Sex, Guns and Politics

Welcome to the Texas Tech. I'm your host Jeremy Wallace and I'm going to apologize right out the gate for how angry I am. I love covering politics in the great state, but I'm so sick of politicians abusing their power and taking advantage of women who are just trying to do their jobs or build a career. Ryan Slayton, Eric Swahwall, Anthony Weiner and now we get to add Tony Gonzalez to the list of shame. What the hell is wrong with these guys? But y'all, breathe, breathe my therapist would tell me we'll get into all that in a minute. There are other things we have to get into. First of all, the NRA is back and hussed in this week. And it's very different from the last time they were here back in 2022. They've had scandals, shrinking membership and declining political power. I'll have a top executive from the NRA on later to tell you about how they are trying to retool the organization and get back on track. And you know, I'm going to remind him about you, Baldi. And I need to know why the NRA opposed deeper background checks on 18 roles like the guy who ended up killing those 19 children and two teachers out in your Baldi. What is the rationale for that? We'll get into that. But first, let's check in on the center race. We need to talk about that hall. James Telleriko is reporting. He raised $27 million in the first three months of 2026. 10 million of that just since winning the primary on March 3rd. Y'all, we're in April. That's a pretty sizeable hall. It's yet another sign why Texas Republicans are concerned about losing the seat. While Telleriko is soking away money preparing for the battle on the fall, John Cornett and Ken Paxton continue to use Republican donor money in their common Jerry Cartoon where they pound each other over the head with frying pans. Look at these unrepentant eyes. Rakeem Sharkey charged with sex trafficking, two minor girls and adult woman. Attorney General Ken Paxton could have put Sharkey in prison for life, but Paxton cut a deal. No prison time, no sex offender registry. Back on the street, Rakeem Sharkey was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon. The Sharkey case wasn't the first time Ken Paxton failed to protect vulnerable women. Texas newspapers have reported extensively on how Ken Paxton failed to secure convictions against sex traffickers. While predators like Sharkey were hunting women. That was Cornett's new add-out this week going after Paxton. And here, here's what Paxton put out recently. Remember, this is the whole reason Donald Trump was supposed to endorse in this race in the first place. Remember, he told us back on March 4th that he was going to make a choice soon in the race so he can make sure that they weren't attacking each other and could focus on November. So much for soon, right? It's mid-April. That is not soon enough, apparently, for Donald Trump. But let's cut him some slack. He's been very busy of late. He posted endorsements of six other states this week in Republican primaries. Of course, he had to get that ultimate fighting bout. And of course, he had spent a lot of time on that Jesus meme. And of course, a bunch of McDonald's door dash orders that he had to kind of put on TV for some reason where he was still talking about Jesus memes. So yeah, he's obviously very busy. So yeah, as of this recording, still an endorsement. And we have less than 40 days left now for the runoff elections. 40 days. Like we are in the home stretch here and no endorsement. So even if he endorses now, what's the point? Remember absentee ballots are already out and some have already been voted and returned. The election is already over for some voters. And yet there's Donald Trump telling us he's going to endorse on this race, but it never happened. As for our other center, let's check in with Ted Cruz. He's ramping up his national speaking tenor right around the country. Did you see my piece on him going up to Iowa? Hmm. Yeah, he's speaking at beautiful clive Iowa on May 1st at the faith and family rally. That's a magnet for presidential wannabe candidates on the GOP sides. Gee, I wonder why Ted Cruz would want to be in Iowa 20 months before the Iowa caucuses. And did you see last week he was out in San Diego talking to the California Republican Party and talking about all his accomplishments and you know, sounding very presidential in his presentation, I'll say. And of course he had to go take some shots at lefty weirdos. Here's what he was telling them. We got a lot of work to do. This is right now at the election where today it would be fun. Because the left is angry. They hate Donald Trump. In a way that is just on the edge of the country. And I'm saying that is the irrational. You can disagree with something he says or does. That's reasonable. But the great Trump derangement syndrome is a lot of people are nuts. And I'm standing in California telling you about crazy liberals. I feel like I'm telling no about the flaws. You're like, yes, we're aware of that. They're getting crazy. They're heroes not blue because it's died. It's blue because it's crazy. In one last thing, did you see that the earth is still connected in one big ball? It turns out that when you blow up Iran and they shut down the straight of hormones, it jacks up fertilizer costs for cotton farmers in the South Plains. No kidding. And soybean growers and will farmers throughout Texas in the South. Farmers in the Midwest traditionally walk in fertilizer prices for this spring season in advance. So they aren't hit as hard with these wild prices increases that our farmers are seeing in Texas in the South because there's more variety of crops and more planting seasons. They don't have that same luxury. The result is that farmers here weren't able to lock in the lower fertilizer prices and now paying top dollar and may not even be able to afford all the fertilizer they need. This is what the American Farm Bureau Federation told me earlier this week. Half of the respondents say that they won't be able to afford all the fertilizer needs that they have for this year. When farmers cut back on planted acres and fertilize the years, it obviously reduces their yields. But it's simply less food in the supply chain. Stay tuned in all of this, y'all. I don't know when that's going to hit us in the grocery stores yet, but the timing looks bad. By time these crops get to the market, which could be we're talking right around the fall just as the midterms are happening, we could be getting another spike in grocery prices at absolutely the wrong possible time for Republicans and for President Donald Trump. Look y'all, that all certainly bothers me a lot on a lot of different levels, least of which is hurting more struggling family farmers when they least can afford it. But now let's get back to what's really ticking me off. Tony Gonzalez, the San Antonio Republican is out of Congress as of this moment. Close is my resignation letter to Texas Governor Greg Abbott, effective April 14th, 2026 at 11.59 PM Eastern Standard Time. It has been my privilege to serve the residents of Texas's 23rd Congressional District, Science and Cerely, Tony Gonzalez, member of Congress. That's C-SPAN coverage of them reading his official resignation. Y'all, I just saw the dropkick Murphy's in Austin. They're a punky, Irish, Boston band. You just get a lot of cathartic anger out of you. Well, they have a great song that I would love to dedicate to both Tony Gonzalez and Eric Swalwell as they're leaving. All right, y'all, I can't explain what's happening with Tony Gonzalez without bringing the person on who's been at the center of this coverage for months now. That's Bayless Wagner at the San Antonio Express News. Bayless, welcome back to the program. And wow, this was fast. We went from Tony Gonzalez not resigning to now he's out. What happened? Yeah, this has been a really interesting turn of events. It really looked like he was going to be able to sort of scrape by under the radar for the rest of the year. And then it did not. I think we could go back at least a couple weeks about 10 days ago. I published a story about a second woman that Gonzalez had propositioned and sent very, very explicit texts asked over for nude photos and she was working on his very first campaign. And so put in context with the fact that four years later, he would go on to text one of his congressional staffers in the middle of them, you know, it like 10 p.m. and ask for a sexy pic, even when she was like, "I don't want to send one." Is this a test? That really kind of gives you a picture of the kind of behavior that he was in the habit of exhibiting. So with that, and that story got a lot of attention, even more than I was expecting when we published it about the 2020 staffer. And then three days later, the San Francisco Chronicle publishes the first story about rape allegations against Eric Swalwell, another house representative, a Democrat. And what seemed to happen was that, I mean, for months or publicans, there was a small caucus that was like, "Get this guy out," or at least, like, "Let's push for him to drop his reelection bid." But many of them states on a lot of Democrat states silent about consoles. I mean, I asked, I mean, the answer I got from Senator Corning, for example, was, "I've got my own race to run. I'll let the speaker deal with that." And then you have this thing happen to Swalwell. Republicans absolutely want to trash him over it because it's even more horrific, right? What happened? But it's also, you know, you always want to point to the other party when something like this happens. So they started doing that. Representative Anna Polina, Luna Aflora, the fire brand sort of influencer, says, "I'm going to put forth a motion to expel Swalwell." And the Democrats say, "Well, if he goes, then so does Tony Gonzalez." And that's what seemed to reenergize the push to have him expelled or have him resign. So within days, it became clear that Luna was absolutely not backing down. She was going to file the motion to expel Swalwell, a Democrat, Teresa Legi Fernandez was going to file the motion against Gonzalez. And it looks like they twisted his arm because he had said over and over that he wouldn't resign. And then about, like exactly an hour and five minutes after Swalwell resigned on Monday, Gonzalez resigned. Or said he would resign. You have the timing is remarkable. And it kind of speaks to like everything just laid out there is what the, you know, you heard Troy Nails, the Fort Bend Republican, explain why he didn't want to get rid of Tony Gonzalez earlier. Here's him explaining it. If he loses Gonzalez on Tuesday, should he resign and see given how serious his accusations are? Absolutely not. No, why would we do that? If he does that, because he does that, accusations are real bad. What accusations aren't enough. If he does that, then you got to give the Gamel to her, Kim Jeffries. I'm sure the Democrats would love that. I would love that, but no, I wouldn't do that for any reason. But on some things bigger than politics. What the heck? No. No. Not up here. Not the way we, what we do in the house. Now, as you remember, like, you know, so this seems to solve that big problem. They can now get rid of Tony Gonzalez and they don't really lose, well, they lose a vote. But, you know, the Democrats are losing a vote too. So it's kind of a wash here. So they can kind of live with that. So we can see that like at least, yeah, at least now the Republicans are doing the right thing. Maybe, right? It's like, you know, what both parties needed to get rid of these guys. The thing that bothers me about this stuff, you don't look a fairs in themselves like between consenting adults. We know they're happening in Congress. You know, that happens all the time. But it's it's these that really piss you off. These are the ones where it's just young men and women just trying to get ahead in their careers. And then they get their bosses to start putting this kind of pressure on them. And imagine just the crap you have to go through to try to figure out am I going to lose my job if I don't send my boss this picture. And I out if I don't let him do what he's doing. That's the thing that drives me crazy. Every time I've worked in DC, you know, back when I was a cub reporter for the Boston Globe, I'm in DC. And it's amazing how much that town puts like sex in front of you all the time in the political level. It's like I'm my first interview with a member of Congress. The first thing he did was send out what I later discovered were called press foxes, which is like a young woman to first chitter chat with me. How are you doing? Isn't it great weather out? And you're just like, I'm sending going, what the hell is happening right now? This is ridiculous. But it and I found out later that is a common practice is like they see who the reporter is and they try to match up somebody of that person's age group to go work on them to soften them up before they get in for the interview. I'm like, Oh my god, this town is terrible. And then to see like how many members of Congress again, the list is long, y'all. It's just like I just don't understand what's wrong with these guys, but I digress. Bayless, what happens now? The one thing that's been bothering me is that the people from Holotus and Bear County all the way to El Paso now don't have a member of Congress. They are now in the position that we talked to y'all about what was happening in Houston before where they just went over 300 days without a representative in Congress that no taxation without representation thing or under that y'all from your constitution. Well, now that's going to happen to Bear County all the way out west. Bear County in Medina County are big pieces of this district, right? But half of all the voters in this district are in those two places and they don't have a member of Congress now. So Bayless, what happens now? I guess, first of all, what I want to go back to before we move on was just how interesting it was to see representative Byron Donalds on meet the press over the weekend saying it's unacceptable behavior that both Gonzalez and Swallow have exhibited as if he hadn't said nothing for months about Gonzalez and then to see another North Carolina representative say it's past time to get these guys out. I mean, it was just like so I was like, what? But yeah, what happens next? That is the question on everyone's mind. That is the question I keep getting. The short answer is Abbott sets a special election if he does and we know that governor Gavin Newsom of California has already set up the election for Swalwell seat, which is very safely democratic, um, leans about 19 points left. That'll be mid-August that puts potentially puts some pressure on Abbott to set a special election for Gonzalez to see which leans Republican around the same time to keep the numbers even. But the thing is Gonzalez is he does not as safe as well as see it leans about seven points to the right and this is a year when Democrats very much overperformed in special elections. They were overperformed among Hispanic voters who make up the majority of that district and so and and there's also the fact that Herrera is not the most I guess he's not the Republican with the most bipartisan appeal. He has said, you know, I'm very concerned that's his whole thing. That's how he appealed to voters in the Republican primary. So that's going to be really interesting to see where where Abbott lands in the calculation because some people are saying he may wait until November, which is sort of the closest uniform election date to the Gonzalez resigning. Yeah, the worst thing for Republicans is, you know, not just at the Democrats in California send a new member there, but worse would be this seat flipping over. Then the math is literally their Democrats take control of the House potentially. Yeah, just to catch you all up. So Georgia just filled its seat with the Republican. New Jersey's about to fill their vacant seat there next week. Actually, I think the election happens this weekend will be Biden next week that we should have a member there. So that's going to bring another Democrat in over there. Now we have these two seats plus another California Republican seat that isn't going to get filled until August as well in California. So you start doing the math and you go, okay, wait a minute. It's like in a place where Republicans already have a very thin margin, they're going to be down one at least for the rest of the year. Now the Democrat could pick up an additional one in California, but the timing is really important. You know, even when this election happens in California in August, Congress doesn't come back into session until after Labor Day. And even after that, because in selection cycle, we're talking about a couple of weeks left in Congress's schedule. So there's not going to be a lot of votes that they have to worry about from there until November. It's like who knows what will happen after that, but there's the potential that Johnson could prevent the House from even meeting if he wanted to because there's just not going to be, you know, it's going to be an interesting timing game as we get into it. So y'all, we definitely are going to have to watch every turn on this. But before we end this, I just want to go back to the original stories that y'all did on Tony Gonzalez. Catch us up to speed. Remind us, you know, this aid that worked for him. What happened to her? Yeah. So rumors started circulating back in September when an aid staffer who was still working for Tony Gonzalez died by setting herself on fire in her backyard. Right when that happened, current revolt, which is a conservative online publication published that there are rumors that she had been in an affair with Gonzalez, who is my married with six kids. She herself was married with one young boy. It took months of kind of pushing to try to get documentary evidence of this. And also all the while Gonzalez was avoiding questions, he denied that the rumors were true in the one moment when, you know, reporter if we're able to actually go up to him and talk to him at the Texas Tribune Festival. And he was telling his, he was telling fellow Republicans that this wasn't going to come out that he was safe. And that's what CNN reported that, that the RNCC, which is the Republican House campaign arm, had been told, the head of that had been told by Gonzalez it's fine and was furious to learn when he admitted it, you know, later on that he had been lied to. So no, so, you know, no other candidates could have jumped in the race, effectively because Gonzalez wasn't going to leave and all that. Then in February, I got in touch with a staffer who had worked closely with Regina in the Uvalde District Office. This woman who died, her name was Regina Santos Abiless. And the staffer sent me text messages in which Regina said I had an affair with our boss. And so that was the first time that a that that anyone had real evidence that this happened. And also he had details about two different times when the congressman and Regina met up in a cabin in the Uvalde area. And after that, the husband of Regina, the late staffer released text messages between her and the congressman in which the congressman texted her and said, you know, send me a sexy pic and what's your position and all that stuff. So that was the first thing. And then about a month later, I got in touch with another former staffer who had just hundreds of very explicit texts with Gonzalez. They never slept together according to the text and what she told me. But it was definitely a lot of sexual discussion and a lot of requests from him. He asked for new photos more than a dozen times in three days. Well, and a couple of really key points that you brought up here. And I want to kind of address you mentioned the current revolt. They certainly deserve credit for having like, you know, it had unnamed sources reporting thing. But this is where the mainstream media, you know, mainstream, if you want to call it that, I understand. But this is where the mainstream media where we, we have to go find the evidence and find out if it's true. It's like, and so we do this so many times and so many stories where it doesn't turn out to be true. And some, you know, charges, you know, a lot of these online publication places that just use sources, tell us, you know, to say, it's like, we don't play by that same rule, y'all. It's like, like, we're not going to do that because there's always somebody who has another DC thing I learned. There's always somebody with some extra grind that you can't possibly see. So when they give you an unnamed source thing, they may be trying to settle some score. You don't even understand about. And so we have the, as reporters go sort this stuff out and kudos to Bayless and the express news for sticking with this and actually getting not just, you know, confirmation, but solid confirmation and multiple sources to back up everything that was going on. That's a major feat, which, y'all, it's like, that is, you know, that's what we're here for. That's why you listen to the text, it's take, we got, you know, no rumors here. It's just that hard evidence to actually do that shoework to go out and find this aid and make sure she felt comfortable talking to you and sharing this information is really important. And I don't want to end this without saying this. For all of those members of the Texas legislature and Congress out there, if you see your, if you hear rumors of your colleagues doing this stuff, you got to speak up. Like I am sick of this stuff. Like, you know, Brian Slaton went on for years doing this stuff and nobody said a word. You know, Tony Gonzalez would be clearly knew there were rumors and nothing was said. Like nobody went to the media. Same thing in California we're hearing people saying, Swah, what was doing this before? It's just like, where the hell are y'all? It's like, don't just sit there. You can't just sit there and say, hey, it wasn't me, but there are people who are being victimized. And that's the part I don't get. How you can put your hand on the Bible and swear to defend the Constitution and know that somebody standing next to you is abusing people. It's like, I just don't get that part of it. So there's my PSA for all you current members of Congress and the Texas legislature and staffers out there. If you hear stuff, it's like, remember that news. Hear something say something. Well, that's what you should be doing. You shouldn't let these pariahs continue to sit there in Congress and hang out at the gym and in the lunch room and, you know, just paling around like everything is fine. As I can this case, a woman died. There are children that are going to be grown. Her child is going to grow up knowing all of this happened. It's just like, you think even if that's not enough, Gonzales leaves behind this family. It's like, doesn't he know his kids are always going to be able to find this down the road? It's like, so I just don't get this part. This drives me crazy. It's like, we're not sending you there to get women. We're sending you to Congress to represent us. It's like, yeah, and I want to say people have asked like, oh, the media must have known about this. The rumors were out there and they just sat on it for months. The problem was that the staff for it was a two person office and the staffer who had the texts knew that he would be recognizable that Gonzales would know who he was if he spoke out and was worried about losing his job and kind of his political career because I think he had seen, well, this guy is like Teflon. What's going to happen to me? It took him quitting his job for him to really have the leeway to kind of be like and moving. Actually, you moved to California, put that in the story to feel comfortable coming out. So that's one thing that's interesting. There's a lot of pressure on people not to speak out. But yeah, I think it's really important and you can get in touch with me via signal. I mean, I think that there are a lot of these stories that are not being reported in the legislature and Congress. And it's important. So reach out if you want to talk. Do you have a y'all? Be sure to keep checking out the San Antonio Express News. Y'all, Bayless has been all over this and any developments on this. You know, we're going to have it there. So thanks a lot for joining the show, Bayless and best of luck in your reporting. Always great to be here. All right, y'all. Let's bring the show back into Houston where the NRA is holding their annual convention for the first time since 2022. Y'all, what has happened to the NRA since then? They've had this financial scandal that pushed out the CEO, Wayne LaPierre. You'll remember, he got busted for spending tons of money on yachts and trips to the Bahamas and all kinds of stuff. Well, I wanted to bring on NRA Vice President Justin Davis to address all of that and just kind of what to expect in the weekend when they have their convention. I have a full interview that I posted on the last episode of that entire exchange. You can hear all of that. But on this episode, I just want to take a couple of pieces out and really kind of focus on first. I want you to hear what he had to say, you know, to gun owners out there who used to be members and his pitch to try to win them back. And secondly, you're going to hear me switch this back over to you, Volody. I want to know why the NRA opposed that safer schools act that was putting more restrictions on 18 and 19 year old gun buyers to make sure that they didn't have some legal issues or law enforcement issues before they turned 18, something that wasn't being done back when the Evolody shooter was able to purchase his gun. And obviously you know what happened there. So take a listen to these two pieces of the interview and be sure to check out that full interview back from the previous episode. It feels like there's a lot of levels where it feels like the NRA is shrinking. Tell me, is that the case and what's going on right now with the NRA? That couldn't be further from the truth. Now of course, everybody knows that there's a major restructure in the NRA. And we have new leadership, new board, they call themselves the reformers that are getting the NRA back on track and stronger than ever. And we're more focused now than we have ever been on judiciously spending every member dollar to advance a second amendment not only in the political world, but also training education and providing critical grants throughout this country. And while of course with any kind of restructure, there's major changes, but this is making that NRA stronger than ever. We have good actors and charge here, great strong leadership, Doug Hamlin, our CEO is a Marine who is dead set on this mission. And we're making major strides. We're making the NRA back about the members again, which is something that we had heard when we did our tours across the country asking folks, what do you want out of your NRA? It was clear, it was to be member focused. And so I run our media shop here at the NRA. It's all about telling the NRA story, telling that member story, what it means to be gunned under this country. And we're excited about what's to come. We're excited about the upcoming midterm elections. We're working hard. It's going to be a dog fight as everybody knows with a razor-thin margins. Now more than ever, it's important to get involved in the fight, rejoin the NRA or join the NRA for the first time and take an active role in protecting those rights. Give us a sense where the NRA membership is right now. Has it started to rebound or are you still in that phase where you're losing members? No, it's certainly stabilized. As expected, and we're right now we have a pro-gun congress, a pro-gun present a program Supreme Court, historically we've seen throughout our 150 plus years, when there's not an active threat that people feel at the federal level, folks take the foot off the gas. And while I say that's something that's very dangerous for your rights, you're seeing what's happening and Virginia people are getting complacent, they're seeing what happens when you do get complacent. Your threats are on the chopping block at every single election. And you dress this a little bit, but talk to my NRA members who I know, listen to this show. Um, what kind of rules and regulations have been put into place to make sure we don't have the excess spending that we saw with Wayne Limpier after he resigned. I love those audits we saw after what kind of controls are in place or are there new controls in place to make sure that this stuff can't be repeated down the line. Oh, absolutely. I mean, that was one of the first things they took on was really revamping and really putting in place an incredibly strong audit process. So every dollar that goes out of this building has incredible oversight. I can tell you as somebody who's an employee here, everything we do that we want to spend a dollar on has incredible scrutiny, which is great because we want to make sure that every dollar is being stretched from our members to go into that flight. You know, Doug Hamlin or CEO says it best. He wears a Norsom racks suits on sale and he rides a middle seat on coach on a night flight. So, you know, the days of excess spending are over because we don't have a blank check like the Michael Bloomberg groups have, you know, we don't have unlimited funds. We are here to make sure that we're taking that flight to folks on the member dollars we have and show our members that every dollar you give us, we can guarantee it goes to the flight. I'm incredibly proud of the work hour leadership team is done in that regard. So no yachts in the Bahamas this week, right? Certainly not. It's a, you know, this is a, it's really, it's really great to see that the NRE has gone back to his blue collar roots. A lot of folks around here are veterans, they're law enforcement officers. They're moms and dads. They're people who care about the fight. They want to be in for the right reasons. And I think that's something that's incredibly positive to see. Now, and let's, you know, the last time, you know, I mentioned this early on here, the last time, the NRA was in Houston for a convention was right after you've all the, you know, talked me about a little bit about the legislation that came out of you all the, I know the NRA was against that safer schools legislation that was being pushed at the time. There's a particular provision in there. I think that resonated with a lot of people in Texas, Democrat or Republican that said, look, we want deeper background checks on 18 and 19 year olds, particularly those who might have had legal issues or run into with the law before they go get a gun, like what we saw with the shooter in your quality. Tell me at this point, what is wrong with that legislation and, you know, has it created any problems for gun owners that you can see that weren't intended? So, look, I think when we talk about age restrictive bans, anyone who's an adult in this country, if you're old enough to serve in our military, I think you're old enough to have your second amendment rights, just like you're old enough to have your first amendment rights in your right to vote. So, any laws that are restrictive based on age like that are going to go under constitutional scrutiny. And of course, so many of these laws never address the root problem, which is criminals in this country, right? We're looking at taking on the folks who should not receive firearms because they're prohibited individuals. Well, those laws should be in fact because the justice system should be taking these people on. What we're seeing in progressive run cities and progressive run counties across this country is that sorrows back and progressive DAs are letting these violent criminals walk the street. Just here in Fairfax a few weeks ago, a individual who had over 30 violent charges against him randomly stabbed the mother at a bus stop for no reason killing her. Now, this is not a one-off. You're seeing this across the country. You're seeing in Chicago. You're seeing all these places. And instead of taking on those criminals, they're looking at how do we stop folks who are looking to legally by firearms who are looking to purchase their firearms because they're 18, 19 years old. Those are not the problem here. The problem here is folks who are repeat offenders and dangerous criminals because criminals, of course, do not follow the law. In regards to school safety, the energy has actually led the charge. We've tried to harden schools. We've tried to discuss the fact that we need school resource officers and safety plans in schools. We've been shot down by a lot of progressive politicians because they said having police officers in school is detrimental to students, which I think, of course, is counterintuitive. So, if you're not hardening your targets, if you're just putting up a sticker or a sign that says, "No guns here." Well, of course, the people who want to do incredible harm and do evil acts don't care about signs and stickers. They care about the threat to themselves. So, we recommend instead of creating more gun-free zones and limiting the people who can protect their selves and their families to give them the opportunity to exercise their second memorize and keep their families safe. Wow, there you have it, y'all. Sex, guns, and politics all in the same episode of The Texas Take. I feel like I'm working on a Willie Nelson song here waiting to happen. Maybe I'll send this out to the luck ranch and see what he can do with it all. Well, anyhow, thank y'all for listening to this episode of The Texas Take and be sure to check out the Texas Take newsletter. It's free and easy to sign up for. Check out my pin post on ex Jeremy S Wallace. It'll take you right to the sign up page or you can Google Texas Take Newsletter and Jeremy Wallace and that'll get you there as well. That's the newsletter that has the up and the down feature where I track who's up and down in Texas politics on any given day. Thanks a lot to my guests for joining this episode. I loved having Bayless Wagner back on to help break down everything that's going on with Tony Gonzalez who is now a former congressman. And of course, thanks to Justin Davis over at the NRA for taking out time to tell us kind of what they're doing to try to win back their members. Thanks a lot y'all and I'll talk to y'all soon. [MUSIC]