisCabinet. Now, the Senate does have
the right. Is it advising consent?
They do, they do.
But on confirmation. Butdoesn't mean block everyone. No,
it means. It means advisingconsent. If there's somebody that
you really think doesn't meetthe bar. And I think Matt Gates would
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not. I don't think he wouldhave passed Senate confirmation.
I don't, I don't think wouldlet him know. I think you would.
You would have. And I wasgoing to say, I think you would have
had Republicans that wouldhave been. That would have tried
to disrupt that, to try tostop his confidence, didn't want
him there. That would, Would.Would work to stop his confirmation.
And all of that would havebecome very disruptive. I mean, look,
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the Congress has business todo the stuff they should be doing.
They need to be doing thestuff that we pay them to do up there.
And if they're wasting weeks,maybe two or three months on confirmations
and a battle to try to getsome guy confirmed that a full one
third of the Senate may noteven approve of, that's disruptive.
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And it's going to causeproblems in the country. It's going
to cause problems in thegovernance of the country. You can't
have that. So again, like yousaid, whether he was told to step
down or he did it on his own,he was gracious about it. I thought,
at least publicly, privately,he may have been mad as hell about
it.
He might have been an ass. Younever know.
You don't know. But at leastpublicly, I think he was Pretty gracious
(30:37):
about it. And he did the rightthing by stepping away.
I, I, I, you know, I'm not areal big, I don't judge people by
the looks oftentimes, but hejust, I don't know, he creeps me
out.
Yeah, he, I agree with you.He's, he's got, sorry, he's got one
of those, he's, he's, he, hecomes across as a very creepy dude.
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He's almost, he's a GavinNewsom slick kind of one of those
guys, it just, it, they justcome across and give you kind of
that icky feeling.
Well, you know, I know whatyou mean. You know, one of the things
he was accused of again,accused of was having sex with a
17 year old. Now out here inthe rest of the world, in America,
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if you're a guy, 40 something,50 something guy, 30 something guy
even, and you do that, thecourt of public opinion puts an end
to your life pretty damn quick.
The one thing, the caveat onthis, and look, would never say it's
right to do that, but at somepoint, did he know that? I'll be
(31:44):
honest with you. I mean, didhe know, did he know that, did he
know that somebody was 17years old? You could obviously tell
when somebody's a child. Yes,but, but there are people, there
are women, men and women whocould pass for 18 at 17 or 16.
Oh, yeah, yeah. There was astory, I can't remember exactly where
I read it. Year. This has beena number of years ago, maybe 20 years
(32:08):
ago or more. I don't know.It's been a long while. And I believe
the guy that was involved init was in the military. This happened
in another state, like oneTexas, it was somewhere else. Goes
to a bar, meets this girl,they're drinking, she's in the bar
drinking when he meets her.And fast forward several days later,
(32:31):
he gets arrested by themilitary police for having sex with
a minor. She was like 15 years old.
Holy crap.
She had gotten into the bar ona fake id, was drinking. She looked,
obviously you go into a bar,you meet at some you think is a woman
21. I think 21 is the legaldrinking age across the country now.
(32:54):
Pretty much everywhere now,for sure. You just assume, well,
they're in here, they'redrinking. There's no big red X on
her hand or anything. Okay,she's legal. And what are you gonna,
you're gonna ask for a damndriver's license every time you meet
somebody?
She had a fake ID to get intothe bar.
Exactly you'd still be fooled.And apparently the fake ID was good
enough to get her into the barand to allow her to drink. And so
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he didn't. Well, he ends upbeing charged with a crime anyway.
Even though she deliberatelydeceived the people at the bar. She
deceived him. Who knows howmany people in the chain of events
were deceived.
What the ultimate result was that.
I don't recall. I don't recallif I ever even saw what the end result
of that was. But I got afeeling. I know he probably got booted
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out of the military at aminimum. Well, that's ridiculous.
Well, that also just in lifeyou got to really weigh out the risks.
That's true.
Okay. And if you are, I meanjust, just that alone, whether, whether.
Let's say she wasn't under 18or 21 or whatever and he had sex
(34:00):
with her and then she claimed.Or she had a disease. She had. I
mean, there's a lot of reasonswhy you probably. It's not a practical
thing to do.
Yeah, there's. Yeah, yeah,you're right. You're right. Risk
assessment.
And I agree with that. But.But whether it goes to the level
of criminal. Well, right onthe books. I kind of see what you're
getting at, Mike. You're,you're. Mike is not condoning no
(34:22):
sex with 15 year old girls. Orgirls. Neither am I. Yeah, but what
you're.
Saying is deceived in the same thing.
Yeah. I mean. Yeah. If you, ifyou don't know and you are under
the reasonable. I guess it'sreasonable to have been. If you.
A jury would. I would guess.And I don't know this from a legal
standpoint. I'm just guessingthat jury would have to look and
say would a reasonable person believe.
(34:43):
Right.
That he intentionally sleptwith somebody who was under.
Was it was their intent. Washe deliberately pursuing a minor.
Yeah. Yeah. Which is good.Which is a complete.
That's. That, that, that getsinto a whole other category.
Exactly. That's. That it'screepo central right there.
Beyond that.
Yeah. Well, the bottom line isthat I, I agree with you that, that
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we've really got to give theseguys a chance. And you're right that,
that their role as a senatorin the case of Rubio.
Yeah.
He has a way different agendagoing on. He's trying to please his
constituents and he's. In amuch broader sense, though. But then
if you get into a role in theadministration, one of the head of
(35:26):
departments or whateverposition, you then have a Con. Well,
I guess it's not. Not all ofthem are constitutional, but essentially
they're. You have a rolethat's specific to that. It's very.
You have a job.
Right. And so you, yeah, youtake out. Theoretically, you're not
political in that position,but you're following the orders of
(35:48):
a politician. Right, right.And that's. Your marching orders
are going to be set out at avery high level from a strategy point
of view. And your implement.You have to implement that strategy
of the administration.
Yeah.
So, yeah. Loyalty. Because youwon't hold that position.
It's kind of like military.The military. You're not, you're
not. You're supposed to beapolitical and you can have your
(36:09):
own political beliefs. Butwhen you're given an order.
Right.
And it is from a politicianbecause the chief, the head of the
military is the very top.Commander in chief. Is the politician,
is the elected president.
But it, but in theory, thepresident has two hats, the commander
in chief. And there should bea true. And mostly, I guess, I don't
(36:34):
know how, I guess you can'tcompletely separate politics out
of it in their decision makingbecause a lot of things happen because
of your policies that you makethat are political choices. And then
you have to. If somebody goesand because of a political decision,
another country starts tryingto attack our friends, try to attack
our friends, then we're goingto have to go and help them out.
(36:57):
There's a lot to it. The wholepoint is, I think overall, looking
at this cabinet with Gatesbeing gone, I don't have any heartburn,
any real heartburn withanybody. And the one thing I will
say that I, That I don'tbelieve that I, That I'm happy for
on this cabinet is I don'tbelieve that any of these were hired
to check boxes.
Right.
I don't think, I don't thinkthe chief of staff was hired because
(37:18):
she's a woman and she's goingto be the first ever. Because that
wasn't the whole thing. Itwas, hey, this is my chief of staff.
And then reporters said, oh,hey, wait a minute, she's the first
women chief of staff. Itwasn't a whole big press conference,
by the way. Yeah, it wasn't abig press conference is we're going
to have a fir. The first womanchief of staff and say 20 times.
Which, which makes sensebecause. And that's a better. For
that person. The fact is, ifyou're hired, it's like Kamala Harris.
(37:42):
I believe that Joe Biden putKamala Harris in a bad situation
to begin with.
Yeah.
Because he set her up to fail,is she's going to be this and this
and this, and we're puttingher in. Well, did she get the job?
Because she's the best person.Did she get the job? No. And all
of a sudden, in the back of alot of people's minds, whether they
like her or don't like her, inthe back of people's minds was Democrat
(38:03):
or Republican. Did they just.Did she just get the job because
she checked boxes? It's notfair to give people those jobs to
check boxes and then telleverybody I gave them to check.
And I will say this. I don'tbelieve, I don't believe Joe Biden
had a direct hand in choose.
Oh, no, I know. It's.
Joe Biden was basically told,okay, she's going to be your running
(38:24):
mate and we're going to dothis, this and this. And she was
chosen. This is the thing.When you go back to the 2020 Democratic
primaries, she came in dead last.
She never got a vote or neverwon a.
No, she didn't.
She didn't. She never won a delegate.
No, she was, she was deadbottom of the list in the primary.
(38:47):
Yeah.
And so that tells me rightthere that the people didn't want
her. And number two, her ownparty didn't respect her for leadership.
They wanted her because shechecked the boxes. That was it.
I got one other thing realquick on this. So the accusations
(39:10):
on the left right now arethat, that Trump is implementing
his. And I'm using, quote,his, what is it, Project 2025.
Yeah.
So he has, of course, deniedany knowledge, really, in the beginning,
didn't know anything about it.I, I find that hard that he had never
(39:32):
heard of it. But maybe not.Maybe he didn't at the time and didn't
care about it.
It depends on, real quickly onthat. I don't know that he said that
he's never even heard of it,but I don't have any knowledge of
it. There's a lot of things Icould have heard of something and
I don't have any knowledge. Idon't know.
I've heard of it, but I knowvery well.
I'm the same way I've heard of.
It, but I looked into it alittle bit and basically, here's
(39:53):
what it is. It's put out bythe Heritage foundation and apparently
a number of. A high number of.And of course, I don't. I'm looking
for the inventory of this, butthe people who Trump has been nominating,
some of them have had a rolein helping draft. Some parties contributed,
(40:15):
Party right contributed. And Idon't know what level that could
been. They could have justsigned on and said, I support it
all the way to actuallywriting it. But whatever level it
is, here's the realities onthat, too. This, to be fair to everybody
on this, you got to look atit. This is one very conservative
(40:36):
organization that's on, on ourside for the most part. Doesn't mean
that all of us, we may notknow that much in it. But I bet you
if you read it and you lookedat it, because I've looked at it,
some of those things are like,of course, that's a, well, that's
a position of a conservativeat anything.
Usually if you read anything,there's going to be some things that
you agree with.
And so they're making it soundas though the left and making it
(41:01):
sound as though this is, youknow, it's anti women. It's, you
know, it's anti this, it'santi that. And I think there's probably
some argument to be had aboutsome of that. But it's just like
any other politician, youcan't agree. It's very difficult
to agree with 100% of everypolitician that you happen to support.
(41:21):
I'll go back and review. Butsee, I equate this a little bit to.
When you talk about. So thisis a, apparently it's a large document.
Yes.
With many, many, many ideas orprongs or whatever.
Yes.
It's the same thing as all weran into when C Scope. I don't know
if you guys, you guys probablydon't remember. I was on the school
board.
Yeah, I remember this.
Oh my God. And we, we heard somuch about C Scope this and C Scope
(41:44):
that we had people in theWFISD that were contributors to some
of the C Scope stuff. Theydidn't contribute the crazy stuff
in there.
Right.
They were contributing some ofthe stuff that everybody would go,
oh yeah, that's good, solid curriculum.
Right.
And, and so you, it's hard totake my point on this is you don't
take one document that or alarge document that has a lot of
(42:07):
people that contribute to itand say, okay, everybody that, that
contributed to this believesall, everything that's in here. That's
not true.
Right. Well, the Project 2025,this is from the NY magazine that
they're referring to it thatbasically they're at least 140 members
of the first Trumpadministration helped with the plan
(42:29):
and, and multiple former Trumpcabinet members wrote much of the
Project 2025's 922 pagemandate for Leadership manifesto.
So they, they, they'rebasically, they're calling it a manifest
and then most, yeah.
I'll look, I'm going to lookinto it. So but my, the, the thing
that I've never been thatconcerned about is because Donald
(42:51):
Trump said got nothing to dowith it.
But they're, oh, but he's nowreally coming out and whatever it's
like he is he, by picking allthese people, he's implementing Project
25, 2025.
That's what I think. That's ahuge, that goes back to the refers,
the realities andresponsibilities of a position. But
also you can think what youthink or you can have your own belief
(43:13):
when you get put in a.
Position, you have a job rightnow already.
It's how you twist thelanguage, guys.
Yeah, well, that's that. We'lltalk about that the next show.
Yeah, that. It's how you twistthe language.
Yeah.
You can take, you can take,you can take the most innocent thing
on the planet and turn intosomething hideous if you want to
by just manipulating thelanguage of it.
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Absolutely.
Simple as that. All right,guys, we're going to wrap it up here.
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