KSEV Mornings · October 9, 2026 · Hour 1
Wayne joined from a Bee Cave hotel on grandpa duty, after “investigating” the rooftop bar the night before.
Friday’s show came to you from two places: the KSEV studio in Houston, and, as Wayne Dolcefino announced, “near the top of the hotel in Bee Cave, Texas.” Wayne was there to babysit his grandchildren. Craig Coglianese assumed it was a sting. Wayne’s only investigation, it turned out, had been the hotel’s rooftop bar the night before.
A rooftop bar and the Michigan debate
Wayne explained he’s an outdoor-bar guy. He doesn’t like being crammed in next to strangers or loud music when he’s drinking. That’s where he watched the entire Michigan Senate debate, as about the only person out there on a Thursday night. His takeaway: Abdul El-Sayed couldn’t say whether Iran or Israel is more dangerous, and for Wayne that’s disqualifying.
Craig put it this way: is Israel dangerous to Hamas terrorists? Yes. Does Iran want to harm the United States? Yes. So for someone about to be a U.S. politician, it’s an easy answer. Wayne said he can criticize the Netanyahu government on some things, “which I think is called America,” but called the question a perfect one, because this election is partly being framed around it. Craig noted the debate got heated enough that the moderator had to step in, which didn’t shock him given El-Sayed.
Wayne also mentioned that he’s been sending Craig stories about what he called a cast of characters running on the left this cycle. Craig agreed these aren’t just people with different opinions anymore.
Undercover stings and honeypots
The hosts talked about a content creator Wayne likes, who goes after defenses of Hamas in split-screen conversations, and who might come on the show someday. Wayne’s condition: she meets him at a rooftop bar. That led to James O’Keefe and Project Veritas-style undercover work, which often sends an attractive person into the room. Wayne said O’Keefe takes it a little further than he would, and admitted he feels a bit bad for the nerdy government guys who get caught on camera.
The Richneck Elementary video
The heaviest moment of the hour was the newly released police video from Richneck Elementary in Virginia, where a six-year-old shot his teacher in 2023. On the clean TV version producer Russell played, the boy swears at a teacher and threatens officers. “I stole that from my mom,” he says about the gun. Wayne said his own grandson is six and giggles at the word “pee pee,” while this child was cursing more than Wayne does. To Wayne, the video shows part of the demise of America.
Both hosts called it learned behavior. Wayne said he loves the older Black women he interviewed on porches in the Third Ward, who were deep and family-oriented. But he argued that since the 1960s, too many men have left their families, raising generations of kids with no father figure. “That little six-year-old kid didn’t learn that from watching Paw Patrol.”
Craig got personal. He was raised by a single mom, and said his grandfather in New Jersey filled the gap: if Craig or his little brother did something wrong, Grandpa talked to them, and it stopped. Wayne, a 1950s baby, remembered his dad chasing the kids around with a belt. He’s not recommending it, he said, but “you sort of learned not to sass daddy.” Craig said he sees milder versions of the same thing every day, like kids screaming at parents in the grocery store while the parents just take it.
Cowboys, plastic soldiers and Archie Bunker
Wayne remembered playing cowboys and Indians and owning hundreds of plastic soldiers: yellow for Japan, gray for Germany, green for the U.S. Now, he said, his grandson’s set comes in two greens that are almost the same shade. Craig told the story of a friend who had just moved from New York City and apologized to him for owning a toy police car. Wayne wants All in the Family back, with the same scripts and new actors. Craig said people would lose their minds.
Craig also revealed that his mom, a clinical psychologist who listens constantly, asked him why Wayne is so mean to Russell. Craig explained that it’s a joke. Wayne’s version: if he didn’t like you, he wouldn’t talk to you.
A caller on race in the headlines
A longtime caller, back after what he called his own “special assignment,” asked why race gets mentioned in some crime stories and not others. He said he had never heard this case described in racial terms, while stories about white officers shooting Black men always are. Craig noted that even now, the school hasn’t officially released the child’s ethnicity. Wayne brought up the Christmas parade attack in Wisconsin, saying the coverage lasted about a day once it didn’t fit the narrative. The caller was clear his point wasn’t an indictment of anyone’s race. It was about the media.
Craig said he has been in newsrooms where news directors argued that certain details should be left out to protect a community, and that hiding information can actually push people further toward the fringes.
Fort Hood and a firing squad
The same caller, who said he served at Fort Hood, brought up Pete Hegseth’s announcement that Nidal Hasan’s execution will be live-streamed on December 3. He said the attack killed 14 people, counting a pregnant woman’s unborn child, and thanked President Trump. He also recalled the Obama administration calling it workplace violence. Craig said what he loves about military people is how quickly they say, “I don’t care if it’s one of my own,” when someone in their ranks does wrong. Wayne asked whether they could put big screens up in Discovery Green.
Also in this hour
- Wayne went down to the hotel lobby for an iced coffee right as the show ran long, leaving Craig to bring the hour home solo.
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