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Welcome. Welcome ladies gentlemen and non-gender conforming individuals to another episode of the Benjamin Dixon show. Today is Tuesday, July 18th, 2003. Thank you so much for joining me. The Screen Writers and Actors Guild

Strike in Hollywood has intensified since last we spoke.

The motherfucker, who said we're going to keep this thing going until people start losing

their houses and their apartments. Listen to me motherfucker. There's a lot of ways to lose your

house. Some of it is financial, some of it is

karma, and some of it is just figuring out who the f-the-ks said that and we know who

said that. You wish that on people, you wish that families starve while you're making

27 fucking million dollars a year for creating nothing. Be careful mother-fucker.

That's the voice of actor Ron Perlman responding very directly to the executives who stated that the

end goal, the end game, was to starve out writers and actors.

We'll cover that more later in today's episode but first

in Texas Governor Greg Abbott is proving yet again that the cruelty is most

certainly the point. The trooper who sent this email to their superior claims that they are being asked

to push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande and being ordered

to refuse water to migrants even in the extreme heat.

You heard that correctly.

According to exclusive emails obtained by the Houston Chronicle, officers who work for

Greg Abbott's Border Security Initiative have reported that they have been instructed by their superiors to push children back into the Rio Grande in order to prevent them from crossing the border.

Now if you've been watching the news over the past week,

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