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Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of The Chicks on the Right podcast. Today,

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we have Congressman Ship Roy from Texas's twenty first district

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with us. He is running to be Texas's Attorney General,

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replacing Ken Paxton, who is now running for John Cornyn's

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Senate seat alongside your colleague Wesley Hunt.

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Speaker 2: So we have lots to talk to you about that.

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Speaker 1: First, we wanted to find out if you have a

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dog in that Senate fight.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's a great question. Now, I'm not getting involved

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with any other races. Really. When you what you learn

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pretty quickly is when you run statewide, you know messages,

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stay in your lane, stay focused on your race. And frankly,

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I've done that stubbing in Congress too. I mean, look,

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I know all three of those those men very well.

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I think they're they're pros and cons are fairly public

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and I think that you know, that's going to be

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a hashtob by people of Texas and people Texas usually

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make good decisions.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think so, except for like the

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Jasmine Crocketts and whatnot.

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Speaker 3: In the right districts state wide, why they make pretty

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good decisions.

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Speaker 4: And in the right districts, yeah, I'm a Texan. I'm

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down around in between Sandwich, in between Waco and Austin,

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So I'm down here, so I know a little bit

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about it. But I'm curious what you think are like

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the biggest issues that face Texans because I have some

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that I think are probably the biggest issues. But what

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do you think. What are you hearing from constituents?

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, look, there's a wide variety of issues,

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but I'm just going to kind of go in the

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order of the things that I'm hearing most from the

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people that I represent. Number One is massive concern of

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the impact of mass immigration, both legal and the illegal,

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particularly as it relates to the advance of Shria law

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and the massive expansion of the Islamification of Texas and

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the entire country. That is the thing that I think

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people are most concerned about, and rightly so, as what

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we've seen happen with Epic City and the East plant

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of Islamic Center, the Islamic Facility down in Houston, three

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hundred mosques throughout the state of Texas, more being built

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every day in Texas or every year in Texas than

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any other state in the Union. And that's a real concern.

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And I think the people Texas are right to be

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concerned about it. I've introduced legislation to deal with that,

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to vet people for adherence astry of law, to take

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tax status away from care which we believe is affiliated

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with terrorist enterprises, and otherwise pause immigration, which we can

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talk about more in a minute. But broadly, it's not

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just these lambification issue. It's number one, but it's also

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just just dumping of people into our country and what

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that means in terms of benefits. That's why I say

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we should pause all immigration. We've got the people who

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are coming in here using birthright citizenship, you know, using

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up our hospitals and our schools and our jails. We've

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got the pilor Bido decision, which was a nineteen eighty

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two decision which says that we have to educate illegal children.

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I disagree with that. I think we need to fight that,

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and I would do that as Attorney general. So these

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are all things that would be sort of the big

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bucket that I think goes to the culture, it goes

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to the budget, it goes to our safety and security.

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Joscelyn Nungray, who is murdered by trend at Agua, gang.

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Her mother, Alexis is a great friend. She's a wonderful

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woman that I've come to know. We don't need any

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more tragedies like that or any of the others. But

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the second big issue is is I do think some

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of the pocketbook issues. I think Texans are getting a

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little tired of the property tax burden in the state

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of Texas. That's more of a local state issue than

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it is federal. But then the overall impact of housing

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costs and healthcare costs, and that's a real issue that

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the that the people of Texas that are represented frustrated about.

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We're dealing with the broken healthcare system after Democrats ruined it.

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And then you know, beyond that, the last point I

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would make is just general safety and security. These George

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sores DA's putting criminals on our streets in Austin and

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Dallas and Houston and San Antonio. Not just the gangs

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and the and the things affiliate with billiable immigration, but

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just literally putting crazy people out back on the street

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that that should be in jail. People are sick of it.

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They're sick of not being safe in their capital city.

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They're sick of cops getting shot at they're sick of

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liberal you know, das and liberal cities that are not

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backing the BLO. But there are many other issues I

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can get involved with. But that's that's the short list,

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but happy to talk about others.

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Speaker 4: It's a great list.

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Speaker 1: The Pause Act are you getting pushedback for I mean,

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it seems like such a no brainer at this point,

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when there's so much cleanup to do of the illegals

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that came in under Biden. Tell us where that stands

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and if you expect it to be passed.

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Speaker 3: Well as usual, the President has led and has has

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put out there his pause on immigration from certain countries

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that they've deemed as you know, potentially dangerous or you know,

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certain other restrictions, And I think that was really important

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that the President did that. That was a couple of

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weeks after I introduced the Pause Act, which is a

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much broader application. It would pause all immigration except for

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limited you know, tourist vices in and out for visitors

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to come to the United States. But it would pause

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everything so we can go back and review H one

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B visas, we can go back and review diversity visas

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and chain migration, and all the cousins and aunts and

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uncles and people that people are bringing in when they're

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allowed to be in the United States or they get citizenship,

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and then they bring all these people in on visas.

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It would allow us to deal with birthright citizenship issue

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and then plile or reno education issue. It would allow

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us to do what I wanted to do in my

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bill to vet people for adherence to sharia law. We

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need a wholesale review of this, and this would be

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the first time we've done this in American history. After

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the mass migration of people in the late eighteen hundreds

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early nineteen hundreds, where we had their cultural differences, although

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much less of a Gulf and the cultural differences in

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those populations with Irish and German immigrants and Czech immigrants

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and others that were coming in. That was a fairly

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assimilating culture where we had schools that were teaching how

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great America is and teaching the Constitution. We had the

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Prayer in school, we had the Ten Commandments in school.

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We had a culture that recognized Christmas in our Judeo

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Christian heritage, and that blending of cultures became the melting

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pot because people wanted to assimilate. Today, we've got the

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Islamification issue, people coming here or frankly, some people that

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are from other countries in the Western hemisphere even that

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wave their flags in their home countries that aren't assimilating,

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and a school system and leftists and Marxists that are

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propping it up. And it's all an organized effort, which

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is something I want to focus on as Attorney General.

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I can talk about that more in a minute, but

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it's an organized effort funded by radical groups that are

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specifically trying to undermine Western civilization and the rule of law.

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I'm putting criminals on the streets and Soros Das and

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Bill Gates Foundation and something called the Rent Collective that

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is putting these criminals on the streets. I don't mean

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to digress, but that whole issue, it's all purposeful. So

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back to the immigration issue. We've got a pause it,

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and we did it in the nineteen twenties and we

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kind of reset the stage. And then since the mid

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sixties we've now been having this explosion and now it's

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crescendoing way up. And now we have I think fifty

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one and a half million foreign born people in our country,

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which is sixteen to seventeen percent of the population, which

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is the highest that's ever been and we've got the

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highest number of people with cultures that are not readily

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and actively assimilating into our American culture.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you will to pass.

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Speaker 2: I want to know if it's going to be like,

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is there pushback? Is it going to go through?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Of course there's pushback because you have corporate interests

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who are saying, who wha, Well, we can't stop you know,

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importing visas for labor and so forth. There's you know,

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members of Congress are always going to be slow. If

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you're talking about a I call it, you know, an

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Overton windows shift like ship Roway is saying stop it,

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pause it, pause it all. I think it's common sense

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the average person I represent things, it's common sense. We've

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got a decent number of cost sponsors. I don't remember

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how many right now, but call it twenty something co sponsors,

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and we're growing that list by people that recognize how

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important it is. But it'll take a push by the

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American people, and it'll take continued leadership and effort because again,

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things are wired in this town around the lobby, and

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the lobby comes in and they say, well, we need

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this labor, and we need this group and if you

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cut this off, then that's going to hurt this industry

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and so forth. And I get those arguments, right, I mean,

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there are workers and hospitality and workers and agriculture and

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so forth. But I happen to believe that we need

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to reset the table for America. First American workers, get

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more Americans working, reset the table, remove bad actors, remove

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people that are breaking our laws, remove people that are

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not adherent to our Western values, and then reset the

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table and go, Okay, do we really have a lack

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of labor in this area and you can import somebody

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that wants to assimilate, Well, then maybe we've revisited that

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in a year or five or ten. But pausing immigration

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for five or ten years would be the best thing

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we could do to reset a refocus on America first totally.

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Speaker 4: There could be some discomfort, but get over it and

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then we'll just see what happens. So like when it

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comes to the Sharia stuff, Like when it comes to

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the Islamic stuff, there was a Texas law that was

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just passed right that that bans property developms that are

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described as Sharia compounds. But what that to me is

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kind of weird though, because what if they just say, well,

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we're not a Sharia compound, like we're just a like

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happy little compound, you know, like they can skate around that,

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can't they.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, let me actually pause for one second answer that question,

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because you said something that I think is really important.

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You said, quote, I'm gonna paraphrase it. This might possible,

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this might cause a little bit of discomfort, but get

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over it. End quote That to me is the best

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summary of everything we should do on all policies. Like, yeah,

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we've got this view that government can't act, Congress can't act,

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the president can't act if for some reason that action,

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which isn't for the best interest of the entire country

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might cause one person or some group of people or

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something some discomfort. It's like when the president was talking

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about the terror policy. And we can debate the tarror policy.

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There's reasonable debates about tearror policy and the powers and

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all of that, and we can talk about that. But

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he made a great point when people were complaining about, well,

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how much you know, the toys that Christmas are going

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to cost so much more, and he basically said, we'll

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buy fewer toys, and look, I understand. I understand.

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Speaker 4: You know how my parent, now you know how I parent, right.

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Speaker 5: I mean, like I think people have to say, it's like, well,

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do you need like fourteen of the same Chinese crap

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and you know, or maybe we'll get two or three

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good things, right, And so I do think there's some

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of that stuff.

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Speaker 3: If you want American labor and you want American production

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and manufacturing and work, then you've got to be a

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little patient and go through some of the pain to

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make that happen. And I think that's the same thing

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with some tax policies spending policy. It's like, well, I've

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got so many people who come in here and go,

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you got to balance the budget, but don't cut my stuff.

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Well look, I'm sorry. I'm an equal opportunity cutter of everything.

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And so if the Marl Bureau comes in and I

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love my farmers, and they come in and go, well, ship,

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we need more on the farm bill, I say, well,

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are you going to help me reform snap and food

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stamps so that we're no longer subsidizing crap? Well, we

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agree with you there, but we just need our farm subsidies.

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Like I know, but I cannot go in for that

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bill unless we fix it or I'm a cancer survivor.

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People come in and they go, well, I want money

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for cancer treatments and stuff, and I'm like, that's great,

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it's great. I love what you want to do there,

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how are we paying for it? And and then so

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I'm almost always against it. People go, you're a heartless

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son of but you know what I'm going. Look, I

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know I want to cure cancer. I want to I

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want to treat people, help people. Again, I went through it,

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but we can't just keep writing blank checks for stuff

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because it feels good. There has to be some difficulty

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in all. So thank you for that quote. And now

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you you asked a question that I've now forgotten. What

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was it, Suria?

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Speaker 2: I was?

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Speaker 4: I was talking about the Islam. Yeah, the law passed.

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It says Sharia compounds, and like, how do you know?

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Speaker 3: And so that's a great question. And that's why when

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you try to do prescriptive life. And I'm not being critical.

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and so totally I applaud them for acting. So however,

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as a legislator in Congress, I see people all the

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time wanting to have some prescriptive Oh, let's fix it.

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People are mad about it, we're concerned about it. Let's

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pass the bill. And that doesn't you know, well, is

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that really going to do it? I mean, I've not

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studied the bill. And if I'm Attorney General, I will

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go to spend the law and I'll go apply it.

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And I'm sure it's got really good components that will

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go help stop some of these developments. And certainly Attorney

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go and stop Epic City. There's any number of things

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to sept to Trade Practices Act, there's other things you

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can apply. But to answer your question, yes, I think

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the thing that we've got to be wary of is that,

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you know, they're already renaming it is that epic city.

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They're calling it the Meadows Project or metas something. They're

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renaming the.

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Speaker 2: Project some Butterflies Project.

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Speaker 3: And they'll come in and they'll say, oh, anybody can

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live here. And here's my question, would either of you

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want to live in a place where there's a four

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hundred all? No, of course not so if it's being

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designed that way. But they follow the letter of the

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law where you're still going to end up essentially with

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a muzzlim enclave that are effectively going to enforce your law.

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to start getting very real about this stuff and about

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how these developments are carried out. And then that's going

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to raise certain uncomfortable truths for people about how we

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textans generally view just rampant corporate development and and sort

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of people say, well, you know, you have a right

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to go, you know, sell your one hundred acres and

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turn it into whatever you want, and the developer can

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development houses and so forth, and say, well, yes, but

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we've got to recognize that if corporate America is making

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decisions for it, they're going to make decisions on quick dollars,

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quick bucks without regard to what is in the best

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interest of our communities. And so corporations come in, they

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buy up these things, and then they're going to sell

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it for profit. And then some group is going to

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come in and say, well, we want to turn this

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into you know, a Shurian type, you know, compound. But

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we're not going to tell anybody that we're just going

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to do it. We're going to have to be mindful

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of that and call it out. That's why I go

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back to if you're adherent toustry of law, you're undermining

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our constitution, you're underminding our sopitalization, and you shouldn't be here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, So you alluded to this earlier when you

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were talking about you know, you push back. You're the

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guy that's like, you're going to be a hardliner on spending,

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and that is who you are. And I know that

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that's resulted in some tang goals between you and the President,

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especially after you voted no on the Big Beautiful Bill.

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So where does your relationship stand now?

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Speaker 3: Well, so let me explain on that. So I voted.

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I voted for the Big Beautiful Bill on the floor.

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When we made changes to it, I had raised concerns

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about where it was in terms of overall spending because frankly,

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we've got you know, moderate members of the Republican Conference

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and in the Senate that were undermining a lot of

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the reforms we were making. Now, I voted against it

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in May in the Budget Committee for about four days

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we had it. On Friday, we killed it. About four

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of us stopped it from moving through the Budget Committee,

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and we spent the full weekend negotiating the Green new

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Scam subsidies, getting those returned. They had been pulled out.

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Our cuts to the Green new Scam Compsy subsidies, which

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would have reduced or eliminated them, we're getting pushed back

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in right. So they wanted to, you know, they wanted

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to keep the Green new Scam subsidies going, and we

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said no, no, no, no, We're going to get those

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cuts in place of the President campaigned off and so

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we had to fight for that, and we had to

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go fight to make sure we maintained the medicaid reforms,

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of the work requirements, the things that we think made

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the build a reasonable, fiscally responsible bill. So to the question,

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the President and I get along great, We talked regularly.

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We're moving forward in advancing his agenda. A recent scoring

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went out to score members of Congress and what their

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voting record is relative to the President's agenda and the

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Republican platform that the President put forward last summer, and

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I scored at ninety seven percent. It's the highest in Texas,

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the second highest in the House of Representatives, and it's

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the fifth highest out of the House and Senate combined.

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Beat by jd Vance and Mike Lee and Andy Biggs.

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So three of my best friends around the DC.

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Speaker 2: That sounds like a pretty good record.

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Speaker 4: That is a pretty good record. Are we going to

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ask them about college football?

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Speaker 1: Mof oh, yeah, because we're all mad about Lane Kiffin

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and sort of how everything went down, and so tell

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us about the score act.

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Speaker 3: So this is pretty intense today. We're getting you know,

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a much of the lobby community in d C and

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a bunch of folks. Look, I'm the lover of college sports.

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You know. Went to the University of Texas School of Law.

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My wife's an aggie. My dad went to Texas Tech,

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so we kind of covered the state.

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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, wait and Aggie and a longhorn in

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the same house.

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Speaker 3: Yes, indeed, indeed. And what's funny is my wife we

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met at ut law, but she never admits that part.

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She only talks.

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Speaker 5: About being an aggy.

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Speaker 4: That's great.

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Speaker 3: My dad's a Red Raider and I went to the

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University of Virginia undergraduate and Virginia, you might remember, played

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Texas Tech in the National Championship in twenty nineteen, so

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that got a little rough too. So, look, college sports

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are fun. I was a crappy walk on college golfer.

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I loved it and loved being a part of the

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athletic department such as it was. I mean again, I

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was not very good, or I wouldn't be doing this

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as a job. I'd be you know, you know, play golf.

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But the bottom line is we've got a complicated situation

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that's been made by a broken NC double A that

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never really led and allowed this alifester. Congress should have

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probably either acted sooner or now it should be more

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carefully acting. But you've got the Score Act, which is

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supported in general by the big Conferences, including the SEC,

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which course includes A and M and Texas and the

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Big Ten is a big proponent the Atlantic Coast Conference

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to others. But because what they want is they want

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an any trust exemption. They want liability from suit if

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they the NC double A and these conferences want to

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have certain restrictions put in place with respect to what

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the settlement agreement was with athletes getting paid and the

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nil deals and everything else. Yeah, and they want to

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be able to put in certain constraints. Now I agree

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with some of those constraints. You want athletes to not

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be in portals and just you know, flipping every year.

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You want to be able to have some governing entity

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that can strain that. My problem is this, the NCAA

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has failed repeatedly for decades. I'm worried about empowering a

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broken NCUBLEA and a broken large conference system. We now

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have an SEC with sixteen teams. We have a Big

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Ten of eighteen teams. We have an Atlantic Coast Conference

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with seventeen teams. You have cal Berkeley and Stamford, which

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is decidedly on the West coast the Pacific Coast. In

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the Atlantic Coast Conference, you have schools traveling all across

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the country. We're breaking down the historic traditions of our

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old conferences, like the Southwest Conference where you have regionality

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and you had Tech and Baylor in Texas and A

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and M and playing each other. I think those are

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important for the fabric of communities. I think the SEC

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should the SEC in the Southeast. We should have the

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Texas schools in the Southwest Conference, and working with Oklahoma,

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I think we should be able to get the Big

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Ten back to the way it was and then still

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create a college football playoff system that will produce a winner.

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But the bottom line is this. I'm concerned because we

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are not addressing the fact that universities are massively taxpayer funded,

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and we're not dealing with that when we're talking about

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all of the revenue that needs to be shared with

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student athletes. So they want to do revenue sharing, but

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who's accounting for the fact that six hundred million dollars

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I think every year goes into say ut out of

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taxpayer funds, or the hundreds of millions out of the

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oil and gas revenue, or all of the federally funded

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student loans, or all of the federal grants for research.

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So you get over a billion dollars. It goes to

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these big schools. And now we're talking about revenue sharing

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with a lockedown rate that Congress is intervening, but we're

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not going to do something about the fact that the

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universities aren't on the hook for student loans. We're not

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going to go ratchet back laying Kippen's deal or gym

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the fact that Jimbo Fisher is making you know, fifty

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million dollars to not coach. Look, I'll tell you what

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I'll do a deal with A and M. You can

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give me five million dollars to not coach, you know,

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And I'll do it.

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Speaker 5: I'll do it. I'll do a better.

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Speaker 4: Job with not coaching me too, I'll do it. I'll

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do it for I'll do it for five hundred thousand.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. And so I made that joke with some

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of my colleagues here, say, I tell you what you

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don't like. Bam, I'm a you know, I drive you

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crazy up here on the hills. So just I'll tell

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you what. Just buy me out. That's fine. I'll take

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a buy out. But even though that would be technically illegal, unconstitutional,

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but whatever. So the bottom line is, I'm sympathetic to

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what the universities want. I've had great meetings with my

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friends at UTA and m other conferences. Big ten was

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in yesterday in my office. But I'm opposed to the

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bill as is currently situated. I think we need to

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improve it. I think it does not deal with coaches.

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I think we need to It does not I think

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appropriately handle what we're doing with the student athletes. I

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want to preserve something closer to a student athlete model.

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I understand Nil. I think you should. You know, if

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you're able to go your image and likeness is being used.

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I understand being able to get some of those dollars.

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I don't think we should be in the old world

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where Reggie Bush some houses, being Bopper's mom and they

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don't have money, and you know all of that. But

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I do think we need to have something that's actually manageable,

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and I don't think we'd allow coaches to have these deals.

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total economics of universities rather than allowing them to have,

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you know, one hundred and ten thousand person stadiums with

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massive jumbotrons and all of these things. And then we're wondering, oh,

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how are we going to pay people when we're borrowing

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money to prop up institutions that are corupting the minds

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of our kids and pumping out wos. Yeah, kids. I

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don't think we.

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Speaker 4: Should se totally totally yeap.

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Speaker 2: So what's going to happen in twenty twenty six? What

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are your vibes? Because you're there on the hill, We're we're.

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Speaker 1: Getting real worried, to be honest with you, not just

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because you know the economic data looks good on paper.

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I don't think a lot of people are feeling it

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yet at their grocery stores and their housing prices. And

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then there's this rift in the on the right right

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now that is problematic.

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Speaker 2: That we don't feel like it's getting a lot of.

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Speaker 1: Attention from leaders, congressional leaders. It's kind of just happening

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on social media. But you can be sure, I feel

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like we've said this a lot. You can be sure

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that anybody who's running for office is going to be

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asked about Israel, about how America first they are about

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I mean, all of the stuff that's kind of ripping

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the right apart right now.

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Speaker 2: What are you hearing? What are the vibes?

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, look, you're raising a whole lot of

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issues there. I will say this, I think that the

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president is doing an exceptional job and the administration is

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doing an exceptional job trying to move as quickly as

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you can to undo the damage of the Biden administration

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and then get what I would call a trajectory shift

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for the country. Right, that's what you want, right, That's

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what we want these four years to do. And we're

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getting a trajectory shift in our military. Recruiting's up, enlistman

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is up, there's positive feelings, people believe in the military again,

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I mean, I'm just telling you. You see it. So

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now we're restoring them to a war fighting machine, and

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that's what they need to be. They're the Department of War.

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So there's one put that on the list. We've stopped

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the flow across the border. We're removing people who need

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to be removed. Yes, werapving some debates and some bites

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about how to do it, how far to go, and

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all that stuff. But in general, this administration, with corecional support,

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we gave them the money to do it. The Big

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Beautiful Bill. They are removing bad actors. I wanted to

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go faster. I want to deal with the shrillows. You

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or working on that too. But you've never seen an

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administration in history be so decisive and so quick at

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securing the border. We passed the Big Beautiful Bills keep

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tax rates at a reasonable rate with some additional tax relief.

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We had the first major reforms to mandatory spending Medicaid

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that we've had in generations, to be able to put

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in work requirements and to reduce and save money of

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about a trillion and a half to two trillion dollars.

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The economy is trending in the right direction. Secretary Veston

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is doing a great job. The President is managing the

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tariff of battles.

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Speaker 2: What do you.

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Speaker 3: Agreefully whether or not the point of it is to

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try to restore America first, and now back to your question.

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All of those things, and I can give you more

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right and rooting out the WOK agenda in schools, trying

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to dismantle the part of education, defunding NPR and PBS.

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Like we can't sit here. I'll consume the rest of

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this podcast going through the list of things the administration,

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with some congressional support, are doing to write the shift.

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Republicans have got to get out of the trap of

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in this case, the circular firing squad, where our disagreements

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are on the margins, when we need to be in

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the foxholes fighting the Marxists and the Islamists and the

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people that want to destroy our country. That's my message

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to Republicans. It's kind of your point, you know, you know,

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deal with it. Basically, I don't know what to tell

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you to deal with it. We need to lead right now.

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And this issue in the skirmishes on the right about

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Israel and so forth. Look, I stand with Israel, I

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love Israel. I'm a Christian that believes in standing with Israel.

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I stand against endless wars. I've been public about it.

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I don't think we need the public treasury going out

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there and doing that. I want a strong military. I

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want it to be sparingly used. I want to blow

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up bad guys and then get the hell out. I

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don't want a nation go And I think that basically

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summarizes where most Texans are stand with Israel, but we're

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not beholding Israel stand up for you know, against endless wars.

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But yeah, go fight the bad guys when you need

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to take down some of these terrorists, you know, a

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Narco terrorists that are killing our kids with fendal. Great,

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we'll monitor it and make sure we're not involved in

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some endless war in South America. But that's not the

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president's goal. President's goal is to stop bad actors. Look,

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we've got to just grow up and stop getting these

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academic circles where we're shaking each other and going on

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podcasts and trying to get clicks, and let's go defend

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the damn country. And that's what I think the President's doing,

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and that's what I want to do.

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Speaker 4: I love that. I have one last question for you.

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So I found out we found out that you're a

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college you were a college golfer, which is really cool.

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Tell our audience something else that they may not know

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about you, Like what do you do in your spare time?

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What does Chip like to do for fun?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, these are always good questions. The probably you know,

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generally spending time with family and so forth. But my

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wife and I would like to, you know, work on houses.

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And I've flipped and renovated two houses Rob M. Kenny

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one in Austin made you know, I mean, electrical plumbing,

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all of it. I do a lot of it myself,

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you know, or certainly hire out a few subcontractors. And

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then we've got ten acres and we bought a kind

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of work in progress house that I just kind of

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work on on my spare time and you know, make

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conditions and improvements, and you know, we put in the

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irrigation system during COVID and all that stuff. So anyway,

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I just I love doing that stuff. I grew up

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on a farm and I just like working and building

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doing stuff like that. Because it's Congress, we debate stuff

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all the time, and so we're you know, it's rare

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that we get things done by design, right, by Congress. Right,

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you have to work hard to get like one thing done.

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I've got a pile over here of four or five

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bills in my career that we passed. Right. That's that's

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good work, frankly to get that done. But you know,

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when you build a wall, when you wire a house,

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when you you know, put in an irrigation system, you know,

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you do it, you build it, you plant a tree,

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it gets done, and you build a fence. It's and I.

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Speaker 4: Enjoy that exactly. Well, that's really cool. Well, thank you

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for that. Appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you for your time today. We appreciate it.

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Congressman Chip Roya.

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Speaker 3: Well y'all, y'all have a merry Christmas and hope you

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had a great Thanksgiving last week. I see the Christmas

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decorations of the bathroom.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, she's had those up since November.

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Speaker 3: First, that's are you a Christmas music before Thanksgiving person?

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Speaker 4: I am one of those. Yes, I am the crazy

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one of the two of us. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And we got.

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Speaker 3: The Hallmark channel.

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Speaker 4: On and like Octo, Yeah, I got all that home

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everything Home Alone, all of it's on. Die Hard is

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my favorite Christmas movie.

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Speaker 3: Man. Now you're now you're speaking my daughter's love language.

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She's bought into. But she sent me a she showed

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me a picture of a die hard advent calendar and

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it's it's Hans God, It's Hans Grover falling thirty you

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know or whatever, twenty five floors down, and so each

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day it is an advent.

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Speaker 4: I have an ornament of John McLean like looking through

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like they looking.

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Speaker 3: Through the events event. Yes, yeah, and that was when

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he's like come out of the coast.

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Speaker 4: Have a few laugh, have if you laugh. See I

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totally have that on my tree. It's fantastic. But we

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wish you would marry Christmas too. Thank you so much time.

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Speaker 3: We Christmas

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Speaker 2: Mm hmm